How people will there be a pure church when Jesus comes?
the sinners in Zion will be sifted out Selected Messages 2:380 (1886) . Misrepresentation , will grow into open rebellion 5BC 1106 Many who are now only half converted on the question of meat eating will go from God's people to walk no more with them. {CD 382.1} a large class who have professed faith in the third angel's message, but have not been sanctified through obedience to the truth , abandon their position and join the ranks of the opposition. The Great Controversy, 608. This will have its effect upon the heart of the receiver, and will lead him to exalt the standard and pour forth the straight truth. Some will not bear this straight testimony . They will rise up against it, and this will cause a shaking among God's people.--1T 181 (1857). Prosperity multiplies a mass of professors. Adversity purges them out of the church.—Testimonies for the Church 4:89 (1876). When the shaking comes, by the introduction of false theories, these surface readers, a...