Jezreel Letter 8

ADAM'S BROCHURE AND THE SHEPHERD'S ROD

Dear Friend:

   Here is Heaven's Truth of Elder Adam's brochure.  Needless to say that it is enlightening as well
as interesting.  This you will see soon after you begin reading.  You have long been waiting for
this information and now you have it.

   Elder Adam's brochure, like all the other anti-Shepherd's Rod literature, very plainly shows that
the Brochure contains only half truth about "The Shepherd's Rod."  What we mean by half truth is
here demonstrated by Matthew 27:5 and Acts 1:18: "And he [Judas] cast down the pieces of
silver in the temple, and departed, and went and hanged himself." Matthew 27:5.  "Now this man
[Judas] purchased a field with the reward of iniquity; and falling headlong, he burst asunder in the
midst, and all his bowels gushed out." Acts 1:18.  These two halves, put together, is what tells the
full story of Judas crime and death.  But the anti-Christians living in the days of the Apostles,
declared:

   "These divergent records positively contradict each other, and the authors of them are nothing
less than deceivers."

   But were they?  Matthew 27:5 tells the first part of the story -- that Judas hanged himself.  And
Acts 1:18 tells the second part of it -- the way he died.  Reading the two records together, they
tell that Judas hanged himself, but that either the rope or the limb broke off, and that Judas fell
headlong over something, perhaps a stick, or a stump that ripped his abdomen, then his bowels
gushed out and

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that is the way he died. This harmony between the two gospel writers can be derived only if the
reader reads to know the Truth, not if he is looking for pegs to hang his doubts on.

   The anti-Rod literature, however, very plainly shows that by quoting from the Rod the
conclusions the Rod comes to, but leaving out the premises upon which It makes them, the
authors of the Brochure are not trying to prove what the Rod really is, but to fabricate traps for
the Brochure's readers to fall into.  How do they do this? -- In order to refute "The Shepherd's
Rod," they quote statements from It but leave out the premises upon which the statements are
made!  This unfair practice, half truth, you will plainly see in the following passages which the
Brochure quotes from "The Shepherd's Rod":

   "'Note that the separation takes place just at the beginning of the HARVEST; also that the tares
are gathered in first.  The separation marks the beginning of HARVEST.  The HARVEST IS
THE LOUD CRY OF THE THIRD ANGEL'S MESSAGE.' -- Shep. Rod, Vol. 1, p. 104." --
Adam's Brochure, p. 8.

   The very first word in the Brochure's quotation from the Rod, you see, is the word "note" by
which the Rod calls attention to the fact that the statements in the quotation are based upon the
information laid down in the lines that precede the quotation.  By isolating the proof upon which
the statements are made, the Brochure makes the Rod statements appear blunt, unauthorative,
without foundation and untrue!

   Here is another example: Further quoting from the Rod, the author of the Adam's brochure
again omits the Rod's basic reasons for the statement It makes, and it again starts with the Rod's
word "Note":

   "'Note that the existence of the present name -- SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST -- is
conditional, otherwise

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the NAME will be spued out of His mouth.' -- Shep. Rod, Vol. 1, p. 101." -- Adam's Brochure, p.
9.

   Work of this kind is more than to hang a man without a hearing.  It is to bury him alive and his
witnesses with him.  It is violent injustice to the Rod, with intention to grossly deceive anyone
who reads the Brochure. And what is more than these, is the fact that since the Rod claims
Inspiration for Its revelation, and since no one has ever sat down to prove It otherwise, the
anti-Rod literature is anti-Heaven's Truth, blasphemy against the Spirit of all Truth -- unmatched
wickedness!

   Obviously the premises upon which the Rod makes Its statements are left out from the
quotation because the authors of the Brochure recognized that the Rod proves Its point and if
quoted would overthrow the idea which the Brochure is trying to put over.  For the same reason
the Brochure sympathizers instruct the laity not to read "The Shepherd's Rod'' literature and not
to talk to Its adherents.

