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Dear Friends of Jesus,
It is a wonderful time to live, it is a fearful time to live as the
wrath of Satan increases against
the followers of Christ and the
"professed church"
joins itself to the world and to
Antichrist
!
As most of you know, Ted
Wilson the recently "selected" president of The General Conference has done as many
other presidents before him, made
an impassioned plea for revival and
reformation in the SDA Church to receive the promised blessing of the
Latter Rain power of the Holy Spirit for the finishing of the
Gospel to all nations and
hastening the return of Jesus
Christ !
They have also launched The
Great Controversy distribution campaign to reach over 127 million people
with a copy of the book which Ellen White said should be at the top of
the list of her books to be given to the people of the world
!
Wonderful !
But, a major
complication with this effort was embedded into the plans
before it was even launched. It was decided to "delete" a few sentences from the text
as it was no longer a teaching that the GC Leaders believed. Yes, they said they could not tell people that the pope was the Antichrist of Bible prophecy. They said that Seventh Day Adventists did not believe the pope was the Antichrist, so they deleted those statements that said
he was Antichrist !
A friend had accessed The Great
Controversy web site for the project and she read the following
statement.
"Do you believe that the pope is the antichrist? No. The Adventist Church
does not teach that any specific person on earth is the antichrist. We believe
that the antichrist is Satan who opposed Christ and rebelled in Heaven. Prophecy
does speak of a political-religious system (rather than a particular individual)
which will embody the spirit and purpose of the antichrist in the last days. We
also believe that any person or system that seeks to take Christ’s rightful
place or oppress His followers at any time acts in the spirit of the
antichrist."
But, when I went
to The Great Controversy site
the statement was missing
?
I then wrote The Great Controversy site and received the following
reply:
From:
star707@Uniserve.com [mailto:star707@Uniserve.com]
Sent: Wednesday, November
16, 2011 3:06 PM
To: Rasmussen, Lisa
Subject:
WHY
DID YOU REMOVE THIS STATEMENT ?
Do you believe that the pope is the antichrist? No. The Adventist Church
does not teach that any specific person on earth is the antichrist. We believe
that the antichrist is Satan who opposed Christ and rebelled in Heaven. Prophecy
does speak of a political-religious system (rather than a particular individual)
which will embody the spirit and purpose of the antichrist in the last days. We
also believe that any person or system that seeks to take Christ’s rightful
place or oppress His followers at any time acts in the spirit of the antichrist.
-------Original
Message-------
From: Rasmussen,
Lisa
Date:
11/17/2011 5:52:45 AM
To: star707@Uniserve.com
Subject: RE:
Statement Removed
Dear
Richard,
"In
the time since that FAQ was originally posted, many divisions, including the
North American Division, have
decided to distribute an abbreviated version of The Great Controversy
rather than the full text.
The
FAQs were designed to address questions that would be raised in the minds of
non-Adventist readers
of the book. Since the abbreviated version approved for this project doesn’t
include the word
“antichrist” we got to thinking that it would be better not to answer a question
the reader would
not be likely to ask after all. The question has therefore been pulled in order
to avoid the
confusion of bringing up a subject not mentioned in the text most
of the non-Adventist readers will be receiving."
Regards,
Lisa
Rasmussen
Great
Controversy Project Liaison
REALLY ! So The Great Controversy was teaching a lie ? The pope is not the Antichrist ? So, no
problem, The GC Leaders know how
to fix that , just delete it from the text ! Now we
have a double and triple problem !
Do
the GC leaders have more authority than the
Holy Spirit who is the "Author" of the Spirit of Prophecy ? DO you
realize the
seriousness of what these people have done ? The Spirit of God, Himself,
said:
"The Holy Ghost is The Author of the Scriptures and of the Spirit of Prophecy."
(3 SM
30)
Do the General Conference
leaders have the right to delete statements placed in the original printing
because they no longer believe them ? Well, obviously they think they do
because they did it !
The antichrist
statements were placed there by the Authority of The Holy
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