Ten Reasons Why the Sabbath is Not Jewish

1) Adam and Eve were not Jewish. “God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it” (Genesis 2:3) before sin entered. “Sanctified” means “to be set apart for holy use.” The only ones in the Garden of Eden for whom the Sabbath was “set apart” were Adam and Eve, who weren’t Jewish.
2) “The Sabbath was made for man.” Mark 2:27. Jesus said this. It was “made” in the Garden of Eden before it was “written” down on Mount Sinai. The Sabbath was “made” for “man,” not just Jews.
3) The other nine commandments are not “just for Jews.” God wrote “Ten Commandments” on stone, not just nine (See Deut. 4:12, 13; Ex. 20). Does “Do not commit adultery,” “Do not

murder,” “Do not steal,” and “Do not bear false witness” apply only to Jews?
4) “The seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God.” Exodus 20:10. God calls the Sabbath, “my holy day.” Isaiah 58:13. The Bible never calls it “the Sabbath of the Jews.” It isn’t their Sabbath, but God’s.
5) The Sabbath commandment is for the “stranger” too. The fourth commandment itself says the “stranger” is to rest on the Sabbath. Exodus 20:10. “Strangers” are non-Jews, or Gentiles. Thus the Sabbath applies to them too. Read also Isaiah 56:6.
6) Isaiah said Gentiles should keep the Sabbath. “Also the sons of the stranger … every one that keeps the Sabbath … for mine house shall be called an house of prayer for all people .” Isaiah 56:6, 7. Thus the Sabbath is for Gentiles and “all people,” not just for Jews.
7) “All” mankind will keep the Sabbath in the New Earth. In “the new earth … from one Sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, says the Lord.” Isaiah 66:22, 23. Here God says that “all flesh” we will be keeping the Sabbath in “the new earth.” If this is the case – and it is – shouldn’t we start now?
8) Gentiles kept the Sabbath in the Book of Acts. “The Gentiles besought that these words might be preached to them the next Sabbath … Paul and Barnabas … persuaded them to continue in the grace of God.”‘ Acts 13:42, 43. Here saved-by-grace Gentiles kept the Sabbath (see also verse 44).
9) “The law” [of Ten Commandments] is for “all the world,” not just for Jews. Paul wrote these words. Read Romans 2:17-23; 3:19, 23.
10) Luke was a Gentile who kept the Sabbath. Luke was the only Gentile who wrote any New Testament books (he wrote The Gospel According to St. Luke and The Acts of the Apostles). Luke traveled with Paul and wrote, “On the Sabbath we went out of the city by a river side.” Acts 16:13. It was the seventh-day Sabbath, the memorial of the creation (see Ex. 20:11). Both Luke and Paul knew it.
Steve Wohlberg

Christ in the Books of the Bible Series: JOB

--JOB--

He is your Arbitrator

Also now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my record is on high.

Job 16:19

 

For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth:

Job 19:25

SDA News - Rwanda Medical School to Open

"Ted N.C. Wilson, president of the Seventh-day Adventist world church, laid the cornerstone of a

new medical school in Rwanda that church leaders declared could become a crown jewel of Adventist medical education.

Wilson, .... shoveled wet cement into a hole Thursday at the stone-laying ceremony for the $6.1 million (USD) complex on the Masoro campus of the Adventist University of Central Africa (AUCA) in Rwanda’s capital, Kigali.

The first phase of the medical school, which encompasses the construction of women’s and men’s residence halls, a cafeteria, and a guesthouse, is scheduled to open for students in September 2017." ANN

 

And the people, when they knew it, followed him:

and he received them, and spake unto them of the kingdom of God,

and healed them that had need of healing.

Luke 9:11

The "Really" File - (Whoopi)

Whoopi Goldberg Bringing Transgender Modeling Reality Series to Oxygen:

'This Show Is Important Right Now’

But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the LORD exceedingly.

