WHAT IS A SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST?

  Taken in part:  from a Book "YOU LEAD THE WAY" P.76+  BY:  lYNN E.. lEE. .M.A.

        

    IF, you believe in Jesus Christ's soon return-- "THE SECOND ADVENT",  then guess what?   you ARE ALREADY AN ADVENTIST !

    PLUS...If Y O U , fully believe that the Holy Bible IS the very word of God, and you've studied it regularly, and you have found that the Sabbath, the weekly Sabbaths, are on the Seventh Day, then you are a Seventh Day Adventist, without knowing it!  But any such statement MUST be backed up by Scripture, as anyone speaking of a Biblical Fact, without the support of the Scriptures, is only starting yet another of the 40+ thousand of "Christian" denomination on this earth, right?

    

     2 Timothy 3:16  "All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:"                                                                                                    John 17:17  "Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth."

    

    Now after Y O U read the next verse, can you doubt His truthfulness, of His Word?

        

      1 John 4:7-8  "Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love"  

      After all, IF. . . Y O U have a son, or a daughter, would Y O U be willing to give him or her, to die in the place of another?  God did! He sent His Son, to die in our place because.....

    Romans 6:23  "For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord."

     Romans 3:23  "For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;"

     Roman's tells us all, that ALL need Christ's forgiveness, does it not?.

   NO KINGDOM, NOR NATION WITHOUT LAWS!

       Matthew 19:17-19  "And he said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God: but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments. He saith unto him, Which? Jesus said, Thou shalt do no murder, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Honor thy father and thy mother: and, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself."

     Why is this requirement so fully viable to all?

      Well, think about it this way, If YOUR Heavenly Father, allowed all, including the willful sinners, into Heaven, would it be the the very, for us all now on this earth, with it's crime a second? If that's our vision of heaven , count me OUT!

     Do yo, or rather, CAN Y O U agree with this fact:  "Mankind needs Laws, on our roads, in our schools and on our jobs, and YES, even in our homes! How could anyone play a game without rules?"

      As the old saying goes, "Honor among thieves", even lawbreakers have their own laws, right?

     Now, it should not come as a surprise, that God's Government also operates upon a set of Laws! That law's first law is LOVE! Lucifer broke that law when he became very proud and selfish.  Until he as Satan { meaning  he who Apposes] the Holy Angles had obeyed the law of God, without even thinking about them., They loved God and each other, and they were filled with joy. After Satan rebelled....

     Revelation 12:7-9  "And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels, And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven. And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him."

    Now, there's much speculation, in word and print, from mankind, as to the why, Satan rebelled, but in truth all we know is what is written in The Word, right?

       Isaiah 14:12-15 " How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!  For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High. Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit."

NOTE: The word hell, in the last sentence is the Hebrew word SHEOL, meaning nothing more than the common grave for mankind.

     Thus after Satan deceived Eve and Adam lack of faith/trust in God, and sin entered nto this earth, the Law of Love had to be fully explained.  The Law of Love includes ALL that is within the Ten Commandments, and The Bible, but it takes the Bible and the writings of the prophets to magnify that principle of love so that we can see and understand all that it means.

     Think this way..."If God had Zapped Satan and the 1/3 of all the angles [Rev.12:4] would that not be taken by all, including you and me, that God no longer ruled with love but with fear? Can we put a gun to an other's head, and demand that they love us, out of fear? NO!

  REMEMBER?    1 John 4:7-8  "Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love."

    1 John 4:10  "Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins."

    Romans 5:8  "But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us."

   Plus among the most well known: To bad most know not this whole message: John 3:15-18  "That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God".

                     FOLLOWING JESUS IS OBEYING GOD.

  Sadly many labor under the false premise, that A.  The Law has been done away with., when Jesus died

B. I am a "New Testament Christian!"

Both are false, as neither finds a fit in the Word of God. Regarding A: Yes there was a law that was abrogated, done away with, the Law of Blood Sacrifice, because Christ was, and is, that Perfect Sacrifice.
The "Ceremonial Laws" are they that where "Nailed to His Cross!  God's Royal Law, the Law of Liberty still and shall always stand!

A.   Colossians 2:14 " Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;"

       Deuteronomy 31:9  "And Moses wrote this law, and delivered it unto the priests the sons of Levi, which bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and unto all the elders of Israel."

       Deuteronomy 31:26  "Take this book of the law, and put it in the side of the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, that it may be there for a witness against thee."

B. Pray tell what did Jesus use and read and teach from if NOT the Whole of the Old Testament? Saying and believing one is ma New Testament anything is saying I believe only one half of God's Word! God is the same in both, and PLEASE don't say "But, we are now under GRACE, for that is but a DISGRACE! 

    WHY?

     Malachi 3:6  "For I am the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed."

     Hebrews 13:8  "Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever."

     Why is this of such import?

     John 1:1-3  "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made." {emphasis are mine., but look at next...

     John 1:14  "And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth."

NOTE: Does this not show all, that Christ, is not only The Creator, of all, but is also The Word, the Holy Bible, as well as our Savior?  SELAH! Think- [chew on this for a while, from Hebrew]

   In so, our following the path Jesus set before us, we are in obedience with God....

     John 15:10  "If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love."

Note: IF Y O U keep MY Commandments   are the words Jesus used , right? Did He say "If you keep my Father's commandments?  NO!

