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Saturday, September 19, 2015

Ben Cardson Hides What Seventh-day Adventists Teach about the U. S. A.


Dr. Ben Carson is dishonest when it comes to his faith. As an ordained
Seventh-day Adventist elder and Sabbath-School teacher, he is fully aware of its doctrinal teachings. Yet he manages to hide his real faith from public view and has done so for decades.

 

The Seventh-day Adventists’ doctrinal statement and its prophetess Ellen G White teach opposite from what Carson often teaches in public. Therefore Carson should either renounce the SDA Church and Ellen G. White or stop teaching contradictory views. Furthermore, because of what SDAs teach about the United States government, they should not be allowed to hold public office.

 

Christian Post published an article by Sami Martin about Carson’s faith on September 12, 2015. The following are examples of his contradictory double standards.

 

Post: Carson is also well-known for his religious beliefs.

 

Adventist News Network, 4-5-2013:

ANN: Are there ever any times when you feel it’s best to distinguish yourself from the Seventh-day Adventist Church and what it teaches? Carson: No, I don’t. http://news.adventist.org/all-news/news/go/2013-04-05/church-chat-carson-handles-spotlight-prayerfully-humbly/

Comment: He has been hiding his SDA elder-teacher doctrines for decades and nobody has researched and challenged him in this area.

Post: This Seventh-day Adventist has relied upon his faith from a young age and continues to do so today.

 

Comment: Yes, but he speaks opposite words according to his audience.

 

Post: Even though he belongs to the Seventh-day Adventist church, he often attends churches of different traditions and has said that he appreciates the beliefs of other faiths.

 

Kelly: Sincere SDAs would not say this. SDAs call Roman Catholics the antichrist beast of Revelation 13 and the great whore of Revelation 17. They call Protestants the daughters of the great whore. SDA pastors join ecumenical pastoral fellowships to convert them; they hide their real doctrines. Carson worships with what his church calls false believers who worship on Sunday, the mark of the antichrist beast. [Rev 14:8]

 

Carson: "I'm not convinced that the denomination is the most important thing."

 

Kelly: This is either a very great delusion or else a deliberate lie. SDAs teach that they exclusively are the only true church and everybody else is harlot Babylon or its harlot daughters. Read The Great Controversy, pages 615-616.

 

Carson: “… it's the relationship with God that's most important."

 

Comment: This is contrary to SDA doctrine. If Carson believes this is true, then he needs to publicly renounce both Seventh-day Adventism as a false exclusive cult and publicly disagree with Ellen G. White.

 

Carson: "As a Christian, I am not the least bit offended by the beliefs of Hindus, Buddhists, Muslims, Mormons and so forth. In fact, I am delighted to know that they believe in something that is more likely to make them into a reasonable human being, as long as they don't allow their religion to be distorted by those seeking power and wealth." America the Beautiful, 2012.

 

Comment: No SDA leader or even church elder-teacher would be allowed to publicly say this without suffering great discipline from his/her SDA church and even denominational leaders! As a former SDA pastor I know better. A lesser member would have been punished long ago. SDAs teach that only Sabbath-keeping SDAs will be saved in the last days.

 

Post: Carson believes that religious practices should be respected across the country so long as they do not limit or infringe upon the rights of others and links religious "persecution" in America to acts of persecution from abroad.

 

Comment: SDAs are urged to anticipate religious persecution from everybody else because the last-day great tribulations will be blamed on them. SDAs see themselves as targets of a death decree for not worshipping on Sunday. Read The Great Controversy, 626, below.

 

Carson: “… ensuring that no one's beliefs infringe upon those of others."

 

Comment: This is radically contrary to SDA marching orders. It is their mission to convert as many as possible to Saturday worship before the mark of the beast is imposed upon themselves.

 

Carson: “… as long as there's more than one force, you are not going to have one force dominating everything. I do believe that will eventually be the case, but it's not the case now.”

 

Comment: SDAs teach one world government and one world church dominated by Satan and antichrist immediately through apostate Roman Catholicism and apostate Protestants before Jesus returns to rescue Sabbath-keepers from their   death decree. Read The Great Controversy, pages 615-616, below.

 

Carson: “To try to impose one's religious beliefs on someone else is absolutely what we should not be doing.

 

Comment: This is exactly opposite what SDAs teach. It is the mission of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, of which Carson is a local elder and Sabbath-school teacher, to convert as many as possible to Sabbath-keeping to save them.

