by John Vega on Saturday, June 4, 2011 at 9:45am

Ellen G. White Does Not Teach Against The Annual Jewish Feast Days Yet Many Ellen White Proponents Mistakenly Believe She Does

Please Note.: The author of this post maintains the highest regard both for the Scripture and the writings of Ellen G. White. I read both every single day.

Dear Ginny,

Am I really having this discussion with you? I can't believe that you are actually attempting to defend the Adventists and their gross idolatry of Ellen White.

Could it be that it is simply a desire to debate that motivates you?

Most Seventh-day Adventists will not actually admit that they esteem EGW's authority above the Scripture but that does not mean that they do not actually follow her example more than they do the example of Messiah and the Apostles.We need to understand that people in general do not need to admit to being guilty of a flawed behavioral pattern in order for it to be true. In fact, most will never admit that they have a problem with anything because this would only cause them to begin to correct the problem which most people do not want to do. Most would rather live in a state of denial and continue in the established sick patterns rather than be resolute and turn from their evil ways.

With that said, I understand your attempt to defend your ancestors and all (full letter below) but unfortunately you have not done even a decent job of defending them nor the Scripture. Yes, your SDA ancestors were EGW Idolators just like most Adventists are. So yes, I'm sorry to have to be the one to burst your prideful bubble and inform you that your ancestors only read the Scripture as it agreed with the writings and example of EGW and not the other way around as they should have done. 

Ginny writes..

"In all my years of association with Seventh-day Adventist I do not recall a single one who ever admitted to believing that EGW is a higher source of authority than the Scripture. Not one! Ever! Yet you believe that to be true of MOST Seventh-day Adventists! Wow!"

john writes

If your ancestors in fact did accept the Scripture as a higher authority than Ellen G. White  as you say they did then you would have been raised celebrating the Jewish Biblical holydays of Passover, Unleavened Bread, Pentecost, Trumpets, Yom Kipper and Tabernacles rather than the Pagan rooted Christmas, Easter, Birthdays and the plethora of other pagan roots holidays that the majority of Adventists observe and celebrate today.

Your sarcastic statement above is nothing more than a sad reflection of your own personal denial of reality of the condition of most Seventh-day Adventists including YOUR ancestors. The fact remains that the vast majority of Seventh-day Adventists are gross Ellen White idolaters just like the Lutherans are gross Martin Luther Idolaters. They misuse Sister White's writings to forge ahead with their 1800's vintage anti-Judaic perspectives and agenda rather than using her writings to further the cause of the unfolding of Present truth. Rather than using Ellen White as a stepping stone to new light, many SDAs use her as a road block to any possible new light. That is a missuse of the Spirit of Prophecy.

" In every age there is a new development of truth, a message of God to the people of that generation. The old truths are all essential; new truth is not independent of the old, but an unfolding of it. It is only as the old truths are understood that we can comprehend the new. When Christ desired to open to His disciples the truth of His resurrection, He began "at Moses and all the prophets" and "expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning Himself." Luke 24:27. But it is the light which shines in the fresh unfolding of truth that glorifies the old. He who rejects or neglects the new does not really possess the old. For him it loses its vital power and becomes but a lifeless form. " {COL 127.4}

"But the path of the just [is] as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day." Proverbs 4:18

Sadly, the reality of the matter is that most Seventh-day Adventists have fallen into the same rut that the other denominations have fallen into in that they have erected a monument of shame to a great leader by following that leader rather than following THE GREAT LEADER and moving forward whenever He chooses to shed more light upon their path.

Shalom,
John

John Edward Founder, Total Restitution
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On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 9:24 PM, Ginny wrote:

Shabbat Shalom John,

Thanks for responding. I understand that you believe Ellen White to be a lesser AUTHORITY than the Scripture.

On May 21 you wrote: i unlike most Adventists do NOT believe that EGW is a higher source of authority than the Scripture.

Wow! I find that amazing!

I am (was) a third generation Seventh-day Adventist. Both sets of grandparents became Adventists as children and 1 great grandparent on each side was an Adventist. Both of my grandfathers met Ellen White and my paternal grandmother worked for Ellen as a young girl at Elmshaven.

