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Eternal Gospel Church
The Eternal Gospel Church is a ministry that was founded in 1992 by Seventh-day Adventist believers. Previously known as the Eternal Gospel Seventh-day Adventist Church, they are best known for a 2-page ad in USA today entitled "Earth's Final Warning" in 1999.〔USA Today, August 10, 1999〕 A subsequent federal trademark lawsuit between the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists and Pastor Rafael Perez on behalf of the Eternal Gospel group resulted in a settlement〔(Settlement Court Document )〕 not to use the term "Seventh-day Adventist" in the group's title, resulting in their current name.〔(Final Chapter in Adventist Trademark Suit ). Adventist News Network〕〔(Official Adventist church statement regarding the USA Today advertisement )〕〔Seeking a Sanctuary: Seventh-day Adventism and the American Dream, p.381〕
== Controversy and Lawsuit ==
The Eternal Gospel Church received worldwide attention as a result of an aggressive advertising campaign in 1999 consisting of billboards, radio announcements, and full-page newspaper advertisements.〔(The Daily Courier, April 14, 2000 )〕 Entitled "Earth's Final Warning," the newspaper ads named the Roman Catholic Church as the whore of revelation and criticized the Papacy for its role in instigating the observance of Sunday as a holy day in place of the seventh-day Sabbath.〔(Catholic League media report mentioning a NJ paper running the "notoriously anti-Catholic "Earth's Final Warning" advertisement from the Eternal Gospel Church." )〕〔(Catholic League media report regarding the ad being run in a Louiseville, KY paper )〕 The ad campaign sparked public and Catholic criticism towards the newspapers that ran the ads and the Seventh-day Adventist church, which was mistakenly implicated as the source of the advertisements.〔(Letter of Complaint from Kermit L. Netteburg, Asst. to the President for Communication of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, to Rafael Perez, Sept. 15, 1997 )〕〔(National Catholic Reporter, Sept. 3, 1999 )〕 The complaints prompted apologies from various newspaper publishers and an official statement by the Seventh-day Adventist church, which soon after initiated legal proceedings against Pastor Rafael Perez for federal trademark infringement.〔〔〔(Apology from Miami Herald publisher to Archbishop over running the ad )〕〔(Seventh-day Adventist Religious Liberty Reclaimed )〕
The lawsuit was criticized by historic Seventh-day Adventists, who felt that the advertisement was an accurate representation of the Seventh-day Adventist position regarding Rome and that involving the courts in the dispute violated Adventist understanding of Biblical counsel on the matter.〔Half a Century of Apostasy, p.171-172, by Russell R. and Colin D. Standish〕〔(Issues at the End, Ron Spear, Preface )〕 Similar criticism was levied against the Eternal Gospel Church in regards to its concession to relinquish the name "Seventh-day Adventist" as part of the settlement agreement.〔("The Parable of the Birds" - A message for the Eternal Gospel Church )〕 The terms of the agreement stipulated a very specific set of rules for how the church could display its new name and use the term "Founded in (1990 or later) by Seventh-day Adventist believers" as a tagline to "Eternal Gospel Church."〔(Scan of the settlement report in Landmarks Magazine, June 2001, p. 25 )〕 According to the General Conference, who said they would be monitoring Pastor Perez closely to insure compliance, the settlement reached their goal of keeping the Eternal Gospel Church from using the name "Seventh-day Adventist" in the name of their church.〔(ANN Report: "Final Chapter in Trademark Lawsuit", May 29, 2001 )〕
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