This is a most essential truth to be delivered in âThis Gospel of the Kingdomâ which âshall be preached throughout the world as a witness unto all nations, and then shall the end come.â
Sounds like Iâd better make funeral arrangements. Whatâs more, Iâm sure that this type of âMission Storyâ has not been told on Sabbath mornings in North American SDA churches during âMission Spotlightâ, or whatever its called now.
"Let this mind be IN YOU . . . . IN YOU, not outside of you.
Jesus said not to look here nor there for the Kingdom of God, because it is âWITHIN YOUâ.
God told Moses to 'Let them make me a sanctuary that I may dwell IN THEM, not merely âamong themâ.
If there is any hierarchy in the true âKingdom of Godâ, then it exists wholly WITHIN each individual mind and heart that submits to that King Who, alone, submits to washing the dirty feet of His friends and subjects. . . . This truth âcoulda, shoulda, wouldaâ been at the core of âThis Gospel of the Kingdomâ â not âdemocracyâ â that SDA missionaries from North America and Europe took to South America, Africa, Asia . . . . But, as we know, it was not, and now we are âreaping the whirlwindâ.
Even still, North America-based SDA âevangelistsâ apparently spend much more time and effort showing off their âBiblical prophecyâ skills to an adoring public in admiration of the âMetal Manâ hierarchy of hierarchical world kingdoms (all of them fallen or about to fall) than they do discussing that âstone cut out, but not with human handsâ-- Christ, who as King washes dirty feet â that is about to replace the filthy feet and toes of the union of clay-priestcraft and and iron-statecraft that is currently torturing the whole world with the blessing of the âworld economyâ. . . . even Mark Twain saw this happening in the 1888-era as his âA Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurâs Courtâ was first being read by the public, but SDA evangelists and Bible prophecy experts, with Ellenâs and Jonesâ clear warnings, still refused to fully present that âStoneâ Solution to their audiences ?
The SDA GC has a long tradition of rejecting Christ, and we all know when this tradition began in earnest. Yet, âBehold I stand at the door and knock . . . .â This line, spoken by Christ in the message to the Laodicean church to which Paul had also written in âColossiansâ (regarding hierarchy), like so much of the book of Revelation, is taken from the rest of the Bible, in this case the Song of Solomon:
"I sleep, but my heart waketh: it is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, saying , âOpen to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night.â
âI have put off my coat; how shall I put it on? I have washed my feet; how shall I defile them?â ~ Song of Solomon 5:2-3
(But King Jesus, who had knocked at the door of her âheartâ also washes feet and will clothe âLaodiceâ with âwhite raimentâ . . . .)
Then she â âLaodiceâ â describes how she finally got up out of bed to answer, and finding her Lover gone, she went about the city (Jerusalem ?) looking for Him, only to have the watchmen beat her up and the âkeepers of the wallâ â âwallâ meaning âlawâ in the parables â remove her âveilâ. This is a living parable of SDA GC history as the church was run by leadership in North American â not South American â headquarters which hierarchically-controlled Christâs SDA church, worldwide, according to their own âlawâ-infatuation, post-1888. Like Israel in Hoseaâs times, the SDA GC leadership sowed to the wind, by not letting âKing Jesusâ serve them, and wash their dirty feet, and like Peter, they denied Him as âweakâ while claiming to fight loyally for Him, forever. And, so, like Peter, we reap the whirlwind.
I wonât waste time looking up the address of the Ellen quote where she said that we will never know how deeply Jesus â âGod with usâ, not God far from us â was hurt by the GC rejection of Himself, in preference for âlaw aloneâ, circa 1888 . . . âWe have a law !â, they told Pilate, âAnd by that law this man deserves to die, because He made Himself the son of God . . . .â And, Like Father, like Son.
You canât sow the âgospelâ of the Judaism-of-Caiaphas to the winds of the world without reaping the whirlwind of the âman of sinâ whom Paul predicted to the Thessalonians, and his priestcraft mingled with statecraft â feet and toes of clay and iron â through that revived âorderâ which went underground into âwildernessâ-secrecy around 1814, just as the âwomanâ of Revelation 12 was returning into the public eye from that same âwildernessâ-secrecy, and the Great Advent Movement began . . . .
Surely even SDAs in South America are allowed to read the Bible, and to learn the history of that âreligious orderâ that has both secretly and openly formed their economic and political hierarchical social structures? !