How Sabbath Keepers Will Worship The Beast -By Joe Dauda

What is the implication of Revelation 15:2?

Revelation 15:2
“And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire: and them that had gotten the victory over the beast, and over his image, and over his mark, and over the number of his name, stand on the sea of glass, having the harps of God.”

The implication is that, as part of the signal victories the saints gain over the beast, they gain victory over “the number of his name.” Without this victory, none of them will stand on the sea of glass.

The number of the name of the beast is not the same thing as the mark of the beast. In fact, it is presented as an option to receiving the mark of the beast.

Revelation 13:17
“And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name”.

It is safe to say that majority of committed Seventh-day Adventists are simply too wise to receive the mark of the beast. They know too much to fall for any trick that will result in receiving the mark of the beast.

So then, is the number of the name of the beast going to be the snare that catches Seventh-day Adventists? The rendering of Revelation 13:17 in other versions of the Bible shows that the options for appeasing the beast are either the mark of the beast, or the number of the name of the beast. For example, the NIV states Revelation 13:17 in the following manner:

Revelation 13:17

“So that they could not buy or sell unless they had the mark, which is the name of the beast, or the number of its name.”

Having the number of the name of the beast will damn any soul because it is as bad as having the mark of the beast.

If you have 10 bags of salt in your store and a news report announces a looming scarcity of salt and one other condiment, should you focus all your energy on securing that other condiment or focus all your energy on securing even more salt? The sensible cause of action will naturally be to find out what that other condiment is and see how you can remedy your situation when the looming scarcity strikes — by trying to secure copious amounts of that condiment.

Seventh-day Adventists, using the hypothesis above, are piling up more salt and completely indifferent to the second vital condiment. 

Everybody knows what the number of the name of the beast is — it is 666. But what does it mean to have this number? 

Without victory over the number of the name of the beast, victory over the mark of the beast will prove insufficient because having either the mark or the number of the name of the beast is tantamount to worshipping the beast. If it wasn’t tantamount to worshipping the beast, having the number of the name of the beast would not have been presented as an option for getting permission to buy and sell. Revelation 13:17. Everything is about worship in the last days. It is the crux of the matter and the main factor that separates the whole world into two groups — only two groups.

Revelation 14:9, 10
“. . . If any man worship the beast . . . The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God . . .”

You either worship God or else you must worship the beast.
But true worship consists, not only in worshipping on the correct day, but in worshipping the true God.

John 4:24
“God is a Spirit: and they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth”.

But how do you know that your worship on the correct day (namely the seventh day) is being offered to the true God?

Interesting Fact Number 1
The true God — known as the living God — has a Son.

Matthew 16:16
“Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.”

Interesting Fact Number 2
Anybody can say they are the Christ. Even you, dear reader, can decide this very moment that your new name is “the Christ.” But, according to the Bible, the real Christ is the Son of the living God. Any Christ that is not the Son of God is, of necessity, a false Christ.

The Antichrist will accept any other thing — preaching in the name of Jesus Christ, casting out demons in the name of Jesus Christ, healing/performing miracles in the name of Jesus Christ, distribution of tracts, church planting, baptisms, evangelistic gatherings, even the preaching of the sabbath message, etc. — but there is something the Antichrist will never accept.

1 John 2:22
“Who is a liar but He that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is Antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son.”

1 John 2:22 contains Christ, Antichrist, Father, Son. The true Christ is the Son of the Father. And that is exactly what the Antichrist denies, refuses, rejects, cannot accept. Any Christ that is whatever else but not also the Son of the Father is an Antichrist. 

For the Antichrist, it is ok if Jesus Christ is a prophet, or a good man, or a teacher, — or even equal to God and part of a tripartite God. But nothing matters more in detecting the true Christ than the fact that He is the Son of the Father. Again, any Jesus Christ without a Father (meaning without origin) is not the true Jesus Christ of the Bible but a manifestation of the Antichrist, no matter how popular that false Christ may be. 

