TM 475.3

What do you think you know concerning TM:475.3
and its contradictions?

As some of you may or may not be aware how difficult and futile it is to have a frank and sincere biblical discussion with anyone who proves to be obstinate and who refuses to acknowledge provided facts.

Bro. H___ set out a "contradictions" challenge and after it has been met through the presentation of evidence of tampering with the SOP has gone silent…and there is nothing further that can be provided to help him. He has chosen to ignore and refuses to acknowledge a contradiction that was plainly created by the General Conference within the SOP in order to deceive the laity within the SDA Church. This discovered tampering has given us the hard evidence we needed to bridge the historical gap between the rejection of the angel of Rev. 18:1 in 1888 and its future rejection by the majority after 1890 when it shall return again by another messenger.

This means that in the minority there will be included 144,000 living saints that will accept the additional unpopular truth from within the SDA Church and the others whom God will put to sleep before the time of trouble commences.

To help us understand why certain unattractive facts are refused the SOP tells us in the book Christian Leadership:

     The Obstinate Man—Obstinacy is a barrier to all improvement.  An obstinate man will not be readily convinced of anything which his sight cannot take in.  He does not know what it means to walk by faith.  He adheres to his own plans and opinions, be they right or wrong, because he has already adopted this line of thought.  He may have abundant reason to see that he is wrong; his brethren may raise their voices against his opinions and his methods for making a success of the work; but he cherishes an almost immovable bar against conviction. {ChL 60.2} 

     Such a man should not be placed on boards or committees.  He is constitutionally unfitted to make important decisions.  He is determined not to be convinced.  He will not yield to men of experience, and therefore he will be a hindrance, instead of a help.  He will suggest sentiments that are unsanctioned by the experience or judgment of men who are fully as intelligent and as wise as he is.  He will make assertions as though he had all the aftersight, and will uphold his ideas as all-sufficient.  Self has for so long been the ruling element, that the unfortunate man considers it a virtue to, as he thinks, have a mind of his own.  If his way is not followed, he will raise objections on every occasion, in small matters and in large.  He will hold to his words, whether they are true, or entirely false.  This practice, often repeated, grows into confirmed habit, and becomes character.—Manuscript 159, 1898, pp. 1, 2 (Dec. 8, 1898, "Speak Evil of No Man").—ChL:60.2, 3

I recommend that those interested in receiving the seal of the living God before probation first closes for the SDA Church make it their business to prayerfully make an appointment and sit down with one of those messengers (6T:420.3) promised to be sent to us in preparation for "the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord" (Mal. 4:5).

Here is the evidence that was provided, judge ye.

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According to the preface of the third edition, “TESTIMONIES TO MINISTERS AND GOSPEL WORKERS WAS PUBLISHED IN 1923. THIS WAS ONE OF THE FIRST E. G. WHITE BOOKS OF POSTHUMOUS ISSUANCE.” (TM:ix.1.) For further information about this book read the preface and the historical forward to the Third Edition of this book.

Let us examine this free from bias and based upon FACTS.

               Let Heaven Guide

     Prophecy must be fulfilled. The Lord says: "Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord." Somebody is to come in the spirit and power of Elijah, [SEE APPENDIX.] and when he appears, men may say: "You are too earnest, you do not interpret the Scriptures in the proper way. Let me tell you how to teach your message."—TM 475.3

 

This passage was first published on Jan. 29, 1890 at a morning talk at Battle Creek, Michigan. Less than a month later on February 18, 1890 under the title “How to Meet a Controverted Point of Doctrine” it was re-published in print in the Church’s Periodical called the Review and Herald.

