The Grift That Keeps On Grifting: Exposing AmazingDiscoveries

All right. Hey there. As always, a warm welcome and a thank you for being here, especially if this is your first time with us, Adventist or otherwise. So, despite all of the uh prophecy wizards in internet land predicting that today, April 8, 2024, with the eclipse being some major prophetic event, all sorts of them that I heard, we are still here. Not just here, but I’m in Nashville, which is where it was supposed to be a big epicenter of a lot of this, but here we are. And as you can see, our good old friend is back and making an appearance. I brought my uh tinfoil hat for the

Evening. Hopefully, you did, too. If I happen to uh get beamed up during the stream, hopefully it will protect my brain from total annihilation. We will save that for a moment later. But the million-dollar question, will all of those false prophets repent and step down? Doubtful. They never do. But still the million-dollar question nonetheless. Such as this individual for example that we got a comment from. I left their grammar as is. By the way, this person commented today and said, “Should we be surprised Miles is tight lipped about Ellen White’s Nashville

Prophecy? Not a word from him. Does he fear it being fulfilled? He is from Nashville, right? Perhaps he’s waiting to see if it will be fulfilled. If not fulfilled, he’s all ready to jump in boots and all to scoff and mock. Correct, Miles. Miles, how’s about scoffing and mocking before we find out whether her Nashville prophecy will be fulfilled? Having doubts? Ah, yes. If you all haven’t seen, lots of SDAs were claiming Ellen White’s uh Nashville prophecy was going to lead to the city being smoked with a fireball today. And I was uh apparently terrified to

Mention anything about it, except uh here we are. And had this individual bothered to look before commenting, this stream has been scheduled for a couple weeks now. Uh and no, I haven’t been uh tight lipped on this silly prediction. I’ve actually been very vocal in the former Adventist Facebook group where I’ve noted how SDA prophecy hunters are some of the most vocal yet ignorant SDAs that never learn and unfortunately make all Adventists look like crackpots even though they are not. But yeah, here I am really shaking in my boots, utterly terrified. In fact, I better be careful

Because uh with my tin foil hat on, I’m shaking so much I might uh conduct electricity. So, I also love how it’s uh we will see if Ellen White’s Nashville prophecy comes to pass because that’s how prophecy works apparently, right? It’s this nebulous, imprecise uh how convenient. Well, friend, it’s still April 8th, so consider this before we see if you’re uh mesmerist actually got things right for a change. Don’t go scrubbing your comment now either, friend. But it isn’t all fringe fanatics online, by the way. Tonight, we’re going to be looking at a

Video in a series of videos put out by Amazing Discoveries, Amazing Fiction. Uh, a notorious SDA conspiracy outlet known for all sorts of wacky and erroneous information. It’s headed up by chief conspirator Walter Ve. Uh, you’ll probably remember him from Total Onslaught, which aged like a fine milk. To no surprise, they hopped on the April 8 wave and tried to use it as an opportunity to not only farm clicks, but weasel in Ellen White prophecies. Shocker. We usually like to aim for a higher hanging fruit than this at Answering Adventism. However, I found this

Particularly necessary for the sake of the poor souls out there that are hooked up to the drip feed of this stuff and find themselves constantly bamboozled and hued, suckered into this, being strung along by fake prophecy merchants like this that are praying upon your clicks in the name of being watchmen. Sadly, there is a huge market of people out there that lap this type of stuff up, which creates a supply and demand for this sort of thing, which is why it’s beneficial to examine it, show why it’s built on falsities, and it presies upon people’s innate attraction, or some

People’s, I should say, to fear and feeling like they have some special insight into the future. This is by no means distinct to Adventists. Um, I saw all the standard prophecy people out there saying all the same stuff. Uh, some of those faces we’re actually going to see tonight in the piece of content that we will be responding to leading up to the eclipse that took place today. Amazing Discoveries put out a series of videos titled Urgent April 8 and the coming judgments Nashville destroyed. It kind of sounded like uh one of the characters from Veggie Tales there.

But we’re going to be looking at part one, which was their best performing video in at least a month, which naturally led them to doing out multi uh like at least two more parts and then another follow-up part that wasn’t necessarily a part of it to farm as many clicks as they possibly could before April 8th. So, before it gets too far in the rearview mirror and they try to memoryhole it and move along, I wanted to examine some of the uh claims and tactics that are used every single time there’s something like this for places like Amazing Discoveries to latch on to.

Uh along the way, we will also examine uh some SDA history where similar things were done in the past, which provides us with uh some of the support pieces in why stuff like this is so rampant within Adventism and why so many Adventists have a bent toward consuming this stuff. But before hopping into it, if you like what we’re doing here, you can support us by becoming a channel member. For the price of about a cup of coffee a month, you can not only help us reach more Seventh Day Adventists, but will gain access to our growing library of membersonly content, including uh access

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Well, Mackenzie, I tell you what, I’ve gotten a lot of emails and text messages about this issue. This is really hitting home. We’re going to show you a couple clips right now. The countdown is on to a once-in-a-lifetime total eclipse. Total solar eclipse. Total solar eclipse on April 8th. On Monday, April 8th, this could be one of the biggest events of the decade. On April 8th, there is a solar eclipse that is coming to the United States of America. This is an experience beyond all experiences. You can’t prepare yourself properly for what this is like. This is a little bit

Different. Why is that? because it goes over seven cities in the United States that have the same name. What is it? It is the name Nineveh. Are you kidding me? No, I’m not kidding you, friends. Okay, so this is really interesting. And I want to welcome Don here. He’s joining me for this set of presentations because he has some very firsthand experience with some of the things that we’re going to be covering in these couple episodes. Thanks for having me, McKenzie. Thank you. So, what is this talking about here? This April 8. Well, I think that what we should look

At is what the Bible has to say and why there’s so much excitement about this. Uh, the Bible does mention that the things in the heavens are to be used for signs. Okay. So, just like Don said, we’re going to show you this from Genesis 1 verse14. And, uh, Don, could you read this for us and maybe give us a little insight here? Absolutely. And God said, “Let there be lights in the firmament of heaven to divide the day from the night, and let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and for years.” So we see here that the Bible does say that these things in the sky, sun, moon,

And stars and whatever other objects might appear are to be used for signs. And I guess the question that we have to ask is, is this eclipse that’s coming on April 8th a sign? And if it is, what does it mean? Yeah. No, it isn’t. Um, I noticed Troy Brewer was in their clip there. Somebody at Amazing Discoveries went through, they had somebody go through and find all the clips of all these quacks on YouTube and make a compilation video with this real ominous music in the background. Here we are, April 8th, end of the day. I guess I could be speaking

Too soon. We’ve still got, at least on central time, we’ve still got about uh four and a half hours left. So, maybe I’m speaking out of turn here. But no, it meant nothing. Now, they’re going to utilize every single proof text that all the other YouTube prophecy charlatans in this space utilize to try and capitalize on the current newspaper headline that no one will remember even in five years from now. Um the difference is they’re trying to do so by infusing SDA talking points into the mix. Um as you will see momentarily. But like I said, as a

