A large church was trying to figure out how they could attract more people, “How are we going to get more members?” They asked, “How are we going to get church growth? How are we going to get crowds to come?”

They thought, they planned, and they all sat around on committees where different people had different suggestions. Some thought one thing, some thought another; finally somebody said, “Let's get somebody to come and preach who's well known, somebody who is already drawing crowds, somebody who, by their popularity, will bring people to our church, and we'll see if we can get our church to grow.”

Well, whom should they get? As they thought, someone said, “Nobody is getting bigger crowds these days than William Miller!” So William Miller they invited and he came to their church. Sure enough, when he preached, lots of people began coming. His message was not flowery, and it wasn't charismatic, he was a farmer from upstate New York, he had a rather dry way of presenting, but the force of his message was so compelling that people started filling the churches. More people came up front for altar calls; it was exciting, “the Lord is coming soon!”, the message was clear.

Time went on and the “Millerites” started to talk about an actual date when they expected Jesus was to appear. This made the big churches uncomfortable. It had been nice to have new members, but date setting? October 22, 1844? In time the big mainstream popular churches started to push out the Millerites. It was in a Methodist Church in Portland Maine that Ellen Harmon got kicked out for believing the Millerite’s doctrine.1

Something strange happened within the churches when the Millerites left. Something the newspapers of the day could not help but notice, there occurred a “general religious declension”--a fall in peoples’ spirituality. “A writer in the religious telegraph testified, ‘We have never witnessed such a general declension of religion as at the present.”2 Other newspapers noted that fewer people were coming forward at altar calls. Across the country it was an event of historical significance-- less and less spirituality in the churches. A change, something strange was going on, the churches weren't as religious as they once had been. But why?

After this event Ellen (Harmon) White had an insight that explained this phenomenon the newspapers were wondering about. In a vision she saw that in heaven, Jesus was in the Holy Place, and in the scene a whole crowd of believers were around Him. Some were watching Him closely and prayerfully, but some were not so attentive, some would pray to Him, “father give us thy spirit,” at this Jesus would breathe upon them the Holy Ghost, in that breath was “light, power, much love, joy, and peace.” In time she saw Jesus get up and move to the Most Holy Place of the heavenly sanctuary. Those who were intently watching Him moved with Him, but then she looked back at the Holy Place where the inattentive crowd still lingered who had not realized that Jesus had moved, “I turned to look at the company who were still bowed before the throne; they did not know that Jesus had left it. Satan appeared to be by the throne, trying to carry on the work of God. I saw them look up to the throne, and pray, ‘Father, give us Thy Spirit.’ Satan would then breathe upon them an unholy influence; in it there was light and much power, but no sweet love, joy, and peace.”3 A general religious declension--left behind--left behind with the devil in the holy place! What a catastrophe! Jesus had previously been ministering to them, but now He was gone and they should have gone with Him. This explained the “general religious declension”.

Where else, the question arises, where else could somebody get stuck in the sanctuary, being ministered to by the devil and not know it, because of a change? And what does each part of the sanctuary mean? What would it mean, theologically, to get stuck somewhere? That's an important question. And is there going to be a move again, that would leave us stuck where we don't want to be stuck, with the Devil in some out-of-date part of the sanctuary?

Let’s take a look at each part of the sanctuary and the significance of each. We’ll start with the sacrificial altar. Jesus is the Lamb prefigured by the literal lamb that is sacrificed on the altar. Jesus fulfilled this part of the sanctuary at the cross, “the next day John the Baptist saw Jesus coming unto him and said, ‘behold the lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the world.’”4 Jesus was the lamb. Hebrews confirms that fact, “Who needeth not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the people's: for this he did once, when he offered up himself.”5 Jesus is the great sacrifice, praise the Lord! What does this all mean? Let’s look at this, it's really what we call justification, isn't it? Imputed righteousness, “if we confess our sins he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins isn't he and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”6 That is the significance of the altar; the sinner confesses his guilt, in heart forsakes his sin, and accepts the sacrifice of Christ in his own behalf. That is what happens at the altar of sacrifice.

