Problems with Adventist Futurism

[CGMedley]

Bible scholar Angel Rodriguez says that some Adventists are obsessed with prophetic speculation. Some are even reinterpreting end-time events. You can read his compelling commentary in this week's Adventist Review.

http://www.adventistreview.org/article.php?id=3247

[John317]

Excellent. I couldn't agree more. Thank you.

The following is particularly apropos:

One of the errors that Ellen White warned us about in the misinterpretation of Bible prophecy:

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Emotional Excitement. A false sense of excitement will damage the image and message of the church. There are some who, when studying not only prophecy but the Bible more generally, “have a burning desire to get out something new and strange to present to the flock of God. The rebuke of God is upon all such teachers.”3 When this becomes known outside the church its reputation is damaged. Ellen G. White wrote, “It is the desire and plan of Satan to bring in among us those who will go to great extremes—people of narrow minds, who are critical and sharp, and very tenacious in holding their own conceptions of what the truth means… Through the work of a few of this class of persons, the whole body of Sabbath keepers will be designated as bigoted, pharisaical, and fanatical. The work of the truth, because of these workers, will be thought to be unworthy of notice.”4 When it comes to eschatological events; it is dangerous to try to fill in every gap. Our eschatology should be placed within the soteriology of the New Testament, emphasizing hope as its primary content.