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World Council of Churches (WCC) was formally constituted at Amsterdam, Holland,
on August 23, 1948. It is made up of various branch organizations controlled by
the WCC. The goal of the WCC is to unite all the religions of the world into one
ecumenical package--or a one world church. But in order to unite all the world's
religions together, the differing doctrines held dear by these religious groups
must be waived, and a focusing on those beliefs held in common must be central. One of
the main branch organizations of the WCC is the National Council of Churches
(NCC). Also included in the organizational structure of the WCC are many lesser
branches--such as the Ministerial Associations in the various public communities
(See Collectivism in the Churches, p 60, by Edgar C. Bundy). The
goal of the NCC is the same as the goal of the WCC, since it was the leadership
of the Federal/National Council of Churches which formed the WCC in 1948 (see
World Council of Churches: Religion or Revolution, by Hugh Moreton & N.W.
Hutchings, p 3). Their goal goes beyond just uniting all churches into one, and
includes the same goals of Catholicism, the New Age, Free masonry, the
Illuminati, the United Nations, and other Satanic organizations--or the goal of
a New World Order, with Lucifer as god and leader. To some
this may be hard to believe, but the NCC itself states this in their
recommendation of points to be followed in order to bring about world peace: "...a
world government...Strong immediate limitation on national sovereignty.
International control of all armies and navies. A universal system of money.
Worldwide freedom of immigration. Progressive elimination of all tariff and
quota restrictions on world trade. A democratically controlled international
bank... "A
new order of economic life is both imminent and imperative through voluntary
cooperation within the framework of democracy or through explosive political
revolution." Time Magazine, March 16, 1942, p 44-48. The WCC
and its branch organizations are indeed involved in bringing about this
"explosive political revolution" in countries which are not following
their plan for a One World Church and a New World Order. The following are just
a few examples of this. The WCC
gave $85,000 to an African Nationalist terrorist group--PATRIOTIC FRONT--who
were waging guerilla warfare in Rhodesia/Zimbabwe in 1978 (see Seattle Times,
August 25, 1981). These terrorists killed over 1900 people, including eight
British missionaries and their four children in Rhodesia that year (see Reader's
Digest, August, 1982). In 1974 the WCC gave 6,355 British pounds to members of
the terrorist organization--ZANU--in Africa, which are responsible for killing
87 Rhodesian civilians (see WCC: Religion or Revolution, p 13). Also in 1974,
the WCC gave 50,000 British pounds to another Marxist guerilla force--FRELIMO
(see Ibid., p 13). After
the Rhodesian government fell to these terrorist groups, this statement was then
given by their representatives at the WCC Conference in Melbourne, Australia in
May, 1980: "Our
hard-won victory did not come only through our own determination. We were
sustained and reinforced by the support--material, moral, and
spiritual--accorded to us by the World Council of Churches, and its member
churches." American Opinion, January 1982, p 4. The WCC
also gave funds to the Communist North Vietnamese government (see WCC: Religion
or Revolution, p 16), the PLO, Cuba, and other pro-Soviet totalitarian movements
(see Reader's Digest, January, 1983, p 120). They also gave $823,000 to the
Communist backed organization--SWAPO--in Namibia (see WCC: Religion or
Revolution, p 28; American Opinion, January, 1982, p 2). As can
be clearly seen, the WCC--including the NCC and other lesser branch
organizations--is not working for God, but is definitely working against Him!
They are in complete union with the enemy of God, and are furthering Lucifer's
goal of being the god and leader of a New World Order. Hence no church of God
should be connected to the WCC/NCC, let alone working with or supporting them. But
where does the money come from with which the WCC finances and supports
Lucifer's goal of a One World Church and New World Order--including terrorist
activities to bring this about? "The
obvious question arises: From where does the money come [for WCC financing]? The
answer is: It comes from you. It comes from you if you put money on the
collection plate of a church that is part of a denomination which belongs to the
National Council of Churches. The money goes from your church to your
denomination, to the National Council, to the World Council." American
Opinion, January, 1982, p 12. Thus
any church who gives financial or other support to the WCC, or to any of its
branch organizations, is guilty of supporting the move towards a One World
Church and New World Order, the spread of Communism, the funding of terrorist
groups, and the killing of innocent people and Christians! And not only would
the church itself be held responsible, but each and every corporate member of
that church would be held guilty as well! (for Biblical proof of this corporate
responsibility, please write for the booklet; Why Are We Held Responsible for
Personal, Social, and Corporate Sin? at the address given in the front of this
booklet). All the
different churches, which are members or member-units in these various branch
organizations under the control of the WCC, are technically members of the WCC
itself. But WCC policy states that no individual church is a member of it, only
the various branches. Thus, when any question arises as to whether a particular
church is part of the WCC, the leaders of these various churches can technically
tell their membership that their church is not a member of the WCC, when it
really is through connection to the various branches! The
following is a partial list of churches which are documented as being a part of,
and cooperating or working with, the WCC/NCC; and some for many years: Anglican,
Assemblies of God, Baptist (including Seventh-day), Brethren, Catholic
(including Old), Christian, Church of God, Congregational, Community, Disciples,
Episcopal, Evangelical, Friends (Quakers), Full Gospel, Holiness, Latter Day
Saints (Mormon), Lutheran, Mennonite, Methodist, Missionary, Moravian, Orthodox
(Bulgarian, Christian, Eastern, Greek, Hungarian, Romanian, Russian, Syrian,
Ukrainian), Pentecostal, Presbyterian, Protestant, Reformed, Seventh-day
Adventist, United, and Wesleyan (see Letter from the
National Council of Churches of Christ, January 13, 1965, from Wilbur C. Parry,
Associate General Secretary; American Opinion, January, 1982, p 11; Directory of
