Doug Batchelor is a 7th. Day Adventist. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_bachelor

Lile all their speakers, he is very well trained and has a complete grasp of their party line. Like all their apeakers, he will never identify himself as a 7DA until the last moment of the last lecture in a series. His audience, inevitably, will be mostly 7DA's, punctuated by a minority of "gentiles" who have been drawn to the lecture by a direct mail campaign.

Note very carefully that he never, ever mentions the rapture. In fact, at some point in the series, he will heap calumny and mockery on the entire concept. Likewise, at some point in the series, he will land on Saturday or sabbath worship. He makes a beginning in this lecture when he deals with government mandated Sunday worship. (HUH?) It seems to me that the government is doing everything to discourage anything but Friday worship

In 1955 LBJ introduced legislation putting churches under 501c3 in the tax code. He did this in vengeance upon a Texas church that opposed and nearly prevented his election in 1948. Now, folks, that is religious control!

Now, please do not think I have a vendetta against 7DA's. I don't. I rather enjoy their lectures -- they're always interesting -- and enjoy refuting their arguments even more. While certainly regarding them as my brothers and sisters in Christ, I do regard them as exhibiting some characteristics of a cult.

i do object to their practice of concealing their affiliation in their lecture series until the last, climatic instant.

Moving on, someone mentioned the opening of portals on the forthcoming election day. In my opinion, the portals have been open for some time; specifically, they were opened at the multi-faith service at the National Cathedral just after 9/11. I will never, ever forget the sight of all the genteel Washington ladies daintlly weeping into their hankies at the comforting words of the MULLAH! While this was not THE abomination of desolation, it was certainly AN abomination of desolation. I have prayed over this every single day since, pleading mercy upon this nation. God bless Franklin Graham who had the conviction and courage to stand in that pulpit and excoriate Islam for what it is! He;s never been invited back, has he?

A multi-faith service is impossible, it is blasphemy of the highest order. Even so, this government has officially mandated and  sponsored the same. And we have the temerity to say, "God bless America"! No, God is removing his blessing and protection, and we are surrounded by the evidence of this.

Maranatha,

Bob