Nashville resident, no, the city was not destroyed and nothing happened. In part two, they went on to uh and maybe we’ll respond to that in a couple weeks. Um and see what they went on to say because they tried to wet your appetite with this one to make sure you came back for part two where they talk about a fireball coming and destroying the city. Um but no, the city wasn’t destroyed. Nothing happened and Nashville is not Nineveh. But they started with a cliffhanger question followed by that dramatic music playing over snippets of cliffh clips carefully chosen and edited

Together to set the stage for uh standard newspaper SDA theology which is basically the standard MO amazing discoveries. They’ve been putting out stuff like this for years. Like I said, you might recall Walter V’s total onslaught in the uh 2010s. Same exact thing as what’s going on here a decade later. That is the blueprint that they now follow. just plugging in whatever new headline they can. Don, no. Genesis 114 doesn’t have anything to do with Nashville being destroyed on April 8, 2024 because of an eclipse. What we got here was what is it folks? Word

Association fallacy. Seeing the word sign used of the sun and the moon and then extrapolating out of that foreign ideas that the author did not have in mind. We’re really supposed to believe that what Genesis means, what Moses meant to com communicate in Genesis, uh, is that the sun and the moon were placed in the sky as signs that they’re there for you to to be looking for lunar and solar eclipses to then try and make all sorts of silly prophetic extrapolations to the end of the world. Uh, no. But notice folks what Albert Barnes says in his uh, Genesis commentary. Now, we

Could look at others as this is not unique to him, but he just very succinctly and easily expounds upon the Hebrew. So specifically on the phrase for signs and for seasons and for days and years, he writes, “While the first day refers only to the day and its two-fold division, the fourth refers to signs, seasons, days, and years. These lights are for signs. They are to serve as the great natural uh chronometer of man having its three units the day, the month and the year and marking the divisions of time not only for agricultural and social purposes but also for meeting out the

Eras of human history and the cycles of natural science. They are signs of place as well as of time. topometers, if we may use the term. By them, the mariner has learned to mark the latitude and longitude of his ship and the astronomer to determine with any assignable degree of precision the place as well as the time of the planetary orbs of heaven. The seasons are the natural seasons of the year and the set times for civil and sacred purposes which man has attached to special days and years in the revolution of time. Close quote. So by signs, Genesis means markers for

Things such as seasons, days, months, etc., not signs for you to look at and try and glean all sorts of prophetic insight into. Nothing in the text suggests that’s what Moses has in view in Genesis. Very good question. Um, you know, we have this from Jesus in Luke 21:25-36. And I’m just going to read the highlighted portions. If anybody wants to read the full context, they’re welcome to. But it says, “And there shall be signs in the sun and in the moon and in the stars. And for looking after those things which are coming on the earth, for the powers of heaven

Shall be shaken.” So, we’re talking about the current events, right? Yes. connected to these signs in the sun, moon, and stars. And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up and lift up your heads for your redemption drawth nigh. Don, is this saying that when we start seeing signs in the heavens that Jesus coming is soon? It does, McKenzie. And you know, these signs have been going on for quite a while. And I think we’re going to talk about some of those signs that have already transpired. And then we have to look very carefully at this

Eclipse and see you know what it means and is it part of prophecy. Very good questions. So this says continuing in Luke 21 and take heed to yourselves lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfing and drunkenness and cares of this life and so that day come upon you unawares. So we have this admonition that when we see these signs, this is supposed to awaken us, right? It’s supposed to be like a warning to us. It is. And we can look at what’s going on in the world today and especially in North America and we can see that really it’s all about the cares of this life

And having a good time. That’s what it seems like. All right. So we got the appeal to Luke 21:25-36. Again, all the prophecy heads in this space, not just Adventists, they all appealed to this and they all said the same thing. This is supposed to justify their uh vague speculations about this particular eclipse because it mentions signs in the sun, moon, and stars, that means anytime there’s something happening in the sky, it proves the second coming is about to happen. This is also where the word association fallacy is coming from. Again, just

Because Genesis 1 mentions the sun and the moon and signs and then Jesus here mentions signs in the sun, moon, and stars doesn’t mean contextually the same thing is in focus. Genesis isn’t talking about a a prophecy or apocalyptic events. But again, these are the same proof texts that all these prophecy charlatans were using and weren’t appealing to the same thing that Dawn and McKenzie are appealing to. Like I said, they showed Troy Brewer. Folks, go look at Troy Brewer’s track record. I mean, my goodness, man. And I know that they were just using him in their like

Montage to set the stage and whatnot, but that’s the type of people who are doing uh just an amazing exesus of the text, let me tell you. But let’s roll with this hypothesis, okay? That Jesus’s words in Luke 21 can be connected to the eclipse from April 8. Notice what NASA and scientific Americans say regarding solar eclipses in the 20th century alone. Quote, “On April 8th, a total solar eclipse will cross 15 US states from Texas to Maine. The display is unusual enough that hotels are booking up along the path and thousands of people plan to travel to see it.

But just how rare are solar eclipses?” In the 20th century, 228 were recorded somewhere on Earth, of which 71 were total solar eclipses. If the sun and moon don’t perfectly align, you’ll see a partial eclipse. On average, a total solar eclipse is visible somewhere on the planet every 1 and a half years. Ah, so in the 20th century alone, 228 solar eclipses. Why are you guys picking this one, Don? Oh, right. That’s right. because oh, there was an opportunity to farm a bunch of clicks and then segue into what we’re about to see. But this idea that every time

There’s an anomalous one that proves it’s something special and the Bible’s telling us to be uh examining them as some sort of prophetic scavenger hunt is not only foreign to the Bible, but it’s silly. And all this did was made the Christian church, regardless of if if the world understands SDAs are Christian or they aren’t Christian or Troy Brewer is a Christian or not, it doesn’t matter. It’s a scourge on the body of Christ. It makes Christians look stupid. It’s an easy lowhanging fruit for them to then dunk on the Christian faith, making them making a mockery of the

Faith because you have these types who are telling people that every time something happens in the sky, it’s some sort of prophetic whatever. Because this is what happens. Nothing actually happens, but these sorts of outlets capitalize on the buzz to try to make some biblical twist out of it. Notice Jesus’s words to the present audience in Luke 21, folks. This is the Achilles heel for Adventism. I bring this up constantly. Everything in scripture for Adventism is read anacronistically, meaning they read it from their present vantage point and read back into the

Text from where they presently are. Yet Ted Wilson tells us the only approved hermeneutic of the SDA church is the historical grammatical method. Folks, look into the historical grammatical method. We’re going to be doing a series of videos on that um eventually breaking down what that actually is because that’s just lip service. They’re just saying that because the historical grammatical method involves well history and the grammar of the text. You first have to go to the original audience it was written to and the grammar and understand how it would have applied to

