By John Thiel, The People of the Loud Cry Series, Study 4, mp3

The True Loud Cry

The loud cry is different to human expectation. And in our efforts to proclaim the word of God with power, we are to consider this:

Bible religion is not to be boastfully paraded, but quietly practiced in good words and works. {VSS 30.3} 

Those that are prudent will be silent in that time. The three Hebrews were silent; they were not boastfully parading, but quietly practicing good words and works. Consider now the nature of this loud cry. Remember, it says, Come out of Babylon, My people. This turns your mind to Babylon in the time of Daniel, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego – the fiery furnace. Here you have the symbolic picture of the lesson for us today. Read the rest of this entry →

By John Thiel, The People of the Loud Cry Series, Study 2, mp3

Gaining That Nature

The people of the loud cry, we want to be them; and so we have a mission. But it is a mission of a different variety than many churches think it’s going to be. The mission at this present time is to gain a nature that is going to meet with the expectation that God has for the people that will give the loud cry. As we have seen, it is a small and obscure people, and they need to meet the demand of what the loud cry is revealed as in Revelation 18.

Revelation 18:1 And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory. 2 And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird. 3 For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies. 4 And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues. Read the rest of this entry →

By John Thiel, The People of the Loud Cry Series, Study 1, mp3

The Nature of the People

Scripture reading: Jeremiah 9:23 Thus saith the LORD, Let not the wise [man] glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty [man] glory in his might, let not the rich [man] glory in his riches: 24 But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I [am] the LORD which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these [things] I delight, saith the LORD.

These words reveal a challenge to all who make a profession of which they can be proud, to be the people of God, to be wise. We live at the present moment of time in a culture of preeminence in the religious world. The churches and the companies that exist today, especially among Adventism, are flaunting their preeminence. “We uphold the pure truth, we are the right ones. We are the true representatives of God’s truth.” You see this throughout the planet at this time. Read the rest of this entry →