Last of a Breed

 

The Ekklesia: Called Out Into Discipleship of Christ

 

The Great Controversy, the Soul, and the Kingdom

 

“Every plant which My heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up.”

Matthew 15:13.

 

“The religion that comes from God is the only religion that will lead to God.”

DA 189.

 

Some of Us Still Love God for Who He Is

 

Some of us who live in the wilds of the mountains, some of us in the country getting ready for the Time of Trouble, some of us abiding in the desert, seacoast or amongst the mists and the crows, all of us who abide in the secret place of the Most High – still love God, and love Him for Who He is. And we love His Word to us.

 

Some of us Still Love The Voice of Christ

 

Some of us who love the night sky, Orion, the Pleiades, and the solemn glories of the moon shining brightly over the dark forest, prairie and desert, still love discipleship, still love the voice of Christ speaking His mysteries personally to our hearts.

 

Some of Us Still Love the Presence of the Holy Spirit

 

Some of us who love to get up long before the glorious sunrise, to enjoy the special hour as all nature awakens to a new day, love the presence of the Comforter, the Holy Spirit.

 

Some of Us Still Love the Deep things of God

 

Some of us love the lavender shades of twilight love to have the Holy Spirit reveal to us the deep things of the heart of God. We, who cherish the deep love of a godly spouse, cherish also the hour of sunrise and sunset when we meet with God, study His Word, and live life of reverence before the Living God.

 

Some of us love the sweet influences of the Spirit of God, the nuances of the love of Christ; we still love the refreshing from on high.

 

Some of Us Still Love the Spirit of the Early Adventism

 

Some of us still love the spirit of early Adventism, the hope that animated the Great Advent Movement of 1844, and the Sabbath conferences of 1848.

 

Some of us have felt the brush of angel wings as Miller worked through the chronology of the 2,300 evening-mornings, the 70 weeks, 457 BC., and 1844.

 

Some of Us Still Love the Great Controversy

 

Some of us have our hearts stirred as we read the Great Controversy. Some of us love the truth uncovered and maintained by the Waldenses in their Alps, of Wycliffe pouring over the sacred scriptures and standing up for truth, of Huss at the state in Bohemia, of Martin Luther at Worms, of Calvin in Geneva, of fearless Knox before the queen, of the Covenanters sealing their faithfulness with their names in blood, celebrating the Lord’s supper by the thousands on the wild moors of Scotland.   

 

Some of Us Have Felt the Joy of Having Made Everything Right With God

 

Some of us have felt the joy of full surrender to Christ, the oneness of being one with Christ by faith, the glory of having made everything right with God.

 

The Direction of the Soul is Upwards

God designs that the whole focus of our soul be upwards, fastened to God and not to this old world. He created man in His image. This tells us that He designs that the entire soul be fastened to Him in an indissoluble union of faith; He designs that the soul completely cleaves to him in surrendered union of faith and love.  

 

Many are the ways in which Jesus taught this great truth. In setting forth the conditions of discipleship, Jesus sets His followers free from all influence which in the slightest would inhibit or diminish the full, whole-soul surrender to Himself in a life in which the entire focus of the soul is upon Him. “If any man come to Me and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be My disciple.” Luke 14:26.

 

With these words Christ sets us free in Him, free to search all His unreachable riches, free to follow Him fully and completely without let or hindrance, without diminishment or abatement. In the soul which finds the true focus of the heartbeat of life from Christ, the full powers of the eternal world, of God’s omnipotent power, energy and personality, pervade his soul.

 

Jesus likened Himself to a vine with us the branches: “I AM the true vine, and My Father is the husbandman. Every branch in Me that beareth not fruit He taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, He purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit…I AM the Vine, ye are the branches.” John 15: 1,2, 5. The Father cuts off all the tendrils that seek their support in this world, and directs all the tendrils to reach up and find their support in Him.

 

 

 

There is One Above All Earthy Powers

 

Oh, yes, there is One Who is above all earthly powers. Oh yes, He answers prayer. To some of us He is…well, so very special. Words cannot describe Him and His glory. Words cannot describe what He means to us. We love Him with all our hearts. 

 

God is so big. Man is so small. God is so great. Man is so weak. Some of us still believe that we ought to obey God rather than man. Some still believe that man shall live by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.

 

Some of us know that prophecy will be fulfilled to the very letter.

 

 

Last of a Breed

 

Some of us feel like we are of a last breed-a breed that has spent time alone with God, being molded by God, shaped by God. The last of a breed are those who are anchored in a different world than an alien world that surrounds them. A breed that has grown up in a slower time, a better time, possessing a certain quality of soul, a certain clarity of perspective, a certain grasp of God’s plan, a certain love for the Spirit of Prophecy, a love for the truth, a certain oneness with heaven, God, and His throne. It is a breed that a new, pantheistic, fast-paced, self-worshipping generation has no knowledge of, or points of connection to-and herein lies the disjuncture between the seed of the woman-the remnant, or last of the breed, the disjuncture between the last of the breed and a Babylonian worship that is the seed of the dragon. 

