Frank,
No, No, and No.
(1.) I do not belong to ANY denomination
other than Christianity. I believe in the Church of God as
the TRUE church because it is stated in:
I Thessalonians 2:12.......... That ye would walk
worthy of God, who hath called you unto his kingdom and
glory.
13............ For this cause also thank we God
without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God
which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men,
but as it is in truth, the word of God, which
effectually worketh also in you that believe.
14............ For ye, brethren, became followers
of the churches of God which in Judaea are in Christ
Jesus: for ye also have suffered like things of your own
countrymen, even as they have of the Jews:
I Corinthians 1:2............. Unto the church
of God which is at Corinth, to them that are
sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all
that in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our
Lord, both theirs and ours:
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(2.) I know nothing about Helen White. I
learn my belief system from the KJV of the Holy Bible, The
Word of Jehovah God and Jesus Christ the son of God,
research, reading, and prayer, as stated in:
Galatians 1:11........... But I certify you,
brethren, that the gospel which was preached of me is not
after man.
12........... For I neither received it of man,
neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus
Christ.
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(3.) I believe that all people that repent,
and acknowledge Jesus Christ as being the son of God
Almighty, are saved. Each person has a cleaning up to do of
their life in becoming more Christ like, perfecting, as you
will, themselves, to be like Jesus. God gave man the sabbath
to REST and keep HOLY as a sign that
we belong to him. It's all in Exodus 20. Jesus taught that
we are not to be fanatics about work on the sabbath, and
that it was made for man and not man for the sabbath. Common
sense tells me to keep Saturday as the sabbath and rest on
it. If something comes up and you need to do something that
is called work, it is OK. The idea is that someone is known
by what they normally do as a pattern in their life. The
Saduceces and the Pharisees did everything to the fanatical
point of making it impossible for the people. Then they
would stand back and criticize the common people over nit
picky things when they were worse than the people. I believe
all Christians are saved and saints of God, cleansed by the
blood of Jesus Christ our Lord, and saviour. I think like
most people do, that those alive at the Harvest ( Rapture),
will be transformed in the twinkling of an eye, after the
dead have been taken. I differ on the belief about the bride
of Christ being whisked away before trouble hits. I also
believe that the bride of Christ is the 144,000 of
revelations 7:4, and that the tribulation began after they
were all sealed, which I think has already happened. I
believe that they are the 2 witnesses of revelations 11
(12,000 from each of the 12 tribes as stated in revelations
7, taken from the 2 kingdoms, the southern kingdom and the
northern kingdom of Israel), and that they are killed by the
beast at chap.11:7 and ascend to the throne in verse 12.
Then they appear next time with Jesus on mount Sion. This is
the bride of Christ! They are the firstfruits, or in other
words, the Barley Harvest, the first harvest to take place.
They are cross bearers and will be subjugated to the same
thing that the apostles went through, basically hell on
earth perpetrated by their fellow humans. One has to count
the cost before hoping to be one of these people because of
the sacrifice that will be required of them, the ultimate
test of FAITH to lay down one's life for the testimony of
Jesus Christ! That is the reason that they will not have to
suffer the trials of the second death. They have been tried
in the fire, so to speak. As far as Saturday or Sunday
worship, that is for each and every man to figure out. I
believe that it is important to God and I feel that it is
part of the deception that Satan has foisted upon mankind.
But prayer and diligent seeking of the Lord will render your
answer and it will be the right one if you seek the TRUTH.
The main thing that I think is going to happen is that
people are going to be dumbfounded when 144,000 people are
slaughtered by the beast and set out in Jerusalem as an
example, right around the time he implements the mark of the
beast to buy and sell. I feel that the entire world has been
deceived and this is the deception! The church will not be
taken until right after the mark of the beast is set up and
before the WRATH OF GOD is poured out in full force in
revelations 16. Running after idols and false gods,
worshipping on the first day of the week, worshipping Jesus
by celebrating his birth (on the wrong day) when he told his
apostles to keep the Passover meal in remembrance of him and
to take the bread and the wine in communion with one another
to be one with him. He spoke in parables to the masses
because they were not to be part of this special
descipleship. Jesus was the first of the firstfruits. In the
end times, the last 7 years, the 144,000 are the firstfruits
as stated in revelations 14:4, it says it right in the
Bible! The door is left open for their escape from the
second death because they had a little strength. They miss
the hour of temptation because they have already been
ascended up to the throne at revelations 11:12. The church
will escape the wrath of God but will have to listen to the
144,000 if they want to make it through the tribulation to
the point of being the only people in human history to be
translated in the twinkling of an eye without dieing. The
144,000 are the point warriors for Jesus Christ, against
physical and spiritual persecution of his saints that will
be taken in the wheat harvest at revelations 14:15, right
after the mark of the beast is set up in chapter 13. Notice
that the mark of the beast is implemented in chapter 13 and
right after that the wheat harvest happens in chapter 14, so
it is very possible that the church saints could get away
from the beast and his entities long enough to make it to
the wheat harvest without having to face the hour of
temptation! If you read Luke chapter 17:29-37...........it
outlines that there is no time to waste, one must FLEE in
haste. Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it;
and whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it. (In
other words, don't try to pack a bag when "in the day" that
the Son of man is revealed because the antichrist is going
to start killing everyone that will not take the mark of the
beast. Look at how it is summarized in verse 34 where 2 men
will be lieing in one bed. This is not a taking away for a
righteous reason. One is taken and the other left because
one refuses to take the mark of the beast and is hauled away
to be executed by the beast. Verse 37 makes no sense in any
other light. The wheat harvest happens right after the
implementation of the mark by the beast in chapter 13 of
revelations. I know this is foreign to your ears, but it is
scriptural, and i believe it to be the TRUTH!
YBIC
Michael