1. “The Lord in His great mercy sent a most precious message to His people through Elders Waggoner and Jones.” — TM p. 91.
2. “God gave to His servants a testimony that presented the truth as it is in Jesus, which is the third angel’s message, in clear distinct lines” — TM p. 93.
3. “The message of the gospel of His grace was to be given to the church in clear and distinct lines, that the world should no longer say that Seventh-Day Adventists talk the law, the law, but do not teach or believe Christ. The efficacy of the blood of Christ was to be presented to the people with freshness and power.” — TM p. 92.
4. “This is the very work which the Lord designs that the message He has given His servants, shall perform in the heart and mind of every human agent….God gave to His messengers just what the people needed.” — TM p. 95.
5. “The Lord would have these grand themes studied in our churches, and if every church member shall give entrance to the word of God it will give light and understanding to the simple.” — TM pp. 95, 96.
6. “I would speak in warning to those who have stood for years resisting light and cherishing the spirit of opposition. How long will you hate and despise the messengers of God’s righteousness? God has given them His message. They bear the word of the Lord.” — TM p. 96. (1895).
7. “Here was evidence, that all might discern whom the Lord recognized as His servants. But there are those who despised the men and the message they bore. They have taunted them with being fanatics, extremists, and enthusiasts….Unless you speedily humble you hearts before God, …you…see that you have been fighting against God.” — TM p. 97.
8. “You will see that these men whom you have spoken against have been as signs in the world, as witnesses for God….Zealous men, moved by the Spirit of God….in principle firm as a rock….Light from heaven.” — TM p. 97.
9. “If you reject Christ’s delegated messengers, you reject Christ. Neglect this great salvation, kept before you for years,…and there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins.” — TM p. 97.
10. “Even Seventh-Day Adventists are in danger of closing their eyes to truth as it is in Jesus, because it contradicts something which they have taken for granted as truth, but which the Holy Spirit teaches is not truth….That men should keep alive the spirit which ran riot at Minneapolis, is an offense to God.” TM pp. 70, 76.
11. “Men who are entrusted with weighty responsibilities, but who have no living connection with God, have been and are doing despite to His Holy Spirit….If God spares their lives, and they nourish the same spirit that marked their course of action both before and after the Minneapolis meeting, they will fill up to the full the deeds of those whom Christ condemned when He was upon the earth….Some have been cultivating hatred against the men whom God has commissioned to bear a special message to the world….When they saw and felt the demonstration of the Holy Spirit, testifying that the message was of God, they hated it the more.” — TM pp. 78 – 80.
12. “That which God gives His servants to speak today [Jones and Waggoner] would not perhaps have been present truth twenty years ago, but it is God’s message for this time….Let men and women who are truly converted offer themselves in all humility to the service of the Lord….They will not talk of the faults of others….They will be men who fear to talk and make sport of God’s messengers.” — MS 8 A, 1888. (Dr Froom applies these statements to Jones and Waggoner, see Movement of Destiny, p 225).
13. “God is presenting to the minds of men divinely appointed [Jones and Waggoner] precious gems of truth, appropriate for our time. God has rescued these truths from the companionship of error, and has placed them in their proper framework….Those who have been sinking the shaft deeper and still deeper into the mine of truth will see no beauty in the precious things presented at this Conference….Convincing evidence which has been in this Conference.” — MS 8 A, 1888. (Olson, p. 279).
"The Lord in his great mercy sent a most precious message to his people through Elders Waggoner and Jones." Ellen G White, Testimonies to Ministers and Gospel Workers, pg 91
This message was the long looked for Loud Cry as Ellen G. White again testifies. " The time for the test is just upon us, for the loud cry of the third angel has already begun in the revelation of the righteousness of Christ, the sin pardoning Redeemer. This is the beginning of the light of the angel whose glory shall fill the whole earth." 1SM, pg. 363(Emphasis supplied)
" It is third angel's message, which is to be proclaimed with a loud voice, and attended with the outpouring of His spirit in a large measure."Ellen G. White Testimonies to Ministers and Gospel Workers pg. 92 (Emphasis supplied).
That the church rejected the message is the teachings of the Spirit of Prophecy.
" The true religion, the only religion of the Bible, that teaches forgiveness only through the merits of a crucified and risen Saviour, that advocates righteousness by the faith of the Son of God, has been slighted, spoken against, ridiculed and rejected. It has been denounced as leading to enthusiasm and fanaticism." Ellen G. White, Testimonies to Ministers and Gospel Workers, pg 468 ( Emphasis supplied).
The Spirit of Prophecy also teaches that the ministers rejected the message, and led the church members to do so.
" I have tried to present the message to you as I have understood it, but how long will those at the head of the work keep themselves aloof from the message of God? Review and Herald , March 18th 1890 (Emphasis supplied).
"If you do not see (the) light yourselves ,you will close the door , if you can,you will prevent the rays of light from coming to the people . Let it not be said of this highly favored people,' They would not enter in themselves, and those who were entering they hindered..." No one must be permited to close he avenue whereby the light of truth shall come to the people. As soon as this shall be attempted God's Spirit will be quenched." (Ellen G. White , Sermon at Minneapolis Conference, MS 15, 1888). Quoted from R.J Wieland and D.K. Short, 1888 RE Examined, pg 35.
"Now I was saying what was the use of our assembling here together and for our ministering brethren to come in if they are here only to shut out the Spirit of God from the people?" (Ellen G. Sermon at Minneapolis Conference , Oct 24th 1888; MS 9, 1888). Quoted from R.J Wieland and D.K Short, 1888 RE-Examined pg 35. "The very men who ought to be on the alert to see what the people of God need that the way of the Lord may be prepared , are intercepting the light of God would have come to his people and rejecting the message of his healing Grace." ( Letter of Ellen G. White to Miller Brothers, July 23rd 1889). Ibid pg 36 .
What a serious situation, imagine members had been trusting their souls to ministers, and it is the clergy itself that turned the people from the message. But why did the minister reject the message? Here is Ellen G. White answer : " And saw that you willfully reject what you know to be truth , just because it was too humiliating to your dignity..." Review and Herald, May 7th 1892.
"In 1888 at the General Conference held in Minneapolis, Minn. The angel of Rev. 18:1 came down to do his work , and was ridiculed criticized and rejected. And when the message he brings again swells into a loud cry, it will again be ridiculed, spoken against and rejected by the majority." Ellen G. White , Taking up a Reproach.(Emphasis Supplied)
There is to be in the churches a wonderful manifestation of the power of God, but it will not move upon those who have not humbled themselves before the Lord, and opened the door of their hearts by confession and repentance. in the manifestation of that power which lightens the earth with the glory of God they will see something which will arouse their fears, and they will brace themselves to resist it. Because the Lord does not work accordingly to their expectations and ideas they will oppose the work. 'Why ,' they say, ' should we not know the Spirit of God when we have been in the work for so many years?' Ellen G. White, Bible Training School , May, 1907.
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