President Ted Wilson led the Global Ramadan Prayer Day 2023, an event hosted by the Seventh-day Adventist Church’s Global Center for Adventist-Muslim Relations. [1] Wilson was the keynote speaker for the global day of prayer for Ramadan, which is considered a sacred month for Muslims all over the world. Muslims honor this Islamic holy month by praying, fasting, and showing greater devotion to Allah. During Ramadan, there is a special emphasis placed on reading the Quran, which Muslims consider to have divine origins. Tragically, there is also an increase in terrorist attacks during Ramadan. [2] Christians are often the target of these attacks.
Muslims always face Mecca when they pray, whether it’s during Ramadan or at any other time. The central part of Muslim worship is to pray while facing the Kaaba, a cube-shaped building in Mecca that serves as the religion’s holiest site. According to Islamic tradition, Abraham and his son Ishmael built the Kaaba as a house of worship for Allah. However, it is known that, before the arrival of Islam, the Kaaba was a shrine that housed a number of pagan deities, including the Black Stone, which was considered a main god by pre-Islamic Arab pagans. When Muhammad and his followers conquered Mecca in 630 AD, they reportedly cleansed the Kaaba of idols but kept the Black Stone, which is venerated by Muslims today. [3]
Ramadan is a deeply meaningful and important religious observance for Muslims, not for Christians. Ted Wilson, the leader of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, is seen here urging us to respect and understand Islam’s religious practices. This is what ecumenical worship and interfaith dialogue encourage us to do. If we have been engaging in interfaith harmony with Rome for years, why not participate in and show our support for Islam by sponsoring Ramadan prayers?
This is interfaith bridge-building in action. This is designed to help us better understand and appreciate the faiths of others and form relationships with them. The goal is to create a greater sense of unity and cooperation. Ted Wilson is acting in the same manner as Pope Francis. Pope Francis also believes in commemorating Ramadan to show solidarity with Muslims. On March 24, 2023, the Vatican’s Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue stated the following regarding Ramadan:
“Dear Muslim brothers and sisters, The month of Ramadan is important for you, but also for your friends, neighbours and fellow believers of other religions, in particular Christians. Existing friendships are reinforced and others are built, paving the way for more peaceful, harmonious and joyful coexistence. This corresponds to the divine will for our communities, and indeed for all the members and communities of the one human family.” [4]
This Vatican-led agency is responsible for delivering the Pope’s message. Rome is working overtime to unite all of the religious faiths of the world into one family. Muslims, pagans, spiritualists, Mother Earth worshippers, Protestants, Catholics, indigenous faiths, and eastern religions are all part of Rome’s one-world brotherhood. Is our loyalty now to the Pope of Rome and to his falsehoods and delusions? Is it the mission of the General Conference to set aside the final warning message and join hands with all the religions of the world to promote the Vatican’s message? That is exactly what is happening. Pope Francis is healing the deadly wound (Revelation 13:3), and this involves eliminating truth that exposes Rome’s agenda.
When Seventh-day Adventists start obeying papal encyclicals like Fratelli Tutti while neglecting the Second Angels’ Message (Revelation 14:8) and the Loud Cry Message (Revelation 18:1-5), this is a sign that we have crossed a new historic threshold. We have been successful in taking Adventism to new levels that no previous generation has reached before. This is not Adventism; it is Romanism under the guise of Adventism.
Fallen, erring mortal men are not above the word of God. Or do we think that our leaders know more than the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord? Our loyalty is not to Rome, but to the word of God. Sadly, the apostasy in the church will only get worse and will continue until the Lord descends from heaven:
“One thing it is certain, is soon to be realized—the great apostasy, which is developing and increasing and waxing stronger and will continue to do so until the Lord shall descend from heaven with a shout … We may be strengthened and confirmed in the past experience that holds us to the essential points of truth which have made us what we are—Seventh-day Adventists” (Letter 326, December 4, 1905).
Sources
[1] https://gcamr.globalmissioncenters.org/
[3] https://interfaithshaadi.org/black-stone-of-kaaba-in-mecca/
[4] https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/en/bollettino/pubblico/2023/03/24/230324b.html
Shane says
“the great apostasy” you say that is withing the church, how do we know that refers to the SDA church and not the world, popery or the protestant churches?
David Lee says
What Ellen White has written is always about Adventism and how it is affected by the apostasy of the pagan world and Romanism. And yes, the Protestants too. HER SUBJECT IS ADVENTISM AS THE MESSENGER TO THE REMNANT. That is how we know.
Shadrach+Habeenzu says
Shame! This is the real APOSTASY.The church is walking like a headless chicken,no direction.Shame!
YesMsJane says
Remembering James Arrabito’s
“Behind the Door” lecture
When he interviewed
‘Alberto Rivera” an ex Jesuit
(Who was later posioned at the Dentist)
He mentioned that when he visited the Vatican Library He was shown a book that revealed how The Vatican created Islam,
Which would explain many of the similarities in those two Religions,
Works, Beads, outfits, pilgrimages,
Fatima, Mary worship etc,
Ted being there is just further helping Rome with its Vatican 2 eccumenical alliances, shameful.
Sully Grand-Jean says
Ted Wilson proved by his ecumenical movement that he was a hidden Jesuit, but now revealed. Ted Wilson must step down by any means necessary, or Doctor Jesus will force him to.!
Marvin Owens says
As far as I’m concerned. Ted Wilson isn’t my leader in the SDA church. I didn’t vote for him to be leader. Those of you that voted for him, shame on you!!!
LINDA F TAYLOR says
I’m sorry, but I see this as pure apostasy!!! What is Ted Wilson trying to prove? I am so thankful that we are judged personally and not as a collective group. I just can not approve of such actions. He has gone way beyond his appointed boundaries as president of the General Conference.
I wonder what EGW would say if she were here today? No where in her writings are we to get involved with ecumenism! That is a creation of the catholic church! It has one goal in mind. To bring together ALL the churches, and ALL the faiths into one big bowl of soup.
When the Bible says, “Come out of her my people, that you be not partakers of her sins” means just what it says. No if’s, and’s, or but’s!!! I wonder who will be our next GC president? He will have to have a strong backbone to undo all the damage that Ted Wilson has done over all these years. God help us all…………….
Alan says
Like father like son:
Ted’s father was Neil C. Wilson, who as the GC vice president when he made this statement under oath in a court
hearing: “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 pejorative 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 consigned to the historical trash heap so far as the
Seventh-day Adventist Church is concerned.” EEOC vs PPPA and GC, Civil Case #74-2025 CBR (1975)
So Ted’s father, Neil, hated the spreading of truth about the great whore of Babylon, and instead wanted to protect the
papacy from identification. He was later voted in as president. Neil wanted the world to “wonder after the beast.” Neil also described the Adventist conference: “…there is another universal and truly catholic organization, the Seventh-day
Adventist Church.” Adventist Review, March 5, 1981, p 3.
The day of God’s vengeance is just upon us. The seal of God will be placed upon the foreheads of those only who sigh and cry for the abominations done in the land. Those who link in sympathy with the world are eating and drinking with the drunken and will surely be destroyed with the workers of iniquity. “The eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and His ears are open unto their prayers: but the face of the Lord is against them that do evil.” {5T 212.3}
Sully Grand-Jean says
Like father , like son is a complete and truthful statement!
Dauwud Kut says
I think we a missing what Paul says regarding to mission in other to win some. I don’t think if its turning the church to be aposticed
Elsa Yaboisembut says
Disini saya tidak berkomentar tapi apa yang kita mulai rasakan di jemat kecil kami imbauan mari kita saling mendoakan agar kita jangan sampai keluar dari batra yang Tuhan sediakan bagi kita dimana terdapat bau busuk dimana- mana tapi iman kepercayaan kita jangan sampai goyah.
Susie Bethencourt says
IT’S OVER!!!!!!!!
Deborah says
They are attempting to appease a false faith that will behead them as soon as it gets the opportunity.
