The Seventh-day Adventist Church has been given a special message to proclaim to the world warning of God’s soon coming judgments (Rev. 14:6-12) and the only escape through the pure, unadulterated gospel of Jesus Christ. Instead, they have . . .
turned back from following Christ and are steadily retreating toward Egypt
I am filled with sadness when I think of our condition as a people. The Lord has not closed heaven to us, but our own course of continual backsliding has separated us from God. Pride, covetousness, and love of the world have lived in the heart without fear of banishment or condemnation. Grievous and presumptuous sins have dwelt among us. And yet the general opinion is that the church is flourishing and that peace and spiritual prosperity are in all her borders.
The church has turned back from following Christ her Leader and is steadily retreating toward Egypt. Yet few are alarmed or astonished at their want of spiritual power. Doubt, and even disbelief of the testimonies of the Spirit of God, is leavening our churches everywhere. Satan would have it thus. Ministers who preach self instead of Christ would have it thus. The testimonies are unread and unappreciated. God has spoken to you. Light has been shining from His word and from the testimonies, and both have been slighted and disregarded. The result is apparent in the lack of purity and devotion and earnest faith among us.” — Testimonies Vol. 5, p. 217
The Seventh-day Adventist Church creates confusion by failing to tell the real story about Christmas as proclaimed by the Adventist Review.
More than 900 people attended a Seventh-day Adventists Christmas production, which was organized by the Adventist Church in the Arabian Gulf region of the Middle East and North Africa Union. The play, “Journey to Bethlehem,” took place December 18-19, at the Church’s headquarters in Ras Al Khaimah, in the United Arab Emirates. . . .
Steven Manoukian, president of the Gulf Field, said a main goal of the production was to take advantage of the festive season to tell the real Christmas story — “the way the Bible explains it” — and counter traditional Christmas myths.“This was a great opportunity as many people, Christians and non-Christians, in this region are in the festive mood and are open to things about Christmas,” he said.The play also sought to give members of the surrounding community a chance to learn about the truth of the Adventist Church and to cast the denomination in a positive light, Manoukian said.
Rather than tell the truth that Christmas is a pagan holiday commemorating the birth of a false god (Tammuz) and the origin of world’s pagan religions, or that Jesus was not born on December 25th, the church seems more concerned about putting themselves in a positive light to the world rather than preaching the three angel’s messages. In fact, many in the church are increasingly celebrating Christmas (paganism) as documented in prior posts on this website, see here, here, here, here, and here. In so doing the church turns its back on the writings of one of its co-founders, Ellen White, whom they consider to be a prophetess.
“This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with [their] lips; but their heart is far from me. But in vain they do worship me, teaching [for] doctrines the commandments of men.” — Matthew 15:8, 9
We are Never to Make Peace By Compromise
We are not to cringe and beg pardon of the world for telling them the truth: we should scorn concealment. Unfurl your colors to meet the cause of men and angels. Let it be understood that Seventh-day Adventists can make no compromise. In your opinions and faith there must not be the least appearance of waverings: the world has a right to know what to expect of us.–Manuscript 16, 1890.
Christ never made peace by anything like compromise. The hearts of God’s servants will overflow with love and sympathy for the erring, as represented by the parable of the lost sheep; but they will have no soft words for sin. They show the truest friendship who reprove error and sin without partiality and without hypocrisy. Jesus lived in the midst of a sinful and perverse generation. He could not be at peace with the world unless He left them unwarned, unreproved, and this would not be in accordance with the plan of salvation.–Letter 12, 1890.
Little by little, at first in stealth and silence, and then more openly as it increased in strength and gained control of the minds of men, “the mystery of iniquity” carried forward its deceptive and blasphemous work. Almost imperceptibly the customs of heathenism found their way into the Christian church. The spirit of compromise and conformity was restrained for a time by the fierce persecutions which the church endured under paganism. But as persecution ceased, and Christianity entered the courts and palaces of kings, she laid aside the humble simplicity of Christ and His apostles for the pomp and pride of pagan priests and rulers; and in place of the requirements of God, she substituted human theories and traditions. The nominal conversion of Constantine, in the early part of the fourth century, caused great rejoicing; and the world, cloaked with a form of righteousness, walked into the church. Now the work of corruption rapidly progressed. Paganism, while appearing to be vanquished, became the conqueror. Her spirit controlled the church. Her doctrines, ceremonies, and superstitions were incorporated into the faith and worship of the professed followers of Christ.
This compromise between paganism and Christianity resulted in the development of “the man of sin” foretold in prophecy as opposing and exalting himself above God. That gigantic system of false religion is a masterpiece of Satan’s power–a monument of his efforts to seat himself upon the throne to rule the earth according to his will.” — Great Controversy, pp. 49, 50
So is there a divine remedy for the church’s committing adulteries with the world? Yes, it is found in an amazing allegory telling the relationship between God and His church through a family relationship as found in Hosea chapters 1 and 2. Please prayerfully consider this outstanding vision given to show us as a people how God intends to bring true revival and reformation into the church and save her from her indecent worldly associations. Click here.
“Plead with your mother, plead: for she [is] not my wife, neither [am] I her husband: let her therefore put away her whoredoms out of her sight, and her adulteries from between her breasts; Lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born, and make her as a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and slay her with thirst.” — Hosea 2:2, 3
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