Genesis 13:13

 

"The View co-host is executive producing Strut, which centers on Slay Model Management, the first agency exclusively focusing on

transgender talent.

"This show is important right now, because for all of the positive advances the community has made and continues to make, transgender is still a hot-button word that gets people hysterical," said Goldberg in a statement.

Goldberg said watching the show, "You may even be surprised to

From the 'REALLY' File

discover that you have been seeing and interacting with transgender men and women in ways you didn't even realize!"

Strut is set to premiere later this year on Oxygen." msnEntertainment

 

 

 

 

STRUT?

REALLY?

Creation Moment 5/25/2016 - A "Disturbing Mystery"?

The north and the south thou hast created them:

Psalm 89:12

"The origin of the universe is a mystery for science, surely for the

present one. It is a disturbing mystery ... The same applies to the origin of life and of Homo sapiens .... The concept of God .... helps us to make decisions in the right direction. We should be very different, I fear, if we did not have that concept."
       — E.P. Wigner, Nobel Prize for Physics (Princeton University)

Josiah & Glimpses of the Great Controversy

And it came to pass in the eighteenth year of king Josiah,

2 Kings 22:3

 

 

God's Law Rediscovered by His people---it was among them the whole though had lost sight of it.

And Hilkiah answered and said to Shaphan the scribe,

 I have found the book of the law in the house of the LORD.

2 Chronicles 34:15

 

* And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle,

that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place,

where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time,

from the face of the serpent.

* And the dragon was wroth with the woman,

and went to make war with the remnant of her seed,

which keep the commandments of God,

 and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.

Revelation 12:14,17

(Notice that *during the 1260 year persecution God's people are NOT IDENTIFIED as Commandment keepers----because they haven't rediscovered the whole Law even though it was among them through the ages. *But the Remnant group at the end are identified as Commandment keepers---for they have found the breach in the wall of His Law--the Sabbath, and repaired it, ... --and let them give it to the doers of the work which is in the house of the LORD, to repair the breaches of the house, 2 Kings 22:5)

 

Q: Where was the book to be read?/A: To all the people {3 Angel's Message}

And the king went up into the house of the LORD,

and all the men of Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem with him,

 and the priests, and the prophets, and all the people,

both small and great:

and he read in their ears all the words of the book

of the covenant which was found in the house of the LORD.

2 Kings 23:2

And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven,

 having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them

that dwell on the earth,

 and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people,

Revelation 14:6

 

They had a prophetess, Hulda, who gave them guidance on what they discovered

Go, enquire of the LORD for me,

and for them that are left in Israel and in Judah,

concerning the words of the book that is found: ...

And Hilkiah, and they that the king had appointed,

 went to Huldah the prophetess, ...keeper of the wardrobe;.....

..and they spake to her to that effect.

2 Chronicles 34:21,22

the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God,

and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.....

....worship God:

for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.

Revelation 12:17/19:10

 

The Wrath to be poured out

....concerning the words of the book that is found:

 for great is the wrath of the LORD that is poured out upon us,

because our fathers have not kept the word of the LORD,

 to do after all that is written in this book.

2 Chronicles 34:21

And the third angel followed them,

saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image,

and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand,

The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God,

which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation;

Revelation 14:9,10

Christ in the Books of the Bible Series: ESTHER

--ESTHER--

He is your Deliverer

.....and who knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdom for such a time as this?
Esther 4:14

Wherein the king granted the Jews which were in every city to gather themselves together, and to stand for their life, to destroy, to slay, and to cause to perish, all the power of the people and province that would assault them,
Esther 8:11

Book Review: Historical Theology: An Introduction to Christian Doctrine

(short) Book Review: A book that may be of some interest....
(Review by Amazon)

Historical Theology: An Introduction to Christian Doctrine

by Gregg R. Allison

784 pages Publisher: Zondervan

 

