“A Large Class” of Adventists will join Commandment-Breaking, Sunday-Enforcing Protestants
“As the storm approaches, a large class who have professed faith in the third angel's message, but have not been sanctified through obedience to the truth, abandon their position, and join the ranks of the opposition. By uniting with the world and partaking of its spirit, they have come to view matters in nearly the same light; and when the test is brought, they are prepared to choose the easy, popular side” (The Great Controversy, 608).
Comment: Adventists now “uniting with the world and partaking of
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When the test of the Sunday law blows throughout the world like a hurricane, many will buckle and “choose the easy, popular side.” Truth is never popular.
Yet God’s true people will stand firm for His holy law when champions are few. Then it will be “time” for God to work, “for they [the majority of humanity, led by the dragon, the beast, and the false prophet] have made void Your law” (Psalm 119:126)."
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Ripped from the Headlines:(below is from an "Adventist" who praises the following post-modern thinking and rejecting the Biblical Doctrines and giving them his own "new twist")
"Some students of Adventism, particularly those utilizing the modernist approach, abandon Adventism when they see the disparity between official Adventist claims and their reasoned concept of
truth.....In his recently published The Dance of the Big Hunger, esteemed churchman Smuts van Rooyen confesses that he’s “considered leaving due to spiritual claustrophobia, but I choose to remain.” He adds,
“Others, whom I admire and respect, have adequately exposed the doctrinal fallacies of the church and then departed. God, I know, had led them to go, as He has led me to stay.”....Pastor Randy Roberts, longtime senior pastor at the Loma Linda University Church and arguably the denomination’s leading public voice, preached a seven-sermon series on the book of Revelation last summer, entitled “Heaven Cares: the Tender God of the Apocalypse.” Roberts boldly announced that he’d primarily be taking an “idealist” approach, in contrast to three other options he cited:
"Some students of Adventism, particularly those utilizing the modernist approach, abandon Adventism when they see the disparity between official Adventist claims and their reasoned concept of
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“Others, whom I admire and respect, have adequately exposed the doctrinal fallacies of the church and then departed. God, I know, had led them to go, as He has led me to stay.”....Pastor Randy Roberts, longtime senior pastor at the Loma Linda University Church and arguably the denomination’s leading public voice, preached a seven-sermon series on the book of Revelation last summer, entitled “Heaven Cares: the Tender God of the Apocalypse.” Roberts boldly announced that he’d primarily be taking an “idealist” approach, in contrast to three other options he cited:
Futurism: the book’s predominant prophecies are yet to come.
Historicism: a prediction of literal historical events.
Preterism: the book relates to the past, namely the Roman empire.
I cite Roberts’ “Heaven Cares” series as an example of applied postmodernism. He soars above the traditional Adventist/evangelical premodern war of words. He refuses to get lost in the weeds of Ellen White’s sources. Instead, he contends that Revelation portrays ideas that apply to all times and all people.
Accordingly, Roberts avoids many of Adventism’s favorite ideas—and when he touches key historical themes, he gives them a new twist." JimWalters/AT.org
Historicism: a prediction of literal historical events.
Preterism: the book relates to the past, namely the Roman empire.
I cite Roberts’ “Heaven Cares” series as an example of applied postmodernism. He soars above the traditional Adventist/evangelical premodern war of words. He refuses to get lost in the weeds of Ellen White’s sources. Instead, he contends that Revelation portrays ideas that apply to all times and all people.
Accordingly, Roberts avoids many of Adventism’s favorite ideas—and when he touches key historical themes, he gives them a new twist." JimWalters/AT.org
