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.

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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.

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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)

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Satan's Agents

Marx born (1818) Died 1883

Friedrich Engels, (born Nov. 28, 1820, Barmen, Rhine province, Prussia [Germany]?died Aug. 5, 1895, London,

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God's Agent

William Miller was converted in 1816 shortly after 911.

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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.

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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.