Dear Reuben,
Sadly, you have confirmed that the ‘new’ statement of calling people out of Babylon is not for the SDA Church , in keeping with your ‘own’ understanding of the 1893 SOP council of not calling the SDA Church Babylon.
We are very much aware of those statements, and understand them fully within their time context. The Lord's messenger stated clearly that what she was saying was not unconditional endorsement of the SDA Church, but related to the present time [1893] (TM 36, and TM 50), for then and only then was the church standing in the breach.
Beloved Reuben: your historic position has not changed by one iota regarding the SDA Church; nor has our position regarding the SDA Church changed. We can not therefore work together. We are divided by a fundamental difference. One of us has to change their position to be able to work together again. At the present time, as a family we are not ready to exclude the SDA Church from the ‘come out of her my people’ call. It took several email exchanges to really ascertain your changeless position. Thank you for being honest and frank. However, I would have preferred a more straight outline of your position in the first email exchange. It would have saved us time and false hopes.
Once you are ready to include the SDA Church as part of Babylon , then and only then can work together, again. This is not the time to be fundamentally at such a great variance. We do not give one iota of weight to the name Seventh-day Adventist. This once-chosen-by-God name, has been tarnished beyond recovery by structure. We now seek to be identified as God’s people, who keep the commandments and have the faith of Jesus. We have discarded the name as an ‘unclean thing’. For today that name is a dishonor to our heavenly Father. But we hold jealously to all the light which once was given by the church, under the said name.
If you contemplate carefully the differences between us you will appreciate why, much to our sadness, we can not work together.
Respectfully,
Galal.
Feb 16 2006.