Most historical theology texts follow Christian beliefs chronologically, discussing notable doctrinal developments for all areas of theology according to their historical appearance. And

while this may be good history, it can make for confusing theology, with the classic theological loci scattered throughout various time periods, movements, and controversies. In Historical Theology, Gregg Allison offers students the opportunity to study the historical development of theology according to a topical-chronological arrangement, setting out the history of Christian doctrine one theological element at a time. Such an approach allows readers to concentrate on one tenet of Christianity and its formulation in the early church, through the Middle Ages, Reformation, and post-Reformation era, and into the modern period. The text includes a generous mix of primary source material as well,..... Allison references the most accessible editions of these notable theologians’ work so that readers can continue their study of historical theology through Christian history’s most important contributors.

Study to shew thyself approved unto God,

a workman that needeth not to be ashamed,

rightly dividing the word of truth.

2 Timothy 2:15

Creation Moment 5/24/2016 - Our Planetary Color Palette

"As it turns out, Earth’s delicate color can be closely mimicked by hypothetical exoplanet types that are completely uninhabitable. A broader portion of Earth’s overall spectrum, however, does display a subtle signature only attributable, insofar as we know, to life. Seeking this signature from pale blue worlds in stars’ habitable zones with future telescopes could be a powerful tool for identifying worlds deserving of intense further scrutiny. “One important takeaway is that color should be used with caution because we found it’s relatively easy to make lifeless planets that are pale blue in color,” said lead author Joshua Krissansen-Totton, ..... “With that said, I was very excited to find that Earth’s spectrum has an intriguing signature that is biogenic, unique and potentially quite useful.”

Nitrogen, the overwhelming component of Earth’s atmosphere, is transparent. An atmosphere that is clear to visible light preferentially scatters short wavelength, bluer light, as opposed to longer wavelength, redder light. As a result of this so-called Rayleigh scattering, blue light appears to come from all directions, and presto: the sky looks blue, as do the oceans. The blue light scatters into space as well, and thus to external observers. Earth’s white clouds boost reflectivity at all wavelengths, diluting the intensity of the Rayleigh scattering. Some red light also mixes into Earth’s color palette as it’s reflected by the continental land masses. That redness bends Earth’s overall color viewed from afar more toward the light blue than, say, the rich azure of Neptune, whose atmosphere’s high methane levels absorb red and reflect blue. Meanwhile, the oxygen in our air

chemically reacts with many types of molecules that would otherwise form an opaque haze. Such atmospheric haze is evident in the visages of Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, and Saturn’s moon Titan.
Earth’s free oxygen would not exist were it not for our planet’s teeming plant and microbial life, which constantly replenish it through the process of photosynthesis. This information in hand, the University of Washington researchers then compiled the spectra of various real and theoretical exoplanets.
“Several types of worlds, the analysis showed, could trick astronomers into thinking they were perhaps habitable by aping Earth’s special hue. The ruse could even be pulled off by planets similar to Mars, whose surface is a rusty red and plainly visible through its currently tenuous, carbon dioxide-dominated atmosphere. With a more substantial atmosphere, though, the Red Planet would look from a great distance like a Pale Blue Planet.”

On the matter of a certain spectral signature, though, no other world type displayed it except Earth. This telltale signature assumes a U-shape as it stretches from the near-ultraviolet (beyond visible light) through the visible and then into near-infrared wavelengths. Its up-down-up shape derives from the very features that make Earth a pale blue dot in the first place: Rayleigh scattering in the bluer portion of the spectrum; some absorption in the greener portion because of the ozone in our atmosphere, which like the oxygen we breathe would not exist without life; and finally red light, again owing to continental reflectance, but also from the Earth’s widespread vegetation that reflects strongly in infrared. Krissansen-Totton is pleased that this signature could separate Earthly pretenders from the genuine article of a potentially inhabited world." Astrobiology

.....fringe of the borders a ribband of blue: 

And it shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may look upon it,

and remember all the commandments of the LORD, and do them;

Numbers 15:38,39

Queen Athaliah & Glimpses of the GREAT CONTROVERSY

And when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead,

she arose and destroyed all the seed royal.

