These are truly exciting times to be living and awake in !
They are made even more so, not merely because of the decay of polite society in the so-called âcosmosâ of the modern world, but because of the surprising new growth of polite society in the SDA church, in spite of being immersed in this very harsh world.
World history has recorded plenty of troubles in the past, and still in the present. (ISIS for instance.) But âtroublesâ are merely âsignsâ of, not the cause of, Jesus returning. If troubles were the cause, then surely the bloody sight of the past centuryâs persistent social engineering atrocities should have brought Jesus flying to our rescue long before âY2Kâ !
Ironically too many of us SDAs may have become so obsessed with the study of the âcomingâ of the
â3 (or 4) Angelâsâ that we fail to notice that it is the prospect of a fully-ripe âharvestâ â the â3rd Angelâ announcing that what the 1st Angel is searching for is found : âHere are they . . . .ââ that brings Jesusâ 2nd coming, flying on the angelic clouds of Heaven, to âharvestâ us home. But, âusâ who ? Is there even one tender new blade of SDA âgrassâ to be found sprouting out of Earthâs blasted battlefield that is symmetrically âfullâ and worthy of becoming âripeâ ?
Yes ! It is called âequityâ, or âiquityâ, as opposed to âin-iquity.â Finally, we SDAs who hope to be the last generation, are awakening to grasp that Godly concept which we should have been leaders in teaching to the worldâs social engineers long ago, not vice versa. âIquityâ originated with our Creators, not as a mere ârightâ, but as a necessity for life itself to exist.
As a child of the 20th century I listened naively to male âministers of the Gospelâ â supported by that tithe dedicated to the Gospel Work â preach from Malachi on bringing the âwhole titheâ into the storehouse. They presented Malachiâs challenge from God as if the congregation spoken of was only delivering from 0 % to 99.9 % of the quantity due. It wasnât until I let Malachi, himself, educate me about the âsymmetryâ of God, as an adult, that I realized that the whole quantity of 10% was being given. However, with the complicity of the very Levitical Gospel Workers, themselves, un-symmetrical animals of un-whole quality were being selected from the tithe-flock for the altar. Such âun-wholeâ, âun-healthyâ, animals brought to the altar were blasphemous misrepresentations of the good ânameâ, or good âqualityâ, of Christ, and of the Father, as being âiniquitableâ, âsinfulâ, âvainâ, useless. God could not open the channels of heaven to bless such false imagery of âGodâ, and the sacrifice of Himself, in Christ.
Malachi also expressed Godâs distaste of divorce, not merely for the sake of the divorced parents, but especially for the sake of their highly-impressionable shared âoffspringâ. God wanted healthy marriages enabling âoffspringâ to be symmetrically-âiquitableâ, or âGodlyâ. Again, God was focused on the production of equitable, âfull-earedâ souls fit for âharvestââmentally, emotionally, and physically âfitâ, just as âEllenâ described the 3-in-1 symmetrical focus of âtrue educationâ.
Ellenâs life roughly spanned the era named after a woman who ruled a world empire upon which the sun never set. Ellen died before she would have been allowed to even vote in the country that claimed to be âfreeâ of Queen Victoriaâs reign. Yet, Ellenâs own understanding of Godâs own mind was very âfreeâ, and far ahead of many male SDA church leaders who were âvotedâ into office.
On page 34 of Patriarchs and Prophets, the âFatherâ and âWordâ, or âSon of Godâ were described by Ellen as having a highly-equitable marriage-style relationship during the âCreationâ of mankind. On page 46, as mankind was created, they were given the same highly-equitable God-style relationship in order to produce the âgodly offspringâ (or âsproutsâ) which Malachi said God desires to see produced of such things He has symmetrically âjoined togetherâ.
So, clearly â even according to Ellen â before sin, or âinequityâ occurred on this Earthâs âtheaterâ of the universe, the woman, Eve, was intended to fulfill the very real, and very âtypicalâ, âroleâ with Adam on Earth that would most clearly reflect the âanti-typicalâ role of the âWord of Godâ with the Father in Heaven. Then, surely, as God-intended, and created, âEveâ to exist â before the fall â she was highly-ordainable, was she not ?
The closer we SDAs get to being âripe for harvestâ â thereby helping to âripenâ the rest of the world â the closer we will reflect and promote . . . what ? The ideal role, of female SDAs being an âimageâ of the intended role of âEveâ â as reflecting the âWord of Godâ ? Or as an âimageâ of that role of that other âiniquitableâ mother of divorce, âBabylonâ ?
If women cannot be âborn againâ, right now on this Earth, into their God-intended pre-fall âimageâ, as men can be, then why do we SDAs even bother baptizing them âinto Christâ â the âWord of Godâ ? Can âAdamâ ever forgive âEveâ ? Yes, âheâ must, and seeing that sprout of highly-âiquitableâ forgiveness grow more fully among some SDA male leaders is very exciting ! It means the SDA âcropâ is getting âriperâ.
Thereâs hope the mess of this worldâs âcosmosâ is about to end !
But first, there are lingering sinful âinequitiesâ of understanding, and of teaching, âGodâ, that we have too long inherited and passed along from our clearly âunripeâ SDA history. âIniquitiesâ that can prevent that âharvest homeâ we SDAs claim to preach in our very name ! Consciously or not, an ungodly, sin-biased ideal, or model, of post-fall social engineering â one of âdivorceâ, in the image of sin-ful, not sin-less, Adam and Eve â has plagued the fertile minds of generation after generation of tender-hearted, new, SDA âoffspringâ. Offspring who have pathetically struggled to grow, to become able to sincerely âworshipâ a happily-married, symmetrically-âiquitableâ âGod Familyâ that doesnât argue in âjudgingâ the savability of its Earthly âchildrenâ. And we have struggled in the face of an âiniquitablyâ-divorced, male-dominated SDA church leadership which claims â whether consciously, or unconsciously â that they alone, without âmomâ, are able to fully-represent that âwholeâ âGod Familyâ from a âpulpitâ âblessedâ stubbornly by the post-fall âmodelâ of male-only ordination . . . all in hopes of our attaining a pre-fall state as a âchurch familyâ . . . so we can all go home ? ! The âfamilyâ metaphors our SDA theology claims keep falling out of step with the Biblical model.
Such inconsistent claims are very âunripeningâ, are they not ? .
The âWord of Godâ, IS âGodâ, too . . . or was John wrong ?
