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TO RECALL THE LAUGHING EYES THE READY WIT THE OPENHEARTED NESS THAT HAD ALWAYS MARKED THIS COUPLE "ACK THEN ) HAD BEEN THEIR PASTOR SOMETIMES WONDERING IF THERE WOULD BE LASTING RESULTS FROM THE CHALLENGING ROUND OF "IBLE STUDIES

PREACHING AND PASTORAL VISITS THAT lLLED MY DAYS h(E BAPTIZED US AND THEN HE PERFORMED OUR WEDDING A FEW MONTHS LATER v THEY BEAMED TO STRANGERS STANDING NEARBY h(E WAS OUR lRST PASTOR v 4HEY HANDED ME A MIDSIZED ENVELOPE

WITH INSTRUCTIONS TO OPEN IT LATER ,ATER THEY ALSO FOUND ME IN THE CAFETERIA AND INTRODUCED ME TO THEIR YEAR OLD DAUGHTER A LOVELY YOUNG WOMAN OF WHOM THEY ARE UNDERSTANDABLY PROUD "ACK IN MY HOTEL ROOM ) STARED AT THE PICTURES OF THEIR YEAR OLD SON JUST GRADUATED FROM HIGH SCHOOL PLANNING ON ATTENDING AN !DVENTIST COLLEGE THIS 3EPTEMBER 4HE BOY WHO SMILED BACK AT ME FROM THE PHOTOGRAPH SHARED THE SAME LAUGHING EYES THE SAME EASY SMILE ! NEWS CLIPPING THAT FELL OUT FROM AMONG THE PICTURES ALERTED ME THAT IT

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INITIATIVE ORGANIZERS SAID 2ATSARA SAID A CHURCH LEADER IN HIS REGION UPON BOARDING A mIGHT WAS INITIALLY TOLD BY AN AIRLINE REPRESENTATIVE THAT THE POUND "IBLE AND ITS ACCOMPANYING BAG WAS TOO HEAVY FOR CARRY ON LUGGAGE h7E WOULD RATHER CHECK IN OUR COM PUTERS THAN THIS "IBLE v 2ATSARA SAID 4HE "IBLE HAD A hHUGE IMPACTv IN HIS REGION 2ATSARA SAID !T A STADIUM EVENT IN :AMBIA RECENTLY PEOPLE LINED UP FOR NEARLY TWO HOURS TO SEE AND HOLD THE "IBLE )N ,ESOTHO THE KING WAS SO IMPRESSED THAT HE VOWED HE WOULD READ THE "IBLE MORE AS DID A GOVERNOR IN !NGOLA

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AND #ONTEMPORARY #ULTURES WITH A #HRISTIAN AND SPECIlCALLY !DVENTIST AUDIENCE IN MIND (OWEVER THE SERIES IS RELEVANT ACROSS CULTURES AND RELIGIONS PRODUCERS SAID h4HE SERIES AIMS TO HELP EQUIP #HRISTIANS TO BETTER COMMUNICATE AND BUILD BRIDGES WITH FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS OF OTHER FAITHS v SAID 'ARY +RAUSE !DVENTIST -ISSION DIRECTOR 'ANOUNE $IOP DIRECTOR OF THE CHURCH S !DVENTIST -ISSION 3TUDY #ENTERS HOSTS THE SERIES &OR EACH FAITH GROUP TOPICS INCLUDE HISTORY SPHERE OF INmUENCE VALUES AND BELIEFS AS WELL AS AREAS OF COMMONALITY ANCHORED IN BIBLICAL PRINCIPLES 4HE SERIES WAS lLMED BY !DVENTIST -ISSION VIDEO PRODUCER $AN 7EBER ON LOCATION IN COUNTRIES RANGING FROM %GYPT TO 4HAILAND h)F YOU REALLY UNDERSTAND A RELI !DVENTIST -ISSION $6$ 3ERIES GION THEN YOU KNOW WHERE A PERSON !IMS TO "UILD &RIENDSHIPS IS COMING FROM AND WHAT THEY RE N 3EVENTH DAY !DVENTIST #HURCH LEADERS ANTICIPATE A SET OF $6$S DELVING SEARCHING FOR v 7EBER SAID h/NCE YOU KNOW THAT YOU CAN IDENTIFY COMMON INTO THE HISTORY AND IMPACT OF WORLD DENOMINATORS YOU MIGHT SHARE TO HELP RELIGIONS AND CONTEMPORARY CULTURES YOU RELATE TO THEM BETTER v WILL BUILD TRUST AND UNDERSTANDING 7HILE HE NOTED THAT OUTREACH IS THE BETWEEN FAITH COMMUNITIES CHURCH S hULTIMATEv GOAL 7EBER SAID 4HE FOUR DISC SET OUTLINES THE RATHER THAN EVANGELISM THE FOCUS OF TENETS OF THE WORLD S MAJOR RELIGIONS THE SERIES IS ON ENCOURAGING INTERFAITH AND THOUGHT GROUPS "UDDHISM (IN RELATIONSHIPS DElNED BY MUTUAL DUISM )SLAM *UDAISM #HRISTIANITY

RESPECT THAT SURMOUNTS JUDGMENTAL OR AND POSTMODERNISM COMBATIVE TENDENCIES 4HE CHURCH S /FlCE OF !DVENTIST 4HE $6$ SERIES IS AVAILABLE VIA -ISSION PRODUCED THE $6$ SET ONLINE ORDERING FOR 53 AT 5NDERSTANDING 7ORLD 2ELIGIONS h) M ALSO IMPRESSED BY THE IMPACT THIS HAD ON YOUNG PEOPLE v 2ATSARA SAID 9OUTH HAVE LED PARADES IN HIS REGION WHILE IN "OTSWANA A YEAR OLD CHURCH MEMBER MADE A NEAR PERFECT ATTEMPT TO MEMORIZE THE .EW 4ESTAMENT !T THE AIRPORT THE .ORTH !MERICAN DELEGATION MET 2ATSARA AT HIS A M mIGHT ARRIVAL FROM *OHANNESBURG

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)NDONESIA 0UBLISHING (OUSE #ELEBRATES #ENTENNIAL N 4O WITHSTAND THE CHALLENGES OF THE PUBLISHING MINISTRY FOR YEARS IN THE LARGEST -USLIM COUNTRY OF THE WORLD IS AN ACCOMPLISHMENT 3EVENTH DAY !DVENTISTS WORLDWIDE CAN APPRECIATE /N -AY

THE )NDONESIA 0UBLISHING (OUSE )0( PASSED THE CENTURY MARK AND DURING THIS TIME COMMITTED ITSELF TO hKEEPING THE VISION ALIVE v 7HILE THE PRESENT PUBLISHING FACILITY WAS ESTABLISHED ONLY IN THE PUBLISHING WORK BEGAN IN WITH THE ARRIVAL OF !DVENTIST MISSIONARY 2ALPH 7ALDO -UNSON IN 3UKABUMI )NDONE SIA ! YOUNG MAN NAMED )MMANUEL 3IREGAR WOULD LATER ASSIST HIM 3EVERAL MILESTONES ACHIEVED BY THE )0( WERE RECALLED IN A VIDEO PRESENTA TION THAT PARTICULARLY HIGHLIGHTED THE HISTORY OF THE PUBLISHING WORK WHEN IT lRST PUBLISHED IN THE -ALAYAN 4RUTH -ESSENGER 5TUSAN +EBENARAN -ELAYU BY THE *AVA -ISSION 0RESS

)0( S PREDECESSOR &IVE YEARS LATER THE PRESS WAS RELO CATED FROM 3UKABUMI TO "ATAVIA NOW *AKARTA THEN TO 3INGAPORE UNTIL IT WAS MOVED BACK TO "ANDUNG IN )NDONESIA IN WHERE THE )0( NOW OPERATES &ROM THE START OF !DVENTIST WORK IN )NDONESIA LITERATURE PLAYED A VITAL PART IN EXPANDING THE CHURCH S MINISTRIES OF WINNING PEOPLE TO 'OD S KINGDOM 2ISING FROM THE USE OF HAND PRESS MACHINES TO MORE MODERN PRINTING EQUIPMENT )0( MANAGED ITS RESOURCES WELL 4ODAY )0( CONTINUES TO SUPPLY THE CHURCH S NEED FOR LITERATURE FOR ITS MEMBERS AND FOR THE PUBLIC /NE HIGHLIGHT OF THE CELEBRATION WAS THE LAUNCHING OF THE BOOK +ETIKA 3ANG 0ENCIPTA "ERKATA )NGATLAH 7HEN 'OD 3AID 2EMEMBER WRITTEN BY -ARK

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&INLEY )TS lRST COPIES ARE NOW READY FOR DISTRIBUTION BY CHURCH MEMBERS TO THEIR COMMUNITY !T THIS LAUNCHING 6EN "ERMUDEZ PUBLISHING DIRECTOR FOR THE CHURCH IN THE 3OUTHERN !SIA 0ACIlC REGION 33$ LED A SPECIAL PRAYER FOR THIS PUBLICATION ˆ2EPORTED BY "RUCE 3UMENDAP

3OUTHERN !SIA 0ACIlC $IVISION !DVENTISTS "APTIZE IN .ETHERLANDS IN 3INGLE $AY N 3ABBATH *UNE WAS A HISTORIC DAY FOR THE 3EVENTH DAY !DVENTIST #HURCH IN THE .ETHERLANDS WHEN PEOPLE ACCEPTED *ESUS #HRIST AS THEIR PERSONAL 3AVIOR AND WERE BAPTIZED 4HERE ARE NOW MEMBERS OF THE CHURCH IN THAT NATION 4HIS YEAR S THEME AT THE !NTILLEAN %XPLOSION FORMERLY KNOWN AS THE !NTILLEAN 2ALLY WAS h5NITED 5NTIL (E #OMES v AND WAS CONDUCTED BY #HERREL &RANCISCA STAFF COORDINATOR FOR THE !NTILLEAN CHURCH PLANTS IN THE .ETHERLANDS 5NION #ONFERENCE .5# 4HE AIM OF THIS EVENT WAS TO EMPHASIZE UNITY AND TOGETHERNESS )N PREPARATION FOR THE !NTIL LEAN %XPLOSION FOUR EVANGELISTIC CAMPAIGNS WERE HELD SIMULTANEOUSLY

IN !MSTERDAM 2OTTERDAM $ELFT AND 4ILBURG 4HE AIM WAS TO FOCUS ON *ESUS AS 3AVIOR AND TO PROMOTE COOPERATION AND UNITY AMONG BELIEVERS !FTER TWO WEEKS OF CAMPAIGNS THE !NTILLEAN COM MUNITIES WERE INVITED TO COME TOGETHER TO ATTEND A SPECIAL FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM !N INVIGORATING PROGRAM lLLED THE DAY INCLUDING PRAISE AND WORSHIP TIME INTERVIEWS WITH THE LAY PREACH ERS VIDEO CLIPS ON UNITY AN INTERVIEW WITH THE EVANGELIST GROUP INTERACTION

AND A PRESENTATION OF THE VISION ON RESPECT AND UNITY BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE .5# 7IM !LTINK ,ATER THAT DAY PERSONS WERE ADDED TO THE !DVENTIST #HURCH BY BAPTISM h4OGETHER WITH MEMBERS LAY EVAN GELISTS AND MINISTERS WE CAN DO MUCH FOR #HRIST IN AN INSPIRED ;MIND SET= OF COOPERATION WITHIN THE DIVERSITY 'OD HAS GIVEN TO (IS CHURCH 7E PRAISE 'OD FOR (IS LEADERSHIP v CONCLUDED &RANCISCA 4HROUGH THIS SPECIAL SERVICE AND THE RECENT BAPTISMAL SERVICES IN THE 'HANA IAN CHURCHES IN !MSTERDAM !LMERE

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ITY OFlCIALS IN "AEZA !NDALU SIA 3PAIN HAVE HONORED THE MEMORY OF THE COUNTRY S lRST !DVENTIST MISSIONARY ONE OF SEVERAL EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY RELIGIOUS FREEDOM AND DEMOCRACY MARTYRS WHOSE GRAVES WERE LATER DESECRATED )N 7ALTER 'UY "OND A MISSIONARY FROM THE 5NITED 3TATES

DIED AT AGE REPORTEDLY POISONED FOR PREACHING !DVENTIST TEACHINGS "OND S NAME WAS ADDED TO "AEZA S 7ALL OF (ONOR IN LATE -AY

DURING A CEREMONY THAT INCLUDED THE MAYOR CITY OFlCIALS AND !DVENTIST #HURCH LEADERS h-ANY FREEDOM OF CONSCIENCE PROPONENTS DURING THIS TIME

CONSIDERED ENEMIES OF THE STATE WERE SIMILARLY DEALT WITH v SAID 0EDRO 4ORRES -ARTINEZ COMMUNICATION DIRECTOR FOR THE !DVENTIST #HURCH IN 3PAIN 3OMETIME BETWEEN AND

"OND S GRAVE WAS DESECRATED AND HIS BONES WERE TAKEN h$URING THIS PERIOD OF 3PANISH HISTORY MANY GRAVES OF THE @ENEMIES OF THE STATE ˆINCLUDING DEMOCRACY ADVOCATES OR THOSE NOT OF THE #ATHOLIC FAITHˆWERE SIMILARLY DESECRATED THE IDEA BEING THAT THEIR MEMORIES WOULD BE FOREVER ERASED v -ARTINEZ SAID 7ALTER "OND WAS BORN IN

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IN "AEZA

WHERE "OND DIED YEARS EARLIER ,EFT &!-),9 2%-%-"%23 *ES¢S #ALVO PRESIDENT OF THE 3EVENTH DAY !DVENTIST #HURCH IN 3PAIN PRESENTS A LETTER FROM 7ALTER "OND S DESCEN DANTS TO "AEZA MAYOR ,EOCADIO -AR¤N

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*AMES AND 3ARA RAISED CHILDREN AND AN ADOPTED GIRL 4HEY BECAME 3EVENTH DAY !DVENTISTS WHILE 7ALTER WAS A CHILD !FTER JOINING THE CHURCH

7ALTER S FATHER QUIT FARMING AND BECAME A PHYSICIAN LATER ESTABLISHING A CLINIC IN #ALIFORNIA 7ALTER GRADUATED IN THEOLOGY AT (EALDSBURG NOW 0ACIlC 5NION #OLLEGE IN )N THE SUMMER OF 7ALTER AND HIS BROTHER &RANK

ATTENDED A CAMP MEETING IN &RESNO

#ALIFORNIA WHERE ! ' $ANIELLS CHALLENGED YOUNG PEOPLE TO ENGAGE IN MISSIONARY SERVICE 7ALTER AND &RANK WERE AMONG THE YOUNG PEOPLE WHO RESPONDED TO THE CALL 7ALTER MARRIED ,EOLA 'EROW ON .OVEMBER

3HORTLY THEREAFTER 7ALTER ,EOLA AND &RANK SAILED FOR 3PAIN TO WORK AS MIS SIONARIES 4HEY ARRIVED IN "ARCELONA ON *UNE

)N *UNE THEY BAPTIZED THE lRST THREE LOCAL CONVERTS -ANY OTHERS FOLLOWED UNTIL THEY CREATED THE lRST !DVENTIST CHURCH IN 3PAIN )N 7ALTER BECAME THE LEADER OF THE 3PANISH -ISSION /NE OF THE lRST LOCAL MEMBERS ,OPE 3AN .ICOLAS

ALSO BECAME A SUCCESSFUL MISSIONARY ,OPE RAISED CONSIDERABLE INTEREST FOR THE GOSPEL IN THE LITTLE CITY OF "AEZA LOCATED ABOUT MILES KILOMETERS SOUTHWEST OF "ARCELONA ,OPE INVITED 7ALTER TO PRESENT A SERIES OF "IBLE LECTURES THERE /N /CTOBER

7ALTER ARRIVED IN "AEZA /N .OVEMBER A TELEGRAPH MESSAGE WAS SENT TO 7ALTER S BROTHER

&RANK STATING THAT 7ALTER WAS ABOUT TO DIE &RANK AND ,EOLA RUSHED TO HIS SIDE 7ALTER DIED ON .OVEMBER AT AGE (E LEFT HIS PREGNANT WIFE AND THEIR THREE CHILDREN 4HE DOCTOR LATER TOLD ,EOLA

THAT 7ALTER HAD BEEN POISONED 7HILE DYING 7ALTER SAID h) FORGIVE MY MURDERERS v (E WAS BURIED IN THE CEMETERY OF "AEZA 4WO MONTHS LATER

HIS PREGNANT WIDOW AND THE COUPLE S THREE CHILDREN RETURNED TO THE 5NITED 3TATES 7ALTER S TOMB WAS DESECRATED SOMETIME BETWEEN AND AND HIS BONES DISAPPEARED "AEZA S MAYOR $ ,EOCADIO -AR¤N -RS -AR¤N AND A CITY OFlCER PRESIDED OVER THE -AY CEREMONY 4HE !DVENTIST #HURCH WAS REPRESENTED BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE 3PANISH 5NION

*ES¢S #ALVO THE DIRECTOR OF THE HISTORI CAL ARCHIVES OF THE 3PANISH 5NION AND EVENT ORGANIZER !NDR£S 4EJEL AND OTHER PASTORS AND NUMEROUS CHURCH MEMBERS 4HE REPRESENTATIVE OF THE !DVENTIST #HURCH IN THE %URO !FRICA $IVISION 2OBERTO "ADENAS UNVEILED A COMMEMORATIVE PLAQUE )N THE PAST FEW YEARS "AEZA CITY AUTHORITIES HAVE RESTORED THE MONU MENTS IN MEMORY OF THOSE WHO ONCE STOOD AGAINST THE TOTALITARIAN REGIME OR WHO WERE CONSIDERED TO BE A hDISGRACEv TO 3PAIN 4O CONCLUDE THE CEREMONY THE PRESIDENT OF THE !DVENTIST #HURCH IN 3PAIN READ A LETTER FROM THE DESCEN DANTS OF 7ALTER "OND NOW LIVING IN THE 5NITED 3TATES AND THE ASSEMBLY SANG HIS FAVORITE HYMN h3HALL 7E 'ATHER AT THE 2IVER v ,OCAL MEDIA GAVE PROMINENT COVERAGE TO THE EVENT 4HE PIONEERING WORK OF 7ALTER "OND WHICH COST HIM HIS LIFE WAS NOT WITHOUT ULTIMATE SUCCESS 4ODAY THERE ARE MORE THAN 3EVENTH DAY !DVENTIST #HURCH MEMBERS IN 3PAIN