Christian Councils, published by the World Council of Churches, 1985). Yet,
even though church union and cooperation is clearly listed in various
publications, many church leaders deny that their church has any connection or
union with, or has given any support to, the WCC! Especially is this support,
union, and connection of the Seventh-day Adventist church with the WCC
vehemently denied by SDA church leadership. Yet the documents speak more loudly
than their words! So who is telling the truth--the SDA church leadership, or the
documented facts? Let us
examine some statements by SDA leaders and church publications, and then compare
these with various documents, to see if we can ascertain who is telling the
truth. And we will begin with the question of whether monetary support has been
given to the WCC by the SDA church. The SDA
church states: "...we
do not make contributions to their [NCC] program." Letter from the General
Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, January 25, 1967, from D.W. Hunter,
Associate Secretary. "We
have no financial relationship with this [WCC] organization. All of the funds
that we as a Church receive...are disbursed entirely through our own
denominational channels. We understand them to be contributed on the basis that
we shall use them to maintain the various programs operated by our Church,
including of course our various welfare programs.... "So
the brief answer to your inquiry is that we do not contribute any funds to this
[WCC] organization." Letter from the General Conference of Seventh-day
Adventists, January 5, 1983, from L.L. Butler, Treasurer. "The
Seventh-day Adventist Church...does not pay one cent in support of it [the
WCC]." Adventist Review, January 3, 1985, p 4. Is this
true? What do the documented facts declare? In the
year 1959, the SDA church sent a total of $6,700 for the support of the National
Council of Churches (see Letter from the National Council of Churches, January
29, 1960, Donald F. Landwer, Assistant General Secretary for [NCC] Finance). In 1969
they gave a total of $5,950 for NCC support (see Letter from the National
Council of Churches, April 7, 1970, Constant H. Jacquet, Director Research
Library). In
fact, in 1984, the SDA church itself admittedly gave $8,000 to the World and
National Councils of Churches, and then stated: "This
is apparently what it has been running for the last few years." Letter from
the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, June 13, 1985, Mitchell A.
Tyner, Esq., Associate Director and Legal Counsel of the Department of Public
Affairs and Religious Liberty. Also see Letter from the General Conference of
Seventh-day Adventists, October 23, 1984, from W.L. Murrill, Undertreasurer. Thus,
the documented facts, especially from the SDA church, prove that they indeed
supported the NCC and the WCC with financial help, and for some time! This means
that the SDA church, and every corporate member, is guilty of supporting the
furtherance of the goal towards a One World Church and New World Order, the
spreading of Communism, terrorism, and aiding the killing of innocent people. But
what about the union and cooperation of the SDA church with the WCC or any of
its branch organizations? The SDA
church and its leadership flatly deny that they have any union whatsoever with
the WCC or the NCC! "Seventh-day
Adventists are not members of the National Council of Churches." Letter
from the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, January 25, 1967, from
D.W. Hunter, Associate Secretary. "...the
Seventh-day Adventist Church is not a member of the World Council of
Churches..." Letter from the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists,
Department of Public Affairs, from B.B. Beach, April 2, 1982. "...the
General Conference is not a member of the NCC or the WCC..." Letter from
the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, October 23, 1984, from W.L.
Murrill, Undertreasurer. "No.
The Seventh-day Adventist Church is not a member of the World Council of
Churches..." Adventist Review, January 3, 1985, p 4. In
fact, the president of the General Conference has this to say: "The
Seventh-day Adventist church is not, has not been, will not be a member of the
World Council of Churches. I don't care what evidence you have printed to the
contrary. It is simply a fabrication; it is not true; it is a lie; it is a
distortion. I want to make sure you understand it. There is NO: there is no
membership or intention of becoming a member....We are not and will not be. I
hope you can take that to the bank as a statement of categorical, undeniable
truth. And anything that you receive printed to the contrary, tear it up, throw
it in the waste paper basket; its simply not the truth!" Robert Folkenberg,
"Issues and Interviews" on SDA radio station--KCDS in Angwin,
California, February 19, 1993. But
what do these documents have to say about the union and cooperation of the SDA
church with the WCC or any of its member branches, that the president of the SDA
church wants you to tear up and throw away? Let us first examine SDA union with
the NCC. The SDA
church was listed as associate members and cooperating members of the National
Council of Churches in 1959 (see Letter from the National Council of Churches,
August 7, 1959, Wesley B. Goodman, Associate Executive Director). The SDA
church was listed as one of the member-units of the NCC in 1964 (see Letter from
the National Council of Churches, January 13, 1965, Wilbur C. Parry, Assistant
Council Secretary). The SDA
church had General Conference representatives as members on two Commissions of
the NCC in 1983 (see Letter from the National Council of the Churches of Christ,
Office of Research, Evaluation and Planning, September 26, 1983, from Constant
H. Jacquet, Jr., Staff Associate for Information Services). And had
representatives as members on three Commissions and more than four Committees of
the NCC in 1984 (see Letter from the General Conference of Seventh-day
Adventists, June 13, 1985, Mitchell A. Tyner, Esq., Associate Director and Legal
Counsel of the Department of Public Affairs and Religious Liberty). But
does the SDA church have such a close working relationship with the NCC/WCC that
they are accepted as a voting member in any of their programs? What does the SDA
church state? "We
[Seventh-day Adventists] do not vote in their [NCC] activities. We are not
members [of the NCC] and cannot vote." Letter from the General Conference
of Seventh-day Adventists, January 25, 1967, from D.W. Hunter, Associate
Secretary. "As
Seventh-day Adventists who go to the meetings of the World Council of Churches
do so as observers, without delegate status of any kind, they have neither the
right to speak or to vote." Letter from the General Conference of
