The Basic Faith of those
future 144.000 shall be steadily developed commensurate with the passages of the Rod that are yet to be interpreted after the death of the author

After the death of the last prophet of the time of the end, we could no more have access to the servant of the Lord to hear right from his lips the word of truth. However, since the servants of the Lord have left behind for us their teachings published in the books etc. then is fulfilled the prophetic word by John the Revelator, when he said :   

“Blessed is he who readeth and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein : for the time is at hand.” – Revelation 1 : 3.  

That means, blessed is everyone of us who reads the Bible, the Spirit of Prophecy, and the Shepherd’s Rod ………. and all of us who hear to the voices of the divinely appointed teachers of the Rod, who are now to succeed the last prophet of God to accomplish the work of proclaiming the eleventh hour call in the churches up to the establishment of the kingdom in the Palestine.

ATTENTION !  The word “Blessed” is mentioned only once not only for to read, but for both to read and to hear. Moreover, since it is impossible for everyone to gain access to communicate with their teachers to hear right from their lips their teachings of truth, it is no wonder if the teachers of the Rod would have also making use of the means of modern science and technology as those recommended by the servant of the Lord to have their voices reach the people wherever they are.

Thus may it be understood that after the death of the servant of the Lord Bro. Victor T. Houteff in 1955, he should have been succeeded by the divinely appointed teachers of the Shepherd’s Rod, and not by the Headquarters of his own creation. Thus it is that long beforehand he has left behind for us the following instructions as follows :

“The Bible and the books of the Spirit of Prophecy being the sore source of the Shepherd’s Rod message, therefore when the Rod is taught, the Bible and the Spirit of Prophecy are taught. And since none but the Spirit of Truth, who transmitted the mysteries of Inspiration, can interpret them, then those who attempt to teach them without this inspired interpretational Authority, inevitably fall into the forbidden practice of private interpretation (2 Peter 1 : 20) — the great evil which has brought Christendom into its present almost-boundless state of schism and consequent confusion, strive, and impotency.

As we dare not follow in such a path, w e must therefore, as teachers of the Shepherd’s Rod (the official publications of Davidian SDA Association), teach only in the light of the Rod those passages which in one way or another need to be interpreted. Thus only will all present truth believers ever become of the same mind, seeing eye to eye and speaking the same things (1 Cor. 1 : 10; 1 Pet. 3 : 8; Isa . 52 : 8).” – Fundamental Beliefs of Davidian SDA, pp. 26, 27.

Bro. Houteff is a prophet, and then the above statement would have met its fulfillment in force after his death. That is, after he died in 1955 then will emerge the divinely appointed teachers of the Rod in several places in Davidian, not in the Mount Carmel Center in Texas, nor in any other place either, to teach and to have the passages of the Rod in the golden bowl of Zechariah chapter 4 be interpreted fully under the light of the Rod.

That means, before the divinely appointed teachers of the Shepherd’s Rod emerge with their interpretations of the passages of the message in the golden bowl through whatever means of modern science and technology, it would be yet impossible for Present Truth believers of those candidates of the 144.000 to see eye to eye, to have the same mind, and to speak the same things, to come forward unto the stage.

The candidates of those 144.000 elects of God would be identified only through their seeing eye to eye, having the same mind, and their capacities of speaking the same things. This is to prove by them that they are truly under the guiding of the same Spirit of Truth.

Such harmonious unity in religion could not be gained by engineering. It is the result of the Truth itself that unites into a great brotherhood. Thus only after the divinely appointed teachers of the Rod begin to teach in the light of the Rod those passages which in one way or another need to be interpreted, then “Thus only will all present truth believers ever become of the same mind, seeing eye to eye and speaking the same things (1 Cor. 1 : 10; 1 Pet. 3 : 8; Isa. 52 : 8).” – Fundamental Beliefs of Davidian SDA, pp. 26, 27.

This is the only unity that could be maintained by the candidates of the 144.000 elects of God up to the time of their deliverance to Mount Sion in the Palestine.

On the contrary, those fellow present truth believers who failed to know their divinely appointed teachers of the Rod, who came to them in the way as mentioned above, they will stay unwittingly in their very narrow minded fundamentalism of the Pharisees, while on and on condemning the appointed agency of God for being implicated in the sin of adding to and subtracting from the message as those stipulated in Revelation 22 : 18, 19. They even failed to know that they have been implicated in sin of those chaff categorized Davidians or the so-called five wise virgins with guile in the mouths of Revelation 14 : 5.

