I've been a Seventh-day Adventist since 1972. Having read the Great Controversy and other writings by Ellen White, I can't help but wonder why we have been so focused on Dispensationalism in our evangelistic efforts. Reading what EGW wrote about the apostate Protestant movement that forms the image to the beast, it is obvious to me that she was not talking about Dispensationalism. Given their goals and what they think they are going to accomplish, the apostate Protestant movement would have to be postmillennial or possibly amillennial. Dispensationalists, or any other form of premillennialism simply cannot fit the bill. In 1989 I was taking Doctor Gulley's "Last Day Events" course at Southern College, and it occurred to me that if what EGW described was going to come to pass, there would have to be a shift away from Dispensationalism and back to some form of Postmillennialism, which was the predominant Protestant view when EGW wrote. If she ever wrote anything at all concerning Dispensationalism I am completely unaware of it. But in 1989 I started looking for a shift back to Postmillennialism. But how would I find out if it were happening? It isn't the kind of thing that the talking heads would be talking about on the nightly news. So I started monitoring religious programming on television just to see what they were talking about. Almost immediately I found something. I tuned into Jack Van Impe's program, and he was talking about something that I had never heard of before. He was saying, "I hate those Dominionists because they want to claim God's promises to Israel for themselves. Van Impe, being a Dispensationalist, believed that Israel plays a major part in God's plans, and the Dominionists that he was talking about apparently applied God's promises to the Church. So I could see that there was a controversy afoot among Protestants. But I still did not know if these Dominionists were the postmillennials that I had been looking for. Well to make a long story at least a little shorter, I discovered that these Dominionists were indeed postmillennials, and that in print there was a feud going on between Dispensationalist and Dominionists -- Dominionists attacking Dispensationalists, and Dispensationalists trying, largely unsuccessfully to defend their positions. The Charismatics and the prosperity gospel types up to that time had been Dispensationalist, but Robert Tilton of the "Success in Life" television fame had been given a Dominionist book by his wife. Having read the book Tilton invited the author of the book to present his views to Tilton's Charismatic/Prosperity Gospel buddies. And now all the Charismatics and the prosperity gospel types are Dominionists, and Seventh-Day Adventists are largely unaware. The Dominionists go by different names, such as Kingdom Now, and the Seven Mountain Mandate movement, etc.
If SDA organizations are against abortion, then, why are SDA hospital are performing it? I really don't understand SDA they say one thing but do another.
You have to understand that we have our doctrines and principles according to the bible . Now with that said the SDA organizations including the hospitals have people who work for them some are SdA Christians and some are not , these organizations should uphold the principles of the SdA church doctrines , but sadly they don't because of greed and the people who that are within the system having no connection with Christ. Most SDA Christians today have apostasize and have only the name but not the spirit of Christ.
Thank you Pastor. May we all be ready to stand sinless before Jesus Christ our Lord. Prayerfully seeking Our Great High Priest.
This is a sermon most wanted to identify the enemy in the midst of the remnant.
I've been a Seventh-day Adventist since 1972. Having read the Great Controversy and other writings by Ellen White, I can't help but wonder why we have been so focused on Dispensationalism in our evangelistic efforts. Reading what EGW wrote about the apostate Protestant movement that forms the image to the beast, it is obvious to me that she was not talking about Dispensationalism. Given their goals and what they think they are going to accomplish, the apostate Protestant movement would have to be postmillennial or possibly amillennial. Dispensationalists, or any other form of premillennialism simply cannot fit the bill. In 1989 I was taking Doctor Gulley's "Last Day Events" course at Southern College, and it occurred to me that if what EGW described was going to come to pass, there would have to be a shift away from Dispensationalism and back to some form of Postmillennialism, which was the predominant Protestant view when EGW wrote. If she ever wrote anything at all concerning Dispensationalism I am completely unaware of it. But in 1989 I started looking for a shift back to Postmillennialism. But how would I find out if it were happening? It isn't the kind of thing that the talking heads would be talking about on the nightly news. So I started monitoring religious programming on television just to see what they were talking about. Almost immediately I found something. I tuned into Jack Van Impe's program, and he was talking about something that I had never heard of before. He was saying, "I hate those Dominionists because they want to claim God's promises to Israel for themselves. Van Impe, being a Dispensationalist, believed that Israel plays a major part in God's plans, and the Dominionists that he was talking about apparently applied God's promises to the Church. So I could see that there was a controversy afoot among Protestants. But I still did not know if these Dominionists were the postmillennials that I had been looking for. Well to make a long story at least a little shorter, I discovered that these Dominionists were indeed postmillennials, and that in print there was a feud going on between Dispensationalist and Dominionists -- Dominionists attacking Dispensationalists, and Dispensationalists trying, largely unsuccessfully to defend their positions. The Charismatics and the prosperity gospel types up to that time had been Dispensationalist, but Robert Tilton of the "Success in Life" television fame had been given a Dominionist book by his wife. Having read the book Tilton invited the author of the book to present his views to Tilton's Charismatic/Prosperity Gospel buddies. And now all the Charismatics and the prosperity gospel types are Dominionists, and Seventh-Day Adventists are largely unaware. The Dominionists go by different names, such as Kingdom Now, and the Seven Mountain Mandate movement, etc.
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If SDA organizations are against abortion, then, why are SDA hospital are performing it? I really don't understand SDA they say one thing but do another.
You have to understand that we have our doctrines and principles according to the bible . Now with that said the SDA organizations including the hospitals have people who work for them some are SdA Christians and some are not , these organizations should uphold the principles of the SdA church doctrines , but sadly they don't because of greed and the people who that are within the system having no connection with Christ. Most SDA Christians today have apostasize and have only the name but not the spirit of Christ.
Some of these hospitals still holding the name only and yet the ownership are majority held by Other institutions, it was sold.