2010 Adventist and Rcc Join Hands Across the Gulf

2010 Reginald Stevenson ADVENTIST AND RCC JOIN HANDS ACROSS THE GULF The picture is from the Advetist Review ʹ November 08, 2001 and shows Pope John Paul II greeting his friend SDA Representative, Bert B. Beach. I have found evidence of the Seventh-day Adventist church and the Roman Catholic Church joining hands as far back as 1926. I will be going through some of the history of these instances of our church joining hands with the RCC, which is a disgusting thing that should never have happened. First off I will give some history of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church. Many may say well why in the world have you chosen to do this? It is because we have allowed errors to come into our church and these errors must not only be met but they must be corrected. TheSeventh-day Adventist Church had its roots in the Milleritemovement of the 1830s and 1840s, during the period of the Second Great Awakening, and was officially founded in 1863. Prominent figures in the early church included Hiram Edson, James Springer White and his wife Ellen G. White, Joseph Bates, and J. N. Andrews. Over the ensuing decades the church expanded from its original base in New England to become an international organization. Significant developments in the 20th century led to its recognition as a Christian denomination.The 19th century provided ideal conditions for the Second Great Awakening a revival movement in the United States. Religious diversity was paramount and many minority movements were formed. Some of these movements held beliefs that would later be adopted by the Seventh-day Adventists. An interest in prophecy was kindled among some Protestants groups following the arrest of Pope Pius VI in 1798 by the FrenchGeneralLouis AlexandreBerthier. Forerunners of the Adventist movement believed that this event marked the end of the 1260 day prophecy from the Book of Daniel. Certain individuals began to look at the 2300 day prophecy found in Daniel 8:14. Hans Wood, an Irishlayman reached the same conclusions as Petri; however, due to a different commencement date his calculations pointed to 1880. Interest in prophecy also found its way into the Roman CatholicChurch when an exiled Jesuit priest by the name of Manuel de Lacunza published a manuscript calling for renewed interest in the Second Coming of Christ. His publication created a stirring but was later condemned by Pope Leo XII in 1824. As a result of a pursuit for religious freedom, many revivalists had set foot in the United States, aiming to avoid persecution. The Seventh-day Adventist Church formed out of the movement known today as the Millerites. In 1831, a Baptist convert, William Miller (until then a Deist), was asked by a Baptist to preach in their church and began to preach that the Second Advent of Jesus would occur somewhere between 1843 and 1844, based on his interpretation of Daniel 8:14. A following gathered around Miller that included many from the Baptist, Methodist, Presbyterian and Christian Connection churches. After a number of revisions, October 22 was considered the most probable date that the return would occur. By 1844, over 100,000 people were anticipating what Miller had dubbed as the "Blessed Hope". On October 22 many of the believers were up late into the night watching, waiting for Christ to return and found themselves bitterly disappointed when both sunset and midnight passed with their expectations unfulfilled. This event later became known as the Great Disappointment. In 1888 there was a missed opportunity in the Adventist church that should have utterly changed the church and should have sent it into a major growth spurt that many people would refer to as the latter rain. What should have happened in 1888 with A.T. Jones and E.J. Waggoner and their message of righteousness by faith and religious liberty was that we should have followed through and moved forward but the message was rejected by the church. (Wikipedia) During the years that followed the church decided on a hierarchical church government structure that closely matches the papal system. Ellen White even warns of something even worse happening to our church; ͞A new organization would be established. Books of a new order would be written. A system of intellectual philosophy would be introduced.͟ (White E. G.)The problem here is that a new organization is coming into the church and it is a very dangerous organization. Ellen White goes on to say that; ͞The Sabbath (Saturday) of course, would be lightly regarded, as also the God who created it. Nothing would be allowed to stand in the way of the new movement.