Uriah Smith

He's an Old Testament professor.

So I am not sure what's the deal with Ronko Stavanovic because when Ellen White says, this is what the fifth and sixth, and my understanding of this is, is that Uriah Smith and James White had a debate over this and she only commented on the fifth and sixth trumpet because she didn't want to appear to settle an argument and side with her husband.

So she was a good wife, right? And she was a good politician too.

So politically, she avoided that hotbed controversy because there apparently was enough controversy in her time, right? She didn't need that as well.

I don't believe that the version in Uriah, Smith, Daniel, and Revelation, the version of the seven trumpets, one through four, I don't believe he can prove that from Scripture.

But that doesn't mean that he's like wrong and you throw out the whole thing, right? Prophecy has progressed and knowledge has increased and as knowledge increases, God gives more light because giving mercy to the papacy and giving time for them to reform, that's important stuff because it shows the mercy and character and grace and love in God even more powerful.

So I'm not saying, well, my version's better than Uriah Smith.

Who am I, right? I'm just saying I teach revelation by what I can honestly teach.

And of course, Paul dealt with real issues.

I said last week, Ellen White wrote a letter to Uriah Smith, who was a great, great theologian, but he did not like to administrate.

He didn't like putting his hands and getting into stuff.

And she was saying, you are writing things that are affecting the church around the world.

There came with that mandate a series of things that you have to do if you're going to function in the will of Jesus Christ.

It's more than just preaching and teaching.

I said just last week, Ellen White had to give Uriah Smith a firm testimony because he said, you're affecting the world, but you're letting things happen here in the real and held office that you need to take care of.

And he didn't like doing that.

There was empathy and compassion, but he didn't avoid it.

One of Ellen White's challenges with Uriah Smith, a great theologian, was that he hated discipline.

He didn't like to call sin, sin.

So he would let things go on in the Review and Herald office that ought to be cleaned up, but he was too busy serving God.

And their eternal soul salvation is at stake.

And that needs to be made clear.

And we can't be like Uriah Smith.

We can't be... as Elder Brooks would say, mamby pamby.