Corporate Repentance - Robert J. Wieland

of stumbling and our rock of offense.
Our History Discloses Enmity Against God
Bear in mind that these facts in no way
diminish the truth that the Seventh-day Adventist
Church was then and is now the "remnant church."
The brethren who opposed the 1888 message were
the true "angel of the church of the Laodiceans,"
and God did not cast off the church. Our history
makes Christ's call to repent come alive, and the
only reason it has not come alive sooner is that it
has not been understood. The church is basically
honest at heart, and the long delay in repentance is
solely due to the truth having been misconstrued
and distorted.
Whereas the ancient Jews rejected their longawaited
Messiah, we rejected our long-awaited
outpouring of the latter rain. Note some points of
comparison:
1. The Jews' Messiah was born in a stable. The
beginning of the latter rain in 1888 was
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