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Testimonies on Sexual Behavior, Adultery, and Divorce
In the last vision given me, the great white throne was presented
before me, with the Judge of all the earth to pass sentence upon the
congregated multitude. The ledger of heaven was opened, and those
about the throne were judged according to the deeds done in the body.
Your name was registered as weighed in the balance and found
wanting. Your name was registered as a transgressor of the command-
ments of God.
Opportunity to Redeem the Past—God in His great mercy gave
you opportunity to redeem the past. When you had shown repentance
He pitied you.... You were placed in a good field of labor, and had you
conducted yourself as a Christian should, you might then have had
that repentance that needeth not to be repented of.
You were, for a time, humble and thankful, but your heart had
so long been given up to perversity and to self-indulgence, that you
could not see and sense your past course as so very offensive to God.
Like Peter, you had been faithfully warned of your danger and of your
defection of character; but you were self-confident and became jealous
and acted like a spoiled child....
God’s Rejection of Ministerial Labor—After God had borne so
long with your perversity, while you were professing to be a shepherd
of the flock, you were granted another trial in answer to our sorrowful
petitions in your behalf. The Lord opened the way before you. We felt
very sad for you; and when we saw how the matter resulted, we felt
worse than before.
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I was shown that your labors as a minister would be no longer
accepted of God. Your moral sense is in no way strengthened by your
last test and trial. You did not take and keep the position of a penitent
man, humbling yourself daily before God, under a sense of His great
mercy and your sinfulness. God does not connect with you.
Contrition and prayer should have been your attitude; and if you
had preserved this penitential position you would not be where you
now are, unfit to be entrusted with the solemn work of laboring for
souls, jealous, surmising evil, selfish, and uncourteous. You and your
wife are an offense to God. It was your privilege to place yourselves
where God could have worked through you, but you did not do this.
You had not a love for the study of the Word. You had no love for
prayer.