Seventh-day Adventists, April 14, 1970, from W.R. Beach, Secretary. What do
the documented facts reveal about this issue? "The
Seventh-day Adventist Church does hold voting membership in several of our [NCC]
program units and in addition has non-voting or associate membership in other
units." Letter from the National Council of Churches of Christ, January 29,
1960, from Donald F. Landwer, Assistant General Secretary for Finance. "Over
one hundred theologians met in Lima, Peru, in January, 1982, and recommended
[voted] unanimously to transmit this agreed statement--the Lima text--for the
common study and official response of the churches. They represented virtually
all the major church traditions: Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, Roman
Catholic, Old Catholic, Lutheran, Anglican, Reformed, Methodist, United,
Disciples, Baptist, Adventist and Pentecostal." Faith and Order Paper #111,
Baptism, Eucharist and Ministry, back cover, published by the World Council of
Churches, Geneva, 1982. The SDA
church is also a member of the NCC by way of the local SDA churches belonging to
the Ministerial Associations in their communities. (A Ministerial Association is
composed of different churches within a local community.) The SDA
church is in connection with at least, but not limited to, the following
Ministerial Associations and related organizations: --Pajaro
Valley, California (see Register-Pajaronian Newspaper, January 11, 1986, and the
Watsonville SDA church bulletin of January 4, 1986). --Paradise,
California (see Paradise SDA church bulletin of August 23, 1986). --Riverside,
California (see SDA Radio Station KSGN notice for the April 19, 1987 Easter
sunrise event). --Ukiah,
California (see Ukiah SDA church bulletin for November 22, 1994). --Verdugo,
California (see Recorder, November 7, 1988, p 22). --Honolulu,
Hawaii (see Recorder, March 17, 1986, p 16). --Garfield
County, Montana (see Gleaner, June 16, 1986, p 18). --Morganton,
North Carolina (see Southern Tidings, April, 1975). --Zephyrhills,
Washington (see East Pasco SDA Medical Center Flyer for March, 1989). This
partnership is not just within the USA, but also within foreign countries; such
as the Australian communities of Bunbury (see The West, December 2, 1966), and
Ringwood (see Eastern Post Gazette, November 11, 1965). And for those who will
still refuse to admit that the SDA church is in union and cooperation with the
NCC, and hence the WCC, the following should stun them out of their sleepy
denial. During
the week before Christmas of 1994, the SDA church and the NCC joined together to
nationally televise the Christmas Eve Special "A New Noel"! (see
Adventist Review, December 15, 1994, p 7). This broadcast was video-taped at a
Sunday church service on December 4 in the Pioneer Memorial SDA church at
Andrews University, and the devotional message was presented by SDA minister
Dwight Nelson (see Adventist Review, December 4, 1994, p 7). It was nationally
televised on Christmas eve (11:30pm Saturday till 12:30am Sunday) through the
ABC-TV network, and the SDA church placed a paid advertisement in 14,000,000
copies of the TV Guide (see Adventist Review, December 15, 1994, p 7). The
paid advertisement of this event, as well as the televised opening credits for
the program, stated: "The
National Council of Churches presents a production of the Seventh-day Adventist
Church." Adventist Review, December 15, 1994, p 7 (See also TV Guide,
December 24-30, 1994, p 55, vol 42, #52, Issue #2178). So the
SDA church is indeed in union with, and cooperating with, the NCC. And since the
NCC is a branch organization of the WCC, the SDA church is also in union with,
and cooperating with, the WCC. But this is not the only evidence of the
Ecumenical union of the SDA church with the WCC--whether directly or through
membership of its various branches! Direct
conversations between the WCC and the SDA church officials began during the mid
1960's--especially in 1966. These direct conversations led the SDA church
leadership to push the church towards compromising the peculiar truths contained
in the three angel's messages of Revelation 14. Their goal was to ignore those
doctrines, which differed with the other churches within the WCC, in order to
teach only those doctrines held in common. The SDA
church leadership states: "Today
the old largely negative approach--emphasizing chiefly the things wherein we
differ from all other religious groups--is past, definitely past. And that is as
it should be." Ministry Magazine, March, 1966, p 10. "The
Adventist church today is better prepared to make common cause with these other
evangelicals than at any previous time in its history." Ministry Magazine,
June, 1966, p 19-20. As a
result of the SDA leadership urging the church to teach in common and ignore
preaching the pure cutting truths of the three angels, this led to "the
General Conference, as a world confessional body or church, [being] recognized
by an advisor in Canterbury at the 1969 meeting of the WCC Central
Committee" (see paper prepared by B.B. Beach titled "The World Council
of Churches/Seventh-day Adventist conversations and their significance"). After
the SDA church was officially represented in Canterbury, the SDA General
Conference Executive Committee passed a Resolution to teach "in
common" with the other churches connected with the WCC! "Whereas...voted...departmental
plans...to create a public image...set salvation within the reach of the
multitudes...to place emphasis on the noncontroversial truths shared in common
with all Christianity." Review and Herald, December 18, 1969, p 16-20,
Autumn Council action. This is
exactly what God has warned His people about for decades--the great apostasy of
the last days--when all churches unite together upon a common platform of belief
(see Great Controversy, p 444-45). And the SDA church has ignored God's
warnings, rejected His will, and with a brazen stubborn and rebellious heart and
forehead knowingly became part of this great apostasy! As a
result of the SDA church joining this apostasy and agreeing to teach in common
with the rest of the apostate churches, top WCC officials along with top SDA
leaders, met together in 1972 to discuss SDA church union directly with the WCC.
These meetings were reported in the Protestant paper, Christian Beacon. The report states: "The
Seventh-Day Adventists and representatives of the World Council of Churches have
met with joint chairmen discussing the membership of the Seventh-Day Adventists
in the WCC. In preparation for the reception, discussions are to be carried on
now on the local and national levels. The dialogue on the top level was led by
Dr. Lucas Vischer, secretary for the Faith and Order Commission, and Dr. B.B.
