Why should we stop affiliating With the Davidian SDA Headquarters In Waco Texas, USA ?

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Why should we stop affiliating

With the Davidian SDA Headquarters

In Waco Texas, USA ?

“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.” —

The White House Recruiter, p. 33.

The above statement is a portion taken from Bro. Houteff’s warning, issued before he died in 1955. The whole statement could be read as follows :

“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.

Every honest reader would readily see for himself that there are at least two times knockout blows delivered by the Enemy‘s effort against God’s message of today. And even the whole world would have witnessed by themselves that the deliverance of the blows had taken place as soon as after the death of Bro. Houteff in 1955.

As the message of today was then centralized at the General Association of Davidian SDA in Waco, Texas, the Headquarters which was established by the divinely appointed prophet of the Lord Himself in 1935, we should be sure that the first knockout blow delivered by the Enemy, had led to dissolution of the General Association of Davidian SDA and the liquidation of the whole Organization in 1962 by Mrs. Houteff. This is the reason why Brother Houteff in the same warning had said : “ 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.”

Between 1962 and the 1991, there was no Davidian SDA Headquarters could be found leading at the Top of Carmel for about 29 years long. However, when we reconsider the warning further, when the servant of the Lord said :

“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.

This passage leads us further to be very careful toward the next General Association of Davidian SDA that was to emerged in 1991. This new Headquarters was established by the professed friends of the gospel, who are no less pious than were the priests in Christ’s day. Though located on the same premises up to the future end of the harvest in the church, and even having the judicial power of all printing rights of the Shepherd’s Rod publications, they still lack the favor of God. This should be seriously taken into consideration, because the next knockout blow was to come right from them, the surprisingly unsuspected foes – from professed friends of the gospel, who are no less pious than were the Jewish priests in Christ’s day. If the first knockout blow were the result of the Enemy’s own effort to send the blow, the second one seemed clearly to come right from the professed friends of the gospel themselves. This is the reason why we have been warned to be alert too.

The Enemy had first successfully employed Mrs. Houteff in her capacity as President of the Association to succeed the late Bro. Houteff as soon as after his death. And the result is the whole Organization was dissolved and liquidated, and the message was repudiated as unhealthy. And later, with the professed friends of the gospel, who are not at all suspected by most of our people to be foes emerged in 1991, they are just to be the antitypical Sanhedrin of today in this time of the harvest, because they are no less pious than were the Jewish priests in Christ’s day., thus said Bro. Houteff. Satan has successfully recruited them to be his appointed agents, so that the next knock out blows (after 1991) were no more delivered right by the Enemy himself against the message and the people, but enough through the unsuspected friend of the gospel, who are just the staunch defenders of the message even up to this very moment.

To fulfill the prophetic words of prophet Isaiah

In his Timely Greetings, Vol. 1, No. 43 Bro. Houteff had ever written the following passage :

Isaiah 63 : 3 – 5 — “I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the people there was none with Me : for I will tread them in Mine anger, and trample them in My fury ; and their blood shall be sprinkled upon My garments, and I will stain all My raiment. For the day of vengeance is in Mine heart, and the year of My redeemed is come. And I looked, and there was none to help; and I wondered that there was none to uphold : therefore Mine own arm brought salvation unto Me; and My fury, it upheld Me.”

The statements, “I have trodden the winepress alone,” “I looked, and there was none to help ; and I wondered that there was none to uphold“ (all in the past tense) show the Savior’s zeal and determination to save His misled people at His first advent, though there was no one with Him to help; that is, all the priests and religious leaders – the General Conference of His day (the Sanhedrin) were against Him instead of helping Him in His work. But the statements, “for I will tread them in Mine anger, and trample them in My fury; and their blood shall be sprinkled upon My garments, and I will stain all My raiment; for the day of vengeance is in My heart, and the year of My redeemed is come“ ; and “I looked, and there was none to help; and I wondered that there was none to uphold : therefore Mine Own arm brought salvation unto Me; and My fury, it upheld Me (all in future tense) — show the present church’s condition not only equally as bad as at His first coming, but even much worse. How true that history repeats! As the day of vengeance approaches, those who are supposed to uphold and help in the work of redemption, the ministers and religious leaders, the antitypical Sanhedrin of today (the General Conference) are seen to be hindering, standing in His way of reaching the people. Thus they incur His displeasure, and necessarily He girds Himself to free His people from the hands of the unfaithful shepherds. They cause Him to stain His garments with their blood as He tramples them in His fury.” – Timely Greetings, Vol. 1, No. 43.

