Conference clasps hands
with the Papacy (repeatedly)
Above: October 2016, the conference
ministry sends their rep, Ganoune Diop Religious
Liberty Director, to the Vatican to assure the pope that the
conference and its members
are on his side. God is not smiling upon this event. Who is
supporting Diop and the conference leaders?
Are you shaking hands and hugging the pope like Diop did? Have you
funded Diop?
Urgent: SDA Pastor David Gates, of
Gospel Ministries International, said Diop, above, signed a papal
agreement to NOT criticize other religions!!! Gates also said
he personally spoke with three union presidents that also signed the
agreement!!
THE CONFERENCE PROTESTANT PROTEST HAS
ENDED!!
THE CONFERENCE IS NOW APOSTATE PROTESTANTISM!!
Watch this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MYiUElfmkE David Gates said
the conference men told him they are FRIENDS with the JESUITS!!!
How can the
Adventist church identify the papacy as the beast if it is partners with
them? The conference is not spreading the three angel's messages to the
world, as they would rather follow the papacy over their duty to God.
Tony Palmer, the friend of the pope, in 2015 said "The Protest has ended!"
The world cannot hear a protest from the SDA church. Silence,
silence, silence.
Above: On
right, Diop joins other church leaders at the Vatican honoring the pope,
Oct. 2016
Diop signed the agreement with the
papacy either here at the Vatican or in Lund, Sweden
on October 31, 2016 when there was another ecumenical gathering.
Read the fifth volume of the
Testimonies, p 207, The Seal of God chapter,
how God will be slaughtering SDAs for their apostasy, and only a "little
company"
will be "sighing and crying for the abominations" in the church and will
receive the seal of God. Are you protesting the conference apostasy?
Are you sighing and crying, or are you
supporting the abominations?
Are you an SDA Martin Luther who protests, or are you a papist?
The three angels' have been placed on
the cross for crucifixion by
conference leaders, just at the conference men placed Jesus on the
cross in the first century. Conference leaders hate The Great
Controversy and destroyed it with The Great Hope booklet, protecting
the papacy. At the same time, for the past 35 years, since 1982,
when the conference signed the ecumenical Lima Document to not
prosthelytize,
the conference has not been giving a proper PUBLIC announcement
of the second and third angels' messages. Read about the Lima
Document:
http://www.calltorepent.com/sda-church-signs-document
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The conference is merely a ministry.
It is not THE CHURCH, because
we are told God's people around the world are the church:
"Faithful souls constitute the true church on earth." AA,
11 EGW
“God
has a church. It is not the great cathedral, neither is it the national
establishment, neither is it the various denominations;
it is the people who love God
and keep His commandments.
“Where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the
midst of them” (Matt. 18:20).
Where Christ is
even among the humble few, this
is Christ’s church, for the
presence of the High and Holy One who inhabiteth eternity can alone
constitute a church.”
(Ellen White
The Upward Look,
p. 315).
The conference leaders would have you
think, if you do not support them, you are not supporting God
and are not part of His church.
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"It is a
backsliding church that lessens
the distance between itself and the Papacy."
ST vol 3, 99
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"Beach's encounter with the Roman Pontiff came as a
member
of the Christian World Communions, and following a special
luncheon at the Vatican." Review Nov. 8, 2001 [Note: The
Seventh-day Adventist church is the member, not Beach
individually. Beach was representing the Adventist church.]
General conference representative
Bert B. Beach, was sent as a representative of the General Conference of
Seventh-day Adventists, the "world church," to meet with the pope.
Instead of preaching the three angels' messages around the world, the
conference chooses to be partners with the man of sin. An article
appeared in the Review boasting of Beach's accomplishments:
www.adventistreview.org/pdf/2001/1545-2001.pdf
Our duty friend, is to follow the
Lord and warn the world of the coming crisis instead of joining Rome.
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"When Protestantism shall
stretch her hand across the gulf to grasp the hand of the Roman power,
when she shall reach over the abyss to clasp hands with spiritualism,
when, under the influence of this threefold union, our
country shall repudiate every principle of its Constitution as a
Protestant and republican government and shall make provision for the
propagation of papal falsehoods and delusions, then we may know that the
time has come for the marvelous working of Satan and that the end is
near." --5T 451 (1885)
From the above quote, we
know now that the first part has happened, grasping the hand of Rome, now
the next step is for our Constitution to be repudiated.