 

Ben Carson cannot have it both ways. Again, he must either repudiate all of his public evangelical statements or else publicly renounce Seventh-day Adventism and Ellen G. White. He cannot continue to teach one belief system to his SDA church on Saturday and another to the non-SDA world at large. God hates liars.

 

THE FALSE PROPHET U.S.A.

 

Ben Carson and Seventh-day Adventists Call the United States of America a False Prophet of Roman Catholic Antichrist

 

Fact #1: The most important “inspired” book of Seventh-day Adventism beyond the Bible is Prophetess Ellen G. White’s The Great Controversy. Carson must be very much familiar of this book. It is quoted often in SDA literature and Sabbath-school quarterlies.

 

Fact #2: The Great Controversy teaches that a last-day “antichrist beast” Roman Catholic Church and the “false prophet” United States Government will unite to kill Seventh-day Adventists (Revelation 13 all). See pages 440, 445, 448, 449, 573, 604, 605, 615, 616, 626.

 

Ben Carson cannot disagree with Ellen G. White and remain a Seventh-day Adventist. Therefore Ben Carson is anti-Roman Catholic, anti-Protestant and anti-U. S. Government! You can read this yourself from The Great Controversy at any SDA Church, or you can read the excerpts below from my web site http://tithing-russkelly.com/sda/id37.html

 

Seventh-day Adventists are taught to fear and distrust the Roman Catholic Church, all other Protestants and, especially, the United States government itself.

 

Fact #3: SDAs are taught that the U. S. Government is the false prophet for the antichrist beast Roman Catholic Church in Revelation 13:11-18.

 

GC440: One nation, and only one, meets the specifications of this prophecy [Rev. 13:11-18]; it points unmistakably to the United States of America.

 

Fact #4: SDAs are taught that, in the last days, churches in the U. S. A. will unite to enforce Sunday worship and oppose Saturday-Sabbath worshippers.

 

GC445: “WHEN the leading churches of the United States, uniting in such points of doctrine as are held by them in common, shall influence the state to enforce their decrees and to sustain their institutions, THEN Protestant America will have formed an image to the Roman hierarchy, and the inflictions of civil penalties upon dissenters inevitably result.” [Revelation 13:14-18]

 

Fact #5: SDAs teach that forced Sunday worship will unite Roman Catholics and Protestants as Babylon and her daughters.

 

GC448-449: “The enforcement of Sunday keeping on the part of the Protestant churches is an enforcement of the worship of the papacy the beast. ... hence the enforcement of Sunday keeping in the United States would be an enforcement of the worship of the beast and his image.”[Rev 13:14-15; 14:1-12; 17 all]

 

Fact #6: SDAs teach they will eventually enlighten every person on earth about the obligation to worship on Saturday. Afterwards Sunday worshippers will receive the mark of the beast. "Which day of the week to worship?" is a salvation doctrine.

 

GC449: “But when Sunday observance shall be enforced by law, and the world shall be enlightened concerning the obligation of the true Sabbath, then whoever shall transgress the command of God to obey a precept which has no higher authority than that of Rome, will thereby honor popery above God.  He is paying homage to Rome and to the power which embraces the institution ordained by Rome. He is worshiping the beast and his image. As men then reject the institution which God has declared to be the sign of His authority, and honor in its stead that which Rome has chosen as the token of her supremacy, they will thereby accept the sign of allegiance to Rome – ‘the mark of the beast.’  And it is not until this issue is thus plainly set before the people and they are brought to choose between the commandments of God and the commandments of men, that those who continue in transgression will receive “the mark of the beast.” [Rev 13:14-18]

 

Fact #7: SDAs teach that U. S. Protestants will gain government support for enforced Sunday worship. This action will result in the U. S. A. being ruled by apostate antichrist Roman Catholicism.

 

GC573: “In the movements now in progress in the United States to secure for the institutions and usages of the church the support of the state, Protestants are following in the steps of papists. Nay, more they are opening the door for the papacy to regain in Protestant America the supremacy which she has lost in the Old World. And that which gives greater significance to this movement is the fact that the principle object contemplated is the enforcement of Sunday observance ---  a custom which originated with Rome, and which she claims as the sign of her authority.”

