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| Reb Registered user Username: Reb Post Number: 318 Registered: 5-2007 |
I posted this on CARM earlier. Thought I'd share. Hope it's not too scary. It's Resurrection Day. Christ has returned. The last thing I knew I had been tortured to death at Chino prison for worshipping on the Sabbath day after the Sunday Laws had been instituted. The torture was truly horrible but I didn't cave in. Though I wondered why angels didn't protect me and kill my torturers like Ellen White said they would. Still I kept my faith, hoping that somehow I had passed the Investigative Judgement. I am standing amid a vast sea of people. I see Adventist friends and relatives, who I was sure would make it if anyone would. I turn in another direction and see Ellen White herself. I think, "What a relief". "Ellen is here", so I must be in the resurrection that I hoped I'd be in as I was dying from the torture in prison. I also see relatives from my side of the family who weren't Adventist but I knew were good people. I'm so glad they're here with me and they made it! But, wait a minute... suddenly as I look in another direction I see my Catholic neighbour who ratted on me when the Sunday Laws came into effect. Oh well, he was a good person, just misguided. God IS just. I'll trust Him. Then all of a sudden I see Mussolini. What's he doing here? Then there's Boniface VIII, one of the most wicked popes of the Mediavel era. Maybe he wasn't so wicked? I also see Caligula, Nero, and Ivan the Terrible. There's old Joe Stalin over there, looking just like his picture in the history books. Oh, Oh, something's not right here. Then standing next to what must be Satan according to Ellen's description, I see Hitler himself, the most evil man who ever walked the earth. This isn't good. I get a sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach. Then I see Christ Jesus Himself. He is so bright I am blinded but before I am blinded by His light I couldn't help but notice that He looked sad, very sad. We are all to be annhiliated. NO ONE passed the Investiagtive Judgement. NO ONE not even EGW herself could make it given the paramaters set up in Chapter 28 of the Great Controversy. No one, not even the best people I knew were able to be "perfect". I start to cry. I didn't cave in and take the Mark of the Beast but this is still happening. I remind myself that God IS just and I deserve that. I KNEW I shouldn't have read the Newspaper on the Sabbath but I did anyway. And kept on doing it. Not to mention sneaking watching the ballgame when my Angels were playing in crucial games at the end of the season. I shouldn't have drank coffee, or an occasional moderate drink of alcohol. I should have been more strict about everything and tried better to do everything Ellen said to do, but then she apparantly couldn't herself. The fire comes down to destroy us. I notice it looks like little, flaming meteroites just like in that Doug Batchelor video I saw in church one time. Things go totally black. I wake up. It was just a dream. If this is true then there is NO HOPE for anyone. But didn't Jesus die on the Cross to give eternal life to those who believe in Him. I BELIEVE in Him. Something is WRONG here. Is Ellen wrong? Is she DEAD WRONG??? Something to think about. Hope I didn't scare anyone. | ||
| Flyinglady Registered user Username: Flyinglady Post Number: 3966 Registered: 3-2004  |
Thank God and praise Him that our salvation is through Jesus Christ. No, your story did not scare me as I not longer have to live with that belief. God is awesome. Diana | ||
| Cease_striving Registered user Username: Cease_striving Post Number: 2 Registered: 7-2007  |
Reb, Thank you for the story--it vividly points out the hopelessness of SDAism and of the test their members must pass. Jesus is our only hope, and for Him I am thankful! Cease_Striving | ||
| Reb Registered user Username: Reb Post Number: 321 Registered: 5-2007 |
Thanks. I wanted to illustrate just how hopeless and bleak Adventism is. Jesus IS our only hope, praise His name! |
