Jan Marcussen

A. Jan Marcussen is a minister, best known for his book National Sunday Law.^{[citation needed]}

Biography

Marcussen was ordained as a Seventh-day Adventist minister in 1982. He is the author of several books including Two Months to Live which relates the real-life stories of people who have overcome cancer, Cousin Henry Potter {and the Terrible Time Machine}, an adventure, and a book on marital happiness entitled, 'Seven Secrets of Family happiness.'

Marcussen is best known for his very controversial 1983 book National Sunday Law, which has been described as a "condensed version" of Ellen G. White's view in The Great Controversy. By November 2016, 41.7 million copies were in print in 70 languages.^[1] The book gives an interpretation of the prophecies of the biblical books of Daniel and Revelation, and focuses particularly on the Three Angels' Messages of Revelation chapter fourteen.

Marcussen publishes a free newsletter twice a month which highlights advancements in Sunday exaltation. You can receive it by asking Jan Marcussen for it at P.O. Box 68, Thompsonville, IL 62890. He is noted for leading a campaign against future legislation enforcing Sunday as a national day of rest and worship in the USA. He was referenced in an article by WorldNetDaily on the debate over the seventh or first day of the week as Biblical Sabbath for Christians. He offered up to one million dollars to anyone who can give a Bible text showing clear, scriptural proof that God decreed that Sunday, the first day of the week, must be kept holy now instead of the seventh day of the week - which is commanded by God in Exodus 20:8-11. When anyone has told him that the ten commandments were done away with at the cross, he has gotten his checkbook out and told the person that he would write them a check for $1,000 if they can show from the Bible, just two of the ten commandments of God which the Great Creator has told us that we have His permission to violate. He read the 10 to them, and at that point, they became silent with nothing more to say. In another WorldNetDaily article, he is noted in regards to a controversial billboard which warns of the identity of the Antichrist as the papacy, an allegation that Marcussen discusses in his book, National Sunday Law, by drawing reference to a numerological connection between the Pope's title Vicarius Filii Dei ("Vicar of the Son of God") and the number 666.

Catholic concerns over mass mailing of Marcussen's book have appeared in an article by The Catholic Herald, a British Catholic newspaper. The 100 Million Man March is the name given by Marcussen to his project to mass mail National Sunday Law books to every major U.S. city, one by one, in an effort to give the Three Angels' Messages. Marcussen's book made the Catholic League's 2001 Report on Anti-Catholicism for mass mailing Fresno, CA.^[2]

Books

National Sunday Law
Two Months to Live
Cousin Henry Potter {and the Terrible Time Machine}

Videos

Charismatic Catholic Attack (on God's SDA Church) series - includes the testimony of Alberto Rivera and Sister Charlotte Wells, a former Jesuit and former nun respectively.
Roman Catholic Attack (on God's SDA Church) series
Revelation Studies series
The New World Order, the Sunday Law, and the 144,000

Jan Marcussen publishes a six-page newsletter twice a month with color pictures which is also published online in PDF format. The newsletter always features relevant quotes from Ellen G. White. "Vennita's Corner" is a choice "thought" quote from Ellen White picked by Marcussen's wife Vennita. The newsletter chronicles the advancement toward a Sunday law and the advancement of the Three Angels' Messages warning against that law.

Cultural references

Marcussen's National Sunday Law was in part the inspiration for the 2004 low-budget action movie, The 4th Beast: Mask of the Antichrist.^[3] Director Nathyn Masters, an alum of Chicago's Columbia College recounts^[4] how he desired to create an endtime Christian action film with a post-tribulation scenario as an alternative to such pre-tribulation films as Left Behind.^[4] In a similar vein is the action novel Megiddo Crux, by Brian Neumann, whose plot is set in motion by the September 11th attack.^[5]

References

^ Millennium, Messiahs, and Mayhem: Contemporary Apocalyptic Movements by Thomas Robbins and Susan J. Palmer. 1997; p219
^ http://www.catholicleague.org/miscellaneous-10/
^ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0436018/
^ ^a ^b http://www.columbiachronicle.com/back/2004_spring/2004-03-15/arts1.html
^ http://www.amazingdiscoveries.org/store/product.php?productid=4&cat=22&page=1&js=n

External links

"SABBATH VS. SUNDAY: THE REST OF THE STORY. 'Deception': Christians war over worship day. Centuries-old clash continues over disputed commandment" WorldNetDaily article on the debate over the seventh or first day of week as Sabbath for Christians.
Online edition of National Sunday Law.

[Robbins-1] Millennium, Messiahs, and Mayhem: Contemporary Apocalyptic Movements by Thomas Robbins and Susan J. Palmer. 1997; p219

[2] ttp://www.catholicleague.org/miscellaneous-10/

[3] ttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt0436018/

[columbiachronicle.com-4] ttp://www.columbiachronicle.com/back/2004_spring/2004-03-15/arts1.html

[5] ttp://www.amazingdiscoveries.org/store/product.php?productid=4&cat=22&page=1&js=n

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