Ellen White was the great grandmother of my best friend in grade school, whose dad was the pastor who baptized me at age 9. I attended Adventist schools through boarding academy and 2 colleges. I was a baptized member of the Adventist church in good standing and faithfully attended the Adventist church for 30 years. Both parents (dad deceased) and many family members remain(ed) faithful Seventh-day Adventist.

I am not saying this to brag or to impress - only to say that I am not ignorant on this subject.

In all my years of association with Seventh-day Adventist I do not recall a single one who ever admitted to believing that EGW is a higher source of authority than the Scripture. Not one! Ever! Yet you believe that to be true of MOST Seventh-day Adventists! Wow!

Ginny's letter ended

P.S.

Just so everyone on this forum knows... David Gates was a featured speaker at a feast of Tabernacles as well as a feast of Passover/unleavened bread which were hosted 1 year ago here in California by Seventh-day Adventists that believe in celebrating the feast days. David’s presentations were attended by many Seventh-day Adventists and all were blessed by his powerful, Messiah centered presentations. So David Gates is obviously not against the idea of keeping the feast days yet many Seventh-day Adventists run from the feast days like they have seen a ghost!! How sad this is when we consider that the entire Seventh-day Adventist movement was founded on the feast day of atonement of 1844 when William Miller spearheaded the great disappointment. Yes, that is correct; the great Millerite Advent awakening of 1844 which took place AFTER the cross began on a feast day and yet ALL Seventh-day Adventist corporate employed evangelists teach that the feast days were “nailed to the cross”. How strange is that?

O how it saddens me that Adventists are generally so ignorant of the facts of history of their own church. How sad that they are generally so afraid of having any identity with the Jews that they are willing to forgo the blessings of gathering at these special times of the year to encourage each other in the narrow way. If they would only reconsider that the Messiah is Jewish and the bible is a Jewish book. How ridiculous that people that claim to read and follow the teachings of the Bible are afraid of behaving the the bible's authors.. it is actually ridiculous when you give it any careful thought and are not prejudiced by the anti-Judaic slant that Christianity has adopted since the 4th century because of the influence of Constantine.

http://totalrestitution.com/articles/ConstantinesProfessionoffaith.html

Did Ellen White keep the feast days? Ellen G. White Does Not Teach Against The Feast Days.. Ignorant, surface level, shallow students of her works only THINK she does.

"In the days of Christ these feasts were attended by vast multitudes of people from all lands, and had they been kept as God intended, in the spirit of true worship, the light of truth might through them have been given to all nations of the world. {PH130 10.1}

With those who lived at a distance from the tabernacle, more than a month of every year must have been occupied in attendance upon these holy convocations. The Lord saw that these gatherings were necessary for the spiritual life of His people. They needed to turn away from their worldly cares, to commune with God, and to contemplate unseen realities. {PH130 10.2}

If the children of Israel needed the benefit of these holy convocations in their time, how much more do we need them in these last days of peril and conflict? And if the people of the world then needed the light which God has committed to his church, how much more do they need it now?" {PH130 10.3}

and this one

"Christians who extol Christ, but array themselves against the law governing the Jewish church, array Christ against Christ." {RH, May 6, 1875 par. 16}

We again have the example of the apostle Paul who is documented in the Scripture as well as in Ellen White's writings as keeping Passover with his Philippian coverts who were gentiles and not Jews. this of course took place AFTER the cross.

" At Philippi Paul tarried to keep the Passover. Only Luke remained with him, the other members of the company passing on to Troas to await him there. The Philippians were the most loving and truehearted of the apostle's converts, and during the eight days of the feast he enjoyed peaceful and happy communion with them." {AA 390.4}

Then Paul later wrote the Philippians and exhorted them to continue to follow the great example he had left them with.

 "Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things [are] honest, whatsoever things [are] just, whatsoever things [are] pure, whatsoever things [are] lovely, whatsoever things [are] of good report; if [there be] any virtue, and if [there be] any praise, think on these things.Those things, which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do: and the God of peace shall be with you." Phil 4:8,9

Don't you believe that it is high time that we advantage ourselves of these wonderful opportunities to gather and worship our King and Redeemer and encourage one another in the narrow path?!

What do we have to loose by obeying Yahuwah and following in the footsteps of Yahuashua and the apostles after the cross? Why do we hesitate so at the plain NEW TESTAMENT command to "keep the feasts" 1Cor 5:8? are we afraid of being blessed and encouraged in the narrow path that has been trodden by our spiritual ancestors? We need to be set free from fear of religious bigots that have hindered the path of the righteous for too long!!!! all fear of obeying YAH is of the Devil and his dark angels.

