Ganoune Diop: “I Never Said I Don’t Preach the Three Angels' Message—That Would Be Nonsense”
Advent Messenger
Jul 3, 2025
While walking down the hallway at the America’s Center Convention Complex—the site of the 62nd General Conference Session—I saw Ganoune Diop approaching. Knowing how busy church leaders are during these sessions, I asked if he had time to answer just one question. He stopped to look at me, and I asked him directly, “Why don’t you preach the Three Angels’ Messages? Why do you only preach Jesus?” As he began to respond, I asked if I could record his answer, and he consented. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to record my question in the video—only his response.
In the video, Diop begins with a public-relations-style answer about all the different approaches to sharing the Seventh-day Adventist. But when he got to the part where he was about to accuse others of fabricating things about him, I politely interrupted him by saying it was in a video from Africa where he said those things in his own words. That’s when he cut me off and declared, “Yes, but I never said I don’t preach the Three Angels’ Message—that would be nonsense.”
Ganoune Diop then stated that he does preach Jesus, insisting that Christ should be the “center of attraction,” as Ellen White affirms. He claims that this was the true intent behind his statements. But then he pivoted, expressing concern that some people reduce Adventism to simply pointing out that other religions are part of the beast power—something he openly opposes.
That’s a troubling stance because it isn’t some fringe group within Adventism pushing that message—it’s God Himself who, through the Three Angels’ Messages, commands the world to avoid the beast, the image, and the mark. To reject that part of our mission is to reject God’s divine warning.
So here’s the video from Africa. In his words, Ganoune Diop clearly states that he only preaches Jesus, not the Three Angels’ Message. Now, after I asked him for clarification on this, as we are told to hold our leaders accountable, he claims he never said such a thing and insists that believing otherwise is “nonsense.” You be the judge.
• Diop: “I Don’t Preach the Three Angels’ Me... What’s truly “nonsense” is the idea that some are sidestepping the Three Angels’ Messages in their public witness. The problem isn’t with preaching Jesus. The problem is the omission of the full, distinct, urgent warning given in Revelation 14. You cannot preach the everlasting gospel of Jesus Christ while dodging the call to come out of Babylon, the exposure of the beast, and the danger of receiving the mark.
“The present truth, the special message given to our world, even the third angel’s message, comprehends a vast field, containing heavenly treasures. No one can be excusable who says, I will no longer have anything to do with these special messages; I will preach Christ. No one can preach Christ, and present the truth as it is in Jesus, unless he presents the truths that are to come before the people at the present time, when such important developments are taking place” (Manuscript 33, 1897).
