A Most Solemn Warning

    Ellen White perhaps issued her most solemn warning to the SDA brethren when she penned what would happen if they disseminated the seductive, spiritualistic theories of the alpha of apostasy. But, sad to say, we are witnessing the compromises she predicted long ago even now: "I was shown a platform braced by solid timbers,--the truths of the Word of God. Someone high in responsibility in the medical work was directing this man and that man to loosen the timbers supporting the platform. I heard a voice saying, 'Where are the watchmen that ought to be standing on the walls of Zion? Are they asleep? This foundation was built by the Master Worker, and will stand storm and tempest. Will they permit this man to present doctrines that deny the past experience of the people of God? The time has come to take decided action.'

   "The enemy of souls has sought to bring in the supposition that a great reformation was to take place among Seventh-day Adventists, and this reformation would consist in giving up the doctrines which stand as the pillars of our faith, and engaging in a process of reorganization. Were this to take place, what would result? The principles of truth that God in His wisdom has given to the. But already we are  remnant church would be discarded. Our religion would be changed. The fundamental principles that have sustained the work for the last fifty years would be accounted as error. A new organization would be established. Books of a new order [new theology] would be written. A system of intellectual theology would be introduced [SDA ministers are receiving their advanced education and 'philosophies' from the evangelical teachers]. The founders of this system would go into the cities, and do a wonderful work [5T, p. 210, says: "The glory of the Lord had departed from Israel (applicable here to the SDA church); although many still continued the forms of religion, His power and presence were lacking]. The Sabbath, of course, would be lightly regarded, and also the God who created it.

     "Nothing would be allowed to stand in the way of the new movement. The leaders would teach that virtue is better than vice, but God being removed, they would place their dependence on human power, which, without God, is worthless. Their foundation would be built on sand, and storm and tempest would sweep away the structure." (Sp.T., Series B, No. 2, pp. 54, 55). Oh, friends, the structure church is quickly heading down the primrose path by teaching their new theology and celebration-style services! But, Praise God, not one faithful soul--not one spiritual Israelite--will be lost! How ironic that part of the reason I was disfellowshipped from the church was for "starting a new movement." Now who looks like they have started a new movement? When I joined the church years ago, I heard outstanding Bible messages from men like the late Joe Crews, who wrote "Creeping Compromise." I was baptized by the late Dan Collins and ordained as an elder by the late Ralph Larson. These men stood for the SDA beliefs and warned of the apostasy that was trying to overtake our beloved church in their day. 

What Will You Do?

    Now ask yourself this question: "Are you seeing the inroads or any of the signs of the new movement in your church? Or perhaps is there just a dead silence from your ministers and church leaders who refuse to warn our people? Lethargy has infected a great portion of our pastors and leaders and lulled them to sleep at this critical hour. Should we remain silent at this critical hour, while the drums and rock music are playing?

     Ellen White delayed sending this letter out which the Spirit of the Lord had impelled her to write. But she realized, in the providence of God, that the errors that had been coming in must be met. She then alludes to a story about a ship in the fog meeting an iceberg. She was presented in the night the following scene: "A vessel was upon the waters, in a heavy fog. Suddenly the lookout cried, 'Iceberg just ahead!' There, towering high above the ship, was a gigantic iceberg. An authoritative voice cried out, 'Meet it!' There was not a moment's hesitation. It was time for instant action ... With a crash she struck the ice...and the iceberg broke in pieces...The passengers were violently shaken...but no lives were lost." (Ibid., pp. 56, 57). Oh, may the church repent and return to the first principles of the denominated faith--the "old paths" spoken of by the Jeremiah the prophet! (Jer. 6:16). For history is seeking to repeat itself, and, in fact, soon will!

   Friends, not only is the great apostasy waxing stronger, but its climax, the omega--spiritualism under a Christian guise--as exemplified by the iceberg, lies ahead! Just as the spiritualistic science of pantheism was the alpha of "deadly heresies," the "startling nature" of "modern spiritualism"--pantheism's big sister--with Satan being "converted after the modern order of things" will be the omega. The "startling nature" of the omega is that spiritualism will "closely imitate the nominal Christianity of the day."

    What will you do then, beloved? As in the alpha of apostasy, evil angels took captive the mind of John Harvey Kellogg, so in the omega, Satan will be "using all his science in playing the game of life for human souls. His angels are mingling with and instructing them in the mysteries of evil. These fallen angels will draw away disciples after them, will talk with men, and will set forth principles that are as false as can be, leading souls into paths of deception. These angels are to be found all over the world, presenting the wonderful things that will soon appear in a more decided light." (MR, 760, p. 17). Says spiritualism, pantheism's big sister, "I'm back!"