Although during the time he wrote the Timely Greetings, vol. 1, No. 43, he had mentioned the General Conference of SDA as the antitypical Sanhedrin of today to be the main foes to block the present Truth to reach the people, several years later when he warned us through The White House – Recruiter, p. 33 he said : “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.”

Since the warning of the White House Recruiter was directed specifically to the present Truth believers affiliating with the Head Quarters of Davidian SDA in Waco, Texas, then we must be surely positive that the present leadership of the Top of Carmel in Waco, Texas, will be the last of the antitypical Sanhedrin of today.

Not only is the General Conference of SDA to be the antitypical Sanhedrin in this time of the end, but even the General Association of Davidian SDA in Waco, Texas, USA, will be the last antitypical Sanhedrin of today, as well.

An addition to the prophetic words of prophet Isaiah Bro. Houteff warned us the following words :

This warning is a general and strong warning, that applies for the safety of our people up to the end of time. What was mentioned in that warning had actually taken place as soon as after the death of the servant of the Lord in 1955. And the result is clear that the Top of Carmel as the re-organized body of the General Conference of SDA (to meet the Call for a spiritual Revival and Reformation, Review and Herald, February 25, 1902) had been dissolved.

But, with the re-establishment of the General Association of Davidian SDA in 1991, located on its original location, by those professed friends of the gospel, whose piety are no less than were those of the Jewish priests in the time of Jesus, do you think the Devil would be idly standing by, and only as an ordinary onlooker observing on the whole situation ? Do you think the Devil will be more lenient today toward the present leadership in Waco, Texas, than against those under the leadership of Mrs. Houteff ?

The Devil knows that if he loses now, he would lose forever – that he is to have no other chance. This is to prove that with the re-establishment of the Headquarters in 1991 the Devil would be more aggressive than ever before. And this is to be proven from the fact, that prior to the death of Bro. Houteff, we have been advised: “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.” But after the knockout blow succeeded to get Mrs. Houteff fallen and the Headquarters dissolved, we were yet advised to be alert, too, for the next knockout blow would come right from the re-established Sanhedrin themselves. This is the antitypical Sanhedrin of today established in 1991, at the same location in Waco, Texas, USA. And it is yet to exist up to the end of the harvest in the church.

Type to meet Antitype :

Treading the winepress in Edom and In Bozrah :

Slaughter of Ezekiel 9 in SDA and in Davidian SDA

Let us turn again to the reading of the Timely Greetings, Vol. 1 No. 43 in which the servant of the Lord, Bro. Houteff said :

“Since you now positively know that these chapters are concerning you and me, we are ready to start the study of the chapters, verse by verse —

Isaiah 63 : 1 — “Who is this that cometh from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? this that is glorious in His apparel, traveling in the greatness of His strength ? I that speak in righteousness, mighty to save.”

In vision the prophet saw someone with bloodstained garments hastily returning from Edom and Bozrah. To the prophet’s question, “Who is this that cometh from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah?” came the answer, “I that speak in righteousness, mighty to save.”

Who else could this person be but the Lord Himself, the Savior of the world, the Mighty One to save?

Again the prophet asked,

Isaiah 63 : 2 — “Wherefore art Thou red in Thine apparel, and Thy garments like him that treadeth in the wine fat?”

The answer to these questions introduces a series of solemn events, the events recorded in

The statements, “I have trodden the winepress alone,” “I looked, and there was none to help; and I wondered that there was none to uphold“ (all in the past tense) show the Savior’s zeal and determination to save His misled people at His first advent, though there was no one with Him to help; that is, all the priests and religious leaders – the General Conference of His day (the Sanhedrin) were against Him instead of helping Him in His work. But the statements, “for I will tread them in Mine anger, and trample them in My fury; and their blood shall be sprinkled upon My garments, and I will stain all My raiment; for the day of vengeance is in My heart, and the year of My redeemed is come“; and “I looked, and there was none to help; and I wondered that there was none to uphold : therefore Mine Own arm brought salvation unto Me; and My fury, it upheld Me (all in future tense) — show the present church’s condition not only equally as bad as at His first coming, but even much worse. How true that history repeats ! As the day of vengeance approaches, those who are supposed to uphold and help in the work of redemption, the ministers and religious leaders, the antitypical Sanhedrin of today (the General Conference) are seen to be hindering, standing in His way of reaching the people. Thus they incur His displeasure, and necessarily He girds Himself to free His people from the hands of the unfaithful shepherds. They cause Him to stain His garments with their blood as He tramples them in His fury.