Unfortunately, majority of Christians believe in a Trinitarian God made up of three beings, none of whom existed before the other, none of whom has authority over the other, and each of whom is God. Jesus Christ is supposed to be one of these three beings, which, together, form one God.

But according to the Holy Spirit of God — the Inspirer of the Bible — any God without a Son is not the living God Simon Peter confessed about.

Interesting Fact Number 3
Another thing the Antichrist will never accept is that Jesus Christ came in the flesh.

1 John 4:1-3
“Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.
Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God:
And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world”.

Furthermore,

Hebrews 2:14
“Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, He also Himself likewise took part of the same.”

The Bible doubles down on this theme by approaching the matter from another angle.

Hebrews 2:16,17
“For verily He took not on Him the nature of angels; but He took on Him the seed of Abraham.
Wherefore in all things it behooved Him to be made like unto His brethren.”

When you keep food away from Him for 40 days and 40 nights, Jesus Christ will feel benumbing hunger. And if He wasn’t hungry when Satan came to Him in the wilderness, then the story of the temptation in Matthew Chapter 4 was written to deceive. When you strike Jesus Christ, He will feel the pain; when you plant a crown of thorns on His brow, the injury it causes will result in excruciating pain. That is what the Holy Spirit wants us to understand from Hebrews 2:14-17. Remember that the Antichrist will not accept this real Jesus Christ, Who came in the normal flesh and blood common to all of us.

Interesting Fact Number 4
If Jesus Christ came in the flesh, when He died, He was really and truly dead.

If Jesus Christ was really and truly dead when He died and was buried in a tomb, then what happened to God at the time Jesus Christ laid dead in the tomb?

Well, God kept on existing.

How?

Like He has always existed.

So God can exist alone?

Of course.

Not only that, He can exercise His power all by Himself. Even the power of resurrection!

Romans 10:9
“If thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised Him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.”

You mean I will not be saved if I do not believe that it was God (all by Himself) that raised Jesus Christ up from the dead?

Romans 8:11
“But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you”.

But what about the Trinity? I thought the first time God ever existed, they were three living beings? So what happened to that God when Jesus Christ laid dead in the grave?

I thought that, without Jesus Christ, God cannot exist. I thought the first time God ever existed, Jesus Christ also existed alongside with Him. In other words, I thought that, if God is PYCMT years old, Jesus Christ is also exactly PYCMT years old?

John 3:16
“For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son . . .”

John 3:16 means that God first existed, and then He had a Son, and then He gave that Son to the world out of love because, except for that great sacrifice, all men will perish.

Only the Antichrist will reject the truth of John 3:16. And Trinitarians, whether they know it or not, are upholding the doctrine of the Antichrist because you cannot believe the Trinity and also truly believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God. I have proof of this in my high level interaction with an eminently qualified theologian, name withheld.

But what does it mean if I truly believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God? I know this means that God first existed and then birthed Jesus Christ.

1 John 4:15
“Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God.”

What did Jesus Christ say to Peter after Peter called Him the Son of the living God?

Matthew 16:17:
“Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven.”

But what was it that Simon said?

“Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.”

But did Peter mean son as in son, or did he mean something else different from the normal meaning of the word?

In Matthew 16:16, which contains the declaration of Simon Peter about Jesus Christ being truly the Son of the living God, the Greek word translated as “son” is UIHOS, pronounced hwee-os. Its number on the Strong’s Concordance of the Bible is 5207, written as G5207. This means Greek (word) 5207.

To prove that Peter meant son as in the son of Mr. Zephaniah, see Matthew 10:37. In Matthew 10:37, it was Jesus Christ that was talking. He mentioned father and mother and son and daughter. In that verse, father, mother, son, and daughter, all mean what they mean in the ordinary usage of the word. Guess what? The Greek word translated as “son” in Matthew 10:37 is the same word Simon Peter used to declare the God-approved relationship between Jesus Christ and God. It is G5207!

Matthew 10:37
He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. 

This is definitive proof that Jesus Christ is truly the Son of God. Sadly, it also proves that Christianity is not as popular as we supposed. Only a few people believe the Bible.

