“Endtime” Reality Check (Matt 24:14)

So ‘the end of the world is soon,’ ‘the signs of the times are rapidly fulfilling,’ and ‘final
events will soon unravel’, well even generous estimates would reveal that ca. 7,000,000,000
currently, honestly do not know and/or understand this most crucial message of warning. So, you
say, they will soon hear about it and be informed, well how about a little “reality check” in
specifically this temporal regard.
Notwithstanding that, as discussed here, (1) the Bible clearly shows that God is in full
control of final events, capable, with sovereign, overriding power, of starting, or stopping them,
at will (Rev 7:1-3), (2) if ‘Angels were to do this work,’ as it is commonly stated in knee-jerk
defense, as long as God has a capable/functional Church on Earth, these Angels will not be given
this mandate of emergency/last resort, currently:

-74% of the world does not even have “internet access”;

-for the 26% who can have such access, unless one is specifically searching for
words/terms included in an SDA Christian website, all based upon a prior, external/independent
knowledge of them, chances are extremely high that this content will not be found from among
billions of webpages and online media; and thus not listed, by search engines;
-though SDA satellite signals have a global “footprint”, it still takes the relatively costly,
proper reception equipment to access that specific signal;
-70% of people who have a television do not get programming via cable;
-transmission via broadcast TV and radio is quite competitive in already established
circles, and relatively costly;
-independent broadcast transmission will require substantial ground infrastructure;
-shortwave radio, i.e., AWR is a viable option, but in terms of accessibility and
reliability, ideally an option of last resort;
-all of these potential communication means still require that their content be made
available in the language of the intended audience.
-It is tellingly/fittingly comical to hear SDA’s quasi-gleefully give the typical “Matt 24
signs of the times” sermon, along with a litany of “recent/latest” transpired real world disasters
catastrophes, with, of course the, as e.g., this 2013 ‘The End Of Days - Time Is Very Short’
sermon by Stephen Bohr, confident-verging-on-proud, basely moronic understanding that ‘these
are sure signs that the end is imminently near!!’, when the exegetical fact of the matter is, as
stated in Matt 24:6, 8|Mark 13:7-8|Luke 21:9 that Jesus had actually cited those events to guard
His followers against people, who like expected false christs (Matt 24:5) and false prophets
(Matt 24:11), will claim that these events themselves are effectuating the end of the world, which
is contrary to the end that the Real Returning Christ will bring. Jesus was thus not saying that
these things are “signs” of the end, but rather that such catastrophic things would occur from
now until then end, but they themselves are not the actual end. So ‘don’t fall for such claims;
these natural and man-caused things are to naturally occur in a world where, for man caused
crises, lovelessness, and thus lawlessness is also to naturally increase. (Matt 24:12). And ‘even
before all of these crises’, as indeed seen quite immediately with the Apostolic Church, Christ
warned His followers that they would be persecuted (Luke 21:12 = Matt 24:9), yet the
proclamation of the Gospel will not be hampered by even such direct actions against Christians,
but by God’s aid, quite to the contrary, continue to be more widely heard. (Mark 13:9-10; Luke
21:13-15). And that is because it is the completion of the global proclamation of the Gospel to all
that is the actual action which will bring about the end (Matt 24:14), which will only then, after
all of the upheavals which will result from these transpired times, be soon enjoined by Divine
supernatural signs (=“these things” of Luke 21:28) in the Heavens and on Earth (Luke 21:25-
26|Matt 24:29|Mark 13:24-25) as Jesus will then be actually returning. (Luke 21:27|Matt
24:30|Mark 13:26). So SDA’s should, instead of doing their usual of citing all of the catastrophes
in their first or second seminar presentation “Signs of the Times” sermon, instead be
documenting and demonstrating how the preaching of the gospel has been tangibly advancing in
all of the world today, and also what they are doing, or planning to do, to hasten this work. (2 Pet
3:12|COL 69.2)...because that is the only actual and binding ‘“sign” [rightly in the singular] of
Christ’s coming and of the end of the age’ (Matt 24:3|Mark 13:4|Luke 21:7).
-contrary to popular SDA Church belief and practice, the mandate of Matt 24:14 will not
be fulfilled merely by e.g., handing out worldwide 1 Billion invitations to an SDA Evangelistic
Seminar,[1]1 for the same reason that “hearsay” is not considered an acceptable testimony or
witness in a court of law. Just hearing about something does not mean you “witnessed it” or else
anyone who heard about a case on the news can walk into the court room and present themselves
as a witness. Using a Biblical illustration, the World Harvest of Revelation 14:14-15, even
including God’s vineyard (Rev 14:17-20; cf. Isa 5:1-7) will not become ripe until the earth is, not
merely “sowed”, but also “cultivated.” (See 9T 28-29). And that is going to take much more
significant and tangible, outreaching work.[2]2 And, at the very least, technically, (though
actually, most exegetically so), Matt 24:14's “Gospel of the Kingdom” (=Matt 4:23; 9:35 -
literally, merely: ‘the good news of/about the Kingdom’), may be an applicational-extent step up
from simply the “Gospel/good news of Christ (=the Messiah)” (e.g., Rom 1:16; 2 Cor 10:14; 2
Thess 1:8; Gal 1:17; Phil 1:27). In other words, when Jesus first came on the scene, He more
extensively had that ‘good news (from God) in regards to the Kingdom that could have been
seamlessly set up in Israel then.’ (=Mar 1:14-15; Matt 4:17; cf. Matt 3:2). However, when He
was being systematically rejected (see the Matt 10:23ff sealing of the prior ‘John 6:15, 26ff, 66
(DA 383.1) “turning point”’); the message downgraded from a more temporal/kingdom one to a
more religious/ecclesiastical one which now focused on the “Church” (= ‘the assembly of called
out ones’) which He would have to instead set up. (Cf. Matt 16:13-20, 21 -i.e., priorly, Jesus had
no problem publicly proclaiming the “Kingdom message”, but not so with this different “Christ
(= “Messiah”) message”, which He was from then on going to “build upon” (Matt 16:16-18).
Yet both this temporal “Kingdom Gospel” and the religious “Messiah Gospel” are two
successive, but distinct, parts of the overall/general: “Gospel of God” (Mar 1:14; cf. Rom 1:1;
Rom 15:16; 1 Thess 2:2; 1 Pet 4:17). Jesus was first preaching the “Kingdom Gospel” (Mar
1:15). And the actual final mandate and work of Christ’s Church, as in the current prolonged-
time circumstances, revolves around the pre-advent, Temporal proclamation & sealing (Rev 7:1-
8), global gathering (Rev 7:8-17) and living testimony (Rev 14:1-5, 6-13ff) of that Seven-Last-
Plagues-surviving Church Triumphant, Zion Kingdom (Rev 15:1-16:1ff).
-Also, it was commonly claimed before, that because the ratio of SDA to World
Population was steadily dropping from, e.g., 1:646 in 1995 to 1:519 in 2000 to 1:450 in 2005,
due to the higher (net) growth rate of SDA’s vs. that of the world, it must be stressed, in those
times, that very soon SDA’s would literally “take over the world.” Well apparently someone has
realized the false parameters used in making this calculative conclusion, for there are several
other Christian Denominations/Megablocs, and also World Religions that also have a faster
growth rate than the global population. Therefore SDA’s would only continue to share a part,
though increasing, of the growing world population, and not “overtake it” as if it was alone in
this category. Furthermore the SDA growth is faith-based and thus subjective and less
ascertainable in the future as several subjective factors can easily affect it, while world
population growth is naturally-based and much more steady.[3]3 Also, while a major factor that
affects global population growth can also affect SDA’s, the converse is not likely to ever occur.
Furthermore, the concrete numbers translating from these ratios/percentages are probably much
more determinative here for, for every 1 new accession to the SDA faith there are over 80 new
additions to the world population (i.e, ca. 1,000,000 to 80,000,000 annually). It should also be
taken seriously that for every 3 people who are baptized to the SDA faith 1 baptized member
leaves the Church, resulting in ca. 1000 daily such (non-death) “decessions.” It is surprising that
much more is neither said, nor done, about this outrightly high number of willful “decessions”
for it is clearly symptomatic of a much deeper problem that is encountered once these people
have initially believed that the teachings of the Church are Biblical. It more than likely has to do
with the, effectively, patent “3-sided” facade approach that is used in Evangelistic efforts, and
even weekly Church Services, which has an ever-present gaping, missing back wall in this
building of Truth. This “structural” void is tangibly seen in non-resolved
Theological/Doctrinal/Exegetical issues, various non-practical application of Faith and Beliefs,
on top of currently entrenched institutional, organizational and unity deficiencies and
dysfunction (e.g., 83% pastoral under staffing). Therefore, it is only ‘persisting in an apologetic
Denominational denial’ to think, say and act as if ‘all is going and progressing as well as it
could.’ As the SOP repeatedly says: ‘this Church is judged by what she can do in the light of the
great Spiritual privileges that has been bestowed on it, and not by what she has done, or is doing,
in comparison with others.’ (8T 247 - see more on this in this post).

