SPECIAL MESSAGE TO WGM TEAM PARTNERS:
February 1, 2024
The Straight Testimony to the Laodiceans – Part 10
PONDER UPON THIS AWESOMELY-SOLEMN TRUTH
“We are in the [antitypical] great day of atonement, when our sins are, by confession and repentance, to go BEFOREHAND to judgment. God does NOT NOW ACCEPT a tame, spiritless testimony from His MINISTERS. Such a testimony would NOT BE PRESENT TRUTH. The message for THIS TIME must be ‘meat in due season’ to feed the church of God. But Satan has been seeking GRADUALLY to rob this message of its POWER. [Satan is the father of lies, master deceiver, thief and robber!], that the people may NOT BE PREPARED to stand in the day of the Lord.
“In 1844 our great High Priest entered into the Most Holy PLACE of the heavenly sanctuary, to BEGIN the work of investigative judgment. The cases of the RIGHTEOUS DEAD have been passing in review before God [as recorded in the book of records]. When that work shall be completed, judgment is pronounced upon the LIVING. How precious, how important are these SOLEMN MOMENTS! Each of us has a CASE pending in the court of heaven. We are INDIVIDUALLY to be judged according to the ‘deeds done in the BODY.’ [2 Cor. 5:10, etc.].
“In the typical service [during the OT ceremonial law of the Mosaic dispensation], when the work of the atonement was performed by the high priest [starting with Aaron] in the most holy place of the EARTHLY sanctuary, the people were required to AFFLICT their souls before God, and CONFESS their sins, that they may be ATONED FOR AND BLOTTED OUT.
“Will any less be required of us in this ANTITYPICAL day of atonement [that begun on October, 1844], when Christ [our merciful High Priest, Advocate, Intercessor, Mediator, and righteous Judge] is pleading in behalf of His people, and the FINAL, IRREVOCABLE DECISION is pronounced upon every case [in heaven]?
“What is our [spiritual] condition in this fearful and solemn time? Alas, what PRIDE is prevailing in the church, what HYPOCRISY, what DECEPTION, what LOVE OF DRESS [fashion], FRIVOLITY [‘trifling, jesting and joking’], and AMUSEMENTS, what desire for the SUPREMACY! All these sins have clouded the MIND, so that ETERNAL THINGS HAVE NOT BEEN DISCERNED.
“Shall we not search the SCRIPTURES [Bible and SOP; not the social media and internet], that we may KNOW WHERE WE ARE in this world’s history? Shall we not become INTELLIGENT in regard to the WORK that is being accomplished FOR US [by Christ in heaven and the Holy Spirit, on earth] at this time, and the POSITION that we as sinners should OCCUPY WHILE this work of atonement is GOING FORWARD?
“If we have regard for OUR souls’s SALVATION, we must make a DECIDED CHANGE. We must seek the Lord with true [not shallow, feigned, pretended, reactionary, performative] penitence; we must, with DEEP contrition of soul CONFESS [not excuse, justify, rationalize, worse, ignore] that they may be BLOTTED OUT [‘when the times of refreshing’ of the latter rain ‘shall come from the PRESENCE of the Lord.’ Acts 3:19].
“We must no longer remain upon the ENCHANTED GROUND. We are fast approaching the CLOSE OF OUR PROBATION. Let every soul inquire, HOW DO I STAND BEFORE GOD [not before our fellow mortal sinners]. We know not HOW SOON OUR NAMES MAY BE TAKEN IN THE LIPS OF CHRIST, AND OUR CASES BE FINALLY DECIDED.
“What, O what will these decisions be! Shall we be counted with the righteous, or shall we be numbered among the wicked?” -E. G. White, Selected Messages, vol. 1, 124, 125. (All emphases and bracketed words mine). This is part of the unvarnished core truths the present, testing truth for this very time that few are emphasizing. It was thus prophesied. But by divine power and grace I hope to stay focused, remain faithful and true to this calling to the end in spite of its given consequences. Christ promised, “Rejoice, for your reward is in heaven [not on earth].” Bless all, NMF.