Month: April 2021

FROM YOUR PASTOR’S DESK:

WILL LIFE ‘RETURN TO NORMAL,’ IF AND WHEN THE COVID PANDEMIC ENDS? (Last of XII Parts)

The reader must bear in mind that this 12-part series, is based on the book, Great Controversy, entitled “The Impending Conflict,” that deals with specific changes and events of a combined religious and political nature that will gel around a specific religious and moral issue (not abortion nor LGBTQ rights) and morph into a national Christian movement in AMERICA, revealed in prophetic symbology in Revelation 13 as “the beast” that starts out with gentle and peaceful “lamb-like horns” but strangely changes into “one speaking like a dragon.”

What this unifying issue is, was revealed earlier in this extract from the same chapter (emphasis mine):

“As the work of SABBATH REFORM extends, this rejection of the divine law TO AVOID THE CLAIMS OF THE FOURTH COMMANDMENT, will become well nigh universal [the word catholic actually means “universal.”]. . . . Yet this very class [rejecting the law of God] put forth the claim the FAST-SPREADING CORRUPTION is largely attributable to the so called ‘CHRISTIAN SABBATH,’ and that the ENFORCEMENT OF SUNDAY OBSERVANCE would greatly improve the morals of society. THIS CLAIM IS ESPECIALLY URGED IN AMERICA, where the doctrine of the TRUE SABBATH has been most widely preached [since 1840-1844 when the first, second, and third angels’ messages of Rev. 14 began to be proclaimed successively to this very moment. It will soon “swell into the final loud cry of the fourth angel of Rev. 18]”- GC 567.

We end this series with his last paragraph:

“The dignitaries of CHURCH AND STATE WILL UNITE TO BRIBE, PERSUADE, OR COMPEL all classes to honor the Sunday. The lack of divine authority will be supplied by oppressive enactments.

POLITICAL CORRUPTION is destroying love of justice and regard for TRUTH [explains why lying appears to be order of the day everywhere, particularly in the venerated human institutions]; and EVEN IN FREE AMERICA rulers and legislators, in order to secure PUBLIC FAVOR [not the favor of a righteous God], will yield to the POPULAR DEMAND FOR A LAW ENFORCING SUNDAY OBSERVANCE. [Now mark this]: “LIBERTY OF CONSCIENCE, which has cost so great a sacrifice, WILL NO LONGER BE RESPECTED.

“In the soon-coming conflict we shall see exemplified the prophet’s words, ‘The dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make WAR with the REMNANT of her seed, which [who] keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.’ Rev. 12:17, KJV.” – Great Controversy, E. G. White, 1911 ed., p. 582.

This ends this series but not our due diligence to study the prophecies in order to properly interpret current events and discern which is genuine or counterfeit to deflect our attention from the path forward laid out in the prophecies of the Bible, not the last-day “soothsayers and magicians” of “Mystery Babylon the Mother of Harlots and the Abominations of the Earth.”
God help us, NMF

FROM YOUR PASTOR’S DESK:

WILL LIFE ‘RETURN TO NORMAL,’ IF AND WHEN THE COVID PANDEMIC ENDS? (Part XI)

As the PROTESTANT CHURCHES reject the clear, scriptural arguments in defense of God’s law [as our consciences convict us to do here in our ministry, in spiritual and doctrinal harmony with faithful Seventh-day Adventists worldwide], they [the once-Protestant churches] will long to SILENCE those whose FAITH THEY CANNOT OVERTHROW BY THE BIBLE. [so they will resort to other non-biblical, unChristlike means and methods].

“Though they BLIND their own eyes to the fact, they are NOW adopting a course which will lead to the PERSECUTION of those who CONSCIENTIOUSLY REFUSE to do what the rest of the CHRISTIAN WORLD are doing [the “majority rule” of the ‘vox populi, vox dei”], and acknowledge the claims of the PAPAL SABBATH.” – E.G. White. Great Controversy, 1911 ed., p. 592.

If by now, we still rely on the natural propensity to simply “follow the crowd” and what is “trending,” and how many more “likes” and “followers” an idea or an influencer (whether religious or secular) has or boasts of, instead of being a “more noble Berean” (Acts 17:11), we are unprepared for what is coming with irreversible certainty, per Bible prophecy!

To be continued. God bless, NMF

FROM YOUR PASTOR’S DESK:

WILL LIFE ‘RETURN TO NORMAL’ IF AND WHEN THE COVID PANDEMIC ENDS? (Part X)

“And there was war in heaven: MIchael and His angels fought against the dragon, and dragon fought with his angels, and prevailed not; neither was their place found anymore in heaven.
And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceives the whole world : he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.” Rev. 12: 7-9, KJV.

“Satan’s policy in this final conflict with God’s people is THE SAME that he employed in the opening of the great conflict IN HEAVEN. He professed to be seeking to PROMOTE THE STABILITY OF THE DIVINE GOVERNMENT, while secretly bending every effort to secure its OVERTHROW.”