͟(White E. G.) If we are truly joining hands with the Roman Catholic Church then it will not be long until someone in the SDA church outright says that we no longer have to worship on Saturday. As far as I am concerned something like that should never happen but in many ways I am sure that it will happen very soon. In 1910 at the world missionary conference the start of the Protestant Christian ecumenical movement commenced.(Wikipedia) We as Adventist͛s were a part of this unholy meeting and still are. (Falvo) Why did we even join hands with the ecumenical movement? We have tied ourselves to a unholy thing. In the Bibleis a verse that warns us that we will corrupt ourselves; ͞ For I know that after my death ye will utterly corrupt yourselves, and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will befall you in the latter days; ͞ Deuteronomy 31:29 In 1922 we as Adventist͛s accepted worldly accreditation for our hospitals. In 1926 we changed our policy to say this; "recognizes those agencies that lift up Christ before men as a part of the divine plan for evangelization of the world͙͟(General Conference working policy # 75) In 1929 we accepted worldly accreditation for our educational system which put us into the same lineasCatholics. Should we be accredited by the state and swallow the hard pill that they state forces us to take by teaching mainly what the state wants us to teach? Should we sell ourselves short when it comes to teaching the Bible in our schools when the state comes in and says that we can no longer teach what we have been teaching from the Bible? Will we allow this to happen? In 1949 the World Council of Churches was formed and one of the members is the Adventist church. This is not the case according to the following webpage. http://www.oikoumene.org/en/member-churches/global-bodies-and-mission- communions/wcc.html#c23067 In 1955 and 1956 two non-SDA leaders helped to trade away two vital doctrines of the Adventist doctrine to be accepted by the fallen Babylonian churches, they were Walter Martin and DonaldBarnhouse. Martin was the director of cult apologetics for Zondervan and Donald Barnhousewas the editor of Eternity magazine and pastor of the great evangelical church, Tenth Presbyterian Church. Basically what happened is that Adventism got sold down the river to the evangelicals. (Weitz) The two doctrines that got traded away was our belief that Jesus came in our sinful flesh and the second was that we agreed that Christ͛s work in the Most Holy Place was not vital for our salvation; instead it was all done at the cross. This was wrong of the Adventist church to do this just to please some external group. Ellen White prophesied that this would happen years ago. ͞The principles of truth that God in His wisdom has given to the remnant church would be discarded. Our religion would be changed.͟ (White E. , Selected Messages volume 1 page 204) In Jude verse 3 it says; ͞Beloved,͙ Ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints͟ So why are we as Adventists allowing this to happen, why are we not out there contending for our faith? Why are we allowing those in leadership at the Conference level to trample all over our beliefs and to change them to be more like the Roman Catholic Church?In 1957 someone did stand up and sent out letters to the churches to warn Adventists of what is occurring right before our eyes, that person was M.L. Andreasen(Wikipedia)As far back as 1937 Andreasen presented the package that took the implications of the Adventist faith to what he perceived to be their logical conclusion. His dispute with the church was over the theology of the atonement and humanity of Christ that was expressed in the 1957 book Questions on Doctrine (QOD). Andreasen argued that the book established a sinister change in Seventh-day Adventist theology. In his book, The Sanctuary Service, Andreasen had pulled this all together in the closing chapter, The Final Generation. Andreasen urged that QOD not be published, and argued extensively with church leaders to correct the ideas they eventually placed into print. Eventually QOD was published and Andreasen went public in identifying what he saw as problematic aspects of the book. The church revoked his ministerial credentials in 1961, but reinstated him posthumously in 1962. Many "historic Adventists" and advocates of Last Generation Theology regard Andreasen as a significant figure in their theological heritage. In the years 1962 to 1964 there was a meeting called the Vatican 2 council. One of our church members was an observer and that was Arthur S. Maxwell the beloved author of the ͞Bedtime Stories͟.(Wikipedia.com) On his return from these meeting͛s he called for the scrapping of the old evangelistic sermons on the Papacy and pushed for a completely new approach.

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