Posted on 01/02/2025 3:40:26 AM PST by vespa300
Steve Bannon shared a powerful testimony about how this book transformed the life of a former inmate, highlighting the life-changing impact of faith and the work of Seventh-day Adventists in prisons.
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I used to be SDA. I think they have many correct points on prophecy, such as the US falling in the last days and being a nation that helps the world fall under the power of the AntiChrist.
However, I think their identity of Rome is misplaced, in terms of traditional Rome being the power of the AntiChrist. I think Fallen Rome will the First Beast, but the Anti-Christ power is socialism. SOcialism bypasses all religions and binds them together. The US is almost the last nation on Earth that hasn’t completely fallen into socialism, so I think it will eventually.
I also think the self-sufficiency of SDA’s, being so confident in being correct will be their downfall, because they think themselves to be so correct in their understanding of Prophecy, that their minds are closed about being wrong and that will be the undoing of those that follow that faith.
But doesn’t the Bible clearly reveal the Anti Christ, the man of sin is a religious power? Paul says he stands in the holy place , proclaiming himself to be God, Daniel says says this power would rule for 1260 years. From 538 to 1798, the papacy ruled. Exactly 1260 years.
She is a counterfeit religious power. She speaks blasphemy, saying she can absolve sins. Jesus was accused of blasphemy by saying he forgave sins of people who came to him. This false power , the papacy, fits all the characteristics of the great pretender. The name of the game in Revelation is deception.
And the protestant reformers themselves said it was the Romish power. Wesley, etc. So this is not new to Adventism. The term Anti Christ means IN PLACE of God, not against God. She stands in the holy place, she is in the church.
There is so much more I could say that reveals who she is....a woman in prophecy is a church......not a secular power. The whore of babylon, babylon represents religious confusion.
Beside, a secular power, like communism or socialism wouldn’t fool anyone. That is why she got into the church...Satan works through his Vicegerant....the man of sin, the religious system of works. And her wound has healed. She now influences the world and bides her time and she will have her power again...even now the evangelicals are reaching out to her....The whore and her daughters....
There’s a guy works at a place close to me. He’s like that - a follower of Herbert W. Armstrong.
We’re actually much closer than he realizes but he’s so angry and combative that you can’t say a thing to him. Only he is correct and if you dare to challenge on any point he responds, literally, with a middle-finger. (4x last time)
I have given up, LOL. I no longer will speak to him at all.
I’ve bought his snack time a couple of times. Dude is well into his 70s and still hasn’t grown up.
I think it’s supposed to be 1260 days-aka 3 1/2 years so, the last half of the Great Tribulation coming soon to a planet near you.
The False Prophet (the second beast) is the religious power.
This is another beast coming up in Revelation 13:11 if memory serves.
The first Beast (”Antichrist”, colloquially) that is mentioned is a world leader, portrayed as a “messiah”.
The False Prophet demands and enforces worship of the Antichrist by making an image come to life - just as Satan’s false prophets turned their staffs into snakes, I expect he will bring a statue to “life” by the same Satanic power. This will astonish the world; plus the miraculous recovery of the Antichrist who appeared to have been killed.
It is the False Prophet that actually enforces the Mark of the Beast upon the world (except for Tribulation Saints who refuse to their deaths)
YMMV
God bless
Socialism is a religion unto itself.
Adventists count every prophetic day as a year in real time.
Socialism is a religion unto itself and it bypasses all the religions and is able to bind them in a coherent unit, which is its trick.
“I’ve bought his snack time a couple of times.”
What does that mean? Is that something like eating his lunch? Just curious.
>>>I think it’s supposed to be 1260 days-aka 3 1/2 years so, the last half of the Great Tribulation coming soon to a planet near you.>>>
In prophecy, the day for year principle is pretty well established in prophecy, we believe. That his how the counterfeit religious fits so perfectly. Even the 2300 day (years) prophecy of Daniel 8:14, the 490 Weeks probation given Israel, God’s chosen, to get their act together, which they failed, and the 1260 year prophecy rule of this religious counterfeit. 538 ad, pagan rome becomes Papal Rome to 1798 AD, the Pope is jailed, taken captive by one of Napolean’s generals.
She suffers a fatal wound.....like Jesus, but her wound his healed as was Jesus who arose after 3 days.
