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You may read the letter from Dr. Anderson by clicking on the following: Letter to all chaplains.pdf

I agree JoeMo 100%. Not one of my Jewish relatives cared or understood this!! Not sure if its because they wont read the NT?? What I've noticed is the Jews that actually read the NT seem to be able to see Jesus as the Messiah, obviously not all but many. Even Muslims have come around when aloud to read the Bible for themselves!!

That goes without saying as Ellen never came up with anything novel - she simply confirmed what the Pioneers had said / believed. "It is the teaching of the investigative judgment that makes Seventh day Adventists a distinct people. Immediately after the passing of the time in 1844, rays of light in regard to the sanctuary began Ito illuminate the hearts of the faithful ones, but 0. R. L. Crosier was the first to write • out an exposition of the sanctuary question. In regard to his position, Sister White wrote, " The Lord showed me in vision, more than a year ago, that Brother Crosier had the true light on the cleansing of the sanctuary." Crosier's article, " A Word to the Little Flock," was published in the Day-star Extra, Feb. 7, 1846, p. 12. Sister White's vision of " The End of the 2300 Days," given in " Early Writings," and other visions fully explained the subject of the sanctuary". Review & Sabbath Herald September 5, 1918 Brother Crosier, prior to his death, said that he wrote that article referenced above "to prove the Shut door teaching" . Below is Crosier explaining it. I did not "originate their present sanctuary view." The facts in the case are—William Miller deserves the credit for shut-doorism among the Advent people; and he got the idea from some of the most learned commentators of the "orthodox" churches. I am not aware that either he or they built it upon the sanctuary service. They inferred it chiefly from passages in the New Testament. Mr. Miller expressed his opinion that the door of mercy would be closed in 1838. When "the 10th day of the 7th month" time passed in the fall of 1844, he and others (with few exceptions,) who were interested in that midnight cry, as they called it, believed that the door of mercy was then shut,—that no more sinners would or could be converted. That opinion prevailed in 1845 and 1846. In the latter year I published in an Extra of The Day Star, a paper published by Enoch Jacobs, at Cincinnati, an exposition of the Sanctuary and its Service in the law of Moses, to explain how and why the door of mercy was shut. On account of our ignorance of the Scriptures my argument was more fully and more widely accepted than it deserved to be. In the next three years ('47-49) I saw and published its defects as to the shut door. They were: There is no proof that the processes of repentance and pardon were suspended on the Day of Atonement. "His mercy endureth forever." It is presumption to limit God's mercy. The bar does not come from God's side, but from man's side. Jesus never refused pardon to anyone repenting and asking for it. There is Scripture proof that there will be pardon and salvation under the reign of Christ—for the left of the nations, after the second coming. This, chiefly , brought me out of the shut-door. Out of it, we can see that the shut-door conception is crude, gross, narrow, puerile. You ask, "Did you hold to the shut-door theory, that salvation was past, and that there was no more pardon for sinners?" I did. "And did . . . the author of the visions, and those who believed them, adopt these views?" They did; and were among the first to declare them and the most persistent in retaining and publishing them; and what is more, they must still hold those views, because they still adhere to my sanctuary exposition, which was written to prove the shut-door. They even make (or did make a few years ago,) a foolish excuse for the conversions that have occurred since the fall of 1844, viz., that the names of those millions of converts were borne into the holy of holies on the breastplate of the high priest on the 10th day of the 7th month in that year—most of them yet unborn! There was no hint of any such thing in the type. The first shut-door believers put the issue on higher and more obvious ground, viz., that the Lord would very soon come—was actually on his way, some said,—and the world would be immediately destroyed. But as he did not come, and as conversions could not be prevented, nor denied even under the labors of shut-door believers, the names of future converts on the breastplate was a Yankee invention to suit the emergency. But, in the type, the names of the twelve tribes—not the names of all faithful individuals —were on the breastplate. In the love of the truth, in the blessed hope, and in the precious work of the gospel, Your brother, O. R. L. CROZIER. So, it's true that Ellen White didn't make the doctrines of the SDA Church, the Pioneers made the doctrines and Ellen "confirmed the doctrines" by saying she was shown by the Lord that Crosier, James White, etc. , etc. , etc. was right.

I am in a personal study of the Sanctuary Service and have quite a stack of books to read thru, and have read thru about half of those planned on being "consumed". However, I have put off EGW until last, not because I do not believe, but the sanctuary books "written" by EGW are compilations by others. Therefore, it will be necessary to find the source of these compilation quotes to see the context. Along the way, it has become apparent that the sanctuary service given to Israel in the desert was a parable of redemption. And like the parables of Jesus while on earth the different parts of the parable have meaning. I am of the opinion that God is a God of order and does not waste symbols or have people engaging in useless ceremonies that have no spiritual meaning. Consequently, many theologians and other spiritually gifted writers that I have read have ably demonstrated the presence of the Investigative Judgement in Scripture. So, I have no problem with believing in an Investigative Judgement. I do have my concerns regarding those who deny things like the cleansing of the Sanctuary, EGW, and many other pillars of the Adventist faith. Like Jesus asked when He was on earth, "Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?" Luke 18:8 Sadly, I see Scriptural truths being denied all the time. And even the visions of EGW being denied. I find this verse to be very sobering for the times we live in. "Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth." 2 Timothy 3:7

More than 90 females have qualified for and been endorsed to become SDA chaplains. Most have served in SDA institutions. A total of six (6) females have become SDA endorsed military chaplains.

I have often wondered the same thing. But it has nothing to do with his sometimes errant moral judgement; it has to do with Donald vs. the world. So far, he has a pretty good record on delivering on his campaign promises. It appears that North Korea is ready to sit down with him now rather than engage in a [censored] - measuring contest. I doubt that Iran will succumb to the Donald without a war; and I'm confident that neither Russia nor China will give in. Is this hastening the end-time crisis? OTOH, if Hillary would have become president, we would likely be neck-deep in globalism right now; joining the rest of the UN against Israel and the free practice of Christianity. So did Donald's election delay end-time events? I guess time will tell. Another alternative is that God has His own timeline for end events; and there is nothing we as humans can do to hasten or delay it. Maybe God's timeline is not based on humanity's limited view of time (since He is transcendent of time), but on the sequence of certain events that preclude His divine intervention. Just a thought ...

Not withstanding. Perhaps God has a sense of humor too.