Spiritual Condition
of Present Truth believers up to now

Several years before the servant of the Lord died in 1955, he has warned us in the following words :  

“Everything that can be done against God’s message of today will be done with even a greater vengeance than was manifest against Heaven’s message in the days of Christ’s first advent, for the Devil knows that if he loses now, he loses forever — that he is to have no other chance. Unparalleled, therefore, is the urgency that every eleventh-hour church member now quickly and solidly brace himself against the Enemy’s effort to deliver a knockout blow. We must be alert, too, to realize that the blow is to come from surprisingly unsuspected foes — from professed friends of the gospel, who are no less pious than were the priests in Christ’s day. It is, moreover, but to be expected that the Adversary will employ every agency possible to prevent the Lord from disclosing to view His now obscure 144.000 first fruit servants, who are to go gather in the second fruits (Revelation 7 : 9). The Enemy will try everything conceivable to confuse, becloud, and cover up the Truth, especially on the subject of the 144.000.” — The White House Recruiter, p. 33.

The above statement began to be fulfilled as soon as the servant of the Lord died in 1955. Even up to this day those things predicted in the statement are still rampant in the Davidian up to this very moment.     

Those prudent in this time of the end would have to know by themselves, why even up to this very day those candidates of the 144.000 elects of God are not as yet found in our midst ? The answer is clear, because the basic of their faith is not as yet developed commensurate with the development of the entire message provided in the golden bowl of Zechariah chapter 4. There are yet many passages of the message in the golden bowl that should be taught and interpreted in the light of the Rod to present to our people, after the death of the servant of the Lord.  

The basic of faith of those candidates of the 144.000 is not as yet enough developed, because the divinely appointed teachers of the Rod in our midst are not as yet recognized by most of our people. There are even teachers of the Rod who have been discharged from office only on account of writing books, booklets, pamphlets etc. Let alone if they should have made use of a website of their own through the means of modern science and technology, without the knowledge of the Organization. The Mount Carmel Center in Waco, Texas, is of the opinion that after the death of the servant of the Lord in 1955, the purity and completeness of the message in the golden bowl should be preserved and maintained as highly as possible. They are of the opinion that they are the sole representative of Davidian SDA in the world to succeed Houteff and his work.    

Whereas they forget that after the angel of Laodicea be spewed out of Jesus’ mouth in 1935 up to this day the spiritual condition of the Church has been so deteriorated, that most of the people could no more digest for themselves the strong meat offered to them through the message of Shepherd’s Rod. To this end that the servant of the Lord has obliged his successors to do as follows,
 
“However, in conversing or studying with one you know to be a recent convert, you should exercise special care and judgment and tact in presenting only the simplest reform truths first, so as not to bewilder the mind of one who is only a ‘babe’ (a Mahershalalhashbaz) in the Scriptures.” – 5 Answerer Book, p. 50.  

This is to mean that the message of the Rod as strong meat should first be simplified to such extent by the divinely appointed teachers of the Rod so that when it is to be presented to the people, the message as meat in due season could be more easily digested by the people. 

The Basic Faith of those
candidates of the 144.000 elects of God

The basic faith of the people of God in this time of the end according to John the Revelator in Revelation 12 : 17 and 19 : 10 (margin), is the Law of Ten Commandments as the basic Law, and the testimonies of Jesus or the SPIRIT OF PROPHECY as rules of implementation of the Law.  Due to the fact that the SPIRIT OF PROPHECY as rules of implementation of the Law should have been developed on and on up to the end of time, then the SPIRIT OF PROPHECY that have been developed after the death of Bro. Houteff up to this time would be as follows :    

I.     The Spirit of Prophecy by Mrs. Ellen G. White.
II.    The Shepherd’s Rod by Bro. Victor T. Houteff
III.   Passages of the message in the golden bowl, which in one
way or another need to be taught and interpreted in the light of the Rod by the divinely appointed teachers of the Rod.

So based upon the three categories of the SPIRIT OF PROPHECIES above, that the candidates of the 144.000 elects of God would comprise the vanguards of those divinely appointed teachers of the Rod and their army of those present truth believers, who will always see eye to eye, to have the same mind, and to speak the same things, as those presented in the SPIRIT OF PROPHECY above.

Such people were not as yet found in the time of Bro. Houteff. They must be found later after the death of the servant of the Lord, and after the divinely appointed teachers of the Lord coming up with their interpretations of the passages of the message in the bowl.

Then the present truth believers and their divinely appointed teachers of the Rod, as an army and their vanguards, will be found scattered in many places in the Davidian under the guiding hands of the Lord Himself as those prophesied of old by the prophet Zechariahh in the following words :

“”And one shall say unto him, what are these wounds in thine hands ? Then he shall answer, those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends. Awake o sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow, saith the Lord of host : smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered : and I will turn mine hand upon the little ones.“ – Zechariah 13 : 6, 7.

