We need to
understand the principle by which God works and it is in these quotes you just
sent.
"The
Lord Jesus will always have a chosen people to serve Him.
When the Jewish people rejected Christ,
the Prince of life, He
took from them the kingdom of God and gave it unto the Gentiles. God will continue to work on this principle with every branch of His
work. {LDE
59.1}
Was the Jewish Church, "Christ's
Church"
when Jesus came the first time ? ,Yes
they were. But, were they still Christ's
Church after the stoning
of Steven in AD
34
? No they were not ! Before
He was
crucified
on His last visit to the temple,
what did He say to the Jewish Leaders ?
He said, "Your house is left unto you
desolate" !
By their rejection of Christ,
they had left
Him an then what did Jesus
do ? The Spirit of God said,
"He took from
them the
kingdom of God and gave
it unto
the Gentiles. .." This is the
"principle by
which Christ works". That is what we
need to understand !
If we take your manner of reasoning, then
the
Jewish Church, which
was Christ's
Church when Jesus came must therefore
still
be His
Church because, "The church
will never
fall" ! But Jesus took
FROM them the kingdom of God and gave
it unto
the Gentiles.
.."
He
was doing and His
Church did not fall,
but, Jesus chose "NEW LEADERS" to lead
His Church. The people
fell, not
the
Church of Jesus ! This is the "principle
by
which Christ
works".
"When a
church proves unfaithful to
the
Word of the Lord, whatever their position
may be, however high and sacred their
calling, The Lord can no longer work with
them. Others are
then chosen to bear important responsibilities. But, if these
in turn do not purify their lives from every wrong
action, if they do not establish pure and holy principles
in all their
borders, then The
Lord will grievously
afflict and humble them and, unless they repent,
will remove them from their place and make them a
reproach.—
Manuscript Releases 14:102
(1903).{LDE 59.2}
This is
the "principle by which Christ
works".
So more evidence
that Christ will remove
the "leaders"
of His Church and
chose
Faithful Men to lead
His Church ! The
Church does not fall,
the people prove
unfaithful, the Church of Christ
continues
on but under new
leaders !
The leaders of the
church that Jesus
began, by the third
century were
already in apostasy. By
538 AD, paganism
was in control and
what happened
again ? The Faithful
People, "fled out
of" the apostate church
and continued the
True Faith in the
wilderness ! Once
again Christ chose,
New Leaders, the
Waldenses in Italy, the
Huguenots in France and other
small groups in
other countries. And
notice once
again the Testimony of The
Holy
Spirit.
"From the
beginning, faithful
souls have
Constituted the church on
earth......"
{AA 11.2}
And:
“The Church in
the
wilderness,” and not the proud hierarchy enthroned in the
world's great capital, was the true church of
Christ, the guardian of the treasures of truth which God has committed to His People to be given to the
world. {GC88 64.1}
Remember
!
This is
the "principle by which Christ
works".
So then came
the
Great Protestant
Reformation
And thousands more
fled out of the
Apostate organization that called
itself
"the church" and a time of terrible
persecution
followed.
The church then
developed into many
Protestant
denominations with many
different leaders
and certainly not all
agreeing on
doctrine ! Then God sent
a
Special Message to
His Church scattered
in many different churches to bring them into
unity as His
Judgment was about to
begin in heaven
and the return of Christ
would follow.
About 50,000 in America,
members of many
different churches, left
their former
connections and prepared
for Christ's return. The result of
that
movement was the,
Seventh Day Adventist
Church. This
was God's "principle" at work once
again.
The large number
of denominations
rejected the
message and God, took
FROM them the kingdom of God and gave
it unto
Seventh Day Adventist. .." Who
then became the "True Church of
Jesus"
But, remember; God's principle must be
applied to Seventh Day
Adventists
also also; God has not changed ! If
you
will be honest
with your own soul and in
love for perishing
souls in the Adventist,
churches, one can not honestly deny
that the Organization calling itself,
the
"church" is in apostasy which the Spirit
of God told us would
happen. Even the
current president,
Ted Wilson has
stated
in several sermons
that this is true and
has called for a
"revival and
reformation"
which is totally
un-necessary if the
people were
obeying The Lord !
So then we must in
all honesty apply
God's Principle to the Adventist Church !
“The Church in
the
wilderness,” and not the proud hierarchy enthroned in the
world's great capital, was (is) the true church of Christ, the guardian
of the treasures of truth which God has committed to His People to be given to the world. {GC88
64.1}
"The
Lord Jesus will always have a chosen people to serve Him.
When the Jewish people rejected Christ,
the Prince of life, He
took from them the kingdom of God and gave it unto the Gentiles. God will continue to work on this principle with every branch of His
work. {LDE
59.1}
"From the beginning,
faithful souls have
Constituted the church on
earth......"
{AA 11.2}
Christ's Church will
never fall, but those
who proclaim that antichrist is their
friend have surely
fallen and are not
members of Christ's Church !
Apply
Apply
God's
Principle and you will understand
!