Sanctuary, Latter Rain, The third angels Message, Pantheism, God Seventh Day Adventist

1. E J Waggoner against
Kellogg's Pantheism
Primary Evidence
Isaiah Chapter 6

2. PRAYER

3. Point of Departure
• I wish to write you a few words in regard to the
employment of Dr. E. J. Waggoner as a teacher in
the Berrien Springs school. I have had much
confidence in Brother Waggoner, but I know that
just now he is in special danger. He is in danger, as
many others are, of accepting incorrect views of
God, as set forth in the new book Living Temple .
Take him into the school at Berrien Springs. My
counsel regarding his work is that you help him to
place his feet on solid ground, even the Rock of
Ages. I believe that he will recover his former
clearness and power 18LtMs, Lt 214, 1903, par. 2

4. Point of departure
• Waggoner, E. J.
• "Elmshaven," St. Helena, California
• October 2, 1903
• This letter is published in entirety in 21MR 171-173.
• Dr. Ellet J. Waggoner
• Dear Brother,—
• I beseech you by the mercy of God to be on your guard. To you and to other ministers and
teachers, the Lord says, "Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith." 2 Corinthians
13:5. The world is full of speculation and false theories regarding the nature and character
of God. The enemy of our souls is earnestly at work to introduce among the Lord's people
pleasing speculation and incorrect views regarding the personality of God.
• The fables that are being accepted and taught by some of our medical writers are not to
be accepted as the truth of God. It will soon be discerned that they originate with the
great apostate, who works as an angel of light, influencing minds by a deception so subtle
that he would deceive, if possible, the very elect.
• I am authorized to say to you that some of the sentiments regarding the personality of
God, as found in the book Living Temple , are opposed to the truths revealed in the Word
of God. Yet many physicians and teachers are inclined to accept these fanciful ideas of
God. To these I say, Awake to a sense of your danger 18ltms 1.null.1903023000 - 18LtMs,
Lt 230, 1903, par. 3

5. Point of departure
• say to all, Be on your guard; for as an angel of light Satan is walking in every
assembly of Christian workers, and in every church, trying to win the
members to his side. I am bidden to give to the people of God the warning,
"Be not deceived; God is not mocked." Galatians 6:7.
• Had God desired to be represented as dwelling personally in the things of
nature—in the flower, the tree, the spear of grass—would not Christ have
spoken of this to His disciples? To take the works of God and represent them
to be God is a fearful misrepresentation. This misrepresentation of God I
was called upon to oppose at the beginning of my work, when the Lord sent
me forth to proclaim the message that He should give me to speak.
• My labors on this line began when I was seventeen years old, and since then
I have been over the ground again and again. Case after case has been
presented to me, and the power of God has rested on me as I have stood
before large assemblies and called out the names of those who were
entertaining false views, telling them where such views would lead them if
they did not change 18LtMs, Lt 230, 1903, par. 6 - 18LtMs, Lt 230, 1903, par.
8

6. Point of departure
• Today there are coming into educational
institutions and into the churches everywhere
spiritualistic teachings that undermine faith in God
and in His word. The theory that God is an essence
pervading all nature is received by many who
profess to believe the Scriptures; but, however
beautifully clothed, this theory is a most dangerous
deception. It misrepresents God and is a dishonor
to His greatness and majesty. And it surely tends
not only to mislead, but to debase men. Darkness is
its element, sensuality its sphere. The result of
accepting it is separation from God. And to fallen
human nature this means ruin. MH 428.2

7. Kellogg's Position vis-a-vis
Waggoner's
• Kellogg in his own words as testified by A G Daniel
that his position was not exactly the position
Waggoner had taught. Or SOP or A T Jones.

8. Daniel
s
Letter
to W C
W
God the
Holy
Spirit as
an Esse
ce in all
Nature

9. Butler's
letter to
Kellogg

10. Butler's
Letter to
Kellogg

11. Butler's Letter to
Kellogg
Kellog
g
Made
the
Life in
Nature
to be
the
very
body
and
Substa
nce of
God

12. Butler's
Letter to
Kellogg

13. Butlers
Letter to
Kellogg

14. Butler's
Letter to
Kellogg

15. Butler's
Letter to
Kellogg

16. Butler's
Letter to
Kellogg

17. Butler's
Letter to
Kellogg

18. Butler's
Letter to
Kellogg

19. Butler's
Letter to
Kellogg

20. Butler's
Letter to
Kellogg

21. Waggo
ner on
Trinity
Never believed
on Trinity

22. EGW Testimony on the Shekinah
Glory

23. Shekinah
Not Found inthe Bible
but found in rabbinic
writings such as
talmud, mishna and
Kabbalah.

24. Shekinah
• Above the mercy seat was the Shekinah, the
manifestation of the divine Presence; and from
between the cherubim, God made known His will.
Divine messages were sometimes communicated to
the high priest by a voice from the cloud.
Sometimes a light fell upon the angel at the right,
to signify approval or acceptance, or a shadow or
cloud rested upon the one at the left to reveal
disapproval or rejection CIHS 40.2 - CIHS 41.1