This prophecy was first to meet its fulfillment on the personality of Jesus at His first advent in Palestine. Though Bro. Houteff did not admit at once the prophetic words was on him, due to the fact that he was yet alive, we nevertheless should have understood that all the prophecies of Zechariah belong to the time of the end. Then the prophecy of Zechariah 13 : 6, 7 should have met its fulfillment with Bro. Houteff and his followers.

Now since the same message of the Shepherd’s Rod is also called the message of the Eleventh Hour Call, that belongs to those standing idly in the market place (or the Church), then the divinely appointed teachers of the Rod should never be found in the Organization, neither in the General Conference of SDA nor in the General Association of Davidian SDA. And the candidates of those 144.000 elects of God, would never be found affiliated with any Organization, either the General Conference of SDA or the General Association of Davidian SDA.

After the death of the servant of the Lord in 1955, the Lord would have turned His hand on those “the little ones”, who are now scattered in many places in Davidian.

Jesus is now
taking the rein in His own hand 

Mrs. Ellen G. White said :

“Let me tell you that the Lord will work in this last work in a manner very much out of the common order of things, and in a way that will be contrary to any human planning. There will be those among us who will always want to control the work of God, to dictate even what movements shall be made when the work goes forward under the direction of the angel who joins the third angel in the message (of THE SPIRIT OF PROPHECY in the golden bowl) to be given to the world. God will use ways and means by which it will be seen that He is taking the reins in His own hands. The workers will be surprised by the simple means that He will use to bring about and perfect His work of righteousness.” – Testimonies to Ministers, p. 300. (In the brackets is added)

The above statement has just met its fulfillment after the prophecy of Zechariah 13 : 6, 7 met its fulfillment after the death of the servant of the Lord in 1955. Though there will be those among us who will always want to control the work of God, to dictate even what movements shall be made when the work goes forward under the direction of the message in the golden bowl, God will use His own ways and means (of modern science and technology) to have His own appointed teachers of the Rod teach and interprete the passages of the message more fully to reach His people wherever they are. Such is the way by which it will be seen that He is taking the rein in His own hands.

If you believe on the statement by the servant of the Lord Mrs. White above, then would you like to believe also that the Lord has turned His hand now on the little ones of those candidates of the 144.000 elects of God, though they are now scattered everywhere in the world in only insignificant tiny groups of their own ? Is this not also to prove that with the simple wonderful shepherd’s Rod of this modern times, the Lord would have His kingdom established in the Palestine with the 144.000 elected ones as the first citizens of the living saints ?

We maybe have been familiar with our Bible to read, and the Spirit of Prophecy of Mrs. White to examine every now and then, as well as the Present Truths of the Shepherd’s Rod messages. Would you like also to come along to hear from the voices of those divinely appointed teachers of the Rod, who are to teach in the light of the Rod those passages (in the golden bowl) which in one way or another need to be interpreted ? Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy from the voices of those divinely appointed teachers of the Rod, who are now representing Jesus in our midst. “Thus only will all present truth believers ever become of the same mind, seeing eye to eye and speaking the same things (1 Cor. 1 : 10; 1 Pet. 3 : 8; Isa . 52 : 8).” – Fundamental Beliefs of Davidian SDA, pp. 26, 27.

Seal not the Sayings
of the Prophecy of this Book
(Revelation 22 : 10)

The goodwill of those working with the Organization to maintain and safeguard the purity and oneness of the Truth in the golden bowl of Zechariah chapter 4 could be understood. But for the fact that they have condemned the divinely appointed teachers of the Rod, for polluting the message by teaching and interpreting those passages of the message in the golden bowl, they are themselves actually having been implicated in the sin stipulated in Revelation 22 : 18, 19. And as a result of the transgression of the law, they would have again covered up most of the passages from being interpreted and taught to the people. And so the condition of seeing eye to eye, of having the same mind, and of speaking the same things among the candidates of the 144.000 elects of God would be more and more difficult to achieve. And the consequence is although the servant of the Lord has ever said :   

“Because the work is so broad, its expansion so vast, and its importance so great, God has inspired modern science to invent, and build speedy equipment to quickly finish His work.” — 2 Shepherd’s Rod, p. 229.

The Organization has failed to make use of those facilities provided us by the Lord through the modern science and technology. Only because their teachers with talented writing capacity were prevented from writing to teach in the light of the Rod those passages in the bowl which in one way or another need to be interpreted. Every one of us should have thought as follows :

It is undeniable that the entire Shepherd’s Rod message has already gone through the website. Even the Holy Bible and the Spirit of Prophecy by Mrs. E.G. White have long gone through the websites. But where are the teachings by the divinely appointed teachers of the Rod, who are to teach in the light of the Rod those passages which in one way or another need to be interpreted ?