Isaiah 63 : 6 — “And I will tread down the people in Mine anger, and make them drunk in My fury, and I will bring down their strength to the earth.”

The Lord’s brief explanation of the situation is amplified by the prophet Ezekiel. Says He:

“He cried also in mine ears with a loud voice, saying, Cause them that have charge over the city to draw near, even every man with his destroying weapon in his hand. And, behold, six men came from the way of the higher gate, which lieth toward the north, and every man a slaughter weapon in his hand; and one man among them was clothed with linen, with a writer’s inkhorn by his side: and they went in, and stood beside the brazen altar. And the glory of the God of Israel was gone up from the cherub, whereupon he was, to the threshold of the house. And he called to the man clothed with linen, which has the writer’s inkhorn by his side; And the LORD said unto him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof. .And to the others he said in mine hearing, Go ye after him through the city, and smite: let not your eye spare, neither have ye pity: Slay utterly old and young, both maids, and little children, and women: but come not near any man upon whom is the mark; and begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at the ancient men which were before the house.”— Ezekiel 9 : 1 – 6. — Timely Greetings, Vol. 1, N0. 43.

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From the above clarification by Bro. Houteff, we have discovered that Christ, at His first advent, He should have had treaded the winepress not only in Edom, but also in Bozrah. Since the history repeats itself in the time of the end, then the typical event in the past must eventually repeat itself anti-typically in this time of the end. Thus it is, that the prophecy of Ezekiel 9 : 1 – 6 would at last be fulfilled, not only in the antitypical Edom of today, wherein the antitypical Esauets now hold their tightly control, but also in the antitypical Bozrah wherein the servants of the Lord have been concentrated but failed to arouse to the Eleventh-hour Call of their Lord to uphold the work, so that the Lord should have accomplished the treading of the winepress Himself without them. In other words, the Lord should have accomplished the harvest of the first fruits in the church alone without any helping hand coming from His servants in the antitypical Sanhedrin of today in Waco, Texas, USA.

Target of the Eleventh-Hour Call now unraveled

The Eleventh-hour Call is the last message of the angel of Revelation 18 : 1, that is to unite his voice with the message of the angels of Revelation 14., which is the Spirit of Prophecy by Mrs. Ellen G. White. It is the message from God that came in 1929 through His own appointed prophet, namely Bro. Victor T. Houteff.

Since this last message was at the outset rejected on and on even up to now by the General Conference of SDA, then the target of the Call is the lay members. Mrs. White said :

“The words of Christ apply to the Church : “‘Why stand ye here all the day idle ?” Why are you not at work in some capacity in His vineyard? Again and again He has bidden you : Go ye also into the vineyard; and whatsoever is right, that shall ye receive.” But this gracious call from heaven has been disregarded by the large majority.” – Testimonies for the Church, vol. 5, p. 203.

Bro. Victor T. Houteff was the first layman of the Church to welcome the Eleventh-Hour Call, that he was specifically appointed by the Lord to be His mouth-piece for us. As ever before “God has a church, and she has a divinely appointed ministry. ‘And He gave some apostles; and some, prophets; and some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers; for the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ …………..etc. “– Testimonies to Ministers, p. 52.

So as one of a divinely appointed ministry in 1935 he was not alone to reorganize the General Conference of SDA into becoming the General Association of Davidian SDA located in Waco, Texas, USA.

And the process of re-organizing the General Conference of SDA was not wrong, because they had acted accordingly to fulfill the Call for a Spiritual Revival and a Spiritual Reformation as stipulated in the message by Mrs. E. G. White in the Review and Herald, dated back in February 25, 1902.

General Conference of SDA as the angel of Laodicea must be spewed out of the mouth of Jesus, according to the prophecy. Due to its unpardonable sins against the Spirit of Truth, accumulated from time to time, the year 1935 is seemingly fit for it to be succeeded by the General Association of Davidian SDA in Waco, Texas, USA. But for how long will the General Association of Davidian SDA stand, and how strong could it withstand the Dragon of Revelation 12 : 17 in this time of the end ?