 

To learn the historical origin, and date of publication does much to inform the careful researcher as to the condition of the church and the cause for such a marked declaration like this after that great way mark meeting held in the General Conference Session in Minneapolis, MN in 1888. However, prior to what transpired at this pivotal landmark meeting you should know and understand a previous testimony. This was her appeal written at Healdsburg, California, on May 30, 1882, to be read at the camp meetings. She said:

     I am filled with sadness when I think of our condition as a people. The Lord has not closed heaven to us, but our own course of continual backsliding has separated us from God. Pride, covetousness, and love of the world have lived in the heart without fear of banishment or condemnation. Grievous and presumptuous sins have dwelt among us. And yet the general opinion is that the church is flourishing and that peace and spiritual prosperity are in all her borders.  {5T 217.1}

     The church has turned back from following Christ her Leader and is steadily retreating toward Egypt. Yet few are alarmed or astonished at their want of spiritual power. Doubt, and even disbelief of the testimonies of the Spirit of God, is leavening our churches everywhere. Satan would have it thus. Ministers who preach self instead of Christ would have it thus. The testimonies are unread and unappreciated. God has spoken to you. Light has been shining from His word and from the testimonies, and both have been slighted and disregarded. The result is apparent in the lack of purity and devotion and earnest faith among us.—5T 217.1, 2

 

“The Church has turned back from following Christ her Leader and is steadily retreating toward Egypt.” Certainly, on May 30, 1882 Christ was no longer the head of the Leadership of the SDA church. So then, under whose leadership did she come under? The appeal is unmistakable. The church is since then under the leadership of Satan and his Ministers who reflect more of self rather than of Christ.

However, the positive unpopular portion of this sad appeal is right there written in the second sentence, and cannot be overshadowed by the evil, selfish decision of God’s church. That “the Lord has not closed heaven to us” was manifested. To prove this fact after having ceased from following Christ for 6 years in 1888 God sent a most precious additional light through two Elders namely E. J. Waggoner and A. T. Jones. As you may be already aware that this “a most precious message” (14MR:128.2) was NOT accepted by the leadership in 1888 and was actively and persistently rejected so that by 1890 both leadership and laity had rejected the light of heaven. (See: 14MR:116.3-118.2.)

 

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   "The light which will lighten the earth with its glory will be called a false light, by those who refuse to walk in its advancing glory."—Review and Herald, May 27, 1890.—1Tr:50.2

"…God does not want any man to think that no other message is to be heard but that which He may have given.  We want the past message and the fresh message," says the Spirit of Prophecy.—Review and Herald, March 18, 1890.—4Tr:65.2

   Moreover, this notable date, 1890, was reached just two years after the doctrine of "righteousness by faith" was first brought to the attention of the Denomination at the historical 1888 Minneapolis Camp Meeting, and then and there rejected by nearly all of those who were present.  Then during the ensuing two years, it was rejected by the whole Denomination. (See Christ Our Righteousness, pp. 41-55, 1941 edition; Testimonies To Ministers, pp. 79, 80.)  This is one of the reasons that the church was in 1890 left to enter a forty-year antitypical wilderness wandering, matching Moses' attempt and failure to deliver ancient Israel; also his running away into the wilderness. (See Forty Years in the Wilderness, by Elder Taylor Bunch, pp. 15-17.)—1Srp:69.1

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     “God would have every member of His creation understand the great work of the infinite Son of God in giving His life for the salvation of the world. "Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not" (1 John 3:1).

     When he sees in Christ the embodiment of infinite and disinterested love and benevolence, there is awakened in the heart of the sinner a thankful disposition to follow where Christ is drawing.—Manuscript 87, 1900.

           Especially the Moral Law 

     "The law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith" (Galatians 3:24). In this scripture, the Holy Spirit through the apostle is speaking especially of the moral law. The law reveals sin to us, and causes us to feel our need of Christ and to flee unto Him for pardon and peace by exercising repentance toward God and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.  

     An unwillingness to yield up preconceived opinions, and to accept this truth, lay at the foundation of a large share of the opposition manifested at Minneapolis against the Lord's message through Brethren [E.J.] Waggoner and [A.T.] Jones. By exciting that opposition Satan succeeded 

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in shutting away from our people, in a great measure, the special power of the Holy Spirit that God longed to impart to them. The enemy prevented them from obtaining that efficiency which might have been theirs in carrying the truth to the world, as the apostles proclaimed it after the day of Pentecost. The light that is to lighten the whole earth with its glory was resisted, and by the action of our own brethren has been in a great degree kept away from the world. 

