Very
few people know that there are several heads of state who are Seventh-day
Adventists (SDA), standing in the world’s most prone area that absorbs peculiarity faith into the generality of the common good.
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| (Upper row): Papua New Guinean’s Premier James Marape, Jamaica’s Prime Minister Andrew Holness (Lower row): Haiti’s Prime Minister Dr Henry Ariel and Zambia’s President Hakainde Hichilema (Master Guide). |
The SDA Church message calls people to
come out of generality and be a peculiar people while one of the principles of politicians
is to stay in the line of generality and the common good.
Here are some of the SDA heads of state we have been able to identify, you may help us know more others:
Jamaica’s Prime Minister Andrew
Holness, Zambia’s President Hakainde Hichilema, Papua New Guinean’s Premier James Marape and
Haiti’s Prime Minister Dr Henry
Ariel.
Heads of state and
senior government officials in different countries, often don’t publicly get involved
in events identical to the SDA church or its Three Angels’ Message which can attract
criticism from the other side.
For instance, we don’t
know when Prime Minister Holness last wished his fellow Adventists a happy
Sabbath but never forgets to wish “Christians” happy seasons including the Ash
Wednesday season for the Roman Catholics.
In his three-thread
tweet with an illustrative image, the Premier Holness today explains the
history, significance and centrality of what is called the Lent period to the
world of the people he calls “Christians”
“Have a blessed
season of Lent and a restful and reflective Ash Wednesday Jamaica” he
concluded.
The Zambian
President Hichilema recently celebrated a day dedicated to the Roman Catholic
Saint Valentine after which he visited the Vatican moreover on the seventh-day
of the week, the Sabbath.
Premier Holness, his
counterparts Dr Ariel of Haiti and Marape of Papua New Guinea rarely post messages
about their faith but do great acts in line with the other religions.
To mention Sabbath
is dividing people but to go to the Vatican is bringing people together.
To show reverence to
Bible is causing divisions among people while celebrating valentine and Ash
Wednesday is good for the people.
When the SDA Church
has a day of prayer for Ukraine, none of them retweeted or liked the message
while the Church dared to defend President Hichilema defended him when he was
criticised by fellow Adventists for visiting the Vatican.
It’s a general
problem of us all, that we don’t identify ourselves with the church where we
work when in the actual sense God put us where we are to preach to the people
around us.
This means that an opportunity like the Master Guide Hichilema got to visit the Vatican would be used to preach to the unmarried men in the city on the seven hills
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