2 Kings 11:1

 

Q: Who else targeted the royal "seed"?

A: And the dragon was wroth with the woman,

and went to make war with the remnant of her seed,

which keep the commandments of God,

and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.

Revelation 12:17

 

The Escape into hiding

But Jehosheba, the daughter of king Joram,

 sister of Ahaziah, took Joash the son of Ahaziah,

and stole him from among the king's sons which were slain;

and they hid him, even him and his nurse,

in the bedchamber from Athaliah, so that he was not slain.

2 Kings 11:2

.....the angel of the Lord appeareth to Joseph in a dream, saying,

 Arise, and take the young child and his mother,

and flee into Egypt, and be thou there until I bring thee word:

Then Herod, ...sent forth, and

slew all the children that were in Bethlehem,

Matthew 2:13,16

 

 

The 144,000 symbolically?

And she looked, and, behold,

 the king stood at his pillar at the entering in,

and the princes and the trumpets by the king:

and all the people of the land rejoiced,

 and sounded with trumpets,

also the singers with instruments of musick,

and such as taught to sing praise.

Then Athaliah rent her clothes,

and said, Treason, Treason.

2 Chronicles 23:13

The 144,000

And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion,

and with him an hundred forty and four thousand,...

And I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many waters,

and as the voice of a great thunder:

and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps:

Revelation 14:1,2

 

End of Queen Athaliah/"Babylon"

So they laid hands on her;

and when she was come to the entering of the horse gate by the king's house,

they slew her there.

2 Chronicles 23:15

And the devil that deceived them

 was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone,

 Revelation 20:10

 

Aftermath of fall of Athaliah

And he set the porters at the gates of the house of the LORD,

that none which was unclean in any thing should enter in.

2 Chronicles 23:19

Aftermath of fall of "Babylon"

And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain,

and shewed me that great city,

 the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God,...

...And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing

that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie:

Revelation 21:11,27

 

Christ in the Books of the Bible Series: NEHEMIAH

--NEHEMIAH--

He is your mighty wall

And they said unto me, The remnant that are left of the captivity there in the province are in great affliction and reproach: the wall of Jerusalem also is broken down,
Nehemiah 1:3

And at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem they sought the Levites out of all their places, to bring them to Jerusalem, to keep the dedication with gladness, both with thanksgivings, and with singing, with cymbals, psalteries, and with harps.

Nehemiah 12:27

Health Note - Inflammation Fighters

Beloved,

I wish above all things that thou mayest....be in health, ...

3 John 1:2

"Cherries contain chemicals called anthocyanins,

which give berries their blue and red colors and fight inflammation in the same way aspirin does. Raspberries and strawberries also contain this inflammation fighter." yahoo

IN the NEWS - DECREE: Transgender the Schools

For from within, out of the heart of men,

 proceed evil thoughts,...lewdness....

Mark 7:21 NKJV

"Wherever the divine precepts are rejected, sin ceases to appear sinful or righteousness desirable. Those who refuse to submit to the government of God are wholly unfitted to govern themselves. Through their pernicious teachings the spirit of insubordination is implanted in the hearts of children and youth, who are naturally impatient of control; and a lawless, licentious state of society results. While scoffing at the credulity of those who obey the requirements of God, the multitudes eagerly accept the delusions of Satan. They give the rein to lust and practice the sins which have called down judgments upon the heathen."

Great Controversy p.584 E.G.W.

"The Obama administration declared on May 9th that forcing people to use bathroom facilities based on their God-given plumbing was state-sponsored discrimination.
Four days later they dropped an even bigger cultural bombshell.

The president issued a directive requiring every public school in the nation to accommodate transgender students – under Title IX guidelines.

