A Chronology of Adventist Apostasy

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A Chronology of Adventist Apostasy

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This is by no means an exhaustive listing of all the abominations for which we are to sigh and cry. The Spirit of Prophecy says that the worst abominations are not revealed to us. This listing is taken from an anonymous source with some added notes by Ron Beaulieu.

1860 – The remnant was given the name, Seventh-Day Adventist.

1863 – Organization of the General Conference of the Seventh-Day Adventists.

1872 – The Declaration of Fundamental Principles taught and practiced by the Seventh-day Adventists is published at Battle Creek, MI. Primarily written by James White, these fundamentals serve as a synopsis of faith published in a pamphlet.  This lays down a clear non-trinitarian foundation and was not replaced or changed in any way until 1931.  These propositions are based on 1 Corinthians 8:6 and do not contain the term Godhead or Trinity..

1872 – Death of Elder Joseph Bates.

1874 – The Fundamental Principles of 1872 are published again by James White in the first issue of the Signs of the Times (June 4, 1874), and by Uriah Smith in the Review and Herald (Nov. 24, 1874). In his introductory remarks to the fundamental principles in the Signs, James White states, “In presenting to the public this synopsis of our faith, we wish to have it distinctly understood that we have no articles of faith, creed, or discipline aside from the Bible. We do not put forth this as having authority with our people, nor is designed to secure uniformity among them, as a system of faith, but is a brief statement of what is, and has been, with great unanimity, held by them.”

1877 - The Biblical Institute, where Uriah Smith and James White outlined the Principal Doctrines of Seventh-day Adventists, was held in Oakland, California.  Covering everything from the Sanctuary to Prophecy, the nature of Sin to the nature of Christ, this Institute confirmed and strengthened the teachings of Adventism, as outlined in the Fundamentals of 1872.

1881 – Death of Elder James White.

1883 – Death of Elder J.B. Frisbie and Elder John Nevins Andrews.

1883 - At this General Conference Session it is decided against publishing a Church Manual, as it was deemed undesirable to take any steps towards a discipline, creed or form of formalism.

"It is the unanimous opinion of the committee appointed to consider the matter of the Church Manual that it would not be advisable to have a Church Manual. We consider it unnecessary because we have already surmounted the greatest difficulties connected with church organization without one; and perfect harmony exists among us on this subject. It would seem to many like a step toward the formation of a creed or a discipline, other than the Bible, something we have always been opposed to as a denomination. If we had one, we fear many, especially those commencing to preach, would study it to obtain guidance in religious matters, rather that to seek for it in the Bible, and from the leading of the Spirit of God, which would tend to their hindrance in genuine religious experience, and in knowledge of the mind of the Spirit. It was in taking similar steps that other bodies of Christians first began to lose their simplicity and become formal and spiritually lifeless. Why should we imitate them? The committee feels, in short, that our tendency should be in the direction of the policy and close conformity of the Bible, rather than to elaborately defining every point in church management and church ordinances."

"On motion, this report with reference to Church Manual was accepted. It was then also Voted, That the President of the General Conference be requested to write an article for the Review, explaining the action of the Conference on the subject of the manual." — Review and Herald, November 20, 1883 (Yearbook, 1883, pp. 33-36)

1883 – The first Seventh-day Adventist Yearbook is published.  It is in commemoration of the Anniversary Meetings held in Rome, NY, December 7-19, 1882 and includes all the statistics of the denomination.  This will begin an annual practice.

1888 - The 27th General Conference Session this year is held at Minneapolis, Minnesota, with 91 delegates, and approx. 475 attendees. God brings the truth of righteousness by faith to His people through Elder’s Waggoner & Jones. Built on a powerful Biblical foundation, this message of the love of God marked the beginning of the Loud Cry. But sadly, the message is resisted by a large majority of the church leadership.

Ellen White writes, “The prejudices and opinions that prevailed at Minneapolis are not dead by any means. The seeds there sown are ready to spring into life and bear a like harvest, because the roots are still left.... and will bear their unholy fruit, to poison the perception and blind the understanding of those you connect with, in regard to the messengers and messages that God sends…” (Manuscript 40, 1890; 1888 Materials, ch. 115)

“Some of our brethren have expressed fears that we shall dwell too much upon the subject of justification by faith, but I hope and pray that none will be needlessly alarmed; for there is no danger in presenting this doctrine as it is set forth in the Scriptures…... Some of our brethren are not receiving the message from God upon this subject. They appear to be anxious that none of our ministers shall depart from their former manner of teaching the good old doctrines. We inquire, Is it not time that fresh light should come to the people of God, to awaken them to greater earnestness and zeal?  Several have written to me, inquiring if the message of justification by faith is the third angel’s message, and I have answered, ‘It is the third angel’s message in verity.’” (Ellen White, Ms 8, 1890, par. 6)

1889 – Death of Elder Joseph Harvey Waggoner (Ellet Joseph Waggoner’s father)

1889 – The Fundamental Principles are expanded to 28 sections and published in the 1889 Yearbook for the first time, leaving the first two on the doctrine of God unchanged. It remains unchanged during its reprinting from 1905-1914 in the SDA Yearbook. This same statement or guideline of belief can be found in the 1905, 1909, 1913 and 1914 Yearbooks. After that, it is not published until it was changed solely by F. M Wilcox in 1931.

"Seventh-day Adventists have no creed but the Bible; but they hold to certain well-defined points of faith, for which they feel prepared to give a reason 'to every man that asketh' them. The following propositions may be taken as a summary of the principle features of their religious faith, upon which there is, so far as is known, entire unanimity throughout the body." (1889 Yearbook, p. 147)

1890 – Leadership attempts to remove the name Seventh-day Adventist from the American Sentinel (Religious Liberty journal of the SDA Church) to make the magazine popular with other denominations, but this step is averted because a living prophet is present. Ellen White states, “This policy is the first step in a succession of wrong steps” (Counsels to Writer and Editors, p. 96) the leading brethren are taking down the road to ecumenical concessions.

1891 - The General Conference sent Ellen White to Australia, contrary to the light given her. (This Day With God, p.61) E.J. Waggoner is sent to England as editor of 'The Present Truth' for 10 years to separate him from A.T. Jones and E.G.White. (Letter from W.C. White to A.G. Daniells, May 30, 1902.)

1892 – Death of Elder Roswell F. Cottrell

1892 - Bible Students' Library series - lessons for the public. # 90 "The Bible Doctrine of the Trinity." Reprint of article in New York Independent in November 14,1889. Author - Samuel Spear (non-SDA). Promoted "one God subsisting and acting in three hypostases/persons," but also in “eternal divine subordination of the Son to the Father." The tract used terms not generally used by Adventists, but it is generally non-Trinitarian in content.

1893 – Ellen White stated the Church is not Babylon (for that time and place).

“Regarding the testimonies, nothing is ignored; nothing is cast aside; but time and place must be considered.” – Selected Messages, book 1, p. 57

1894 - Herbert Camden Lacey attends Sunday-keeping / Trinitarian meeting as Battle Creek College delegate to Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions in Michigan. Lacey re-accepts the trinity doctrine.     

1894 - Sister White warns, "It is a grave mistake on the part of those who are children of God to seek to bridge the gulf that separate them from the children of darkness by yielding principle, by compromising the truth." (BEcho, April 9, 1894, par. 6) “It is a backsliding church that lessens the distance between itself and the papacy.” (Signs of the Times, Feb 19, 1894)

1895 - Sister White warns the leadership in Battle Creek: “The Lord has not placed any one of His human agencies under the dictation and control of those who are themselves but erring mortals... But there is a power exercised in Battle Creek that God has not given, and He will judge those who assume this authority… Brethren, leave God to rule.” (TM 347.3)

She also warns, the General Conference is itself becoming corrupted with wrong sentiments and principles. In the working up of plans the same principles are manifest that have controlled matters at Battle Creek for quite a length of time.” – Ellen White, Letter 55, September 19, 1895, par. 2

1896 - H. Camden Lacey lectures on trinity in Cooranbong. Sister Marian Davis, literary assistant to Sister White takes copious notes. Arthur G. Daniells does not oppose the lectures.  (Lacey Letters to Leroy Froom, 1945).

1896 - Recommendations for essential change at General Conference session, to choose one man as president, but the brethren are advised that it is not wise to do so. Ellen White warns: “To place men where God should be placed does not honor or glorify God. Is the president of the General Conference to be the God of the people? Are the men at Battle Creek to be regarded as infinite in wisdom?… ‘Cease ye from man.’” (TM 375.2)

1897 – John Harvey Kellogg presents his first concepts leading to Pantheism at a series of studies he gave at the General Conference session.

1898 – “Trinitarian-type” King's Messenger article in Review and Herald, "The God-Man".

1898 – Ellen White states, “The church is in the Laodicean state. The presence of God is not in her midst.” (Ms 156, 1898 – Notebook Leaflets from Elms haven Library, Vol.1, Need of Self-Sacrificing Effort, p. 99)

1898 – Ellen White writes, “It has been some years since I have considered the General Conference as the voice of God.”- Manuscript Releases 17, p. 216, 1898; Last Day Events, p. 50.3

1901 – The American Standard Version of the Bible is first published. This move towards a common Bible between Catholics and Protestants will influence Adventism in small steps away from truth.

1901 – Stated by Ellen White:  "It is working upon wrong principles that has brought the cause of God into its present embarrassment. The people have lost confidence in those who have the management of the work. Yet we hear that the voice of the Conference is the Voice of God. Every time I have heard this, I have thought that it was almost blasphemy....We have reached the time when the work cannot advance while wrong principles are cherished." (Manuscript 37, 1901)

1902 – J.H. Kellogg prepares to publish his work, The Living Temple.  He is told not to include his new theories, but ignores the counsel. He tries to gain approval at the Autumn Council for his book to be published but a letter from Ellen White to Daniells counsels him to have nothing to do with the book. Kellogg takes his manuscript to the Review and Herald publishing house as outside work, and they agree to print it.

The Battle Creek Sanitarium (February 18) and the Review and Herald Printing office (December 30) burn to the ground.   And along with it, the proofs of Kellogg’s book Living Temple.  He then takes the manuscript to a non-Adventist printer. Twenty-three fires would happen between 1901 & 1923.  Judgment has ruled from the heavens above, but leaders only scoff at the idea.

