Satan attack on the remnant church

1. Spiritually
Experiencing God
(Part 3)
The Alpha and the Omega

2. What about our health message?
Is it immune from the mystical influence?

3. In a representation which passed before
me, I saw a certain work being done by
medical missionary workers. Our
ministering brethren were looking on,
watching what was being done, but they
did not seem to understand. The
foundation of our faith, which was
established by so much prayer, such
earnest searching of the Scriptures, was
being taken down, pillar by pillar. Our
faith was to have nothing to rest upon--
the sanctuary was gone, the atonement
was gone.—Upward Look, p. 152

5. Siegel believed -
- and still does -
- that the
power to heal
comes from the
human mind
through will,
determination,
and love.

6. Siegel has a “desire to make everyone aware of his or
her healing potential. He realized exceptional
behavior is what we are all capable of.

7. Recommended
Website
What you can count on is that we are passionate about
human evolution, making known the unknown, and
bringing you solid evidence showing that we all possess
the innate capacity to create and outrageous life beyond
our wildest imaginations.

8. What we came to realize is that Spirituality
really is the journey of growing up and
expanding our awareness and perceptions
of ourselves, our lives, and our
interconnectedness with the whole life.

9. So in my life the thoughts and wisdom come from
this inner universal wisdom, which creates my
dreams and speaks to me at times in images and
words . . . The voice, speaking through me said . . .

12. One of Jeff Levin’s
favorite websites

13. Reiki is said to transmit
the life force of one
person to another for
the purpose of healing.

15. Speaking of the mind dying with the body,
“Dossey explores evidence that this is not the
case, that some aspect of the human psyche is
nonlocal, not confined to points in space (such
as a body) or in time (such as the present
moment). This evidence further suggests that
there is something about us that is
omnipresent, infinite, and eternal, something
related in Western thinking to the concept of a
soul and to the idea of the Absolute.”
He also says our minds are part of the
“Universal Mind.”

18. Dossey Recommends this movie
on psychic phenomena

21. Another Author
quoted by Creation
Health material is
Emrika Padus. She is
often quoted on the
Peace Ideas website,
which is published by
the Theosophical
society of the
Phillipines.
The Theosophical
Society was founded
by a spirit medium,
Madam Blavatsky,
and her writings are
the basis for much of
the new age
movement.

26. From the Encyclopedia of Wicca & Witchcraft
“ . . . used to indicate the spirit body double of
the physical body, what one might call the
astral body.” In other sources, it is said to be
an indication that the person has been
possessed by a demon. Other occult
publications say this pose has variations, but
still has the same meaning.
Also notice as a sidelight, the god posture is
like that of the Oscar statue given out by
Hollywood to those involved in movies.

27. This is the essence of spiritual formation. The silhouette of the man in the goddess
posture with the cross and the words “follow me.” This offers a substitute christ. It
invites you to follow an impostor.

28. Another consideration is that of Leland Kaiser.
Kaiser, his son Kevin and daughter Leann, are
the founders of Kaiser Consulting and Two
Worlds Wisdom School. They teach a mystical
message of spiritualism while claiming to be
Adventist Christians. Notice their list of clients,
especially the “F” and “G” listings. You can go to
kaiser.net/client-list and see the whole list for
yourself. You might be surprised at what
organizations you see there. The Kaiser’s have
had extensive connection to the Florida Hospital
system which produces Creation Health.

31. This is just a small portion of
the many authors quoted in
the Creation Health materials
and some of the influences on
it, but it should give you an
idea of the agenda behind it.

32. We are reaping the rewards
of sending our pastors and
worship leaders to Willow
Creek and Saddleback
Community

34. Like Israel of old, Satan wisely brings his
deceptions to the leaders of the church,
knowing this is the most fruitful ground for
the spreading of his false teachings.
“Princes Enlisted in Rebellion.--Those men of
Israel were determined to resist all evidence
that would prove them to be wrong. . . . Who
were these? Not the weak, not the ignorant,
not the unenlightened. In that rebellion there
were two hundred and fifty princes famous in
the congregation, men of renown. “ (Letter
2a, 1892) {1BC 1115.2}

35. Not
Adventists

36. Dr. George Barna
George Barna, a well-known CGM
strategist and supporter of both Hybels and
Warren, has even gone so far as to say:
It is . . . critical that we keep in mind a
fundamental principle of Christian
communication: the audience, not the
message, is sovereign. If our advertising is
going to stop people in the midst of hectic
schedules and cause them to think about
what we're saying, our message has to be
adapted to the needs of the audience.
So who is God ???
“the audience is god”

38. Coming Together - Experiencing
God Through Comtemplation
By: Bill Ashlock - Treasurer of Creative Ministry
Description
Experiencing God Through Contemplation is
designed for small group leaders and others who
want to learn about contemplation as means of
hearing God's voice in our lives.
Discover:
◦What Contemplation Is- and Isn't
◦ Is There One "Right" Way to Comtemplate?
◦ Contemplation and Ups and Downs or Life
◦ The Value of Group Contemplation
This book is part of a 4-volume series. It's all
about starting a Spiritual Formation group whose
members seek to find intimacy with God in
community. Join a movement that is coming
together to experience God through Scripture,
prayer, contemplation, and spiritual mentors.

