They were quite literally up against the wall. Nearly the entire chosen nation was now scattered among the heathen. All that was left was Jerusalem, her ramparts now under siege by the mightiest military machine the world had yet witnessed. Hope seemed to have fled from the stoutest hearts—-until the Lord of hosts took the field, sent His angel to overfly the enemy, and caused the boasting of Zion’s adversaries to cease.

A recent series of sermons, delivered by the president of a prominent supporting ministry in the Seventh-day Adventist Church, seek to prepare the denomination for what the speaker holds to be the imminent rise of totalitarianism in the United States, which he thinks will be characterized by anti-Christian atheism, Marxism, and socialism. But is he, in fact, anticipating the wrong tyranny?

The emergence of this perverse, fantasy-spewing cult underscores again how such speculation has no place in the thinking and teachings of the Seventh-day Adventist message. and movement

Ellen White declares that “the United States is a land that has been under the special shield of the Omnipotent One” (7BC 975). We have seen fresh evidence during the past two weeks that this is true.

Pardons for criminal behavior in the non-spiritual realm don’t necessarily require a change of heart or the renunciation of the crime committed. But God’s plan of salvation is entirely different.

As Seventh-day Adventist Christians survey the past twelve months, viewing them first and foremost in the light of Bible truth and inspired prophecy, a number of lessons rise to our consciousness which merit our focus and contemplation as the old year recedes into history and the new unfolds before us.

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.

Unless the Word of God arrests our attention with its condemnation of our disobedience to the divine law—what some might describe as “clobbering”—it cannot perform its role as the schoolmaster to bring us to Christ (Gal. 3:24).

While admonishing fellow believers who post online to conduct themselves like true Christians is certainly appropriate, the present cacophony of online voices should never be allowed by the thoughtful believer to define the spirit or mindset of those for whom such voices presume to speak.

As America confronts the pending transfer of presidential power, Seventh-day Adventists in the United States and elsewhere are forced to take stock of the prophetic and eschatological implications of the recent election, and of the past four years.