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The signal for the destruction of Babylon
What or Who is Babylon?
The term Babylon is derived from Babel, and signifies confusion. We read in Genesis the 11th Chapter how God confused the languages of the tower builders because they wanted to defy God and build a city whose tower would reach heaven in case another flood came upon the earth, “Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.” Genesis 11:9, That city was later called Babylon which centuries later became the capital of the empire of Babylon.
The king of Babylon was used as the instrument of God’s wrath upon impenitent Judah as foretold by His prophets “Thus saith the Lord of hosts; Because ye have not heard My words, behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith the Lord, and Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, My servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about, and will utterly destroy them….And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.” Jeremiah 25:9-11
Upon Babylon God had bestowed wealth and power that no other nation had possessed up until that time. God also gave Babylon spiritual blessings by revealing to Nebuchadnezzar the future events of this world history so that the king could co-operate with Him in carrying out His purposes.
In Daniel chapter 2 we see how the king had a dream that trouble him but when he woke up from the dream, he could not remember it. So, he send for his wise men, magicians, astrologers, sorcerers to tell him the dream and its interpretation with a promise of rich rewards. But they were unable to do so. So, he decided that they were useless and ordered for them to be killed. The decree included Daniel and his companions who were captives from Judah and had been selected by the king to learn the language of the Chaldeans and become one of the wise men and counsellors of Babylon. Daniel asked for more time so that he and his companions could pray to the God of heaven to reveal the dream. This was granted and Daniel was given the dream and its interpretation by God. He then went before the king and told him the dream and the interpretation.
“Then the king Nebuchadnezzar fell upon his face, and worshipped Daniel, and commanded that they should offer an oblation and sweet odours unto him. The king answered unto Daniel, and said, Of a truth it is, that your God is a God of gods, and a Lord of kings, and a revealer of secrets, seeing thou couldest reveal this secret. Then the king made Daniel a great man, and gave him many great gifts, and made him ruler over the whole province of Babylon, and chief of the governors over all the wise men of Babylon.” Daniel 2:48
Although king Nebuchadnezzar after a few trials finally acknowledged the God of the Hebrews as the true God, his son Belshazzar however, when it was time for him to rule did not honour God as his father before. And so, Babylon was itself to be punished for its wickedness, “And it shall come to pass, when seventy years are accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation, saith the LORD, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans, and will make it perpetual desolations.” Jeremiah 25:12
In the Book of Revelation, Babylon is used as a symbol to represent an impure church, i.e. a church with confused or conflicting doctrines therefore false doctrines. But before becoming corrupt it means the church was first pure which was the state of the church during the Reformation. And so God, in 1844 at the termination of the prophetic 2300 days when the sanctuary was to be cleansed according to Daniel 8:14, sent them the first angel’s message, saying, “Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters.” Revelation 14:7.
This message was spread by Adventists far and wide and was led by William Miller a Baptist preacher as they expected Jesus to return to Earth and cleanse it with the fires of the “judgement day”. After the disappointment of 1844 when Jesus did not come as expected and after careful Bible study they found out that the “sanctuary” mentioned in Daniel 8:14 was the Heavenly sanctuary not the earthly; and that Jesus was a “minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man” Hebrews 8:2; and that Jesus as High priest in 1844 had moved from the Holy place to the Most Holy place in the Heavenly sanctuary to perform the last part of the work of redemption on behalf of the human race which was the cleansing of the sanctuary. The prophetess Ellen White whom God raised after the disappointment of 1844, says:
“The prophecy of the first angel’s message, brought to view in Revelation 14, found its fulfilment in the Advent movement of 1840-1844….It was to separate the church of Christ from the corrupting influence of the world that the first angel’s message was given. But with the multitude, even of professed Christians, the ties which bound them to earth were stronger than the attractions heavenward. They chose to listen to the voice of worldly wisdom, and turned away from the heart-searching message of truth…..When the churches spurned the counsel of God by rejecting the Advent message, the Lord rejected them. The first angel was followed by a second, proclaiming, “Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.” Revelation 14:8.” This message was understood by Adventists to be an announcement of the moral fall of the churches in consequence of their rejection of the first message. The proclamation, “Babylon is fallen,” was given in the summer of 1844, and as the result, about fifty thousand withdrew from these churches” The Great Controversy 1884, page 222- 232.
