Lyrical reflections on the Wise Men who sought our Lord, and those who still seek Him today.

While we don’t know exactly what a purified, visible denomination will look like in the context of the final events, we can be certain from the inspired predictions that God will have such a purified organization in the last days, and that the notion of certain ones that God will cease to work through the organized Adventist body as we near the close of time, is erroneous.

A story from the siege of Jerusalem by the Roman armies reminds us of the perils of preaching imminent trouble without also declaring God’s promises of a way of escape and ultimate deliverance.

In both the church and society, some of the best and most needed standards of conduct can be tarnished by the inconsistent advocacy of those who either adhere to such standards or seek to enforce them. Such hypocrisy merits correction, pure and simple. But it doesn’t make the standards themselves invalid.