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This is what fasting really does to your body.
FASTING TIMES – CHEAT SHEET
12 Hours: Full Gut & Liver Detox Cycle
14 Hours: Insulin and Blood Sugar Lower and Fat Burning Kicks In
16–18 Hours: Ketones Start to Increase & Elevation in BDNF for Better Brain Function
18–24 Hours: Inflammation Goes Down & Autophagy and Deep Cellular Healing Increases
24 Hours: Human Growth Hormone Rises (up to 2000% in Men & 1300% in Women)
24–36 Hours: Shifting in Gut Microbiome & Increased Intestinal Stem Cells
36–48 Hours: Higher Autophagy Levels & Immune System Rejuvenated
48–72 Hours: Maximal Autophagy & Stem Cell Increase
3–5 Days: Maximal Autophagy & Stem Cell Increase
The False Church
Revelation describes a powerful end time religious system, organization, entity, if you will, called “Babylon the Great” [Revelation 17-18]. As you know, God uses symbols in prophecy, and the symbols He used to paint the picture here is serious, detailed, ominous, and impossible to ignore once you follow the Bible. This is where you need to put on your thinking caps and be able to reason. If you cannot, you will miss it.
In Bible prophecy, a woman represents a church. A pure woman represents God’s faithful people [Revelation 12]. A corrupt woman, especially a harlot, represents a church that has turned away from God’s truth to do its own thing and follow its own rules [Jeremiah 6:2; Hosea 4:12; Revelation 17:1 to 5].
This false church is not small or local. Revelation says she “sits on many waters,” which the Bible itself explains as “peoples, multitudes, nations, and tongues” [Revelation 17:1, 15]. In other words, her influence reaches across the entire world.
This false church is also deeply connected with political power. Revelation says she commits “fornication with the kings of the earth” [Revelation 17:2 to 3]. In prophecy, spiritual fornication means unfaithfulness to God. Here, it shows that this church is connected between religion and earthly governments. This act is something Scripture repeatedly warns against.
Outwardly, this system seems holy, beautiful and impressive. She is clothed in purple and scarlet and carries a golden cup [Revelation 17:4]. Yet the cup is filled with corruption error and false teachings. Here, God wants us to know that appearances can deceive. A church, or system, entity or however you may call it, may look holy but can still be teaching doctrines that conflict with Scripture. This is a grave deception.
Revelation also says this false church is “drunk with the blood of the saints” [Revelation 17:6]. This point, is describing a church system that has a history of persecuting faithful believers who chose obedience to God over obedience to religious authority.
Another identifying mark is that this false church sits on seven mountains and rules over kings [Revelation 17:9, 18]. These details have caused many, both now and throughout history to connect this power with Rome and the papal system centered there.
The name “Mystery, Babylon the Great, the Mother of Harlots” [Revelation 17:5] is also important. A mother with daughters means other churches would come out from her, and other churches will follow her teachings, and traditions not rooted in Scripture. Revelation 18:4 tells us that God still has sincere people still within these churches that He is lovingly calling to, “Come out of her, My people.”
This system is a religious power that replaces biblical authority with tradition, joins itself with worldly power, and leads people away from the plain teachings of Scripture.
The warning in Revelation is not given to shame people. It is given to wake people up before the final crisis unfolds [Revelation 14:8; Revelation 18:2-4].
Father in heaven, forgive me of my sins that this prayer is not hindered. Thank You for being the good God that You are. Thank You for blessing and keeping Your children close to You as we reflect the love of Your son Jesus to this world.
Father I pray for all the people who are convicted in their hearts about giving their life to You. May the Holy Spirit give them no rest until they do Lord. You are a wonderful God and You truly do not want any of us to perish.
Thank You for providing for us, for a roof over our heads, for comforting us, for allowing the trials we currently face in our lives, that we may learn to trust You even more. Father You are worthy to be praised!
Help us to stay the course with contentment. We ask and believe these things, because we ask it in the name of Jesus, amen.
ELLEN WHITE AND THE TALE OF TWO BOTS
I want to show you why you shouldn't trust AI. @Apostle_David pulled the following write up from ChatGPT. After I post what he posted from ChatGPT, I will ask locate ChatGPT and inquire whether the what Apostle David posted is true or not.
Here is what David posted:
@Apostle_David
The Movement Built on Failed Prophecies: The Historical Collapse Behind Adventism
Before the SDA system built charts, timelines, and doctrines, it built something else: failed prophecies. Not one. Not two. But a sequence of prophetic collapses that shaped the movement’s identity.