What will the Antichrist teach instead of this everlasting truth that Jesus Christ is the Son of God?

Perhaps we can learn about this teaching from the number of the name of the beast.

What is the number of the name of the beast?

Revelation 13:18
Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.

As revealed in an earlier article titled Blessed By A Critic (Parts 1&2) God led me one step after the other and eventually showed me that the number of the name of the beast (666) is an emblematic representation of the doctrine of the Trinity. It was through a combination of the following scriptures: Revelation 21:17, Revelation 12:7, 1 John 2:22-23, 2 John 7, and 1 John 4:1-3.

Before showing how the number, 666, represents the doctrine of the Trinity, let me state what the Bible clearly teaches about the origin of Jesus Christ. The first passage (from Proverbs) contains the very words of Jesus Christ, as the personification of wisdom, explaining how He came into existence. The second passage is clear as crystal concerning the fact that, unlike God, Jesus Christ had a beginning. See John 1:1. Although this beginning is in the distant eternity of the past, it was nonetheless a beginning.

Proverbs 8:25, 24, 26-30 [25]Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth:
[24]When there were no depths, I was brought forth; when there were no fountains abounding with water.
[26]While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world.
[27]When he prepared the heavens, I was there: when he set a compass upon the face of the depth:
[28]When he established the clouds above: when he strengthened the fountains of the deep:
[29]When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth:
[30]Then I was by him, as one brought up with him: and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him;

Also, in Micah 5:2, the Bible makes it clear that Jesus Christ was born in eternity. The phrase “goings forth” makes this clear as crystal. It means emanation. Jesus Christ emanated from God in the days of eternity, before anything was created for John 1:3 teaches that it was through Jesus Christ (as the Word) that everything in the universe was created.

Micah 5:2

“But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting”.

Why do theologians (who know these things) partake in confusing the people of God and teaching that Jesus Christ had no beginning but must be deemed equal in age with God? How could God have brought forth Jesus Christ if He did not first exist alone without Jesus Christ? How could God (through His Spirit) have resurrected Jesus Christ from the dead if He could not exist without Jesus Christ? And if God can exist without Jesus Christ, why do Trinitarians pretend that there is one God and that this God consists of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit? Why the wicked lies?

A Breakdown of the Number 666

THE NUMBER 666
·        There are three digits in the number 666; namely, 6, 6, and 6.
·        These three digits are all equal; none is greater than the other: the first 6 is equal to the second 6, which is equal to the third 6.
·        Each of the three digits is a whole number (or integer): that is to say, none of them is a fraction.
·        Each of the three digits in 666 is a number – the first six is a number, the second six is a number, and the third six is also a number. None of them is an alphabet.
·        Each of the three digits that make up the number 666 is distinct from the other, based on their positions. The first 6 is in the unit position, the second 6 is in the tens position, and the third 6 is in the hundredth position. If there was a fourth 6, it would have been in a position mathematicians call the thousandth position. A fifth 6 would have been in the ten thousandth position, and so on and so forth.
·        Together, all the three digits form a single number, 666. That is to say, although containing three separate numbers, 666 is not three numbers but one number, namely six hundred and sixty-six
·        It takes the three digits to form the number 666. This means that if you remove any of the 6 in 666, you no longer have six hundred and sixty-six but something entirely different.

And what is the doctrine of the Trinity?

Just replace each 6 in the 666 analysis above with God, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit respectively, and you have the doctrine of the Trinity.

THE DOCTRINE OF THE TRINITY
·        There are three individuals in the Trinity; namely, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
·        These three individuals are all equal; none is greater than the other: the Father is equal to the Son, and the Holy Spirit is equal to either of them.
·        Each of the three individuals in the Trinity is an individual and can exist alone. That is to say, none of them is a fraction; each is an entity.
·        Each of the three individuals in the Trinity is God. The Father is God, the Son is God, and the Holy Spirit is God. None of them is anything less than God.
·        Each of the three individuals that make up the Trinity is distinct from the other. The Father is not the Son, and the Son is not the Holy Spirit, neither is the Holy Spirit the Father.
·        Together, all the three individuals in the Trinity form a single God. That is to say, although containing three separate individuals, each of which is God and able to exist alone, the Trinity is not three Gods but one God, namely a Trinitarian God.
·        It takes the three individual members of the Trinity – Father, Son, and Holy Spirit — to have God. In other words, if you remove any of the individuals, whether Father, or Son, or Holy Spirit, you no longer have a Trinity and you no longer have God.
 
