The Seventh-day Adventist It was a Seventh-day Adventist minister who first stirred my interest in Bible prophecy, and so I've had a high opinion of the Seventh-day Adventist church all my life. Now, at some point I realized that we saw things differently, but their interest in prophecy made me think that they were determined to get it right as we approached the return of Christ, and so I shrugged off the differences. Recently, Seventh-day Adventist preachers have taken a slightly different approach toward the microchip implant that will eventually be used for buying and selling. After many years of arguing that it would never be a reality, they now appear to be forced to accept that this is happening right in front of our eyes. That was encouraging the first time I saw it. I thought, hmm, maybe they're coming around. Maybe they'll be taking a stand along with the rest of us when the Antichrist cuts off all other means of buying and selling, apart from the microchip. Maybe they will have the courage to refuse it. But sadly, there seems to be an even more insidious deception coming from this new approach that their preachers are taking. While for the most of us, the choice we see looming in the distance is a choice between following Jesus or following the Antichrist, Seventh-day Adventists are now being forced, very strongly, to make a choice between following Jesus, or following their supposed prophetess, Ellen G. White. More than a hundred years ago, when Ellen White was putting together various teachings to form that denomination, she became almost obsessed with the topic of Saturday worship. While it was not a big deal in the life and teachings of Jesus, Ellen White believed that all the troubles of the church, and by implication the world, had come because Christians stopped keeping Saturday holy and started to attend religious meetings on Sunday. This shift happened in the early days of the Roman Catholic Church, and so the Adventist Church developed this doctrine about the Catholic Church being the Antichrist, and about Sunday worship being the defining mark of the Catholic Church. Or, to put it another way, the mark of the beast, according to all Seventh-day Adventists, is doing anything holy on Sundays. It had nothing to do with buying or selling, and there was no mark on anyone's hand or on anyone's forehead. But the best that anyone could do back then was assume that talk of a real mark was symbolic and not literal, so people turned a blind eye to the discrepancies in what Ellen White was saying. Nevertheless, she went one step further, and predicted that the Catholic Church would one day rule the world and require that everyone worship God on Sunday. She said that if any true Christian did that, that is, if they worshipped God on Sunday after the predicted Sunday law was passed, they would be taking on themselves the mark of the beast and they would be condemned to hell for doing so Well obviously now it becoming clear that there really is going to be a mark put in people hands and presumably at some point in the forehead of some people And this mark will be used for buying and selling. Consequently, we have a literal fulfillment of what the Bible says, whereas we do not have a literal fulfillment of what Ellen White predicted. So members of the Seventh-day Adventist Church are being forced to choose. Are they going to take the literal mark of the beast on the assumption that Ellen White knew better than what the Holy Spirit led John the Revelator to write in the Bible? Or are they going to let go of their prophetess and follow what the Bible says about the mark of the beast? What it sounds like SDA preachers are now saying is that they will do both. they will reject the microchip implant, and, if a Sunday law comes in later, they will reject that too. I have to say that I have one very serious reservation about this Sunday law. Could any intelligent Christian seriously think that the devil is going to demand that people worship God, whether on Sunday or any other day of the week? And would we seriously believe such a ridiculous prediction strongly enough to refuse to worship God just because it's supposedly the wrong day on which to worship Him? You see, if the Antichrist were to forbid people to worship God on Saturday, that might be different. It would be outright persecution of people who love God, and I would personally disobey such a law to the death. But would I, or any genuine servant of God, really choose to die before we would worship God? Just because such worship is happening on Sunday? See, this is the first seriously disturbing thing about the century-old Seventh-day Adventist prophecy. Worshipping God is what Christian faith is all about. Only Satan himself would tell someone not to worship God. Yet that is what the Seventh-day Adventist prophetess Ellen Gould White tells her followers to do. You shall not worship the Lord thy God on Sunday, for if you do, you will go to hell. No way! Don't be silly. This was a perverted teaching to begin with. But let's come back to the double mark approach that some Adventists are taking today, where you reject the implant, but you still carry around in the back of your head a belief that the devil is going to eventually order people to worship God on Sunday, and when he does, that will be the dreaded mark of the beast. How would that work in practice? Here is the most hopeful scenario. Along comes the implant. If you don't get it, you won't be able to buy food, fuel for your car, pay the rent, Nor will you be able to sell the car, or the house if you own a house, nor could you be paid for any work that you do. You will, without miraculous intervention, simply starve or freeze to death. And please note that there is no promise that there will be miraculous intervention for most of us. So are Seventh Adventists