A False Message
Those who assert that the Seventh-day Adventist churches
constitute Babylon, or any part of Babylon, might better
stay at home. Let them stop and consider what is the message
to be proclaimed at this time. In place of working with
divine agencies to prepare a people to stand in the day of
the Lord, they have taken their stand with him who is an
accuser of the brethren, who accuses them before God day and
night. Satanic agencies have
been moved from beneath, and they have inspired men to unite
in a confederacy of evil, that they may perplex, harass, and
cause of the people of God great distress.
The whole world is to be stirred with enmity against Seventh
day Adventists, because they will not yield homage to the
papacy, by honoring Sunday, the institution of this
antichristian power. It is the purpose of Satan to cause
them to be blotted from the earth, in order that his
supremacy of the world may not be disputed.
Testimonies to Ministers and Gospel
Workers p. 36.
God has a people in which all heaven is interested, and they
are the one object on earth dear to the heart of God. Let
everyone who reads these words give them thorough
consideration, for in the name of Jesus I would press them
home upon every soul. When
anyone arises, either among us or outside of us, who is
burdened with a message which declares that the people of
God are numbered with Babylon, and claims that the loud cry
is a call to come out of her, you may know that he is not
bearing the message of truth. Receive him not, nor bid him
Godspeed; for God has not spoken by him, neither has He
given a message to him, but he has run before he was sent.
The message contained in the pamphlet called the Loud Cry,
is a deception. Such messages will come, and it will be
claimed for them that they are sent of God, but the claim
will be false; for they are not filled with light, but with
darkness. There will be
messages of accusation against the people of God, similar to
the work done by Satan in accusing God's people,
and these messages will be sounding at the very time when
God is saying to His people, "Arise, shine; for thy light is
come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee."
Testimonies to Ministers and Gospel
Workers p. 41-43
"My brother, I learn that you are taking the position that the
Seventh-day Adventist Church is Babylon, and that all that would be
saved must come out of her. You are not
the only man the devil has deceived in this matter. For the last
forty years, one man after another has arisen, claiming that the
Lord has sent him with the same message;
but let me tell you, as I have told them, that this message you are
proclaiming is one of the satanic delusions designed to create
confusion among the churches. Testimonies to Ministers and Gospel Workers p.
58,59
"My brother, if you are
teaching that the Seventh-day Adventist Church is Babylon,
you are wrong, God has not given you any such message to
bear. Satan will use every mind
to which he can attain access, inspiring men to originate
false theories or go off on some wrong tangent, that he may
create a false excitement, and thus divert souls from the
true issue for this time. I
presume that some may be deceived by your message, because
they are full of curiosity and desire for some new thing.
It makes me feel sad indeed
that you should be deceived in any way by the suggestions of
the enemy; for I know the theory that you are advocating is
not truth. In advancing the ideas you do, you will do great
injury to yourself and to others. .... Where, my brother,
have you stepped out of the path? Oh, get your feet back in
the straight path again.
Testimonies to Ministers and Gospel
Workers p. 59,60
conclusion
"Such messages will come, and it will
be claimed for them that they are sent of God, but the claim will be
false; for they are not filled with light, but with darkness."
Testimonies to Ministers and
Gospel Workers p. 41-43