Beach of the Seventh-Day Adventists. The WCC leaders are especially anxious to
include the world activities of the Seventh-Day Adventists." Christian
Beacon, vol 37, #47, December 28, 1972. What
was the end result of these meetings? Is the SDA church directly listed as being
in union with, and connected with, the WCC? In
1985, the WCC published Directory of Christian Councils, which is a directory
listing all of its member-unit churches throughout the world--including those
churches found within the NCC and various other branches. The following is a
listing of SDA church union, membership, and participation with the WCC
throughout the world: Fraternal
associates: Kenya,
Africa--"Church of the East African Union--Seventh Day" Directory, p
15. Associate
members: Rwanda,
Africa--"Eglise adventiste du septie'me jour (Seventh Day Adventist
Church)" Directory, p 35. Solomon
Islands--"Seventh Day Adventist Church" Directory, p 195. Observers:
Finland--"Adventist
Church" Directory, p 133. German
Democratic Republic--"Gemeinschaft der Siebenten-Tags-Adventisten (Seventh
Day Adventists)" Directory, p 139. Consultant-observers:
United
Kingdom--"Seventh Day Adventists" Directory, p 163. Membership:
Bahamas--"Seventh
Day Adventist Church" Directory, p 99. Belize--"Seventh
Day Adventist Church" Directory, p 100. Cook
Islands--"Seventh Day Adventist Church" Directory p 189. Sweden--"Seventh
Day Adventist Church" Directory, p 144. This is
not to mention those branch organizations, other than the NCC, which are full
members of the WCC, in which the SDA church are also members; such as the
Hungarian Council of Free Churches (see Directory, p 142). This membership was
even admitted by the SDA church (see Southern Tidings, September, 1977), and by
Neal C. Wilson--then president of the General Conference! (see Pacific Union
Recorder, February, 18, 1985, p 4). But, as
should be expected, the SDA church also denies any union of their Hungarian SDA
churches with the WCC. "We
are not standing with the `ecumenicals'. Our church in Hungary is not a member
of the World Council of Churches; it is not represented at its meetings."
Letter from the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, Department of
Public Affairs, February 2, 1987, from B.B. Beach. Also
the SDA church is a member of the organization of the Church of Christ in Zaire,
Africa; and this was also admitted by the SDA church! "...Adventist
world leaders...yielded to government demands to align with the Protestant
organization....[and] on March 24, 1972, Seventh-day Adventists became the
forty-second communicant in the Church of Christ in Zaire." Review and
Herald, February 27, 1975. Also
the SDA church is a member of the organization of the Chinese Communist Church
in China. "The
Seventh-day Adventists were one of the first denominations to become reformed
and to join the Communist Church. Other denominations followed before long, but
not all. These were the Evangelical Church and the Chinese Orthodox Church, the
former under the leadership of Rev. Wang, and the latter under the leadership of
Rev. Watchman Nee." Haagse Courant [Dutch newspaper], January 27, 1962. "The
Adventists were declared to have gone through `a new birth' as an organization.
They were rewarded by being officially classified as a `Reformed Church,' the
first in Communist China." The Story of Mary Liu, p 222, by Edward Hunter. But
after listing all of their various branch organizations and member-units or
churches, the WCC makes this final statement: "In
addition to the relationships with regional and national councils of churches
mentioned above, the WCC is in working relationship with many Christian World
Communions, including the Anglican Consultative Council, Baptist World Alliance,
Disciples Ecumenical Consultative Council, Friends World Committee for
Consultation, General Conference of Seventh Day Adventists, Lutheran World
Federation, Mennonite World Conference, Old Catholic International Organization,
Reformed Ecumenical Synod, Salvation Army, World Alliance of Reformed Churches,
World Convention of Churches of Christ, World Evangelical Fellowship, and World
Methodist Council." Directory of Christian Councils, p 244. Nor is
this the end of the extent of SDA involvement with the WCC. In 1973
the SDA church co-authored a book along with the WCC entitled: So Much In
Common. And on the back cover it clearly states that this book was written by
the "World Council of Churches and Seventh-day Adventist Church." In
1989, the Seventh-day Adventist church, along with other churches, "agreed
to form the Council of Churches in Estonia, the first such to be created in the
USSR" Christians in Crisis Newsletter, vol 5, #2, March-April, 1989, p 1. The SDA
church is also not afraid to tell their membership that they are very friendly
with the WCC! In
1983, the WCC was holding their Sixth Assembly in Vancouver, Canada, and the SDA
church was represented in attendance. The following report to the SDA people was
titled as follows: "Adventists
Find Friends At The World Council of Churches" Messenger, September, 1983,
p 5. In
another SDA church paper, Douglas Devnich, who was a representative of the SDA
church at this 1983 WCC Assembly (and who later became the president of the
Canadian Union Conference of SDA's), states: "...the
W.C.C. is not to be faulted on what it endeavors to do....The call comes out of
Vancouver in 1983 for a New World Order.... "My
point is that the W.C.C., as the most powerful Christian social agency may well
be the world's answer to idealize as well as apply the social ministry of Jesus
Christ...and in the establishment of the literal Kingdom of God." Ministry
Magazine, November, 1983. The SDA
church is also listed as full members of the World Council of Church's principal
theological body, the Commission on Faith and Order, since 1968 (See New York
Times, July 12, 1968). The Faith and Order Commission "provides theological
support for the efforts the churches are making towards unity" with the WCC
(see Faith and Order Paper #111, Baptism, Eucharist and Ministry, p vii). But
what does the SDA church leadership state about the above fact? "Let
me first of all assure you that the Seventh-day Adventist Church is neither a
member of the World Council of Churches nor of its Faith and Order
Commission." Letter from the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists,
Department of Public Affairs, April 2, 1982, from B.B. Beach, Director. The SDA
church even invited an official representative of the WCC as an observer-guest
to the 1990 General Conference Session at Indianapolis, Indiana, to deliver a
message to the delegate body! Joan
Campbell, Director of the United States office of the World Council of Churches,
stated: "It
is my pleasure to be with you again...I bring you the warmest of greetings from
the World Council of Churches and from all our member churches around the
world....When I was at your worship service yesterday, it seemed as though it
was my own time of worship, as well as yours. And it said to me that there are
many things that we hold in common... "So
as fellow Christians, like those Pentecost people in the earliest of days, we
look at one another and we say that we hold all things in common."