25. Shekinah
• Christ was their instructor. As He had been with
them in the wilderness, so He was still to be their
teacher and guide. In the tabernacle and the
temple His glory dwelt in the holy shekinah above
the mercy seat. In their behalf He constantly
manifested the riches of His love and patience.
• God desired to make of His people Israel a praise
and a glory. Every spiritual advantage was given
them. God withheld from them nothing favorable
to the formation of character that would make
them representatives of Himself COL 287.2 - COL
288.2

26. Shekinah
• Above the mercy seat was the Shekinah, the manifestation of the
divine Presence; and from between the cherubim, God made
known His will. Divine messages were sometimes communicated
to the high priest by a voice from the cloud. Sometimes a light fell
upon the angel at the right, to signify approval or acceptance, or a
shadow or cloud rested upon the one at the left to reveal
disapproval or rejection CIHS 40.2 - CIHS 41.1
• No language can describe the glory of the scene presented within
the sanctuary—the gold-plated walls reflecting the light from the
golden candlestick, the brilliant hues of the richly embroidered
curtains with their shining angels, the table, and the altar of
incense, glittering with gold; beyond the second veil the sacred
ark, with its mystic cherubim, and above it the holy Shekinah, the
visible manifestation of Jehovah's presence; all but a dim
reflection of the glories of the temple of God in heaven, the great
center of the work for man's redemption.

27. Shekinah
• When the loud cry, "It is finished," came from the lips of Christ,
the priests were officiating in the temple. It was the hour of the
evening sacrifice. The lamb representing Christ had been brought
to be slain. Clothed in his significant and beautiful dress, the
priest stood with lifted knife, as did Abraham when he was about
to slay his son. With intense interest the people were looking on.
But the earth trembles and quakes; for the Lord Himself draws
near. With a rending noise the inner veil of the temple is torn
from top to bottom by an unseen hand, throwing open to the
gaze of the multitude a place once filled with the presence of
God. In this place the Shekinah had dwelt. Here God had
manifested His glory above the mercy seat. No one but the high
priest ever lifted the veil separating this apartment from the rest
of the temple. He entered in once a year to make an atonement
for the sins of the people. But lo, this veil is rent in twain. The
most holy place of the earthly sanctuary is no longer sacred DA
756.5

28. Shekinah
• And beyond the second veil was the holy shekinah, the visible
manifestation of God's glory, before which none but the high
priest could enter and live. The matchless splendor of the
earthly tabernacle reflected to human vision the glories of that
heavenly temple where Christ our forerunner ministers for us
before the throne of God. The abiding-place of the King of
kings, where thousand thousands minister unto him, and ten
thousand times ten thousand stand before him; Daniel 7:10.
that temple, filled with the glory of the eternal throne, where
seraphim, its shining guardians, veil their faces in adoration,
could find, in the most magnificent structure ever reared by
human hands, but a faint reflection of its vastness and glory.
Yet important truths concerning the heavenly sanctuary and
the great work there carried forward for man's redemption,
were taught by the earthly sanctuary and its services GC88
413.3

29. Shekinah. Dwelling only by
Shekinah
• The history of a thousand years of privilege and blessing, granted
to the Jewish people, was unfolded to the eye of Jesus. The Lord
had made Zion his holy habitation. There prophets had unsealed
their rolls and uttered their warnings. There priests had waved
their censers, and daily offered the blood of slain lambs, pointing
forward to the Lamb of God. There had Jehovah dwelt in visible
glory, in the shekinah above the mercy-seat. There rested the
base of that mystic ladder connecting earth with Heaven,—that
ladder upon which angels of God descended and ascended, and
which opened to the world the way into the holiest of all. Had
Israel as a nation preserved her allegiance to Heaven, Jerusalem
would have stood forever, the elect metropolis of God. But the
history of that favored people was a record of backsliding and
rebellion. They had resisted Heaven's grace, abused their
privileges, slighted their opportunities 4SP 18.2

30. Shekinah Representative
• But if the second text be read in connection with the first, it
destroys the possibility of such an inference. The psalmist states
that the mountain of the inheritance was the border of the
sanctuary; and that God, after driving out the heathen before his
people, proceeded to build his sanctuary like high palaces. See 1
Chronicles 29:1. (1) The land of Canaan was the mountain of the
inheritance. Exodus 15:17. (2) That mountain was the border of
the sanctuary. Psalm 78:54. (3) In that border God built his
sanctuary. Psalm 78:69. (4) In that sanctuary, God dwelt, by his
representative, the glorious Shekinah. Psalm 74:7; Exodus 25:8.
(5) In that border the people dwelt. Psalm 78:54, 55. These facts
demonstrate that the same Spirit moved both these holy men of
old. These texts perfectly harmonize, not only with each other,
but with the entire testimony of the Bible respecting the
sanctuary. If the reader still persists in confounding the sanctuary
with its border, the land of Canaan, we request him to listen while
a king of Judah points out the distinction BIAD 129.2

