Many who are investigating the Shepherd’s Rod message today are wondering what are the requirements to teach in the name of this most marvelous and powerful proclamation of present truth. For example, someone recently asked on a Facebook discussion group, “are the non card holding members eligible to teach the Shepherd's Rod Message?” The card being referred to is known as the Certificate of Fellowship card that was issued on an annual basis to supporting members of the work at old Mt. Carmel ...
Storehouse, Headquarters: What is the Difference and Where are They Located Today?
For a convenient PDF version of this study for download onto your computer, please click: Storehouse-Headquarters. “Our only concern should be to find out where is His "storehouse," and then faithfully deposit His money there, and, if it is His "storehouse," He will, without a doubt, take care of His own, but if He does not care for the storehouse which you think is His, then either your conception of His storehouse is incorrect, or else He has moved it to another place. "Seek and ye shall ...
Are Davidians Looking for Unity But Don’t Know Where to Find It?
For years there have calls amongst present truth believers to unite and come together so the work of pleading for mother can be finished and that long hoped for kingdom of peace ushered in. Is this thinking based on a sound understanding of the Rod or is it a specious sort of love sick sentimentalism that is calculated to lead, if possible, the very elect into the ditch? Has anyone proposing such schemes ever taken the time to sink the shaft deep into the mine of Truth and answer the following ...
Part Three: Why Has God had to Move His Storehouse in the Past?
(For Part Two in this series, please click here.) “I have been instructed to publish the early experiences of the cause of present truth, showing why we stand, as we do, a people separate and distinct from the world.... While Satan is stirring up many to depart from the faith, I am bidden to republish the experiences of the past and give the message of warning God sends, showing the dangers of the present time, and what will be in the future.—Manuscript 13, 1908.” — Publishing Ministry, p. ...
Part Two: Some Criteria for God’s Storehouse
Part Two: What are Some Criteria of God’s Storehouse? (for Part One in this series, please click this link.) In part two of this series we aim to determine what God’s storehouse should be doing so that we can recognize it from a myriad of counterfeits that have arisen since Brother Houteff's death in 1955. To accomplish this goal we will examine several criteria coming from the Bible, Spirit of Prophecy and the Shepherds’s Rod that will aid us in our search. May God richly bless you as you ...