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—Selected Messages, book 1 p. 234.3-6

 

Here we see in 1SM:234.6 as plain as day that an additional and distinct message of Rev. 18:1 (something other than what was already present since 1844) has an official role and work to do FIRST on behalf of the SDA Church before it would have its major role to perform on behalf of the world.

 

However, just as faithful as God was in sending additional light in 1888 after being left behind in the proverbial “dust” on May 30, 1882 the following was left on record unrepudiated and once again and in harmony with the silver lining for the penitent, “the Lord has not closed heaven to us.”

“Brethren, the truth of God needs no apology. The man who preaches the truth of God needs no apology. The truth of God wants your faith; that is what it wants. All that the truth of God needs is that you and I shall believe it, and receive it into our hearts, and stand by it in the face of all the attacks that can be made upon it; and let it be known that you do stand by the messengers whom God sends to preach, not because they are certain men, but because God sends them with a message.

“That, however, is but a sample. There will be things to come that will be more surprising than that was to those at Minneapolis,—more surprising than anything we have yet seen. And, brethren, we will be required to receive and preach that truth. But unless you and I have every fiber of that spirit rooted out of our hearts, we will treat that message and the messenger by whom it is sent, as God has declared we have treated this other message.”—General Conference Daily Bulletin, February 7, 1893, p. 185 par. 4, 5

 

Are you seeing the wider and broader picture the Holy Spirit desires us to receive? That although the church has turned her back against Christ her leader there is still hope for individuals who will hear Jesus through His pointed testimonies He has left for her?

 

Is it any wonder that posthumously in 1923 this reference published in the RH, Feb. 18, 1890 resurfaced concerning additional light through another prophet is scheduled to arrive? Is it any wonder that 72 years later in 1962 this passage came under dispute and thus the appearance of an Appendix in the third edition of Testimonies to Minister and Gospel Workers came to be for TM:475.3?

 

…THIS VOLUME CONTAINS MESSAGES GIVEN TO ADMONISH, WARN, REPROVE, AND COUNSEL THE MINISTERS OF THE CHURCH, WITH SPECIAL ATTENTION GIVEN TO PERILS PECULIAR TO MEN WHO STAND IN POSITIONS OF RESPONSIBILITY.…—TM:xvi.1

 

Three sentences, that if left just as they are, as they read, undisturbed, unaddressed by man’s uninspired asserted opinions, would lead the feet of the very elect into all truth sooner rather than later. This paragraph speaks volumes. It is consistent with other incontrovertible, inspired, appendix-free statements and prophecy itself directly from the Holy Bible.

 

After reading the opinion contained in the Appendix supplied by the wisdom of “the Board of trustees of the Ellen G. White Estate” the impression given is that the paragraph should have been written in the following manner, and their intent is very clear as to what they want us to be understood should now read as follows:

     Prophecy [has been] fulfilled. The Lord says: "Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord." Somebody is [here] in the spirit and power of Elijah, [SEE APPENDIX.] and [since his] appear[ance], men [have said]: "You are too earnest, you do not interpret the Scriptures in the proper way. Let me tell you how to teach your message."

Brethren think, had it been actually written that way do you believe that an appendix for TM:475.3 (found in TM 534.1-535.5) would have been written with this fourfold asserted bias emphasis towards herself and that she could not have possibly been pointing to another person to come all along? i.e:

[1.]    PAGE 475. SOMEBODY IS TO COME IN THE SPIRIT AND POWER OF ELIJAH: THESE WORDS HAVE BEEN MISTAKENLY APPLIED BY SOME TO SOME INDIVIDUAL WHO IT WAS THOUGHT WOULD APPEAR WITH A PROPHETIC MESSAGE SUBSEQUENT TO MRS. WHITE'S LIFE AND WORK. {TM 534.1}

[2.]    “…WHEN THE ARTICLE IS READ IN ITS ENTIRETY IT BECOMES APPARENT THAT ELLEN WHITE, IN THIS STATEMENT MADE JUST A LITTLE MORE THAN A YEAR AFTER THE MINNEAPOLIS CONFERENCE TO A GROUP IN BATTLE CREEK, WAS SPEAKING OF HER OWN MINISTRY.… {TM 534.1}

