Thursday, October 31, 2019

My view of the Adventist stance toward politics and Evangelicalism


I wrote the following in response to an article from KEEP the FAITH
 <info@ktfministry.org> God Takes a Beating on Television On Oct 31, 2019 06:00 am


Pastor, I think it a wise choice for us to remain non-party when it comes to politics. That should hold true to the people who you quoted in your article(s). I appreciate your ministry of keeping the people of God awake to current events and their place in eschatology. But, the persons you quoted are evangelical supporters of President Trump. They are not to be trusted, for they, even in all their Christian language, will constitute the second beast of Revelation 13. 

Yes, Jehovah is being dishonored by Hollywood and all the media. How much more will He take before wreaking vengeance? It’s Satan using God’s children to hit their Father, and to do what Satan wants to do to God. The devil’s highest pleasure is in using God’s own children to be his puppets, and then to see them in the lake of fire with him.

Even though the world’s institutions are under the control of Satan, the common people in those institutions are puppets. Adventists know this, and can have mercy on individuals of the darkest dye.

But the Evangelicals are like the Philistines. They have gone back to their enemy from the Dark Ages, and Satan won’t let them have mercy on the unchurched sinners. They will one day have no mercy on you and me, chasing us down to stop the plagues that “Jesus” will blame on the 144,000.

Thus, Satan is creating a bipolar human race, a two-partied, intolerant modern civilization. We shouldn’t promote his agenda in any way, or from any voice from the world. We should remain a third party that is completely objective concerning the world’s issues. We certainly should never side with Evangelicals against pagan worldlings. We, of all Protestant groups, should side against the Evangelicals and their opinions, and seek to expose their fanaticism and to restate their falsehoods in the true, biblical light. Otherwise we will be perceived by the world as allied with Evangelicals, which the Spirit of Prophecy has spoken against in no uncertain terms. 

These are dangerous, dark times, as we all know. We can’t afford to miss any opportunity to keep a vigilant guard of the truth before the people who read or hear what we present, because the people of God are surrounded with the poisoned influences of the Evangelical churches, their TV programming, radio broadcasts, internet videos, and divisive news. Even among Adventists political issues are pervasive. Many are ignorant of the SOP stance on politics,

“Let political questions alone. There is a large vineyard to be cultivated; but while Christians are to work among unbelievers, they are not to appear like worldlings. They are not to spend their time talking politics or acting politics; for by so doing they give the enemy opportunity to come in and cause variance and discord. God’s children are to separate themselves from politics, from any alliance with unbelievers. Do not take part in political strife.” CCh 3315,316.

The political strife that characterized the world a century ago in Ellen White’s day is returning, not setting the stage for a WWI, but for a WWIII, and a second, more wicked, Bolshevik pretense of a utopian new world order.

The new Jesuit beast has ascended from the bottomless pit and is about to go into perdition. The Jesuits’ powerful influence to divide and weaken Protestantism is making inroads into the Advent movement. Let’s keep a watch against it.

Pastor, thank you for hearing me.

David Burdick