Ellen White on the 1888 Message and Health Reform Rejection

Mesajul prezentat de A. T. Jones și E. J. Waggoner la conferința din Minneapolis din 1888 a fost cu adevărat solia lui Dumnezeu către biserica Laodiceană, trimisă pentru a pregăti un popor să stea în picioare în ziua Domnului15MR 22.1+1. Deși mulți au primit razele de lumină cu bucurie, liderii din acea vreme au manifestat un spirit de rezistență și prejudecată, tratând solia și solii cu sarcasm și ridicolMMM 336.1+1. Această opoziție a împiedicat revărsarea puterii Duhului Sfânt și a făcut ca lucrarea de reformă să fie mult mai dificilă, deoarece inimi "reci ca oțelul" au refuzat să se plece în fața dovezilor cerești16MR 228.1+1. Domnul a lucrat prin acești oameni pentru a scoate la lumină adevărul despre neprihănirea prin credință, care fusese pierdut din vedere sub "gunoiul formalității"8MR 277.3+1. Este esențial să înțelegem că respingerea acestui mesaj nu a fost o simplă divergență de opinii, ci o insultă la adresa Duhului lui Dumnezeu, o atitudine asemănătoare cu cea a fariseilor din zilele lui Hristos15MR 83.1+1.

... people. No one shines by his own light. The Lord God almighty and the Lamb are the lights thereof. The message given us by A. T. Jones, and E. J. Waggoner is the message of God to the Laodicean church, and woe be unto anyone who professes to believe the truth and yet does not reflect to others the G...— 1888 1052.2 (1987)

...out them, that they are one, that no variance should be seen in these two instrumentalities of God. They are one and they must remain one, breathing the same spirit, exercised in the same work, to prepare a people to stand in the day of the Lord, one in faith, one...— 15MR 22.1 (1990)

...epent of their sin will, if circumstances permit, repeat the same actions. I know that at that time the Spirit of God was insulted, and now when I see anything approaching to the same course of action, I am exceedingly pained. The...— 15MR 83.1 (1990)

Oh, that all could see this and embrace the message given them of God! He has raised up His servants to present truth that, because it involves lifting the cross, has been lost sight of, and is buried beneath the rubbish of ...— 8MR 277.3 (1990)

...norance, through perverted ideas, they have had all the opportunity God will ever give them to know He has given these men [A. T. Jones and E. J. Waggoner] a work to do, and a message to bear which is present truth for this time. They knew that wherever this message comes its fruits are good. A vigor and a vital ...— 12MR 204.1 (1990)

...I want you to see and confess your errors. You did unite with those who resisted the Spirit of God. You had all the evidence that you needed that the Lord was working through Brethren Jones and Waggoner; but you did not receive the light; and after the feelings indulged, the words spoken against the truth, you did not feel ready to con...— 1888 1066.2 (1987)

...e the carrying out of the work given me of God to do fifty fold harder than it needed to have been. You have barred my way, but O, how little did you know the real result of your work. This has been opened before me. When you have stated that Sr. White was influenced by W. C. White,...— 6LtMs, Lt 40, 1890, par. 9 (1889)

Respingerea reformei sănătății reprezintă o pierdere spirituală tragică, deoarece acest mesaj este brațul drept al soliei celui de-al treilea înger, menit să purifice biserica și să aline suferința umanăCM 131.3+2. Mulți slujitori ai Evangheliei au manifestat indiferență sau chiar ostilitate față de aceste principii, alegând să caute defecte în cei care le promovau pentru a-și justifica propria neascultare4MR 372.1+1. Această rezistență față de lumină a condus la o lipsă de discernământ spiritual, deoarece neglijarea legilor sănătății întunecă mintea și împiedică sufletul să intre într-o relație sacră cu Dumnezeu4MR 372.1+2. Domnul a trimis instrucțiuni clare timp de zeci de ani, însă mulți au ales să-și satisfacă poftele în loc să practice temperanța, transformând astfel binecuvântările divine în pietre de poticnire2MR 105.2+2. Condamnarea celor care resping aceste principii nu vine din lipsa luminii, ci din faptul că, având lumina, au refuzat să umble în ea, alegând calea egoismului și a îngăduinței de sine3T 50.1+1.

...o little interest in health reform? We were greatly burdened after the Ashfield camp meeting to see ministers who did not receive and practice the light on health reform, and who were making no advancement in spiritual growth. The messages given on this great and needful subject seemed to be distasteful to some of our ministers. They would put forth some faint efforts to reform, but because they had no mind to practice it, they lapsed into an indifference upon the subject. Then, in order to vindicate their own course of action, they began to pick flaws in the men who advocated this reform. If they could find any excuse for remaining away, they would not attend the meetings where health reform was presented. These men became its bitterest enemies. They were displeased with those who gave it their attention and presented it to the people. Thus t...— 4MR 372.1 (1990)

...orm its proper attention. They have not recognized it in its relation to the work of the message as the right arm of the body. While very little respect has been shown to this department by many of the people, and by some of the ministers, the Lord has shown His regard for it by giving it abundant prosperity. When properly conducted, the health work is an entering wedge, making a way for other truths to reach the heart. When the third angel's message is received in its fullness, health reform will be given its place in the councils of the conference, in the work of the church, in the home, at the table, and in all...— CM 131.3 (1953)

...ay, In treating these principles as something that you should resist, have you not acted foolishly? In rejecting health reform, you have not been rejecting Dr. Kellogg, but rather the One who in mercy has given you these principles. <For about forty years> the Lord Himself has been sending you instruction, line upon line, p...— 17LtMs, Lt 135, 1902, par. 16

...reated, will prove an entering wedge where the truth may follow with marked success. But to present health reform unwisely, making that subject the burden of the message, has served to create prejudice with unbelievers and to bar the way to the truth, leaving the impression that we are extremists. Now, the Lord would...— 2MR 105.2 (1987)

Many of our brethren and sisters in New York have been backsliding upon health reform. There is but a small number of genuine health reformers in the state. Light and spiritual understanding have been given to the brethren in New York. But the truth that has reached the understanding, the light that has shone upon the soul, which has not been appreciated and cherished, will witness against them in the day of God. Truth has been given to save those who would believe and obey. Their condemnatio...— 3T 50.1 (1885)

...n the health reform work, the importance of which had been kept before the church for thirty years. This work was hindered because of the feelings and prejudices of some in Battle Creek who were not disposed to conform their course of action to the Word of God regarding health reform principles— BCL 11.2 (1928)

...f diet as though no message had come to them. But thank the Lord, some have been true and faithful. Those who have been so unwilling to receive the light upon health reform have displeased the Lord. Their untrue, unchristian influence is the cause of so great a lack of spiritual discernment— 16LtMs, Ms 17, 1901, par. 12