On May 28, 2022, DEIA, a daily newspaper in Basque Country, an autonomous community in Northern Spain, published a story about an “inter-religious celebration” that included “prayers,” “songs,” and statements about “peace” and “love.” The DEIA newspaper reported on the ecumenical event as follows:
“The event began at 7:00 p.m. with a Buddhist dance for peace, calling on the participants who came to the El Arenal Sheds to read a statement, after which the moment called for peace.” [1]
“The public wrote their testimony about the crisis situation Ukraine is going through as a result of the war with Russia.” [1]
“To close this event, an inter-religious celebration was held with the participation of children and youth from the different religious communities, a prayer, symbol, characteristic song of each confession was performed, around peace, love.” [1]
“The event was attended by representatives of the Catholic Church, the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic community, the Evangelical Council of Euskadi, the Evangelical Church of Philadelphia, the Adventist Church, the Assalam Mosque, the Bader Mosque, the Al Furkan Mosque, the Rekalde Mosque, the Mourides Brotherhood, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, the Baha’i Community, the Buddhist Community and the Taoist Community. This Forum has the collaboration of the Pedro Arrupe Human Rights Institute of the University of Deusto and the Ignacio Ellacuria Social Foundation.” [1]
This ecumenical peace event was organized in collaboration with two prominent Jesuit organizations in Spain. The first was the Pedro Arrupe Human Rights Institute at the University of Deusto. Not only was Deusto University founded by the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) [2], but it also houses the Pedro Arrupe Human Rights Institute. Pedro Arrupe was the 28th Superior General of the Jesuit Order. [3] What business does any Seventh-day Adventist have to do with an organization dedicated to the black pope, a Jesuit superior general?
The Ignacio Ellacuria Social Foundation was the second group that helped to sponsor this interfaith gathering. This is another Jesuit institution named after Ignacio Ellacuria. He was one of six Jesuit priests killed in El Salvador during the Civil War. This foundation’s mission is to “build an intercultural, inclusive society through diverse exercises that increase encounter, reflection, dialogue, and transformation of the host society with an openness to cultural diversity and religious pluralism. [4]
There is only one way to achieve peace with the Jesuit Order and Rome. There is no other way, but one. God clearly states that there is only one way to appease Rome, and that is for us to compromise our faith.
“Here is the line of distinction between the worshipers of God and those who worship the beast and receive his mark. The great conflict is between the commandments of God and the requirements of the beast. It is because the saints are keeping all ten of the commandments that the dragon makes war upon them. If they will lower the standard and yield the peculiarities of their faith, the dragon will be at peace; but they excite his ire because they have dared to raise the standard and unfurl their banner in opposition to the Protestant world, who are worshiping the institution of papacy” (Testimonies, Vol. 1, p. 223).
This is the only way the dragon and his agents will make peace: by lowering the standards or the peculiarities of our faith. Even if the majority agrees, we simply cannot do this. This is not the path that God has chosen for us. We are no longer disturbing the false, carnal peace of this sinful world with God’s truth when we are welcomed by the Jesuits and work together with them in ecumenical unity for peace. The world will love us if we accept their lies, deceptions, and smooth words. Rome will praise us if we compromise the present truth.
🅱🇺🇦 Erlijio Aniztasunaren Partaidetzarako Bilboko Mahaia, @bilbao_udala-k sustatuta, “Bakearen aldeko konpromisoa sinesmen eta kultura aniztasunetik abiatuta” ekitaldia egin zuen, Ukrainaren alde eta gaur egun gatazkak dituzten beste leku batzuen alde, #BilbaoIntercultural pic.twitter.com/SLfFAOLYwW
— Bilbao Intercultural (@BiIntercultural) May 30, 2022
But when we speak the words that God wants us to, we will be despised by this generation. When we follow the example of Jesus, we will be rejected, mocked, and ridiculed by the sin-loving churches. Notice what Jesus said to some members of the Jewish nation:
“The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that the works thereof are evil.” John 7:7.
When Jesus saw the works of evil, rebellion, and lawlessness, He did not seek peace and unity. He actually put Himself in opposition to it and bore a direct testimony against it. We must do the same. Jesus spoke the truth and was reviled by His generation. This is how it has always been and always will be. God’s truth is never popular.
🅱🇺🇦 La Mesa de Participación de la Diversidad Religiosa de Bilbao, impulsada por @bilbao_udala, celebraron el acto “Compromiso por la paz desde la diversidad de creencias y culturas” a favor de #Ucrania y otros lugares donde actualmente sufren conflictos.#BilbaoIntercultural pic.twitter.com/dGDtZB31fj
— Bilbao Intercultural (@BiIntercultural) May 30, 2022
The Jesuit-led ecumenical movement suggests that you accept and validate all religious viewpoints. No matter how strange or heretical a belief system is, they are all accepted and no one is excluded. Truth and error can coexist in ecumenism. Light and darkness become one. Interfaith worship seeks to bring the devil and God together at the table of brotherhood. In ecumenism, Satan ceases his attack on the church, and God no longer holds sin and error in contempt.
