Ni nia ya kitabu hiki kufunua ukweli wa watu 144,000 waliotajwa katika Ufunuo 7 lakini lengo kuu la chapisho hili ni kuleta matengenezo kati ya watu wa Mungu. Ukweli uliosheheni hapa ndani umegawanywa...
Kitabu hiki hakijachapishwa kufafanua, au kutoa maelezo kwa kweli ambazo zilifunuliwa awali, na kupokelewa hivyo, bali kitafichua hali halisi ambazo Mungu amehifadhi kwa vizazi vingi, si tu ili zisije...
It is certain that all concerned will be glad to know that the first of the series of news items relative to present truth is now being circulated herein. Therefore let us pray to the end that it will...
Being deprived of all denominational advantages such as sanitariums, health food factories, printing presses, etc., perhaps it may be necessary for a rural location for the establishment of a combined...
When God reveals something to a man which he himself cannot find, the Bible term for such revelation is, Inspiration. Hence, Jesus pronounced that Peter was inspired, and the subject of Peter’s reve...
We have greater evidence in support of our message than the prophets could ever produce in their times. Satan’s determined effort now is the same as in times past causing the people to acknowledge t...
The trouble with the people is that they make the Rod say things which it really does not. You write that Sr. White has stated that the ministry only should receive the tithe. If you mean by this that...
God has never yet revealed the whole truth to any one person. But He expects us to keep pace with the ever increasing light, and though each advancing truth at first dawning seem more or less hazy as ...
“Many fields ripe for the harvest have not yet been entered, because of our lack of self-sacrificing helpers. These fields must be entered, and many laborers should go to them with the expectation o...
We are confronted with opposition from our conferences, which are trying to drown the message and kill the work of reform. They talk against the publications, but not once have they opened their pages...
If the SRod is the truth, and one accepts it with all one’s heart, and does the truth, the possibility of being lost would be identical to the possibility of Paul’s being lost for accepting with a...
The responsibility which God has placed upon us at this time is so great that no human mind can fully comprehend it or take it too seriously; that is, God has given us the “words of life” to bear ...
Though it was at first thought that the office should remain in its original location for a month or two longer, circumstances called for its immediate removal, and it is with praises that we make thi...
If Mt. Carmel Center is to be true to its name, and stand as an antitype of that ancient hill to which God called His people of old to prove who was the true God, then we, who are so highly privileged...
As defenders of truth and righteousness, and because of our great love for our brethren, we, like John the Baptist, would rather be beheaded than to have the One Who died for us require their blood at...
We feel sure that all the friends of the cause for reform will be pleased to see the entire company in perfect harmony with our profession, such as has never been witnessed since the days of the apost...
We are happy to announce that the headquarters office of the sealing message moved from Waco to Mt. Carmel Center on September 29 to its new and permanent home location for the proclamation of the mes...
We thank all our brethren for their assistance in this mighty work and we hope that with the help of God we shall not disappoint them by falling short in our God-given privilege as others who have not...
Having prepared a place for all the redeemed Jesus will return, not only for those who are alive, but also for those who are dead, as described in 1 Thess.4:16-18:“For the Lord Himself shall descend...
Most of our people are so deeply asleep, and so greatly stupefied that it seems there is nothing that can fully awaken them from the “Laodicean sad deception.” They study the message and admit it ...
We are of good courage and words fail us by which to express our thanks to the One Who is “taking the reins in His own hands” for His great mercy, tender care, and guiding hand; and we are glad to...
The old devil well knows that this is the last message the world will ever receive and that it will chain him for a thousand years and at last reduce his being down to ashes as though he never was. Th...
"I do not know what is going to happen to some who profess to believe in Present Truth, who have been taught, admonished, reproved, and warned both by precept and by example, but who still continue on...
The Jewish leaders thought that if they could by whatsoever means but get rid of Christ, His work of reform and advanced light on the Word of God would then come to an end, but it was after they cruci...
“Had Elisha asked Elijah what was expected of him,—what would be his work,—he would have been answered: God knows; He will make it known to you. If you wait upon the Lord, He will answer your ev...
Those who are converted to God, and whose Spiritual eye catches the eternal weight of glory, realizing that it is within their reach, we need not urge to give that which belongs to God, whether it be ...
Who can stand, in the fear of the righteous, before the Great Judge, the Mighty One of Israel? Has He not said, “Hear what I say unto thee,” “Hear ye the rod, and who hath appointed it “ What ...
No one has to study another’s writings, but they need to understand the Bible, for the Word of God is their very life. However, as the Scriptures are of no private interpretation (2 Peter 1:20, 21),...
As the “grand object of all study” is to “learn the will of God and the duties of His people,” Mt. Carmel Academy’s system of education differs vitally from that which is in vogue among othe...
Though the church is God’s dearest object on this earth, and that upon which He bestows His supreme regard, He often has to admonish, and even rebuke and chasten, this divinely ordained institution,...
“The preacher has a great time. If his hair is gray, he is too old. If he is a young man, he has not had experience enough. If he is single, he is a flirt; if he is married, he is like all other fol...
Do not, my brothers and sisters, abuse God’s mercy, and turn a deaf ear to His pleadings by questioning and criticizing everything now “in the unfolding of truth,” when you should be feeding on ...
Realizing, with a realization second only to that of God’s, that the home and the family are the basic unit of human society, and that therefore as rocks the cradle, rocks the world, Satan set about...
O, I cry aloud to God that He may awaken all Present Truth believers and cause them to see that a mere theoretical knowledge of Present Truth is not sufficient to save their souls from Satan’s claim...
The very fact that the one hundred and forty-four thousand are to have no guile in their mouths is not only an evidence that they must proclaim the truth and nothing but the truth, but that their lang...
“God provided bread for His people in the wilderness by a miracle of mercy, and He could have provided everything necessary for religious service; but He did not, because in His infinite wisdom He s...
To all careless or doubting or recusant spirits who tread the side edges of the road of Present Truth, the following words of Inspiration stand as faithful sentinels, warning of the grim fact that unl...
Our attention is called to the most important question: Could it be possible that the Scriptures should contain such a complete prophecy of the church to 1844 and contain none at all for her since the...
The spirit that worked in the Jewish leaders is still at work. At Christ’s time the people pretended to be very ardent in their belief of the writings of Moses and the prophets, and found fault with...
The message which is to close the Gospel work, is the last of all gospel messages before the close of probation. It is the one which is to be brought by the anti-typical prophet Elijah (Mal. 4:5, 6), ...
In both the Old and the New Testaments, there is brought to view a religious movement organized and led by the Author of the Scriptures, the first of which is an “ensample,” or type, of the second...
Wayahudi walimwita Kristo aliyetarajiwa, Masihi lakini sisi ambao tunazungumza kwa Kiingereza tunamwita Yule Mtiwa mafuta, kwa sababu kwa lugha yetu hilo ndilo neno, Masihi, linamaanisha. Cheo Mtiwa m...
We now live the life of Christ by faith; but in the kingdom—the substance of our hope—where “the evidence of things” is seen, we shall live by sight, “for now we see through a glass darkly; ...
Grant religious liberty to all, for it is not our duty to demand of others respect for our religion, but it is our duty in meekness and in fear to teach the Truth to those who do not know it, never de...
Yule Ambaye alitabiri kuinuka na kuanguka kwa Babeli na mataifa yalioufuata, ndiye pekee anayejua ni nini kitakachokuwa tokeo la “dhiki ya mataifa” ya sasa. Luka 21:25. Kwa nuru, basi, juu ya swal...
“Mungu ana nuru ya thamani ya kuja kwa watu Wake .... Wakati mwanga mpya unawasilishwa kwa kanisa, ni hatari kujizuia mbali nao .... Kuhukumu yale ambayo hujasikia na uelewi hakutainua hekima yako m...
Mwana-Kondoo, anasimama kwanza mbele ya kiti cha enzi mbinguni, anasimama baadaye na watu 144,000 juu ya Mlima Zayuni, juu ya nchi, ingawa Wazee na Wenye Uhai wanaokizunguka kiti cha enzi wanabaki mbi...
Katika vizazi vyote, wote ambao huweka matumaini yao kwa watu wanaoitwa eti wenye busara, na Wakristo wakuu wa siku, wote wanaodhaniwa kuwa wanamcha Mungu, wamenyang’anywa taji ya uzima wa milele, k...
—DO YOU KNOW?— Dear brethren in Laodicea, do you know that prophecy positively declares that the people of God in the Laodicean church are in a critically dangerous condition and know it not? Wel...
Kwa sababu fundisho la millenia huwasilisha maswali kadhaa ya kusumbua na yaliyoondolewa uhitaji mu-himu kwa wokovu wa kila mwanadamu, na kwa kuwa ukweli pekee yake utaiweka nafsi huru kutoka kwa udan...
Ingawa mara kadhaa tumehitimisha kuyajibu maswali kama (1) iwapo Yesu, ili kutimiza “ishara ya Yona,” alikuwa “siku tatu mchana na usiku” kaburini, au (2) iwapo ishara ilikuwa imetimizwa kwa n...
Kwa hivyo, wandugu, tatueni mara moja na milele, kwamba kwa msaada wa Bwana hamtachukuliwa tena na pepo za mafundisho ambayo yamebuniwa na kuendeshwa na roho ya uovu, si kwa Roho wa Kweli, ila kwamba ...
Ingawa ni kazi ya kutia taji wokovu wetu na ya kuanzishwa kwa Ufalme wa Kristo duniani, hata sasa “hukumu ya upelelezi” ni mojawapo wa masomo ya Biblia yaliyofahamika kwa uchache yaliyochafuliwa s...
" Na wale malaika saba wenye baragumu saba wakajifanya tayari ili wazipige. Malaika wa kwanza akapiga baragumu, kukawa mvua ya mawe na moto vilivyotangamana na damu, vikatupwa juu ya nchi; theluthi ya...
Michakato yake ya kielimu kwa hivyo ikiwa inahusiana na mwanadamu mzima kwa wakati wa sasa na umilele, Kusudi la Mlima Karmeli la sikuzote ni kuelimisha mkono, akili, na moyo katika ukuaji sawa wa ngu...
In no case is it a moral and safe procedure to appeal to an opposer of one’s writings to illuminate any part of them. A Democrat would not think of appealing to a Republican to illuminate the Democr...
Ya mpito kwa kuanzishwa na vile vile kwa jina, Jumuiya ya Wadaudi Waadventista wa Sabato ipo tu kukamilisha kazi iliyowekwa na Mungu ndani ya dhehebu la Waadventista wa Sabato, ambamo kwa hivyo huzuil...
Kurupukia kazi, wakufunzi wa Ukweli wa Sasa! Fanya kazi zake Yeye aliyewapeleka, “maadamu ni mchana, usiku waja asipoweza mtu kufanya kazi.” Yohana 9: 4. “Na iliyo haki nitawapa,” iwapo mtafun...
But in all her history, the church as a whole has never accepted a message from heaven. The call therefore comes to each individual member. Each must decide for himself. No one should allow himself to...
Kanisa la Kiyahudi, ambapo ukweli ulikaa mpaka wakati wa Kristo, lingekuwa milele “ghala,” na makuhani wangekuwa milele mawakili wake. Lakini wakati walimkataa Kristo, walimlazimisha Mungu kuhamis...
Tafakari, Ndugu, na mzinduke kwa uhai! Sauti hii, inayoteta nanyi muamke na kuepuka mitego ya Adui haiwezekani kuwa sauti ya Adui! Kumbukeni kwamba Bwana “hutushangaza kwa kuzifunua nguvu Zake kupit...
