The entire complex of catastrophes now overtaking the globe, beginnig
with the ecologic catastrophes, to the progress of global strife
towards a WWIII in the Middle East, all to the tune of drugs, sex, and
Rock’n Roll, ie the collapse of the moral order of the Western World in
particular and the entire world in general as witnessed by the AIDS
pandemic, is a package deal to be ultimately resolved by the SUNDAY LAW.
Wait and see. It will all be laid to the charge of SIN in America
first, and then nation by nation to all the world. The appeasement of
an offended God who translates sin into permitting or causing the
various global catastrophes will require a universal Sunday law.
edition.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/01/23/climate.report.ap/index.html
Since Adventists came up with this idea in the nineteenth century, they have interpreted every world crisis as what will lead up to the ‘Sunday Law’.
World War I, the Spanish Flu, the dust bowl, the depression, WWII, nuclear weapons, the cold war… etc etc etc.
Lately its been GW Bush, the 9/11 incident, the Iraq war, and now… Global Warming.
All of these were supposed to lead to the ‘BIG’ crisis that will trigger the Sunday Law.
All of these theories over look an inconvenient fact. Adventism came out of Victorian times and is extremely euro-centric in its views of history and religion.
Why would Buddhists adopt a sunday worship law to appease a God they do not even believe in? Buddhists typically do not worship a diety at all. Why would moslems adopt a Sunday law after a Christian model? They would be more likely to blame Christians for the trouble, not join them in some apeasement token.
Adventists believe that the entire world will embrace an apostate Christianity and that their little group will be the chosen remnant and be saved from the end times.
Adventists believe that at this time our ‘probation’ will close and those not keeping saturday as a sabbath will be beyond saving. Sunday will be the mark of the beast in their prophecy interpretations.
This is not supported by scripture. It takes snipping bits of verses here and there and stringing them together with generous helpings of Ellen White to make sense of it at all.
Adventists believe the sabbath is God’s ‘seal’ and that those keeping it will be ‘sealed’ at the last days, leaving the rest of the world to be lost. Problem with that, is there is not one passage of scripture refering to the Sabbath as God’s seal. There are several that tell us the Holy Spirit is God’s seal.
Adventists will make what day you worship on a test for salvation, but remain pro-choice on the matter of abortion, doing little to prevent the slaughter of the innocent.
I was at an Adventist university at the time of discussion on what position the SDA church should take on abortion and the right to life movement. They refused to become involved in pro-life activities, adopted a wishy washy position statment that ultimately says the mother has the right to make her own decision, and many Adventist hospitals continued to perform abortions. One reason given for not taking a stand… Taking a stance against abortion would ‘distract’ from the ‘sabbath message’. THAT is their priority.
I do think the abortion issue is relevant to the sabbath issue for the following reason. They claim to be superior to other Christians becuase they 'keep ALL of the commandments".
As I remember, ‘Thou shalt not kill’ was one of the commandments too.
To reduce the third commandment (or fourth, depending on how you count) to a Saturday/Sunday issue is to MISS entirely the point. We are to regularly set aside time for spiritual things. Exactly what that looks like will depend on where (geography) and when (culture and time) you live. To interpret that otherwise leaves you with absurdities such as trying to find the exact slice of time to call Saturday around the gerrymandered International Date Line, above the arctic circle with its weeks long periods of daylight, or in space, where there is no sunset, no sunrise at all. When is it sabbath on the international space station? On the moon?
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