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Last Day Events
I know that the Lord loves His church. It is not to be disorganized or
broken up into independent atoms. There is not the least consistency in
this; there is not the least evidence that such a thing will be.—
Selected
Messages 2:63, 68, 69
(1893).
I tell you, my brethren, the Lord has an organized body through
whom He will work.... When anyone is drawing apart from the orga-
nized body of God’s commandment-keeping people, when he begins
to weigh the church in his human scales and begins to pronounce
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judgment against them, then you may know that God is not leading
him. He is on the wrong track.—
Selected Messages 3:17, 18
(1893).
God Will Set Everything in Order
There is no need to doubt, to be fearful that the work will not
succeed. God is at the head of the work, and He will set everything
in order. If matters need adjusting at the head of the work God will
attend to that, and work to right every wrong. Let us have faith that
God is going to carry the noble ship which bears the people of God
safely into port.—
Selected Messages 2:390
(1892).
Has God no living church? He has a church, but it is the church
militant, not the church triumphant. We are sorry that there are defec-
tive members, that there are tares amid the wheat.... Although there
are evils existing in the church, and will be until the end of the world,
the church in these last days is to be the light of the world that is
polluted and demoralized by sin. The church, enfeebled and defective,
needing to be reproved, warned, and counseled, is the only object upon
earth upon which Christ bestows His supreme regard.—
Testimonies
to Ministers and Gospel Workers, 45, 49
(1893).
The bulwarks of Satan will never triumph. Victory will attend
the third angel’s message. As the Captain of the Lord’s host tore
down the walls of Jericho, so will the Lord’s commandment-keeping
people triumph, and all opposing elements be defeated.—
Testimonies
to Ministers and Gospel Workers, 410
(1898).
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Distribution of Responsibility Urged
What we want now is a reorganization. We want to begin at the
foundation, and to build upon a different principle....