Warnings From God

     Most SDAs are familiar with Isaiah 8:20: "To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them." But how many have noticed the context in which this verse was written? Isaiah 8:19 warns: "And when they shall say unto you, seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep and that mutter; should not a people seek unto their God? For the living to the dead?" The admonishment of Isaiah 8:20 is warning us of demon imposters! Will the church be protected when she has rejected the Testimonies of the Spirit of Prophecy and the word of the Lord and His law? Consider this staement: "if church members do not act the part God has assigned them, the movement of health reform will go on without them, and it will be seen that God has removed their candlestick out of its place. Those who refuse to receive and practice the light will be left in the background.--Manuscript 78, 1900. 

Thousands of Supernatural Apparitions

     Satan has been preparing the world for a master deception for quite some time. Mary apparitions have been reported for centuries, and, more recently, the phenomena is steadily increasing. "Spiritualism is about to take the world captive. There are many who think that Spiritualism is upheld through trickery and imposture; but this is far from the truth. Superhuman power is working in a variety of ways, and few have any idea of what will be the manifestations of Spiritualism in the future." (Signs of the Times, May 28, 1894).

      "In the small town of Naju, located near the southwestern tip of the Korean peninsula, Our Lady began giving urgent messages and signs to Julia Kim. On June 30, 1985, Our Lady's statue, owned by Julia, began weeping tears, and on October 19, 1986, it began weeping tears of blood. Until January 14, 1992, the statue wept for a total of exactly 700 days. The tears of blood were tested and found to be human blood. In Stockton, California, my hometown, two statues recently transported from the Philippines sporadically emitted a "palatable fragrance of sweet-scented oil." (The Record, May 5, 1999). In the Mojave Desert, "crowds come on the thirteenth of every month for prayer and to witness Maria Paula's reception of an apparition and a message from the Virgin Mary. Pilgrims have reported sun miracles, visions, healings, and numerous other miraculous phenomena." (Searching for Mary, 169). In Corpus Christi, Texas, a $12.00 statue of the Virgin "turned its head, opened its eyes, and took mincing steps." (The Star Tribune, June 6, 1998). Praise God my book, Is the Virgin Mary Dead or Alive?, is now in English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Swedish, German, and Arabic! 

     "Medjugorje has become well known in Bosnia-Hercegovina, and the world, because of six young people who claim to have seen visions of the Madonna. In Fatima, Portugal, on July 13, 1917, the Virgin had imparted three secrets to three shepherd children. The second secret included the Virgin Mary's desire that the pope consecrate Russia to her immaculate heart, thus securing the conversion of that nation. [Interesting how communism was defeated through the conspiracy of Pope John Paul II and President Ronald Reagan! Beware, beloved, for while in Mexico, the same pope consecrated the Americas to Mary, calling for solidarity!]. "Fatima's third secret, still unrevealed, has been kept under lock and key at the Vatican since the late 1950s and has been the subject of much speculation since its existence was first made known. It is widely supposed that the secret concerns a coming worldwide cataclysm and the approach of the end-times." (Searching for Mary, pp. 10, 11).

The Great Chastisements

     In Bayside, N.Y., "The Lourdes of America," Jesus and Mary speak to the world through a seer named Veronica Lueken. Warnings of impending doom are presented of a massive world monetary depression and Russian plans of attack. Mary warns of increasing natural disasters through the elements of nature, and that these judgments from God--His chastisements--are increasing because the world has violated His moral law--the Ten Commandments. Compare the words of the demon Mary with the words of E. G. White: "Satan works through the elements also to garner his harvest of unprepared souls. He has studied the secrets of the laboratories of nature, and he uses all his power to control the elements as far as God allows. ... While appearing to the children of men as a great physician who can heal all their maladies, he will bring disease and disaster, until populous cities are reduced to ruin and desolation. Even now he is at work. In accidents and calamities by sea and by land, in great conflagrations, in fierce tornadoes and terrific hailstorms, in tempests, floods, cyclones, tidal waves, and earthquakes, in every place and in a thousand forms, Satan is exercising his power....These visitations are to become more and more frequent and disastrous." (GC, pp. 589, 590).

The Thunder of Justice

      I remember that the first time I read The Thunder of Justice, written by two Catholics who are very active in the Marian Movement, how alarmed I was by their frequent use of Adventist terms. The book, which focuses on prophetic end-time events, appears to be the Catholic's version of The Great Controversy. In fact, it uses the very language of Ellen G. White--the language with which SDAs are familiar. This book attempts to counterfeit the Three Angels' Messages and to give all the glory to the Virgin Mary.

