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S.T.A.R.S.
Spiritual Threat Advisory Rating System
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Threat Advisory Ratings

    Threats are rated by the following guidelines.  These guidelines are just that, general guidelines, and can be updated at any time.  Threats may, or may not meet all of the listed criteria to receive a specified threat level.  The final decision on the threat level is prayerfully decided on by an international panel of Seventh-Day Adventist advisors.

Consequences - Supporting Quotes

Weaken faith in/rejection of the Testimonies
(Every quote in this section is for the Remnant church.)

• "One thing is certain: Those Seventh-day Adventists who take their stand under Satan's banner will first give up their faith in the warnings and reproofs contained in the Testimonies of God's Spirit." --3SM 84 (1903). {LDE 177.4}
• "The very last deception of Satan will be to make of none effect the testimony of the Spirit of God. "Where there is no vision, the people perish" (Prov. 29:18). Satan will work ingeniously, in different ways and through different agencies, to unsettle the confidence of God's remnant people in the true testimony." --1SM 48 (1890). {LDE 177.5}
• "The enemy has made his masterly efforts to unsettle the faith of our own people in the Testimonies. . . . This is just as Satan designed it should be, and those who have been preparing the way for the people to pay no heed to the warnings and reproofs of the Testimonies of the Spirit of God will see that a tide of errors of all kinds will spring into life." --3SM 83 (1890). {LDE 178.1}
• "It is Satan's plan to weaken the faith of God's people in the Testimonies. Next follows skepticism in regard to the vital points of our faith, the pillars of our position, then doubt as to the Holy Scriptures, and then the downward march to perdition. When the Testimonies, which were once believed, are doubted and given up, Satan knows the deceived ones will not stop at this; and he redoubles his efforts till he launches them into open rebellion, which becomes incurable and ends in destruction." --4T 211. {LDE 178.2}

Hinders the Work

• "The enemy of souls desires to hinder this work." {LDE 158.2}

Persecution

• “There is no greater evidence that Satan is working than that those who profess to be sanctified to God's service persecute their fellow beings because they do not believe the same doctrine that they themselves believe.” {RH, December 28, 1897 par. 17}

Confusion

• “God has not placed upon any of His ministers the work of sowing seeds that will produce confusion and unbelief.”  {12MR 224.2}
• "It is Satan's plan to produce these variances, to keep our minds on dissensions and unprofitable problems until the last woe shall come upon the world. Time now is too precious to be lost through confusion. Proclaim to the world that Christ is soon coming." {RH, August 9, 1906 par. 13}

   

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Contemplation Quotes

    "A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is still putting its shoes on." —Mark Twain

“The more nearly we approach the closing scenes of this earth's history, the more pronounced will be the work of Satan. Every species of deception will take the lead to divert the mind from God through Satan's devices.” -Letter 23c, 1894.  {3SM 387.4}

    "The position that it is of no consequence what men believe, is one of Satan's most successful deceptions." {4SP 343.1}

"Satan's most powerful weapon is spiritual deception." -Pastor John Carter

    "Warn My people to cease from putting their trust in men who are not obedient to my warnings and who despise My reproof, for the day of the Lord is right upon the world when evidence shall be made sure. Those who have followed the voices that would turn things upside down will themselves be turned where they cannot see, but will be as blind men." {11MR 361.2}