Who in, figure, gets stuck at the altar of sacrifice and could possibly have Satan figuratively ministering to him? Who never moves on? Have you ever heard it said, “it was all done at the cross!” or that what Jesus did on the cross was the “once and for all atonement”, or of the doctrine described as “once saved always saved.” Or that “the law was nailed to the cross?” One famous American television evangelist, when caught with a prostitute explained (in harmony with his theology), “I sinned under the blood.” “I sinned under the blood?” Wait a minute; can you sin under the blood? You see, all these different doctrines leave people stuck at the altar of sacrifice in the courtyard. Oh, it's good to be justified, but there's more to salvation, there's more to the process. These people never overcome sin, they don't need to, they can “sin under the blood.” They never grow in grace, they're never sanctified, and that’s the big issue. They are never fit for fellowship with God or the holy angels. Justification gives them a title for heaven, but they'd feel very uncomfortable if they actually arrived in heaven. They need sanctified. With their belief system, they often reject other of God’s teachings like the health message.

The next part of the sanctuary, which we opened this discussion with, is the Holy Place--that's where Ellen White saw Satan ministering to people after Jesus had left to take up His important ministry in the Most Holy Place. There was a time when it was very important to be a part of the Holy Place. In the Holy Place is the table of showbread. The Word of God is spoken about, in figure, as bread, “Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart: for I am called by thy name, O LORD God of hosts.”7 Jesus declared, “I am the bread of life:”8 And when we eat that bread we overcome the wicked one.9 It is very important to read the Word, even as you figuratively move on to the Most Holy Place.

How about the light in the Holy Place--the lamp with the oil, what does the oil represent? The Holy Spirit!10 What does the Holy Spirit do? He convicts of sin, and of righteousness, and of the judgment that is coming,11 and many other helpful things.

And then there's the altar of incense. The incense rises with the prayers of the saints representing intercessory prayer, it is very important to pray.

Who are the people represented as being in the Holy Place? People who are in the process of sanctification for sure, “And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.”12 It's sanctification of body and soul and spirit--the sinner grows in Christ by the Holy Spirit, through prayer and Bible study. This is the experience of the Holy Place historically most important during Christ’s ministry in the Holy Place commencing with His ascension in A.D. 31 and intensifying with His transition to the Most Holy Place in 1844.

Well, how can you get stuck in the Holy Place, figuratively speaking, when Jesus moves on to the Most Holy Place? Being in the Holy Place sounds pretty good, but obviously some people got stuck there, and why? And how? Well, have you heard of the holiness movement? Ellen White was tossed out of what church? The Methodist Church. It's interesting, in Portland, Maine, this church still stands, you can visit it. For a time an Adventist Spanish-speaking congregation rented it, and when they went and talked to the pastor of the church about renting the church, after they had made the arrangements, he good-humouredly remarked, you know it's good to make amends, I guess we spelled your forerunner, your founder--meaning we kicked her out, he knew the history.

Methodism, the Wesley's, what did they believe? Holiness, what was holiness? Climbing Peters ladder, sanctification, they were big on preaching the fruits of Christianity. They believed more than just, “once saved always saved,” they believed in growth in grace, and they preach this. They believe in sanctification, they believe in overcoming sin. But somehow when Jesus moved on to the Most Holy Place of the sanctuary they stayed behind. They rejected some unpopular doctrines, some of which are emphasized in the Most Holy Place, for example God’s law (which is a description of His character), God's Sabbath of the ten commandments was denied, the second coming was virtually spiritualized away. They kicked the Millerites right out of the churches, and the living sacrifice, their bodies, were often blemished because they never moved on to the health message. They got left behind and were prey to Satan’s deceptions.