 

Fact #8: SDAs teach that apostate Roman Catholicism and apostate Protestantism will fight SDA Sabbath-keepers and set a date for them to be killed. [Rev. 13:15]

 

GC604a: “Fearful is the issue to which the world is to be brought. The powers of earth, uniting to war against the commandments of God, will decree that "all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond" (Revelation 13:16), shall conform to the customs of the church by the observance of the false Sabbath. All who refuse compliance will be visited with civil penalties, and it will finally be declared that they are deserving of death. On the other hand the law of God enjoining the Creator's rest day demands obedience and threatens wrath against all who transgress its precepts....”

 

Fact #9: SDAs teach that the last-day tribulation plagues, starvation and planet upheavals will be blamed on SDA Sabbath-keepers for not worshipping on Sunday.

 

GC614: “Those who honor the law of God have been accused of bringing judgments upon the world, and they will be regarded as the cause of the fearful convulsions of nature and the strife and bloodshed among men that are filling the earth with woe.”

 

Fact #10: SDAs teach that Sunday worshippers in the last days will not be saved.

 

GC604b: “With the issue thus clearly brought before him, whoever shall trample upon God’s law to obey a human enactment [Sunday] receives the mark of the beast; he accepts the sign of allegiance to the power he chooses to obey instead of God.”

 

Fact #11: SDAs teach that Saturday-Sabbath worship is the great test of loyalty and salvation, not the gospel of Jesus Christ.

 

GC605: “The Sabbath will be the great test of loyalty, for it is the point of truth especially controverted. When the final test shall be brought to bear upon men, then the line of distinction will be drawn between those who serve God and those who serve Him not.  While the observance of the false Sabbath [Sunday] in compliance with the law of the state, contrary to the fourth commandment, will be an avowal of allegiance to a power that is in opposition to God, the keeping of the true Sabbath, in obedience to God's law, is an evidence of loyalty to the Creator.  While one class, by accepting the sign of submission to earthly powers, receives the mark of the beast, the other, choosing the token of allegiance to divine authority, receives the seal of God.” [Only SDAs can be saved in the last days.]

 

Fact #12: SDAs teach that apostate Roman Catholicism and apostate Protestantism will issue a death decree for Saturday-Sabbath keepers.

 

GC615-616: “This argument will appear conclusive; and a DECREE will finally be issued against those who hallow the Sabbath of the fourth commandment, denouncing them as deserving of the severest punishment and giving the people liberty, after a certain time, to put them to DEATH. Romanism in the Old World and apostate Protestantism in the New will pursue a similar course toward those who honor all the divine precepts.” [Rev 13:16-18]

 

Fact #13: SDAs teach that governments will not protect Saturday-Sabbath keepers from the death decree. They will flee from the cities and villages and associate toget6her in companies, dwelling in the most desolate and solitary places.

 

GC626: “As the decree issued by the various rulers of Christendom against commandment keepers shall withdraw the protection of government and abandon them to those who desire their destruction, the people of God will flee from the cities and villages and associate toget6her in companies, dwelling in the most desolate and solitary places.” [They hide from society.]

 

FINAL COMMENTS by Russell Earl Kelly, PHD

 

Yet, after all this, SDAs insist in their pamphlet, who are the Seventh-day Adventists?, page 6, “So who are [we] really?  Are [we] some strange group with weird ideas?  Do [our] leaders make bizarre predictions about the future?”

 

“Yes” and “Yes” again! SDAs want others to see them as calm normal lovable huggable Christians whose main difference is that they worship on Saturday instead of Sunday. They do not want to be exposed as an exclusive cult which alone will be saved because they worship on Saturday.

 

Again, Ben Carson is an elder and teacher in this exclusive cult. If he does not agree with what SDAs teach openly in The Great Controversy, then Ben Carson should openly and publicly renounce Seventh-day Adventism and its prophetess, Ellen G. White.

 

The Seventh-day Adventist doctrine [the Mark of the Beast to Sunday worshippers supported by the U. S. government] makes SDAs untrustworthy and UNQUALIFIED as U. S. legislators, soldiers or as persons in responsible government positions. They are clearly anti-U. S. A.

 

Russell Earl Kelly, PHD, russkellyphd@yahoo.com

706-678-6791; 706-401-1276

Former SDA pastor in Georgia, North Dakota and South Carolina

Author of Exposing Seventh-day Adventism

Russell E Kelly Rebuts John Sullivan, Executive of Florida Baptist Convention


Russell Kelly Rebuts John Sullivan, Florida Baptist Executive Director, on Tithing



 

Sullivan: God says ‘Prove Me’ with the tithe.