31. Shekinah Holy Spirit
• That there is one God, a personal, spiritual being,
the creator of all things, omnipotent, omniscient,
and eternal, infinite in wisdom, holiness, justice,
goodness, truth, and mercy; unchangeable, and
everywhere present by his representative, the Holy
Spirit FP1872 4.2

32. Eden Restored the Shekinah fully
manifest as was in the original
Garden
• Hence we may see that our Lord has a strict reference to the visibility of his
glorious appearing to all the inhabitants of the earth. 'As the bright shining i.e.
of the sun , cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west, SO shall the
coming of the Son of Man be.' 'Behold, he cometh with clouds, and every eye
shall see him .' Praise the Lord, no one will then want mystical spiritualizers, to
tell them that that same Jesus has come again. The New Jerusalem, in which
he is now King, will come enveloped in the Shekinah, or visible manifestation of
the glory of God. This is the cloud of brightness, or 'bright cloud,' with which
Jesus and the disciples were overshadowed in the mount of transfiguration. It is
the cloud that received our Lord when he ascended from Mount Olivet. It is the
'white cloud' of Revelation 14:14, where one like the son of man is disclosed to
view, with a crown upon his head, proving him to be king . As the city with her
glorious husband and his attending retinue of saints and angels, amid that
refulgent blaze of surrounding glory, comes sweeping down from the distant
heavens toward the earth, it will at first appear as a new star in the sky. But as
it swiftly approaches, it will grow brighter and larger, till its light will transcend
the sun's glory, and all eyes are gazing at the 'sign of the Son of Man JUBST June
26, 1845, page 125.5

33. Shekinah In Isaiah
• Visible pavilion = Garment/Covering
• In the rejection of Christ by the Jewish nation is a representation of all who refuse the only
Help and Hope of the fallen race.
• Christ Himself was the Lord of the temple. When He should leave it, its glory would
depart—that glory once visible in the holy of holies over the mercy seat, where the high
Priest entered only once a year, on the great day of atonement, with the blood of the slain
victim (typical of the blood of the Son of God shed for the sins of the world), and sprinkled
it upon the altar. This was the Shekinah, the visible pavilion of Jehovah.
• It was this glory that was revealed to Isaiah, when he says, "In the year that king Uzziah
died, I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the
temple. Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his
face; and with twain he covered his feet; and with twain he did fly. And one cried unto
another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory.
And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled
with smoke." Isaiah 6:1-4. "That the saying of Esaias the prophet might be fulfilled which
he spake, Lord, who hath believed our report? and to whom hath the arm of the Lord
been revealed? Therefore they could not believe, because that Esaias said again, He hath
blinded their eyes, and hardened their heart; that they should not see with their eyes, nor
understand with their heart, and be converted, and I should heal them. These things said
Esaias, when he saw his glory, and spake of him." 12LtMs, Ms 71, 1897, par. 20 - 12LtMs,
Ms 71, 1897, par. 22

34. Shekinah in Isaiah
• Such thoughts as these were crowding through Isaiah's mind as he stood under the portico of the
temple. Suddenly the gate and the inner veil of the temple seemed to be uplifted or withdrawn, and he
was permitted to gaze within, upon the holy of holies, where even the prophet's feet might not enter.
There rose up before him a vision of Jehovah sitting upon a throne high and lifted up, while the train of
His glory filled the temple. On each side of the throne hovered the seraphim, their faces veiled in
adoration, as they ministered before their Maker, and united in the solemn invocation, "Holy, holy, holy,
is the Lord of hosts: the whole earth is full of His glory."—Prophets and Kings, 306, 307.
• An indescribable glory emanated from a personage on the throne, and His train filled the temple....
Cherubim were on either side of the mercy-seat, as guards round the great King, and they glowed with
the glory that enshrouded them from the presence of God. As their songs of praise resounded in deep,
earnest notes of adoration, the pillars of the gate trembled, as if shaken by an earthquake. These holy
beings sang forth the praise and glory of God with lips unpolluted with sin. The contrast between the
feeble praise which he Isaiah had been accustomed to bestow upon the Creator and the fervid praises
of the seraphim, astonished and humiliated the prophet. He had for the time being, the sublime
privilege of appreciating the spotless purity of Jehovah's exalted character.
• While he listened to the song of the angels, as they cried, "Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of hosts; the
whole earth is full of his glory," the glory, the infinite power, and the unsurpassed majesty of the Lord
passed before his vision, and was impressed upon his soul. In the light of this matchless radiance, that
made manifest all he could bear in the revelation of the divine character, his own inward defilement
stood out before him with startling clearness. His very words seemed vile to him.—The Review and
Herald, October 16, 1888

