At the memorial service for conservative activist Charlie Kirk on September 21, 2025, White House official Stephen Miller declared that the assassination had “awakened a dragon.”  Unwittingly, we can be sure, Mr. Miller directed students of Bible prophecy to what we find in the 13th chapter of Revelation, how a beast power that begins as a lamb morphs into a dragon—Revelation’s symbol of Satan himself (Rev. 12:9; 22:2). 

A recent Second Coming date-setting fiasco reveals yet again the importance of understanding Biblical teachings regarding the return of Christ.

When words and phrases such as “legalism” and “righteousness by faith” are used in theological discourse, they must be defined by the inspired writings themselves, not distorted by scholarly speculation and experience-driven testimonies.

Our agenda is one of valuing all as the purchase of Jesus’ blood, treating them with respect even in moments of sharp disagreement, and through it all keeping in view the ultimate reality that this world is not our home, that our Savior’s kingdom is not of this world (John 18:36), and that only the government resting on His shoulders (Isa. 9:6) offers any hope of establishing the eternal peace promised in God’s Word.

Should the valueless void so pervasive in contemporary culture be honored in any way by the Lord’s end-time messengers?  Or, in the tradition of such as Enoch, Noah, Jeremiah, John the Baptist, and the Savior Himself, should it be denounced as the genuine evil it surely is?

A recent online article claims that a literal reading of the Bible is responsible for both the current slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza and the lack of Christian condemnation of the same. Is this true?

To enforce in a taxpayer-funded context the posting of one version of the Ten Commandments, and not require the education of pupils relative to other bodies of law, cannot be called anything other than a violation of religious liberty and an establishment of one religious faith over a host of alternatives.

A prominent speaker in contemporary Adventism has recently alleged that the voice of a Holy Spirit-led conscience can not only guide the believer in matters not spelled out by the written Word, but that to violate the admonitions of that voice—just like violations of the Word itself—should rightly be called sin. 

Is this correct?

Critics of the Adventist Sabbath doctrine have often said that there is “no redeeming power in a day.”  Perhaps not, but neither was there strength in Samson’s long hair.  Nor was there healing power unique to the waters of the river Jordan.  But both represented tokens of loyalty and obedience.  The same is true with the seventh-day Sabbath.

This message was delivered by Elder Erton C. Kohler, newly elected President of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, at the ASI Convention in Orlando, Florida, on Sabbath, August 2, 2025.

No focus on mission can accomplish God’s purpose for the church if the Biblical message which drives that mission is lost.  Message must always drive mission, never the other way around.

May the trials and triumphs of this new quinquennium be bathed in the glory of the blessed hope!  May our transcendent agenda be the unbroken conquest of evil in our lives, and in the life of God’s corporate faith community, resulting in the glad refrain: “Next stop: the New Jerusalem.”

The global witness of the great Advent movement dare not be moderated or temporized for the sake of superficial unity, nor can it digress from its divine purpose in pursuit of causes defined by cultural grievance or secular political ideologies. 

Love-based, Spirit-empowered obedience is the condition of our salvation because such obedience is the only kind God will accept—the only kind that will secure the universe for eternity against a recurrence of the present rebellion.

“The world can only be warned by seeing those who believe the truth sanctified through the truth, acting upon high and holy principles, showing in a high, elevated sense, the line of demarcation between those who keep the commandments of God and those who trample them under their feet.”

Ellen G. White, SDA Bible Commentary, vol. 7, p. 980.