The Shaking

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jul 12, 1906

A DIFFERENT experience is to come to the remnant church in this day from any that has come to the Christian denominations preceding it. The history of these denominations shows in each case a falling away from the faith, and a substitution of human wisdom and human authority in the place of the wisdom and authority of God—the word of man in the place of the Word of God, and a man-made gospel in the place of the gospel of God—until the denomination had so far disconnected itself from the providence of God that it was necessary for him to call out another people to carry forward his work. Now we have come to the time of the last message which is to finish the proclamation of the everlasting gospel, and to the church which has this message to give to the world, to make ready a people for the second coming of Christ. What is to save this church from following in the way of other churches before it, in falling away from the faith? Answer, the shaking. When influences become powerful in this church which would lead it out of the right pathway, God brings a shaking, and those who are exerting this influence are shaken out. It is stated in “Early Writings” that this church is “mightily shaken” before the end is reached. This casts out everything that would make the church corrupt. This is why the remnant church will remain pure and no necessity will arise for another people to come after it. We are already in the shaking time.