God sent these warnings to the SDA church:

"God has given His people warning after warning; but the customs, habits, and practices of the world have had so great power on the minds of His professed people that His warnings have been discarded.

"Those who act a part in God's great cause are not to follow the example of worldlings. The voice of God is to be heard. He who depends on men for strength and influence leans on a broken reed.

"Depending on men has been the great weakness of the church. Men have dishonored God by failing to appreciate His sufficiency, by coveting the influence of men. Thus Israel became weak....They desired to be guided by human power which they could see, rather than by the divine, invisible power that till that time had led and guided them, and had given them victory in battle. They had made their choice, and the result was seen in the destruction of Jerusalem..." Testimonies, vol 6, p 249-250.

"The alliances made by the Israelites with their heathen neighbors resulted in the loss of their identity as God's peculiar people...

"The experience of Israel will be the experience of all who go to the world for strength, turning away from the living God. Those who forsake the mighty One, the source of all strength, and affiliate with worldlings, placing on them their dependence, become weak in moral power, as are those in whom they trust....

"No semblance of nearness to God, no assertion of connection with Him, will be accepted from those who persist in dishonoring Him by leaning upon the arm of worldly power." Review and Herald, August 4, 1904.

When the Israelites turned away from the living God, and placed their dependence upon man, they soon united with the heathen nations around them. Thus should the SDA church turn from God, they also would unite with the other churches (nations) around them. Has the SDA church left the side of God, and He has departed from them?

"We are far from where we should have been had our Christian experience been in harmony with the light and opportunities given us, had we from the beginning constantly pressed onward and upward. Had we walked in the light that has been given us, had we followed on to know the Lord, our path would have grown brighter and brighter. But many of those who have had special light are so conformed to the world that they can scarcely be distinguished from worldlings. They do not stand forth as God's peculiar people, chosen and precious. It is difficult to discern between him that serveth God and him that serveth Him not.

"In the balances of the sanctuary the Seventh-day Adventist church is to be weighed. She will be judged by the privileges and advantages that she has had. If her spiritual experience does not correspond to the advantages that Christ, at infinite cost, has bestowed on her, if the blessings conferred have not qualified her to do the work entrusted to her, on her will be pronounced the sentence: ‘Found wanting’ [Daniel 5:27]. By the light bestowed, the opportunities given, will she be judged....

"Why is there so dim a perception of the true spiritual condition of the church? Has not blindness fallen upon the watchmen standing on the walls of Zion? Are not many of God's servants unconcerned and well satisfied, as if the pillar of cloud by day and the pillar of fire by night rested upon the sanctuary? Are there not those in positions of responsibility, professing to know God, who in life and character deny Him? Are not many of those who count themselves as His chosen, peculiar people satisfied to live without the evidence that of a truth God is among them to save them from Satan's snares and attacks?...

"One who sees beneath the surface, who reads the hearts of all men, says of those who have had great light: ‘They are not afflicted and astonished because of their moral and spiritual condition.’ ‘Yea, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delighteth in their abominations. I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears upon them; because when I called, none did answer; when I spake, they did not hear: but they did evil before Mine eyes, and chose that in which I delighted not.’ ‘God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie,’ ‘because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved,’ ‘but had pleasure in unrighteousness.’ Isaiah 66:3,4; 2 Thessalonians 2:11,10,12.

"The heavenly Teacher inquired: ‘What stronger delusion can beguile the mind than the pretense that you are building on the right foundation and that God accepts your works, when in reality you are working out many things according to worldly policy and are sinning against Jehovah?’...

"Who can truthfully say: ‘Our gold is tried in the fire; our garments are unspotted by the world’? I saw our Instructor pointing to the garments of so-called righteousness. Stripping them off, He laid bare the defilement beneath. Then He said to me:’Can you not see how they have pretentiously covered up their defilement and rottenness of character? ‘How is the faithful city become an harlot’ [Isa 1:21]! My Father's house is made a house of merchandise, a place whence the divine presence and glory have departed!" Manuscript 32, April 21, 1903, Testimonies, vol 8, p 247-250.