AND MANY OFlCIALS REGARD THE MOVE MENT WITH FAVOR ˆ7ITH REPORTING BY 0EDRO 4ORRES -ARTINEZ !UGUST \ !DVENTIST 7ORLD

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4HE FOLLOWING ARTICLE IS EXCERPTED FROM A SERMON PREACHED BY *AMES 7HITE ON -ARCH

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DURING HIS SECOND PERIOD AS PRESIDENT OF THE 3EVENTH DAY !DVENTIST #HURCH 7ITH HIS WIFE %LLEN AND *OSEPH "ATES 7HITE IS CONSIDERED ONE OF THE CO FOUNDERS OF THE CHURCH AND FOUNDED BOTH THE !DVENTIST 2EVIEW AND THE YOUNG CHURCH S PUBLISHING MINISTRY 4HE TYPICAL HALLMARKS OF AN ORAL PRESENTATION HAVE BEEN PRESERVED IN THIS ARTICLE ˆ4HE %DITORS

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h ET US THEREFORE COME BOLDLY TO THE THRONE OF GRACE THAT WE MAY OBTAIN MERCY AND lND GRACE TO HELP IN TIME OF NEEDv (EB

)T IS OUR PRIVILEGE TO COME TO A THRONE OF GRACE )T IS A THRONE OF MERCY AND OF GRACE THAT SINNERS MAY APPROACHˆTO lND JUSTICE .O TO lND GRACE TO lND PARDON TO lND MERCY $O WE GO THERE TO OBTAIN OUR PAY FOR WHAT WE HAVE DONE .O INDEED !FTER WE HAVE DONE ALL THAT WE CAN DO WE ARE BUT UNPROlTABLE SERVANTS 7E ARE INVITED TO COME WHERE WE MAY lND GRACE NOT PAY )T IS OUR PRIVILEGE TO lND MERCY AND GRACE $O .OT "E !FRAID

(OW DOES THIS CHAPTER OPEN h4HEREFORE SINCE A PROMISE REMAINS OF ENTERING (IS REST LET US FEAR LEST ANY OF YOU SEEM TO HAVE COME SHORT OF ITv (EB .OW FEAR IS AN ELEMENT OF OUR NATURE 7E ARE EXHORTED TO HAVE FEAR &EAR OF WHAT 7E SHOULD NOT FEAR THAT THE ,ORD WILL NOT HEAR US WHEN WE PRAY .O WE SHOULD NOT FOR WE ARE INVITED TO APPROACH THE THRONE OF GRACE EVEN WITH BOLDNESS (IS EAR IS ALWAYS OPEN 7E NEED NOT FEAR ON THE GROUND THAT THERE IS ANY LACK OF LOVE IN (EAVEN FOR SINNERS !FTER BESTOWING THE GREATEST GIFT THAT (EAVEN COULD GIVE WILL (E WITHHOLD THE LESSER ONES .O )N THE GIFT OF THE 3ON OF 'OD WE HAVE A PLEDGE OF THE UNBOUNDED LOVE OF 'OD TOWARD SINNERS 4HERE IS NO LACK OF LOVE ON THE PART OF OUR GRACIOUS 'OD THEREFORE THERE IS NO GROUND OF FEAR IN THAT RESPECT "UT YET IT IS RIGHT TO FEAR )T IS RIGHT TO WATCH OURSELVES WITH VERY JEALOUS CARE AND WITH GREAT FEAR LEST WE OFFEND WITH OUR TONGUE /H THAT UNRULY MEMBER &EARLESS

CARELESS TALK 4HAT TERRIBLE SIN AMONG MEN )T IS LIKE A DESOLATING HAIL OR AN UNCONTROLLABLE lRE 7E SHOULD FEAR LEST OUR WORDS SHALL BE WRONG LEST WE HAVE A BAD INmUENCE OVER OTHERS LEST OUR WORDS SHALL HAVE A BAD INmUENCE OVER OURSELVES /H HOW MUCH GOSSIP AND CLACK AND GABBLE AND 4HE COMPLETE SERMON OF *AMES 7HITE ONE OF THE EARLY PIONEERS OF 3EVENTH DAY !DVENTISM CAN BE FOUND IN 4HE !DVENT 2EVIEW AND (ERALD OF THE 3ABBATH !UGUST

!DVENTIST 7ORLD \ !UGUST

TALK THERE IS IN THE WORLD ABOUT LITTLE OR NOTHING 7E MAY FEAR DEAR BRETHREN AND FRIENDS LEST OUR LOVE OF THE WORLD SHALL OVERCOME US 7E MAY FEAR THAT WE ARE NOT KEEPING THE BODY UNDER NOT CONTROLLING THE TONGUE AND KEEPING THE PASSIONS IN SUBJECTION AS WE SHOULD 7E MAY FEAR IN REGARD TO OURSELVES 7E MAY FEAR OUR INABILITY TO STAND BUT NEVER NEVER FEAR IN REGARD TO THE ABILITY OF THE ,ORD TO SAVE US !ND WHILE WE MAY CAST OURSELVES AS IT WERE INTO THE DUST

AND OUR CRY MAY BE 5NWORTHY AT THE SAME TIME WE MAY SING h7ORTHY WORTHY IS THE ,AMB v 7HILE OUR CONlDENCE IN OURSELVES IS GROWING WEAKER AND WE ARE SEEING THAT WE ARE DEPENDENT UPON 'OD FOR EVERYTHING OUR CONlDENCE IN THE ,ORD MAY GROW STRONGER AND STRONGER EVERY DAY 7E (AVE A -EDIATOR

) AM STRUCK WITH THE WISDOM THAT ) FIND IN THE "LESSED "OOK OF 'OD ESPECIALLY IN THIS CHAPTER THAT ) HAVE READ TO YOU &OLLOW ME WATCH ME CLOSELY AND SEE IF YOU CAN SEE THAT BEAUTY IN IT THAT ) SEE 4HE CHAPTER OPENS WITH THIS EXHORTATION &EAR AND TREMBLE AND WATCH YOURSELVES "UT THEN THE APOSTLE STATES IN THIS VERY CHAPTER h3EEING THEN THAT WE HAVE A GREAT (IGH 0RIEST WHO HAS PASSED THROUGH THE HEAVENS *ESUS THE 3ON OF 'OD LET US HOLD FAST OUR CONFESSIONv (EB (UNDREDS AND THOUSANDS OF #HRISTIANS HAVE SUFFERED THE DEVIL TO THROW THIS FEAR AND TREMBLING OVER THEM TO PERVERT THIS WHOLESOME QUALITY OF PROPER FEAR WHICH ALL

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SHOULD HAVE AND TO DRIVE THEM TO DOUBT AND DESPAIR ,ISTEN TO THE APOSTLE $O NOT LET THE DEVIL DRIVE YOU TO DESPAIR 7E HAVE A GREAT (IGH 0RIEST WHO CAN BE TOUCHED WITH THE FEELING OF OUR INlRMITIES (E WAS IN ALL POINTS TEMPTED LIKE AS WE ARE AND YET WITHOUT SIN (E IS WILLING AND MIGHTY TO SAVE 4REMBLING DESPONDING ONES ,OOK UP $O YOU SAY THAT YOU ARE ALL UNWORTHINESS ) RESPOND !MEN 9OU ARE 9OU MAY JUST AS WELL SET THAT DOWN FOR A FACT "UT *ESUS IS WORTHY (E IS ABLE (E IS WILLING AND READY TO SAVE 4HEN LOOK UP LOOK UP (E IS YOUR MEDIATOR (E IS YOUR INTERCESSOR WITH THE &ATHER (E HAS BEEN TOUCHED WITH THE FEELING OF ALL YOUR INlRMITIES AND WOES AND SORROWS AND WEAKNESSES AND (E KNOWS JUST HOW TO HELP YOU #OME "OLDLY

4HE CONCLUSION FROM ALL THIS IS FOUND IN THE WORDS OF THE TEXT h,ET US THEREFORE COME BOLDLY TO THE THRONE OF GRACEv (EB 9OU NEED NOT COME FEARING OR TREM BLING )N THE NAME OF *ESUS YOU MAY COME BOLDLY 4HOSE WHOM (E FORGIVES MOST (E LOVES MOST 4HOSE THAT HAVE BEEN THE GREATEST SINNERS AND COME ALONG WITH REPENTANCE

WILL lND PARDON PROPORTIONATE TO THEIR SINS 4HE BLESSINGS WILL BE PROPORTIONATE TO THE WRONGS COMMITTED !RE YOU A GREAT SINNER 4HEN A GREAT REPENTANCE IS CALLED FOR THEN A GREAT PARDON AND A GREAT BLESSING WILL BE BESTOWED ,ET US COME BOLDLY TO A THRONE OF GRACE 7E MUST NOT CARELESSLY COME NOT POMPOUSLY NOT PRESUMPTUOUSLY

"Y *AMES 7HITE

h,ET US THEREFORE COME BOLDLY TO THE THRONE OF GRACE v ! THRONE SUPPOSES A KINGDOM )F THERE IS A THRONE OF GRACE

THERE IS A KINGDOM OF GRACE ) LAMENT THAT !DVENTISTS HAVE LABORED SO HARD SO TENACIOUSLY TO MAINTAIN THE IDEA THAT THE 3CRIPTURES SPEAKING OF THE KINGDOM OF 'OD AND KINGDOM OF HEAVEN ALWAYS IN SOME WAY OR OTHER OR IN SOME SENSE OR OTHER REFER TO THE FUTURE KINGDOM OF 'OD ) CERTAINLY AM LOOKING FOR A FUTURE EVERLASTING KINGDOM OF 'OD ) NOW REPEAT THAT WHICH ) HAVE SPOKEN HERE BEFORE ;(OWEVER=

THERE ARE TWO ARRANGEMENTS IN REFERENCE TO THE PEOPLE OF 'OD TO WHICH THE EXPRESSIONS KINGDOM OF 'OD AND KINGDOM OF HEAVEN ARE APPLIED 3OMETIMES IT REFERS TO ONE OF THESE ARRANGEMENTS SOMETIMES TO THE OTHER 4HESE TWO RELATIONS OF 'OD AND #HRIST TO (IS PEOPLE ) SHALL CALL RESPEC TIVELY THE KINGDOM OF GRACE AND THE KINGDOM OF GLORY 4HE KINGDOM OF GRACE EXISTS NOW 4HE KINGDOM OF GLORY IS FUTURE 4HIS THEME IS GLORIOUS BUT ) WILL NOT INTRODUCE MORE TESTIMONY NOW ,ET ME EXHORT YOU TO SEEK FOR THAT FULLNESS

THAT RICHNESS OF EXPERIENCE WHICH IS REPRESENTED BY 0AUL TO THE #OLOSSIANS WHEN HE SPEAKS OF OUR BEING hlLLED WITH THE KNOWLEDGE OF (IS WILL IN ALL WISDOM AND SPIRITUAL UNDERSTANDING THAT YOU MAY WALK WORTHY OF THE ,ORD FULLY PLEASING (IM BEING FRUITFUL IN EVERY GOOD WORK AND INCREAS ING IN THE KNOWLEDGE OF 'ODv #OL !MEN

!LL 3CRIPTURE QUOTATIONS IN THIS ARTICLE HAVE BEEN UPDATED TO REmECT CURRENT LANGUAGE USE AND HAVE BEEN TAKEN FROM THE .EW +ING *AMES 6ERSION

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DEVELOPED INTO TWO OF THE WORLD S SUPERPOWERS )N THESE TWO COUNTRIES DIVIDED 0OLAND BETWEEN THEMSELVES AND REMOVED IT FROM THE WORLD MAP &OLLOWING 7ORLD 7AR ) 0OLAND REGAINED ITS INDEPENDENCE AS A SOVEREIGN NATION AND BECAME THE NINTH LARGEST COUNTRY IN %UROPE .AZI 'ERMANY AND THE 3OVIET 5NION BOTH INVADED 0OLAND DURING 7ORLD 7AR )) 3OME MILLION 0OLESˆHALF OF WHOM WERE *EWISHˆDIED DURING THE WAR !T THE CLOSE OF THE WAR A #OMMUNIST GOVERNMENT WAS INSTALLED IN 0OLAND BEHIND THE 3OVIET IRON CURTAIN )N FREE ELECTIONS USHERED IN A NEW GOVERNMENT WHICH BEGAN THE FALL OF #OMMUNISM IN %UROPE -ORE THAN HALF OF 0OLAND IS AGRICULTURAL OR WOODLANDS "ECAUSE SO MUCH OF THE COUNTRY IS UNDEVELOPED 0OLAND IS A HAVEN FOR MANY ANIMALS AND PLANTS THAT LONG AGO DISAP PEARED FROM THE REST OF %UROPE 3OME OF THE ANIMALS FOUND HERE INCLUDE THE WISENT %UROPEAN BISON BROWN BEAR GRAY WOLF AND MOOSE 3OME PERCENT OF %UROPEAN MIGRATORY BIRDS BREED EACH SUMMER IN 0OLAND S WETLANDS

!DVENTISTS IN 0OLAND

#HRISTIANITY WAS ROOTED IN 0OLAND FROM ITS VERY BEGINNING 4HE lRST KING OF 0OLAND -IESZKO ) BECAME A #HRISTIAN AROUND ! $ AND FORMED 0OLAND AS A SOVEREIGN #HRISTIAN STATE 4HE 2OMAN #ATHOLIC #HURCH IS STILL A POWERFUL FORCE IN 0OLAND )N TWO !DVENTISTS * ,AUBHAN AND ( 3ZKUBOWICZ

MOVED FROM THE #RIMEA IN WESTERN 2USSIA TO EASTERN 0OLAND TO START AN !DVENTIST CONGREGATION 4HREE YEARS LATER THEY OPENED A CHURCH IN :ARN˜WKA 4HE !DVENTIST #HURCH STRUGGLED TO GAIN STATE RECOGNITION BUT CONTINUED TO GROW &OR A WHILE ALL CHURCH BUILDINGS HAD TO BE PRIVATELY HELD $URING 7ORLD 7AR )) 'ERMANY AND THE 3OVIET 5NION OUTLAWED THE !DVENTIST #HURCH !LL CHURCH PROPERTIES WERE TAKEN AWAY AND SOME MEMBERS WERE SENT TO 3IBERIA &OLLOWING THE WAR THE !DVENTIST #HURCH WAS REESTABLISHED AND STARTED TO GROW AGAIN 4HE FALL OF #OMMUNISM BROUGHT FULL RELIGIOUS FREEDOM FOR THE !DVENTIST #HURCH 7HILE THIS NEWFOUND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM IS GOOD THE NATION HAS GROWN QUITE SECULAR 4HE !DVENTIST #HURCH HAS BARELY GROWN IN TOTAL MEMBERSHIP OVER THE PAST YEARS 4O HELP THE LOCAL CHURCHES REACH OUT INTO THEIR COMMUNITIES THE !DVENTIST #HURCH DECIDED TO PROVIDE A PLACE OF SPIRITUAL GROWTH WHERE ITS MEMBERS CAN STRENGTHEN THEIR RELATIONSHIPS WITH 'OD AND INTRODUCE OTHERS TO (IM 4HE PLACE IS CALLED #AMP :ATONIE 4ODAY #AMP :ATONIE REACHES SEVERAL HUNDRED CHILDREN EACH YEAR "UT THE 0OLISH GOVERNMENT IS DEMANDING THAT THE CAMP S BUILDINGS BE BROUGHT UP TO MODERN STANDARDS )T S A MAJOR lNANCIAL HARDSHIP ON THE SOME !DVENTIST BELIEVERS IN 0OLAND 0ART OF THIS QUARTER S 4HIRTEENTH 3AB BATH /FFERING WILL HELP COMPLETE THE RENOVATIONS AND MAKE THE CAMP EVEN MORE USEFUL AS A WAY TO SHARE 'OD S LOVE 4O LEARN MORE ABOUT THE 3EVENTH DAY !DVENTIST #HURCH S WORLDWIDE MISSION WORK VISIT WWW !DVENTIST-ISSION ORG

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&ROM TIME TO TIME WE HEAR THAT SOY FOODS ARE UNSAFE 7HAT IS YOUR TAKE ON THIS OY FOODS ARE VARIED AND RANGE OFFERS PROTECTIVE ISOmAVONES AND OTHER FROM THE WHOLE COOKED BEAN SUCH PHYTOCHEMICALS TO DECREASE ONE S TO HIGHLY PROCESSED AND RElNED RISK OF CANCER &OR MEN THIS APPEARS PRODUCTS 3OY HAS BEEN POPULARIZED

TO BE THE CASE FOR PROSTATE CANCER WITH ESPECIALLY BY !DVENTISTS WHO lND IT A GLASS OF SOY MILK A DAY PROVIDING A A SUITABLE SOURCE OF PROTEIN !MINO MODICUM OF PROTECTION ACIDS THE BUILDING BLOCKS OF PROTEIN

4HE ANTI SOY LOBBY BRINGS ALL KINDS OCCUR IN MOST OF OUR FOODS AND THE OF ARGUMENTS TO SUPPORT THEIR CON ONLY PROBLEM A VEGETARIAN IS LIKELY TO DEMNATION OF SOY 3OME CITE SITUATIONS EXPERIENCE WITH PROTEIN IS IF ONE S DIET IN WHICH BIRDS FED AN ESSENTIALLY TOTAL IS NOT VARIED AND BALANCED SOY DIET DEVELOPED CROOKED BEAKS 6EGETABLE SOURCES OF PROTEIN OFTEN /THERS QUOTE STUDIES THAT SUGGEST LACK AN ESSENTIAL AMINO ACID OR TWO