[3.]    “THEN SHE MAKES REFERENCE AGAIN TO HER OWN EXPERIENCE:” {TM 535.2}

[4.]    “THAT SHE WAS REFERRING TO HER OWN EXPERIENCE IS ALSO MADE CLEAR FROM THE PARAGRAPH WHICH FOLLOWS, IN WHICH SHE DECLARES:  {TM 535.4}

          "I SHALL TELL THE TRUTH AS GOD GIVES IT TO ME. . . ." {TM 535.5}

 

It cannot be more obvious. If the paragraph were to mean that she was really referring to herself then wouldn't the need for an appendix for page 475.3 pointing to herself become unnecessary? Certainly, the presence of an appendix, in this instance, is a clear indication that the opposite view and intent of this appendix must be true. The following biblical example should elucidate this bait-and-switch procedure.

This is the same tactic and similar argument urged upon Jesus Christ’s very own words by those who deny the individual personhood of the HOLY SPIRIT when the Son of God said:

Joh 14:16-18

16  And I [1.] will pray the Father [2.], and he shall give you another Comforter, that he [3.] may abide with you for ever;

17  Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.

18  I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.

 

The Holy Spirit personhood deniers quote and exalt vs. 18 in order to contradict what Jesus plainly and unmistakably stated in vs. 16. They also misconstrue the distinct manner Jesus “will come” to them in context of what is to become of them in the absence of His bodily presence after the Ascension. Let’s sew this up before we return to the main subject at hand by examining the following testimony in light of John 14:16-18.

 

     The nature of the Holy Spirit is a mystery. Men cannot explain it, because the Lord has not revealed it to them. Men having fanciful views may bring together passages of Scripture and put a human construction on them, but the acceptance of these views will not strengthen the church. Regarding such mysteries, which are too deep for human understanding, silence is golden.  {AA 52.1} 

     The office of the Holy Spirit is distinctly specified in the words of Christ: "When He is come, He will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment." John 16:8. It is the Holy Spirit that convicts of sin. If the sinner responds to the quickening influence of the Spirit, he will be brought to repentance and aroused to the importance of obeying the divine requirements.—AA:52.1, 2

 

Is the nature of Christ a mystery? (See: GC88 c.5)

 

His nature is not a mystery but His love is (HP:64.3). But what is a mystery about Christ is not the same as the One called the Holy Spirit.

 

See: GCB, February 25, 1895 par. 6, 7.

 

So would Christ be speaking about Himself personally when speaking of another comforter to come namely the Holy Spirit? How can they both be one and the same person at the same time in the same sense?

 

     Without the cross, man could have no union with the Father.—AA:209.4

 

Without the Holy Spirit, the third person of the Godhead, what can be accomplished?

 

…The Spirit was to be given as a regenerating agent, and without this the sacrifice of Christ would have been of no avail.…—DA:671.2

 

So again, how can they be both one and the same person at the same time in the same sense when there are three distinct persons revealed with different roles to play in the plan of redemption?

When the Son of God was on earth, who cannot lie Said “another,“ then that must never be misconstrued to mean anything other than what the word implies.

 

Likewise, when through the Holy Spirit the servant of the Lord said and wrote, “Somebody is to come…” will always mean that the individual in question has not yet come and is not present with them when the statement was made. And she doubles down on the prophetic future tense word. The thought is self-verifying for she added “and when he appears.” Thus, contrary to what the appendix would have us to believe, what is written by Ellen G. White, in light of additional rejected truth brought by someone else other than herself in 1888, could never mean that the individual being spoken of “to come” is present with them. So why is this plain and simple incontrovertible English, future tense evidence, being made to say what the Holy Spirit could have never meant through his prophet to say? Let us Count well how many prophets are involved here. One distinct recognized prophet (EGW) that is presently there with the SDA church since 1844, the same church that abandoned Christ in 1882 and received additional light six years later in 1888, mind you not by her. And after its (Rev. 18:1) rejection two years later on two occasions [verbally on Jan. 29, 1890 and repeated in writing on February 18, 1890] must be and could only be speaking about another prophet that “is to come” that is not present with them at that time that must come again with another additional message. The paragraph opened with "Prophecy must be fulfilled."

