Since we as a church were raised on EGW 'snippets' , ie compilations and most all of the forum discussions seem to prefer snippets even of Bible text, and you have already been chastised for wanting items to be context, since we all know context can lead us a stray, perhaps we should start something new...snippose!!!

You are right CoAspen. Snippets are very popular. Not many here want to read a long post of quotes. Those are the ones that get skipped. If context is wanted to be studied ... the people look up the reference and then argue context. They are then lead astray into the ozones .... of their own prejudices and preformed ideas.

"As the storm approaches, 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. By uniting with the world and partaking of its spirit, they have come to view matters in nearly the same light; and when the test is brought, they are prepared to choose the easy, popular side. Men of talent and pleasing address, who once rejoiced in the truth, employ their powers to deceive and mislead souls. They become the most bitter enemies of their former brethren. When Sabbathkeepers are brought before the courts to answer for their faith, these apostates are the most efficient agents of Satan to misrepresent and accuse them, and by false reports and insinuations to stir up the rulers against them."-Great Controversy, 608:2.

Well if you post a long version, people complain about the lenght, if you cut it down, they say its a snippet. I have a feeling they just dont like what is being posted. Here is a long one for those who want to take the time.....


"..Not judgment and_condemnation of others, but humility
and distrust of self, is the teaching of Christ's parable. Not all that is "sown in the field is good grain. The fact that men are in the church does not prove them Christians.

The tares closely resembled the wheat while the blades were green; but when the field was white for the harvest, the worthless weeds bore no likeness to the wheat that bowed under the weight of its full, ripe heads. Sinners who make a pretension of piety mingle for a time with the true followers of Christ, and the semblance of Christianity is calculated to deceive many; but in the harvest of the world there will be no likeness between good and evil. Then those who have joined the church, but who have not joined Christ, will be manifest.

The tares are permitted to grow among the wheat, to have all the advantage of sun and shower; but in the time of harvest ye shall "return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth Him not." Mai. 3 :i8. Christ Himself will decide who are worthy to dwell with the family of heaven. He will judge every man according to his words and his works. Profession is as nothing in the scale. It is character that decides destiny.

The Saviour does not point forward to a time when all the tares become wheat. The wheat and tares grow together until the harvest, the end of the world. Then the tares are bound in bundles to be burned, and the wheat is gathered into the garner of God. "Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father." Then "the Son of man shall send forth His angels, and they shall gather out of His kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity; and shall cast them into a furnace of fire; there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth." pg.74-75 Christ's Object Lessons.