Please note in the Book of Revelation there are two Babylons. There is, “BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS” and “drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus”. Revelation 17: 5,6. Only the Catholic church fits this description of Babylon, since it is she who so cruelly persecuted the followers of Christ for hundreds of years. Then there is the daughters of the “MOTHER”, who are symbolized by churches that cling to her doctrines and traditions, and follow her example of sacrificing the truth and the approval of God, in order to form an unlawful alliance with the world. It is the daughters that are presented as fallen in 1844 in Revelation 14:8, because the “MOTHER” i.e. The Roman Catholic Church had been in a fallen state for centuries. So, there is Babylon the “MOTHER” i.e. The Roman Catholic church and Babylon the “daughters” i.e. The Protestants.
So just as the Protestant churches were once pure but became corrupt, so in a similar manner the Seventh Day Adventist church which God raised up after 1844, was initially pure but later became corrupt and eventually also became Babylon. This happened when the satanic reformation (prophesied in Letter 242 of 1903 by Ellen White) started taking place beginning in 1930 with the introduction of the church manual which replaced the Bible and the Holy Spirit as the church creed.
Two-fold prophecy of the destruction of Babylon
“When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:) Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains: Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take anything out of his house: Neither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes.” Matthew 24: 15-18
Concerning this prophecy, the prophetess Ellen White writes: “Jesus declared to the listening disciples the judgments that were to fall upon apostate Israel, and especially the retributive vengeance that would come upon them for their rejection and crucifixion of the Messiah. Unmistakable signs would precede the awful climax. The dreaded hour would come suddenly and swiftly. And the Saviour warned his followers: “When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place (whoso readeth, let him understand), then let them which be in Judea flee into the mountains.” [Matthew 24:15, 16; Luke 21:20.] When the idolatrous standards of the Romans should be set up in the holy ground, which extended some furlongs outside the city walls, then the followers of Christ were to find safety in flight. When the warning sign should be seen, those who would escape must make no delay. Throughout the land of Judea, as well as in Jerusalem itself, the signal for flight must be immediately obeyed.” The Great Controversy 1884, page 26.
She explains the “abomination of desolation” “standing in the holy place” as being the “the idolatrous standards of the Romans” being set up “in the holy ground, which extended some furlongs outside the city walls”. The idolatrous standards of pagan Rome would be images of their pagan gods on their banner or flag planted on Jerusalem’s soil which extended some distance outside the city walls.
The prophet also goes on to explain that “The prophecy which He uttered was twofold in its meaning: while foreshadowing the destruction of Jerusalem, it prefigured also the terrors of the last great day.” Ibid., page 26.
The twofold prophecy first foreshadows the destruction of ancient apostate Jerusalem and second it foreshadows the destruction of modern apostate Jerusalem and the rest of the wicked. In a general sense, modern apostate Jerusalem is represented by all the apostate professed churches of Christianity which are called Babylon as already mentioned above. But in a specific sense, which church would represent modern apostate Jerusalem in these last days? The prophet says, “Jerusalem is a representation of what the church will be if it refuses to walk in the light that God has given. Jerusalem was favored of God as the depositary of sacred trusts. But her people perverted the truth, and despised all entreaties and warnings…. So Christ sorrows and weeps over our churches, over our institutions of learning, that have failed to meet the demand of God. He comes to investigate in Battle Creek, which has been moving in the same track as Jerusalem. The publishing house has been turned into desecrated shrines, into a place of unholy merchandise and traffic…. There was danger that Battle Creek would become as Jerusalem of old—a powerful center. If we do not heed these warnings, the evils that ruined Jerusalem will come upon us” Testimonies for the church Volume 8, 1904, page 67,68,133. Note, here in 1904 the SDA church was being warned, they had not yet fully apostatized.
