Former SDA Explains Adventist End Times Theology to A Christian Pastor

Dr. Josh Howard ​⁠(Pastor of Grace Community Church in Battle Creek, Michigan) had me on his podcast (@eschatology_matters) to explain how Seventh-Day Adventist eschatology (end times theology) differs from orthodox branches of Christian eschatology. We discuss the Great Controversy Theme, 1844 and the Investigative Judgment, the Final Judgment, the Second Coming, and more.
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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00:04 | How Did Answering Adventism Get Started?
00:03:54 | Is Seventh-Day Adventism Christian?
00:07:00 | What is the Great Controversy Theme?
00:15:41 | What started the Great Controversy?
00:21:31 | How familiar are Adventist's with The Great Controversy Theme?
00:28:18 | Is Adventism an End Times movement?
00:33:03 | What is the Investigative Judgment and where did it come from?
00:48:21 | Dr. Josh is left speechless...
00:48:43 | How well do SDAs understand the Investigative Judgment?
00:52:31 | Standing before Almighty God without a mediator?
00:55:38 | What do Adventist's think about the Law of God?
00:59:43 | Is Adventism doom and gloom eschatology?
01:00:04 | The Resurrection, Judgment and Second Coming
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The Gospel of Jesus Christ:
Man has broken God’s Law (Romans 3:23; 1 John 1:8) and our sin has separated us from our Maker (Isaiah 59:2). In His grace, God entered into His own creation in the person of Jesus Christ (John 1:1-14; Col. 1:19), born of a virgin (Matt. 1:23), and lived a perfect and sinless life, fulfilling all the Law’s demands (2 Cor. 5:21; Matt. 5:17), on a mission by God the Father to save sinners from condemnation (John 3:16-18, 6:37-40). He paid the penalty for sin which is death (Romans 6:23) and bore the sins of His people in His body on a cross (1 Peter 2:24), making propitiation by His blood (Romans 3:25). He died, was buried, and resurrected in the same body He died in on the third day for our justification (1 Cor. 15, Romans 4:25; Luke 24:39). By a living faith (James 2:18) in the Person and Work of Jesus (Romans 10:9-10), God graciously declares a person righteous (Romans 4:5), they are reconciled to their Creator (Romans 5:10-11), sealed with the Holy Spirit (Eph. 1:13), and have peace with God (Romans 5:1). They are born again of the Spirit (1 John 5:1, Titus 3:5), adopted into His family (Eph. 4:5–7), and are granted eternal resurrection life in Jesus Christ (1 John 5:11), set free to do good works that please Him (Eph. 2:10; 1 John 2:3-4). Jesus will physically return one day to judge the living and the dead (1 Peter 4:5; Acts 24:15; John 5:24-5) but His people will be spared from the wrath to come (1 Thess. 1:10) to dwell in union with God forever (Rev. 21:3).

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