1902 – Ellen White feels perplexed and frustrated with the General Conference and decides to withdraw herself from all their meetings. She writes to her sons Edson and Willie, "I have but very little confidence that the Lord is giving these men in positions of responsibility, spiritual eyesight and heavenly discernment. I am thrown into perplexity over their course; and I desire now to attend to my special work, to have no part in any of their councils, and to attend no camp meetings, nigh or afar off. My mind shall not be dragged into confusion by the tendency they manifest to work directly contrary to the light that God has given me. I am done. I will preserve my God-given intelligence. My voice has been heard in the different conferences, and at camp meetings. I must now make a change... I shall therefore leave, leave them to receive word from the Bible... This is the light given me and I shall not depart from it." (Letter W-186, 2 Dec. 1902 to Edson and Willie White, p. 4, 5)

1903 - Crisis begins with Living Temple and the Alpha heresy.  Kellogg prints the book in which he has placed his theories. Ellen White says they are “spiritualistic” and “akin to pantheism” (Special Testimonies B, No. 6, p. 41). She says these teachings are the “alpha of deadly heresies” (1SM 200), and that “the Omega would follow in a little while. I tremble for our people. In Living Temple the assertion is made that God is in the flower, in the leaf, in the sinner. But God does not live in the sinner. The Word declares that He abides only in the hearts of those who love Him and do righteousness. God does not abide in the heart of the sinner; it is the enemy who abides there.” (Sermons and Talks, Vol. 1, p. 341,343) But Kellogg claims that his book is in harmony with Ellen White’s writings and can be sustained by statements from the testimonies. Ellen White tells him he has taken her statements away from their connection, and interpreted them according to his own mind. “I saw what was coming in, and I saw that our brethren were blind. They did not realize the danger.” (Sermons and Talks, vol.1, p. 344) 

In a vision, Ellen White sees “a platform, braced by solid timbers—the truths of the Word of God. Someone high in responsibility in the medical work was directing this man and that man to loosen the timbers supporting this platform…” (Selected Messages, book 1, p. 204)

1903 - Dr. Kellogg  admitted to A.G. Daniells that “he had come to believe in the Trinity”; letter: A. G. Daniells to Willie Clarence White, October 29,1903

1903 - Autumn Council, the understanding of the character and personality of God comes under threat.  Arthur G. Daniells is concerned that the supporters of Living Temple would cause a confrontation, and dares not call for a vote. Ellen White writes to him: “Be careful how you sustain the sentiments of this book regarding the personality of God… It has been represented to me that the writer of this book is on a false track.” (Keepers of the Flame, no.6, Dr. Alan Lindsay)

After the council, Daniells writes to W.C. White regarding the proposed changes Kellogg has planned for the book. “Regarding Dr. Kellogg’s plans for revising and republishing ‘Living Temple’…within a short time he had come to believe in the Trinity and could now see pretty clearly where all the difficulty was… He now believed in God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost, and his view was that it was God the Holy Ghost and not God the Father, that filled all space, and every living thing…” (Oct 29, 1903, p. 1,2)

Ellen White writes to Kellogg: “You are not definitely clear on the personality of God, which is everything to us as a people. You have virtually destroyed the Lord God Himself.” (Letter 300, The Elmshaven Years, Vol.5, 1900-1905. Arthur L. White, 1941) 

She further predicts what will happen in the future including a supposed reformation. But it will not be a good and honest one.

“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. Were this reformation to take place, what would result? 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…” (Ellen White, Letter 242, p. 13, 1903)

1903 – A New Constitution is proposed to provide for the election of a G.C president who will be given a mandate from the Church. This will give the president and leading officers authority to enact what they think the people need.  A.G. Daniells by himself is made president for the next 20 years. New Constitution provides for the Executive Committee of 25 members to have full administrative power between sessions for any five members as a quorum to take steps that will involve the whole committee.

Ellen White writes, “These principles are so foreign to God’s principles that God cannot bless those who vote upon them.” (GCB 1903, p.152) E.J. Waggoner also objects: “It is fundamentally and diametrically opposed to the principles of organization as set forth in the Bible.” (GCB 1903) Percy Magan says, “They are the same principles and introduced in precisely the same way as they were hundreds of years ago when the Papacy was made.” (GCB Day 3, No 10, p. 150) A.T. Jones states, “This proposed constitution is subversive of the principles of organization given to us at the G.C of 1897 and that of 1901.” (GCB 1903, p. 152,153) This G.C session has rejected the 1897 and 1901 recommendations.

1903 – Uriah Smith dies.

1903 - Dr. John Harvey Kellogg promotes Trinitarian doctrines in Battle Creek after converting from Pantheism.  Kellogg asks Jones to teach at Battle Creek College. Waggoner moves to Battle Creek, placing him in great peril. Ellen White writes to him: “Satan is working stealthily, untiringly, to affect your downfall through his specious temptations… He hopes to lead you into the mazes of spiritualism.” (Letter 231, 1903).

1904 – The General Conference incorporates itself and fulfills the prophesy from Ellen White’s Letter 242 (1903), describing a “New Organization would be established.”  “Nothing would be able to stand in the way of the New Movement.” The articles of Incorporation are published in the church’s 1905 Year Book.

1904 – Ellen White has a vision in which the angel says to Jones and Waggoner, “The sentiments that you have received in harmony with the special theories presented in the book ‘Living Temple’ are not pure truth. There is a co-mingling of truth and error… Separate entirely from the bewitching, misleading sentiments that run through ‘Living Temple’.” (Letter 279, 1904)

1904 – Ellen White has another vision of Kellogg: “The subject upon which he was speaking was life, and the relation of God to all living things. In his presentations he cloaked the matter somewhat, but in reality he was presenting, as of the highest value, scientific theories which are akin to pantheism… I was astonished to see with what enthusiasm the sophistries and deceptive theories were received. The influence of this talk gave the speaker encouragement to call for a council of our brethren at Battle Creek, for a further examination of these seducing sentiments.” (Special Testimonies Series B, No.6, p. 210)

“Rebellion and apostasy are in the very air we breathe.” (2SM 58)

The apostasy will “develop into darkness deep as midnight, impenetrable as sackcloth of hair,” and will increase in strength until the coming of Jesus. (Ellen White, Manuscript Releases, vol. 7, p. 185.1)

In 1904, Ellen White writes, “For the past 50 years every phase of heresy has been brought to bear upon us… Messages of every order and kind have been urged upon Seventh-day Adventists, to take the place of the truth which, point by point, has been sought out by prayer, study, and testified to by the miracle-working power of the Lord.” (Special Testimonies, Series B #2, p. 59)

Notice that in 1904, the foundation of faith has been firmly established. “Many of our people do not realize how firmly the foundation of our faith has been laid. My husband, Elder Joseph Bates, Father Pierce, Elder Hiram Edson, and others who were keen, noble, and true, were among those who, after the passing of the time in 1844, searched for the truth as for hidden treasure… When they came to the point in their study where they said, ‘We can do nothing more,’ the Spirit of the Lord would come upon me, I would be taken off in vision, and a clear explanation of the passages we had been studying would be given me, with instruction as to how we were to labor and teach effectively. Thus light was given that helped us to understand the scriptures in regard to Christ, His mission, and His priesthood. A line of truth extending from that time to the time when we shall enter the city of God, was made plain to me, and I gave to others the instruction that the Lord had given me.” (1SM 206.4)

1905 – The 28 Fundamental Principles of 1889 “Synopsis of our Faith” is inserted again in the church Yearbook, and continues until 1914.  This is the core belief of truth that was born from the foundation of our faith thru the Pioneers.

Ellen White confirms these principles: “Every pillar that He has established is to be strengthened. We cannot now step off the foundation that God has established. We cannot now enter into any new organization; for this would mean apostasy from the truth” (Manuscript 129, 1905).

“The past fifty years have not dimmed one jot or principle of our faith as we received the great and wonderful evidences that were made certain to us in 1844, after the passing of the time... Not a word is changed or denied.” (Letter 326, Dec. 4, 1905; The Upward Look, 352.4)

1905 – Daniel Bourdeau dies.

1905 – Ellen White says the writings of the pioneers should be reproduced. “God has given me light regarding our periodicals. What is it? He has said that the dead are to speak. How? Their works shall follow them. We are to repeat the words of the pioneers in our work, who knew what it cost to search for the truth as for hidden treasure, and who labored to lay the foundation of our work. They moved forward step by step under the influence of the Spirit of God. One by one these pioneers are passing away. The word given me is, Let that which these men have written in the past be reproduced.” (Review & Herald, May 25, 1905)

1907 – Apostasy is here. With the apostasy of Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, Ellen White warns: “The time of this apostasy is here. Every conceivable effort will be made to throw doubt upon the positions we have occupied for over half a century.” (Letter 410, 1907, p. 2 [to her son J.E. White, Aug 26, 1907]; 7MR 195)

1910 – Ellen White calls out A.G. Daniells and W.W. Prescott for their work in picking flaws and trying to change our books and writings.  (Manuscript 67, 1910)

1912 – The Review and Herald reprints the original Principles with the first two unchanged –"one God" and "one Lord." (August 22, 1912, p. 4)

1913 - F. M. Wilcox publishes supposed “Trinitarian tract."  Strategically placed next to it in the next column is a quote from Sister White (taken from Desire of Ages) from 1898 to paint a false picture of belief in R&H Vol 6, Oct. 9, 1913, p 21.  People today are led to believe she put it there and knew what was published next to her name.  This was really dishonest.  At this time (two years from death) she is really feeble and has no say or connection what takes place in the Review & Herald.

Wilcox rolls out the divine Trinity, which includes the Holy Spirit as the third person of the Godhead. This sets the stage for making the Godhead (used exclusively by Ellen White) equivalent with Wilcox's "divine Trinity." This is apparently a response to counter the claim published by James Gray of the Moody Bible Institute that Adventists deny the Trinity (James Gray, Bible Problems Explained, 1913).   Wilcox is concerned with what Evangelicals and other Christians think about us.  We are different!  We are to be and remain a peculiar people.  But that would change as more and more Sunday converts came into the denomination.

Ellen White Had it Right

She said that the Holy Spirit is the Divine Nature soul of the life of Christ. The Son of God existed from eternity in His Holy Spirit Divine Nature form. He divested that form from His humanity which became an INDEPENDENT PERSON at the Incarnation. That divesting act produced a THIRD PERSON to the Godhead. But that THIRD PERSON was not co-ETERNAL with the other two persons, WHICH IS WHAT THE TRINITY DOCTRINE TEACHES. It says all three persons are CO-ETERNAL. That teaching denies the Incarnation sacrifice which produced a THIRD PERSON in the humanity of Christ.

"Cumbered with humanity Christ could not be in every place personally. Therefore it was altogether for their advantage that He should leave them to go to His Father and send the Holy Spirit to be His successor on earth. The Holy Spirit is Himself, divested of the personality of humanity and independent thereof. He would represent Himself as present in all places by His Holy Spirit" E.G. White, (Manuscript Releases Volume 14 (No’s 1081-1135) MR No.1084.

Definition of Holy Spirit

"Christ declared that after his ascension, he would send to his church, as his crowning gift, the Comforter, who was to take his place. This Comforter is the Holy Spirit,--the soul of his life, the efficacy of his church, the light and life of the world. With his Spirit Christ sends a reconciling influence and a power that takes away sin.

In the gift of the Spirit, Jesus gave to man the highest good that heaven could bestow....

The Spirit was given as a regenerating agency, and without this the sacrifice of Christ would have been of no avail....

It is by the Spirit that the heart is made pure. Through the Spirit the believer becomes a partaker of the divine nature. Christ has given his Spirit as a divine power to overcome all hereditary and cultivated tendencies to evil, and to impress his own character upon the church." E.G. White, Review and Herald Articles, May 19, 1904, vol. 5, p. 42.

The above statement accords with John 14, where Jesus identifies Himself as the Comforter that will come to us along with His Father, verse 23.

1914 - Two percent of the members were dis-fellowshipped from the German Seventh-day Adventist Church, because they declared that participation in war service, and that on the Sabbath (Saturday), cannot be reconciled with the Adventist doctrine. The dis-fellowshipped believers have considered themselves as the true keepers and defenders of Adventism.

1914 – the last time the original “Fundamental Principles” from 1872 (and repeated over time) would be published in the SDA Yearbook.  This was part of the foundation of the faith that started out in the 1840’s.

1914 – Great changes are made to the Book, “Bible Readings for the Home Circle”.  This book remained unchanged from it’s original published date of 1888 to it’s last publishing in 1912 prior to this. Found on page 29 in the chapter “A Remarkable Symbol” is a note on prophecy and history that has since been removed and modified in later editions.  “I , considered the horns, and, behold, there came up among them another little horn, before whom there were three of the first horns plucked up by the roots." Dan. 7:8

“NOTES. —We must, then, look for the development of the "little horn" this side of A. D. 483. About that time, in fact, there was a pretentious power, seeking acknowledgment of its claims. As early as the beginning of the sixth century the bishops of Rome had become powerful enough to exert considerable of that influence at the imperial court which ere long exalted them to a station where they could command the kings of the earth. There was only one hinderance to their supremacy, — the opposition of the Arian powers to the doctrines of the Catholics, especially to that of the Trinity. These opposing powers were rooted up, the Heruli in 493, the Vandals in 534, and the Ostrogoths in 538. See " Student's Gibbon," pp. 309-319. “

The history of the “Little Horn” plucking up the three horns happened to be called Arian.  This important detail of their identity has been removed. They were non-Trinitarian Germanic tribes who would not subscribe to Rome’s Trinity doctrine and belief - the Heruli, Vandals and the Ostrogoths.