AN INCREASE IN DEMENTIA FOR THOSE AND SOY BEANS ARE ONE PRODUCT THAT CONSUMING LARGE QUANTITIES OF SOY 4HE PROVIDES A MORE ROUNDED AMINO ACID IMPORTANT THING IS TO RECOGNIZE THAT PROlLE 4HE USE OF ANIMAL PRODUCTS THESE ARE INCONCLUSIVE STUDIES AND ARE PROVIDES A GOOD RANGE OF AMINO BEING GIVEN DISPROPORTIONATE WEIGHT ACIDS WITHIN THE SINGLE FOOD BUT SUCH

BY THOSE QUOTING THEM AN ADVANTAGE DOES NOT HOLD WHEN ! FEW MONTHS AGO THERE WAS A VERY COMPARED TO A MIXTURE OF FOODS &OR WELL CONDUCTED STUDY OF SUFlCIENT THE VEGETARIAN MIXING GRAINS WITH NUMBERS AND CONTROLS REPORTED IN LEGUMES AND NUTS PROVIDES A FULL 4HE *OURNAL OF THE !MERICAN -EDICAL SPECTRUM OF AMINO ACIDS THAT IS TOTALLY !SSOCIATION *!-! $ECEMBER

SATISFYING TO ALL KINDS OF PEOPLEˆATH VOL NO ON SOY FOOD INTAKE LETE GROWING ADOLESCENT OR EVEN THE AND BREAST CANCER SURVIVAL 4HIS STUDY

PREGNANT MOTHER TO BE 4HIS MEANS CONDUCTED ON WOMEN IN #HINA WAS THAT SOY PRODUCTS AS GOOD AS THEY ABLE TO SEPARATE SOY INTAKE INTO FOUR ARE DO NOT HAVE TO BE A PART OF THE QUARTILES AND CORRELATE IT WITH SURVIVAL VEGETARIAN DIET FOR IT TO BE SATISFACTORY FROM BREAST CANCER 4HERE WERE MORE )N ALL PROBABILITY HOWEVER THERE THAN FEMALE BREAST CANCER IS AN ADVANTAGE TO SOY THAT TRANSCENDS SURVIVORS FOLLOWED FOR SOME lVE YEARS AMINO ACID CONTENT 7HILE THERE IS 4HOSE IN THE HIGHEST QUARTILE OF SOY EVIDENCE FOR SEVERAL ADVANTAGES TO SOY INTAKE HAD SOME TO PERCENT LESS THIS EVIDENCE IS NOT OF THE MOST COM CANCER RECURRENCE 4HIS ADVANTAGE PELLING ORDER BECAUSE STUDIES ON FOOD WAS EXPERIENCED REGARDLESS OF TUMOR EFFECTS ARE VERY DIFlCULT TO PERFORM ESTROGEN RECEPTOR STATUS BUT DID NOT .EVERTHELESS IT S PROBABLE THAT SOY INCREASE WHERE THE INTAKE EXCEEDED

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GRAMS PER DAY OF SOY PROTEIN 4HIS SUGGESTS A BENElT TO SOY UP TO A LIMIT /NE OF THE DIFlCULTIES IN TRANS FERRING THIS ADVANTAGE TO THE 5NITED 3TATES MIGHT BE THAT THE #HINESE TEND TO CONSUME hWHOLEv SOY NOT THE TEXTURIZED PROTEIN MANY IN THE 5 3 UTILIZE #ERTAINLY WHOLE SOY PRODUCTS SUCH AS SOY MILK TOFU THE WHOLE BEAN

OR MISO A TRADITIONAL *APANESE SEA SONING APPEAR TO CONFER AN ADVANTAGE TO FEMALE BREAST CANCER SURVIVORS "ECAUSE THIS STUDY IS OF HIGH QUALITY

IT HAS SIGNIlCANT MEANING FOR BREAST CANCER SURVIVORS AND IS ENCOURAGING TO THOSE WHO UTILIZE SOYˆPARTICULARLY WHOLE SOYˆAS PART OF THEIR DIET 7HILE BENElT IN THIS ONE SITUATION DOES NOT NECESSARILY APPLY ACROSS THE WHOLE SPECTRUM OF POTENTIAL ADVANTAGES OR DISADVANTAGES IT IS SUP PORTIVE OF OUR RECOMMENDATIONS THAT MODERATE AMOUNTS OF SOY BE UTILIZED IN A BALANCED VEGETARIAN DIET

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S A SURGEON MY MISSION IS TO REPAIR BROKEN PEOPLE 9ET EVEN AFTER POURING THE MAJORITY OF MY LIFE INTO THE PRESSURE COOKER OF ACADEMIA AND THE INDENTURED SERVITUDE OF SURGICAL RESIDENCY THESE PURPORTEDLY TALENTED HANDS CAN ACTUALLY DO BUT LITTLE TO THAT END ) CANNOT HEAL THE SPIRIT ) CANNOT HEAL THE SOUL )N FACT

) AM INCAPABLE OF HEALING THE BODY 'RANTED ) CAN SKILLFULLY CUT

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7HAT ) LEARNED ABOUT SALVATION AS A SURGEON AND SEW 9ET FULL HEALING DEPENDS ON THE BODY ITSELF JOINING TOGETHER

INCORPORATING THE PROSTHETIC MATERIAL

OR RAISING AN IMMUNE RESPONSE AFTER THE GANGRENOUS APPENDIX BLOATED GALLBLADDER OR CANCEROUS MASS HAS BEEN EXTIRPATED !LL THESE REQUIRE THE ACTION OF WHAT ) WOULD CALL BIOLOGIC GRACE THE BODY S AMAZING 'OD GIVEN ABILITY TO REGENERATE AND OVERCOME

AN UNHAPPY SPIRIT UNGOVERNED EMO TIONS AND DEEP RELATIONSHIP FAILURES -OST CERTAINLY THIS APPLIES TO THE SOUL AND OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH 'OD 7E NEED A (EALER AND THE FARTHER WE WANDER THE MORE BROKEN WE BECOME )N AN EFFORT TO REGAIN THAT LOST DISTANCE TO REDISCOVER AND EXPERIENCE ANEW THE REALITY AND BLESSING OF OUR HOPE OF SALVATION IN *ESUS #HRIST ) HAVE TURNED AGAIN TO THE TREASURE .ONE 2IGHTEOUS .O .OT /NE OF (IS 7ORD AND THE LIGHT GIVEN TO 4HE QUIP hPHYSICIAN HEAL THYSELF v !DVENTISTS AS A PEOPLE )N THIS SEARCH ) SEE ,UKE EXPOSES A FUNDAMENTAL HAVE BEEN STRUCK BY THE SURGICAL NATURE FAULT APPARENT TO ALL INTROSPECTIVE OF THE (OLY 3PIRIT S WORK h4HE SANC PHYSICIANS 7E WORK FOR THE HEALING OF TIlCATION OF THE SOUL BY THE OPERATION OTHERS WHILE WE OURSELVES ARE BROKEN OF THE (OLY 3PIRIT IS THE IMPLANTING OF 4HAT BROKENNESS MAY BE IN OUR OWN #HRIST S NATURE IN HUMANITY v BODIES AS WE ARE NOTORIOUSLY POOR 4HESE ARE SURGICAL TERMS USED HERE STEWARDS OF OUR OWN BODY TEMPLES AND BY %LLEN 7HITE #ONTRARY TO POPULAR HAVE A LIFE EXPECTANCY THAT IS SHORTER USAGE SURGEONS DO NOT PERFORM THAN THAT OF THE AVERAGE PATIENT 4HIS SURGERIES THEY PERFORM OPERATIONS INNER BROKENNESS MAY BE REVEALED IN &OREIGN MATERIAL INCORPORATED INTO THE

!DVENTIST 7ORLD \ !UGUST

AND THE

"Y -ARVIN !TCHISON

BODY IS AN IMPLANTˆBE THAT IN THE FORM OF PROS THETIC MESH ALLOYS DONATED TISSUES ETC 4HIS QUOTE IS REMINISCENT OF THE MANY HERNIAS THAT ) TREAT IN MY PRACTICE AND LEADS ME TO COMPARE HERNIORRHAPHY HERNIA REPAIR WITH SALVATION (ERNIAS LIKE SIN ARE COMMON TO HUMANITY AND FOUND IN ALL AGES

GENDERS LOCALES AND PEOPLES OF THE WORLD 4HERE ARE MYRIAD SUBTYPES OF HERNIAS YET MOST OCCUR IN RATHER CUS TOMARY SITESˆIN AREAS OF CONGENITAL OR ACQUIRED WEAKNESS SUCH AS THE GROIN THE NAVEL AND SURGICAL SCARS $ESPITE THEIR DIFFERENCES ALL HERNIAS CARRY THE SAME POTENTIALLY FATAL RISK OF INCARCERATION AND SUBSEQUENT STRAN GULATION THE INVOLVED ORGAN BECOMING TRAPPED IN THE HERNIA AND THEN HAVING ITS BLOOD SUPPLY COMPROMISED

RESPECTIVELY ! . $ 2 % 9 + ) 3 % , % 6

"EING *USTIlED &REELY BY (IS 'RACE x

&OR PATIENTS PRESENTED WITH THIS LIFE THREATENING CONDITION TREATMENT INVOLVES TWO SEPARATE AND CRITICAL COMPONENTS REDUCTION AND REPAIR

COMPARABLE TO SALVATION S COMPONENTS OF JUSTIlCATION AND SANCTIlCATION 3URVIVAL OF THE HERNIATED ORGAN DEPENDS UPON ITS URGENT REDUCTION

BY PRESSING IT BACK INTO ITS PROPER ANATOMIC RESIDENCE (ERNIA REDUCTION IS AN ART SOMETHING LEARNED THROUGH YEARS OF STUDY AND PRACTICE /FTEN ) AM CALLED TO THE EMER GENCY DEPARTMENT TO EVALUATE PATIENTS WITH SUPPOSEDLY INCARCERATED HERNIAS

WHICH HAVE RESISTED THE MOST DETERMINED

DOES NOTHING TO ADDRESS THE UNDERLYING PROBLEMˆTHE PHYSICAL DEFECT THAT CAUSED THE APPARENT AFmICTION 7ERE THE HERNIA ONLY REDUCED IT WOULD AGAIN PROTRUDE AND RISK STRANGULATION 3O THE UNDERLYING CONDITION MUST BE TREATED (ERNIORRHAPHY TODAY TYPICALLY INVOLVES AN IMPLANT OF MESHˆA WOVEN

POROUS SHEET OF POLYPROPYLENE

POLYESTER COLLAGEN OR OTHER MATERIAL 4HIS MESH IS SUTURED IN PLACE YET THE TRUE STRENGTH OF THE REPAIR IS ACHIEVED OVER THE ENSUING WEEKS AS THE BODY INCORPORATES ITSELF INTO THE INTERSTICES OF THE MESH 3IMILARLY THE WORK OF THE (OLY 3PIRIT IS TO OPERATE IMPLANTING NOT MESH BUT THE NATURE OF #HRIST 4HIS IS NO INANIMATE PROSTHETIC IT IS IN

3PIRIT ATTEMPTS OF THE EMERGENCY PERSONNEL 7HY DO THEY CALL ME ) AM PAGED BECAUSE MY HANDS ARE MORE SKILLED IN THIS REGARD 4HEY HAVE BEEN THROUGH THE lRES OF SURGICAL RESIDENCY THEY HAVE CONQUERED A LEGION OF HERNIAS

REDUCING THEM AND PERFORMING THEIR DElNITIVE REPAIR )N LIKE MANNER WE ARE ALL DYING SPIRITUALLY AND ETERNALLY

UNLESS WE ARE TOUCHED BY A PAIR OF QUALIlED HANDS .OT MINE BUT *EWISH HANDS BEARING SCARS FROM PREVIOUS IMPALEMENT (E CAN SUCCOR (E CAN SAVE (E ALONE CAN JUSTIFY THE SOUL !ND 4HIS )S THE 7ILL OF 'OD

%VEN 9OUR 3ANCTIlCATION x

4HOUGH REDUCTION OF THE HERNIA RESOLVES THE IMMEDI ATELY LIFE THREATENING CON CERN BY RESTORING CORRECT ANATOMIC ARRANGEMENT AND BLOOD mOW IT

CUT IS A CHANCE TO CURE v ) CANNOT HEAL MYSELF NO MATTER WHAT EXERCISES OR MANEUVERS ) PERFORM -Y GREATEST EFFORTS ARE AT BEST BUT A HERNIA TRUSS A MECHANICAL BRACE THAT MERELY PRESSES ON THE HERNIA SITE TO MINIMIZE DISCOMFORT AND MAKE THE BULGE LESS NOTICEABLE ) NEED THE 'REAT 3URGEON WHO ALONE CAN HEAL ME 4HERE BUT FOR THE 'RACE OF #HRIST 'O )

7HILE ALL ANALOGIES FAIL EVENTUALLY

LET US IN CLOSING EXTEND THIS ONE STEP FURTHER LOOKING BEYOND OUR OWN NAVELS TO CONSIDER 'OD S LOST CHILDREN 2ATHER THAN SITTING IN JUDGMENT AND CONDEM NATION AS THE SUPPOSEDLY RIGHTEOUS ARE

7E ARE ALL DYING SPIRITUALLY AND ETERNALLY UNLESS WE ARE TOUCHED BY A PAIR OF QUALIlED HANDS

REALITY A LIVING GRAFT ,IKE SCION ON THE STOCK h!BIDE IN -E AND ) IN YOU v *ESUS SAID *OHN 7HEN *ESUS NATURE IS IMPLANTED INTO ME WHEN THROUGH THE DAILY AND AT TIMES PAINFUL PROCESS ) GROW INTO (IM AND (E GROWS INTO ME

THEN ) AM PART OF (IM AND (E OF ME .OT BY 7ORKS ,EST !NY -AN 3HOULD "OAST x

0ERIODICALLY A PATIENT WILL ASK ME WHAT EXERCISES THEY CAN PERFORM TO lX THEIR HERNIA 4HEY BELIEVE THAT THE PROBLEM IS A MUSCLE WEAKNESS THAT THEY CAN REMEDY BY STRENGTH TRAINING )N FACT THE DElCIENCY IS NOT IN THE MUSCLE ITSELF BUT IN THE SHEETLIKE CONNECTIVE TISSUE TERMED FASCIA WHICH GIVES THE ABDOMINAL WALL ITS ACTUAL STRENGTH 3ADLY ONCE THIS IS TORN OR INCISED THE BODY IS GENERALLY UNABLE TO REPAIR ITSELF WITHOUT THE INTERVENTION OF A SURGEON FOR WHOM hA CHANCE TO

PRONE LET US APPROACH SINNERS AS WE WOULD OUR LOVED ONES WITH HERNIAS h7E MUST SET OURSELVES AGAINST SIN AS WE DO AGAINST SICKNESS AND DISEASES

BY SHOW ING OURSELVES TENDER AND COMPASSIONATE TO THE SICK AND DISEASED v 4HEN WE CAN BE EMISSARIES OF GRACE TO THE FALLEN NOT DRIVING THEM AWAY BUT DRAWING THEM TOWARD THE 'REAT 3URGEON

%LLEN ' 7HITE 3ELECTED -ESSAGES VOL P CF 4HE !DVENT 2EVIEW AND 3ABBATH (ERALD $EC

AND 4HE !DVENT 2EVIEW AND 3ABBATH (ERALD !PR

3URGERY IS WHAT A SURGEON PRACTICES !N OPERATION IS WHAT A SURGEON PERFORMS )N THIS CONTEXT THERE IS NO SUCH WORD AS SURGERIES )N 'REAT "RITAIN SURGERIES ARE TREATMENT ROOMS .EITHER AN OPERATION NOR A PATIENT IS A CASE BUT THAT S ANOTHER COMMENTARY vˆ# * !LLEN !RCHIVES OF 3URGERY

7ILLIAM ,AW IN h! 3ERIOUS #ALL TO A $EVOUT AND (OLY ,IFEv ,ONDON 0RINTED FOR 7),,)!- )..93 AT THE 7EST %ND OF 3T 0AUL S

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.OTHING FORETOLD HOW THE DAY WOULD END 4HE CARAVAN WITH THE h&OLLOW THE "IBLEv PROJECT HAD ARRIVED IN (AITI A FEW DAYS EARLIER AND WAS NOW BEING WATCHED WITH GREAT INTEREST BY THE STUDENTS OF 5NIVERSIT£ !DVENTISTE D (AÆTI 4HE PROGRAM HAD STARTED AT THAT AFTERNOON WITH HYMNS PRAYERS AND A SPIRITUAL MESSAGE #OPIES OF THE "IBLE HAD BEEN DISTRIBUTED TO SOME OF OUR NON !DVENTIST STUDENTS THEN AS UNIVERSITY CHAPLAIN ) CLOSED WITH A PRAYER OF DEDICATION 7ITH HEARTS OPEN TO THE MOVING OF THE 3PIRIT AND ON BENDED KNEES THE CONGREGA TION JOINED ME IN PRAYER (OW MUCH ) WOULD HAVE LIKED THIS PEACEFUL MOMENT TO LINGER "UT lVE MINUTES LATER OUR WORLD AS WE KNEW IT CAME TO AN END

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AS IF A BATTLE TANK HAD BROKEN INTO THE BUILDING ) HEARD A TERRIBLE CONmAGRATION ) DID NOT UNDERSTAND WHAT WAS GOING ON %VERYONE ELSE mED WHILE ) STOOD THERE RIVETED TO THE PLATFORM ) LOOKED UP AND SAW THE CEILINGˆSUPPORTED

BY STRONG STEEL BEAMSˆOPEN UP TO REVEAL A DEEP BLUE SKY 3TUNNED ) WATCHED AS IT CLOSED AGAIN MOVED AS IF BY A GENTLE HAND 4HE FOOT WALL BEHIND THE PLATFORM LOOKED AS IF IT WAS MADE OF CARDBOARD TREMBLING AS IF READY TO CRASH DOWN ON ME "UT INSTEAD OF DASHING FOR SAFETY ) STAYED WHERE ) WAS TRANSlXED 4HE SLATS IN THE WINDOWS HAD BEEN BLOWN AWAY LEAVING A TRAIL OF WHITISH SMOKE BEHIND 4HE CABLES CONNECTING THE SPEAKERS SPARKED AS IF TO WARN ME OF GREATER DANGER STILL TO COME $URING THE ENTIRE SECONDS OF THE QUAKE ) COULDN T STOP WONDERING WHAT WAS GOING ON !S ) WATCHED THE STUPENDOUS SCENE UNFOLD ) THOUGHT HOW FOOLISH IT WOULD BE TO RUN DOWN THE CENTER AISLE TOWARD THE EXIT ONLY TO BE HIT BY A CRASHING PIECE OF THE BUILDING ) THEN NOTICED TWO THEOLOGY STUDENTS PROSTRATE ON THEIR KNEES PRAYING 4HEY LATER TOLD ME THEY THOUGHT THIS WOULD BE THE BEST POSITION TO BE IN WHEN FACING DEATH $ESOLATION AND $ESTRUCTION

