Turning the World Upside Down.
By F. J. Bideler
“THESE that have turned the world upside down are come hither also.” Acts. 17: 6. Such was a part of the accusation brought against Paul and Silas by the Jews at Thessalonica. The disciples were going from city to city, preaching and proving from the sacred Scriptures that Christ was the true Messiah, that he came just in the right time and manner, while the unbelieving Jews, by rejecting him, virtually overthrew all the chronological dates and prophecies in the Old Testament concerning him. Were they not really the ones that were turning the world upside down? Just so it is at the present time. Wherever our people go with the proclamation of the third angel’s message, the cry is immediately raised: “Oh! those crazy Adventists that are turning the world upside down are come hither also. They destroy the peace of neighborhoods and families. They teach that hated seventh-day Sabbath, which no one can keep because the world is round, and no one can tell where the day begins or ends.” (They can tell us when Sunday comes, however, when they find us at work on that day.) Now who are the ones that are turning the world upside down, those who teach that there is a definite seventh day, and that it can be kept? or those who, in order to get rid of its claims, are willing to throw all chronological order into confusion by claiming that the days of the week are indefinite, and that we cannot keep the Sabbath of the fourth commandment because we cannot tell where it begins or where it ends? Verily, God is not the author of confusion.