POPE HAS SDA BROTHER THAT ANNOUNCED FRANCIS WAS COMING AFTER ADVENTISTS?

“A GLOBAL LAW IS COMING TO MAKE SUNDAY THE DAY OF REST and I’m going to order that it’s approved!” the current Pope said this to his Adventist older brother, according to Argentinian Pastor Hugo Gambetta. El Evangelio Esterno, who produced the video, claims to be an independent Adventist ministry led by Gambetta which focuses on last-day events. A spokesperson for the ministry recently confirmed that the Revelation Seminar-type sermon was held at a Seventh-day Adventist Church in Perth Amboy, New Jersey [Sabbath, June 8, 2013].

Gambetta continued claiming that the pope’s much older brother “has for 52 years been a SDA," then gives a detailed story about how the young Bergoglio, who would later become Pope Francis, spoke for three days with his SDA brother about Adventism. The elder brother gave the young priest Ellen White's books including the Great Controversy which he read.



To which the young Bergoglio responded that Ellen White was a plague and a witch. The pope then shunned his brother and the family even had the SDA ejected by police at his mother's funeral. The last words his brother heard from Jorge Bergolio were, "You are too insignificant for me to avenge myself on you. It is against your church that I will avenge myself.” Then later the SDA brother learned the pope had vowed, "Very soon--see what God does. A global law is coming to make Sunday the day of rest and I’m going to order that it’s approved!”



The Bergoglio family with Jorge, a priest at the time second to the top left.

The General Conference of SDA's spokesperson said that the their phone lines have been glutted with questions about this video which they called a "hoax" and admitted Gambetta's allegations about Pope Francis are totally false. They distanced themselves from it, putting up this notice at their news site: POPE'S BROTHER NOT ADVENTIST

Yet, El Evangelio Eterno claims the sermon was given in an SDA church to an Adventist audience. Even though Gambetta, an SDA pastor until 2005, had his credentials revoked, his Los Angeles-based independent ministry continues to have a large Spanish audience among Seventh-day Adventists.

Let's uncover the errors of this video:

1. Since Pastor Gambetta claims few know this information, he should clearly reveal his sources. Did he get this knowledge first-hand from the pope's brother? The pastor gives no primary sources of this slander against the pope.

2. Both Pope Francis brothers were deceased at the time of the pope's election and the pastor seems to indicate this SDA brother was alive with present verbs such as, "the brothers do not talk" and "he's been an Adventist for 52 years."

3. Gambetta claimed the SDA brother was much older, yet Jorge was the eldest sibling.

4. If this is true, every SDA church would be inviting the pope's Adventist brother to speak and every SDA publication would be in line for an interview.

While it is good the GC is distancing itself from such ridiculous information, the nut doesn't fall far from the tree. The SDA Church has been bearing false witness against its Catholic neighbors since the beginning. Most SDA leadership today are unaware they are passing on misinformation and historical distortions but they should at least be culpable for not doing thorough research into Christian history. They rely too heavily on the SDA history books.

Look at another false (hopefully a joke) report recently put out by some SDA: 

Pope Praises Adventists at St. Peter's tomb at Vatican, Offers Ellen G. White Beatification By FRANCES D'EMILIO together with Juancito Perla y Perla | Associated Press – April 1, 2013

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis is spending today's Vatican holiday praying at the tomb of Peter, the church's first pontiff, during a visit to the excavated necropolis under St. Peter's Basilica. During today's events His Holiness brought out a little red book by his favorite author, the Adventist prophetess, Ellen G. White, who died in 1915. Pope Francis announced that he will beatify the 19th century Adventist writer and establish a joint committee for the promotion of full ecumenical fellowship with the SDA denomination. Rev. Ted Wilson, world leader of the nearly 16 million-member sect is said to consider "Unity" within the broader Christian community his number one priority. Both Wilson and Francis are opposed to ordaining women to the pastoral priesthood, it was noted.

http://clubadventist.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/622266/Pope_Praises_SDAs_and_Offers_E.html

After the recent Carter Report video of the bishop supposedly "coming clean" and admitting the church changed the sabbath to Sunday that turned out to be a scam, Adventists need to beware Catholic exposé videos. They tend to be rubbish. If you don't find it coming from the Vatican's official website or the USCCB website. Don't believe it.


Update: The video clip above is part of the full clip found here.

America Reaps What It Has Sown

Do not be deceived, God is not mocked: for whatever a man sows, this he will also reap. For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life. Galatians 6: 7, 8

Christians,

I understand your reaction after yesterday's Supreme Court ruling. The conservatives in our nation are in a state of shock and we want to normalize and have hope. So we all talked about Mitt Romney--getting him elected in order to overturn this disaster. I am not in any way criticizing that. It was a normal reaction. A civil shock would suggest a civil response.

However, our America has been in a train wreck and its people are in trauma. Naturally we are attempting to stabilize the wounded in order to get them to the hospital for live-saving treatment. But we must not fool ourselves. The stabilization is not the treatment.

This is not a national crisis of politics. This is a national crisis of morality and a crisis of Christian courage to stand up and speak truth. 


We, as a nation, have sown the seeds of evil for decades. Almost fifty million unborn children have been slaughtered and tossed into wastebaskets on our soil. Pornography, contraception, fornication, adultery, homosexuality, divorce, child-abandonment, greed, irresponsibility, isolation, throwing away of our elderly into nursing homes to die alone, educating our children into wickedness and ungodliness, pride, selfishness, disrespect of authority;... we sit in front of the television and laugh each night as Hollywood mocks God and we laugh at sin and we excuse it as relaxing.... these are some the evil seeds we have sown.

And the worst of any of it is that we have, as a nation, turned away from seeing the problem. We have failed to act against the tsunami of evil. Rather than fight against the raging waters we have given in and floated to our own destruction.

God will not be mocked. We are reaping that which we have sown.

Yes, Mitt Romney, if elected, has the potential of giving our nation a temporary reprieve. But unless we repent, our nation is going down.

Everybody is ignoring the obvious because no one wants to be the crazy person who points it out. Our nation is not being run by the people. Something wicked this way has come to the beltway, and it ain't the people! DC is in the total control of something other than us out here in the fly over states. We are a conservative nation in our hearts, even if we have allowed wickedness to thrive. We are pro-family and pro-life and yet we cannot win even the teeniest of federal legislation.

Something evil has been allowed to crawl into our capital and hold the souls of our leaders hostage. We know it, we can feel it, but no one wants to actually say it.

Our only hope is not Mitt Romney, but us. WE must repent and turn from our evil ways. Don't look to Washington, DC for salvation from the craziness of our country. Vote Mitt, yes, indeed and absolutely vote Mitt--just as we would call an ambulance for someone internally bleeding. But then we must have the operation to fix the bleeding. And that is to fall at the foot of the cross and repent and turn from our wicked ways.

"If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land." II Chr. 7:14