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The Seventh-day Adventist Church (SDA) [5] is an Adventist Protestant Christian denomination [6] [7] which is distinguished by its observance of Saturday, [8] the seventh day of the week in the Christian and the Hebrew calendar, as the Sabbath, [7] its emphasis on the imminent Second Coming (advent) of Jesus Christ, and its annihilationist ...
In 1860, the fledgling movement finally settled on the name, Seventh-day Adventist, representative of the church's distinguishing beliefs. Three years later, on May 21, 1863, the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists was formed and the movement became an official organization.
The Seventh-day Adventist church teaches that there is a sanctuary in heaven which was foreshadowed by the Mosaic tabernacle, according to their interpretation of the Epistle to the Hebrews chapters 8 and 9. After his death, resurrection and ascension, Jesus Christ entered the heavenly sanctuary as the great High Priest, "making available to ...
The investigative judgment is a unique Seventh-day Adventist doctrine, which asserts that the divine judgment of professed Christians has been in progress since 1844. It is intimately related to the history of the Seventh-day Adventist Church and was described by the church's prophet and pioneer Ellen G. White as one of the pillars of Adventist ...
In 1981 disfellowshipped Australian Adventist Robert Brinsmead published Sabbatarianism Re-examined [7] in which he criticised the Sabbath, arguing the Ten Commandments are not all inclusive. Norm Young wrote in 1989 that "current Adventist exegesis conceives of the law as a total religious system and doesn't agree with the sharp distinction ...
The General Conference Session is the official world meeting of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, held every five years.At the session, delegates from around the world elect the Church's World Leaders, discuss and vote on changes to the Church's Constitution, and listen to reports from the Church's 13 Divisions on activities going on within its territory.
Nov. 20—The Chehalis Seventh-day Adventist Church will host its annual community sing-along of Handel's Messiah at 4:30 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 2. The public is invited to attend.
James Springer White (1821–1881) – a founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church; founder of The Present Truth, and 2nd, 4th, and 6th President of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists (1865–1867, 1869–1871, and 1874–1880); husband of Ellen White [123] [124]