Sasa kwamba kwa upande mmoja Bwana anasihi kwamba uishikilie nuru Yake kuu ya Ukweli na kwa hivyo utengwe na dhambi, ili upate kuokoka kulipiza kisasi Chake, uokolewe kutoka kwa taabu inayokuja, na ku...
Bila kukosea, kwa hivyo, nuru angavu inayoangaza kutoka kwa mfano, kutoka kwa shuhuda za manabii, na kutoka kwa historia, huutambua ujumbe wa Fimbo kama ndio pekee ulioti wakfu kuliongoza kanisa la si...
“Shetani,” inasema Roho ya Unabii, “anao uwezo wa kupendekeza mashaka na kubuni pingamizi kwa ushuhuda ulio dhahiri ambao Mungu hutuma, na wengi hufikiri ni fadhila, alama ya ujasusi ndani yao, ...
Kama vile Mfano Mkuu wa dini ya Biblia alikuwa Neno (Mwana) wa Mungu katika umbo la mwanadamu (1 Yohana 1:1), vivyo hivyo dini ya Biblia yenyewe ni amri (haki) ya Mungu katika umbo la kibinadamu (2 Ko...
Kwa zaidi ya karne kumi na tisa, taasisi ya Krismasi, siku maarufu ya kupokezana zawadi, imekuwa mashuhuri katika Kanisa la Kikristo kama mojawapo ya zawadi nzuri na kamilifu za Mungu. Na hisia hii im...
Kusudi la msingi la Fimbo ya Mchungaji ni kufungua siri iliyofichwa kwa muda mrefu juu ya suala lenye changamoto daima na linalojadiliwa zaidi la watu 144,000 (Ufunuo 14: 1), na jambo kuu kwa mtazamo ...
Msomaji atathamini ukweli kwamba umuhimu wa wakala huu wa kuleta afya ni katika mambo mengine sawa na ule wa injili, kwa sababu hakuna nyumba, iwe ni ya Mkristo,Myahudi, au mshenzi, wanaweza kumudu ku...
Nahumu anaziona tawala mbili kuu katika vita vinayoonyeshwa kwa siku ambayo kila kitu juu ya magurudu-mu hukwenda kama “umeme.” Kisha kwa njia tofauti kabisa, hukazia uangalifu kwa mmoja anayetemb...
Na iwapo tungaliutafuta ushauri kutoka kwa wachungaji wa madhehebu yetu ya awali na kupokea mashauri yao, wangapi kati yetu wangekuja kuwa Waadventista wa Sabato? Jibu la jumla ni, “hapana hata mmoj...
Ni wazi, basi, uzinzi hakika utatoweka, na uhuisho huu na matengenezo yaliyoletwa na vuguvugu hili la mlei yatatimiza kazi yake lililopewa. Na hivyo, unaona kwamba kama tokeo la lalama za watoto, fami...
Danieli aliambiwa kufunga na kukitia muhuri kitabu hata wakati wa mwisho. Kitabu, kwa hivyo, hakikuwa kwa ajili ya ufahamu wa watu kabla ya wakati wa mwisho. Hivyo, basi, wakati kitabu kinafunuliwa na...
Mzigo wa ujumbe utakaotangazwa ni kuwaandaa watu kukutana na Bwana: kusawazisha maeneo yaliyo-inuka, kuyainua yaliyo chini, kuondoa vizuizi vyote, ili njia kuu ya Bwana, njia ya kuja Kwake, isafishwe....
Wayahudi walikuwa wamejenga dhana potofu kuhusu namna Ufalme ungeweza kuwa, na jinsi na lini un-gepaswa kuja na hivyo wakati Bwana alipofunua dhana zao, walikasirika. Walikasirika sana, sio kwa sababu...
Sote tunajua kwamba vita havikuwapo kabla ya gharika, kwamba vita vilianza baada ya mchafuko wa lugha kwenye mnara wa Babeli, baada ya familia ya wanadamu kugawanyika katika lugha, mataifa, na jamii n...
Kipo kitabu kimoja tu katika Bibilia ambacho kilipaswa kufunguliwa, na hicho ni kitabu cha Danieli (Dan. 12: 4). Na kwa kuwa kitu cha kwanza ambacho malaika alifanya ni kukifungua kitabu, uchambuzi un...
Bibilia, tunaona, huiweka ile namba “666,” sio kwa mnyama wa kwanza, kama chui, ila kwa wa pili, yule mnyama mwenye pembe mbili, kwa maelezo ya mnyama wa kwanza hukoma katika Ufu. 13:10, na maelez...
Wote ambao hutubu kwa kuivunja sheria, na kumpokea Yeye kama Mwokozi wao, huinuka kutembea katika upya wa maisha. Maisha ambayo yanapatana na sheria kwa kweli ni haki ya Kristo. Wao, zaidi ya hayo, ha...
Ili kuonyesha mada ya uchambuzi wetu alasiri hii, hebu tuchukue kwa mfano kitabu ambacho Dhehebu lime-toa kuhusu Danieli na Ufunuo, vitabu viwili vyenye thamani sana vya Bibilia. Kitabu nilicho nacho ...
Je! Huku kurudi kutakuwa kusikotarajiwa? au Bwana atamtuma mtu fulani kwanza kuitengeneza njia Yake? Na ikiwa mtu atatangulia kuja Kwake, atakuwa nani? -- “Akajibu, akawaambia, Kweli, Ni kweli Eliya...
Fimbo ya Mchungaji, vitabu ambavyo Uvuvio uliviita hivyo na kuyavuvia yaliyomo, ikiwa ndio Fimbo ya pekee duniani inayoweza kusikika ikinena, Bwana anaamuru kwamba unapaswa kuisikia, kwamba usiweze ku...
Kwa uzoefu wa kibinafsi Daudi alijua uaminifu wa Mungu: Baada ya kufanya yote yaliyotakiwa kufanywa katika kumtumikia Mungu, alikuwa na imani kwamba wakati dubu na simba walipokuja kula wana-kondoo wa...
Sisi na wengi katika himaya ya Ukristo kwa kawaida tunaamini kwamba simba huwakilisha ufalme wa Babeli wa kale, dubu Umedi na Uajemi, chui Uyunani, na mnyama dubwana katika awamu zake mbili falme za R...
Wazazi wenye busara hutazama mbele. Wao waangalifu kuhakikisha mustakabali wa watoto wao. Hili wao hulifanya kwa kukazia kikiki ndani ya watoto wao kanuni zilizozalishwa na Mbingu ambazo kwazo watoto ...
Yapo mazungumzo mengi kati yetu kuhusu “haki kwa neema” na “haki kwa imani,” pia juu ya “haki ya Kris-to.” Lakini mazungumzo haya yote yatakuwa na faida gani isipokuwa tufanye jambo ili ku...
Hata hivyo, nina uhakika kwamba Mungu hatatuweka tusiyajue mambo ambayo tunapaswa kujua. Iwapo itakuwa muhimu kwetu kujua mbele ya wakati siku na saa ya utakaso wa kanisa, Pasaka ya uakisi, tutaambiwa...
Watu wote katika vizazi vyote ambao wamewahi kuukumbatia ujumbe mpya kutoka kwa Mungu, walipigwa chapa kama “vichipuko” na kuangaliwa hatari -- jambo ambalo mtu lazima ajihadhari asije akapigwa ri...
Ukristo wa kweli ni ukuaji. Ni kama mmea. Kristo Mwenyewe amewakilishwa kama Chipukizi (Isa. 11:1), na ufalme Wake kama mbegu ya haradali (Mat. 13:31, 32) ambayo baada ya kupandwa huwa mti, mkubwa wa ...
Asilani hakukuwahi kuwa na mawingu ya vita, ya ajabu na meusi sana yakining’inia kwa ghadhabu ya uzito juu ya ulimwengu, na kamwe ulimwengu haukujiona jinsi ulivyo leo. Kote kote, -- serikalini, viw...
Njia ngapi? – mbili tu: njia sahihi na njia mbaya. Njia hizi mbili zimekuwa pamoja nasi na daima zitakuwa kwa kadri muda wote mwanadamu wa asili na wa kiroho atakuwa anaishi duniani. Zilikuja kuwepo...
Hebu tuone. Kabla ya kuanzisha agizo la unyenyekevu, Yesu aliwaambia wanafunzi wake, “Ninyi ni safi, lakini sio nyote.” Mmoja hakuwa. Licha ya ukweli kwamba Yuda hakuwa anastahili, agizo halingewe...
Aya ya 2 -- “Na itakuwa katika siku za mwisho, mlima wa nyumba ya Bwana utawekwa imara juu ya milima, nao utainuliwa juu ya vilima; na mataifa yote watauendea makundi makundi.” Sio mtu, sio watu ...
Ndugu kadhaa wameniandikia mara kwa mara, wakitaka kujua nini kinachoweza kuwafanya wawe wateule kuupokea Muhuri wa Mungu. Wengine wanataka kujua kama watatiwa muhuri kwa kutenda hili au kutenda lile....
Kristo Haki Yetu hufafanua maneno haya ya hotuba kama ifuatavyo: “’Uamsho na matengenezo lazima yafanyi-ke chini ya utumishi wa Roho Mtakatifu. Uhuisho na matengenezo ni mambo mawili tofauti. Uhui...
Awali nabii aliwaona hawa kama pembe nne, kama tawala ambazo ziliwatawanya Yuda, Israeli na Yerusalemu katika nchi zote za Mataifa, lakini kama malaika alivyoonyesha mtazamo wa unabii kwa wakati wa mw...
Kama ilivyokuwa katika siku za kulijenga hekalu la mfano hivyo ni lazima iwe hivyo katika siku za kulijenga la uakisi, katika siku zetu. Kutoka kwa mfano huu inaonekana kwamba jinsi Neno la Bwana lili...
Hebu kimbele tuyaamshe upya mawazo yetu kwa mwenendo wa Wayahudi dhidi ya manabii: Badala ya kwen-da na kusudi la kujifunza na kufikiria, Wayahudi waliwaendea manabii na nia za ubaguzi, na nia mbaya, ...
Kwa hivyo, Mvua ya masika ya Kweli, ni ile ya mwisho kabisa, ile itakayokuza watu wa Mungu kwa ajili ya mavuno, wakati ambao Mungu Atatenganisha ngano toka kwa magugu(Mat. 13:30), wanawali wenye busar...
Kwa mtazamo wa ukweli kwamba Yerusalemu utalindwa kwa ukuta wa moto (Zek. 2: 5) wakati ambapo nyum-ba ya Yuda inatawala huko, ni dhahiri kwamba vita iliyoelezwa hapa lazima vipiganwe kabla ya nyumba y...
Haijalishi jinsi gani yalivyo makubwa na yenye kufanikiwa uamsho na matengenezo ambayo hata Mungu mwenyewe anaweza kuyazindua katika kanisa Lake, Maandiko yanaweka wazi kwamba wote wadhambi na wa-taka...
La muhimu zaidi kwa yote, hata hivyo, nabii Nahumu anaeleza wazi wazi kwamba mambo haya yote yanatukia katika siku zetu, na kwamba anguko la Ashuru linatukia wakati watu wa Mungu wanamwelekea Yeye, wa...
Kwa hivyo mvurugo unaosababishwa na uhusuru wa Ukweli kwa kanisa na maadui Wake kufanya vita dhidi Yake, ambao tayari umeanza kunasa umakini wa dunia, utasababisha kutakaswa kwa kanisa, “Hekalu.” ...