     Some terms used in this false Spirit of Prophecy are "the little flock," "the remnant," Mary's message to "recite and keep the Ten Commandments," and that she is "the prophetess of the last days."

     The Thunder of Justice tells us that the demon Mary prophesied that rockets will hit New York in the near future. (The Thunder of Justice, p. 344). Interestingly, Ellen White has foretold of a time when New York will suffer a great fire: "I was in the night season called upon to behold buildings rising story after story toward heaven....The scene that next passes before me was an alarm of fire. Men looked at the lofty and supposedly fireproof buildings and said: 'They are perfectly safe.' But these buildings were consumed as if made of pitch. The fire engines could do nothing to stay the destruction. The firemen were unable to operate the engines." (9T, pp. 12, 13).

     The demon personating Mary claims to be the "Mother of the Second Advent," and that she is preparing us for Christ's Second Coming. Friends, that is our work, for we are the church that has been called to give the Elijah message to the world! But the demon Mary insists: "I am the Virgin of Revelation." I am the "woman clothed with the sun who does battle with the dragon and his powerful army of evil." (The Thunder of Justice, pp. 90, 99).

Comparisons and Counterfeits

    The audacity of the demon Mary to take the symbolic vision given to John in Revelation 12, which is a symbol of God's true church, and incorrectly apply it to herself! The false Mary also elaborates on the Holy Spirit's role in the last days: "On the feast of Pentecost, May 22, 1988, the message from Our Lady to the Marian Movement of Priests was clear: 'The Holy Spirit will come to establish the glorious reign of Christ....What will come to pass is something so very great that it will exceed anything that has taken place since the beginning of the world.'" (Ibid., pp. 309, 310). Friends, are we not waiting for the outpouring of the Spirit?-that "time when the events of the day of Pentecost shall be repeated with even greater power than on that occasion....and [a time] to maintain such a close connection with Him that they may be partakers of the latter rain when it shall be poured out." (RH, July 20, 1886).

     The demon Mary also says that the apostles, "Saint Peter and Saint Paul, having come down from Heaven, shall preach in the whole world and designate a new Pope. A great light will flash from their bodies and will settle upon a cardinal who is to be Pope. Christianity, then, will spread throughout the world. He is the holy Pontiff, chosen by God to withstand the storm. At the end, he will have the gift of miracles, and his name shall be praised over the whole earth. Whole nations will come back to the church and the face of the earth will be renewed. Russia, England, and China will come into the church." (The Thunder of Justice, p. 353).

     I do not know whether this scenario will happen or not, for Satan is the "father of Lies," but Ellen White has warned us that "the apostles, as personated by these lying spirits, are made to contradict what they wrote at the dictation of the Holy Spirit when on earth. They deny the divine origin of the Bible [the Roman Catholic Church denies that the Bible is the sole authority of God's word and defends the founding fathers and their traditions], and thus tear away the foundation of the Christian's hope." GC 557

     The comparisons continue with the counterfeit Mary's message that she "will bring you to the full understanding of Sacred Scripture...Above all, I will read to you the pages of its last book [Revelation], which you are living." (The Thunder of Justice, p. 90). Then, believe it or not, on page 100 of the same book, she quotes the Three Angels' Messages from Revelation 14!!! Dearly beloved, "Knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed." (Rom. 13:11).

Demons Will Appear Before Our Eyes

     "I saw that Satan has power to bring before us the appearance of forms purporting to be our relatives or friends who sleep in Jesus. It will be made to appear as if these friends were actually present, the words they uttered while here, with which we were familiar, will be spoken, and the same tone of voice that they had while living will fall upon the ear. All this is to deceive the world and ensnare them into the belief of this delusion.

     Please read the chapter in The Great Controversy entitled The Scriptures a Safeguard, pages 593-602 to avoid the omega! Seventh-day Adventists have been given the truth on the state of the dead. We have been entrusted with the most precious light ever given to mortals to save us from the masterful, spiritualistic deceptions of Satan in these last days. Scripture support is abundant in defense of this truth that unmasks the lie perpetrated by Satan in the beginning that "ye shall not surely die." The only defense for SDAs during the omega--when deceased loved ones, perhaps even Ellen White, the apostles, the demon Mary, and the devil himself personating Jesus Christ begin making their false appearances to deceive the very elect--is a "thus saith the Lord." Maranatha.

A watchman on the walls of Zion,

Danny Vierra     

 

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