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? Remnant will possess all things Zechariah 8:12 For the seed shall be prosperous; the vine shall give her fruit, and the ground shall give her increase, and the heavens shall give their dew; and I will cause the remnant of this people to possess all these things .

? eternal life 1 John 2:25 And this is the promise that he hath promised us, even eternal life.

I want you to think with me of the most remote place on Earth where people live, the year around. As you think, give some thought as to how the Gospel can reach that place. It is a place that has each year has 7,950 hours of darkness and 810 hours of daylight. How do you think that God will reach those who live in that place? Well it has a wooden church building that seats a total of 30 congregants. It is served by two volunteer members of the clergy. It is located on King George Island in the Antarctic. The priests who serve are from the Russian Orthodox denomination. It was constructed in 2004. It attempts to serve the spiritual needs of researchers from Russia, Chile, Poland and Korea. The work of God is accomplished today by many people. I doubt that SDAs will ever have a congregation in that location. NOTE: Thanks for the above to Guideposts and their editor Kaylin Kaupish.

There is power in prayer. Great news Gail and I hope that his mother's know that were here on Adventistan is pulling for his complete health. I have lost several close friends in the church, due to COVID. It has shook us all, but when I hear those who made it through I rejoice. Stan my prayers goes out to you as well. You are a man I know with great integrity and strength. YAHWEH I feel is please so keep the faith, my dear brother and also your friend. Blessings to all who is dealing with love ones, friends and family through the Pandemic!

Yes I have heard that a lot of times. But it is always very generic. The statement I am conservative (a term I don't use in Adventism since it has a real and historic meaning in politics. So it would be I am traditional or historic Adventist but I may have some liberal views but I really can't name any, they just might be there. It is because in the main one is either traditional/historic in their Adventist beliefs or they are not and that pretty much always comes down to in the main parts of a persons beliefs to be one or the other. A lot of time when people don't use precise language their so called liberal beliefs are really just political beliefs rather than anything to do with religious beliefs. In any case one of the reasons I finally wrote the article is because of the answer I got about pluralism in the church. If even the editor of a Progressive Adventist magazine and website has no expectation of pluralism in the SDA church, it does not seem a likely possibility. Then today I am watching the 3rd hunger game movie and in one of the speeches the character says to progress takes compromise. When you look at that what compromise would the historic/traditionalist make and what compromise would the Progressive Adventist make? From Wilson's sermon clearly he had nothing in his historic/traditionalist beliefs he would compromise on and I believe in my article I asked what would a progressive Adventist compromise on. Well I think that the Progressive Adventist has already said they would like to see pluralism in the church they have offered the biggest compromise possible. Where else can they go? So it is left to the historic/traditionalist side to accept some kind of compromise and they have steadfastly refused. So it seems that really sets up the end of this debate between Progressive and historic/traditionalists. The historic side sees any compromise with those who are being shaken out of the church to be ridiculous. As such it would be a denial of their faith to do that. I think it is totally unacceptable to ask them to reject their faith. As someone who accepts various beliefs it is no problem to accept their more narrow beliefs but they can't accept a wider view. Thus it is the end of Progressive Adventism, they have no place left to go in the Adventist church.

Praise God from whom all blessings flow! Thank you Gail, this is great news!

And the news just keeps getting better! It seems that this young man has turned the corner and is headed for recovery. Thanks to God that his life has been preserved! Such a terrible disease