1915 – Ellen White warns of great changes to take place after her death. “I am charged to tell our people, that do not realize, that the devil has device after device, and he carries them out in ways that they do not expect. Satan’s agencies will invent ways to make sinners out of saints. I tell you now, that when I am laid to rest, great changes will take place. I do not know when I shall be taken; and I desire to warn all against the devices of the devil. I want the people to know that I warned them fully before my death.” (Manuscript 1, Feb 24, 1915)

1915 – Ellen White dies only five months after her last written warning.

1915 – Part of the original Landmarks are removed and put out of the way.  The “Principles of Faith” mostly written from James White and Uriah Smith and first published in 1872, are now gone from the Yearbook by a mere General Conference statistician, H. Edson Rogers.  Rogers was working under the guise of George B. Thompson, Walter T. Knox, William Warren Prescott, Edwin R. Palmer and Irwin H. Evans, representatives of the North American Conference Corporation of Seventh-day Adventists.

1916 – Elder E.J. Waggoner and Elder A.C. Bordeau dies.

1918 – Death of Elder George I. Butler, Elder James H. Morrison and Elder W. H. Littlejohn.

1919 – Bible and Teachers Conference takes place in secrecy with the discussion becoming heated at times as some in leadership positions test the waters to see if the doctrine of the Trinity can be brought in.  There is enough resistance to table the conversation for another time.  The recorded minutes for this 5-week long event (July 1-August 9) disappears for 55 years until 1974.  Arthur G. Daniells, William Warren Prescott, Herbert Lacey among others are working as agents of Satan.  An attempt at discrediting the inspiration of Ellen White is made.  Some of the subjects addressed included: The Person and Mediatorial work of Christ, the nature of the Holy Spirit, the Trinity doctrine, the Two Covenants, principles of prophetic interpretation, the Seven Trumpets, the beasts of Revelation 13, and of course questioning the nature of Inspiration of the Spirit of Prophecy as related to the Inspiration of the Bible.

1922 - Judson Washburn writes an open letter to Daniells saying the 1919 Bible Conference was "the most terrible thing that had ever happened in the history of this denomination." 

(J. S. Washburn, An Open Letter to Elder A. G. Daniells and an Appeal to the General Conference, 1922, p. 28, 29) 

Another letter written by Washburn to Claude Holmes is published as a 36-page tract called The Startling Omega and its True Genealogy. It is distributed at the General Conference of 1922. In this tract he mentions that the college in Washington has become “a nest of Higher Criticism” and he blames A.G. Daniells and W.W. Prescott for all the theological problems. (Omega Tract, Washburn, p. 1, 6)

1922 – Elder Stephen Haskell, author of many best selling books and Adventist Pioneer dies.

1923 – Elder Alonzo Trevor Jones and Elder O.A. Johnson dies.

1924 – John Norton Loughborough, the last of the first generation core of Pioneers, dies

1926 – Leroy Froom (who is first associate secretary and then made secretary of the Ministerial Association until 1950) is asked to give studies on the Holy Spirit at the Ministerial institutes in the North American Division.  Since he cannot find material suited to his beliefs, he goes to authors outside our faith (Babylon) to reference their writings. 

Gradually the meaning of the word “divine” changed, until it meant not fully divine. We do not know how it changed, but Trinitarians were using the term “deity”, instead of “divine”.  (Once divine and deity meant the same.) When Froom uses the words “all the fullness of the Godhead”, he is making two statements -- an Arian or Semi-Arian belief is not true Christianity, and the Trinity has a Saviour with full deity.

1926 – General Conference Working Policy (075) is adopted. SDA Church becomes a part of evangelical churches.  The policy states, “We recognize every agency that lifts up Christ before men as a part of the divine plan for the evangelization of the world, and we hold in high esteem the Christian men and women in other communions who are engaged in winning souls to Christ.” (“Relationship To Other Societies,” GC Exco, 1926)

This would include the Jesuit Order. Ellen White has warned, “Shall this power, whose record for a thousand years is written in the blood of the saints, be now acknowledged as a part of the church of Christ?” (Great Controversy, 1888, p. 571.1) This is the first “wrong step” toward ecumenical concessions taken by the G.C., only two years after the death of the last of the core of the Pioneers first generation, John Loughborough.

1928 – Death of Elder James Edson White, son of James & Ellen White.

1928 – Leroy Froom, founder of Ministry Magazine begins promoting the American Revised Standard Version and demotes the King James Bible to not accurate and old-fashioned status.  He tours the U.S. promoting the Sunday Trinity to Adventist ministers and writes the book the Coming of the Comforter.

1928 – The Coming of the Comforter, a pro-Trinity book by Leroy Froom is published – Froom claims opposition to the Trinity arose from “some of the old timers” as he writes, “You cannot imagine how I was pummeled by some of the old timers because I pressed on the personality of the Holy Spirit as the third person of the Godhead.” (Letter from Froom to Dr. O. H. Christenson, Oct. 27,1960).  

Ellen White identifies the Holy Spirit as the THIRD PERSON, but she never used the word TRINITY. Why? Because the Trinity Doctrine teaches that all three persons to the Godhead are co-ETERNAL, and the humanity person of Christ was/is not co-eternal with the other two persons, the Father and His ONE ETERNAL SPIRIT AND THE ORIGINAL SON AND HIS ONE ETERNAL HOLY SPIRIT which are ONE AND THE SAME ETERNAL SPIRIT, which makes them ONE GOD, because there is only ONE ETERNAL SPIRIT. 

He would later admit in 1971 in his book, “Movement of Destiny” that he went to authors outside of our denomination for the material he would use for this book.  In other words, authors from Babylon!

1928 – William Warren Prescott who was educated by the secular Dartmouth College, writes eleven articles in the Signs of the Times documenting the Sunday scholars proof of the inferiority of the King James Bible.  The Bible of the Pioneers is under assault and being replaced by modern corrupt versions.

1928 – General Conference leadership adopts the American Revised Version bible, which is inspired by the Jesuits of Rome, above the Authorized KJV Bible of the pioneers.  This version comes from scholars that rely on two manuscripts, the Vaticanus and the Sinaiticus (Constantine’s state bibles.)  This is the second “wrong step” toward ecumenism. This step is now possible with the passing of the last pioneer.

1929 – Healing of the deadly wound of the papacy, the Lateran Treaty is signed between Italy and the Vatican, settling the “Roman Question.”  Italy now recognizes the Vatican City State as an independent state, and agrees to give the Church financial compensation for the loss of the Papal States.

1929 – Worldly Accreditation is accepted and received into our colleges.  The educational system devised by the Jesuits begins to come into influence.  This was a goal of A.G. Daniells along with the help of  W.W. Prescott. 

1929 – A.T. Robinson writes an article “One God and One Mediator” for the Review and Herald, quoting 1 Corinthians 15:28, giving the impression that the one God is the Father only.

1930 – General Conference votes to publish a Church Manual.  In 1883 the G.C. session had voted NO.  They also decided it was time for a new statement of beliefs.  This is the third “wrong step” toward ecumenism. Attitudes have now changed and become more liberal. Theological wounds have “healed.” The last of the pioneers has died and their voices are no longer heard. Leadership wants to change the old SDA doctrines on (1) The final atonement in heaven, (2) The human nature of Christ, (3) The place of Scripture and prophecy in the church, and (4) The doctrine of the Trinity as taught by evangelicals. Ellen White warns, “In no respect is God’s work to be circumscribed by man-made restrictions. Many of the ambitious plans and policies that have been made are not endorsed by Him.” (1MR 245).

1930 – “Our Authorized Bible Vindicated” by B.G. Wilkinson is published, documenting the origins and history of the King James Bible.  The General Conference tries to discontinue the book and Wilkinson writes a second book in defense of his position, “Answers to Objections to our Authorized Bible Vindicated.”

1931 – Church leaders in Africa request a "statement" that will “assist in a better understanding of our work.” (27 Fundamentals Introduction) In answer to the request, a suitable Statement of Faith is placed in the 1931 Yearbook.

1931 – Yearbook with new Statement of Beliefs is published without a vote or authority. The G.C President C.H. Watson is voted the authority to select a committee of four men of which he is a member, to prepare a statement for publication in the Yearbook. The four are G.C Associate Secretary M.E Kern, Review editor F.M Wilcox, manager of Review and Herald E.R. Palmer, and G.C President C.H Watson. Francis McLellan Wilcox, editor for the Review and Herald (for 33 years), alone writes up the new Statement of Beliefs with 22 Fundamental Beliefs with the approval of the committee and passes it over to Edson Rogers (G.C statistician from 1903-1941) who places it in the 1931 Yearbook. Leroy Froom would later claim there was a consensus because no one complained. He fails to mention the church was unaware of this action. President Watson knows, but does not seek to take official action. Thus the Statement of Beliefs is added not by approval of the G.C, but “by common consent” and is “accepted without challenge.” (Froom, Movement of Destiny, p. 414)

The first two fundamental principles of James White (1872/1874/1889-1914 Yearbooks) state in part,

“1. That there is one God,…everywhere present by His representative, the Holy Spirit.

2. That there is one Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Eternal Father… that He took on Him the nature of the seed of Abraham for the redemption of our fallen race…”

The 1931 Yearbook now states, "That the Godhead, or Trinity, consists of the Eternal Father,...the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Eternal Father,... the Holy Spirit, the third person of the Godhead..." (p. 377)

Before the Incarnation, the Son of God was the Holy Spirit Divine Nature and the Father shared the same one eternal Holy Spirit Nature, for there is only ONE ETERNAL SPIRIT. After the Incarnation, the humanity of Christ was added to the Godhead, but His humanity is not CO-ETERNAL with the other two members of the Godhead, for the reason that Christ’s humanity was no part of the Godhead before the Incarnation.

Points that are entirely removed from the 1872/1874/1889 Fundamental Principles include: Prophesy as a part of God’s revelation to man, World history fulfills Bible prophecy, and Papacy (man of sin) changed the Sabbath. 

The pioneer view on the post-fall human nature of Christ is changed to a pre-fall human nature, Christ’s work of final atonement in the most holy place since 1844 is omitted and now replaced with atonement being completed on the cross and Christ now lives to make intercession for us, and the cleansing of the sanctuary involving the work of blotting out sins is now replaced with only a work of judgment.  

Now the SDA Church has a new statement on the Trinity, a new Christ with an unfallen human nature instead of a fallen (but not corrupted) human nature, and a new final atonement that was completed on the cross rather than finished in the most holy place in heaven. These doctrinal changes place the SDA Church in harmony with the Sunday-keeping churches of Babylon, and make it possible for ecumenical ties with other denominations. To substantiate these new apostate doctrines, a new Bible, the American Revised Version (now approved by the Papacy), is embraced.

1932 – The first Church Manual is published, with the 22 articles of Fundamental Beliefs, despite

George I. Butler's objection to having a Church Manual in 1883 (RH, Nov. 20). Now the church has an official creed for the first time. In 1861, James White warned, “Making a creed is setting the stakes, and barring up the way to all future advancement. They say virtually that the Lord must not do anything further than what has been marked out in the creed. A creed and the [spiritual] gifts thus stand in direct opposition to each other… The Bible is our creed. We reject everything in the form of a human creed.” (RH, Oct. 8, 1861)

1935 – Death of Arthur Grosvenor Daniells.  One of the key men in apostasy.