This is not an attack, it is the historical record.
William Miller’s Central Prophecy Failed (1843–1844)
The Millerite movement began with a single claim:
“Christ will return around 1843–1844.”
This was based on Miller’s interpretation of Daniel 8:14, the same verse the SDA chart depends on. Tens of thousands believed him.
When 1843 passed, the date was recalculated. When 1844 arrived, the expectation intensified.
And then:
October 22, 1844 arrived.
October 22, 1844 passed.
Christ did not return.
This was the Great Disappointment, the first and most catastrophic prophetic failure.
The Movement Split Because the Prophecy Failed
After the failure, the Millerite movement fractured into multiple groups. Some abandoned the movement entirely, some claimed the date was right but the event was wrong, some claimed Christ came “spiritually”, some claimed the prophecy was misunderstood, and some tried to find a new meaning for the failure.
The SDA Church emerged from the last group, the ones who refused to let the prophecy die.
The “1844 Heavenly Event” Was Invented After the Failure
On the morning after the Great Disappointment, Hiram Edson claimed to have a revelation in a cornfield:
Christ did do something on October 22, 1844 —
not return to earth, but move from one room of heaven to another.
This reinterpretation became the doctrine of the Investigative Judgment.
It was not predicted.
It was not taught by the apostles.
It was not found in Scripture.
It was created to salvage a failed prophecy.
This was the second prophetic failure, the belief that the prophecy was fulfilled invisibly.
Ellen G. White Reinforced the Failed Prophecy
Ellen White, the prophetic voice of early Adventism, repeatedly affirmed:
• The 1844 date was correct
• The event was real
• The Millerite movement was divinely led
• The Great Disappointment was a test from God
• The Investigative Judgment was revealed truth
Her visions did not correct the failed prophecy, they canonized it.
This locked the movement into a doctrine built on a misinterpretation.
Even SDA Historians Acknowledge the Failed Prophecies
Adventist scholars openly admit:
• The Millerite prediction failed
• The Great Disappointment was a prophetic collapse
• The Investigative Judgment was a reinterpretation
• The SDA Church emerged from the aftermath
This is not controversial, it is the denomination’s own documented history.
Summary: The SDA Movement Was Born From Repeated Prophetic Collapse
StageProphetic ClaimOutcome
1. Miller’s 1843–1844 predictionChrist will return visiblyFailed
2. October 22, 1844Exact date of Second ComingFailed
3. Post‑failure reinterpretationChrist began heavenly judgment in 1844Invented after the failure
4. Ellen White’s visionsAffirmed the failed date as divineReinforced the error
The SDA Church was not founded on fulfilled prophecy.
It was founded on the reinterpretation of failed prophecy.
HERE IS WHAT CHATGPT SAID ABOUT IT'S OWN WRITE UP ABOVE:
ChatGPT is this post from Apostle David about Ellen White and Adventist true?
This is a direct quote from CHATGPT:
The mixes real history with heavy spin and wrong conclusions.
Let’s walk through it plain and simple.
1. Did William Miller predict Jesus would return in 1843–1844?
Yes. That part is true.
Miller studied Daniel 8:14 and concluded the 2300 days ended around 1843 to 1844. He believed that meant the Second Coming.
And yes, October 22, 1844 passed, and Jesus did not return.
That event is called the Great Disappointment. No honest Adventist denies that.
2. Did the movement split after that?
Yes. Also true.
Some people left. Some gave up on prophecy altogether. Some tried to explain it in different ways.
That’s normal anytime a major expectation collapses. Even the disciples went through confusion when Jesus didn’t do what they expected.
They thought He would set up a kingdom. Instead, He went to a cross.
Wrong expectation does not automatically mean wrong Scripture.
3. Was the “Investigative Judgment” just invented to save face?
This is where the post goes off track.
It wasn’t just, “We were wrong, so let’s make something up.”
What actually happened was this:
They went back to the Bible and asked one question:
“What if the event was wrong, not the time?”
That matters.
Because Daniel 8:14 does not say,
“Jesus will return to earth.”
It says:
“Then shall the sanctuary be cleansed.”
Miller assumed “sanctuary = earth.”
That assumption was the mistake.
So they went back and studied:
What is the sanctuary?
What does “cleansed” mean?
Is there a heavenly sanctuary?
Then Hebrews came into focus:
Hebrews 8 and 9 clearly speak of a heavenly sanctuary
Jesus as our High Priest
A ministry that continues after the cross
That is where the understanding developed.
Not from panic. From study.
4. What about Hiram Edson’s “cornfield vision”?
People love to mock that part.