   We use the plural form, authors of the Brochure, because the Brochure has nothing original;
that is, the Brochure and all anti-Rod literature is only a rehash of the "A Reply to The Shepherd's
Rod."  The Brochure's unfair practice is seen all through the anti-Rod literature -- misrepresenting
the Rod and deceiving the people.  Why do they do this? Because the anti-Rodists are anti-Truth,
and anti-Christ's people.  They want forever to keep the Laodiceans in their "need of nothing"
theory, and in darkness of the Truth for today.

   The Rod does not make blunt statements; what It says It proves.  But because the anti-Rodists
judge others by themselves they constantly accuse the Rod of taking Sister White's writings out of
their setting but never produce the Incident.  How true the statement, "thou that judgest doest the
same things" (Rom. 2:1).  The "golden rule'' is trampled under foot by those who pretend to
promote it!

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   Let us now have a sample of their habit of quoting from Sister White's writings and of their
system of interpreting them.  Here it is:

   "'The tares and the wheat are to grow together until the HARVEST, and the HARVEST IS
THE END OF PROBATIONARY TlME.' -- Christ's Object Lessons, p. 72." -- Adam's Brochure,
p. 8.

   This quotation they interpret to mean that the wheat and the tares are to grow together until
probation closes and that then the harvest is to beam. But does the quotation say so? -- On the
contrary, it says that "the tares and the wheat are to grow together until the harvest," then it
explains that the harvest ends probationary time -- that after probationary time ends, then it is that
probation closes!

   If they were honest in their understanding of her writings and of the Bible, and if they were
honest in their anti-Rod work, then why did they leave out the time record in which the Bible
places the harvest?  and why did they leave out Sister White's statements which reprove their
erroneous conclusion of the harvest?  Here is what the Bible says, "The harvest is past, the
summer is ended, and we are not saved."  Any one who wants Truth can see that since, according
to prophecy, no one can be saved after the harvest, the harvest, therefore, is probationary time,
that it ends probationary time, that it caused probation to close, that it brings the end of the world.

   "In the time of harvest" (Matt. 13:30), my friends, means that the harvest is a short period of
time, the last, the time in which to separate the wheat from the tares, the good fish from the bad
(Matt. 13:47, 48) the goats from the sheep (Matt. 2:31-33) - the penitent from the impenitent,
from followers of Truth from the followers of men, those who have the mark of the beast (Rev.
13:17)

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from those who have the mark of God (Ezek. 9:4).  The "harvest" and the Judgment for the
Living are synonymous terms, you see.  This is Bible and It is Truth to which Sister White adds:
"I then saw the third angel. Said my accompanying angel, 'Fearful is his work.  Awful is his
mission. He is the angel that is to select the wheat from the tares, and seal, or bind, the wheat for
the heavenly garner.  These things should engross the whole mind, the whole attention.'" -- "Early
Writings," p. 118.

   "Only those who have withstood temptation in the strength of the Mighty One will be permitted
to act a part in proclaiming it [Third Angel's Message] when it shall have swelled into the Loud
Cry." -- "The Review and Herald," Nov. 19, 1908.

   "Thy people also shall be all righteous: they shall inherit the land for ever, the branch of My
planting, the work of My hands, that I may be glorified.  A little one shall become a thousand, and
a small one a strong nation: I the Lord will hasten it in his time." Isa. 60:21, 22.

   These quotations, my friends, are plain and to the point.  They are not cunningly devised fables. 
They all point out that the Third Angel is to do the harvesting, that the church will be purified,
that the Loud Cry is to be proclaimed by a pure ministry, that the church is to be "'fair as the
moon, clear as the sun, and terrible as an army with banners,' she is to go forth into all the world,
conquering and to conquer.'" -- "Prophets and Kings," p. 720.

   The enemy of Truth has tightly closed the people's eyes against this Truth and as a result they
are in a terrible deception.  Says the Spirit of God:

   "I saw that the remnant were not prepared for what is coming upon the earth.  Stupidity, like
lethargy, seemed to hang upon the minds of most of

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those who profess to believe that we are having the last message.  My accompanying angel cried
out with awful solemnity, 'Get ready!  get ready!  get ready!  for the fierce anger of the Lord is
soon to come....'" -- "Early Writings," p. 119.

   Moreover, pleads Inspiration: "Awake, awake, put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful
garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the
uncircumcised and the unclean." Isa. 52:1.

