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But, Mr. Wagoner, “They slap me, I slap them. That’s how I’ve always done it!” True, that is how our carnal nature operates. But it is wrong, according to God’s Word.
The new existence of such guidelines introduces the question of who has authority to interpret them, adding an until-now non-existent layer of control over the pulpit.
Where does our Salvation come from? By banning ordained pastors from speaking, the Conferences has installed themselves as gatekeepers to the Truth and the mediators for salvation.
As someone once said, “The cross is the payment for our sins, but the resurrection is the receipt proving the debt was paid.”
Since the entire universe is Jesus’ domain, as He entered that final conflict with Satan, it was not just our personal salvation that was at stake. The safety and fate of the universe was on the line.
Neither the Jewish people nor the citizens of the United States have kept these basic civilization rules perfectly. But the United States has the distinction of repenting and restoring those broken principles.
Where does the living God dwell upon this earth today? Not in a physical temple. The New Testament clearly teaches that the church is the temple upon this earth. Earthly temples are history.
News & Commentary
AFM remains committed to staying focused, correcting course when needed, and directing all of our energy toward the urgent task of sharing Christ with those who have not yet heard.
I believe that the government should not mandate religion. I do not believe that a government is best when it is godless or God-hostile (see Proverbs 19:2).
The Free Indeed & Recovery Road Health & Wholeness Expo takes place in Tampa, Florida at the Florida State Fairgrounds on May 28-30, 2026.
AFM also appointed Philip Brantley as a board member. Brantley isn’t quite as well known as Nelson, but he has engaged in online discourse for a couple decades.
So, the Seventh-day Adventist Church was ready (and eager for it) when God raised up men who understand true biblical principles of religious liberty and how these principles interface with individual liberty of conscience.
Apologetics
The Mark of the Beast in Prophecy, as presented by Art Humphreys and 3 A.M. Films
N.T. Wright, Anglicanism’s brightest light, notes that Christian Zionism is strictly an American phenomenon.
How could Cyrus Scofield have afforded the life he lived before he published his annotated Bible?
Why is that Adventists are just now learning what happened when Julian the Apostate ordered the temple rebuilt?

The United Nations was built on the wreckage of a world that failed to hold tyranny accountable early enough. Its founding documents read like a direct rebuke of exactly the moral cowardice they display right now.