AdventHealth for Children and Heart of Florida United Way are teaming up to start a movement that gets children, parents, and all Central Floridians talking about mental health and empowers them to “B…… Source: https://adventist.news/en/news/community-leaders-team-up-to-help-break-stigma-around-youth-mental-health
Wednesday: A Call to Commitment
Revelation’s appeal is an urgent call to commitment, summarized in the symbolism of the two women in Revelation. Although at times it will appear that God’s people will be defeated in this cosmic controversy between truth and error, God promises that His church will triumph in the end.
Compare Matthew 16:18 and Revelation 17:14. What promise did Jesus give His disciples regarding His church?
Christ is the solid foundation His church is built upon. His church is based on the teachings of His Word and guided by His Spirit. On the contrary, Babylon, as we have seen, is rooted in human-made teachings and traditions. Any religious leader who substitutes human opinions or traditions in the place of, or above, the revealed will of God in the Scriptures is simply fostering Babylonian confusion.
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In the days of ancient Babylon, church and state were one and the same thing. When King Nebuchadnezzar sat in his temple on his royal throne, he supposedly spoke for the gods. On one occasion, as an act of defiance of the true God, the Babylonian king passed a universal decree enforcing worship and commanded all his subjects to bow to his decree, a powerful symbol of what God’s faithful people, who refuse to worship the false image, will face in the last days. (See Daniel 3:1-30.)
In the last days of earth’s history, a church-state system will arise, spiritual Babylon, with a spiritual leader claiming to speak as God. His word will be declared to be the very word of God and his commands the commands of God. Throughout the centuries the Roman pontiffs have declared that they stand in the place of God on earth. In his encyclical letter of June 20, 1894, Pope Leo XIII stated, “We hold upon this earth the place of Almighty God.” The Ferraris Ecclesiastical Dictionary adds, “The Pope is of so great dignity and so exalted that he is not a mere man, but as it were God and the vicar of God.” The apostle Paul adds these words exposing this power: “ … who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God” (2 Thessalonians 2:4, NKJV).
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Adventist History: Two of the First Adventist Converts
This week in Adventist history, meet two of the first converts to the Advent message and the Sabbath, passionate supporters of Ellen White’s ministry—Heman Stetson Gurney and Eliza Stetson. Heman was born on January 28, 1818. In 1838, he read the writings of William Miller. Two years later, Joseph Bates shared a copy of the Millerite periodical, Signs of the Times, with him. Eliza, a widow, became his wife on May 14, 1853, and they had three children together. Michael Younker tells us more about this story on This Week in Adventist History. Visit https://encyclopedia.adventist.org/ for more Adventist stories and events. Established in 1863, the Seventh-day Adventist Church is a global Christian family with over 21 million members who hold the Bible as the ultimate authority. We are believers who help people understand the Bible to find freedom, healing, and hope in Jesus. To learn more about the Seventh-day Adventist Church, visit https://www.adventist.org/. Subscribe to this channel and click the notification bell so you’ll never miss a new video. Follow us on these social media platforms:
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Two South England Churches Form Teams to Implement Intergenerational Worship
Almost within view of Windsor Castle, England, located on the northern side of the main M4 stretch from London to the West of England motorway, is the Slough Seventh-day Adventist Church. If Windsor a…… Source: https://adventist.news/en/news/two-south-england-churches-form-teams-to-implement-intergenerational-worship
Hungary 2023 “Mind Days” Targets Young Adult Mental and Physical Health
The church media frequently reports about how “at-risk” today’s youth are. Everyone approaches the problem from different angles. Some see the church as lagging behind and irrelevant to the needs of t…… Source: https://adventist.news/en/news/hungary-2023-mind-days-targets-young-adult-mental-and-physical-health