Inspiration has plainly told us that the SDA church has indeed left the side of Christ, and He has departed from them. In fact, the SDA church even told the Holy Spirit to go away, and the General Conference leadership closed and bolted the door shut so that the Holy Spirit could not come back!

"What a wonderful work could have been done for the vast company gathered in Battle Creek at the General Conference of 1901, if the leaders of our work had taken themselves in hand. But the work that all heaven was waiting to do as soon as men prepared the way, was not done; for the leaders closed and bolted the door against the Spirit's entrance. There was a stopping short of entire surrender to God. And hearts that might have been purified from all error were strengthened in wrong doing. The doors were barred against the heavenly current that would have swept away all evil. Men left their sins unconfessed. They built themselves up in wrong doing, and said to the Spirit of God, ‘Go thy way for this time; when I have a more convenient season, I will call for thee’ [Acts 24:25]." Letter 123, August 5, 1902, Battle Creek Letters, p 55-56.

So the SDA church and leadership have removed God from their midst, and are placing their dependence upon man--as their hierarchical church organization proves (see SDA Apostasy in Organization); thus the way is prepared for them to seek unity with the other churches around them. And this is exactly what the SDA church has done!

The World Council of Churches (WCC) is made up of various branch organizations controlled by the WCC--including the National Council of Churches (NCC), and lesser branches--such as the Ministerial Associations in various communities (see Collectivism in the Churches, by Edgar C. Bundy, p 60). Thus all the different churches which are members, or member-units, in these various branches are technically members of the WCC. Yet WCC policy states that no church is a member of it, but only the various branches. Thus, the leaders of the various churches can technically tell their membership that their church is not a member of the WCC, when it really is through connection to the various branches! Especially is this union and membership of the SDA church in the WCC vehemently denied by the SDA leadership, yet the documents speak more loudly than their words!

In the year 1959, the SDA church sent a total of $6,700 for the support of the National Council of Churches (see Letter from the National Council of Churches, January 29, 1960, Donald F. Landwer, Assistant General Secretary for [NCC] Finance). In 1969 they gave a total of $5,950 for their support (see Letter from the National Council of Churches, April 7, 1970, Constant H. Jacquet, Director Research Library). And in 1984, the SDA church admittedly gave about $8,000 to the World and National Councils of Churches, and then stated: "This is apparently what it has been running for the last few years" (Letter from the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, June 13, 1985, Mitchell A. Tyner, Esq., Associate Director and Legal Counsel of the Department of Public Affairs and Religious Liberty).

The SDA church was listed as associate members and cooperating members of the National Council of Churches in 1959 (see Letter from the National Council of Churches, August 7, 1959, Wesley B. Goodman, Associate Executive Director). They were listed as one of the member-units of the National Council of Churches in 1964 (see Letter from the National Council of Churches, January 13, 1965, Wilbur C. Parry, Assistant Council Secretary). And the SDA church had General Conference representatives as members on three Commissions and more than four Committees of the National Council of Churches in 1984 (see Letter from the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, June 13, 1985, Mitchell A. Tyner, Esq., Associate Director and Legal Counsel of the Department of Public Affairs and Religious Liberty).

