Pat's Paragraphs

October 2016

People say all kinds of things; websites & ads make all kinds of claims. Most of us take it all “with a grain of salt.” We don’t automatically believe everything we read or hear.

With that in mind as we produced the Seventh Day series, we determined that our research must be credible and clear. We wanted to be sure that anyone could find the same information we had found. Dr. P. Gerard Damsteegt reviewed our scripts and sources to make sure all was accurate and footnoted properly; we left out stories that didn't meet our documentation criterion; we posted our scripts with their footnotes on the Seventh Day website.

Now we’ve gone to the next level. You don’t have to take our word for it - you can actually look at the original sources yourself! Isn’t that terrific!? Take a look at the "Steal our research. Please!” announcement further below in this newsletter.

Friends, I want to talk about something else too.

Amid the incessant cacophony of election chatter – the voices of accusation, rudeness and lewdness – we have to wonder, what has happened to the United States of America, the lamblike beast of prophecy, once a haven for the tired, the poor, the persecuted? 

• “Lawlessness, dissipation, and corruption are sweeping in upon us like an overwhelming tide. There is envy, evil surmising, hypocrisy, estrangement, emulation, strife, betrayal of sacred trusts, indulgence of lust. The whole system of religious principles and doctrines, which should form the foundation and framework of social life, seems to be a tottering mass, ready to fall to ruin.”*

What’s happened to the religions principles that undergirded our society?

• “From the very beginning of the great controversy in heaven, it has been Satan’s purpose to overthrow the law of God.

• No error accepted by the Christian world strikes more boldly against the authority of Heaven, none is more directly opposed to the dictates of reason, none is more pernicious in its results, than the modern doctrine, so rapidly gaining ground, that God’s law is no longer binding upon men.* 

At least, it’s a good excuse, a way to avoid accountability...

• And as the only way to free themselves from a duty which they are unwilling to perform, many popular teachers declare that the law of God is no longer binding. Thus they cast away the law and the Sabbath together...This rejection of the divine law to avoid the claims of the fourth commandment will become well-nigh universal.*

Man’s law or God’s law? There will be a law…

• The Sabbath will be the great test of loyalty; for it is the point of truth especially controverted…While the observance of the false Sabbath in compliance with the law of the state, contrary to the fourth commandment, will be an avowal of allegiance to a power that is in opposition to God, the keeping of the true Sabbath, in obedience to God’s law, is an evidence of loyalty to the Creator.*

Even now, the lamblike beast is speaking as a dragon. Prophecy is fulfilling. People are deluded. Can we find those who value truth? Are there still opportunities to share? Yes! The Seventh Day DVD series has proved to be a valuable tool. History is disarming (who can argue with what actually happened?!), and Bible truths are clearly revealed in the stories of those who lived, suffered and died in ages past.

Of course, I love it when Adventists order the  Seventh Day  series to share! But I love it even more when others buy them to share! Recently WorldNet Daily, an online news magazine, ordered another case to sell in their online superstore. And a Messianic Christian gentleman ordered a set to watch and share.

We at LLT are committed to unmasking the two greatest deceptions: 

• Through the two great errors, the immortality of the soul and Sunday sacredness, Satan will bring the people under his deceptions.*

The Seventh Day  series and The Wandering Day speak to the error of Sunday sacredness.  Hell and Mr. Fudge , and Beyond the Smoke - the new documentary we are praying to finish - tell the truth about the immortality of the soul. Will you add your prayers to ours for the funding to finish this documentary ? To tell truth about hell, death and the immortality of the soul? Would you consider being a part of the funding?

May God make us His voice, His hands, His feet, His witnesses!

Sincerely,

Pat Arrabito

*All quotes taken from The Great Controversy, pp.659-683 

"Steal" our research. Please!

Years of research and development led to LLT's production of The Seventh Day: Revelations from the Lost Pages of History. The aim was to present a well-documented presentation of Sabbath history that would hold up to careful scrutiny. 

Complete transcripts of the Seventh Day  scripts have been available online for several years. These transcripts include footnotes with references to relevant source material. Now we have made that source material itself accessible to you. 

The View source links in the footnotes open graphics of the actual sources, including title pages and pertinent content. Reading the footnotes and viewing the source material is a great way to develop a deeper understanding of Sabbath history. Try it. It will confirm your confidence in the Sabbath doctrine.

You can check it out right now. Below is a link to the transcript of Part Two. Click on any footnote reference or simply scroll to the bottom of the transcript. Click on any View source link.

Click here for Part Two transcript

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