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Mi n i str i es
False shepherds
I have been shown that the false shepherds were drunk, but not with wine; they
stagger, but not with strong drink. The truth of God is sealed up to them; they
cannot read it. When they are interrogated as to what the seventh-day Sabbath
is, whether or not it is the true Sabbath of the Bible, they lead the mind to fables. I
saw that these prophets were like the foxes of the desert. They have not gone up
into the gaps, they have not made up the hedge that the people of God may
stand in the battle in the day of the Lord. When the minds of any get stirred up,
and they begin to inquire of these false shepherds about the truth, they take the
easiest and best manner to effect their object and quiet the minds of the inquiring ones, even changing their own position to do it. Light has shone on many of
these shepherds, but they would not acknowledge it and have changed their
position a number of times to evade the truth and get away from the conclusions
that they must come to if they continued in their former position. The power of
truth tore up their foundation, but instead of yielding to it they would get up another platform that they were not satisfied with themselves.
I saw that many of these shepherds had denied the past teachings of God; they
had denied and rejected the glorious truths which they once zealously advocated and had covered themselves with mesmerism and all kinds of delusions. I saw
Ellen G. White
