Information For the Little Flock

It is invaluable to read all that was published about the Christmas Tree in the Spirit of Prophecy and its custom both in timing and context before making a decision. When you examine the whole it may turn out that some are selectively quoting what they are looking for while omitting other passages that are not to their liking and goal.         "Shall We Have a Christmas Tree?"— God would be well pleased if on Christmas each church would have a Christmas tree on which shall be hung offerings, great and small, for these houses of worship. [NOTE: REFERENCE IS MADE IN THIS ARTICLE TO CURRENT BUILDING PROJECTS. AS THE PRINCIPLES SET FORTH IN THIS CONNECTION ARE APPLICABLE TODAY, THESE SPECIFIC REFERENCES ARE LEFT IN THE ARTICLE.] Letters of inquiry have come to us asking, Shall we have a Christmas tree? Will it not be like the world? We answer, You can make it like the world if you have a disposition to do so, or you can make it as unlike the world as possible. There is ...

Metaphor MET'APHOR, noun [Gr. to transfer, over, to carry.] A short similitude; a similitude reduced to a single word; or a word expressing similitude without the signs of comparison. Thus 'that man is a fox, ' is a metaphor; but 'that man is like a fox, ' is a similitude or comparison . So when I say, 'the soldiers fought like lions, ' I use a similitude. In metaphor the similitude is contained in the name; a man is a fox, means, a man is as crafty as a fox. So we say, a man bridles his anger, that is, restrains it as a bridle restrains a horse. Beauty awakens love or tender passions; opposition fires courage. http://webstersdictionary1828.com/Dictionary/Metaphor How many times does the SRod message use the word Metaphor? One time. Based on the meaning you will clearly understand why. Here is the following and only example: Land to Flow With “ Milk And Honey .”       WHEN God promised to lead ancient Israel into a land "flowing with milk and honey,...

Is the sealing and the marking the same? Let's begin with 5 references, 1SR:46.3; 1Tr:19.4-20.1; 8Tr:23.3-24.2; 8SC1-12:14.7, 8; 12SC2:10.1-12.2. After those references are clearly acknowledged then we are going to address a popular objection. After resolving the objection we are going to examine the weight of evidence from the SRod itself. 1.   [1930]   1SR:46.3    We read in Testimonies to Ministers, page 445: "This sealing of the servants of God [the 144,000: Rev. 7] is the same that was shown to Ezekiel in vision."   Then the sealing of the 144,000 is the same as Ezekiel 9, and the marking by the man with the writer's inkhorn is the seal .   As soon as the marking is done, "the five men with the slaughter weapons go after him and slay both old and young, both maids and little children, and women.   And they began at the ancient men which were before the house."    It is AT this time the 144,000 are marked, or sealed.—1SR:46.3,...