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The leaders of the SDA conference
seek ecumenical approval, instead of standing for the truth. They are not
willing to be labeled "peculiar" by the world, but rather seek to fit in
with Babylon. In the end they will be rejected by God, "storm and tempest
will sweep away the structure." EGW
The laity are asleep
while the conference is hijacked by
apostate, non-Adventist leaders.
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Adventists join the
ecumenical Luther Garden along with Rome
http://www.luthergarten.de/welcome.html
Trees 82 and 88 are SDA
conference trees.
Rome has their tree in the very middle, with others around it.
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Adventists and Papacy
Sign Pact
“Adventist Church Cannot be Treated as a Sect,” Warsaw, Poland ...
[ANN Feb 15, 2000]
“The
Seventh-day Adventist Church cannot be treated either as a ‘new
religious movement,’ or as a sect,” declares
a joint statement
drawn by the Roman Catholic
Church and the Adventist Church in Poland.
Recognizing each other’s autonomy and independence, the document was
issued following
15 years of dialogue
aimed at better
understanding of the teachings and practice of the Catholic and the
Adventist Churches, as well as
improving relations
without compromising each other’s identity.
The
document cites the fact that “relations between Catholics and
Adventists have not been best in the past.” The statement was
signed by representatives of the Churches, including Pastor Wladyslaw
Polok, president of the Adventist Church in Poland, and Archbishop
Alfons Nossol, chairman of the Polish Episcopate’s Commission for
Ecumenical Affairs.
“With
regret we recognize cases when the different religious and civic circles
have denied the ecclesiastical status of the Seventh-day Adventist
Church, even refering to it as a ‘sect.’ Such an approach is
unacceptable and, we believe, it is highly detrimental for the mutual
relations,” the document states.
“This
document affirms religious liberty. We are regarding it as an important
development not only for our Church in Poland. Religious minorities are
too often regarded as less than what they are,” said Pastor Polok.
The
statement recognizes that though the Churches can refer to similarities,
they also see difference between each other’s “doctrine, practice and
church policies.”
However, both sides affirm a
need to cultivate respect for each other and learn to understand each
other. The dialogue was “conducted on the basis of
partnership, care to uphold a full identity of both sides, as well as
their autonomy and independence, in the spirit of mutual respect and
Christian love, and in recognition of the ideals of tolerance and
religious freedom.”
“This
is an important turn of events for our Church,” says Prof.
Zachariasz Lyko, who for many years was responsible for the Polish
Adventist Church’s public affairs. “This development is not a result
of criticism, public attacks or confrontation, but Christian kindness
toward each other and respect for dignity of a human person.”
“Many
of us can recall how we have been labeled with different names. We have
been misunderstood and often ridiculed. As for us, we wanted to sit down
together and recognize that
Christian love requires a
different kind of relation in the society we are a part of.
As Seventh-day Adventists we seek to take a positive approach to other
faiths.
We have stated this publicly and
this document affirms our attiutude [sic],”
he added.
The
document does not deal with doctrinal and theological issues. During the
years of meetings, both sides presented their theological views and
doctrinal positions in the interest of better understanding between both
confessions. “Our Church recognizes that such dialogue cannot be a
dialogue of compromise, but one of cooperative spirit and common
understanding,” Lyko explained. “We
are doing nothing different except what the early pioneers of our Church
supported and advocated.
It is always better to engage in a respectful conversation than in a
confrontation that often prevents achieving desired changes,”
he said.
Lyko
commented that “as
a Church, our side was not interested in compromising any of our
fundamental beliefs.”
“Over
the years, however, as the exchange of information between us took
place, we noted many confessional similarities but also differences.
The Catholic side recognizes in
the document the Christocentric character of our beliefs, and especially
our belief in the Trinity, as well as ecclesiological
identity of the Church, a status affirmed by an act of the Polish
Parliament. On our part, we spoke of a need to change attitudes toward
our denomination and recognized the openness of the Catholic Church,
especially in recent times, toward the Bible,” Lyko
explained.
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THE POPE
INVITES CLOSE FRIENDS TO ASSISI
General Conference of SDA's on short list to meet pope
The
following news release comes to us courtesy of Domus Enterprises, which
calls itself "an international news organization, staffed by lay Catholic
journalists, dedicated to providing accurate world news, written from a
distinctly Catholic perspective."