Mpaka sasa, tumekuwa tu tukicheza na maadui wa Bwana lakini sasa lazima tuzame katika shughuli pasipo kujali ni nani anayesikia. Watu Wake lazima sasa wageuke milele kutoka kwa maneno ya mwanadamu, ya...
“Bwana hapa anaonyesha kwamba ujumbe unaopaswa kupelekwa kwa watu wake na wachungaji ambao ame-waita ili kuwaonya watu, sio ujumbe wa amani na usalama. Sio nadharia tu, lakini wa ki-vitendo katika k...
Katika Ufalme uliotabiriwa hapa, sio tu watu watakuwa na amani na watu, bali watu na wanyama, na wanyama kwa wanyama pia. Sababu iliyotolewa kwa ajili ya amani kamilifu kama hii ni kwamba nchi itajawa...
Wakati ambapo Mungu anaidhihirisha nguvu Yake kati ya watu Wake, hata ulimwengu utahisi athari zake. Njia za wamishonari zimeachwa, mmishonari mwenyewe anakoma; hamjali mtu. Mungu anafichua kwamba mat...
Tunaulizwa sasa kuchagua ama kusimama upande wa Mungu au kwa upande wa maadui Zake (wale ambao tun-awaogopa); wale ambao wanafanya kila kitu kuyafumba macho yetu kwa Ukweli wa Mungu wa wakati huu -- a...
Tumejifunza sasa kwamba wake wawili wa Abrahamu na wana wawili ni utabiri ki-mfano wa makanisa ya Agano la Kale na Jipya; kwamba kuwasili kwa Ishmaeli kuliwakilisha kimbele Israeli wa asili na kwamba ...
Sasa tunaishi katika dunia iliyochanganyikiwa. Baadhi ni wa Paulo na baadhi ni wa Apolo, wa Kefa, Petro, Yo-hana, na Yakobo, wengine wa Mungu na wengine wa Kristo. Wakristo wanabishana na kugombana we...
Iwapo tungaliweza kutambua tu yale ambayo Mungu amewaandalia wapendao kusoma Neno Lake na kutembea katika Nuru Yake inayoongezeka daima, basi tungalifanya shughuli ya Mungu iwe shughuli yetu kuu; basi...
Tunapaswa kushukuru sana kuwa Bwana anatulisha kwa “chakula kwa wakati wake”! Ijapokuwa watu wanauana kwa mamilioni ili wajikomboe kutoka kwa nira ya taifa fulani lingine, Musa aliwakomboa Israeli...
Iwapo tutalinganisha kazi zetu na kazi za Nuhu tutaona ikiwa tunapatana naye katika kutii Ukweli wa sasa. La walioishi kabla wala baada ya gharika hawakufaidika na mahubiri ya Nuhu. Wa awali hawakuami...
Je! Dini ni kitu ambacho hukua na kupanuka, au ni kitu ambacho husimama tuli? Siku ile nyingine tu tulisikia kwenye redio mchungaji fulani akijisifu kwamba dhehebu lake halijaongeza au kutupilia mbali...
Watu ambao hutii sheria ya serikali hufikiri kwamba ni maagizo bora ya uhuru, lakini wale hufurahia kufanya dhambi, kwa wao sheria ni chukizo. Muuaji yeyote ambaye kwa sheria amehukumiwa kifo, kwa kaw...
Mti wa Krismasi unaotumiwa sana, tarehe 25 Desemba -- mti uliokatwa kutoka kwa chanzo chake cha uzima na kukazwa kwa misumari -- hauwakilishi kuzaliwa, ila badala yake kifo cha mmoja na juhudi isiyo n...
Kazi ya Eliya wa kale, unajua, ilikuwa kazi ya kufunga kwa ajili ya Israeli ya mfano iliyoasi -- Kanisa. Vivyo hivyo kazi ya Eliya wa siku hii lazima iwe kazi ya uakisi ya kufunga kwa hekalu Lake, Kan...
Kuamini kwamba mungependa kuwa na ufahamu hakika wa mgogoro sasa unaolikumba kanisa letu pendwa S.D.A., sisi kama ndugu wa imani moja ya thamani tunakuja kwenu kwa jina lake Yeye Ambaye, ingawa alikuw...
Katika maandishi ya Musa hatuwezi kupata kumbukumbu kuhusu uaminifu wa wana wa Israeli katika nchi ya Misiri. Iwapo walikuwa wema au wabaya, Musa hasemi. Lakini hapa kupitia Ezekieli tunaambiwa walivy...
Ni dhahiri kuona kwamba kabla wewe na mimi kuwa tayari kuhamishwa bila kufa, lazima kwanza tuwe tayari kwenda katika nchi ya Ahadi, huko kutakaswa, huko mioyo yetu ya jiwe kuondolewa. Naam, njia pekee...
Wakristo kwa karne nyingi wamehubiri Ufalme wa Mungu, lakini haujaeleweka kwa wengi wao iwapo Utakuwa halisi kama dunia yenyewe, au Utakuwa kitu fulani cha povu, kitu fulani kinachoelea angani, au nin...
Ni tu kwa kusikia vile uvuvio unasema, na kwa kuepuka sauti zote zilizo kinyume na Sauti Yake, je,mna yeyote miongoni mwetu anaweza kuishi kwenye Hukumu na kupata nafasi katika Ufalme wa Mungu unaokuj...
Sasa, kwa kuwa ujumbe wa Hukumu kwa waliohai ni muhimu zaidi kuliko ujumbe wa Hukumu kwa Wafu, ni dhahiri inatarajia kwamba Biblia itakuwa na zaidi ya kusema kuhusu hukumu ya waliohai kuliko ya waliok...
Sasa ni fursa yako ya mwisho ya kupata mafuta yanayohitajika sana kwa taa zako, na mafuta yanayohitajika sana kwa macho yako, wazee, (Ufunuo 3:18). Ikiwa mtashindwa sasa, mtashindwa milele. Samahani k...
Kama wawakilishi walioidhinishwa wa harakati ya Waleiya Walei tunaweza kujibu maswali yako yote kama vile jinsi na wakati harakati ya Waleiilipoanza kuwa, nini inasimamia, nini inayofanya, nk. Basi, t...
Tumaini letu la ombi, Ndugu, ni kwamba utakaa chini kwa biashara na kujifunza Ukweli wa ziada (“Maandishi ya Awali,” uk. 277) ili usiwekewe kulia kwa uchungu: “Mavuno yamepita, wakati wa hari um...
Kwa kuwa hakuna kanisa kwa ujumla limewahi kukubali ujumbe mpya, usiopendekezwa, na kwa kuwa wahudumu wamepigana daima kila ujumbe mpya ambao umewahi fika kwa makanisa, na kwa kuwa wahudumu wa Wadvent...
Ndugu, jifunzeni wenyewe, na kama ninyi ni watafuta wa Ukweli,wenye njaa na kiu baada ya haki, Mungu atawapa kwa Roho Wake uelewa sahihi wa ukweli wake kwa wakati huu. Hatawaacha msijue. Ahadi zake ha...
Hii ndiyo siku ambayo “vitu vyote” vinatakiwa kurejeshwa, na hii ndiyo siku ya kila mtu, kujitegemea bila mwingine, kuamua ikiwa waalimu hawa wa kupambana na Fimbo ni wahusika Manabii wa Baali....
Huu ni ujumbe wa kibinafsi kwako jinsi ya kufanikiwa na kufurahia maisha kwa kipimo kamili. Ustawi na usalama hapa umehakikishiwa - sera ya bima ambayo haijui kikomo. Kwa hiyo, ninawahimiza hii, na tu...
Kuanzia sasa usiachie mikononi mwa wengine uchunguzi wako wa mada hii. Baada ya kusikiliza ushahidi, wewe pekee katika chumba cha siri cha maombi pamoja na msaada wa Roho unaweza kuamua iwapo Eliya am...
The wise do not consider it a gamble to sell all they have in order to make the kingdom their own. They know that they are getting a bargain, that such an investment will make them rich. Both the man ...
HISTORY FOR DAVIDIANS - October 26, 1953 to October 24, 1954. Once again we stand at the threshold of the beginning of Days, solemnly looking back in perspective upon what we have been; hopefully loo...
KANUNI YA KWANZA: “Kila mtu na aitii mamlaka iliyo kuu; kwa maana hakuna mamlaka isiyotoka kwa Mungu; na ile iliyopo umeamriwa na Mungu .... si kwa sababu ya ile ghadhabu tu, ila na kwa sababu ya dh...
This Index is Sorted in Ascending Alpha-Numeric Order (1-9, A-Z) SCRIPTURE REFERENCE SROD SERIES BOOK & PAGE 1 CHRONICLES 1 Chron. 15 Symbolic Code 1:5:7 (31 1 Chron. 16 :35 Volumes & Tracts...
“... Hatupaswi kufikiri, kama walivyofanya Wayahudi, kwamba maandishi na maoni yetu hayana makosa; sio na mapapa, kwamba watu fulani ndio walezi pekee wa ukweli na maarifa, ya kwamba watu hawana hak...
This Index is Sorted in Ascending Alpha-Numeric Order (1-9, A-Z) S.O.P. REFERENCE SROD SERIES BOOK & PAGE THE PRESENT TRUTH VOLUME ONE 1PT 8/3/1850 Symbolic Code 8:1-12:17 (523 THE SIGNS OF THE ...
Mkristo mkomavu anajua vyema kwamba alizaliwa duniani ili kuiboresha, kiroho na kimaumbile, kwamba hakuja tu kuishi kwa ubinafsi ndani yake na kuondoka kwayo na “asante” kubwa ila kuibariki, kuach...
Thus as the stone, supernaturally cut out of one mountain, supernaturally turns into another mountain, then fills the whole earth, it reveals the process of the prophecy's turning into history: that t...
The church has turned back from following Christ her Leader and is steadily retreating toward Egypt. Yet few are alarmed or astonished at their want of spiritual power. Doubt, and even disbelief of th...
Many who call themselves Christians are mere human moralists. They have refused the gift which alone could enable them to honor Christ by representing Him to the world. The work of the Holy Spirit is ...
The parable of the eleventh-hour call (Matthew 20) reveals that the Bible contains just 5 time-messages; the first "early in the morning," the second at the "the third hour." The third at the "the six...
.....the Lord is to make up His kingdom at first of the living saints only, as seen from the prophecy of Daniel 2: the "stone" being "cut out" of the mountain (Dan. 2:45), and being symbolical of the ...
.....the Lord is to make up His kingdom at first of the living saints only, as seen from the prophecy of Daniel 2: the "stone" being "cut out" of the mountain (Dan. 2:45), and being symbolical of the ...
Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass, [that] in the place where it was said unto them, Ye [are] no...
Every relevant Scriptural consideration dictates that there is only one safe, sane, and honorable course for any of us to pursue when prophetic revelation challenges consideration, especially at this ...
"As we view with alarm the rapid spread of Modernism among the various Protestant churches, it is well to consider our own lives, to see if the same principles and trends may not have begun to operate...
This class of saints must be those who have at one time been married to some unchristian mistress, a heathen church, and who consequently are not descendants of either Jacob or the Christian church. ...
The Code does not intend to convey the idea that no one ever will be qualified to teach, for such a static condition, on the part of God's people, would make them forever unfit to gather in the first ...
The name, Davidian, deriving from the name of the king of Ancient Israel, accrues to this Association by reason of its following aspects: First, it is dedicated to the work of announcing and bringing ...
Daniel 7:22 shows that the "judgment" was given to the saints of the Most High and that after the judgment, they possessed the Kingdom. Whereas the executive judgment of all the wicked -- of those ...