With the economy of the world continuing to favor the already rich, and with the
population in poorer countries growing at a much faster pace than these rich countries, then these
numbers are only to crucially/significantly lag and/or incrementally get worse, accentuated by
the “occasional/seasonal” recession which more severely impacts the poor. Unfortunately in such
circumstances, it is ‘the rich who also become spiritually richer.’ All this to say that “Finishing
the Work” will require a much more generous, deliberate and involved effort by every member
of the Church.
Still, even with many of the world’s population that can access these various SDA
broadcasts, the dilemma that still remains is: Do they have a compelling reason to find them out
from among all of the other choices they also have available to them?

The Biblical Solution

You can “tell” somebody|1+ Billion|the World that ‘Jesus loves them,’ ‘Sunday keeping
is the Mark of the Beast’ and ‘the utter end of the world will soon be here’ and the
default/natural/human thing for them to do is to dismiss you by saying: ‘I’ll wait and see’, which,
Biblically/Spiritually speaking will be too late. (Matt 24:37-39). On the other hand, you can do
all you possibly can to save and preserve the very life of someone, at no cost to them, and the
default/natural/human thing for them to do, after profusely thanking you, would be to ask you:
Who sent you to do this?, Why did you obey Him? and What must I also do to be like you and
Him, at the very least, to be able to thank and repay you? Between these two ways which one
will indeed bring “true success” MH 143.3ff, both in actually getting people truly ready for the
end and in finishing the work? (COL 417.3-4ff) Indeed God’s set, and unequivocal, endtime plan
will prove to be so much better. (Much more compelling, effective and vitally beneficial than the
envisioned “(Smart) cell phone advertising”... if you can even “compete.”)
Furthermore, the prophesied “Final Events” will not begin to unravel as foreseen ‘until/so
that (Greek Subjunctive mood) the would-be bond-servants of God are/may be sealed in their
foreheads’ (Rev 7:1-3); and, in reality, there is only one way to accomplish/ascertain this.

The Church’s Pet Pretext

So present, (as it has been done by the NJK Project), this pivotally binding Full Gospel
Message to the Church, which is: for them to endeavor to truly and fully help everyone in, at the
very least, vital need, including being aborted infants, thus preserving and sustaining these lives,
and the knee-jerk, puffed up, vexatious rebuttal that will patently be made is a sanctimonious
combination of: ‘that’s not our mission, nor message’, ‘time is running out’, ‘only Jesus can, and
will, do that’ and/or ‘the Church is doing the best it can’. However, faulty and deficient theology
aside, the “naked” (=Rev 16:15) underlying truth in all of this is that the Church and its
members, encouraged by unfaithful and dishonest leaders, does not want to make the necessary
sacrifices of: time, effort, comfort and money to accomplish those things. Indeed the present
Global Church of ca. 18,000,000 members collectively has enough of these variously needed
resources to get these task done. But because selfishness, indifference, individualism and a
reverential love of the world, reigns Supreme in the Church, this Full Gospel Call and Work of
God is gleefully completely ignored. And thus the Church’s entrusted Talents towards this end
are baselessly left unused and unimproved. (COL 325.1-365.3) Yet Christ words are unequivocal
and all will have to correspondingly answer for such willful/preferential neglect of those in vital
need. (Matt 25:31-46; Luke 9:23-26; EW 50.2-3).

