On the second day of the Southern Luzon Philippine Union Mission (SLPUM) Constituency Meetings, Pastor Felixian Felicitas, Field Secretary of the Southern Asia-Pacific Division (SSD) delivered a devotional message that brought the delegates back to the core of what it means to be Seventh-day Adventist—a people whose identity and mission are rooted in Jesus Christ and founded on the Word of God.

He began by reminding the delegates: “Adventist identity is pegged on who we are in Christ.” But he added that this is only part of the whole: The Church, he stressed, must not only be connected to Christ but also faithful to His Word. “How we do things as a church should be and must be understood from the lenses of the Word of God.”

Pastor Felicitas then posed a thoughtful question—one often overlooked in Adventist preaching:
“What are we missing when we preach something from the Book of Daniel and Revelation?”

He noted that many tend to focus on the beasts, the stone, or other symbolic elements. But the central truth, he emphasized is that “The Book of Revelation is about Jesus Christ.” Therefore, when preaching Daniel and Revelation, “let it be that Jesus Christ is the center of how we see the Book of Revelation.”

Using Revelation 12:11 as his anchor text—”And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives to the death.” He explained the spiritual dynamic from that verse: “There is a battle in Revelation—not physical but spiritual. There is conflict. Then there is deliverance. There is Christ. Salvation emerges only in Christ. Christ is highlighted because Christ provides salvation.”

He then pointed to the scene in Revelation 12, where the woman, the saints, and the child appear almost defeated. Yet Scripture reveals the opposite—the defeat is actually the enemy’s. “When we talk about defeat of the enemy, there is victory of Christ and the church.”

Pastor Felicitas emphasized that even the unique message entrusted to the Seventh-day Adventist Church finds its full meaning only in Jesus: “The Three Angels’ Message is never isolated from this underlying theme that Christ is Savior.”

He cautioned strongly: “When we preach devoid of Christ, it is nothing.”

Pastor Felicitas ended with an appeal centered on the Savior: “The secret of victorious living in the last days is in the blood of the Lamb. The blood of Jesus highlights victory. When we read the Bible and Revelation, salvation is only in Jesus Christ.”

He prayed that this clear picture of Revelation would “erase all misunderstanding and put back the picture of what we are missing.”

The morning devotional reaffirmed a vital truth for the delegates: our prophetic identity only finds its meaning when Christ is at the center, and the Word of God remains our lens for mission.