1935 – Letter from H.W. Carr to Willie White asking about the nature of the Holy Spirit as being promoted by some of the leaders being another separate person from the Father and the Son.  Sister White explaining that the Spirit of God and of Christ (Holy Spirit) is a divine personality began to be twisted into “someone else”, “another comforter” other than Christ is the Spirit.  Part of Willie White’s response is, “The statements and the arguments of some of our ministers in their effort to prove that the Holy Spirit was an individual as are God, the father and Christ, the eternal Son, have perplexed me and sometimes they have made me sad. One popular teacher said “we may regard Him, (the Holy Spirit) as the fellow who is down here running things.” (Letter, April 30, 1935)

Truth is that there are three distinct persons to the Godhead. Two of them are eternal. The humanity of Christ which was produced by the Incarnation is NOT eternal. The Trinity Doctrine says they all are co-eternal, SO THAT DOES TOTAL DESPITE TO THE INCARNATION WHICH PRODUCED A THIRD NON-ETERNAL PERSON, the humanity of Jesus Christ. This sweeps away the entire Christian economy by in effect doing away with the Incarnation which produced a third person.

1936 – The General Conference Sabbath School Committee publishes a series of Sabbath School lesson studies (starting with the 4th quarter 1936 to the 2nd quarter 1938) for the church which is intended to show the world what Seventh-day Adventists officially believe, and purportedly to show that the church still upholds the Adventist Pioneer position on the nature of God and Christ. The G.C Committee voted six men including F.M Wilcox and M.E Kern in late 1935 to sit with the Sabbath School Department Lessons Committee when they compile the studies on essential Bible doctrines. The studies apply Trinitarian language to non-Trinitarian belief, in effect subtly reinterpreting it in Trinitarian terms. In the third week of the 4th quarter 1936 lesson under the title "The Godhead", the word Trinity is used twice, once as a heading and once as a sub-heading. Under the "Trinity" heading, they state that "three powers wrought in the work of creation," and that "the name God is used of the Father, of the Son, and of the Spirit--a kind of heavenly family name. These three constitute the Godhead." Then under the heading "Unity of the Godhead", they state, "The Father is in the Son, and the Son is in the Father. The Spirit is 'the Spirit of God' and 'the Spirit of Christ.' Hence all three dwell together, and the three are one." (Lesson 3, p.10) 

The only other time that the word Trinity is mentioned again is in Lesson 10, which states, "Since the divine Trinity is composed of three persons, there is established a personal relationship between the Godhead and the one baptized." (Dec. 5, p. 31)

Nothing else is said about the word Trinity, and the phrase "Trinity doctrine" is not used, but hints of it are being subtly conveyed. At this point, the begotten belief is still the official belief. Time and death is needed to change it to an unbegotten belief to support the false claim that Christ could not be begotten and yet be fully God in His pre-existence. Ellen White believed that Christ was truly begotten and still truly God, for she said in 1905, “The Lord Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of the Father, is truly God in infinity, but not in personality.” (Manuscript 116, Dec. 19, 1905)

The 4th quarter lesson rightly concludes regarding the pre-existence of Christ that “He was therefore no part of creation but was ‘begotten of the Father’ in the days of eternity, and was very God Himself.” (Lesson 4, p. 13)

In the section regarding the Deity of Christ, the lesson rightly recognizes that Christ as the begotten Son has inherited God’s name and therefore can rightly be called God. So it seems that as late as 1936, Ellen White's writings have actually not changed the beliefs of the church about the pre-existence of Christ as the truly divine begotten Son of God, contrary to later claims that they have. Also at this point, the Holy Spirit is still not officially regarded as a divine person exactly like God and Christ are persons. The lesson states, “Hence the Father sends the Spirit in the name of the Son, that is, as the Son’s representative. The Spirit ‘proceedeth from the Father,’ to do His work in the earth… Hence the Father sends the Spirit, and the Son sends the Spirit. The Son speaks what the Father gives Him to speak, and the Spirit speaks what the Son gives Him to speak. The Spirit is both the Spirit of God and the Spirit of Christ…” (Lesson 3, p. 11)

Note: In the book of Revelation, Christ refers to Himself four times as the alpha and omega, the beginning and the end. He is called the EVERLASTING FATHER. So the existence of the Son of God is eternal. It was His humanity that was created, begotten: https://omega77.tripod.com/christshumannaturewascreated.htm Ellen White said that both the Father and the Son were of the same essence and substance—the ONE ETERNAL SPIRIT.

1936 – Benjamin Wilkinson answers a letter from Dr. T.S. Teters saying, “Replying to your letter of October 13 regarding the doctrine of the Trinity, I will say that Seventh Day Adventists do not, and never have accepted the dark, mysterious, Catholic doctrine of the Trinity.”  

(https://omega77.tripod.com/bivensholyspirit.htm)

1937 – Death of Willie C. White, son of James & Ellen White.

1939 – W.W. Prescott preaches a sermon at the Takoma Park Church, where he says that Scripture “clearly implied the doctrine of the Trinity… There are three persons in the Godhead, but they are so mysteriously and indissolubly related to each other, that the presence of one is equivalent to the presence of the other.”  Elder Judson S. Washburn protests what he hears and sees happening in the church by writing a letter to the G.C president J.L. McElhany against the Trinity doctrine. It was circulated by a conference president to 32 ministers.

1941 – General Conference Committee votes that the Statement of Beliefs is made available in leaflet form and officially released as our accepted Statement of Faith. The committee also approves a uniform ‘Baptismal Covenant’ or ‘Vow’ in certificate form, based on the now generally accepted Fundamental Beliefs declaration of 1931. (G.C Session in San Francisco)  Thirteen men led by Prescott formulate the Trinitarian-worded baptismal vow. They call the Father the first person, Jesus the second person, and the Holy Spirit the third person. The word Trinity is not used. 

1941-44 – Hymnal “Christ in Song” and “Hymns and Tunes” song book copies are ordered back to the conferences for burning so that a new Church Hymnal with Trinitarian influence can replace them.  This was under the guise of Roy Allan Anderson.

1943 – Dr. John Harvey Kellogg dies, after seducing many to his heresy. A key member of apostasy.

1944 – Removal by committee of all 18 non-Trinitarian statements from Uriah Smith’s book Daniel and the Revelation in attempt to cover up history.  They eliminate every portion that said Christ was begotten of the Father.  W.W. Prescott and others change the meaning of the “daily sacrifice” in the 2300 days message.  Changes are also made to Spirit of Prophecy books, such as lower case changed to capital letters for "Third Person".

Note: Ellen White and Scripture make it plain that the Son of God was eternal.

1944 – “Truth Triumphant” by B.G. Wilkinson is published, an exhaustive study of the history of God’s Church in the Wilderness. It contained strong statements against the trinity doctrine. Leroy Froom is angry, and orders the destruction of the original offset press plates so the book cannot be reprinted.

1944 – Death of William Warren Prescott.  One of the key men in apostasy.

1945 – Leroy Froom published a compilation of Ellen White quotes in Ministry Magazine to give credence to the “eternity of Christ”.  Her understanding in this usage was far different than his.

1946 – Leadership calls for a committee of four to make a statement of official beliefs.  However, it is penned individually by F. M. Wilcox thru a statement of belief on the trinity, originally written in 1931 by him and unofficially put in the Yearbook.  

1946 - The compilation of Evangelism with careful, calculated use of certain Ellen White statements to paint a picture that she was supposedly Trinitarian, was done by Leroy Froom, Roy Allan Anderson and Miss Louise C. Kleuser under the encouragement of Elder Branson (1966 Froom Letters). This was 31 years after Sister White died.  With the intent to deceive, Froom placed these quotes from Ellen White in his book Evangelism where she had said “third person”, “three great powers” and “Heavenly trio” etc. But all of these in fact refer to the Spirit of Christ and not another being. This is how Froom eventually managed to lead the entire Adventist Church astray because people did not take the time to research what else Ellen White wrote in this regard on these topics.  They just took the one-liners like they were hypnotized.  Froom’s book has persuaded many non-Trinitarians in the Columbian Union to “lay down their arms” and become Trinitarians.

1946 – The General Conference, after being conditioned for 27 years (and a new membership of new members coming into the church during those 27 years that knew nothing but the Trinity), voted to retain the 1931 Baptismal Vow officially. They then voted that “changes to the baptismal vow could only be made by the General Conference delegates in official session.” (Movement of Destiny, p, 422) The Trinity now was protected by the necessity of an entire church vote in session. The entire ministry and the world membership now believes the Trinity is true. What hope is there of returning to the Bible truth of the only true God and His Son?

1947 – Charles S. Longacre writes paper #17 “the Deity of Christ,” clarifying the SDA church’s original stand on the Godhead - a non-Trinitarian article.  This would be the last of any major resistance left in the church for decades to come.

1948 – World Council of Churches is formally instituted in Amsterdam.

1949 – Bible Readings for the Home Circle is revised by D.E. Rebok in an attempt to remove any non-Trinitarian, Arian or Semi-Arian statements. Roy Allan Anderson had his influence in this as well.  The meaning of the nature of Christ is removed from future publications. .

1950 – Death of Herbert Camden Lacey.  One of the key men in apostasy.

1950 – Elders R.J. Wieland & D.K. Short write a thesis for the GC entitled “1888 Re-examined”.  This was eventually rejected with ongoing discussions up until 1961. This was a form of correction for the church thru self-examination and getting back to truth.

1952 – A book is copyrighted called Principles of Life, and printed in 1956.  It has been used by school children as their Bible Doctrines study book.  One paragraph says, “While God the Father, God the Son, and the Holy Spirit are three separate and distinct beings, yet they are ‘one in nature, in character, in purpose’ (PP34.1), working in such close relationship as to be one.” (Principles of Life, p.28)  This is a smear on the personality of God with error, and then mixing a little Spirit of Prophecy in it for unsuspecting readers to believe it is authentic from Ellen White.

1955 – Death of Elder Judson S.Washburn.  One of the last of the connecting links to truth.

1955-56 – Evangelical Conferences take place between the General Conference (represented by Froom, Anderson, Read, and Unruh) and Walter Martin and Donald Barnhouse, editor of Eternity magazine. Are Adventists a cult?  That was the question of the Evangelicals. The Trinity doctrine is one of the first issues discussed. Concessions are made on the Atonement and the humanity of Christ. Christ’s nature was changed to that of Adam’s nature before the Fall. The teaching of the atonement was changed to “completed at the cross”, instead of “commencing at the cross”. These changes were required by the protestant denominations for the SDA church to be classified as an evangelical Christian church instead of a cult or sect. We submit to the daughters of the Harlot in fear of being labeled a cult, and reject the Spirit of Prophecy writings because they do not reflect Adventist theology. But we were previously labeled a cult for years because our beliefs stood out from the rest of Protestantism. Ellen White warned in 1894 not to bridge the gulf that separates the children of God from the children of darkness. But this is not heeded.

Donald Barnhouse writes in his Eternity magazine, “Immediately it was perceived that the Adventists were strenuously denying certain doctrinal positions which had been previously attributed to them…. The Adventists specifically repudiate any teachings by ministers or members of their faith who have believed, proclaimed, and written any matter which would classify them among Arians.”  (Eternity, September, 1956)

1957 – Questions on Doctrine, a pro trinity book is released as the results of bowing to a few Evangelical men’s opinion. This is to match up the SDA church with the Protestant and Evangelical world, to be accepted so we would not be labeled a “cult”.  Never, anywhere in the book, or at any other time—was the authorship of QD mentioned. It was always stated that a “representative group of Seventh-day Adventist leaders, Bible teachers, and editors” (L.E. Froom, W.E. Read, R.A. Anderson and T.E. Unruh) produced it. In reality, it was Leroy Edwin Froom who wrote the book—all of it.

On March 11, 1957, M.L. Andreasen expressed his deep concern in a letter to the General Conference president:

“If the book [QD] is published, there will be repercussions to the end of the earth, that the foundations are being removed.”—M.L. Andreasen, March 11, 1957, letter to R.R. Figuhr, quoted in QDAE, p. xxi.

“If the officers condone the action of these men, if these men are permitted to author or approve of the book to be published, I must protest, and shall feel justified by voice or pen to reveal this conspiracy against God and His people... It is in your hand to split the denomination or heal it.”—M.L. Andreasen, June 21, 1957, letter to R.R. Figuhr, QDAE, p. xxi.

