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Many of us SDAs are so far behind the times, that we think "diversity" and "inclusion" are good words, and that religious liberty means that we aren't forbidden by the government from freely speaking and worshipping as we choose.

Pastor Conrad Vine, Director of Adventist Frontier Missions, has a 3 part audio series called "Wrongthink:Religious Liberty".  He is passionate about showing the dangers to the woke culture, which is Socialism disguised, saying rightly that it is an anti-Christian movement.  Some things he says explain for me what was puzzling, like how can it be that Black men and women who are Conservative also get called "racist" and even worse, even tho they are supposedly of the same race as those doing the name-calling.  Also, why are so many of the supporters of wokeness rich, white, Liberal people?  He shows that oppression and a sense of "equality for everyone" ON MY TERMS, is one of the big tenets of this doctrine that has ruined millions of lives and vast swaths of land around the world in the past 140 years since Marx and Darwin really started to gain traction.

https://www.audioverse.org/english/sermons/seriess/2043/wrongthink-religious-liberty-.html

May we follow the Way, the Truth, and the Life, and follow His example of calling on people everywhere to "Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand".

Thank you nb for pointing out this resource. smile

Now I just wish he would be as passionate about calling on our SDA leaders to stop supporting abortion - which is the absolute worst restriction of religious liberty that I know!



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Cancel culture is totalitarian in nature, and has much in common with various totalitarian movements that have existed in the last hundred years.

The term is a new one, but the problem a very old one.  I am reminded of the quote below, that describes how Christ was treated while on this earth.

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Pharisees, Sadducees, and Herodians joined to oppose the Son of God.  Their rejection of the truth influenced many to turn from the Saviour.  Those who cherish enmity to the pure principles of heaven, are acting in concert with the "rulers of the darkness of this world."  When Christ met with success in his ministry, those who hated truth and rejected light manifested their spirit of opposition, and sought to silence him.  The same spirit is apparent today, wherever the truth is brought in contact with long-established error of doctrine and custom.  With mad prejudice, men bitterly condemn that which disturbs their preconceived opinions.  It is a matter of the highest importance and interest to us that we understand what the truth is, and our petitions should go forth with intense earnestness that we may be guided into all truth.  {RH, February 7, 1888 par. 13}

 



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The quote you provided is very appropriate, refulgent.

Especially the part about "sought to silence him" is exactly where we are at today in the so-called "Free World".

Just today I saw on the net where someone wrote an article saying that Ellen White was racist.  If that point of view gets much traction, either our denomination will be silenced, or else our leaders will throw Ellen White under the bus of cultural wokeism.

This is showing me more and more that we will not be able to rely on the internet, or banks, or digital anything in the future, showing again the wisdom of God in using simple things, like going door to door, to spread the final warning of the Three Angels' Messages to a world hurtling into the abyss where everybody will eventually be cancelled.



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I expect that the tactics we see in the world will also be applied in spiritual contexts.

The Bible and Spirit of Prophecy identify end-time groups who are called to proclaim a distinctive message, for example Elijah messengers and the 144,000.

Presumably every conceivable means will be used to silence these people.

Three example quotes about this are below.

The first talks about how the 144,000 will be treated, and the second and third about how Elijah messengers have been treated.  Note the second quote mentions that Elijah was treated like a wild beast by his own people.  The third quote applies Elijah's ministry to those of us living today.

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Why were they [the 144,000] so specially singled out?  Because they had to stand with a wonderful truth right before the whole world, and receive their opposition, and while receiving this opposition they were to remember that they were sons and daughters of God, that they must have Christ formed within them the hope of glory.  They were ever keeping in view the great and blessed hope that is before them.  What is it?  It is an eternal weight of glory.  Nothing could surpass it.  {1SAT 72.3}

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Elijah had walked with God.  His work had been painful and trying, for the Lord through him had reproved the sins of Israel.  Elijah was a prophet of God; yet he was compelled to flee from place to place to save his life.  His own nation hunted him like a wild beast that they might destroy him.  But God translated Elijah.  Angels bore him in glory and triumph to heaven.  {EW 162.2} 

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Elijah, amid the general apostasy, did not seek to hide the fact that he served the God of heaven.  Baal's prophets numbered four hundred and fifty, his priests, four hundred, and his worshipers were thousands; yet Elijah did not try to make it appear that he was on the popular side. He grandly stood alone.  The mountain was covered with people full of eager expectation.  The king came in great pomp, and the idolaters, confident of triumph, shouted his welcome.  But God had been greatly dishonored.  One man, and only one man, appeared to vindicate the honor of God.  With clear, trumpetlike tones Elijah addressed the vast multitude: "How long halt ye between two opinions?  if the Lord be God, follow Him: but if Baal, then follow him."  The result was that the Lord God, who ruleth in the heavens, was vindicated, and the Baal worshipers were slain.  Where are the Elijahs of today?  {5T 526.3} 



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