"This year several Seventh-day Adventist Churches in New York, Oregon, Maryland and Maine will be celebrating “Lent” in different locations with Catholics and Evangelicals.
Pastor Tony Ponterio from the Natural Bridge Seventh-day Adventist Church in Natural Bridge, New York;
Pastor Monte Wood from the John Day Seventh-day Adventist Church in John Day, Oregon;
Pastor Cesar Gonzales from the Cambridge Seventh-day Adventist Church in Cambridge, Maryland;
and Pastor Arnet Mathers from the Oakfield Seventh-day Adventist Church in Oakfield, Maine will all be commemorating Lent through different interfaith dinners.
Lent is a Roman Catholic celebration and a man-made invention.
It is closely connected to Ash Wednesday and Easter Sunday.
There is not one word or hint in the entire Bible that speaks about Ash Wednesday or Lent. These celebrations stand on the same footing as Sunday-keeping.
The Vatican has published their catechism online and here is what paragraph #540 says about Lent:
The advocates of these interfaith ceremonies will defend their celebrations aggressively. But what does God say?
*But if the Antichrist is God then we will obey him and keep his tradition.
--This is how we determine on whose side we are on."
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Pastor Tony Ponterio from the Natural Bridge Seventh-day Adventist Church in Natural Bridge, New York;
Pastor Monte Wood from the John Day Seventh-day Adventist Church in John Day, Oregon;
Pastor Cesar Gonzales from the Cambridge Seventh-day Adventist Church in Cambridge, Maryland;
and Pastor Arnet Mathers from the Oakfield Seventh-day Adventist Church in Oakfield, Maine will all be commemorating Lent through different interfaith dinners.
Lent is a Roman Catholic celebration and a man-made invention.
It is closely connected to Ash Wednesday and Easter Sunday.
There is not one word or hint in the entire Bible that speaks about Ash Wednesday or Lent. These celebrations stand on the same footing as Sunday-keeping.
The Vatican has published their catechism online and here is what paragraph #540 says about Lent:
“By the solemn forty days of Lent the Church unites herself each year to the mystery of Jesus in the desert.”So according to Rome, Lent is a 40 day celebration. Lent begins on Ash Wednesday and ends on Holy Thursday – which is actually 44 days long, not 40. So the 40 days of Lent is just a metaphor and not literal days.
The advocates of these interfaith ceremonies will defend their celebrations aggressively. But what does God say?
“Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?” Romans 6:16.*If Jehovah is God, we are going to obey Him and keep His commandments.
*But if the Antichrist is God then we will obey him and keep his tradition.
--This is how we determine on whose side we are on."
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