The Seventh Day Adventist Church

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The Seventh Day Adventist Church

• 14,399,072 members
• in 60,213 churches
• throughout 204 countries

Source www.adventist.org
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A Brief History

• Officially founded in 1860
• William Miller
• March 21, 1843-1844
• October 22, 1844
• The Great Disappointment
• Ellen G. White

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Ellen G. White

• Recognized as a Prophet
• Her first vision in 1844
• Halo around 4th Commandment
• Restore Sabbath worship
• Seventh Day Adventists 1860
• The Remnant Church

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Seventh Day Adventists

• Seventh Day
• Emphasis on the Sabbath
• Ten Commandments
• Adventists
• Imminent return of Christ
• Similar to Jehovahs Witnesses

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SDA Fundamental Beliefs

• 18. The Gift of ProphecyOne of the gifts of the
  Holy Spirit is prophecy. This gift is an
  identifying mark of the remnant church and was
  manifested in the ministry of Ellen. G. White .
  As the Lord's messenger, her writings are a
  continuing and authoritative source of truth
  which provide for the church comfort, guidance,
  instruction, and correction. They also make clear
  that the Bible is the standard by which all
  teaching and experience must be tested.

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SDA Fundamental Beliefs

• 19. Law of God The great principles of God's
  law are embodied in the Ten Commandments and
  exemplified in the life of Christ. They express
  God's love, will, and purposes concerning human
  conduct and relationships and are binding upon
  all people in every age

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SDA Fundamental Beliefs

• 20. SabbathThe beneficent Creator, after the
  six days of Creation, rested on the seventh day
  and instituted the Sabbath for all people as a
  memorial of Creation. The fourth commandment of
  God's unchangeable law requires the observance of
  this seventh-day Sabbath as the day of rest,
  worship, and ministry in harmony with the
  teaching and practice of Jesus, the Lord of the
  Sabbath. The Sabbath is a day of delightful
  communion with God and one another. It is a
  symbol of our redemption in Christ, a sign of our
  sanctification, a token of our allegiance, and a
  foretaste of our eternal future in God's kingdom.
  The Sabbath is God's perpetual sign of His
  eternal covenant between Him and His people

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Fundamental Beliefs

• 25. Second Coming of ChristThe second coming of
  Christ is the blessed hope of the church, the
  grand climax of the gospel. The Saviour's coming
  will be literal, personal, visible, and
  worldwide. When He returns, the righteous dead
  will be resurrected, and together with the
  righteous living will be glorified and taken to
  heaven, but the unrighteous will die

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Fundamental Beliefs

• 26. Death and ResurrectionThe wages of sin is
  death. But God, who alone is immortal, will grant
  eternal life to His redeemed. Until that day
  death is an unconscious state for all people.
  When Christ, who is our life, appears, the
  resurrected righteous and the living righteous
  will be glorified and caught up to meet their
  Lord. The second resurrection, the resurrection
  of the unrighteous, will take place a thousand
  years later.

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Fundamental Beliefs

• 27. Millennium and the End of SinThe millennium
  is the thousand-year reign of Christ with His
  saints in heaven between the first and second
  resurrections. During this time the wicked dead
  will be judged the earth will be utterly
  desolate, without living human inhabitants, but
  occupied by Satan and his angels. At its close
  Christ with His saints and the Holy City will
  descend from heaven to earth. The unrighteous
  dead will then be resurrected, and with Satan and
  his angels will surround the city but fire from
  God will consume them and cleanse the earth. The
  universe will thus be freed of sin and sinners
  forever.

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Latter-Day Prophets?

• The Bible warns about those who would teach
  different things
• The Bible is complete sufficient
• The gift of prophecy has ceased

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What Is The Sabbath?

• The Sabbath is Misunderstood
• The Hebrew, to cease
• Seventh Day of Week
• Saturday

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Genesis 22-3

• And by the seventh day God completed His work
  which He had done and He rested on the seventh
  day from all His work which He had done. Then God
  blessed the seventh day and sanctified it,
  because in it He rested from all His work which
  God had created and made.

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Exodus 1626

• Six days you shall gather it, but on the seventh
  day, the sabbath, there will be none.

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Exodus 208-11

• Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six
  days you shall labor and do all your work, but
  the seventh day is a sabbath of the LORD your
  God in it you shall not do any work, you or your
  son or your daughter, your male or your female
  servant or your cattle or your sojourner who
  stays...

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Exodus 208-11 (Contd)

• with you. For in six days the LORD made the
  heavens and the earth, the sea and all that is in
  them, and rested on the seventh day therefore
  the LORD blessed the sabbath day and made it
  holy.

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Deuteronomy 514-15

• but the seventh day is a sabbath of the LORD your
  God in it you shall not do any work And you
  shall remember that you were a slave in the land
  of Egypt, and the LORD your God brought you out
  of there by a mighty hand and by an outstretched
  arm therefore the LORD your God commanded you to
  observe the sabbath day.

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Nehemiah 913-14

• Then Thou didst come down on Mount Sinai, and
  didst speak with them from heaven Thou didst
  give to them just ordinances and true laws, good
  statutes and commandments. So Thou didst make
  known to them Thy holy sabbath, and didst lay
  down for them commandments, statutes, and law,
  through Thy servant Moses.