Them. Then you make present- day application after looking at the grammar and the original audience. Now, typically what the SDA church tries to do in this area is just say, “Oh, double fulfillment. Everything’s a double fulfillment.” Just well, to the immediate context it meant this, but to us it means this. We’ll see a couple of those in in a moment. But things are read into the text from their current vantage point, 2,000 years removed. I understand Mackenzie and this guy aren’t Adventist pastors, but it’s just another example of how the SDA church

Doesn’t actually hold to the HGM, nor do Adventists within the movement really understand it. Because Jesus was speaking to the original audience in Luke 21. And in verse 28, he tells them, well, let’s look for well, no, no, no. In verse 28, he told them, when these things come to pass, look up, lift up your heads, and so on. That’s what McKenzie and and Dawn are appealing to. There have been all sorts of celestial events since Jesus spoke these words. Thousands, potentially hundreds of thousands. But the SDA church arbitrarily arbitrarily labels 1844 as

The start of the end times despite biblical writers speaking about their day as the last days and end times which is uh actually the entire period from the ascension to the second coming. We will see how the SDA misunderstanding of the end times leads to faulty assumptions in a moment. But when McKenzie asked, “Is this saying that when we see signs in the heavens, that means Jesus is coming soon?” Again, 228 solar eclipses in the 20th century alone, thousands of them since Jesus said those words. It’s not even including all the meteor showers and

Other celestial events. So, the idea that Jesus was telling people to do what these gents are doing is a twisting of the text and it does not sound hermeneutics. But look at what McKenzie skipped over, which is the forerunner of Jesus’s words in 25 through36. Same paricopy, folks. Same message that Jesus is preaching. But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then know that its desolation has come near. Then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains, and let those who are inside the city, Jerusalem, depart, and let not those who are out in the

Country enter it. For these are days of vengeance, to fulfill all that is written. Alas, for women who are pregnant, and those who are nursing, infants in those days. For there will be great distress upon the earth, and wrath against this people. They will fall by the edge of the sword and be led captive among all nations and Jerusalem will be trampled underfoot by the Gentiles until the time of the Gentiles are fulfilled. Thus, the reading of God’s holy word. Ah right. Jesus was foretelling of the destruction of the temple in AD70. Jerusalem was

Indeed trampled underfoot by the Gentiles and the times of the Gentiles was indeed fulfilled. I just had a guy this past week who is a former Adventist who’s now an atheist that tried to say Jesus is a false prophet. And this is where he pointed to. I said, ‘N no, he’s only a false prophet if you interpret the way the SD the SDA church interprets it. And not just them to be totally fair. But no, it’s because you’re reading into it that Jesus is talking about something he’s not talking about because it did happen just like Jesus said it would happen. The destruction of

The temple in AD70 was Jesus coming back in judgment on covenant-breaking Israel that crucified him. This was foretold in the Old Testament, not just the New. The parallel of this is in Matthew 24, which the SDA church loves. And the destruction of the temple symbolized the breaking down of the barrier between Jew and Gentile. It’s immediately after foretelling about the Roman Jewish wars that did indeed surround Jerusalem and the destruction of the temple that Jesus says there will be signs in the sun, moon and stars regarding this people fainting for fear

Etc. This is common language that Jesus is utilizing from the Old Testament such as uh Ezekiel and Isaiah which talk of celestial events in the context of judgment such as the stars falling from heaven. But Adventist hermeneutics take this to be hyperliteral. Everything’s hyperliteral, but only arbitrarily. So Jesus doesn’t have a literal sword coming out of his mouth in Revelation. And you’ll ask why. Well, it’s obviously not. Oh, okay. Right. Because it’s arbitrary for you. The stars are literally all going to crash in on the Earth and result in an

Implosion apparently, which is literally what would happen if the stars were to literally fall to the Earth. They’re actually going to speak on this in a bit as Don Frost mentioned, but the point being to ignore the immediate context and extrapolate out some application of this to April 8, 2024 being a sign that Jesus is coming is around the corner is a bit of a stretch. It doesn’t mean there can’t be a double fulfillment that it referred to 70 AD, which could be a picture of a greater cataclysmic event off in the future. But this is being cited to cherrypick April

8th and make a piece of clickbait. That’s a fact. That is what’s going on here. It’s very clear that this was scripted out, etc. And I get it. I make content as well. But it’s easy to spot grift like this when you’re trying to ride a wave. And that’s what they’re doing here. Jesus could come tomorrow or 10,000 years from now. Theorizing about all this and making mince meat out of the Bible to do so is not necessary. And like I said, it makes Christians look ridiculous. I can’t tell you how many people I’ve talked to that mock the Christian faith

Because of lunacy stuff like this that they grew up in. Not just Adventists, again, folks, so I’m not just picking on them. People need to stop doing this stuff. It makes a mockery of the Christian faith. And Adventists obviously hear this and think, “Oh, so you’re saying prophecy doesn’t matter?” I didn’t say that. I said, ‘ Stop picking on every little thing here and there to make these stupid claims like the city of Nashville is Nineveh and it’s going to get hit with a fireball. No, you need hit upside the head with a fireball. Knock some sense into you.

Hopefully, you don’t need to read into every single event that’s going on that it’s some apocalyptic event. Get busy for the kingdom. This doesn’t do anything for the kingdom of God. SDAs think that this sort of stuff, it just like, well, that’s what’s going to have people prepared. I I know all sorts of dispensational type people there that same way. It’s like, okay, you you’ve told me this information now. Now what? How am I prepared? Great. You shared this information. It doesn’t do anything. Get busy. Get busy. Disciple your family, start a family, have kids,

Grow the kingdom of God by way of having children, taking the gospel out into the culture and the world, influencing the culture for the kingdom by the way you live your lifestyle, etc. not just buying into every little thing that comes down the pike thinking you have some special insight when you just look like a goofball afterward. Don’t do that. What happens is people get sucked into this stuff and totally distracted. Nothing happens and then they hop on to the next one to keep getting their fix of adrenaline like they’re on to something and the cycle just repeats.

And platforms like an amazing discoveries supply the demand for this sort of stuff. But this guy Don Frost, he he mentioned the cares of this life running rampant in North America. Again, Don, this is not new. How is this tied to April 8? I mean, sir, hedonism has been a problem in the in the part of the fallen condition for centuries. But Adventist theology again writes North America, specifically the United States, you know, that lamblike beast into the book of Revelation into Bible prophecy. So the idea of America decaying and falling is basically the

Equivalent of the world ending. It is a very American centric worldview that tends to see America as the center of existence. And if America falls, well, the whole thing’s going to fall. What are people saying in regard to this eclipse? Well, people are saying that something of a magnitude of judgment is going to take place. See, traditionally eclipses and um comets and these kinds of things have been used uh viewed that is as um indicators or harbingers of change. Um we talked earlier about um a battle that took place uh with Alexander the Great

When he defeated the great Persian Empire and uh the very day that the battle took place there was an eclipse and it was viewed by the Greeks or the Grecians as being a sign that they were going to be victorious and it was viewed by the Persians as a sign that they were going to be defeated. Wow. So this is like something that we can even look in history and kind of trace this through. Yes. And I think we have something to show regarding that eclipse here. Is this all coincidence? Seriously, is this all one big coincidence? April 7th is Easter.