/NCE THE lRST SHOCK SUBSIDED ) COLLECTED THE SATCHEL ) HAD LEFT AT MY SEAT AND CALMLY WALKED TOWARD THE EXIT )T WAS ONLY WHEN ) CAME CLOSE TO THE STAIRWELL SUPPORTING THE BLEACHERS THAT ) REALIZED IT WAS CRACKED AND SOON WOULD COLLAPSE ) HURRIED OUT /NCE OUTSIDE ) WAS MET WITH DESOLATION EVERYWHERE TWO THIRDS OF THE SEMINARY BUILDING HAD BEEN DESTROYED AS WELL AS A GREAT PORTION OF THE MEN S AND WOMEN S DORMITO RIES AND THE PUBLISHING HOUSE AND ITS SHIPPING ANNEX 4HE

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UNIVERSITY BOOKSTORE AND THE WALL PROTECTING THE CAMPUS HAD COLLAPSED 3TUDENTS WERE LYING ON THE GROUND SOBBING

UNABLE TO STAND ON THEIR FEET OVERWHELMED BY THEIR FEEL INGS 0RAISE SONGS TUMBLED OUT OF THEIR QUIVERING LIPS AS THEY THANKED A MERCIFUL 'OD FOR SPARING THEIR LIVES 7ITH KNEES SHAKING AND UNABLE TO SPEAK MORE THAN A FEW WORDS

) ASKED FOR A CELL PHONE TO CALL MY WIFE ONLY TO DISCOVER THERE WAS NO SIGNAL -Y MIND NOW RACING WITH ANGUISH

) THOUGHT OF HER AND OUR CHILDREN !LL THE STUDENTS WHO WERE INSIDE THE AUDITORIUM WERE ALIVE BUT WHAT ABOUT MY FAMILY 4HANK 'OD ) LATER LEARNED THAT (E HAD SPARED THEIR LIVES .OT A .EW 4HING

%ARTHQUAKES REDUCE LIFE TO ITS MOST BASIC DIMENSION

SWEEPING AWAY OUR COMFORTS AND CERTAINTIES 7HEN THE EARTH SHOOK IN ,ISBON IN MANY PEOPLE WERE IN CHURCH CELEBRATING !LL 3AINTS $AY 0RAYERS AND CRUCIlXES DID NOTHING TO SAVE THEM 4HEY WERE BURIED ALIVE 4HOSE WHO MANAGED TO ESCAPE mED TO THE MARBLE PIERS OF THE HARBOR

ONLY TO BE SWALLOWED BY A GIGANTIC TSUNAMI UNLEASHED BY A TREMOR OFF THE COAST OF 0ORTUGAL 4HOSE WHO WATCHED THIS SCENE IN HORROR WERE THEN CONFRONTED BY A lRE THAT ENGULFED WHAT WAS LEFT OF THE CITY /UT OF THE

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BIRTH PAINSv VERSE 4HE TWENTIETH CENTURY WITNESSED ITS SHARE OF THEM SOME EARTHQUAKES SURPASSED THE ONE IN ,IS BON !ND THE NUMBER AND INTENSITY ARE INCREASING !CCORD ING TO THE 5 3 'EOLOGICAL 3URVEY 7EB SITE BETWEEN AND EARTHQUAKES REGISTERING OR MORE ON THE 2ICHTER SCALE WERE RECORDED PER DECADE THROUGHOUT THE LAST CENTURY 4HE YEARS n WITNESSED SUCH EARTHQUAKES )N THE LAST YEARS THERE WERE ALMOST AS MANY EARTHQUAKES REGISTERING OR MORE THAN IN THE YEARS BEFORE 'ET 2EADY

)T S TIME TO GET READY FOR *ESUS SOON APPEARANCE -Y EXPERIENCE OF THE EARTHQUAKE IN (AITI CONVINCED ME OF THAT ) M MORE AWARE OF HOW FRAGILE HUMAN LIFE IS ESPECIALLY WITHOUT 'OD %VERYTHING THAT SMACKED OF PRIDE AND ARROGANCE COMPLETELY LOST ITS VALUE ON THAT FATEFUL DAY %VERYTHING THAT SEPARATED US FROM EACH OTHERˆSKIN COLOR

SOCIAL STANDING EDUCATIONˆBECAME MEANINGLESS 7HAT A PRECIOUS LESSON TO LEARN AS WE PREPARE TO FACE ETERNITY (OW CLOSE ARE WE TO THE COMING OF OUR 3AVIOR 7E DON T KNOW FOR SURE BUT THOSE OF US WHO EXPERIENCED AND SUR VIVED THE EARTHQUAKE REALIZE THAT WE ARE LIVING ON BORROWED TIME -ANY LIVES WERE SPARED BY 'OD S MERCY /THER LIVES WERE NOT INCLUDING HUNDREDS OF !DVENTISTS 7E HAVE THE HOPE THAT WE WILL ONE DAY SEE OUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS IN #HRIST AGAIN IN OUR HEAVENLY HOME BUT WHAT ABOUT THOSE WHO WERE NOT SPIRITUALLY READY FOR DEATH 4HIS EVENT HAD A PROFOUND EFFECT ON ALL OF %UROPE ) BELIEVE THAT THE !LMIGHTY IN (IS INlNITE MERCY PRE $EPICTIONS OF THE EARTHQUAKE WERE DISTRIBUTED WIDELY AND DISCUSSED THROUGHOUT THE CONTINENT UNTIL THE LATE NINETEENTH SERVED MY LIFE SO ) WOULD FULlLL WITH GREATER DEDICATION THE CENTURY %LLEN 7HITE MENTIONED IT IN HER WRITINGS 3HE QUOTES MANDATE (E ENTRUSTED TO ALL (IS DISCIPLES TO HELP PREPARE A PEOPLE FOR (IS SECOND COMING -Y MINISTRY LIKELY WILL lND 2EVELATION +*6 h@4HERE WAS A GREAT EARTHQUAKE AND A NEW DIRECTION ) PRAY THAT IT WILL BE CHARACTERIZED BY MORE THE SUN BECAME BLACK AS SACKCLOTH OF HAIR AND THE MOON TACT SENSITIVITY AND COMPASSION BECAME AS BLOOD v THEN ADDS h4HESE SIGNS WERE WITNESSED !S (E PROMISED OUR ,ORD IS COMING BACK ,ET US WATCH

BEFORE THE OPENING OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY )N FULlLLMENT WITNESS AND PRAY $ON T ALLOW THE THINGS OF THIS EARTH TO OF THIS PROPHECY THERE OCCURRED IN THE YEAR THE MOST CROWD OUT OF THE HEART OUR $IVINE ,OVER 3OON THIS WORLD

TERRIBLE EARTHQUAKE THAT HAS EVER BEEN RECORDED 4HOUGH IMPRESSIVE AS IT MAY APPEAR WILL VANISH IN SMOKE ) M COMMONLY KNOWN AS THE EARTHQUAKE OF ,ISBON IT EXTENDED IMPATIENTLY WAITING FOR THE GLORIOUS MORNING WHEN ) AGAIN TO THE GREATER PART OF %UROPE !FRICA AND !MERICA v !N EYEWITNESS RECOUNTS THAT hTHIS EXTENSIVE AND OPULENT WILL SEE THESE DEAR ONES WHO ARE SLEEPING IN #HRIST AND CONTEMPLATE THE FACE OF MY 3AVIOR CITY IS NOW NOTHING BUT A VAST HEAP OF RUINS THAT THE RICH AND THE POOR ARE AT PRESENT UPON A LEVEL SOME THOUSANDS %LLEN ' 7HITE 4HE 'REAT #ONTROVERSY P OF FAMILIES WHICH BUT THE DAY BEFORE HAD BEEN EASY IN THEIR -ODERN (ISTORY 3OURCEBOOK 2EV #HARLES $AVY h4HE %ARTHQUAKE AT ,ISBON

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OPENED THEIR HEARTS AND HOME TO ,EO S FRIENDS OF THE *!- "ELOW 4%!-7/2+ 4HE *!- GROUP

TOGETHER WITH THE /JEDA FAMILY AND SOME !DVENTIST BROTHERS AND SISTERS FROM SURROUNDING TOWNS IN FRONT OF THE PARTIALLY CONSTRUCTED CHURCH

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T WAS A BEAUTIFUL SUMMER AFTER NOON 4HE DEEP BLUE LAKE SEEMED LIKE A CARPET AT THE FEET OF THE SNOW CAPPED RANGE OF THE !NDES 4HE LOWER AREAS OF THE MOUNTAINS WERE COVERED WITH DIFFERENT TYPES OF EVERGREENS 4WENTY ONE YEAR OLD ,EO STOPPED TO CATCH HIS BREATH AND LOOK AROUND 4HE WATER OF A RUNNING BROOK REmECTED HIS HAPPY EXPRESSION 4HE BEAUTY OF NATURE MOVED HIM TO SING AND THANK 'OD (OW UNFORTUNATE THAT HE HAD LEFT HIS ACCORDION AT HOME (IS BELOVED INSTRUMENT WAS MORE THAN

MILES MORE THAN KM NORTH AT HIS PARENTS HOME IN A SMALL TOWN CALLED (ERMOSO #AMPO 4HE SOUTHERN LANDSCAPE WAS A WORLD APART FROM HIS HOMETOWN IN THE PROVINCE OF #HACO IN THE NORTHERN PART OF !RGENTINA WHERE THE PLAINS REACHED THE HORIZON AND THE SNOWY COTTON lELDS SURROUNDED THE VERY FEW TREES THAT SURVIVE THE HIGH TEMPERA TURES OF THE AREA

(OW THE DEATH OF A #HRISTIAN YOUNG MAN BECAME A BLESSING FOR HUNDREDS

,EO ADJUSTED HIS CAP AND KEPT WALKING WITH HIS FELLOW COLPORTEURS )T WAS A BEAUTIFUL 3ABBATH AFTERNOON .O MATTER HOW MUCH THEY HAD WALKED AND WORKED VISITING EVERY HOUSE AND TAKING THE PRINTED WORD TO EVERY COR NER DURING THE WEEK THERE WAS ALWAYS TIME FOR A 3ABBATH WALK WITH FRIENDS )T WAS GREAT TO SING SHARE EXPERIENCES

AND PRAY TOGETHER !ND THERE WAS HARDLY A BETTER PLACE TO REGAIN STRENGTH FOR THE WEEK TO COME ,EO THOUGHT OF HIS PARENTS $ELIA AND (IP˜LITO /JEDA WHO HAD SEEN HIM OFF WITH HIGH HOPES (E WAS THE lRST SON OF THE /JEDAS TO STUDY AT AN !DVENTIST SCHOOL (OW GREAT IT WOULD BE IF HIS BROTHER $AR¤O COULD ALSO ATTEND (E ALSO THOUGHT OF HIS OLDER SISTER "LANQUITA HOW WONDERFUL IT WOULD BE IF SHE COULD REDISCOVER HER !DVENTIST FAITH FROM WHICH SHE HAD BEEN MOVING AWAY !ND HOW GREAT IF HIS THREE YOUNGER BROTHERS COULD AT LEAST HAVE A CHURCH TO MEET AT EVERY

HAPPILY /NLY ,EO S VOICE WAS MISSING /N THE TINY LIVING ROOM WALL WERE SOME COLORFUL PICTURES ,EO HAD PAINT ED AND GIVEN THEM TO HIS MOM BEFORE TRAVELING TO THE SOUTH OF !RGENTINA TO SELL BOOKS SO THAT HE WOULD BE ABLE TO PAY HIS SCHOOL FEES FOR HIS SOPHOMORE YEAR AS A COMMUNICATION MAJOR AT 2IVER 0LATE !DVENTIST 5NIVERSITY ,EO WAS HIS PARENTS PRIDE AND HOPE SOME ONE WHOˆSO THEY REASONEDˆCOULD OPEN DOORS FOR THEIR YOUNGER CHILDREN TO ALSO GET AN EDUCATION

3ABBATH IN THEIR OWN HOMETOWN 4HANK 9OU ,ORD FOR THE BLESSINGS 9OU ARE POURING DOWN ON ME 4HANK 9OU BECAUSE MY PARENTS TAUGHT ME TO LOVE 9OU ) PRAY FOR 9OU TO STAY WITH MY FAMILY AT THIS VERY MOMENT AND THAT THEY MAY ALSO lND THE BLESSING OF ENJOYING A CHURCH BUILDING AS ) DO /H &ATHER ) LOVE 9OU SO MUCH ) LONG FOR THE DAY ) CAN lNALLY MEET 9OU AND EMBRACE 9OU )T IS MY GREATEST DREAM "UT ) DO NOT WANT TO BE ALONE WHEN ) DO ) PRAY MY SISTER MAY COME BACK TO 9OUR ARMS DEAR 'OD 4HANK 9OU FOR THE BEAUTIFUL LANDSCAPE 9OUR WORKS ARE AMAZING ) LOVE 9OU ,ORD

5P NORTH $ELIA (IP˜LITO AND THREE OF THEIR SONS WERE STUDYING THE "IBLE %VERY 3ABBATH THEIR SMALL HOME BECAME A HOME CHURCH (IP˜LITO PLAYED THE ACCORDION AND $AR¤O PLAYED THE GUITAR %VERYONE IN THE FAMILY SANG

SOMEBODY HAD SAID ON THE PHONE 4HREE DAYS LATER HIS FRIENDS ON THE UNIVERSITY CAMPUS AND HIS FAMILY AT HOME CRIED WHEN THEY HEARD THE NEWS THEY MOST FEARED 4HE RESCUE TEAMS HAD FOUND ,EO S BODY ! LIVELY AND JOYFUL SPARK HAD BEEN PUT OUT (OW TO LET THIS DEAR FRIEND GO (OW TO SEND HIM BACK LIKE THAT TO HIS FAMILY UP NORTH 7HICH WORDS WOULD BE APPRO PRIATE TO COMFORT THE GRIEVING PARENTS

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THE UNIVERSITY CAMPUS LOCATED IN THE CENTRAL REGION OF !RGENTINA MORE THAN A THOUSAND MILES KM NORTH FROM THE SOUTHERN SPOT WHERE ,EO WAS COL PORTEURING WENT INTO SHOCK 4HE NEWS HAD BEEN DEVASTATING h!S ,EO /JEDA WAS WALKING BY A FAST mOWING STREAM

HE SLIPPED AND WAS CARRIED AWAY BY THE WATER (E IS NOWHERE TO BE FOUND v

3ONIA +RUMM .IKOLAUS TEACHES AT 2IVER 0LATE !DVENTIST 5NIVERSITY IN !RGENTINA 3HE AND HER HUSBAND AND THEIR THREE CHILDREN ARE ACTIVE MEMBERS OF THE *!- GROUP )F YOU WANT TO KNOW MORE ABOUT THIS PROJECT

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HAD EMBRACED THEIR SISTERS AND BROTH ERS IN *ERUSALEM NOT ONLY IN PRAYER

BUT BY SENDING THEM MATERIAL HELP !T THAT MOMENT HE FELT THAT 'OD WAS TELLING HIM h7E NEED TO EMBRACE THE /JEDAS AT (ERMOSO #AMPO 7E SHOULD GO AND BUILD A CHURCH THERE v 0ASTOR !RIAS TALKED ABOUT THIS IDEA WITH -ARLY -ÓLLER A YOUTH GROUP LEADER FROM THE UNIVERSITY CHURCH 4OGETHER THEY STARTED TO PRAY SO THAT THE ,ORD WOULD SHOW THEM WHAT TO DO 4HERE WAS A NEW SPARK IN THEIR HEARTS THAT WOULD NOT BE PUT OUT 4HEY DID NOT NEED TO WAIT LONG FOR AN ANSWER !S THEY TALKED TO OTHER YOUNG PEOPLE ABOUT THE PROJECT

STUDENTS FROM VARIOUS PROGRAMS AND BACKGROUNDS BEGAN TO PRAY AND PLAN TOGETHER FOR ONE GOAL TO EMBRACE THE /JEDAS BY PROVIDING THEM WITH A CHURCH BUILDING IN THEIR HOMETOWN 3ECONDARY SCHOOL AND COLLEGE STU DENTS GOT TOGETHER UNDER THE UMBRELLA OF THE *!- !DVENTIST 9OUTH IN -IS

WORDS SHARED BY PASTOR 2ODRIGO !RIAS

THE YOUTH CHAPLAIN OF THE UNIVERSITY

WHO HAD TRAVELED TO ,EO S HOMETOWN FOR THE SAD OCCASION 4HE GREATEST IMPACT HOWEVER WAS TO WITNESS THE PEACE THE /JEDA FAMILY SHOWED IN THE FACE OF THIS SEEMINGLY INSURMOUNTABLE TRAGEDY .EIGHBORS COMMENTED h&OR ALL THE RELIGIOUS PEOPLE THEY MAY BE

HOW CAN THEY ENDURE SUCH A PAIN WITHOUT YELLING PASSING OUT OR ACCUS ING SOMEONE FOR THEIR MISFORTUNE 7HERE DOES THAT STRENGTH COME FROM

