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Dear Brothers and Sisters in
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(ee-ah-oo-ah) our Father,
A reader responds: ----- Can you explain further what you meant when you said: "The temptation of Satan is to over react to any situation. This is behind the warnings against date setting for the return of the Messiah. This is also a danger with prophecy and prophetic fuflfillments." It is unclear whether you mean to say that it is Satan trying to tempt people not to set dates for the second coming, or if the warnings against date setting are there to balance us so that we don't over react. I personally feel like the statement could have been read either way. Since date setting has been a hot topic of discussion for us in the past, I wasn't sure if you were coming out in favor of setting dates or against it. ----- Ellen White is the source of my comments concerning warnings against date setting. She states that the reason is to avoid a false excitement. Satan tempts to a false excitement those who set dates. Then I saw in relation to the "daily" (Dan. 8:12) that the word "sacrifice" was supplied by man's wisdom, and does not belong to the text, and that the Lord gave the correct view of it to those who gave the judgment hour cry. When union existed, before 1844, nearly all were united on the correct view of the "daily"; but in the confusion since 1844, other views have been embraced, and darkness and confusion have followed. Time has not been a test since 1844, and it will never again be a test. {EW 74.2} The Lord has shown me that the message of the third angel must go, and be proclaimed to the scattered children of the Lord, but it must not be hung on time. I saw that some were getting a false excitement, arising from preaching time; but the third angels message is stronger than time can be. I saw that this message can stand on its own foundation and needs not time to strengthen it; and that it will go in mighty power, and do its work, and will be cut short in righteousness. {EW 75.1} She states that dates are not a test. This means they are not part of a message that should to be preached and accepted. As the time passed, those who had not fully received the light of the angel united with those who had despised the message, and they turned upon the disappointed ones with ridicule. Angels marked the situation of Christ's professed followers. The passing of the definite time had tested and proved them, and very many were weighed in the balance and found wanting. They loudly claimed to be Christians, yet in almost every particular failed to follow Christ. Satan exulted at the state of the professed followers of Jesus. He had them in his snare. He had led the majority to leave the straight path, and they were attempting to climb up to heaven some other way. Angels saw the pure and holy mixed up with sinners in Zion and with world-loving hypocrites. They had watched over the true disciples of Jesus; but the corrupt were affecting the holy. Those whose hearts burned with an intense desire to see Jesus were forbidden by their professed brethren to speak of His coming. Angels viewed the scene and sympathized with the remnant who loved the appearing of their Lord. {EW 246.3} May you find peace in the name of Yahushua (Ee-ah-oo-shoo-oh) Messiah the son of God.
Frank T. Clark
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