In many places, the church’s standards have disappeared. The lowering of standards regarding dress, jewelry, and music—including allowing apparel that promotes beer during our camp meetings—is deeply troubling and in contradiction with Seventh-day Adventism. On Sabbath, June 15, 2024, during a worship service at the 2024 Allegheny West Conference Camp Meeting, the band featured a drummer who was proudly wearing a Coors Beer Brewing Company hat as the people were singing songs to God. [1]
Coors Beer was on Display as the People Worshipped God at the 2024 Allegheny West Conference Camp Meeting #sda #adventist #adventista pic.twitter.com/MQmBZOUA6Z
— Advent Messenger (@Advent1844) June 24, 2024
Advertising alcoholic beverages on stage, front and center, during our camp meetings does not foster a welcoming environment where everyone feels valued. Allowing this type of display does not make us more inclusive and non-judgmental. No. Product-promoting clothing serves as a mobile billboard, allowing Coors Beer to reach new customers. And the 2024 Allegheny West Conference camp meeting turned into a forum for promoting the alcohol industry’s brand visibility by raising awareness of its marketing—pure and simple.
Asking people to dress appropriately for church is not a way to point fingers or make criticism; rather, it is a matter of spiritual guidance to maintain the sanctity of worship. There are standards and expectations regarding attire in many professional and business contexts, including courtrooms. If you were in front of a judge at a court proceeding, you wouldn’t wear a Coors beer hat. You would be ejected from the courtroom in a heartbeat. But at our holy camp meetings, where people appear before the Judge of the universe, it is acceptable to promote beer through clothing.
What happened at this Adventist camp meeting was a catastrophic failure on many levels. And since there were underage children at this event, promoting alcohol to them is not only immoral but also illegal. God will not be mocked forever. The worship of a holy God is not something you can trifle with. The day is approaching when He will silence those who ridicule His holy name. Our God is a God of love. He is merciful and patient, not willing that anyone should perish, but He is a God of purity and holiness who upholds the moral order in the universe. This should command our reverence and awe.
Despite His boundless love, which is evident in His desire for all to repent, God will visit unrepentant wickedness, sin, and apostasy. Make no mistake. God will judge the wicked in righteousness, holding them accountable for their actions and affirming that His holiness and justice are inseparable from His love.
“And the Lord said unto him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof. And to the others he said in mine hearing, Go ye after him through the city, and smite: let not your eye spare, neither have ye pity: Slay utterly old and young, both maids, and little children, and women: but come not near any man upon whom is the mark; and begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at the ancient men which were before the house.” Ezekiel 9:4-6.
“Here we see that the church—the Lord’s sanctuary—was the first to feel the stroke of the wrath of God. The ancient men, those to whom God had given great light and who had stood as guardians of the spiritual interests of the people, had betrayed their trust … They say: The Lord will not do good, neither will He do evil. He is too merciful to visit His people in judgment. Thus ‘Peace and safety’ is the cry from men who will never again lift up their voice like a trumpet to show God’s people their transgressions and the house of Jacob their sins. These dumb dogs that would not bark are the ones who feel the just vengeance of an offended God. Men, maidens, and little children all perish together” (Testimonies, Vol. 5, p. 221).
“Not all who profess to keep the Sabbath will be sealed. There are many even among those who teach the truth to others who will not receive the seal of God in their foreheads. They had the light of truth, they knew their Master’s will, they understood every point of our faith, but they had not corresponding works. These who were so familiar with prophecy and the treasures of divine wisdom should have acted their faith. They should have commanded their households after them, that by a well-ordered family they might present to the world the influence of the truth upon the human heart” (Testimonies, Vol. 5, p. 213).
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[1] https://www.youtube.com/live/wfgREt-llGc?si=azXYPvI4Fy13FmVs
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SDA performers or not – beer hats, jewelry; overweight & stuffed into their clothes; yelling, not singing. Bedlam! How things have changed. I’m honestly at the point where I do not care what the GCC does or allows; it’ll keep getting worse, not better (entire Matthew23). I quit going to physical church 21yrs ago when this noise started coming in (among other issues, such as no prophecy studies as in bygone days). Thank God for the internet & the amazing things I’ve learned online.
I can agree with everything else but I would leave the weight and clothing comments out. SDA’s come in all sizes, race, and male or female. Some people do struggle with their weight 🙂
Probation is about to close.
So very true. We are “just before the close of probation.”
A clown show.
Do we not have any leaders in this conference who have the courage to say “no”? Anyone?
Things won’t change until heads start to roll.
Things will never Change and the Clown Shown will go on to Hell and Damnation. God Through Ellen White Prophesied it, and this Statement from her is more True than Ever has been since it was Written.
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 pg. 189
The Only way to escape from the Mess and Cesspool of Evil that World Seventh Day Adventist Church has Become is to Follow Christs Example and Separate from the SDA Sanhedrin, and all that they own and control. Ted Wilson is Doing Exactly what Caiaphas did in the Days of Christ.
If the leaders in Israel had received Christ, He would have honored them as His messengers to carry the gospel to the world. To them first was given the opportunity to become heralds of the kingdom and grace of God. But Israel knew not the time of her visitation. The jealousy and distrust of the Jewish leaders had ripened into open hatred, and the hearts of the people were turned away from Jesus.
The Sanhedrin had rejected Christ’s message and was bent upon His death; therefore Jesus departed from Jerusalem, from the priests, the temple, the religious leaders, the people who had been instructed in the law, and turned to another class to proclaim His message, and to gather out those who should carry the gospel to all nations. As the light and life of men was rejected by the ecclesiastical authorities in the days of Christ, so it has been rejected in every succeeding generation. Again and again the history of Christ’s withdrawal from Judea has been repeated. When the Reformers preached the word of God, they had no thought of separating themselves from the established church; but the religious leaders would not tolerate the light, and those that bore it were forced to seek another class, who were longing for the truth. In our day few of the professed followers of the Reformers are actuated by their spirit. Few are listening for the voice of God, and
ready to accept truth in whatever guise it may be presented. Often those who follow in the steps of the Reformers are forced to turn away from the churches they love, in order to declare the plain teaching of the word of God. And many times those who are seeking for light are by the same teaching obliged to leave the church of their fathers, that they may render obedience.
Desire of Ages pg. 140
Jesus had come to the fig tree hungry, to find food. So He had come to Israel, hungering to find in them the fruits of righteousness. He had lavished on them His gifts, that they might bear fruit for the blessing of the world. Every opportunity and privilege had been granted them, and in return He sought their sympathy and co-operation in His work of grace. He longed to see in them self-sacrifice and compassion, zeal for God, and a deep yearning of soul for the salvation of their fellow men. Had they kept the law of God, they would have done the same unselfish work that Christ did. But love to God and man was eclipsed by pride and self-sufficiency. They brought ruin upon themselves by refusing to minister to others. The treasures of truth which God had committed to them, they did not give to the world. In the barren tree they might read both their sin and its punishment. Withered beneath the Saviour’s curse, standing forth sere and blasted, dried up by the roots,
the fig tree showed what the Jewish people would be when the grace of God was removed from them. Refusing to impart blessing, they would no longer receive it. “O Israel,” the Lord says, “thou hast destroyed thyself.”
Desire of Ages pg. 382
For more than a thousand years the Jewish nation had abused God’s mercy and invited His judgments. They had rejected His warnings and slain His prophets. For these sins the people of Christ’s day made themselves responsible by following the same course. In the rejection of their present mercies and warnings lay the guilt of that generation. The fetters which the nation had for centuries been forging, the people of Christ’s day were fastening upon themselves.