WHICH ALLOWS THEM TO GO ON LIVING AND SMILING EVEN THROUGH THEIR TEARS 7HAT IS IT THAT MAKES THEM SO STRONG v

SION GROUP 4HEY BEGAN ASKING 'OD TO PROVIDE THEM WITH THE RIGHT PEOPLE FOR THE PROJECT AND TO SHOW THEM SOMETHING EVEN MORE DIFlCULT HOW TO GET THE FUNDS TO BUILD THE CHURCH 4HEY SET THE STARTING DATE FOR THE NEXT WINTER BREAK JUST A FEW MONTHS AWAY !ND THEY KEPT ON PRAYING 4HE GROUP BECAME BIGGER AND BIG GER BY THE DAY 3OON SOME FACULTY AND STAFF MEMBERS OF THE UNIVERSITY CHURCH JOINED IN 4HE MEMBERS GOT ORGANIZED AND STARTED SHARING THEIR DREAM IN THE LOCAL !DVENTIST CHURCHES 4HEY ASKED FOR DONATIONS 4HEY STARTED KNOCKING ON DOORS IN THE COMMUNITY 4HEY WROTE TO PEOPLE THEY KNEW ABROAD ASKING FOR CONTRIBUTIONS 4HEY ALSO STARTED SAVING MONEY TO PAY FOR THE TRIP AND STAY AT (ERMOSO #AMPO 4HESE YOUNG PEOPLE FELT THE SAME MOTIVATING FORCE ,EO HAD FELT SO MANY

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! FEW WEEKS LATER 0ASTOR !RIAS WAS BACK IN HIS CHAPLAIN S OFlCE READING #ORINTHIANS (E KNEW THE STORY TOO WELL 4HE CHURCH IN -ACEDONIA

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(OW COULD ONE COME TO TERMS WITH THE DEATH OF A YEAR OLD HEALTHY YOUNG MAN WHO JUST WANTED TO GET AN EDUCATION TO SERVE 'OD BETTER 4HE NEWS ALSO STRUCK ,EO S HOMETOWN %VEN THOUGH NEIGHBORS DID NOT SHARE THE /JEDAS BELIEFS EVERYONE IN THE VILLAGE REALLY APPRECIATED AND RESPECTED THEM !S (IP˜LITO ,EO S FATHER DID MAINTENANCE AND CARPENTRY WORK IN THE HOUSES OF HIS NEIGHBORS

HE OFTEN SHARED ADVICE WORDS OF ENCOURAGEMENT AND EVEN SOME NEWLY LEARNED VEGETARIAN RECIPES 4HE /JEDAS CHILDREN WERE KNOWN AT SCHOOL FOR THEIR GOOD BEHAVIOR KINDNESS AND OUTSTAND ING GRADES %VERY TIME OTHER WORRIED PARENTS ASKED $ELIA AND (IP˜LITO HOW THEIR SONS MANAGED TO STAY OUT OF TROUBLE AND BAD HABITS THEY MADE THE MOST OF THOSE PRECIOUS OPPORTUNITIES TO WITNESS ABOUT THEIR FAITH 4HE WHOLE TOWN GATHERED TO MOURN THE DEATH OF YOUNG ,EO %VERYONE LISTENED TO THE COMFORTING

TIMES $RIVEN BY COMPASSION AND MOTIVATED TO SERVE THEY DREAMED OF GIVING COMFORT AND ANSWERS TO A VILLAGE THAT DID NOT KNOW *ESUS ! 4IME TO "UILD

)N *ULY JUST lVE MONTHS AFTER ,EO S DEATH SOMETHING BIG BEGAN !RMED WITH BUCKETS SHOVELS

BRICKLAYER TOOLS THEIR "IBLES AND THEIR SLEEPING BAGS YOUNG MEN AND WOMEN AND SIX ADULTS ARRIVED AT (ERMOSO #AMPO IN A TOWN WHERE VISITORS WERE A RARITY !S HALF OF THE GROUP BEGAN TO BUILD THE CHURCH THE OTHER HALF STARTED VISIT ING THE NEIGHBORS KNOCKING ON EVERY DOOR AND INVITING PEOPLE TO ATTEND SPECIAL EVENING MEETINGS AND TO STUDY THE "IBLE ! COMMON INTRODUCTION WAS h'OOD MORNING WE ARE STUDENTS FROM THE !DVENTIST UNIVERSITY WHERE

,EO STUDIED AND WE ARE VISITING THIS TOWN TO SHARE A LITTLE BIT OF WHAT HE WOULD HAVE LIKED TO SHARE WITH HIS DEAR NEIGHBORS v $OORS BEGAN TO OPEN WIDE EVERY WHERE AS PEOPLE ANSWERED h0LEASE

COME IN 9OU WERE ,EO S CLASSMATES 7HAT A WONDERFUL WORK YOU ARE DOING HERE v "UT PEOPLE WENT ON h(OW CAN THE /JEDAS STILL LIVE HAPPILY AFTER WHAT HAPPENED TO THEM v !ND h) FEEL SO DEPRESSED LIFE DOES NOT MAKE MUCH SENSE TO ME (OW CAN ) ENJOY THE HAP PINESS YOU ARE SHOWING v /R h) AM SICK OF BEING SICK ) SEE THAT YOU REALLY ENJOY LIFE 9OU LOOK HEALTHY AND HAPPY ) WANT TO KNOW YOUR SECRET v %VERY DAY BEFORE DAWN AND VERY LATE AT NIGHT THE *!- GROUP MEMBERS KNELT TO THANK 'OD FOR (IS ONGOING MIRACLES ! MISSION lRE RACED THROUGH (ERMOSO #AMPO !S SOON AS THE SUN SET BOTH VISITORS AND BUILDERS WERE METAMORPHOSED INTO A hPERFECTv TEAM OF YOUNG EVANGELISTS 4HE YOUNG PEOPLE LED THE MEETINGS THEMSELVES

GIVING LECTURES ON THE EIGHT NATURAL REMEDIES AND GUIDING PEOPLE TOWARD 'OD A NEWFOUND TRUST IN (IS 7ORD

AND THE BLESSED HOPE AND COMFORT OF KNOWING THAT *ESUS IS ALIVE AND LOVES EVERYONE 4HE WHOLE TOWN WAS THRILLED 4HE MAYOR DECLARED THE LECTURES OF MUNICIPAL INTEREST *!- MEMBERS WERE INTERVIEWED BY THE LOCAL RADIO STATION AND GAVE TALKS TO BOTH PARENTS AND TEACHERS 4HEY PROMISED TO COME BACK WITH PROFESSIONAL HELP TO ASSIST IN OVERCOMING SOME OF THE NEIGHBORS STRUGGLES WITH DRUGS ALCOHOL AND SMOKING 4HEY RECEIVED HUNDREDS OF APPLICATIONS FOR "IBLE STUDIES AND DISTRIBUTED MANY "IBLES RELIGIOUS BOOKS AND MAGAZINES 4HE DAYS HOWEVER WENT BY TOO FAST !S THE CHURCH WALLS HAD ONLY BEEN COMPLETED HALFWAY THROUGH A LOCAL CONSTRUCTOR WAS HIRED TO KEEP WORKING ON IT !LSO THE LOCAL !DVENTIST

ING THE "IBLE AND FOR THE NEW CONVERTS 3OME OF THEM TRAVEL FROM TIME TO TIME TO (ERMOSO #AMPO TO ATTEND BAPTIS MAL SERVICES AND TO KEEP IN TOUCH WITH THE /JEDAS AND THEIR NEWFOUND CHURCH ! 4IME TO 4HANK FAMILY 4HE UNIVERSITY GROUP AND THE 4HE /JEDAS ARE NOT ALONE ANYMORE PEOPLE OF (ERMOSO #AMPO HAVE EVEN IN THEIR HOMETOWN 4HERE ARE HUNDREDS MANAGED TO WORSHIP TOGETHER IN REAL OF NEIGHBORS WHO NOW UNDERSTAND THE TIME AT LEAST ONCE

BY USING A CELL PHONE REASON FOR THEIR STRENGTH 4HE /JEDAS CONNECTED TO A SPEAKER RECEIVE MORE CALLS FOR HELP THAN THEY ARE ABLE TO TAKE CARE OF ! NEW MISSION ! &IRE 4HAT 7ILL .EVER $IE 4HE MEMBERS OF *!- HAVE MAN OCCUPIES MOST OF THEIR TIME (IP˜LITO AGED TO PUT A ROOF ON THE CHURCH THAT lNDS IT DIFlCULT TO KEEP WORKING AT COVERS MORE THAN PEOPLE EVERY 3AB THE CARPENTRY SHOP AND $ELIA IS BUSY TAKING CARE OF THE TWO "IBLE INSTRUCTORS BATH 4HE CHURCH IS GROWING AND WILL BE OFlCIALLY DEDICATED AT THE END OF STAYING AT HER HOME 3O MANY CHANGES #AN YOU IMAGINE THE HEAVENLY IN SUCH A LITTLE TIME JOY AT THAT MOMENT )N &EBRUARY JUST ONE YEAR 4HE GREATEST NEED RIGHT NOW IS AFTER ,EO WAS BURIED IN (ERMOSO TO RAISE SUFlCIENT FUNDS TO EMPLOY #AMPO MANY QUESTIONS HAVE ALREADY FOUND AN ANSWER 4HE CONSTRUCTION OF A "IBLE WORKER THAT CAN ATTEND THE THE MAIN SANCTUARY INCLUDING THE ROOF NUMEROUS PEOPLE OF (ERMOSO #AMPO WHO ARE EAGER TO STUDY 'OD S 7ORD AND RESTROOM FACILITIES IS lNISHED !S ) WRITE THIS ) LONG TO BE PRESENT 4WENTY SIX PEOPLE HAVE ALREADY SUR RENDERED THEIR LIVES TO *ESUS AND GIVEN AT THAT MOMENT WHEN ,EO WAKES FROM HIS SLEEP TO lND HIS DEAR FAMILY

A PUBLIC WITNESS THROUGH BAPTISM THE BEAUTIFUL GROUP OF PEOPLE OF THE /NE OF THE lRST PEOPLE TO BE BAPTIZED (ERMOSO #AMPO CHURCH AND THE MIS WAS THE BUILDER HIRED TO lNISH THE SION DRIVEN YOUNG PEOPLE WHO WENT TO CHURCH BUILDING lNISH THE WORK THE /JEDAS HAD STARTED %VERY 3ABBATH MANY CHILDREN IN SUCH A SILENT BUT EFlCIENT WAY 7HAT ATTEND 3ABBATH SCHOOL BUT THEY MEET A GREAT GATHERING IT WILL BE WHEN *ESUS OUTSIDE BECAUSE THERE IS NOT ENOUGH WILL EMBRACE AND WELCOME THEM INTO ROOM FOR THEM INSIDE -ANY KEEP (IS KINGDOM WHERE THERE WILL BE NO STUDYING THE "IBLE AND THERE ARE MORE THAN REQUESTS FOR "IBLE STUDIES 4HOSE MORE DEATH NOR SORROW NOR CRYING &INALLY THERE WILL BE ANSWERS FOR OUR WHO WERE BAPTIZED ARE NOW BECOMING "IBLE INSTRUCTORS FOR OTHERS WHO WANT TO STILL UNANSWERED QUESTIONS -EANWHILE $ELIA IS ALWAYS READY KNOW MORE ABOUT 3CRIPTURE "LANQUITA

%VERY TIME SOMEONE ASKS HER HOW ,EO S OLDER SISTER HAS FOUND 'OD AGAIN SHE MANAGES TO ENDURE THE DEATH OF AND HAS RETURNED TO THE CHURCH ,EO S HER BELOVED SON SHE OPENS HER "IBLE BROTHER $AR¤O IS NOW ATTENDING 2IVER AND READS ASSERTIVELY h@"LESSED ARE THE 0LATE !DVENTIST 5NIVERSITY DEAD WHO DIE IN THE ,ORD FROM NOW -ORE THAN A YEAR LATER THE YOUNG ON 9ES SAYS THE 3PIRIT @THAT THEY MAY PEOPLE OF *!- HOLD TO THEIR DREAM REST FROM THEIR LABORS AND THEIR WORKS THEY WANT TO SEE THE CHURCH BUILDING FOLLOW THEM v 2EV lNISHED %VERY 3ABBATH THEY KEEP MEETING TO PRAY FOR THE TOWN THEY HAVE COME TO LOVE WITH ALL THEIR HEARTS %VERY 4HESE IDEAS ARE BASED ON THE NOTES TAKEN FROM A LETTER ,EO ADDRESSED TO 'OD A FEW DAYS BEFORE HIS DEATH )T WAS FOUND ON DAY AT A M THEY PRAY FOR THOSE STUDY HIS "IBLE

CONFERENCE DECIDED TO SEND TWO "IBLE INSTRUCTORS TO CARE FOR ALL THE PEOPLE WHO WERE THIRSTY TO KNOW MORE ABOUT 'OD S 7ORD

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SPIRITISTS FROM THE LANDv VERSE 4HUS HE WAS GOING BACK TO FORMER WAYS OF APOSTASY AND REBELLION 0AUL CHALLENGES THE BELIEVERS IN #OLOSSAE WHO WERE BEING PERSUADED TO HARMONIZE THEIR FORMER PRACTICES WITH THE #HRISTIAN FAITH (E STATES h3INCE YOU DIED WITH #HRIST TO THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THIS WORLD WHY AS THOUGH YOU STILL BELONGED TO IT DO YOU SUBMIT TO ITS RULES x v #OL #HRISTIAN LIFE IS NOT COMPATIBLE WITH ANY SPIRITUAL POWERS THAT ARE CONTROLLED BY EVIL FORCES "REAKING ,OOSE

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7HEN A PERSON ACCEPTS #HRIST AND EMBRACES THE BIBLICAL TRUTH AND AN !DVENTIST LIFESTYLE THERE ARE SOMETIMES TEN SIONS BETWEEN THE COMMUNITY OF FAITH TO WHICH HE OR SHE NOW BELONGS AND THE COMMUNITY INTO WHICH HE OR SHE WAS BORN AND INITIATED 3OMEONE WHO ACCEPTED #HRIST CAN NO LONGER RELY ON THE SPIRITUAL SUPPORT SYSTEMS SUCH AS DIVIN ERS ANCESTORS THE DEAD AND WITCH DOCTORS FOR HELP AGAINST THE DEMONS AND EVIL POWERS -EDIUMS SUCH AS PALM READ ERS OR FORTUNE TELLERS ARE NO LONGER APPEALING !LL TIES WITH MEDIUMS AND THE SPIRIT WORLD HAVE TO BE SEVERED AND THE NEWLY BORN CHILD OF 'OD HAS TO RELY ONLY ON THE MEDIATORY MINISTRY PROVIDENCE AND PROTECTION OF #HRIST )N 3AMUEL A KING TURNED TO SUCH MEDIUMS IN DESPERATION 3AUL HIMSELF HAD hCUT OFF THE MEDIUMS AND

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4HERE ARE CERTAIN THREATS THAT AN INDIVIDUAL FACES WHEN THEY SEVER TIES WITH THE WORLD OF SPIRITUALISM AND ITS MEDIUMS 4HEY MAY GET SICK SUFFER MISFORTUNE 7HATEVER NEGATIVE EXPERIENCE THEY GO THROUGH WILL BE INTERPRETED AS DIRECTLY RELATED TO THEIR NEGLECT OR REJECTION OF AN IMPORTANT SOURCE OF HELP "REAKING LOOSE FROM THESE MEDIUMS IN THE CONTEXT OF SUCH A COMMUNITY THEREFORE MEANS ALSO DEALING WITH RITES OF PASSAGE AND COMMUNITY LIFE IN A NEW WAY (OW DOES THE INDIVIDUAL ASSOCIATE WITH THE COMMUNITY THAT IS IMMERSED IN A WEB OF ANCESTRAL SPIRITS AND MEDIUMS 0AUL S ENCOURAGEMENT TO THE BELIEVERS OF #OLOSSAE WHO FACED SIMILAR CHALLENGES IS HELPFUL h9OU HAVE BEEN GIVEN FULLNESS IN #HRIST WHO IS THE HEAD OVER EVERY POWER AND AUTHORITYv #OL 4HIS DOES NOT MEAN THAT THESE POWERS AND AUTHORITIES ARE IN HARMONY WITH #HRIST AS THEIR HEAD BUT THEY ARE OVERPOWERED BY (IM #OLOSSIANS CONTINUES h!ND HAVING DISARMED THE POWERS AND AUTHORITIES HE MADE A PUBLIC SPECTACLE OF THEM TRIUMPHING OVER THEM BY THE CROSS v .O #HRISTIAN NEEDS TO BE THREATENED BY THESE POWERS 4HE 4RANSITION

4HE ALLEGIANCE OF A #HRISTIAN CHANGES FROM FAITH IN THE

4HE ALLEGIANCE OF A #HRISTIAN CHANGES FROM FAITH IN THE ANCESTORS AND SPIRITUAL MEDIUMS TO FAITH IN 'OD ONLY

ANCESTORS AND SPIRITUAL MEDIUMS TO FAITH IN 'OD ONLY $URING THIS TRANSFER OF ALLEGIANCE THERE MAY BE FEARS ON THE PART OF THE NEW BELIEVER THAT THINGS MAY GO WRONG !S TENSIONS WITH FAMILY OR COM MUNITY MOUNT FAITH NEEDS TO GROW EVEN STRONGER 4HIS IS THE MOST CRITICAL TIME IN WHICH THE CHURCH FAMILY NEEDS TO GIVE SUPPORT 4HE FOCUS SHOULD NOT BE ON SEVERING THE RELATIONSHIPS WITH THE COMMUNITY AND FAMILY MEMBERS WHO BELIEVE IN THESE MEDIUMS BUT ON THE SYSTEMS THEM SELVES 4HIS MEANS THAT THE #HRISTIAN WILL CONTINUE TO LOVE HIS COMMUNITY AND FAMILY AND HELP THEM ACKNOWLEDGE AND APPRECIATE HIS OR HER NEW LIFE IN #HRIST 0AUL ENCOURAGES BELIEVERS WHO WERE IN TRANSITION BY GIVING THE NECESSARY SUPPORT h) TELL YOU THIS SO THAT NO ONE MAY DECEIVE YOU BY lNE SOUNDING ARGUMENTS &OR THOUGH ) AM ABSENT FROM YOU IN BODY ) AM PRESENT WITH YOU IN SPIRIT AND DELIGHT TO SEE HOW ORDERLY YOU ARE AND HOW lRM YOUR FAITH IN #HRIST ISv #OL