Spiritual destruction of modern apostate Jerusalem
Before being destroyed physically by pagan Rome, ancient Jerusalem was first destroyed spiritually by adopting pagan doctrines into their beliefs. In a similar manner modern apostate Jerusalem (SDA church) has been destroyed spiritually by “Christian” Rome when they adopted variations of Catholic doctrines into their beliefs such as the immortality of the soul and Sunday sacredness. A variation of the doctrine of the immortality of the soul is believed when the SDA make official statements such as these, “We should remember that only when Jesus comes can we be made perfect.” Taylor G. Bunch, Ministry Magazine, December, 1965, p 9. In other words when Jesus comes and one is still stained with sin, he/she is not destroyed but given immortality. But the prophet says, “Not one of us will ever receive the seal of God while our characters have one spot or stain upon them” Testimonies for the church vol. 5 p. 214. “We wait for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells….be zealous therefore to be found by Him without spot or blemish, and at peace” 2 Peter 3:13,14” We can only receive the seal of God by putting on the righteousness of Christ by faith.
Sunday sacredness is believed by the SDA when they call it the Lord’s day, as written in pastor Bacchiocchi’s book From Sabbath to Sunday. And the spiritual destruction officially happened when the SDA joined the World Council of Churches (WCC) via the Christian World Communion although they claim not to be members of the WCC. Members of the CWC are: The Roman Catholic Church, Seventh Day Adventist Church, Pentecostal, Baptist, Evangelical, Anglican, Lutheran, Methodist churches, etc https://www.oikoumene.org/church-families.
This take over by the Catholic church was shown to the prophet in a dream in 1867. She says, “That night I dreamed that I was in Battle Creek looking out from the side glass at the door and saw a company marching up to the house, two and two. They looked stern and determined. I knew them well and turned to open the parlor door to receive them, but thought I would look again. The scene was changed. The company now presented the appearance of a Catholic procession. One bore in his hand a cross, another a reed. And as they approached, the one carrying a reed made a circle around the house, saying three times: ‘This house is proscribed. The goods must be confiscated. They have spoken against our holy order.’ Terror seized me, and I ran through the house, out of the north door, and found myself in the midst of a company, some of whom I knew, but I dared not speak a word to them for fear of being betrayed. I tried to seek a retired spot where I might weep and pray without meeting eager, inquisitive eyes wherever I turned. I repeated frequently: ‘If I could only understand this! If they will tell me what I have said or what I have done!’ I wept and prayed much as I saw our goods confiscated.” Testimony for the church, vol. 1, p. 578.
So, the idea that the SDA church can never become Babylon no matter what they do is simply false and a misapplication of the statements Ellen White made regarding the matter. Here is what she actually said, “There is but one church in the world who are at the present time standing in the breach, and making up the hedge, building up the old waste places; and for any man to call the attention of the world and other churches to this church, denouncing her as Babylon, is to do a work in harmony with him who is the accuser of the brethren.” Review and Herald September 5 1893. Here she was rebuking a group of people who were falsely calling the SDA church Babylon and she was saying that at that time the SDA church was not Babylon. She also stated that “God’s promises are all made upon conditions.” Faith and Works, p. 47. But in 1913 after giving many warnings and reproves which were not heeded she says “Principles have been perverted. Men have been departing from right principles, for the promulgation of which these institutions were established. They have failed of doing the very work God ordained should be done to prepare a people to “build the old waste places,” and to stand in the breach, as is represented in the fifty-eighth chapter of Isaiah.” South Union Worker October 16, 1913
Just like ancient Israel the SDA refused to heed the messages of warning and reproof sent to her through the prophet Ellen White. Just like ancient Israel “It was in vain that God sent them warning by His prophets…..Every reformation was followed by deeper apostasy.” Desire of Ages, p. 28. And like ancient Israel the SDA at times would humble themselves as they did in 1893 and would receive the blessings of God but after a while they would go back to rebelling against Christ. In 1893 they were building up the old waste places but by 1913 they had failed to do the same.