Indeed, she was faithful and confessed “I SHALL TELL THE TRUTH AS GOD GIVES IT TO ME“ but men of their own accord and wisdom have lightly esteemed “the truth as God gives it” to her and have given an incorrect understanding of this plainest and simple testimony of additional light (Rev. 18:1) to come to the SDA Church after 1890.

 

But the story doesn’t end here with this grand exposé by comparing testimony with testimony and scrutinizing the meaning of words and their intent. What if I told you that the situation is not hopeless for the elect's sake in the SDA Chruch and that the same silver lining in the testimony of May 30, 1882 that “the Lord has not closed heaven to us,” is still in operation?

 

Psa 76:10

10  Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee: the remainder of wrath shalt thou restrain.

 

The very daring act of including a misleading appendix 72 years later after the fact fulfills and justifies that “the Lord has not closed heaven to us.” Please diligently consider the following additional and light shedding evidence.

 

This is the download link for the electronic version of the alleged 1923 1st Edition.

https://egwwritings-a.akamaihd.net/pdf/en_TM.pdf

Invalid URL link above [Oct. 18, 2024]

https://media2.egwwritings.org/pdf/en_TM.pdf 

The following is hard evidence of tampering with the intention to mislead. Here is proof that sometime between 1923 and 1962, the "Somebody is to come," the predicted Elijah, came to the SDA Church.

 

Ladies and gentilemen of the Jury, images were captured by yours truly of a bonafide 2nd edition published by PACIFIC PRESS PUBLISHING ASSOCIATION, MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA in 1947.

 

Please evaluate the layout from the cover “01” to the last page on IMAGE “07” and “08.” Why does the end of the Contents section of this second edition have no appendix entry?

 

We are not here to condemn every appendix and its usefulness to bring clarity. Of course, on a case-by-case basis, each should be tested by the Word of God and within reason. The appendix cannot be demonstrated for the purpose to be a source of contradiction to the subject being explored. That would qualify as an abuse of its purpose.

 

A very good example of a valid useful appendix is found in the book Patriarchs and Prophets, page 759.2-4. This is to address NOTE 3 on PAGE 282. When you read clarity and facts are brought to the table that proves that the children of Israel could have never been in slavery for 400 years as most uninformed Christians repeat.

 

We trust and understand that when the source cited Review and Herald, Feb. 18, 1890, the church is counted as being absolutely faithful. For when we turn to the Periodical, we can find it located in paragraph 16. While you are there, please take special notice of the absence of any appendix here. Sincerely, why is that? What is the motive here?

 

 

To Wit: Second edition (1944) of TM published in 1947 hard copy, with no evidence of the presence of an appendix. How then does the 1923 first edition electronic version manage to include the appendix, altering what was published originally in the first two Hard Back editions?

 

What is written in TM:475.3 can only be misconstrued when man's opinion is taken in opposition to what a prophet plainly stated in black and white. In verity 

 

     "There are many who cannot distinguish between the work of God and that of man. I shall tell the truth as God gives it to me" (TM:475.4) and so she did. She told us four times. Once by voice and once with her own pen and the other two occasion posthumously to the Ministers of our beloved Denomination in 1923 and 1944. We have proof of two posthumous editions without the presence of this misleading appendix. Thus, judge ye, why did man's wisdom, The Board of Trustees of the Ellen G. White Estate, feel the urgency, the need to finally “assist” the servant of the Lord in 1962 in the final and third edition?

 

Here is hard evidence that proves that Elijah must have come sometime between 1923 and 1962.