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THE COMMUNITY OF BELIEVERS BECOMES HIS OR HER NEW FAMILY .EW RELATIONSHIPS ARE FORMED AND A NEW WAY OF LIFE EMER GES 4HIS GRADUAL TRANSFORMATION OF A LIFE AFFECTS ALL AREAS OF LIFE 6ARIOUS IMAGES AND METAPHORS ARE USED IN 3CRIPTURE TO PORTRAY THIS KIND OF GROWTH LIKE A PLANT hTHE RIGHTEOUS WILL mOURISH x GROW x BEAR FRUIT x STAY FRESHv 0S SEE ALSO #HRISTIAN GROWTH IS A GRADUAL

PROCESS AND REQUIRES PATIENCEˆAND DIVINE PROVIDENCE -ARK /THER IMAGES USED IN 3CRIPTURE TO PORTRAY SPIRITUAL GROWTH IN #HRIST ARE TAKEN FROM HUMAN DEVELOPMENT h,IKE NEWBORN BABIES CRAVE PURE SPIRITUAL MILK SO THAT BY IT YOU MAY GROW UP IN YOUR SALVATION NOW THAT YOU HAVE TASTED THAT THE ,ORD IS GOODv 0ETER

4HIS GROWTH LEADS TO SPIRITUAL MATURITYˆBELIEVERS WILL NOT JUST RELY ON hMILKv BUT RATHER hSOLID FOODv THAT IS 3CRIPTURE BASED AND #HRIST CENTERED #OR (EB 4HERE ARE SPECIlC AREAS IN WHICH SPIRITUAL GROWTH WILL BE EVIDENT IN THE LIFE OF A #HRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE OF 'OD

UNSELlSH WORKS FAITH THAT IS #HRIST CENTERED TO MENTION A FEW #OL 0ETER 4HESS 4HIS GROWTH IS NOT FOCUSING UPON OURSELVES BUT UPON #HRIST THE (EAD OF EVERYTHING %PH 'ROWING IN #HRIST THEREFORE MEANS THAT THERE IS DEVELOPMENT CHANGE AND GROWTH IN THE LIFE OF AN INDIVIDUAL WHO HAS ACCEPTED #HRIST )N THE PROCESS OF FAITH DEVELOPMENT #HRISTIANS MAY EXPERIENCE GROWING PAINS (OWEVER THE JOY OF GROWING IN #HRIST SURPASSES ANY APPARENT LOSS OR PAINFUL EXPERIENCE 'ROWING IN #HRIST MEANS A COMPLETE TRANSFER OF ALLEGIANCE FROM THE POWERS OF DARKNESS TO #HRIST AND INVOLVES SPEND ING QUALITY TIME WITH THE NEW -ASTER "IBLE STUDY AND A DYNAMIC PRAYER LIFE )T ALSO MEANS DEVELOPING AND GROWING IN FAITH AND LOVE FOR 'OD AND FELLOW HUMANS AND REACH ING SPIRITUAL MATURITY IN ALL ASPECTS OF LIFE

!LL 3CRIPTURE QUOTATIONS IN THIS ARTICLE HAVE BEEN TAKEN FROM THE .EW )NTERNATIONAL 6ERSION .)6

'ROWING IN #HRIST "Y (IS DEATH ON THE CROSS *ESUS TRIUMPHED OVER THE FORCES OF EVIL (E WHO SUBJUGATED THE DEMONIC SPIRITS DURING (IS EARTHLY MINISTRY HAS BROKEN THEIR POWER AND MADE CERTAIN THEIR ULTIMATE DOOM *ESUS VICTORY GIVES US VICTORY OVER THE EVIL FORCES THAT STILL SEEK TO CONTROL US

AS WE WALK WITH (IM IN PEACE JOY AND ASSURANCE OF (IS LOVE .OW THE (OLY 3PIRIT DWELLS WITHIN US AND EMPOWERS US

#ONTINUALLY COMMITTED TO *ESUS AS OUR 3AVIOUR AND ,ORD WE ARE SET FREE FROM THE BURDEN OF OUR PAST DEEDS .O LONGER DO WE LIVE IN THE DARKNESS FEAR OF EVIL POWERS

IGNORANCE AND MEANINGLESSNESS OF OUR FORMER WAY OF LIFE )N THIS NEW FREEDOM IN *ESUS WE ARE CALLED TO GROW INTO THE LIKENESS OF (IS CHARACTER COMMUNING WITH (IM DAILY IN PRAYER FEEDING ON (IS 7ORD

MEDITATING ON IT AND ON (IS PROVIDENCE

SINGING (IS PRAISES GATHERING TOGETHER FOR WORSHIP AND PARTICIPATING IN THE MISSION OF THE CHURCH !S WE GIVE OURSELVES IN LOVING SERVICE TO THOSE AROUND US AND IN WITNESSING TO (IS SALVATION (IS CONSTANT PRESENCE WITH US THROUGH THE 3PIRIT TRANSFORMS EVERY MOMENT AND EVERY TASK INTO A SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCE 0S

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#ALIFORNIA THE THEN HEADQUARTERS OF THE DENOMINATIONAL WORK ON THE 7EST #OAST OF THE 5NITED 3TATES 3INCE THE LAY OVER WAS GOING TO LAST FOR SEVERAL HOURS THE GROUP DEVISED A PLAN TO HOLD AN EVANGELISTIC MEETING WHILE THEY WAITED 4HE PLAN WAS SIMPLE 4HEY WOULD DISPERSE ACROSS TOWN IN A MEDIA BLITZ 3TATION EMPLOYEES CAME 4HE EDITOR OF THE

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! SCHOOL CLASSMATE THREW A ROCK THAT HIT YOUNG %LLEN AND PRECIPITATED AN EXISTENTIAL CRISIS !FTER SHE REGAINED CONSCIOUSNESS SHE BECAME CONVINCED THAT SHE WAS DYING h) DESIRED TO BE A #HRISTIAN AND PRAYED FOR THE FORGIVENESS OF MY SINS AS WELL AS ) COULD v 4HIS EARLY DEATHBED SURRENDER TO #HRIST WAS SIMPLE !CCORDING TO -ERLIN "URT DIRECTOR FOR THE #ENTER OF !DVENTIST 2ESEARCH THIS EVENT WAS NOT hCOMPLICATED BY QUESTIONS OF HOW TO LIVE FOR *ESUS AND DEAL WITH LIFE 7HEN SHE DISCOVERED SHE WAS NOT GOING TO DIE SHE WAS LED TO THE NEXT STEP IN HER CONVERSION PROCESS v ,ATER

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TOWN PAPER CAME 6ARIOUS PEOPLE SHOWED UP FROM ACROSS TOWN TO HEAR THIS WOMAN %LLEN 7HITE SPEAK 7HAT DID SHE SPEAK ABOUT TO THIS DIVERSE GROUP OF PEOPLE 3HE BASED HER REMARKS ON -ATTHEW REGARDING THE COUNSEL OF *ESUS NOT TO WORRY 4HIS HASTILY ARRANGED MEETING WAS NOT UNUSUAL FOR %LLEN 7HITE 4HROUGHOUT HER LIFETIME SHE SPOKE TO PEOPLE ABOUT *ESUS IN A VARIETY OF UNUSUAL CIRCUMSTANCES !LTHOUGH -RS 7HITE IS PERHAPS BEST REMEMBERED FOR HER PROPHETIC AND EVEN PUBLIC MINISTRIES HER PASSION FOR EVANGELISM IS FOUNDATIONAL TO EVERYTHING ELSE SHE DID )T IS ONE OF HER MOST ENDURING QUALITIES THAT BEGAN DURING HER CONVERSION AND LASTED THROUGHOUT HER LIFETIME

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HER RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE )T WAS AFTER THE SECOND DREAM THAT SHE CONlDED HER FEAR TO HER MOTHER WHO BROUGHT ,EVI 3TOCKMAN A YOUNG -ETHODIST MINISTER TO VISIT HER DAUGHTER $URING THE FEW MINUTES SHE SPENT WITH HIM SHE HAD hOBTAINED MORE KNOWLEDGE ON THE SUBJECT OF 'OD S LOVE AND PITYING TENDERNESS THAN FROM ALL THE SERMONS AND EXHORTATIONS TO WHICH ) HAD EVER LISTENED v !FTERWARD %LLEN 7HITE BECAME A PASSIONATE EVANGELIST 3HE FELT THE hASSURANCE OF AN INDWELLING 3AVIOURv THAT ALLOWED HER TO EVEN hPRAISE 'OD FOR THE MISFORTUNEv THAT HAD SO TRAUMATIZED HER "Y NATURE A TIMID PERSON SHE DARED TO PRAY IN PUBLIC FOR THE lRST TIME %LLEN IN AN EXPERIENCE SHARED BY OTHER CONTEMPORARY !MERICANS

DURING THE 3ECOND 'REAT !WAKENING PUBLICLY TESTIlED OF HER EXPERIENCE AND DESIRED TO SHARE HER FAITH WITH OTHERS 3HE BEGAN TO ARRANGE MEETINGS WITH HER FRIENDS AND PRAYED WITH THEM UNTIL hEVERYONE WAS CONVERTED TO 'OD v ! 0ERSONAL %VANGELIST

!LTHOUGH %LLEN 7HITE WAS CERTAINLY ONE OF THE MOST VISIBLE EVANGELISTS DURING HER LIFETIME IN THE 3EVENTH DAY !DVENTIST #HURCH SHE NEVER LOST SIGHT OF THE IMPORTANCE OF SHARING *ESUS WITH PEOPLE ONE ON ONE 4HE 7HITES TRAVELED THROUGH THE WILDERNESS OF -ICHIGAN IN THE SUMMER OF 4HE CARRIAGE DRIVER SUPPOSEDLY KNEW THE ROAD WELL BUT BECAME LOST )T WAS A HOT DAYˆ-RS 7HITE FAINTED TWICE EN ROUTE 4HEY TRAVELED OVER ROUGH hLOGS AND FALLEN TREES v %LLEN 7HITE WAS SO THIRSTY THAT SHE ENVISIONED HERSELF AS A PERISHING DESERT TRAVELER h#OOL STREAMS OF WATER v SHE LATER SAID hSEEMED TO LIE DIRECTLY BEFORE ME BUT AS WE PASSED ON THEY PROVED TO BE ONLY AN ILLUSION v 7HAT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A MILE MORNING JAUNT STRETCHED INTO A DAYLONG EVENT 7HEN THEY lNALLY REACHED A CLEARING THEY FOUND A FRONTIER CABIN 4HE OCCUPANT GREETED THEM GAVE THEM REFRESHMENTS

AND THEY QUICKLY BECAME FRIENDS %LLEN 7HITE SHARED WITH THE WOMAN ABOUT HER RELIGIOUS CONVICTIONS INCLUDING THE 3ABBATH AND THE SOON RETURN OF *ESUS ALONG WITH COMPLIMENTARY COPIES OF RELIGIOUS MATERIAL INCLUDING THE 2EVIEW 4WENTY TWO YEARS LATER %LLEN 7HITE MET THIS SAME WOMAN AGAIN AT A -ICHIGAN CAMP MEETING h3HE INQUIRED IF ) REMEMBERED CALLING AT A LOG HOUSE IN THE WOODSx 3HE STATED THAT SHE HAD LENT THAT LITTLE BOOK ;! 3KETCH OF THE #HRISTIAN %XPERIENCE AND 6IEWS OF %LLEN ' 7HITE= TO HER NEIGHBORS AS NEW FAMILIES HAD SETTLED AROUND HER UNTIL THERE WAS VERY LITTLE LEFT OF ITx 3HE SAID THAT WHEN ) CALLED UPON HER ) TALKED TO HER OF *ESUS AND THE BEAUTIES OF HEAVEN

AND THAT THE WORDS WERE SPOKEN WITH SUCH FERVOR THAT SHE WAS CHARMED AND HAD NEVER FORGOTTEN THEM v 2EmECTING BACK ON THIS %LLEN 7HITE REMARKED THAT FOR ALL THOSE YEARS THEIR JOURNEY hSEEMED INDEED MYSTERIOUS TO US BUT HERE WE MET QUITE A COMPANY WHO ARE NOW BELIEVERS IN THE TRUTH v !N %VANGELIST TO (ER /WN &AMILY

/NE MIGHT THINK THAT %LLEN 7HITE ALWAYS SUCCEEDED IN HER EVANGELISTIC EFFORTS 3OME OF THE MOST DIFlCULT PEOPLE WHOM SHE TRIED TO REACH INCLUDED HER OWN RELATIVES $UR ING THE SUMMER OF *AMES AND %LLEN 7HITE VISITED THE MOUNTAINS OF #OLORADO 7ITH THEM WERE SEVERAL RELATIVES

INCLUDING A NIECE -ARY WHO WAS THE DAUGHTER OF %LLEN S OLDER SISTER %LLEN 7HITE DESCRIBED IN HER DIARY RELAXING NATURE WALKS /N ONE SUCH WALK THE GROUP SAT UNDER SOME POPLAR TREES AS !UNT %LLEN READ FROM 3PIRITUAL 'IFTS -RS 7HITE RECORDED HOW -ARY WAS hDEEPLY INTERESTEDv IN

SPIRITUAL THINGS !T THE END OF THEIR TIME TOGETHER THEY HAD A SEASON OF PRAYER DURING WHICH -ARY PRAYED -RS 7HITE WAS SO CONCERNED ABOUT THE SPIRITUAL WELFARE OF HER NIECE THAT SHE NOT ONLY ALLOWED HER TO STAY WITH THEM BUT EVEN EMPLOYED HER AS A LITERARY ASSISTANT SECRETARY TO HELP HER WITH HER WRITING &IVE YEARS AFTER THE EXPERIENCE IN THE MOUNTAINS SHE WROTE -ARY A LETTER ASKING HER TO GIVE HER HEART TO #HRIST h) HAVE NO WISH TO CONTROL YOU v WROTE !UNT %LLEN hNO WISH TO URGE OUR FAITH UPON YOU OR TO FORCE YOU TO BELIEVE .O MAN OR WOMAN WILL HAVE ETERNAL LIFE UNLESS THEY CHOOSE ITx ) HOPE YOU WILL NOT SAY AS YOUR MOTHER SAID TO ME IN REGARD TO BREAKING THE 3ABBATH SHE @WOULD RISK IT x ) STILL HAVE FAITH THAT SHE WILL ACCEPT THE TRUTH IF YOU DO NOT HEDGE UP HER WAY ) HAVE WRITTEN IN LOVE AND HAVE WRITTEN BECAUSE ) DARE NOT DO OTHERWISE v 5NFORTUNATELY WE DO NOT KNOW HOW -ARY RESPONDED TO HER AUNT S LETTER AND THERE IS NO EVIDENCE TO SUGGEST THAT SHE EVER ACCEPTED THE 3ABBATH #ONCLUSION

%LLEN 7HITE DESERVES TO BE RECOGNIZED WITH SOME OF THE MOST INmUENTIAL EVANGELISTS IN 3EVENTH DAY !DVENTIST HISTORY 7HILE IT IS CERTAINLY TRUE THAT HER PROPHETIC MINISTRY WAS SIGNIlCANT AND CONTINUES TO EXERT A CONSIDERABLE INmUENCE WITHIN !DVENTISM HER MINISTRY WAS lRMLY ROOTED IN HER OWN PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP WITH *ESUS #HRIST 3HE PASSIONATELY WANTED TO SHARE *ESUS #HRIST WITH PEOPLE !T lRST SHE RESISTED ATTEMPTS TO SPEAK IN PUBLIC BUT HER DESIRE TO SHARE *ESUS OVERCAME HER INITIAL HESITANCY 7HETHER IN PUBLIC OR PRIVATE %LLEN 7HITE WAS AN EFFECTIVE EVANGELIST BECAUSE SHE SHARED *ESUS #HRIST WITH THOSE AROUND HER

4HIS INCIDENT IS RECORDED IN *AMES 2 .IX !DVENT 0REACHING 3ILVER 3PRING -D .!$ /FlCE OF %DUCATION 4HE TEXT OF HER MESSAGE IS RECORDED IN 4HE !DVENT 2EVIEW AND 3ABBATH (ERALD

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OF ALL THINGS AND A SMALL TEMPEST DESCENDED ON MY HEAD 7ELL NO IT WAS NOT ALL NEGATIVE AND ) PROBABLY SHOULD BEGIN WITH THAT 7HEN ) WENT TO CHURCH THE WEEK AFTER THE ARTICLE CAME OUT -INISTRY MAGAZINE EDITOR .IK 3ATELMAJER PULLED ME ASIDE h4HAT WAS A CLASSIC v HE SAID /NE OF THE SHARP EARED PASTORS OVERHEARING HIS REMARKS FROM INSIDE THE VESTRY

EMERGED TO ADD HER PLAUDITS 3HE D RECENTLY BEEN PICKING UP SOME BUZZ ABOUT THE BOOK FROM A NEARBY !DVENTIST EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION AND WAS GLAD TO SEE SOMEONE TAKE ON THE SUBJECT /THERS WROTE IN THEIR SUP PORT AMONG THEM %DWIN 2EYNOLDS OF /OLTEWAH 4ENNESSEE WHO EXPRESSED HIS AMAZEMENT AT hTHE NUMBER OF !DVENTISTS WHO ACCLAIM 4HE 3HACK AND SEE NOTHING WRONG WITH IT v #ARLA "AKER OF ,AUREL -ARYLAND WROTE IN TO THANK ME hFOR HAVING THE COURAGE TO SPEAK OUT AGAINST PRACTICES IN SOME OF OUR CHURCHES THAT STRIKE AT THE VERY CORE OF !DVENTIST BELIEFS v !ND +ARRI 7ALDE FROM 7ALLA 7ALLA 7ASHINGTON OFFERED ME HER COMPLIMENTS FOR TAKING A hSTAND AGAINST THE CURRENT EVIL OF COM PROMISE THAT IS CREEPING x INTO OUR CHURCHES v 9ET SHE FOUND IT hABSOLUTELY APPALLING v SIC THAT ) COULD TURN AROUND AND SUGGEST THAT TEACHERS

