Biblical Concordance of Adventism Pillars and Creation

The seven pillars of our faith constitute a harmonious system of truth that prepares a people for the coming of Christ. 🌟 Below is a structured collection of scriptures that define these vital landmarks, which serve as a chart and compass for us in these last days.

1. The Three Angels' Messages

This is the final warning to the world, a threefold message that gathers a loyal people to welcome their King.

• The First Angel: Proclaims the investigative judgment has begun. Revelation 14:6-7.

• The Second Angel: Announces the moral fall of Babylon and the call to separate from worldliness. Revelation 14:8+1.

• The Third Angel: Warns against false worship and points to those who keep God's law. Revelation 14:9-12.

2. The Sanctuary and the Investigative Judgment

The understanding of Christ’s ministry in the heavenly sanctuary is the key that unlocks the mystery of our history and the plan of salvation. 🏛️

• The Prophetic Period: The 2,300-day prophecy points to the cleansing of the sanctuary. Daniel 8:14.

• The Heavenly Temple: Christ is our High Priest in the true tabernacle in heaven. Hebrews 8:1-2+1.

• The Ark of the Testament: The opening of the temple reveals the law of God as the standard of judgment. Revelation 11:19.

• The Judgment Process: The books are opened and every work is brought into account. Daniel 7:9-10+1.

3. The Seventh-day Sabbath

The Sabbath is the great test of loyalty, distinguishing those who worship the Creator from those who follow human traditions. 🌅

• The Commandment: God's immutable law requires the observance of the seventh day. Exodus 20:8-11.

• The Sign of Authority: It is a perpetual covenant between God and His people. Exodus 31:13-17.

• The Remnant's Mark: The final conflict centers on those who keep the commandments. Revelation 12:17+1.

4. The Non-Immortality of the Soul (State of the Dead)

This pillar protects us from the deceptions of spiritualism by teaching that death is a sleep until the resurrection. 😴

• The Nature of Death: The dead are in the dust and know not anything. Ecclesiastes 9:5-6+1.

• The Return to Dust: The spirit returns to God, and the person waits in the grave. Ecclesiastes 12:7+1.

• The Resurrection Hope: Life is only regained through Christ at His appearing. 1 Thessalonians 4:13-17+1.

5. The Spirit of Prophecy

God has promised to guide His remnant through the gift of prophecy as they wait for the Advent. 📜

• The Testimony of Jesus: This gift is a identifying mark of the last-day church. Revelation 12:17+1.

• The Purpose of the Gift: For the perfecting of the saints and the work of the ministry. Ephesians 4:11-13.

• The Biblical Command: We are told to believe His prophets so we may prosper. 2 Chronicles 20:20.

6. The Law of God

The Ten Commandments are a transcript of God's character and the foundation of His government. ⚖️

• The Perpetuity of the Law: Christ did not come to destroy the law but to fulfill it. Matthew 5:17-19.

• The Definition of Sin: Sin is the transgression of this holy law. 1 John 3:4.

• The Whole Duty of Man: Keeping the commandments is the conclusion of the whole matter. Ecclesiastes 12:13+1.

7. The Second Advent of Christ

The "Blessed Hope" is the literal, visible return of Jesus to deliver His people. ☁️🎺

• The Manner of His Coming: He comes with clouds, and every eye shall see Him. Revelation 1:7+1.

• The Deliverance of the Saints: At His voice, the righteous dead are raised and the living are changed. 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17+1.

• The Special Resurrection: Even those who pierced Him will be raised to witness His glory. Revelation 1:7+1.

By studying these verses together, we see that they are not independent theories but a "chain of truth" that makes the work of God a straight and harmonious history. Daniel 12:10. May the Lord bless your study! 🙌

The record of creation is a simple and majestic account of the power of the true God, who spoke the heavens and the earth into existence out of nothingPTUK August 10, 1893, page 301.6+2. Understanding this foundational truth is essential, as the same creative power that formed the worlds is the power that works in the gospel to redeem and sanctify our soulsCAS 13.2+2.

The Foundation of Creation

• ** Genesis 1:1:** In the beginning God created the heaven and the earthARSH August 11, 1859, page 93.20+2.

• ** Psalm 33:6, 9:** By the word of the Lord were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth. For he spake, and it was done; he commanded, and it stood fastSOSL 6.1+2.

• ** Hebrews 11:3:** Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appearHSFD 9.2+2.

• ** Exodus 20:11:** For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh dayPH086 33.1+2.

Christ as the Creative Agent

• ** John 1:1-3:** In the beginning was the Word... All things were made by him; and without him was not anything made that was madeDA 288.2+2.

• ** Colossians 1:15-17:** For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible... all things were created by him, and for himSITI March 25, 1886, page 186.4+2.