"For Elohim hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind." 2 Timothy 1:7

"But beware of rejecting that which is truth. The great danger with our people has been that of depending upon men, and making flesh their arm. Those who have not been in the habit of searching the Bible for themselves, or weighing evidence, have confidence in the leading men, and accept the decisions they make, and thus many will reject the very messages Elohim sends to his people, if these leading brethren do not accept them." {GW92 126.4}

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    • Ryan Rios I could of told u that...but aren't u a 7 day Adventist
      Saturday at 9:58am · · 1 person
    • John Vega I am a Seventh-day Adventist but I do not worship EGW nor do I allow her writings or example to prevent the further unfolding of present truth like most Seventh-day Adventists do.

      Rather I use her writing to further the cause of present truth and they do assist me in understanding the Scripture and my duty to man and YHWH.
      Saturday at 10:06am · · 4 people
    • GodsNatural HealthLaw I do not know and SDAs who treasure her word over the bibles.. Not only that but we know that in these times many wont even speak of her writings anymore, denying the authenticy of them. We know that EHW said she was a lesser light pointing to the greater light! But non the less, a light needed to be seen!
      Saturday at 10:58am · · 3 people
    • Lindy Monye What a careless and general statement from one who claims to be an Adventist himself.Shocking John!You know full well that this is not what we stand for.The greater light reigns supreme!
      Saturday at 11:05am · · 1 person
    • John Vega
      ‎GodsNatural HealthLaw

      You must not know many Adventists if you have not found that many of them esteem EGW writings above Scripture.

      I am a 3rd gen Adventists and I know of a certainty that the majority follow the writings and example of EGW above the Scripture and that is why they still make a big deal out of Christmas, Easter, Birthdays and a plethora of Pagan Rooted holidays rather than following the calendar and the holydays of Scripture.
      Saturday at 11:07am · · 2 people
    • Kelley DeLong Who is this soul, so full of disention?
      Saturday at 11:17am · · 1 person
    • John Vega as the great prophet Jeremiah once said

      "Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither lent on usury, nor men have lent to me on usury; [yet] every one of them doth curse me. " 15:10
      Saturday at 11:19am ·
    • Kelley DeLong You are in our prayers!
      Saturday at 11:21am · · 1 person
    • John Vega as you are in mine
      Saturday at 11:23am ·
    • Lindy Monye ‎3rd generation or not you need to be carefuyl of what you take as holy days...Christmas and Easter!Study their origins and what festivities they stand for and search the scriptures you will realise that they are far from being biblical and that has nothing to do with EGW!
      Saturday at 11:32am · · 3 people
    • Joel Gerlach <--- does not do pagan holidays.
      Saturday at 11:37am · · 3 people
    • Yahuchanon David
      ‎@lindy,

      did you even read this post at all? From the sound of your comments it seems that you are simply having a knee jerk reaction to the title without even reading the note.