35. Shekinah Isaiah Glory filling the
earth
• When God was about to send Isaiah with a message to His people, He first
permitted the prophet to look in vision into the holy of holies within the
sanctuary. Suddenly the gate and the inner veil of the temple seemed to be
uplifted or withdrawn, and he was permitted to gaze within, upon the holy of
holies, where even the prophet's feet might not enter. There rose before him a
vision of Jehovah sitting upon a throne high and lifted up, while the train of His
glory filled the temple. Around the throne were seraphim, as guards about the
great King, and they reflected the glory that surrounded them. As their songs of
praise resounded in deep notes of adoration, the pillars of the gate trembled, as
if shaken by an earthquake. With lips unpolluted by sin, these angels poured
forth the praises of God. “Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of hosts,” they cried: “the
whole earth is full of his glory” (Isaiah 6:3). AG 72.2
• The seraphim around the throne are so filled with reverential awe as they
behold the glory of God, that they do not for an instant look upon themselves
with admiration. Their praise is for the Lord of hosts. As they look into the
future, when the whole earth shall be filled with His glory, the triumphant song
is echoed from one to another in melodious chant, “Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord
of hosts.” They are fully satisfied to glorify God; abiding in His presence, beneath
His smile of approbation, they wish for nothing more.11Gospel Workers, 21. AG
72.3

36. Glory Filling the Earth
• In the year that King Uzziah died, Isaiah was permitted in vision to look into the holy
place, and into the holy of holies in the heavenly sanctuary. The curtains of the
innermost sanctuary were drawn aside, and a throne high and lifted up, towering as
it were to the very heavens, was revealed to his gaze. An indescribable glory
emanated from a personage on the throne, and his train filled the temple, as his
glory will finally fill the earth. Cherubim were on either side of the mercy-seat, as
guards round the great king, and they glowed with the glory that enshrouded them
from the presence of God. As their songs of praise resounded in deep, earnest notes
of adoration, the pillars of the gate trembled, as if shaken by an earthquake. These
holy beings sang forth the praise and glory of God with lips unpolluted with sin. The
contrast between the feeble praise which he had been accustomed to bestow upon
the Creator and the fervid praises of the seraphim, astonished and humiliated the
prophet. He had for the time being, the sublime privilege of appreciating the spotless
purity of Jehovah's exalted character. While he listened to the song of the angels, as
they cried, "Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of hosts; the whole earth is full of his glory,"
the glory, the infinite power, and the unsurpassed majesty of the Lord passed before
his vision, and was impressed upon his soul. In the light of this matchless radiance,
that made manifest all he could bear in the revelation of the divine character, his
own inward defilement stood out before him with startling clearness. His very words
seemed vile to him RH October 16, 1888, par. 8

37. E J Waggoner on Isaiah Chapter
six
• Christs Identified.
• "In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a
throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple. Above it
stood the seraphims; each one had six wings; with twain he covered
his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did
fly. And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord
of hosts; the whole earth is full of his glory. And the posts of the
door moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled
with smoke. Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a
man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean
lips; for mine eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts." Isaiah 6:1-
5.
• We should not know to whom this refers, if our Saviour himself had
not, in John 12:40, 41, quoted Isaiah's words in the tenth verse of
this chapter, and applied them to himself. From these texts we have
proof not only that the inspired writers call Jesus the Divine Son of
God, but that Jesus himself claimed to be God BEST September 1,
1889, page 265 - BEST September 1, 1889, page 266.12

38. Shekinah in Isaiah. The most
important article in the debate.
• “But we must see Him;” you say, “we must see him working.” MMC March 9, 1899, page 13.4
• Well, we don’t have to go back nineteen hundred years to see him; Jesus Christ is alive to-day. He says,
“I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive forevermore, Amen; and have the keys of
hell and of death.” (Revelation 1:18.) He is alive; he gives life; he is working just the same to-day as he
did when he was here among men. His manifestation in the flesh was for the purpose of making God’s
presence so real that there would be no excuse for any one to say, “I can’t see it.” The purpose was to
enable anybody to see God was working, and then get his eyes opened so that he could see the same
thing taking place everywhere. There is some excuse for a person who has been born blind to say he
can not see light, but there is not excuse for a man who is not blind and who has seen light. When God
has called attention sharply to the fact that he gives life, and how he gives it, and the reality of it, then
there is no excuse for our saying we can’t see the reality of his working, and we don’t know how to get
it. Turn to the sixth chapter of Isaiah: “In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon
a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple.” What is the garment of the Lord? [“Light.”]
And what is light? [“Life.”] The flowing robe-the hem of his garment-filled the temple. “And above it
stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he
covered his feet, and with twain he did fly. And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the
Lord of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory.” (Verses 2, 3.) Thus the light that clothes the Lord, the
train of his garment that fills the temple, goes out and fills the whole earth, so that not only the temple
of God is filled with light from his presence, but the whole earth is filled with it; and wherever there is a
soul that is sick and wounded and sinful, let such a one know that Jesus of Nazareth still lives and
passes by, and that he may reach out by faith and touch the hem of his garment, and know that he is
made perfectly whole. There have been men who have merely caught glimpses of Jesus. The poet
says:- MMC March 9, 1899, page 13.5

