Well, Elders Myers was willing to offer a little surprise, already announced with discretion in one of his posts: “Thank you, keep checking the website. Perhaps you will find what you've been looking for.”

This morning, at that invitation to “check the website,” I found several new articles. Two of them written by A.T.Jones, one by Ellen G. White, and other two by himself, dealing with the subject, in the context of 1888.

It seems to me that Elder Myers has conquered his shyness about EJW and ATJ. It is a small beginning, yes, but it has the potential to bring great results. This I greatly appreciate.

But the subject is still carried on in a confusing shadow of what has been given to us in 1888. Elder Myers is still heavy on justification, while EGW was crystal clear that the 1888 message was something new and purely Adventist – a kind of faith that can produce the cleansing of the sanctuary, seen in the person of Christ. Here we have the real key of the atonement, the blending of the two natures, divine and human, after the order of the government of God. His eternal purpose was to dwell in intelligent beings, “from the bright and holly seraph to man” (DA 161).

But I understand Elder Myers. Even our greatest men, today or in 1888, struggle with the matter. Listen what ATJ said, in his sermon published on the OGR site:

“Some of these brethren, since the Minneapolis meeting, I have heard, myself, say ‘amen’ to preaching, to statements that were utterly heathen and did not know but that it was the righteousness of Christ. Some of those who stood so openly against that at that time and voted with uplifted hand against it and since that time I have heard say "amen" to statements that were as openly and decidedly papal as the papal church itself can state them” (1893 GC Bulletin, Sermon 11).

It is well to read this magnificent sermon by ATJ, posted on the OGR site (Righteousness of Christ). All over his sermon, when speaking about the message, he said, “The Righteousness of Christ.” He is quoting sister White, saying the same: “The message of Christ's righteousness is to sound from one end of the world to the other. This is the glory of God which closes the work of the third angel."

But this is a good new start, and I love Elders Myers for his courage to tell the Church we have a problem with 1888.

Thanks, Pastor Myers. God bless you, and may He work with you to destroy the barrier of the devil, and facilitate A Close Encounters of The Third Kind between the SDA Church and the message of the Loud Cry, in mercy sent by God through brethren Waggoner and Jones.