Easter is the the pagans. So this total eclipse that’s happening on April 8th passes through several cities named Nineveh. Now there’s a bunch of other parts of this as well. One of those parts is this crazy thing that it actually happens on April the 8th. You can’t make this stuff up. What does that indicate to us? It’s the sign of Jonah the prophet. It’s the sign of you better repent. It’s a sign of the clock is ticking. You got 40 days. You got 40 days. 40 days. Now, McKenzie, here’s 40 days. Here’s the thing. You know, we were talking about the uh the prophecy regarding or I

Should say this, the eclipse regarding the event when Alexander the Great, here’s an image of this when Alexander the Great uh defeated Darius III and um the eclipse happened on the day and this event happened on the day. Wow. Okay. Uh but as we look at some of the other events uh the other um signs in the heavens uh sometimes they happen on the same day sometimes they happen within the same year and sometimes they happen years later. Um so as we look at some of these other things, we talk about um for instance uh in the um the the comet that came in uh 66 AD, the historian Josephus

Uh talks about that the comet hung over the city of Jerusalem like a sword announcing its impe impending doom. But of course, Jerusalem wouldn’t fall for another three and a half years. But yet the uh the comet the the the sighting of the comet was viewed as a a harbinger of what was going to happen to Jerusalem. Ah so by this logic every time there’s an eclipse there’s some sort of judgment taking place. Therefore April 8 was supposed to be that and Nashville was going to be destroyed potentially. Potentially. Sometimes these things happen on the day

Or even years later. They always have to include the, you know, the potential escape hatch that, you know, it could be way off in the future at some point. So, when nothing happens, well, it did. We just don’t know what yet. Oh, how convenient, right? They’re not setting dates or anything. They’re just saying. There was an eclipse with Alexander the Great and the Grecian saw that that was a sign of judgment. So, therefore, history even proves that what they’re doing here is biblically sound. Oh, yeah. And the eclipse is passing through seven cities that are all named Nineveh.

That also proves this, folks. It literally did nothing in Nashville today. It was overcast and rainy. So when it happened, I was outside and it literally was just like, well, it’s basically just like Nashville in the spring. Oh man. followed by a again a bunch of clips of a a bunch of other peddlers of the same sort of newspaper theology that make a living off of hoping uh on whatever the current end times, you know, and whatever proof it is. They put that guy up there. I can’t remember his name. Him and his wife, they live off the grid. They have like two million

Subscribers. Literally any sort of newspaper thing, he’s always like, “Folks, it’s like, dude, it’s not it’s literally it’s Easter in the East. happy uh happy pastoral to our our our friends in the Eastern church, but that guy’s in the West. Like, it just you see how silly this is, but it’s right in line with the Adventist Zeitgeist, dripping with assumptions, bias, inference, just like almost all of SDA theology is. So, it’s not shocking that it attracts people like this that apply the same mindset in this context. There isn’t anything that they’ve shown or said that

Proves anything regarding April 8 being this hallmark event in history. This is going to be another drop in the bucket. No one’s going to remember this in five years. This is about capitalizing on a certain segment of people, giving them their fix. And if you went on YouTube and just typed in April 8, you were inundated with videos that all had similar thumbnails of like fire and explosions and trigger words like war, destruction, etc. Don McKenzie, the destruction of Jerusalem was explicitly foretold by Jesus Christ. Explicitly, not implicitly.

There have been thousands of solar eclipses since Jesus said those words. This proves nothing about April 8 and the city of Nashville, Tennessee being destroyed. Like not at all. Wow. So if we look at this specific uh event here with the battle of Gagamela. So in 331 now the what I find interesting about it is that the Bible said that this battle was going to take place right and that Alexander the Great was going to be victorious. So if we go to Daniel 8 3 to8 and we’re just going to go briefly through this but it’s so clear. It says and I’m just going to read the

Highlights. There was a ram which had two horns and then the ram pushing westward, northward and southward. And then a hegoat came from the west. The hegoat had a notable horn between its eyes. So we have this these two creatures, two beasts, and ran unto him in the fury of his power. Smoke the ram, break his two horns. No power in the ram to stand before him. So we have this goat, this hegoat that goes and attacks this ram. And it’s this like symbols, right? These figures and we need to somehow understand these symbols, right? And then in verse 8 it says, “And he the

The hegoat waxed very great. The great horn was broken and for it came up four notable ones toward the four winds of heaven.” So we have this picture here of the heaggo with the one big horn going at the ram. But the question is how do we know what this represents? Well the good news is McKenzie as we go forward into the scriptures in the same chapter uh the Bible explains it that uh here look at what it says here. The ram which thou solst this is in Daniel 8 20 and 21. The ram which thou sawest having two horns are the kings of Media and Persia.

And of course here it says in the highlighted area the rough goat is the king of Grecia. Well that makes it pretty simple. It does. I like that. And so we don’t have to guess. Absolutely. Here we have a prophecy uh and it says that there’s going to be this battle and that the king of Grecia is going to defeat the kings of the Mes and the Persians. And on this day there was an eclipse. This is the problem I have personally with historicism. Sorry historicist friends who also watch this channel and are not 7th Adventists. But it is just too much plugandplay theology. All

Esqueological schools folks have their problems. I don’t care what the SDA church says. They think they’re bulletproof. They think their school of esquetology has no issues. No problems. They’re, you know, raised up as God’s last day prophetic voice. No. All the prophetic schools have issues and problems that have to be worked through. Historicism is just too much plug-and-play theology. They all point to different historical events that they claim fulfill Bible prophecy, which is exactly what is happening here. There is nothing explicit in scripture about the

Battle of Gamela in 331 AD. But because they truly believe that, it has to be what the text is talking about. McKenzie even saying it’s just so clear in Daniel 8 followed by reading nuggets of the text that don’t say what he claims. Like the text doesn’t say that. I always have to tell Adventists that’s your interpretation. You guys think you have an infallible one. You assume that. But the text does not say what you’re saying. That’s your interpretation. This is coming from the movement that tells us if it isn’t a plain thus sayeth the Lord, it needs to be rejected. Well,

This isn’t a plain thus sayeth the Lord. It is your extrapolation from the text with the help of a woman that you think God was speaking through giving you infallible interpretive light. But again, this is being cited to support the eclipse on April 8 being some fulfillment of prophecy serving as a sign in the sky of coming judgment, cities potentially being destroyed, and the second coming being around the corner because on the day of a battle in the 4th century, there was an eclipse. You just referenced um other comets, stars, and and things like this. So can

