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Then there is the issue of the connection between Freemasons and Seventh-day Adventists. In your article you give this misquote:
“... s Bible study. Both she and Joseph Bates capitulated wholeheartedly. Bible study, confirmed ... a committed Christian and a Freemason. Then she made another ... http://www.whiteestate.org/books/mol/Chapt15.html”
Here is the real quote:
“Shortly after Faulkhead’s defiance, he had a dream that Ellen White had a message for him! In a few days, he met her and asked if she had something for him. Replying that she had, she proposed an early meeting in the future. But Faulkhead was eager: “Why not give me the message now?” She told him that several times she had been ready to send the message but she was “forbidden by the Spirit of the Lord to do so” because the time was not ripe. But now was the time. She began to read the fifty-page manuscript, especially the portion dealing with his involvement with Freemasonry. She went on to reveal how he dropped small coins into offerings on the Sabbath but large coins into the treasury of the lodges. She heard him addressed as “Worshipful Master.” Later, Faulkhead recalled: “I thought this was getting pretty close home when she started to talk to me in reference to what I was doing in the lodges.”78 Then it happened. After giving a certain movement of her hand, she said: “I cannot relate all that was given to me.”79 Faulkhead turned pale, recounting later: “Immediately she gave me this sign. I touched her on the shoulder and asked her if she knew what she had done. She looked up surprised and said she did not do anything unusual. I told her that she had given me the sign of a Knight Templar. Well, she did not know anything about it.” Ellen White went on about how impossible it is to be a committed Christian and a Freemason. Then she made another secret sign, which she said “my attending angel made to me.” Faulkhead knew that this particular sign was known only to the highest order of Masons, and said later: “This convinced me that her testimony was from God. . . . Immediately the statement that I had made to Brother Stockton, that it would have to be mighty strong before I could believe that she had a message for me from the Lord, flashed through my mind.” Faulkhead’s response to the interview was immediate. He told his co-workers the next day how God had spoken to him through Ellen White. His first work of the day was to dictate his resignation to his various lodges. But his lodge friends did not give up easily, insisting that he was honor-bound to serve out his term for the next nine months. The struggle was severe and fellow church members trembled for him. At the end of those nine months Faulkhead wrote to God’s messenger: “How thankful I am to Him for sending me a warning that I was traveling on the wrong road. . . . I can see now very clearly that to continue with them would have been my downfall, as I must confess that my interest for the truth was growing cold.” Faulkhead continued to serve the publishing house for many years and remained a strong spiritual leader in Australia.”
I could continue and show you how every thing on the web page I read was skewed, misquoted, misrepresented,… etc.
Please be careful for your own soul. Any message that requires any deception to convince others of it can only be of satan. Now I am sure you sincerely love the Lord, and want to follow Him. So please make sure you are following Jesus, not some cleverly devised fable. I know I am. God promises that “…If you continue in My Word, you are My disciples indeed. And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. John 8:31,32. And also, “If anyone desires to do His will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it is of God, or I speak from Myself. John 7:17
But we only have the promise of arriving at truth if we desire to do His will. Self must be surrendered to Christ.
If, however, you intentionally deceive people with your website; “And whosoever shall offend one of these little ones that believe in me, it is better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he were cast into the sea. Mark 9:42”
I hope and pray that those who do this will repent and be saved. I hope that I have not offended you, but only ask that study thoroughly and read completely sources that you use either to support of deny any claim. Please be like the Bareans who “received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so. Acts 17:11”
Sincerely, David & Lavinia Collins |
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