The SDA church is also a member of the NCC by way of the local SDA churches belonging to the Ministerial Associations in their communities. (A Ministerial Association is composed of different churches within a local community.) The SDA church is in connection with at least (but not limited to) the following Ministerial Associations and related organizations: Pajaro Valley, California (see Register-Pajaronian Newspaper, January 11, 1986, and the Watsonville SDA church bulletin of January 4, 1986); Paradise, California (see Paradise SDA church bulletin of August 23, 1986); Riverside, California (see SDA Radio Station KSGN notice for the April 19, 1987 Easter sunrise event); Ukiah, California (see Ukiah SDA church bulletin for November 22, 1994); Verdugo, California (see Recorder, November 7, 1988, p 22); Honolulu, Hawaii (see Recorder, March 17, 1986, p 16); Garfield County, Montana (see Gleaner, June 16, 1986, p 18); Morganton, North Carolina (see Southern Tidings, April, 1975); and Zephyrhills, Washington (see East Pasco SDA Medical Center Flyer for March, 1989). This partnership is not just within the USA, but also within other countries such as the communities of Bunbury (see The West, December 2, 1966) and Ringwood (see Eastern Post Gazette, November 11, 1965) in Australia. And for those who will still refuse to admit that the SDA church is in union with the NCC, and hence the WCC as well, the following should stun them out of their sleepy denial.

During the week before Christmas of 1994, the SDA church and the NCC joined together to nationally televise the Christmas Eve Special "A New Noel"! (Adventist Review, December 15, 1994, p 7). This broadcast was video-taped at a Sunday church service on December 4 in the Pioneer Memorial SDA church at Andrews University, and the devotional message was presented by SDA minister Dwight Nelson (see Adventist Review, December 4, 1994, p 7). It was nationally televised on Christmas eve (11:30pm till 12:30am) through the ABC-TV network, and the SDA church placed a paid advertisement in 14,000,000 copies of the TV Guide (see Adventist Review, December 15, 1994, p 7). The paid advertisement of this event, as well as the televised opening credits for the program, stated:

"The National Council of Churches presents a production of the Seventh-day Adventist Church." Adventist Review, December 15, 1994, p 7. (See also TV Guide, December 24-30, 1994, p 55 (vol 42, #52, Issue #2178).

But this is not the only evidence of the union of the SDA church with the WCC--whether directly or through membership of its various branches!

In 1985, the WCC published Directory Christian Councils, which is a directory listing all of its member-unit churches throughout the world--including those churches found within the NCC and various other branches. The following is a listing of SDA church union, membership, and participation with the WCC throughout the world:

Fraternal associates:

Kenya, Africa--"Church of the East African Union--Seventh Day" Directory, p 15.

Associate members:

Rwanda, Africa--"Eglise adventiste du septie'me jour (Seventh Day Adventist Church" Directory, p 35.

Solomon Islands--"Seventh Day Adventist Church" Directory, p 195.

Observers:

Finland--"Adventist Church" Directory, p 133.

German Democratic Republic--"Gemeinschaft der Siebenten-Tags-Adventisten (Seventh Day Adventists)" Directory, p 139.

Consultant-observers:

United Kingdom--"Seventh Day Adventists" Directory, p 163.

Membership:

Bahamas--"Seventh Day Adventist Church" Directory, p 99.

Belize--"Seventh Day Adventist Church" Directory, p 100.

Cook Islands--"Seventh Day Adventist Church" Directory p 189.

Sweden--"Seventh Day Adventist Church" Directory, p 144.

This is not to mention those branch organizations which are full members of the WCC, in which the SDA church are also members, such as the Hungarian Council of Free Churches (see Directory, p 142). This membership was even admitted by the SDA church (see Southern Tidings, September, 1977) , and by Neal C. Wilson--then president of the General Conference! (See Pacific Union Recorder, February, 18, 1985, p 4). Also the SDA church is a member of the organization of the Church of Christ in Zaire, Africa; and this was also admitted by the SDA church!

"...Adventist world leaders...yielded to government demands to align with the Protestant organization....on March 24, 1972, Seventh-day Adventists became the forty-second communicant in the Church of Christ in Zaire." Review and Herald, February 27, 1975.

Also the SDA church are members of the organization of the Chinese Communist Church in China.

"The Seventh-day Adventists were one of the first denominations to become reformed and to join the Communist Church. Other denominations followed before long, but not all. These were the Evangelical Church and the Chinese Orthodox Church, the former under the leadership of Rev. Wang, and the latter under the leadership of Rev. Watchman Nee." Haagse Courant [Dutch newspaper], January 27, 1962.

