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Our Sanctuary Doctrine, July 4
Unto two thousand and three hundred days; then shall the sanctuary be
cleansed.
Daniel 8:14
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God bids us give our time and strength to the work of preaching to the people
the messages that stirred men and women in 1843 and 1844....
My brethren, take your position where God bids you. Leave alone those who,
after light has been repeatedly given them, have taken a stand on the opposite
side.... Take up the work which has been given us. With the Word of God as your
message, stand on the platform of truth and proclaim the soon coming of Christ.
Truth, eternal truth, will prevail.
For more than half a century [i.e., since 1844] the different points of present
truth have been questioned and opposed. New theories have been advanced as
truth, which were not truth, and the Spirit of God revealed their error. As the great
pillars of our faith have been presented, the Holy Spirit has borne witness to them,
and especially is this so regarding the truths of the sanctuary question. Over and
over again the Holy Spirit has in a marked manner endorsed the preaching of this
doctrine. But today, as in the past, some will be led to form new theories and to
deny the truths upon which the Spirit of God has placed His approval.
Any man who seeks to present theories which would lead us from the light
that has come to us on the ministration in the heavenly sanctuary should not be
accepted as a teacher. A true understanding of the sanctuary question means much
to us as a people. When we were earnestly seeking the Lord for light on that
question, light came. In vision I was given such a view of the heavenly sanctuary,
and the ministration connected with the holy place, that for many days I could not
speak of it.
I know from the light that God has given me that there should be a revival of
the messages that have been given in the past, because men will seek to bring in
new theories, and will try to prove that these theories are scriptural, whereas they
are error, which, if allowed a place, will undermine faith in the truth. We are not
to accept these suppositions and pass them along as truth. No, no; we must not
move from the platform of truth on which we have been established.
There will always be those who are seeking for something new, and who
stretch and strain the Word of God to make it support their ideas and theories. Let
us, brethren, take the things that God has given us, and which His Spirit has taught
us is truth, and believe them, leaving alone those theories which His Spirit has not
endorsed.—
Manuscript 125, July 4, 1907
, “Lessons From the Visions of Ezekiel.”
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