      you do not know what Total Restitotution is all about. Please sp...See More
      Saturday at 11:38am · · 1 person
    • Joel Gerlach <--- is learning to keep God's Feast.
      Saturday at 11:40am · · 2 people
    • Yahuchanon David << is also learning to obey YHWH rather than man made traditions like Pagan holidays
      Saturday at 11:48am ·
    • Leroy Cain Most be different where you are. Around here I hardly ever here mention of EGW. Mostly she is mentioned when talking about SDA history since she said to build stuff in Takoma Park MD. Other than that, not much.
      Saturday at 11:57am · · 1 person
    • Ryan Rios U sound like a modern day Pharisee
      Saturday at 11:58am · · 1 person
    • John Vega Why do I sound like a modern day Pharisee? Is it because I believe that we should obey the commandments of YHWH rather than the traditions of men?
      Saturday at 1:10pm · · 1 person
    • David Dence Rather than using Ellen White as a stepping stone to new light, many SDAs use her as a road block to any possible new light. That is a missuse of the Spirit of Prophecy.
      Saturday at 1:25pm · · 3 people
    • Edwin Perdomo
      Yahuchanon, I've read some of your articles before and time and time and time again you seem to delight in presenting your messages very coarsely. It’s almost as if you delight in offending others. I’ve read your responses to their responses and it’s like a playground child chiding another. I’m not saying I don’t agree with some of what you present, because I do, what I’m saying is that if you are the spokesman then “woes me/us”. If you cannot take the time to pray before responding, then maybe you shouldn’t. You talk about the example of Yahushua in the Scriptures, but you yourself refuse to treat others with love and respect. I don’t know what Yahushua you are modeling but the Yahushua in the Bible would never speak to others with your condescension towards others. I read how Yahushua reprimanded the Pharisees but I also read about how He wept for Yerushalayim. You remind me of Kepha in your crude words and actions towards others, but there is hope for we know that in later years when people heard Kepha speak, Kepha spoke as loving as Yahushua. I know the frustrations in sharing the apostasies around us and within the church, people ALWAYS want to respond with how I’m destroying the church. Wow. Really. Showing errors is a bad thing? I disagree.
      However you my brother go beyond showing errors, you delight in “accusing the brethren”. Inform the people and leave them to Yahweh. You don’t love them and so you can’t do what is best for them, but Yahweh can. Now, I know you’re not going to listen to my plea, as you have done in the past with my other pleas, but brother:
      (1 Corinthians 13:2) And though I have [the gift of] prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.
      Saturday at 1:48pm · · 1 person
    • John Vega ‎David Dence..Very well said David.
      Saturday at 3:34pm ·
    • John Vega
      ‎Edwin Perdomo I'm not Yahushua but I am one of His Disciples. Even the Apostles were not perfect either before, nor after their conversion.

      I'm doing my best to blaze the narrow path spoken of in Isaiah

      Isaiah 58:12 "And [they that shall be] of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in."
      Saturday at 3:52pm · · 2 people
    • John Vega ‎Leroy Cain There are many varieties of Adventists and for this I am truly thankful. What a disaster if they were all like me!! I surely would never have become an Adventists if that were the case.
      Saturday at 3:57pm · · 2 people
    • Edwin Perdomo
      I know brother, but realize that in our lack of patience we can undo that which Yahushua is trying to do in the lives of others. I am a sinner, a big sinner, and when others realize this they have a tendency to reprove harshly. If I only listened to them, I would have left the faith a long time ago. SERIOUSLY. Their reprove lacks "genuine love", they love but it is according to the "negative" influence you have in/on their lives. The other day as I was praying Yahweh pointed out the love that I have for my son. Yahweh showed me that inspite of my son's flaws that I still loved him, then Yahweh said "I love you more than this". John just try to love people inspite of their short commings. It's funny how we ask Yahweh to love us and forgive us and yet just like the rich man we're quick to throw others into prison. Remember, according to the "ruler" we use to judge others, we ourselves will be judged.
      Continue to share, we need "loud cries" out there, but always in love. I mean we're talking about Yahweh's loved ones and our brothers and sisters.
      In love John.
      Saturday at 4:02pm · · 1 person
    • Onsongo Raphael N
      The writings of EGW do not in any way prevent the going out of present truth.It is only we who take offence because her writings reprove us and our preconcived notions.To the law and to the testimony if they speak not according to this it i...See More
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    • Bill Hollon Mrs. White said that in the last days , the people who are getting ready for the 2ed coming, will be called fanatics.
      Sunday at 9:42am · · 1 person
    • Bill Hollon If Mrs. White were alive today, she would be keeping the feast days. BH
      Sunday at 9:44am · · 1 person
    • Bill Hollon and John V. tell me what I need to do before it is, too late ,too late, forever too late!! BH
      Sunday at 9:47am · · 1 person
    • John Vega
      When People fight the statute message with the feast days and the sacred name, when people tell me "He knows what is in my heart" the verse that frequently comes to mind is this one...

      For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies: MattheYahu 15:19

      Mark 7:21 For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
      7:22 Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye(tius means greed of mammon), blasphemy, pride, foolishness:
      7:23 All these evil things come from within, and defile the man.

      I think to myself.. "yea, He certainly does know what is in your heart."

      The Spirit of truth tells me that they really HATE the truth and want this world and the things of the world more than they want the truth. This is why they so desperately attempt to trivialize the statute message of Malachi 4. This is why they will not be allowed to walk through the Eternal gates of the New Jerusalem. It is because the love of this world has eclipsed the love of the truth and the love of Yahuah.