So what does it mean to follow Jesus all the way into the Most Holy Place? When is He going to make a move again? What would it mean to get stuck again? What is in the Most Holy Place? Most importantly, that is the abode of God Himself! That’s where shines the Shekinah glory--that glory, that wonderful holy light. “Who among us shall dwell with devouring fire,” Isaiah asks, “who among us shall dwell with everlasting burning,” To sin where ever found our God is a consuming fire, isn't he? We often affirm the truth about Hellfire, don't we? We try to keep the record straight on the doctrine of hell because the popular false belief on eternally burning hellfire is rather damaging to God's reputation. In approaching this we often talk about Sodom and Gomorrah as an illustration. Were Sodom and Gomorrah burned with everlasting fire?13 Is that fire still burning? I hope it is, because it's God himself. It’s not burning over there in Palestine, but He is still a consuming fire. He's still burning, He's still the everlasting fire, and the question is, who of us can dwell with him? Isaiah continues on to give the answer, “He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from holding of bribes, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes from seeing evil;”14 Shutteth his eyes from seeing evil? Seeing evil, that sounds like it is describing Television! Very interesting, really it’s the message, “Prepare to meet thy God, O Israel.”15

Can we stand in God’s presence and not be consumed? He's in that Most Holy Place. Could the priest go in the Most Holy Place just any time he pleased? Only once a year, on the Day of Atonement, was he safe to go in there.

“The condition of the unbelieving Jews illustrates the condition of the careless and unbelieving among professed Christians who are willingly ignorant of the work of our merciful High Priest.” Do we know what He's doing up there in the Most Holy Place right now for us? “How much more essential in this anti typical Day of Atonement that we understand the work of our High Priest and know what duties are required of us.”16 How many know what duties are required of them given the fact that Jesus is in the Most Holy Place of the temple right now ministering for you and I? I worked for a number of years at a Christian academy. One weekend the educational director came to the Academy to give a sermon and the principal of academy got up and gave the prayer before the official gave his sermon. The principal prayed a prayer something like this, “Oh Lord, today in our message, please bring us a message that is present truth, that reflects your current position in the Most Holy Place of the sanctuary.” I thought to myself, that's dicey, praying ahead of somebody else's sermon and asking for a certain message. Later on in the week the principal cornered me, and asked me, do you think I got an answer to my prayer. I thought for a minute and then I said, yes, I remember your prayer, and then I thought back, “yes you did, you got a message from the Most Holy Place of the sanctuary.”

What are our duties? What is required of us? We’ll get to that, first of all, what's going on in the Most Holy Place of the heavenly sanctuary? This is a part of the three angels messages of Revelation 14, isn't it? A time of judgment, “Fear God and give glory to him for the hour of His judgment is come and worship Him that made heaven and earth the sea and the fountains of waters.”17 God is asking for worship, God is telling us judgment is happening, God wants us to be prepared for when we are judged. Christ doesn’t want us to forget that the judgment is going on, or that the close of probation is sneaking up on us. He doesn’t want us to continue this life as though nothing out of the ordinary is going on, “eating, drinking, and being married, because tomorrow we all die.”18

So, let's take a look at what's happening up there in the Most Holy Place. Only Christ's blood answers to the requirements of the law. Every time we sin and ask for forgiveness it's like saying, “Jesus, you know that blood that was so hard for you to shed, could you take a little more of it and put it over the law for me?” Do we really realize how much it costs? Do we really understand the effect that sin has on our Lord?

On the Day of Atonement the high priest having taken an offering from the congregation went into the Most Holy Place with the blood of this offering and sprinkled it upon the mercy seat directly over the law to make satisfaction for its claims, we call it the atonement. What does atonement mean? At-one-ment. Together at-one-ment. Well, what is the point of atonement? I think John 17 helps us better understand the atonement, “That they may be one.” The whole chapter talks about this, I’m just going to take verses 21 and 24, “That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.”19 This shows that we are like Him. “Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory,”20 The atonement is about being at one with God, and it is all about being able to see His glory and live.

What is that glory all about? Why is it so significant? What would it take to be able to be in the glory of God? The Bible calls His glory the Shekinah glory. It's that glory that is consuming, that people could not just go in the Most Holy Place and see it with out being consumed.

