RESTORED IN THE LAST DAYS

[remnant]

RESTORED IN THE LAST DAYS



BUT THE SCRIPTURES, WHILE FORETELLING THIS DREADFUL APOSTASY, ALSO
PLAINLY TEACH THAT JUST BEFORE THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST, MANY WILL BE
RESCUED FROM THE DARKNESS OF ERROR AND SUPERSTITION. ONCE MORE THE EARTH IS
TO BE LIGHTENED BY THE GLORY OF GOD. THE PURE TRUTHS OF THE BIBLE ARE TO
SHINE FORTH. AND IN THIS TIME OF HEAVENLY ILLUMINATION MARKING THE
APPROACHING END OF THE AGE, THE GIFTS OF THE SPIRIT ARE AGAIN TO BE MANIFEST
IN THE TRUE CHURCH. "IT SHALL COME TO PASS IN THE LAST DAYS, SAITH GOD, I
WILL POUR OUT OF MY SPIRIT UPON ALL FLESH: AND YOUR SONS AND YOUR DAUGHTERS
SHALL PROPHESY, AND YOUR YOUNG MEN SHALL SEE VISIONS, AND YOUR OLD MEN SHALL
DREAM DREAMS: AND ON MY SERVANTS AND ON MY HANDMAIDENS I WILL POUR OUT IN
THOSE DAYS OF MY SPIRIT; AND THEY SHALL PROPHESY." ACTS 2:17, 18; JOEL 2:28,
29. {CET 242.2}

IN CLEAR TERMS THE PROPHET JOHN SPEAKS OF "THE REMNANT," OR THE LAST
CHURCH, AS THOSE WHO "KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD, AND HAVE THE TESTIMONY
OF JESUS CHRIST." REVELATION 12:17. IN ANOTHER PASSAGE THE SAME WRITER GIVES
A PLAIN DEFINITION OF WHAT HE MEANS BY THE "TESTIMONY OF JESUS." WHEN ON ONE
OCCASION JOHN ATTEMPTED TO WORSHIP THE ANGEL WHO APPEARED TO HIM IN VISION,
THE ANGEL SAID: {CET 242.3}

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"SEE THOU DO IT NOT: I AM THY FELLOW SERVANT, AND OF THY BRETHREN THAT
HAVE THE TESTIMONY OF JESUS: WORSHIP GOD." REVELATION 19:10. {CET 243.1}

UNDER SIMILAR CIRCUMSTANCES THE SAME ANGEL SAID, AS RECORDED IN ANOTHER
PLACE: {CET 243.2}

"SEE THOU DO IT NOT: FOR I AM THY FELLOW SERVANT, AND OF THY BRETHREN
THE PROPHETS." REVELATION 22:9. {CET 243.3}

THE THOUGHT EXPRESSED IS THE SAME IN BOTH THESE PASSAGES. IN ONE,
HOWEVER, JOHN'S "BRETHREN" ARE SAID TO HAVE "THE TESTIMONY OF JESUS;" IN THE
OTHER THESE "BRETHREN" ARE CALLED "THE PROPHETS." {CET 243.4}

THEREFORE IT IS THE PROPHETS WHO HAVE "THE TESTIMONY OF JESUS;" AND THE
ANGEL WHO APPEARED TO JOHN IS EVIDENTLY THE SPECIAL MESSENGER WHO CONVEYS
INSTRUCTION TO ALL THE PROPHETS,--DOUBTLESS THE ANGEL GABRIEL, WHO IS
MENTIONED AS HAVING APPEARED TO DANIEL. SEE DANIEL 8:16; 9:21. THE SAME
ANGEL FURTHER SAID TO JOHN, "THE TESTIMONY OF JESUS IS THE SPIRIT OF
PROPHECY." REVELATION 19:10. {CET 243.5}

COMPARING THE BIBLE EXPRESSION, "THE TESTIMONY OF JESUS," WITH THE
STATEMENT OF REVELATION 12:17 CONCERNING THE "REMNANT . . . WHICH KEEP THE
COMMANDMENTS OF GOD, AND HAVE THE TESTIMONY OF JESUS CHRIST," WE CONCLUDE
THAT PRIOR TO CHRIST'S SECOND COMING HIS TRUE CHURCH WILL BE KEEPING HIS
COMMANDMENTS, AND THAT THEY WILL HAVE THE SPIRIT OF PROPHECY. {CET 243.6}

THE RAPID FULFILLMENT OF THE PREDICTIONS OF HOLY SCRIPTURE REGARDING
THE SIGNS AND EVENTS WHICH WERE TO MARK THE CLOSING SCENES OF EARTH'S
HISTORY, IS A SURE EVIDENCE THAT WE ARE NOW LIVING IN THE LAST DAYS.
THEREFORE A COMPANY OF CHRISTIAN PEOPLE WHO KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD AND
WHO HAVE THE TESTIMONY OF JESUS CHRIST--THE SPIRIT OF PROPHECY--SHOULD TODAY
BE IN EXISTENCE. WHERE MAY THEY BE FOUND? {CET 243.7}

[news]

and yet everyone has their own take on the Bible and on other spiritual
texts and writing in caps does not make it more so. God is not some huge
male in the sky with a booming Charlton Heston voice...not in my
understanding anyways. So the remnant...which some people take literally
and
not taking into consideration the mood of the day in which it was written
(our faith is more true than yours....blah blah blah)is one strong way to
get people to fall into line with their own understanding. It's a kind of
bigotry in "it's true because I say it is" is a bigotry and I'm not into
that. I don't believe that Jews are the chosen people nor do I believe
that only Christians will go to heaven. Why? because I don't see a mother
loving one child more than another and I can't see God being more
superficial and ridiculous than the concept of loving all the same. To
think otherwise is to put down God in my opinion.

I believe that all cross over to Heaven....some stay and some come back
right away to learn those lessons again...to make them stick a second time
or third or tenth in another physical body. I believe that our inner
makeup (our highest selves)WANTS us to express fully and when we make
mistakes we deep down
eventually realize it. We learn from our mistakes and no one is lost
forever in any firey pit. People in days of old wanted (as they do even
know)to make people adhere to a certain law...so those thoughts were
muddying the truth coming from God...we have the word of God within the
Bible but unfortunately it has much muck and bigotry surrounding it and
one needs to go through it carefully using the guidance of our highest
selves which are closest to God to glean the wheat from the chaff.

In my opinion of what I believe is the guidance of God directing me.

Bren