39. Shekinah in Isaiah
• “Do You See the Glory?” The Present Truth, 13, 33.
• E. J. Waggoner
• “In the year that King Uzziah died,“ says the prophet Isaiah, “I saw also the Lord sitting upon a
throne, high and lifted up, and His train filled the temple.” PTUK August 19, 1897, page 513.1
• The attendant seraphim veiled their faces with their wings before the glory of the Throne; it is not
surprising therefore that the prophet should cry, “Woe is me ... I am a man of unclean lips ... for
mine eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts.” PTUK August 19, 1897, page 513.2
• The angels cried one to another in praise of the Divine Lord “lifted up” for fallen man to see. The
theme of their song was not that the heavenly temple was filled with glory ineffable. “One cried
unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of hosts: the whole earth is full of His glory.”
PTUK August 19, 1897, page 513.3
• This is not something afar off. The whole earth-this earth where we live, over which the curse has
spread, with sorrow and sin in its train-is full of the glory of God, and the angels glorify God
because of it. Do you see what the angels saw? So thrilling was their cry that the thresholds of the
temple moved at the voice of praise. Yet men live and die in the very presence of the glory of God,
with hearts unmoved by it. Often they wonder where God is, and wish that they could see His
glory, when it is manifested all about them in the things that God has made. God's power and life
are made manifest in everything, even in man himself (Romans 1:19, 20), and all creation declares
His glory,-all save unbelieving men whose eyes are darkened. PTUK August 19, 1897, page 513.4

40. Shekinah Isaiah
• “His train filled the temple.” The word rendered “train” is the same that in
Jeremiah 13:22, 26, and other places is translated “skirts,” and in Exodus 28:33,
34; 39:24, 25, 26, is translated “hem.” The hem or skirt of His garment filled the
temple. PTUK January 26, 1899, page 66.10
• What is this garment? Here is the answer: “O Lord my God, Thou art very great;
Thou art clothed with honour and majesty. Who coverest Thyself with light as
with a garment; who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain.” Psalm 104:1, 2.
The light and glory of the Lord is His clothing; His train, that filled the temple,
was His glory. PTUK January 26, 1899, page 66.11
• “The whole earth is full of Thy glory.” That is, the garment with which the Lord
covers Himself is the fulness of the earth. Not only the temple in heaven, but
the whole earth is filled with the hem of His garment. Now remember that
when Jesus was here in the flesh, all that was needed for the healing of a poor,
afflicted woman was that she should “touch the hem of His garment.” So
wherever we are, we are to reach of the hem of that garment which brings life
and health and salvation. PTUK January 26, 1899, page 66.12
• “The healing of the seamless drums
• Is by our beds of pain;
• We touch Him in life's throng and press,
• And we are whole again.” PTUK January 26, 1899, page 66.13

41. Shekinah Isaiah
• “The fulness of the whole earth is His glory.” This, as may be seen from the margin of the Revision,
is the literal rendering of the Hebrew. Wherever in the earth we see fulness, revealing itself in the
multiplied forms of life, it is the glory of the Lord. Remembering now that in even the hem of His
garment there is healing, what can this teach us except that God expects all to be healed, to be
whole-holy. He has provided liberally to this end. All that is needed is that we come into conscious
touch with Him by intelligent faith. Jesus Christ came that we might have life, and that we might
have it in abundance. John 10:10. The life is the light of men. If we would but see the life, as it is all
about us, and allow ourselves to be controlled by it, sickness would become a thing of the past, for
eternal freshness is the characteristic of the life. To speak plainly, if we recognise that what are
called “the laws of nature” are but the manifestations of the life of God, and let these laws rule in
us, we shall find the life of Jesus manifested even in “our mortal flesh,” and that will mean victory
over disease as well as over sin. PTUK January 26, 1899, page 67.1
• “Above it stood the seraphim.” Or, “above Him stood the seraphim.” The Hebrew does not
distinguish between masculine and neuter. In this case it amounts to the same thing, for above the
throne would be above the Lord. The word “seraphim” means “burning ones.” The difference, if
any, between them and cherubim, is not revealed; but we read in Ezekiel 28:14 about the “anointed
cherub that covereth;” and on the cover to the ark in the tabernacle of Moses were figures of
cherubim overshadowing the glory of the Lord. PTUK January 26, 1899, page 67.2
• Each seraph covered his face with two of his wings, as unable or unworthy to look directly upon
God. Yet the redeemed saints “shall see His face.” Revelation 22:4. Oh, marvellous privilege
accorded to the sons of Adam! to be on such terms of intimacy with the God of hosts as is not
permitted even to the highest of the unfallen angels. And to show the special favour granted to
humble followers of Christ even now, He says, “in heaven their angels do always behold the face of
My Father which is in heaven.” Matthew 18:10. This shows that there is a difference, and that the
angels who are specially commissioned to guard the faithful of earth, have access to the Father to a
degree that others do not. “Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace.” “One thing
have I desired of the Lord; that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the
days of my life; to behold the beauty of the Lord, and to enquire in His temple.” Psalm 27:4. PTUK
January 26, 1899, page 67.3

