The recent appalling and shocking revelation that Hope International and Associates have given the leaders of the structure an unconditional endorsement (when we are taught that all God’s promises are conditional) has compelled us to write this one last appeal. In the BRI report released on April 5, 2000, it was stated in reference to Hope and associates that “they have not taken the decisive step of officially separating themselves from the Seventh-day Adventist organization, and they claim that they never will”. We have to assume that this position of Hope and Associates is still maintained, for in a letter by Ron Spear addressed to the GC, dated April 17, 2000, following the circulation of the BRI report, he did not discredit this assertion and, in fact, started his letter by addressing his inquisitors affectionately, as dear friends.
This revelation is most horrifying because it comes after the leadership of the structure have crucified (the modern equivalent is by taking your victim to court and hiring a catholic lawyer for the job) Pastor Perez . Can you imagine the apostles, after the crucifixion of Christ, would go to Caiaphas and tell him that they still endorse him and would like to remain part of his church? Certainly not. But today, Hope and Associates, are endorsing a system, which has already formed an image to the beast. Today, the beast is relying on the leadership of the system, endorsed by the confused and blinded leaders of Hope and Associates, to quench every serious attempt to give the Three Angels’ Messages. Alas, how often we have appealed to those confused leaders to pause from their futile activities, and spend time to understand the issue of who and what is the church; but our appeals were all to no avail.
Nevertheless, the seriousness
of the situation facing all of us today behooves us, as stated earlier, to give
this last warning to the confused and blinded leaders of Hope International and
Associates. Their actions are not only affecting and jeopardizing their souls (
an example of this, Dr Colin Standish has recanted his previous position of the
church being in apostasy to a position more acceptable to the GC which only
admits the presence of apostasy in the church), but the souls of many of their
constituents, as well. By staying themselves within the apostate structure,
they are encouraging less informed members to copy their model. The situation
is even more aggravated by those blinded leaders of Hope International and
Associates when they go around the world urging members to stay in a system
that has formed the image of the beast (doing what the Jewish leaders did when
The message of love and warning which is to be sounded today, in no uncertain clarity, is a message of the need to come out of the structure. This is the most important message to be given to God’s people within the structure at this time. Any opposite message would not be a message coming from God. The Lord’s prophet has foretold that the following should happen just before the close of probation:
“ I saw that God has honest children among the nominal Adventists and the fallen churches, and before the plagues shall be poured out, ministers and people will be called OUT from these churches and will gladly receive the truth”. EW 261.
We have also been warned that just before the close of probation there will be a promotion of a worship style, in the structure-controlled churches, that looks and sounds more like a bedlam of noise. Here we quote:
“The things you have
described as taking place in
Who has not seen such a celebration type of worship being promoted all over the world by the leadership of the SDA structure today? Since, this prophecy has already been fulfilled to the letter then it becomes inescapable to conclude that we are living in the very time when we should separate from the structure. Now is the time to make this heaven-ordained move.
It is our privilege to understand the times in which we are living, and heed God’s council. To oppose God’s plan by calling people to stay within the structure, when He is asking us to do the very opposite, is spiritual suicide. In light of inspired council, we pray that Hope International and Associates would take the following godly steps:
- Separate completely from the system which has fallen under the full control of Satan.
- Engage with others who are calling SDA members to come out of the structure before it is too late.
- Unite with the other faithful seperated workers, under the unction of the Holy Spirit, in giving the final warning to the fallen world.
If these steps are taken then the leaders of Hope and Associates will have secured, not only their salvation but, the salvation of others within the structure, who would be lost if they stay.
We pray that this appeal would not fall on deaf ears, as was the case with past appeals. If, sadly and against every hope we cherish, the leaders of Hope and Associates persist in their miss-guided-anti-SOP course, then we here by wash our hands from any responsibility of failure to warn.
May God help us to see and do His will.
Yours in Christ.
The Doss family.
August 31 2000.