NOTE: All revolutions to overthrow secular governments throughout mankind’s history, no matter how successfully historians (both real and those with a hidden revisionist mission to alter the truth) may glorify its cause, justify the devastation and human toll as “collateral damage” in the pursuit of a “more sublime goal,” hail its leaders as “heroes,” and those who died fighting for this “cause” as “martyrs”—-are not divine in origin in both aspiration and actions undertaken, but satanic, as the opening verses in Revelation cited above clearly reveal.

“And the very work which he [Lucifer] was thus endeavoring to accomplish, HE CHARGED UPON THE LOYAL ANGELS.

NOTE: The two-thirds of the angels who chose to remain loyal, and thus are in the majority, whom the Bible describes as “mighty angels” excelling in strength, are the very “ministering spirits” guarding God’s people against their once former fellow-angels-turned-into-demons and evil spirits. If only our eyes could be opened to see the spirit world surrounding us and the earth (Satan is also described as “the prince of the power of the air,” Eph. 2:2), we would see the battle raging non-stop between them since the fall, but “ten times” more intense in these last days (“Satan knows his time is short.” Rev.___) for the control of the hearts and consciences of mankind. It is as real yet far greater than the wars taking place on earth’s battlefields and warfronts, whether against nations or in the cities and neighborhoods.

“The same policy of deception has marked THE HISTORY OF THE ROMAN [not Christian’] CHURCH [which we are tracking in our simultaneous, ongoing text-message series].It has professed to be the VICEGERENT OF HEAVEN, while seeking to exalt itself ABOVE GOD, AND TO CHANGE HIS LAW. Under the rule of Rome, those who suffered death for THEIR FIDELITY TO THS GOSPEL were denounced as evil-doers; they were declared to be IN LEAGUE WITH SATAN; and every possible means was employed to cover them with reproach, to cause them to appear, in the eyes of the people, and even to themselves [this is what “gaslighting” means], as the vilest of criminals.

“SO WILL IT BE NOW. While Satan seeks to destroy those who honor God’s law, he will cause them to be accused as LAWBREAKERS, as men who are dishonoring God, and BRINGING JUDGMENTS UPON THE WORLD.” – E. G. White, Great Controversy, 1911 ed., p. 391.

To be continued. Bless all, NMF

FROM YOUR PASTOR’S DESK:

WILL LIFE ‘RETURN TO NORMAL’ IF AND WHEN THE COVID PANDEMIC ENDS? (Part IX)

So here’s what “the Spirt of prophecy, which is the Testimony of Jesus,” reveals in language a child can understand of what the prophecies already revealed, in their appointed time but in prophetic symbology and language that are “spiritually discerned” but not by the “carnally-minded.”

Resuming where we left off earlier, describing that all manner of calamities and disasters, actually as “visitations that will become more and more frequent and disastrous….because they have transgressed God’s law and broken the everlasting covenant,” here’s what follows:

“And then the great deceiver [Satan, the yet-invisible master mind, working through unnumbered known and obvious, as well as camouflaged and working in secret agencies, individual and institutional] will persuade men that THOSE WHO SERVE GOD are causing these evils!

The class that PROVOKED the displeasure of Heaven, will CHARGE all their troubles upon those whose OBEDIENCE to God’s commandments is a PERPETUAL REPROOF to transgressors.

“It will be declared that men are offending God by the VIOLATION OF THE SUNDAY-SABBATH; that this sin has brought CALAMITIES WHICH WILL NOT CEASE UNTIL SUNDAY OBSERVANCE SHAlLL BE STRICTLY ENFORCED; and that THOSE WHO PRESENT THE CLAIMS OF THE FOURTH COMMANDMENT, thus destroying the reverence for Sunday, are TROUBLERS OF THE PEOPLE, PREVENTING THEIR RESTORATION TO DIVINE FAVOR and TEMPORAL PROSPERITY [mark! temporal prosperity!].

“Thus the ACCUSATION urged of old [the past ages and dispensations] AGAINST THE SERVANT OF GOD WILL BE REPEATED, and upon grounds equally well established. [nothing new: history of prophecy fulfilled, will repeat itself as prophecy soon-to-be fulfilled]. (Here’s where the compounded Elijah-John the Baptist Experience will play out, antitypically):

“And it came to pass, when Ahab saw Elijah, that Ahab said unto him, Art thou he that troubleth Israel? And he answered, I have not troubled Israel; but THOU and thy father’s house, in that YE HAVE FORSAKEN THE COMMANDMENTS of the Lord, and thou hast followed BAALIM.” 1 Kings 18: 17, 18, KJV. (Baalim of Baal, was the SUN-GOD of the grossly -idolatrous ancient Phoenicians).

“As the WRATH of the people shall be excited by FALSE CHARGES, they will pursue a course toward God’s ambassadors VERY SIMILAR to that which APOSTATE ISRAEL pursued toward Elijah.” – Great Controversy, Ellen G. White, 1911 ed., p. 590.

To be continued. Bless all, NMF