Do you remember when Moses went up on the mountain for the second time? The first time he'd gone up he'd come back with the tables of stone, but when he saw that the children Israel were bowing down to a calf he threw them down and broke them. So he had to go back up and get tables of stone written on again. He was up there quite a while, and, “During that long time spent in communion with God the face of Moses had reflected the glory of the Divine Presence nknown to himself his face shone with a dazzling light when he descended from the mountain.” I used to think that meant it was just a little too bright, you know, he's coming down like a bright light bulb, and everybody just couldn’t look at it, but I don't think it was just a matter of brightness, as in a really high power light bulb, it was a little different, it was the Shekinah glory. “Aaron as well as the people shrank away from Moses, and ‘they were afraid to come nigh him.’ Seeing their confusion and terror, but ignorant of the cause, he urged them to come near.” (Why are you guys all running, what's going on, come back.) “They perceived in his voice nothing but love and entreating and at last one ventured,” I suppose the one with the least amount of sin on him, “ventured to approach him, too odd to speak he silently pointed to the countenance of Moses and then toward heaven, the great leader understood his meaning. In their conscious guilt,” having just recently been through this golden calf experience, “feeling themselves still under divine displeasure, they could not endure the heavenly light which had they been obedient to God would have filled them with joy. There is fear in guilt. The soul that is free from sin will not wish to hide from the light of heaven.”21

We have to be in a position where we, like Moses, can approach God, and not be scared to death-- not feel guilt in our lives. We have to be free from all sin; we have to be right before God.

I was watching 3ABN TV one day where a gentleman by the name of Paul, who usually talked on health topics, was giving his personal testimony. He said that after he had been a Christian for a few years the church asked him if he would be an elder. Rightfully so, he took this request very seriously. Should he be an elder or should he not? Going home he prayed and thought about it. He fasted and prayed about it, and as he fasted and prayed about it he took seriously each of the points about what an elder should be in the writings of Paul. That night he had a dream; in his dream he was walking up a dark path at the end of which, high up in the distance, was a light. As he walked toward that light his angel seemed to be by his side encouraging him to keep walking. As he got closer to the light it got brighter and brighter, but not only did it get brighter, he said, but he felt like it was of such a pure and holy nature that he felt unholy and impure in its glory and didn't know if he could keep going any closer to it. At one point he stopped and his angel said, “keep going, keep going, it's all right, it's okay. You can proceed” And in his dream he did keep going until finally the light was just so overwhelmingly pure and holy, and he felt so unholy, that he finally stopped saying, “I can not go any farther,” at that point the angel said okay, just remain right here, but look over there to the right of the light. As he looked, he saw a being, he said, who has turned away from him, but who was approaching the holy light. At this point he was really curious as to what was going to happen when this being would go into that light. He was afraid for the being, what was going to happen to him. As he watched, the being went right into the light and disappeared. He couldn't see him anymore and he was really curious now as to what was going to happen to this being. As he watched the being went out the other side of light and then turned around so he could see who the being was. And when he looked, the being was he himself. At that point he woke up from his dream crying, “Lord I could never be in your presence, it’s to holy, is too pure. And from that he concluded that the Lord wanted him to be an elder. All to illustrate that the glory of the Lord isn't something we just, up and one day decide, yeah I can do that, I'm going to go in there to the presence of God. We have to be pure and holy, that's sanctification, that's the experience of the Most Holy Place, preparing to meet our God.

Earlier I asked if you knew what your current duty was given Christ’s current work for you in the Most Holy Place of the heavenly sanctuary. “We are living in a most solemn, important time of this earth's history. We are amid the perils of the last days.” Do I believe that? Very much so! “Important and fearful events are before us.” Amen! “How necessary that all who do fear God and love His law should humble themselves before Him, and be afflicted and mourn, and confess the sins that have separated God from His people. That which should excite the greatest alarm, is that we do not feel or understand our condition,” Like believing you’re okay, you’re all right, when you’re not. That's the issue. We need to understand, “our low estate,” and not be, “satisfied to remain as we are. We should flee to the word of God and to prayer, individually seeking the Lord earnestly, that we may find Him.” He will be found of us, he sure will,22 “We should make this our first business.”23 Wait a minute, did you say my first business? I’ve got car payments to make, I'm sorry, I’ve got appointments, I'm supposed to show up at work on Monday, I’ve got to change the oil in my car, I’ve got so many things.... And the cares of this life choke out the good seed, don't they?

