Thought for the Day ~ 16 October, 2026 A.D.

"They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us." -I John 2:19 [KJV] 

"Thus, it was in the apostle John’s time, a little before the close of the apostolic age. “Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time. They went out from us, but they were not of us.” This is the account the apostle gives of them. As it was then, so it has been ever since. 

All the heresies which have tormented the churches of Christ ever since and down even to our present times have originated from persons who have been in the churches, who have departed from the churches, from such as have made schisms and divisions in the churches. And when any old error is newly revived, it in general springs from such persons as are disaffected to the true churches of Jesus Christ."

-preacher Samuel Eyles Pierce (1746-1829 A.D.)

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