Adventist Review, July 10, 1990, p 6. This
union is clearly seen by the willingness of the SDA church to work together with
other denominations--including the Catholic church! And what better source to
find some of the documented evidence of this, than from the SDA church's own
mouth! "On
October 29, 1966, a further step was taken toward religious freedom in Columbia,
with the foundation of the Religious Liberty Association of Colombia....A
Seventh-day Adventist, Raimundo Pardo Suarez, was chosen as president. The vice
president is the Reverend Noel Olaya, a Catholic priest and a relative of
several of Colombia's past presidents. H. Niemann, pastor of the Central church
of Bogota, was elected secretary, and Fernando Tapias, an Adventist businessman,
treasurer. Dr. Carlos Didacio Alvarez, a Catholic lawyer and staunch defender of
religious liberty, was appointed auditor. The rest of the directorate was chosen
from among leaders of various religious persuasions." Review and Herald,
March 9, 1967. "Those
gathering together to praise the Lord in song were from the following churches:
Raymond Blackford, Bethel Lutheran; Dr. William Early, Cicero Methodist; Rev.
Stephen Bard, Cicero Wesleyan; Father Duane Craycraft, Sacred Heart Catholic
Church; Rev. Don Paden, Cicero Christian; and Pastor Randal Murphy, Cicero SDA
Church." Review and Herald, March 9, 1967. "What
we like about this going concern is that it has cut across denominational
boundaries. At the recent election of officers at the annual general meeting [of
the Asian Aid Organization], a new committee was elected. It consists of two
Catholics, one Presbyterian, one Anglican, one Pentecostal, and four
Australian-Chinese Adventists." Record, September 3, 1973. "Robert
Hunter, pastor of the [SDA church at] Morganton, North Carolina, district, and a
member of the local ministerial association, joined in Pulpit Exchange Day,
exchanging pulpits with Thomas Burke of St. Charles Roman Catholic Church. The
theme of the city-wide program was `Blest Be the Tie.'" Southern Tidings,
April, 1975. "...members
of the Japanese Adventist Church...[attended] an ecumenical worship service held
in January at St. Pius X Roman Catholic Church. [SDA] Pastor Lyle Arakaki was
invited to preach the sermon.... "This
special worship service was held to mark the beginning of the Week of Prayer for
Christian Unity....The Manoa Interchurch Service and Outreach (MISO)
organization sponsored this ecumenical service.... "MISO
includes the St. Pius X Roman Catholic Church, Lutheran Church of Honolulu,
Manoa Valley Church (United Church of Christ), as well as the Japanese Adventist
Church." Recorder, March 17, 1986, p 16. "The
Glendale [SDA] church is hosting a teaching festival for the Verdugo Council of
Churches..." Recorder, November 7, 1988, p 22. Why is
the SDA church so eager to work in union with these other churches of Babylon? "We
[the SDA church] are one with our fellow Christian denominational groups in the
great fundamentals of the faith once delivered to the saints." Questions on
Doctrine, p 32. Besides
the above, the SDA church had one of its leaders on the staff of the Ecumenical
organization called the Christian World Communion. "Rome
- Staff members of more than a dozen Christian World Communions (CWC's, world
organizations for the various Christian traditions) held their annual conference
of secretaries (here, 20-23 October). It included separate sessions with the
pope, and leaders of the Federation of Evangelical Churches in Italy.... "The
conference chose Pierre Duprey, secretary of the Vatican Secretariat for
Promoting Christian Unity, as its chairperson, succeeding Joe Hale, general
secretary of the World Methodist Council. B.B. Beach, director of the public
affairs and religious liberty department of the General Conference of
Seventh-day Adventists, continues as the group's secretary.... "He
[Hale] said that though most communions are strong enough to function alone,
`for the sake of the world...we need to do more, to be more, as one church
together, and press beyond simply being strong links in a chain of separate
communions. He proposed a `calculated step, a small step' in that direction,
including defining and claiming publicly `an even more formal unity than we now
admit'.... "Besides
those already mentioned, CWCs include the Lutheran World Federation, Anglican
Consultative Council, Baptist World Alliance, Salvation Army, Friends [Quaker]
World Committee for Consultation, World Evangelical Fellowship, Mennonite World
Conference, World Convention of Churches of Christ, Reformed Ecumenical Synod,
World Alliance of Reformed Churches, Ecumenical [Eastern Orthodox] Patriarchate,
Moscow [Eastern Orthodox] Patriarchate, Church of the Brethren, and
International Old Catholic Bishops' Conference. Staff from the World Council of
Churches also participated." Ecumenical Press Service, October, 1986
(86.10.126). But not
only is Bert B. Beach the Secretary of this Ecumenical organization, but he was
also the Secretary of the World Confession Families, which is an integral part
of the Faith and Order Commission of the WCC! Beach
himself states: "I
have been representing our Church at this meeting for nine years. I have served
as secretary of the conference." Letter from B.B. Beach, November, 1977. Not
only is the SDA church in complete union with the WCC, the NCC, and the
Ecumenical Movement, but they are also seeking doctrinal union by embracing the
heresies of other churches--especially Catholic! In
January, 1982, the Seventh-day Adventist leadership--representing the SDA
church--were in attendance and part of the ecumenical meeting of the Faith and
Order Conference of the World Council of Churches in Lima, Peru (see Faith and
Order Paper #111, Baptism, Eucharist and Ministry, back cover). The
following book, printed by the WCC, documents the SDA church's "official
response" to this Lima text which they sent to the WCC on the ecumenical
subjects discussed at this meeting. The SDA
church officially states through their Council on Inter-Church Relations, that,
among other things: "The
purpose of this essay is primarily to show...Seventh-day Adventist understanding
of the eucharist or the Lord's supper...[and] to highlight Adventist
understanding and practice of the eucharist... "In
preparation for the celebration of the eucharist Seventh-day Adventists practice
the washing of feet..." Churches Respond to BEM (Baptism, Eucharist, and
Ministry), vol 2, p 341-343, published by the World Council of Churches in 1986. The SDA
church also states: "On
occasion Seventh-day Adventists refer to the eucharist as a sacrament."
