Disparity and Desperation
Now here is the strangest of contradictions of Mrs White’s inspired visions. We have seen how Mrs White denies the Sabbath the glory invested in it by the resurrection of Christ. We have seen how she emptied the Sabbath of God’s Presence, and as a result was forced to reach all her further conclusions of a ‘Still Sabbath’ deprived of all honour and dignity and as still as the stillness of the grave. And then we have seen how Mrs White gave all the honour
that she should have given to the Sabbath Day, to the First Day of the week. (A day, had to receive that honour because Jesus did rise from the dead, on a day— a day could not escape or refuse the dignity attributed it by the eventuality of Jesus’ resurrection, just as a redeemed could not escape or refuse his salvation attributed him by the eventuality of Jesus’ resurrection. Which day or which person, is the only question. And the only answer is, that which only God willed and appointed.)
So Mrs White went and she bestowed on the Sunday the Sabbath’s divinely given virtues and glory— divinely given virtues and glory due to and contained in and consisting of absolutely nothing but the eventuality of Jesus’ resurrection from the dead; and which eventuality of Jesus’ resurrection from the dead again, received divinely given virtues and glory due to and contained in and consisting of absolutely nothing but the Presence of the Father in raising Christ from the dead.
So Mrs White was stuck with the dilemma, I have given Sunday now that which belonged to the Sabbath Day, namely Christ’ resurrection, and the glory and honour that go with his Resurrection. But I removed the Father’s Presence from Jesus’ resurrection, so I cannot allow Sunday that honour that in the last analysis, comes with the Presence of the Father. I’ll make Christ sneak in into God’s Presence on the First Day of the week! Nobody after all would notice! The passion of deceit knows no limits!
Do I commit defamation of character, and that to a person who cannot defend herself? I say, Mrs White is here to present her case herself. This is ‘Mrs White’ – here, between this cover. And she is granted every opportunity to speak in her own defence. Do you have anything to say, Mrs White?
Mrs White: I witness,
“Jesus refused to receive the homage of His people until He had the assurance that His sacrifice was accepted by the Father. He ascended to the heavenly courts, and from God Himself heard the assurance that His atonement for the sins of men had been ample. ... While the Saviour was in God’s presence, receiving gifts for His Church, the disciples thought upon His empty tomb, and mourned and wept. The day that was a day of rejoicing to all heaven (Resurrection-day, Sunday) was to the disciples a day of uncertainty, confusion, and perplexity.” (98/3,4) This was not after “forty days”; this was not Acts 1:3 or 9! This was Matthew 28:5-8, Mark 16:2-8, Luke 24:1-12, John 20:11-18 time! This was First Day
of the week time! And if any doubt still, the next page, page 99, paragraph 4,
“Tell His disciples and Peter that He goeth before you into Galilee: there ye shall see Him.” (99/4) A reference to Mk16:7, “very early sun’s rising”.
“When Mary Magdalene told them she had seen the Lord, she repeated the call to the meeting in Galilee.” A false reference to Jn20:17-18, because besides nothing of the sort is being stated in 17-18, anything of the sort was an impossibility, seeing the angel’s command, “Tell His disciples and Peter that He goeth before you into Galilee: there ye shall see Him”, was given to several women together, and not to Mary when Jesus “appeared to Mary ... first” (Mk16:9) and alone— “But Mary had had stood after” (Jn20:11) while the other women had fled (Mk16:8)!
“When Mary Magdalene told them she had seen the Lord, she repeated the call to the meeting in Galilee. And a third time the message was sent to them”— an absolutely false statement for the next, simple, fact Jesus’ appearance to Mary Magdalene was his first appearance to any person! No one before Mary ever, mentioned as fact that Jesus was risen, except angels, who again, only told, the women that He was risen. No angel ever told any disciple anything! And in all cases but the very last that the women were told Jesus was raised from the dead, nobody – not even the women themselves, believed that He was raised.
But Mrs White must still prove where she got her “third time the message was sent” from! She of course did not explain, but we, could easily see; that she got it from three separate incidences of the ‘message’ being told which she completely confused. She put her foot in it.
On three different occasions,
(1) Lk24:5-7, Two angels who “stood ...” and “said unto them”;
(2) Mk16:5-7, The angel “sitting on the right side”, who “Saith unto them ...”;
(3) Mt28:5-7, The angel who “Answered / explained and commanded the women”.
Each event or visit has its own angel or angels; each event or visit has its own women; each event or visit has its own message, each message with its own main point of emphasis; each event or visit has its own observations and reactions on the part of the women. Each event or visit has its own time-slot in night or day. There was a time-sequence, and because of it, a “third time the message was
sent”. But none of these visit-events was accompanied by an appearance of the Lord, and none of these visit-events was that of Mary Magdalene only.
