Former Seventh-day Adventist Pastor for 13 Years Gives His Testimony Why Adventism is Wrong
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Larry Wessels, director of
Christian Answers of
Austin, Texas/ Christian Debater (
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Seventh Day Adventist pastor
Dale Ratzlaff (email: dale@ratzlaf.com) who relates his personal testimony of why he left the Seventh Day Adventist religion & why
Ellen G. White is a false prophet.
Dale and
Carolyn Ratzlaff founded
Life Assurance Ministries in
1999. Dale is author of
Sabbath in Christ, The Cultic
Doctrine of
Seventh-day Adventists,
The Truth About the
Seventh-day Adventist Truth, and
Adventist to Christian. Dale was an Adventist pastor for 13 years, seven of which he spent teaching
Bible at
Monterey Bay Academy ,
La Selva Beach, California. During his doctoral studies at
Andrews University in the
1980’s, Dale became convinced that the
1844 investigative judgment could not be supported by
Scripture. Since he could no longer teach this doctrine, he and his wife Carolyn left the Adventist denomination. Dale and Carolyn host a Former Adventist Fellowship
Bible study near
Phoenix, Arizona.
The
Seventh-day Adventist doctrine of the investigative judgment and cleansing of the heavenly
Sanctuary based upon
Daniel 8:14 is indeed the central pillar of the Adventist faith. Some Adventists may disagree; however, it is.
Ellen White said, “The scripture which above all others had been both the foundation and central pillar of the
Advent faith was the declaration, ‘Unto two thousand and three hundred days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed’.
A recent book by Dr.
Roy Adams is subtitled,
Understanding the
Heart of Adventist
Theology, and it confirms this.The
Adult Sabbath School Bible
Study Guide,
2001, is entitled, Pillars of Our
Faith. It includes chapters on “
The Sabbath”, “The
Heavenly Sanctuary”, “
The Hour of God’s
Judgment”, “
The Remnant”, etc. The last two presidents of the
General Conference have both expressed publicly that the
Adventist church will not change.
•Ellen G. White said that Daniel 8:14 is the foundation and central pillar of the Advent faith.
•A recent book on the sanctuary by Adventist leader Dr. Roy Adams is subtitled, The heart of
Adventist theology.
•A recent Adult Sabbath School Bible Study Guide, entitled, The pillars of our faith includes chapters on the “The Sabbath”, “The Heavenly Sanctuary”, “The Hour of God’s Judgment”, and “The Remnant”. It includes this quotation from
Early Writings, p. 263, “
Jesus entered the most holy of the heavenly, at the end of the
2300 days of Daniel 8, in
1844, to make final atonement for all who could be benefitted by His mediation, and thus to cleanse the sanctuary.”
•Dr. Roy Gane stated that he was excited to know that Ratzlaff understood that the sanctuary was central to Adventists.
•Dr.
Richard Davidson referred to the sanctuary as the heart of doctrine.
•Dr.
Angel Rodriguez, professor of theology at the Adventist seminary and associate director of the Adventist
Biblical Research Institute, stated forthrightly, “
Without 1844 and the doctrine of the Sanctuary
... there is no reason for us to exist. 1844 provided for us our identity and our mission. And if we are wrong, then we are simply wrong.”
We can see that the stakes are high.
There are many, perhaps the majority, of Adventist pastors and Bible teachers who want to run as far away from Daniel 8:14, 1844 and the investigative judgment, and the cleansing of the heavenly sanctuary as possible. Yet the church cannot dismiss this doctrine. This doctrine is not only the central pillar in name, it is the central pillar holding up the whole Adventist identity. I agree
100% with Dr.
Rodriguez on this
point. If the Adventist church were to jettison this teaching, the organization would be morphed into something it is not. That is why the last two General Conference presidents have openly endorsed Ellen White and the sanctuary doctrine. If they were to admit the errors of
October 22, 1844, and the investigative judgment as the cleansing of the heavenly sanctuary as taught by Ellen White, then Ellen White would fall as “a continuing and authoritative source of truth”. If Ellen White is rejected, the doctrine of the remnant church would fall on the heap. If the remnant church doctrine goes, then the Sabbath as the seal of God for end time believers and Sunday as the mark of the beast crumbles into the dust.
2 Timothy 2:15