   Note that after this call of awakening is made to the church, to Zion and Jerusalem, from then
on the unclean and the uncircumcised are no more to pass through her.  Furthermore the prophet
Nahum adds:

   "Behold upon the mountains the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace! 
O Judah, keep thy solemn feasts, perform thy vows: for the wicked shall no more pass through
thee; he is utterly cut off." Nah. 1:15.

   Again note, my friend, that God is directing your eyes to one whom He has sent to bring peace
to you and to effect a revival and reformation among His people, and that thereafter the wicked
are no longer to pass through the church, they are cut off.  Ask the anti-Rodists why all these
references are overlooked by the anti-Rod literature and have them explain what these references
mean if not what these lines show.

   Of course, it is incredible that ministers of the Gospel would deal with Truth so crookedly, but
here you have the naked facts.  Shall you close your ears to God's pleading Word, and your eyes
to what the master enemy, the Devil, makes of so-called "men of experience"?  "Men of
experience"?  Yes, but of what kind?  Do you see how deeply the Laodiceans are deceived, and
who deceived them?  No, not wolves in sheep's clothing but Devil's agents in

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ministerial garbs, and in no lesser degree than did his agents in priestly garb deceive the people in
Christ's day.  Please do not misunderstand me.  I am not speaking with malice in my heart, but in
the hope of awakening the sleeping Laodiceans.  No, I hate no one, and am saying no more, no,
not even near as much as Christ Himself and John the Baptist said when they uttered the following
against "men of experience" in their day.

   "Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!  for ye devour widows' houses, and for a
presence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation.  Woe unto you,
scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!  for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when
he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.  Woe unto you, ye blind
guides, which say, Whosoever shall swear by the temple it is nothing, but whosoever shall swear
by the gold of the temple, he is a debtor!

   "Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!  for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and
cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these
ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.  Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat,
and swallow a camel.  Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!  for ye make clean the
outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess.

   "Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of
them may be clean also.  Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!  for ye are like unto
whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward but are within full of dead men's bones,
and of all uncleanness.  Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are
full of hypocrisy and iniquity.  Woe unto you, scribes

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and Pharisees, hypocrites!  because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres
of the righteous, and say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been
partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.  Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves,
that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets.  Fill ye up then the measure of your
fathers.  Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?" (Matt.
23:14-16, 23-33.)

   "But when he [John] saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said
unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?" (Matt.
3:7. )

   No, my friend, he who now tells you that the Rod criticizes would have just as quickly accused
the Lord if he had been living in His day.  The Rod accuses none,  It only tells the Truth as God
gives It.

   There is nothing in the excerpts from the Bible and from the Spirit of Prophecy which the
Brochure quotes that says or implies that the slaughter of Ezekiel nine takes place after probation
closes for the world. Search and see.

   These anti-Rod ministers may claim to be divinely appointed, but if they are, then let them
remember that Aaron's two sons (Nadab and Abihu) were also divinely appointed, nevertheless
after disobeying they dropped dead.  Also let them remember that the lukewarm angel (minister)
of the church of the Laodiceans is to be spued out, and let them not forget that "only those who
have overcome temptation in the strength of the Mighty One will be permitted to act a part in
proclaiming it [Third Angel's Message] when it shall have swelled into the Loud Cry." -- "The
Review and Herald," Nov. 19, 1908.  Neither let them overlook the fact that only a few

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great men will then be engaged in the work, and that those who have trusted to intellect, genius,
and talent will not then be the leaders in the work, that God has other servants whom He is then
to disclose to view. Read "Testimonies," Vol. 5, pp. 80, 81.  Ever remember that JUDGMENT
begins at the sanctuary.  Read Ezek. 9:2-7 and 1 Pet. 4:17.

   The "Shepherd's Rod" considers as Seventh-day Adventist doctrines only those which are
approved by Inspiration, but these anti-Rodists call Seventh-day Adventist doctrines everything
that is taught in the church be it true or untrue.  Then they compare their man-made doctrines
with the doctrines of "The Shepherd's Rod," and because the doctrines disagree, they make it
appear that the Rod is in error.  Here is one heresy with which the Rod disagrees:

   "And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand: and I
heard the number of them.  And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat of them,
having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the
heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone." (Rev. 9:16, 17.) 
This is the picture which John gives of the 200,000,000 horses and horsemen.
   