VATICAN, Jan 17, 2002 (CWNews.com)-
The Italian daily newspaper Avvenire has published a list of the religious
leaders expected to participate in the January 24 inter-religious
observance at Assisi.
The Vatican has not yet released an
official list of the participants, explaining that the list will not be
considered complete until all those invited have responded. An estimated
300 people are expected to be involved, representing 44 different
religious bodies.
Avvenire reported that 33 cardinals
are expected, led by the Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Angelo
Sodano; the prefect of the Congregation for Bishops, Cardinal Giovanni
Battista Re; the president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and
Peace, Cardinal Francois-Xavier Nguyen Van Thuan; the president of the
Pontifical Council for Christian Unity, Cardinal Walter Kasper; and
Cardinal Etchegaray, who organized the original inter-religious ceremony
in Assisi in 1986. Also present will be representatives of the Episcopal
conferences of Algeria, Angola, the Philippines, Indonesia, Pakistan,
Nigeria. Rwanda, and Sudan-- countries where inter-religious dialogue is
particularly important.
The Orthodox churches of the world
will send 11 patriarchs to Assisi, led by the Ecumenical Patriarch
Bartholomew I of Constantinople. But no representative of the Moscow
patriarchate is expected. About 50 Islamic leaders will attend, coming
from Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Egypt, Iran, the Philippines, and
Jordan. And Jewish rabbis will come from Jerusalem, France, and the United
States-- along with Elio Toaff, the former chief rabbi of Rome. Protestant
bodies will be represented by Konrad Kaiser, the secretary-general of the
World council of Churches; Anglican Bishop Richard Garrard of Rome; Setri
Nyomi of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches; George Freeman of the
World Methodist Council; Cecil Robeck of the Pentecostal church; Alvin
Jackson of the Disciples of Christ; Theodor Angelou of the European
Baptist Federation and
Bert Beach of the Seventh-Day Adventists.
The Vatican also expects
representatives of Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism, Hinduism, Zoroastrianism,
and traditional African faiths. The Italian government will be represented
in Assisi by President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi and Prime Minister Silvio
Berlusconi.
All these participants are expected
to be aboard a specially chartered train that will leave Rome for Assisi
on the morning of January 24, returning that evening.
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dedicated to providing accurate world news, written from a distinctly
Catholic perspective
Ecumenical Gatherings
(The
following report came from the Adventist News Network of March 7, 2000.)
The
“Meeting of U.S. Church Leaders,” an annual gathering of heads of
Christian churches from around the nation, has elected Seventh-day
Adventist Dr. Bert B. Beach as the vice chair of the group’s steering
committee. More than 30 church leaders participated in the February 23-25
meetings, including leaders from the Evangelical Lutheran Church in
America, the Presbyterian Church (USA), the United Church of Christ and
the American Baptist Churches in the USA.
“This
ongoing appointment is an indication of the growing esteem in which the
Seventh-day Adventist Church is held by many of the titular heads of the
churches in the United States,” says Beach, a past director of the
Church’s Public Affairs and Religious Liberty Department.
Beach, who
has represented the Adventist Church at the meetings for the last 15
years, sees the annual gatherings as an invaluable way of connecting with
national church leaders in an environment of informal fellowship.
“We pray
together, enjoy devotional meetings, and form friendships,” says Beach,
who adds that no substantive decisions are made at the annual meetings.
“It’s simply an opportunity to meet, consult, and recharge; to put away
hostilities and worship together as fellow Christians.”
The
February meeting of the “U.S. Church Leaders” at Asheville, North
Carolina, was a special millennial gathering where speakers explored the
“Gift of the Holy Spirit.” A prayer, written by meeting participants, asks
God to use United States Christians “In preparing Your Kingdom, That Your
will be done, On earth as it is in heaven.”
Beach,
Inter-Church Relations director for the Adventist Church, has been a
Church administrator and religious liberty advocate for over 48 years. He
currently also serves as vice president of the International Religious
Liberty Association, and is the elected secretary of the Conference of
Secretaries of Christian World Communions–an office he has held for the
past 29 years. [Bettina Krause]
Conference calls pope
"your holiness"
St. Louis television broadcasts the SDA church calling
the pope,
"your holiness(!)" then meeting the "man of sin" and presenting him with a
gift.
When the pope visited St. Louis in January 1999, he
held a Vespers Service where there was an ecumenical gathering.
