Apostacy

Review and Harold June 14 1898 par. 16 This ordinance does not speak so largely to man’s intellectual capacity as to his heart. His moral and spiritual nature needs it. If his disciples had not needed this, it would not have been left for them as Christ’s last established ordinance in connection with, and including, the last supper. It was Christ’s desire to leave to his disciples an ordinance that would do for them the very thing they needed,—that would serve to disentangle them from the rites and ceremonies which they had hitherto engaged in as essential, and which the reception of the gospel made no longer of any force. To continue these rites would be an insult to Jehovah. Eating of the body, and drinking of the blood, of Christ, not merely at the sacramental service, but daily partaking of the bread of life to satisfy the soul’s hunger, would be in receiving his word and doing his will. {RH June 14, 1898, par. 16} Here in the previous quote, Sister Ellen G. White clearly shows that keeping the feasts is an INSULT to Jehovah. How much more does a person who is not convinced that the ceremonial law was done away with need to see in order to understand that practicing the old ceremonial laws and feast are … Continued