going to let themselves and their families die by not taking the implant just because the Antichrist may eventually turn the RFID chip off someday when the Sunday worship law comes in Of course not. Why die now for no good reason? Take the implant, and just wait and see if the Sunday law comes around. After all, it's only technology, put there for the purpose of controlling the economy. The microchip is benign in itself. That is the official Seventh-day Adventist position. One day, they say, the Antichrist will take away that little thing in your hand. But for now, why refuse it? Why take such a drastic step before the real mark of the beast arrives? When all you need to do to save your life and to save the lives of your family is put this harmless little implant into your hand. Now, I'm not convinced that all members of that denomination have the same understanding, but there are two very simple questions you can ask to sort them out. Please take time to write these down. 1. Start by asking them if they believe that the microchip implant is the mark of the beast. I'm pretty sure they will all say no, even though they may rush to tell you that it will be used by the Antichrist. But just get it clear that they do not think it is the actual mark. That is the fundamental fact that they are starting to hide from other Christians, as they seek to infiltrate our ranks with a doctrine that basically defends the mark of the beast. And number two, ask them if they would be willing to die before they would accept a microchip implant. Once again, they may want to change the question so that they can say that they would object strongly to taking the implant, or to say that they are prepared to die at some point in order to refuse the mark of the beast. But when they say that, you must remember that they are secretly talking about Sunday worship. They will die before they will worship God on Sunday, but they will not die before they will accept an implant. Now, I don't think you'll be able to get a die-hard Seventh-day Adventist to say that they would actually die before they would accept a microchip implant, either in their hand or in their forehead, as long as it is not linked to Sunday worship. It would be pointless to die for rejecting something that does little more than money has always done for them and for us. We use it every day of our lives, even though we know that the love of it is the root of all evil. So only if someone believes the implant is the mark of the beast, as described in the Bible, would a Christian seriously consider dying before they would take it? And Seventh-day Adventists do not teach that the RFID implant is the mark of the beast. As you scroll through all the stuff about the mark of the beast on the internet, you will find more and more Seventh-day Adventist stuff telling people that the microchip implant is not the mark of the beast. Microchips? Microchipping has been around for years. Tens of thousands of private citizens have already purchased chips and had them installed on their own free will But is this the mark of the beast We all know that saints don come with a label and criminals never wear signs saying I headed for hell The issue goes much deeper than skin deep microchips, friends. You'd be lost because you received a microchip or a barcode. Somebody forced you down. Is that how we're lost? Never does the Bible mention you'll be lost because of a barcode, a chip. They can tattoo your body, but they cannot separate your heart, your mind from God. It is what people want to hear, and so the Seventh-day Adventists are enjoying unprecedented popularity at the moment, just by saying that. They have become the greatest crusaders for the mark of the beast, and the most deceptive crusaders for it. And that is because they start out sounding like they are warning against it. Hardly anyone on YouTube who has shown any interest in the Mark of the Beast in the last couple of years has not come across a Seventh-day Adventist video, or two, or three, or a hundred, which does not eventually tell you that the microchip implant is not the Mark of the Beast. What God is asking for from every Seventh-day Adventist is no more than what He asks for from every Roman Catholic, and every Baptist, Methodist, Pentecostal Episcopalian, or whatever. What he is asking each of us to do is to stop listening to our religious leaders long enough to listen to Jesus. Hardly a doctrine anywhere in the church world today has come from the teachings of Jesus. You have hundreds of spurious teachings, some of them very widely supported, that have all been cooked up by the imperfect mind of man. They all have their proof texts, but if you force one of them to show you anywhere in the teachings of Jesus that such things were being taught, you will see right through the lot of them. The choice is always going to come down to Jesus or the very best possible replacement you can imagine for Him. Whether it's a vicar or a vicaress of Christ, they need to be bumped off their throne. so that Jesus can take first place in your life. And trust me, you won't find teaching about a Sunday law anywhere in the Bible any more than you will find teaching that the leader of the Roman Catholic Church should be called the Holy Father. Nor will you find teaching that you only need to say a little prayer, asking Jesus into your heart, and you will get to heaven. It's all rubbish! Useless, deceptive, man-made rubbish! The apostle Paul said that he counted all such things as dung by comparison to the teachings of Jesus. Please contact us today if you would like to learn more about how to become a true follower of Jesus in these last few years before he returns. My address is on the screen. I look forward to hearing from you. God bless you. Thank you.
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