The Messiah of Prophecy Rejected

Christ Triumphant - A Devotional by E.G. White

The Messiah of Prophecy Rejected

Today's Text: And he said, Verily I say unto you, No prophet is accepted in his own country. Luke 4:24

The Message:      With what intense interest was this controversy watched by the heavenly angels and the unfallen worlds as the honor of the law was being vindicated. Not merely for this world, but for the universe of heaven and the worlds that God had created, was the controversy to be forever settled. The confederacy of darkness was watching for the semblance of a chance to rise and triumph over the divine and human Substitute and Surety of the human race, that the apostate might shout, Victory, and the world and its inhabitants forever become his kingdom. But Satan reached only the heel; he could not touch the head. Now he sees that his true character is clearly revealed before all heaven, and that the heavenly beings and the worlds that God has created would be wholly on the side of God. He sees that his prospects of future influence with them will be entirely cut off. Christ's humanity will demonstrate for eternal ages the question that settled the controversy....      What was it that moved His own nation to throw such scorn upon Jesus? The Jews were expecting an earthly prince who would deliver them from the power that God had declared would rule over them if they refused to keep the way of the Lord and obey His statutes, His commandments, and His laws. They had made their proud boast that Israel's king, the star arising from Judah, would break their thraldom, and make of them a kingdom of priests.      But it was not the absence of external honor and riches and glory that caused the Jews to reject Jesus. The Sun of Righteousness shining amid the moral darkness in such distinct rays revealed the contrast between sin and holiness, purity and defilement, and such light was not welcome to them....      That which Christ had specified would be His work was fulfilled. The sick were healed, demoniacs were restored, lepers and paralytics were made whole. The dumb spake, the ears of the deaf were opened, the dead were brought to life, and the poor had the gospel preached to them.... Every miracle wrought by Christ convinced some of them of His true character, which answered to the specifications of the Messiah of prophecy, but those who did not receive the light of heaven set themselves more determinedly against this evidence....      The teachings of Christ, in precept and example, were the sowing of the seed to be afterward cultivated by His disciples.-Manuscript 143, 1897.

Commentary: My friend, at the time of Christ the people of God, who were the depositors of the prophecies regarding His first coming, were unprepared to receive Him.  Satan had artfully corrupted the hearts of the leaders and led them to look unto a false messiah that would setup a temporal kingdom and restore them to worldly greatness.  Their hearts were not prepared to receive the humble Messiah that was prophesied, and they were led to eventually reject and crucify their Redeemer. Today, the remnant people of God have, in a similar way, been deceived into looking unto another messiah to save them.  The leadership of the Seventh-day Adventist church has been corrupted by the false doctrine of the trinity and have led the people of God to worship its false image.  Our early church Pioneers, rising from the great disappointment, were led by God to the great truths that we forgotten by the long reign of the papal error.  Light was given to them that helped them to understand the scriptures in regard to Christ, His mission, and His priesthood. A line of truth that would extend from that time to the time when we shall enter the city of God.  They understood from the Scriptures that the Father was the One true God and that He communicated with us through His Son.  They believed that the Holy Spirit was the omnipresent Spirit of the Father and the Son, not a separate being as the trinity teaches today. From the time of the Pioneers Satan had been seeking to bring in this false image of God through the trinity, that the people may be corrupted and separated from God.  While the prophet of God was alive, he was unsuccessful in his attempts to lead the church astray, but with the passing of Mrs. White and the early Pioneers, he has been more successful.  Little by little the principals of the trinity were injected into the church by men that Satan was able to corrupt.  Over the course of a few generations, the hearts of the people were turned from the One true God to the triune god of the trinity.  This corruption is revealed to us in Jude 1:4 saying "For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ." The doctrine of the trinity, which is the foundational teaching of the Roman Catholic Church, was officially adopted by the Seventh-day Adventist Church in 1980 and since that time the church has became the church of Laodicea.  This condition reveals that the church has a false righteousness that is not from above and says the Faithful and True Witness "...and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:" (Revelation 3:17).  By their worshiping of the false god of the trinity, they do not have the righteousness of Christ and are counseled to buy of Him "...white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear;" (Revelation 3:18).  Sadly this is the condition of the church today, and what is even worse is that the church is blind to its condition before God. By the adoption of the trinity the church is being led by the spirit of antichrist.  At its core the trinity destroys the whole of the gospel, denying that the Son of God is truly the Son of God.  The apostle John declares the spirit of antichrist in 1 John 2:22, 23 saying "Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son. Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father: (but) he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also." My friend, the SDA church of today has been corrupted by the spirit of antichrist and is being led by Satan.  Why else would Jesus, who is the Faithful and True Witness be on the outside of His church seeking to gain entrance, saying "Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me." (Revelation 3:20). Now is the time to look away from the false god of the trinity and look unto the One true God through His Son Jesus Christ today. God bless,

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