Representatives of many faiths came together to meet the Pope and welcome
him to America. The Dayton Daily News of January 28, 1999,
recorded this event. "The pope continued the theme of unity at his final
ceremony Wednesday evening at the Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis, where
representatives of many faiths - Judaism, Hinduism, Seventh-day Adventists
- joined him in prayer." This description only touches the tip of the
iceberg, friend. The conference had a representative there, pastor B.T.
Rice of the Northside Seventh-day Adventist church, who spoke and made a
presentation to the Pope! Before he and other religious leaders spoke, a
Catholic representative made the statement, "For many people outside the
Catholic community with willingness and graciousness, our brothers and
sisters of the ecumenical and inter-religious community, have accepted the
invitation to come together this evening with your holiness." A little
later, pastor Rice spoke, "Pope, your Holiness [!]. Your historic
visit to St. Louis Missouri has served as a catalyst in the creation of
this program [ecumenical program] and it transforms your presence into a
lasting legacy for our region. Today, we present to you, this
proclamation, announcing the creation of Faith Beyond Walls, your
commitment to improving inter-faith relations has fostered an environment
wherein the spirit of collective faith positively action can thrive. In
addition, we also present you with this banner, the emblem of Faith Beyond
Walls. We hope and pray it will inspire inter-faith communities around
the world. To focus their efforts on improving health and the quality of
life for all humanity. Again, we welcome you to our region." He then
approached the pope and shook his hand. This was covered on television
with 2,800 members of the press covering the event and can be seen in the
video
Victory in St. Louis produced by the ministry Modern Manna.
Modern Manna had 40 volunteers in St. Louis at that time to hand out
100,000 Is Mary Dead or Alive books. "And soon, after the Holy
Spirit had been poured out and their mission completed, an apology would
be offered by the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists to the Pope
of Rome, '...begging pardon for their [Modern Manna's] bigotry'" Victory
in St. Louis video. You may order it from Steps to Life by calling
800-the-truth. This type of incident was prophesied in Revelation 17:13,
"These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the
Beast."
Sunday Worship Promoted
In the conference book Changing The World through
Prayer, an ADRA prayer Journal, it states, "Prayer: Father, give our
pastors boldness to proclaim the gospel on Sunday...." (emphasis
supplied)
Easter
and Sunday Worship Promoted
In 1997, Bert B. Beach was sent as a representative
of the conference to meet with ten other churches at a World Council of
Churches assembly, where they worked out an agreement for all churches
around the world to celebrate Easter on specific SUNDAYS! "The churches
need to address the renewal of …the recovery of the meaning of Sunday…"
World Council of Churches, Faith and Order, Towards a Common Date for
Easter, item 3. Read this internet document:
www.wcc-coe.org/wcc/what/faith/easter.html "World Council of
Churches, Faith and Order, Towards a Common Date for Easter." This
document was compiled through the WCC which comprise approximately ten
"participants," including B. B. Beach and the General Conference of
Seventh-day Adventists. This document promotes Sunday worship! Item 3
says, "Besides the work already done on baptism, Eucharist and ministry,
the churches need to address the renewal of preaching, the recovery of
the meaning of Sunday and the search for a common celebration of
Pascha as ecumenical theological concerns. This last is especially urgent,
since an agreement on a common date for Easter—even an interim
agreement—awaits further ecumenical developments." [Emphasis supplied].
Item 16, "This consultation also recommends that the churches now
undertake a period of study and reflection towards the goal of
establishing as soon as possible a common date for Easter/Pascha along the
lines set forth above. In the year 2001 the paschal
calculations now in use by our churches will coincide. Together,
Christians will begin a new century, a new millennium, with new
opportunities to witness to the resurrection of Christ and to proclaim
their joy in his victory over sin, suffering and death. The unity
that will be reflected as Christians celebrate Easter/Pascha on the same
date will be for many a sign of hope and of witness to the world. This
celebration of Easter/Pascha on the same date should not be the exception
but the rule." [Emphasis supplied]. Every Historic Seventh-day Adventist
should be aware of this paper so they can share it with conference
supporters.
Beliefs Changed to
Protect Papacy
The original 25 Fundamental Principles published in
1879 by the Seventh-day Adventist church, the man of sin, the papacy is
identified in its own fundamental belief, number 13. But today, in the
conference baptismal book In His Steps, which covers "the
principles of faith," AND in the official conference Internet site
Adventist.org, the conference omits this important biblical belief in its
statement of beliefs in order to protect Rome and turn your mind away from
them.
