I just got a email from a man i met in Okinawa for the first time just 3 weeks ago. He was super-supportive of this 1858 Great Controversy book in Japanese, one of the very few people in the whole country who are, it seems to me.
BUT,,,,while he was once a pastor for the SDA church, he is now a member of the Reform Movement. After a study of the 1858gc book on Saturday evening, he asked me what i thot about the Reform Movement. I had them read from Ezekiel 9, and asked “Where are the people who receive the seal, and what are they doing?” They replied: “In Jerusalem, sighing and crying for the abominations done in it”. Then i asked: “What is Jerusalem?” They replied “The Seventh-day Adventist church”. I added: “So if you want the seal of God, you must be IN the SDA church, and must sigh and cry for the abominations it does”.
I then said that while the zeal with the Reform Movement is much greater than in the SDA church, God does not want us to make any new organization – the Seventh-day Adventist church is his last church.
The leader/former SDA pastor, mentioned one man we both know in Korea who came out of SDA to join the SDARM for a couple of years, but has now returned to the SDA fold. He said: “That man told me he could have a better chance to witness to those in the SDA church if he was IN the church.” I agreed wholeheartedly. After being asked what to do, i replied that they must pray, follow God’s revealed will, and could perhaps continue meeting as they were, but as a SDA home-church.
Well just this morning i got a email saying that one member purchased 25 1858gc books, and that several members left SDARM.
Praise God!!!! I’m so, so happy, and hope and pray that the little flock there will be kept from the wolves sent by Satan. Please Lord, watch over your torn and bleeding sheep.