 

The three angels of Revelation 14:6-11 are associated with divinely appointed special revelation brought to God's people through His chosen messengers. The first and second angel's messages were brought by Father Miller. The complimentary third angel and a clearer understanding of the first two angels were brought by Ellen G. White. And she, under Inspiration, informs the wise and the penitent of an additional prophetic message that “is to come,” is to be received in and as an addition to what is already present by the SDA Church. See TM:300 and 6T:406.5.

 

 

…Unless those who can help in ----- are aroused to a sense of their duty, they will not recognize the work of God when the loud cry of the third angel shall be heard. When light goes forth to lighten the earth, instead of coming up to the help of the Lord, they will want to bind about His work to meet their narrow ideas. Let me tell you that the Lord will work in this last work in a manner very much out of the common order of things, and in a way that will be contrary to any human planning. There will be those among us who will always want to control the work of God, to dictate even what movements shall be made when the work goes forward under the direction of the angel WHO JOINS the third angel in the message to be given to the world. God will use ways and means by which it will be seen that He is taking the reins in His own hands.…—TM:299.2

 

 

     We are to throw aside our narrow, selfish plans, remembering that we have a work of the largest magnitude and highest importance. In doing this work we are sounding the first, second, and third angel's messages, and are thus being prepared for the coming of that OTHER angel from heaven who is to lighten the earth with his glory.—6T:406.5

 

     No one should claim that he has all the light there is for God's people. The Lord will not tolerate this. He has said, "I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it." Even if all our leading men should refuse light and truth, that door will still remain open. The Lord will raise up men who will give the people the message for this time.—TM:107.1

 

[Please examine Exhibits A - J; Second Ed., TM 1947 images]

Exhibit - A

Exhibit - B

Exhibit - C

Exhibit - D

Exhibit - E

Exhibit - F

Exhibit - G

Exhibit - H

Exhibit - I

Exhibit - J

 

What say ye? True or false? Guilty or innocent?

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March 5, 2024

Obtained images for a 1923 first edition of Testimonies to Ministers and Gospel Workers.

The results prove to be the same. No misleading appendix can be found.

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For further evidence of boldly contradicting the servant of the Lord, and tampering with her writings on this point with the intent to shut away again heaven's light from God’s people as in times past (1888; 1890), please consider the following:

 

     “In 1888 at the General Conference held in Minneapolis, Minn., the Angel of Rev. 18:1 came down to do His work, and was ridiculed, criticized and rejected. And when the message He brings again, swells into a loud cry, it will again be ridiculed, spoken against and be rejected by the majority.”—Taking up a Reproach. By Ellen G. White.

 

This reference regarding the Angel of Rev. 18:1 published by Sis. White appears on the cover of a document called, “Some History, Some Experience, and Some Facts” by Elder A. T. Jones. 

The first paragraph on the cover of SHSESF also appears at the end of a pamphlet called, “The Test and Trial at Minneapolis 1888” by Ellen G. White.

 

To corroborate the above “waymark” experience described in 14MR:128.2; 1SM:234.3-6; GCDB, Feb. 7, 1893, p. 185 par. 4, 5; SHSESF:1.1; and “The Test and Trial at Minneapolis 1888” an additional witness publishes his testimony, “Forty Years in the Wilderness in Type andAntitype” by Taylor G. Bunch. To this sad ordeal, all of this satanic effort adds doubt and disbelief that is currently leading to the present denial of heaven sent additional "present truth" through Elijah the prophet.

 

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[to be continued “is to come” by Bible verses, etc.]

Please observe the Holy Bibles' trustworthy ability to be the standard of honesty and “the detector of error” (GC:186.2). 

 

The phrase “is to come” is found in 4 books of the Bible

 

6 verses found, 6 matches

 

Psalms	1 verse found	1 match
Ephesians	1 verse found	1 match
1 Timothy	1 verse found	1 match
Revelation	3 verses found	3 matches

 

 

Psa_71:18  Now also when I am old and grayheaded, O God, forsake me not; until I have shewed thy strength unto this generation, and thy power to every one that is to come.

Eph_1:21  Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come:

1Ti_4:8  For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.

Rev_1:4  John to the seven churches which are in Asia: Grace be unto you, and peace, from him which is, and which was, and which is to come; and from the seven Spirits which are before his throne;

Rev_1:8  I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.