Boys who identify as girls and vice versa must be allowed to use the bathrooms and locker rooms and shower stalls of their choosing. They must also be allowed to play on the sports teams of their choosing.

School districts that dare defy the administration’s directives could face lawsuits and lose millions of dollars in federal funding. Resistance, in other words, is futile." FOX

From gay marriage to the slicing & dicing for cash of babies at Planned Parenthood (via tax dollars) to now this NONSENSE.....one can see a possible purpose of the Obama Presidency on the pages of history....such a lunge to the ugly, secular left that when the time comes (natural disasters, economic collapse, etc.) there will be plenty for "Christians" to push back and claim this is why God is angry...hence the push for appeasing God in some way, shape or form (mark of the beast).


 

Sign of the Times?

Another Sign of the Times?

For men shall be lovers of their own selves,

2 Timothy 3:2

Creation Moment 5/23/2016 - 3 Paragraphs to do it

In the beginning God created...........

Genesis 1:1

3 Paragraphs that put atheistic evolutionists in their respective place......

"In the case of the atheist, or the “freethinker,” as they paradoxically prefer, that which is unbelievable is that somehow everything came from nothing – that there is no uncaused first cause; that God does not exist, even as knowledge of His being is indelibly written on every human heart and proved by all He has made.

Be they theist, atheist or anti-theist, on this nearly all scientists agree: In the beginning there was nothing. There was no time, space or matter. There wasn’t even emptiness, only nothingness.

Then: bang! Everything. Nonexistence became existence. Nothing became, in less than an instant, our inconceivably vast and finely tuned universe governed by what mankind would later call – after we, too, popped into existence from nowhere, fully armed with conscious awareness and the ability to think, communicate and observe – “natural law” or “physics.” CSN

IN the NEWS - Trump's SECRET Meeting

A "secret meeting" with elements of the FALSE PROPHET Contingent (apostate Protestantism) of the counterfeit trinity of the dragon, beast & false prophet...

...and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast,...

For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her,

Revelation 19:20/18:3

"Trump secretly met last week with Sid Roth, Rick Joyner and other apostolic and evangelical church leaders. Mario Bramnick, senior pastor of New Wine Ministries Church in Cooper City, Florida, told Charisma about his private conversation with Trump—and what it reveals about the

Republican frontrunner's true stances.

 

Bramnick attended the Trump Tower meeting as a representative for the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference (NHCLC). NHCLC, the largest Hispanic Christian evangelical organization in America, is led by popular pastor Samuel Rodriguez Jr. Bramnick was joined in the meeting by Roth, Joyner, Frank Amedia, Alex Nuñez and Darrell Scott.

 

 

Trump also reportedly demonstrated genuine concern for the state of religious liberty." Charisma

Philippians 2:14 means.........

Do all things without murmurings and disputings:

Philippians 2:14 KJV

 

What does this mean?......Try it in the NIV

Do everything without grumbling or arguing,

--OR--the NLT

Do everything without complaining and arguing,

 

"Murmer" from the Greek goggusmos means a "secret debate, muttering to oneself"

 

"Dispute" from the Greek dialogismos suggests a "logical debate with oneself"

 

 

Repairing the MACRO & MICRO Breach

But your iniquities have separated between you and your God,

and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.

Isaiah 59:2

 

 

* MACRO-Level BREACH {the big picture--the Church}

....and the rest of our enemies, heard that I had builded the wall,

and that there was no breach left therein;

Nehemiah 6:1

Building up & working to repair the BREACH in the LAW of God. Especially His Sabbath Commandment that has been etched out of His Law by man.

* And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached
in all the world for a witness unto all nations;
and then shall the end come.
Matthew 24:14

* And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven,

having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, ...

Revelation 14:6

 

* MICRO-Level BREACH {the small picture--on the personal level}

Therefore he said that he would destroy them,

had not Moses his chosen stood before him in the breach,

 to turn away his wrath, lest he should destroy them.