Two weeks later, Andreasen again wrote to Figuhr: “It is hard to concentrate while Rome is burning, or rather while the enemy is destroying the foundations on which we have built these many years. The very essence of our message, that there is now in the Sanctuary above going on a work of judgment, of atonement, is being discarded. Take that away, and you take Adventism away….

“To me, Brother Figuhr, this is the greatest apostasy this denomination has ever faced, and it will surely divide the people. It is not one or two men who are advocating this monstrous proposition, but a ‘group’ of General Conference men, plus a number of ‘Bible students’ with whom they are conferring.”—M.L. Andreasen, July 4, 1957, letter to R.R. Figuhr, QDAE, p. xxi.

About a month after the publication of QD, Andreasen, shattered by what he found in the book, wrote this letter to Elder Figuhr:  “I am grieved at heart, deeply grieved, at the work your advisers have recommended. The unity of the denomination is being broken up, and still Questions on Doctrine is being circulated and recommended. It must promptly be repudiated and recalled, if the situation is to be saved.”—M.L. Andreasen, December 3, 1957, letter to R.R. Figuhr, QDAE, p. xxi.

Unknown to Andreasen, nearly a month earlier, on November 6, a letter went out over Elder Figuhr’s signature to all the union conference presidents in North America. He appealed for large group orders that would amount to between 100,000 to 200,000 copies. Froom and Anderson’s plan was to smother the opposition by blanketing the Adventist denomination with low-cost copies of the book.

A month-and-a-half later, a second letter was mailed to church leaders that a second print run would be for 50,000 copies. But that was soon increased to 100,000, as the leaders recognized that, in spite of Andreasen’s published booklets, it was best for them to fall into line and give QD the large circulation that the GC requested.

Roy Allan Anderson, who was extremely influential, had arranged for thousands of free copies to be mailed to every Christian college and seminary in the world.

1957 –  The Church declares oneness with the fallen Protestant denominations. “We 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)

1957 – SDA Church joins the CWC – Christian World Communions.

Ellen White had previously warned:“…It is a grave mistake on the part of those who are children of God to seek to bridge the gulf that separates the children of light from the children of darkness by yielding principle, by compromising the truth.” (Review & Herald, July 24, 1894)

1958 – Death of C.S. Longacre, a champion of religious liberty. Author who stood for the original Pioneer views within Adventism.

1958 - After Questions on Doctrine came off the press, M.L. Andreasen wrote:  “I weep for my people. This is the apostasy foretold long ago... I have counted the cost it will be to me to continue my opposition; but I am trying to save my beloved denomination from committing suicide. I must be true to my God, as I see it, and I must be true to the men that trust me.”— M. L. Andreasen, letter to Figuhr, March 9, 1958.

Andreasen ultimately published nine widely circulated papers in late 1957 and early 1958 under the general title of “The Atonement.” That was followed in 1959 by a second series, called “Letters to the Churches,” which was later published as a 100-page booklet by the same name.

As we look back on the situation today, a key problem was that there was only one man at the time who would stand up and be counted! If 10,000 Adventists had been as resolute as Andreasen was, perhaps our church today would still have its original, pure beliefs.

1961 – While assembling in New Dehli, the WCC declares: “The World Council of Churches is a fellowship of churches which accept our Lord Jesus Christ as God and Saviour.”  Soon this formulation gave rise to questions and requests for a clearer definition of the Christ-centeredness of the churches’ common calling, a more explicit expression of the Trinitarian faith and a specific reference to the Holy Scriptures.  The result was a re-formulation, adopted by the Third Assembly which still stands:  “a fellowship of churches which confess the Lord Jesus Christ as God and Saviour according to the scriptures, and therefore seek to fulfill together their common calling to the glory of the one God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit.”

This formula would be a foundation as a point of reference for WCC members, a source or ground of coherence. 

1962 – The Second Vatican Council begins to be held, concluding in 1965. The Roman Church re-positions itself in relation to the modern world. Major changes occur in the Catholic Church, but the intention remains the same. The final stage is set for the Jesuit Order’s Counter Reformation to take over all the Protestant churches.

1962 – The World Council of Churches incorporates the trinity doctrine in its prerequisite for membership, and becomes the foremost Ecumenical organization.

1962 – The 1962 Yearbook reprints the statement of faith in substantially the same form in which it first appeared in 1931.

1965 – Bernard Seton urges the General Conference that our Fundamental Beliefs need revision.  Several of our leaders had just traveled to Geneva Switzerland to enter into negotiations for closer contacts with the World Council of Churches headquarters.

1965 – At the close of Vatican II, GC President Ruben Figuhr arranges for Bert Beverly Beach to become the SDA ecumenical liaison with other denominations placing him on an ecumenical board.  This was a key doctrinal board of the World Council of Churches in Geneva. He would remain Chairman of that board until his retirement in 2000.

1968 – Death of Elder B.G. Wilkinson, PhD after 76 years of active church service.  This pioneer of Adventism spoke out against the new trinity doctrine until his death.

1968 – Uppsala, Sweden – World Council of Churches admitted to full membership, representatives from non-member churches, which included the Seventh-Day Adventist church. Published on July 12, New York Times newspaper.

1968 – The SDA Conference in Finland make a formal request to the General Conference for Women to be ordained into the Ministry.

1970 – Bert B. Beach is elected as the Secretary-General of the annual Conference of Secretaries of the Christian World Communions, which represents about two billion Christians and covers more churches than any other organization. He would hold this position until 2003.

1971 – Movement of Destiny by Leroy Froom gets published.  Froom admits to alterations made from 1931 to “standard works” to correct “erroneous views on the Godhead” to make them Trinitarian.  His historical account says, "We began as Semi-Arians, but steadily rose to become a strong Movement, able to take our place among mainline Protestant denominations. Together with them we wholeheartedly profess Christendom’s doctrine of the Trinity and the full deity of Christ."

He also makes other admissions of wrongdoing which include going to Sunday keeping authors for his material that is included in his book "The Coming of the Comforter" that was published in 1928. (Movement of Destiny, 1971, p. 322, 422)

“May I here make a frank personal confession? When, back between 1926 and 1928, I was asked by our leaders to give a series of studies on the Holy Spirit, covering the North American union ministerial institutes of 1928, I found that, aside from priceless leads found in the Spirit of Prophecy, there was practically nothing in our literature setting forth a sound Biblical exposition in this tremendous field of study. There were no previous pathfinding books on the question in our literature. I was compelled to search out a score of valuable books written by men outside of our faith—those previously noted—for initial clues and suggestions, and to open up beckoning vistas to intensive personal study. Having these, I went on from there. But they were decided early helps. And scores, if not hundreds, could confirm the same sobering conviction that some of these other men frequently had a deeper insight into the spiritual things of God than many of our own men then had on the Holy Spirit and the triumphant life. It was still a largely obscure theme.”  (Leroy Froom, Movement Of Destiny. p. 322)

1972 – Future General Conference President, Jan Paulsen becomes the first Adventist to graduate from ecumenical Tubingen University.

1972 – Australian Pastor, Desmond Ford receives his second PhD from the University of Manchester while on leave from Avondale College.  The effects of outside evangelical teachings from these ‘systems of higher learning’ will become evident as Ford brings in “New Theology” during the 70’s.  He would be removed from Avondale in 1977 for the trouble he is causing and shipped off to the USA.  But he is installed as a teacher at Pacific Union College, which enables him to pollute our young people there for three years.

1973 – The General Conference set up a study committee to look at the issue of Women’s ordination.

1973 – Bert B. Beach (Secretary of the Northern Europe-West Africa Division) and company begin Social Engineering of acceptance of being one with the world as we would join the ‘World Council of Churches’.  He co-authors a book with Lucas Visher, Secretary of the World Council of Churches, titled , “So Much in Common between the World Council of Churches and the Seventh-Day Adventist Church”, published by the WCC, Geneva, Switzerland, 1973, saying, “The member churches of the World Council of Churches and Seventh-day Adventists are in agreement on the fundamental articles of the Christian faith as set forth in the three ancient symbols [creeds] (Apostolicum, Nicaeno-Constantinopolitum, Athanasium). This agreement finds expression in unqualified acceptance of the doctrines of the Trinity and the Two Natures.” (So Much in Common, p. 40)  

Ellen White had warned that "it is a grave mistake on the part of those who are children of God to seek to bridge the gulf that separate them from the children of darkness by yielding principle, by compromising the truth." (BEcho, April 9, 1894, par. 6) 

1974 - Death of Leroy Froom.  One of the key men in apostasy.

1974 - The 1919 Bible Conference transcript is discovered by newly archivist Dr. F. Don Yost and Don Mansell at the General Conference Archives.  It was hidden away for all of these years. These notes were typewritten from stenographic notes, a few thousand pages, stored at the offices of the General Conference

1975 - A non-Trinitarian paper by Edward Edstrom is printed at the request of the Board of Walla Walla Valley Academy in book form called Human Spirit – Divine Spirit.  Edstrom’s belief in the Trinity had been challenged in 1954 when Moslems confronted fellow pastors and workers in Central Africa “who claimed ONE God Allah, while Christianity appeared to have THREE separate, distinct Gods that were called ONE.” (Human Spirit – Divine Spirit, Introd. IV)  

1975 – A year after Froom’s death, it was decided not to republish his two books, Movement of Destiny and Questions on Doctrine.

1976 - Neal Wilson, President of the North American Division of SDA, gives this Sworn statement in the Silver-Tobler legal case involving the Seventh-day Adventist Church:  "Although it is true that there was a period in the life of the Seventh-day Adventist Church when the denomination took a distinctly anti-Roman Catholic viewpoint, and the term, hierarchy was used in a perjorative sense to refer to the papal form of church governance, that attitude on the Church’s part was nothing more than a manifestation of widespread anti-popery among conservative protestant denominations in the early part of this century and the latter part of the last, and which has now been assigned to the historical trash heap so far as the Seventh-day Adventist Church is concerned."  Merikay McLeod lawsuit (P. 4, footnote #2, Docket Entry #84: EEOC vs PPPA C-74-2025 CBR). Sworn statement dated Feb.6, 1976.

Ellen White warned in 1894, “It is a backsliding church that lessens the distance between itself and the papacy.” (Signs of the Times, Feb 19, 1894)

1977 - Pope Paul VI rewards Bert B. Beach for his book with a private audience in the Vatican. Beach presents the pope with a book and a gold medallion confirming friendship of the SDA Church with the Vatican. "The medallion is an engraved witness to the validity of the Ten Commandments. While the other commandments are represented simply as Roman numerals, the words of the fourth—‘Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy’—are written out.” (W. Duncan Eva, Adventist Review, “Book, Medallion Presented to Pope”, August 11, 1977, (849) p.23)

However, the Seventh day was removed from the text, and quoted in the same way as it is quoted in any Roman Catholic catechism. Beach represents the worldwide Seventh-day Adventist Church in an interview over Vatican radio referring to the pope as "Holy Father," when Ellen White has clearly warned, “The pope is not regarded by God as anything more than a man who is acting out in our world the character of the man of sin, representing in his claims that power and authority which Satan claimed in the heavenly courts.” (5MR 102)

1978 - February.  Ministry magazine published a special 16 page edition on ordination, including several papers on A Theology of Ordination by Raoul Dederen and Gottfried Oosterwal from Andrews University. Discussing the nature and mission of the church, they also discussed the role of women in ministry in the church.

1979 – W. Duncan Eva and Bernard Seton are working behind the scenes in moving an agenda to adopt a new Fundamental Beliefs.  The revision draft was sent to the “theologians” at Andrews University to ready it for prime time at the World Conference in April 1980. Back in 1946 a committee put forth an action making it almost impossible to change any Belief statement.  But that hurdle was overcome and now moving forward.