You give us some other examples of of these things? Absolutely. Uh there’s a prophecy in the book of numbers. Numbers chapter 24 verse 17. And this was a prophecy given by Balum. And uh we look the the wise men actually use this prophecy to find the Messiah. Notice what it says here in the highlighted. There shall come a star out of Jacob. And so um this is why when the star showed up uh over Judea at the time of Christ’s birth, it had special interest and of course it was announcing uh that there was going to be change and there was change, wasn’t

There? There there was a big change. This was signifying Jesus’ arrival, right? There was. So we have the the picture here the star over you know little depiction there and that is showing again that we have this emphasis on some of these signs which could lead us in the direction again we’re going to keep asking this question are these things significant because we do need we don’t want to be swept away by any wind of doctrine and we want to make sure what we’re talking about is is founded on truth. Absolutely. And and and this is one of the reasons why so many people

Are excited about this McKenzie because they look at these stories in the Bible, the story of Jesus, the events that happened. Uh and there’s other stories that happened about these phenomenon that take place in the heavens. And so we are to look to these things as being signs. Yes. So like you mentioned uh we have this image here. This is from 66 uh AD when the star or comet or well most uh most um experts say that this was actually Haley’s comet. Okay. And that it’s it comes in these cycles and it lines up perfectly with um the the time there at at Jerusalem when the uh the

Original armies of Rome came and then later came and destroyed it. Wow. Yes. And the prophecy in numbers was very specific and foretold of a very specific event. How does this prove that April 8 has anything to do with reading Bible pro regarding Bible prophecy? This is what’s called a nonsequittor. It does not logically follow that because there was a prophecy in Numbers that involved a star, now every event in the sky is some sort of prophetic fulfillment or event of scripture. This is end times grift to try and generate revenue and clicks by wrapping

It up in all sorts of biblical garb. Notice the language. This could uh uh uh this could lead us, it might be, etc. That’s the this leads us. This could be, it might be par for the course SDA re reasoning, unfortunately built totally on theory, speculation, assumption, etc. But he asked, are these things significant? We don’t want to be carried away by every wind of doctrine, which is use uh the the wording of Ephesians 4:14. It’s like the irony of this is Paul was speaking in the context of unity within the body and that God has given the church pastors, evangelists,

Apostles, etc. to build the body up so they won’t be easily deceived or distracted by every little thing they hear, tossing them around with no sure foundation. Yet, this is exactly what this newspaper theology does every single time. People are constantly tossed around, distracted, misled, scouring the newspaper to try and find some secret insight into the future. What they’re talking about is not founded on truth. It’s founded on speculation and milking an opportunity to harvest clicks on the new current thing in the apocalyptic fear pedalling

Space. No, the Bible does not tell you gentlemen to constantly be reading into solar events that something maybe possibly could be happening maybe not on the day but potentially months even years into the future which is supposed to tell you Jesus is right around the corner. No. Get busy for the kingdom Christian. Live every day to the glory of God. Start a family. have kids, pass on the Christian faith, influence your local community with the gospel, etc. Too many people, not all, not all, but many that are into this sort of stuff are all consumed with this stuff, which

Is a total distraction. Yet, they think it’s a noble biblical calling. No, God is not glorified when you try to use his word this way. Nothing happens. And the word of God then becomes a laughingstock to the world. God is glorified when you think critically and logically which is a reflection of his mind something actually God calls us to do as his image bearsers reflect him but again the destruction of Jerusalem was explicitly foretold don it wasn’t an inference or something like that explicit how does that now prove that April 8 today was a biblical fulfillment of prophecy why

April 8 and not any of the other thousands of solar eclipses prior to this. Nothing in scripture, folks, prophesied that on April 8, 2024, the city of Nashville, or any city for that matter, in the United States would be destroyed because a unique solar eclipse would take place that day. This is an apples and oranges comparison on their part. So then we have this great comet of 1843. The great comet of 1843, it came out of nowhere. Um, it was a really bright comet. It was even visible in the daytime. And the eyewitnesses that saw it said that the tail of the comet

Stretched from one side of the horizon to the other side. And of course, there was a great religious revival that was going on during the 1843 time period. And uh people believed that Jesus was coming soon and they looked to this comment right here as an example that something of change was coming. Yes. And the people that looked at that comment as a sign that Jesus was coming soon were wrong. Every single one of those individuals was closer to their death than the second coming. That’s just a fact. Don said they all saw it as a sign that change was coming, aka a

Super generic sign that anything could be plugged into. How much change has happened since 1843 in the world? I mean, seriously, how does this prove anything about April 8, 2024? Am I the only one that fails to see how any of this has relevance to that? Nashville wasn’t destroyed. Indiana wasn’t destroyed. Illinois wasn’t destroyed. Texas wasn’t destroyed. So, we’re supposed to believe it’s a ticking time bomb. And even though it didn’t happen on the day, it’s going to start at some point in the future. Why? What is the proof of this from scripture? Now,

They’re going to jump to Revelation 6. Pay very close attention. Oh wow. So now I want to just go to Revelation because we’re seeing all these different symbols, right, and signs in the heavens. But I know in Revelation chapter 6, it specifically talks about some of these signs that we’re supposed to look for. And we need to identify if these things have happened, when they’re coming, and and things like this. So let’s go to Revelation 6:12-14. And it says, “And I beheld, when he had opened the sixth seal, and lo, there was a great earthquake, and the sun became

Black as sackloth of hair, and the moon became as blood, and the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind.” So, we have three events spoken of here. And have these events taken place already, McKenzie? They have taken place. Now, they’re sort of all lined up together here, but we will see that the that between each one of the events, uh, there’s a span of time. And so, it starts out here with an earthquake. Low, a great earthquake. Now, it’s called the 1755 Lisbon earthquake. Uh, but it

Encompassed more than Lisbon. This is of course Lisbon, Portugal. Uh this earthquake was uh believed to have been fulfilled in an area of land mass the size of 5 million square miles. Wow. So even by today’s it’s probably would be the largest earthquake that humans have ever seen. Wow. This is and like you said, this is incredible that we have these events and in their order sequentially happening just as Revelation said they would. That’s correct. So where does Revelation 6 say anything about the Lisbon earthquake of 1755? This is what I mean by plugandplay

Theology. They have to find something to plug in and say this was fulfilled and we’re supposed to just buy that and say, “Well, by golly, it has.” I mean, come on, man. But no, had they paid more careful attention in Luke 21, they would have seen that Jesus mentioned all of these things, including the fig tree. He mentioned earthquakes in Luke 21:11, the sun, moon, and the stars in Luke 21:25. and the fig tree that they ignored and didn’t highlight in Luke 21:29-32. And this is why ignoring the historicity of Revelation and reading it anacronistically like the SDA church

