The Seventh-Day Adventists
"The Seventh-Day Adventists"[1] were a Christian movement which was proselytizing Christianity with the goal of confronting Islam. This movement was located in a church at the crossroads of Rasht Street and Pahlavi (today's Vali-Asr) avenue. This church was known as "Adventists' Church". Many investments were made there and they had expanded proselytizing activities for Christianity. The Seventh-Day Adventists started publishing and distributing proselytizing pamphlets named "The Saint Mary's Path" and "The Jesus Christ's Path" in 1961 to 1964. Theses free pamphlets were monthly sent to different addresses all over the country including to some civil and military officials.
After some time, these people would receive some precious Christian books including Holy Bible to deepen their activity.
Mr. Mohammad Mir-Mohammad Sadeghi, Mr. Hussein Sadeghi and I were informed of this secret movement activity while continuing our fight against Baha'ism and we decided to penetrate in this movement to get more information to find a way to confront with this secret movement. So, we introduced ourselves to the Adventists and apparently showed that we were interested to be a Christian after getting more information. We participated in their proselytizing meetings.
After some time and several presences in their meetings we pretended to be really ready to be one of them. They welcomed us and gave us free books and pamphlets. They wanted to make us sure about our decision.
In Adventists church we were acquainted with somebody called Marjani.[2] He told us that he was there to fight with them. But for gaining their trust, he would show to be a Christian. Marjani was a step-in front of us; since we had just shown ourselves as interested people but he had told them that he was a Christian. He could penetrate in Seventh-Day Adventists' circles to a high-level degree and had gained their trust. So, he could good progress in the central circle and could find access to ten thousand addresses of the subscribers of their books and "Saint Mary' Path" and "Jesus Christ's Path" journals. He wrote down all the addresses and gave them to us.
Then our job there was to gather the journals and books apparently for distribution and in reality, keeping them from being received by a lesser number of subscribers. However, when we got the addresses, we decided to do something similar and therefore we started to send Islamic books and pamphlets to those addresses to neutralize their activities.
So, we chose "Nedaye Haq (The God's Message) Journal", published by Mr. Seyyed Hadi Khosrowshahi. This journal had matured leading Islamic materials coordinated with the modern time and particularly the youth problems. By this hoax we could manage make the people who were reading "Saint Mary' Path" and "Jesus Christ's Path" journals, read "Nedaye Haq (The God's Message) Journal" either.
We had severe financial problems to do our hoax. To solve this problem, we referred the matter to some people but alas. We had it in our mind to find way for solving it.
[1] Adventism is a Christian movement which began in the 19th century, in the context of the Second Great Awakening revival in the United States. The name refers to belief in the imminent Second Coming (or "Second Advent") of Jesus Christ. It was started by William Miller; whose followers became known as Millerites. Today, the largest church within the movement is the Seventh-day Adventist Church.
The Adventist family of churches is regarded today as conservative Protestants. Although these churches hold much in common, their theology differs on whether the intermediate state is unconscious sleep or consciousness, whether the ultimate punishment of the wicked is annihilation or eternal torment, the nature of immortality, whether or not the wicked are resurrected after the millennium, and whether the sanctuary of Daniel 8 refers to the one in heaven or one on earth. The movement has encouraged the examination of the whole bible, leading them to observe the Sabbath.
[2] Marjani who had suspicious behavior in the activities for the Seventh-Day Adventists, finally became Christian and escaped to Germany and there is no more news about him.
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