And who led the Seventh-day Adventist Church back to this doctrine after the church initially rejected it? Let’s quote from an official document of the Seventh-day Adventist Church known as the Adult Sabbath School Bible Study Guide.

“All through biblical history, God has used the prophetic gift to protect His people from theological errors. It was no different with the ministry of Ellen White. . . . At the same time, almost single-handedly she led the church from a semi-Arian . . . to a Trinitarian position.” P 150, Adult Sabbath School Bible Study Guide, 1st Quarter, 2009; Teachers Edition.

The most important contribution of Ellen Gould White to the Seventh-day Adventist Church is leading the church back to the already rejected doctrine of the Trinity. Either the doctrine of the Trinity is of God and Ellen Gould White was used of God to champion it, or the doctrine of the Trinity is a doctrine of devils and Ellen Gould White was Satan’s agent to deceive the remnant church into accepting it. There can be no middle ground here.

While he was still alive, what did the husband of Ellen Gould White say about the doctrine of the Trinity?

“The greatest fault we can find in the Reformation is that the reformers stopped reforming. Had they gone on and onward till they had left the last vestige of the papacy behind, such as natural immortality, sprinkling, the trinity, and Sunday keeping, the church would now be free from her unscriptural errors”

All the other pioneers (with the notable exception of Ellen Gould White) wrote or verbalized similar statements, proving their utter rejection of the doctrine of the trinity. As evidence, consider the quotation below from the historical devotional titled Lest We Forget, published in 2008. It was written by Seventh-day Adventist Church historian, Professor George Knight, who is a believer of Ellen Gould White. In the October 7 entry of Lest We Forget, Professor Knight states:

“It comes as a surprise to many present-day Seventh-day Adventists that most of the founders of the denomination could not join the church today if they had to agree to the 28 fundamental beliefs. To be more specific, they would have rejected belief number 2, on the Trinity, because they were anti-Trinitarian: they would have spurned number 4, on the Son, because they held that the Son was not eternal; and they would have denied number 5, on the Holy Spirit, because to them the Spirit was a force rather than a person.
White (referring to James White, the husband of Ellen Gould White) referred to the Trinity in 1846 as that “old unscriptural Trinitarian creed” and in 1852 as that “old Trinitarian absurdity”. J. N. Andrews shared White’s views. In 1869, he penned that “the Son of God . . . had God for his Father, and did, at some point in the eternity of the past, have a beginning of days”. Emphasis Supplied.

After some paragraphs, George Knight had this to say:
“Here, we have a kind of Sabbatarian Adventist Who’s Who on the Trinity. Only one name, you may have noted, is missing – that of Ellen White. It is not that she did not have anything to say on the topic. Rather, it is impossible to tell exactly what she believed from what she said, at least in the early decades of the movement”. Emphasis Supplied.

Are you aware that the first comprehensive statements of Adventist beliefs, written in 1872, did not contain a belief in a Trinity or a triune God? The 1872 Fundamental Beliefs of the SDA Church were purely based on the Bible, without the influence of the writings of Ellen Gould White.

What other contribution did Ellen Gould White make to the Seventh-day Adventist Church?

Ellen Gould White categorically commanded abstinence from flesh foods. Those who do not know this can read her words below. Those who like to say she did not really command abstinence from certain foods should also read her words below.

According to Ellen Gould White
“Can we possibly have confidence in ministers who, at tables where flesh is served, join with others in eating it?” (Lake Union Herald, Oct. 4, 1911)

“It has been clearly presented to me that God’s people (SDAs) are to take a firm stand against meat eating. By the use of flesh meats the animal nature is strengthened and the spiritual nature weakened.” Counsels on Diet and Foods; page 383.