“In this great day of atonement our work is that of heart-searching, of self-abasement, and confession of sin, each humbling his own soul before God, and seeking pardon for himself individually.” “If each will search and see what sins are lurking in his own heart to shut out Jesus,”24 That's a tall order! How do you do that? What's the process? How can I be sure I've done it? How do I know when I have completed the process? Let's talk about the process. God's given us an important message in Psalms on how to do this and that he'll help us. David prayed, you know David was a man after God's own heart, your heart is where your feelings are, your emotions, also where you think. Your character is your thoughts and feelings. Really, Psalms is a picture of God's thoughts and feelings, His character, these are God's messages for you, His thoughts and feelings for you. Here they are, “Search me O God know my heart, try me and know my thoughts, and see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.”25 We can take this as a promise, He will help us in this search for purification. Everybody needs to do this now, before the close of probation. You cannot it after the close of probation. There is not second chance.

“Righteousness is defined by the standard of God’s holy law, as expressed in the ten precepts given on Sinai.” “If we abide in Christ, if the love of God dwells in us, our feelings, our thoughts, our purposes, our actions, will be in harmony with the will of God as expressed in the precepts of His holy law.” 26 How do we search ourselves and compare ourselves to the law?

Tradition tells us that the children of Israel, during the ten days that occurred between the Feast of Trumpets until the time of the day of atonement, took one day for each of the ten commandments and spent that day searching their heart to see if they were in harmony with that commandment. For example, the first day would be the first commandment, “Thou shalt have no other gods before Me.”27 So you would think, “Lord do I have any other gods before You? And you will start to discover there are all kinds of ways of having other gods. One way of course is possessions in this earth, another way is actually to believe God is somebody other than who He really is, and worship Him as somebody else, not knowing who you are worshiping. Really, we need to go through each of those Commandments and make sure we are in harmony with them.

What’s the greatest expression of the law? Well, Jesus! That’s right. Jesus Christ is the embodiment of the law, “In one way only can true knowledge of self be obtained,” How is that? “We must behold Christ.” And we must behold him in the context of our own deficiency, “When we contemplate His purity and excellence, we shall see our own weakness and poverty and defects as they really are. We shall see ourselves lost and hopeless, clad in garments of self-righteousness, like every other sinner. We shall see that if we are ever saved, it will not be through our own goodness, but through God's infinite grace.”28 Praise Him, amen. So what we need to do then, is compare our life to Christ’s and the character of Christ is expressed in the law. “We are not to mourn over the time of trouble to come, let us, as Christ's followers, search our hearts as with a lighted candle to see what manner of spirit we are of. For our present and eternal good, let us criticize our actions, to see how they stand in the light of the law of God.”29

“The state of the mind has largely to do with the health of the body,” I called this article, sanctuary health. You've probably been wondering when we're going to get to the health, well, here we are. “The state of the mind has largely to do with the health of the body, and especially with the health of the digestive organs.” Was there a special program for health on the day atonement? Fasting and prayer? That's right, fasting and prayer. “As a general thing, the Lord did not provide His people with flesh meat in the desert, because He knew that the use of this diet would create disease and insubordination.” What is insubordination? Rebellion! And rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft!30 He didn't want rebellion on his hands! He did not want sin. “In order to modify the disposition, and bring the higher powers of the mind into active exercise, He removed from them the flesh of dead animals. He gave them angels' food, manna from heaven.”31 “We hate this stuff,” they said, “give us real food,” they said that they wanted the fleshpots of Egypt. God provided them something good and they chose something that would hurt them and their relationship Him and with life.

