Binary Angel - Essays and Transcripts

Essays & Transcripts

“Whether Yahweh acts, or orders others to act, it is His love that does it, a love that we can understand, and that we can explain, otherwise we could not worship Him in spirit and in truth.” (04/21/21)	“We are to look critically at any proposed changes to doctrine, to examine whether or not any such changes are truly the leading of the Almighty.” (05/07/18)	“The reformers received insight that the main body was wrong, and wrong beyond hope of repair. They did not try to ‘fix’ things from the in- side, but came out from among them…” (02/05/08)	“The wheat and tares grow together ‘until the harvest.’ (Mat 13:30) That should answer your question already […] It is the Harvest now. We harvest, because it is time.” (12/15/07)	“All the principles outlined in The Great Controversy, which deals with significant end-time events, have been fulfilled by an organization that indeed took over where the papacy left off…” (11/30/06)

“The system of tithing predated the Mosaic covenant […] Likewise, under the Apostles, the tithes were gathered in to the storehouse, and distributed by ministers in charge of such matters.” (05/05/06)	“The issue is not about the name, and it never was. The issue is about the faith of Jesus. Faith, however, is not to be confused with one’s private inter- pretation of Heaven’s instructions.” (02/14/06)	“If we are not a member of a group of people, a Church, with a name reflective of its character and mission that is relevant to the modern state of spiritual affairs, you haven’t yet found the right one.” (01/28/06)	“We welcome honest questions, and those with a genuine desire to learn who we are. We are kind even to those who misrepresent us, and attack our beliefs using whatsoever words and arguments they can.” (10/30/05)	“True faith leads to true obedience, and this to the principles of the Law, not only what is merely stated, but what is worked out in the experience of love.” (10/29/05)

“Make the Bible the standard, and not the traditions of men whose practices were seen and extreme by the Messiah before they became even more stringent in their laws, and the Christian’s path should be clear.” (09/26/05)	“The Savior of every faithful believer has a Kingdom that is not of this world. No carnal weapons have ever protected this kingdom. No human means have ever been necessary for its preservation.” (09/11/05)	“The invitation is now open, for the Spirit and the Bride say, ‘Come.’ (Rev 22:17) The way is clear to the City of Refuge, and the last message to call a people into the truth is heard…” (06/11/05)	“In terms of salvation, and legitimate standing before the Almighty, men and women are the same. In terms of practices that distinguish them one from another, they are different.” (04/10/05)	“Individuals who willfully neglect ‘the assembling of ourselves together’ (Heb 10:25) miss out on a great blessing, perhaps the very blessing that would have bound them forever to the Most High.” (03/06/05)

“The New Moons are no longer primarily involved in marking the seasons of seed- time and harvest; as Paul says, for New Testament believers they point out ‘things to come.’ (Col 2:17)” (02/20/05)	“The basic principle when discussing conditional prophecy is this: If the spiritual condition of the people affected BY the prophecy changes, so does the fulfillment of the prophecy itself.” (11/04/04)	J.W.s & The Sabbath “J.W.s, in this and other places, set forth the teaching that Christ, by ful- filling the Law, provided a means for the Father to set it aside or ‘terminate’ it. Nothing could be further from the truth.” (07/07/04)	“We see here clearly that the redeemed are raised or translated, able therefore to participate in the Kingdom of Heaven because they have new, spiritual bodies.” (11/30/03)	“Israel was given the promise that it would never fall. The promise was conditional, by its nature, on its faithfulness. Similarly, the Apostoles were given the promise that the Church would never fall…” (11/03/03)

“There have always been doubters, and to them, it is easy to pluck a stray verse here and there and make it look as if all the inspired writings of Yah have fallen apart from the foundation.” (11/01/03)	“But there is a faithful Church. There is a true Zion, bearing the message of primitive Adventism as a last message of mercy to a world on the brink of Divine Judgment.” (09/06/03)	“The assertion that the Feast of Tabernacles is fulfilled by the death of Christ is even less valid. The Feast of Tabernacles represents the harvest of the earth. We are still here. Type has not met antitype…” (07/26/03)	“Babylon is composed of apostate religions joined to the world. A sister to fallen Babylon would therefore be separate from most of Protestantism, but fallen due to walking in the ways of her ‘older sister.’” (07/26/03)	“We justly declare that any Church which has united with a state has formed an image to the Beast […] ‘Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate; touch not the unclean thing.’” (06/09/03)

“Here’s at least one statement from every SDA pioneer I have ever heard of, and several I did not know by name before, often taken from lengthy and careful articles dealing with this issue.” (05/09/03)	“[Paul] said he took ‘wages’ of the Church in Macedonia to help the Corinthians. That word, opsonion, has a special meaning: a soldier’s pay. This connects directly to his question to Corinth…” (02/15/03)	“The key to understanding Romans 7 is to read it in its right place. That is to say, it should not be separated from Romans 6 in front of it, and Romans 8 behind it.” (02/01/03)	“This attempt to enforce divine (or supposedly divine in this case) mandate by human authority only led to suffering. American Sabbathkeepers in the 1800s were thrown in jail, dragged to court…” (10/06/02)	“We find conclusive evidence for a judgment that takes place while the last generation is still alive, so that when Christ returns the words of the prophet may be fulfilled…” (09/22/02)