“No butter or flesh meats of any kind come on my table.” Testimonies for the Church; Vol. 2; 1868.

“Not a particle of meat has been upon my table for the past five years. I found that I . . . must be firm and decided in regard to my diet.” October 5; Sunnyside, Coorenbong; 1898.

“We must practice what we preach. When sitting at a table where meat is provided, . . . we should let it alone . . . and when asked our reasons for doing this, we should in a kindly manner explain why we do not use it.” Counsels on Diet and Foods; page 462.

“Those who . . . subsist on the flesh of dead animals, cannot represent the truth to others.” Testimonies Vol. 6, pages 37, 38.

While digesting especially the last quotation from Ellen Gould White, soberly consider its implications for our Lord, Saviour, and Master, Jesus Christ.

Luke 24:41-43

“And while they yet believed not for joy, and wondered, He said unto them, Have ye here any meat? And they gave Him a piece of a broiled fish . . . And He took it, and did eat before them.”

Please, read, again, the last quotation from Ellen Gould White, bearing in mind that the fish Jesus Christ ate after His resurrection was the flesh of a dead animal, the eating of which Ellen Gould White says disqualifies a person from presenting the truth to others!

According to the Bible:

1 Timothy 4:1-3
“Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;
Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;
Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth”.

So Ellen Gould White not only led the Seventh-day Adventist Church back to the doctrine of the Trinity; she also commanded abstinence from flesh foods, which prophecy says will be an identifying mark of those teaching doctrines of devils — doctrines like the Trinity, which denies that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.

While you humbly pray and ask God to guide you on how to handle the information in this article, please consider the additional information below:

E = 0
L = 50
L = 50
E = 0
N = 0
= 100

G = 0
O =
U = 5
L = 50
D = 500
= 555

W = Double U; = 5+5 = 10
H = 0
I = 1
T = 0
E = 0
= 11

= 100+555+11
= 666.

What else do you want God to do to open your eyes, O Seventh-day Adventists?

You think loyalty to Ellen Gould White is loyalty to Jesus Christ?

The Bible says to test the spirits.

That test of 1 John 4:1-3 seems simple — until you begin to unpack it and realize that, anyone who believes the Trinity cannot believe that Jesus Christ came in the flesh because it will cause the doctrine of the Trinity to fall apart.

And any prophet that upholds that doctrine has failed the test. Don’t bother to tell me about the good things the prophet said and did.

Have you not read Matthew 7:21-23?

Is it a light matter for a person to pray in the name of Jesus Christ and actually cast out devils?

Is it a light thing for someone to preach and do “many” wonderful works in the name of Jesus Christ?

Yet we know some people will do these great things and still be revealed on the last day as enemies of Jesus Christ.

Even Muslims believe the Bible more than majority of Christians. At least they accept that the Bible means what it says when it says that Jesus Christ is the Son of God — which is the only reason why they demand God’s wife. As far as they are concerned, except you show them God’s wife, there is no way God can have a Son.

All the Muslim needs is to read Proverbs 8:22-30 and remember that Jesus Christ is also called the word of God.

The creation of Adam and Eve provides additional information on how Jesus Christ was brought forth. God certainly did not need a wife. If you have heard about cloning, it is safe to believe that, in a way, God cloned Himself in bringing forth Jesus Christ. That is why the Bible refers to Jesus Christ as God. It simply means He has the same divine nature God has. But He was brought forth. Denying that He was brought forth means Jesus Christ is not the Son of God. Denying the truth that Jesus Christ is the Son of God makes you an Antichrist. Believing that Jesus Christ is the Son of God makes you realize that there was a time in eternity when only God existed. Then, He brought forth Jesus Christ. And that is why Jesus Christ is His Son. This was way before the earth was created; also before angels were created, for it was through this same Son of God (the Word) that God made everything.