Do we have manna today? Don’t you wish you could have some real manna like the children of Israel ate? “The light that God has given and will continue to give on the food question is to be to His people today what the manna was to the children of Israel.” Do we have manna today? Absolutely, it's in our health message. “The manna fell from heaven, and the people were told to gather it, and prepare it to be eaten. So in the different countries of the world, light will be given to the Lord's people, and health foods suited to these countries will be prepared.”32

 

A fascinating study was conducted at UCLA. Researcher Douglass wanted to see the effect of a vegan diet on the sufferers of high blood pressure and obesity. The participants were fed a largely fresh fruit and vegetable diet, like God gave Adam in Eden. Yes, they lost weight and their blood pressures came down. But what really caught the attention of the researchers, and of myself, was an unexpected finding. In their comments, the researchers stated, “Eighty percent of those who smoked or drank alcohol abstained spontaneously.”33 Imagine that! Alcoholics Anonymous would be happy with a 20% success rate. Let us compare, one diet causes abstinence from things we consider sins against the body and therefore sins against God, whereas an opposite diet, meat eating, creates aggression and insubordination. Diet makes a difference for eternity in character development. Give yourself every advantage you can!

We need to retake the Garden of Eden, don't we, if we're going to make it to heaven? “The reason the people did not go through to the promised land was because of repeated indulgence of appetite. Adam and Eve lost Eden through the indulgence of appetite, and we can only regain it by the denial of the same.”34 If we're going to make it to heaven, we have to make it back to where Adam started, the original diet. “It would be well for to do less cooking and eat more fruit in its natural state,” what are we talking about here, well, reading on, “We are coming to the time when recipes for cooking will not be needed,” why, “for God's people will learn that the food God gave Adam in his sinless state is the best for keeping the body in the sinless state.”35 Is there a special diet for the Most Holy Place experience? There certainly is.

Eventually, we will have to be able to stand in the sight of our holy God without a mediator. There will be another transition, Jesus will move out of the Most Holy Place, He will make the final atonement and then He will throw down the sensor, He will say, “it is finished!” At that point will come the experience of the ten virgins, where the five who had oil could enter the marriage supper of Jesus, but five who did not have oil had to go looking for other sources of oil. And when they go looking for alternative oil sources, what do they find? Who’s willing to give them oil? Satan? How can Satan give oil or energy? New worship styles? New forms of music? Other artificial ways of pumping up the people? With the fake “Holy Spirit” oil, then who will be in the Most Holy Place, standing there while Jesus has gone on to the great Jubilee? Satan again, saying sleep on a little loner baby, everything’s going to be all right.

“Those who are living upon the earth when the intercession of Christ shall cease in the sanctuary above are to stand in the sight of a holy God without a mediator.” Are we prepared? Now is the time to prepare! “Their robes must be spotless, their characters must be purified from sin by the blood of sprinkling. Through the grace of God and their own diligent effort they must be conquerors in the battle with evil. While the investigative judgment is going forward in heaven, while the sins of penitent believers are being removed from the sanctuary, there is to be a special work of purification, of putting away of sin, among God's people upon earth.”36 That’s where we need to be spiritually right now!

To sin wherever found, our God is a consuming fire. I used to think that when fire came down out of heaven from God and consume the wicked37, it would be a very good thing to be inside the city, because the fire is outside the city, but where is the fire really? God is really the fire, inside the city. “In all who submit to His power the Spirit of God will consume sin. But if men cling to sin, they become identified with it. Then the glory of God, which destroys sin, must destroy them. At the second advent of Christ the wicked shall be consumed ‘with the Spirit of His mouth,’ and destroyed ‘with the brightness of His coming.’ 2 Thess. 2:8. The light of the glory of God, which imparts life to the righteous, will slay the wicked.”38 What’s the difference? The righteous have purified their robes in the blood of lamb, their lives are pure; the wicked have not purified their lives and now they're going to get purified, right out of existence. The earth's going to be purified; the wicked are going to go up in smoke. The difference is in the person, not in God.

We need to be prepared to stand before God and not feel condemned. “Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence toward God.”39 Do you have confidence toward God? Is your heart totally right with him? God wants us to feel totally comfortable in his presence, that's what the atonement is really all about. God is calling, “learn Who I am, learn my ways, be like me and then when I come you'll be so glad to see me; you won't cry for the rocks and mountains to fall on you.” Are you willing? Are you willing to do the work to prepare for His coming? How many are willing? It's something each person has to do on their own, individually making sure they’re right with God personally.