 

The Breed? The seed of the woman. The Last of the Breed? The remnant of her seed.

 

The Greek conveys a powerful, graphic picture that is dimmed in the euphemistic English of the staid, sedate King James translators. Quite literally, translated out of the Greek: “And the dragon was orgiasthe-was in an orgiastic fit of rage-against the woman, and went to make war (polemon, from which we get polemic; the verb polemeo means to make war, polemoo means to make hostile, to make an enemy) with the remnant of her spermatos (seed, race, offspring), the ones watching, keeping, observing, the commandments of God, and having the testimony (marturian) of Jesus Christ.” Revelation 12:7 (Greek Translation.)

 

The last of the breed, the left over ones of her seed, clearly reveals that these are the genuine article, in the Greek genetically produced by the woman-in other words, these people are in actual union with Christ, Who is the seed of the woman.

 

“Now to Abraham the promises we promised, and to the seed (spermati) of him. He does not say, And to the seed (spermasin), as to many, but as to One, and to your Seed (Spermati), Who is Christ. “And if ye be Christ’s, then are ye Abraham’s seed (sperma in Greek), and heirs according to the promise.” Galatians 3:29. (Greek.)

 

The Bible Moves At a Completely Different Level and Pace Than Babylon

 

“When the Church loses the word of God it loses the very means by which God does His work. In its absence, therefore, a script is being written, however unwittingly, for the church’s undoing, not in one cataclysmic moment, but in a slow, inexorable slide made up of piece by piece of daily dereliction.” –David F. Wells, Above All Earthly Powers: Christ in a Postmodern World. Grand Rapids, Eerdmans: 2005, p. 9.  

 

 

“But there is but little benefit derived from hasty reading of the Scriptures. One may read the whole Bible through and yet fail to see its beauty or comprehend its deep and hidden meaning. One passage studied until its significance is clear to the mind and its relation to the plan of salvation is evident, is of more value than the perusal of many chapters with no definite purpose in view and no positive instruction gained. Keep your Bible with you. As you have an opportunity, read it, fix the texts in your memory. Even while you are walking the streets you may read a passage and meditate upon it, thus fixing it in the mind.” SC 90.

 

A Fast, Superficial, Amoral World

 

Humanity now lives in a superficial, fast, consumer, and Babylonian society with Babylonian/consumer perspectives that have penetrated even throughout the churches. Fast food, fast sound bites, fast diets, six second work outs, fast planes, and cars, loose or non-existent morality, action and violent-packed entertainment, blasting music, and fast-moving news, and a worship that is adapted to the superficial, consumer-oriented, Babylonian society.

 

The Churches Are Morphing Into an Amalgamation With Nihilistic Culture

 

This is a society in which the very structures of the true knowledge of God are all but completely eliminated, a society in which the very notion of spirituality is riddled with rampant paganism and gnosticism. In addition, this postmodern society of nihilism is radically changing, mutating, the church-from evangelicalism to the Structure of the professed remnant.

 

This is now a society in which every contact with the soul works to erase what true spirituality resting in true faith in the true Christ remains, from the soul.

 

Such a society, which is used to a new generation of computers every little bit, by its very nature is geared to an utter lack of comprehension about how to even approach the study of the Bible, a Bible written some 2,000 years ago. This is a Structure, which has men at the highest levels, who even believe that what was written a hundred years ago is now out-of date. What about thousands of years ago? 

 

Once Historic Ministries Are Mutating, Adopting Positions By the Structure and New World Order

 

Not only is the Structure mutating along with the nihilistic culture that surrounds it, but also various once-historic ministries are mutating as well, adapting to the Structure and giving the line of Rome that virtually nothing must be said about Rome’s takeover of the world. These ministries are opposing the testimony of Jesus. The testimony of Jesus recorded in the book of Revelation is very largely occupied with the exposure of the activity of the great antichrist, Rome. The entire book, The Great controversy, rests upon the premise that there is a conspiracy by Satan to overthrow God and His government. Revelation 13 in particular details the work of Rome and America in erecting an image of the Roman hierarchy.   

 

Repeated warnings have come to us. One perceptive individual in a position to know writes about this phenomenon saying, “I think it would be naïve to believe that the Jesuits have infiltrated only the General Conference.”

 

One large ministry, after a prominent individual was hired, stopped carrying materials that deal largely with the Jesuits. The book proclaims there is no New World Order conspiracy. Rome is working to defang even the historics, so that no one is left as a watchman on the wall to warn about the fulfillment of prophecy and the removal of freedom.

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