Arbor Day in South America was celebrated this year on September 21, 2021. On this day people are encouraged to plant trees and participate in educating the public about the importance of sustainable development. It is one of the many days of the year set aside to promote conservation. They also speak out against climate change and the destruction of the environment on Arbor Day. A lot of coordination and planning takes place for Arbor Day, as a wide range of events are scheduled for this day.
https://www.facebook.com/AdventistasANP/posts/4255218057865267
The above Facebook post comes from the North Parana Conference of Seventh-day Adventists located in Maringa, Brazil, and they are promoting Arbor Day by announcing that one of their academies was celebrating this day. The South American Division headquarters are also located in Brazil and they also issued a press release describing how Adventist academies were partnering with municipal governments to help plant trees. [1]
https://www.facebook.com/CALondrina/posts/4589089057810539
Here is the Adventist academy in Londrina and you can see the students hugging trees on Arbor Day. Other students are standing around a tree in a circle with the tree in the middle. This is very similar to what pagans do when they worship nature.
https://www.facebook.com/pathfindersbrazil/posts/4808025785898361
The Facebook post above is from the Pathfinders organization in Brazil. They are also celebrating Arbor Day by planting trees.
https://www.facebook.com/EscolaAdventistaDeTupa/posts/4800522249999865
Here is the Adventist Academy in Tupa promoting Arbor Day and encouraging students and people to “hug trees” because they help us breathe. It’s not just this Adventist school doing this. The Adventist academy in Inhaúma, [2] the academy in Marambaia, [3] the academy in Grão Pará, [4] the academy in Tijuca, [5] the one in Miranda [6] and Lorena [7] also commemorated Arbor Day.
Why don’t they leave the kids out of these tree hugging environmental engagements that exalt the earth? This is damaging the young and vulnerable minds of our youth. It is God’s design that we teach our youth biblical truth so that He can use them to finish the work during the outpouring of the Latter Rain (read Joel 2:28), and not train them in the pagan arts of pantheism.
https://www.facebook.com/PrefeituraDeSaoBentoPB/posts/4555943777796068
Various Adventist academies, Pathfinder groups and churches also commemorated Arbor Day with government leaders. The São Bento City Council, through its Ministry of the Environment, joined several groups, including the “trailblazers” (Pathfinders) of the “Seventh-day Adventist Church” to promote “environmental sustainability.” That is what the city government’s Facebook page shows above.
https://www.facebook.com/JuntosVamosFazerMais/posts/1537226139956578
The Mayor of Bacabeira, Fernanda Goncalo, revealed in her Facebook post that the Trailblazers (Pathfinders) Club and the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Bacabeira had joined her and others on Arbor Day to: “empower young people in terms of sustainable development policies and other actions related to environmental education, as well as contribute to social and environmental inclusion.” Is this what it has come to? Have we now embraced the global mission to empower Adventist youth in “sustainable development” and “environmental inclusion?”
This is a work that is neither found nor supported anywhere in inspiration. To understand what is really happening we must look no further than Rome and the United Nations. They are the architects who are promoting earth worship, green eco-religion and a worldwide ecumenical movement that embraces everyone. This has become the new emphasis and we are allowing our youth to be exposed to this. This does NOT prepare our children for heaven. No, this is preparing them for the world and for the mark of the beast.
https://www.facebook.com/PrefeituraPitanga/posts/4585219081535364
Here is the Pitanga City Council announcing its partnership with the trailblazers (Pathfinders) to commemorate Arbor Day by planting trees in various locations. Click on the post and see all the pictures of the new mission for our church youth.
If that wasn’t enough, the João Monlevade city government sent its Environment Secretary, Samuel Domingos, to the local Seventh-day Adventist church in João Monlevade to give a lecture on Arbor Day on the importance of preserving the environment to the youth of the church. The pastor of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, Leandro Dias de Carvalho, was also present and listened to the lecture. Notice the pastor’s response when city officials came and taught sustainable development in his church. Pastor Leandro said:
“It is very important for us to be able to raise awareness among young people about caring for trees and nature. I am very happy to add to the guidelines for the youth and the community around us.” [8]
It is truly remarkable that politicians have invaded the church and are preaching their message about trees and nature to our young people. I don’t blame the children. I blame the parents, the pastors and the church for this tragedy. The church is not a forum for reaching children with a secular and worldly message and politicians cannot help our children get into heaven.
It’s time for our churches to start using some kind of self-restraint. It is one thing when church leaders engage in interfaith activities aimed at seeking a better relationship with political leaders or the papacy at their own expense; but it is a whole different situation when we use our children as political props when pursuing closer ties with the world. This is one of the main reasons why we are losing our unique distinctiveness.