So, there must come a day of reckoning, a day when the names of those who are found unworthy of eternal life will be blotted out of the Lamb's Book of Life -- a proceeding for which the only correct...
Thus illuminating in particular the tongues question, Zechariah's prophecy reveals that in the gathering time, in the time when God Himself calls the church "a city of truth," a "holy mountain," the t...
Here (Lev. 23:10,11, 14-17, 39) we see commanded the observance of three harvest rites: (1) the ceremony of the wave-sheaf, at the beginning of the first harvest; (2) the ceremony of the wave-loaves, ...
Indeed, not only small and insignificant did the work then appear to be, but also impossible to carry forward. Nevertheless, as the doubting ones among the multitude saw an excuse in the seemingly utt...
Let me again point out to you the people who are in the greatest danger of failing to serve the Lord as the Spirit directs. This we can again see from the examples of the past. I can go back as far ...
May we all be faithful in this sacred trust that is committed unto us and keep "Mt. Carmel Center" as sacred a place as when Mt. Sinai shook at the presence of the Lord and as it was proven on ancient...
We are happy to announce that the headquarters office of the sealing message moved from Waco to Mt. Carmel Center on September 29 to its new and permanent home location for the proclamation of the mes...
Where is one to look for God's storehouse? -- wherever God's Truth is for today, from wherever "meat in due season" is dispensed. ...
As Jezreel represents the prophets, and as the "valley of Achor" (Hos. 2:15) stands for the destruction of those who are guilty of Achan's sin, then the "valley of Jezreel," the place where Jehu destr...
In regard to laboring most successfully, there are a few general principles which, if closely followed, will tend to minimize prejudice and accomplish the greatest results. These of course must be fle...
The words, "the year of My redeemed is come," and "the day of vengeance is in Mine heart," clearly says that the Lord's strange work in Edom and Bozrah is the day of vengeance and a sign of antitypica...
The occupation of the Promised Land by the Gentiles today was typified by yesterday's Gentile occupation of it. And when ancient Israel returned from Egypt to the land of promise the times of the Gen...
Hence from the time Jesus was taken before the priests to the time He arose, there were exactly three days and three nights, fulfilling the words: "For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the ...
"In the typical service, only those who had come before God with confession and repentance, and whose sins, through the blood of the sin-offering, were transferred to the sanctuary, had a part in the...
By testimony of prophets, by parable, by ceremonial type, and by number, God has wrought the towering structure of fact that (1) the judgment is the harvest,--the separation of the tares from the whe...
Inspired to declare only the coming of the King, John was squarely confronted with the question concerning the setting up of the kingdom. He answered in keeping with the common understanding which he ...
The great reformation in view, vividly represented by the angel at the golden altar with the prayers of the saints, and the casting of the fire from the altar to the earth, is foretold, also, in the f...
To all those who are dissatisfied with their present spiritual status, and thus no longer "lukewarm," comes this divine challenge: "Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ [or, as t...
Be in the class of the five wise virgins, my brethren, and avail yourselves of this extra oil now before your lamps go out and the door closes forever (Matt. 25:10). "Anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, ...
therefore the work of Elijah particularly typifies the day of slaughter in the church, and the reign of David, the destruction of the heathen and the possession of the earth (Zech. 12:8, 9; Jer. 30:3,...
When this thorough reformation takes place then the cleansing fountain shall be opened to the whole house of David. In that day the wicked shall be cut off and kept out of the house of David, and the...
God does not forsake His flock. He tenderly calls them "My flock," and reassures them that He is their God. He will, without fail set one shepherd to accomplish what a multitude of shepherds have fa...
Though the work, moreover, is to have a small, hard, mattock-like beginning, it will gain speed and will emerge from the mattock stage into the ox-plow stage -- the stage which will see all the beli...
Two things stand out clearly in these verses (Zech. 13:1, 2): (1) that the house of David must come into existence before the cleansing fountain is opened; (2) that the cleansing begins with cutting o...
One thing was clear in our minds concerning the new home for our work, and that was that we should have a rural base from which to operate -- one with room enough to demonstrate that the Lord made n...
One thing was clear in our minds concerning the new home for our work, and that was that we should have a rural base from which to operate -- one with room enough to demonstrate that the Lord made n...
Note that not to the Levites, or to some other place or people but into God's storehouse are the tithes and offerings to be brought. And for no other reason than that His storehouse may have the mean...
The primary purpose of The Shepherd's Rod is to unlock the long-concealed mystery concerning the ever-challenging and much discussed subject of the 144,000 (Rev. 14:1), with the central object in view...
We are happy to announce that the headquarters office of the sealing message moved from Waco to Mt. Carmel Center on September 29 to its new and permanent home location for the proclamation of the mes...
The religious services in both temples were executed in the same manner, but in structural magnificence, both internal and external, Solomon's temple comparatively speaking, was by far the greatest. ...
Not only ought Christians be wise and unselfish givers at the right time, but also wise and appreciative receivers. Indeed, they should rejoice in the glorious gifts of God more than in the perishabl...
Let none flatter themselves that they can escape the clutches of the devil by the studious effort of another. Everyone must study for himself to understand his own position, and with candid mind be r...
Said Jesus, "in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them." The tares, therefore, are gathered just prior to the harvest...
As the cleansings called for in the parables and in Malachi's prophecy have never taken place, the investigative judgment of the living is obviously, then, yet future. This investigative work is there...
After the sighing and crying ones were marked (which is not to be understood as being consummated in its entirety worldwide before the slaying follows anywhere), the slaughter completed, and the matte...
The words, "the year of My redeemed is come," and "the day of vengeance is in Mine heart," clearly says that the Lord's strange work in Edom and Bozrah is the day of vengeance and a sign of antitypica...
The angels' holding back the winds at the four corners of the earth denotes that they are holding back some world-wide trouble which, should it break out while the church is in her Laodicean condition...
"For the Lord spake thus to me with a strong hand, and instructed me that I should not walk in the way of this people, saying, Say ye not, A confederacy, to all them to whom this people shall say, A c...
Isa. 8:13 -- "Sanctify the Lord of hosts Himself; and let Him be your fear, and let Him be your dread." To sanctify the Lord is to be all for Him, to have no one else in His stead, to put your entire ...
The wise do not consider it a gamble to sell all they have in order to make the kingdom their own. They know that they are getting a bargain, that such an investment will make them rich. Both the man ...
Our past experience has taught us not to believe all we hear. Nevertheless, we forewarn the friends of present truth to be very careful, for it is possible to cast reproach on Christ by casting reproa...
In one of our Los Angeles business meetings a call was made for volunteers who would like to play the part of Caleb and Joshua, saying, "We are well able to take the land." After being promised free t...
The 144,000 are called Israel because their experience is a duplication of that of Ancient Israel going out of Egypt to possess the promised land. Ancient Egypt is a symbol of the world. The Egyptia...
In Christ's day it was just as difficult to bring new truths to the people as it is today. Jesus used every possible means to interest the people in the present Truth of His day, but you know what li...
We have greater evidence in support of our message than the prophets could ever produce in their times. Satan's determined effort now is the same as in times past -- causing the people to acknowledge...
Plainly, then, there are three Pentecosts to be reckoned with in the equation of salvation: two in the past and one in the future, the first being the type, the second the prototype, the third the ant...
The first one to be given the garment is Joshua, the high priest, the highest official in the church. If he has not the garment, then no one else has it either. From this we see that the genuine rev...
What made one group eligible to cross the Jordan? -- It was their trust in God, knowing that He was their Chief Leader. They recognized Moses and Joshua as the ones through whom God was communicatin...
"Therefore God dealt well with the midwives: And the people multiplied, and waxed very mighty. Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Every son that is born ye shall cast into the river, and every d...
Let it be remembered that the Exodus Movement, the type, was in two sections, the first section being led by Moses, and the second by Joshua, and that it was the last, the purified, section (that whic...
In the days of Moses and in the days of David, when the Lord had the work in His Own hands, He spoke to the people through Moses and through David, and thus He ruled. In like manner will He, at this ...
Observe that in the message which they "sent after Him," his servants did not say, "We will not have You to reign over us," but rather, "we will not have this man to reign over us." What they objecte...
David's victory over the giant against whom no one was able to make war, typifies the victory of the church (the house of David -- Zech. 12:8), in the "time of trouble such as never was," over the b...
Pronouncing the doom of ancient Israel, the prophet Hosea inscribed the solemn writ:"...the children of Israel shall abide many days without a king, and without a prince, and without a sacrifice, and ...
The ten tribes (the Kingdom of Israel) were by ancient Assyria dispersed throughout the cities of the Medes, and assimilated by the Gentiles of that day, but it was not until years later that the two ...
The Word of God explains that ancient Zerubbabel is a signet, type, at the time God overthrows the thrones of the kingdoms, at the time their armies are destroyed by one "brother" Christian's sword cu...
Illustrating our salvation in completeness, the harvest rites of the ceremonial system must therefore corroborate both the testimonies of the prophets and the parables concerning the harvest, for all ...
I say that if left in such an unhappy and unholy state the very elect would forever remain unclean and unsanctified -- deceived! And since the eleventh-hour servants, the Davidians, are the ones un...
Because of idolatry, the Assyrian was permitted to take God's ancient people and their pleasant land. And certain it is that the Assyrian will control the land just so long as God's people continue i...
Revelation 7, coming as it does between the closing events of the sixth seal and the opening of the seventh, naturally appears to place the sealing of both the 144,000 and the great multitude among th...
Let all Present Truth believers carefully study the fourth chapter of Zechariah, and take particular notice of the method there illustrated, which God employs to reveal truth to His people. The dilig...
Do not read the Word in the light of former opinions; but, with a mind free from prejudice, search it carefully and prayerfully. If, as you read conviction comes, and you see that your cherished opin...
Just as Christ arose on the very day the sheaf was to be offered, likewise the Holy Spirit fell upon the 120 disciples on the very day the wave-loaves were to be presented before the Lord....
Throughout the parable of the sower, Christ represents the different results of the sowing as depending upon the soil. In every case the sower and the seed are the same. Thus He teaches that if the w...
"The investigative judgment" decides the cases of those who have professed faith in God, and who in consequence have had their names recorded in the books (Dan. 7:10), but some of whom have not endure...
The first and most important thing that takes place in this solemn assembly, is the opening of the book. It should be remembered, too, that the book is sealed with seven seals (Rev. 5:1). It being i...
He, though, who is persuaded, and who walks in the light, will experience joy inexpressible: He will receive the "mark" (Ezek. 9:4), the "seal" (Rev. 7:2, 3), of God's approval. His sins will be blot...
If any sin be committed by such an one, it will not be a known or willful sin. "To him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin" (Jas. 4:17), and not to the other. Consequently, he ...
Wonderful indeed is the way in which God has worked out the plan of salvation and revealed it step by step as necessary. When in 1844 the investigative judgment of the dead and the ingathering of the ...
The church seems too well versed as to the time probation closes for the world, but not at all informed that probation for her members closes at the very time they reject a heaven-sent message. Here ...
Just as Christ arose on the very day the sheaf was to be offered, likewise the Holy Spirit fell upon the 120 disciples on the very day the wave-loaves were to be presented before the Lord. The apostol...
Doubtless to some, these numerical equations will seem strange---as strange as the thought of the earth's revolving on its axis was to the world of the Dark Ages! It is the incredibilities of today, ...
Thus is the church purified and thus are the tares destroyed. As tares they are burned; as unprofitable workers they are cast into outer darkness there to weep and gnash their teeth; as unfit guests ...
Do you now realize that not only the time of trouble is at the door, but even this special resurrection? Do you actually see that in the time of trouble, while the living saints are being delivered t...