In every age there is given to men their day of light and privilege, a probationary time in which they may become reconciled to God. But there is a limit to this grace. Mercy may plead for years and be slighted and rejected; but there comes a time when mercy makes her last plea. The heart becomes so hardened that it ceases to respond to the Spirit of God.
Then the sweet, winning voice entreats the sinner no longer, and reproofs and warnings cease. That day had come to Jerusalem. Jesus wept in anguish over the doomed city, but He could not deliver her. He had exhausted every resource. In rejecting the warnings of God’s Spirit, Israel had rejected the only means of help. There was no other power by which they could be delivered.
Desire of Ages pg. 383
Do the Clown freaks above Really know God?
Or are they Serving Another Jesus Independent of God?
That being the case they are Teaching another Gospel that Neither God or Myself Recognize.
Adventism has Gone the way of Ancient Israel.
The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master’s crib: but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider. 4 Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward.
5 Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.‡ 6 From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment.§ 7 Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.** 8 And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.
9 Except the LORD of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, and we should have been like unto Gomorrah.
10 Hear the word of the LORD, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God,
ye people of Gomorrah.
11 To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and
I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats.†† 12 When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts? 13 Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting.
14 Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them. 15 And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.
Isaiah 1
The LORD said also unto me in the days of Josiah the king, Hast thou seen that which backsliding Israel hath done? she is gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and there hath played the harlot. 7 And I said after she had done all these things, Turn thou unto me. But she returned not. And her treacherous sister Judah saw it. 8 And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot also. 9 And it came to pass through
the lightness of her whoredom, that she defiled the land, and committed adultery with stones and with stocks. 10 And yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah hath not turned unto me with her whole heart, but feignedly, saith the LORD. 11 And the LORD said unto me, The backsliding Israel hath justified herself more than treacherous Judah.
Jeremiah 3
Surely as a wife treacherously departeth from her husband, so have ye dealt treacherously with me, O house of Israel, saith the LORD. 21 A voice was heard upon the high places, weeping and supplications of the children of Israel: for they have perverted their way, and they have forgotten the LORD their God. 22 Return, ye backsliding children, and I will heal your backslidings. Behold, we come unto thee; for thou art the LORD our God. 23 Truly in vain is salvation hoped for from the hills, and from the multitude of mountains: truly in the LORD our God is the salvation of Israel. 24 For shame hath devoured the labour of our fathers from our youth; their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters. 25 We lie down in our shame, and our confusion
covereth us: for we have sinned against the LORD our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even unto this day, and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God.
Jeremiah 3
Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Amend your ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this place. 4 Trust ye not in lying words, saying, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, are these. 5 For if ye throughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye throughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbour; 6 If ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent
blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt: 7 Then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, for ever and ever.
8 Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit. 9 Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye know not; 10 And come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered to do all these abominations?
11 Is this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, even I have seen it, saith the LORD. 12 But go ye now unto my place which was in Shiloh, where I set my name at the first, and see what I did to it for the wickedness of my people Israel. 13 And now, because ye have done all these works, saith the LORD, and I spake unto you, rising up early and speaking, but ye heard not; and I called you, but ye answered not;
14 Therefore will I do unto this house, which is called by my name, wherein ye trust, and unto the place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I have done to Shiloh. 15 And I will cast you out of my sight, as I have cast out all your brethren, even the whole seed of Ephraim.
16 Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up cry nor prayer for them, neither make intercession to me: for I will not hear thee.
Jeremiah 7
Such Sins such as Above, when Church leaders Condone Sin that the Lord has Said his People are to have not Part of; cannot be dealt with by Intercessory Prayer. Which means as Far as God is Concerned, these SINS ARE UNPARDONABLE.
To complain about the beer advertising is not enough. This is music that celebrates and worships God? Oh… I hope not! I fight against this kind of music in our churches and if there is anyone who says it is ok, then it shows how far we are from the purity of heaven and holiness of God, THE HOLY CREATOR OF EVERYTHING! Joseph – Loud Cry Ministries, Czech Republic