   Now compare Inspiration's own description of the horses and horsemen with the
Denomination's illustration of them as given in "Thoughts on Daniel and the Revelation," p. 510.

   Why can not the Denomination in their exposition of the Trumpets use Inspiration's own
description of the horses and horsemen?  Why did they have to devise one of their own?

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The only answer that can be given is that the Spirit's own description does not fit their uninspired
interpretations of the Scriptures. One's inability to interpret correctly without Heaven's gift of
interpretation, however, is expected and is excusable.  But to say that the vision was shown to the
Revelator at so great a distance that he was unable accurately   to see the kinds of heads and
tails the horses had and where the fire, smoke, and brimstone came from, in order to tailor the
vision to accord with their interpretation of it, is not only defiance against Christ's warning
concerning adding to and subtracting from the Scriptures (Rev. 22:18, 19), but it is also outright
blasphemy.  Do you now see who is teaching error and who is deceiving the people?

     The anti-Rodists' accusations that the Rod is calling the church Babylon is another
falsehood.  The Rod proves that the church is not Babylon and that is the reason for which Its
adherents stay in it instead of coming out of it, and this is the very reason for which the
anti-Rodists are trying to keep them out of the churches.
     
   As to what the leopard-like beast of Revelation thirteen is, we all know that the Denomination
has no established doctrine on it.  Let us therefore look at it in the light of revealed Truth for
today.  Since the leopard-like beast is a part of the symbolical beasts of Daniel seven, we shall
herein take a look at all the Bible beasts in one picture.

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   These beasts of Daniel's vision are symbolic of the world in several different periods.  For
example, let us look at the fourth beast in both its phases: First it was seen to have ten horns. 
Then another little horn came up among the ten, and three were uprooted.  No sensible Bible
student would disagree that this beast, as all the others do, represents the world.  Daniel's fourth
beast pictures the regime of Pagan Rome, and then the regime of Papal Rome -- the world in that
day.

   All Adventists teach that the entire beast symbolism does not represent the papacy, that only the
little horn which had a mouth and spake like a man represents the papacy, that the other horns
represent the kingdoms that were to arise at that time, and that the beast in its second phase
depicts both the world's civil and religious powers.  Since the little horn is a combination of horn
and head, it depicted a church and state system -- civil and religious power.  In like manner the
leopard-like beast of Revelation 13 does not in its entirety represent the papacy.  The papacy is
represented only by its one head, the head that was wounded.  It's ten horns, the same as in
Daniel's fourth beast, represent the kingdoms of the world.  So as Daniel's beast depicts the world
of that day, John's beast depicts the world of today.  Its horns are crowned because it depicts the
world after one of his heads was wounded, after the kingdoms took their thrones and reigned
independent of the church.

   Now, since the wounded head represents a church, a religious system, and since all seven heads
are on the beast at the same time, not coming up or dropping out one after another, the head
symbolism is positively depicting a multi-sectarian world, the churches of today.  So we have
Heaven's graphic picture of the world as it actually has been ever since the church-state system
was beaten out of it, and ever since multi-sectarianism came in.  This is Bible and this is Truth.

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   Since number seven is the Biblical number for the whole, and since the blasphemy is over all the
seven heads, not over the horns, the picture in the light of present Truth clearly depicts
Christianity under apostasy, and the blasphemies in the anti-Rod literature clinches that fact.  The
Reformation inflicted the wound, and apostasy healed the wound.

   Their associating the name Babylon with this beast is adding to the Word of God.  And as they
do this in order to fight Truth, the act is blasphemy.  There is nothing on this beast to indicate
Babylon.  Babylon is depicted by the scarlet-colored beast of Revelation 17, the beast that depicts
the world after the church is purified, after the image of the beast is made, after a second church
and state government comes into being, the next world regime.  It is Babylon.

   This is the day in which "all things" are to be restored, and this is the day for each individual,
independent of another, to decide whether or not these anti-Rod teachers are the antitypical
prophets of Baal.

Faithfully yours for open eyes to Truth, and for a heart to judge a message by the Word, not by
who brought it,

V.H. Jezreel, H.B.


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