Satan has a counterfeit for virtually everything God does. Even a counterfeit 10 commandments. Her catechism is on line....notice what she did with God’s holy law. She removed the 2nd commandment, (bowing down to objects because they bow down to statues of Mary etc)......then she moved the Sabbath commandment to number 3 from number 4 and splits the 10th commandment into 2, coveting wife and coveting things...so she can still have 10.
Just as Daniel predicted.......Socialism or communism is not a religious power, that stands in a holy place, professing to be God, forgive sins and claim to be God on earth. None of these dates fit a secular power.
But eventually, this false religious power will win out over socialism and communism, and secular powers. The king of the North, babylon, or false religion, will defeat the king of the South..a secular power represented by Egypt, who said....who is this God that I should obey him?
In other words, secular powers are going to screw things up so bad.....people will run back to church and God...but out of fear.....not love.
After 9/11, the churches were packed. Imagine the great time of trouble coming. And then she will have power again...And she hates the Sabbath.....it rebukes her authority to change God’s law.
Uhhh....he’s getting a snack for break time, potato chips and something else, maybe a soda
I’ve paid for it a couple of times. Not again.
https://carm.org/seventh-day-adventism/does-carm-recommend-the-seventh-day-adventist-church/
CARM is a Christian apologetics ministry.
They have many articles critiquing Adventism.
I meant to say the 70 weeks of Daniel, which works to 490 years for Israel to get it’s act together. From the beginnig of the prophecy, the 70 weeks takes us to the precise date of the stoning Stephen. And that was it.....for Israel. That speech Stephen gave was a grand speech covering the history of Israel, it’s disobedience, its rejection of the prophets, it crucifixion of the Lord.
And then, they stoned him. And Paul says he held the coats of those who stoned him. Time had expired. and this was exactly 490 years or 70 weeks, from when that prophecy was given in Daniel. A day for year principle in prophecy is Biblical. Just as a “woman” is a church in prophecy and a beast is a nation.
The first beast in Revelation is the papacy a religious power that rose out of the sea...because sea or waters represents a populated area..Europe was populated. And the papacy is a beast or nation because it is a church sovereign state. The Vatican is it’s own state and a religous power.
The 2nd beast is America who will someday betray her own constitution and give the first beast what she will need to enforce her will.
The 2nd beast comes up from the “earth” which is an unpopulated area. That is America. Discovered and settled ...and unpopulated or established like Europe or the world.
And look around....from the Supreme Court to Presidents ....We see Roman Catholics more and more. The wound has healed. For over 100 years, it was not popular to be a Roman Catholic in America. It was quite event when JFK was elected the first Roman Catholic as president. Now politics, elites, even celebrities desire an audience with the papacy. Ignoring what she did for so long and will once again do too.
Steve Bannon shared a powerful testimony about how this book transformed the life of a former inmate, highlighting the life-changing impact of faith and the work of Seventh-day Adventists in prisons.
I appreciate the principle of showcasing the good done by various religions versus the opposite of attempting to show all the negative at the expense of the good. I will go so far as to proclaim all Christianity is chock full of the Love of God for us, where man fails is in our Love of God and our fellow man which includes the first great commandment and the second like unto it.
What is lacking in our today is revelation and those in authority to receive it. Namely Apostles and Prophets. That is the means from the beginning that the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob has used to dispel confusion and spread the truth of God’s dealings with mankind from the days of Adam till the end of time. Confusion on almost all points of doctrine still exists in this world despite having God’s word in the Bible.
We all know that confusion is not a gospel principle, so in my opinion if you fail to seek further light and knowledge and a truthful solution to Christian confusion, where are you?
Why not go the world Seventh day Adventist Headquarters webpage and see what we believe instead of some other website?
As a former cradle Roman Catholic (from acolyte as a kid to deacon — and brother a priest and then bishop), both myself and my brother (deceased) had serious issues with the Church. He openly wondered if the current pope was an anti-pope, if that gives you an idea of our opinion of how the Church has fallen.
They said, the focus on Christiandom is, I think, partially misplaced. Islam and Mohammed clearly figure into Revelation somehow.
I mean, there is currently sitting on the threshing floor on the Temple Mount a Islamic monstrosity (paid for and repaired by no less than Hitler and Mussolini, replete with the finest Italian marble) that literally says around its top “God has no son” in Arabic.
All the good programmers are Asian or Jewish?
lol. J/k
Islam is one of the three frogs from the dragon.
Islam is one of the three frogs from the dragon.
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