      They try so hard to trivialized the message that Yahuah is raising up that there can be NO love in their heart for the truth.. they are lovers of the world and the things of the world they will lust for and have them at the cost of their eternal ruin. We can have things our way and get a little material gain or we can have thing Yahua's way and have eternal life.. The message will become clearer and clearer until the perfect day and all excuses for rejecting the statute and judgment message will be worthless on the day of judgment.

      1 John 2:15 Love not the world, neither the things [that are] in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
      2:16 For all that [is] in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
      2:17 And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.

      I CANNOT SAY IT BETTER THAN MY MASTER DID in MattisYAHU

      6:24 No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
      6:25 Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?
      6:26 Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?
      6:27 Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?
      6:28 And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin:
      6:29 And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
      6:30 Wherefore, if Elohim so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, [shall he] not much more [clothe] you, O ye of little faith?
      6:31 Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?
      6:32 (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.
      6:33 But seek ye first the kingdom of Elohim, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
      6:34 Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day [is] the evil thereof.

      I preach to myself as much as to anyone.. I need this stern warning more than anyone.. I need to realize that without the power of the Ruach ha Kodesh in my life and the blood of the Lamb I will be eternally doomed and condemned to the lake of fire just like all those who reject the truth. Weather we are preachers, popes, presidents, paupers, pastors or politicians we will all be held accountable for how we react to the Eliyahu message.

      Not a single one of us will be free from condemnation if we do not allow the Great Surgeon to cut away the Pagan influence completely from our hearts and lives and allow the Master Surgeon to remove the stony heart from our soul and replace it with a heart of flesh. We desperately need a heart transplant in order to experience and embrace the Eliyahu message with the statutes and judgments.
      Sunday at 10:13am ·
    • John Vega
      ‎Bill Hollon are you serious? are you asking me what you need to do? I don't believe that you are serious but if you are I can only quote my Master in this regard.

      "But seek ye first the kingdom of Elohim, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you." MattisYahu 6:33

      This is what we ALL need to be doing.

      And what we do NOT need to be doing is this..

      "evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness(telling people that the feast days were nailed to the cross), blasphemies:" evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
      7:22 Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye(this means greed of mammon), blasphemy, pride, foolishness:"

      This is my humble opinion and answer to your question brother Bill.
      Sunday at 10:20am ·
    • Onsongo Raphael N
      Colossians 2:13-18 nailed to the cross the ordinances.Ephesians 2:14-22 Christ did away with the ordinances now through HIM we have access by one Spirit unto the FATHER.We are now to build on the foundation layed in which Christ is the corner stone.1 Peter 2:4-8.Warning against false prophecys 2 Peter 2:1-3 , 1 John 4:1.We need not be confussed let us study to show ourselves approved 2 Timothy 2:15.We should remember that obedience is better than sacrifice and those that are to worship GOD are to worship in spirit and truth.The old is gone the new has come.Type has met antitype. Read the book of Hebrews chapters 8,9 and 10.Speaks of a new covenant .In the end one must prayerfully approach these things and avoid a spirit of contention and strife
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    • John Vega ‎@onsongo

      Please don't be so hasty in your conclusions concerning the feast days. I say this as a brother who has spent many years studying this subject with care and detail. you might want to read the following link.

      http://totalrestitution.co m/articles/obliteratedwors hipjerusalem.html
      Sunday at 3:03pm ·
    • Joanne Brown I was raised SDA. Then I grew up, realized not everything added up. So I studied for myself. I learned Yahuha's name and it all seemed to pull together after that. I am thankful. Here is my question. So, why didn't E.G. White keep the feasts? Why did she celebrate the Christian holidays? Get my drift?
      Sunday at 6:17pm · · 1 person
    • John Vega to me Ellen White was a stepping stone that was to lead us to new light just as like dave dense said above..
      Sunday at 7:30pm ·
    • Bill Hollon
      why did yahshua let John the Baptist die, he had the power to save His 2ed cousin. Why did Peter deny Yahshua 3 times.Why do there seem to be discrepancies in the Bible. ... John the Bap was the greatest prophet that ever lived, Peter's writings are cannonized, and the Bible is consistent and true. ..... People would not listen to what Mrs White had to say, so she was not given the next steps for us to follow. ..... It's time that we should be fasting and searching for what we must do to be saved.
      BH
      Yesterday at 6:51am · · 1 person
    • John Vega
      Just so everyone on this forum knows... David Gates was a featured speaker at a feast of Tabernacles as well as a feast of Passover/unleavened bread which were hosted 1 year ago here in California by Seventh-day Adventists that believe in celebrating the feast days. David’s presentations were attended by many Seventh-day Adventists and all were blessed by his powerful, Messiah centered presentations. So David Gates is obviously not against the idea of keeping the feast days yet many Seventh-day Adventists run from the feast days like they have seen a ghost!! How sad this is when we consider that the entire Seventh-day Adventist movement was founded on the feast day of atonement of 1844 when William Miller spearheaded the great disappointment. Yes, that is correct; the great Millerite Advent awakening of 1844 which took place AFTER the cross began on a feast day and yet ALL Seventh-day Adventist corporate employed evangelists teach that the feast days were “nailed to the cross”. How strange is that?