Observe that the 25th chapter is a continuation of the 24th. Mark the word, "then," meaning the time they fulfilled the prophetic words contained in Matt. 24:48-51. The virgins are a figure of the c...
Indeed, in the very nature of the case, the Eleventh-Hour movement must triumph, for, being the last, the one to garner in the harvest, then should it fail, everyone in the world today would forever r...
Do you, Brother, Sister, actually comprehend, actually realize, the crisis as outlined here? Do you see the prediction that the sealing message is to be resisted by those who foster the abominations?...
The vineyard's being digged with the mattock signifies that the beginning of the work of reformation will progress slowly and that it will require hard labor, but that each "hill" or church locality b...
Through the medium of the 144,000 first-fruit servants, the eleventh-hour ministry, the Spirit of God will cause the Three Angels' Messages to swell to a Loud Cry during the harvest, and will "garner ...
The world's history in prophecy is recorded first, in literal terms; second, in parabolical terms; third, in typical terms; and fourth, in pictorial terms. For the sake of brevity, and in the intere...
The reason that the church is figuratively not "Babylon" is that it is called Jerusalem (Ezek. 9:4,8), and from among the good therein, the wicked (the tares) are destroyed, taken out, by the six men ...
Never should that which God has not given as a test be carried as was the subject of the law in Galatians. I have been instructed that the terrible experience at the Minneapolis conference is one of t...
The seed-sower, the seed, the field, the season of cultivation and growing, and the season of harvest must together be perfectly calculated to illustrate the spiritual kingdom; otherwise the represent...
Broadly speaking, the law of Moses consists of three parts. The first is the Ceremonial law, the law of the temple -- the sacrificial law. This law, of course, we today must not observe, except in a...
Just as the seven plagues, therefore, reveal the judgments to be visited upon the wicked living after they reject the message in the closing period of this world's history, so the seven trumpets revea...
Inescapably, therefore, the Lord's coming to His temple (Mal. 3:1-3), His coming with all His angels (Matt. 25), and His coming enthroned above the living creatures (Ezek. 1), -- all three representi...
The knowledge of present truth, which the five foolish virgins possessed since 1844 is the judgment of the dead, and was the only oil in their lamps. When the judgment of the living commenced, and th...
That part of the Investigative Judgment of the living, by which is determined who are to have their sins blotted out and, as a result, be given eternal life, is paralleled on earth by the work of th...
That part of the Investigative Judgment of the living, by which is determined who are to have their sins blotted out and, as a result, be given eternal life, is paralleled on earth by the work of th...
Just as Christ arose on the very day the sheaf was to be offered, likewise the Holy Spirit fell upon the 120 disciples on the very day the wave-loaves were to be presented before the Lord. The aposto...
Wonderful indeed is the way in which God has worked out the plan of salvation and revealed it step by step as necessary. When in 1844 the investigative judgment of the dead and the ingathering of th...
Accordingly, he who really means to be present and accounted for in the swift-coming Kingdom of God is perseveringly exploring and applying the divine principles and laws of the Science of Salvation. ...
Both the terms "treading" and "lesser cattle" have two meanings. "Treading" means both to step along and to trample something beneath the feet. "Lesser cattle" means both younger cattle and inferior c...
In like manner, the types which relate to the second advent must be fulfilled at the time pointed out in the symbolic service. Under the Mosaic system, the cleansing of the sanctuary, or the great day...
In the year 1930, God spoke to His people, as He spoke to Israel in the days of Joshua, but now, as then, there are among us, to discourage and dishearten, the ten spies, Korah, Dathan, and Abiram (Nu...
In spite of the calamities that were to overtake the children of Israel, they were to become very numerous. And when they are thus greatly multiplied, they are again to be called the sons of God. An...
In erecting the second temple, Haggai and Zechariah prophesied and strengthened the hands of the people by the Word of God. The writings of both prophets bear evidence in every line, that the perfect...
Let us now realistically consider why the builders' efforts and the king's decrees at first failed, and why at last they succeeded: Before Haggai and Zechariah were called to the prophetic office, man...
We earnestly ask that all join at the appointed hour in this mighty prayer bank which is to shake the world. “Not by might, nor by power, but by My Spirit, saith the Lord of hosts,” is our work to...
In the days of this antitypical David God gathers His flock from all the countries where they have been scattered, and brings them into their own land. God will no longer leave them in the mountains ...
God will have but one mouthpiece to teach His people in the establishing of His Kingdom, as He prophetically tells us in unmistakable language: "And I will set up one shepherd over them, and he shall ...
The first born (firstfruits) who failed to paint the door post with the sacrificial blood in the first exodus, the type, perished. So any of the firstfruits of today who fails to comply with the dema...
"Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you." (2 Cor. 6:17.) "For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean pe...
Zech. 13:1 -- "In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for uncleanness." The phrase "in that day" points back to preceding ...
So, only those who survive the Judgment for the Living, in the house of God (1 Pet. 4:17), those whose names are not blotted out from the Book (Rev. 3:5) will comprise the church, among whom are to be...
A great day is coming, Brother, Sister. If that day was not right at hand, we would not today have this light cast on our pathway. Let us therefore work for the upbuilding of the Lord's Kingdom, tha...
Once again we stand at the threshold of the beginning of Days, solemnly looking back in perspective upon what we have been; hopefully looking forward in vision to what we may become. Day of reckoning ...
At the time Jerusalem, that now is, falls, the Lord's feet shall stand upon Mount of Olives and there make a very great valley; that is, remove the obstacles and hindrances, and thus prepare the land ...
The church in her purity is called by these Scriptures, "The house of David." Therefore, this term becomes one of the names of the church in the time of the "Loud Cry." And the house of David -- th...
Here in prophetic utterance is not only a promise to purify the church when modern Assyria is being crushed, but also a suggestive statement as to what constitutes "meat in due season" for men today; ...
I am, however, certain that God will not keep us ignorant of the things we ought to know. If it becomes necessary for us to know ahead of time the day and hour of the purification of the church, the ...
Solemn times we have come to, Brother and Sister. Now is the time to put on the white garment. Now is the time to buy the field with the great treasure, and the pearl of great price. "Shall you? S...
The date of that most glorious event for the righteous, but exceeding solemn for the wicked, will be made known at the fulfillment of the following verse: "And the angel took the censer, and filled it...
Though the work, moreover, is to have a small, hard, mattock-like beginning, it will gain speed and will emerge from the mattock stage into the ox-plow stage -- the stage which will see all the beli...
What is the difference between "revival" and "reformation"? -- Revival means to bring the spiritual qualities back to life; to quicken the mind and the heart to the upbuilding of the spiritual phase ...
The word of God is to have a sanctifying effect on our association with every member of the human family. The leaven of truth will not produce the spirit of rivalry, the love of ambition, the desire t...
Moreover, as there is no truth where there is no type, the working out of divine design, in ordaining and establishing, on Friday, the sixth day of creation, the marriage institution, and on the seven...
The self-centered shepherds against whom the prophet is told to write, are to be replaced by one shepherd, David. When this takes place God's people will then have but one shepherd. This, of course,...
Let us all, as a Davidian band, remember that we are called to the high office of conservators of the gospel, restorers of the old paths, repairers of the breach. We are called as the first of the "f...
The Association's literature, The Shepherd's Rod Series, draws its title from the rod of Moses the shepherd of Midian. In the exodus of his day, it was that rod which emancipated the children of Isra...
Since His sheep know not faces, but know voices, then, those who pay attention to faces and who cannot differentiate between voice and voice are sure to be misled by self-appointed shepherds. ...
Though it is the crowning work of our salvation and of the setting up of the kingdom of Christ upon earth, yet the "investigative judgment" is one of the least understood and most mystified and confus...
So, there must come a day of reckoning, a day when the names of those who are found unworthy of eternal life will be blotted out of the Lamb's Book of Life -- a proceeding for which the only correct t...
A Psalm [or] Song for the sabbath day. [It is a] good [thing] to give thanks unto the LORD, and to sing praises unto thy name, O most High: To show forth thy lovingkindness in the morning, and thy fai...
Says Ezekiel: "In the five and twentieth year of our captivity," and "in the fourteenth year after that the city was smitten, in the selfsame day the hand of the Lord was upon me, and brought me thith...
"Then said he unto me, These waters issue out towards the east country, and go down into the desert, and go into the sea." (Ezek. 47:8.) It is remarkable to note how perfect these symbols are in each...
Following the completion of the "slaughter," and just preceding the scattering of the "coals of fire" "over the city," "the cherubims stood on the right side of the house,...and the cloud filled the ...
What is more, should God send another than Elijah, that is, someone with a message other than of the great and dreadful day of the Lord, he will not claim to be the Elijah, he will not lie. Hence, fo...
When we love God supremely, temporal things will occupy their right place in our affections. If we humbly and earnestly seek for knowledge and ability in order to make a right use of our Lord's goods,...
You may have to punish with the rod; this is sometimes essential, but defer any settlement of the difficulty until you have settled the case with yourselves. Ask yourself, Have I submitted my way and ...
The Love of Jesus to Be Mirrored in the Parents.-- When the mother has gained the confidence of her children and taught them to love and obey her, she has given them the first lesson in the Christian ...
The mother is the queen of the home, and the children are her subjects. She is to rule her household wisely, in the dignity of her motherhood. Her influence in the home is to be paramount; her word, l...
Once again we stand at the threshold of the beginning of Days, solemnly looking back in perspective upon what we have been; hopefully looking forward in vision to what we may become. Day of reckoning ...
Study the message for yourselves, and forbid that any flesh interfere with your salvation. Make your own decision independently of any man, and know for yourself that God is leading you as He did wh...
Thus towers forth the structure of truth, sending forth the message that the kingdom is to be restored by the antitypical prophet Elijah, just before the close of probation, but that the earth being ...
Here the Scriptures point out that someone in the spirit and power of Elijah the prophet is first to appear, and will not only prepare the way, but will also restore all things. Plainly, the message...
But if you are aware that your garments are filthy, and your iniquity not blotted out; if you realize that you are to walk in God's ways as He directs through the Joshua of today, if you are all for ...
That John was not in any sense of the word fulfilling the mission of the Elijah who is to come before the great and dreadful day of the Lord, but that he, the last prophet to the church of his day, si...
Remember we anciently lost the Kingdom because of disobeying His commandments and statutes, and it is certain that he will not take us back into it so long as we neglect to take heed to His voice. An...
(1) The doctrine of faith that made the Lutheran denomination; (2) the doctrine of the Spirit that made the Presbyterian denomination; (3) the doctrine of grace that made the Methodist denomination; (...
Home should be made all that the word implies. It should be a little heaven upon earth, a place where the affections are cultivated instead of being studiously repressed. Our happiness depends upon th...
Inspiration insists that it is absolutely impossible for one to privately (without the Spirit of Truth) interpret the sealed prophecies. And let us remember that no revealed Truth ever came, nor ever...
The message, moreover, teaches that we should remain in the mother church and work strictly for her salvation. The conclusion then is that as long as we stay with her, there seems to be no need for o...
He who really means to be present and accounted for in the swift-coming Kingdom of God is perseveringly exploring and applying the divine principles and laws of the Science of Salvation. He is earnes...
The only law of Moses, therefore, that we can possibly be admonished to remember, is the third part of his law: the moral law, which consists of the things that pertain to us as individuals, the thing...
Parents should seek to comprehend the fact that they are to train their children for the courts of God. When they are entrusted with children, it is the same as though Christ placed them in their arms...