Psalm 106:23

Reparing the BREACH in your heart (via His Word & the Spirit). Moses in the above verse, is a type for Christ, who stands in your place before God's Judgment Seat for you breaking the Law yourself in your heart.

* And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; ...

I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot:...

Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods,

and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched,

and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:

I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire,

that thou mayest be rich;

and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed,

and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear;

and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.

Revelation 3:14,16-18

1) The gold is faith
2) The White Raiment is purity of character
3) The eyesalve is the wisdom to discern between good and evil

* Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels,

and have not LOVE, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.

And though I have the gift of prophecy,

 and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge;

and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains,

 and have not LOVE, I am nothing.

And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor,

 and though I give my body to be burned,

and have not LOVE, it profiteth me nothing.

1 Corinthians 13:1-3

 

 

Christ in the Books of the Bible Series: EZRA

--EZRA--

He is your temple

And when the builders laid the foundation of the temple of the LORD, they set the priests in their apparel with trumpets, and the Levites the sons of Asaph with cymbals, to praise the LORD, after the ordinance of David king of Israel.

Ezra 3:10

 

And the children of Israel, the priests, and the Levites, and the rest of the children of the

captivity, kept the dedication of this house of God with joy,

Ezra 6:16

 

 

That "striking similarity"

"There is a striking similarity between the Church of Rome and the

Jewish Church at the time of Christ's first advent. While the Jews secretly trampled upon every principle of the law of God, they were outwardly rigorous in the observance of its precepts, loading it down with exactions and traditions that made obedience painful and burdensome. ....The Savior's words concerning the Jews, apply with still greater force to the leaders of the Roman Catholic Church: "They bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers." Matthew 23:4. 

 

* The worship of images and relics,

* the invocation of saints,

* and the exaltation of the pope

 

are devices of Satan to attract the minds of the people from God and from His Son."

Great Controversy p.568 E.G.W. 

Creation Moment 5/22/2016 - Why Creation ex-nihilo rather than big bang ex-nihilo

In the beginning was the Word,
and the Word was with God,
and the Word was God.

All things were made by him;

and without him was not any thing made that was made.

John 1:1,3

"The fine-tuning necessary for life to exist on a planet is nothing compared with the fine-tuning required for the universe to exist at all.
For example, astrophysicists now know that the values of the four fundamental forces –

gravity,

the electromagnetic force,

and the ‘strong’

and ‘weak’ nuclear forces

were determined less than one-millionth of a second after the big bang. Alter any one value and the universe could not exist. For instance, if the ratio between the nuclear strong force and the electromagnetic force had been off by the tiniest fraction of the tiniest fraction – by even one part in 100,000,000,000,000,000 – then no stars could have ever formed at all. Feel free to gulp. … " CNS

You're being WATCHED

"I saw in the visions of my head upon my bed, and, behold, a

watcher and an holy one came down from heaven.” Daniel 4:13
It is only in this chapter of Daniel (see also verses 17 and 23) that certain angelic beings called “watchers” are mentioned.
 Paul said that he and the other apostles had been made a spectacle unto the world, and to angels, and to men. 1 Corinthians 4:9.
The word “spectacle” in this verse is actually “theatre”." ICR

Christ in the Books of the Bible Series: 2 CHRONICLES

--2 CHRONICLES--

He is your High Priest

Now when Solomon had made an end of praying, the fire came down from heaven, and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices; and the glory of the LORD filled the house.

2 Chronicles 7:1

 

Also king Solomon, and all the congregation of Israel that were assembled unto him before the ark, sacrificed sheep and oxen, which could not be told nor numbered for multitude....And the king turned his face, and blessed the whole congregation of Israel: and all the congregation of Israel stood.

2 Chronicles 5:6/6:3

 

Creation Moment 5/21/2016 - The 2 Bottlenecks

* A genetic bottleneck is simply when a population thins out extremely small then re-expands. The human race went through the "Great Bottleneck" based on DNA analysis. Evolutionists claim due to possibly a volcanic eruption-God tells from Flood waters.