Forbidding the teachers of the Rod to teach and write freely, either in books or through the websites, for the sake of maintaining the purity and oneness of the Rod, is same as well as to build a wall around those passages which in one way or another still need to be interpreted further for the people. Thus to restrict the teachers of the Rod to write is similar to keep the people in ignorance. To such the servant of the Lord has ever said :

“To keep the law according to the letter is to build a wall around it as the proud Pharisees did. We quote 1 John 3 : 15, whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer. Therefore, though we kill not, and yet hate our brother we have kept the law blameless according to the letter, but not according to the Spirit. The keeping of the law according to the Spirit has a broader significance than the carnal mind can conceive. If I must keep the whole law, I must keep the whole WORD OF GOD in every respect, otherwise, I would dishonor Him, and would become transgressor of the law as a disobedient son dishonor his earthly father, and becomes guilty of the fifth commandment in the law.” – 2 Shepherd’s Rod, p. 92.

It now appears that those, who teach to let the Bible and the Spirit Of Prophecy do to interpret themselves, have just manipulated its meaning to such extent. The true meaning of “interpretation” has been so messy manipulated so that the divinely appointed teachers of the Rod, whose work is to teach and interpret those passages of the message in the bowl,   they have been contrary condemned and dismissed by the Organization. Most of our people are still of the opinion .that only the prophet has the authority to do the work of interpreting, according to the prophecy of Zechariah chapter 4. Whereas they unwittingly fail to understand that there are yet passages in the golden bowl (not in the olive trees) that are yet to be taught and interpreted in the light of the Rod by the divinely appointed teachers of the Rod. And just these passages in the golden bowl that will decide our fate, either for to stand on the side of the vanguard and his army, or else to stay with the Organization on the side of the five wise virgins with guile in their mouths, or the chaff categorized Davidian SDA. May the Lord bless you to know that just the passages in the bowl yet to be interpreted, which is to decide our fate.

C o n c l u s i o n

E.G. White :
“God has a church, and she has a divinely appointed ministry.” – Testimonies to Ministers, p. 52.

After the demise of Bro. Houteff, and when the function of the Mount Carmel center of his creation ended after his death, then the proclamation of the message of the Eleventh-Hour Call would unavoidably be succeeded by the divinely appointed ministry, not the Organization of Mount Carmel Center.   

Since no more could be found anywhere in his message any statement that could lead to an indication to the reestablishment of the Mount Carmel Center, or of its where about location to take place, after the death of the servant of the Lord in 1955, then we may be sure that the prophetic word of Zechariah 13 : 7 would have been actually fulfilled. And we may be sure that at the same time ever since the Lord God would have taken the rein in His own hand. That is, then will also the following statement by Mrs. White begin to be fulfilled.

“Let me tell you that the Lord will work in this last work in a manner very much out of the common order of things, and in a way that will be contrary to any human planning. There will be those among us who will always want to control the work of God, to dictate even what movements shall be made when the work goes forward under the direction of the angel who joins the third angel in the message (of THE SPIRIT OF PROPHECY in the golden bowl) to be given to the world. God will use ways and means by which it will be seen that He is taking the reins in His own hands. The workers will be surprised by the simple means that He will use to bring about and perfect His work of righteousness.” – Testimonies to Ministers, p. 300. (In the brackets is added)

The Lord will no more work through any Headquarters of the so-called General Association of Davidian SDA wherever they are in the world in this time of the end. This should be understood, because through His own word through the prophecy of Zechariah 13 : 7. He has already turned His hand on the little ones that have been scattered in many places after the death of their shepherd in 1955. And this is to mean that the Lord would have taken the rein on them as His flock in His own hand.

Dear Brethren ! Though the New Testament prophets, specifically those who have filled up the golden bowl of Zechariah chapter 4 have all gone to die ahead of us, we, nevertheless, could have read ourselves their messages through the publications of the SPIRIT OF PROPHECY.  However, the fact is clear, that those only are not as yet enough to be the true preparatory measure for the 144.000 to come up on the stage. We are yet to hear to the voices of the divinely appointed teachers of the Rod, who are to teach in the light of the Rod those passages in the golden bowl, which in one way or another need to be interpreted.

Thus only will all present truth believers ever become of the same mind, seeing eye to eye and speaking the same things (1 Cor. 1 : 10; 1 Pet. 3 : 8; Isa . 52 : 8).” – Fundamental Beliefs of Davidian SDA, pp. 26, 27.

That is, thus only will all the candidates of the 144.000 elects of God be ready for the sealing, that they will be sealed everyone of them on their foreheads as their mark of deliverance to the Palestine in that great and dreadful day of the Lord, when the prophecy of Ezekiel 9 begin to be fulfilled in the near future.

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