Everything Mrs White wrote under inspiration of God was in light of the present truth of her day.
How do you know, have you tested all her words against scriptures? For sure the church hasn’t done it and no one is doing it on the SDAs forums either. Everyone takes whatever she said as already proven and uses her writings to prove things.
There will be many things that are expounded upon but NONE of the foundational pillars of our faith will EVER change.
That is true that the SDA Church and other denominations will never change their foundational pillars. If they did….then they would need to rebuilt a new church(house). No church can continue to stand when their foundational pillars are pulled out.
That is why the Lord led the Iraelites to live in a sukkah(tent) and not in houses(church) during the wilderness journey. They were only instructed to build a house (church =temple) when they entered the promise land. Even the temple was a tent that could be easily and quickly packed to follow that pillar of fire and smoke. Building houses (Churches) in the wilderness was just impractical and not appropriate because they could no longer follow the Lord where ever He leaded them. Each encampment the Lord was leading them to, had another test(lesson) prepared for them to learn so to teach them and monitor their growth from encampment to encampment until we grew into all His truth and ready us to enter the promise land.
Anyone that build in the wilderness a house foundation with few material learn from a few “understandings” of the truth has stopped following and growing in the Lord for we are unable to move the house foundations to the next encampment (lesson).
Only once we have a good understanding of all of His Ways, His Laws, His Mind, His Truth…. only then, we are ready to enter the promise land to receive our inheritance and have the proper material to build a house on a firm foundation tested and establish by Him.
So any Church or denominations that teaches that they have already a firm foundation and have built a house on it, have long stopped and are unable to follow the Lord wherever He leads, and are not walking in His Will and Ways.
Even the dissapointments of our church were prophesied by God in scripture. There will never be a change to what God has established through the Spirit of Prophecy. There are many unanswered questions but all of the evidence is there waiting for God to reveal the truth.
God told Mrs White that He was behind the great dissapointment. That HE put His hand over certain texts that would have discouraged them in their persuit of the three angels messages. It was foretold in prophecy,
Can you show me the scriptures for that?
But God never sends us a prophet and uses them to test His people through lies,
That is not true James. Read Deut 13 very carefully. The Lord is taking credit that He sent that prophet (can be a true or a false one) for the purpose to prove(test) you or me. He does send false prophets or even a true prophet that receive a true vision from the Lord, but often the prophet is not given the interpretation of it and he(or she) will interpret it wrong. For the Lord said that He speaks to prophets … “
in a vision” or “
in a dream” that is given “
in dark speeches”(
chiydah, “
a puzzle, hence, a trick”)”(Num 12:8). Anyone that interprets the vision without receiving the interpretation is given a private interpretation. More frequently the visions sent doesn't come with the interpretation, thus the prophets don't understand it and often will die without understanding it.
1C 13:9
For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.1C 13:12
For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known. Also read Ez 14:1-12 that says that if anyone comes to inquire to the Lord with a heart idol(teachings of men) in their heart that He, the Lord Himself, will answer Him and set His face against him and make “
him a sign and a proverb” and cut him off. The prophet is commanded to not answer this person if the prophet detects that individual has set a heart idol. If the prophet answered despite him knowing the person has a heart idol, then the Lord says that the prophet will bear the punishment of the individual. But if unknowingly of the heart idol, the prophet answer that individual, then the Lord will put in the mouth of that prophet His answer.
So Ez 14 let us know that the Lord will answer another individual according to their heart idols. Whatever the Lord will answer, the Lord knows that individual will twist it to suit their heart idol and will further become a stumblingblock for them. The Lord said He will answer them in a way that will make “
him a sign and a proverb” for all to see. I do believe the Lord will answer them with some truth, but the text doesn’t specify it. Whether it is truth or false, the end result is the same. The person will twist it all around to suit their heart idol.
The same principle (or law) is shown when the people ask for “
flesh”(man's word = man's theories = man's interpretaton = heart idols) to eat instead of pure
manna(word of G-d) in the wilderness. The Lord gave them what they ask for…“flesh” and He will give them lots of it until it gets them sick.
This is the ways of the Lord as written in the Law and the prophets for us to be able to recognize Him. What you are saying and promoting is the worship of “
the queen of Heaven” saying the Lord wouldn't do that. Get grounded into the truth James. Read, study, and meditate “
every word that proceeded from the mouth of the Lord”. Don’t put any aside, don’t cherry pick. Recognize what idols you have in your heart, and put them at the door before opening scriptures. Whatever we can at least recognize or have a potential to be one; then they won’t have as much power on us in distorting the pure words of the Lord.
This is a warning to all of us when we open scriptures and inquire the Lord for the Truth. If we have not put our heart idols at the door before inquiring the Lord, the Lord will feed us more
flesh.
He sends them to correct and exhort and reproove, to draw other closer to Him through truth.
False prophets or true prophets given vision that were mis-interpretated afterwards by the prophet; or even if the signs of the prophet came true and the people were caught in the infatuation of the vision or sign given to the prophet who later on spoke falsehood or mis-interpretated the vision; or we or they (the prophet being true or false) having heart idols and have twisted His original pure word----- all of tese boils down to the same as being a lie that
WE believed ourselves because we fail to test it as the Lord told us to.
No matter how long or how deep we were “
made a sign and a proverb” and how many times we have stumbled on our heart idols… by falling we do get corrected an tiny inch at a time. It does exhort us to know the Lord cared enough to correct us in the only way that was possible to reproved us. Heart idols totally blinds us, so by falling and smashing our noses, can we get some hope to eventually see that we were blinded by that heart idol.
Falsehood does eventually correct us, and exhort us and reprove us and does strongly teach us to test all things according to what the Lord told us to do in Deut 13 and elsewhere. Those that come to obey the Lord and does test all the words of a prophet ….always come out in learning more and deeper the meaning of the word of the Lord and comes more familiar with the Lord’s Ways and Character despite if the prophet sent is true or false.
If someone do not test all things like the Bereans was praised for doing, then they are not obeying the Lord no matter if that prophet sent is a true prophet or not. We are called to test for ourselves anyone’s saying, preachings, church doctrines, beliefs, etc… against the Law, the prophets, the psalms, and other scriptures so we can come more familiar with Him. That’s the whole purpose of it all.
EGW and James has correctly said that it was our Christian DUTY to do so. Also Paul was not the least offended when the Bereans was testing all of his words. He upheld their actions with high regards because Paul knew that that is what the Lord requires of us. Anyone that doesn’t or preaches against it or stone anyone that test someone’s word …. is walking a path of disobedience to the Lord’s command.