Here’s the reality:
Edson’s experience didn’t create doctrine.
It pointed them back to Scripture.
The doctrine was built from:
Daniel 8 and 9
Leviticus 16 (Day of Atonement)
Hebrews 8 to 10
If it can’t be shown from the Bible, it shouldn’t stand.
So the real question is not, “Did a man have an experience?”
The real question is:
Does the Bible support a heavenly judgment phase?
5. “It was not taught by the apostles”
That’s not accurate.
The New Testament clearly teaches judgment before Christ returns:
Daniel 7:9 to 10
Judgment scene before the kingdom is given
Revelation 14:6 to 7
“The hour of His judgment is come”
That is announced before the Second Coming
Hebrews
Ongoing priestly ministry of Christ in heaven
The pieces are there. They just were not put together clearly before.
6. Did Ellen White “lock in a failed prophecy”?
That’s his interpretation, not a neutral fact.
She did affirm:
The timing (1844)
That God led the movement
That they misunderstood the event
But again, the real issue is not her.
The issue is Scripture.
If the Bible supports:
A heavenly sanctuary
A judgment before Christ returns
Then the doctrine stands or falls on that, not on a critic’s framing.
7. What is the biggest flaw in his argument?
He assumes this:
If someone misunderstood a prophecy at first, the entire interpretation must be false.
That logic would destroy a lot of Bible history.
The disciples misunderstood the Messiah
The Jews misunderstood prophecy
Even John the Baptist struggled at one point
Yet God was still leading.
Bottom line
Yes, there was a real disappointment in 1844.
No serious Adventist denies that.
But saying:
“It was all invented afterward”
That’s not history. That’s commentary.
The real question is simple:
Does the Bible teach a heavenly sanctuary and a pre-Advent judgment?
If yes, then 1844 is not a cover-up.
It is a corrected understanding.
If no, then reject it.
Everything comes back to Scripture, not labels, not narratives, not opinions.
I ASKED CHATGPT WHY David's account differs from what it generated for me, when David and I are using the same program to inquire about Ellen White. CHATGPT said this (this is a direct quote):
Where the difference comes in
It’s not the facts.
It’s the interpretation of the facts.
David’s version says:
“It failed” → therefore it’s false
“It was reinterpreted” → therefore it was invented
“It developed after” → therefore it cannot be true
That’s a skeptical, dismissive lens.
My explanation says:
“They misunderstood the event”
“They went back and studied Scripture”
“The doctrine must stand or fall on the Bible itself”
That’s a biblical, internal lens.
So who is telling the truth?
Here’s the real answer, plain and simple:
He is telling the story to tear it down
I am explaining it in a way that tests it by Scripture
The question you actually need to ask
Not:
Who sounds more confident?
Not:
Who sounds more scholarly?
But:
What does the Bible actually say?
Because at the end of the day:
If Daniel 8:14 is about the earth, Miller was right about the event and wrong about the outcome
If Daniel 8:14 is about the heavenly sanctuary, then the timing can still be right while the expectation was wrong.
That is the whole debate.
Here’s the danger in his post
He quietly slips in one assumption:
“If understanding came after the event, it must be fake.”
That sounds strong, but it falls apart fast.
Because in Scripture:
The disciples understood prophecy after the resurrection
Jesus opened their understanding after the event (Luke 24:45)
Truth can be clearer after fulfillment, not just before.
Final thought
Don’t let tone decide truth.
One sounds confident and sharp.
The other sounds measured and explanatory.
That means nothing.
Open the Bible. Follow the evidence.
That’s where the answer is settled.
If you want, we can go step by step through Daniel 8:14 and settle it straight from the text, no opinions added.
1. Jesus never replaced the Ten Commandments with two new ones. He summarized them.
2. “Love God” covers commandments 1–4.
“Love your neighbor” covers commandments 5–10.
3. Is a person says they follow the two greatest commandments, they are actually agreeing with the whole law, and not dismissing it.
4. If you love God, you won’t worship other gods, you won’t take His name lightly, and you won’t ignore the day He set apart. If you love people, you won’t lie, steal, cheat, or kill.
You can’t claim love God [you can claim it, but it would not be true] while setting aside the very commandments that define it. It does not work that way, Mildred.
Let me clarify some important points.
The Bible doesn’t show three equal powers just standing at the end like a lineup. It shows a final system.
Papal Rome is there, and there is no doubt about it. That part is solid, based on Revelation 13.
America shows up later. She is a different kind of power, but she ends up backing Rome, and pushing the world to do the same.
