Seventh-day Adventism in the Third Millennium Part 2

Seventh-day Adventism in the Third Millennium Part 2
When Seventh-day Adventists announced in the nineteenth century that the world had reached a turning point in its history we should understand this message in a world-historical context. It was not simply the SDA church that was teaching events of cosmic significance were occurring. God did not rely on a small band of Christians in North America to tell the world to prepare for the end of history.

All over the world we can see a similar message appearing. Following the collapse of the authority of the Church at the time of the reformation, humanity had concentrated on advancing in science to discover truth. Yet by the nineteenth century it was becoming clear to many that science would never discover the truth about truth. Humanity may with science enable us to live lives of comfort and pleasure but it has not answered the question of God and it has not allowed us to live in harmony with each other or with nature.

Although few theologians spoke this message, it could be clearly heard from philosophers, politicians, artists and many others that we were arriving at an end: the end of history, the end of man, the end of philosophy, the end of reality. Gradually people were waking up from the dream of modernity to discover it had no spirit.

Seventh-day Adventism in the Third Millennium Part 3