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Testimonies to Ministers and Gospel Workers
them.’ The gospel net draws not only good fish, but bad ones as well,
and the Lord only knows who are His.
“It is our individual duty to walk humbly with God. We are
not to seek any strange, new message. We are not to think that the
chosen ones of God who are trying to walk in the light compose
Babylon. The fallen denominational churches are Babylon. Babylon
has been fostering poisonous doctrines, the wine of error. This wine
of error is made up of false doctrines, such as the natural immortality
of the soul, the eternal torment of the wicked, the denial of the pre-
existence of Christ prior to His birth in Bethlehem, and advocating
and exalting the first day of the week above God’s holy and sanctified
day. These and kindred errors are presented to the world by the
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various churches, and thus the Scriptures are fulfilled that say, ‘For
all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.’ It
is a wrath which is created by false doctrines, and when kings and
presidents drink this wine of the wrath of her fornication, they are
stirred with anger against those who will not come into harmony
with the false and satanic heresies which exalt the false sabbath, and
lead men to trample underfoot God’s memorial.
“Fallen angels upon earth form confederations with evil men. In
this age antichrist will appear as the true Christ, and then the law of
God will be fully made void in the nations of our world. Rebellion
against God’s holy law will be fully ripe. But the true leader of
all this rebellion is Satan clothed as an angel of light. Men will be
deceived and will exalt him to the place of God, and deify him. But
Omnipotence will interpose, and to the apostate churches that unite
in the exaltation of Satan, the sentence will go forth, ‘Therefore shall
her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and
she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the Lord God who
judgeth her.’”
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The object of preaching is not alone to convey information, not
merely to convince the intellect. The preaching of the word should
appeal to the intellect, and should impart knowledge, but it should
do more than this. The words of the minister should reach the hearts
of the hearers.—
The Review and Herald, December 22, 1904
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