“Anyone who is joined to Christ is a new being; the old is gone, the new has come. All this is done by God, who through Christ changed us from enemies into his friends and gave us the task of making others his friends also. Our message is that God was making all human beings his friends through Christ. God did not keep an account of their sins, and he has given us the message which tells how he makes them his friends. Here we are, then, speaking for Christ, as though God himself were making his appeal through us. We plead on Christ's behalf: let God change you from enemies into his friends!”40

Let’s all be God’s friends, what do you say?

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2 White, E. G. (1911). The Great Controversy. Mountain View, CA: Pacific Press Publishing Association. p. 337.

3 White, E. G. (1882). Early Writings. Washington, D.C.: Review and Herald Publishing Association. p. 55-56.

4 John 1:29, King James Version of The Holy Bible.

5 Hebrews 7:27, King James Version of The Holy Bible.

6 1 John 1:9, King James Version of The Holy Bible.

7 Jeremiah 15:16, King James Version of The Holy Bible.

8 John 6:35, King James Version of The Holy Bible.

9 1 John 2:14, King James Version of The Holy Bible.

10 1Samuel 16:13, King James Version of The Holy Bible.

11 John 16:7-12, King James Version of The Holy Bible.

12 1 Thessalonians 5:23, King James Version of The Holy Bible.

13 Jud 1:7, King James Version of The Holy Bible.

14 Isaiah 33:15, King James Version of The Holy Bible.

15 Amos 4:12, King James Version of The Holy Bible.

16 White, E. G. (1911). The Great Controversy. Mountain View, CA: Pacific Press Publishing Association. p. 430.

17 Revelation 14:6-7, The King James Version of the Holy Bible.

18 Isaiah 22:13, The King James Version of the Holy Bible.

19 John 17:21, The King James Version of the Holy Bible.

20 John 17:24, The King James Version of the Holy Bible.

21 White, E. G. (1890). Patriarchs and Prophets. Washington, D.C.: Review and Herald Publishing Association. p. 329.

22 Jeremiah 29:13, The King James Version of the Holy Bible.

23 White, E. G. (1875). Testimonies for the Church, vol. 3. Mountain View, CA: Pacific Press Publishing Association. p. 53.

24 White, E. G. (1886). Historical Sketches of the Foreign Missions of the Seventh-day Adventists. Basle: Imprimerie Polyglotte. p. 213.

25 Psalms 139:23,24, The King James Version of the Holy Bible.

26 White, E. G. (1892). Steps to Christ. Mountain View, CA: Pacific Press Publishing Association. p. 61.

27 Exodus 20:3, The King James Version of the Holy Bible.

28 White, E. G. (1900). Christ’s Object Lessons. Review and Herald Publishing Association. p. 159.

29 White, E. G. (1957). SDA Bible Commentary, vol. 7 (EGW). Washington, D.C.: Review and Herald Publishing Association. p. 986.

30 1Samuel 15:23, The King James Version of the Holy Bible.

31 White, E. G. (1938). Counsels on Diet and Foods. Washington, D.C.: Review and Herald Publishing Association. p. 375.

32 White, E. G. (1938). Counsels on Diet and Foods. Washington, D.C.: Review and Herald Publishing Association. p. 269.

33 Douglass JM, Rasgon IM, Fleiss PM, Schmidt RD, Peters SN, Abelmann EA. Effects of a raw food diet on hypertension and obesity. South Med J. 1985 Jul;78(7):841-4.

34 White, E. G. (1884, October 21). “Remarks at Michigan Health and Temperance Association.” The Review and Herald.

35 White, E. G. (1993). Manuscript Releases, vol. 21 [Nos. 1501-1598]. Silver Spring, MD: Ellen G. White Estate. p. 286.

36 White, E. G. (1911). The Great Controversy. Mountain View, CA: Pacific Press Publishing Association. p. 425.

37 Revelation 20:9, The King James Version of the Holy Bible.

38 White, E. G. (1898). The Desire of Ages. Mountain View, CA: Pacific Press Publishing Association. p. 107.

39 1John 3:21, The King James Version of the Holy Bible.

40 2 Corinthians 5:17-20 taken from the Good News Bible, Second Edition © 1992 by American Bible Society.