"13. PAPACY ATTEMPTED TO CHANGE THE LAW OF GOD
That as the man of sin, the papacy, has thought to change times and laws
(the laws of God, Dan. 7:25), and has misled almost all Christendom in
regard to the fourth commandment, we find a prophecy of a reform in this
respect to be wrought among believers just before the coming of Christ.
Isa. 56:1,2, 1 Pet. 1:5, Rev. 14; 12, etc."
Friend, this is positive proof that the
conference is part of a new organization.
WCC Close Ties
In 1968, the conference became a non-voting member
of the World Council of Churches, World Confessional Families. Today the
conference will tell you it is not a member, when in fact it is. The World
Council of Churches produced the Dictionary of the Ecumenical Movement,
1991. In this book, the conference leader Bert B. Beach tells how the
conference is part of the World Council of Churches, "The SDAC
[Seventh-day Adventist Church] is regularly represented through observers
or advisors at WCC and other church meetings. For many years, a SDA has
been a member of the WCC Faith and Order commission in a personal
capacity. The SDAC has participated in dialogues with the WCC and various
religious bodies and since 1968 has been represented at the conference of
secretaries of Christian World Communions. More recently, the SDAC has
been represented at the annual conference of US church leaders. Christian
World Communions and various churches have responded to the SDA invitation
and sent observers to the quin-quennial general conference sessions." p
919
Please go to the WCC web site which lists the
members of the Christian World Communions, including the conference:
www.wcc-coe.org/wcc/links/church.html
Gift to Pope
The World Confessional Families met in Rome, with B.
B. Beach the secretary of the Northern Europe-West Africa Division
representing the conference, where he met with the Pope in a private
ceremony. Why is the conference a member of the WCF? Beach presented the
Pope with a conference-issued gold medal. There are several unusual
features on it. The 8-11-77 Review said it was a "symbol of the
Seventh-day Adventist church." Today, the conference is not ashamed of its
presentation to the papacy, and is defending the gold medal presentation
via a detailed description of the meeting. "It was felt that it was of
interest to meet with the man who is the religious leader of some 700
million people....[Beach] gave him one of the medallions that...are given
from time to time to statesmen...."
There are several items on this gold medal which are
designed to please the pope. 1. Christ is in a Catholic stance, like the
Vatican painting by Francis de Assisi, and idols. 2. He is standing on
earth like Satan will when personating Christ. 3. There is a cloud with
lightning bolts extending from it, just as mystery religions and the
medieval papacy used. It was a symbol of Satan in the mysteries. 4.
There are eight angels. Eight is the symbol of the sun day. 5. The
Maltese cross is a Vatican symbol. 6. THE FOURTH COMMANDMENT IS CHANGED
TO READ THE SAME WAY THE PAPACY ATTEMPTED TO CHANGE IT!
"When Protestantism shall
stretch her hand across the gulf to grasp the hand of the Roman
power, when she shall reach over the abyss to clasp hands
with spiritualism, when, under the influence of this
threefold union, our country shall repudiate every
principle of its Constitution as a Protestant and republican
government and shall make provision for the propagation of papal
falsehoods and delusions, then we may know that the time has come
for the marvelous working of Satan and that the end is near." --5T
451 (1885) |
The above was confirmed in 2016 with Protestantism and
the conference grasping the hand of Rome,
and signing an agreement to not criticize other denominations. Rome
was given a pass.
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Mark Finley in the Net 95 and Net 96 evangelistic
series, said the number 666 represents a human system of religion. The
number three equals the Trinity. The number seven is perfection or
completeness. The number six is imperfection, and a basis of Babylonian
calculation. The number 666 represents the triumphant of error, a triple
union of error, a union of the dragon beast and false prophet, a religion
of man, not God. Pastor Finley never associated the papacy with this
number.
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In the November, 1994, "Adventist
Review" a supplement titled "The Saints Victory in the End Time"
states, "Any explanation of the cryptic number will have to be tentative."
Our historic Adventist view of the number 666 tied to the inscription on
the papal tiara is termed "flimsy". They believe the number is "The code
for the name of the sea monster, which is blasphemy." In the same
article, they doubt apostate Protestantism in the United States will
become the image to the beast.