Is there any way whereby we can determine the time of the opening of the seal, and the commencement of the judgment for the living? If God so faithfully revealed to the living the commencement of the...
Hence there are two sealings, in two different periods: first, the sealing, in the beginning work for the church, of those who died under the Third Angel's Message since 1844, and second, the sealing,...
Let us all, as a Davidian band, remember that we are called to the high office of conservators of the gospel, restorers of the old paths, repairers of the breach. We are called as the first of the "f...
So, there must come a day of reckoning, a day when the names of those who are found unworthy of eternal life will be blotted out of the Lamb's Book of Life -- a proceeding for which the only correct...
Going back for a moment to the historical approach to our subject, we recall that after Solomon's death, the Israelite nation (the twelve tribes) was divided into two separate kingdoms (1 Kings 11:11,...
Because of the abundance of light the Lord is sending us at this time, we are liable to overlook the fact that the mind, like the stomach, can only handle so much food, and, in our zeal to give the fl...
The truth therefore is trouble-free: Between the Judgment of the dead and the Judgment of the living stands the half-hour silence, the time absorbed in bringing the first Judicial session to a close a...
All that are found members of the church up to the fulfillment of Ezekiel Nine will either receive the seal and be a part of or with the 144,000, or else be left without the seal and fall under the "s...
When the judgment of the living commenced, and the "cry was made," they were found without this extra oil in their vessels; they had neglected their Lord's command: "Watch therefore, for ye know neith...
The angels who are round about the throne in the heavenly sanctuary during the judgment of Daniel 7:9, 10 and of Revelation 5:11 shall, as the parables explain, descend with "the Son of man" when He c...
As we dare not follow in such a path, we must therefore, as teachers of The Shepherd's Rod (the official publications of the Davidian S.D.A. Association), teach only in the light of the Rod those pass...
The self-centered shepherds against whom the prophet is told to write, are to be replaced by one shepherd, David. When this takes place God's people will then have but one shepherd....
All present truth believers should now see the necessity of shunning every wind of doctrine regardless how plausible or reasonable it might appear to be. Remember the words: "Behold, those that go to...
Suppose you would add an element to the milk, would it not be a strange one? And if it be a strange one to the milk, would it be foreign to the human system? If this be true, we must conclude it wou...
Now the statement "Take counsel together, and it shall come to naught; speak the word, and it shall not stand: for God is with us," plainly says what I tried to tell you -- that the nations, includi...
The time has come when the following appeal can no longer go unheeded with impunity: "Many fields ripe for the harvest have not yet been entered, because of our lack of self-sacrificing helpers. These...
I say that if left in such an unhappy and unholy state the very elect would forever remain unclean and unsanctified -- deceived! And since the eleventh-hour servants, the Davidians, are the ones un...
The human family have scarcely begun to live when they begin to die, and the world's incessant labor ends in nothingness unless a true knowledge in regard to eternal life is gained. The man who apprec...
Isa. 8:11, 12 -- "For the Lord spake thus to me with a strong hand, and instructed me that I should not walk in the way of this people, saying, Say ye not, A confederacy, to all them to whom this peo...
That part of the Investigative Judgment of the living, by which is determined who are to have their sins blotted out and, as a result, be given eternal life, is paralleled on earth by the work of the...
"Throughout the parable of the sower, Christ represents the different results of the sowing as depending upon the soil. In every case the sower and the seed are the same. Thus He teaches that if the...
"And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours; and their works do fol...
Do you now realize that not only the time of trouble is at the door, but even this special resurrection? Do you actually see that in the time of trouble, while the living saints are being delivered t...
Let all Present Truth believers carefully study the fourth chapter of Zechariah, and take particular notice of the method there illustrated, which God employs to reveal truth to His people. The dilig...
Let us therefore covenant with the Lord that henceforth we shall neither accept nor advance as revealed truth any private interpretation of the Scriptures. And to keep understandingly inviolate this s...
The call of Ezekiel to the prophetic office is one of the most interesting experiences of the ancient seers, and the revelation of what he saw by the river Chebar is perhaps of greater importance to h...
We are happy to announce that the headquarters office of the sealing message moved from Waco to Mt. Carmel Center on September 29 to its new and permanent home location for the proclamation of the mes...
What the world needs today is not preachers, but teachers who can teach with one hand and use the pick or the shovel with the other hand. Neither is the world in need of men "angling" for Moses' and ...
Besides giving us the assurance that the Lord shall defend His people, Inspiration likens them unto David and unto God. Even the feeble ones "shall be as David; and the house of David shall be as God...
An upright, honest-hearted farmer, who had been led to doubt the divine authority of the Scriptures, yet who sincerely desired to know the truth, was the man specially chosen of God to lead out in the...
"And it shall come to pass, that the fishers shall stand upon it from En-gedi even unto En-eglaim; they [the two cities] shall be a place to spread forth nets." (Ezek. 47:10.) These two cities reveal...
Note that the reason the waters are healed, is because they are "brought forth into the sea." If the mighty river represents the saints from the earth, then the sea must be a symbol of the sinless wo...
These unalterable truths of type and parable and "the word of His testimony," bring us face to face with the solemn reality that we are come to the time of the antitypical passover and cleansing of th...
"Ye shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest unto the priest: and he shall wave the sheaf before the Lord, to be accepted for you: on the morrow after the Sabbath the priest shall wave ...
"Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool." Isa. 1:18....
The most common cause of doctrinal confusion among Bible students lies in their so very frequently failing to view a subject in full perspective from the writer's point of view, -- a failing which re...
It is necessary that our unity today be of a character that will bear the test of trial. . . . We have many lessons to learn, and many, many to unlearn. God and heaven alone are infallible. Those who ...
"For, behold, in those days, and in that time when I shall bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem, I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, a...
Before a person can climb the ladder of Truth, he must first of all free himself from erroneous theories, which keep him bound in darkness. And to loose himself from such weights of error so as to re...
The reason that the Jewish people were led into this dark and tragic course was that they rejected and killed the prophets, whom God sent to correct their erring ways, "till there was no remedy." 2 Ch...
We are therefore not to worry about a possibility of anyone's hurting the work of God. Neither are we to worry about how we are to get to Mount Zion, but are to make sure to be ready to board the cha...
The Bible and the books of the Spirit of Prophecy being the sole source of the Shepherd's Rod message, therefore when the Rod is taught, the Bible and the Spirit of Prophecy are taught. And since non...
The cases of all who are sealed from 1929 to the final close of probation will be investigated before the throne in the heavenly sanctuary while living. The investigation commences after the fulfillm...
"I'm appealing to the youth, Wake up, sleeping giants, you are a giant in your youth. Be ready to participate, for the zeal is what the Lord is looking for. He will reveal to your your gifts. He will ...
"Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom. And five of them were wise, and five were foolish. They that were foolis...
The meek of the earth are those who have wrought the Lord's judgments, who have proclaimed the message of the great and dreadful day of the Lord. They are His people, His church. The nation that is ...
Each must be faithful in his duties, as was Daniel, so that he bring no reproach against his religious profession, but rather, by his consistent behavior and faithful service in the name of Christ, le...
Judas would introduce texts of Scripture that had no connection with the truths Christ was presenting. These texts, separated from their connection, perplexed the disciples, and increased the discoura...
Let all Present Truth believers carefully study the fourth chapter of Zechariah, and take particular notice of the method there illustrated, which God employs to reveal truth to His people. The dilig...
Clearly, then, the bowl in which the golden oil is stored, symbolizes the storehouse of Present Truth -- the Word interpreted. The only "storehouse" that contains inspired comments on both Testament...
Clearly, then, the bowl in which the golden oil is stored, symbolizes the storehouse of Present Truth -- the Word interpreted. The only "storehouse" that contains inspired comments on both Testament...
The Judgment for the Dead, furthermore, is not the message of "the great and dreadful day." It does not even touch on the prophecies of the great and dreadful day of the Lord. And since the one by w...
Hence the logical name that would represent her work from this time down to the time the Kingdom is set up, is to be Davidian Seventh-day Adventists, -- a name that testifies of the Kingdom message, ...
From the commandment to restore and to rebuild Jerusalem to Messiah the Prince, to Christ, there were to be 7 weeks (49 years), and 62 weeks (434 years) -- 69 weeks in all, or 483 years. History sho...
You know by now that Malachi, chapters 3 and 4, prophetically speak to the people of today, to the people just before the great and dreadful day, to the people to whom antitypical Elijah the prophet...
The angels who are round about the throne in the heavenly sanctuary during the judgment of Daniel 7:9, 10 and of Revelation 5:11 shall, as the parables explain, descend with "the Son of man" when He c...
Now let us consider the truth as taught by the last seal. Note carefully the order of each act. The seal is opened, and silence follows, for it reads: "and when he had opened the seventh seal there ...
after the historical Minneapolis meeting in 1888, when the leaders rejected both the message and the counsel which was given them (Testimonies To Ministers, p. 468) the Lord did not any longer regard ...
Those who cannot undergo the trial are laid in their graves," requires that it be fulfilled before Eze. 9. Hence, it can only apply to the righteous who die under the Third Angel's Message up to the p...
As we see our sisters departing from simplicity in dress, and cultivating a love for the fashions of the world, we feel troubled. By taking steps in this direction, they are separating themselves fro...
Plainly, then, there are three Pentecosts to be reckoned with in the equation of salvation: two in the past and one in the future, the first being the type, the second the prototype, the third the ant...
Being of cut stalks of grain, the wave-sheaf signified fruits to be harvested. And as the sheaf was to be offered before the sickle was put to the grain and gathered into sheaves, it obviously pointed...
The 40 days of Christ's personal presence on earth after His resurrection was the time in which the first fruits were gathered in, for after His ascension the Christians closeted themselves in the upp...
"The seven lamps . . . which are the seven Spirits of God." (Rev. 4:5.) This Scripture proves the fact that light and truth are revealed by the Spirit of God only. "But the Comforter, which is the Ho...
In the year 1930, God spoke to His people, as He spoke to Israel in the days of Joshua, but now, as then, there are among us, to discourage and dishearten, the ten spies, Korah, Dathan, and Abiram (Nu...
As to authorizing the communion service in our own midst, we believe that since we all, as Seventh-day Adventists, have defiled ourselves as did the Jews at Christ's first appearing (The Desire of Age...
those who are left after the earth swallows the dragon's flood which is now threatening to do away with the woman (the ever-living church), are the ones who as a group keep the commandments of God, a...
In the year 1930, God spoke to His people, as He spoke to Israel in the days of Joshua, but now, as then, there are among us, to discourage and dishearten, the ten spies, Korah, Dathan, and Abiram (Nu...
In order to keep the multitude in darkness in the days of the reformers, he put his clamps on them, then opened wide his extinguisher against the burning light, and when it failed him, he set "sleepin...
I wish that I could tell you all you want to know, but I cannot say how soon the separation, the purification of the church, (Testimonies, Vol. 5, pg. 80), will take place. God alone knows the time. ...
And now the only safe and sane procedure is to read closely every page of the solemn message contained in The Shepherd's Rod publications. Let not a line escape your attention. Study every word carefu...
All seem to think that peace and prosperity depend upon the man they put in the White House. Upon the authority of the Word, though, I stand to tell you that regardless who is put in office there wil...
The work which Mt. Carmel Center is doing is that of proclaiming the sealing message of the 144,000, the "closing work for the church," which is "forcibly set forth by the prophet's illustration of th...
True Christianity is a growth. It is plant-like. Christ Himself is represented as a Branch (Isa. 11:1), and His kingdom as a mustard seed (Matt. 13:31, 32) which after it is planted becomes a tree, ...