42. Shekinah
• Chapter 10—God in Nature
• “His glory covered the heavens, and the earth was full of His praise.”
• Upon all created things is seen the impress of the Deity. Nature testifies of God. The susceptible mind, brought in contact with the miracle
and mystery of the universe, cannot but recognize the working of infinite power. Not by its own inherent energy does the earth produce its
bounties, and year by year continue its motion around the sun. An unseen hand guides the planets in their circuit of the heavens. A
mysterious life pervades all nature—a life that sustains the unnumbered worlds throughout immensity, that lives in the insect atom which
floats in the summer breeze, that wings the flight of the swallow and feeds the young ravens which cry, that brings the bud to blossom and
the flower to fruit. Ed 99.1
• The same power that upholds nature, is working also in man. The same great laws that guide alike the star and the atom control human life.
The laws that govern the heart's action, regulating the flow of the current of life to the body, are the laws of the mighty Intelligence that has
the jurisdiction of the soul. From Him all life proceeds. Only in harmony with Him can be found its true sphere of action. For all the objects of
His creation the condition is the same—a life sustained by receiving the life of God, a life exercised in harmony with the Creator's will. To
transgress His law, physical, mental, or moral, is to place one's self out of harmony with the universe, to introduce discord, anarchy, ruin. Ed
99.2
• To him who learns thus to interpret its teachings, all nature becomes illuminated; the world is a lesson book, life a school. The unity of man
with nature and with God, the universal dominion of law, the results of transgression, cannot fail of impressing the mind and molding the
character. Ed 100.1
• These are lessons that our children need to learn. To the little child, not yet capable of learning from the printed page or of being introduced
to the routine of the schoolroom, nature presents an unfailing source of instruction and delight. The heart not yet hardened by contact with
evil is quick to recognize the Presence that pervades all created things. The ear as yet undulled by the world's clamor is attentive to the Voice
that speaks through nature's utterances. And for those of older years, needing continually its silent reminders of the spiritual and eternal,
nature's teaching will be no less a source of pleasure and of instruction. As the dwellers in Eden learned from nature's pages, as Moses
discerned God's handwriting on the Arabian plains and mountains, and the child Jesus on the hillsides of Nazareth, so the children of today
may learn of Him. The unseen is illustrated by the seen. On everything upon the earth, from the loftiest tree of the forest to the lichen that
clings to the rock, from the boundless ocean to the tiniest shell on the shore, they may behold the image and superscription of God. Ed 100.2
• So far as possible, let the child from his earliest years be placed where this wonderful lesson book shall be open before him. Let him behold
the glorious scenes painted by the great Master Artist upon the shifting canvas of the heavens, let him become acquainted with the wonders
of earth and sea, let him watch the unfolding mysteries of the changing seasons, and, in all His works, learn of the Creator. Ed 100.3
• In no other way can the foundation of a true education be so firmly and surely laid. Yet even the child, as he comes in contact with nature,
will see cause for perplexity. He cannot but recognize the working of antagonistic forces. It is here that nature needs an interpreter. Looking
upon the evil manifest even in the natural world, all have the same sorrowful lesson to learn—“An enemy hath done this.” Matthew 13:28.
Ed 101.1
• Only in the light that shines from Calvary can nature's teaching be read aright. Through the story of Bethlehem and the cross let it be shown
how good is to conquer evil, and how every blessing that comes to us is a gift of redemption. Ed 101.2
• In brier and thorn, in thistle and tare, is represented the evil that blights and mars. In singing bird and opening blossom, in rain and sunshine,
in summer breeze and gentle dew, in ten thousand objects in nature, from the oak of the forest to the violet that blossoms at its root, is seen
the love that restores. And nature still speaks to us of God's goodness. Ed 101.3

43. Holy Spirit
• Holy Spirit is Christ's representative, but divested
of the personality of humanity, and independent
thereof. Cumbered with humanity, Christ could not
be in every place personally. Therefore it was for
their interest that he should go to the Father, and
send the Spirit to be his successor on earth. No one
could then have any advantage because of his
location or his personal contact with Christ. By the
Spirit the Saviour would be accessible to all. In this
sense he would be nearer to them than if he had
not ascended on high RH November 19, 1908, par.
3

