Rebellion - The Eternal Gospel Church

REBELLION
Foreword
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Elder Ronald Spear and I first met on April 17, 1980. Twentythree
years have passed since my brother, Colin, introduced us
on the first day of the fifty-third General Conference Session
held in Dallas, Texas. He had met Elder Spear about a year earlier and
from their first meeting a bond of Christian brotherhood had been forged.
Both love the Seventh-day Adventist church as the object of Christ’s
“supreme regard.” Selected Messages, book 2, 396. Both shared a
mounting concern for the growing rebellion against truth sweeping through
God’s church and each, in love for their Lord, possessed an earnest
desire to warn God’s people of the peril of apostasy to the souls of
believers. Both trusted Scripture and the writings of the Spirit of Prophecy
implicitly.
I was a delegate to the Dallas General Conference Session. Elder
Spear was an attendee as he was in 1980 the Field Secretary for the
Review and Herald, then under the editorship of Elder Kenneth Wood,
a man of virtue. Like my brother, I immediately recognized in Elder
Spear a pastor of fidelity. We have in subsequent years preached together
on four continents, Asia, Australia, Europe and North America.
Ours has been a sweet relationship in the cause of our God and His
truth.
Now in his eightieth year, this aged warrior of the Lord, still full of
energy and earnestness for the souls of people, has addressed the urgent
matter of the widespread rebellion in the very heart of God’s church.
In addressing this matter Elder Spear has chosen a course which will
bring him few accolades. The history of Scripture testifies to the fact
that similar messages to God’s church delivered by the prophets of old
have provoked a general and vicious antagonism against these servants
of God. But a very small remnant has always been alerted and it is for
such men and women who will find their heavenly home, that these
messages are mandated by God.
I greatly desire that the old soldiers of the cross, those grown
gray in the Master’s service, shall continue to bear their testimony
right to the point, in order that those younger in the faith may understand
that the messages which the Lord gave us in the past are
very important at this stage of the earth’s history. Our past experi-
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