1980 – World General Conference in session (Dallas, TX), officially votes to accept the Trinity doctrine as part of the 27 Fundamental Beliefs of Seventh-day Adventists.

By officially approving the trinity doctrine as a fundamental doctrine of the Seventh-Day Adventist the domination has publicly declared to the world that she is following in the steps of the daughters (fallen Churches) of the mother of harlot (the Roman Catholic church) whose central pillar doctrine is the Trinity. Therefore the SDA church has left the original mission (proclaiming the three angels’ messages) of God’s calling and the firm foundation of our faith (Fundamental Principles) that are based upon unquestionable authority. No longer can the present SDA church be considered as the “remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God and have the testimony of Jesus Christ”, but now simply a Counterfeit New Movement as prophesied in 1903 by Sister White. They are now Ecumenical ready and compatible with the World Council of Churches.  We now subscribe to a God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit belief.  This is the exact belief that the early Advent Pioneers removed themselves from in the 1840's and 1850's when they left the fallen churches to form what would become, the Seventh-day Adventists.

Not found anywhere is the 2nd and 3rd Angels Message along with no identity of the beast, Babylon, her fall, his image or mark, or God’s call to come out of her.

1980 – Glacier View Ranch in Colorado is the meeting place of a number of Adventist theologians and administrators to discuss the theology of Desmond Ford.  Ford no longer believes in the Investigative Judgment, the Sanctuary message, the traditional Adventist view of the Day of Atonement and the interpretation of prophecy. 

1980 - Ex-Jesuit priest Alberto Rivera stated "all the mainstream churches were taken over (under control of Rome) by 1980.” Secret Terrorists, p 108

1980 – The General Conference files on May 7th for a trademark of it's name, Seventh-day Adventist. “SDA” is trademarked now as a commercial entity.  The G.C. hires a Catholic lawyer to trademark various names, including “Seventh-day Adventist” under commercial law. This is the first time a Protestant church denomination appeals to the “State” for protection of their name.  This move comes from former pastors and/or leaders forming other groups bearing the same or similar name as a result of separating themselves from the apostasy that is happening within the main body. They are therefore labeled as “off-shoot” movements as they attempt to hold to the foundation given to the original SDA church before all the changes over time.

1981 - Neal C. Wilson, General Conference President, announces that the Church has officially adopted the Trinity doctrine, which is now number 2 in the Church’s 27 Fundamental Beliefs.  He declares before the Seventh Day Adventist church that: "...there is another universal and truly catholic organization, the Seventh-day Adventist Church." Adventist Review, March 5, 1981, p 3.

1981 - Adventist Review, July 30th - Special Issue on Bible Doctrines - The Trinity doctrine is explained one year after it was voted as an official doctrine (which was in 1980). It states, "While no single scriptural passage states formally the doctrine of the Trinity, it is assumed as a fact by Bible writers and mentioned several times... Only by faith can we accept the existence of the Trinity." (p. 4)

"The concept of the Trinity, namely the idea that the three are one, is not explicitly stated but only assumed."  (Fernando L. Canale, the Handbook of Seventh-Day Adventist Theology, Seventh-Day Adventist Encyclopedia volume 12, page 138, 'Doctrine of God')

1982 – The SDA church signs the Baptism, Euchariest and Ministry (B.E.M.) document. From “Spiritism in the Seventh-day Adventist Church”, pp. 86-88, by Colin and Russell Standish, Hartland Pub., 1995; and “Capitulation to the Ecumenical Movement,” by Colin Standish:

“Every effort is being made to de-emphasize the great pillars of the Christian faith. We cannot forget the congress that convened in Lima, Peru, in 1981, in which almost all of the Christian communions of the world met, including a representative from the Seventh-day Adventist Church.

The representation of the Seventh-day Adventist Church surely hit an all-time low in January of 1982 when the theological representative of the Seventh-day Adventist Church signed what today has become know as the BEM document, sometimes also referred to as the Lima Text, with which readers will probably be unfamiliar. BEM stands for Baptism, Eucharist, and Ministry. This document of the World Council of Churches is the centerpiece of their determination to bring in a one-world religion around the planet.”

1983 - After 26 years, Walter Martin writes to the General Conference, “Do you still hold to what we officially agreed upon in Questions on Doctrine in 1957?” W. Richard Lesher, VP of General Conference, officially responds, “The answer is Yes.” The original event back in 1957 is where we shook hands with the Evangelicals and let them teach us what we should believe. 

On February 22, 1983, in a public meeting hall in Napa, California, Martin spoke to a packed house filled with Adventists, primarily from nearby Pacific Union College (which by that time was solidly in support of Desmond Ford and his errors). Martin announced that if the General Conference did not reprint Questions on Doctrine, he would write a book against our denomination—and reduce us to the status of a cult. .

1984 - Baptismal vow reformatted again – pro-trinity language.  If you compare this version with previous versions from years ago, you wouldn’t recognize that this is the same denomination.

1984 – 1,339 Hungarian SDA’s are dis-fellowshipped by Gen. Conf. President, Neil Wilson for protesting the ecumenical involvement of the SDA church in Hungary.

1985 - A new church Hymnal takes the place of the older attempted revised Hymnal from the 1940’s.  It was decided that there was even more songs that could be replaced or changed to fit the new 1980’s Fundamental Beliefs.  Catholic terms are used in headings and responsive readings.  Lots of new Ecumenical Hymns have been added embracing what we would have considered in the past, apostate terms and wording.  Besides praising a Holy Spirit, we embrace transubstantiation and the Eucharist, along with 13 new Trinity hymns.

1985 – William Johnsson, Senior Editor of the Adventist Review, and Walter Martin take part in a five-part John Ankerberg television interview.  Johnsson fumbles throughout the process from Martin’s firing squad style of questioning as the foundation of our faith is demolished. Johnsson maintained that our faith was entirely based on the 1980 Dallas Statement of Belief!  Not the Bible, and not the Spirit of Prophecy; but only that 27-point Statement.  On all other points, he collapsed; but he stood firm in his position that our church was founded on those 27 paragraphs, and nothing else. But this makes us a creedal church, instead of one founded on the Word of God.

1985 - Death of Roy Allan Anderson.  One of the key men in apostasy.

“It was Elder Anderson who made it plain that the real purpose of Questions on Doctrine was a planned attempt to reshape the beliefs of our church. This was revealed in a letter to Pastor Robert Greive (president of the North New Zealand Conference in the 1950s) who left the faith.”—Colin and Russell Standish, The Theology of Questions on Doctrine, p. 40.

1986 - The official doctrine of the church is stated in the Church Manual: “There is one God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, a unity of three co-eternal persons.”– SDA Church Manual, chapter 2, p 23 (Refer also to the book - Seventh-day Adventists Believe 27 Fundamental Beliefs, “The Trinity”)

1986 – Previously, the Seventh-day Adventist Church signed on for the BEM movement.  A uniform Baptism, Eucharist and Ministry movement.  What was the Seventh-day Adventist response to the BEM document? Concerning the Eucharist are these astounding words:

“Recent research clearly reveals that there is no consensus among scholars on some of the most critical issues pertaining to the Eucharist….this central celebration of the Christian church….The purpose of this essay is primarily to show how Seventh-day Adventist understanding of the Eucharist or the Lord’s supper…[and] to highlight Adventist understanding and practice of the Eucharist…“On occasion Seventh-day Adventists refer to the Eucharist as a sacrament….Being conscious of the sacredness of the celebration of the Eucharist, Adventists engage in a personal preparation that includes self-examination…In preparation for the celebration of the Eucharist Seventh-day Adventists practice the washing of feet…” (Written response of the Seventh-day Adventist Church Council on Inter-Church Relations, November, 1985, published in Churches Respond to BEM (Baptism, Eucharist, and Ministry), vol. 2, p 341-343, published by the World Council of Churches in 1986).

1988 - “Seventh-day Adventists Believe” fundamental belief book is published (strongly Trinitarian)

drafted by essentially one man, P.G. Damsteegt in connection  with 194 persons from 10 world divisions.  His Doctor of Theology degree came from the Free Reformed University of Amsterdam.

It was then paraded and promoted by J.R. Spangler, Editor of Ministry Magazine.  (Leroy Froom previously had the same position)

Among many issues, we will highlight just one in particular. In Statement #16 concerning the Lord’s Supper, it says, “Among Protestants the most common name for the Communion service is the ‘Lord’s Supper’ (1 Cor. 11:20). Other names are ‘the table of the Lord’ (1 Cor. 10:21, RSV), ‘the breaking of bread’ (cf. Acts 20:7; 2:42), and the Eucharist—a reference to the thanksgiving and blessing aspect of the service (Matt. 26:26,27; 1 Cor. 10:16; 11:24). The Lord’s Supper is to be a joyful season, not a time for sorrow. ...What marks those who are qualified to participate in the Communion service, then, is the condition of the heart—a full commitment to Christ and faith in His sacrifice, not membership in any particular church. Consequently, believing Christians of all churches can take part in the Lord’s Supper.” Pp. 198, 203.

Here two terms are set side by side as if they were the same—the Lord’s Supper, and the Eucharist. One is true, the other false. The Eucharist is a blasphemy against God, and is as much different from the Lord’s Supper, as black is different from white. But the authors of this book alerted the reader that every time the term “the Lord’s Supper” is used, it could also mean the Eucharist. And probably does. It’s an ecumenical ploy. Two terms are laid side by side, as if they are equal. And when that is allowed, the error always will win out.

1989 – March 15, Just prior to giving another lecture of attack on Adventism, Walter Martin dies from a sudden heart attack.

1990 - At the General Conference Session in Indianapolis, a Catholic priest spoke and prayed from the pulpit. The conference communications director told a local newspaper that we no longer believe what we did a hundred years ago concerning comments in the Great Controversy about the papacy. A condensed version of "The Great Controversy" was handed out in Indianapolis. "Shirley Burton, a spokesperson for the denomination, told the Indianapolis Star Daily newspaper the tract was 'trash.'...The main body of the Church has moved away from an anti-Catholic position. The new position of co-operation with the Catholic Church was exemplified by the invitation from the Seventh-day Adventists to the Vatican to send an official observer to the conference." Arkansas Catholic 7-29-90.

The following are further comments found in The Indianapolis Star, July 14, 1990: "Though Adventist officials conceded the history of the denomination has an anti-Catholic bent, they said the modern church is trying to move from that stance. 'They (the dissidents) want us to be like we were 100 years ago.' said Herbert Ford, news director for the 6.2 million-member church. 'But, the church has to move not away from the eternal principles of God, but things do have to change. 'These people are a thorn in the flesh, but the church tolerates them. United States in Prophecy [Great Controversy] which was sponsored by Adventist Layworkers Affiliate of Tennessee, calls Catholicism a pagan religion and refers to the pope as a beast. Adventists who want to cling to the church's historic anti-Catholic beliefs represent only about 1,000 in the North American division of 750,000 members, Ford said."

1991 – May 2nd issue of the Adventist Review, Roy Adams, Editor declares, “The WCC's..... accentuation of the Holy Spirit and the Eucharist, fits into the ambit of the three angels messages.” (WCC = World Council of Churches)

1993 - George Knight, a professor, and prominent SDA theologian makes this startling confession in Ministry Magazine, October 1993 - "Most of the founders of Seventh-Day Adventism would not be able to join the church today if they had to subscribe to the denomination's fundamental beliefs.

More specifically, most would not be able to agree to belief number 2 which deals with the doctrine of the Trinity." In all actuality, this would have included ALL of the founders and Pioneers of the early SDA church and it should be alarming to today's members. 

1994 – William Johnsson, editor of the Adventist Review, writes, "Adventist beliefs have changed over the years under the impact of present truth. Most startling is the teaching regarding Jesus Christ, our Savior and Lord." (Adventist Review, January 6, 1994) While the pre-existence of Christ is held, the divine begotten Son-ship of Christ as held by the official world church up to the 1940's, is denied as a "false doctrine" as Johnsson puts it.