7000 Year Theory

SDA’s inaccurately believe that the number 7 is used to symbolize completeness,
however as discussed here, it rather is used to indicate a “perfect representation”. I.e., Something
that is adequately, representative enough so that a totality/completeness, (which is instead
indicated by the number 10), does not need to be ascertained|demonstrated|utilized.
It is quite evident that SDA’s, though they don’t generally make a time-setting claim, at
the very least, implicitly believe that ‘the present age of human life on earth cannot last for more
than a “complete” 7000’. And with a knowledge that there will be a 1000 year Millennium, it is
reversed-engineeringly assumed that the Second Coming will therefore have to occur after 6000
years of this GC have passed; -thus, as historically ascertainable, “soon”, since this present age is
reckoned to have been going on for 6000 years (which supposed was reached in ca. 1996).
The Exegetical/Biblical/Theological fact is that 7000 years is, in keeping with the
symbolism in "7" merely a ‘prefect representative number of years for this GC’. I.e., the
Almighty, Sovereign God has variously paced, calibrated and rectified key events and
developments on this earth so that within those 7000 years, including a 1000-year period in
Heaven, all questions in this GC could, and would, be ‘adequately resolved enough’ so that this
GC could be ended by then. However that is not a “complete” period of allocatable time. SDA’s
today look around in the world and claim that ‘surely things cannot go on much longer’,well the
scientific fact, is that they actually easily can. I.e., there are enough various vital resources on
this planet, including the overall natural health of the planet itself, to sustain normal human life
for at least 10,000 years. The only hindrance to this is how man has decided to waste, misuse,
even artificially restrict and not use at all, those available, all inherently freely available,
resources. And all of this ‘artificial limiting’ is done through and because of, the individualistic,
greed-based, selfish and wasteful economic system of Capitalism. Even in terms of societal and
geo-political relations, the fact that the vast majority of people in this world can go about their
normal life without being certain that they will be the victim of some crime, is an indication that
‘the world is not in ‘unlivable, lawless chaos’. And much, if not arguably, all, of the various
manifested problems, discords, crimes, strife, and wars are all inceptively caused by/derived
from, the intrinsic and needful adversiality and competition involved in Capitalistic “living” and
pursuit. So remove that spurious, Devil-inspired system, and most of those issues would be
quenched if it was completely discarded and replaced with God’s sabbatical, socio-economic
ideal (cf. the New Covenant, temporally fulfillable statements in e.g., Isa 2; 60; Mic 4; Zech 14;
cf. Ezek 38 & 39). Indeed the fact that the socio-economic world has not artificially remained in,
and further be in the 1930's Great Depression, Capitalism halting, is only because Biblically
derived Socialistic measures were “mixed” in to dilute the detrimental effects of Capitalism.
And, as seen in the various “Occupy...” protests, it seems that further diluting in still needed
today, something that is actually easily achievable in a true democracy. Indeed it is inevitable
that Capitalism continue to be watered down until it exists in mere name only, indeed as the
present Mixed Economies are still called/claimed to be “Capitalism”. (These economies are
“mixed” at a ca. 60-40 ratio based merely on the ca. 35%-40% of tax collecting needed to run
purely social services which, in a truly Capitalistic economy, should actually be done according
to a ‘personal/individual costs & payment’ model).
If however God gives this world, and the GC, a “complete” 10,000, (which indeed can,
and will, be done if the GC-wrapping up work is never “Finished” as it can, should, and is
required to be (= Rev 7:1-3), it is then that this ever-degenerating world will reach “chaotic”
conditions where, in the social world, e.g., high-hand crime will be the norm, and, in the natural
world, life will actually not be sustainable. Just in the realm of religion, with most of the
Christian world generically believing in a Secret Rapture ‘at some time’, and given the current
SDA, at least, trace, belief in a determined 6000-year, earth/GC time period, it is easy to
perceive that if time should last, e.g., 200 more years, that there won’t be much
‘pleading/persistent faith left on earth’ (Luke 18:1-8) among both Christians in general, and also
SDA’s. It is thus then that society in general, and also God’s Remnant cause, if they remain on
the same unbiblical paths, will virtually ‘fade to black’ from “lighting” this planet. (Matt 5:13-
14ff). Indeed just looking at the various pertinent trends in the Christian and SDA Church, they
are majoritarily actually moving further and further away from what its Full Gospel mandate is,
than the contrary. And with the prominently held, self-motivation of a ‘soon, 6000-year ended
GC Second Coming, then having certainly long past, it can be seen how, pointedly, the SDA
Church itself would have lost its self-imposed impetus, which actually is not even really
propelling them into due action, even in simply according to their shallow, merely “Tell the
World” Gospel parameters.
The underlying theological fact of this whole matter is that, since its genesis in ca. 1844,
the Remnant|SDA Church was actually never given by God the mandate of ‘proclaiming that the
Second Coming is near,’ but rather that ‘it is now time to get ready for God’s begun
(investigative) judgement,’ and all that this comes to ‘sanctifyingly necessitate’ through
believers being increasingly processed through the 3 parts of God’s Sanctuary. (I.e., Courtyard-
Holy Place-Most Holy Place). A “Soon Second Coming” notion was, and still is, actually
erroneously based upon William Miller’s interpretational error of Dan 8:14. Jesus actually
said/meant in Rev 22:7, 12, 20 that ‘He would come quickly’. Thus ‘whenever it is that the
conditions on earth would necessitate it, He would “quickly” arrive on the scene to deliver His
then only-remaining faithful People, who have complete all of the Gospel warning and (tangible)
testimony work, (a condemning work to which the wicked people on earth are vexatiously,
directly reacting against) from being totally put to death, as then it will be lawfully decreed.’
Priorly, I would, (manifestly) like missionary Andrew Michell in this 2011 Indonesia
Youth Conference presentation [video] on his conversion testimony, become disappointed and
alarmed to hear, once again, the, missions-wise, actually appeasing, typical SDA “more frequent
and greater intensity birthpangs” sermons which claim that ‘the end is very soon because of the
increase in, and strength of, natural disasters in recent years.’ For such claims really only convey
the message to the vast majority of the pew warming hearers that: ‘we’re on the right course, so
there is no need to make any change, especially a radical one such as wholly engaging in foreign
missions.’ However as Andrew stated [40:47-42:14], the Biblical Truth is that ‘Jesus will not,
and cannot, come back until everyone in the world’s nations, tribes, tongues and people has
heard (and understood) this Gospel and final warning message.’[4]4 (Cf. this video clip. See also
a similar and thematically related, statement by Dwight Nelson in regards to the outpouring of
the Latter Rain in his GYC 2011 sermon [01:17:41-01:20:31ff] = Acts 5:32).[5]5 And see the 03-
31-2012 Sermon “The Gospel” [44:38ff] by Mark Howard (mp3) & the 02-16-2013 Sermon
“The Kingdom” by Jonathan Henderson. And so now, I see that such common SDA “birthpangs”
messages, are unsuspectingly actually acting a part in separating the wheat from the tares in the
Church for if, as many enthralled “Amening” listeners in these pews show, they really believe
that ‘the end is very, very near’, but their concrete works do not correspond to such a professed
faith, namely they are not systematically actively and/or most tangibly engaged in sharing this
message with as many people as they can, then they are just proving themselves to be tares. And
conversely, if one believes that ‘the end will only occur when everyone has intelligently heard
this message and they are not engaging in doing all they can to hasten that day (cf. COL 69.2),
then they also are proving themselves to be tares. Nothing else than the active working in God’s
vineyard will qualify one as wheat (cf. Matt 24:45-47ff; LDE 62.1-2).

Back in the Spring of 1999, while on my Pastoral Practicum assignment during my

Theology studies at Andrews University, I preached a, as I now much more appreciate it, (to my
surprise: yet again during these Practicum’s preachings), theologically “loaded” sermon (i.e., it
is at the spiritually subliminal root base of several of my blogs posts such as this post, this one,
and this present one (cf. here)) entitled “The Longsuffering of God” (2 Pet 3:8-9) which can be
read in this document pp. 280-294, and for the ‘ministry overburdened’ reasons related here (cf.
in here), which did not allow me to best prepare the delivery of my sermons, including not
having prepared, more than less, audience-pertinent tangible/practical/pragmatic
applications/implications of the message, all resulting in relatively short sermons (ca. 20
minutes), as the sermon was winding down I just knew that I could not continue doing these
practicum preachings anymore and so knew (or, as I now see it, was impressed), that this would
be my very last practicum sermon/assignment (and it was). And so starting with that last page, I,
to my trepidating self-surprising, actually began slightly/ad-libly deviating from my script, and
from the second line of the second paragraph on the last page (#14; at line #10 from the top of
that page: -I.e., from: “One of you one...” onward) of my manuscript (p. 294), I actually
“scrapped”, the rest of what I was planning to say and during that whole sudden impressed
switching I was impressed to instead say (if I now recall exactly (i.e., word-for-word):
 “Even the Holy Spirit is longsuffering. He takes our prayers and rearranges
them...because ‘we don’t know what to ask’!!! With such enabling power who wouldn’t
wan to do something to help take God out of this misery!... In the end... ‘Wooohoooo the
end’* We will ALL** be involved in some kind of MINISTRY*** ...so we might as
well....begin.........TO-DAY!!! [End of Sermon; ~DA 240.4ff]

Well in listening to Mark Howard’s sermon that day[6]6 today, (Feb. 24, 2013), I was
confirmingly pleased to see that EGW had made quite similar statements and applications in Ed
263.1-264.1ff as I had built up towards making in that sermon, and that impressed ending....and
further confirmingly to me, as is the theme of this present blog post, also in the context of rightly
understanding the contingent mandate of Matt 24:14!

* Here-in/with deriding the, as alluded to in this post, typical mindless view of SDA’s towards
their obligation in actually contributing to Finishing the Work]

** Contra also typical SDA “z-jealously” selfish/sectarian/individualistic/“Cain-ly” ‘not my

brother’s keeper’ dispositions. (1T 113.3ff)

*** I.e. some intentional, deliberate and systematic “medical missionary”|evangelistic ministry
work versus the typical occasional, happenstance approach of SDA lay people.[7]7....And in
Spiritual Fact [which the a-Spiritual world would deem “Freudian], this issue can easily be
resolved by having each members on morning in Church writing down for a suggestion box what
they think the Church should be doing, or better doing....and then assigning them to that
“ministry”...for, if Biblical, such ‘pressing ideas’ of members are most likely from the Holy
Spirit in accordance to the Spiritual “talent” (Matt 25:14ff) that God has granted to each (albeit
if actually “born from above”) member. (Cf. the: ‘Getting a Divine Holy Purpose’ (Neh 2:12)
sermon by Mark Howard). (If a member is actually not, in any “conceived” degree, ‘born again”,
they’ll probably will just have ‘drawn a blank’ in this exercise.)

Relatedly, many SDAs believe that they have found a both motivating and balancing
view on ‘when the Second Coming will be’ by stating that ‘it will be in one’s lifetime’ since
whenever it is that one dies, that is the only chance they have to be ready for the Second
Coming. As typical with anything that the present state of the SDA Church tries to do, this too is
basely marred with selfishness and self-interest, and moreover this is seen as the “only and best
solution” (‘for everyone is selfish’). (Might as well similarly provide: ‘wine to the alcoholic’ or
consenting mates to the sexually promiscuous!!?). And not surprisingly such base
thinking/reasoning/rationalizing leads to the also selfish actions of such a person only
“investing” in “things” which they believe will produce the Second Coming in their lifetime and
ignore anything else which won’t. So, e.g., planning for a system and ministry to properly
spiritually cultivate and humanitarianly minister to the world, such as being done in the NJK
Project, is summarily dismissed as there is no surety of “self-profiting” “in one’s own lifetime”
through such an altruistic endeavor. And thus is the Full Gospel of Christ “selfishly” curtailed
and hindered and, most ironically enough, as this all delays the ‘true and full emulation of
Christ’s Character in His people’ =COL 69.1, (indeed just fully engaging in such self-
disinterested and altruistic works would speak volumes in regard to full Christlike character),
that is actually what is preventing the Second Coming from ever actually being an even soon
possibility. (COL 69.2) (See the similar commenting related to these SOP statements by Shawn
Brace here[03:36-06:18] during NZYC 2012).

