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February 10, 2024
The Straight Testimony to the Laodiceans – Part 12
HIGHLIGHTS OF THE LAODICEAN MESSAGE THROUGH THE YEARS
(Second Part)
1898 – “The message to the Laodicean church comes home to those who do not apply it to themselves.” Ibid, Letter 60, 1898/Counsels to Writers & Editors, p. 99.
Note this: If, for whatever self-justifying reason or lame excuse, we do not humbly accept the divine Physician’s solemn, yet truthfully incisive diagnosis of this soul-destroying malignancy of self-deceived spiritual ignorance (“knowest not that thou art. . . .?”), then it is the very evidence that it applies to us, and are suffering this spiritual malady.
When I first read this Testimony many years ago in my search for the details of present truth, I could hardly believe my eyes! I had to prayerfully read and analyze it over and over again, “comparing it line upon line, precept upon precept, here a little there a little” with the wealth of directly and indirectly related Bible and SOP references in the broader context of the already-revealed end-time, deadly deceptions and unnumbered schemes of Satan for the churches. It surely opened my blurred and even blind spiritual eyes of discernment! But I did not reject it, as humiliating and painful as it stung my pride and ignorance of God’s infinite wisdom and perfect ways.
But the complete antidote and perfect cure for this malignant spiritual disease of the seventh church, accompanies the diagnosis is at by the very same Physician of physicians! There is absolutely no other cure or solution to any and all of the soul-corrupting and conscience-defiling spiritual diseases, maladies, and illnesses of the church in all its seven stages to be found anywhere and with anyone outside of the Father in Jesus Christ through the Holy Spirit as revealed only “to the law and the testimony” (Isa. 8:20), the Bible and the “Spirit of Prophecy which is the Testimony of Jesus” for these closing hours of earth’s probation.
Indeed, the Word admonishes us: “Examine yourselves; prove your own selves whether you are really in the faith [of Jesus].” Because “the heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked.”
To be continued, God willing. Bless all, NMF.