Then “ the jubilee” is described. We quote again: “ Soon appeared the great white cloud. It looked more lovely than ever before. On it sat the Son of Man. At first we did not see Jesus on the cloud, but as it drew near the earth, we could behold His lovely person . . . Jesus threw open the gates of the Golden City, and led us in. Here we were made welcome, for we had kept ‘the commandments of God’ and had ‘a right to the tree of life.’ ” You see, Elder Bates had settled upon the doctrine of the seventh-day Sabbath and Mrs. White’s fore going “ vision” endorsed it. The Review and Supple ment of August 14, 1883 plainly declared: “ Our position on the Testimonies [Mrs. White’s writings] is like the keystone to the arch. Take that out, and there is no logical stopping place till all the special A Plan For Your Tithe Your editors believe the purpose of a Christian magazine is to 1) strengthen believers in the faith and 2) present the claims of Jesus Christ to the non-believer. Since 1910 T he K ing ’ s B usiness has followed this plan. Some folks don’t know that the subscription price plus a moderate amount of advertising is not enough to pay the actual cost of publishing a magazine like K.B. This work can only continue as additional gifts are sent in each month by our readers. Why not set aside a part of your tithe each month for this purpose? Gifts are deductible for income tax reporting. Send to: Special Gift, T he K ing ’ s B usiness , 558 So. Hope St., Los An geles 17, Calif. Thank you for your prayerful consideration of this monthly need. — Your Editors truths of the message are gone. Nothing is surer than this, that the message and the visions belong together, and stand or fall together.” For once, I fully agree with an official Seventh-day Adventist statement! Now the question is: W ill Mrs. White have to go? Will the “keystone of the arch” be removed and thus all the superstructure fall in a heap? This will have to be done if the heresies are abandoned, as Eternity claims. Next month we will discuss the unfinished atone ment theory and record more of Mrs. White’s visions; and in future issues, G od w i l l i n g , the serious Seventh-day Adventist teaching in regard to hell, and other of their unscriptural beliefs. (To be continued next month.) From Your Editors
SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISM continued first table shone brighter than the other six. But the fourth [the Sabbath commandment] shone above them all; for the Sabbath was set apart to be kept in honor of God’s holy name. The holy Sabbath looked glorious -— a halo of glory was all around it. I saw that the Sabbath was not nailed to the cross. If it was, the other nine commandments were; and we are at liberty to go forth and break them all, as well as to break the fourth. I saw that God had not changed the Sabbath, for He never changes. But the Pope had changed it from the seventh to the first day of the week; for he was to change times and laws. And I saw that if God had changed the Sabbath, from the seventh to the first day, He would have changed the writing of the Sabbath commandment, written on the tables of stone, which are now in the ark, in the Most Holy Place of the Temple in heaven; and it would read thus: The first day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God. But I saw that it read the same as when written on the tables of stone by the finger of God and delivered to Moses in Sinai: ‘But the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God.’ I saw that the holy Sabbath is, and will be, the separating wall between the true Israel of God and unbelievers; and that the Sabbath is the great question to unite the hearts of God’s dear waiting saints. And if one believed, and kept the Sabbath, and received the blessing attending it, and then gave it up, and broke the holy commandment, they would shut the gates of the Holy City against themselves, as sure as there was a God in heaven above. I saw that God had children who do not see and keep the Sabbath. They had not rejected the light on it. And at the commence ment of the time of trouble, we were filled with the Holy Ghost as /we went forth and proclaimed the Sabbath more fully. This enraged the church, and nominal Adventists, as they could not refute the Sabbath truth. And at this time God’s chosen all saw clearly that we had the truth, and they came out, and endured persecution with us. And I saw the sword, famine, pestilence, and great confusion in the land. The wicked thought that we had brought the judg ments down on them. They rose up and took counsel to rid the earth of us, thinking that evil would be stayed. I saw that all who ‘would not receive the mark of the Beast, and of his Image, in their foreheads or in their hands’ could not buy or sell. I saw that the number (666) of the Image Beast was made up and that it was the beast that changed the Sabbath, and the Image Beast had followed on after, and kept the Pope’s, and not God’s Sabbath. And all we were required to do, was to give up God’s Sabbath, and keep the Pope’s, and then we should have the mark of the Beast, and of his Image.” Following this, the coming of Christ is described followed by these words: “And then the never-ending blessing was pro nounced on those who had honored God, in keeping His Sabbath holy, there was a mighty shout of victory over the Beast, and over his Image.”
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