SDA Pseudo-Eschatology: ‘Global Economic Crisis = Final Events’

If it wasn’t so Spiritually pivotal, it would be unrestrainedly Roll on the Floor, Laugh Out
Loud, to see how more and more SDA are buying into this subtle prophetic view, as
popularly/prominently (still) preached by David Gates (see in here) that: “SOP Prophesied Final
Events will unravel due to a soon coming Global Economic Crisis.” (See also e.g., in this 09-08-
12 sermon and the beginning of this 10-13-12 sermon (and also the beginning of the 11-10-12
sermon) by Dwight Nelson; which were (nonetheless) tacitly, even furtheringly, supported &
endorsed during this 2012 NARLA presentation by Lake Union Religious Liberty Director, Vern
Alger, [a PMC member] (02:15-07:28 & 33:15ff); -later relatedly enjoined during Q&A by co-
presenter, MAUC Religious Liberty Director, Darrel Huenergardt (01:12:01-01:16:05)). Most
are seeing this as the prophesied “National Ruin”. The Bible and SOP account however is
contrarily clear that ‘National Ruin will follow (and not, as they claim/believe/preach, cause)
National Apostasy, and that this National Apostasy will be caused by the terror brought about by
Super-Natural (i.e., non-“natural”, and at the very least, ‘God-allowed’ (=GC 589.2)) Disasters.
The SOP says absolutely nothing about an Economic Crash and Crisis causing all of this. (See
the futile attempts by Ed Reid here). That is just the positing of people who have this worshipful
mentality [just as seen by the people who are willing to put their life at risk in related violent
manifestations] that the Capitalistic Economy is god (=Mammon) and so if it crashes, then it
must be “the end of the world”. An idolizing mentality that is even worsely (for they should
“enlightenedly” know the Truth) shared by SDAs as they completely ignore what God has
specifically said in order to “fearfully” bow down to the “All Mighty Economy”. (contra Rev
14:7). An Economic Crisis is never an “Act of God” it is always purely man-made, and all
reflective of, and entirely due to, the utter spuriousness of this man-made, fictional and
whimsical, Capitalistic Economy.[8]8, [9]9
But in all of this is fulfilled the Ezek 14:1-5, 7ff Divine modus operandi, and also 2 Thess
2:7-12 scenario, where God is allowing even SDAs to be self-deceived and misguided by the
Prophetic Golden Calf (ala. 1 Sam 13:8-12ff) that they have chosen to erect and follow as their
god. Like that rebellious generation in God’s Israel, they wanted something more tangible and
concrete to fix their faith upon than something that entirely depended on God (and also His
chosen time) (1T 186.2-188.2)
...And so, deliberately tersely said here....do expect most delusive things to “unravel” in
that spurious context of a Global Economic Crisis for therewith will God cause the SDA Church,
or whatever is left of it after that, to “hit the wall” and too late realize that they have fought the
wrong fight. Remember 70 A.D.... -all because the Jewish Nation would not heed the Gospel
Teachings of Christ!! (=TM 409.2-3; COL 294.1-2ff; see here)[10]10