"The Adventists were declared to have gone through ‘a new birth’ as an organization. They were rewarded by being officially classified as a ‘Reformed Church,’the first in Communist China." The Story of Mary Liu, p 222, by Edward Hunter.

But after listing all of the various WCC branch organizations and member-units or churches, the WCC makes this final statement:

"In addition to the relationships with regional and national councils of churches mentioned above, the WCC is in working relationship with many Christian World Communions, including the Anglican Consultative Council, Baptist World Alliance, Disciples Ecumenical Consultative Council, Friends World Committee for Consultation, General Conference of Seventh Day Adventists, Lutheran World Federation, Mennonite World Conference, Old Catholic International Organization, Reformed Ecumenical Synod, Salvation Army, World Alliance of Reformed Churches, World Convention of Churches of Christ, World Evangelical Fellowship, and World Methodist Council." Directory Christian Councils, p 244.

Nor is this the end of the extent of SDA involvement with the WCC.

In 1989, the Seventh-day Adventist church, along with other churches, "agreed to form the Council of Churches in Estonia, the first such to be created in the USSR." (See Christians in Crisis Newsletter, vol 5, #2, March-April, 1989, p 1).

The SDA church is also not afraid to tell our people that they are very friendly with the WCC! In 1983, the WCC was holding their Sixth Assembly in Canada, and the SDA church was in attendance. The following report to our SDA people was titled as follows:

"Adventists Find Friends At The World Council of Churches" Messenger, September, 1983, p 5.

In another SDA church paper, Douglas Devnich, who was a representative of the SDA church at this 1983 WCC Assembly (and who became the president of the Canadian Union Conference of SDA a few years later), states:

"...the W.C.C. is not to be faulted on what it endeavors to do....The call comes out of Vancouver in 1983 for a New World Order....

"My point is that the W.C.C., as the most powerful Christian social agency may well be the world's answer to idealize as well as apply the social ministry of Jesus Christ...and in the establishment of the literal Kingdom of God." Ministry Magazine, November, 1983.

The SDA church is also listed as full members of the World Council of Church's principal theological body, the Commission on Faith and Order, since 1968 (see New York Times, July 12, 1968). And they even invited an official representative of the WCC as an observer-guest to the 1990 General Conference Session at Indianapolis, Indiana, to deliver a message to the delegate body! Joan Campbell, Director of the United States office of the World Council of Churches, stated:

"It is my pleasure to be with you again...I bring you the warmest of greetings from the World Council of Churches and from all our member churches around the world....When I was at your worship service yesterday, it seemed as though it was my own time of worship, as well as yours. And it said to me that there are many things that we hold in common...

"So as fellow Christians, like those Pentecost people in the earliest of days, we look at one another and we say that we hold all things in common." Adventist Review, July 10, 1990, p 6.

But the SDA church and its leadership continues to deny that they have any union with the WCC! In fact, the president of the General Conference has this great lie to try and pawn-off on our people:

"The Seventh-day Adventist church is not, has not been, will not be a member of the World Council of Churches. I don't care what evidence you have printed to the contrary. It is simply a fabrication; it is not true; it is a lie; it is a distortion. I want to make sure you understand it. There is NO: there is no membership or intention of becoming a member....We are not and will not be. I hope you can take that to the bank as a statement of categorical, undeniable truth. And anything that you receive printed to the contrary, tear it up, throw it in the waste paper basket; its simply not the truth!" Robert Folkenberg, "Issues and Interviews" on SDA radio station--KCDS, February 19, 1993.

Not only is the SDA church in union with the WCC, but they are also a part of the Ecumenical movement--the movement recognizing all churches as part of the body of Christ, and working towards the uniting of all churches together into one! This is clearly seen by the willingness of the SDA church to work together with other denominations--including the Catholic church! And what better source of documented evidence of this, than from the SDA church's own mouth!

