T H E K I N G ’S B U S I N E S S thè Lamb th a t has blotted ou t the record against us! I have found th a t any religious sys tem th a t requires a vocabulary th a t is not found in th e Word of God to explain its exegesis of th e Scriptures, is a sys tem th a t is unsound. No such phrase is found in th e Scriptures as “The In vestigative Judgm en t.” Compare Mrs. W hite’s or any other false p rophet’s vocabulary w ith th e Word of God and it is foreign. Their “speech b etray eth ” them . According to the Scriptures, th e Lord Jesu s is now seated a t th e rig h t hand of God th e F ath e r, where He will remain un til H is enemies are made His foot stool. (Acts 2:32-35). So long as His enemies are no t pu t under His feet, we may know th a t He is there. When P aul w rote his epistle to th e Hebrews of his day Christ had already entered “ into the holy place, having obtained etern al redemption for us, by H is own blood.” (Heb. 9 :1 2 ). ; How then dare S. D. Adventists put fo rth th e exegesis of verse 22 of th is same chapter th a t they do? W hat are our pastors thinking of not to acquaint themselves w ith th is un- scrip tu ral system th a t is growing w ith leaps and bounds in our m idst? Methinks th a t many pastors will yet have to face those who have been caught in th e tentacles of th is false system who have in days past sa t under th e ir m in istry. I have in m ind a n iirse in one of the S. D. A. Sanitarium s, raised in a P res byterian fam ily, who one day said to m e:— “O I wish I had your assurance th a t I was saved.” Needless to say th a t I sought to lead her into th a t assurance th a t so filled my h ea rt w ith song even in th e m idst of my extrem e physical misery, b u t to no ap p a re n t purpose. I then urged h er to go home and straig h t to h er pastor to see if he could not help to free h er from
611 the g reat bondage of fear by which she was entangled. W hether she ever did I have not since learned. She is bu t one of thousands who have gone out from under th e teach ing of our orthodox pulpits all too illy prepared to intelligently combat th e false teachings of th is system. Who will be judged for those who are trapped through th e unfaithfulness o f ' God’s watchmen upon H is watch towers? It does seem to me th a t it is the busi ness o f every pastor to inform himself concerning these false religious systems and regu larly w arn those w ithin th e sound of his voice of th e ir soul destroy ing dangers. Personally I never once heard a warning note sounded in all th e churches I have attended th roughou t my long Christian life against this system. W hat I know of it has resulted from earnest prayer and a searching of th e Scriptures on my own p art alone. The tim e was when I considered them ortho dox, though never in danger of being converted to th e ir position regarding the seventh day S a b b a th ^ fo r th a t was the only point wherein I th en supposed we differed. Month afte r month all by which I judged was w hat I heard and saw as a p atien t in th e ir S anitarium s; and I saw an d heard nothing th a t seemed vitally unsound; 'but th e day came when a copy of Mrs. W hite’s Ex periences and Visions published in 1851 was p u t into my hands. W ith beating h ea rt I read it through-—my eyes wide open now. I was ho rro r stricken, and I promised God to do everything in my power to warn others of th e subtleties of th is dangerous system, for God had opened my eyes to its source, and He never wastes any tim e beating around the btish. No stream can rise higher th an its source, and Seventh Day Ad ventism can no more rise higher th an its source th an can Spiritism , Christian (? ) Science ( ? ) , Romanism , Russellism , Theosophy or any o ther “ ism” or false prophet religion. The source of Seventh
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