SDA Panel on Second Coming Delay

It was overshadowingly quite comical to hear the ASI 2013 Panel here made up of Ted
Wilson, Mark Finley, C. D. Brooks, Lewis Walton, Ed Reid, Andi Hunsaker, and moderated by
Don Mackintosh, try to variously explain ‘why the Second Coming had not yet occurred’. While
during that discussion the most correct point/answer was made by Ted Wilson, and that most
naturally because he has rightly begun to tangibly espoused the Full Gospel mandate of Christ,
and thus is most naturally beginning to “see the light”, namely the “light” for/about this “past
Midnight Cry” (as concealedly most pivotally involved within this prophetic revelation) (=Matt
25:1-13) delay, which indeed, as he rightly, essentially said [at 35:37-37:42] all revolves around
‘truly reflecting the Character of Christ in ministering to the needs of others as unequivocally
stipulated in Isa 58 (=RH, February 11, 1896 par. 6; COL 69.1), and not merely on the verbal
proclamation of the Gospel/Three Angels’ Message. As referenced in here, Don Mackintosh also
rightly has that Biblical understanding, and it was probably because he was here merely the
moderator, that he himself did not also express this answer, probably not seeing a need to add
anything to what Ted Wilson had correctly said. (Also similarly expressed by Mark Finley
[21:10-22:37] and Andi Hunsaker [17:47-20:13]; cf. Lewis Walton’s related point on the “Spirit
of ASI” at [24:04-24:41]).
And that is indeed, as it was with the Jews in the First Century AD (cf. Luke 10:30-37)
the thin line veil that restricts one from being able to clearly and illuminatingly look into the
prefect Law/Will of God and fully understanding what God’s Gospel Truth is all about. (=2 Cor
3:7-18). And once that veil is removed, pointedly revealing that God is, pointedly in this
Eschatological age not at all dependent on “set times” [cf. Finley’s 7BC 971.7-capped more than
less accurate mini-exposition [at 01:22:50-01:26:42] on this issue], then should, if humbly not
pridefully resisted, naturally also come other pivotal Theological understandings, pointedly
about ‘God and the Future’ (Isa 46:9-11) which clearly shows that God does implement His Jer
18:1-10 principle at will and is not restricted by either any promise, or even condemnation,
which He had said He would justly effectuate based on passed warranting circumstances. For
one thing, this Biblical understanding would have avoided that Panel from expressing the various
smug, quasi-heretical, Bible and SOP dismissive, and Theologically dissonant statements which
they did for the most part of the Panel, including the mystically Pharisaical vacuous call by Andi
Hunsaker to ‘“repent(??)” for what happened back in 1888’ [50:52-52:25]. As discussed here,
that message has actually not only since long been heeded by SDA’s, i.e., as it was then
ideologically known and understood by A.T. Jones and E.J. Waggoner (LDE 200.1-2), But it has
actually since further advanced, developed and fully bloomed into its Full, now also practical
(LDE 218.3), second part, which is what completes the revelation of the Christ to the world,
being, i.e. His tangibly great good works also the tangible reason why He was put on the Cross.
(John 11:45-53; RH, January 7, 1902 par. 11 = 16MR 34.1). So the actual “repentance” that now
needs to be done is in present relation to not heeding this message as it now fully applies.
So, specifically, what all these more advanced and Biblically accurate understanding
would have avoid that panel is, as most emblematically seen from the very first question, from
that first section of questions [at 17:54-28:23] of: ‘why Paul (involving Col 1:23), and many
times the SOP [see Walton’s citations at 22:37-25:40], could claim/state that the Second Coming
could have occurred at prior times before our day.’ Succinctly said here, as discussed within this
post, it indeed should have occurred during the First Century AD, but as emblematically
reflected in the 7 Letters to the 7 Churches, most of the congregations of the Christian Church
then had several pivotal faulting issues...and so in His mercy God did not effectuate then, which
would have been shortly after the 70 A.D. destruction of Jerusalem. In objection, Ed Reid
doubles down on his pet “booked” theory that ‘God was dependent on a “Great Week in Time’
which would necessitate that the Second Coming can only occur upon 6000 years having passed
since the Fall/Creation, and moreover that ‘God will not come late’, (which thus, according to
his theory, all claims that the Second Coming will occur in 2031), and he also cites EGW in GC
356.1 that says that the end could not have occurred prior to the 1260 years having elapsed, thus
by 1798...(and I guess one would then have to likewise actually say: ‘not prior to the 2300 days
which ended in 1844’), but all this is Theologically and Biblically resolved by the fact that in
what pivotally took place in Rev 5, God actually then charted an new course for the prolonged
time that occurred then upon the failure of the First Century Christian Church in them not being
ready (cf. EW 38.1-2|Rev 7:1-3). So Christ Prophetic Olivet discourse was then expanded into
the book/prophecies of Revelation now covering what would be over 1800 years of “Church
History”. As it was succinctly presented here, all Daniel/OT prophecies involving the Antichrist
would have been fulfilled in the First Century, as they did not necessarily have to be reckoned
according to a Day-Year principle. That only became the applicable principle when time was
prolonged by the events of Rev 5 which transpired (actually again, with the first being at Christ
ascension in 31 AD and focusing on the damage which had been done by the failing Jewish
nation, pointedly sealed in 34 AD), in ca. 90-95 AD. And that prophetic event has since had a
couple more fulfillments, indeed each major time when the Second Coming could have occurred.
Another one around 1844 with the Millerite/Adventist movement failure, which then led to the
charting of an advancing course in the prophecies given to EGW, and then as EGW saw, for
another future time, (discussed within here) when again ‘the “everlasting” [i.e., final work =Rev
14:6ff] covenant was broken, -through the shirking/skirting/dereliction of duties’ (as e.g, here)
(9T 267.1), and a further course (cf. here on Dan 11) would again have to be charted for now a
resetting Eschatological age which replaces the halted Historical one. (See in this post & this
one) (cf. 15MR 292.3-4).
So what was really involved in what EGW said in GC 356.1-2, was all within the context
of the post 90-95 AD started Historical age. Those Daniel/OT prophecies were indeed “sealed”
but that was pointedly in regards to their time for Paul surely fully understood what would,
events wise, be involved in their fulfillment. (2 Thess 2:1-6, 7-12; cf. within here) And their now
also time-based unsealing occurred during the “unsealing” of the Rev 5 Scroll (=Rev 6)And,
indeed during that age, God then, for reasons of faith evidencing, restricted Himself to set times
for now day-year applied times in Biblical prophecies. But that was not applicable in the prior
Local/Literal era of 31-70-95 A.D. when all things could, and should have wrapped up.
Relatedly C.D. Brooks most subjectively claims [at 28:24-29:50] (actually indifferently
caveatly sidestepping the quite manifest deliberate “setting up” point in that question directed to
him as he, as documented in here, is ‘one of those who are in favor of racial “factions” in the
Church’ (=Jude 1:19)), that: ‘Christ could not have come around 1844 because Black people
then were slaves.’ Well the objective Biblical Truth on that issue is that, as fully discussed here
for the Bible-echoing SOP, God revealed in EW 276.1 that ‘only slaves who were raised worst
than brutish animals and actually did abominable things all because they only feared the whip of
their master, would/could not be saved.’ As I understand U.S. Slavery history, that was actually
the conditions with a very minimal amount of slave owners as most slave owners were, (most
ironically/oxymoronically enough) devote Christians and they more than less treated their slaves
humanely and even instructed them Biblically. They just, as referenced/discussed in here,
wrongly believed that they had a Biblical “Curse of Ham/Canaan” imperative to enslave Black
Africans. So if Jesus had come back then, probably most righteously acting slaves would still
have been saved. It would just have been the ones who decided to not resist the whip of their
master and do what they innately knew was evil/abominable instead of suffering who would
have been lost, and actually mercifully spared Hell’s Judgement by God. And fact is, there were
then millions of other “People” in the world , e.g. in China/Asia, India, Middle East, etc who
then, and mostly now still do not, know of the saving message of the Gospel. So Christ most
likely postponed the Second Coming for their sake, more for African-American salves who were
for the most part actually (really most likely self-servingly for the order/discipline-seeking slave
owners, forcefully) converted to “Christianity”.
C.D. Brooks later [at 31:41-31:59] tries to generalize that claim by saying that ‘it was
good for, effectively, our ever/present existence case that Jesus did not return before.’ That
somewhat almost encroaches on the outrightly unbiblical claim that this was because God
actually wanted further generations to be born. But the realistic fact is that if we, or any other
people since 1844 had not been born...they just would not have ever had any notion of this. To
echo what the Angel said to EGW in EW 276.1: ‘they would have continued to be as they had
always never been.’ And this actually pointedly speaks about this issue of Finishing the Work.
God actually realistically is only in “present time” relationship with people. He does not know
who will exist in the future, and not what they will do, though He certainly has the brain power
to compute a myriad of genetic/DNA inputs from an alive group of people to forecast scenarios
of, at least what future people could look like. However in terms of what they will be like
character-wise, as this squarely depends on the decisions they will make (See this sermon by
David Asscherick), that in itself would be an even more complex computing ordeal which I think
God just does not bother to “speculatively” do. He has much more important Creative and
Sustaining things to constructively do with His Divine Energy.
So all this to soberingly say that no one is ‘indispensable’ to God, to the point where he
would delay the Second Coming so that a person can be born in the future. Life entirely is a gift
and not a cosmic right, meaning that it just happens that people are born and not that they have
an Eternal right to be born. The future is created by every passing second and does not actually
exist. So, and also in relation to Finishing the Work, it always will be what we make it to be by
our present decisions. And relatedly, if one is presently involved in doing such Work, it is not
self-importantly because they were always meant to be, and were thus “indispensable to God’
but because, when it happened, through the passing of, since the First Century AD, “bonus”
time, they were step by step obedient to the leading of God who had “electingly” cast His vote of
confidence and trust on them to do a specific task that He needed/needs to be done in His overall
Redemptive Work. So at best, one can only thank God for the “bonus” which is their
life/existence, and this chance that they have “to also be”, -which is why all conceived life
should be honored and protected.
This is all not simple to spell out, but tersely said “Life is what we make it to be” and not
what it was always supposed to be...so we all have this imperative to “Live Well” and make our
existence count for the best. No one is doing, even “prophetically” so, ‘what they were always
supposed to do’ but merely what they have chosen and decided to do. And when one grasps all
of that, they then “reality checkly” realize the great opportunity they presently have, and that
they should literally ‘“seize the day”’s Divine duty’ (Heb 4:6-11ff) pointedly as the Bible and
SOP are clear that Final Events are on an action-reaction basis...I.e., God’s Righteous people act
and the unrighteous, spuriously claiming “national security” and “peace” react (=2 Tim 3:12 (cf.
this sermon), see on the Second Seal’s Horseman (Rev 6:3-4) in here), and God increasingly
duly adjudges, including with the releasing of the 4 Winds...when then all “Hell” will literally
break lose. So those who have an “awaiting of a set time/event” (i.e., Sunday Laws, or (Ed
Reid’s misconstruingly erroneously, spuriously attributed&claimed) 2031 limit or Financial
Collapse[53:48-55:16-56:17]) mentality and won’t do anything until they will see these things
occur are just shooting themselves in the foot, actually “head”, since they are then actually
assuring their death as the Second Coming will not occur until God’s testifying Work is done.
And now there is the whole further issue as to what the prophetic/Spiritual issues actually have
Eschatologically advanced to be today....

