The Catholic Infiltration of Adventists - Satan's Plan is to Change the Leadership

Satan's Plan is to Change the Leadership

In the Old Testament, one of Satan's plans for Israel was to change the leadership and it was successful. What was the result? The result was corruption, rejection and finally destruction! Ellen White said that the Adventist Church will change their leaders and the majority would not know.

"Men in positions of responsibility are in danger of changing leaders. This I know, for it has been plainly revealed to me." Series B. no. 2, p. 48.

"But I am now speaking of actual mistakes and errors that those who really love God and the truth sometimes commit. There is manifested on the part of men in responsible positions an unwillingness to confess where they have been in the wrong; and their neglect is working disaster, not only to themselves, but to the churches. . . you will be left to make mistakes of a similar character, you will continue to lack wisdom, and will call sin righteousness and righteousness sin. The multitude of deceptions that will prevail in these last days will encircle you, and you will change leaders, and not know that you have done so." Review & Herald, vol. 2 p. 448-49. Dec.16, 1890.

Where Do We Draw the Line?

I can show apostasy after apostasy, but the question remains, where do we draw the line when separation becomes a reality? Consider the abundance of light that the Seventh-Day Adventist Church received from God. The "Third Angels message," the testing message for these last days to the world was theirs to preach. Despite this great honor if the Adventist Church does not live up to this light [which they are presently not doing as you have read in the proceeding pages] they are in danger of never coming out of the depths of their apostasy. A perfect example of this is when Ellen White compared Capernaum to the Adventist Church. She said:

"Of those who boast of their light, and yet fail to walk in it, Christ says, "But I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the day of judgment, than for you. And thou, Capernaum [Seventh-day Adventists, who have had great light], which art exalted unto heaven [in point of privilege], shalt be brought down to hell: for if the mighty works, which have been done in thee, had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day. But I say unto you, That it shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom in the day of judgment, than for thee." Review & Herald, vol. 3, 08-01-93.

Let us consider Luke 3:8, when John perceived the hypocrisy of the Jewish leaders he said, "begin not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, That God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham." We can learn from instance that God is not dependent of any denomination to finish His work. But if He starts revealing His will to a select group of people, and they fail just like the Jews, He would gather out the faithful ministers and choose others. The evidence for this claim is in the Bible and the Spirit of Prophecy: "If doubts and unbelief are cherished, the faithful ministers will be removed from the people who think they know so much." Testimonies to Ministers, p. 410. This is contrary to what most leaders teach, they teach that the bad are shaken out, Ellen White taught the complete opposite. Consider what is about to be presented before you and weigh the evidence for yourselves

"The Lord Jesus will always have a chosen people to serve Him. When the Jewish people rejected Christ, the Prince of life, He took from them the kingdom of God and gave it unto the Gentiles. God will continue to work on this principle with every branch of His work. When a church proves unfaithful to the work of the Lord, whatever their position may be, however high and sacred their calling, the Lord can no longer work with them. Others are then chosen to bear important responsibilities. But, if these in turn do not purify their lives from every wrong action, if they do not establish pure and holy principles in all their borders, then the Lord will grievously afflict and humble them and, unless they repent, will remove them from their place and make them a reproach." E.G White, The Upward Look, p. 131.