39. Mission Catalyst
Website

41. www.vervent.org

42. Remember:
Monte Sahlin
and Matthew
Gamble are on
the Creative
Ministry Board
Mike Tucker
of Voice of
Prophecy
was also a
speaker at
this
conference
There were many “God Encounter” prayer stations at
this “Revangelism” event.

45. This Fall we will be exploring how to cross boundaries into new spaces
and meet “the other.” In the US, Wiccans have been an example of a
“minority” religion, often met with misunderstanding and at times with
hostility. We want to learn about and from them and are welcoming them
to Faith House!

46. Christopher Bullock
Pastor of Fusion Church located
in Atlanta, Georgia

48. Foster comments on the Companion to the
Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius:
“This book of reflections on spiritual
teachings of Ignatius Loyola is an excellent
treatment by a noted Jesuit spiritual director
and retreat leader.” Foster and Griffin, p. 299.

49. Richard Foster explains....
“[W]e must be willing to go down into the recreating
silences, into the inner world of contemplation. In their
writings, all of the masters of meditation strive to
awaken us to the fact that the universe is much larger
than we know, that there are vast unexplored inner
regions that are just as real as the physical world we
know so well. . . . They call us to the adventure, to be
pioneers in this frontier of the Spirit." (Richard Foster,
The Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual
Growth(New York: Harper Collins, 1988), p. 13.

51. His books are being
used at Andrews
Theological
Seminary
Nouwen, the Roman Catholic priest wrote, “The Way of the
Heart,” one of Spiritual Formation’s most essential books of
instruction. He also happens to be the mentor of Richard Foster, a
name those familiar with Spiritual Formation recognize as one of, if
not the foremost leader of today’s “Emerging Church,” the name of
the Spiritual Formation movement sweeping the Protestant world.
This is the same Richard Foster, interviewed in an issue of the
Review a few years ago, an issue, in which his personal “Renovare
Spiritual Formation Bible,” was advertised and recommended by the
“Center for Creative Ministry,” of the Ohio Conference of Seventh-day
Adventists.

52. Richard Foster is one of the guru’s of the present Spiritual Formation
movement in America.
In a recent DVD, he put it this way, “this silence, is like a “portable sanctuary,”
where all carry around with us the “presence of God.”
Do you see the significance of this remark? It reveals the belief of all that
practice Spiritual Formation’s “Contemplative/Mystical Prayer,” including those
in the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Satan’s deception has led them to believe
they have been in Jesus presence and many have heard His voice. To them, it is
as if they were carrying around with them a “Portable Sanctuary.” If we carry
with us a “Portable Sanctuary,” and have Jesus speak to us any time we enter
into the “Silence,” who needs the sanctuary in Heaven, or for that matter, who
needs the Seventh-day Adventist Church to tell the world that Jesus is in the
Most Holy Place of Heaven’s Sanctuary? What does it matter, that Jesus
entered the Most Holy Place? There would be no need for a Most Holy Place,
for they always carry Jesus with them in their heart’s sanctuary; all their own,
with Jesus available when needed. All they have to do is slip into the “Silence,”
to conjure Him up to do their bidding.
Does away with
the Sanctuary
Message

53. GODencounters Conference
featuring Chris Bullock
“The hope that
is in you?”

54. Canton SDA Church
Observing Lent
Pastor Todd Leonard

58. Mike Tucker says...
In the third session of HeartQuest Mike Tucker presented the following instructions:
“One form of meditation involves softly repeating the words of Scripture over and
over again. The word suggests that we actually murmur the words to ourselves,
until they become a part of our being. If you have had difficulty knowing how to do
this, I’d like to offer a few suggestions today. . . . First, choose a passage of
Scripture no longer than six to eight verses in length. Begin with a time of silent
preparation during which you come in touch with your desire to hear from God.
Next, read the passage through. Read it once or twice slowly as you look a word
or phrase that strikes you. It is a word or phrase that stands out from all the rest in
the sense that you either resonate with it or you find that it brings out a sense of
resistance. Once you have found that word or phrase, spend a brief period of
silence during which you savor or repeat it without trying to figure out what it
means or understand why you have reacted to it as you have.”

60. Senate Chaplain Barry Black
“What should ministers study to
maintain spiritual fitness? Obviously, we
must study God’s Word. I have often
found it helpful to read through a book
of the Bible, a portion each day. This
practice nourishes me spiritually. We
should also read spiritual classics by
such writers as Augustine, Thomas a
Kempis, Brother Lawrence, Blaise Pascal,
George Fox, William Law, Ellen White,
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Thomas Kelly, and
C. S. Lewis.”
Black also
admits to
speaking in
tongues in a way
that is not
according to
Scripture.

61. Faith House Manhattan: An AMM project

62. Sponsored by the Ohio Conference of
Seventh-day Adventists

64. Muslim raised Adventist Pastor Samir
Selmanovic’s most recent book
It’s Really All About God
is a very personal story
and a thrilling exploration
of a redeeming, dynamic,
and radically different way
to hold one’s religion.
Readers will deepen their
religious identities while
discovering God,
goodness, and grace
beyond their own religious
boundaries.
The emerging church has been making
inroads into Seventh Day Adventism as it
has in most of “religion in the Western
world.” Samir Selmanovic is a Muslim
turned-Seventh Day Adventist pastor turned
emerging figure.
Samir Selmanovic … has some interesting
and alarming views on Christianity. He
states:
The emerging church movement has
come to believe that the ultimate context
of the spiritual aspirations of a follower of
Jesus Christ is not Christianity but rather
the kingdom of God…. to believe that God
is limited to it [Christianity] would be an
attempt to manage God. If one holds that
Christ is confined to Christianity, one has
chosen a god that is not sovereign. Soren
Kierkegaard argued that the moment one
decides to become a Christian, one is
liable to idolatry.1
On Selmanovic’s website, Faith House
project, he presents an interfaith vision
that will “…seek to bring progressive
Jews, Christians, Muslims, and spiritual
seekers of no faith to become an
interfaith community for the good of the
world. We have one world and one God.”2

65. Professor at Loma Linda University

66. Selmanovic is co-leader and
Founder of
www.faithhousemanhattan.org
“Experience Your Neighbor’s Faith”
Mission
We are an experiential inter-religious community that comes together to deepen our
personal and communal journeys, share ritual life and devotional space, and foster a
commitment to social justice and healing the world.

67. Said don’t
use EGW in
the pulpit
Other Endorsements of Faith House Manhattan:
~ Ryan Bell, Former Senior Pastor of the
Hollywood Adventist Church and the director of
Re-Church Network
~ Roy Naden, Professor Emeritus, Andrews
University
~ Monte Sahlin, author, church growth
consultant, and Vice President for Creative
Ministries in Columbia Union Conference of
Seventh-day Adventists
~ Nathan Brown, Editor, Signs of the Times
(Australia & New Zealand)
~ Johnny Ramírez-Johnson, Professor of
Religion, Psychology, & Culture, School of
Religion, Loma Linda University
~ Jon Dybdahl, previous president of Walla
Walla University and a member of 2010
Edinburgh Planning Group, professor at
Andrews University
~ Samuel Leonor, international speaker, chaplain
of La Sierra University

68. Take a Break

69. Spiritually
Experiencing God
(Part 4)
Take a break!
The Alpha and the Omega

71. Since 2008, only
two of the 19
presenters have
been Seventh-day
Adventists

73. Leonard Sweet talks about Kundalini
in his book,Quantum Spirituality
"Energy-fire experiences take us into ourselves only that we might reach outside of ourselves. Metanoia
is a de-centering experience of connected-ness and community. It is not an exercise in reciting what
Jesus has done for me lately. Energy-fire ecstasy, more a buzz than a binge, takes us out of ourselves,
literally. That is the meaning of the word 'ecstatic.'" —Quantum Spirituality, P. 93
"A surprisingly central feature of all the world's religions is the language of light in communicating the
divine and symbolizing the union of the human with the divine: Muhammad's light-filled cave, Moses‘
burning bush, Paul's blinding light, Fox's "inner light," Krishna's Lord of Light, Bohme's light-filled cobbler
shop, Plotinus' fire experiences, Bodhisattvas with the flow of Kundalini's fire erupting from their
fontanelles, and so on." P. 235

74. “The truths most plainly revealed in the Bible
have been involved in doubt and darkness by
learned men, who, with a pretense of great
wisdom, teach that the Scriptures have a
mystical, a secret, spiritual meaning not
apparent in the language employed. These men
are false teachers. It was to such a class that
Jesus declared, "Ye know not the Scriptures,
neither the power of God." [MARK 12:24.]”
GC. pg 598

75. More on him later

76. Occult Symbols

77. Today the mysteries of heathen worship are replaced by
the secret associations and seances, the obscurities
and wonders, of Spiritualistic mediums. The
disclosures of these mediums are eagerly received by
thousands who refuse to accept light from God's Word
or through his Spirit. Believers in Spiritualism may
speak with scorn of the magicians of old but the great
deceiver laughs in triumph as they yield to his arts
under a different form. {RH, January 15, 1914 par. 9}
There are many who shrink with horror from the
thought of consulting spirit mediums, but who are
attracted by more pleasing forms of spiritism... Still
others are led astray by the teachings of Christian
Science, and by the mysticism of theosophy and other
Oriental religions. {RH, January 15, 1914 par. 10}

79. Kevin Kaiser recommended this book to the attendees at
the 2005 Ohio Seventh-day Adventist Conference on
Innovation.
What concerns me is that the Kaisers, who
were honored guest speakers, use this book, and witches,
practitioners of magic, astral travelers, Shamans, etc.
also use it. This is straight occult language being
brought right into the Adventist church, under the
blessing of the Ohio Conference of Seventh-day
Adventist’s and their (now retired) President Raj Attiken.

80. The Theosophical
Society was
established by Madam
H. P. Blavatsky . . . A
spirit medium

84. The 2013 version included a
master of Reiki healing and
specialist in the spiritual
aspects of yoga.

87. Beings they have met with and
artistically drawn...

89. If you want to understand what the spiritual journey is
really like, this is the book for you. Dr. Ellerby has given us
an intimate, exciting view of walking with Spirit. . . If you are
ready to graduate from traditional religion to spirituality –
this is your roadmap.
Leland R. Kaiser, Ph. D., spiritual coach and co-founder of
Two Worlds Wisdom School

93. Dr. Kaiser teaches a Sabbath School
class at his home church

94. Educational leaders
conference

96. "There shall not be found among you [anyone] who makes his son
or his daughter pass through the fire, [or one] who practices
witchcraft, [or] a soothsayer, or one who interprets omens, or a
sorcerer, or one who conjures spells, or a medium, or a spiritist, or
one who calls up the dead. For all who do these things [are] an
abomination to the LORD, and because of these abominations the
LORD your God drives them out from before you.”
Deut. 18:10-12
"For you have trusted in your wickedness; You have said, 'No one sees me'; Your
wisdom and your knowledge have warped you; And you have said in your heart, 'I [am,]
and [there is] no one else besides me.' Therefore evil shall come upon you; You shall
not know from where it arises. And trouble shall fall upon you; You will not be able to
put it off. And desolation shall come upon you suddenly, [Which] you shall not know.
Stand now with your enchantments And the multitude of your sorceries, In which you
have labored from your youth -- Perhaps you will be able to profit, Perhaps you will
prevail. You are wearied in the multitude of your counsels; Let now the astrologers, the
stargazers, [And] the monthly prognosticators stand up and save you From what shall
come upon you. Behold, they shall be as stubble, The fire shall burn them; They shall
not deliver themselves From the power of the flame; [It shall] not [be] a coal to be
warmed by, [Nor] a fire to sit before! Thus shall they be to you With whom you have
labored, Your merchants from your youth; They shall wander each one to his quarter.
No one shall save you.” Isaiah 47:10-15

97. Pastor Alex Bryan, a graduate of Southern Adventist
University in Tennessee, has been repeatedly featured in the
Adventist Review. His former congregation, The New Community
Church in Atlanta, Georgia, broke away from the Georgia
Cumberland Conference and became an interdenominational
congregation over tithe and doctrinal issues (one being the
Sabbath).

100. Henri Nouwen (1932-1966) was a Dutch-born Jesuit priest whose spiritual journey
began in his native Holland and took him to America where he became a writer, academic
and theologian, and a campaigner for social justice. Henri Nouwen is known as the
“Wounded Healer”, turning his own wounds and sadness into compassion and care for
others.
http://henrinouwenhouse.com/henrihistory.html
Henri Jozef Machiel Nouwen (Nouen), (Nijkerk, January 24, 1932 - Hilversum,
September 21, 1996) was a Dutch-born Catholic priest and writer who authored 40 books
on the spiritual life.
Nouwen struggled with his sexuality.[2] "Although his sexuality was known by those close
to him, he never publicly claimed a homosexual identity."[3] Although he never directly
addressed the matter of his sexuality in the writings he published during his lifetime, he
acknowledged the struggle both in his private journals and in discussions with friends,[4]
both of which were extensively referenced by Michael Ford in the biography Wounded
Prophet, which was published after Nouwen's death.
Henri Nouwen was strongly influenced by Thomas Merton and because of this is seen by
some as one of the founders of the Emerging Church. He had visions of Jesus and Mary,
but also of Ramakrishna and the Dalai Lama. Although he found contact with God very
important, Henri Nouwen always struggled, in his own words, with redemption by faith.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Nouwen

101. The Green Cord Dream,
p. 11.
"The Adventist
movement was born in
failure rather than
success, error rather than
truth, darkness, rather
than light. . . "

102. Campolo Speaks for Worship
Services
Haffner spoke at the Gulf States
camp meeting in 2010. Every
quotation (outside of the Bible
and EGW) were from mystics.
Alex Bryan has accepted an invitation to serve as President
of Kettering College in Kettering, Ohio.

103. At the 2014 gathering in Seattle, they have
invited New Age sympathizer Leonard Sweet.

104. One Project
Gathering in
Chicago,
Illinois
2013
Andrews Univ. Chaplain

105. Pastor Loma Linda Church
Youth Director, Inter-European Division
Wife of SAU Chaplain
President, Lake Union Conference

106. Pastor Ryan Bell:
Hollywood SDA Church
Ryan has this to say on his blog...
Moltmann on the Mystical Experience of the Sabbath
"I discovered something else as well: Teresa [of Avila]'s
interior castle and Thomas Merton's mountain and many other
descriptions of mystical journeys use the number seven: on
the seventh level the soul finds its way to God, and it is in the
seventh chamber of the soul that the mystical marriage takes
place. This is nothing other than Israel's teaching about the
Sabbath. The person who keeps the Sabbath, and who on the
Sabbath experiences the union of the Shekinah with the
Eternal One, is already at the place which the Christian
mystics strive to attain through meditation and
contemplation" (Moltmann, A Broad Place, 214).
Ryan Bell was recently let go by his conference in California. They
didn’t think he was able to lead his church as an Adventist church.

107. Bell brought a religion professor from La Sierra to speak at
the Hollywood SDA Church. Her name is Trisha Famisaran.
The title of her sermon was “Repenting of Our Patriarchy
& Heterosexism”
In her “sermon” she refers to God as “she.”

108. Notice the names in the
leadership team.

111. In 2006, Brian McLaren was a guest speaker at the Adventist Loma
Linda University. McLaren rejects the traditional view of the
atonement (substitutionary death of Christ for sins). Loma Linda
now has spiritual formation as an integral part of school life.
Interestingly, they are using the Journal of Spiritual Formation that
is put out by Biola University (a strong proponent for
contemplative).
Pastor John Jenson, an Adventist pastor in Torrance, California, says,
“There’s a need for spiritual formation with the [Adventist] Church .
. . Without spiritual formation, a person would be ’spiritually
uncivilized.’” If this line of reasoning is shared among other
Adventist pastors, then no doubt contemplative/emerging
spirituality will place its heavy mark on the Adventist movement as
it has already done in so many other religious groups. And with
Leonard Sweet speaking at Adventist conferences, this process will
be speeded up all the more.
www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com

113. NAD board is
saying:
Members:
Matthew
Gamble
Chris Bullock
Dave Gemmell
Karl Haffner
Sam Leonor
And others

114. GYC invitees include none of the names well known in the
Emergent Church/Spiritual Formation movements

115. Remember
Sacred Space?

116. Spiritual formation is not just terminology, it is methodology.
Methods used are forms of contemplative prayer, prayer rooms, prayer stations,
Lectio Divina, labyrinths, Taize prayer, etc. These methods of entering an altered
state of consciousness are taught to the directee by a spiritual director who is also
your confessor.
Many of the major names are Tony Campolo, Richard Foster, Leonard Sweet, Rick
Warren, Bill Hybels, Brian McLaren, Rob Bell, Henry Nouwen, Thomas Merton, Dallas
Willard, John Dybdahl, Alex Bryan, Tim Gillespie, Mike Tucker, etc.
Organizations promoting the mystical spiritual formation are Faith House
Manhattan, Vervent, Ohio Conference of SDA (Raj Attiken, president), Center for
Creative Ministry (SDA), Kaiser Consulting (SDA), Andrews University, Creation
Health from Florida Hospital and many others.
Spiritual formation teaches you to perform certain practices that put you into an
altered state of consciousness. It teaches that you should put yourself totally in the
hands of another person to lead you to a relationship with God. It teaches that you
can manipulate the Spirit of God. It leads to the idea that God is in us whether we
know it or not and that all paths lead to God.

117. “The sophistries regarding God and nature that are flooding
the world with skepticism are the inspiration of the fallen foe,
who is himself a Bible student, who knows the truth that it is
essential for the people to receive, and whose study it is to divert
minds from the great truths given to prepare them for what is
coming upon the world. I have seen the results of these fanciful
views of God, in apostasy, spiritualism, and free-lovism. The
free-love tendency of these teachings was so concealed that at
first it was difficult to make plain its real character. Until the
Lord presented it to me, I knew not what to call it, but I was
instructed to call it unholy spiritual love.”--Testimonies, vol. 8,
pp. 291, 292. (1904) {Ev 602.3}
2717 Contemplative prayer is silence, the "symbol of the world to
come"12 or "silent love."13 Words in this kind of prayer are not
speeches; they are like kindling that feeds the fire of love. In this
silence, unbearable to the "outer" man, the Father speaks to us his
incarnate Word, who suffered, died, and rose; in this silence the
Spirit of adoption enables us to share in the prayer of Jesus.”
The New Roman Catholic Catechism under the heading “Contemplative Prayer”

118. It makes no difference whether we go to other Protestant churches to learn
something new or invite them to our churches or colleges for the same
reason. There is no difference between going and reading their books,
listening to their tapes or watching their presentations. If we do any of these
things for the purpose of gaining spiritual insight or for spiritual growth, or go
for any other reason without the Lord’s direct providence telling us to do so, it
is a rejection of the counsel in the Spirit of Prophecy.
I direct your attention once again to Ellen White’s inspired advice:
“I was shown the necessity of those who believe that we are having
the last message of mercy, being separate from those who are daily
imbibing new errors. I saw that neither young nor old should attend their
meetings; . . . If God has delivered us from such darkness and error, we should
stand fast in the liberty wherewith He has set us free and rejoice in the truth.
God is displeased with us when we go to listen to error, without being obliged
to go; for unless He sends us to those meetings where error is forced home to
the people by the power of the will, He will not keep us. The angels cease
their watchful care over us, and we are left to the buffetings of the enemy, to
be darkened and weakened by him and the power of his evil angels; and the
light around us becomes contaminated with the darkness. . . . EW 124, 125

119. Notice some characteristics of this counterfeit revival:
"Popular revivals are too often carried by appeals to
the imagination, by exciting the emotions, by
gratifying the love for what is new and startling.
Converts thus gained have little desire to listen to
Bible truth, little interest in the testimony of prophets
and apostles. Unless religious service has something
of a sensational character, it has no attractions for
them. A message which appeals to unimpassioned
reason awakens no response. The plain warnings of
God's word, relating directly to their eternal interest,
are unheeded" (GC, 463).

120. “Truth, present truth, is all that the word of God
represents it to be. The Lord would have his
people keep themselves from all superfluities,
from all that tends to mysticism. Let those who
are tempted to indulge in fanciful, imaginary
doctrines sink the shaft deep into the quarries
of heavenly truth, and secure the treasure that
means life eternal to the receiver.”
{S .Watchman, April 4, 1905 par. 7}

121. “But ministers who bear the last message of mercy to fallen
men must utter no random works; they must not open doors
whereby Satan shall find access to human minds. It is not our
work to experiment, to study out something new and startling
that will create excitement. Satan is watching his chance to take
advantage of anything of this order that he may bring in his
deceiving elements. . . . They will act as though it was their
prerogative to use the Holy Spirit instead of letting the Holy
Spirit use them, and mold and fashion them after the pattern of
the divine.” {2SM 60.1}
“The Lord has permitted this matter to develop as
it has done, in order to show how easily His
people will be misled, when they depend upon the
words of men instead of searching the Scriptures
for themselves, as did the noble Bereans, to see if
these things are so. . . .” {1BC 1114.4}

122. Jeremiah 2:13,18 "For My people have committed two evils:
They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living waters, [And]
hewn themselves cisterns -- broken cisterns that can hold no
water. And now why take the road to Egypt, To drink the
waters of Sihor? Or why take the road to Assyria, To drink the
waters of the River?

123. “With stern and commanding voice Elijah cries: "How long halt
ye between two opinions? if the Lord be God, follow Him: but if
Baal, then follow him. And the people answered him not a
word." Not one in that vast assembly dared utter one word for
God and show his loyalty to Jehovah.
What astonishing deception and fearful blindness had, like a dark
cloud, covered Israel! This blindness and apostasy had not closed
about them suddenly; it had come upon them gradually as they
had not heeded the word of reproof and warning which the Lord
had sent to them because of their pride and their sins. And now,
in this fearful crisis, in the presence of the idolatrous priests and
the apostate king, they remained neutral. If God abhors one sin
above another, of which His people are guilty, it is doing nothing
in case of an emergency. Indifference and neutrality in a religious
crisis is regarded of God as a grievous crime and equal to the very
worst type of hostility against God. All Israel is silent.” [3T pg.
280]

124. My message to you is: No longer consent to listen
without protest to the perversion of truth. Unmask the
pretentious sophistries which, if received, will lead
ministers and physicians and medical missionary
workers to ignore the truth. Every one is now to stand
on his guard. God calls upon men and women to take
their stand under the blood-stained banner of Prince
Emmanuel. I have been instructed to warn our people;
for many are in danger of receiving theories and
sophistries that undermine the foundation pillars of the
faith. [1SM p. 196]

125. As you will see in the next few slides, there are
Others who are taking a stand against these teachings.
Please write, e-mail or call people within leadership
and kindly ask that they not support these teachings.
Join us as we strive to alert others and pray earnestly
for our leaders.

127. Available from
AmazingDiscoveries.org
Amazon.com &
Remnant Publications
No longer available at
the Adventist Book
Center
(Professor Kenley Hall at
Andrews University told his
students and others to
boycott Revew & Herald until
they stopped printing this
book. . . R&H succumbed to
the pressure.)

129. Available on Audioverse

132. Victor Gill has a
very good
presentation on
spiritual formation
called
“Sleepwalking”
Walter Veith’s
recent series “Total
Transformation”
also speaks about
this issue.

133. Non Adventist site but they’re sounding the
alarm! We should be too!

134. Hopefully you’ve been able to catch just a
glimpse of the emerging church movement. Its
essence is... mysticism, ecumenism, pantheism,
interspirituality, down-playing the authority of
Scripture, a non-biblical view of the atonement,
and a kingdom-now eschatology. Really, the
emerging church should be called the merging
church, for it is a merging together of all beliefs,
all faiths, and all gods.

135. “If God has any new light to communicate, He
will let His chosen and beloved understand it,
without their going to have their minds enlightened
by hearing those who are in darkness and error.” {EW 124.2}
Ellen White stated, “Much of the history that has taken
place in fulfillment of this prophecy will be repeated.”
Then she said the following: “In the thirtieth verse a
power is spoken of that ‘shall be grieved, and return,
and have indignation against the holy covenant: so
shall he do; he shall even return, and have intelligence
with them that forsake the holy covenant.’” {13 MR
393.5}

136. The prophecy in Daniel 11, predicts that he, The
King of the North (Papal Rome) would have
“intelligence” with those who have forsaken the
holy covenant. It should be pointed out that those
“that have forsaken the holy covenant” must refer
to people who, at one time, were in a covenant
relationship with God, but then turned from it. It
goes on to say that the King of the North has
“intelligence” with them. This word means to
“cunningly observe, choose and separate out in
order to instruct.” The word suggests secret
observation, manipulation, and instruction in
order to conquer. It is interesting to note that this
unique word that Daniel chose is used only this
one time in the entire Bible.

137. For the time will come when they will not
endure sound doctrine, but according to their
own desires, [because] they have itching
ears, they will heap up for themselves
teachers; and they will turn [their] ears
away from the truth, and be turned aside to
fables. 2 Timothy 4:3,4
2 Thes. 2:9-12 “The coming of the [lawless one] is according to
the working of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders,
and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish,
because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they
might be saved. And for this reason God will send them strong
delusion, that they should believe the lie, that they all may be
condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in
unrighteousness.”

138. Ellen White confirmed that in the last days, there would be two kinds of
revivals--a true revival and a false revival. One will be the work of the Holy
Spirit and the other will be the work of Satan. And both kinds of revivals
will impact the whole world.
• The enemy of souls desires to hinder this work [of revival]; and before
the time for such a movement shall come, he will endeavor to prevent it
by introducing a counterfeit. In those churches which he can bring under
his deceptive power he will make it appear that God's special blessing is
poured out; there will be manifest what is thought to be great religious
interest. Multitudes will exult that God is working marvelously for them,
when the work is that of another spirit. Under a religious guise, Satan will
seek to extend his influence over the Christian world"
(Great Controversy, 464)

139. God's workmen must not follow after the world's practices
and customs in the least. Any course that the minister shall
pursue that will lead the people to look to him and depend
upon him, is not after the working of the Holy Spirit. The pure
word of God alone must be preached to the people in clear
lines, and its convincing, controlling power on heart and life
will alone transform the character and save the soul. "The
word of the Lord endureth forever." "The entrance of Thy
words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the
simple." {Bible Echo, May 21, 1894 par. 4}