      1 Corinthians 15:27-28  "For he hath put all things under his feet. But when he saith all things are put under him, it is manifest that he is excepted, which did put all things under him. And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all."  Ephesians 1:22  "And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church, "    Hebrews 2:8  "Thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet. For in that he put all in subjection under him, he left nothing that is not put under him. But now we see not yet all things put under him. "

                            THERE CAN BE NO SIN. . . IF THERE IS NO LAW!

     This subtitle, is fully truth, in both Heaven and earth! Right?  How can any police, give Y O U a speeding Ticket, when there is no posted law for any speed limits? Or, how can one become a thief, IF, there are no laws against stealing?  As sin, is the breaking of God's Law.....

     1 John 3:4-5  "Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law. And ye know that he was manifested to take away our sins; and in him is no sin."

      Romans 6:23  "For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord."

NOTE: God;s Glory and Character are shown and reflected in His Ten Commandments, and if we follow not all of them how can we say we follow Jesus because we love Him?????? How can we humans separate the two????

                           THE CEREMONIAL LAWS ONLY. . ."NAILED TO THE CROSS".

     Sadly , the Jews, then and still now, are still awaiting the Messiah to come, so I ask them but one simple question: If YOU insist that we are still under the Old Law, the Old Testament sacrificial system that was but a "shadow", a precursor to the Messiah, "Why are YOU not sacrificing live animals still today, is in the Books of Moses???? One can't really have it both ways right?

    Colossians 2:14  "Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;"

    Matthew 27:51  "And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent;"

Note: By unseen hands, God ripped into two parts, from the top on down. But the unbelieving priests, quickly sew all six layers back together!

     Matthew 5:17-22  "Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill. For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven. For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven. Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not kill; and whosoever shall kill shall be in danger of the judgment:  But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, [ or Fool] shall be in danger of the council: but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire."

This for all those "New Testament" Christians (?) .....Psalms 89:34  "My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips."

NOTE: Please, think of God's Law as a MIRROR, upon which we can look to see where the dirt {sins} are on our faces.

   Galatians 3:24-26  "Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith. But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster. For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus."

    Sadly, even-though all humans are Children of God, not many live and act like it!

                             THE LAW . . .AND GOD'S GRACE.

     You are driving to your Mom's place, she called you, to say that she has fallen, and afraid to move, so you are speeding. A Police Cruiser pulls you over, and you tell him your reason, he says follow me, and he hist the siren, and escorts you to Mom's place, but he walks in with you, to see if your story is hurtful. It is, and he says, will Sir, I could give you a big speeding ticket, but I will not, ticket you, due to the circumstances,  You were under the Law for SPEEDING, but the officer placed YOU under Grace, and forgave your speeding offense. 

   Romans 5:20  "Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:"

    Romans 6:1-3  "What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?  Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?"

    Romans 8:1-6  "There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:  That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit. For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace."

       WHAT'S ALL THIS ABOUT THE SABBATH,  . . .NOT BEING ON SUNDAY?

     SADLY, most, but thank God not all Christians, follow and obey the commandments of men from Rome! Some actually still follow Christ's example for the Sabbath set down in Genesis 1 and 2. I

     Frankly speaking, {is there another way?] men aught to obey God rather than men......
     Acts 5:29  "Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men."
      1 Peter 4:17-18  "For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God? And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?"
     Revelation 22:11 "He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still."

   If you were, to take the time too read all of Genesis chapter 1 you'll notice that God set the days from Even {evening}to even and the first day Vs.5, 2nd day Vs. 8, the 3rd day Vs13, 4th in Vs19 the 5th in Vs23 and 6th in Vs.31.   Then look....

  Genesis 2:1-3  "Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.
Note: God Blessed and Sanctified the Seventh day , now look at your calendar and which day is that?  From Sundown Friday [Preparation Day]  to Saturday/Sabbath's sunset is this Sabbath Day!

      Exodus 20:8-11 " Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day, and hallowed it."

NOTE: Please compare this 4th Commandment passage with your Bible {I use KJV.] and or even with your Catechism booklet by Peter Geiermann, C.S.S.R. "The Converts Catechism of Catholic Doctrine (1957 and or, the 1910) P.50.
    Now ads I have many Catholic friends, most will not accept this information, even thought it is their very own words!
   Here are two quotes, only months apart thus one of the same person words! "We hold upon this earth the place of God Almighty" from a Encyclical letter June 20, 1894.
From "The Catholic National, July , 1895... "The Pope is not only the representative of Jesus Christ, but he is Jesus Christ Himself, hidden under veil of flesh"   Pope Leo XIII. 
   Now  that's what I call blasphemy, how about Y O U? So who changed the day for the Sabbath?

Again from Mr. Geiermann  "Question: Which day is the Sabbath day?"
                                            "Answer: Saturday is the Sabbath day.
                                            "Question: Why do we observe Sunday instead of Saturday?"
                                            "Answer: We observe Sunday instead of Saturday because the Catholic                                                                      church transferred the solemnity from Saturday to Sunday."
Does that not all fall in line with the Pope's thinking?

Plus: We believe and do, Submersion Baptisms, only on those who have some knowledge about it's meanings and responsibilities that go with it.
Plus: We believe that Daily Bible Studies, should be done by all members.
Plus, we believe that the Bible is our principle source of truth, and that prophecy allows us to glimpse the future as God details it.
Plus:  Matthew 24:4  "And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you."
Please know most people are deceived about the Bible and from the pulpits no less!

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