Theological Views Blog’s “New Light” (Pro 4:18)

Summary, Selective Listing of Blog’s Variously Originating “New Light” and “Present Truths” (cf. CW 33.2; COL 127.4)

            There is ample counsel in the Spirit of Prophecy in how to regard and deal with new light. These counsels are objectively both towards the one giving this new light as well as to the Church, leaders and members to whom it is being given. As these counsels are quite clear in themselves, they will not be restated here, but simply referred to. These are e.g.,:

God's New, True Remnant Church

God’s New, True Remnant Church (Matt 23:37-24:2)
=The Church Triumphant (LDE 61.2-62.2)

The Fellowship of Sabbatarian Zionist Christianaires

For a while now, expressedly/implicatively, on this blog, and retroactive to ca. June 2000[1],

the readily understood message, “upon information and belief”, has been that the Seventh-Day Adventist Church is, as clearly cautioned in the SOP, for quite concrete “abominable sin reasons” (= e.g., Ezek 8; Jer 7:9-11), no longer God’s Remnant Church. Contrary to mantric SDA belief and “taming”/appeasing sermonic rhetoric (cf.  6MR 72.1), the denominational name “Seventh-Day Adventist Church” is not found in Rev 12:17b or 14:12. In fact, for the several achieved reasons stated here, (=EW 266-269; 9T 126.1-2; cf. 4SP 337.1-340.3; at now indeed the point of the transpiring of the Church’s Shaking (=EW 269-273)), the Dragon is now quite pleased with the, especially indifferent, SDA Church (vs. Rev 12:17a)! Indeed when a Church on Earth claims to be/have been, both: ‘directly called by God, and named by Him’ (cf. TM 61.2), is however now, capitally, wholesalely engaged in e.g., systematically violating, pointedly the Spirit, the also Letter, of all of God’s Commandments; willfully is no longer doing God’s appointed (Full Sabbatical Gospel) work; most devotedly obeying the unrighteous and lawless principles of the world; conforming to its selfish customs; shuns and avoids as much as feasible being God’s “peculiar people”; and is definitely not interested in being zealous either of, or in, good works (cf. SpTB08 7.1); indeed all to the point where the Apostate (socio-economic) world now (quite undistinguishingly) clamors for the likes of|from you to lead them on in their unChristlike ways; then, duly collectively as a Church, you are demonstrably, tangibly, indeed actionably, no longer ‘God’s representative of, pointedly His Character (=name), on Earth’, as it is with His Sabbatically (Rev 7:1-3ff) Sealed (Rev 3:12) Zion (Rev 14:1-5); -but indeed: Satan’s ‘organized oppositional/persecutive pawn’ (Rev 3:8; cf. 2:9 = Rev 14:12 & EW 54.2-56.1) -Indeed, realistically (Isa 5:1-7), judiciously/justly (Isa 29) and injunctively (Jer 18:9-10): thus no longer ‘the object of God’s guardianship (Isa 6:8-13|Matt 13:10-17), strengthening (Isa 28:5-13), supreme regard (Ezek 10:17-18)’ - (cf. 2SM 396.2-3)!! 
            So after a period of time, starting in 1999 (see here) where God, just as He had with rebellious Ancient Judah, has, duly/mercifully, systematically, stagedly been withdrawing from the SDA Church/Community (=Ezek 8:4; 10:18, 19; 11:23). As clearly expressed by God in Jer 7:1-11, just claiming, as patently, commonly done, that ‘the SDA Church is God’s Remnant Church which He himself established and guided in its upbuilding, really does not incontrovertibly mean anything. (See Jer 7:12-15).

The Biblical Eschatological Legacy & Fate of the Anti-Christ (Dan 7:9-14, 18, 22, 26-27, 28)

Part 1B: The Prophesied Political Destiny of the Anti-Christ Entity (cf. 2 Thess 2:8-12; Rev 13:11-18; 17; 18; 19; 20; 21)

Note: This is Part 1B of this preceding post on the Prophecy of Daniel 7. So all references to earlier already (i.e. “above”) commented on parts of Daniel 7 are found in that preceding posting.

Eschatological(ly-also-Applicable) Portion(s) of Daniel 7 Prophecy

            As a guiding overview background, here is the Biblical text (simply as the NASB) from this Daniel 7 vision where its culminating, Eschatological part is mentioned, namely Dan 7:9-14, 18, 22, 26-27:

Daniel 7:9 - "I kept looking Until thrones were set up, And the Ancient of Days took His seat; His vesture was like white snow And the hair of His head like pure wool. His throne was ablaze with flames, Its wheels were a burning fire.