Realizing that calling Him God must be understood in the context of Him being the Son of God, Jesus Christ referred to His Father as “the only true God.” The Father of Jesus Christ is the only true God. Declared by Jesus Christ Himself. Let that sink in. I’m Joe Dauda and you can call me Mr Dauda all you like. But the only true Mr Dauda is my father. 

John 17:3

“This is life eternal, that they may know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, Whom Thou hast sent.”

God could have created Adam and Eve at the same time.

Why in the world did He not do that?

In creating Adam and Eve, God was demonstrating two things: sequence and modality.

The sequence was Adam first — then Eve.

The modality was that, rather than just create Eve in the same manner that Adam was created, God did something different.

Genesis 2:21
“And God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and He took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof.
And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made He a woman and brought her unto the man.”

Adam was made and began to exist alone;

Then Eve came forth from Adam;

God existed alone with His Spirit (for the Holy Spirit is a part of God as surely as your heart is part of you);

Then Jesus Christ (the Word) was brought forth.

Am I saying it is God and Jesus Christ on the one hand and Adam and Eve on the other hand?

Exactly.

Genesis 1:26
“And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness.”

Instead of saying, “And let him have dominion over the fish of the sea etc.” God rather said, “and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, etc”. So the man God referred to was not the male alone — He was referring to the pair because He went on to say “and let them have dominion, etc”.

1 Corinthians 11:3
“But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ: and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.”

The formula for solving the above equation is simple. In the order of things, your head (your true head) is the being from whom you came forth.

Because Eve came forth from Adam, Adam is her head; because Adam came forth from Jesus Christ ( John 1:3) Jesus Christ is His head; because Jesus Christ was brought forth by God, God is His head. God has no head in this order of things because He did not come forth from any being. Remember that I did not write 1 Corinthians 11:3: it was inspired by the Spirit of God. And what does it say?

The head of Christ is God.

Exactly like the head of the woman is the man.

Are women not taught to submit to their husbands?

But why?

Especially in these days of women liberation, some women are richer and more educated than their husbands. If there was no spiritual principle at play, isn’t it unfair to ask such women to submit to their husbands? Why are women blanketed in this rule, no matter the social, academic, financial, and other advantages they may have over their husbands?

It is because, in the divine order, man is the head of the woman.

And why is that, in practical terms?

It is because the woman came out of the man . . .

So man is her head.

In the same way that God is the head of Christ.

Yet Trinitarians dare to teach that Jesus Christ is equal with God. 

John 14:28
“For my Father is greater than I.”

They pretend that “I and my Father are one” stated in John 10:30 means “I and my Father are equal.” How fraudulent and sacrilegious!
 
Trinitarians are not Christians if being a Christian means believing the words of Jesus Christ and the Bible.

1 Corinthians 8:6
“But to us there is but one God, the Father, of Whom are all things, and we in Him;
And one Lord Jesus Christ, by Whom are all things and we by Him.”

Of Whom and by Whom.

As a human being, you are of your father: but you were born BY your mother.

Of Whom and by Whom

We, together with everything in the universe, are “of God”; He owns us. And we, together with everything in the universe, are “by Jesus Christ.

There is a reason why some translators tamper with the Bible. Sometimes it is to hide the truth.

Ephesians 3:9

“And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ”.

The above means that God is the ultimate Creator. But that He implemented creation through Jesus Christ.

Nevertheless, to promote the lie of the Trinity, some versions of the Bible try to hide that last part of Ephesians 3:9. Please compare Ephesians 3:9 from the KJV and the NIV to understand what I am pointing out.

In essence, one could say that the best kept secret in the Seventh-day Adventist Church is the fact that it is possible to worship the beast without receiving the mark of the beast; hence the title of this article. 

For example, the 7000 faithful people God hinted prophet Elijah about were innocent of two things:

1 Kings 19:18
“Yet I have left me seven thousand in Israel, all the knees which have not bowed unto Baal, and every mouth which hath not kissed him.”

For the sake of argument, let’s assume that a particular Israelite felt marginalized for not being included in the 7000 because, although he had kissed the image of Baal, he had not actually bowed down to the image. Would his argument stand? Why should you kiss the image of Baal if you are faithful to Jehovah? By kissing the image, does it matter if you did not bow?