Jason says
YOU HIT THE NAIL ON THE HEAD BY SAYING “IT IS ROMANISM UNDER THE GUISE OF ADVENTISM…”
bobo says
todo se sabra a su debido tiempo “plase translate text”..
Betty+M. says
Just a question, but is it possible that both Neil and Ted Wilson are secretly Jesuits themselves? They surely fit the deceptive picture of wolves amont the sheep.
Betty+M. says
NO, I did not say what is just below at any other time. If I did, mail it to me. Are YOU trying for my comment to be hid?
Just a question, but is it possible that both Neil and Ted Wilson are secretly Jesuits themselves? They surely fit the deceptive picture of wolves amont the sheep.
Gavin Tainton says
Praying for Muslims is not the same as with them in their cause.
R. Butler says
I believe the answer to why these relations are possible today is fairly obvious.
It is for the very same reason that Islam and ALL other false religions have in common today, none of them believe that Jesus is the literal and only begotten Son of God.
The Quran rejects Jesus as the literal Son of God:
Sura 3, which calls Jesus a ‘word’, asserts that he is like Ādam (Sura 3:59), i.e. created by Allah, and any who dispute this are to be deliberately cursed by believers during times of prayer (Sura 3:62).
“It is not for Allāh to beget offspring. Glory to Him! When He decrees something, He simply says, ‘Be!’ and it is.”
(Sura 19:35)
Adventism today according to the BRI:
The father-son image cannot be literally applied to the divine Father-Son relationship within the Godhead.
The Son is not the natural, literal Son of the Father.
A natural child has a beginning, while within the Godhead the Son is eternal.
The term “Son” is used metaphorically when applied to the Godhead.
https://www.adventistbiblicalresearch.org/materials/a-question-of-sonship/
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. The founders of this system would go into the cities, and do a wonderful work. The Sabbath of course, would be lightly regarded, as also the God who created it. Nothing would be allowed to stand in the way of the new movement. The leaders would teach that virtue is better than vice, but God being removed, they would place their dependence on human power, which, without God, is worthless. Their foundation would be built on the sand, and storm and tempest would sweep away the structure. 1SM 204.2
Our pioneers had faith in, and believed Jesus to be the literal and only begotten Son of God (not a metaphorical son like that of Barabbas). This is the foundation of which our current church militant has abandoned.
We have nothing to fear for the future, except as we shall forget the way the Lord has led us, and His teaching in our past history…
3SM 162.3
Donna+Meyer says
Pastor Roman, for some reason I have not received any emails from you for more than a week. I very much like to keep up on your news reports. I already checked my spam box but nothing was there. Perhaps you haven’t shared anything since then but if you have, could you check into this and let me know?
Thank you so much,
Donna
C.W. Good says
“Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers (which includes Muslims): for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion
hath light with darkness?” 2 Cor. 6:14, KJV. Muslims are not Christians and have perfect anti-christ beliefs. And Ted Wilson (SDA Church GC President) is mixing with
them? This is not only ignorant and ridiculous but dangerous and sickening. It is also embarrassing, compromising, and a weak and poor witness for Jesus. Did Ted
Wilson pray in the name of Jesus and for the conversion of Muslims to Christianity? I think not! So who is converting who here? All he did was play cards with the
devil- and lost! How do Muslims view Seventh-day Adventists now? All of this drama comes as no surprise to me. Why? Because Ted Wilson’s father (Neal) was also
an SDA Church GC President and church politician. He had Desmond Ford (SDA Professor & Pastor) fired in 1980 for proving the investigative judgment wrong. He
also had SDA Pastor Walter Rea fired for proving Ellen White to be a plagiarist. Neither the Wilson father nor son did anything to stop abortions for profit in Adventist hospitals. Need I say more? Like Rome, the SDA Church is unrepentant and will not change for the better. So why be a member and support them? SDA leaders claim “the ship will sail to the heavenly harbor” when it is sinking like the Titanic. And who wants to go down with it? Wise people get off, right? Do it now.
Denis says
Amen let’s pray