It would make perfect sense why the Dragon or Civil Authority (secondary sense) in Revelation 12:17 will only be wrought with Seventh-Day Adventists and not Adventists. For Adventist and Sunday worshippers to end up in the same letter that is speaking to Resting on Sunday or the reverencing of Sunday by No Movement should sound clear warnings. Whether by Error or not that a Government body could not type out the word Seventh-Day Adventist God allowed such to happen that the "wise may understand" that it is time to have His name and represent it.
Upward Look 315 states that “only presence of God can constitute a church”. Therefore, if God leaves his professed people, where will he be found? Only among the small group that are working for the preservation of the heritage in its varied forms. Jeremiah 12:10 points out that many ”.…pastors have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden my portion underfoot….They made it desolate” So will you go to a desolate place? Or will you seek the place where the heritage is being preserved?
Which means that as far as they were concerned they were feeding the hungry and the thirsty, they were taking in strangers, they believed they were clothing the naked, they thought they were taking care of the sick, and also visiting prisoners, but sad to say the Son of Man said :”…depart from me ye cursed into everlasting fire.” What could have possibly gone wrong that they were so strong about their conviction while in error?
It now brings to question do our leaders even understand the Principle of Liberty of Conscience? Inalienable rights? Separation of Church & State? Oh God have mercy! hence the scriptures declares in Isaiah 3:12 "O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths."The church that is called to be a bulwark against such encroachments is now on the other side of the Freedom Fence.
In the Bible ‘hornet’ is mentioned 3 times; Exodus 23:28, Deuteronomy 7:20 and Joshua 24:12. In Exodus 23:28 it says that the Lord will send hornets to drive out the nations that were in the land of Canaan. Deuteronomy 7:20 says the Lord will send the hornet among these nations until those that are left will hide themselves from the children of Israel and the children of Israel will destroy them.
Is the prophecy saying that in the last days God's leadership representative will unite with the apostate woman, the papacy and will cause them to be sold out to evil leading God's people Israel in a state of national ruin? Oh yes. Will God's people be so confused that they don’t know true worship or who is the true God? Oh yes. Will they hunt and seek to expel and blame the messengers of the Elijah message as the problem in the church and the reason for no dew or rain? Oh yes.
Ahab and Jezebel saw the prophets of God as a threat to national security and as the cause of the climate crisis that they faced. Elijah was called a troubler and he was blamed for the climate crisis of his days, but he met the leader of God’s people with a direct message that they were the problem in Israel because of false worship in forsaking the commandments of Yahweh 1 Kings 18:17-18.
