03_01 The End Time Message
Introductions to Chapter 3
We begin this Chapter with #03_01, The End Time Message, which is a review of what we must learn from the first two Chapters. Test your understanding and your recall of these most important prophecies of Jesus. Again I say, that the knowledge of these prophecies and their historical fulfillments is critical to all of your growth in the spiritual realm of your life from this point forward. They are the DOOR to the heavenly realm, opened by God Himself.
Review them again and again until they are familiar.
Our subject is: The End-Time Message
The Scripture Text for this study is: Revelation 14:8 (read)
In this seminar series we are learning our end time Message. It is what we will call “Present Truth.”
In the first part of our series, we first saw that the three signs Jesus gave, that tell us that He is very soon to return in the Second Coming, have already occurred in the 17 and 18 hundreds, right on time with the beginning of the “time of the end.” Do you really get it? Jesus is going to return soon!
Get ready now!
Then we went through the mechanics of figuring out the 2300 day prophecy, which ends in 1844, at the beginning of “the hour of His Judgment,” which ties this prophecy to our end time Message, the Three Angel Messages:
“…For the hour of His Judgment is come!” Revelation 14:7.
Just at this point, I have a few questions for you, to see if you had your eyes opened by Holy Spirit to catch the important details in regard to our Message.
Here we go: What method of Bible Study unsealed the book of Daniel? (line upon line). What text is that found in? (Isaiah 28, verses 9 and 10, only in the KJV.) That method revealed that for time prophecies, a prophetic “day” is: (a year). Now: besides the paper with the bar graphs that help us do the math for the 2300 days prophecy, I gave you another paper regarding what should be understood from the 2300 day prophecy (-the time line graphic).
The first part, the 70 weeks in reference to the Jewish people, led to three great events being revealed: The 69 weeks of the 70 led unto: (Messiah – Jesus!) Second, what event happened in the middle of that 70th week? (Jesus was crucified – “cut off” – buried and resurrected.)
What event happened at the end of the 70th week? (Was it not the Judgment of the Jewish Church? Weren’t they found unworthy to be any longer God’s chosen people to reveal the gospel and the kingdom? Didn’t they seal their own fate by stoning Stephen, thereby rejecting the message that Messiah had come in the person of Jesus, whom they had crucified?) The execution of that Judgment came in 70 A.D. with the desolation of all of Judea.
With that answer in mind, what event happened at the end of the 2300 days, in 1844? (Wasn’t it the Judgment of the Christian churches? The second angel’s message – Rev. 14:8 – tells us that they [including Catholic and Protestant churches] are fallen!)
All three of these messages began when “the hour of His Judgment is come!” – the first angel’s message – Rev. 14:7 – which makes these three messages NOTE WELL – “Present Truth!”
The next subject applied the 1260 day prophecy.
What important part of our message is revealed by the 1260 day prophecy? (The “man of sin” was revealed, further showing that Jesus is soon to come!) When the Papacy was “taken out of the way” in 1798, exactly 1260 years after he became pope, by decree of Roman Emperor Justinian, the “man of sin” was revealed to be the Papacy, up through 1260 years of persecution of true Christians! Cement in your memory that He was decreed “the corrector of heretics!” by the Emperor.
What is his greatest sin? (He thought to change the very Commandments of God!)
Which Commandment did he remove from the Ten Commandments? (The Second)
…which warns against making idols (“images”) and bowing down and worshipping them.
What is his “image” that he set up for the people to worship? (MARY!)
Does that fact have anything to do with the Three Angel Messages of Rev. 14? “…If any man worship the “beast” and his “image”…” – verse 9!
Which Commandment did the Papacy change? (The Fourth: which is the very seal
of God!)
A year-for-a-“day” is the discovery that unsealed the time prophecies of both Daniel and Revelation. The 1260 day prophecy revealed that the Papacy is the “man of sin.” Also, the Papacy is the “little horn” power of Daniel, and the “beast” of Rev.13! What is the connecting link? “…they shall be given into his hand until – a time, times, and the dividing of time” – 1260 days. Daniel 7:25, compared with Revelation 12, verses 6 and 14; also, “…and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months” – 42 months, times 30 days-to-a-month – 1260 days! Rev.13:5. Same power, now having developed into a “beast” instead of “the Little Horn.”
Connected with the claims of the Bible itself, we studied the roots of the bearers of the “Present Truth” as the Remnant Church, with the Three Angel Messages to preach to the world, including even Christianity.