1994 – The World Wide Web (internet) becomes a well known vehicle for reaching the world.  Beating the General Conference to the punch, Walter “Chick” McGill III moves his message to the world on the internet for his Creation SDA (CSDA) church.  By 1996 he is establishing internet domain names under the name Seventh-day Adventist as he is quicker to understand the effectiveness of this.  McGill holds to the beliefs and foundation of the original SDA church from the days of the Pioneers and Ellen White.

1995 – 56th General Conference World Session in Utrecht, Netherlands. The Vatican flag is carried through the meeting hall in a singular fashion amidst an unusually loud ovation.

“...the Pope and I descended from the same Father, that makes us brothers who should not go around making personal attacks on each other.... differences, no matter how legitimate, would not justify the alienation of a member of the family....After all, the Pope and I are brothers.” Columbia Union Visitor, June 1, 1995, quoting Mitchell Tyner, the associate general counsel for the General Conference.

The ordination of women into the Church as ministers is again a key issue and the vote against the ordination of women to ministry is an overwhelming 1481 to 673. 2,600 delegates from 205 countries attended, with approx. 18,000+ people present in total. 20 observers representing other faiths also attend.

1996 – Devotional ‘Ye Shall Receive Power’ is printed, in which the prophet’s words are changed. Back in 1899, Ellen White wrote, “Why should we not prostrate ourselves at the throne of divine grace, praying that God's Spirit may be poured out upon us as it was upon the disciples? Its presence will soften our hard hearts, and fill us with joy and rejoicing, transforming us into channels of blessing. The Lord would have every one of His children rich in faith, and this faith is the fruit of the working of the Holy Spirit upon the mind. It dwells with each soul who will receive it, speaking to the impenitent in words of warning, and pointing them to Jesus, the Lamb of God, that taketh away the sin of the world. It causes light to shine into the minds of those who are seeking to cooperate with God, giving them efficiency and wisdom to do His work.” (Signs of the Times, Sep. 27, 1899) 

If you look carefully, you will see that Ellen White has used the word ‘it’ four times, and one ‘its’ when speaking of the Holy Spirit. But in the devotional ‘Ye Shall Receive Power’ p.59, ‘it’ has been changed to ‘He’ or ‘His’ and ‘Him’.  (See also ‘Ye Shall Receive Power’ p.93, 151, 164, 183, 303, 318, 319, 321, 323, 325, 344 for other changes.). A careful comparison of this to the the EGW writings website reveals this.

1996 – Merlin Burt writes, "During the 1930's there continued to be statements teaching the 'old view'...  This largely changed during the 1940's. The fourth quarter of 1936 Sabbath School Lesson Quarterly was prepared by T.M. French. French concluded regarding Christ's pre-existence with these words: ‘He was therefore no part of creation but was "begotten of the Father" in the days of eternity, and was very God Himself.’ It seems that French was mixing Wilcox's fundamental beliefs reference to Christ as 'very God' with the 'old view' of a 'begotten' Christ." (Merlin D. Burt, Demise of Semi-Arianism and anti-trinitarianism in Adventist theology, 1888-1957, p. 40) So the belief in a begotten Christ has become the "old view", while an unbegotten Christ is now the new officially accepted doctrine. 

1996 – Porter SDA Hospital merges with Catholic Hospital in Denver, Colorado.

1997 – SDA logo is changed from the three angels to flames and cross, becoming Catholic friendly.

1998 - Andrews University publish “Women in Ministry: Biblical & Historical Perspectives”, prepared by an Ad Hoc Committee on Hermeneutics and Ordination, from the North American Division, with the express purpose of proving that it is Biblical to ordain Women to ministry. Poorly researched and biased in its appraisal of the issue, this work is exposed by several scholars as flawed and unbiblical.

1999 - B.T. Rice, pastor of the St. Louis SDA Northside church addresses the Pope in a Vatican mass held locally as "Pope, your Holiness, your historic visit to St. Louis..."  This was at a vesper service held at the Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis.  At the same time, a small ministry with volunteers handed out 100,000 booklets, “Is Mary Dead or Alive?”  In a follow up message from the General Conference to the Pope of Rome, they stated, “begging pardon for their bigotry.”  That bigotry should have been the job, mission and message that the General Conference should have been behind delivering instead of sending a stooge Pastor in submission for ecumenical purposes.

2000 – Ecumenical Gathering:  The “Meeting of U.S. Church Leaders,” an annual gathering of heads of Christian churches from around the nation, has elected Seventh-day Adventist Dr. Bert B. Beach as the vice chair of the group’s steering committee. More than 30 church leaders participated in the February 23-25 meetings, including leaders from the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, the Presbyterian Church (USA), the United Church of Christ and the American Baptist Churches in the USA.

2001 - September. “The Adventist world church created the International Board of Ministerial and Theological Education (IBMTE) in September 2001, designed to provide overall guidance and standards to the professional training of pastors, evangelists, theologians, teachers, chaplains, and other denominational employees involved in ministerial and religious formation, or spiritual formation, in each of the church's 13 regions around the world.” - Adventist News Network, Feature article: Church, Congregations Increase Focus on 'Spiritual Formation,' February 3, 2004.

In the next few years, contemplative prayer and spiritual formation enter into our “universities” in their teachings and are made prerequisites for theology degree programs.

2002 – Vatican Rome – The Pope invites close friends to Assisi. The General Conference is on the short list to meet the pontiff.  As a result, the Conference clasps hands with the Papacy.

As a result, the Conference clasps hands with the Papacy.

"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."  (Ellen White, 5T p. 451, 1885)

2003 – John R. Graz (GC director of Public Affairs and Religious Liberty since 1995) is elected as Secretary-General of the annual Conference of Secretaries of the Christian World Communions, succeeding Bert B. Beach. Graz would hold this position until 2014.

2003 – Questions on Doctrine is republished and circulated by Andrews University-- pro-Trinitarian, pro-unfallen human nature of Christ.

2005 - The Global Christian Forum meets in Lusaka, Zambia. About 70 church leaders from all parts of Africa gather together. Including Baptist, Anglican, Pentecostal, Roman Catholic, Orthodox, Seventh Day Adventist, Lutheran churches, the All Africa Christian Council…..

2005 – Baptismal Vow is revised to the Trinity creed to read: “Do you accept the teachings of the Bible as expressed in the Statement of Fundamental Beliefs of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, and do you pledge to live your life by God’s grace in harmony with these teachings?” 

For the first time in Adventist history, the Church has based its membership on a creed. The prophet had told us 95 years earlier, “The Bible, and the Bible alone, is to be our creed.”  (RH, Dec 15, 1885)

2008 – Greater New York Conference loses millions in the stock market. Living Springs adult community is sold off.  Property next to Camp Berkshire is liquidated off.  Pastors are downsized in numbers and forced to cover more churches.  Prior to this, the Conference sold its Van Ministry and Center along with a local satellite television channel.  This includes video cameras and studio equipment. 

2008 – In contrast to the 1936 Sabbath School lesson, the 2nd quarter lesson in 2008 teaches that the Father, Son and Holy Spirit are not really a father or a son or a holy spirit but are three divine beings who are just role-playing these parts. Here is a quote from the lesson: “But imagine a situation in which the Being we have come to know as God the Father came to die for us, and the One we have come to know as Jesus stayed back in heaven (we are speaking in human terms to make a point). Nothing would have changed, except that we would have been calling each by the name we now use for the other. That is what equality in the Deity means.” (April 10, 2008, p. 19)

As J.N. Andrews said, “This [Trinity] doctrine destroys the personality of God and His Son Jesus Christ our Lord.” (RH, March 6, 1855)

2008 – April 7th, Andrews University – Dr. Fortin (Dean of the Theological Seminary) hosts a special 8 hour plus event for two Jesuits trained at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome among other achievements.  These men, Steven Bevans and Roger Schroeder come directly from the Catholic Theological Union, a graduate school of Theology and Ministry.  Letters from concern individuals from within the local Michigan conference go unanswered.

2009 – Andrews University staff and students worship at a Mosque in Arusha, East Africa.  They take the usual position of bowing on the floor while repeating a worship chant to Allah.

2010 – A survey by the General Conference of SDA’s of the church’s 13 divisions finds that the majority do not want to change the church’s policy on ordaining women to pastoral ministry.  Meanwhile, women begin turning up as head elders and pastors of churches in the South Pacific Division & the North American Division.

2010 - The 59th General Conference Session of Seventh-day Adventists elects Ted N.C. Wilson as General Conference President. The Church in session re-affirms its belief in the literal Creation week, and re-affirms its belief in Marriage as a God-ordained institution, ruling out the option of homosexual marriage for Adventists.  A request is put forward for a Committee to study the Theology of Ordination.

2011 – Adventist Midwest Health utilizes worldly and secular “Pink Glove” videos for promotion and advertisement along with wordly music and dance featured in their messaging.  This “cancer” catches on elsewhere in other health institutions.

2012 - The White Estate database is hacked by an anonymous SDA group in Europe. Their concern is for public access to all of Ellen White's documents and that they have been restricted and it is public domain at this point as they should belong to the people. The meaning and context of her writings is hampered by not being able to view everything in it's entirety. This anonymous group is pushing for full digitized access to anyone wanting them, not just a handful of privileged people.  The White Estate attempts to sue for damages.  The anonymous group threatens to release all of Sister White's writings.  Their request is that the White Estate does it to save their reputation.

2012 – August 12th, Glendale Adventist Hospital (California) allows pastors and deacons from St. Mary’s Church to come and visit and host a Feast of Assumption (celebration of Mary going to heaven) also called the Blessing of the Grapes. This goes fully against our state of the dead message and belief.  This is like Israel allowing Baal worship within its borders.

2012 – SDA’s Daneen Akers and her husband Stephen Eyer produce a film called Seventh-Gay Adventist in response to the state of California passing Prop 8, banning same sex marriage.  The film is focused on stories of gay and lesbian Adventists in an effort to change hearts and minds in the pews through the story line.

2012 - August. Andrews University Press publish Homo-sexuality, Marriage, and the Church: Biblical, Counseling, and Religious Liberty Issues. A 600 page collection of 14 major essays on a range of topics relating to the changes happening around the issue of homosexuality and marriage in Adventism.

2013 – Revision is made on the fundamental belief in the Gift of Prophecy. Ellen White’s authority is diminished. The phrases “as the Lord’s messenger” and “a continuing authoritative source of truth” are removed. Arthur Stele would later say, "The suggested changes seek to avoid giving the impression that Ellen G. White and the Bible are equivalent sources of truth.”

2014 – Ganoune Diop (GC director of Public Affairs and Religious Liberty since 2011) is elected as the new Secretary-General at the annual conference of secretaries of the Christian World Communions.

2014 – Voice of Prophecy produces a national Christmas special, October 15th at the Spencerville Adventist Church in Silver Spring, MD. The broadcast goes nationwide Christmas Eve on the ABC network with a message from Shawn Boonstra.  Christmas trees in all their glory are lit up on stage just like the Evangelicals do it.  Pretending to honor Christ, when in fact they give glory and honor in all reality to paganism.  An abomination of desolation is on full display on national television, to be one with the world.

2014 – Crain’s Chicago Business, Chicago, IL, June 28th - Adventist Health Midwest partners with Alexian Brothers Health System (Roman Catholic owned).

2015 – Huntsville First Seventh-day Adventist Church in Huntsville, Alabama begins to offer Sunday morning service on February 8th.  First Church is less than two miles from the campus of Oakwood University.  This is in addition to Sabbath service as an attempt to bring in “unchurched” community members. (Spectrum Magazine, February 6, 2015)

2015 – General  Conference  Session in  San Antonio,  TX   turns down a motion that would allow each division of the SDA church to decide for itself whether to ordain women to the ministry.  None of the church’s 13 world divisions ordain female pastors. However, three unions began to ordain women prior to the vote, and two other unions decided to stop ordaining male pastors in what they called a show of solidarity with women after the vote.  Under church policy, only men can be ordained as pastors, while women can serve as commissioned ministers. A person does not need to be ordained to lead a congregation.

