The people that attend Seventh Day Adventist churches are not the target here. The false doctrine and those that continue to teach and preach it’s heresy IS. No one or doctrine is above 1 Thessalonians 5:21, and I quote from the 1611 KJV.  “Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.” Also we are to expose false doctrine. Jesus, Peter , Paul and many others.  Titus 1 :10-13 says,  “For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision: Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre’s sake. One of themselves, even a prophet of their own, said, the Cretians are alway liars, evil beasts, slow bellies. This witness is true. Wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith;”

In the following study we analyze some of the false Seventh-day Adventist doctrines and compare them with Bible truth. We will do this over the next few weeks through 8 different doctrines of their own,  verses what the Word of God says. Bur first the history of the Seventh Day Adventist.

THE HISTORY OF SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISM

Seventh-day Adventism originated with the Second Coming movement of the 1800’s. William Miller, a Baptist preacher, concluded in 1818 that Christ would return to earth in 1843. When that was proven wrong, he changed the date to October 22, 1844. His belief was based largely on an interpretation of Daniel chapters nine and twelve using the erroneous day/year equation (one prophetic day equals one historical year). Tens of thousands of people followed Miller, and many different groups sprang up within this excited religious atmosphere, all of them looking for the immediate return of Christ.

After 1844, Miller quit setting dates and admitted his mistake, but some of his followers went on to form Seventh-day Adventism.

James White, Joseph Bates, and others began practicing sabbath-keeping in 1844 and published their views through pamphlets.

They also followed the visions of 17-year-old Ellen Harmon. She claimed that God showed her that in October 1844 Jesus entered the holy of holies in heaven to begin the “investigative judgment.” This is a foundational doctrine of the Adventist Church. Ellen taught that Jesus began investigating the records of every person to determine who would be saved and who would be lost. She also claimed to receive a vision about the “Third Angel’s Message” in Revelation 14:9-12. She said that the mark of the beast (the antichrist) would be Sunday worship, and those who worshipped on Sunday would be punished. She said that the ones who keep the commandments of God refers to those who keep the sabbath in the last days. This is where the Seventh-day Adventists get their name. They claim to be the church of the last days that keeps the sabbath and that prepares the way for Christ’s return.

Ellen Harmon married James White in 1846 and they became the main leaders of Seventh-day Adventism. Between 1844 and 1915 Mrs. White supposedly received 2,000 visions and dreams. Claiming that she was commanded to write her visions for preservation, she produced over 100,000 handwritten manuscript pages.

While Adventist leaders claim that the Bible is their sole rule for faith and conduct, the fact is that without Ellen White there would be no Seventh-day Adventism.

We see, therefore, that the advent movement was unbiblical from its beginning. It was led by a woman, which is forbidden in Scripture (1 Timothy 2:12), and it set a date for Christ’s return, which is also forbidden.

“But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only” (Mt. 24:36).

“Watch therefore; for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come” (Mt. 24:42).

“Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh” (Mt. 24:44).

“Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh” (Mt. 25:13).

“But of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father. Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is” (Mk. 13:32-33).

“It is not for you to know the time or the seasons, which the Father hath put in his own power” (Acts 1:7).

By ignoring the plain teaching of the Bible about Christ’s return, the Adventists were led into more and more error.

and these are The Signs of the Times……

Next Week: FALSE TEACHING # 1: A GOSPEL OF GRACE PLUS LAW

This report is excerpted from AVOIDING THE SNARE OF SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISM. This book has been called the best on the subject by the editor of The Baptist Challenge. Now it has been throughly updated and enlarged. It is diligently researched from official publications of the Seventh-day Adventist organization and proves conclusively that the Seventh-day Adventist gospel is false. The book begins with a chapter entitled “Adventists Wanted Me to Revise This Book,” describing a deceptive attempt by Seventh-day Adventists to have me change the book. The major divisions of the book are: “Adventist History Proves It is Heretical” and “Adventist Doctrine Proves It Is Heretical.” The book analyzes Adventist doctrines such as Sabbath-keeping, Soul-sleep, Annihilation of the wicked, Ellen White as a Prophetess, Investigative Judgment, Misuse of the Mosaic Law, and Vegetarianism. The chapter “Why Some Have Considered Seventh-day Adventism Evangelical” analyzes Walter Martin’s (author of Kingdom of the Cults) faulty view of Adventism. The book includes selections from D.M. Canright’s 1898 book Seventh-day Adventism Renounced. Canright was an early leader in Adventism who left and became a Baptist pastor. Third edition updated and enlarged September 2008. 206 pages, 5 X 8”, perfect bound, $8.95.

