The Jone-Waggoner Message of 1888 is the third angel's message
The archives of Ellen White prove that she identified the Jones-Waggoner Message of 1888 as the third angel's message. Ellen White distinguished their message, from all others, as the message that God commanded to be given to the world ...
"The Lord in His great mercy sent a most precious message to His people through Elders WAGGONER AND JONES. This message was to bring more prominently before the world the uplifted Saviour, the sacrifice for the sins of the whole world. It presented justification through faith in the Surety; it invited the people to receive THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF CHRIST, WHICH IS MADE MANIFEST IN OBEDIENCE TO ALL THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD....This is the message that God commanded to be given to the world. It is the third angel's message, which is to be proclaimed with a loud voice, and attended with the outpouring of His Spirit in a large measure." (Testimonies to Ministers [1895], pp.91,92.
The previous quote was in 1895. So, we have solid evidence that Ellen White consistently endorsed their message for many years. Her next quote dates back to the 1888 conference.
"I see the beauty of truth in the presentation of the righteousness of Christ in relation to the law as the doctor [WAGGONER] has placed it before us ....That which has been presented harmonizes perfectly with the light which God has been pleased to give me during all the years of my experience." (Manuscript 15, 1888).
In the Review and Herald of the same year, July 24, 1888, EGW defined faith this way:
"You may say that you believe in Jesus, when you have an appreciation of the cost of salvation. You may make this claim, when you feel that Jesus died for you on the cruel cross of Calvary; when you have an intelligent, understanding faith that his death makes it possible for you TO CEASE FROM SIN, and to perfect a righteous character through the grace of God, bestowed upon you as the purchase of Christ's blood."
The following testimony is important because Ellen White confirms that God had given her the message in a vision; and, that she and her husband had previously talked about this teaching prior to 1888.
"When Brother Waggoner brought out these ideas in the Minneapolis Conference it was the first clear teaching of the subject FROM ANY HUMAN LIPS I had heard, excepting the communication between myself and my husband. I have said to myself, it is because God has presented it to me in vision that I see it so clearly, and they [the opposing brethren] cannot see it because they have not had it presented to them as I have; and when another presented it, every fiber of my heart said amen." (Manuscript 5, 1889)
That testimony of Ellen White shows that the 1888 Message of A. T. Jones and E. J. Waggoner shed new light on the doctrine of justification by faith.
Ellen White validates their 1888 Message as a message from God. It does not matter what Jones and Waggoner said or did subsequent to 1888.
"It is quite possible that Elder Jones or Waggoner may be overthrown by the temptations of the enemy; but if they should be, this would not prove that they had no message from God, or that the work that they had done was all a mistake. But should this happen, how many would take this position, and enter into a fatal delusion because they were not under the control of the Spirit of God....I know that this is the very position many would take if either of these men were to fall, ..." Letter S-24, 1892.
That is a prophecy that is still being fulfilled today. Antinomians in the Adventist Church have found an excuse for their rebellion against The Commandments of God. Many Adventists (even in this news group) are opposing the message of Jones and Waggoner because "it presented justification through faith in the Surety; it invited the people to receive THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF CHRIST, WHICH IS MADE MANIFEST IN OBEDIENCE TO ALL THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD" because it demands that a true believer must cease from willful sin.
All who say Christians commit willful sin "occasionally" oppose the teaching of Mrs. White. Those who intentionally disobey any of the Commandments of God have not received "The Righteousness of Christ". Without an obedient faith that is manifested as "a doer of the word" - they believe like the devils. That is their fatal delusion!
Donna Kupp
"And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, WHICH KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD, AND HAVE THE TESTIMONY OF JESUS CHRIST." Rev 12:17 (KJV)
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