The 2-Minute Warning - 9

01/27/19 • 50 min

Seventh day-Adventist Church of Adairsville

Escape to Paradise - 9
January 26, 2019
adairsvillesda.org

The present is a time of overwhelming interest to all living. Rulers and statesmen, men who occupy positions of trust and authority, thinking men and women of all classes, have their attention fixed upon the events taking place about us. They are watching the strained, restless relations that exist among the nations. They observe the intensity that is taking possession of every earthly element, and they recognize that something great and decisive is about to take place—that the world is on the verge of a stupendous crisis. - Education p. 179.

All eyes are on America...

With the revelations of Edward Snowden, and Julian Assange -along with the willing surrender of our private lives to social media companies - Could it be that America could remove the freedoms of its own citizens?

The Constitution of the United States guarantees liberty of conscience. Nothing is dearer or more fundamental.

Pope Pius IX, in his Encyclical Letter of August 15, 1854, said: The absurd and erroneous doctrines or ravings in defense of liberty of conscience are a most pestilential error—a pest, of all others, most to be dreaded in a state.’ The same pope, in his Encyclical Letter of December 8, 1864, anathematized - (called anyone a heretic who believed that) those who assert the liberty of conscience and of religious worship,’ and also ‘all such as maintain that the church may not employ force.’ GC 564.5

“The pacific tone of Rome in the United States does not imply a change of heart. She is tolerant where she is helpless. Says Bishop O'Connor: ‘Religious liberty is merely endured until the opposite can be carried into effect without peril to the Catholic world.’

All eyes are on America...

In light of these long foretold events, the Bible describes a change that is coming - Daniel 12:1
And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.

Protestant America, it’s courts, its legal system, the church, capitalism, its social fabric, the economy, the family unit, morality, - all are compromised.

What conditions could lead this very country and then the whole world to turn on its principles?

All eyes are on America

The United States currently has nearly 1000 military bases and/or military installations in 80 countries around the world. The rest of the countries of the world who have foreign military bases are 11 and the combined of all of those is 70. Any talk of China or Russia as a threat to the United States is laughable. This nation is the sole superpower on planet earth and the Bible says it will be that way until the very end. Either through the military industrial complex or the dollar industrial complex - America is calling the shots.

All eyes are on America

Trend Forecaster and American, Ellen White wrote “By the decree of enforcing the institution of the Papacy in violation of the law of God, our nation will disconnect herself fully from righteousness. ... our country shall repudiate every principle of its Constitution as a Protestant and Republican government, ... then we may know that the time has come for the marvelous working of Satan, and that the end is near.”—Testimonies for the Church 5:451. ChS 160.4

With rapid steps we are approaching this period. When Protestant churches shall unite with the secular power to sustain a false religion, for opposing which their ancestors endured the fiercest persecution, then will the papal sabbath be enforced by the combined authority of church and state. There will be a national apostasy, which will end only in national ruin.—Manuscript 51, 1899. Ev 235

How could this happen?
As we sit here today, there is a fact, the majority of the people of God, the majority of this planet have not yet even heard this story...but something will soon occur where a change will take place.

Remember the conditions we talked about last week when Jesus told his disciples what life would be like just before He would return a second time.

Famine, Disease, Natural Disasters... Matthew 24

What about the promise that the gospel would go to the whole world?

Isaiah 26:9 -...When your judgments come upon the earth, the people of the world learn righteousness.

From the book commenting on this moment - The Great Controversy - “Satan works through the elements also to garner his harvest of unprepared souls. He has studied the secrets of the laboratories of nature, and he uses all his power to control the elements as far as God allows. When he was suffered or allowed to afflict Job, how quickly flocks and herds, servants, houses, children,...

Escape to Paradise - 9
January 26, 2019
adairsvillesda.org

All eyes are on America...

The Constitution of the United States guarantees liberty of conscience. Nothing is dearer or more fundamental.

All eyes are on America...

Protestant America, it’s courts, its legal system, the church, capitalism, its social fabric, the economy, the family unit, morality, - all are compromised.

What conditions could lead this very country and then the whole world to turn on its principles?