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UNITING: NOT FOR TRUTH BUT FOR ENLARGING AN INDEPENDENT FELLOWSHIP

The following is part of an e-mail that Pastor Buddy Smith of Malanda, Queensland ,  wrote to a friend about the recent Independent Baptist Friends International Conference and its emphasis on uniting all Independent Baptists:

“It is in the area of doctrine that I perceive the greatest danger. You will notice that I attached an article that clarifies this matter of doctrine determining fellowship. It is by a pastor (now deceased) in the GARB group of IB churches in the states. It is well worth reading.  [The article entitled ‘A Limited Message or a Limited Fellowship’ can be found at the Way of Life web site.] Several pastors have expressed their concern over the Calvinist who was invited to speak at the IBFI conference. I am sure he did not preach his views. Nor did the Free Will Baptist chap, nor did the men who love CCM or Westcott and Hort’s Alexandrian text. There is a sad fact that our generation is forgetting, and that is, ‘Whenever any group of men who hold differing views begin to work together, they will ultimately descend to the viewpoint of the lowest among them.’ It is what the centuries preach to the hours. The evangelicals who met at Fuller Seminary in 1948 determined to repudiate the biblical doctrine of separation. They expressed a desire to embrace all who named the name of Christ. Sixty years later they are being swallowed up by the modernists they thought they would convert to Christ. Evolutionists and Mormons and modernists teach in their seminaries. This is all documented and should be a lesson to any who attempt to unify those who differ from one another. There is a great danger in every form of inclusivism, in that inclusivism in fellowship results in minimalism in beliefs. The larger the circle of viewpoints we will tolerate, the smaller the circumference of doctrine we will be able to preach. Our expansion of cooperation means there will be a shrinkage of truth. Broadmindedness breeds syncretism, and syncretism suffocates doctrine. Because there were certain men present, those who preached at the IBFI conference had to avoid preaching on Unlimited Atonement, or the Security of the Believer, or the Doctrine of the Preservation of the Text, or Why CCM Is Destructive to Fundamentalist Churches. They had to limit the content of their messages so they could enlarge their fellowship.”

Christian Contemporary Music (CCM) .

A  Wolf in sheep’s clothing!

Jennifer Knapp, a hard-rocking Contemporary Christian musician who recently came “out of the closet” with her lesbianism, said on Larry King Live (April 23) that the Bible’s teaching against homosexuality is based on faulty translation and interpretation. When asked if she thinks the Bible speaks against homosexuality she replied, “Well, I think there is plenty of evidence in my exploration of my faith through the sacred text of the Holy Bible that I have definitely recognized that we are somewhat at the handicap of our own interpretation against homosexuality. In the long run I don’t have the greatest deal of problems with it because I’m not the only person in the universe that has ever looked at a different interpretation.”

Let’s see if this thinking works. Leviticus 20:13 says, “If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination…” There is no problem with the translation, and the interpretation looks straightforward to me. Let’s try another passage, this time in the New Testament. “For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet” (Romans 1:26-27). The problem that a homosexual or any other sinner has with the Bible is not its translation and interpretation; it is its Authority. As the famous agnostic Mark Twain reputedly said, ‘It is not the things that in the Bible that I don’t understand that trouble me; it’s the things that I do understand.” Elsewhere Knapp called the verses against homosexuality “clobber verses.” Indeed, the Bible is full of verses that clobber our sin, and the reason is that God is a holy but compassionate God who wants us to repent and be saved (Romans 3:19-22)! Homosexuality is a growing trend within the CCM and Southern Gospel movements. It is not a new thing, but formerly it was fairly hidden. In 1998 Kirk Franklin said that “homosexuality … is a problem today in gospel music–a major concern–and everybody knows it” (Church Boy, pp. 49, 50).

and these are the Signs of the Times……