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[Musicman1228]

It can't be stated any better than that, wayfinder. Don't expect Richard to agree with you on anything, however. Remember, he is a qualified Adventist that knows the whole truth because the church has said so, and whatever the church says MUST be true. If he goes away from the 'light' that comes from the church he feels that he will be lost forever. It is unfortunate that there are many like Richard in the church that will never see new light because they are so focused on light that is flickering and about to go out.

[wayfinder]

Musicman, I have not given up on Richard and will not give up, I think that he will see the light at the proper time, he is a good person.

[teresaq]

I didn't mean for you to stop at verse 36. Here is the whole quote:

“But concerning that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father only.  As were the days of Noah, so will be the coming of the Son of Man. For as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark, and they were unaware until the flood came and swept them all away, so will be the coming of the Son of Man. Matt 24:36-39.

If Jesus is correct, and we know He is because He is God and cannot lie, then those living at the time of the flood DID NOT KNOW that their destruction was coming upon them. This can mean only one thing; Noah did not warn anyone that a flood was coming, he merely built the ark according to the specifications laid out by God, and when the time came got on board with His family and the animals God brought. EGW clearly says that Noah preached 120 years. Only one of these people can be right. You choose.

Gen 6:3 And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man,

for that he also is flesh:

yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.

1Pe 3:20 Which sometime were disobedient,

when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing,

wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.

[Aliensanctuary]

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Quote from Richard

I don't know where you get all this inter-galactic, space lingo. It doesn't come from the Bible or Ellen White. I've not seen anywhere in the book of Revelation where it refers to Babylon as a starship, or as coming from outer space, at all. I'm curious as to where you get the idea. Just because the angel said it will be thrown down with violence, doesn't mean that it came from outer space.

Babylon is a religous [sic] system right here on planet earth, not a starship from outer space.

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DA 420 or 421

...suddenly, the heavens open, the golden gates of the city of God are thrown wide, and holy radiance descends upon the mount enshrouding the Savior’s form.

The above quote indicates to me that Jesus and three of his disciples encountered a city from space. Or maybe the city appeared from a different dimension, however many of those there are. On the other hand, perhaps the brilliant object in the sky that the disciples were so afraid of was really a religion, and the spotlight and the voice of the LORD were just an imaginary epiphany.

[Dr. Rich]

"1Pe 3:20 Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water."

Here I see another great piece of evidence to show that the disciple Peter did not write 1st and 2nd Peter.

But it too does not say that Noah preached.

Richard, since you said that 'both' could be true, then why complain when some of us see the truth where Noah did not preach and where EGW was seriously mistaken--just as mistaken as she was in the 'shut door vision' and on page 433 of the GC?