In cooperation with the South Pacific Division, the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA), and the Fiji Mission of Seventh-day Adventists, Seventh-day Adventists are engaging in environmental activism, tackling climate change, and spreading awareness about the importance of addressing the climate crisis. The Fiji Times published an article titled “Clean-up Campaign Part of a New Climate Action Commitment” on January 29, 2023, and revealed that a clean-up effort involving more than 100 Seventh-day Adventist leaders resulted in the adoption of a new pledge to the UN Sustainable Development Goals:
• “More than 100 church leaders of the Seventh Day Adventist (SDA) Church conducted a clean-up campaign today throughout Sigatoka Town as part of a new climate action commitment under the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) Fiji’s Disaster Ready Churches Project.” [1]
• “In a statement, ADRA stated the clean-up campaign marked an end to a three-day stewardship and disaster risk reduction (DRR) training. [1]
• “The program focused on disaster ready churches in climate action for church leaders in the Western Division – a joint collaboration between the Fiji Mission of the Seventh-Day Adventists and ADRA Fiji supported by the South Pacific Division. [1]
• “Following the clean-up campaign, a new action commitment by the local churches was signed between the Sigatoka Town Council, SDA Church and ADRA Fiji. [1]
• “The agreement confirmed the church and ADRA Fiji’s commitment with the Sigatoka Town Council in support of the SDG 13 to ‘take urgent action to combat climate change and its impact’. [1]
• “The church, which was represented by the general secretary Pastor Sentiki Waqa, agreed to commit to a community clean-up campaign once every six months or upon the request of the Sigatoka Town Council and plant trees, particularly fruit trees, to address carbon emissions and food security.” [1]
Seventh-day Adventists and local city officials held a signing ceremony. In a signing ceremony, Adventist leaders made commitments to support SDG 13, one of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) set by the United Nations General Assembly. Goal 13 urges us to fight climate change as soon as possible. [2] Following specialized training, our pastors, religious leaders, and churches have made commitments to support the SDGs of the UN. We are now publicly declaring our allegiance to the Vatican-led climate change movement and our intention to evangelize our communities to adopt the United Nations’ mitigation measures for the alleged climate crisis. Brothers and sisters, the everlasting gospel of Jesus Christ is being replaced with the gospel of Mother Earth.
The Three Angels’ Messages in the Book of Revelation, chapters 14 and 18, are considered central to the church’s beliefs. This is the message of salvation through faith in the everlasting gospel. It emphasizes the worship of the living God by keeping the seventh-day Sabbath and warns against the false religions that would be pushing Sunday worship. This is our work, and we are told that nothing should ever replace this message:
“In a special sense Seventh-day Adventists have been set in the world as watchmen and light bearers. To them has been entrusted the last warning for a perishing world. On them is shining wonderful light from the word of God. They have been given a work of the most solemn import—the proclamation of the first, second, and third angels’ messages. There is no other work of so great importance. They are to allow nothing else to absorb their attention. The most solemn truths ever entrusted to mortals have been given us to proclaim to the world. The proclamation of these truths is to be our work. The world is to be warned, and God’s people are to be true to the trust committed to them” (Testimonies, Vol. 9, p. 19).
Tragically, this work is being replaced as many Seventh-day Adventists are opting to take part in climate justice. There is no doubt that the climate movement is making significant inroads into the churches as more and more religious communities are becoming more environmentally conscious and taking actions to promote sustainability and protect the environment. Seventh-day Adventists are now openly participating in the climate movement and promoting ecological conversion in front of the media. They have signed contracts and agreements to do so. Who is responsible? Who is calling us to do this? Everything we see is in complete harmony with Laudato Si’. In his climate encyclical, Pope Francis urges “all Christian communities” to join the fight against climate change:
“Political institutions and various other social groups are also entrusted with helping to raise people’s awareness. So too is the Church. All Christian communities have an important role to play in ecological education. It is my hope that our seminaries and houses of formation will provide an education in responsible simplicity of life, in grateful contemplation of God’s world, and in concern for the needs of the poor and the protection of the environment. Because the stakes are so high, we need institutions empowered to impose penalties for damage inflicted on the environment” (Laudato Si’ #214).
All churches, including Seventh-day Adventists, are expected to participate. The mission of the church is being changed today. This new gospel is no longer about the gospel of Jesus Christ. This new generation is proclaiming the climate gospel according to Rome. The churches are responding and coming together. They are working together to solve the climate crisis. The goal is not to save souls. The new goal is to save the plants and animals, even while souls are perishing in sin all around us.
The global climate movement is being led by Pope Francis. And when we merge secular ideologies with Adventism, we rapidly lose sight of our true mission and identity. We end up being just another one of the world’s tens of thousands of churches without a unique message. Satan’s agenda is to unite the entire world, and the messages about climate change, climate Sunday, and the common good are his means of doing so. Why aren’t our people able to see what’s happening?
“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).
Sources
[1] https://www.fijitimes.com/clean-up-campaign-part-of-a-new-climate-action-commitment/
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What steps will the GC take concerning this?
GEOENGINEERINGWATCHORG…FIND OUT THE REAL CAUSE OF THE ODD,SCREWY WEATHER…
Who and what is the church today? Certainly not the organized hierarchical structure that actually MIMICS Rome.
The Ecumenical movement will simply mean that they all finally choose Sunday as their day of rest (in direct opposition to God’s holy Sabbath).
What must these “church” workers think as they join hands with those that have spurned God’s law?
We are watching it happen right before our eyes.