Jan Marcussen
   HOME

TheInfoList



Click Here for Items Related To - Jan Marcussen
OR:
Jan Marcussen on:   [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Amazon]

A. Jan Marcussen is a
preacher A preacher is a person who delivers sermons or homilies on religious topics to an assembly of people. Less common are preachers who Open-air preaching, preach on the street, or those whose message is not necessarily religious, but who preach com ...
, and
marriage counselor Family therapy (also referred to as family counseling, family systems therapy, marriage and family therapy, couple and family therapy) is a branch of psychotherapy focused on families and couples in intimate relationships to nurture change and de ...
. He is most known for views and promotion, through writing and other methods, of
eschatology Eschatology (; ) concerns expectations of the end of Contemporary era, present age, human history, or the world itself. The end of the world or end times is predicted by several world religions (both Abrahamic religions, Abrahamic and non-Abrah ...
and the
seventh-day Sabbath The seventh-day Sabbath, observed from Friday evening to Saturday evening, is an important part of the beliefs and practices of list of Sabbath-keeping churches, seventh-day churches. These churches emphasize biblical references such as the ancien ...
. Marcussen has offered to pay 1 million U.S. dollars to anyone who can find biblical proof of a Sunday Sabbath.


Books

Marcussen’s writings includes books by Amazing Truth Publications: ''Two Months to Live''; ''Cousin Henry Potter (and the Terrible Time Machine);'' and ''National Sunday Law.'' ''Seven Secrets of Family Happiness'' is published by “Southern Publishing Association,” The Seventh-day Adventist denominational publisher, Southern Publishing Association, was located in Nashville, TN, and merged with the denominational Review and Herald Publishing Association in 1980. Marcussen’s ''National Sunday Law'' was published in 1983. By 2021, it has reached 48.1 million copies in 74 languages. ''National Sunday Laws'' focuses on prophetic apocalyptic interpretations and warnings from the biblical books of
Daniel Daniel commonly refers to: * Daniel (given name), a masculine given name and a surname * List of people named Daniel * List of people with surname Daniel * Daniel (biblical figure) * Book of Daniel, a biblical apocalypse, "an account of the acti ...
and
Revelation Revelation, or divine revelation, is the disclosing of some form of Religious views on truth, truth or Knowledge#Religion, knowledge through communication with a deity (god) or other supernatural entity or entities in the view of religion and t ...
. Among other things, he discusses
the Beast The Beast may refer to: Religion * The Beast (Revelation), one of three beasts described in the New Testament ''Book of Revelation'' Fictional characters * The Beast, imaginary monster in William Golding's novel ''Lord of the Flies'' (1954) * ...
in Revelation and the image and mark of The Beast in Revelation. National Sunday Law maintains that the United States government will soon enact a national
blue law Blue laws (also known as Sunday laws, Sunday trade laws, and Sunday closing laws) are laws restricting or banning certain activities on specified days, usually Sundays in the western world. The laws were adopted originally for Religion, religio ...
that would mandate Sunday as being a day of rest and worship.


Videos

* ''Catholic Charismatic Attack (on God's SDA Church)'' series * ''Roman Catholic Attack (on God's SDA Church)'' series * ''Revelation Studies'' series


Newsletter

Jan Marcussen publishes a newsletter that chronicles the advancement toward a civil law requiring worship on Sundays (the
Lord's Day In Christianity, the Lord's Day refers to Sunday, the traditional day of communal worship. It is the first day of the week in the Hebrew calendar and traditional Christian calendars. It is observed by most Christians as the weekly memorial of the ...
in historic Christianity).


Cultural references

Marcussen's ''National Sunday Law'' was in part the inspiration for the 2004 action movie, The 4th Beast: Mask of the Antichrist. Director Nathyn Masters, an alumnus of Chicago's Columbia College, recounts how he desired to create an endtime Christian action film with a posttribulation scenario as an alternative to such pre-tribulation films as
Left Behind ''Left Behind'' is a multimedia franchise of apocalyptic fiction written by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins, released by Tyndale House Publishers from 1995 to 2007. The bestselling premillennial novels are Christian eschatological narrat ...
.


See also

* Historic Adventism


References


External links


Online edition
of ''National Sunday Law''.
Newsletter
{{DEFAULTSORT:Marcussen, Jan American Seventh-day Adventist ministers American male non-fiction writers Seventh-day Adventist writers Living people Year of birth missing (living people)