In a few days, voters in the United States of America—if they haven’t voted already—will choose a new President and Vice-President, together with countless officials at varying levels of government.  Once again it becomes us as Seventh-day Adventist Christians to assess our responsibility as citizens of this present world even as we prepare for citizenship in the world to come.

One hundred and eighty years ago today, in fulfillment of the Bible’s longest time prophecy (Dan. 8:14), heaven’s tribunal assembled to commence review of the life records of those within the human family who have professed to be followers of the God of Scripture (Dan. 7:9-14; 12:1; Rev. 3:5). 

Why would it take the Lord this long to finish the judgment of the righteous dead?

As with so many other perversions of God’s truth that have at times tarnished the witness of God’s people, we can’t deny that inordinate fear of the final crisis has been a problem with certain ones among us.  But we have to remember it was Christ Himself who encouraged His disciples to follow the signs betokening His return. 

This week our site is publishing two articles in response to the recent renunciation of the Sabbath doctrine by a now-former Adventist pastor. As the final crisis nears, it is imperative that truths many have perhaps taken for granted be repetitively reinforced, objections old and new repetitively answered.

When God’s people exhaust their energies fighting over culture and politics, labeling each other with nasty epithets arising from agendas unknown to the Sacred Writings, they and those around them could easily find themselves growing so tired of controversy that the craving for peace at any price will gain increasing traction in the weary minds of spent believers.