About God’s
Agents and God’s Opposition
God's Agents John Norton
Loughborough (January 26, 1832 - April 7, 1924) was an early Seventh-day
Adventist minister. Loughborough
began preaching about the Second Coming of Christ at seventeen years of age,
renting a church to deliver his lectures. He was involved
in the Seventh-day Adventist movement from its early days, having been called
to preach by Ellen White in 1852. _______________________________________________________________ God used me
very young one time I also
preached when I was 15 in our country church. The senior elder brother Piet
Roux was not happy but the pastor Nico van Zyl insisted. I preached the
chapter of Desire of Ages on
Zechariah "He will come on a donkey". I took it from DA and typed it
with a Remington typewriter on small papers and went after school to the church
to practice on the pulpit. After the sermon the elder said to my father that he
was wrong, your son preached a very good sermon today. _______________________________________________________________ Uriah Smith,
May 2, 1832 - March 6, 1903. Brief Biographical Timeline by Robert Olsen Andrews, John
Nevins (1829--1883) Joseph Bates
(8 July 1792 --19 March 1872) _______________________________________________________________ Satan's
Agents Marx born
(1818) Died 1883 Friedrich
Engels, (born Nov. 28, 1820, Barmen, Rhine province, Prussia [Germany]?died
Aug. 5, 1895, London, _______________________________________________________________ God's
Agent William Miller
was converted in 1816 shortly after 911. _______________________________________________________________ Satan's
Agents 1797 Friedrich
Schiller and Johann Wolgang von Goethe wrote together satirical epigrams called
Xenia which made them unpopular because of many reasons but in one of them he
suggested that the papacy is the devil. Before an Adventist will say: good for
him, one needs to know that he was sacrilege on all holy things. BOISTEROUS. Times
have I witnessed run mad, and I never let slip the occasion Following fashion's
command, madly in madness to join. [Things are
mad these days but I follow fashion to join in with the madness]. OUR COMMON
FATE.O, how we struggle and hate Inclinations, opinions divide us. Yet in the
meantime thy locks turn into silver like mine. THE LAST
MARTYR. That you may roast me like Huss, it is possible ; but it is certain,
After me comes the swan who will my mission complete SALVATION. Two
are the roads out of life, which to all lie equally open: To the ideal the one
leadeth, the other to death. Venture to make your escape on the former as long
as you're living, Ere on the latter you are doomed to destruction and death. BAD TIMES. Language
is spoiled by philosophers, logic distorted by poets, Man's common sense in
this way badly is crippled for life. TO ANOTHER
AUTHOR. Please do not try to teach facts, for we care not a straw for the
subject. All we do care for are facts as they are treated by you, ARTIFICE. Do
you desire the applause of the wordly as well as the pious , Paint ye
licentiousness, but paint ye the Devil beside. The only
church that was main church was the catholic church so the Devil would be the
Catholic Church in his thinking here. A DISCUSSION. One,
we can hear, speaketh after the other, but no one replieth. Several monologues
are, certainly, not a debate. THE SENSE OF A
COMMITTEE. Every one of them, singly considered , is sensible, doubtless, But
in a body the whole number of them is a dumm. DESCARTES. Cogito
ergo sum: I am thinking and therefore existing. If but the former is true,
there's of the latter no doubt MY ANSWER. If
I am thinking, I am. Very well I But who constantly thinks? Often I was, I
confess, when forsooth nothing I thought. SPINOZA. Things
do exist, sir, and therefore a thing of all things is existing; And in the
thing of all things swim we just such as we are. BERKELEY. True
is the opposite let me declare. Besides me there is nothing. Everything else,
you must know, is but a bubble in me. LEIBNITZ. Two
things exist, I admit, the world and the soul; of which neither knows of the other;
yet both indicate oneness at last. KANT, Naught
do I know of the thing, and naught of the soul know I either. Both to me only
appear; but by no means are they sham DAVID HUME. Do
not converse with those people, for Kant has thrown all in confusion. Me you
must ask; for I am even in Hades myself. PICHTE./ am /,
and 1 posit myself \ but in case I don't posit Me as myself. Very well: then
the ^ort-/ is produced. REINHOLD. Surely
conception exists; that proves the existence of concepts, And of conceivers, no
doubt ; which altogether make three MY ANSWER. These
propositions O sages, possess but small value; they're trifling. Make me some
statement that helps, and let it be to the point. A FLAW. Let
but an error be hid in the stone of foundation. The builder builds with
confidence on. Never the error is found. Empiricists
definitely walk on the most secure way but on the straight walking, they grope
like a blind in the dark. Theoreticists.
You are obedient to rules no doubt and you join well the conclusions...if only
your premises were true. This was the
epigraphs of both Schiller and Goethe. Early 1805
Schiller and Goethe both fell seriously ill. Schiller died. Goethe recovered
but felt that, with Schiller dead, he had lost “the half of my existence.” On October 14,
1806, Napoleon routed the Prussian armies at the Battle of Jena. Weimar, 12
miles from the battle, was subsequently occupied and sacked, though Goethe’s
house was spared, thanks to Napoleon’s admiration for the author of Werther. Christiane
showed great courage in keeping control of the soldiers billeted with the
family, and, probably in order to secure her position in these dangerous days,
Goethe formally married her in the vestry of the court church five days after
the battle. In an obvious reaction against this decision finally to commit
himself, Goethe shortly afterward fell briefly and passionately in love with an
unremarkable young lady, Wilhelmine Herzlieb, extricating himself from the
entanglement only with considerable pain. He had an illegitimate
son who died in the same year as himself. In a summary
of who Goethe was it is made clear that he is known for his science, poems,
philosophy, pornography, teachings, a love for women and then also a love for
champagne. All the vices one can think of in one box. 1812 Goethe meets
the composer Ludwig van Beethoven. 1816 Goethe’s wife
Christiane dies. 1823 Visiting the
spa town of Marienbad, Goethe meets and falls in love with the teenage Ulrike
von Levetzow. When she turns down his proposal of marriage, he writes a set of
three poems documenting his heartbreak; one of these poems is titled “To
Werther.”He was 74 and she was 19. 1831 Goethe
completes the second volume of Faust and the fourth volume of Poetry and Truth.
Both works will be published posthumously. 1832 Goethe dies on
March 22. He is buried in Weimar. Carl Jung [the
depth psychologist] claims that Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was the father of
his grandfather been an illegal son of Goethe. _______________________________________________________________ The Great
Controversy between God’s agents and Satan’s agents are daily operative and the
golden time for their development is between 17-33 years old. Why? Christ is 33
years old. Our pioneers were pastors at 21 years old! So were the agents of
Satan as well.