A Word to the Little Flock - James S. White

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their eyes fixed on Jesus, who was just before them, leading them to the City, they were safe. But soon some grew weary, and they said the City was a great way off, and they expected to have entered it before. Then Jesus would encourage them by raising His glorious right arm, and from His arm came a glorious light which waved over the Advent band, and they shouted Hallelujah. Others rashly denied the light behind them, and said that it was not God that had led them out so far. The light behind them went out leaving their feet in perfect darkness, and they stumbled and got their eyes off the mark and lost sight of Jesus, and fell off the path down in the dark and wicked world below.' "Now follows the passage said to be in the original work, but not found in Experience and Views or in Early Writings: "'It was just as impossible for them [those that gave up their faith in the '44 movement] to get on the path again and go to the City, as all the wicked world which God had rejected. They fell all the way along the path one after another.' 96
"It is claimed that these expressions prove the shut door doctrine, and that this is the reason of their omission, in later editions. But in fact they teach only that which has been and is still held by us as a people, as I shall show. The Shut Door Defined "For a time after the disappointment in 1844, I did hold in common with the Advent body, that the door of mercy was then forever closed to the world. This position was taken before my first vision was given me. It was the light given me of God that corrected our error, and enabled us to see the true position. "I am still a believer in the shut door theory, but not in the sense in which we at first employed the term or in which it is employed by my opponents. "There was a shut door in Noah's day. There was at that time a withdrawal of the Spirit of God 97
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A WORD TO THE "LITTLE FLOCK" James
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minister of twenty-five, he worked
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G. White Publications. 5
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coming of the Son of Man is beginni
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out upon the earth before the resur
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street, and equity cannot enter. Ye
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18; 2 Esdras 15:10-13) I am quite s
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useless, if the saints are immortal
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the prophet: "Seek ye the Lord, all
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which is to be uttered "from Jerusa
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from the fact, that we are exhorted
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prophesy is to the point. "Son of m
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"rebellious house" of Israel, have
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places or things in the scriptures.
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Christ and the angels draw near the
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ested on him so that he had to cove
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Chapter 3 The Time of Trouble "And
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"come to his end;" and Michael has
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Chapter 4 The Time of Jacob's Troub
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down to the earth in twenty-four ho
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verses of this chapter, represents
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Chapter 6 To Bro. Eli Curtis Topsha
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Page 87 and 88: Appendix Ellen G. White Statements
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