"On October 29, 1966, a further step was taken toward religious freedom in Columbia, with the foundation of the Religious Liberty Association of Colombia....A Seventh-day Adventist, Raimundo Pardo Suarez, was chosen as president. The vice president is the Reverend Noel Olaya, a Catholic priest and a relative of several of Colombia's past presidents. H. Niemann, pastor of the central church of Bogota, was elected secretary, and Fernando Tapias, an Adventist businessman, treasurer. Dr. Carlos Didacio Alvarez, a Catholic lawyer and staunch defender of religious liberty, was appointed auditor. The rest of the directorate was chosen from among leaders of various religious persuasions." Review and Herald, March 9, 1967.

"Those gathering together to praise the Lord in song were from the following churches: Raymond Blackford, Bethel Lutheran; Dr. William Early, Cicero Methodist; Rev. Stephen Bard, Cicero Wesleyan; Father Duane Craycraft, Sacred Heart Catholic Church; Rev. Don Paden, Cicero Christian; and Pastor Randal Murphy, Cicero SDA Church." Review and Herald, March 9, 1967.

"What we like about this going concern is that it has cut across denominational boundaries. At the recent election of officers at the annual general meeting [of the Asian Aid Organization], a new committee was elected. It consists of two Catholics, one Presbyterian, one Anglican, one Pentecostal, and four Australian-Chinese Adventists." Record, September 3, 1973.

"Robert Hunter, pastor of the [SDA church at] Morganton, North Carolina, district, and a member of the local ministerial association, joined in Pulpit Exchange Day, exchanging pulpits with Thomas Burke of St. Charles Roman Catholic Church. The theme of the city-wide program was ‘Blest Be the Tie.’" Southern Tidings, April, 1975.

"...members of the Japanese Adventist Church...[attended] an ecumenical worship service held in January at St. Pius X Roman Catholic Church. [SDA] Pastor Lyle Arakaki was invited to preach the sermon....

"This special worship service was held to mark the beginning of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity....The Manoa Interchurch Service and Outreach (MISO) organization sponsored this ecumenical service....

"MISO includes the St. Pius X Roman Catholic Church, Lutheran Church of Honolulu, Manoa Valley Church (United Church of Christ), as well as the Japanese Adventist Church." Recorder, March 17, 1986, p 16.

"The Glendale [SDA] church is hosting a teaching festival for the Verdugo Council of Churches..." Recorder, November 7, 1988, p 22.

"We [the SDA church] are one with our fellow Christian denominational groups in the great fundamentals of the faith once delivered to the saints." Questions on Doctrine, p 32.

Besides, the SDA church had one of its leaders on the staff of the ecumenical organization called the Christian World Communion.

"Rome - Staff members of more than a dozen Christian World Communions (CWC's, world organizations for the various Christian traditions) held their annual conference of secretaries (here, 20-23 October). It included separate sessions with the pope, and leaders of the Federation of Evangelical Churches in Italy....

"The conference chose Pierre Duprey, secretary of the Vatican Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity, as its chairperson, succeeding Joe Hale, general secretary of the World Methodist Council. B.B. Beach, director of the public affairs and religious liberty department of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, continues as the group's secretary....

"He [Hale] said that though most communions are strong enough to function alone, ‘for the sake of the world...we need to do more, to be more, as one church together, and press beyond simply being strong links in a chain of separate communions.’ He proposed a ‘calculated step, a small step’ in that direction, including defining and claiming publicly ‘an even more formal unity than we now admit’....

"Besides those already mentioned, CWCs include the Lutheran World Federation, Anglican Consultative Council, Baptist World Alliance, Salvation Army, Friends [Quaker] World Committee for Consultation, World Evangelical Fellowship, Mennonite World Conference, World Convention of Churches of Christ, Reformed Ecumenical Synod, World Alliance of Reformed Churches, Ecumenical [Eastern Orthodox] Patriarchate, Moscow [Eastern Orthodox] Patriarchate, Church of the Brethren, and International Old Catholic Bishops' Conference. Staff from the World Council of Churches also participated." Ecumenical Press Service, October, 1986 (86.10.126).