2015 – Ellen White Symposium is held at Andrews University and spread worldwide, denies the Spirit of Prophecy's inspired authority to define doctrinal faith and practice, but only as theological and practical guidance and end time application.

2015 - The White Estate reaches a settlement with the hacker from 2012 and releases the rest of Sister White's writings that they have been holding back for years.  The collection contains approximately 8,300 typed documents, letters and manuscripts dating from 1845 to 1915, which includes unpublished writings.

Honest truth seeking Adventists now fully know that Sister White wrote over and over, that Jesus is their Comforter coming to them in spirit form as the Holy Spirit, not some other mystery person or Ghost.  The dogma of the denomination's teaching has been shown to be in error for those who want to know and are paying attention.

2015 – SDA church President Ted Wilson holds first meeting with United Nations Chief-Secretary Ban Ki-moon on April 6 in New York City.  Follow up meetings take place in Silver Spring, MD SDA church headquarters. The United Nations is a cohort with the New World Order.  There is no reason why we should entertain or meet with them thinking we can aid or steer their direction to a different course.

2015 – Angel Manual Rodriquez, authored an article titled “A Question of Sonship” from the Biblical Research Institute in November (SDA theological hierarchy) answering a question, “What does the Bible mean when it refers to Jesus as “the Son of God?”. 

In his answer he downplays the literal speaking of the Bible, which would therefore be anti-Christ.  “Christ is the eternal Son of God. …We are dealing with a metaphorical use of the word “son.”  The Metaphorical Significance of this would then be that the Son is not the natural, literal Son of the Father.”

1 John 2:22-23 - "Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son. v23 Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father: (but) he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also."

2015 – Hollywood SDA church ordained a church elder, a male transgender person as he dresses head to toe as a woman, now known as Rhonda.

Deuteronomy 22:5 – “The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment: for all that do so are abomination unto the LORD thy God.”

2015 – Pastor Michael Leno and the Palm Springs California SDA church plays host to Palm Springs gay men’s choir to sing in their church for Sabbath worship service on December 19th. Thirty six men in total.  Pictured in the background on stage is a fully decorated and lighted Christmas tree.  The abomination grows!

2015 – Adventist Health System is found guilty in a lawsuit filed by three former employees in 2012.  It was a crime that paid doctors excessive compensation to lock in their patient referrals to Adventist owned hospitals.  The settlement is for 118 million of which $115 million will go to the government, the remaining to North Carolina, Texas, Florida and Tennessee.

2016 – Ganoune Diop, Director of Public Affairs and Religious Liberty for the Seventh-day Adventist Church world church attends the Conference of Secretaries of Christian World Communions that was held in Rome, Italy.  Everyone in attendance greets the Pope in total submission.  In a sign of unity, Ganoune clasp hands with the Papacy!

“The Protestants of the United States will be foremost in stretching their hands across the gulf to grasp the hand of spiritualism; they will reach over the abyss to clasp hands with the Roman power; and under the influence of this threefold union, this country will follow in the steps of Rome in trampling on the rights of conscience.” (Ellen White, Great Controversy, p. 588)

2016 – Lesbian married to a SDA woman is baptized in Chico, California SDA church.

The SDA General Conference is a 501c3 corporation and because of this signed agreement with the U.S. government, the organized SDA church cannot and is forbidden to discriminate against LGBT.  By doing so, they would lose their tax status and forfeit such benefits, making necessary the repay-ment of taxes to the U.S. government for decades past.  Therefore, there can’t be any resistance to such acts of sins.

2016 – War on the Bible, drinking from the same Wine cup as Babylon.  Covered by Adventist Today, Loma Linda Town Hall Meeting, December 3rd – Supporting Gay film director, Daneen Akers says “the Bible cannot be taken literally, especially Leviticus 18:19-22 and Romans 1:26-28.…Jesus had two fathers; we affirm the LGBT lifestyle.”

Professor David Larson said, “The six texts that are usually used to clobber (to condemn) people who practice the LGBT lifestyle should be removed from the Bible.  Then, let us just love everyone.”

2016 – Pastor Derek Morris is named President of the Hope Channel, Inc.  His credentials include a DMin in Preaching from an outside theological seminary as well as bringing in spiritual formation and contemplative prayer into our denomination back in the 1980’s.  He most recently was Pastor at Forest Lake SDA church in Florida.

2017 – Green Lake SDA church in Seattle, WA, March 11th, Pastor John McLarty says “sometimes the law needs to be bent to accommodate reality.”  This is response to supporting those in the LGBT community.  McLarty gives his stage over to Stephen Eyer to promote the film, Seventh-GAY Adventists on Friday night, ushering in the Sabbath, and again on Sabbath afternoon the next day.  Eyer and his wife, Daneen Akers launched this movie project back in 2012.

2017 – February 28, Central Jamaica Conference (CJC) of Seventh-day Adventists employs its first female pastor, Latoya Smythe-Forbes.  This is the first of its 66 year history of operation.

2017 – April 3rd, Adventist Today - Walla Walla General Hospital (Washington state) is sold to Providence Health & Services (Catholic owned) for 14 million dollars payable over 24 years.  However because of tax implications of its non-profit status, it is referred to as a transfer of control or sponsorship and not an official "sale".

2017 – Adventist Hospitals have been performing abortions for years and are finally called out for it thru social media.

2017 – Glendale California SDA church members dressed up to celebrate Gay Pride month in June.

2017 – June 24, La Sierra University Church and the South-eastern California Conference of Seventh-day Adventists confirm Beverly Maravilla to Gospel Ministry with ordination.

2017 – SDA members everywhere are being dis-fellowshipped for standing for the original pillars and foundation of the Adventist faith in the last few years from CA, WI, GA, FL, NY, VA and many other states in the USA.

2018 – January 9, Walla Walla University hosts Gregory Boyle, a Jesuit Priest to lead out in worship.  The program is called CommUnity, an attendance requirement for anyone pursuing a Bachelor’s degree.  The leaders ignore the counsel given by inspiration of the Spirit of Prophecy and the Almighty God.   Where is the protest?  Completely silent.

2018 – Liberal pastors in major church locales start parading an all-inclusive message to unify all walks of life as “we are the church”.  This is very similar to a “co-exist” belief that is what agents of Satan preach.

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“We are on the very verge of the time of trouble, and perplexities that are scarcely dreamed of are before us. A power from beneath is leading men to war against Heaven. Human beings have confederated with satanic agencies to make void the law of God. The inhabitants of the world are fast becoming as the inhabitants of the world in Noah’s day, who were swept away by the Flood, and as the inhabitants of Sodom, who were consumed by fire from heaven. The powers of Satan are at work to keep minds diverted from eternal realities. The enemy has arranged matters to suit his own purposes. Worldly business, sports, the fashions of the day—these things occupy the minds of men and women. Amusements and unprofitable reading spoil the judgment. In the broad road that leads to eternal ruin there walks a long procession. The world, filled with violence, reveling, and drunkenness, is converting the church. The law of God, the divine standard of righteousness, is declared to be of no effect.” – Ellen White, Testimonies for the Church, vol. 9, p. 43.2

“I have been repeatedly shown that our presses should now be constantly employed in publishing light and truth. This is a time of spiritual darkness in the churches of the world. Ignorance of divine things has hidden God and the truth from view. The forces of evil are gathering in strength. Satan flatters his co-workers that he will do a work that will captivate the world. While partial inactivity has come upon the church, Satan and his hosts are intensely active. The professed Christian churches are not converting the world; for they are themselves corrupted with selfishness and pride, and need to feel the converting power of God in their midst before they can lead others to a purer or higher standard.” – Ellen White, Testimonies for the Church, vol. 9, p. 65.2

"The world must not be introduced into the church, and married to the church, forming a bond of unity. Through this means the church will become indeed corrupt, and as stated in Revelation, 'a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.' Through association with the world our institutions will become unsubstantial, unreliable; because these worldly elements, introduced and placed in positions of trust, are looked up to as teachers to be respected in their educating, directing, and official position, and they are sure to be worked upon by the spirit and power of darkness; so that the demarcation becomes not distinguished between him that serveth God and him that serveth Him not. In the balances of the sanctuary the Seventh-day Adventist church is to be weighed. She will be judged by the privileges and advantages that she has had. If her spiritual experience does not correspond to the advantages that Christ, at infinite cost, has bestowed on her, If the blessings conferred have not qualified her to do the work entrusted to her, on her will be pronounced the sentence: 'found wanting.' By the light bestowed, the opportunities given, will she be judged.” - Ellen White, Testimonies for the Church, vol. 8, p. 247

“Religious teachers read the Bible in the light of their own understanding and traditions; and the people do not search the Scriptures for themselves, and judge for themselves as to what is truth; but they yield up their judgment, and commit their souls to their leaders.”  - Ellen White, Desire of Ages, p.459

“God has a church.  It is not the great cathedral, neither is it the national establishment, neither is it the various denominations; it is the people who love God and keep His commandments.  “Where two or three are gathered together in My name, there am I in the midst of them.”  Where Christ is, even among the humble few, this is Christ’s church, for the presence of the High and Holy One who inhabiteth eternity can alone constitute a church.  Where two or three are present who love and obey the commandments of God, Jesus there presides, let it be the desolate place of the earth, in the wilderness, in the city, (or) enclosed in prison walls.”  - Ellen White, Manuscript Releases, vol. 17, p. 82; Upward Look, p. 315.5

“Religious teachers read the Bible in the light of their own understanding and traditions; and the people do not search the Scriptures for themselves, and judge for themselves as to what is truth; but they yield up their judgment, and commit their souls to their leaders.”  - Ellen White, Desire of Ages, p.459

“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.” – Ellen White, Early Writings, p. 261.1

Revelation 18:4 – “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.”

Addendum:

The above listing is not an exhaustive account for the following reason: By FAR, the WORST SINS that have provoked our pure and holy God are unrevealed. We don’t know them. They have been committed by the inside wolves in secret.

“The abominations for which the faithful ones were sighing and crying were all that could be discerned by finite eyes, but by far the worst sins, those which provoked the jealousy of the pure and holy God, were unrevealed. The great Searcher of hearts knoweth every sin committed in secret by the workers of iniquity. These persons come to feel secure in their deceptions and, because of His long-suffering, say that the Lord seeth not, and then act as though He had forsaken the earth. But He will detect their hypocrisy and will open before others those sins which they were so careful to hide. {5T 211.3}

No superiority of rank, dignity, or worldly wisdom, no position in sacred office, will preserve men from sacrificing principle when left to their own deceitful hearts. Those who have been regarded as worthy and righteous prove to be ring-leaders in apostasy and examples in indifference and in the abuse of God’s mercies. Their wicked course He will tolerate no longer, and in His wrath He deals with them without mercy. {5T 212.1}

It is with reluctance that the Lord withdraws His presence from those who have been blessed with great light and who have felt the power of the word in ministering to others. They were once His faithful servants, favored with His presence and guidance; but they departed from Him and led others into error, and therefore are brought under the divine displeasure. {5T 212.2}

God Identifies the Wolves

Members of various churches are brainwashed to believe that the wolves are from the outside. That is not what God’s Word says. The context of the following verses is “Jerusalem,” not Babylon. The broad meaning of the word “prophet” is one who claims to represent God. In the context of these verses, it means the leaders of the people.

Eze 22:27 Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain.

Hab 1:8 Their horses also are swifter than the leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves: and their horsemen shall spread themselves, and their horsemen shall come from far; they shall fly as the eagle that hasteth to eat.

Zep 3:3 Her princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they gnaw not the bones till the morrow.

Mat 7:15 Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.

Mat 10:16 Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.

Luk 10:3 Go your ways: behold, I send you forth as lambs among wolves.

Act 20:29 For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock.