02_02 Present Truth

Document # 02_02, Present Truth

Present Truth, is the longest document in the series, necessarily long. What happened throughout the Great Awakening, and how were events orchestrated by God to bring out the Three Messages for our time, on the prophetic time-line, till Jesus Comes?

PRESENT TRUTH

Hear these words from the Bible, from Revelation 14, vs. 6-12: “I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the Everlasting Gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people, saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to Him; for the hour of His Judgment is come: and worship Him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters. And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication. And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast; and his image; and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand, the same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of His indignation: and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb: and the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the ‘beast;’ and his ‘image’; and whosoever receiveth the ‘mark’ of his name. Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the Commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus!” – faith in Bible Truth.

Biblical “present truth” usually doesn’t just appear. It comes into focus, as it were, as a series of events are directed by the living God, leading to the discovery. It is as we look at the history of those events, that the focus becomes sharpened into a Movement that proclaims that “present truth.” What is the “beast?” What constitutes worship of the beast? What is his image? How do we get, or avoid getting, the “mark” of the beast? These things were hidden for many centuries, until the time came for the key that unlocked these mysteries to be discovered through the Providence of God’s leading.

So, let’s begin at the beginning, and watch it come into focus. In America, it began with the desire of a farmer, by the name of William Miller, to prove to himself if the Bible was really “the Word of God” or not. For some time he had been skeptical of the Bible, but by then, in the 1820’s, the KJV Bible was easily obtainable, and an invaluable tool for its study, the Concordance, was also available.

Eventually, his interest was drawn to the study of the prophecies as an indicator of the Divine origin of the Bible. The book of Daniel contains an intriguing mathematical mystery whose time had come. A large part of the last 5 chapters of Daniel has to do with its pinnacle statement – Daniel 8:14: “unto 2300 days, then shall the Sanctuary be cleansed.”

When he saw that one portion of Scripture explains another, and that when one passage was closed to his understanding, another part of the Word of God explains it, he found himself applying the Bible’s own prescription for Bible study method, which Holy Spirit led him to, in Isaiah 28:9 to 13, in the K.J.V. – the Bible that God’s Providence made available to the English-speaking people of the British Empire [much of the world] at that time.

Isaiah 28: 9 – 13 says: “Whom shall He [Holy Spirit] teach knowledge; And whom shall He make to understand doctrine? …For precept must be upon precept (law compared with law) line upon line, line upon line (repetition for emphasis); here a little, and there a little: for with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people [the Jews] to whom He said, This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear. But the word of the Lord was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.” [By Satan!]

This study method was the key that unlocked the prophecies! Comparing “line with line,” of Scripture, using a Concordance, he found two places in the Scriptures that revealed that, for time prophecies, we are to take a prophetic “day” as a literal year.

Numbers 14:34 is about the arrival of the Exodus at the entry to the Promised Land: but they lost faith and refused to go forward, after spying out the land. It says, Numbers 14, verse 34, “After the number of the days in which ye searched the land, even forty days, each ‘day’ for a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, even forty years, and ye shall know My breach of promise.”

The second one is Ezekiel 4:6. There the Scripture says, “And when thou hast accomplished them, lie again on thy right side, and thou shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days: I have appointed thee each ‘day’ for a year.”

Thus William Miller finally discovered that this “2300 days” in Daniel 8, verse 14, meant 2300 years! Finding its historical beginning, in 457 B.C., he began to proclaim that it would end, about 1843!

The book of Daniel, so long sealed in respect to this important time prophecy was then unsealed! (It was to remain sealed “until the time of the end”). Dan.12, verse 4, says, “But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.”

Its unsealing means that we are now in “the time of the end!” This unsealing was another indication, beyond the three signs Jesus gave, that His coming was “at the very doors;” that we are in the very time of the end. Rev. 6, vs. 12 and 13, give us the three signs of His Return: “And I beheld, when He had opened the sixth seal, and lo, there was a great earthquake: and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood; and the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind.”

Past was the huge earthquake centered in Lisbon Portugal, in 1755; past was the dark day of May 19, 1780, when “the moon turned to blood,” as occurred the night following the dark day; and, just 2 years after the beginning of the proclaiming by William Miller, of the unsealing of Daniel’s book and of the Advent near; in 1833, came the falling of the stars, “like the casting of figs from a fig tree shaken of a mighty wind.” These last 2 happened over the Eastern States of early America, where this religious awakening began! The mainly Protestant population of North America generally believed that this was the third and last sign pointing to the Advent near (the Second Coming of Jesus!) A global Great Awakening of religious fervor resulted from the combination!

As Bible students world-wide picked up on the Bible Study Method William Miller had employed, “line upon line, here a little, there a little,” and applied it to Dan.8, verse 14, they saw that the “cleansing” of the Sanctuary (the Temple established under Moses), was the Judgment day for ancient Israel, near the end of each Jewish religious year – Leviticus 16:29 and 30 (found by using the key-word “cleanse” in their Complete Concordance) says: “…in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, ye shall afflict your souls…For, on that day shall the priest make an atonement for you, to cleanse you, that ye may be clean from all your sins before the Lord.” On that Day, “the day of Atonement,” God judged the people’s sins that had been brought to the Sanctuary throughout the year, and the High Priest symbolically removed the record of the forgiven sins from the Sanctuary (thus “cleansing” the Sanctuary).

The High Priest came back out of the Temple and put all of those sins upon the head of a goat called the “scapegoat,” which represents Satan, and sent it off into the wilderness (a land uninhabited) where it would eventually perish (same chapter of Leviticus). Please realize that the not-repented-of, and thus unforgiven sins records, remain in the Sanctuary court records! We must repent to be saved! As Mr. Miller taught, this all was a type of, or illustration of, the final Judgment day at the end of the days outlined in Daniel 8, v. 14.

The book of Hebrews, chapter 8, vs. 1 and 2, tell us: “We have such an high priest, who is set on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens; a minister of the Sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man.” This chapter revealed to them that the ancient Jewish Tabernacle, or tent-Temple (the Sanctuary) given to Israel by God at Sinai, and its services, were to “serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things,” being “a figure for the time then present.” (Hebrews 8, verse 5; and Hebrews 9, verse 9).

There is a heavenly Sanctuary, which John the Revelator was shown opened (symbolically, to our view) in heaven (sometime after the French Revolution, revealed in Rev.11, ended, in 1798) Rev.11:18,19. [Opened When? 1844!]

There it is proclaimed: “And the nations were angry, but Thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be Judged, and that Thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear Thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth. And the Temple of God was opened in heaven, and there was seen in His Temple the ark of His testament!” (- the golden box that contains the Ten Commandments, in the second of the two rooms of the Sanctuary, beyond the veil, in the Presence of God)!

What was done near the end of each Jewish year, only once a year, on, “the day of atonement;” – “the cleansing of the Sanctuary,” of the earthly “example and shadow of heavenly things,” was to be done at the end of the ages, in “the cleansing of the [heavenly] Sanctuary” at the end of the 2300 days (years) prophecy – the Judgment of all mankind!!

Kept from the knowledge of the people, even today, is the fact that Jesus, after His ascension, entered the first room of the heavenly Sanctuary, as our High Priest-Intercessor, before the veil, having obtained eternal redemption for us! Heb.9, verses 11 and 12 state: “But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect Tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building; neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by His own blood He entered in once, into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.”

Here, please take a break, to keep your focus sharp.

Let’s continue where we left off before the break. “Jesus entered in once, into the holy place (the first room) having obtained eternal redemption for us.” Verses 24 and 28 nail it down: “For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us. So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them, without sin, that look for Him, shall He appear the second time unto salvation.”

In 1844, at the end of the 2300 “days,” Jesus entered the work of the “cleansing of the Sanctuary,” which relates to the entry of the Jewish High Priest into the second room of the Sanctuary, on earth, beyond the veil, once a year. Thus “the hour of His Judgment,” that of our High Priest, Jesus, began in 1844!! Not only the year of the day of Judgment, but even the very day, the day of Atonement, the 10th day of the seventh Jewish month, was calculated, and found to be October 22, 1844! During that day, almost every believer, world-wide, thought that Jesus would come – the Second Advent or Return of Christ!! Since part of the 2300 day prophecy so perfectly pointed out the timing of the beginning of the ministry of Jesus as Messiah, His death 3 1/2 years later, and the rejection of Israel as the chosen people (stoning of Stephen) again 3 1/2 years later (together the 70th week of Dan .9:27) – these three events sealed the entire prophecy as being a year for a “day.”

Thus, the 2300 days is guaranteed to have ended in 1844, by the facts fulfilled by the 1st Coming of Jesus as Messiah, which “seals up the vision and prophecy” [into a year for a “day.”] (Dan.9, verse 24). The very decree that fits the prophecy, to restore Jerusalem, was written out by Ezra in chapter 7 of the book of Ezra (See Ezra 7:7-26). That date was so important to the Jews that it is now one of the most solid dates of history before Christ: 457 B.C.!

The time of the prophecy’s end, October 22, 1844, was sure. The fact that it was the Judgment day was also sure. Suddenly, it was realized that Rev.14, verses 6-12 was now “Present Truth!!” “The hour of His Judgment is come!” The prophetic time-line had come to that point!!

Then came the Great Disappointment, when the Saviour did not return. The reason “Why?” was eventually revealed to those who continued to search it out, and pray for “light,” and they became the small remnant who made up the Seventh-day Adventist church, organized in 1863.

In 1844, Jesus had entered the work of the “cleansing of the Sanctuary,” by entering into the second room of the heavenly Sanctuary, beyond the veil (called “the Most Holy”) where He is presently Judging all believers, from Adam to the last living professed believer, till the fate of all are sealed by the decree of Jesus, stated in Rev.22, verses 11 and 12, which is proclaimed in heaven: “He that is unjust, let him be unjust still; and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still; and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still; and he that is holy, let him be holy still. And behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with Me, to give every man according as his work shall be.”

How are we judged? All are judged by the great Moral Standard, the 10 Commandment Law. We “…shall be Judged by the Law.” (James 2:12) Adam and Eve broke the 1st Commandment (wanting to make themselves as gods) thus opening the flood-gate of sin onto this world. Do you keep His Commandments and have the faith of Jesus? – faith in the Word of God, the Bible? “Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the Commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.” (Rev.14, v. 12)

Since the “cleansing of the Sanctuary” is the work of our High Priest, Jesus, called “the hour of His Judgment” in the heavenly Sanctuary, it is time for all believers to “afflict themselves.” Those who do not seek to know if there is perhaps even one sin that they have cherished and not repented of, will be “cut off” from the people of God. From the parallel passage in Lev.23, v. 29 we read, “For whatsoever soul it be that shall not be afflicted, in that same day he shall be cut off from among His people.”

Sin is “the transgression (breaking) of the Law:”- definition in 1st John 3:4. Therefore, in this Judgment time, carefully examine the Commandments (Exodus 20), to see if you are breaking even one of them! We “…shall be Judged by the Law.” James 2, vs.10-12.

Since Jesus has His reward “with Him” when He comes (Rev.22, v.12) the Advent, or Second Coming of Christ, should shortly follow the day of Judgment, which began on the 10th day of the 7th month of 1844! William Miller’s followers, the believers in the 4 Angel’s Messages, world-wide, believed it would be that very day! God could do it in a moment, couldn’t He? That’s over 175 years ago, but realize that Noah preached the end of the world for 120 years before the flood came and destroyed all who refused the Ark of safety. Jesus is not late, “but is long-suffering to us-ward…not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance!” (II Peter 3:9)

How soon will His Judgment come to us in the books of heaven? We won’t know, until the door of probation closes; and the 7 last plagues begin to fall upon those who have been deceived into receiving the “mark of the beast!” Don’t follow the majority on this one!!

Now: what happened historically, as a result of the work of men like William Miller, in America? As the 2300 day prophecy was nearing its end, in 1843, right on time, the First Angel’s Message of Rev. 14 began to be preached world wide! “The hour of His Judgment is come: worship Him who made heaven and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters.”

NOTE: before 1844, it was not yet revealed to them that they did not yet have the full Everlasting Gospel to preach (Rev.14, verse 6) because they did not know that almost all Christians were breaking (transgressing) at least one of the 10 Commandments, without knowing it!! The “beast” had already long since developed his “mark!” – More on that just ahead.

The Everlasting Gospel is the good news that all of us can keep all of the Commandments of God, through the Spiritual power of Jesus in you. Colossians 1, verse 27, “God would make known…this mystery…which is Christ in you, the hope of glory!” Overcoming sin by the power of His Presence in you, working with you, is the plan of salvation! Phil. 2:12, 13.

This really good news is to be preached to every nation, kindred, tongue and people (world-wide). It would now include the preaching of “the hour of His Judgment is come!” Further, they were to be admonished to “worship Him who made (Created) heaven and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters.” (First Angel’s Message – Rev. 14:6, 7). It is Jesus who created heaven and earth! John 1:1-3, v.10, and v.14, tell us “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by Him; and without Him was not any thing made that was made..He was in the world, and the world was made by Him, but the world knew Him not…And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father) full of grace and truth.” Also, there is Hebrews l, verse 2: “God…hath in these last days, spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also He made [Created] the worlds.”

About the beginning of 1844, the Second Angel’s Message was joined in with the First Angel’s Message. Rev.14, verse 8: “There followed another angel saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of [against] her fornication!” The churches of Protestantism, as a whole, were rejecting the message of the Advent near, with scorn and scoffing, and began casting the people who supported the Advent Message, out of their churches. Then, the believers proclaimed against them, as the daughters of Babylon (“mother of harlots” -Rev.17, verse 5): “Babylon is fallen, is fallen!!”

First was Rome’s spiritual fall, under the Papacy, in 1798, but now Protestantism, the rest of Babylon, was also fallen spiritually. In anticipation of the great final movement, as we now realize, of Rev.18:1-4, those proclaiming the Second Angel’s Message added the words of Jesus, in the 4th Angel’s Message, “Come out of her, My people.”

The churches were rejected of God, just like the Jews of the 1st century were, for they then plainly betrayed the fact that their hearts were with the world, not with the Lord Jesus, and that they preferred to have it so!!

The churches (professed believers) who joined the scoffers after the time passed, were indeed Judged. Reflect on this: Do you see the seriousness of your need to make the right, informed decisions regarding these Four Angel’s Messages? They are being repeated NOW, in this very END time!

A marked change then came over the churches in respect to their spiritual condition. In 1844, the ‘Religious Telescope’ used the following language: “We have never witnessed such a general declension [decline] of religion as at the present. When we call to mind how ‘few and far between’ cases of conversion are, and the almost unparalleled impenitence and hardness of sinners, we almost involuntarily exclaim…Is the door of mercy closed??”

Charles G. Finney, well-known evangelist, said in February, 1844: “…We have also another corroborative fact – the almost universal absence of revival influence in the churches. The spiritual apathy is almost all-pervading, and is fearfully deep; so the religious press of the whole land testifies. The churches generally are becoming sadly degenerate. They have gone very far from the Lord, and He has withdrawn Himself from them!”

“The acceptance, by Protestantism, of the First Angel’s Message, would have enabled the church to become ‘a light to all nations.’ But, betraying her trust, by her rejection of the Message, she left the nations without the witness of present truth that they might have had, to grope in the darkness of error and superstition resulting from the systems of false doctrines she had built up and refused to relinquish.”

[The Bible would not now be considered “out-of-date,” as it is today, even by much of Christianity itself!]

“In the latter part of the nineteenth century [1800’s] a marked change was seen in the attitude of both leaders and people of the Protestant churches toward the basic doctrines of the Scriptures of truth. Having rejected the true, they accepted the false. – the theory of evolution, [published in 1844!], accepted by many church leaders, in the words of one great religious writer, ‘turned the Creator out of doors!’” [- pushed God out of their life and world-view.]

Here, please take another break to keep your focus sharp.

The great final movement, that revealing the true meaning of the Third Angel’s Message, followed the other two Messages, after October 22, 1844.

The Third Angel’s Message: Not long after 1844, the movement’s leaders were shown the true Sabbath by a Seventh-day Baptist woman. (The true Sabbath had been obscured since Constantine wrote the first Sunday Rest Law, in 321 A.D., at the suggestion of the Bishop of the Christian church in Rome, that they could unite the Empire, if the Bishop authorized the change of the Sabbath, by the Christians, to the Pagan Sunday, as a Sabbath! (Dan. 11:30) – “intelligence” by Constantine with the Bishop, who was willing to “forsake the Holy Covenant.” – the Ten Commandments, in the ark of the Covenant. Seventh-day Baptists find their roots with John the Baptist, and had returned to keeping the true Sabbath of the 10 Commandments, Saturday, the seventh day)!

The 4th Commandment says, “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.” Rev.14’s antidote to the false worship of worship of the “beast” and its “image,” is v.12: “Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the Commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.” [-faith in the Scriptures as the Word of God.]

What then, is the “mark” of the “beast” that we must avoid? How can we keep from being deceived into worship of the “beast?” What is his image? There is no other denomination extant today, except that of the Seventh-day Adventists, which claims to be a fulfillment of the 3 Angel’s Messages – no other which holds forth as its prominent themes the subjects of which Revelation is composed! Sin, is the breaking of the Commandments!

The final reformation of all Christianity, back to keeping the 10 Commandments, must now take place!!

Carefully remember that all three Messages of Rev.14 are now combined and relate one to the other. What is the connecting link? It is in the 1st Angel’s Message, where we would expect to find it. There, men are admonished to “worship Him who made heaven and earth, the sea, and the fountains of waters.” This is a quote from the 4th Commandment, which states, “…the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.” [set it separate, for a religious purpose]. (Exodus 20;11) . “Remembering,” and keeping the Sabbath holy, is to worship the Creator, the maker of heaven and earth!

Opposed to that is worship of the “beast;” and his “image;” and receiving of his “mark!” Sunday worship, in place of Sabbath, is the MARK of the “beast!” The Papacy openly claims that it is a MARK of their authority, that they could even change the Commandments of God! “MARK” is the very word they use!!

This MARK is the connecting link, unrealized by the Advent movement, till God revealed that the truth of the seventh-day Sabbath would finally separate those who worship God the Creator of heaven and earth and the sea, from those who worship the “beast:” and his “image:” and receive his “mark.”

Now: we must back-track a little for the sake of clearer understanding of the wording of the three angel’s messages. In prophecy, God reveals the future using symbolic representations. In Daniel chapter 2, an image, of a man, separated into 4 different metals denoting succeeding, great kingdoms on earth, is replaced at a later time in Daniel’s life, by a vision of 4 different “beasts” (note that key-word) denoting the same 4 great kingdoms.

Dan.7, verse 17, states, “These great beasts, which are four, are four kings [kingdoms] which shall arise out of the earth.” Important to our understanding is the fact that Revelation also uses two different representations. Following the lead from Daniel, a strikingly similar “beast” imagery is used, tying Daniel’s visions to that of Rev.13! “And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.” Rev.13’s “beast” (see the key-word?) is the “beast” referred to in Rev.14, whose image and whose mark the Third Angel’s Message severely warns against!

Further, the beast is explained in more detail, by changing its representation to a second symbolism, that of a vile “woman” (key-word). Rev.12:1 symbolizes the true church as a pure woman. Rev.17 symbolizes the fallen church as a vile woman – Babylon the Great, a harlot (which means a prostitute) and she is a mother of harlots like her! [- Committing spiritual fornication with the powers of the world]. In Revelation 14, the fallen Protestant churches are the “harlots” that were Judged in 1844!

Babylon the great, and the beast are the same power, just a different symbol. This is key to the correct understanding of the 3 Angel’s Messages. Both symbols refer to the Papacy! One symbol denotes her as a civil power (a “beast” is a great kingdom, we were told in Dan.7, verse 17) The other as a religious power (a woman is a church – Jeremiah 6:2 cf Isaiah ch. 47). By her civil power she has enforced her mark (throughout the Dark Ages) and by her religious power she replaced the worship of the true Creator God with worship of herself, and her “image” – the IDOL of MARY!!

Thus, the 2nd Angel’s Message simply points to the second symbol as being the best revelation of what to look for – a spiritual fall among the rest of the world church – the Protestant daughters of Babylon. The 3rd Angel’s Message uses the “beast” symbol again, as the best revelation of what to look for – the worship of “the beast” and his “image,” this time enforced by the civil power it will control, fallen Protestant America, in place of the worship of Him who made heaven and earth and the sea!

Rev.13, vs.11 and 12 tell us: “And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; [here America is introduced into prophecy!] and he had two horns like a lamb [the bison!] but he spake as a dragon. And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.”

Compare this with the First Angel’s Message -Rev.14, verse 7: “Fear God, and give glory to Him…and worship Him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters.” Revelation 17, verse 18, “And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth.” Compare that with v. 9, “The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth.” Rome is the city that sits on 7 hills or mountains!

The Papacy it is, who will, in her revived state, cause American Protestantism to make an image to the “beast” (which at that time, Protestants will be willing to worship! – the IDOL of MARY)! The Third Angel states, “If any man worship the beast; and his image; and receive his mark, in his forehead, or in his hand, the same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God…and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone.”

Rev.13, verses 14 and 15 reveal the following about America in prophecy: “And he deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an “image” to the beast, which had the wound by a sword but did live. And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast [an apparition of MARY] that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed!” YES, it is in the Bible! Rev. 13:15.

The symbol representing Protestant America is a lamb-like “beast” that will soon speak like a dragon (a persecuting power). It is the buffalo! It used to be the symbol of America. [I have a 1913 American nickel, that, like the beaver on the back of the Canadian nickel, displays the national symbol of America, the buffalo.]

The Papacy it is, whose deadly wound, received when Napoleon’s army stripped the Pope of his kingdom, and his power to persecute, in 1798, is today almost fully healed! Rev.13, verse 3, “And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; but his deadly wound was healed, and all the world wondered after the beast.” The Pope again received a kingdom (making him once more a “beast”) from Mussolini, in 1929, in return for financing the fascist movement in Italy. (But the pope’s power to persecute has not been restored – – yet.)

At this point, please take another break. There are more proofs that the “beast” is the Papacy. Rev.13, v.18: “Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man; and his number is six hundred threescore and six.” (666)

The Papacy it is whose blasphemous name has a numerical value. Called the “vicar of the Son of God” – “vicarius filii dei,” – this is the Latin name that he claims as his own title. In the Latin language, certain letters are numbers – Roman numerals. Taking the letters out of this title which are used as Roman numerals, we have: V=5; I=1; C=100; I=1; U (formerly the same as V) =5; I=1; L=50; I=1; I=1; D=500; I=1 – they add up to 666!!

The Papacy it is who persecuted Bible-believing Christians for a time, times (which is 2 times) and half a time – a prophetic period of 3 1/2 years, which is 1260 days (360 days to a prophetic year). We find this, by comparing Rev.12, v. 14 with v. 6: “And to the woman (a pure woman, the true church) were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent.”