44. Holy Spirit
• The Holy Spirit is the Comforter, in Christ's name.
He personifies Christ, yet is a distinct personality.
We may have the Holy Spirit if we ask for it and
make it a habit to turn to and trust in God rather
than in any finite human agent who may make
mistakes 20MR 324.2

45. Holy Spirit
• Riches, power, genius, eloquence, pride, perverted reason, and
passion are enlisted as Satan's agents in doing his work in making
the broad road attractive, strewing it with tempting flowers. But
every word they have spoken against the world's Redeemer will
be reflected back upon them, and will one day burn into their
guilty souls like molten lead. They will be overwhelmed with
terror and shame as they behold the exalted One coming in the
clouds of heaven with power and great glory. Then shall the bold
defier, who lifted himself up against the Son of God, see himself
in the true blackness of his character. The sight of the
inexpressible glory of the Son of God will be intensely painful to
those whose characters are stained with sin. The pure light and
glory emanating from Christ will awaken remorse, shame, and
terror. They will send forth wails of anguish to the rocks and
mountains, "Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that
sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb: for the
great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?"
Con 87.1

46. Holy Spirit
• Christ rejoiced that He could do more for His followers than they could ask or think.
He spoke with assurance, knowing that an almighty decree had been given before
the world was made. He knew that truth, armed with the omnipotence of the Holy
Spirit, would conquer in the contest with evil; and that the bloodstained banner
would wave triumphantly over His followers. He knew that the life of His trusting
disciples would be like His, a series of uninterrupted victories, not seen to be such
here, but recognized as such in the great hereafter.
• "These things I have spoken unto you," He said, "that in Me ye might have peace. In
the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the
world." Christ did not fail, neither was He discouraged, and His followers are to
manifest a faith of the same enduring nature. They are to live as He lived, and work
as He worked, because they depend on Him as the great Master Worker. Courage,
energy, and perseverance they must possess. Though apparent impossibilities
obstruct their way, by His grace they are to go forward. Instead of deploring
difficulties, they are called upon to surmount them. They are to despair of nothing,
and to hope for everything. With the golden chain of His matchless love Christ has
bound them to the throne of God. It is His purpose that the highest influence in the
universe, emanating from the source of all power, shall be theirs. They are to have
power to resist evil, power that neither earth, nor death, nor hell can master, power
that will enable them to overcome as Christ overcame DA 679.2 - DA 679.3

47. Holy Spirit
• Jesus would enlist men in his service. He would direct
their perverted powers in such a way that, through his
grace, they may become agents for the working of
unmingled good to every other man, and each become
his brother's keeper in disinterested love, and thus the
world be restored to God. Through faith in Jesus Christ
the chain of mutual dependence is fastened to the
throne of God, and through the agency of man
humanity is bound to God. God has promised his Holy
Spirit, the highest power in the universe, to be
embodied in men, that through faith in Jesus Christ
humanity may be elevated. An influence emanating
from God draws and concentrates the power of the
universe, that a lost and rebel race may be reconciled
and restored to God. ST September 4, 1893, par. 7

48. Holy Spirit
• Haskel
• The service each morning and evening was very
important. Within the first apartment the high priest
offered incense upon the golden altar, and trimmed and
lighted the lamps. 4 None but the high priest could
perform this sacred work, which typified the adding of
the fragrant incense of Christ's righteousness to the
prayers of God's people, to render them acceptable
before God. 5 He also trimmed and lighted the lamps that
were a shadow of the Holy Spirit emanating from God,
which at some time in life shines into the heart of every
one, 6 inviting him to accept the Lord and His service, and
which shines continually in the life of the individual who
walks in the light, and is faithful to God CIS 182.1

49. Holy Spirit
• previous numbers we have spoken of the water of life,
which Jesus said was the Holy Spirit. The Word of the Lord is
Spirit (John vi. 8), and the Spirit and the water and the blood
agree in one (1 John v. 8), and all are life. The river of living
water flowing from the throne of God, from which we are
now invited to take freely, is the Spirit of God. The reality of
this river is made known to us in Ps. lxv. 9, 10, where we
read that the earth is watered and made ready for the
harvest by showers from the river of God, which is full of
water. Thus every shower makes known to us the fulness
and the freedom of the Holy Spirit. With every refreshing
draught of the drink which God provides us, we may and
should consciously receive the Holy Ghost; and so also with
every breath of heaven's air that we breathe PTUK
September 1, 1898, page 549.3