Does is such a mess. John would have had Luke 21 and Matthew 24 on his mind when writing the apocalypse. It parallels exactly what Jesus foretold that Jesus would return in judgment on covenant-breaking Israel, which also served and functioned as a picture of the breaking down of the barrier wall between Jew and Gentiles. Jesus tells us what the fig tree represented all throughout his ministry. The cursing of the fig tree being seen in Matthew 21:18-22 and Mark 11:12-14. The fig tree often being used as a symbol of Israel. It was in season, but

The fig tree had no fruit, which is why Jesus pronounced a judgment on it. This is who John has in mind as the backdrop for his primary audience in the revelation. No, it doesn’t mean revelation has no application to today because that’s typically what SDAs will jump to. So, you’re saying revelation has no? No, I’m not saying that. I’m not a hyper predtoist. Hyper predators are heretics. If you’re a hyper predator and you’re here, no, I’m not supporting you. They like to comment on our videos sometimes because I have Sam Frost on periodically, who’s a former hyper

Predtoist. But no, you’re a heretic. But the parallel imagery found in the Revelation fit perfectly with Jesus’s own warnings and pictures from his sermon on the mount and indicate this is what John has in focus. Covenant-breaking Israel being judged. The signs in the sun, moon, and the stars have to do with the same language that’s found in the Old Testament, which had to do with the pronouncement of woes and judgment language on covenant-breaking Israel. To arbitrarily poured in an earthquake in Lisbon from 1755 is not sound. Yet, they will tell us, McKenzie said,

It’s just obviously what the text is talking about because it’s the largest earthquake ever seen. So, that must mean that’s what’s in focus in Revelation 6. What? We have yet to hear how April 8 has anything to do with this. This video was urgent. That was in the title, urgent. Yet, it’s just a rehashing of SDA talking points and claims regarding fulfilled prophecies. Now, they’re going to get into one of the infamous SDA dates, which is going to now be the first domino. Pay very close attention. So, it started in 1755 and then shortly after in 1780, we had

This incredible dark day. That’s right, McKenzie. It was an unexplainable dark day. But, as you’re going to show in a few minutes here, uh, that this dark day was actually preceded by something a short time before. What was that? So, that was preceded by a eclipse. An eclipse. That’s right. I think it was 10 days before. Was it 10 days before? And we have uh several articles here talking about the different eclipses that were taking place because then we had the moon turning to blood as well. That’s correct. And that’s what this is talking about, the partial lunar eclipse. And

That lunar eclipse is what caused this red blood moon. That’s correct. To take place in 1780. Yeah. There’s been lots of speculation about what caused the darkness, but it was as dark as midnight at noon time. And that darkness lasted for an entire day. And when the and when that darkness ended, the moon came out blood red. So just as the prophecy said, oh brother, it was an unexplainable dark day even though it literally has been explained. And it has a lo and it was a localized event that happened due to smoke from a forest fire in Canada. We have an article on this on our

Website where you can access all the source documentation on this. But no, the sun did not go black on May 19, 1780, fulfilling Bible prophecy of Revelation 6:12 and Matthew 24:29. These guys are just pariting SDA folklore. Now, first notice the August 18, 1874 issue of the Advent Review, where they state that the sun was supernaturally darkened on this day. This is under the heading evidences of Christ soon coming, which is precisely what these gentlemen are getting at with all of this. Quote, “The special signs of Christ coming in the sun, moon, and

Stars have appeared. They occurred immediately after the tribulation of the church by her persecutors. And we may know that Christ is near even at the doors. And it’s easier for heaven and earth to pass than for the words of Christ on this point to fail. Matthew 24:35. The sun was supernaturally darkened May 19, 1780. And the night following, the moon refused to give her light. And the night of November 13, 1833 witnessed by far the greatest display of falling stars or meteors that has ever visited our earth. Close quote. So we see the other date mentioned,

November 13, 1833, which we will look at momentarily since they mentioned that one as well. But there you go. There’s the claim that’s made by the SDA church. but ultimately because of course it’s coming from Ellen White and the great controversy. On page 308, she writes, quote, “May 19, 1780 stands in history as the dark day. Since the time of Moses, no period of darkness of equal density, extent, and duration has ever been recorded.” The description of this event as given by eyewitnesses is but an echo of the words of the Lord recorded by the

Prophet Joel 2500 ye uh yeah 2500 years previous to their fulfillment. The sun shall be turned into darkness and the moon into blood before the great and terrible day of the Lord come. Joel 2:31. Close quote. So May 19, 1780 was supposed to be the fulfillment of Joel 2, which Peter cites in Acts 2 as being fulfilled there at that moment when the Holy Spirit was poured out at Pentecost. But the words in great controversy, Ellen White tells us, selected messages, book 3, page 122, paragraph 2, the words in great controversy are barricaded by a thus

Saith the Lord. So what she said has to for sure be the case. But what actually happened on New England’s dark day as it is historically known as? Notice from the International Journal of Wildland Fire a paper titled Fire Scars Reveal source of New England’s 1780 dark day. This is from the abstract. Quote, “Historical evidence suggests that great wildfires burning in the Lake States and Canada can affect atmospheric conditions several hundred miles away. Several dark or yellow days, as such events are commonly called, have been recorded, often with anecdotal or direct

Evidence pointing to wildfires as the source. One such dark day occurred across New England in 1780, a year in which people were technologically unable to confirm the source of such a phenomenon. Here we combine written accounts and fire scar evidence to document wildfire as the likely source of the infamous dark day of 1780. Close quote. Ah, that’s right. The sun didn’t go black. It was smoke from a fire that darkened a small section of North America while the sun was still shining just as it ever has. The sun didn’t go dark. It was shining like it always had been everywhere else.

Actually, still there. It was just blocked. So, Ellen White was wrong. And no, this wasn’t a fulfillment of Bible prophecy. But there was an eclipse that happened 10 days before. So, that means the sun did actually go black. and all of this somehow supports the idea that April 8th something radical was going to happen and Bible prophecy is being fulfilled. No, they’re just paring Ellen White, which SDAs have been for decades. Again, go to our website, you can type in any part of that date in the search bar and the article will pop up and you can search to your heart’s content and

See all sorts of sources on that. But a blood moon, folks, is simply another name for a total lunar eclipse. It’s also sometimes used to refer to four total lunar eclipses that happen in the span of two years, which is a phenomenon that astronomers call a lunar tetrad. Notice what timeate.com says regarding this. This is from an article titled, “What is a blood moon?” Quote, “The 2014-15 lunar tetrad gathered a lot of attention because of claims by some religious organizations that the eclipses in the tetrd were a sign of the end times. Some even called

The eclipses blood moons after a statement in the book of Joel in the Hebrew Bible that referred to the sun turning dark and the moon turning red before the second coming of Jesus.” Close quote. Literally, every single time there is a lunar eclipse, these end times gurus, prophecy hunters always cite Joel and Acts 2. Every single time. And then the world looks at these Yahoos and uses it to broadbrush Christians as being crackpot lunatics. And then the crackpots that do this wear it as some badge of honor and just dig their heels in further. Please don’t be that way.