"When the Neanderthal genome was sequenced, the African Bottleneck hypothesis became even more problematic. The evidence is clear: Neanderthal was fully human and inter-mated with Europeans and other people groups. This contradicts the evolutionary near-extinction hypothesis. According to the

evolutionary timeline, Neanderthal split away from the main human population about 400,000 years ago, but was somehow not part of the African near-extinction event. Neanderthal then reunited with the emerging human population, which was only recently coming out of Africa. If Homo sapiens went through a radical genetic reshaping in Africa, how could it remain inter-fertile with Neanderthal? And if Neanderthal, the Denisovans, and Homo erectus were outside the genetic bottleneck, then how can it be said that there was a real bottleneck?
However, from a biblical perspective there is no problem with a relatively homogeneous human population. We start with just two people (constituting an extreme, yet benign "population bottleneck"), and then 10 generations later a second, single-generation bottleneck of just 8 people occurred at the time of Noah. Both bottlenecks were very brief (just one generation) and were followed by explosive growth, and in both cases there would be almost no previously accumulated mutations, hence no inbreeding effects. Very limited human genetic diversity is a huge problem for evolutionary theory and leads to unrestrained storytelling (the evolution story needs to be revised almost annually). Yet limited human genetic diversity is very obviously compatible with the biblical perspective, and does not require any far-fetched mental inventions." JohnCater

 

 

1st Bottleneck:

And Adam called his wife's name Eve;

 because she was the mother of all living.

Genesis 3:20

2nd Bottleneck:

...when once the longsuffering of God

 waited in the days of Noah,

while the ark was a preparing,

wherein few, that is,

eight souls were saved by water.

1 Peter 3:20

 

A Qualification of the Remnant Movement

"When God warned the ancient world of the coming judgment, He used prophets.

For example, in the time of the Exodus, God used Moses to lead the people out of Egypt to Canaan.

Moses was more than a prophet, he was also the leader of the people. Moses had to prepare a people for their entry into the Promised Land and this great event serves as a type for the final gathering of God's people and their entry into the heavenly Canaan. Surely, if a prophet was deemed necessary for the preparation for earthly Canaan, how much more so for the heavenly Canaan.

The Bible predicts that the remnant will possess the Spirit of Prophecy and that the restoration of this gift would be one of the issues that Satan would war against:

And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ (Revelation 12:17).

The testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy (Revelation 19:10).

God's remnant must thus possess the Spirit of Prophecy in order to qualify as the remnant." AmazingDiscoveries

SDA Issues - City centered?

 I have cut off the nations: their towers are desolate;

I made their streets waste, that none passeth by:

their cities are destroyed, so that there is no man, that there is none inhabitant.

Zephaniah 3:6

"In 1990, 80.2 percent of Seventh-day Adventists lived in metropolitan areas, and 19.8 percent in small towns and rural areas. This is roughly the same percentages as the total population of the

country, where 52.5 percent lived in metro areas of 1 million or more, while 27.6 percent lived in metro areas of less than 1 million population.
Twenty years later, in 2010, 87.7 percent of Adventists lived in metropolitan areas, and only 12.3 percent lived in small towns and rural areas. This is a somewhat higher percentage than the total population of the country, where 58.3 percent lived in metro areas of 1 million or more, and 29.4 percent lived in metro areas of less than 1 million population." AR

"The time is not far distant, when, like the early disciples, we shall be forced to seek a refuge in desolate and solitary places. As the siege of Jerusalem by the Roman armies was the signal for flight to the Judean Christians, so the assumption of power on the part of our nation [the United States] in the decree enforcing the papal sabbath will be a warning to us. It will then be time to leave the large cities, preparatory to leaving the smaller ones for retired homes in secluded places among the mountains." Maranatha p.181 E.G.W.