In the same manner, even if you do not receive the mark of the beast, what makes you think that having the number of the name of the beast will be immaterial and that you will be redeemed nonetheless?

The Seventh-day Adventist Church is the church prophesied about in Revelation 10 and given the mission stated in Revelation 14:6-12. To deceive such a church planted by God and prophesied about in the Bible required utmost discretion and deception by Satan. And Satan was able to pull this off. But, as usual, God is wiser. It is the wisdom of God that played out in making Ellen Gould White bear her unique name. Without realizing that her name number added up to 666, I do not know if there is any man born of a woman that would have been able to convince me that Ellen Gould White was not a true prophetess. From her maiden name (Ellen Gould Harmon) and the name of her husband (James Springer White) there were 16 name combinations Ellen Gould White could have chosen as her official name. And none of those name combinations (apart from Ellen Gould White) would have added up to 666. I believe that the omniscience of God saw down through the decades before the end of the world and God knew that, except something as drastic as a 666 name number was placed on this prophetess, the cover-up would have been too powerful to detect.

Why not 777?

Was our omniscient God unaware of Ellen Gould White’s 666 name number?

If He was aware, why allow such a name number for the prophetess of the remnant church whose spiritual war is against a beast power identified by the number 666?

And, just in case you did not know, we are commanded to investigate. Refusing to investigate the things I have pointed out is not a manifestation of your love for God. So do not wallow in any self-deception. That’s the meaning of 1 Thessalonians 5:21:

1 Thessalonians 5:21
“Prove all things; hold fast that which is good”.

And God made sure that the exposition of Ellen Gould White will happen during the Information Age, when books written many years ago will be available on the internet at the click of a button. No honest person can research Ellen Gould White without realizing what I realized. She was a super weapon designed specifically to deceive the remnant church.

No wonder the writings of Ellen Gould White are categorized as the “Spirit of Prophecy;” Revelation 12:17. This makes her untouchable and this designation has blinded the eyes of millions of Seventh-day Adventists. After all, who wants to inherit the destiny of Kohath, Dathan, and Abiram, who opposed Moses and were all swallowed alive by the earth?

The writings of Ellen Gould White are spiritually toxic, not because of the truth they contain, but because of the falsehoods. Falsehoods such as the doctrine of the Trinity and the command to abstain from certain foods, plus some other things not reasonable to get into now. No wonder, even for some Seventh-day Adventists who have managed to reject the doctrine of the Trinity, their current doctrine on God is worse than the doctrine of the Trinity itself because, rather than just revert to what the pioneers of the Seventh-day Adventist Church believed (which is based on the Bible) these people attempted to mix the teachings of Ellen Gould White with the truth that Jesus Christ is the Son of God. They are known as the Father-Son movement and their greatest harm, in my view, is preventing a return to biblical truth by harvesting the souls who have finally realized that, indeed, Jesus Christ is the Son of God. Thus, the Father-Son movement within the SDA Church is, in my view, a work of Satan. And it is all because the doctrines of Ellen Gould White are integrated with the biblical truth that Jesus Christ is the Son of God and not God-the-Son and part of a Trinitarian god.

As for me, I give God the glory because, when I saw the name number addition of Ellen Gould White, I loved the truth too much to tell myself that it did not matter. This was what led me to engage in one of the most consequential research efforts of my entire life. My research on Ellen Gould White was done with alacrity, diligence, solemnity, and trepidation. But, at last, I couldn’t be innocent anymore without withdrawing my recognition of her as a true prophetess. And that was what I did.

I stand in awe and admiration at Adventists who see Ellen Gould White’s 666 name number and say out loud that it does not mean anything.

Ok.

We shall soon find out.

May God have mercy on all of us.

“The mystery of the Trinity is the central doctrine of Catholic faith. Upon it are based all the other teachings [traditions] of the Church.” (Handbook for Today’s Catholic, Liguori Publications, 1978).