Confusion in Cities
RH, April 14, 1903 par. 33
“Balls of Fire” 11MR 361.1-362.2

Weblinks
The Real Deal - Adventist Frontier Mission
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWDbopMsUIQ

You Can Serve - Adventist Frontier Mission

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GEhSpkp-JU

http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2011/06/coming-of-sealing-angel.html
http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_of_Internet_users
http://www.awr2.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=13&Itemid=15

Olivet Discourse Exegesis

http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2010/11/world-of-morons.html
Stephen Bohr - ‘The End Of Days - Time Is Very Short’
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuLI9PITMIM

http://www.egwtext.whiteestate.org/cgi-bin/egw2html?C=45104146&K=031129121910926511
http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2009/11/sealing-of-gods-people-part-2-ezekiel-9.html

http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2010/01/furthering-fundamentals.html
http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2009/12/fallacy-of-non-paid-lay-pastoring.html
http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2009/10/testimony-to-church-part-1a.html
http://www.adventistreview.org/2004-1502/story6.html

http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2009/10/pleading-proverbs-264-5.html#matt1023

http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2009/11/advanced-prophetic-symbology.html
http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2009/10/book-preview-god-all-mighty.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%22Occupy%22_protests

http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2009/10/church-triumphant.html

http://www.maritime-sda-online.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=133564#
Post133564

http://www.maritime-sda-online.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=133576#
Post133576

http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2011/10/primer-on-plagues-rev-8-15.html

http://njkproject.info/njk/hc_organization/hcsynopsis.html

Mark Howard - Gospel

http://www.thesermonserver.com/sermons/howard.mark/Gobles-Pinedale_SDA_Church/
http://www.thesermonserver.com/sermons/howard.mark/Gobles-Pinedale_SDA_Church/Weekly
_Services/03-31-2012/03-31-2012%20(64%20kbps%20mono).mp3

Road to Redemption - #8. The Kingdom (kingdom living)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1kI4PqYs20

My Longsuffering Sermon
http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2009/10/book-preview-god-all-mighty.html
http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2009/11/commentary-war-in-heaven.html
http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2009/12/endtime-reality-check.html
http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2010/12/my-first-vision.html#practicumtheology
http://www.scribd.com/doc/45766440/Blog-Post-27-Documents?secret_password=fc9giygwd5af
3i4ei7s

http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2009/11/sealing-of-gods-people.html#jealous

http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2012/04/gods-new-true-remnant-church.html#FSZCmissions
http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2011/10/1888-message-for-today.html#truerighteousness
Mark Howard - YACM2012-A Holy Purpose
http://vimeo.com/97050063#t=1382

http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2010/12/my-first-vision.html#AUpracticum
http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2010/12/my-first-vision.html#eldershipcounsel

Church Triumphant Mandate

http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2010/12/unrolling-of-scroll.html
http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2011/10/primer-on-plagues-rev-8-15.html
http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2009/10/church-triumphant.html
http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2012/04/gods-new-true-remnant-church.html
http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2012/04/the-144000-kingdom-number.html

http://njkproject.info/njk/hc_organization/hcsynopsis.html
NZYC 2012 - Shawn Brace - Saturday
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFEo__LP-Zo&t=3m36s

SDA Pseudo-Eschatology
http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2009/11/ministry-of-david-gates.html
http://www.pmchurch.tv/article/62/archives-dvd-s/the-dark-night-rises
http://www.pmchurch.tv/article/65/archives-dvd-s/three-angels-one-warning

Religious Liberty: Comments on Bible Prophecy & Current Events

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3iNaO_Fscg
http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2009/11/ministry-of-david-gates.html#sdapseudosop
http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2010/12/unrolling-of-scroll.html#ChristorBarabbas

SDA ASI 2013 Panel on Second Coming Delay

http://www.3abn.com/Download.html?13ASIC000008
http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2012/05/testing-spirits-1-cor-1210.html#sstarman
http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2011/10/1888-message-for-today.html#truerighteousness

http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2009/10/book-preview-god-all-mighty.html
http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2011/10/1888-message-for-today.html
http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2011/10/1888-message-for-today.html

http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2010/12/unrolling-of-scroll.html
http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2009/10/commentary-ed-reid-7-year-christian.html

MSDAOL on FIrst Century Scenario

http://www.maritime-sda-online.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=132994#
Post132994

http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2010/12/unrolling-of-scroll.html
http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2010/01/theological-views-commentary.html#GCPdereliction
http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2009/11/daniel-11-text.html
http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2010/12/unrolling-of-scroll.html
http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2011/10/primer-on-plagues-rev-8-15.html
http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2011/10/primer-on-plagues-rev-8-15-part-2.html

http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2009/10/pleading-proverbs-264-5.html
http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2010/12/unrolling-of-scroll.html

http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2009/12/sda-racially-divided-conference.html
http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2009/11/proof-is-in-bible.html#SOPbruteslaves
http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2009/10/theological-musings.html#skincolors

[David Asscherick on Who we are]

http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2009/10/book-preview-god-all-mighty.html#Godenergy
The Logic Of Revival_ David Asscherick
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMJMCqqA9ME

http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2011/10/primer-on-plagues-rev-8-15.html
http://njkproject.blogspot.ca/2009/11/ministry-of-david-gates.html#sdapseudosop
http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2010/12/unrolling-of-scroll.html

Notelinks
Note #2 - David Asscherick Sermons
http://www.3angelstube.com/video/487/david-asscherick-light-series-part-4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KUkFW5Sbnc

Andrew Michell
Live Mission TV
http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyflRglgKd9Y0FDTxsPHhsA
http://www.andrewmichell.com/
http://www.hcbn-indonesia.org/media-center/indonesia-youth-for-christ-iyc-2011
http://www.missionslibrary.com/hcbn_indonesia/Video/IYC_2011/051111%201330%20Andrew
%20Mitchell.mov
http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2011/06/coming-of-sealing-angel.html
http://gycweb.org/media/worship-service/

https://vimeo.com/17423919

Dwayne Lemon Disasters

http://www.hcbn-indonesia.org/media-center/indonesia-youth-for-christ-iyc-2011
http://www.missionslibrary.com/hcbn_indonesia/Video/IYC_2011/031111%200900%20Dwayn
e%20Lemon.mov
http://www.pthministries.com
https://www.audioverse.org/english/sermons/recordings/1737/testimony-of-dwayne-lemon.html
http://www.grist.org/list/2011-07-15-2011-climate-disasters-cost-a-record-265-billion
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZ-OhzFblI4
http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2009/10/church-triumphant.html
http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2010/11/world-of-morons.html#capitalism

Note #5 - Nelson and Second Coming

http://www.pmchurch.tv/article/62/archives-dvd-s/the-dark-night-rises
http://njkproject.blogspot.ca/2012/04/aborting-abortion.html

Note #6 - Parting Counsel - Mark Howard?

http://www.burlingtonadventist.com/
http://web.archive.org/web/20121115230735/http://www.burlingtonadventist.com/
http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2010/12/my-first-vision.html#eldershipcounsel
http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2010/12/my-first-vision.html#eldershipcounsel
http://www.pmchurch.org/
http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2010/12/my-first-vision.html#bronzestatue

Note #7 - SDA vs. God All Mighty

http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2009/10/book-preview-god-all-mighty.html
http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2009/11/sealing-of-gods-people.html

Ernie Knoll Dream

http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2012/05/testing-spirits-1-cor-1210.html
http://www.formypeople.org/En/38_the_amusement_park.shtml
http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2012/05/testing-spirits-1-cor-1210.html#ernieknoll
http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2011/10/biblical-prophetic-babylon-loud-cry.html#spiritualism

Note #8 - SDA/Lemon’s EconoDisasters

http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2009/12/endtime-reality-check.html#econodisasters

Note #9 - SDA vs. NJK Eschatology

http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2009/11/sealing-of-gods-people.html
http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2010/12/unrolling-of-scroll.html
http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2011/10/primer-on-plagues-rev-8-15.html
http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2011/10/primer-on-plagues-rev-8-15-part-2.html
http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2009/11/blog-posting-note.html#eschatological

http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2010/12/my-first-vision.html#firstvision
http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2011/06/coming-of-sealing-angel.html

http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2012/04/gods-new-true-remnant-church.html
http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2009/11/sealing-of-gods-people-part-2-ezekiel-9.html
http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2011/03/fuller-understanding-of-mark-of-beast.html
http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2011/10/biblical-prophetic-babylon-loud-cry.html

http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2009/11/ministry-of-david-gates.html#countryliving

http://njkproject.blogspot.ca/2010/12/unrolling-of-scroll.html
http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2009/11/our-final-test.html

Outtakes
-70% of the world has never heard a dial tone;

Interlinks
http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2009/12/endtime-reality-check.html#sdapseudosop
http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2009/12/endtime-reality-check.html#econodisasters
http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2009/12/endtime-reality-check.html#partingcounsels
http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2009/12/endtime-reality-check.html#giftedministries

Notes
1. [1] Similarly, as another case in point, it was seriously asked in a Signs of the Times TV
program, ‘how come the news of 9/11 attacks spread around the World in a matter of minutes,
but the Church cannot do the same with its own message, and thus fulfill Matt 24:14.’ Well, for
one thing, you can do a 9/11-style terrorist attack to achieve the same instant notoriety! And two,
though the news of the 9/11 attacks indeed became known by many/most people in the World,
and that instantly, while many became quite sympathetic to America, even putting aside a prior
spitefulness of it, this probably did not convince most of them to absolutely want to do all that
they can to seek to become American Citizens, and immigrate to the United States. So similarly,
it will first take a compelling attractive Church, living up to all of the great light of Biblical
Truth, for any global message, or even newsflash, to be significant and successful and not,
spiritually, correspondingly, speaking, just a “flash-in-the-pan, grand miracle”.