Environmentalism has become the new universal religion of the world. Pope Francis is at the forefront of this movement. And when we embrace human philosophies and combine them with Adventism, we quickly lose our identity and our true mission. We end up becoming just one more church among the tens of thousands already in the world. This is Satan’s plan, and the climate message, along with its pantheistic expressions, is the means by which he is uniting the entire world as one. Why can’t our people see this?
“Satan determines to unite them in one body, and thus strengthen his cause by sweeping all into the ranks of Spiritualism. Papists, who boast of miracles as a certain sign of the true church, will be readily deceived by this wonder-working power; and Protestants, having cast away the shield of truth, will also be deluded. Papists, Protestants, and worldlings will alike accept the form of godliness without the power, and they will see in this union a grand movement for the conversion of the world, and the ushering in of the long-expected millennium.” (Great Controversy, p. 588).
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[2] https://www.facebook.com/EscolaAdventistadeInhauma/photos/a.634883586640462/4129865707142215/
[3] https://www.facebook.com/escoladamarambaia/photos/a.963820230295073/4702173163126409/
[4] https://www.facebook.com/institutoadventistagraopara/photos/a.428422060621377/2458305814299648/
[5] https://www.facebook.com/colegioadventistadatijuca/photos/a.343180419067869/4612542208798314/
[6] https://www.facebook.com/eammsoficial/posts/1250748935351294
[7] https://www.facebook.com/ColegioAdventistadeLorena/photos/a.235241063341985/1727700020762741
[8] https://defatoonline.com.br/dia-da-arvore-e-comemorado-com-palestra-e-plantio-de-mudas-em-monlevade/
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I wonder if these kids know anything about The Great Disappointment of 1844 and the coming together of Christians of different faiths to study the Bible for answers to why Christ never came back to earth on October 22, 1844. I wonder if these kids ever heard of a lady by the name of Ellen G. White. They do know about “Sustainable Development,” a term which has come right out of the Globalists NWO Agenda handbook. It’s the primary montra of Dr. Diop. “Hug a tree”? I wonder if these kids were wearing crystals around their necks as they tipped toed in the tulips. They are being taught to become little environmentalists. However, they should be taught what Christ will do to the environment when he returns: “And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places.” Revelation 6:14. Yes, as a Christian citizen, we are to respect the environment, but it seems as though these kids are worshipping nature instead of the Divine Being who created nature. I’m just saying… Don’t be to hard on me.
I totally agree. I believe we are living in the last generation and because of our neglect in training up our children, Satan will sweep many of them away in ignorance.
Getting the right balance is key. Understanding the difference between appreciating nature and worshiping nature is key.
As christians as children of God, we have been given the responsibility of looking after the earth.
“Then God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.
Genesis 1:28 NKJV
As a pathfinder it’s good to get out in nature. It’s good to do community service, planting trees, cleaning up the environment.
“As the student thus contemplates the things of nature, a new perception of truth comes to him. The teachings in God’s great book of nature bear testimony to the truth of the written word.”. 8T 326.1
We need to spend time in nature with our children teaching them the things of God.
As most good things God has given us, Satan has found a way to corrupt them and lead away from the truth, to worship the creation and not the creator.
How do we care for our environment and not get caught up in the delusion?
These kids are being taught to worship the creation instead of the creator. You would think by now people in the church would know better. If I saw a picture of my kid at school hugging a tree because she’s being taught to worship it, I’d be having a long conversation with that principle and school board.
Yet this very class put forth the claim that the fast-spreading corruption is largely attributable to the desecration of the so-called “Christian Sabbath,” and that the enforcement of Sunday observance would greatly improve the morals of society. Combining the temperance reform with the Sunday movement, they represent themselves as laboring to promote the highest interests of society; and those who refuse to unite with them are denounced as the enemies of temperance and reform. But the fact that a movement to establish error is connected with a work which is in itself good, is not an argument in favor of the error. We may disguise poison by mingling it with wholesome food, but we do not thereby change its nature. On the contrary, it is rendered more dangerous, as it is more likely to be taken unawares. It is one of Satan’s devices to combine with falsehood just enough truth to give it plausibility. The leaders of the Sunday movement may advocate reforms which the people need, principles which are in harmony with the Bible, yet while there is with these a requirement which is contrary to God’s law, his servants cannot unite with them. Nothing can justify them in setting aside the commandments of God for the precepts of men.
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