Rev_4:8  And the four beasts had each of them six wings about him; and they were full of eyes within: and they rest not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come.

 

In every instance, the Bible is consistent with a grammatical future tense when the phrase "is to come" is used. It stands to logically reason the same understanding should be applied to TM:475.3.

 

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Be honest, would an SDA accept an appendix of Deut. 18:15-18 in Acts 3:22-26? Why not?

Then why should we accept an appendix for RH, February 18, 1890, par. 16 in TM:475.3  [1963, 3rd Ed.]; and at the same time ignore all of the SOP references that counsel us to be on the watch for "new light"?

Wouldn't we be acting like the ancient Jews who crucified the Messiah? Wouldn't we, like them, be betraying our Lord whom we've accepted as our personal Saviour when we refuse "new light"?

Is the Word of God still our Standard?
What happens to those who obey 2 Chron. 20:20?
If so then are we still willing to believe Rev. 12:17; 19:10?

 De 8:3—And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth man live. 

     The Test of New Light.—Our brethren should be willing to investigate in a candid way every point of controversy. If a brother is teaching error, those 

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who are in responsible positions ought to know it; and if he is teaching truth, they ought to take their stand at his side. We should all know what is being taught among us; for if it is truth, we need it. We are all under obligation to God to know what He sends us. He has given directions by which we may test every doctrine,--"To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them." If the light presented meets this test, we are not to refuse to accept it because it does not agree with our ideas.--Gospel Workers, pp. 300, 301.—CW:43.3

…When new light is presented to the church, it is perilous to shut yourselves away from it. Refusing to hear because you are prejudiced against the message or the messenger will not make your case excusable before God. To condemn that which you have not heard and do not understand will not exalt your wisdom in the eyes of those who are candid in their investigations of truth. And to speak with contempt of those whom God has sent with a message of truth, is folly and madness. If our youth are seeking to educate themselves to be workers in His cause, they should learn the way of the Lord, and live by every word that proceedeth out of His mouth. They are not to make up their minds that the whole truth has been unfolded, and that the Infinite One has no more light for His people. If they entrench themselves in the belief that the whole truth has been revealed, they will be in danger of discarding precious jewels of truth that shall be discovered as men turn their attention to the searching of the rich mine of God's Word.—TSS:60.1

There is no sin in reviewing our "blueprints" for God's house. When we forfeit light for His house, darkness must be present (Matt. 6:23). This is elementary, a fundamental truth we must all relearn.

May God bless us. "We have nothing to fear for the future, except as we shall forget the way the Lord has led us, and His teaching in our past history."—3SM:162.3

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"Truth is eternal, and conflict with error will only make manifest its strength. We should never refuse to examine the Scriptures with those who, we have reason to believe, desire to know what is truth as much as we do."—CW:44.1

"…As the work of God's people moves forward with sanctified, resistless energy, planting the standard of Christ's righteousness in the church, moved by a power [[ TM:475.3 ]] from the throne of God, the great controversy will wax stronger and stronger, and will become more and more determined. Mind will be arrayed against mind, plans against plans, principles of heavenly origin against principles of Satan. Truth in its varied phases will be in conflict with error in its ever-varying, increasing forms, and which, if possible, will deceive the very elect."—TM:407.1

We must "sigh" and "cry for all the abominations that are done in the midst thereof." (Ezek. 9:4.) We cannot be found by Jesus Christ in rejection of any of His prophets and at the same time delusionally expecting to have a home in His kingdom. There is more to being a Seventh-day Adventist other than Sabbath-keeping and waiting for the Second Coming in 2022. Find out. It means your very life.

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"…We have the truth brought out in publications, but it is not enough to rely upon other men's thoughts. We must examine for ourselves, and learn the reasons of our faith by comparing scripture with scripture.…"—CSW:22.2  [See also: CW:45.1.]

Our last study in this series. We will examine the consequence of failing to heed the last messenger (Mal. 3:1-3; 4:5) before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord. 

See: What is Apostasy?