“We cannot now step off the foundation that God has established. We cannot now enter into any new organization, for this would mean apostasy from the truth.”

Ellen G. White, Selected Messages, vol. 2, p. 390.

We are all familiar with Jesus’ parable of the wheat and the tares. Most articles and discussions on this topic focus on how the wheat are to treat the tares. That is, they warn of the dangers of being too severe with alleged wrongdoers.  But the main focus of this parable is not what we think and have often been taught.

The Puritans of New England saw the American nation as God's kingdom on earth, to be established through civil force and military expansion. But does such a course represent God's way of revealing His character and reaching the lost?

As a teenager, star-struck with the march of scientific progress, I sat in front of my science teacher and listened with rapture as he told us that God was nothing more than a man-made concept, and that man needed to progress himself from his caveman existence to where we are today (about 1966).            

A religious movement known as the New Apostolic Reformation has come into American headlines recently, particularly with respect to the 2024 presidential election. 

A few years ago I attended a baptism in one of our churches. As with many of our baptisms, the candidates are encouraged to give a testimony after they have come up out of the font (dried and re-dressed of course). At one point this particular lady said, " . . . and my late grandmother is now looking down on me from heaven.”

Forgiveness, reconciliation, and power all comprise the Biblical definition of this much-misunderstood term.

As we have seen in recent events, even the best designed systems can go wrong in this world of sin. However, that doesn’t justify abandoning them for a different model.   

Some of those shaken out during the final crisis may surprise us.

If in the foreseeable future America loses its economic might and thus also its military and political power, how can it achieve what is outlined in Revelation 13 and Daniel 11?

Whenever we get our religious beliefs from someplace other than personal Bible study, we leave ourselves vulnerable to disaster.

Revelation 18, apostate Babylon, and the merchants of the earth.

When atheism does fall, and the papacy and their apostate Protestant allies ascend to global power, they will mistakenly see this as a blessing from God, presumably showing his approval of them. They will thus be plunged into even deeper apostasy and ultimate damnation.

While it is important for us to be acquainted with the adversary’s devices (II Cor. 2:10-122), I have noticed that many Adventists who spend considerable time studying conspiracy theories, even the less far-out ones, become increasingly discouraged and negative in their outlook.

From A.D. 70 onward, the Holy Land (called the “glorious land” in Daniel 11:41,45) is the people of God, and the kings of the north and south are powers that oppose them. Interpretation thus moves from geo-political to spiritual, and depicts a struggle of spiritual forces.

Another look at the longest lasting controversy in the history of the Seventh-day Adventist Church.

How Ellen White’s predictions regarding millennial theology in mainstream Christianity are now in process of fulfillment.

It is imperative that we see our true condition, and begin in earnest to desire the white raiment—the pardon and the victory—that our Lord and Savior offers us.

We do best by permitting the Bible/Spirit of Prophecy worldview to function as our exclusive guide to the events of the last days, and the sole measure of every development in our world relative to the signs of Jesus’ soon coming.

Those Adventists who cling to their classical faith as rooted in Scripture and the writings of Ellen White must exert their influence to curtail the errors of both theological liberalism and mainstream evangelicalism, both of which—though in different ways—offer a too-easy doctrine of salvation and humanly-crafted solutions to humanity’s spiritual dilemma.