The warning message of Jeremiah
The message of Jeremiah Chapter 26 was given to the SDA church first in 1876 in Testimonies for the church Number 4 also called Volume 4 under the heading “Jeremiah reproves Israel” (pages 164-167). And again in Review and Herald, June 30 1885 under the heading “The Word of the Lord Not to Be Disregarded” and finally through the book Prophet and Kings (first published in 1917 two years after her death) under the heading “Jeremiah” exactly as was given to ancient Israel just before their captivity by the kingdom of Babylon:
“Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, Amend your ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this place. Trust ye not in lying words, saying, The temple of the Lord, The temple of the Lord, The temple of the Lord, are these” Jeremiah 7:2-4….“If ye will not hearken to Me, to walk in My law, which I have set before you, to hearken to the words of My servants the prophets, whom I sent unto you, both rising up early, and sending them, but ye have not hearkened; then will I make this house like Shiloh, and will make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth.” Jeremiah 26:4-6. Those who stood in the temple court listening to Jeremiah’s discourse understood clearly this reference to Shiloh, and to the time in the days of Eli when the Philistines had overcome Israel and carried away the ark of the testament….. Israel had vainly thought that, notwithstanding their sinful practices, the presence of the ark would ensure them victory over the Philistines. In like manner, during the days of Jeremiah, the inhabitants of Judah were prone to believe that a strict observance of the divinely appointed services of the temple would preserve them from a just punishment for their wicked course.
“What a lesson is this to men holding positions of responsibility today in the church of God! What a solemn warning to deal faithfully with wrongs that bring dishonor to the cause of truth! Let none who claim to be the depositaries of God’s law flatter themselves that the regard they may outwardly show toward the commandments will preserve them from the exercise of divine justice. Let none refuse to be reproved for evil, nor charge the servants of God with being too zealous in endeavoring to cleanse the camp from evil-doing. A sin-hating God calls upon those who claim to keep His law to depart from all iniquity. A neglect to repent and to render willing obedience will bring upon men and women today as serious consequences as came upon ancient Israel. There is a limit beyond which the judgments of Jehovah can no longer be delayed. The desolation of Jerusalem in the days of Jeremiah is a solemn warning to modern Israel, that the counsels and admonitions given them through chosen instrumentalities cannot be disregarded with impunity…..But as surely as the words of Jehovah through His prophet (Jeremiah) were vindicated anciently, so surely will the certainty of His messages be established today.” Prophet and Kings pages 413-442
After this warning was given to ancient Israel, they did not heed it and therefore they eventually came under the captivity of ancient Babylon led by Nebuchadnezzar. And so, modern apostate Israel (SDA church) by receiving the same warning, (first in 1876, then 1886 then in 1917) and not heeding it, was eventually captured spiritually by modern Babylon which is the World Council of Churches led by the Roman Catholic church.
Just as it was said of ancient Israel when it refused to repent: “‘Remove the diadem’ the Lord decreed, ‘and take off the crown.’ Not until Christ Himself should set up His kingdom was Judah again to be permitted to have a king. ‘I will overturn, overturn, overturn, it,’ was the divine edict concerning the throne of the house of David; ‘and it shall be no more, until He come whose right it is; and I will give it Him.’ Ezekiel 21:26-27. ” Prophet and Kings, page 451. So, the same has been pronounced against the SDA that its kingdom has been taken away and as a result it has come under the spiritual rulership of modern Babylon.
Latter Rain rejected
At least twice (1888 and 1901) God had wanted to pour the Latter Rain upon the SDA leadership so that they could finish the work and make the way for the Lord Jesus to come again. In 1888 God sent them the message of righteousness by faith through E. J. Waggoner and A. T. Jones at the 1888 General Conference, but most of the leadership openly rejected the message and so the Latter Rain could not be poured out on God’s people (Letter 96, 1896). At the same time Satan was also working to bring about the compulsion of Sunday observance into the constitution of the USA through a movement called the National Reform movement but because the watchmen on the walls of Zion were asleep, God heard the prayers of His faithful servants to hold back the four winds and prevented the Sunday movement from succeeding (Review and Herald, January 1, 1889). God worked through A.T. Jones and others in 1889 and 1890 to defeat the bill.
Again in 1901 God wanted to pour the Latter Rain upon the SDA leadership so that they could finish the work and make the way for the Lord Jesus to come again. But the SDA leadership again refused and said “Go thy way for this time; when I have a more convenient season, I will call for thee” Battle Creek Letters, 1902, page 56.
