I agree.These days my advise to Adventist is: Divide your tithe in 2
Half Return the tithe to God thru your local church what they do with it it’s
between them & God.
The other half give it to those ministries that are really trying to spread the WORD faithfully.
Live the outcomes with God.

This is what happened in the time of Malachi

Your conclusion that is wrong to withhold tithes and offerings is balderdash. The Holy Spirit gives us wisdom and guidance and that often comes in the form of a conscience. God does not reward the church with with financial resources, just because it exists to do His work. He rewards it because it DOES His work. If the promptings of the Spirit inspire a giver to give elsewhere and to stop giving to their denomination, follow the Spirit. Tithes and offerings are for the work of Christ not to support a particular Christian denomination when it wanders from the path.

Our only motive should be to make sure tithe is being used as it should be. We don’t want to use coercive tactics.

“If a ruler hearken to lies, all his servants are wicked.” Prov. 29:12. So, all the “faithful” pastors in “unfaithful Conferences” are careful to not serve the Conference? Are they as faithful to give up the pay? Or do they let the siren-song of team-work draw their hearts away? “Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.”

While they are getting educated, maybe they need to look into the roots and nature of the Marxist Social Justice campaigns that they are advertising loudly on Conference websites?

I believe Bohr too. And that is why I don’t watch him. He believes in the infallibility of the Conference hierarchy, as any faithful Papist does. All Papists know that their system is desperately wicked, but it has God strapped over the barrel, and He can’t get away. In all its wickedness, it is holier than He is, so it cannot fall from being the immaculate bride of Christ. It is the Church, out of which there is no salvation. For there is no other name under heaven whereby we must be saved, but by the Church, which gave us our Savior.

You say that the author is creating division where there is no need for it? I must disagree.
“The Lord calls for men to act promptly, with the courage of heroes, and the firmness and faith of martyrs, to tear down the idolatrous images that have usurped his place in the minds of men, and meet the armed force of wrong on battle fields. But in all this there is no excuse for any to indulge in harshness or severity to gratify their own wrong feelings.” {ST, January 6, 1881 par. 8}

The 3rd Angel’s Message warns of worshiping the Beast, and its Image. The first Beast is obviously a church. The image of the beast is also a different religious body clothed with civil power to persecute. We have witnessed this over the past 48 years, and it has become intense in the last 4.

This Image of the Beast may claim to be Protestant and even Seventh-day Adventist, but it is so only in the sense that the Church of Rome is the universal body of Christ.

It required a desperate struggle for those who would be faithful to stand firm against the deceptions and abominations which were disguised in sacerdotal garments and introduced into the church. The Bible was not accepted as the standard of faith. The doctrine of religious freedom was termed heresy, and its upholders were hated and proscribed. {GC 45.2}
After a long and severe conflict, the faithful few decided to dissolve all union with the apostate church if she still refused to free herself from falsehood and idolatry. They saw that separation was an absolute necessity if they would obey the word of God. They dared not tolerate errors fatal to their own souls, and set an example which would imperil the faith of their children and children’s children. To secure peace and unity they were ready to make any concession consistent with fidelity to God; but they felt that even peace would be too dearly purchased at the sacrifice of principle. If unity could be secured only by the compromise of truth and righteousness, then let there be difference, and even war.
Well would it be for the church and the world if the principles that actuated those steadfast souls were revived in the hearts of God’s professed people.

Amen!

I just published this article on my website, titled, “Should Tithes and Offerings Serve as Weapons of Protest?” https://advindicate.com/articles/draft1-9ek5h-yyxsc-xjn22-6c4dg-3l78d-gfmye

Your point about faithful pastors serving in territories dominated by opposing elements, and likely to suffer because of the boycott being suggested, is addressed in the above article.

We are near the borders of Canaan. God does not consider pastors faithful in apostate conferences if they either:
– behind closed doors disagree with the apostasy of the conferences, but do not with the sacred responsibility they have to protect our church(the people from false doctrine and worldy principles) and uphold the fundamental beliefs and our peculiar position, take a decided stand against the sin.
– remain indifferent to the responsibilities of their sacred calling.
– support the conferences and leadership not to ruffle feathers or to keep their job and pay their bills.
There are faithful conferences, however they need to let people know where they stand.
God gives evidence for us to make an intelligent and faithful decision.

“What astonishing deception and fearful blindness had, like a dark cloud, covered Israel! This blindness and apostasy had not closed about them suddenly; it had come upon them gradually as they had not heeded the word of reproof and warning which the Lord had sent to them because of their pride and their sins. And now, in this fearful crisis, in the presence of the idolatrous priests and the apostate king, they remained neutral. If God abhors one sin above another, of which His people are guilty, it is doing nothing in case of an emergency. Indifference and neutrality in a religious crisis is regarded of God as a grievous crime and equal to the very worst type of hostility against God.
All Israel is silent.” 3T 280.3 – 3T 281.1

Right now there are pastors who have been banned, censored and fired from the conferences they worked for because they were faithful in upholding their responsibilities as Christ’s sub sheppards.

God is sifting the church separating the chaff from the wheat. But of course God is working through His faithful people to do so, and the enemy of all souls is using his subjects.

God will arouse His people; if other means fail, heresies will come in among them, which will sift them, separating the chaff from the wheat. The Lord calls upon all who believe His word to awake out of sleep. Precious light has come, appropriate for this time. It is Bible truth, showing the perils that are right upon us. This light should lead us to a diligent study of the Scriptures and a most critical examination of the positions which we hold. 5T 707.3

There is no in-between, everyone will have to choose a side. You can choose through commission or omission.

Everywhere the people are taking sides; all are ranging themselves either under the banner of truth and righteousness or under the banner of the apostate powers that are contending for the supremacy. At this time God’s message to the world is to be given with such prominence and power that the people will be brought face to face, mind to mind, heart to heart, with truth. They must be brought to see its superiority over the multitudinous errors that are pushing their way into notice, to supplant, if possible, the word of God for this solemn time. 7T 150.3

We have to demonstrate our loyalty to God. For the world, heavenly Angels and the universe are watching. What will your testimony be?

We are required to keep [His commandments,] and to demonstrate before the heavenly universe that we are obedient children, loyal and true to the government of God. We may not expect the world, who are under the power and dominion of Satan, to obey God and keep His commandments. There are but two classes in our world, the obedient and the disobedient, the holy and the unholy. When our transgressions were laid upon Jesus, He was numbered among the unholy on the sinner’s account. He became our substitute, our surety before the Father and all the heavenly angels. 7LtMs, Lt 16, 1892, par. 16

The shaking is a process, It began in 1844. The evidence form the great disappointment:
– Estimated 30,000 people in the Millerton movement
– 50 remained after the disappointment

I was pointed to the providence of God among His people and was shown that every trial made by the refining, purifying process upon professed Christians proves some to be dross. The fine gold does not always appear. In every religious crisis some fall under temptation. The shaking of God blows away multitudes like dry leaves. Prosperity multiplies a mass of professors. Adversity purges them out of the church. As a class, their spirits are not steadfast with God. They go out from us because they are not of us; for when tribulation or persecution arises because of the word, many are offended. 1TT 478.2