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Church of Christ
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Words of Accusation Not of God
God has a people in which all heaven is interested, and they are
the one object on earth dear to the heart of God. [
See appendix.
]
Let everyone who reads these words give them thorough considera-
tion, for in the name of Jesus I would press them home upon every
soul. When anyone arises, either among us or outside of us, who
is burdened with a message which declares that the people of God
are numbered with Babylon, and claims that the loud cry is a call to
come out of her, you may know that he is not bearing the message
of truth. Receive him not, nor bid him Godspeed; for God has not
spoken by him, neither has He given a message to him, but he has
run before he was sent. The message contained in the pamphlet
called the
Loud Cry
, is a deception. Such messages will come, and
it will be claimed for them that they are sent of God, but the claim
will be false; for they are not filled with light, but with darkness.
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There will be messages of accusation against the people of God,
similar to the work done by Satan in accusing God’s people, and
these messages will be sounding at the very time when God is saying
to His people, “Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of
the Lord is risen upon thee. For, behold, the darkness shall cover the
earth, and gross darkness the people: but the Lord shall arise upon
thee, and His glory shall be seen upon thee.”
A Work of Deception
It will be found that those who bear false messages will not have
a high sense of honor and integrity. They will deceive the people,
and mix up with their error the
Testimonies
of Sister White, and use
her name to give influence to their work. They make such selections
from the
Testimonies
as they think they can twist to support their
positions, and place them in a setting of falsehood, so that their error
may have weight and be accepted by the people. They misinterpret
and misapply that which God has given to the church to warn, coun-
sel, reprove, comfort, and encourage those who shall make up the
remnant people of God. Those who receive the
Testimonies
as the
message of God will be helped and blessed thereby; but those who
take them in parts, simply to support some theory or idea of their
own, to vindicate themselves in a course of error, will not be blessed