In April 21 1903 God declared the SDA church to be a harlot but He was still pleading with her to return to Him and reform. Speaking through the prophet He says-
“Our position in the world is not what it should be. We are far from where we should have been had our Christian experience been in harmony with the light and the opportunities given us, had we from the beginning constantly pressed onward and upward. ….But many of those who have had special light are so conformed to the world that they can scarcely be distinguished from worldlings. They do not stand forth as God’s peculiar people, chosen and precious. It is difficult to discern between him that serveth God and him that serveth Him not. In the balances of the sanctuary the Seventh-day Adventist church is to be weighed. She will be judged by the privileges and advantages that she has had. If her spiritual experience does not correspond to the advantages that Christ, at infinite cost, has bestowed on her, if the blessings conferred have not qualified her to do the work entrusted to her, on her will be pronounced the sentence: “Found wanting.” By the light bestowed, the opportunities given, will she be judged…Solemn admonitions of warning, manifest in the destruction of dearly cherished facilities for service, say to us: “Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works.” Revelation 2:5… Why is there so dim a perception of the true spiritual condition of the church?…I saw our Instructor pointing to the garments of so-called righteousness. Stripping them off, He laid bare the defilement beneath. Then He said to me: ‘Can you not see how they have pretentiously covered up their defilement and rottenness of character? ‘How is the faithful city become an harlot! My Father’s house is made a house of merchandise, a place whence the divine presence and glory have departed!’…Unless the church, which is now being leavened with her own backsliding, shall repent and be converted, she will eat of the fruit of her own doing, until she shall abhor herself” Testimonies, vol. 8, p. 247-251 (April 21, 1903)
The Bible says “Ye shall know them by their fruits” Matthew 7:16 because fruits do not lie. The fruits that the SDA has produced show that she has not repented of her sins.
Finally in October 1903 she told them that if they refused to come out of the Laodecian state, a satanic reformation would take place which would end in the destruction of the SDA church and the rest of Babylon by the 7 last plagues. (Letter 242, 1903). She was told by God to do all in her power to prevent this satanic reformation from taking place. By God’s grace she and others were able to halt the satanic reformation for a while.
But it is clear that once the voice of rebuke from the Lord’s messenger was no more and all the pioneers had passed away the SDA church went into full blown apostasy and was captured by modern Babylon, exactly as prophesied by the messenger of the Lord: “But as surely as the words of Jehovah through His prophet (Jeremiah) were vindicated anciently, so surely will the certainty of His messages be established today.”
The Satanic reformation
And sadly, the Satanic reformation prophesied by the Lord’s messenger in Letter 242, 1903 has been fulfilled i.e.
· “A new organization” has been “established” whilst retaining the name Seventh Day Adventist that is structured in a form of a hierarchy.
· “The principles of truth that God in His wisdom had given to the remnant church” has been “discarded” by diluting them e.g. Sanctuary doctrine.
· “Books of a new order” have been “written” e.g. Church Manual in 1932 replaced the Bible as the church creed, Questions on Doctrine in 1957, etc.
· “The Sabbath” is “lightly regarded as also the God who created it” e.g. Sunday is the Lord’s day as shown by the book From Sabbath to Sunday by pastor S. Bacchiocchi in 1977 and his credentials was never revoked.
· “Nothing” has been “allowed to stand in the way of the new movement” e.g. dis-fellowshipping over 1300 Hungarian members in 1984 for protesting against the church’s membership in the National Council of Free Churches.
· She is now a member of the Christian World Communion which is a member of the World Council of Churches https://www.oikoumene.org/church-families.
· “The founders of this new system” have done “a wonderful work” in that membership is over 21 million and over 21 million adherents and the SDA church is worth over $15 Billon.
· This “wonderful work” has been done in the same manner as did the apostate Protestants and the Church at Rome before them i.e. in order to secure converts, the exalted standard of the Christian faith was lowered, and as the result a worldly flood, flowed into the church, carrying with it its customs, practices, and idols. As the SDA church secure the favour and support of secular rulers, it has been nominally accepted by multitudes; but while in appearance Christians, many remain in substance pagans and worship in secret their idols.
All that remains to be fulfilled in the prophecy of Letter 242 is the “storm and the tempest” which “sweeps away the structure”. This will be the physical destruction by the 7 last plagues. And when they fall it will mean that probation will have closed. Therefore, it is time to get out of the SDA church and the rest of Babylon before the plagues fall.
