a. The church is assumed to be ready, at least "the saints," for the coming of Christ or the "rapture" at any moment. Anyone who is "saved" is ready.
b. In a unique sense, SDA church is getting better and better as regards doctrine and experience of righteousness by faith (Pease, p. 227). Froom agrees; now that our Trinitarian views are identical to those of Chalcedonian and Athanasian creeds, we are ready for the Latter Rain, or nearly so (pp. 283-286, 314-319).
c. Latent enmity against God and need for final atonement was the real issue at the 1888 conference and there after. Not a word in Ellen G. White or Jones and Waggoner suggesting that doctrinal Trinitarianism was the real problem. Love of self was the problem, not semi-arianism. Latter would have quickly been taken care of if former had been overcome. Denominational repentance must come before the Latter rain can be recognized and received.