Please do not be that way. Please stop falling for this stuff. This is not glorifying to God. Start a family. Have kids. Raise them up to be laborers for Christ’s kingdom. Take the gospel to your local community. Be the hands and feet of Jesus. Serve the body of Christ. Seow seeds for generational kingdom growth. Sitting around latching on to every newspaper headline thinking that you can pinpoint when something’s going to happen is not glorifying God. Get busy. Get busy. And if you’re an Adventist, leave Adventism. Become a Christian is step one before any of that

Stuff. But Time and Day even has an entire article on this regarding failed apocalyptic predictions. Look at this. I I mean, this is what I’m saying about it becomes a mockery.

Look at this whole thing dedicated to this. All the predictions so far in 2024, death by asteroid, Nostradamus, the best doomsday predictions that fizzle. I mean, they go into all the Yeah, remember the Mayan calendar, folks. Am I the only one that remembers that? Yeah. Herald camping and the rapture. It just like Yeah. The black hole from Geneva. It just uh folks please please failed prediction after failed prediction. Please stop falling for every single time something like this happens. It’s an embarrassment to the cause of Christ. And every time it’s

Done in the name of being a watchman on the wall or whatever. Yeah. Well, if you’re the watchman, we are doomed because you keep falling for every single decoy. You’re going to fall for the Trojan horse. Not just that, but you already have. Now they’re going to talk about November 13, 1833. So these things have been fulfilled, these ones specifically that we’re talking about. And there’s one more that we’re going to mention that is the falling of the stars. That’s in November of 1833. And this is written about by presidents. And you know, this is just so widely known.

And it was like a an American historical event that everybody knew of. Maybe not so much now cuz it’s a while ago, but uh Lincoln spoke about this. He wrote about seeing this event and uh it it was quite quite something to see. It caused great religious revival and interest in end time events because as they had been reflecting on, you know, first comes this earthquake, then comes this dark day, then the moon turns to blood, and now the falling of the stars. Uh it seems to indicate that Jesus’s coming would be soon and this is what they believed.

Yeah. It’s so widely known that the stars didn’t fall to the earth and this didn’t fulfill Bible prophecy. Like we saw in the Advent Review article previously, this event supposedly according to them also fulfills Revelation 6:13 and Matthew 24:29. Now notice the June 13, 1935 issue of the same paper and what they claim. quote, “The stars of heaven fell unto the earth even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs when she is shaken of a mighty wind.” Folks, again, the fig tree represented Israel. Revelation 6:13. This prophetic picture was enacted in the heavens on the night

Of November 13, 1833. The Greek word used here for star is frequently used in classical Greek as meteor. The greatest meteoric shower of which there is any record took place in 1833 as the numberless meteor struck the Earth’s atmosphere on the night of November 13. They blazed into a display of celestial fireworks beyond adequate description. Close quote. Again, this isn’t stated independently of confirmation from God through Ellen White, which is what it which is where it’s actually coming from. It’s not what Revelation and Matthew are actually

Pointing to. It’s coming from the great controversy. Notice quote in 1833, two years after Miller, talking about William Miller, began to present in public the evidences of Christ’s soon coming, the last of the signs appeared which were promised by the Savior as tokens of his second advent. Said Jesus, “The stars shall fall from heaven.” Matthew 24:29. And John in the revelation declared as he beheld in vision the scenes that herald the day of of God, the stars of heaven fell into the earth even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs when she is shaken of a

Mighty wind. This prophecy received a striking and impressive fulfillment in the great meteoric shower of November 13, 1833. That was the most extensive and wonderful display of falling stars which has ever been recorded. Close quote. Remember that. Greatest ever recorded. Yeah, except for one problem. No, it isn’t. And meteors are not stars, folks. The term falling star is a slang term, but stars are not meteors. And even if they want to appeal to the Greek, which they did, that the word aster can mean meteor or meteorite. Again, Jesus is not talking about

November 13 in the 19th century. This is just asserted as fact because Ellen White said it. Well, so that was God speaking and and that’s must be what the text is saying, right? Meanwhile, again, Ted tells us, Ted Wilson says, “The only approved hermeneutic in the SDA church is the historical grammatical method.” Well, let’s see. I I would love to see it. Let’s see the somebody from the SDA church utilized the HGM and walk us through the text and let’s see how Jesus’s original audience understood him to be talking about November 13, 1833. They can’t. So, they’ll just say, “Well,

It’s a double fulfillment.” So, that leaves the door open for them to just plug and play with whatever they need to. But notice how NASA defines a meteor. A meteor is a meteoroid that comes close enough to Earth and enters Earth’s atmosphere, then vaporizes and turns into a meteor, a streak of light in the sky. Because of their appearance, these streaks of light are sometimes called shooting stars, but meteors are not actually stars. Close quote. Well, like I said, Adventists are going to stick to their guns, of course, and assert, well, that Greek word can mean meteor or

Asteroid, not only stars. Well, okay. Remember what did they say? It was the greatest event of this ever. Ever. 1833 was the greatest of this ever. Yeah. Well, it was discovered in 1866. What caused this event? Which is now known as the 1833 Leonid meteor shower. And it was the result of a comet. Two scientists, Erns Temple and Horus Tuttle, discovered in 1866 that a comet was what caused this event to take place. With the comet being nicknamed Comet 55P, Temple Tuttle after their names. They discovered that this comet passes the Earth approximately

Every 33 years, which means what happened in 1833 wasn’t unique or new. In fact, here’s a documented list of it passing the Earth all the way back to 902 A, folks. 902 AD. Look at all these. I mean, they talk about it right here. The exact image that they were using on there. Again, go to our website, type in November 13 in the search bar, and this article will pop up. You can also see there’s a hyperlink text that says documented list. Click on that and it will literally take you through countless more. This was happening well before 1833. Again, how does any of this have to do

With April 8, but yeah, fellas, not quite the greatest falling of the stars in history. Once again, God showed this to Ellen White, though. She just couldn’t get it right. So, it’s God’s fault. Apparently, doesn’t matter if you want to argue the Greek grammar. The Leonid meteor shower was not an anomaly in 1833. It happened multiple times prior to then. He said religious revival broke out because of this and caused them to believe Jesus was returning soon. Again, every single one of those individuals were closer to their death than the return of Christ. Doesn’t matter that

They genuinely believed this. Lots of people genuinely believe all sorts of things. Doesn’t make it true. The Leonid meteor shower had absolutely nothing to do with Bible prophecy. And it didn’t uniquely happen one time on that date. Absolutely none of this has anything to do with April 8, 2024. This was an opportunity for them to cash in on all the searches and hop on the gravy train to try and then talk about all the standard SDA folklore and recycle the same claims over and over and over using this most recent event as the front for that. If