Those two connect directly. Religion and government working together. Church and State. Now Islam.
Islam shows up in prophecy earlier, especially in the trumpet period. It plays a real role in history, without question. But when you get to the very end, the Bible does not put Islam at the center of the final worship crisis.
Revelation keeps bringing us back to one issue and the issue is Worship. Authority. Who you obey when it is made clear. That final pressure comes through the system tied to the beast and the image of the beast.
Where does Islam fit? More like part of the global tension that will help cause the push, but not the final authority. What I mean is, chaos, conflict, fear, instability, nations rising against nations, cultural wars. Those things soften the world. People start wanting order, safety, unity and they start looking for help, for peace.
That opens the door for a global solution. That is where America and Papal Rome come together and lead out. Islam can be part of the shaking, part of the buildup, even part of the conflict that pushes things in that direction. But the Bible does not show it running the final system or enforcing the mark.
The thing to remember is that connection is not equal partnership. It can all go down like this:
1. Islam contributes to the pressure in the world.
2. America provides the power.
3. Papal Rome provides the religious authority.
Together, the stage is set for the final test.
ISLAM IN PROPHECY
I am often asked if Islam shows up in Bible prophecy. The short answer is yes. But, it doesn’t show up by name, but by description, particularly, in the Book of Revelation. That’s how prophecy works. It paints a picture. You use Scripture, simple thinking, and plain logic to recognize what it’s pointing to.
That said, most already know that Revelation talks about a series of events called the seven trumpets. These are warnings. Big shifts in history. Wars, power changes, things that shake nations and affect God’s people [Revelation 8:6].
The first four deal with the fall of Rome. After that, things escalated, to what the Bible calls the next three “woes.” Woes mean serious trouble is coming [Revelation 8:13].
Pay close attention to the fifth trumpet. In tmthwt vision, John sees something like smoke rising, darkening everything, then locusts coming out with power to torment, not kill, for a set time [Revelation 9:1–5].
This lines up with the rise of Islam out of Arabia. Around 622 A.D., Muhammad leaves Mecca, and Islam begins to spread fast. Armies move across regions like the Middle East and North Africa. They don’t wipe everything out, but they pressure, weaken, and take control over time.
The Bible gives a time period, five months. In prophecy, a day stands for a year [Ezekiel 4:6] [Numbers 14:34]. That comes out to 150 years, which matches the stretch where Islamic forces pushed hard against the Eastern Roman Empire.
Then comes the sixth trumpet. Now the focus switches direction to the area around the Euphrates River [Revelation 9:13–14]. That’s where the Ottoman Empire rose.
The Bible gives another time frame. A year, a month, a day, and an hour [Revelation 9:15]. When you break that down the same way, it comes out to 391 years and 15 days.
History lines up again. The Ottomans gain power, dominate the region, and eventually bring down what’s left of the Byzantine Empire.
There is even a well known case where a preacher named Josiah Litch calculated when that power would lose its independence. He pointed to August 11, 1840. Before it happened.
On that exact date, the Ottoman Empire had to rely on European powers to survive. It stopped standing on its own.
Then the Bible moves to the seventh trumpet. This one is different. It is not just about one empire. It points to the final stretch of history, leading up to Christ’s return [Revelation 11:15].
You start seeing global tension, religious conflict, power struggles, everything building toward a final showdown. Through all of this, the point is not just history. It is a warning.
God is showing that nothing is random. Kingdoms rise and fall, but He is still in control. Every power has its moment, then it passes.
The same way Babylon, Persia, Greece, and Rome had their time, Islam also played a role in that timeline.
At the end of it all, one thing stands. This world does not stay in human hands. “The kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms of our Lord and of His Christ, and He shall reign forever and ever” [Revelation 11:15].
That is where everything is headed.
JESUS BROKE THE SABBATH.
That is what the Pharisees said and if you repeat that, you have chosen to believe the Pharisees accusations over Jesus.
Two points people love to being up:
1 Jesus healed people on the Sabbath.
2. His disciples picked grain while walking through a field.
The disciples were traveling and plucked grain with their hands to eat.
“And his disciples began, as they went, to pluck the ears of corn” [Mark 2:23].
They were not harvesting crops. Harvesting means cutting fields, gathering bundles, and storing grain. The disciples were passing through a field that had already been picked, and grabbed a few kernels to eat while walking. They kept it moving.
God’s law allowed that. It allows eating folks.
“When thou comest into the standing corn of thy neighbour, then thou mayest pluck the ears with thine hand.” [Deuteronomy 23:25].
