In 1893, a man named A. W. Stanton along with several others, put out a tract calling the SDA church Babylon at that time. Sis. White stated that he was deceived, and that he ran ahead of the Lord before the Lord sent him.

“How is it that these pamphlets denouncing the Seventh-day Adventist Church as Babylon were scattered abroad everywhere, at the very time when that church was receiving the outpouring of the Spirit of God? How is it that men can be so deceived as to imagine that the loud cry consists in calling the people of God out from the fellowship of a church that is enjoying a season of refreshing? Oh, may these deceived souls come into the current, and receive the blessing, and be endued with power from on high.”
Testimonies to Ministers, p 23.

“When anyone arises, either among us or outside of us, who is burdened with a message which declares that the people of God are numbered with Babylon, and claims that the loud cry is a call to come out of her, you may know that he is not bearing the message of truth. Receive him not, nor bid him Godspeed; for God has not spoken by him, neither has He given a message to him, but he has run before he was sent. The message contained in the pamphlet called the Loud Cry, is a deception. Such messages will come, and it will be claimed for them that they are sent of God, but the claim will be false; for they are not filled with light, but with darkness.”
Testimonies to Ministers, p 41.

“My brother, I learn that you are taking the position that the Seventh-day Adventist Church is Babylon, and that all that would be saved must come out of her… My brother you are certainly off the track. The second angel’s message was to go to Babylon (the churches) proclaiming her downfall, and calling the people to come out of her. This same message is to be proclaimed the second time.”
Testimonies to Ministers, p 58-59.

The SDA church was NOT Babylon yet in the year 1893. God had not proclaimed it but Stanton. So it was a deception to believe it at that time. You will note that all statements in Testimonies that pertaining to the church becoming Babylon or is Babylon were written in the present tense form like “at this time”, “at the very time”, “at the present time” in 1893.

“Those who assert that the Seventh-day Adventist churches constitute Babylon, or any part of Babylon, might better stay at home. Let them stop and consider what is the message to be proclaimed at this time.”
Testimonies to Ministers, p 58-59.

“The message contained in the pamphlet called the Loud Cry, is a deception. Such messages will come, and it will be claimed for them that they are sent of God, but the claim will be false; for they are not filled with light, but with darkness. There will be messages of accusation against the people of God, similar to the work done by Satan in accusing God's people, and these messages will be sounding at the very time when God is saying to His people, "Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee. For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the Lord shall arise upon thee, and His glory shall be seen upon thee."
Testimonies to Ministers, p 42.

“How is it that these pamphlets denouncing the Seventh-day Adventist Church as Babylon were scattered abroad everywhere, at the very time when that church was receiving the outpouring of the Spirit of God?”
Testimonies to Ministers, p 23.

“There is but one church in the world who are at the present time standing in the breach, and making up the hedge, building up the old waste places; and for any man to call the attention of the world and other churches to this church, denouncing her as Babylon, is to do a work in harmony with him who is the accuser of the brethren.”
Testimonies to Ministers, p 50.

In 1886, Sis. White saw the possibility and danger of the church “becoming sister to fallen Babylon”

“It should be remembered that the promises and threatenings of God are alike conditional.”
Selected Messages, book 1, p 67.

Notice that Sis. White said mentioned “this same message is to be proclaimed the second time” TM 59, that in the future we will hear the “SDA Church is Babylon and that all that would be saved must come out of her”!

“Of those who boast of their light, and yet fail to walk in it, Christ says, "But I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the day of judgment, than for you. And thou, Capernaum [Seventh-day Adventists, who have had great light], which art exalted unto heaven [in point of privilege], shalt be brought down to hell: for if the mighty works, which have been done in thee, had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day. But I say unto you, That it shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom in the day of judgment, than for thee."
Review and Herald, August 1, 1893.

But why should the SDA church be brought down to hell? Because it failed to walk in the light as stated by Sis. White with regard to the position of the SDA church in 1903. (8T 247, please see page 24).

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