Though we fall seven times a day, though we sin unintentionally, if we arise and run the race we shall win. We cannot lose, because we have an Advocate, even Jesus Christ, the Righteous. Our assuran...
Moreover, as the SRod is the Elijah message (T.M. 475), it is impossible for anyone who accepts it and lives it to die, for the type demands translation. Thus it is that Elijah stands as a type of the...
Sin had become a science, and vice was consecrated as a part of religion. Rebellion had struck its roots deep into the heart, and the hostility of man was most violent against heaven. It was demonstra...
So before a person can climb the ladder of Truth, he must first of all free himself from erroneous theories, which keep him bound in darkness. And to loose himself from such weights of error so as to...
Praise ye the LORD: for [it is] good to sing praises unto our God; for [it is] pleasant; [and] praise is comely. -- Psalm 147:1...
Everything that can be done against God's message of today will be done with even a greater vengeance than was manifest against Heaven's message in the days of Christ's first advent, for the Devil kno...
The prophet Jeremiah in the following words explains that this wailing by those who are thus deceived will be at the close of probation. For they shall say "the harvest is past, the summer is ended, a...
The knowledge of present truth, which the five foolish virgins possessed since 1844 is the judgment of the dead, and was the only oil in their lamps. When the judgment of the living commenced, and th...
There were three annual feasts, the Passover, the Pentecost, and the Feast of Tabernacles, at which all the men of Israel were commanded to appear before the Lord at Jerusalem. Of these feasts the Pas...
The period represented by the scarlet colored beast commenced in 1929, at which time the deadly wound was healed. But his career is not fully developed until the "woman" shall sit upon his back....
The rabbis knew that Jesus had not been instructed in their schools; yet His understanding of the prophecies far exceeded theirs. In this thoughtful Galilean boy they discerned great promise. They des...
This becomes all the more obvious as we consider that when "Assyria" in the Middle Ages dealt the deadly blow to the church-state union of that day, neither Maher-shalal-hash-baz, the flesh-born Chris...
In every gentle and submissive way, Jesus tried to please those with whom He came in contact. Because He was so gentle and unobtrusive, the scribes and elders supposed that He would be easily influenc...
When the chariots rage in the streets, when they jostle one against another in the broadways, when they speed like lightning, and glare like torches, in that day shall one who dashes in pieces prepare...
Jesus was misunderstood by His brothers because He was not like them. His standard was not their standard. In looking to men they had turned away from God, and they had not His power in their lives. T...
A detailed demonstration of this purification of the church is projected in Ezekiel's prophecy. There the Lord commands him who records the life history, the angel with the writer's inkhorn, to go th...
And Elijah came unto all the people, and said, How long halt ye between two opinions? if the LORD [be] God, follow him: but if Baal, [then] follow him. And the people answered him not a word. ...
From among the faithful in Israel, who had long waited for the coming of the Messiah, the forerunner of Christ arose. The aged priest Zacharias and his wife Elisabeth were "both righteous before God;"...
Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah, have taken evil counsel against thee, saying, Let us go up against Judah, and vex it, and let us make a breach therein for us, and set a king in the mi...
Here is truth that tells when we may expect Christ to come and gather His own: "When the character of Christ shall be perfectly reproduced in His people."...
As a prophet, John was "to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to make ready a people prepared for the Lord." In preparing the way for Christ...
Thus, while the five men with the slaughter weapons are taking away those represented by the tares within the church, there will be silence in heaven for about half an hour (seven days), after which t...
In graphic demonstration that He will come to earth with all His angels to execute judgment upon the living, the Lord revealed Himself prophetically to Ezekiel as being brought enthroned to earth by f...
When the cry is made, "Behold, the Bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet Him," all ten virgins see that the light of their lamps is going out; they see that the message of the Judgment of the dead is p...
the present-day Jews are that undesired nation. Upon her, therefore, the Lord's anger is to fall if she continues to deny Christ. Yes, the universally hated Jew is the only nation that has been scat...
If God so faithfully revealed to the living the commencement of the judgment for the dead, it cannot be possible that He would keep secret the time of the judgment for the living. If He did, we woul...
Here we see commanded the observance of three harvest rites: (1) the ceremony of the wave-sheaf, at the beginning of the first harvest; (2) the ceremony of the wave-loaves, at the close of the first h...
The Lord's Supper was ordained in remembrance of the Lord's sacrifice, not to cleanse the partakers of it from their sins but to cleanse them from sinners, as is seen from the Passover in Egypt and fr...
Any explanation of a prophecy which adds to or takes from any part of relevant scripture in order to harmonize the interpretation, can only be false. When the Spirit of God interprets the Scriptures, ...
Everything that can be done against God's message of today will be done with even a greater vengeance than was manifest against Heaven's message in the days of Christ's first advent, for the Devil kno...
Consequently, as our leading brethren have inadvertently shown themselves unworthy stewards of God's "storehouse" for the time of the "Loud Cry of the Third Angel's Message," He has transferred the "...
Suppose you would add an element to the milk, would it not be a strange one? And if it be a strange one to the milk, would it be foreign to the human system? If this be true, we must conclude it wou...
Suppose you would add an element to the milk, would it not be a strange one? And if it be a strange one to the milk, would it be foreign to the human system? If this be true, we must conclude it wou...
Because of the supreme worth of the work at stake, and the shortness of time in which to accomplish it, we therefore address you at this time to encourage you anew to continue, and even step up if pos...
The self-centered shepherds against whom the prophet is told to write, are to be replaced by one shepherd, David. When this takes place God's people will then have but one shepherd. This, of course,...
I am, however, certain that God will not keep us ignorant of the things we ought to know. If it becomes necessary for us to know ahead of time the day and hour of the purification of the church, the ...
And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth. And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and wh...
Amid discord and strife, a voice was heard from the wilderness, a voice startling and stern, yet full of hope: "Repent ye; for the kingdom of heaven is at hand." With a new, strange power it moved the...
"Are we giving the 11th hour message now or will it not be given until after the fulfillment of Eze. 9? Has the angel that is to lighten the earth with his glory (E.W. 277) already come?" If the quest...
"Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly: gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the elders, gather the children, and those that suck the breast: let the brid...
Here is a beast whose make-up is similar to that of the leopard-like beast of chapter 13. The horns of this scarlet-colored beast, though, are crownless, and none of his heads are wounded. Also, rat...
"I indeed baptize you in water unto repentance," said John; "but He that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: He shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire...
We should meditate upon the Scriptures, thinking soberly and candidly upon the things that pertain to our eternal salvation. The infinite mercy and love of Jesus, the sacrifice made in our behalf, cal...
The trouble does not lie with the writings of the prophets, but rather with you men who have sinned against the Lord. "For the Lord hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and hath closed y...
Jesus did not receive baptism as a confession of guilt on His own account. He identified Himself with sinners, taking the steps that we are to take, and doing the work that we must do. His life of suf...
Though the work, moreover, is to have a small, hard, mattock-like beginning, it will gain speed and will emerge from the mattock stage into the ox-plow stage -- the stage which will see all the beli...
It is necessary that our unity today be of a character that will bear the test of trial. . . . We have many lessons to learn, and many, many to unlearn. God and heaven alone are infallible. Those who ...
Moreover, after the judgment of the dead which the Church has been preaching for a number of years, is over, if the Church does not then receive a new message, the message of the judgment of the livin...
The Movement led by the Rod today is the only Movement in Christendom fitting the type--the Israel of Joshua's day: like it, drawing its followers only from the parent Movement, and having as its thre...
Dear Fellow Davidians, We are happy to distribute our first series of The Symbolic Code, publishing information relative to Present Truth. Let us pray to this end, that it will grow with mushroom spee...
In the year 1930, God again spoke to His people, as He spoke to Israel in the days of Joshua, but now, as then, there are among us the ten spies, the Korahs, Dathans, and Abirams, and the Achans--all ...
He who is unforgiving, cuts off the very channel through which alone he can receive mercy from God. We should not think that unless those who have injured us confess the wrong, we are justified in wi...
Thou shalt keep therefore his statutes, and his commandments, which I command thee this day, that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee, and that thou mayest prolong [thy] days up...
Let children carefully remember that at the best the aged parents have but little joy and comfort. What can bring greater sorrow to their hearts than manifest neglect on the part of their children? W...
It was the prevalence of this very sin, fornication, among ancient Israel, which brought upon them the signal manifestation of God's displeasure. His judgments then followed close upon their heinous ...
By accepting Christ, man is reconciled to God, justified by His blood for the sins of the past, and saved from the power of sin by his indwelling life. Thus the gospel becomes 'the power of God unto s...
By a glance of the eye, a motion of the hand, an expression of the countenance, a falsehood may be told as effectually as by words. All intentional overstatement, every hint or insinuation calculated ...
And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe and to do all His commandments which I command thee this day, that the Lord thy God will set ...
But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the Lord Thy God, to observe to do all His commandments and His statutes which I command thee this day; that all these curses shal...
The trouble does not lie with the writings of the prophets, but rather with you men who have sinned against the Lord. "For the Lord hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and hath closed ...
Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God: for he hath given you the former rain moderately, and he will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter ...
God, you see, positively addresses a people who have already taken all the punishment they are to take, and at long last He is pleading their cause. This cannot be said at any time to any people here...
At the time this awakening call goes forth throughout the land, Inspiration announces that the harvest time has arrived for the angels to put out and to keep out of Zion and Jerusalem the uncircumcise...
Are not these tests strong enough to convince any of you that the secret things of God, such as the concealed prophecies, are not disclosed by finite men, -- no, not by the Devil either, that when God...
Not without a struggle could Jesus listen in silence to the arch-deceiver. But the Son of God was not to prove His divinity to Satan, or to explain the reason of His humiliation. By conceding to the d...
The remnant that are left, the saints who were not swallowed by the Dragon's flood as the earth opened her mouth, you note have the "testimony of Jesus Christ," the living Spirit of Prophecy active in...
Of all the lessons to be learned from our Lord's first great temptation none is more important than that bearing upon the control of the appetites and passions. In all ages, temptations appealing to t...
Your obeying "all the commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments" of the moral law of Moses, you see, is your evidence that you have been born again, that you have been endowed with power from ...
Yet we should not lose courage when assailed by temptation. Often when placed in a trying situation we doubt that the Spirit of God has been leading us. But it was the Spirit's leading that brought Je...
Before his conversion Paul had regarded himself as blameless "touching the righteousness which is in the law." Philippians 3:6. But since his change of heart he had gained a clear conception of the mi...
Though the work, moreover is to have a small hard, mattock-like beginning it will gain speed and will emerge from the mattock stage into the ox-plow stage -- the stage which will see all the believers...
Now the only safe and sane procedure is to read closely every page of the solemn message contained herein. Let not a line escape your attention. Study every word carefully and prayerfully. Be an ea...
Never can the cost of our redemption be realized until the redeemed shall stand with the Redeemer before the throne of God. Then as the glories of the eternal home burst upon our enraptured senses we ...
The Holy Spirit is Christ's representative, but divested of the personality of humanity, and independent thereof. Cumbered with humanity, Christ could not be in every place personally. Therefore it wa...
Jesus came in poverty and humiliation, that He might be our example as well as our Redeemer. If He had appeared with kingly pomp, how could He have taught humility? how could He have presented such cu...
Though the work, moreover is to have a small hard, mattock-like beginning it will gain speed and will emerge from the mattock stage into the ox-plow stage -- the stage which will see all the believers...
The teaching of Christ was the expression of an inwrought conviction and experience, and those who learn of Him become teachers after the divine order. The word of God, spoken by one who is himself sa...
