Why! Why the Book! by: Ezra Celestin September 29, 2015

I am a third generation Seventh-day Adventist. Baptized at the age of ten; sat in baptismal class for three years, because the elders felt I was too young to be baptized before then. Even at the age of ten my parents had to advocate to allow me to be baptized. I have served in several capacity in the church, even now I am serving in the missionary field. By age 14 I was already teaching prophecy.

Becoming a Pathfinder Counselor, Master Guide and Youth Leader, reading the many books of the Spirit of Prophecy is a requisite. I believe Ellen G. White was an inspired writer of the Lord, and that her work stands as a foundational pillar for the children of God for this time. I believe the Seventh-day Adventist Church has lost its high estate because many Elders and Pastors do not ascribe to the writings of Ellen G. White.  Generally when they don’t they also do not know the scriptures as well.

Well then; Why the book “The Mark of the Beast, Revelation 13 Identifying the Beast with the Number and the Mark?” That book clearly seem to be contradicting the many statements of Ellen G. White on the subject the Mark of the Beast. 

In the book SELECTED MESSAGES BOOK 1, PAGE 37 by E. G. White, under the caption No Claim to Infallibility she says, “We have many lessons to learn, and many, many to unlearn. God and heaven alone are infallible. Those who think that they will never have to give up a cherished view, never have occasion to change an opinion, will be disappointed. As long as we hold to our own ideas and opinions with determined persistency, we cannot have the unity for which Christ prayed.—The Review and Herald, July 26, 1892.

In regard to infallibility, I never claimed it; God alone is infallible. His word is true, and in Him is no variableness, or shadow of turning.—Letter 10, 1895.”

We have many, many lessons to unlearn or else we will be disappointed she says. She said, she has never claim infallibility. In none of her writings has she claimed the inability to be wrong. If Ellen G. White was a live today she would have corrected the error as she have done on other subjects.

The premise of a Sunday Law is base in the false interpretation that the first beast of Revelation 13 is the Papacy and that the wounded head of Revelation 13:3 and the wounded beast of Revelation 13:14 are the same event and refers to the same entity. Base on that false foundation it is easy to identify the mark of the Papacy and to find the basis for a Sunday Law.

However sadly, though this has been taught and preached for over one hundred years, the first beast of Revelation 13 is not the Papacy, neither is the wounded head and the wounded beast are the same occurrence. In this case it would be wise to heed the instruction of Ellen G. White when she says we have many, many lessens to unlearn.

Base on scriptural evidence that the first beast of Revelation 13 is not the Papacy, and that the wounded head and the wounded beast are not the same event. That the mark belongs to the two horn beast and no one else. We as Seventh-day Adventist are duty bound to rethink our theology and make the necessary change to be credible and relevant in Biblical end time events.  

Many, many true hearted Christians have already accepted the mark of the beast unbeknownst to them. This is true because they are looking for the mark in the Papacy and a Law for the enforcement of Sunday worship. They have not been taught the mark belongs to the two horn beast and that they must look for the evidence of the mark in the two horn beast. They have accepted the mark of the two horn beast as normal. They do not frown on the mark of the two horn beast because to them it is normal and Sunday Law is not yet enforce. Therefore they are comfortable in the acceptance of the mark of the two horn beast.

The Bible says, “And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand, The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb: Revelation 14:9, 10.

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