“Christ had full authority over these beings. He did not use recited prayers, crucifixes or holy water to cast them out, and neither did His disciples.” (08/31/02)	“Others, seeing the distinction made in the deference given to those who were ‘filled wih the spirit,’ were led to open their own minds up to this fate, to ‘prove’ they were also spirit-filled Christians.” (07/27/02)	“The ten are not only written out, but expanded, explained, and set in their rightful place as – not commandments merely – but loving responses to our Father’s grace.” (07/05/02)	“Look at the reason Yah gives for the priests not drinking wine […] so that there can be a visible difference between the holy and clean and the unclean and unholy.” (01/31/02)	“Helel, or Lucifer, was in Heaven ‘until iniquity was found’ in him; Christ beheld him falling ‘like lightning,’ and he has been perse- cuting the church of God ever since.” (01/09/02)

“This passage was written after the death of Yahshua and the establishment of the New Covenant, yet the holy days, the New Moon and the Sabbath are still shadows of ‘things to come.’” (11/20/01)	“It was this inter-breeding that led to the corruption of ALL the descendants of man, from both Seth’s side and Cain’s. No gradual falling away is mentioned; it was something sudden – something dramatic.” (08/29/01)	“The Father and the Son are the Speakers, but when They choose to do so using a man (a prophet), or to the inner-self of individual hearers, They do so through Their Holy Spirit.” (08/28/01)	“Christ told those in the age of the reformation to ‘strengthen the things which remain,’ and they did; but many things that were lost at the 1st and 2nd seals were not yet to be restored.” (08/28/01)	“Even with his faulty understanding of Christian doctrine the Pharisee realized that John was teaching a lifelong commit- ment to abstain from ALL known sin; that is the nature of a soul that is cleansed.” (07/03/01)

“It is an eternal rebuke, and an ever- lasting punishment, but it is not a perpetual, conscious agony. The end of these evil nations will be a ‘perpetual desolation,’ as stated in Zeph 2:9.” (06/20/01)	“There is no immortality of the soul apart from Yah. He is the source and em- bodiment of life itself; and what is hell but a separation from God? ‘The soul that sinneth, it shall die.’ (Eze 18:4)” (06/20/01)	“Their attentions had only stirred up the bird’s anger, however, and it was sounding its protest with a louder cry. By their attentions, the eagle had only been aroused…” (06/10/01)	“The state of the dead is just one piece of the larger puzzle, but it is as essential for understanding being ‘dead in Christ,’ in order to live with Him as any other teaching of the sacred Scriptures.” (06/04/01)	“When we die the body rots to nothing, the spirit returns to God, and the soul perishes. Now we are looking at what happens after that. On resurrection day, the saints will be raised…” (06/04/01)

“In each of the cases, the onlookers realized that those baptized with the Holy Ghost spoke in tongues, but in each of the cases also, the listeners understood what the speakers were saying.” (05/31/01)	“Satan has done a very good job of con- vincing people that the Sabbath was bondage. Misunderstandings of stories like that of the man gathering firewood have served to underline this false notion.” (05/24/01)	“The prophets all seem to testify to this principle. If Israel turns to the ungodly for comfort, it has put away Yah as a husband, and it will call down judgment upon itself. He will now call another…” (02/07/01)	“Not a single article of the Decalogue was first given to Moses. These things were known, and kept, from the earliest times. They were around ever since there were beings other than Yah.” (01/20/01)	“Those who have been truly deceived, and had not an opportunity to see truth, will be the last from which the rays of mercy will be withdrawn. These will have the longest time to repent.” (01/06/01)

“Does attempting to show the flaws in the Pre-Tribulation Rapture position truly ‘steal hope’ from the believer? That, of course, depends on what your ‘blessed hope’ is.” (01/05/01)	“We have not been saved to enter into reward ourselves, but to minister unto others. The Father will not remove those best qualified to reach the lost just when they would need us the most.” (12/30/00)	“In regard to the Trademark debate, there has been much said to show the ‘wrongness’ of the lawsuits. The gist of the G.C. answers has basically been, ‘Times have changed…’” (12/13/00)	“Before a people called to be holy, he stood alone as a faithful servant. And moreover, he knew it. We are called to be modest and humble, but pride disguised as a lowly spirit is a seeping disease.” (12/09/00)	“The spirit of this great prophet was seen mirrored in the mission of the fiery and dynamic John the Baptist. ‘Elijah’ had indeed come first, but that is not the only application of this teaching…” (12/07/00)

“We know we will NOT do these things, because we are promised that as long as we remain in communion with the Father, we won’t. We are truly justified by faith.” (12/05/00)	“While the Mark can be received in the fore head, just like the seal, it can also be found on the hand. If the forehead is conscious service, what is the hand? It is labor, it is work.” (10/29/00)	“Satan has sought to pervert the very results that the Sabbath was designed to produce in man: holiness, meekness, humility, and eternal awareness of our dependence on Yah for our life.” (10/28/00)	“He did not give a ‘new’ commandment to replace the old ones; He was merely stating their foundation! How (Mat 22:38 & 39) have been misused... had they only read and understood one verse further.” (10/28/00)	“Were the 10 commandments ever ‘against us?’ Does respecting our mother and father, or not coveting our neighbor’s possessions… do these things oppress us and give us a heavy, unreasonable burden?” (10/28/00)