Quotations from the writings of Ellen G. White with the phrase . . .
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The phrase 'eternal tabernacles' appears 5 times in the published writings of EGW page NOT on Original site Related Phrase: eternal tabernacle ( zero ) Appears in Scripture: [ Luke 16:9 ]
| “Make to yourselves friends by means of the mammon of unrighteousness,” Christ says, “that when it shall fail, they may receive you into the eternal tabernacles.” R.V. [ Luke 16:9 ] God and Christ and angels are all ministering to the afflicted, the suffering, and the sinful. Give yourself to God for this work, use His gifts for this purpose, and you enter into partnership with heavenly beings. Your heart will throb in sympathy with theirs. You will be assimilated to them in character. To you these dwellers in the eternal tabernacles will not be strangers. When earthly things shall have passed away, the watchers at heaven’s gates will bid you welcome. { COL 373.1} Read entire Chapter 26
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| Christ did not commend the unjust steward, but He made use of a well-known occurrence to illustrate the lesson He desired to teach. “Make to yourselves friends by means of the mammon of unrighteousness,” He said, “that when it shall fail, they may receive you into the eternal tabernacles.” R.V. [ Luke 16:9 ] { COL 367.4} Read entire Chapter 26
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| Then let your property go beforehand to heaven. Lay up your treasures beside the throne of God. Make sure your title to the unsearchable riches of Christ. “Make to yourselves friends by means of the mammon of unrighteousness, that when it shall fail, they may receive you into the eternal tabernacles.” R.V. [ Luke 16:9 ] { COL 375.1} Read entire Chapter 26
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| No scheme of business or plan of life can be sound or complete that embraces only the brief years of this present life, and makes no provision for the unending future. Let the youth be taught to take eternity into their reckoning. Let them be taught to choose the principles and seek the possessions that are enduring —to lay up for themselves that “treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief approacheth, neither moth corrupteth;” to make to themselves friends “by means of the mammon of unrighteousness,” that when it shall fail, these may receive them “into the eternal tabernacles.” Luke 12:33; 16:9, R.V. { CS 346.4} [ Stewardship published in 1940 ] |
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| This is a question that demands consideration by every parent, every teacher, every student — by every human being, young or old. No scheme of business or plan of life can be sound or complete that embraces only the brief years of this present life and makes no provision for the unending future. Let the youth be taught to take eternity into their reckoning. Let them be taught to choose the principles and seek the possessions that are enduring — to lay up for themselves that “treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief approacheth, neither moth corrupteth;” to make to themselves friends “by means of the mammon of unrighteousness,” that when it shall fail, these may receive them “into the eternal tabernacles.” Luke 12:33; 16:9, R.V. { Education, 145.2} [ Published in 1903 ] |
SDA Bible Commentary on LUKE 16: 9 |
Bible Commentary. Volume 5, page 827 about [ Luke 16:9 ]
| 'Make to yourselves friends' The truth to which He does direct attention is that we should make use of present opportunities with a view to our eternal welfare. We are but stewards of the material possessions that come to our hands in this life, and god has entrusted them to us that we may learn the principles of faithful stewardship/ All that we have in this present life is actually "another man's" - that is God's; it is not our own. Luke 16: 12; see 1 Corinthians 6: 19. We are to use the material things entrusted to us to advance the interests of our Father in heaven, by applying them to the needs of our fellow men. ( see Proverbs 19: 17; Matthew 19: 21; Matt 25: 31-46; Luke 12: 33) and to the advancement of the gospel ( see 1 Corinthians 9: 13; 2 Corinthians 9: 6, 7 ), |
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"When ye fail" Textual evidence favors (cf. p. 146) the reading "when it fails" - The rendering "when ye fail" would mean 'when ye die' but the Scriptures do not teach that men are received "into everlasting habitations" at death, as this rendering would require, but at our Lord's return (see John 14: 3 ). "When it fails" means "when riches [the mammon of unrighteousness] fails." When the stewards source of income failed ( Luke 16: 3 ), then it was that he gave thought to the future ( verse 4),
The point of the parable is not the steward's failure in his stewardship, or his death, or his method of solving the problem of loss of his income. Thus the context, as well as the general tenor of Scripture, requires the reading "when it fails." The antecedent of "it" is "mammon" and the antecedent of "they" is "friends."
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