Brother J was presented before me, and I was shown that his course has not been pleasing to God. He was unstable. He has been befogged with the Age-to-Come, and as there is not the least harmony between the Age-to-Come theory and the third angel’s message, he lost his love for and faith in the message, and felt irritated because so much had been said in regard to it. The third angel is proclaiming a most solemn message to the inhabitants of the earth; and shall God’s chosen people be indifferent to it, and not unite their voice to sound this solemn warning? Brother J is deceived, and is deceiving others. His theme has been consecration, when his heart was not right. His mind has been divided. He has had no anchor to hold him, and has been floating about without a settled faith. Much of his time has been occupied in relating to one and another reports and stories calculated to distract and unsettle minds. He has had much to say in regard to my husband and myself, and against the visions. He has stood in a position, “Report, ... and we will report it.” God sent him not on such a mission. He has not known whom he has been serving. Satan has been using him to throw minds into confusion. What little influence he had he has used to prejudice minds against the third angel’s message. He has by false reports presented the visions in a wrong light, and weak souls who were not established in all the present truth have fed upon these things instead of clean provender thoroughly winnowed. He has been deceived in regard to sanctification. Unless he now changes his course, and is willing to be instructed, and cherishes the light given, he will be left of God to pursue his own course and follow his own imperfect judgment until he will make shipwreck of faith, and by his unwise course become a signal warning to those who choose to go independent of the body. God will open the eyes of honest souls to understand the cruel work of those who scatter and divide. He will mark those who cause divisions, that every honest one may escape from Satan’s snare. {1T 333.3}

Bror J blev fremstillet for mig og jeg fik vist at hans fremgangsmåde ikke var til Guds behag. Han var usikker. Han har været tilsløret af Den-kommende-tid teorien og da der ikke (334) er den mindste harmoni mellem Den-kommende-tid teorien og den tredje engels budskab, mistede han sin kærlighed for troen på budskabet og følte sig irriteret, fordi så meget har været sagt om det. Den tredje engels budskab proklamerer det alvorligste budskab for jordens beboere; og skal Guds udvalgte folk være uanfægtet over for dette og ikke stemme i med deres røst og udstøde denne højtidelige advarsel? Bror J er bedraget og bedrager andre. Hans emne har været indvielse, skønt hans hjerte ikke var helt. Hans sind har været splittet. Han har ikke haft noget anker til at holde ham og har flydt troløs omkring. Det meste af hans tid har været brugt til at berette hinanden rapporter og beretninger, der afleder tankerne og gør dem usikre. Han har haft meget at sige om min mand og jeg selv og imod visionerne. Han har haft den indstilling, »Angiv ham!« og »vi vil angive ham!« Gud sender ham ikke på en sådan mission. Han har ikke vidst hvem han har tjent. Satan har brugt ham til at styrte sindene i forvirring. Hvilken lille indflydelse havde han og har han brugt for at skade sindene, mod den tredje engels budskab. Han har ved falske beretninger fremstillet visionerne i et forkert lys og svækket sjæle, som ikke var helt befæstet i den nærværende sandhed og har givet næring til dette i stedet for at rense og sigte kornet helt igennem. Han har været bedraget med hensyn til helliggørelse. Hvis han ikke nu ændrer sin kurs og er villig til at lære og passer på det lys han har fået, vil han overlades af Gud til at tilstræbe sin egen fremgangsmåde og følge sin egen ufuldendte dømmekraft, indtil han vil gøre troens forlis og ved hans ukloge fremgangsmåde blive et tegn på advarsel for dem, som vælger at gå uafhængigt af legemet. Gud vil åbne ærlige sjæles øjne til at se forbandelsen i deres arbejde, der splitter og spreder. Han vil sætte mærke på dem, som forårsager splid, så enhver ærlig sjæl kan undslippe fra Satans snare.