In that history, we learned that “line upon line” is truly Holy Spirit’s prescription for effective Bible study. Through it, an ordinary man, like any one of us, was able to unseal the great time prophecies of the Bible! Holy Spirit taught William Miller to use this “line upon line” Bible study method right on time so that the Great Awakening could happen in 1843, according to the 1335 day prophecy in Daniel 12:12!
God was, and is, behind the whole Movement. It was time to reveal that the Judgment Hour was come upon the world! God had accomplished the Papacy’s being “taken out of the way” in 1798, exactly on time for the 1260 day prophecy! The Papacy was “taken out of the way,” so that the Bible could be freely distributed and given back to the people – people like William Miller… people like you and I!
And thus, the Present Truth of the Three Angel Messages was brought to the Movement – “…the hour of His Judgment is come!” – the 2300 day prophecy!
The history of the proclamation of the first angel message, and its rejection, leading to the proclamation of the second angel message, really shows that the Judgment of the Christian churches arrived right on time too! “Babylon is fallen, is fallen!” was proclaimed against all of the Christian Churches, Catholic and Protestant. The Papacy is the “man of sin,” and the Papal system is Babylon the Great: but also, the Protestant “daughters” of “Babylon the Great, Mother of harlots,” were fallen too! The “Adventists” called to them, in the name of Jesus, “Come out of her, My people!”
Next, God revealed to them the great sin of the “man of sin.” He had changed the Fourth Commandment, which fact they [Advent believers] didn’t even know until after the 1844 date passed! Again, Holy Spirit is the one we have to give the praise to for directing events so that it was discovered! Thus the Third Angel’s Message came into place in the Movement that God had set up.
We are “the people of the Book.” We are the people who are to re-establish the Law of God – especially the Sabbath Commandment, as well as the 2nd Commandment. [Don’t forget that one!] We are the reformers of the last days!
The Angel Messages say, “…worship Him who made heaven and earth…” and, “…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!…” “Here is the patience of the saints, here are they that keep the Commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus” – [in the Bible].
We are the Remnant Church – “The dragon…went to make war with the remnant
of her seed, which keep the Commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.” We are the people who have the testimony of Jesus – especially the prophecies of Daniel and Revelation, which reveal who the “beast” is, what his “image” is, and even what his “mark” is!
False worship is worship of Rome’s “man of sin” by keeping his commandment to keep Sunday holy, in place of the Sabbath of Jesus [who is the Creator of heaven and earth]! People who have rejected the Sabbath truth, from 1844 till now, have instead received the “mark” of the “beast,” – the mark of his power – that he believes that he can change the Commandments of God and that he has done so!
By the history of our Adventist movement, our Bible study method is powerfully supported as Holy Spirit’s prescription for “rightly dividing the Word of God.” Thus, we can proceed to unveil the “beast” and his “image,” his number (666), and his “mark.”
What is his “image?” (MARY)! Her idols are all around us today! American Protestantism is also becoming a beast “in her likeness” and will use the power of the state to persecute God’s people!
Where is his number found? (His blasphemous name by which he claims to take the place of Jesus Christ on earth!) “Vicarius filii Dei” – Vicar of the Son of God. (Add together the Latin letters that are numbers.)
What is his “mark?” (It is the Sunday-Sabbath with which he has tried to replace the true Saturday-Sabbath of the Bible!)
Our message includes the fact that the Papacy, now again a world power, is preparing once again to war against “the remnant, who keep the Commandments of God,” and understand the teachings of Jesus that he gave for our time! That includes His teaching that a death decree will be issued right here in North America, over worship of Mary! Rev.13:15.
That brings our review up to date.
The next part of this seminar on learning your message, is a careful look at the Everlasting Gospel. The First Angel’s message includes the preaching of the Everlasting Gospel to every nation, kindred, tongue and people who dwell on the earth. People, that gospel is not the same as the one preached by all of the churches around us today! Their gospel won’t save you! It will keep you in sin!
Now, Let us close with prayer.
Our Father God, and Jesus, Son of God, thank you for sending Holy Spirit to enlighten the world. The darkness is dissipating rapidly, as this end time Message spreads world-wide this very day. Please continue to hold back the winds of strife a little longer, that many more may be warned to flee to the Truth for salvation! “Thy Word is Truth!” Jesus proclaimed. Teach us our Message, we pray, in the name of Jesus, our Lord and Saviour! Amen.
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