Corporate Repentance - Robert J. Wieland

5. The Jewish nation never repented of their sin,
to this day. Thus they never recovered the
blessings that Jesus' lordship would have
brought to them. Likewise, we have never as a
denomination faced our corporate guilt. We
have not repented of our rejection of the
beginning of the outpouring of the Holy Spirit,
and recovered the message. For this reason we
have never yet enjoyed the full blessings of its
renewal. The very obvious reality of a century
of history demonstrates this truth.
Note how the gospel commission could have
been finished nearly a century ago:
The influence that grew out of the resistance of
light and truth at Minneapolis tended to make of no
effect the light God had given to His people
through the Testimonies. … If every soldier of
Christ had done his duty, if every watchman on the
walls of Zion had given the trumpet a certain
sound, the world might ere this have heard the
message of warning. But the work is years behind.
What account will be rendered to God for thus
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