At the beginning of the judgments of God they saw their mistake and rushed for the ark of safety, but it was beyond their reach for they knew nothing of the message, and by the time they acquired it (...
As men set forth the best wine first, then afterward that which is worse, so does the world with its gifts. That which it offers may please the eye and fascinate the senses, but it proves to be unsati...
The men with the slaughter weapons must immediately follow the one with the writer's inkhorn. God must separate His people if the marking is to be of any value and except the separation takes place, ...
Note that the "woman" sits on the "waters," also on the "heads," and on the beast." (See Rev. 17:1, 3, 9.) As it would be impossible for one person to sit on all three objects at one time, the prophe...
Lengo lake kuu ni kuufunua ukweli kwamba wakati umekuja Bwana audhihirishe uwezo Wake na kuliunganisha, na kulitakasa kanisa la Mungu – akiliita liamke kutoka kwa kitanda chake mavumbini na lijivike...
The period represented by the scarlet colored beast commenced in 1929, at which time the deadly wound was healed. But his career is not fully developed until the "woman" shall sit upon his back....
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The world government which is to develop from the "League of Nations" and the "United Nations," is not actually to be absolutely universal, and there are still to be "two worlds," but rather than ther...
As disciples of Christ we shall not mingle with the world from a mere love of pleasure, to unite with them in folly. Such associations can result only in harm. We should never give sanction to sin by ...
The period represented by the scarlet colored beast commenced in 1929, at which time the deadly wound was healed. But his career is not fully developed until the "woman" shall sit upon his back....
Very obvious it is, too, that their blowing and the angels' hurting, represent two armies in conflict. The wind's blowing is, of course, the anger of the nations against the saints; and the angels' h...
The priests and rulers were called to be the representatives of God to the nation; they should have corrected the abuses of the temple court. They should have given to the people an example of integri...
The anger of the nations being in the time of the judgment of the living -- in the Loud Cry of the Third Angel's Message -- their anger is against God's people, not against each other nation otherwise...
And Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him. And when Jacob saw them, he said, This [is] God's host: and he called the name of that place Mahanaim....
The seven heads represent Christendom as they do on the leopard-like beast, but it is in the symbol of the scarlet colored, that they are called Babylon. As he is full of names and blasphemy, it veri...
And now, saith the Lord that formed me from the womb to be His servant, to bring Jacob [his posterity] again to Him, Though Israel be not gathered, yet shall I be glorious in the eyes of the Lord, and...
The people pressed into Christ's presence with urgent, pitiful appeals: Master, bless me. His ear heard every cry. With pity exceeding that of a tender mother He bent over the suffering little ones. A...
The Lord has shown me repeatedly that it is contrary to the Bible to make any provision for our temporal wants in the time of trouble. I saw that if the saints had food laid up by them or in the field...
As previously explained the false prophet is not the papacy or the two-horned beast, neither is he the devil, for we read: "And the devil that deceived them was cast into a lake of fire and brimstone,...
Nicodemus had come to the Lord thinking to enter into a discussion with Him, but Jesus laid bare the foundation principles of truth. He said to Nicodemus, It is not theoretical knowledge you need so m...
To sanctify the Lord is to be all for Him, to have no one else in His stead, to put your entire trust in Him, not making flesh your arm, for He alone is able to see you through. And though you should...
While the wind is itself invisible, it produces effects that are seen and felt. So the work of the Spirit upon the soul will reveal itself in every act of him who has felt its saving power. When the S...
Here you see that this unification of the world, engendered to bring peace and harmony out of the present chaos, will instead bring an even greater time of trouble. And why? -- Because though the bea...
There are few who have any just conception of the deceptive power of spiritualism and the danger of coming under its influence. Many tamper with it merely to gratify their curiosity. They have no real...
We can receive of heaven's light only as we are willing to be emptied of self. We cannot discern the character of God, or accept Christ by faith, unless we consent to the bringing into captivity of ev...
As to Mohammed's receiving his religion from Gabriel, he never did. Thus, both the Mohammedanized pashas and the Christianized lords, were speaking lies at one table -- the people's. But these "shal...
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He who seeks to quench his thirst at the fountains of this world will drink only to thirst again. Everywhere men are unsatisfied. They long for something to supply the need of the soul. Only One can m...
Its [this little paper's] main object is to reveal the fact that the time has come for the Lord to manifest His power and unify, and purify the church of God -- calling her to rise up from her dusty...
The Majesty of heaven identifies His interests with those of the believers, however humble may be their circumstances. And wherever they are privileged to meet together, it is appropriate that they sp...
Far more sacredness is attached to the Sabbath than is given it by many professed Sabbath keepers. The Lord has been greatly dishonored by those who have not kept the Sabbath according to the commandm...
The churches may incompletely confederate almost any time, but the union of church and state (the image of the beast) will take place only after the "investigative judgment" of the dead is completed, ...
The path to freedom from sin is through crucifixion of self, and conflict with the powers of darkness. Let none be discouraged in view of the severe trials to be met in the time of Jacob's trouble, wh...
The “woman” did not originate with the Roman church, but rather she produced that church. Therefore, we must trace her existence beyond the beginning of the papacy. Revelation 18:24, throws light ...
Then they that feared the LORD spake often one to another: and the LORD hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before Him for them that feared the LORD, and that thought upon H...
As there are seven seals in consecutive order, it is clear that our world’s history is divided into seven different periods. The judgment begins with the first and ends with the last. Evidently the ...
And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars forever and ever.” (Daniel 12:3.) They who are “wise” are the ones who...
The Saviour is still carrying forward the same work as when He proffered the water of life to the woman of Samaria. Those who call themselves His followers may despise and shun the outcast ones; but n...
And, finally, the only revelation pertaining to and coming "at a year," and preparing the four angels "for to slay the third part of men" is says the Lord, "the year of My redeemed." Isa. 63:4. And ...
Now that you plainly see the signs and the time of our redemption and of the day of God's vengeance against unrepented sinners fast approaching, you are urged to make ready, to sigh and cry against th...
All should have something to say for the Lord, for by so doing they will be blest. A book of remembrance is written of those who do not forsake the assembling of themselves together, but speak often o...
It is at midnight that God manifests His power for the deliverance of His people. The sun appears, shining in its strength. Signs and wonders follow in quick succession. The wicked look with terror an...
God has given us the whole of six days in which to do our work, and has reserved only one to Himself. This should be a day of blessing to us--a day when we should lay aside all our secular matters and...
We should not come together to remain silent; those only are remembered of the Lord who assemble to speak of His honor and glory and tell of His power; upon such the blessing of God will rest, and the...
Until now, we have been merely trifling with the Lord's adversaries but now we must get down to business regardless who hears it. His people must now forever turn from man's sayings, whatever they be...
The cry of Christ to the thirsty soul is still going forth, and it appeals to us with even greater power than to those who heard it in the temple on the last day of the feast. The fountain is open for...
The fact that Christendom itself is divided and confused, one believing one thing and another something else, is in itself sufficient evidence that besides being in total darkness of the signs of the ...
Our God is wonderful indeed! He retains not His anger. He delights in mercy. He remembers not the sins of the penitent, He casts them away where they cannot be found anymore....
The Lord has lent men talents to improve, Those whom He has entrusted with money are to bring their talent of means to the Master. Men and women of influence are to use that which God has given them. ...
Those who work for Christ are to be upright and trustworthy, firm as a rock to principle, and at the same time kind and courteous. Courtesy is one of the graces of the Spirit. To deal with human minds...
If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, [from] doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways,...
Rather than let all as a people suffer the consequences of sin, the Lord at this time promises to avenge only His enemies, His adversaries that are within His church. He will purge and purify His chu...
Brother, Sister, are you prepared to abide the day of His coming? Will it be to you a great and glorious day? or will it be a dreadful day? Will you find yourself at His right, or at His left? Wil...
It is at midnight that God manifests His power for the deliverance of His people. The sun appears, shining in its strength. Signs and wonders follow in quick succession. The wicked look with terror a...
The Bible is the revelation of creation and redemption in Christ -- Creator and Redeemer. Therefore, the Sabbath and the Sanctuary constitute "The Truth." (See Hebrews 9:10, 4:4-10.) Thus these two ...
God, who is so particular for the good of His church in revealing His truth to His people, has presented to us wonderful pictures of historical events; which is the evidence of love everlasting for Is...
In our day there is an even greater flood of private interpreters of the Scriptures (the cause of today's isms) than there was in Moses' day. And according to Revelation 12:15, 16, the Lord warns tha...
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Clear it is that after the dispersion of the Jews, and after the destruction of Old Jerusalem, in the Christian era, the last days, then it is that the restoration of all things takes place; and the f...
Surely the Lord God will do nothing, but He revealeth His secret unto His servants the prophets." "By a prophet the Lord brought Israel out of Egypt, and by a prophets was he preserved." "Believe in t...
If the leaders in the cause of truth show no zeal, if they are indifferent and purposeless, the church will be careless, indolent, and pleasure-loving; but if they are filled with a holy purpose to se...
The Spirit of God bids us "with awful solemnity, 'Get ready! get ready! get ready! for the fierce anger of the Lord is soon to come. His wrath is to be poured out, unmixed with mercy, and ye are not r...
To prevent His people from bringing upon themselves such a catastrophe, and to have them intelligent as to the time the year begins, the Lord gave to Moses the sacred yearly calendar, which cannot be ...
But Jesus had "steadfastly set His face to go to Jerusalem." The one law of His life was the Father's will. In the visit to the temple in His boyhood, He had said to Mary, "Wist ye not that I must be ...
It has been previously explained that number "ten" is a symbol of universal, and the number four completeness of the earth or the four points of the compass. Thus it symbolically denotes that the mes...
Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had mad...
Then said he unto me, These waters issue out towards the east country, and go down into the desert, and go into the sea." (Ezek. 47:8.) It is remarkable to note how perfect these symbols are in each ...
Consequently, the Lone Star state, being in the midst of the land for both Americas, North and South, is the place where we must set the "camp," so that the light may be equally diffused east and west...
The Harvest, the time from the baptism of Christ to the close of probation is shown to be illustrated by twelve figurative months -- six from Christ's baptism to His crucifixion, five from the crucifi...
This is the electronic version of our Symbolic Code, the official organ of The Davidian Seventh-day Adventist Association. This issue is Volume 2022, Nos. 1-4, being our first issue for 2022 - brighte...
"And it shall come to pass, that the fishers shall stand upon it from En-gedi even unto En-eglaim; they [the two cities] shall be a place to spread forth nets." (Ezek. 47:10.) These two cities reveal...
"Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils," the Lord commands. By turning the minds of men to lean on human wisdom, we place a veil between God and man, so that there is not a seeing of Him ...
God's people will separate themselves from the unrighteous practices of those around them and will seek for purity of thought and holy conformity to His will until His divine image will be reflected i...
All present truth believers should now see the necessity of shunning every wind of doctrine regardless how plausible or reasonable it might appear to be. Remember the words: "Behold, those that go t...
Greetings Brethren, The Second issue of The 2022 Symbolic Code, the official organ of The Davidian Seventh-day Adventist Association, comes knocking - brighter, better, and best of all, even more soul...
We are pleased to announce that the third Issue of the 2022 Symbolic Code series is now available electronically. Here is your eagerly awaited sit-down dinner of spiritual “butter and honey”. Plea...
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We are pleased to announce that the second Issue of the 2023 Symbolic Code series is now available electronically. Here is your eagerly awaited sit-down dinner of spiritual “butter and honey”. Ple...
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