Daniel 7:10 - "A river of fire was flowing And coming out from before Him; Thousands upon thousands were attending Him, And myriads upon myriads were standing before Him; The court sat, And the books were opened.

Daniel 7:11- "Then I kept looking because of the sound of the boastful words which the horn was speaking; I kept looking until the beast was slain, and its body was destroyed and given to the burning fire.

Daniel 7:12 - "As for the rest of the beasts, their dominion was taken away, but an extension of life was granted to them for an appointed period of time.

Daniel 7:13 - "I kept looking in the night visions, And behold, with the clouds of heaven One like a Son of Man was coming, And He came up to the Ancient of Days And was presented before Him.

Daniel 7:14 - "And to Him was given dominion, Glory and a kingdom, That all the peoples, nations and men of every language Might serve Him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion Which will not pass away; And His kingdom is one Which will not be destroyed.

The Heretically Spurious, “Omega” Three Angels’ Messages

Appreciating God’s Three Angels' Message Truth (Rev 14:6-12) from Satan’s Sly “Omega” Counterfeit

Succinctly, introductorily said, the following is, as it was announced here, a thorough

critique of Eugene Shubert claimed ‘New Three Angel’s Message’ understanding. Straightly said, his fundamental flaw is that, pointedly by the Third Angel’s Message, has variously and even completely rejected the waymark understandings for these messages as found in proper prophetic Bible study and ratified by God through the SOP. Shubert spins a seemingly plausible view, but that is all because it is derived from mere surface claims and understandings. His view is both exegetically and Spiritually neither rooted in, nor built upon, the “Word of God”. (John 1:1ff; Luke 6:46-49). So, like the Babylon that he thus parallels, even actually enjoins, “great is its fall” indeed!!

            What Shubert has managed to “epitomically” do through all of this is fulfill the dream given by God to him that he had/would come to have a view like the one which had started the “Alpha” apostasy in Adventism, John Harvey Kellogg, who himself arrived at that heretical end by choosing to remove the waymark teachings of the Remnant Church that he thought weren’t valid. Thus Shubert has, through his own views, indeed likewise presented a part of what is to also fuel the “Omega” apostasy. (Contra. (e.g.): 2SM 111.3; PH020 14.2; RH, May 25, 1905 par. 28; NYI, February 7, 1906 par. 4)

            Shubert’s deluded waywardness has demonstrated that he indeed keyly cannot make the difference “between the vile and the precious”!! (EW 263-266)

The Anatomy of the SDA Omega Apostasy (1 Tim 4:1-3)

Recommended Reading: SpTB02 12.1-24.4

            After a simple, cursory perusal of the various issues involved in this infamous, and since, long-looked for topic of the SDA Omega Apostasy, it can readily be understood and believed that it is indeed quite an involved topic, both historically, in the indicative “Alpha” setting up, and, as subsequently brought to my attention, (actually “remembrance” for me), in a comment below, recently (i.e., 2010ff), in the studies and writings of [PostScript (04-17-2016): the now late] Rick Howard, now also spiritually.[1] However, as with most other “New Light” issues in this blog, as the premise for arriving at the full understanding of a Biblical Teaching today lies in being willing to do God’s will for this time, as unequivocally stated in Isa 58 and Matt 25:31-46, then I won’t take the time to go into those retrospective and explanative details, for those who “philosophically” will evasively continue to refuse to heed the Gospel Truth of “practical righteousness” (which is: ‘tangibly doing what is right vs. merely saying/preaching it’), which indeed is pivotally at the spiritual heart of the Omega (indeed ‘Rebellious’) Apostasy (see SpTB02 16.4-5), will just find yet another vain, and Satan-inspired, covetousness-related (=EW 266-269) philosophy to not do so. (=1 John 3:7) And, as with any successful deception, it is rooted in a perversion of a Truth of God (-all stemming from improper Biblical exegesis and all that this entails, result in a shortsighted/narrow/one-sided view). And in this pointed case, this has been with the SDA’s claim that: “The Second Coming is surely/“evidently” so near that we don’t have to do this work.” (contra. Deut 15:7-11; -Indeed Jesus does condemn an attitude which refuse to actively advance His work prior to His return for any reason. (Matt 25:18, 24-30 & Luke 19:11-14, 20-24, 27))

The Claims and Theology of Jonathan Henderson (2 Tim 4:3-4)

Well upon me having (generally) sent an email complaint (supplied below) to the parent Conference of the Grand Advent SDA Church, the Northern California Conference about these ‘outrightly and/or obtusely (=“beyond the pale”) blasphemous/slanderous (public) waywardness/statements’ of Jonathan Henderson, (-since the various several attempts by other people/members to correct him (=Matt 18:15-16) had not worked (cf. Matt 18:17a...)), apparently ‘his president, James Pedersen, sent them to him “as an FYI”. Henderson then proceeded to respond to me about the email ((somehow) through my Facebook personal message, instead of my blog’s contact email, (also included in the email text & NCC emailing)). Upon having first also posted his response in its entirety below, (for this is not at all a private/personal matter[1], -and it also is more efficient to post these developments as a dedicated blog post here rather than within Facebook or in an attached PDF), I then give my point by point response. His original, immediate statements then are left in bold.

SDAs = the “Synagogue of Satan”

SDAs are (Foremost) Members of the “Synagogue of Satan” (Rev 2:9; 3:9; EW 54-56)

            Throughout this blog, it has been stated in various pertinent contexts just how the SDA Church is being the prophetic Synagogue of Satan. (See e.g. here and here). This is a highly deceptive “assembly” which, and just as Satan when mustering a rebellion in Heaven, presents a facade of being dedicated to God, and devotedly about His Work and Glory, when all along they are indeed acting out the various character traits of Satan. Of course they do not believe this about themselves, but it nonetheless, Biblically/Righteously objectively is, as easily documentable, -as summarily/samply here done in this post, the very truth about who they really are, and/from indeed what they truly/actually “Fundamentally Believe”.

            The “Synagogue of Satan” entity is one which has been variously manifested amongst God’s People throughout the Great Controversy history. And their chiefest, indeed pointed purpose, of having been constituted by Satan beyond the primary objective of deceiving as many people as possible in order to establish a large enough populace and power base (cf. Rev 3:8b), is to, initiatively/passively, and/or actively, be used by the Devil to persecute the (actual) chosen/elect/commissioned of God (Rev 2:9)...for if/when a “religious” body itself joins with the state/civil power to marginalize, confine or even murderously persecute another religious group, then Satan has exponentially increase his sought after chance to silence the exposing and defeating testimony of that opposing Remnant Elect of God. (=Rev 11:7-10)

            So the following “indicting” (Greek: krino) citations against the SDA Church catalog how they have been used by Satan as his foremost, blissfully  “stupid”, “uninterested”, “careless” and “indifferent” (=e.g., EW 48.2; 54.2; 247.1, 271.1) pawns in opposing righteousness. (Rev 19:11):

The Synagogue of Satan:

-boldly speak knowing lies about God (Gen 3:5)

W.O.E. to You Seventh-Day Adventists...

‘Warning of Evil’ (Isa 45:7; 28:5-13, 14-22) to You All Seventh-Day Adventists... (Zeph 3:1-17ff|Matt 23:1-36|DA 610.1-620.4)

...whether core-rotten mainline or sapless offshoot replicates, you have ‘the indifferently oblivious false “hope” {cf.} that Jesus is coming back soon to save and reward you for your works’ when you are quite wanting in God’s balances as the works that you actually have in the light of your much greater knowledge, blessing, capability, opportunity and responsibility will only provide you your actually long-ago Divinely fashioned, decreed and most craftily sustained reward to burn in Hell at least just shy (if not justly twice) as long as the generation of those who rejected Jesus Christ when He was here on Earth in Person.

True and Full Revival and Reformation

True & Full “Revival” and True & Full “Reformation” (Ezek 37:10, 14 & LDE 189.3)

            Much more could have been expoundingly and explanatorily said on this most pivotal issue for SDA but, at/by this point, why restate what has already been said throughout this blog, all based on the SOP and the Bible. Indeed why ‘cast your pearls before swines???’ (Mat 7:6a)... What difference would that make but variously be a personal detriment. (Mat 7:6b)

            Therefore the following SOP statement should suffice....to even the ‘“half-dead” SDAs:

Seventh-day Adventists Believe...

