From: "Sterling D. Allan" <sterlingda@greaterthings.com>
To: "David's Outcasts" <davids_outcasts@listbot.com>;
"SDA Friends list" <SDA_friends@listbot.com>
Cc: "J J Dewey" <jjd@rmci.net>
Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2000 1:36 PM
Subject: [888] Dewey or Don't he
"Gary Grunau" <landovel@cstone.net>
writes:
> Got a question here?
>
> I thought some time back you, Sterling, were the one mighty and strong?
And
> now YOU are telling us that JJ is THE one mighty and strong. Am I
confused?
> At my age dealing with Senior moments, my memory fails me from time to
time.
> However, I remember a post where you didn't deny allegations that you had
> claimed to be the one mighty and strong.
I have not changed my belief in regards to myself. I do believe that I have
been given an overwhelming amount of witness to the effect that this is my
calling. Many of those are recorded at http://www.greaterthings.com/Davidic_Servant/
However, that does not mean that I know of a surety. The show is not over
'till the fat lady sings. I am open to the possibility that I could be
misreading the things I have been given, though if I were put up against the
wall right now (or any time in the past ten years) and told I must recant or
be killed, I would not recant.
After David Whitmer (no longer a possibility in my estimation), J.J. is the
second person I have come across who seems to me to be a more likely
candidate. Maybe part of the struggle here is a hope that it is actually him
and not me. I feel much more comfortable rallying behind someone who has
something to say than being the one who is supposed to be the one with
something to say.
On that, I would just have to say that the main message of our day is that
each person is to become a prophet, responsible for their own salvation, and
not leaning more on another than they do on their own connection to God, both
the embryonic god that is within them, seeing as they are a "child"
of God, as well as God above who governs in the affairs of men through his
angelic hosts and helps us learn and to overcome so we can be as He(&She)
is. I'm not trying to be doctrinally dogmatic here but am speaking off the
cuff as it were.
<snip>
You also ask:
> I'm having trouble following this. Are you an adherent to
JJ or are you
> not?
>
> One minute I see a post that he is the OM&S and the next min you say
his
> life doesn't line up with that of a man of god?
[...if he doesn't confess to being teachable and fallible, in the process of
learning himself]
> Sometimes we are just thinking out loud asking questions and making
> decisions hoping to put a few pieces together.
Yep. The jury is not in on this one for me by any stretch. Too many things on
both ends to yet weigh -- and much to learn in the process of discerning this.
Perhaps another person might have heard the name "J.J. Dewey,"
merely asked the question, be told the answer, and they are done.
I'm glad I don't have that "gift," for to me the quest is the
most fun part of the game.
When I was a child, I spent hours for several years playing in a large play
fort behind our house that was constantly in a state of construction. Once in
a while we would actually "play" for an afternoon, rather than
build. But in retrospect, I think we had just as much fun if not more so ever
building and remodeling the thing until it was quite the masterpiece.
So it is with the great and marvelous work of the Lord.
Call this the parable of the play-fort if you wish, but don't go groveling
on my words, for this is the day that each is to become a prophet.
Sincerely your brother,
Sterling