You’re an Adventist or even a Christian that falls prey to this stuff, I encourage you, please reconsider falling every time new things like this pop up. Utilize your God-given critical thinking faculties and don’t fall for these grifters. Well, we have all these examples showing us that we should be looking for some sort of heavenly bodily events, you know, signs that are going to take place. But I know that if we have these signs, they need to be coupled with something because we have the signs in the heavens. But if we read here in Acts 21:17

And this is talking about the last days and we believe that we are living in the last days. Absolutely. And it says, reading the highlight, “In the last days, I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy on my servants and on my handmaidadens, my spirit, and they shall prophesy, and I will show wonders in heaven above.” So, it’s like connecting these two. It is, McKenzie. Does it make sense that you would show signs in the heavens and then not give some kind of a prophecy to be able to understand what those signs are all

About? Well, it would make sense that God gives his message with with the signs. Absolutely. And so we should be looking for uh you know we we need to cut through all the smoke and the fog about what everybody’s saying and you know saying you know we got 40 days and all this kind of thing. We really don’t know. But we what we do need to do is we need to go to the word of God and we need to see this that uh in the in the last days that God would work through giving the gift of prophecy again. Okay. Well, that that’s a very big interesting topic for sure.

No, none of the examples that they pointed to prove that the Bible is telling you to become a theological astronomer and read into every event that takes place in the celestial bodies. Again, thousands of solar eclipse, folks, just since Jesus said what he did in Luke 21, they cherrypicked this current one because there is a lot of buzz on the internet and they wanted to cash in on it. So, don’t bring the Bible into this making Christians look stupid. There’s been zero actual biblical exposition here, just rattling off standard assertions and SDA proof texts, not even reading

Them in full, but looking at certain phrases. But of course, like I mentioned earlier, now they appeal to Acts chapter 2. Yes, McKenzie, Peter said the last days were already underway. Nothing about that starting in 1844. Peter was proclaiming that the prophecy from Joel was happening right then and there. This was in a sermon that he was preaching and he points to Joel when he’s preaching there to Jews amongst many other Old Testament passages to bolster that Jesus is the Messiah and that the Old Testament foretold of him that uh that’s what he was preaching with and

And or that’s what he was preaching in line with and essentially saying what I’m preaching to you is perfectly in line with that. Now notice folks, Hebrews chapter 1, one example, the author of Hebrews. Long ago, at many times, and in many ways, God spoke to our fathers by the prophets. But in these last days, he has spoken to us by his son, whom he appointed the heir of all things through whom also he created the world. The author of Hebrews says they were in the last days. Present tense. In times past, God spoke through the prophets, but in these last days, present tense,

God has spoken through Christ, the one who all the prophets were forerunners for and pointed to. Nothing about the last days starting in 1844 and the gift of prophecy being manifested in Ellen White. Nor is that what Joel and Peter in Acts are referring to. Yes, the sign connected with all of Acts 2 literally happened after Peter’s preaching. Dawn, the Holy Spirit was poured out on people at Pentecost. Thousands of people were saved as a catalyst for growth in the infancy of the Christian church. They spoke in tongues. Healings were happening, etc.

Nothing about being a newspaper detective to try and read all sorts of stuff into sooner or uh solar and and lunar eclipses and meteor showers. to try and now connect this to April 8 is a horrible, horrible handling of scripture. We have uh just as you were saying, Amos 3:7, but he revealed his secrets unto his servants, the prophets. So, you’re telling me that we should be looking for signs, but not only signs, but dreams, people that have dreams and depictions of these events, too, to correspond to help us to be able to understand what these signs are saying because this is

What the prophecy back in Acts uh chapter 2 says, that he’s going to pour out his flesh uh his spirit on all flesh. Your sons and your daughters will prophesy and that there’s going to be signs in the heavens. And so this is all connected. So then my question would be, and this is going to be the question we actually leave on, and we’re going to pick this up in the next episode, have we seen people having dreams or visions about these events? I believe that we have. And if you look at history, if you look at all the prophecies, whether it was the coming of

Christ, right, and his star, was that not prophesied? It definitely was. Whether it was uh the destruction of Jerusalem, was that not prophesied? It was. Whether it was the the defeat of the Persians by Alexander the Great, was that not prophesied? Yes. And so we should then look that there should be some kind of prophetic evidence to indicate whether or not this eclipse that’s coming has any uh significance for us now. Okay. Well, I hope you liked this first part. We just started getting into this. We’re going to go in a lot more detail on what people are saying

And how this could connect to us today if this has real significance. And uh what are these dreams that Don is talking about? Ah, so this whole thing is about capitalizing on the high search traffic of this passing event to try and ultimately plug Ellen White as being a last day prophet that scripture foretold of and is needed to help one navigate through the last days. Remember that quote that we’ve looked at uh well a number of times. It’s in the Adventist belief, fundamental beliefs book. Uh it’s coming from the review in Herald and Uriah Smith is the one that said it.

Um that in these last days, the Bible says that there’d be perilous times and God would send a pilot who would help us navigate those times. Yeah, that’s what they’re trying to segue into here. No. Amos 3:7 is supposed to support this somehow. No. More hopscotch exes Jesus, zero analyzing of context, zero utilization of the HGM, etc. Amis 3 has nothing to do with this. This whole speculation is built on sinking sand. So remember this the next time you see more SDA grifting on dates to try and capitalize on it. Understand too that no, not all SDAs are like this

And this was an attempt an attempt to try and say that they are. However, there is unfortunately a lot of SDAs that get sucked into this sort of thing. And people need to understand this is a grift. This is a grift. This was them riding the wave. This was the best performing piece of content that they’d had in the last month. They did like four more pieces now after it. There’s like three parts to this one and then something else that came out. They were milking this for all it’s worth to try and weasel in all the standard SDA folklore to try and woo people that are

Searching for this to then swindle them into Adventism because again people that are into this sort of thing get wooed and and ahaded. Please folks, please. It is an embarrassment to the cause of Christ. It is an embarrassment. It is an embarrassment. Doesn’t mean prophecy doesn’t matter. Doesn’t mean the Bible doesn’t talk about prophecy. But no, the Bible does not command all people to be these theological astronomers that then are constantly wrong and then just hop on the new newspaper headline and then claim it’s something biblical, which allows these secular organizations and

Whatnot to dunk on the church and make a laughingtock out of the Bible. But as I stated in the introduction, this was about showing how weak and flimsy this sort of thing is. Amazing discoveries notorious for this. Walter Ve has been doing this sort of thing for decades. For decades, he still sells stuff that he was doing 15 years ago where you just go back and listen, it’s like, “Wow, that aged like milk. It’s like cottage cheese now.” Nothing comes about. They move along to the next newspaper headline to string you along thinking that you’re getting

Some special insight that no one else has and the Bible apparently supports it, yada yada. But no, it’s not what’s going on. Thank you for being here and may Christ richly bless you in the grace and peace. won by Jesus Christ and his vicarious death on the cross for sinners. Marinatha. Amen.