Religious Liberty and the United Nations | Dr. Timothy Rumsey

Good afternoon. >> It's been a wonderful Sabbath, hasn't it? >> And it's a blessing to be here and to see what the Lord is doing. So, I've been asked to speak on a topic that four or five years ago probably would have never found its way onto an Adventist camp meeting schedule of

topics, but here we are. And so, we're going to ask the Lord to uh guide us as we work our way through this. Please bow your heads and pray with me. Our father in heaven, we thank you for the freedoms that we enjoy in this country. The freedom to gather like we are right now without fear to open your

word and to study together. As we continue to do that today, I ask that you will truly guide us with your Holy Spirit. May the words and the thoughts and the way they are expressed be from you. I ask in Jesus name. Amen. going to do my best to work through quite a bit of information this

afternoon in 45 minutes. Um, if I fail to get through everything, I encourage you to go to this website, uh, pathwayto paradise.org/religiousliberty. Uh, I will also show this slide at the end, uh, provided I get there. And uh there are uh several supporting documents that you might find interesting as well as you can download

the PowerPoint that I'm sharing today. So on July 16, 1945, the United States government detonated the first atomic bomb in the deserts of New Mexico. And a few days later on in July 26, the United States along with Great Britain and China issued what's known as the pot stem declaration. It was essentially an

ultimatum that Jan Japan surrender unconditionally. Now Japan surrendered by issuing what they called the um mokusatu. And um what do they mean by this? Well, they intended the word to mean no comment, which is what it means in Japanese, or to withhold comment while considering the offer. Well, so what happened? Well, the word