This is the fourth installment of our series responding to the lectures delivered at the North American Division ministerial meeting in June 2022 in Lexington, Kentucky, in which the cluster of teachings known as Last Generation Theology were challenged. This installment will focus on the lectures in question relative to the meaning of character perfection as defined in Scripture and the writings of the Spirit of Prophecy.

Neither culture (whatever label it wears) nor extra-Biblical ideologies should drive our understanding of inspired prophecy or the moral agenda of the Seventh-day Adventist Christian.

Principle should always stand supreme in the political choices of the Christian. On this basis I would like to identify five (5) principles which, among others, should guide Seventh-day Adventists in America who have yet to participate in the pending midterm elections in our country: