1984 - History of the Laodicean Message 01 - Fred Wright
Channel: Frank Zimmerman
Date: 2013-10-21

The Playlist for 1984 Laodicean Message series is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3-miLiBGRw&list=PLl0VYRTu_v9Sgn_tUpWwJMS0YVtx0azyE

This is Study 01 (of 34) from the Canadian Camp Meeting of 1984. The theme is on the history and prophecies concerning the Laodicean message and the movement that grew up around Fred Wright's ministry. (Fred announces the studies as one higher than we've listed here, because the first study was devoted to a telling of news from around the world, and was not recorded).

This study introduces the Laodicean message (Revelation 3:14-21), and how the revelation of Christ to each of the churches of Revelation is just what that church needs. Fred covers the early history of the Advent people, up until the disappointment experienced in 1844, and how Christ worked to save them from the disappointment. Shortly after that time, the church entered the Laodicean condition, and the message of Rev. 3:14-21 then applied to the Advent people. In the next studies, Fred discusses the history of that message and how it was received.

Fred Wright (1925-1997) was the founder of the Sabbath Rest Advent Church. Originally raised as a Seventh-day Adventist, he later found that he had never truly understood or experienced the new birth. It was through a revival of the 1888 gospel message of A.T. Jones and E.J. Waggoner that he found this experience. He came to a realization that sin is "not what you do, but what you are," and that real forgiveness involved not just taking away guilt for wrong actions, but removing of the roots of sin in the heart of man.

Fred was later disfellowshipped from the Adventist church (around the mid-1950's) for refusing to stop teaching this message to others. Shortly after, the Lord called him to full-time ministry, and the message he taught grew and expanded over the next 40 years of his life. All the themes he taught were grounded and centered in that beginning message of living righteousness over the power of sin.

You can obtain more of his writings and similar teachings at http://www.srac.info and http://www.practicaprophetica.com