      O how it saddens me that Adventists are generally so ignorant of the facts of history of their own church. How sad that they are generally so afraid of having any identity with the Jews that they are willing to forgo the blessings of gathering at these special times of the year to encourage each other in the narrow way. If they would only reconsider that the Messiah is Jewish and the bible is a Jewish book. How ridiculous that people that claim to read and follow the teachings of the bible are afraid of behaving the the bible's authors.. it is actually ridiculous when you give it any careful thought and are not prejudiced by the anti-Judaic slant that Christianity has adopted since the 4th century because of the influence of Constantine. http://totalrestitution.co m/articles/ConstantinesPro fessionoffaith.html

      Ellen G. White Does Not Teach Against The Feast Days.. Ignorant, surface level, shallow students of her works only THINK she does.

      "In the days of Christ these feasts were attended by vast multitudes of people from all lands, and had they been kept as God intended, in the spirit of true worship, the light of truth might through them have been given to all nations of the world. {PH130 10.1}
      With those who lived at a distance from the tabernacle, more than a month of every year must have been occupied in attendance upon these holy convocations. The Lord saw that these gatherings were necessary for the spiritual life of His people. They needed to turn away from their worldly cares, to commune with God, and to contemplate unseen realities. {PH130 10.2}
      If the children of Israel needed the benefit of these holy convocations in their time, how much more do we need them in these last days of peril and conflict? And if the people of the world then needed the light which God has committed to his church, how much more do they need it now?" {PH130 10.3}

      and this one

      "Christians who extol Christ, but array themselves against the law governing the Jewish church, array Christ against Christ." {RH, May 6, 1875 par. 16}

      We again have the example of the apostle Paul who is documented in the Scripture as well as in Ellen White's writings as keeping Passover with his Philippian coverts who were gentiles and not Jews.

      " At Philippi Paul tarried to keep the Passover. Only Luke remained with him, the other members of the company passing on to Troas to await him there. The Philippians were the most loving and truehearted of the apostle's converts, and during the eight days of the feast he enjoyed peaceful and happy communion with them." {AA 390.4}

      Then Paul later wrote the Philippians and exhorted them to continue to follow the great example he had left them with.

      Phil 4:8 Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things [are] honest, whatsoever things [are] just, whatsoever things [are] pure, whatsoever things [are] lovely, whatsoever things [are] of good report; if [there be] any virtue, and if [there be] any praise, think on these things.
      4:9 Those things, which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do: and the God of peace shall be with you.

      Don't you believe that it is high time that we advantage ourselves of these wonderful opportunities to gather and worship our King and Redeemer and encourage one another in the narrow path?!

      What do we have to loose by obeying Yahuwah and following in the footsteps of Yahshua and the apostles after the cross? Why do we hesitate so at the plain command to "keep the feasts" 1Cor 5:8? are we afraid of being blessed and encouraged in the narrow path that has been trodden by our spiritual ancestors? We need to be set free from fear of religious bigots that have hindered the path of the righteous for too long!!!! all fear of obeying god is of the Devil and his dark angels.

      "But beware of rejecting that which is truth. The great danger with our people has been that of depending upon men, and making flesh their arm. Those who have not been in the habit of searching the Bible for themselves, or weighing evidence, have confidence in the leading men, and accept the decisions they make, and thus many will reject the very messages Elohim sends to his people, if these leading brethren do not accept them." {GW92 126.4}

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    • Scott Sterling
      I´m still not convinced that resurrecting the feast days and enjoining them to God´s people, claiming that in order to receive the Seal of God they must be kept, is not being used by the enemy to distract God´s people from the present truth for this time. If it is God´s will, I would not be opposed to keeping them every year. One reason circumcision was done away with, according to EGW, is that it became associated with those Jews who were enjoining the Jewish law on the Gentiles. It became such a problem that Paul exclaimed, ¨If you are circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing!¨ Gal 5:2 One danger to the hebrew roots movement I have seen is that in my observation it has often been associated with separatism and a general feeling of resentment toward the SDA church leadership. There must be a spirit of ¨Press together, press together, press together¨ in these last days. Not setting truth aside, nor sowing discord among brethren. I myself am continuing to study on this subject.
      Yesterday at 1:21pm ·
    • John Vega
      ‎@ Scott Sterling

      Do yo believe that promoting the Pagan rooted holidays are in keeping with the present truth? because that is what the Seventh-day Adventist corporation does for which there is absolutely zero biblical support for.

      The feast days are to the fourth commandment what bestiality is to seventh.

      Precepts Given to Guard Decalogue.--In consequence of continual transgression, the moral law was repeated in awful grandeur from Sinai. Christ gave to Moses religious precepts which were to govern everyday life. These statutes were explicitly given to guard the ten commandments. They were not shadowy types to pass away with the death of Christ. They were to be binding upon men in every age as long as time should last. These commands were enforced by the power of the moral law, and they clearly and definitely explained that law (Ibid., April 15, 1875 [Reprinted in RH May 6, 1875]). {1BC 1104.6}

      feast days are statutes

      23:14 And ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn, nor green ears, until the selfsame day that ye have brought an offering unto your God: [it shall be] a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.

      23:21 And ye shall proclaim on the selfsame day, [that] it may be an holy convocation unto you: ye shall do no servile work [therein: it shall be] a statute for ever in all your dwellings throughout your generations.

      23:31 Ye shall do no manner of work: [it shall be] a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.

      23:41 And ye shall keep it a feast unto the LORD seven days in the year. [It shall be] a statute for ever in your generations: ye shall celebrate it in the seventh month.

      "God is now testing and proving His people. Character is being developed. Angels are weighing moral worth, and keeping a faithful record of all the acts of the children of men. Among God's professed people are corrupt hearts; but they will be tested and proved. That God who reads the hearts of everyone, will bring to light hidden things of darkness where they are often least suspected, that stumbling blocks which have hindered the progress of truth may be removed, and God have a clean and holy people to declare His statutes and judgments." {1T 332.3}
      22 hours ago · · 1 person
    • Bill Hollon what I ment by the statment above,"tell me what to do". is while others are arguing against what you are saying, I was saying that I am willing to here all these things.. while others are saying that you are judging and dragging up old laws that have been done away with,I am saying tell us what we need to do . Tell us, tell us ,tell us, ... before it is too late.
      19 hours ago · · 1 person
    • John Vega Amen brother Bill, I hear you!! We should all be searching the Scripture every single day and asking YHWH to reveal our individual duty to Him and our fellow man. We are all debtors and need to be forgiven and all need to work out our own salvation with fear and trembling" Phil 2:12..
      17 hours ago ·
    • John Vega
      Brother Scott,

      I don't enjoy being ostracized from the Seventh-day Adventist corporate leadership but when I believe the whole truth as revealed in the word of truth it separates me from them and the truth cuts like a sword between them and myself, between them that serve YHWH and them that serve Him not..

      I can not consciously tell a single sould that the feast days have been nailed to the cross. It simply is not true. If I said such a thing I would be liar and condmned to the lake of fire.
      16 hours ago ·
      • Onsongo Raphael N Read through the book of Galatians and get the Counsel that Paul was giving to the Galatians.'Ye observe days, and months and times and years'Galatians 4:10.
        14 hours ago · · 1 person
      • John Vega Reading below will make it abundantly clear that Paul was writing to people that "knew not God". This only could mean that he was writing to non-Jews and chastising them for returning to the Pagan calendar that all the Christian world is following today.

        4:8 Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods.
        4:9 But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?
        4:10 Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years.
        4:11 I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain.

        Paul was simply writing the Pagan Galatian church and telling them the modern equivalent of "Stop celebrating Christmas, Easter New Years etc.