Are you the Voice from Heaven?
I’ve got a personal question for you: you said once that your mission for 20-something years has been to help people leave the Adventist church.
A question just recently occurred to me concerning your mission—did you get that mission from Revelation 18:4? “Then I heard another voice from heaven say: ‘Come out of her, my people,’ so that you will not share in her sins, so that you will not receive any of her plagues; ‘”
Do you see yourself as that voice from heaven?
—VIA EMAIL
Response: your question reveals that you haven’t been actually listening to/reading what I say carefully. I have not said my mission has been to help people “leave the Adventist church”. I have said essentially the following things many times:
- I have prayed for over two decades that God would call people out of Adventism and plant them deeply in His word.
- I have dedicated my life to helping those questioning Adventists to know the true gospel of the true Jesus and to trust His word.
- It is not enough for a person to leave Adventism. A person must believe and trust the Lord Jesus and His finished work. To leave Adventism without becoming anchored in Christ is spiritually dangerous as per Luke 11:26.
- I pray that those who share my background of Adventism will trust the true Jesus and allow His word to rewire their worldview so that they become anchored in truth and rooted in reality.
Your question reveals your perspective shaped by Seventh-day Adventism. A Christian rooted in the biblical gospel and the understanding of the body of Christ would not think to ask if I see myself as a voice from heaven. That kind of question reflects the Adventist belief that God sent them a “voice from heaven” to establish their doctrines and religion. It further reveals the belief stated by that “voice” that before Jesus returns, there may be another prophetic voice.
I challenge you to set aside all Adventist literature for six months and get a notebook. Begin copying the book of John into that notebook, a few verses at a time, asking God to show you what He wants you to know. After John move to Galatians, Colossians, Ephesians, and Hebrews. Use no commentaries but read using the normal tools of grammar, context, and vocabulary. The words mean what the words say. Your first step is to observe what the passages say. The second step is to interpret. The third step is application. No passage of Scripture can have more than one meaning. Application may differ from time period to time period, but the meaning never changes.
I pray that the Lord will not release you from your cognitive dissonance until you submit your mind and beliefs to Him and allow Him to reveal Himself to you through His word without the help of any extra-biblical voice from heaven.
Ten Commandments Separated from the Law
I think where the Adventists really fall short on the doctrine of Sabbath is where they do believe the Mosaic covenant is fulfilled by Christ, but they don’t believe Paul when he states that the 10 Commandments are the tablets OF that covenant in Hebrews 9:4. I think they see the commandments as everlasting, existing outside of any covenant, rather than as a symbol that points to Christ’s fulfillment and the new covenant.
—VIA TEXT MESSAGE
Response: Exactly so. They artificially extract the Ten from the covenant. It’s a fallacy on which they build their structure, and it makes their entire “building” unsound because the foundation is false.
Here’s an article that I think you’ll find very helpful. The author was an apologist with an Adventist friend who was trying to convert him. He wrote this article to explain that the law is a unit that cannot be broken, and he shows from church history how the division artificially came about.
- How the Gospel Disproves Adventism - May 29, 2026
- May 30–June 5, 2026 - May 28, 2026
- We Got Mail - May 28, 2026