 
Kelly: This was not commanded to the church. It was only commanded to Old Covenant national Israel as part of the Law (Mal 4:4; Neh 10:29). The whole law was a test: obey all to be blessed; break one to be cursed (Gal 3:10; Deut 27:26.

 
Sullivan: God is a demanding God. He is an unchanging God.

Kelly: In Malachi God demanded that the dishonest priests of Israel replace the tithes they had stolen from the Levites in Nehemiah 13:5-10. He had already cursed the priests 4 times in Malachi 1:6-14 and 2:1-2. He was “unchanging” in that he kept his Old Covenant blessings and curses.

Sullivan: Malachi 3:8 says that He is also a reprimanding God. 

Kelly: God also commanded the Old Covenant Levies and priests NOT to own property or amass wealth in Israel. Today’s so-called tithe-receiving gospel ministers both own property and often amass much wealth contrary to Numbers 18:20-28. They only teach a small part of the tithing doctrine of the Old Covenant. They deserve a severe reprimand.

Sullivan: God reprimands Israel as He declares, “You have robbed me in tithes and offerings.”

Kelly: Yes, only Israel. The Old Covenant HOLY Levitical tithe was always only FOOD for its Levites and priests from inside HOLY Israel. God never commanded after Calvary that gospel workers should not own property or amass wealth; neither did He command tithing because all believers are now priests.

Sullivan: It is faulty theology to receive the good of life without thanksgiving.

Kelly: It is also faulty theology to teach Old Covenant tithing to New Covenant believers. As non-food-producers not even Jesus, Peter or Paul qualified as tithe-payers in Israel. Explain that.

Sullivan: However, it is even worse to ask for the things of God and then not take them. 

Kelly: It is even worse to receive false tithes from money and also own property and amass wealth when those were never Old Covenant standards for Temple workers.

Sullivan: God says, “Now prove me. Here it is.” 

Kelly: He also said to Old Covenant Levites and priests “Do not own property or amass wealth (Num 18:20). He also gave them over 600 commands and required complete obedience before they could claim a blessing (Gal 3:10; Deut 27:26).  We are either under all of the Old Covenant Law or none of it.

 
Sullivan: “Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse …

Kelly: As King Hezekiah discovered in 2 Chron 31:1-19, Solomon’s temple was not designed to hold all the tithes of the nation. He reshipped them to the Levitical cities (31:15-19) as Nehemiah knew in Nehemiah 10:37b-38. The tithes of Malachi 3 are probably those from Nehemiah 13:5 removed by the priests.  Plus, the early church had no legal storehouse buildings until after A. D. 312.

Sullivan: “… that there may be meat in mine house …

Kelly: Over 1000 years after Leviticus 27:30-34, HOLY tithes were still only FOOD from inside HOLY Israel. It is a lie to change the biblical description of HOLY tithes away from that used by Moses, Nehemiah, Malachi and Jesus.

 Sullivan: “… and prove me now herewith, I will open the windows of heaven and pour you out blessings…”

Kelly: Tithes were still only food miraculously increased by God inside His HOLY land. HOLY tithes never included that which man increased from his own labor or money.

Sullivan: What is the proof? “There will be meat in my house.”

Kelly: Read the text!!! The literal text means FOOD and nothing more!

Sullivan: We will never be overwhelmed by the grace of God through experimentation.

Kelly: Yes, New Covenant post-Calvary grace. Tithing was pure law and none of grace. God expected it from food producers inside Israel whether they wanted to give it or not.

Gal 3:10 For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.

Mal 4:4 Remember ye the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all Israel, with the statutes and judgments.

Sullivan:  There is another note from this text found in Malachi. … There is the immediacy of God’s command to our life.

Kelly: The SBC wants us to “tithe right now; don’t study the subject; just obey your pastors.” This is bully pulpit rhetoric and is against 1 Timothy 5:8 “But if any provide not for his own, and especially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.”

Sullivan: God has an expectancy that we will follow His instructions without delay. There is an urgency.

Kelly: Scare tactics. It is a lie to equate tithing with firstfruits. Then Christians will give their first 10% to the church and do without household necessities like medicine and food and basic shelter.