As long as Bro. Houteff was still alive he had successfully interpreted all the prophecies of the Old Testament and the parables of Jesus of the New Testament. He had proven that we are now living in the time of the end, when the Spirit of Truth of John 16 : 13 has guided us into not only ALL TRUTH, but showing us THE THINGS TO COME as well. We have in possession of the Law and the Testimony of Jesus Christ in the SPIRIT OF PROPHECY. And for that end, we should have been able to withstand the Dragon of Revelation 12 : 17. He then warned us as follows :

However, from the fact it was totally different. As the power of the Organization could no more be strong enough to withstand the Dragon after the death of Mrs. White in 1915. Even after the death of Bro. Houteff in 1955, as founder of the re-organized body of the Organization of General Conference of SDA, it was then in 1962 dissolved and completely liquidated. Let alone the present Organization on the Top of Carmel, whose founders were only those, whose piety are no less than were the Jewish priests in Christ’s day ?

Targets of the Eleventh-Hour Call must inevitably now unraveled to meet the words of the Lord Himself when He said :

The words of Christ apply only to the lay members of the Church, no more to those of the Organization of the Church. This is the original target of the Eleventh-Hour Call ever since the beginning. Mrs. White said :

“It is a fatal mistake to suppose that the work of souls saving depends alone upon the ministry. (Organization) ………… God will send forth into His vineyard many who have not been dedicated to the ministry by the laying on of hands.“ – The Acts of the Apostles, p. 110. (In brackets added).

If you could agree with me that, for now, the vineyard is the church wherein the first fruits of the harvest are to be gleaned, then you should have agreed also that many vanguards of the Lord will soon emerge from among lay members as divinely appointed ministers and teachers, without first being dedicated to the ministry by the laying on of hands, either at the Headquarters of Davidian SDA in Waco, Texas, or at some other places. This is to show us that many vanguards will soon disclose to view without the consent of those leading at the Top of Carmel.

Thus is the case, that we must never again suppose to think that the message of the Shepherd’s Rod as the Eleventh-hour Call, after being published and proclaimed by Bro. Houteff, it should be succeeded and accomplished only through the leadership of those now leading at the Top of Carmel in Waco, Texas, USA.

Most of the publications of the message have long reached the lay members in the field. Brother Houteff said : “Millions ! So it is that these small comprehensive publications, the bright clouds, laden with present Truth, are now being scattered as leaves of autumn throughout Laodicea to every church member, “to every one grass” in the vineyard of the Lord. The final results ? More than one thousand will soon be converted in one day ………” TG. Vol. 1, No. 17, p. 5.

How to face

contradictive passages of the message

Although Bro. Houteff has successfully interpreted all the prophecies and the parables of Jesus into THE SPIRIT OF PROPHECY, he was no more alive when all the prophecies one after another meets their fulfillment in these times of the end. Therefore when contradictive passages of the message arise, let us not turn to the antitypical Sanhedrin to find the solution, but let us go to a divinely appointed teacher to find the way out. Bro. Houteff ever said :

“The Bible and the books of the Spirit of Prophecy being the sole source of the Shepherd’s Rod message, therefore when the Rod is taught, the Bible and the Spirit of Prophecy are taught. ……….. we must therefore, as teachers of the Shepherd’s Rod 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 thing.” – Fundamental Beliefs, pp. 26, 27.

Whatever passages of the message that still need to be interpreted, let them be interpreted by a divinely appointed teacher of the Rod or a vanguard. And the result would certainly be contradictive to those of the antitypical Sanhedrin of the Top of Carmel .in Waco, Texas.

An example :

A portion of a sermon entitled, “Today if ye will hear His voice harden not your heart!” The servant of the Lord said :

“As Amos says, ‘The habitations of the shepherds shall mourn,’ it is obvious that the habitations’ (places) is in the plural form which cannot be applied to one shepherd’s habitation (denomination) but to all that be in existence at that time. The term ‘shepherds’ means, as understood, the same as ‘the ancient men which were before the house’ — the ministers. Testimonies for the Church, vol. 5, p. 211. Note that the shepherds are not themselves to mourn but their ‘habitations’ (their houses); that is, the membership of their churches, which fact reveals that it will be thus at the time when the sleeping multitudes in the churches awake from their spiritual insensibility and find that the shepherds whom they have implicitly trusted for their salvation had deceived all those who followed them.

