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My study of Armageddon leads me to an entirely different understanding. I tend to think many who study prophecy spend too much time seeing war, as in blood shed and armed conflicts by military forces. I do not see Armageddon as a physical war. So, no "ten" kings. (Actually, there are only seven and three were destroyed and removed from the earth.) So, here is my understanding. One must start start even at the name Armageddon. Armageddon is a transliteration error of the name Har Megiddo. Har (meaning "mountain") Megiddo is also known as Mt. Carmel. You may remember Mt Carmel as the mountain where Elijah met Ahab, the priests of Baal, and people of Israel. His famous question there to those assembled was, "How long halt ye between two opinions?" While everyone has their opinion personal "Armageddon" in their souls, the end times events will move this earth to one last great moment of "How long halt ye between two opinions?" for the whole earth. The Sabbath controversy will be part of the story, but the real challenging question will be "Are you going to follow God or man?" Will you receive the mark of God or the mark of the beast? Granted, there will be wars all over the earth along with all the other displays of destruction of every kind. But Armageddon is different. It is a continuation of the War between Christ and Satan and it will be played out in everyone's hearts.

My belief is that Armageddon is a spiritual battle between God and his angels and Satan and his angels!! Good vs Evil. Not a literal war between people!!

Congratulations, Phkrause: You are correct as to the best answer for the number of sub-species, which is 16. The American Black Bear, may have a black fur coat and it may have a brown fur coat, as is fairly common knowledge. However, you have not listed all of the possible colors of its fur coat. So your answer: One correct and one partially correct, but needing more work. By the way, as I was planning to post my question, I thought about adding another coloration--yellow with purple polka-dots. But, in the end I did not add that one.

You will never retire until it's time for your dirt nap (or translation!)

See: https://spectrummagazine.org/sabbath-school/2019/revelation-our-options-interpretation

I thought about those two paragraphs, and considered them to be an excellent summary. of the article. but, I decided not to give away a summation of the article.

It is interesting that the couple were both Buddhist when they married but one converted and became a Christian. The article kept stressing that a Buddhist could marry whoever they wished. However, the Christian wife is doing just what Paul advocated in the New Testament by staying with her husband. It is almost a no brainer kind of situation. The story may have been more challenging if they were of different religions prior to marriage. Another situation that does not often get discussed are those who are divorced and unBiblically remarried and then become Christians. What then of their marriage? What if they are both "Christians" when they do the deed? Are they still married albeit it unBiblically? Is the "adultery" a sin of the moment or do they continue to live in sin and should divorce? Sin did bad things to marriage, like it did to so many other things.

The high calling ?

5 Things You Didn't Know About Peanuts The last daily "Peanuts" comic strip by Charles Schulz ran on January 3, 2000. Many of the 2,600 newspapers that carried Peanuts ran the farewell strip on their front page. Here are five things you didn't know about one of the most popular and influential comic strips of all time... The Character of Franklin Got His Last Name From a Cartoonist Who Had Grown up Admiring Franklin Yes, that's correct. Franklin, the African-American boy who Schulz introduced in the 1960s, did not have a last name until the 1990s. Robb Armstrong (the cartoonist who created JumpStart) had grown up reading Peanuts and was heavily influenced by Schulz's inclusion of Franklin. When Armstrong signed up with United Feature Syndicate, he sent a drawing to Schulz of a JumpStart character referencing Snoopy and later found that Schulz had framed the strip and displayed it on his wall. The two became friends, and when Peanuts was going to have a video special released, Schulz asked Armstrong if Franklin could use "Armstrong" as his last name. Peanuts Was Originally Called L'il Folks Schulz's first version of Peanuts was called L'il Folks, and it debuted as a weekly panel in the Saturday Evening Post in 1947. The strip was kid-centered but did not contain many of Peanuts' most famous characters, including Snoopy and Linus. When Schulz signed a contract and expanded the strip, he had to change the name because L'il Folks sounded too close to L'il Abner, another comic strip. Schulz said he actually wasn't a fan of the new name but kept drawing because the work was worth it. The Interior of Snoopy's Doghouse Has Been Seen Only Once And it's like the Peanuts kids' version of a TARDIS—bigger on the inside and containing exactly everything needed for the episode (because every doghouse just happens to have chemistry equipment stored away). In the animated special It's Magic, Charlie Brown, Snoopy heads into his doghouse, which turns out to merely be an entrance. In the few minutes you see him inside, he walks down a staircase into a giant basement locker room and workspace in which he attempts alchemy. Schulz Really Did Die the Night Before His Last Sunday Strip Ran This is a morbid fact, but the timing is so stunning that it should be mentioned. The last original daily strip ran on January 3, 2000, but Schulz still had some Sunday comics ready to go. Those continued to run until February 13, 2000. However, Schulz died in his sleep in the evening of February 12, 2000, so on Sunday morning, readers were faced with a double whammy of a sweet goodbye from the strip and news of Schulz's death. The Most Controversial Character of the Strip Is... Snoopy? When the Peanuts strip first started, Snoopy was emotional and easily influenced by the other characters. He provided the visible reaction to what the others were saying, which, in the early days, was usually rather depressing. Toward the end of the 1960s, however, Snoopy's character gained confidence and tended to take on more of an independent role that was not as influenced by the other characters. You might call this a natural progression, but the switch from reactive Snoopy to independent Snoopy made many readers uncomfortable. His confidence has been called narcissistic, shallow, and alienating. Still, Snoopy remains one of the most popular Peanuts characters.

Indeed! And it was appreciated!

This was a most unfortunate comment. Fulcrum7 has not in my opinion been quite critical of the SDA church, unless you define the liberals of the NAD and the NAD as the church. Fortunately, they are not. The NAD is part of the church and not even the majority of the church. In the NADs, TEDs, and SPDs drive to push the feminist agenda they have also been, IMHO, very guilty of rascist(1) and/or colonialist(2) behavior. These divisions feels they know so much better than all the rest of the world how the church should be run that the WORLD CHURCH vote at the GC convention was wrong and the NAD further attempts to shift the blame on the loss of the vote to make it appear that it is the president's agenda that is the cause of all their troubles. The NAD has all the appearance of believing the NAD should be in charge of the whole world church. If you watch the reader comments of Fulcrum7 readers versus the readers of Spectrum, you may find that the Spectrum readers are far more critical of the church with many more snarky comments of how things are being run. One of the reasons I do not spend much time on that website. Sometimes people make such bonehead moves and the NAD comments regarding Fulcrum7, you have to wonder if there was not some Divine intervention to help the members more clearly see what is going on in the church. The increased readership at Fulcrum7 will help accomplish that. So, I hope everyone carefully reads the Fulcrum7's response to the NAD memo. Unfortunately, I see a remarkable similarity of the NAD leaders with the story of Korah's rebellion, especially as the years since 1844 so often get compared to the 40 years in the wilderness. These kind of events have a cleansing kind of action on the inhabitants. ******************************* Definitions: (1) Racism is the belief in the superiority of one race over another, which often results in discrimination and prejudice towards people based on their race or ethnicity. (2) Colonialism is a practice of domination, which involves the subjugation of one people to another.