But not only is Bert B. Beach the Secretary of this Ecumenical organization, but he was also the Secretary of the World Confession Families, which is part of the Faith and Order Commission--which is the theological arm of the World Council of Churches!

Beach himself states:

"I have been representing our Church at this meeting for nine years. I have served as secretary of the conference." Letter from B.B. Beach, November, 1977.

Not only is the SDA church in complete union with the WCC, the NCC, and the ecumenical movement, but they are also seeking doctrinal union!

In January, 1982, the Seventh-day Adventist leadership--representing the SDA church--were in attendance and part of the ecumenical meeting of the Faith and Order Conference of the World Council of Churches (WCC) in Lima, Peru.

"Over one hundred theologians met in Lima, Peru, in January 1982, and recommended unanimously to transmit this agree statement--the Lima text--for the common study and official response of the churches. They represented virtually all the major church traditions: Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, Roman Catholic, Old Catholic, Lutheran, Anglican, Reformed, Methodist, United, Disciples, Baptist, Adventist and Pentecostal.

"The churches' response to this agreed statement will be a vital step in the ecumenical process of ‘reception’." Baptism, Eucharist and Ministry, Faith and Order Paper #111, back cover, published by the World Council of Churches, 1982.

The following book documents the SDA church's "official response" to this Lima text sent to the WCC on the ecumenical subjects discussed at this meeting. The SDA church officially states through their Council on Inter-Church Relations, that, among other things:

"The purpose of this essay is primarily to show how Seventh-day Adventist understanding of the eucharist or the Lord's supper...[and] to highlight Adventist understanding and practice of the eucharist...

"In preparation for the celebration of the eucharist Seventh-day Adventists practice the washing of feet..." Churches Respond to BEM (Baptism, Eucharist, and Ministry), vol 2, p 341-343, published by the World Council of Churches in 1986.

The Eucharist is also called by the SDA church, as being the "central celebration of the Christian church" (Churches Respond to BEM, vol 2, p 341). The church also states:

"On occasion Seventh-day Adventists refer to the eucharist as a sacrament." Churches Respond to BEM, vol 2, p 342.

The SDA church also states that SDA's are "conscious of the sacredness of the celebration of the eucharist" (Churches Respond to BEM, vol 2, p 342).

The SDA church no longer considers the eucharist as a "most blasphemous" and "heaven-insulting heresy" (Spirit of Prophecy, vol 4, p 63), but now considers it a close and sacred part of the beliefs of the church! But it is one thing to declare this to the other member churches of the WCC; would the SDA leadership really tell our SDA people these new positions regarding this Catholic heresy?

In 1991, the World Council of Churches held their convention in Canberra, Australia. Representatives of the SDA church were present, and this is the following report to our SDA people:

"And we could go on if space permitted--to mention the WCC's... accentuation of the Holy Spirit and the Eucharist. All of these emphases fit into the ambit of the three angels' messages." Adventist Review, May 2, 1991, p 10.

The SDA church is indeed in union with, and a part of, the WCC, NCC, and the whole Ecumenical movement of Babylon the Great!

This union with the other Babylonian churches is clearly revealed in the book, What I Like About...The Lutherans, The Baptists, The Methodists, The Charismatics, The Catholics, Our Jewish Friends, The Adventists; Rescuers of Neglected Truth, by George Vandeman, and published by the Pacific Press Publishing Association in 1986. It was also the Missionary Book of the Year for 1987.

This book is truly ecumenical; and the SDA church states:

"The book you hold in your hand is the birth of an idea whose time has come." What I Like About, p 3.

All the denominations mentioned in that book are already part of Babylon, yet the book uplifts them all, stating that they all have contributed to the gospel truth about Jesus Christ. It even proselytizes for these Babylonian churches by directing its readers to contact any of the denominations mentioned, and then gives them the different denominational addresses! (See What I Like About, p 108-109).