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Deuteronomy 52-3

• The LORD our God made a covenant with us at
  Horeb. The LORD did not make this covenant with
  our fathers, but with us, with all those of us
  alive here today.

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Exodus 3113

• But as for you, speak to the sons of Israel,
  saying, You shall surely observe My sabbaths
  for this is a sign between Me and you throughout
  your generations, that you may know that I am the
  LORD who sanctifies you.

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Exodus 3116-17

• So the sons of Israel shall observe the
  sabbath, to celebrate the sabbath throughout
  their generations as a perpetual covenant. It is
  a sign between Me and the sons of Israel forever
  for in six days the LORD made heaven and earth,
  but on the seventh day He ceased from labor, and
  was refreshed.

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Is The Sabbath Eternal?

• Passover
• Burnt Offering
• Day/Atonement
• Priesthood
• Priesthood
• Meat Offering
• Passover

• Lamps
• Breeches
• Priesthood
• Washing
• Burning Fat
• Sin Offering
• Tabernacles

Age-Lasting
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Matthew 517-18

• Do not think that I came to abolish the Law or
  the Prophets I did not come to abolish, but to
  fulfill. For truly I say to you, until heaven and
  earth pass away, not the smallest letter or
  stroke shall pass away from the Law, until all is
  accomplished.

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John 1930

• When Jesus therefore had received the sour wine,
  He said, It is finished! And He bowed His head,
  and gave up His spirit.

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Hebrews 87

• For if that first covenant had been faultless,
  there would have been no occasion sought for a
  second.

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Hebrews 88

• For finding fault with them, He says, "Behold,
  days are coming, says the Lord, when I will
  effect a new covenant with the house of Israel
  and with the house of Judah

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Hebrews 101

• For the Law, since it has only a shadow of the
  good things to come and not the very form of
  things, can never by the same sacrifices year by
  year, which they offer continually, make perfect
  those who draw near.

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Hebrews 104

• For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and
  goats to take away sins.

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Galatians 324

• Therefore the Law has become our tutor to lead us
  to Christ, that we may be justified by faith.

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Galatians 317

• What I am saying is this the Law, which came
  four hundred and thirty years later, does not
  invalidate a covenant previously ratified by God,
  so as to nullify the promise.

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Galatians 325

• But now that faith has come, we are no longer
  under a tutor.

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Colossians 214

• having canceled out the certificate of debt
  consisting of decrees against us and which was
  hostile to us and He has taken it out of the
  way, having nailed it to the cross.

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Ephesians 214-15

• For He Himself is our peace, who made both groups
  into one, and broke down the barrier of the
  dividing wall, by abolishing in His flesh the
  enmity, which is the Law of commandments
  contained in ordinances, that in Himself He might
  make the two into one new man, thus establishing
  peace,

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Romans 74

• Therefore, my brethren, you also were made to die
  to the Law through the body of Christ, that you
  might be joined to another, to Him who was raised
  from the dead, that we might bear fruit for God.

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Romans 76-7

• But now we have been released from the Law,
  having died to that by which we were boundI
  would not have known about coveting if the Law
  had not said, You shall not covet.

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2 Thessalonians 21-2

• Now we request you, brethren, with regard to the
  coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and our
  gathering together to Him, that you may not be
  quickly shaken from your composure or be
  disturbed either by a spirit or a message or a
  letter as if from us, to the effect that the day
  of the Lord has come.

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2 Peter 33-4

• Know this first of all, that in the last days
  mockers will come with their mocking, following
  after their own lusts, and saying, Where is the
  promise of His coming? For ever since the fathers
  fell asleep, all continues just as it was from
  the beginning of creation.

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2 Peter 35-7

• For when they maintain this, it escapes their
  notice that by the word of God the heavens
  existed long ago and the earth was formed out of
  water and by water, through which the world at
  that time was destroyed, being flooded with
  water. But the present heavens and earth...

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2 Peter 35-7 (contd)

• ...by His word are being reserved for fire, kept
  for the day of judgment and destruction of
  ungodly men.

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2 Peter 38-10

• But do not let this one fact escape your notice,
  beloved, that with the Lord one day is as a
  thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
  The Lord is not slow about His promise, as some
  count slowness, but is patient toward you, not
  wishing for any to perish but for all

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2 Peter 38-10 (contd)

• ...to come to repentance. But the day of the
  Lord will come like a thief, in which the heavens
  will pass away with a roar and the elements will
  be destroyed with intense heat, and the earth and
  its works will be burned up.

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Romans 25-10

• But because of your stubbornness and unrepentant
  heart you are storing up wrath for yourself in
  the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous
  judgment of God, who will render to every man
  according to his deeds to those who by
  perseverance in doing good seek...

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Romans 25-10 (contd)

• ...for glory and honor and immortality, eternal
  life but to those who are selfishly ambitious
  and do not obey the truth, but obey
  unrighteousness, wrath and indignation. There
  will be tribulation and distress for every soul
  of man who does evil, of the Jew first and...

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Romans 25-10 (contd)

• ...also of the Greek, but glory and honor and
  peace to every man who does good, to the Jew
  first and also to the Greek.