Physical destruction of the SDA church and the rest of Babylon
So going back to the prophecy that Jesus told His disciples about the physical destruction of Jerusalem and the destruction of modern apostate Jerusalem (SDA church) with the rest of Babylon, Ellen White says that the sign of the destruction of the wicked world by the 7 last plagues is the passing of the National Sunday Law as explained here:
“By the decree enforcing the institution of the papacy in violation of the law of God, our nation will disconnect herself fully from righteousness. When Protestantism shall stretch her hand across the gulf to grasp the hand of the Roman power, when she shall reach over the abyss to clasp hands with spiritualism, when, under the influence of this threefold union, our country shall repudiate every principle of its Constitution as a Protestant and republican government, and shall make provision for the propagation of papal falsehoods and delusions, then we may know that the time has come for the marvelous working of Satan and that the end is near. As the approach of the Roman armies was a sign to the disciples of the impending destruction of Jerusalem, so may this apostasy be a sign to us that the limit of God’s forbearance is reached, that the measure of our nation’s iniquity is full, and that the angel of mercy is about to take her flight, never to return.” Testimonies for the Church, vol. 5, p.451
“As the siege of Jerusalem by the Roman armies was the signal for flight to the Judean Christians, so the assumption of power on the part of our nation in the decree enforcing the papal sabbath will be a warning to us. It will then be time to leave the large cities, preparatory to leaving the smaller ones for retired homes in secluded places among the mountains.” Ibid. p. 465
Please note that by the time the physical destruction took place of ancient Jerusalem in AD 70, God had long separated from ancient Israel as a nation when the 70 weeks of Daniel 9 ended in AD 34 with the stoning of Stephen. And so in a similar manner when the physical destruction of modern apostate Jerusalem (SDA church) and the rest of Babylon takes place with the 7 last plagues, God would have long separated from the SDA church. In fact before the passing of the National Sunday Law when the message of the fall of the SDA church is given, as we are doing now, the prophet says, “Thousands upon thousands will listen who have never heard words like these. In amazement they hear the testimony that Babylon is the church, fallen because of her errors and sins, because of her rejection of the truth sent to her from Heaven. As the people go to their former teachers with the eager inquiry, Are these things so? the ministers present fables, prophesy smooth things, to soothe their fears, and quiet the awakened conscience.” Ellen G. White, The Great Controversy, 1888, page 606,607. It is therefore not safe for SDAs or anyone in a Babylonian church to wait for the National Sunday Law to get out of the church because “Courage, fortitude, faith, and implicit trust in God’s power to save do not come in a moment. These heavenly graces are acquired by the experience of years.”. As long as you are a Seventh Day Adventist whether a conference member or non-conference, you are part of Babylon.
“The command is, ‘Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof.’ These sighing, crying ones had been holding forth the words of life; they had reproved, counseled, and entreated. Some who had been dishonoring God repented and humbled their hearts before him. But the glory of the Lord had departed from Israel. Although many still continued the forms of religion, its power and presence were lacking.….The class who do not feel grieved over their own spiritual declension, nor mourn over the sins of others, will be left without the seal of God. The Lord commissions his messengers, the men with slaughtering weapons in their hands: ‘Go ye after him through the city, and smite: let not your eye spare, neither have ye pity: slay utterly old and young, both maids, and little children, and women: but come not near any man upon whom is the mark; and begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at the ancient men which were before the house.’
“Here we see that the church–the Lord’s sanctuary–was the first to feel the stroke of the wrath of God. The ancient men, those to whom God had given great light, and who had stood as guardians of the spiritual interests of the people, had betrayed their trust.” Testimonies for the church Volume 5 page 211, 1882. Repeated in Review and Herald January 11, 1887.
Note also that the two ancient Israels, i.e. ancient apostate Israel (Jewish nation) and ancient true Israel (The Christian church) co-existed side by side for some time before the destruction of the former. And so in a similar manner the two modern Israels, i.e. modern apostate Israel (SDA church) and modern faithful Israel (God’s true people scattered over the earth), will also co-exist before the destruction of the former.
“And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory. And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird. For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies. And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues. For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.” Revelation 18:1-5
May the Lord have mercy upon you as you study His word. And may the Holy Spirit guide you as you make the separation from the SDA church or any other Babylonian church and have true fellowship with our Lord Jesus Christ.
Yours in Christ, Andrei Lesiapeto @ https://theremnantofherseed.com/
01/09/2023 Updated 16/03/2024