50. Holy Spirit
• A T Jones
• "The Third Angel's Message. The Faith of Jesus: What Is It?" Advent Review and Sabbath
Herald 77, 46, p. 728.ARSH November 13, 1900, page 728IN briefest outline we have
studied the great central thought of the Third Angel's Message—"Here are they that keep
the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus."
• We have studied, What are the commandments of God that must be kept to keep the faith
of Jesus? and have found them to be nothing else than the ten commandments, which
God spoke from heaven with a voice that shook the earth, and which he twice wrote with
his own hand on two tables of stone.
• We have studied, What is the faith of Jesus that must be kept to keep the commandments
of God? and have found it to be nothing else than the faith which brings into the life of the
believer in Jesus the righteousness, the virtue, the very character , of God—the faith that
brings into the life of the believer the power of God to perform there the will of God.
• The power of God comes to us in no other way than through the righteousness of God.
The gospel is "the power of God," only because that "therein is the righteousness of God
revealed." This righteousness reaches the believer only through faith, because it is
revealed only "from faith to faith." Romans 1:16, 17. And this faith is the faith of Jesus
which he brought to the world, which he tested victoriously to the uttermost in every
species of temptation that can ever be known to man, and which is freely given to every
man in the world as the gracious gift of God. Ephesians 2:8-10.
• The righteousness of God, being the character—the very quality—of God, is nothing apart
from the very personality of God himself, and can not be had apart from the personality of
God himself. Thus in Christ , by the faith which he exercised in the world, it was God who
was manifest in the flesh, and who was reconciling the world unto himself. And in the
believer in Jesus, in him who keeps the faith of Jesus, it is still God manifest in the flesh;
for it is "Christ in you, the hope of glory," and it is only God that is found in Christ ARSH
November 13, 1900, page 728 - ARSH November 13, 1900, page 728.5

51. Holy Spirit
• "The heavens declare the glory of God." Ps. xix. 1.
He has set His glory upon the heavens. Ps. viii. 1,
R.V. The sun but transmits to us the light that
emanates from "the eternal Father." But that light
is God's own character, His own personality.
Therefore the sun brings to us the righteousness of
God PTUK July 7, 1898, page 432.7 - PTUK July 7,
1898, page 432.8

52. Holy Spirit

53. Holy Spirit
• Not so with God's law. He Himself is all that He requires.
He is not only good, but He is Goodness. His own life is
the law. Each plant has what is termed its "law of
growth." There are certain general characteristics
common to all plant life, and then each plant has certain
individual peculiarities. But these "laws" are not certain
enactments to which the plant conforms. The plant grows
by the Word of God which says now as in the beginning,
"Let the earth bring forth grass," etc.; and that Word of
life abiding in each makes it perfect "after its kind." God's
"everlasting power and Divinity," that is, His own life and
personality, are revealed in all the things that He has
made. The plant is involuntarily submissive to the life
force of God, and so it conforms to law PTUK August 4,
1898, page 486.7

54. Holy Spirit
• Thou shalt see the glory of God." Did any dazzling light shine upon the company
there assembled? There is no evidence of any such thing. Everything was quiet,
and no light appeared to any, except the ordinary daylight; yet all present saw
the glory of God. How?-In the power that was displayed in the resurrection of
Lazarus. When Jesus turned the water into wine, at the marriage in Cana, "He
manifested forth His glory." John 2:11. God's glory is His power, and that is His
righteousness. "God is light" (1 John 1:5), so that His glory is His own
personality,-His character,-and since His glory is His power, we see that He is
glorious and powerful because He is righteous.
• That the power and the glory of God are the same, may be learned by
comparing Romans 6:4 and Ephesians 1:17-20. In the former we read that
"Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father," and in the
second we read that the resurrection of Christ from the dead, and His elevation
to the right hand of God in the heavenly places, was the result of the working of
the "mighty power" of God. His power was "wrought in Christ," and, moreover,
the Spirit of God earnestly desires that we may know the "exceeding greatness"
of this power, which is "to usward who believe." Whatever the Spirit desires for
us, we shall have if we consent to be led by the Spirit. Let us think what this
means to us. PTUK March 23, 1899, page 182.1 - PTUK March 23, 1899, page
182.2

55. Holy Spirit =Personality= Word
• Another instalment of the message of comfort. The title of this
entire chapter might well be, "Fear not." This exhortation is
parallel to the words so often used by the Saviour, "Be of good
cheer." He who says these words is the Creator, the One whose
words are things, which contain the very living form and
substance of that which they name. Therefore when the Lord says
to us, "Fear not;" "Be of good cheer;" He supplies the courage
and cheer. "Thou hast put gladness in my heart," says the
psalmist. Psalm 4:7. God does not tell us to make ourselves glad,
but He Himself makes us glad. "For Thou, Lord, hast made me
glad through Thy work; I will triumph in the works of Thy hands."
Psalm 92:4. The joy of the Lord is our strength. See Nehemiah
8:10. God's word is His own life; it is charged with His own
personality; when we receive it, we receive Him; therefore when
we believe His word implicitly, we have Him and all His joy and
peace PTUK October 19, 1899, page 659.7

56. Conclusion and Prayer