2. [2] Cf. this sermon and this one by David Asscherick emphasizing this most pivotal spiritual
fact, even ‘necessity’.

3. [3] And if abortion was outlawed globally as the crime against people/humanity that it
factually is, then this ratio would almost be steadily doubled, at least for the next ca. 15-20 years
until these born children would, at least become of an age where baptism to the SDA faith could
possibly (i.e., with cognition and relative parental/family independence) begin to occur.
(However with abortion so intricately tied to various aspects of the economy, such a global ban
is not likely to occur, for the Economy is the most revered and obeyed, Chief god of this World,
even when it demands, ala. “Molech” of old (not coincidentally enough from the Semitic word
for “King” = melek), that one sacrifices their children. (See starting from in this forum discussion
post and its responses starting in here for more on the Molech & Abortion comparison.)).

4. [4] Manifestly Andrew Michell [and see in his testimony that his last name indeed is not:
Mitchell] was decryingly, pointedly responding to the presentation a couple of days before [11-
03-11 at 9:00] [video] in that Youth Conference by Dwayne Lemon of P.T.H. Ministries [who
also has an interesting conversion testimony] which presented this ‘of late SDA-typical,
“birthpangs” sermon.’ Pivotally, Lemon posited [22:33-24:25ff & 35:29-40:46ff] that the word
“perplexity” [Strongs #640 & #639] in Luke 21:25 meant ‘a lack of (coping) resources’, (which
is passably true given its general “at a loss” meaning, but not necessarily, i.e.,
substantively/factually actually, financial resources) and so ‘since figures such as the whole
World (and not just America as Lemon probably misread and thus misstated, but his displayed
article clearly indicated otherwise, (and he does seem to have suddenly noticed this then, but
chose to gloss over it), [i.e., ‘$210B of those $265B were for the Japan Tsunami and its Nuclear
Plant meltdown disaster’]), suffering a record $265 Billion in natural disaster damages in 2011
[actually during just the first 6 months], the World is right on the verge of this tipping point
where it can no longer provide the needed “resources” to face natural disasters.’ Conclusion:
‘The end is very, very near!!”
Well that prophetic theory is factually debunked by the fact that $265,000,000,000
represents only ca. 0.4% of the World’s $75 Trillion GDP (and in total: 1.8% of the U.S.’s, but
with only potentially $55B at most (and actually +$52B for the full 2011 year according to this
PBS News report [03:20]) being applicable, thus 0.4% of the U.S. $15T GDP) economic output.
Furthermore, as implicitly cited in that article, in developed (western) countries like the U.S. and
Japan, most of these costs were fully covered by already collected insurance funds [unless of
course they were classified as “Acts of God” and/or there were no specific “disaster”
policies/coverage], including State/Provincial and Federal/National Disaster Relief Funds. And
with the warped way in which a Capitalistic economy functions, indeed where ‘digging a hole
simply to refill it’ would qualify as a valid job if someone could somehow figure out how to
profit from this activity, such natural disasters actually help the economy job-wise as they
created repair, re-construction and infrastructure work jobs, which are indeed indirectly fully
paid for by those Insurance and (the more generalized) Public funds (with the government fund
being a sort of (public) Insurance for “private” Insurance companies). So the $75 Trillion GDP
producing World, (including the $15T GDP U.S.), has a long, long way to go before it, in whole
or in part, ‘“at a loss”, i.e., insolvently, runs out of (financial) coping resources’! (By the way,
the U.S. probably suffers the most number of, and most costly (given their high advanced
development), natural disasters (e.g., namely: (regularly) earthquakes, tornadoes, hurricanes,
forest fires, floods; with occasionally also hailstorms, blizzards, ice storms, heat waves,
droughts, landslides, [ecological impact of oil spills]) than any other single country in the world;
-with 12 such “severe weather events” in 2011. (Perhaps not at all a coincidence, but an
chastising, Divine Allowance. Indeed compared to its northern neighbor Canada and its relative
lack of such, especially regular, annual natural disasters, the U.S. really seems like a training
camp of Hell!) So even trying to use the U.S.’s, especially resulting financial costs totals to
gauge the rest of the World is not an accurate parameter.
It is also debunkingly significant to point out that Lemon makes the common worldly,
preferentially and reverentially entrenched, capitalistic false assumption and claim that ‘money is
determinative of a country’s resource capability.’ (Cf. this post). The fact of the matter is that in
the capitalistic scheme, if there is no produced/accrued money/finances, then a poor person can
e.g., starve to death inside a restaurant; or die of thirst next to a bottled water refill dispenser. As
money trumps even a scientific reckoning of actual resource wealth in this moronically spurious
system, and all out of a “religious” utter abhorrence of ‘conscientious fair wealth allocation and
sharing’, such fictitious weighing of the world wealth will not only prove to be misleading for
those, including SDA who subscribe to it, and are seeking to interpret/understand final events
according to its “Light”, but will actually not begin to impact actual final events. When
Capitalists will have finished worshipfully self-crashing their own economies and destroying
helpless lives by having been “most obedient” to their whimsically impish economic system,
they will then realize that they were grossly “misinformed”, and subscribing SDA’s (which
currently is quite literally the whole Church, across the board from leaders, pastors and lay
members) will starkly see that they had all along been ‘bowing before the wrong person at an
actually transitioned throne’, in vain seeking for (Prophetic) Guidance and Light. (DS, March 14,
1846 par. 1-2|EW 54.1-56.1|(RH, Dec. 16, 1890 par. 19) =Rev 8:10 (see discussion on the
(Eschatological), ‘world-yielding/compromising’ Third Trumpet in this post).

5. [5] However, effectively conversely, in this September 1, 2012 sermon [e.g., 16:39-21:38ff]
Nelson makes a claim which can be succinctly, summarily captioned as: ‘Jesus will come
soon...no matter what.’ And along this rationale he claims that ‘the soon Second Coming is the
only hope of deliverance for, e.g., the 80,000 starving to death each day, the 46 million
Americans on food stamps, the 1,000,000 worldwide who are annually committing suicide, the
many who are sexually assaulted,’ etc.. He then ends by saying that: ‘in the light of all this, it is
not selfish to hope for a soon Second Coming...it is actually human.’ Indeed... ‘humanly selfish’
(=DA 20.2) for a soon Second Coming will not automatically be a “deliverance” for any of those
groups, but for most, if they are not by then fully aware of the saving and testing Gospel truths
for the end, will just be a doom and eternal death for them; -especially as it typically is the
variously poor and/or “depressed” who mostly engage in criminal and/or sinful activity. (And
even, currently all, SDAs likewise would fail God’s actual/full End Time Test).
It is quite common and popular for SDAs to think that the “carrot” of ‘a soon Second
Coming’ must be kept dangled in front of fellow SDAs lest the entire “movement” then come to
a stop, but if that is actually the motivation for any, though inherently selfishly marred, “good”
works, instead of the “disinterested love” that Jesus expects, then it will not only not be a lasting
motivation, but will also serve to perpetuate the current ‘live and let die’ belief where the Church
only endeavors to do the task of “preaching” about the Second Coming, and not tangibly
engaging in (actually needed) benevolent works which will actually resolve all of those
problems. And this is all linked to, and derived from, a (self-inherently worshipful) capitalistic
mentality, which is reigning supreme in the SDA Church, where it is “spiritually vacuously”
thought and taught that ‘only what is financially/capitalistically feasible and/or profitable
(including for foreign mission) is worthwhile pursuing.’
“Hope”, even ‘Hope of the soon Second Coming’ will never: feed those dying of
starvation, rescue the aborted, provide clean water to those in need of it, etc. Only fully obeying
Christ’s (two-fold) Gospel mandate will...and then, i.e., when that demonstration of what His
Kingdom will be and His character is fully revealed, will the (also testing) end come. (e.g., Matt
24:14; COL 67.3, 69.1).