The reason the SDA church can say they like all of these other denominations so much is twofold: First, they state: "We want to build bridges" (Ibid., p 51) because "whether Christians or Jewish, we are all God's family together" (Ibid., p 83). And secondly, of course, the SDA church agrees with and is teaching the very same Babylonian doctrines!

Clearly, the SDA church is completely in union with the other denominations and religions, and is indeed working towards a One World Religion and church! This is positively proven by the following fact.

In 1993, representatives of the world's religions met in Chicago, Illinois at the World Parliament of Religions. This meeting was established to finalize plans for a One World Church. Their September 5th declaration for the global ethic was signed, "calling for the merger of all the religions of earth--the world religions to become one" (quoted in The World's Last Dictator, p 98, by Dwight L. Kinman (a non-Adventist). And which churches were represented as being in attendance?

"The Dalai Lama was there who believes that he is a man god. Joan Campbell, the feminist and director of the Marxist-slanted National Council of Churches, was there. The Lucius Trust representatives of the New Age religion were there. Voodoo, high priests, and wicca groups, and witchcraft were all there. High free Masons attended. The Seventh Day Adventist church was represented. Serpent charmers and druids and Satan worshippers, liberal Baptists, Zoroastrians to Zen Buddhists were all represented. The World Council of churches and the powerful church of Rome were highly represented. They met to celebrate ‘unity in Diversity.’" The World's Last Dictator, p 97-98.

The SDA church has undoubtedly rejected the original truths of Adventism and replaced those true SDA ministers and leaders, with error-believing and preaching hirelings as we were warned would happen!

"Unsanctified ministers are arraying themselves against God. They are praising Christ and the god of this world in the same breath. While professedly they receive Christ, they embrace Barabbas, and by their actions say, ‘Not this Man, but Barabbas’ [John 18:40]....Let the son of deceit and false witness be entertained by a church that has had great light, great evidence, and that church will discard the message the Lord has sent, and receive the most unreasonable assertions and false suppositions and false theories. Satan laughs at their folly; for he knows what truth is.

"Many will stand in our pulpits with the torch of false prophecy in their hands, kindled from the hellish torch of Satan. If doubts and unbeliefs are cherished, the faithful ministers will be removed from the people who think they know so much. ‘If thou hadst known,’ said Christ, ‘even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong to thy peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes’ [Luke 19:42]." Testimonies to Ministers, p 409-410.

The SDA church and people are no longer God's peculiar church and people; they have placed their dependence upon, and are united and in harmony with, the NCC, the WCC, the Ecumenical family, and the various State Governments around the world! But in doing these things, the SDA church has not only rejected the foundational truths and doctrines upon which the church was established upon, they have also rejected Someone else. They have rejected the precious Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ!

Christ spent 18 centuries preparing for the SDA church to come into existence, making sure all was ready. Unceasingly He worked for His church, opening the eyes of His people to the precious truth which would polarize the world and prepare the way for His second coming and the end of sin. Constantly He called His people to reflect His image and thus to vindicate God's character to the whole universe, proving Satan's accusations false. And then to have His chosen people and church spurn His immense love, turn their backs and faces from Him, reject and replace His precious messages of truth with Satan's counterfeit unclean messages of error, uniting themselves with Satan as his harlotrous Babylonian bride and church, and working to keep people away from ever knowing Christ or His power to free them from sin: HOW MUST THIS MAKE CHRIST FEEL?

How many tears has Jesus shed over this? How much pain has he felt? How much more agony must He endure? What must He be thinking to see His professed people asleep believing that all is right with their SDA church? Oh, may our people awaken and see more fully what Christ is going through because a once-chosen people and church have rejected Him, apostatized from His truth, united in harlotry with His avowed enemy, and are working against Him with all the power and subtlety of the devil!

