The Great Conspiracy! Part 11

Inside Editorial Box Of the Barnhouse Article: Have the Seventh-day Adventists been proselytizers? During the course of our dealings with Adventist leaders we brought up the complaints, common to the mission field, that Adventist missionaries and workers have been proselytizers. The leaders affirmed vehemently that they have been doing everything possible to prevent such proselytizing, and, while there may have been such cases in the past, they hold that such methods are not now in use. In cooperation with them we will gladly receive from any missionaries in the world fully documented instances of such proselytization that have taken place during the past two years. Such documentation, if any, sent to the Rev. Mr. Walter R. Martin, in care of Eternity, will be forwarded to Adventist leaders, who have promised a thorough investigation. ibid., Donald Grey Barnhouse, “Are Seventh-day Adventists Christians?” Eternity, October, 1956 (emphasis supplied). The word “proselytize” means to make an Adventist out of Baptist, Lutheran or other Christians. With this kind of a policy on “proselytizing” how is it possible for Seventh-day Adventist missionaries or evangelists to call God’s people out of Babylon and into the present truth of the Advent movement? It is not possible. The new position is that we should simply be Christian brethren with the Evangelical Sunday-keeping churches of Babylon. We should not “proselytize” their members and make Seventh-day Adventists out of them. After all, one current Adventist leader goes so far as to state that the Pope of Rome is his Christian brother. (Mitchell A. Tyner, The Columbian Union Visitor, June 1, 1995, p. 6). Again, this policy which was told to the Evangelicals is in perfect harmony with the policy adopted at the 1926 General Conference which stated that, “In the desire to avoid occasion for misunderstanding or friction in the matter of relationship to the work of other societies, the following statement of principles are set forth as a guidance to our workers in mission fields in their contacts with other religious organizations”: #1. We recognize every agency that lifts up Christ before man as a part of the divine plan for the evangelization of the world, and we hold in high esteem the Christian men and women in other communions who are engaged in winning souls to Christ. “Relationship To Other Societies,” General Conference Executive Committee, 1926. (emphasis supplied). It must be remembered that this policy was voted sixteen years after the death of Ellen White. Testimony would have been given immediately against this betrayal of the three angel’s messages. “There is as great a difference in our faith and that of nominal professors, as the heavens are higher than the earth,” Ellen White stated. “True brotherhood can never be maintained by compromising principle.” (Spiritual Gifts, Vol. 2, p. 300; Manuscript 23b, 7/25/96, emphasis supplied). “God has committed to us,” Ellen White wrote, “the special truths for this time to make known to the world.” (Testimonies for the Church, Vol, 5, p. 236). In Chapter #11, “A warning, and Its Rejection,” and Chapter #13, “The Final Atonement,” we Chapter 12 The Ultimate Betraya -242- discovered that the leadership of the Seventh-day Adventist Church accepted a new Christ and changed the time of the final Atonement in the first angel’s message from the heavenly sanctuary to the cross. In the Evangelical conferences of 1955-56 the leadership admitted those changes to the Evangelical church leaders of Babylon. In 1957 the Church leadership published those changes to the world in the “official” book, Seventh-day Adventists Answer, Questions on Doctrine. In Chapter #1, “The Invaders,” we learned that the Seventh-day Adventist Church leadership rejected the third angel’s message when they stated to the world in a Supreme Court Brief that “it is not good Seventh-day Adventism to express, as Mrs. Tobler has done, an aversion to Roman Catholicism as such.” (United States District Court, Northern District of California. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission vs. Pacific Press Publishing Association, Civ. No. 74-2025 CBR. Reply Brief for Defendants in Support of Their Motion for Summary Judgment. (emphasis supplied). Now we have learned in the past three Chapters that the Church leadership has rejected the first and second angel’s messages as taught by pioneer Adventists. Again we ask, has the Seventh-day Adventist Church been faithful to the message of trust given to her? Can the Church give up the three angel’s messages and still be considered faithful? To these two most important questions we must sadly answer, no, no. Has the contemporary Seventh-day Adventist Church joined hands with the enemy? Oh, how sadly we must answer, yes! “How is the faithful city [Church] become an harlot!” an angel said to Ellen White in vision. “My Father’s house is made a house of merchandise, a place whence the divine presence and glory have departed! For this cause there is weakness, and strength is lacking.” (Testimonies for the Church, Vol. 8, p. 250, emphasis supplied). In the balances of the sanctuary the Seventh-day Adventist church is to be weighed. She will be judged by the privileges and advantages that she has had. If her spiritual experience does not correspond to the advantages that Christ, at infinite cost, has bestowed on her, if the blessings conferred have not qualified her to do the work entrusted to her, on her will be pronounced the sentence: “Found wanting.” By the light bestowed, the opportunities given, will she be judged. Ellen G. White, Testimonies for the Church, vol. 8, page 247 (April 21, 1903). (emphasis supplied). “Let the sin of deceit and false witness be entertained by a church that has had great light, great evidence,” Ellen White counsels, “and that church will discard the message the Lord has sent, and receive the most unreasonable assertions and false suppositions and false theories. Satan laughs at their folly, for he knows what truth is.” (Testimonies to Ministers, page 409, emphasis supplied). Oh, may the Lord of the Sabbath, our High Priest in the Heavenly Sanctuary, have mercy on His people – and may we not be found wanting! Chapter 12 The Ultimate Betrayal (CONCLUDED).