Persecution and the Seventh-day Adventists – Part 1

The greatest thorn in the foot of Christendom since the Dark Ages is happening today in the ancient land of the Middle East. However, amidst the suffering and death inflicted on the Christians by the ISIS Muslim fanatics, there is no eschatologic concern in one corner of Christendom – the Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) church.

The woes of the Christians under the Muslim jihadists today do not jive with the SDA teachings and doctrines about persecution, and therefore this is not yet the fulfillment of their prophetess’ predictions about the time of the end.

Every Adventist knows that the persecution in the Middle East is not the true persecution, because they were taught that the real biblical persecution of the saints will have the following details:

1. The persecutors – Christians who worship on Sunday. They will be led by the Pope and the Catholic Church through national laws enacted to force the people who worship on Saturday to worship on Sunday instead.

2. The persecuted – Christians who keep Saturday holy particularly the Seventh-day Adventists.

3. The reason for persecution – obedience to one of the 10 commandments - the 4th commandment [sabbath].

“A terrible condition of the religious world is here described. With every rejection of truth, the minds of the people will become darker, their hearts more stubborn, until they are entrenched in an infidel hardihood. In defiance of the warnings which God has given, they will continue to trample upon one of the precepts of the decalogue [10 commandments], until they are led to persecute those who hold it sacred.” GC 603. 

The persecution mentality of the Seventh-day Adventist is simply stated this way: Sunday Christians will persecute the Saturday Christians to force them to worship on Sunday. Their doctrine goes on to say that after this persecution happens, God will declare the “close of probation,” the “seven last plagues” will be poured on the Sunday-keepers and then Jesus will come.

This church teaches that the Pope is the “Beast” mentioned in the book of Revelation and all churches that have their church services on Sunday are the “image of the beast.” These “Sunday Christians” will persecute the Seventh-day Adventists because of one specific reason – the “Sabbath.” To them the Sabbath is the seal that identifies them as God’s property.

To be continued…