All eyes are on America

Remember the conditions we talked about last week when Jesus told his disciples what life would be like just before He would return a second time.

Famine, Disease, Natural Disasters... Matthew 24

What about the promise that the gospel would go to the whole world?

Isaiah 26:9 -...When your judgments come upon the earth, the people of the world learn righteousness.

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America The Beautiful? - 8

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America the Beautiful?
January 19, 2019
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Where we are at in this series...
Bible is a book about how the world and civilization interacts with God
and His friends or followers - Sodom, Egypt, Ninevah, Babylon, Persia,
Greece, Rome, Papacy, .... Today we are going to talk about America
and the purpose for which it was founded...
The Old World...is ending - Why?
To those who were looking to go back to the primitive church - the
apostolic church - the King of England is quoted as saying “conform,
or ....harry them out of the land, or else worse” - George Bancroft,
History of the United States of America pt. 1, ch12
-J.G. Palfrey writes “Hunted, persecuted and imprisoned many could
see only dark days ahead. For those who wanted to serve God
according to the dictates of their conscience “England was ceasing
forever to be a habitable place” -J.G. Palfrey - History of New England -
They fled to Holland, left their homes and lands because of religious
persecution.
They became known as the Puritans, a Protestant group where their
motto was “to walk together in all His ways made known or to be made
known to them.” - J. Brown , The Pilgrim Fathers p. 74
This was the true spirit of Protestantism and the Reformation.
Men like their pastor - John Robinson were teaching that Luther,
Calvin, Knox and others would have kept the reformation progressing.
He said “were they now living, [they] would be as willing to embrace
further light as that which they first received.” - D Neal, History of the
Puritans vol. 1, p. 269
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He goes on “Remember your promise and covenant with God...to
receive whatever light and truth shall be made known to you from His
written word.....for it is not possible the Christian world should come so
lately out of such thick antichristian darkness and that full perfection of
knowledge should break forth at once.” Martyn , vol 5, pp. 70-71
It was with this creed that they set sail for the shores of the new world
and a new life.
They had seen the evils of religion seeking to define and punish heresy
and saw the value of keeping church and state separate.
But sadly not long after they arrive, many begin to mandate that only
church members can serve in government and it was not long before
persecution arose...in the new world.
Before they left the shores of Holland Robinson said to them “I am very
confident the Lord has more truth and light yet to break forth out of His
holy word.” - Martyn, vol. 5 p. 70
Roger Williams
Another man of faith arrives to the shores of the new world.
He agreed with John Robinson that “it was impossible that all the light
from God’s word had been received.”
He is known as “the first person in modern Christendom to establish
civil government on the doctrine of the liberty of conscience, the
equality of opinions before the law.” -Bancroft, pt. 1, ch 15
When Williams arrived in America - he found church attendance was
mandated by law. This disgusted him.
He was respected and loved as a faithful leader and minister, a man of
rare gifts, integrity and kindness shown to everyone he met. But as he
kept teaching and preaching tolerance and freedom of speech and
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freedom of conscience he was accused of “subverting the government
and society” - Bancroft pt. Ch 15
He was sentenced for a crime - as an enemy of the state - and to
escape arrest - he was forced to flee in the cold stormy winds of winter
into the deep forest.
He wrote later “For fourteen weeks, I was sorely tossed in a bitter
season, not knowing what bread or bed did mean - but the ravens fed
me in the wilderness and a hollow tree served as a shelter.” -Martyn Vol.
5, pp 349-350
He continued through the snow and the forest until he found refuge
with an Indian tribe whose confidence and affection he won while
teaching them the truths of the gospel.
Finally he made it to the shores of Narragansett Bay, he laid the
foundation for the first state in the new world that would recognize
religious freedom - “that every man should have liberty to worship God
according to the light of his own conscience.” Martyn vol 5, p 354. That
state would become known as Rhode Island and became the asylum
for civil and religious liberty - the cornerstones of the American
Republic.
The Declaration of Independence would eventually state: “all men are
created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain
unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of
happiness.” And the Constitution guarantees, in the most explicit
terms, the inviolability of conscience: “No religious test shall ever be
required as a qualification to any office or public trust un...

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