November 2020 Edition of The Midnight Cry
The Bible - A Parable
In our institutions, where many are laboring together, the influence of association is very great. It is natural to seek companionship. Everyone will find companions or make them. And just in proportion to the strength of the friendship, will be the amount of influence which friends will exert over one another for good or for evil. All will have associates, and will influence and be influenced in their turn.
October 2020 Edition of The Midnight Cry
The Narrow Way
The bible uses different models or parables to help God’s children understand their spiritual journey from Earth to Heaven. Paul admonishes the people at Corinth in 1 Corinthians 9:24, that there are many who run in the race but only one receive the prize, therefore run so that you may obtain; the model here used is that of racing. In 2 Timothy 4:7, Paul tells Timothy that he has fought a good fight and he has won; here the spiritual journey to heaven is pictured as a fight between forces.
September 2020 Edition of The Midnight Cry
A Thus Saith the Lord
The phrase “thus saith the LORD” is found just over four hundred times in the Bible and is generally used by the author to emphasize that the succeeding text is a direct thought from God Himself with little to no input from the human author. Subsequent students of the Bible have used this term to explain that a thought or doctrine is derived directly from a surface reading of the Bible, therefore usually without extrapolation.
July 2020 Edition of The Midnight Cry
We Do not Understand Equality
The subjects of race and gender equality are present truth. This light was at the centre of the most severe shaking the movement has suffered to date. A shaking which saw the departure of the founding ministry and the messenger of the first angel. All can be grateful for having made it this far in the process of shakings and siftings through which God is establishing His church.
June 2020 Edition of The Midnight Cry
The Two Ships
“It was on the fourteenth night of tossing on the black, heaving billows, that ‘about midnight’ the sailors, hearing the sound of breakers, ‘deemed that they drew near to some country; and sounded, and found it twenty fathoms: and when they had gone a little further, they sounded again, and found it fifteen fathoms. Then fearing’, Luke writes, ‘lest we should have fallen upon rocks, they cast four anchors out of the stern, and wished for the day’.” AA, 443.3
May 2020 Edition of The Midnight Cry
The 2520 in It's Proper Light
“There are those now living who in studying the prophecies of Daniel and John, received great light from God as they passed over the ground where special prophecies were in process of fulfillment in their order. They bore the message of time to the people. The truth shone out clearly as the sun at noonday. Historical events, showing the direct fulfillment of prophecy, were set before the people, and the prophecy was seen to be a figurative delineation of events leading down to the close of this earth’s history. The scenes connected with the working of the man of sin are the last features revealed in this earth’s history.
April 2020 Edition of The Midnight Cry
True Freedom Under Attack
“Investigation of Doctrine – There is no excuse for anyone in taking the position that there is no more truth to be revealed, and that all our expositions of Scripture are without an error. The fact that certain doctrines have been held as truth for many years by our people, is not a proof that our ideas are infallible. Age will not make error into truth, and truth can afford to be fair. No true doctrine will lose anything by close investigation. We are living in perilous times, and it does not become us to accept everything claimed to be truth without examining it thoroughly; neither can we afford to reject anything that bears the fruits of the Spirit of God; but we should be teachable, meek and lowly of heart."
February 2020 Edition of The Midnight Cry
God’s Technique and our Dispensation
“Different periods in the history of the church have each been marked by the development of some special truth, adapted to the necessities of God’s people at that time. Every new truth has made its way against hatred and opposition; those who were blessed with its light were tempted and tried. The Lord gives a special truth for the people in an emergency. Who dare refuse to publish it? He commands His servants to present the last invitation of mercy to the world. They cannot remain silent, except at the peril of their souls. Christ’s ambassadors have nothing to do with consequences. They must perform their duty and leave results with God."
January 2020 Edition of The Midnight Cry
Eden to Be Restored
“The Garden of Eden remained upon the earth long after man had become an outcast from its pleasant paths. The fallen race were long permitted to gaze upon the home of innocence, their entrance barred only by the watching angels. At the cherubim-guarded gate of Paradise the divine glory was revealed. Hither came Adam and his sons to worship God. Here they renewed their vows of obedience to that law the transgression of which had banished them from Eden. When the tide of iniquity overspread the world, and the wickedness of men determined their destruction by a flood of waters, the hand that had planted Eden withdrew it from the earth. But in the final restitution, when there shall be “a new heaven and a new earth,” it is to be restored more gloriously adorned than at the beginning."