Since the SDA church has rejected God's truths, including all three angels' messages, which was the reason why God raised them up in the first place, can it still be God's true church anymore? NO! It cannot be anything but a counterfeit of God's true church! And if it is not God's church anymore, then whose church is it? Satan's! And what is another name listed in the Bible for Satan's church? Babylon!

The SDA church operates under a hierarchy, and closely images the harlot mother--Roman Catholic church--which is Babylon (see SDA Apostasy in Organization). The SDA church is united with the harlot daughter Protestant churches, the NCC, and the WCC--which are Babylon. And she is so closely and ecumenically united with the fallen Babylon Protestant churches that she is like a sister to them. Thus she is a sister to fallen Babylon! In fact, Sister White warned the SDA church of this very possibility.

"We are in danger of becoming a sister to fallen Babylon, of allowing our churches to become corrupted, and filled with every foul spirit, a cage for every unclean and hateful bird." Letter 51, September 6, 1886, Manuscript Releases, vol 21, p 380.

Now if the SDA church has become a sister to fallen Babylon, or a sister to the apostate Protestant churches, then who is her mother? Rome! Or the one "old in adulteries" (Ezekiel 23:43-44). And God warned His SDA people of this also!

"Behold, every one that useth proverbs shall use this proverb against thee, saying, As is the mother, so is her daughter. Thou art thy mother's daughter, that loatheth her husband and her children; and thou art the sister of thy sisters, which loathed their husbands and their children." Ezekiel 16:44-45.

As Rome is Babylon, and Protestantism is Babylon, then the SDA church must also be Babylon! The SDA church is in ecumenical union with all the Babylonian churches, so how could she be anything but Babylon!

Now there are many Adventists who argue against the possibility of the SDA church being Babylon. They will say: "The SDA church can never be Babylon, no matter if she has given up the three angels' messages, no matter if she is in harlotry with the devil and his followers, and no matter if she is ecumenically united with Rome, Protestantism, the NCC, the WCC, and the whole world; because the SDA church can never be Babylon."

Although there are no promises of God given without the condition of obedience (see Faith and Works, p 47; Evangelism, p 695; Selected Messages, book 1, p 67; Prophets and Kings, p 293), and despite the fact that Ellen White wrote that the SDA church could be converted into Babylon if they did not meet God's conditions (see Testimonies to Ministers, p 265; Selected Messages, book 2, p 68), there are some who will not concede. But this next point should settle this question forever.

The SDA church herself would surely know if she was Babylon or not. What if the SDA church declared herself to be Babylon, and told all her members to separate from her? If that should occur, who could argue otherwise? Surely no one could then deny that the SDA church was Babylon!

Did you know that the SDA church has, in essence, declared herself to be part of Babylon, and told all her members to separate from her! Please read closely what the SDA church herself has stated:

"The capstone of the ecumenical effort came with the creation of the World Council of Churches....

"On the basis of Bible prophecy and the writings of Ellen G. White, SDA's anticipate the eventual success of the ecumenical movement both in eliminating the divisions of Protestantism and in reuniting Christendom by bridging the gulf that separates non-Catholic communions from Rome. The ecumenical movement will then become a concerted effort to unite the world and to secure universal peace and security by enlisting the power of the civil government in a universal religio-political crusade to eliminate all dissent. SDA's envision this crusade as the great apostasy to which John the revelator refers as ‘Babylon the great.’ They understand, also, that God's last message of mercy to the world prior to the return of Christ in power and glory will consist of a warning against this great apostate movement, and a call to all who choose to remain loyal to Him to leave the churches connected with it." SDA Encyclopedia, vol 10 of the Bible Commentary Reference Series, p 410-411.

What did the SDA church just state to all her members? That any church connected with the ecumenical movement and united with the WCC becomes part of Babylon the great, and that all who choose to serve God must separate themselves from that church. The SDA church has definitely joined the ecumenical movement, and is united with the WCC. So the SDA church has declared herself to be part of Babylon, and told all her members to separate themselves from her!