Churches Respond to BEM, vol 2, p 342. The SDA
church also states that SDA's are "conscious of the sacredness of the
celebration of the eucharist" (see Ibid., p 342). The SDA
church no longer considers the Eucharist as a "most blasphemous" and
"heaven-insulting heresy" (see Spirit of Prophecy, vol 4, p 63), but
now considers it a close and sacred part of the beliefs of the church! But it is
one thing to declare this to the other member churches of the WCC; would the SDA
leadership really tell their membership these new positions of their church
regarding this Catholic heresy? In
1991, the World Council of Churches held their convention in Canberra,
Australia. Representatives of the SDA church were present, and this is the
following report to the SDA people: "And
we could go on if space permitted--to mention the WCC's...accentuation of the
Holy Spirit and the Eucharist. All of these emphases fit into the ambit of the
three angels' messages." Adventist Review, May 2, 1991, p 10. Since
when does this Catholic heresy of the Eucharist, which led to the murder of
millions of Protestant Christians during the dark ages when they refused to
accept this false teaching, find itself within the three angel's messages of
Revelation 14? You can not find it anywhere taught in the whole of Scripture,
let alone in the three angel's messages! The only way one can find it is to add
it in themselves, which the SDA church has done. The SDA
church of today is not the same church which God raised up! Nor does it teach
the same truths today that it was originally founded upon! (for undeniable proof
of this--from the SDA churchs' own mouth--please write for the booklet;
Transmutation of the Three Angels or for the book; The Abomination of Desolation
and Church History at the address given in the front of this booklet). The SDA
church is indeed in union with, and a part of, the WCC, NCC, and the whole
Ecumenical Movement. Thus the SDA church is part of an unholy union with
Romanism and apostate Protestantism--and thus in union with Babylon the Great! This
union with the other Babylonian churches is clearly revealed in the book, What I
Like About...The Lutherans, The Baptists, The Methodists, The Charismatics, The
Catholics, Our Jewish Friends, The Adventists; Rescuers of Neglected Truth, by
George Vandeman, and published by the Pacific Press Publishing Association in
1986. It was also the Missionary Book of the Year for 1987. This
book is truly ecumenical; and the SDA church states: "The
book you hold in your hand is the birth of an idea whose time has come."
What I Like About, p 3. All the
denominations mentioned in the book are already part of Babylon, yet this book
uplifts them all, stating that they all have contributed to the gospel truth
about Jesus Christ. It even proselytises for these Babylonian churches by
directing its readers to contact any of the denominations mentioned, and then
gives them the different denominational addresses! (see What I Like About, p
108-09). The
reason the SDA church can say they like all of these other denominations so much
is twofold: First, they state: "We want to build bridges" (Ibid., p
51), because "whether Christians or Jewish, we are all God's family
together" (Ibid., p 83). And secondly, of course, the SDA church agrees
with and is teaching the very same Babylonian doctrines! In
1993, representatives of the world's religions met in Chicago, Illinois at the
World Parliament of Religions. This meeting was established to finalize plans
for a One World Church. Their September 5th declaration for the global ethic was
signed, "calling for the merger of all the religions of earth--the world
religions to become one" (The World's Last Dictator, p 98, by Dwight L.
Kinman). And which churches were represented as being in attendance? "The
Dalai Lama was there who believes that he is a man god. Joan Campbell, the
feminist and director of the Marxist-slanted National Council of Churches, was
there. The Lucius Trust representatives of the New Age religion were there.
Voodoo, high priests, and wicka groups, and witchcraft were all there. High free
Masons attended. The Seventh Day Adventist church was represented. Serpent
charmers and druids and Satan worshippers, liberal Baptists, Zoroastrians to Zen
Buddhists were all represented. The World Council of Churches and the powerful
church of Rome were highly represented. They met to celebrate `unity in
Diversity.'" The World's Last Dictator, p 97-98. But God
would have His church and people completely separate and distinct from all the
churches of Babylon, that they might be a peculiar people unto Him and His
special treasure in this world of wickedness. "Now
therefore, if ye will obey My voice indeed, and keep My covenant, then ye shall
be a peculiar treasure unto Me above all people..." Exodus 19:5. "And
ye shall be holy unto Me: for I the Lord am holy, and have severed you from
other people, that ye should be Mine." Leviticus 20:26. "For
thou art an holy people unto the Lord thy God: the Lord thy God hath chosen thee
to be a special people unto Himself, above all the people that are upon the face
of the earth.... "And
the Lord hath avouched thee this day to be His peculiar people, as He hath
promised thee, and that thou shouldest keep all His commandments; and to make
thee high above all nations which He hath made, in praise, and in name, and in
honour; and that thou mayest be an holy people unto the Lord thy God, as He hath
spoken. Deuteronomy 7:6 & 26:18-19. "But
ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar
people; that ye should show forth the praises of Him who hath called you out of
darkness into His marvelous light..." 1 Peter 2:9. "God
has chosen a people who are to proclaim the third angel's message to the world.
They are to be a separate and peculiar people in this world of churches who are
transgressing His commandments."