The pope's title on his tiara headdress basically
says he is god on earth, and the numerical value of the letters add up to
666 in Greek, Hebrew and Latin. The Bible and Spirit of Prophecy both
indicate 666 represents the pope: "Here is wisdom. Let him that hath
understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a
man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six" Rev. 13:18. "I saw
that the number (666) of the Image Beast was made up; [Rev. 13:18] and
that it was the Beast that changed the Sabbath, and the Image Beast had
followed on after, and kept the Pope's, and not God's Sabbath." WLF
19
Dick Duerksen, director of creative ministries in
the Columbia Union, was mocking those who were saying, "The pope's stand
on abortion, his book lifting up the gift of God's grace, his words
praising family values and all his travels are but a smokescreen behind
which he is building a world-wide power base. He will be taking control of
the world any day." Columbia Union Visitor
In the announcement of a new "Signs of the Times",
the new editor, Marvin Moore, appears to be saying that the beast will not
be identified: "These articles will avoid attacking people and churches
that disagree with us, including the Catholics. We win by drawing, not by
pushing people away....Signs keeps the three angel's messages front and
center, but speaks the language of the 1990's, not the 1890's." Mr. Moore,
like the conference, termed the identification of Babylon and the beast as
"attacking".
Notice these statements in the conference
publication Review, May 2, 1991, Roy Adams "The Eucharist, turning
the communion bread into the literal body of Christ, fits into the circle
of the three angels' messages." Review, September 19, 1993, Miriam
Widmer "We praised the pope for sounding like an Adventist or protestant
preacher, and suggested God was using this pope to bring the gospel to the
Catholics."
At the 1990, General Conference Session in
Indianapolis, a Catholic priest spoke and prayed from the pulpit. The
conference communications director told a local newspaper that we no
longer believe what we did a hundred years ago concerning comments in the
Great Controversy about the papacy. A condensation of "The Great
Controversy" was handed out in Indianapolis. "Shirley Burton, a
spokesperson for the denomination, told the Indianapolis Star Daily
newspaper the tract was 'trash.'...The main body of the Church has moved
away from an anti-Catholic position. The new position of co-operation with
the Catholic Church was exemplified by the invitation from the Seventh-day
Adventists to the Vatican to send an official observer to the conference."
Arkansas Catholic 7-29-90. The following are further comments found
in The Indianapolis Star, July 14, 1990, "Though Adventist
officials conceded the history of the denomination has an anti-Catholic
bent, they said the modern church is trying to move from that stance.
'They (the dissidents) want us to be like we were 100 years ago.' said
Herbert Ford, news director for the 6.2 million-member church. 'But, the
church has to move not away from the eternal principles of God, but things
do have to change. 'These people are a thorn in the flesh, but the church
tolerates them. United States in Prophecy [Great Controversy] which was
sponsored by Adventist Layworkers Affiliate of Tennessee, calls
Catholicism a pagan religion and refers to the pope as a beast. Adventists
who want to cling to the church's historic anti-Catholic beliefs represent
only about 1,000 in the North American division of 750,000 members, Ford
said."
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Ted Wilson's father, Neil C. Wilson, protected the papacy and Ted did
the same thing by trying to silence The Great Controversy book and
replacing it with The Great Hope. Here is Neil speaking
below:
The Vice President of the Conference, Neal C.