6. [6] And I seem to recall a tall, slim, young man, visibly slightly older than me, who, I now see,
looked very much like Mark Howard (who would later pastor that Burlington, Michigan SDA
Church), who, along with several other people (e.g., the elder I then had this brief exchange
with), went out of their way, to greet me after the sermon (as I was in a fog of being perturbed
with that sudden “impressed” decision that this would be my final practicum sermon), and had
immediately struck me as a potential pastor, which I intimated to him. (As related also there, at
the very least, that Church needed to have regular lay preachers who could hold its worship
services at normative times, as this would be much more conducive to evangelism, than that
present 8:30-ca.11:00 A.M. scheduling in their pastor sharing scheme). And, along these lines, in
my parting “pastoral counsels”, I went on to also intimate to a couple of elders that ‘they needed
to do something about the especially shoddy and dilapidated exterior look of the Church [which
they have done by now], and also the Church’s fellowship basement which frankly gave me the
creepy-crawly (albeit merely from my external entrance consideration), starting with pressing the
conference for better socialistic wealth sharing in the conference... starting with taking more
from the millions which the Pioneer Memorial Church at Andrews University obtained and were
just splurging on, e.g., courtyard stone gardens and $75,000 bronze statues!!’

7. [7] See similar “laity ministry” calls in e.g.: this 04-06-13 Church sermon by Mark Finley on
Isa 6 [esp. at 37:31ff ]; and this 07-13-13 sermon by Chris Buttery entitled “Our Moment, Our
Opportunity” prior to the Sacramento Central Church Ministry Fair.

8. [8] And these are those who adamantly profess that they believe that, e.g., ‘in EGW’s visions
and prophesying, God had, (contrary to what the Bible actually teaches) revealed the future
exactly as He had seen/knows it will occur,’ yet they have absolutely no qualm to usurpingly
substitute their own “economic crisis-initiating scenario”. And that is all because, they actually
do believe that God is both not “All Mighty” (i.e., even over all Earth powers/systems and ‘gods’
= Rev 16:14) and in ultimate control of Time & Events (contra. Rev 7:1-3): e.g., they preach:
“we do not have decades now, but years” and/or ‘we only have months left’, etc. Yet the actual
work that they have to first do is outrightly neglected and/or inadequately done (i.e., attempted)
due to their various worshipful reasons.... (contra. Psa 119:36 = EW 266.1-268.2)
Relatedly, by the way, FYI: proper “testing studies/analysis” show that this “The
Amusement Park” Dream by Ernie Knoll fulfills the revealed plans of Satan to have a special
subtle snare for SDA in that EW 266.1-268.2 SOP “Covetousness” vision. I.e., it is that ‘other
subtle manner’ (than the one used in EW 262.1-265.2 “Spiritualism” for the rest of the world.
Hint: ‘young woman with fruit’ = depiction of a converted “Eve-type” in Eden with, now, the
Fruit of Life (See more here)) by which Satan would (and indeed has) trap/ped SDAs!!)

9. [9] Relatedly, and thus most tellingly, enough, as seen in the “lack of financial resources”
claim of Dwayne Lemon discussed above, even when the SOP revelation of natural disasters is
somewhat maintain in an SDA Eschatological claim, it is nonetheless still twisted to
tacitly/inherently/sequiturly imply that: ‘it will be because of “the terrorizing fear” due to great
economic losses caused by natural disasters that Mark of the Beast Final Developments will
come to begin and unravel,’ whereas the SOP straightly states that the fear will directly come
from those super-natural disasters which will be deemed to be the direct judgements of God (for
pointedly nationally condoned Sunday desecration.)

10. [10] No doubt the typical SDA mindless/vacuous/knee jerk retort here at this Biblically and
SOP-substantiated denunciation that they have a pseudo-eschatology (i.e., one which
subjectively has replaced the actual “endtime vision” given to EGW about final events, -and that
all out of their sustainedly innate and/or inculcated wholesale worshipful view of the economy,
even in/for/over God’s affairs/duties (=Ezek 8:16-17's: ‘violence-resulting, backs to God’s
Temple and worshipping of the Sun.’ See in here)), their vexatious retort here/now no doubt is:
how can I condemn them for that (indeed “hellish-borne”) alternate/divergent prophetical view,
when in my own prophetical views presented throughout this blog (see e.g., here, here, and here,
and see more in the eschatological prophetic index here), I have prophetic interpretations which
are (surfacely) not as what the SOP has stated?
Well the exegetically Biblical answer is that my prophetic views have followed the
Biblical hermeneutic that: in circumstance of a Divinely-postponed prophecy, i.e., when God can
now longer fulfill His promises due to the unfaithfulness of those to whom He had made those
promises and prophecies (cf. Jer 18:1-11), as it was first revealed here in 1999 in regards to the
present SDAs, those prophecies and promise can, and indeed will be postponed, all in the context
of the Four Wind having been yet again withheld, and be instead later fulfilled upon another
chosen people, which in this case is the SOP revealed/prophesied Church Triumphant (=LDE 59-
61). And, as also seen with what similar transpired with Ancient Israel when they rejected Christ
and His New Covenant, some of God previous promises which were to be literally fulfilled now
have to instead be spiritually/typologically fulfilled. But, on the other hand, God still has many
prophecies and/or aspects/elements within those prophecies which nonetheless come to have a
most pointed fulfillment with that new replacing group.
And so is the case with SDAs today. They indeed have been rejected and replaced, and
the previous, actually “fast-tracked” (even Plan B) prophetic scenario given to them through the
specially-crafted revelations given to EGW, have been postponed and most will only be
spiritually fulfillement with God’s new, Church Triumphant movement. And so God will now
more detailedly, eschatologically fulfill those prophecies in parts of Daniel and Revelation, as
well as many OT prophecies which speak of God’s temporal Zion. And at the crux of this indeed
“furthering” prophetic unveiling, is the understanding that, as discussed here, SDA History
typically enough, through a proper and “fuller” understanding of what constitutes the Seal of
God (i.e., involving the proper and “fuller” comprehension/application of His Law and His
Sabbath), the Mark of the Beast is seen to be much more than merely, religiously, Sunday
Sacredness (as the First Beast of Rev 13 championed), but instead/actually the socio-economic
opposition to God’s Full Sabbath and Sabbatical law and principles (=Isa 58/Matt 25:31-46) as
currently being championed by the Second Beast of Rev 13 through its romancing, dogmatic and
belligerent espousing, advocating and “exporting” of Capitalism. (See this post)
So while SDAs have most subtly (=EW 266-269), deceivedly, and indeed faithlessly,
usurpingly substituted their worshipful economic views as what will precipitatively initiate the
SOP-prophesied Final Event scenario (i.e., the results of an Economic Crisis will lead to the
clamoring for Sunday Law, whereas the SOP actually says that it will be God-allowed, most
evidently “super”-natural disasters), that “Golden Calf” view is not at all the ‘more things to be
“understood” (vs. “known”) about the Mark of the Beast’ expected by the SOP in 6T 17.1
(discussed at the start of this post), because it is actually entirely “replacing” in a key part, and
not “spiritually furthering”, what God has revealed. And it is through a “fuller” (=Full Gospel)
understanding of God’s Sabbath that that complimentary understanding of Final Events and the
Mark of the Beast is achieved. (Cf. this illustrating/explaining allegory).

(See also more related comments on this overall “wedge eschatological issue” here).