I challenge you or any other church leader to enter and open dialog on the subject of tithing. I know you will not do this because it would expose your deception and lack of faith in solid post-Calvary giving principles

In Christ’s love
Russell Earl Kelly, PHD
www.tithing-russkelly.com
russkellyphd@yahoo.com

 

 

Wednesday, September 16, 2015

Ben Carson is dishonest concerning his faith, by Russell E Kelly


Ben Carson is Dishonest Concerning Seventh-day Adventism

by Russell Earl Kelly, PHD, September 13, 2015

 

Dr. Ben Carson is dishonest when it comes to his faith. As an ordained
Seventh-day Adventist elder and Sabbath-School teacher, he is fully aware of its doctrinal teachings. Yet he manages to hide his real faith from public view and has done so for decades.

 

The Seventh-day Adventists’ doctrinal statement and its prophetess Ellen G White teach opposite from what Carson often teaches in public. Therefore Carson should either renounce the SDA Church and Ellen G. White or stop teaching contradictory views. Furthermore, because of what SDAs teach about the United States government, they should not be allowed to hold public office.

 

Christian Post published an article by Sami Martin about Carson’s faith on September 12, 2015. The following are examples of his contradictory double standards.

 

Post: Carson is also well-known for his religious beliefs.

 

Adventist News Network, 4-5-2013:

ANN: Are there ever any times when you feel it’s best to distinguish yourself from the Seventh-day Adventist Church and what it teaches? Carson: No, I don’t. http://news.adventist.org/all-news/news/go/2013-04-05/church-chat-carson-handles-spotlight-prayerfully-humbly/

Comment: He has been hiding his SDA elder-teacher doctrines for decades and nobody has researched and challenged him in this area.

Post: This Seventh-day Adventist has relied upon his faith from a young age and continues to do so today.

 

Comment: Yes, but he speaks opposite words according to his audience.

 

Post: Even though he belongs to the Seventh-day Adventist church, he often attends churches of different traditions and has said that he appreciates the beliefs of other faiths.

 

Kelly: Sincere SDAs would not say this. SDAs call Roman Catholics the antichrist beast of Revelation 13 and the great whore of Revelation 17. They call Protestants the daughters of the great whore. SDA pastors join ecumenical pastoral fellowships to convert them; they hide their real doctrines. Carson worships with what his church calls false believers who worship on Sunday, the mark of the antichrist beast. [Rev 14:8]

 

Carson: "I'm not convinced that the denomination is the most important thing."

 

Kelly: This is either a very great delusion or else a deliberate lie. SDAs teach that they exclusively are the only true church and everybody else is harlot Babylon or its harlot daughters. Read The Great Controversy, pages 615-616.

 

Carson: “… it's the relationship with God that's most important."

 

Comment: This is contrary to SDA doctrine. If Carson believes this is true, then he needs to publicly renounce both Seventh-day Adventism as a false exclusive cult and publicly disagree with Ellen G. White.

 

Carson: "As a Christian, I am not the least bit offended by the beliefs of Hindus, Buddhists, Muslims, Mormons and so forth. In fact, I am delighted to know that they believe in something that is more likely to make them into a reasonable human being, as long as they don't allow their religion to be distorted by those seeking power and wealth." America the Beautiful, 2012.

 

Comment: No SDA leader or even church elder-teacher would be allowed to publicly say this without suffering great discipline from his/her SDA church and even denominational leaders! As a former SDA pastor I know better. A lesser member would have been punished long ago. SDAs teach that only Sabbath-keeping SDAs will be saved in the last days.

 

Post: Carson believes that religious practices should be respected across the country so long as they do not limit or infringe upon the rights of others and links religious "persecution" in America to acts of persecution from abroad.

 

Comment: SDAs are urged to anticipate religious persecution from everybody else because the last-day great tribulations will be blamed on them. SDAs see themselves as targets of a death decree for not worshipping on Sunday. Read The Great Controversy, 626, below.

 

Carson: “… ensuring that no one's beliefs infringe upon those of others."

 

Comment: This is radically contrary to SDA marching orders. It is their mission to convert as many as possible to Saturday worship before the mark of the beast is imposed upon themselves.

 

Carson: “… as long as there's more than one force, you are not going to have one force dominating everything. I do believe that will eventually be the case, but it's not the case now.”

 

Comment: SDAs teach one world government and one world church dominated by Satan and antichrist immediately through apostate Roman Catholicism and apostate Protestants before Jesus returns to rescue Sabbath-keepers from their   death decree. Read The Great Controversy, pages 615-616, below.

 

Carson: “To try to impose one's religious beliefs on someone else is absolutely what we should not be doing.