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NOT BY SHELTERING THEM FROM EVERY UNORTHODOX EXPOSURE BUT BY PROVID ING INFORMED SPIRITUAL GUIDANCE AS THEY ENCOUNTER CONTRARIAN IDEAS AND INmUENCES .EVERTHELESS 7ALDE S CONCERN WAS BY WAY OF WISHING ) D HAVE BEEN STRONGER IN MY POSITION A FAR CRY FROM OTHER LETTERS ) RECEIVED 4HREE SAMPLES 2EADER ! h!S AN 3$! HOSPICE

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BROTHERS AND SISTERS HAVE NO IDEA ;OF= THE GREAT SPIRITUAL PAIN AND THE POSSIBLE FEELINGS OF REPULSION THAT CAN TAKE PLACE FROM AN INDISCRIMINATE DEFENSE OF OUR STATE OF THE DEAD DOCTRINE ) AM SURPRISE;D= THAT !DAMS AND #ULLMANN DON T APPRECIATE PEOPLE S DEEP SEATED EMOTIONAL ANTIPATHY TO THE IMPLICATIONS OF THIS DOCTRINEx 4O A PERSON WHO HAS LOST x A BELOVED CHILD

SPOUSE OR FAMILY MEMBER THE TRUTH OF WHAT WE ARE SAYING IS THAT THEIR LOVED ONE NO LONGER EXISTS 7HAT A HOPELESS

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YOU DESIRE ONLY THEIR GOOD AND TO HEAR THAT YOUR FRIEND THE 3$! BELIEVES THAT THERE IS NO SOUL THAT 'OD CARES FOR NO PLACE OF HAPPINESS THAT THEY CAN ENVI SION THEIR LOVED ONE IN CAN BE HURTFUL AND OFFENSIVE v 2EADER " h-R !DAMS BEGINS HIS ARTICLE BY CRITICIZING THE BEAUTIFUL MUSIC OF !VE -ARIAx ;) DID NO SUCH THING = ) AM A hFOURTH GENERATION 3EVENTH DAY !DVENTIST AND A DESCENDENT OF A UNION CONFERENCE PRESIDENT )T TROUBLES ME TO SEE THE NARROW MINDEDNESS DISPLAYED IN 2OY !DAMS ARTICLEx ) BELIEVE THE "IBLE TEACHES THAT THE SOUL IS IMMORTALv ;ITAL ICS SUPPLIED= ) COULDN T BELIEVE WHAT ) WAS READING HERE ABOUT THE SOUL

COMING FROM A SELF DESCRIBED hFOURTH GENERATION !DVENTISTv .O WONDER ) COME ACROSS AS NARROW MINDED 2EADER # h) lND IT HIGHLY DISAPPOINTING THAT -R !DAMS WAS NOT ABLE TO SEE PAST A RELATIVELY MINOR THEOLOGICAL DIFFERENCE IN ORDER TO SEE THE BEAUTIFUL MESSAGE IN THE BOOKx (AVING READ IT ) COMPLETELY AGREE WITH %UGENE 0ATTERSON S ;SIC= THOUGHTS THAT @THIS BOOK HAS THE POTENTIAL TO DO FOR OUR GENERATION WHAT *OHN "UNYAN S 0ILGRIM S 0ROGRESS DID FOR HIS !ND CONTRARY TO 2OY S IMPRESSION

THERE IS NO THEOLOGICAL AGENDA OTHER THAN PAINTING A PICTURE OF 'OD THAT IS MORE APPROACHABLE AND RELATABLE THAN THE TYPICAL DRY RELIGIONS TEND TO MAKE (IM OUT TO BEx h2OY GETS THE ENTIRE BASIS OF HIS ARGUMENT REGARDING WHAT 4HE 3HACK IS ABOUT IN A VERY SHORT SCENE IN WHICH -ACK THE MAIN CHARACTER SEES AND HOLDS HIS DEAD DAUGHTER IN A SCENARIO ORCHESTRATED BY 'ODx !CCORDING TO THE "IBLE -OSES DIED AND WAS BURIED

YET HE APPEARED AT THE 4RANSlGURATION

DID HE NOT !CCORDING TO THE !DVENTIST IDEOLOGY ABOUT THE STATE OF THE DEAD

HOW IS THAT EXPLAINED x h;2OY S= COMMENT ABOUT 'OD BEING ABOUT @RELATIONSHIPS AND THEN COMPARING THE 'OD OF 4HE 3HACK TO THE 'OD OF *EREMIAH x HECK COMPARE

THE 'OD OF THE /LD 4ESTAMENT TO THE 'OD OF THE .EW 4ESTAMENT DISCOUNT ING 2EVELATION AND YOU HAVE A STARK CONTRAST IN THE VERY 7ORD OF 'OD SO THAT ARGUMENT IS NULL AND VOIDx ) M VERY DISAPPOINTED DISCOURAGED AND DOWNRIGHT ANGRY THAT THIS ARTICLE WAS PRINTED AS IT REALLY DOES MORE DAMAGE TO THE !DVENTIST hBRAND v TO BORROW 2OY S WORD v )NCIDENTALLY ONE WONDERS $OES THIS READER REALLY NOT KNOW WHY !DVENTISTS HAVE NO TROUBLE WITH -OSES APPEARING AT THE 4RANSlGURA TION 3TRANGE !ND HE SUGGESTS A CONTRAST BETWEEN hTHE 'OD OF THE /LD 4ESTAMENTv AND hTHE 'OD OF THE .EW 4ESTAMENT DISCOUNTING 2EVELATION v 7ELL LEAVE OUT THE BOOK OF 2EVELATION

IF YOU WISH BUT THEN HOW ABOUT -ATTHEW

4HESSALONIANS (EBREWS 0ETER *UDE 4HE .EW 4ESTAMENT IS FULL OF THESE hINCONVENIENTv PASSAGES )T S WHAT "ILLY 'RAHAM ONCE PERCEPTIVELY CALLED hTHE BAD NEWS OF THE GOSPEL v 4HREE 4HINGS ) &OUND IN THE ,ETTERS

!NGER )T WAS AS IF ) D VIOLATED SOMETHING UTTERLY SACRED TO THESE WRIT ERS -Y ARTICLE LEFT 2EADER # hDISAP POINTED DISCOURAGED AND DOWNRIGHT ANGRY v !ND IN THAT KNEE JERK MOOD

THESE RESPONDENTS NEVER NOTICED THAT THE PURPOSE OF MY ARTICLE WAS NOT AS SUCH TO CONDEMN 4HE 3HACK BUT TO QUESTION ITS ENDORSEMENT IN FRONT OF OUR STUDENTS AND YOUTH 3OMETHING BORDERING ON EMBAR RASSMENT VIS Í VIS OUR BELIEF ABOUT THE STATE OF THE DEAD *UST LOOK AT 2EADER ! S LETTER AGAIN !S EARLY AS COLLEGE

THEOLOGY STUDENTS ARE TAUGHT NOT TO FOIST OUR BELIEF ABOUT THE STATE OF THE DEAD UPON A GRIEVING NON !DVENTIST FAMILY OR CONGREGATION )T S SO ELEMENTARY THAT ) SHOOK MY HEAD TO HEAR THE LECTURE ABOUT IT 4HAT ASIDE ) WAS SURPRISED BY THE EXTREME RETICENCE BEING RECOMMENDED HERE BECAUSE THE BIBLICAL TEACHING ON THE SUBJECT

COULD BE hHURTFUL AND OFFENSIVE v 7OW 4HE LAST FUNERAL SERVICE ) DID MY TEXT WAS *OHN 2EAD IT AND TELL ME WHERE YOU CAN lND A MORE HOPE lLLED MESSAGE 4HE PREACHING OF THE RESURRECTION SHOULD LEAVE MOURNERS YEARNING FOR A BETTER WORLD ! SIMPLISTIC NAÆVET£ 0ERHAPS %UGENE 0ETERSON WOULD HIMSELF CHUCKLE TO HEAR HIS WORDS PRO MOTIONAL HYPERBOLE ON A BOOK JACKET SWALLOWED SO ENTHUSIASTICALLY BY 2EADER # #AN ANY LITERARY CRITIC OR THEOLOGIAN MAKE A CREDIBLE CASE THAT 4HE 3HACK COMES ANYWHERE CLOES TO THE THEOLOGICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL DEPTH OF *OHN "UNYAN S 0ILGRIM S 0ROGRESS )N THE ARTICLE ) DESCRIBED 4HE 3HACK AS hA DREAM WRAPPED UP IN A COMA INSIDE A WORK OF lCTION v WITH EVERYTHING hmUID

ESOTERIC MISTY v 9ET THESE RESPONDENTS SEE THE WORK AS A SUPERB SOURCE FROM WHICH POSTMODERN SKEPTICS CAN RECEIVE CLARITY ABOUT WHAT KIND OF 'OD WE HAVE THE "IBLE PERHAPS BEING TOO DULL "UT AFTER WE VE LED POSTMODERNS TO THE AMIABLE 'OD OF 4HE 3HACK THEN WHAT !RE WE THEN READY TO HAVE THEM MEET THE 'OD OF THE WHOLE "IBLE 3CRIPTURE REVEALS A 'OD INlNITELY MORE MERCIFUL AND GRACIOUS THAN 4HE 3HACK COULD EVER PORTRAY BUT ALSO A 'OD WHO IS EXCEEDINGLY MORE COM PLEX A 'OD WHO CANNOT BE REDUCED TO ONE SIMPLE ATTRIBUTE OR CHARACTERISTIC )F WE RE AFTER MAKING SOLID #HRISTIANS

WE D BETTER BE COMPLETELY HONEST WITH OUR AUDIENCE AND NOT SUGARCOAT THE EVIDENCE 4O RAISE 4HE 3HACK DE FACTO

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GROUND AND COVERED WITH DIRT 4HIS SHOWED RESPECT FOR THE OF ANIMALS AS /LD 4ESTAMENT SACRIlCES WAS A TYPE OF LIFE OF THE ANIMAL AS ONE OF 'OD S CREATURES !TONEMENT AND 3ACRIlCE &ROM THE THEOLOGICAL POINT ANIMAL CRUELTY OF VIEW ANIMAL SACRIlCE HAD THE FUNDAMENTAL PURPOSE OF SYMBOLICALLY MEDIATING RECONCILIATION WITH 'OD THROUGH O ) DON T THINK SO 4ODAY THE IDEA OF KILLING THE REMOVAL OF SIN AND IMPURITY ,EV )T APPEARS THAT IN ANIMALS AS A RELIGIOUS ACT IS FOREIGN TO MOST #HRIS MOST CASES ATONEMENT WAS ACCOMPLISHED THROUGH A SACRIl TIANS )N FACT WE ARE SUSPICIOUS OF PEOPLE WHO KILL CIAL VICTIM WHOSE BLOOD BECAME A VEHICLE FOR THE REMOVAL ANIMALS FOR RELIGIOUS OR SUPERSTITIOUS REASONS )T S TRUE THAT OF SIN IMPURITY FROM REPENTANT SINNERS )N THIS CASE THE INDIVIDUALS IN )SRAEL OCCASIONALLY OFFERED ANIMAL SACRIlCES THEOLOGY OF THE SANCTUARY SERVICES BECOMES IMPORTANT

TO THE ,ORD BUT WE SHOULD READ THE BIBLICAL TEXT ON ITS OWN IN PARTICULAR THE NATURE OF SIN AND ATONEMENT 4HE USE OF TERMS 4HE SACRIlCIAL SYSTEM REVEALS AT LEAST THREE MAIN A SACRIlCIAL VICTIM RAISES THE QUESTION OF THE CONNECTION OBJECTIVES FOR ANIMAL SAC BETWEEN SIN AND DEATH

RIlCES DEVOTIONAL DIETARY

ATONEMENT AND LIFE AND THEOLOGICAL "LOODY SACRIlCES %XPRESSION OF 2ELIGIOUS ULTIMATELY REVEAL THAT SIN &EELINGS 3OMETIMES THE )S CANNOT BE SEPARATED FROM RAELITES BROUGHT SACRIlCES TO ITS IMMEDIATE RESULT DEATH EXPRESS THEIR GRATITUDE AND 4HIS WAS BEST EXPRESSED JOY TO THE ,ORD h3ACRIlCE THROUGH THE RITUAL DEATH FELLOWSHIP OFFERINGSxREJOICING OF AN ANIMAL 4HE FACT IN THE PRESENCE OF THE ,ORD THAT THE SACRIlCIAL ANIMAL YOUR 'ODv $EUT .)6 WAS AN INNOCENT VICTIM /CCASIONALLY THE OFFERINGS POINTED TO THE COSTLINESS OF WERE FROM THE PRODUCE OF REDEMPTION 9ES REPENTANT "Y THE EARTH ,EV

SINNERS COULD GO HOME !NGEL -ANUEL BUT MOST OF THE TIME THE FORGIVEN ALIVE BUT ONLY 2ODR¤GUEZ PERSON GAVE A SUBSTANTIAL BECAUSE THE LIFE OF A SACRIlCE OFFERING A SACRIlCIAL ANI WAS GIVEN IN PLACE OF THEIRS MAL 4HE COSTLINESS OF THE 4HIS THEOLOGICAL DIMENSION OFFERING WAS RELATED TO THE OF SACRIlCIAL KILLING LIES AT LEVEL OF GRATITUDE THEY WANTED TO EXPRESS AND TO THE l THE HEART OF THE BIBLICAL CONCEPT OF REDEMPTION AND FOUND NANCES OF THE PERSON 3OME COULD BRING A BULL OTHERS ONLY ITS DEEPEST EXPRESSION IN THE SACRIlCIAL DEATH OF THE 3ON OF A SHEEP A GOAT OR EVEN A BIRD ,EV

'IVING A 'OD ) WOULD DARE TO SAY AND YOU DO NOT HAVE TO AGREE WITH BULL OR A FEMALE ANIMAL WOULD TODAY BE THE EQUIVALENT OF ME THAT IN BOTH CASES DEATH CAUSED PAIN IN THE HEART OF WRITING A SUBSTANTIAL CHECK TO THE CHURCH 2EMEMBER FOR 'OD AS WELL AS IN THE HEART OF TRUE WORSHIPPERS )SRAELITES THEIR ANIMALS WERE THEIR BANK ACCOUNTS !NIMAL 3UFFERING 4HE SACRIlCIAL KILLING OF ANIMALS $IETARY )NTEREST 6ERY OFTEN THE RELIGIOUS AND DIETARY BROUGHT WITH IT PAIN AND SUFFERING 7E DON T KNOW HOW CONCERNS WERE BOTH PRESENT IN ANIMAL SACRIlCES 4HIS IS ANIMALS WERE SLAUGHTERED BUT IT HAS BEEN SUGGESTED THAT THE PARTICULARLY THE CASE WITH THE FELLOWSHIP OFFERING )T WAS (EBREW VERB SHACHAT hTO SLAUGHTER v REALLY MEANS TO hSLIT THE BROUGHT TO THE ,ORD FOR SPECIlC RELIGIOUS REASONS BUT AT THE THROAT v )N THAT CASE THE ONLY PAIN WAS THE CUT THAT DRAINED SAME TIME THE mESH OF THE ANIMAL WAS SHARED WITH OTHERS IN THE BLOOD AND SOON RENDERED THE ANIMAL UNCONSCIOUS 4HE A COMMUNION MEAL ,EV $URING SOME RELIGIOUS DIVINE INTENTION WAS TO REDUCE SUFFERING TO A MINIMUM

FESTIVITIES THE KING OFFERED MANY SACRIlCES IN ORDER TO PRO THUS SHOWING 'OD S CONCERN FOR ANIMALS ,ATER *EWISH TRADI VIDE MEAT TO THE PEOPLE DURING THE FESTIVITY #HRON TIONS REQUIRED THAT THE KNIFE USED BE SHARP AND SMOOTH TO )N SUCH CASES THE PEOPLE BENElTED FROM THE WEALTH OF AVOID INmICTING UNNECESSARY PAIN TO THE VICTIM THE KING WITHOUT HAVING TO TOUCH THEIR hBANK ACCOUNTS v -EAT WAS ALSO ACCESSIBLE THROUGH THE ROUTINE OR SECULAR

SLAUGHTERING OF ANIMALS AND HUNTING CLEAN ANIMALS $EUT ,EV )N THESE CASES THE BLOOD INSTEAD OF BEING !NGEL -ANUEL 2ODRÓGUEZ IS DIRECTOR OF THE "IBLICAL 2ESEARCH POURED AT THE BASE OF THE ALTAR WAS TO BE POURED OUT ON THE )NSTITUTE OF THE 'ENERAL #ONFERENCE

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3IN HAS ENORMOUS CONSEQUENCES 7HEN !DAM AND %VE SINNED IN THE 'ARDEN OF %DEN THEY OPENED THE mOODGATES OF PAIN SICKNESS AND DEATH 'OD IS THE SOURCE OF LIFE 3EPARATED FROM (IM OUR lRST PARENTS WERE PLUNGED INTO A LIFE OF SUFFERING /BEDIENCE PRODUCES JOY DISOBEDIENCE RESULTS IN SORROW 4HE PSALMIST $AVID PUT IT THIS WAY h9OU WILL SHOW ME THE PATH OF LIFE IN 9OUR PRESENCE IS FULLNESS OF JOY AT YOUR RIGHT HAND ARE PLEASURES FOREVERMOREv 0S *ESUS ADDED h4HE THIEF DOES NOT COME EXCEPT TO STEAL AND TO KILL AND TO DESTROY ) HAVE COME THAT THEY MAY HAVE LIFE AND THAT THEY MAY HAVE IT MORE ABUNDANTLYv *OHN )N THIS LESSON WE WILL STUDY THE TRAGIC CONSEQUENCES OF SIN AND THE AMAZING PLAN OF OUR LOVING HEAVENLY &ATHER TO REDEEM US FROM THE CONSEQUENCES OF OUR MISTAKEN CHOICES

7HAT WAS 3ATAN S lRST LIE #IRCLE THE ONE WORD THAT REVEALS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN WHAT 'OD SAID AND WHAT 3ATAN CLAIMED h4HEN THE SERPENT SAID TO THE WOMAN @9OU WILL NOT SURELY DIE v 'EN 3ATAN S STATEMENT DIRECTLY CONTRADICTED 'OD S WARNING REGARDING EATING FROM THE 4REE OF THE +NOWLEDGE OF 'OOD AND %VIL )N YOUR OWN WORDS DESCRIBE WHAT THIS GREAT CONTROVERSY WAS ALL ABOUT IN THE 'ARDEN OF %DEN