Verse 6 is a parallel verse: “And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there, a thousand two hundred and threescore days.” In prophecy that equals 1260 years (Ezekiel 4:6, Numbers 14:34). This time period was exactly fulfilled. Roman Emperor Justinian decreed the Pope “head of the church and corrector of heretics” which came into effect in 538 A.D. That power was removed by Napoleon’s army exactly 1260 years later, in 1798 A.D., when the Papal head of the beast received its “mortal wound!” Revelation 13, verses 2 and 3: “And the beast which I saw…and I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death: but his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.” Verse 5 of Revelation 13 tells us that forty-two months is also 1260 years: “And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months.” (thus 30 prophetic days to a month).

And, most important, the Papacy it is that thought to change times (the prophetic times which point directly to it as the “beast”) and Laws. Dan.7, verse 25, “And he shall speak great words against the Most High, and shall wear out the saints of the Most High, and think to change times and Laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.” Man-made laws are changed all the time, but God’s Law is written in stone, by His own finger! Exodus 31, verse 18: “And he gave unto Moses, when he had made an end of communing with him upon mount Sinai, two tables of testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God.”

The Papacy took away the Bible from the people and replaced it with the Catechism. In it, she thought to change God’s Law! She removed the Second Commandment – that against idols [so she could introduce her idol, the “graven image” of Mary] – and split the 10th into two to make up 10 again.

The Papacy also changed the 4th Commandment (therein the 3rd) transferring the solemnity of Sabbath, the seventh day of the week, to Sunday, the first day of the week, a change enforced in 364 A.D. In a statement from the office of Cardinal Gibbons, in 1895, she boasts that the change of the Sabbath is a mark of her power that she could even change the Commandments of God! That is the very word used! By both changes, the Papacy took away the worship due only to “Him who made heaven and earth and the sea.” – the One who has a right to man’s worship!

The Papacy is the “beast!” The “mark” of the beast is the false Sabbath, that she instituted, by which she receives the worship due only to God! The “image of the beast” is Mary! Her idols are all around us today! God has said, “…neither shalt thou set thee up any image, which the Lord thy God hateth “ (Deuteronomy 16:22)

There’s more! Babylon’s daughters, the Protestant churches of Europe and America, after rejecting the message of the Advent near in 1844, also rejected the Sabbath truth when it entered the movement, thus rejecting the 3rd Angel’s Message also. Thus Babylon’s daughters have received the “mark,” the change of the Sabbath by the “beast” (although they have not yet in America made an image and accepted the worship of Mary as well!).

But listen to this! The Church of England, the High Anglican Protestant Church, about 1990, decreed that from then on, they would openly worship MARY! An Anglican woman that I was studying with, at that time, declared, “I will not worship that IDOL!” She knew the Second Commandment! So, she left the Anglican Church!

Rev.13:11-18, reveals that Protestant America, (called the “false prophet” in Rev.16:13) will make an “image” to the beast and “cause the earth and them which dwell therein, to worship the beast whose deadly wound was healed.”

The world today is full of millions of Christians who honestly think that their denomination, be it Catholic or Protestant, is teaching them the “Truth” that leads to eternal life: but the religious systems of Christianity have fallen, and are today deceiving the people deliberately!! They have continued to keep the 1st day of the week, Sunday (Pagan), the spurious Sabbath instituted by the Papacy! Even Billy Graham, who had the knowledge of the true Sabbath, preached, openly, that the Sabbath is Sunday, because he feared that his greatness would dissolve if he were to proclaim the true Sabbath!!

The Papacy, now again a world power, is preparing once again to war against “the remnant, who keep the Commandments of God and have the testimony of Jesus.” (Rev. 12, v.17). See Rev. 1: 1, 2 – His testimony is the prophecies! The “remnant” understand prophecy and reveal that the Papacy is “the beast,” by proclaiming the 4 Angel’s Messages!

Because of that, the Papacy (the “beast”) will war against the “remnant” by an alliance with the “false prophet,” (Protestant America) and with Satan (with all of the non-Christian kingdoms of the world). Revelation 16, verses 13 and 14-: “And I saw three unclean spirits, like frogs [frogs catch their prey with their tongues] come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet [who calls down fire from heaven in the sight of men – like Elijah the true prophet did: but this miracle “deceives them that dwell on the earth!”] Watch for this one!