 

Comment: This is exactly opposite what SDAs teach. It is the mission of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, of which Carson is a local elder and Sabbath-school teacher, to convert as many as possible to Sabbath-keeping to save them.

 

Ben Carson cannot have it both ways. Again, he must either repudiate all of his public evangelical statements or else publicly renounce Seventh-day Adventism and Ellen G. White. He cannot continue to teach one belief system to his SDA church on Saturday and another to the non-SDA world at large. God hates liars.

 

THE FALSE PROPHET U.S.A.

 

Ben Carson and Seventh-day Adventists Call the United States of America a False Prophet of Roman Catholic Antichrist

 

Fact #1: The most important “inspired” book of Seventh-day Adventism beyond the Bible is Prophetess Ellen G. White’s The Great Controversy. Carson must be very much familiar of this book. It is quoted often in SDA literature and Sabbath-school quarterlies.

 

Fact #2: The Great Controversy teaches that a last-day “antichrist beast” Roman Catholic Church and the “false prophet” United States Government will unite to kill Seventh-day Adventists (Revelation 13 all). See pages 440, 445, 448, 449, 573, 604, 605, 615, 616, 626.

 

Ben Carson cannot disagree with Ellen G. White and remain a Seventh-day Adventist. Therefore Ben Carson is anti-Roman Catholic, anti-Protestant and anti-U. S. Government! You can read this yourself from The Great Controversy at any SDA Church, or you can read the excerpts below from my web site http://tithing-russkelly.com/sda/id37.html

 

Seventh-day Adventists are taught to fear and distrust the Roman Catholic Church, all other Protestants and, especially, the United States government itself.

 

Fact #3: SDAs are taught that the U. S. Government is the false prophet for the antichrist beast Roman Catholic Church in Revelation 13:11-18.

 

GC440: One nation, and only one, meets the specifications of this prophecy [Rev. 13:11-18]; it points unmistakably to the United States of America.

 

Fact #4: SDAs are taught that, in the last days, churches in the U. S. A. will unite to enforce Sunday worship and oppose Saturday-Sabbath worshippers.

 

GC445: “WHEN the leading churches of the United States, uniting in such points of doctrine as are held by them in common, shall influence the state to enforce their decrees and to sustain their institutions, THEN Protestant America will have formed an image to the Roman hierarchy, and the inflictions of civil penalties upon dissenters inevitably result.” [Revelation 13:14-18]

 

Fact #5: SDAs teach that forced Sunday worship will unite Roman Catholics and Protestants as Babylon and her daughters.

 

GC448-449: “The enforcement of Sunday keeping on the part of the Protestant churches is an enforcement of the worship of the papacy the beast. ... hence the enforcement of Sunday keeping in the United States would be an enforcement of the worship of the beast and his image.”[Rev 13:14-15; 14:1-12; 17 all]

 

Fact #6: SDAs teach they will eventually enlighten every person on earth about the obligation to worship on Saturday. Afterwards Sunday worshippers will receive the mark of the beast. "Which day of the week to worship?" is a salvation doctrine.

 

GC449: “But when Sunday observance shall be enforced by law, and the world shall be enlightened concerning the obligation of the true Sabbath, then whoever shall transgress the command of God to obey a precept which has no higher authority than that of Rome, will thereby honor popery above God.  He is paying homage to Rome and to the power which embraces the institution ordained by Rome. He is worshiping the beast and his image. As men then reject the institution which God has declared to be the sign of His authority, and honor in its stead that which Rome has chosen as the token of her supremacy, they will thereby accept the sign of allegiance to Rome – ‘the mark of the beast.’  And it is not until this issue is thus plainly set before the people and they are brought to choose between the commandments of God and the commandments of men, that those who continue in transgression will receive “the mark of the beast.” [Rev 13:14-18]

 

Fact #7: SDAs teach that U. S. Protestants will gain government support for enforced Sunday worship. This action will result in the U. S. A. being ruled by apostate antichrist Roman Catholicism.

 

GC573: “In the movements now in progress in the United States to secure for the institutions and usages of the church the support of the state, Protestants are following in the steps of papists. Nay, more they are opening the door for the papacy to regain in Protestant America the supremacy which she has lost in the Old World. And that which gives greater significance to this movement is the fact that the principle object contemplated is the enforcement of Sunday observance ---  a custom which originated with Rome, and which she claims as the sign of her authority.”