Capital Reasons Why SDAs Object to these Theological Views (Isa 29:1-21|Isa 29:22-24)

{Spiritually|Typically|Typologically|“Historichatologically”, conversely known as, ‘My “Ninety-Five”’[1]}

As documentedly and demonstrably exposed in this blog, “Seventh-day Adventists Believe” that:

-they should fear and worship the economy and not God (Rev 14:7; EW 266-269; TM 409.2-3; COL 294.1-2)

Primer on the Plagues (Rev 8&9 || 15&16) - Part 2

What to Biblically (Fully) Know, (including for SDA’s  (cf. CET 187.3)), in Order to Avoid Suffering the 7 Last Plagues (Rev 18:4-8) - Part 2 [See Part 1 here]

Sixth Trumpet & Plague

            As a studied out summary statement on the Series of Sixths in Revelation discussed throughout this section, it is in this age that God aims to have a perfected Church/People, and that in order to next have, in the Series of Sevenths, a perfect, and thus secure, everlasting Kingdom, especially as this Seventh stage Kingdom will be most abundantly (materially) blessed. (Cf. 2SAT 294.3)

Internal State of Church: (Sixth Church - Rev 3:7-13 [1790's-1847 A.D.]) - So after God having tried to do a work of reform with the catholic Church replacing Protestant movement in the Fifth Church Age, but not being able to due to their choice to be and remain deficient in their Christian Doctrines and Experience/Practices (Rev 3:1-2), God now will do a work with/through any willing person who is aiming to know and pursue Truth, to fully re-establish the Apostolic Church (Jude 1:3), through a faithful Remnant (Rev 12:17; 14:12).

Primer on the Plagues (Rev 8&9 || 15&16) - Part 1

What to Biblically (Fully) Know, (including for SDA’s (cf. CET 187.3)), in Order to Avoid Suffering the 7 Last Plagues (Rev 18:4-8) - Part 1 [Cont'd in Part 2 here]

            While an exhaustive study on the ‘Seven Last “Plagues”’ will not be done at this time in this blog post, there are several key interpretational and understanding pointers that will help one arrive at the proper and full intended divine meaning in this revelation. These will be, as succinctly as possible, expounded upon here.

            It is typical in SDA circles to hermeneutically claim that ‘things must be interpreted literally unless they clearly are symbolic’ and while that is partially true, the truth of the matter is that, as seen in several prophecies, even OT prophecies, what determines how a statement is interpreted is how “removed” it is from its initially intended fulfilment. So for prophecies, e.g., OT prophecies in regards to Israel, they were to be literally fulfilled with Ancient Israel, however when they rebelled against God and were not able to enter into His New Covenant, the statements in those prophecies then entirely came to have a spiritually application with also a Spiritual New Israel.

The “Character of God” Controversy ...

.... Controversy Exegetically Resolved

            Recently, I had engaged in an SDA forum discussion which, specifically enough, asked as its topic title: “Why did God command people to stone, scorch, and smite sinners to death?” As it turned out, that discussion soon became a full blown “Character of God Controversy” (COGC) discussion. However it was not until very late into the discussion that I concretely/cognitively realized that this was a COGC discussion, all throughout my 4-month, 90+ forum pages of discussing it, I was merely addressing the presented issues exegetically on a verse by verse basis. So I did not at all have, contrary, effectively to my main opposer, a background, “View agenda” to defend, but was merely dealing with finding out the exact meaning from each Bible verse/SOP passages brought forth for discussion (usually with them having been falsely/spuriously/shoddily posited as a Biblical support of the COGC).

The 1888 Message For Today

The “Fuller” (Eschatological) 1888 Message (1 John 3:7 | John 15:1-17 | Matt 25:37a | 1SM 99.3-4)

To get right to the point here, it is a widely held belief today, though mainly from outside mainstream SDA circles, that ‘the reason why there has been a long delay in the recognized, supposed-to-have-occurred Second Coming around the 1888 events is that SDA’s to this day still have not accepted that 1888 message.’ The truth of the matter is that this statement is essentially true, however not for the Theological reasons commonly claimed by those levelling this capital charge.

The Coming of the Sealing Angel

The Advent of the Third Message's Angel (Rev 6:14-7:3ff-14:20)

(The Unrolling of the Scroll - Part 2)

            As it was first mentioned in this post, EGW relates in EW 254.1 a very pointed, and keyly detailed, account of when the Third Angel began to sound its message. She says that:

As the ministration of Jesus closed in the holy place, and He passed into the holiest, and stood before the ark containing the law of God, He sent another mighty angel with a third message to the world. A parchment was placed in the angel's hand, and as he descended to the earth in power and majesty, he proclaimed a fearful warning, with the most terrible threatening ever borne to man.

            As shown by the supplied emphasis, the key issues here for this discussion are the facts that this Third Angel was a “mighty angel” and also that Jesus had placed a “parchment” in his hand. While it may for now seem exaggerated to see these seemingly trite words as being “pointed”, it is by comparing them with other similar mentions of Jesus commissioning angels with special messages that reveal that these were not empty words. As it will also be shown in this post, there are also other similar key, “loaded”, words and expression in this SOP revelation which also contain quite significant Theological and Prophetic meanings.

