A “We Love Our Priests” billboard campaign is currently being run by Catholics in Washington State as a public tribute to promote the Roman Catholic faith and its clergy. [1] Its stated purpose is to honor priests and highlight the ministry of the Roman Catholic Church. This is significant because Rome understands the power of public messaging. Through various billboards and social media campaigns, Catholic institutions are actively seeking to evangelize and connect people to their church. [2] [3]
This is why Seventh-day Adventists cannot remain silent at this time. If the Roman Catholic Church can use public billboards to promote its mission, then God’s people should be using every means, including billboards, to proclaim the Three Angels’ Messages. Dr. Isaac Olatunji’s Sunday Law billboard campaign represents a bold effort to direct the minds of the people to prophetic truth, religious liberty, the commandments of God, the faith of Jesus, and the Bible Sabbath.
The contrast between these two billboard campaigns is striking. One campaign encourages faith in an ecclesiastical system and its traditions; the other calls people to examine Scripture and warns against placing human tradition above the commandments of God. One highlights an earthly priesthood, while the other points to Christ alone as our High Priest and Creator who sanctified the seventh-day Sabbath.
Revelation 14 commissions God’s people to proclaim the everlasting gospel, call the world to worship the Creator, and warn against the beast, his image, and his mark. The Sabbath is central to that appeal because it identifies the Creator: “For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day” (Exodus 20:11). At a time when increasing attention is being given to Sunday as a common day of rest, we have the responsibility to present the Bible Sabbath—the seventh day—as God’s memorial of creation and redemption.
The Sunday Law billboards serve as public warnings. They are modern-day banners, calling attention to the final conflict over true worship. The issue is not whether billboards are an appropriate means of communication—many organizations, including Rome, already use them effectively. The real question is whether God’s remnant people will employ every legitimate means available to proclaim the last warning message before earth’s final crisis unfolds.
“We must take every justifiable means of bringing the light before the people. Let the press be utilized, and let every advertising agency be employed that will call attention to the work. This should not be regarded as nonessential. On every street corner you may see placards and notices calling attention to various things that are going on, some of them of the most objectionable character; and shall those who have the light of life be satisfied with feeble efforts to call the attention of the masses to the truth?” (Evangelism, p. 130).
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[1] https://www.facebook.com/share/18woetRkJq/?mibextid=wwXIfr
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