 

Fact #8: SDAs teach that apostate Roman Catholicism and apostate Protestantism will fight SDA Sabbath-keepers and set a date for them to be killed. [Rev. 13:15]

 

GC604a: “Fearful is the issue to which the world is to be brought. The powers of earth, uniting to war against the commandments of God, will decree that "all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond" (Revelation 13:16), shall conform to the customs of the church by the observance of the false Sabbath. All who refuse compliance will be visited with civil penalties, and it will finally be declared that they are deserving of death. On the other hand the law of God enjoining the Creator's rest day demands obedience and threatens wrath against all who transgress its precepts....”

 

Fact #9: SDAs teach that the last-day tribulation plagues, starvation and planet upheavals will be blamed on SDA Sabbath-keepers for not worshipping on Sunday.

 

GC614: “Those who honor the law of God have been accused of bringing judgments upon the world, and they will be regarded as the cause of the fearful convulsions of nature and the strife and bloodshed among men that are filling the earth with woe.”

 

Fact #10: SDAs teach that Sunday worshippers in the last days will not be saved.

 

GC604b: “With the issue thus clearly brought before him, whoever shall trample upon God’s law to obey a human enactment [Sunday] receives the mark of the beast; he accepts the sign of allegiance to the power he chooses to obey instead of God.”

 

Fact #11: SDAs teach that Saturday-Sabbath worship is the great test of loyalty and salvation, not the gospel of Jesus Christ.

 

GC605: “The Sabbath will be the great test of loyalty, for it is the point of truth especially controverted. When the final test shall be brought to bear upon men, then the line of distinction will be drawn between those who serve God and those who serve Him not.  While the observance of the false Sabbath [Sunday] in compliance with the law of the state, contrary to the fourth commandment, will be an avowal of allegiance to a power that is in opposition to God, the keeping of the true Sabbath, in obedience to God's law, is an evidence of loyalty to the Creator.  While one class, by accepting the sign of submission to earthly powers, receives the mark of the beast, the other, choosing the token of allegiance to divine authority, receives the seal of God.” [Only SDAs can be saved in the last days.]

 

Fact #12: SDAs teach that apostate Roman Catholicism and apostate Protestantism will issue a death decree for Saturday-Sabbath keepers.

 

GC615-616: “This argument will appear conclusive; and a DECREE will finally be issued against those who hallow the Sabbath of the fourth commandment, denouncing them as deserving of the severest punishment and giving the people liberty, after a certain time, to put them to DEATH. Romanism in the Old World and apostate Protestantism in the New will pursue a similar course toward those who honor all the divine precepts.” [Rev 13:16-18]

 

Fact #13: SDAs teach that governments will not protect Saturday-Sabbath keepers from the death decree. They will flee from the cities and villages and associate toget6her in companies, dwelling in the most desolate and solitary places.

 

GC626: “As the decree issued by the various rulers of Christendom against commandment keepers shall withdraw the protection of government and abandon them to those who desire their destruction, the people of God will flee from the cities and villages and associate toget6her in companies, dwelling in the most desolate and solitary places.” [They hide from society.]

 

FINAL COMMENTS by Russell Earl Kelly, PHD

 

Yet, after all this, SDAs insist in their pamphlet, who are the Seventh-day Adventists?, page 6, “So who are [we] really?  Are [we] some strange group with weird ideas?  Do [our] leaders make bizarre predictions about the future?”

 

“Yes” and “Yes” again! SDAs want others to see them as calm normal lovable huggable Christians whose main difference is that they worship on Saturday instead of Sunday. They do not want to be exposed as an exclusive cult which alone will be saved because they worship on Saturday.

 

Again, Ben Carson is an elder and teacher in this exclusive cult. If he does not agree with what SDAs teach openly in The Great Controversy, then Ben Carson should openly and publicly renounce Seventh-day Adventism and its prophetess, Ellen G. White.

 

The Seventh-day Adventist doctrine [the Mark of the Beast to Sunday worshippers supported by the U. S. government] makes SDAs untrustworthy and UNQUALIFIED as U. S. legislators, soldiers or as persons in responsible government positions. They are clearly anti-U. S. A.

 

Russell Earl Kelly, PHD, russkellyphd@yahoo.com

706-678-6791; 706-401-1276

Former SDA pastor in Georgia, North Dakota and South Carolina

Author of Exposing Seventh-day Adventism