Review and Herald, June 21, 1898 (vol. 3, p 584). But
what has the SDA church done with God's will that they should be a separate,
peculiar, special treasure unto Himself and to no one else? They have rejected
God's will to be a peculiar and separate people unto Him, and have united
themselves with the other churches. They have refused to be a special and holy
people unto God, and have chosen instead to cooperate and work with Lucifer and
his evil agencies to further his satanic goals! They have spurned God's immense
love and mercy showered upon them, and have instead become a treasure of the
kingdom of Babylon. How can
the SDA church and people really believe that they can do God's work, spread His
three angel's messages, fear, obey, and honor only Him, and give Him the praise
and glory due His holy name, by giving up their peculiarity and holiness and
uniting with the evil agencies and wicked organizations doing the bidding of
Lucifer? What blindness! As the
SDA church and people have placed their dependence upon, and are united and in
harmony with, Roman Catholicism, apostate Protestantism the NCC, the WCC, and
the Ecumenical family, how can they be God's peculiar and separate people any
longer? How can they be separate and peculiar when they are in union with, and
allied with, God's avowed Babylonian enemies? Hence, the SDA church and people
are no longer God's peculiar church and people! And God Himself clearly tells us
this! "The
professed people of Christ are no longer a separate and peculiar people. The
line of demarcation is indistinct." Review and Herald, June 21, 1898 (vol
3, p 584) (see also Christ's Object Lessons, p 315-16; Testimonies, vol 8, p
118-19). "The
alliances made by the Israelites with their heathen neighbors resulted in the
loss of their identity as God's peculiar people. They became leavened by the
evil practices of those with whom they formed forbidden alliances.... "The
experience of Israel will be the experience of all who go to the world for
strength, turning away from the living God. Those who forsake the mighty One,
the source of all strength, and affiliate with worldlings, placing on them their
dependence, become weak in moral power, as are those in whom they trust.... "No
semblance of nearness to God, no assertion of connection with Him, will be
accepted from those who persist in dishonoring Him by leaning upon the arm of
worldly power." Review and Herald, August 4, 1904 (vol 5, p 63). (please
also read Testimonies, vol 1, p 283). "The
Jewish nation were in captivity, scattered as the Lord declared they would be if
they did not as His peculiar people honor and glorify God. They departed from
God; they did not fear and honor His holy name, and the Temple in which they
gloried was destroyed." Manuscript Releases, vol 7, p 334 (Manuscript 122,
March 10, 1897). By the
SDA church allying herself in a three-fold alliance with Rome and apostate
Protestantism--including the NCC/WCC and Ecumenical Movement, she has not only
put aside and rejected the command of God to be peculiar from all the rest of
the churches, but she has also rejected Someone else. She has rejected the Lord
and precious Saviour Jesus Christ! Christ
spent 18 centuries preparing for the SDA church to come into existence, making
sure all was ready. Unceasingly He worked for His church, opening the eyes of
His people to the precious truths which would polarize the world and prepare the
way for His second coming and the end of sin. Constantly He called His separate,
peculiar, special, and treasured people to reflect His image and thus to
vindicate God's character to the whole universe, proving Satan's accusations
false. And then to have His chosen people and church spurn His immense love,
turn their backs and faces from Him, give up their peculiarity, and unite
themselves with Satan as his harlotrous Babylonian bride and church: HOW MUST
THIS MAKE CHRIST FEEL? How
many tears has Jesus shed over this? How much pain has He felt? How much more
agony must He endure? What must He be thinking to see His professed people
asleep believing that all is right with their SDA church, when all is terribly
wrong? Oh, may our people awaken and see more fully what Christ is going through
because a once-chosen people and church have rejected Him, given up their
peculiarity, united in harlotry with His avowed enemy, and are working directly
against Him with all the power and subtlety of the Devil! The SDA
church is in union with, and closely images, the harlot mother--Roman Catholic
church--which is Babylon. The SDA church is united with the harlot daughter
Protestant churches, the NCC, and the WCC--which are Babylon. And she is so
closely and ecumenically united with these fallen Babylon Protestant churches
that she is like a sister to them. Thus she is a sister to fallen Babylon! In
fact, Sister White warned the SDA church of this very possibility. "We
are in danger of becoming a sister to fallen Babylon, of allowing our churches
to become corrupted, and filled with every foul spirit, a cage for every unclean
and hateful bird." Manuscript Releases, vol 21, p 380 (Letter 51, September
6, 1886). Now if
the SDA church has become a sister to fallen Babylon, or a sister to the
apostate Protestant churches, then who is her mother? Rome! Or the one "old
in adulteries" (see Ezekiel 23:43-44). And God warned His SDA people of
this also! "Behold,
every one that useth proverbs shall use this proverb against thee, saying, As is
the mother, so is her daughter. Thou art thy mother's daughter, that loatheth
her husband and her children; and thou art the sister of thy sisters, which
loathed their husbands and their children." Ezekiel 16:44-45. As Rome
is Babylon, and Protestantism is Babylon, then the SDA church must also be
Babylon! The SDA church is in ecumenical union with all the Babylonian churches,
so how could she be anything but Babylon! Now
there are many Adventists who argue against the possibility of their SDA church
being Babylon. They say: "The SDA church can never be Babylon, no matter if
she is in harlotry with the Devil and his followers, and no matter if she is
ecumenically united with Rome, Protestantism, the NCC, the WCC, and the whole
world; because the SDA church can never be Babylon." Although
there are no promises of God given without the condition of obedience (see Faith
and Works, p 47; Evangelism, p 695; Selected Messages, book 1, p 67; Prophets
and Kings, p 293), and despite the fact that Ellen White wrote that the SDA
church could be converted into Babylon if they did not fulfill God's will and
united with the world (see Testimonies to Ministers, p 265; Selected Messages,
book 2, p 68; Testimonies, vol 8, p 250), there are some who will not concede.
