Gerry Wagoner

We all know about King Saul visiting the Witch of Endor, right? We read the tragic story in 1 Samuel 28, where he tries to call up the sleeping prophet of God through a medium.

An evil spirit answers the call and communicates with the frantic king, deceiving him. God judges the King for this act—abandoning him for destruction—and his life is required of him the next day (v. 19; 1 Chronicles 10:14).

Today, we have many Seventh-day Adventist leaders and Conference Presidents (like Oregon), and countless teachers and laymen from Berrien Springs, Independent Ministry individuals, PUC, Andrews University and unnumbered Conference officials in the Church aligning themselves with Black Lives Matter. It pains me to say it, but most of them are deceived—as was Saul. This is a warning.

Here is a recent interview of two of the founders of Black Lives Matter:

Black Lives Matter founder Melina Abdullah, and Patrisse Cullors discuss the spiritual side of black lives matter,

Abdullah:
“And maybe I’m sharing too much but we become very intimate with the spirits that we call on regularly.  Each of them seems to have a different presence and personality.  You know, I laugh a lot with Wakeesha, you know and I didn’t meet her in her body, right?  I met her through this work [BLM].”

Cullors:
“It’s a very important practice…and hashtags for us are way more than a hashtag, it is..um…literally almost resurrecting spirits so they can work through us so we can get the work that we need to get done.  I started to feel, personally connected and responsible and accountable to them.  Umm, both from a deeply political place, and also from a deeply spiritual place.  You know, in my tradition you offer it [the spirit] things that…that your loved one who passed away would want.  Like honey, or tobacco and things like that and that’s … it’s so important, not just for us, to be in direct relationships to our people who have passed, but also for them to know we’ve remembered them.  Umm.. I believe so many of them work through us.”

Here’s a video documenting the interview clips of Melina Addullah and Patrise Cullors. 

As previously stated, numerous Adventist leaders and young people have been swept up into the BLM flood.  Andrews University, Pacific Union, people in the Ohio Conference office, the NAD, the Oregon Conference President and the Review and Visitor magazines, to cite only a few.  There was even a pro–social justice article published on the GYC website in early June by Esther Louw.  That article has since been removed from the website, but not before being read by hundreds & thousands of Adventist youth.  

We watched with amazement as virtue signaling church leaders and publications prostrate themselves both literally and figuratively, pleading for ideological absolution so that they too can be on the side of these revolutionary ‘angels.’  Oddly enough, no one is asking what spirit is guiding these ‘angels.’ Many leaders have published ‘confessions’ and issued calls for social justice, such as Dan Jackson who equated social justice with the [everlasting] gospel in November 2018.

But, every revolutionary movement setting out to right wrongs whilst not grounded in biblical truth and the reconciling work and Lordship of Jesus Christ constitutes a counterfeit jubilee and a political gospel of false guilt, phony confessions, fictitious atonement, larcenous restitution and artificial forgiveness.

This sentiment is not coming into the Seventh-day Adventist Church.  In fact, it is already here. Listen to the increasing voices accusing the Church of systemic racism—whatever that is.

This sinister attempt to put people at war with each other and divide society has come into the Church by the co-opting of black identity and culture by a movement of politically minded radicals in the name of social justice. 

The agenda rings increasingly hollow as the rioting and lawlessness continue—even as brave black voices in our country have spoken out against what is taking place (including several black authors on F7).  The attempt to divide us is a one-sided revisionist interpretation of cultural history that seeks to paint one ethnic and cultural group as the oppressive cause of all society’s ills, with everyone else as victims. 

The beautiful prophetic voice that we have heard and benefited from in the past, is now being re-interpreted to say something different than what it was intended.  Ellen White and our pioneers are now being caricatured as social justice warriors.  The progenitors of this newfound zeal want you to believe that God is on their side as they tear down the pillars of the church. But that’s not the worst of it.

Even worse would be visiting the witch of Endor instead of God, or joining BLM marches and protests without observing or caring about the dark spirit sustaining it. The founders of it are in contact with demons. Do with it what you will.

The message of these BLM founders itself is sufficient evidence of its origin, friends. It’s not too late for Seventh-day Adventists to repent of any involvement with this (BLM) organization before it’s too late. There are a hundred ways to demonstrate sympathy to people without aligning ourselves with the unfruitful works of darkness (Ephesians 5:11). Let us ask God what He would have us do. He hears, and cares, and He will guide.

It’s not too late, but it’s very, very close.

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“So Saul died for his unfaithfulness which he had committed against the LORD, because he did not keep the word of the LORD, and also because he consulted a medium for guidance.  But he did not inquire of the LORD; therefore He killed him, and turned the kingdom over to David the son of Jesse” (1 Chronicles 10:14).