A traveler could take grain by hand while passing through a field. That was permitted and never treated as labor.
The conflict came from religious traditions. Over time leaders created long lists of extra rules that defined what counted as work. Those rules went too far. The rules went beyond the command God gave.
Healing people on the Sabbath made the Pharisees even more anger. The nerve of Jesus to heal the sick, restore sight, and help people who were suffering on the Sabbath! That was their thinking! The leaders treated mercy and sickness like a violation. Like it could wait. Mercy and sickness cannot wait.
Jesus answered them with a question. He said:
“Is it lawful to do good on the sabbath days, or to do evil? to save life, or to kill”
[Mark 3:4]?
Helping someone in need fits into the purpose of the Sabbath. Eating while walking is normal life, helping someone who is suffering is mercy. Even helping an animal that is suffering, is what we do. Saving a life is compassion. None of those activities resemble ordinary work, business, or field labor.
Jesus used an everyday example people understood. He said: “How much then is a man better than a sheep” [Matthew 12:12].
If a sheep fell into a ditch on the Sabbath, the owner would pull it out. Leaving it there would be cruel, heartless, if he can help. The Sabbath command addresses regular labor, regular commerce.
“In it thou shalt not do any work” [Exodus 20:10)].
Daily employment, farming fields, running a business, buying and selling. Those activities are some example of servile work. Walking, eating, helping someone in distress, or healing the sick are acts of mercy and life. I know people who work at the hospital, who couldn't swap shifts, that worked and gave the money for offering, or donated it to a worthy cause.
Jesus said:
“Wherefore it is lawful to do well on the sabbath days” [Matthew 12:12].
Breaking the Sabbath would mean breaking one of the Ten Commandments. Christ never sinned. 1 Peter 2:22 described Christ as He “who did no sin.” Jesus did not violate the Sabbath. He removed the heavy burdens the Pharisees piled on top of it and restored the day to its real purpose. Rest, mercy, and worship.
SABBATH KEEPING IS LEGALISM.
The Sabbath is legalism, some say, but same people never say avoiding adultery is legalism, they never call honesty legalism, and they never say refusing to steal is legalism.
The Ten Commandments lists ten instructions. When someone chooses to obey nine of them, no one objects and no one is called a cult. The moment the fourth commandment comes up, the word legalism suddenly gets thrown in.
Why on earth would obedience to one commandment be called legalism, while obedience to the others is called righteousness? Ah Lord! In the words of Jeremiah.
The fourth commandment says:
“Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy” [Exodus 20:8].
The command sits smack, as we say in the Island, in the middle of the same law that says:
“Thou shalt not kill.” “Thou shalt not commit adultery.” “Thou shalt not steal.”
[Exodus 20:13–15].
Come on now! If obeying the Sabbath is legalism, the same logic would make the rest of the commandments legalism too. That means, refusing to lie would be legalism, refusing to steal would be legalism and refusing to commit adultery would be legalism. But, not a single soul argues that way.
What is Legalism: Legalism is the belief that a person can earn salvation by their own obedience. The Bible never teaches that. The Bible says that Salvation comes from God’s grace.
“For by grace are ye saved through faith… not of works” [Ephesians 2:8–9].
Obedience comes afterward as the response of someone who loves God. Jesus said:
“If ye love me, keep my commandments”
[John 14:15].
Remember cartoons where the character would saw off the branch of a tree and the two ends would remain suspended for a moment, until the character realizes his mistake, and falls with the branch, to the ground where he sees stars? This is what believers today do with what Jesus said in John 14:15. They try to isolate it from obedience.
But, love leads to obedience, even though obedience does not purchase salvation. What I mean is, a married person remains faithful to their spouse. That faithfulness does not earn the marriage. It protects the relationship. The same happens in the Christian life. Obedience grows out of love and loyalty.
The Sabbath fits right into that pattern. God set aside the seventh day at Creation. Genesis 2:3 said: “And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it.”
Later it became part of the Ten Commandments. The Sabbath reminds people who their Creator is. A day to stop working, step away from business, and spend time with God..Keeping the Sabbath does not save anyone. Grace saves and oOlbedience shows where a person’s loyalty is.
Calling Sabbath keeping legalism creates a weird situation. Nine commandments become moral law, while one commandment gets pushed aside. God wrote all ten with the same finger on the same tablets. The Bible says in Exodus 31:18.
“And he gave unto Moses… two tables of testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God.”
The same God who said do not steal also said remember the Sabbath. Obedience to God has never been legalism. It has always been the natural response of someone who trusts Him.