• ** Ephesians 3:9:** God... created all things by Jesus ChristARSH March 11, 1884, page 162.4+2.

• ** Revelation 4:11:** Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all thingsARSH March 11, 1884, page 162.4+1.

The Seven-Day Creation Week

• ** Genesis 1:5:** And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first dayNTMS 37.2+2.

• ** Genesis 1:11-12:** And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit... and it was soRFOS 63.1.

• ** Genesis 1:21:** And God created great whales, and every living creature that movethARSH March 11, 1884, page 162.4+1.

• ** Genesis 1:27, 31:** So God created man in his own image... And God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very goodARSH March 11, 1884, page 162.4+2.

• ** Genesis 2:1-3:** Thus the heavens and the earth were finished... And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his workASLD 134.2+2.

Creation as a Sign of God’s Power

• ** Jeremiah 10:10-12:** He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdomSITL 14.1+1.

• ** Romans 1:20:** For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are madeSITL 14.1+2.

• ** Isaiah 42:5:** Thus saith God the Lord, he that created the heavens, and stretched them outARSH March 11, 1884, page 162.4+1.

• ** Psalm 111:2-4:** The works of the Lord are great... He hath made his wonderful works to be rememberedMEDM April 1904, page 124.3+1.

The New Creation and Future Restitution

• ** 2 Corinthians 5:17:** Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become newBEST June 22, 1903, par. 2+1.

• ** Psalm 51:10:** Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within meBEST June 22, 1903, par. 2.

• ** Isaiah 66:22-23:** For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me... from one sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before meCAS 26.1+2.

• ** Revelation 21:1, 5:** And I saw a new heaven and a new earth... And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things newARSH November 21, 1854, page 119.7+1.

... were not made of things which do appear.” This act of creation is that event which marks the commencement of the first week of time. He who could accomplish the whole work with one word chose rather to employ six days, and to accom...— HSFD 9.2 (1873)

...ldquo;The story of Creation,” because it tells about the creation of something, or how it was made out of nothing. The beautiful heavens above us and the great round earth upon which we live, were not always here. A long, long time ago there was nothing at all here where the heavens and earth now are. But at the beginning of the first day, someone commanded that they be created (that is, made out of nothing), and they were! He just spake and said, Let there be heavens and earth, and there was! We have seen that no man did it, for men do not know how to make even the smallest thing out of nothing. They can call but it will not come. He who created the heavens and the earth must be much wiser and greater than man. Who is it? If you will open your Bible at the first verse of the Story of Creation you can read for yourself who it is. Please learn it so well that you can say it without looking at it. Listen, this is what it says: “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” Ah, it is the God of heaven, He who knows everything, the Friend who sent us this precious ...— PTUK August 10, 1893, page 301.6

... used in this record; “The evening and the morning were the sixth day;” that is to say, the sixth day was a day composed of day and night, like the days we now have. “Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.” Genesis 2:1. How vast the work of this six days! Before it began, the infinity of space was simply an abyss of darkness, having nothing in it out of which to form the works of creation. When the six days were ended, an infinite number of worlds had arisen into existence. God had framed them out of things which before did not exist. To grasp this great truth in an act of faith which Paul places with strict propriety at the head o...— SOSL 9.1 (1870)

“ALL things were made by him; and without him was not anything made that was made.” “God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds.” Hebrews 1:1, 2. “God ... created all things by Jesus Christ.” Ephesians 3:9. “For by him were all things created, that are in Heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers; all things were created by him, and for him; and he is before all things, and by him all things consist (exist).” Colossians 1:16, 17. Now as Jesus Christ made all things, “and without him was not anything made that was made;” and as “the Sabbath was made” Mark 2:27, it follows that Christ made the Sabbath. And as the Sabbath was made as the memorial of creation, that man might thus remember and honor the Creator; and as the seventh day is declared to be “the Sabbath of the Lord thy God,” who “made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day; wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day, and hallowed it,” it follows that the seventh day is the Sabbath of Christ the Lord. It is Christ who rested the seventh day. It is Christ who blessed and sanctified the seventh day. It is Christ who made the seventh day the Sabbath. And as long as he remains what he is, “The same yesterday, and to-day, and forever,” t...— SITI March 25, 1886, page 186.4

...thus shows God’s eternal power Romans 1:20, makes known the sanctifying power of God, since sanctification is the exercise of creative power. “Create in me a clean heart.” Psalm 51:10. “If any man be in Christ, he is a new creation.” 2 Corinthians 5:17. Or, as the Revision has it, “there is a new creation.” Christ is Creator, and He created all things. Colossians 1:16. The Sabbath comes to us from Eden, when the earth was new, to remind us of the power of God in Christ to make us new creatures, as perfect as man and all things were in the beginning. And this will be its office throughout ete...— BEST June 22, 1903, par. 2