When leaders of the Seventh-day Adventist Church attend these ecumenical gatherings, they are exposed to all of Babylon’s liberal theologies and secular philosophies, such as humanism, homosexuality, feminism, abortion, transgenderism, radical environmentalism, Romanism, and other beliefs that are incompatible with God’s word. Then they turn around and introduce the same errors into Adventism. Rome’s modern-day ecumenical movement is turning many church leaders into biblically illiterate agnostics. Here is God’s warning to those who unite with the world and adopt their customs:
“As the storm approaches, a large class who have professed faith in the third angel’s message, but have not been sanctified through obedience to the truth, abandon their position and join the ranks of the opposition. By uniting with the world and partaking of its spirit, they have come to view matters in nearly the same light; and when the test is brought, they are prepared to choose the easy, popular side” (Great Controversy, 608).
Rome’s invitation to join their Jesuit-led universal fraternity is a very well-conceived and very well-executed plan for our conversion. They are turning truth into relativism. It is a forum where all views, except biblical truth, are celebrated. It makes you indifferent to other religions. Its objective is to overthrow our faith. It doesn’t ask Rome to change because Rome never changes. It is changing Adventism.
It is very easy to blend in with the world; but standing up to the prevailing apostasy is always more difficult. Nonetheless, this is the challenge we face today. This generation must be called to repentance and turned to the living God. In these last days, the faithful company of believers who are not compromising their faith will be committed to preparing a people for the coming of the Lord:
“We have a message to bear to the world. Who are to engage in this work? All who understand the message—the purified, those who are made white, the tried, the wise. They are to let their light shine to others. They are not themselves to try to shine, but let the light that shines into their hearts and minds shine forth to others in clear, bright rays. The Lord designs that our work shall be of a character to refine, ennoble, elevate. He designs that it shall give a clear and decided understanding of what constitutes the third angel’s message” (Manuscript 41, 1901).
Sources
[2] https://www.deusto.es/en/home/we-are-deusto/the-university/mission-identity
[3] https://www.ignatianspirituality.com/ignatian-voices/20th-century-ignatian-voices/pedro-arrupe-sj/
[4] https://en.everybodywiki.com/Ignacio_Ellacur%C3%ADa_Social_Foundation
Lynette says
They are committed to a “peace” that will never be realized because: “Great peace have they which love thy law.” Psalm 119:165.
Jason says
“It was by associating with idolaters and joining in their festivities that the Hebrews were led to transgress God’s law and bring His judgments upon the nation. So now it is by leading the followers of Christ to associate with the ungodly and unite in their amusements that Satan is most successful in alluring them into sin. “Come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean.” 2 Corinthians 6:17. God requires of His people now as great a distinction from the world, in customs, habits, and principles, as He required of Israel anciently. If they faithfully follow the teachings of His word, this distinction will exist; it cannot be otherwise.” PP 458
LINDA F TAYLOR says
These are those that Christ will say to, “I NEVER KNEW YOU, DEPART FROM ME”. These people do not know what they are doing. They also believe the lie.
Mercedes says
The leadership is encouraging us to attend these kind of gatherings. Ganoune Diop, the General Conference’s director of Public Affairs and Religious Liberty, has dedicated his time to these same despicable spectacles. This is something that he and others are endorsing.
Abe says
The SDA is not keeping all ten commandments. The GC and most leaders are hypocrites because they allow the murder of thousands of babies in the mother’s womb in their hospitals. Until this is resolved, the Holy Spirit will not come.
Brian says
For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape. 1 Thesa. 5:3.
Andrew says
They are treading on forbidden ground by allying with the Jesuits and listening to the enemy’s bewitching charms. Very dangerous and presumptuous.
Laurel says
The Seventh-day Adventist GC leaders failed miserably during “Covid”, not one of them preached the health message of the Bible (Daniel 1) or in Ellen White’s writings, probably because they don’t keep it themselves. They proudly word their masks & (supposedly) took their jabs.
Next up is understanding prophecy, as happened with Daniel in chapter 2. Since the leaders bombed out in the health test, opting to go along with Babylon, they have no ammunition to move forward in the next test that will surely come.
The GC failed & their understanding has been compromised. Ecumenicism will be their downfall.
Jon says
The Lord has pronounced a curse upon those who take from or add to the Scriptures. The great I AM has decided what shall constitute the rule of faith and doctrine, and he has designed that the Bible shall be a household book. The church that holds to the word of God is irreconcilably separated from Rome. Protestants were once thus apart from this great church of apostasy, but they have approached more nearly to her, and are still in the path of reconciliation to the Church of Rome. Rome never changes. Her principles have not altered in the least. She has not lessened the breach between herself and Protestants; they have done all the advancing. But what does this argue for the Protestantism of this day? It is the rejection of Bible truth which makes men approach to infidelity.
It is a backsliding church that lessens the distance between itself and the Papacy. – ST February 19, 1894
Lewin Mellinese says
O Jerusalem, O Jerusalem…..Matthew 23:37