The “Fuller” Understanding of the Mark of the Beast (Rev 13:14-18)

The (Passed) Historical vs. (Present) Eschatological Mark of the Beast

“Historical” Mark of the Beast

            That the Historical interpretation of the Mark of the Beast is, as taught by SDA’s: ‘Civilly Legislated and Enforced Sunday Sacredness and Worship’ is indeed Biblically founded and sound in itself, and this is readily concurred in this blog. That is indeed, in this limited Historical part, not at all disputed in this blog post, or this entire “Theologial Views” blog. However the operative word here is: “Historical”. And there will be much more on this later. What is being particularly address in the first part of this post on the Mark of the Beast, is the, either believed, or seriously considered/pondered view (see e.g., in this David Asscherick Prophecy sermon (#20) [mp3] [10:45-14:48ff]) that, effectively, the Mark of the Beast will be, and actually is (secretly and/or decidedly), knowingly being set up by Catholic/Jesuit “subversives” who are increasingly infiltrating democratic governments, particularly the government of the United States of America. 

Ezekiel's Valley of Dry Bones and the "Shaking"

A “Prophesyingly” Interpretive Commentary (Ezek 37:1-14 (NASB))

The Vision

Ezekiel 37:1 - The hand of the LORD was upon me, and He brought me out by the Spirit of the LORD and set me down in the middle of the valley; and it was full of bones.

-hand of the Lord upon & brought out by the Spirit - Ezekiel was made to see this representation through a vision only and not in reality. As such it was God showing him what was the case/condition with Israel. As Israel, in mainly the surviving tribe of Judah then, which had actually been judged (Ezek 9) some ca. 7 years before[1] (See also in the outline chart of Ezekiel here). This vision is therefore a representation of what is, however, to the extent that it is shown (i.e, many, dry, bones strewn across a valley), which was not a depiction of actual reality with the people of Judah or Israel, it is really a representation of how God was seeing things.

Conflict of the Ages 3.0

The Great Controversy Between Christ and Satan (Version 3.0)

            Here is an “overview” of my Great Controversy understanding. It started out with one that was basically quite similar to the standard SDA view. However over the course of these now 13+ years of engaging in deeper, exegetical and scholarly studies of the Bible, also using the SOP, these findings have greatly deepened this GC understanding. So all of my Theological understandings, as found throughout this blog, contribute to this GC view.

The Third, Prophetic, Shut Door

The Third, Prophetic, “Shut Door” (Rev 3:7)

            The topic of the Shut Door has been, frankly, due to prevailing misunderstandings, an “embarrassing” one in the history of Seventh-day Adventism. That mainly stems from the fact that it is the one teaching/understanding where early Adventist all had to express that they had been somewhat wrong, even in “error”, in their prior understanding on what was then such a decisive and divisive issue. (See this document by the White Estate for a developmental history of this topic amongst early Adventists/SDA’s). The fact of the matter is that these early Adventist were actually pointedly wrong in the extent to which they had believed that the (first understood) Shut Door (a.k.a. the “Midnight Cry’s” Shut Door (Matt 25:1-13)) applied, and not merely because they had believed that there had then been a “Shut Door” event (i.e., a demarcating point in time that enduringly separated the aware “just” from the equally aware/knowing “unjust”).[1] As EGW correctively said in 1883 (Ms. 4 = 1SM 63-64):

God's Whirlwind Judgement on SDA Church

God’s Whirlwind “Shaking” of the SDA Church (Ezek 13:1-16 = EW 48.2-50.3ff)

The “Sheep Which Have No Shepherds” Vision of EGW (1 Kgs 22:17)

            There has come to be an, ultimately, “chicken-or-the-egg” situation with a prophetic statement that is asserted to have been said by Ellen G. White in ca. 1908. In trying to refute this asserted EGW origin, SDA proponents, on top of trying to discredit the reliability of the claimant himself, have effectively, quasi-substantively based their position on a defence that it is: ‘a claim that does not agree with what EGW has said on such a topic.’ However on top of, understandably, examining the claimant’s reliability, and doing a thematic comparison with the rest of EGW’s writings, there are deeper issues that need to also be analysed in order to conduct a proper investigation. This “deeper look” thus also involves “Biblical Exegesis” (i.e., does the statement harmonize with the/a message of the Word of God, as well as the Spirit of Prophecy, for SOP revelations are ultimately the continuing divulgence of God’s Word (cf. Num 12:6; Rev 19:10)).