I would speak in warning to those who have stood for years resisting light and cherishing the spirit of opposition. How long will you hate and despise the messengers1 of God’s righteousness? God has given them His message. They bear the word of the Lord. There is salvation for you, but only through the merits of Jesus Christ. The grace of the Holy Spirit has been offered you again and again.
The world church received an amazing article through the Adventist Review (April 25, 2002) entitled “1888 and All That …” It claims that in the four-volume Ellen G. White 1888 Materials (1821 pages) there is a “sharp contrast between Ellen White’s theology regarding 1888 and the so-called 1888 message.” The author claims that almost nothing in this E. G.
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Dr. George R. Knight publishes, A User-Friendly Guide to the 1888 Message. This 183-page book repeats much that appeared in his previous publications. The existence of 1888 Re-examined seems to annoy the author and furnish him with a thesis to condemn.
In 1896 Ellen G. White addressed the General Conference brethren in Battle Creek concerning their continued stubborn rejection of the Light and Message the Lord had sent us at the 1888 General Conference through His messengers Elders Waggoner and Jones.
We are now, 127 years later, experiencing another General Conference and the leadership continues to reject the Lords message and the Light He sent to them in 1888.
"‘This message, understood in its true character, and proclaimed in the Spirit, will lighten the earth with its glory’" —MS 15,1888. (Olson, p. 296).
The Lord in His great mercy sent a most precious message to His people through Elders Waggoner and Jones. —TM p. 91.
If you had the choice to learn about justification and sanctification, would you dart off to the popular churches of today to study under them or would you inquire of the Lord and His word and search the writings of the prophets - both old and recent? -D. Peters
"The Jews followed the law, and so far as anybody could see, they kept it strictly. Then they trusted to their own works, and did not submit to the righteousness of God. But the Gentiles, and the publicans and harlots, had no good works to trust in, and therefore they willingly accepted the righteousness, which is of God by faith. Thus the publicans and harlots receive the blessing of God more readily than the Pharisees." Ellet J. Waggoner
Note carefully, Caleb and Joshua were to stay with the congregation while they wandered for the next 40 years. God never sanctioned them to split from the church because they were right. Stay with the church, it will enter Canaan when pride and self-sufficiency have been overcome through the faith of Jesus.
J. S. Washburn was present at the 1888 Minneapolis General Conference. He heard and saw what went on there.
In 1950, Elder Robert Wieland interviewed him and this is the interview.
The Ten Gospel Truths of the 1888 Message are beautiful and represent the message given in Minneapolis by Elders Waggoner and Jones.
This was the begining of the Latter Rain.
God sent the message.