“The prophet Jeremiah in the following words explains that this wailing by those who are thus deceived will be at the close of probation. For they shall say ‘the harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.’ That is, after the harvest, the time in which they could have been saved, they will realize that the probationary time has closed. Then the habitations of the shepherds shall mourn, and the top of Carmel shall wither.’ Hence, before that time the top of Carmel must have been green with much pasture, otherwise there would be nothing to wither; that is, though Carmel has n o w (in 1935) plenty of pasture (present truth), when probation closes it shall be deserted (‘wither’), for says the Spirit of Prophecy : ‘In the time of trouble we all fled from the cities and villages.” – Early Writings, p. 34. —THE SYMBOLIC CODE, Vol. 1, No. 14. (August, 1935), pp. 5 – 7.

This sermon was given in 1935 wherein the Mount Carmel was first officially established as the permanent location of the General Association of Davidian SDA. But from the statement : “Then the habitations of the shepherds shall mourn , and the top of Carmel shall wither,” it is conclusively clear that the whole sermon was predicting the fate of only present Truth believers who have been affiliating with those now leading at the Top of Carmel in Waco, Texas, USA.

Bro. Houteff in his message has deemed the General Conference of SDA leadership as the antitypical Sanhedrin of today. Although the angel of the Church of Laodicea has been spewed out of Jesus’ mouth in 1935, he is yet to stand regally up to the close of probation. And regarding the General Association of Davidian SDA Headquarters in Waco, Texas, though not straightly be deemed the antitypical Sanhedrin of today, the mention of their piety that is no less than were those of the priests in Christ’s day, is enough to prove, that they also are worthy to be deemed the antitypical Sanhedrin of today. They are yet to stand regally up to the close of probation, to which they are yet to account to the mourning multitude whom they have deceived for so long.

The reason why

God is taking the reins in His own hands

Mrs. E. G. White has ever predicted in the following words : “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) 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)

If we could be sure that the last message of the eleventh-hour Call is the message of the angel of Revelation 18 : 1, that is now united with the message of the third angel of Revelation 14, enlightening our Church, then this is the last message indeed. It is the message for accomplishing the harvest of the first fruits in the Church prior to the harvest of the second fruits in the world.

Since the Lord has to work alone without any helping hand upholding from His servants of the Sanhedrins, either of the General Conference of SDA or of the Headquarters of Davidian SDA in Waco, Texas, then no wonder if Mrs. White should have said :

“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.” What does this mean ? Let us turn to the parable of Jesus, when He said :

“And though harvest time is the shortest of all the periods of the harvest year, the work of reaping is not done in a moment; it takes time. The yield is not garnered by turning the field right into the barn; no, that would be a conglomerate mass instead of a harvest. First the sickle is put to the grain, and next the grain is bound into sheaves, then threshed, after which it is put into the barn; and thereafter the chaff and the tares are destroyed. This work being completed during the autumn, it shows that the harvest is a season of time after “the summer is past,” and that it is followed by the fruitless winter period. So it must be with the spiritual harvest, which otherwise could not be illustrated by the literal. Do not regard lightly the wisdom of God : His illustrations are perfect.” – The Judgment and the Harvest, p. 65.

To help speed up the work of harvest just in this time of the end, Bro. Houteff 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. “But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end : many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased. Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried, but the wicked shall do wickedly; and none of the wicked shall understand ; but the wise shall understand. (Daniel 12 : 4, 10).” – 2 Shepherd’ Rod, p. 229.

“Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried”, that is, as grain they are to be r e – a p e d and then bound into sheaves, then threshed or tried during a short time of Jacob trouble, prior to their deliverance to the Kingdom in Palestine (the barn).

And as the result of the harvest in the Church many new associations of Davidian SDA would have emerged in many places of the world. And for edifying the body of Christ the Lord will have appointed more vanguards. This is what the servant of the Lord ever said:

“God will send forth into His vineyard (Church) many who have not been dedicated to the ministry by the laying on of hands.“ – The Acts of the Apostles, p. 110. (In brackets added).

God has inspired modern science to invent, and build speedy equipment as ways and means to quickly finish His work. And He will bless those ways and means to be applied successfully through His appointed agencies. By this it will be seen that He is taking the reins in His own hands.

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