140. “I saw that God has honest children among the
nominal Adventists and the fallen churches, and before
the plagues shall be poured out, ministers and people
will be called out from these churches and will gladly
receive the truth. Satan knows this; and before the
loud cry of the third angel is given, he raises an
excitement in these religious bodies, that those who
have rejected the truth may think that God is with them.
He hopes to deceive the honest and lead them to think
that God is still working for the churches. But the light
will shine, and all who are honest will leave the fallen
churches, and take their stand with the remnant.”
{EW 261.1}

141. “Spiritualism is now changing its form, veiling some of its more
objectionable and immoral features, and assuming a Christian
guise. Formerly it denounced Christ and the Bible; now it professes
to accept both. The Bible is interpreted in a manner that is
attractive to the unrenewed heart, while its solemn and vital
truths are made of no effect. A God of love is presented; but his
justice, his denunciations of sin, the requirements of his holy law,
are all kept out of sight. Pleasing, bewitching fables captivate the
senses of those who do not make God's word the foundation of
their faith. Christ is as verily rejected as before; but Satan has so
blinded the eyes of the people that the deception is not discerned.
As Spiritualism assimilates more closely to the nominal Christianity
of the day, it has greater power to deceive and ensnare.” {4SP 405}

142. “When Protestantism shall stretch her hand
across the gulf to grasp the hand of the Roman
power, when she shall reach over the abyss to
clasp hands with spiritualism, when, under the
influence of this threefold union, our country
shall repudiate every principle of its Constitution
as a Protestant and republican government, and
shall make provision for the propagation of papal
falsehoods and delusions, then we may know
that the time has come for the marvelous
working of Satan and that the end is near.”
{5T 451.1}

143. “When the leading churches of the United States, uniting upon
such points of doctrine as are held by them in common, shall
influence the state to enforce their decrees and to sustain their
institutions, then Protestant America will have formed an image
of the Roman hierarchy, and the infliction of civil penalties upon
dissenters will inevitably result...” -GC pg. 445
“The substitution of the laws of men for the law of God, the
exaltation, by merely human authority, of Sunday in place of the
Bible Sabbath, is the last act in the drama.”
-Test. vol. 7 pg. 141 (LDE pg. 135, 136

144. . . . Satan, pleased with the deception, assumes a
religious character, and leads the minds of these
professed Christians to himself, working with his
power, his signs and lying wonders, to fasten them in
his snare… Satan deceives some with Spiritualism. He
also comes as an angel of light and spreads his
influence over the land by means of false
reformations. The churches are elated, and consider
that God is working marvelously for them, when it is
the work of another spirit. The excitement will die
away and leave the world and the church in a worse
condition than before.” {EW 260.1}

145. “We cannot be complete in Christ and yet be ready to grasp
those things that come from the so-called great men of the
earth, and place their wisdom before the wisdom of the
greatest Teacher the world has ever known. To seek knowledge
from such sources is represented in the word as seeking to drink
from broken cisterns that can hold no water.” {7T 204.4}
Colossians 2:1, 8 “For I want you to know what a great
conflict I have for you and those in Laodicea, and [for] as
many as have not seen my face in the flesh... Beware lest
anyone cheat you through philosophy and empty deceit,
according to the tradition of men, according to the basic
principles of the world, and not according to Christ.”

146. “The enemy of souls has sought to bring in the supposition that a
great reformation was to take place among Seventh-day Adventists, and
that this reformation would consist in giving up the doctrines which
stand as the pillars of our faith, and engaging in a process of
reorganization. . . The principles of truth that God in His wisdom has
given to the remnant church would be discarded. Our religion would be
changed. The fundamental principles that have sustained the work for the
last fifty years would be accounted as error. A new organization would be
established. Books of a new order would be written. A system of
intellectual philosophy would be introduced. The founders of this system
would go into the cities, and do a wonderful work. The Sabbath, of course,
would be lightly regarded, as also the God who created it. Nothing would
be allowed to stand in the way of the new movement.” I SM pg. 204

147. I AM the way, the truth
and the life...
How do we have a deeper spiritual walk?
• Bible Study
• Prayer
• Sharing your faith

148. “The greatest want of the world is the want of men -
men [and women] who will not be bought or sold, men
who in their inmost souls are true and honest, men who
do not fear to call sin by its right name, men whose
conscience is as true to duty as the needle to the pole,
men who will stand for the right though the heavens fall.”
Education pg. 57