Your response shows where you are in your walk of faith and you cannot see it.

You like Satan have accused God to be a "dictator" because of the order of heaven. Out of all the created beings, who is more worthy of being the perfect witness? No one on this earth but Jesus who is the son of God, who came and lived here on this planet and did not fall to sin. The only one worthy to open the book of record. He has a book and it is written on the record the perfect truth of everything that has ever taken place. All He does is open it for everyone to see from the perfect perspective. Those who have been redeemed have their records expunged. Those who do not repent see the record after the rest of the universe does, just before they are punished for their rebellion against God. But EVERYONE will see the truth perfectly from our righteous God's perspective outside of our universe.

God reveals everything in His time. The judgment is for us to see that everything God saw and how He responded is perfect. It will reveal those who had faith that God knows what is best, and that ALL OF HIS JUDGMENTS ARE RIGHTEOUS! Anyone who truly knows God has already received this lesson.

For you to say that God is a dictator in how He responds to sin, shows perfectly what Spirit motivates you. It proves that what you are teaching is a feeble attempt to justify your unballanced view of God.

God has told us through His word what the truth of the matter is, and He uses very pointed words to do so in so many different ways. Anyone who does not believe in those words, who tries to erase God's view of Himself, are showing an extreem lack of faith, because faith comes by hearing the word of God. It is the antithisis of faith to try to change the truth.

So terribly blinded had they become by transgression. The Lord had never commanded them to "go up and fight." It was not His purpose that they should gain the land by warfare, but by strict obedience to His commands. {PP 392.3}

This seems to be clear to me that the "bowels of the earth were the Lord's arsenal, from which....." were directly used by God to bring about the world-wide flood that killed all but those who were in the ark.


Did APL and kland ever directly respond to the above EGW quotes?

Were not the fiery serpents part of God's arsenal? Yep. How did He use them? How was He involved in sending them?

Couldn't God have made all the serpents harmless? Then, even the Israelites were disobedient, they wouldn't have died.

Daryl is correct, he sees the two ways God executes justice, that God both allows satan to torment in result of sin, and executes judgment Himself to erase sin.

APL only sees one side and denies the accountability of God in the process.

God takes full responsibility for His creation. He had to suffer His own wrath to forgive us because of the way righteousness demands justice and He chose to offer mercy interacting in Christ to show us His infinite love.

Why is there such a problem in the church that claims to be lead by the Spirit?

How did God use the earth to swallow up the rebels in the camp?
Did He just withdraw His Spirit and the earth fell away? How did Sodom and Gamorah get destroyed? The angels from God are the fires, or lightnings from heaven. The angel at the gate to the Garden has the righteousness of God through His Holy word in the form of a sword to defend paradise from intrusion. He commands other angels in the name of the Lord because of every word that comes from the mouth of Jesus is indellable. Jesus speaks and the angels do as He commands. There is perfect order in heaven and Not one sinner has crossed the gate and eaten of the tree of life. God speaks and it is so. This is faith where the power of God is at the service of His creatures.

Did God make the fiery serpents dangerous in the first place???

Consider Hosea 11:8 How shall I give you up, Ephraim? how shall I deliver you, Israel? how shall I make you as Admah? how shall I set you as Zeboim? my heart is turned within me, my repentings are kindled together.

No, but I'm pretty sure He knew they were dangerous at that time.

If I was leading a child through a pit I knew was full of dangerous snakes, then I withdrew my protection because the child rebelled against my instructions, knowing that the venomous snakes would attack, I think most would say I was responsible for the inevitable outcome. And if I had the ability to make the snakes harmless but chose not to.....