“But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in My name, He shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.” John 14:26. “Howbeit when He, the Spirit of truth, is come, He will guide you into all truth: for He shall not speak of Himself; but whatsoever He shall hear, that shall He speak: and He will show you things to come.” John 16:13. “These things have I written unto you concerning them that seduce you. But the anointing which ye have received of Him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in Him.” 1 John 2:26, 27. GoPH 188.2
And now since all must admit that each one of the martyrs of Jesus had the “testimony of Jesus” without a middle man—had the “testimony of Jesus” because the anointing of the Holy Ghost which they had received, taught them what the “testimony of Jesus” was, why should any one contend that the remnant of that same company must have a middle man or middle woman, to tell them what the “testimony of Jesus” is, or they cannot know it? GoPH 188.3
If the remnant of that great martyr company cannot have the “testimony of Jesus” unless they have Sister White, then, the great body of that same company could not have had the ‘‘testimony of Jesus,” unless they had some one individual prophet. GoPH 188.4
There were plenty of people back in those bloody days who said no one could have the testimony of Jesus unless he had a middle man to tell him what the testimony of Jesus was. And it was this claim that led to the making of the papacy. And it was the denial of this claim, by the martyrs, that made them martyrs. It is the denial of that papal principle in the S. D. A. church by a few today that is resulting in their being cast out of that church. And may these indeed help to make up the real remnant of that larger protesting, persecuted body, who had the “testimony of Jesus,” and had it so firmly that no amount of torture could take it from them. GoPH 189.1
“I am thy fellow servant, and of thy brethren that have the testimony of Jesus: worship God: for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.” Revelation 19:10. GoPH 189.2
I was taught that this scripture said that this angel was the fellow-servant of the prophets, such as Jeremiah, Daniel, John and Sister White. This was gathered from the statement, “I am thy fellow-servant, and of thy brethren that have the testimony of Jesus” which is the spirit of prophecy. The testimony of Jesus was understood to be the gift to prophesy instead of the spirit or life of prophecy. GoPH 189.3
Hut there is a vast difference between the two The first is the gift of the Spirit by which the testimony of Jesus is testified and the other is, as Elder White said over seventy years ago, “The entire prophetic Word of both Testaments.” GoPH 189.4
The angel does not, say, I was the fellow-servant of those who had the testimony of Jesus which is the gift to prophesy. But “I am thy fellow-servant of thy brethren that have the testimony of Jesus,” which is the spirit of prophecy. All John’s brethren had the testimony of Jesus and therefore the angel was the fellow-servant of all John’s brethren This truth is positively stated in Revelation 22:9. GoPH 189.5
John again overwhelmed with the testimony of Jesus which he was seeing and hearing, again fell down to worship before the feet of the angel that showed him these things. Again the angel forbids him and says: GoPH 189.6
“I am thy fellow-servant and of thy brethren the prophets and of them which keep the sayings of this book, worship God.” Note that he says “I am” (not I was) the fellow-servant of thy brethren the prophets. Of course he was the fellow-servant of the dead servants when they were alive. He is not the fellow-servant of dead servants when they are dead. GoPH 190.1