Revelation 13, verses 13 and 14: “And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men, and deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast.” [More on this in the document, Watch Out!]

Continuing with Revelation 16; verse 14 clears it all up: “For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.” – Armageddon! Thus all the world will war against the “remnant” of God’s Bible-believing people and Jesus Himself!

But now listen to Rev.19:11-21: “And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse: and He that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness He doth judge and make war. His eyes were as a flame of fire; and on His head were many crowns; and He had a name written, that no man knew, but He himself. And He was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and His name is called ‘The Word of God:’ And the armies which were in heaven followed Him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean. And out of His mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it He should smite the nations: and He shall rule them with a rod of iron: and He treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God. And He hath on his vesture and on His thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.”

“And I saw the beast and the kings of the earth [See Rev. 17:11-14] and their armies, gathered together to make war against Him that sat on the horse, and against His army And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshiped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone. And the remnant were slain with the sword of Him that sat upon the horse, which sword proceeded out of His mouth: and all the fowls were filled with their flesh.”-carrion birds.

Whose side will you be on??

A 4th Angel has now joined the 3 Angels of Rev.14! Rev.18: 1-8: “After these things, I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory. And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird. For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of (against) her fornication [her false doctrines]; and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies. And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, “Come out of her, My people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues. For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.”

Jesus is calling you! These are His words! If you have been worshiping on Sunday, you have been keeping the commandment of the Papacy, as if he was God, and have been breaking the 4th Commandment of Creator God!!

As on the day of Pentecost, after the resurrection and ascension of Jesus, you may be asking yourself: “What must I do?”

Peter’s answer is in Acts 2, vs. 36-41: “Repent [of your sins being responsible for the death of Jesus on the cross] and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ, for the remission of sins; and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.”

Dear friend, seek out the Seventh-day Adventist church nearest your home. Study the Bible lessons you can get there. Study to show yourself approved unto God, rightly dividing the Word of Truth for yourself! Thus you will prepare for baptism into the “remnant.” Thus you will make your personal Covenant with God, to keep His Commandments and be His obedient child. He promises that He will be your God!

There will be just 2 groups of people in the final end of time: Lovers of the TRUTH, and, Those who receive not the Love of the TRUTH, that they might be saved! (2 Thess. 2:10). If you are ‘sitting on the fence,’ God is hereby ‘shaking the fence!’

These are the Four Angel’s Messages, the Truths for our time in Salvation History. Let us, together, choose to Learn those Messages well, from the Three, now 4 Angel’s Messages seminar prophecybyjesus.com . Prepare, as the wise virgins of the 10 Virgin parable did (Mt. 25:1-13) to help light the way to the Father’s house in heaven! Otherwise, you will be as the foolish virgins! The Third Angel’s Message is a warning to US, NOT JUST TO THE WORLD!

Let no man, or miracle event, deceive you! Jesus revealed the deceiving miracles still to come, in Revelation 13! Jeremiah 31:31-33 is quoted in the book of Hebrews [after Jesus’ ascension to heaven] Hebrews 10, verses 16 and 17, which quote says: “This is the Covenant that I will make with them after those days,” saith the Lord: “I will put my Laws into their hearts [through love, in gratitude to Jesus, the Son of God, who gave His life to redeem us] and in their minds will I write them; and their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.”

A MOMENT OF MEDITATION

Our Father in heaven, we want You to be our God! When Jesus comes, I must be ready! Thank you for revealing the truth to us and opening our eyes! Please guide us into the path of salvation – save us from this untoward world! In the name of Jesus I pray, Amen.

PLEASE DO NOT SIMPLY STUDY THIS MATERIAL ONCE – GO BACK THROUGH IT, TO STUDY EVERY PART OF IT, AND MAKE ITS TRUTHS YOUR OWN!

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