MID-WEEK MANNA FROM PASTOR NAT’S DESK:
April 26, 2023
THE CONFLICT OF THE AGES SERIES
Hereunder are the precious five-volume books, all authored by the inspired pen of Ellen G. White, the last of the special line of messenger-prophets, beginning with Elijah in the Old Testament, then John the Baptist in the New Testament, whose work and message “in the spirit of Elijah” was to “prepare the way”for the first coming of Christ as the “promised Seed,” the Messiah. The third and last bears the “spirit of prophecy which is the testimony of Jesus” to the remnant church and the world (Rev. 19:10).
Here they are:
- PATRIARCHS & PROPHETS
Trac[es] the great conflict between good and evil from its beginning down through the centuries to the TIME OF DAVID’S DEATH, indicating God’s infinite love for mankind by His DEALINGS with the ‘holy men of old.’ We are shown why SIN was permitted, why SATAN was not destroyed, and why MAN was tested. Gives a thrilling description of man’s TEMPTATION AND FALL, and rehearses the PLAN OF REDEMPTION devised for his salvation. 793 pages.”
- PROPHETS & KINGS
“Point[s] out the great MORAL LESSONS to be learned from Israel’s triumphs, defeats, backslidings, captivity, and reformation, showing God’s mercy toward an OBDURATE people and making these lessons PRACTICAL HELPS to souls in TIMES OF TESTING. It abounds in great CHARACTER STUDIES, and above them all rises in GLORY SUPERNAL the coming King, the Lamb of God. 620 pages.”
- ACTS OF THE APOSTLES
“Gives a comparatively FULL HISTORY of the work of the early church and of the APOSTOLIC DISPENSATION. It is a most inspiring and encouraging account of the church AT WORK, and a very.efficient HELP to the followers of Christ in every walk of life. 620 pages.”
- THE DESIRE OF AGES
“Step by step the life of our Savior is traced, and made to TOUCH OUR LIFE, so that He becomes, IN VERY TRUTH, ‘our elder Brother.’ The wonderful manner in which divinity and humanity were COMBINED [in the mystery of the incarnation]; the WAY in which Christ, while dwelling IN a human body, with only human strength, took hold of DIVINE strength, and thus OVERCAME SIN, —-these things are made clear and helpful on every page and every sentence. 860 pages.”
- THE GREAT CONTROVERSY BETWEEN CHRIST AND SATAN
“Presents the HISTORY of the great conflict between Christianity and the powers of darkness, as illustrated in the lives of the Christian MARTYRS AND REFORMERS on one hand, and the WICKED MEN AND PERSECUTING POWERS on the other. Beginning with our Lord’s great prophecy, given while He was VIEWING JERUSALEM from the Mount of Olives [see Matt. 23: 36-39; 24: 15-18; Luke 21: 20-24] this book OUTLINES the history of the whole dispensation down to the time when ‘God’s entire universe is clean,’ and the great controversy [enmity] is ended [after the “one thousand years” reckoned from Christ’s second advent’]. 700 pages.” (All emphasis and words in brackets mine).
Instead of wasting precious time, energy, resources, and money on the unnumbered attractions and schemes of the master deceiver Satan, and “the things of the earth that will soon pass away,” “trim your lamps,” meaning, prayerfully study your Bibles like you never did before alongside these volumes without preconceived ideas and prejudices.
Your minds will be fortified with the great testing truths for these last days and be better equipped to quickly discern between the end-time counterfeits and the genuine and thus make spiritually enlightened choices, decisions, plans, and commitments that will determine your eternal salvation!
To be continued next MWM, God willing. Bless all, NMF.