Corporate Repentance

FOREWARD

This book deals with the basic problem of heart-motivation. It searches the recesses of the Adventist conscience and stresses the final call of the True Witness. After 6000 years of waiting, the Saviour makes His last plea. But it has gone unheeded for well over a century.

How long can we con­tinue with “business-as-usual?”

There are those in the church who say that persecu­tion can solve our spiritual problem. But is persecution the cause or the effect of revival and reformation among God’s people? How does persecution fit into the Day-of-Atonement which we have long held as vital to the final ministry of the True Witness?

We are not the first people to have misunderstood a message God sent. The ancient Jews brought grief to the Messiah because they were certain they under­stood—but they didn’t. His unheeded call to repent could hardly have brought more heartbreak to the Saviour than the lukewarm, unknowing response He has received from the last of the “seven churches” of history.

The Jews were expecting the Son of David to take the throne and rule in splendor. Their national rejec­tion of Him must surely parallel our letting Him remain outside our door, knocking for admission. So says Ellen White.

How could the Lord of the universe do more than He has done to plead with His “angel of the church of the Laodiceans?”

May the Lord use the message of this book to clarify that call of the True Witness for the repentance of the ages. The great High Priest wants to rise up and proclaim, “It is done.” The power of the gospel and the final atonement will be demonstrated to be complete.

Donald K. Short

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