(OW DID !DAM AND %VE S RELATIONSHIP TO 'OD CHANGE AFTER THEY SINNED h!ND THEY HEARD THE SOUND OF THE ,ORD 'OD WALKING IN THE GARDEN IN THE COOL OF THE DAY AND !DAM AND HIS WIFE HID THEMSELVES FROM THE PRESENCE OF THE ,ORD 'OD AMONG THE TREES OF THE GARDENv 'EN 7HEN !DAM AND %VE SINNED THEY

THEMSELVES

(OW DOES SIN AFFECT OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH 'OD h"UT YOUR INIQUITIES HAVE SEPARATED YOU FROM YOUR 'OD AND YOUR SINS HAVE HIDDEN (IS FACE FROM YOU SO THAT (E WILL NOT HEARv )SA 3IN

US FROM 'OD

/NE OF THE TRAGIC CONSEQUENCES OF SIN IS THAT IT BREAKS OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH 'OD $ISOBEDIENCE TO 'OD S EXPRESSED COMMAND PLACES A BARRIER BETWEEN US AND 'OD 4HE GUILT OF OUR SINS CAUSES US TO HIDE FROM 'OD S GLORIOUS PRESENCE 3IN CREATES SHAME GUILT AND CONDEMNATION )T LEAVES US WITH EMPTINESS IN OUR SOULS

7HOM DID !DAM BLAME FOR HIS DISOBEDIENCE 7HAT WAS THE RESULT OF SIN ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN OUR lRST PARENTS h4HEN THE MAN SAID @4HE WOMAN WHOM 9OU GAVE TO BE WITH ME SHE GAVE ME OF THE TREE AND ) ATE v 'EN (OW DID !DAM ATTEMPT TO JUSTIFY HIS BEHAVIOR

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3IN RESULTS IN BROKEN RELATIONSHIPS NOT ONLY WITH 'OD BUT ALSO WITH THE PEOPLE AROUND US !DAM BLAMED %VE FOR HIS OWN CHOICE )N 'ENESIS #AIN LASHED OUT IN ANGER AT HIS BROTHER

!BEL AND KILLED HIM "LAME ANGER BITTERNESS AND CONmICT HAVE RESULTED THROUGHOUT THE CENTURIES BECAUSE OF HEARTS IN REBELLION AGAINST 'OD

7HAT EFFECT DID SIN HAVE UPON THE ENVIRONMENT THE NATURAL WORLD h#URSED IS THE GROUND FOR YOUR SAKE IN TOIL YOU SHALL EAT OF IT ALL THE DAYS OF YOUR LIFEv 'EN h&OR WE KNOW THAT THE WHOLE CREATION GROANS AND LABORS WITH BIRTH PANGS TOGETHER UNTIL NOWv 2OM !S THE RESULT OF SIN THE EARTH WAS

AND THE WHOLE CREATION

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3IN HAS AFFECTED OUR ENTIRE PLANET 4HE CONSEQUENCES OF SIN ARE A BROKEN RELATIONSHIP WITH 'OD WITH ONE ANOTHER EVEN WITH THE WORLD AROUND US

7HY DID *ESUS COME TO THIS SIN POLLUTED PLANET h) HAVE COME THAT THEY MAY HAVE LIFE AND THAT THEY MAY HAVE IT MORE ABUNDANTLYv *OHN h&OR THE 3ON OF -AN HAS COME TO SEEK AND TO SAVE THAT WHICH WAS LOSTv ,UKE *ESUS CAME TO EARTH FOR TWO PRIMARY REASONS 4O DEMONSTRATE THE

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THOSE WHO LOST EVERYTHING THROUGH !DAM AND %VE S REBELLION

*ESUS CAME TO RESTORE ALL THAT WAS LOST BY SIN (E LONGS TO RESTORE OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH 'OD AND ONE ANOTHER 4HE PLAN OF SALVATION ALSO INCLUDES THE RESTORATION OF THE EARTH TO BE EVEN MORE GLORIOUS THAN IT WAS IN %DEN

7HAT HOPEFUL PROMISES DOES 'OD GIVE US IN (IS 7ORD h&OR BEHOLD ) CREATE NEW HEAVENS AND A NEW EARTH AND THE FORMER SHALL NOT BE REMEMBERED OR COME TO MINDv )SA h.EVERTHELESS WE ACCORDING TO (IS PROMISE LOOK FOR NEW HEAVENS AND A NEW EARTH IN WHICH RIGHTEOUSNESS DWELLSv 0ETER h.OW ) SAW A NEW HEAVEN AND A NEW EARTH FOR THE lRST HEAVEN AND THE lRST EARTH HAD PASSED AWAYv 2EV 'OD PROMISES TO CREATE NEW

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3IN HAS HORRIBLE CONSEQUENCES "UT SIN WILL NOT HAVE THE LAST WORDˆ'OD WILL /NE DAY SIN WILL BE GONE FOREVER 7E WILL LIVE IN OUR NEW %DEN HOME RESTORED TO A NEW RELATIONSHIP WITH 'OD WITH ONE ANOTHER AND WITH OUR ENVIRONMENT ,OVE AND JOY PEACE AND HEALTH HARMONY AND GLADNESS WILL lLL THE EARTH 4HAT S SOMETHING WORTH LIVING FOR SOMETHING TO lLL OUR HEARTS WITH HOPE

.EXT MONTH S "IBLE STUDY WILL BE h,OVE S &INAL !PPEAL v

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4HANK YOU FOR THE ENLIGHTENING ARTICLE BY ,OWELL # #OOPER ENTITLED h)N THE .AME OF *ESUSv *UNE (E HIT THE NAIL ON THE HEAD WITH HIS INSIGHT ABOUT THE MINISTRY OF #HRIST WHEN (E WAS HERE ON EARTH AND WHAT OUR MISSION SHOULD BE IF WE ARE TO CONTINUE (IS WORK )T SEEMS ALL EVANGELISTIC ACTIVITIES ARE MEASURED IN TERMS OF CHURCH GROWTH AND WE PLACE LITTLE EMPHASIS ON THE TEACHING AND SERVING MINISTRY 4HIS ARTICLE BROUGHT THINGS INTO CORRECT BALANCE ) WISH WE COULD HAVE MORE ARTICLES ON HUMANITARIAN WORK *UDITH *AMISON 0AYNE +EENE 4EXAS 5NITED 3TATES 3CIENTIlC &INDINGS

) M WRITING CONCERNING THE ARTICLE h*OHANNA S ,ONG *OURNEY v BY 'ERHARD 0ADDERATZ !PRIL 4HE ARTICLE STATES THAT 0ROFES SOR (ARALD ZUR (AUSEN GOT A .OBEL 0RIZE FOR POINTING OUT THAT CANCER OF THE UTERUS IS CAUSED BY A VIRUS $ID NOT %LLEN ' 7HITE MENTION THIS SCIENTIlC lNDING AS A hGERM OF THE CANCERv MORE THAN YEARS AGO 4HE 7HITE %STATE MIGHT BE ABLE TO SHED SOME LIGHT ON THE MATTER 4HE NEAREST REFERENCE ) COULD RECALL WAS hCANCEROUS GERMSv IN 4HE -INISTRY OF (EALING P

3HOULD THE 7HITE %STATE PROVIDE A MORE SPECIlC QUOTATION WOULD NOT THAT BE BOTH COMFORT AND GUIDANCE FOR *OHANNA S SCIENTIlC RESEARCH ON CANCER -AYBE THIS WOULD INTRODUCE HER TO THE WRITINGS OF -RS 7HITE READ FROM A SCIENTIlC PERSPECTIVE *ALVA $E /LIVEIRA "RACKNELL %NGLAND &OR A &UTURE -AGAZINE

) M A READER OF THE !DVENTIST 7ORLD AND WAS IMPRESSED WITH THE COVER STORY IN THE !PRIL EDITION h*OHANNA S ,ONG *OURNEY v WHERE WE SEE THE (OLY 3PIRIT WORKING RELENTLESSLY TO GET PEOPLE TO lND 'OD ) ALSO lND h4HE 0EOPLE S 0LACEv INTERESTING SO WE ARE SENDING A PHOTO OF A YOUTH LEADERSHIP DAY 7E MOBILIZED OUR YOUTH WITH THE THEME h'ENERATION (OPEv THAT SEEKS TO HASTEN THE RETURN OF *ESUS #ARLANI -ORAIS 3ILVA %SPIRITO 3ANTO "RAZIL

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) AM A SUBSCRIBER OF THE !DVENTIST 2EVIEW AND RECEIVE THE !DVENTIST 7ORLDˆ) REALLY LIKE THEM 4HE LAST SERMON ) PREACHED ON 7EDNESDAY EVENING WAS TAKEN FROM ONE OF THEMˆTHE EXPERIENCE OF THE MOTHER WHO LEFT HER CHILD IN THE HANDS OF 'OD h&ULlLLING A -OTHER S $REAM v BY 3AMUEL .EVES !PRIL ) HAVE A FRIEND IN "ERLIN 'ERMANY

WHO DOES NOT BELIEVE IN 'OD BUT ) M TRYING TO CHANGE HIS IDEAS )F SOMEONE WHO SPEAKS 'ERMAN COULD STUDY WITH HIM IT WOULD BE WONDER FUL ) DO NOT WANT TO MISS THIS SOUL ) PUT EVERYTHING IN 'OD S HANDS BUT ) HAVE TO DO MY PART #AN YOU HELP ME WITH A CONTACT ,UCIANA 6ERDEIRO - ARECHAL #ºNDIDO 2ONDON

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)T IS INSPIRING TO READ ARTICLES LIKE h/NE $OLLAR ,OVE #ALL v BY *ERRY +EA !PRIL 7E CAN ALL CONTRIBUTE A BIT IN THE GREAT WORK THAT #HRIST LEFT US TO BRING THE GOSPEL TO EVERYONE ) HOPE OTHER CHURCHES TAKE THIS EXAMPLE AND HELP TO SEE THAT THE LOVE OF #HRIST IS PROCLAIMED ELSEWHERE IN THE WORLD 'OD CONTINUE TO BL ESS THIS PROJECT 0ATRICIA -ONDAQUE 6IA E MAIL

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) WAS BORN AND BROUGHT UP IN THE 0RESBYTERIAN #HURCH ) WATCHED THE !". TELECAST IN MY SPARE TIME AND RECEIVED SOME COPIES OF THE !DVENTIST 7ORLD MAGAZINE FROM A FRIEND WHO IS A 3EVENTH DAY !DVENTIST ) WAS INSPIRED TO KNOW MORE ABOUT THE TRUE 3ABBATH THE COMMANDMENTS OF 'OD THAT SHOW (IS CHARACTER AND ABOUT THE SOON COMING OF *ESUS #HRIST +INDLY SEND ME MONTHLY COPIES OF !DVENTIST 7ORLD ) AM YOU NEW BROTHER IN #HRIST 2ONY - .ONGKHLAW -EGHALAYA )NDIA

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) WAS IMPRESSED BY h3PIRITUAL 0ERILSv BY 2OY !DAMS -AY )T S TRUE THAT WE ARE GETTING LESS CONCERNED ABOUT THE EFFECT OUR ENVIRONMENT HAS ON OUR RELATIONSHIP AND BELIEFS IN LIFE 4HIS ARTICLE WAS A GOOD WAKE UP CALL FOR ME 7E HAVE TO BE BALANCED AND HAVE A CONCRETE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN OUR BELIEFS AND PREFERENCES IN LIFE 4HANK YOU FOR THIS REMINDER 'AVIN *OHNS 9ANGON -YANMAR

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'REETINGS IN THE NAME OF *ESUS #HRIST ) AM INTERESTED IN YOUR MIN ISTRY AND IN WORKING WITH YOU ) AM FROM THE )NTERNATIONAL 0ENTECOSTAL #HURCH IN -ALAWI ) AM HAPPILY MARRIED AND HAVE THREE CHILDREN 4OGETHER WE STARTED SERVING 'OD SERIOUSLY IN ) M WRITING TO EXPRESS MY INTEREST IN THIS WONDERFUL MINISTRY -AY ) KNOW IF YOU ARE ALREADY WORKING IN -ALAWI SO WE CAN EASILY COMMUNICATE ) AM LOOKING FORWARD TO HEARING FROM YOU -AY THE GOOD ,ORD RICHLY BLESS YOU ALL 3TEVE -ASEKO -ALAWI +NOWING -OREˆ3HARING -ORE

) GOT YOUR ADDRESS FROM AN !DVENTIST 7ORLD MAGAZINE ) DON T KNOW WHAT

KIND OF SERVICES YOU GIVE BUT COULD YOU HELP ME KNOW 'OD MORE ) BECAME AN !DVENTIST A YEAR AGO ) AM VERY HAPPY BECAUSE ) ALWAYS SEE THE LOVE AND POWER OF 'OD IN MY HAPPI NESS AS WELL AS IN MY SORROW ) AM A UNIVERSITY STUDENT ) HAVE MANY FRIENDS WHO DO NOT KNOW THE TRUE LOVE OF 'OD ) DON T KNOW WHAT TO DO FOR THEM ) REALLY LACK LEARNING MATERIALS 0LEASE CONTACT ME SOON -AY 'OD BLESS YOU FOR WHAT YOU ARE DOING +IRUBEL -ANYAZEWAL !DDIS !BABA %THIOPIA

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4 ( % 0 , ! # % / & 0 2 !9 % 2 ) AM ASKING FOR PRAYERS -Y YOUNG BROTHER IS SICK WITH LIVER ENLARGEMENT

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0LEASE PRAY THAT MY CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN WILL COME TO KNOW *ESUS AS THEIR 3AVIOR AND DESIRE TO FOLLOW (IS WAY *OAN 5NITED 3TATES

0LEASE PRAY FOR MY SPIRITUAL LIFE AND FOR MY MARRIAGE -ARIC£LIA "RAZIL

) WANT 'OD TO TOUCH MY FAMILY AND TO GIVE THEM LOVE TOWARD (IM ) AM THE ONLY !DVENTIST IN MY FAMILY AND WANT THAT BLESSING FOR ALL OF THEM ,UCAS !RGENTINA

) HAVE BEEN GROWING COLD IN THE THINGS OF 'OD DUE TO SOME PRESSURE AT WORK AND ECONOMICAL HARDSHIPS /F LATE ) HAVE BEEN WORKING ON 3ABBATHS AND ) KNOW THE DEVIL IS HAPPY ABOUT IT 3TRONGLY PRAY FOR ME TO BECOME A VICTOR $AVID :AMBIA

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TO TRUST (IM IN THIS TRYING TIME AND AS LONG AS ) HAVE LIFE !GATHA 7EST )NDIES 0LEASE PRAY FOR MY FAMILYˆTHEY DO NOT ATTEND CHURCH OR READ SPIRITUAL MATERI ALS ) WANT THEM TO REALIZE THAT *ESUS IS OUR 3AVIOR 0RAY FOR ME TOO ) AM IN COLLEGE AND WORKING AS A HOUSEMAID )T IS HARD FOR ME TO lNISH MY STUDIES *ENNERY 0HILIPPINES 4HE 0LACE OF 0RAYER SEND TO PRAYER ADVENTISTWORLD ORG

0LEASE PRAY FOR ME ) HAVE BEEN PRAY ING AND SEARCHING FOR A JOB FOR THE LAST SIX MONTHS BUT STILL HAVE NOT FOUND ONE 0LEASE PRAY THAT ) WILL NOT LOSE FAITH IN 'OD BUT THAT ) WILL CONTINUE

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HE RIGHTEOUS WILL mOURISH LIKE A PALM TREEx 4HEY WILL STILL BEAR FRUIT IN OLD AGE THEY STAY FRESH AND GREENv 0S .)6 4HE PSALMIST IN HIS POEM ENTITLED h&OR THE 3ABBATH $AY v TELLS ME WHAT A RIGHTEOUS PERSON WILL DO !IMING TO LIVE A VIRTUOUS LIFE ) WANT TO DISCOVER WHAT IT MEANS TO hmOURISH LIKE A PALM TREE v 4HE DATE PALM 0HOENIX DACTYLIFERA IS THE TREE MOST SCHOLARS AGREE IS THE SPECIES OF PALM IN 3CRIPTURE ! BRANCHLESS TREE THAT GROWS TO A HEIGHT OF ABOUT TO FEET C TO M IT MAY LIVE AND PRODUCE FRUIT UNTIL IT IS YEARS OLD !S A NONAGENARIAN ) DON T EXPECT TO PRODUCE ARTICLES THAT MANY YEARS BUT HOPE TO MAKE IT TO THE CENTURY MARK AND BEYOND (ERE ARE SOME INTERESTING FACTS $ATES GROW IN CLUSTERS WEIGHING FROM TO POUNDS C TO KG AND CONSTITUTE A PART OF THE DIET FOR SOME !RAB TRIBES 4HE WOOD OF THE TREES SERVES FOR FENCES ROOFS AND RAFTS AND THE LEAVES ARE WOVEN INTO MATS BASKETS AND OTHER HOUSEHOLD UTENSILS 4HE DATE PALM HAS LONG FEATHER LIKE GRAY GREEN LEAVES TO FEET C TO M LONG 4HE UPPER LEAVES SOMETIMES CALLED BRANCHES STAND MORE OR LESS UPRIGHT 4HESE CONTRAST WITH THE TALLER COCONUT PALMS WHICH PRODUCE GRACEFULLY DROOPING LEAmETS 4HE DATE PALMS PROVIDED SHADE FOR THE )SRAELITES AT %LIM WHEN THEY mED FROM %GYPT %X 9EARS LATER THE PROPHETESS $EBORAH JUDGED THE PEOPLE UNDER THE SHADE OF A PALM TREE *UDGES 4HE (EBREW PEOPLE USED PALM LEAVES TO ERECT BOOTHS FOR THEIR &EAST OF 4AB ERNACLES ,EV 4HE WORSHIPPERS IN THAT WAY RECALLED THE DESERT WANDERING OF THEIR ANCESTORS 7HEN 3OLOMON BUILT HIS 4EMPLE THE TREE WAS EMPLOYED IN ARCHITECTURAL DESIGNS +INGS

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