Wilson, verbalized the conference position regarding the papacy, "Although
it is true that there was a period in the life of the Seventh-day
Adventist Church when the denomination took a distinctly anti-Roman
Catholic viewpoint...that attitude on the church's part was nothing more
than a manifestation of widespread anti-popery among conservative
Protestant denominations in the early part of this century, and the latter
part of the last, which has now been consigned to the historical trash
heap as far as the Seventh-day Adventist Church is concerned." Merikay
McLeod lawsuit, Docket entry #84: EEOC vs PPPA, c-74-2025-CBR. Feb. 6,
1976
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The Ignored Prophet,
Ellen White Speaks:
"The enemy of souls has sought to bring
in the supposition that a great reformation was to take place among
Seventh-day Adventists, and that this reformation would consist in
giving up the doctrines which stand as the pillars of our faith, and
engaging in a process of reorganization. Were this reformation to
take place, what would result? The principles of truth that God in
His wisdom has given to the remnant church would be discarded. Our
religion would be changed. The fundamental principles that have sustained
the work for the last fifty years would be accounted as error. A new
organization would be established. Books of a new order would
be written. A system of intellectual philosophy would be
introduced. The founders of this system would go into the cities, and do a
wonderful work. The Sabbath of course, would be lightly regarded,
as also God who created it. Nothing would be allowed to stand in
the way of the new movement. The leaders would teach that virtue
is better than vice, but God being removed, they would place their
dependence on human power, which, without God, is worthless. Their
foundation would be built on the sand, and storm and tempest would
sweep away the structure." Series B No. 2 54,55, or 1 SM
204, 205
"The sin of ancient Israel was in
disregarding the expressed will of God and following their own way
according to the leadings of unsanctified hearts. Modern Israel are
fast following in their footsteps, and the displeasure of the Lord is as
surely resting upon them." 5T 94
"If when the Lord reveals your errors
you do not repent or make confession, His providence will bring you over
the ground again and again. You will be left to make mistakes of a similar
character, you will continue to lack wisdom, and will call sin
righteousness. The multitude of deceptions that will prevail in these
last days will encircle you, and you will change leaders, and not know
that you have done so." RH 12/6/90
"We are in danger of becoming a
sister to fallen Babylon, of allowing our churches to become
corrupted, and filled with every foul spirit, a cage for every
unclean and hateful bird....I tell you the truth, Elder Butler, that
unless there is a cleansing of the soul temple on the part of many who
claim to believe and to preach the truth, God's judgments, long
deferred, will come." Letter 51, 1886.
"We are not to spend our time in
controversy with those who know the truth, and upon whom the light of
truth has been shining, when they turn away their ear from the truth to
turn to fables. I was told that men will employ every policy to
make less prominent the differences between the faith of Seventh-day
Adventists and those who observe the first day of the week. In this
controversy the whole world will be engaged, and the time is short.
This is no time to haul down our colors. A company was presented
before me under the name of Seventh-day Adventists, who were
advising that the banner or sign which makes us a distinctive people
should not be held out so strikingly, for they claimed it was not
the best policy in securing success to our institutions....I saw some
reaching out their hands to remove the banner, and obscure its
significance." 2SM 385
"Study the 9th chapter of Ezekiel. These words will
be literally fulfilled; yet the time is passing and the people are sleep.
They refuse to humble their souls and to be converted. Not a great while
longer will the Lord bear with the people who have such great and
important truths revealed to them, but who refuse to bring these truths
into their individual experience. The time is short. God is calling; will
you hear?" Letter 106, 1909
[Some Adventists believe the conference will repent
eventually, so we should continue to support their apostasy until that
happens. If the conference is to repent, then why does the Bible say in
Ezekiel 9 there will be a slaughter of the leaders and laity where almost
every Adventist will soon be killed by God's destroying angel after the
close of probation? The slaughter is brought about because of the
abominations of Israel or Adventists as noted in Ezekiel chapter eight.
Mrs. White tells us the slaughter of Ezekiel chapter nine will be a
literal slaughter of professed Adventists. Ezekiel sees the slaughter
beginning with the leadership, and he frightfully watches the destruction
and asks the destroying angel if all Israel or Adventists will be killed.]
"The world must not be introduced into the
church, and married to the church, forming a bond of unity. Through this
means the church will become indeed corrupt, and as stated in
Revelation, 'a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.' Through
association with the world our institutions will become unsubstantial,
unreliable; because these worldly elements, introduced and placed in
positions of trust, are looked up to as teachers to be respected in their
educating, directing, and official position, and they are sure to be
worked upon by the spirit and power of darkness; so that the demarcation
becomes not distinguished between him that serveth God and him that
serveth Him not. In the balances of the sanctuary the Seventh-day
Adventist church is to be weighed. She will be judged by the
privileges and advantages that she has had. If her spiritual experience
does not correspond to the advantages that Christ, at infinite cost, has
bestowed on her, If the blessings conferred have not qualified her to do
the work entrusted to her, on her will be pronounced the sentence:
'found wanting.' By the light bestowed, the opportunities given, will
she be judged." 8T 247
1901 "It is working upon wrong principles that has
brought the cause of God into its present embarrassment. The people have
lost confidence in those who have the management of the work. Yet we hear
that the voice of the Conference is the Voice of God. Every time I have
heard this, I have thought that it was almost blasphemy....We
have reached the time when the work cannot advance while wrong principles
are cherished." Man. 37, 1901
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