But this next point should settle this Babylon question forever. What if
the SDA church declared herself to be Babylon, and told all her members to
separate from her? If that should occur, who could argue otherwise? Surely no
one could then deny that the SDA church was Babylon! Did you
know that the SDA church has, in essence, declared herself to be part of Babylon
the Great, and told all her members to separate from her! Please read closely to
what the SDA church herself has stated: "The
capstone of the ecumenical effort came with the creation of the World Council of
Churches.... "On
the basis of Bible prophecy and the writings of Ellen G. White, SDA's anticipate
the eventual success of the ecumenical movement both in eliminating the
divisions of Protestantism and in reuniting Christendom by bridging the gulf
that separates non-Catholic communions from Rome. The ecumenical movement will
then become a concerted effort to unite the world and to secure universal peace
and security by enlisting the power of the civil government in a universal
religio-political crusade to eliminate all dissent. SDA's envision this crusade
as the great apostasy to which John the revelator refers as `Babylon the great.'
They understand, also, that God's last message of mercy to the world prior to
the return of Christ in power and glory will consist of a warning against this
great apostate movement, and a call to all who choose to remain loyal to Him to
leave the churches connected with it." SDA Encyclopedia, vol 10 of the
Bible Commentary Reference Series, p 410-411. What
did the SDA church just state to all her membership? That any church connected
with the Ecumenical Movement and united with the WCC becomes part of Babylon the
Great, and all who choose to serve God and remain loyal to Him must separate
themselves from that church. The SDA
church has definitely joined the Ecumenical Movement, and is indeed united and
connected with the WCC. So the SDA church has declared herself to be part of
Babylon the Great, and told all her members to separate themselves from her in
order to remain loyal to God! Not
only have we seen that the SDA church and leadership have been lying to and
deceiving their people for some time--being proven by the abundant amount of
documented facts. Not only have we found that the SDA church has indeed formed a
three-fold alliance with Rome and apostate Protestantism, but we find them also
united with the WCC, the NCC, and the Ecumenical Movement. Not only is the SDA
church in agreement with, and is working as a partner with, these Babylonian
groups, but they are even giving monetary support for the furtherance of the
goal of a One World Church and a New World Order, and the killing of those
innocent people who will not go along with these Luciferian plans. Not
only have we found that the SDA church is part of Babylon the Great, but we have
discovered that the SDA church herself agrees with this, and urges all her
members to separate from her! But even if the SDA church did not agree with all
this, the documented facts prove the above to be true! And what does God want
His true people to do regarding their connection and membership in any church
which is in union with Babylon the Great? "And
after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great
power; and the earth was lightened with his glory. And he cried mightily with a
strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the
habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every
unclean and hateful bird. For all nations [or all churches--see SDA Bible
Commentary, vol 7, p 979, col 2] have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her
fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and
the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her
delicacies. And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, My
people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her
plagues. For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her
iniquities." Revelation 18:1-5. This
last message of mercy reveals to every member of every church that is connected
with Babylon the Great (being Rome, apostate Protestantism, Seventh-day
Adventism, the NCC/WCC, the Ecumenical Movement, and all other spiritualistic
religions), that if they remain as members they will be a partaker of her sins,
and will receive the plagues. And the only pathway God has prepared for His
people to walk to avoid being held guilty of her sins and being destroyed along
with their apostate church, is to separate their connection and membership
completely from the church, and become connected to Jesus Christ instead and a
partaker of His grace and righteousness--thus having the assurance of eternal
life. But if
you remain members of any church--including the SDA church--which has given up
its peculiarity to God and has become corrupted by being connected with the WCC
and Babylon the Great, then you yourself have lost your peculiarity of being one
of God's children because of your connection to the WCC and Babylon the Great
through your membership in the church! Thus how could you ever receive the seal
of God and make it to heaven? It would be impossible, because you are considered
a partaker and sharer in all the sins of your corrupt church, and are no longer
peculiar to God! "It
is impossible for you to unite with those who are corrupt, and still remain
pure. `What fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? And what
communion hath light with darkness? and what concord hath Christ with Belial?'
God and Christ and the heavenly host would have man know that if he unites with
the corrupt, he will become corrupt." SDA Bible Commentary, vol 6, p 1102. "Those
who will be heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ to the immortal
inheritance, will be peculiar. Yes, so peculiar that God places a mark upon them
as His, wholly His. Think ye that God will receive, honor, and acknowledge a
people so mixed up with the world that they differ from them only in name?...It
is soon to be know who is on the Lord's side, who will not be ashamed of
Jesus." Testimonies, vol 1, p 287. "The
angel is to place a mark upon the forehead of all who are separated from sin and
sinners, and the destroying angel will follow, to slay utterly both old and
young." Testimonies, vol 5, p 505. "The
alliances made by the Israelites with their heathen neighbors resulted in the
loss of their identity as God's peculiar people.... "To-day
God's word to His people is: `Come out from among them, and be ye separate, and
touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you, and will be a Father unto
you, and ye shall be My sons and daughters.' `Ye are a chosen generation, a
royal priesthood, and holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should show forth
the praises of Him who hath called you out of darkness into His marvelous
light.' "God's
people are to be distinguished as a people who serve Him fully, whole-heartedly,
taking no honor to themselves, and remembering that by a most solemn covenant
they have bound themselves to serve the Lord, and Him only." Review and
Herald, August 4, 1904 (vol 5, p 63). When do
we regain our peculiarity to God--becoming His sons and daughters, and God
becoming our Father? It is only after we separate ourselves and all our
connections with all the apostate churches making up Babylon the Great; not
before, but after! You can only make a covenant to serve God and Him only after
you have broken all your connections and covenants--or membership--made with
others! And until you do break all union with an apostate church, you are not
God's child, He is not your God and Father, and heaven is not your home. God
does not ask His people to go through this purifying process of separation
alone, but has promised to help us if we will choose to return unto Him with a
whole heart and start walking this narrow pathway. Yet, God will not force
anyone to return back to Him by separating completely from all connection with
Babylonian churches. It is a free-will choice. First
Printing, 1996, Copyright © 1996 held by "LET
THERE BE LIGHT" MINISTRIES (rs) PO BOX 328 Rogue River, OR 97537 U.S.A.
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