09_01 Who Does the Sealing?

Introductions to Chapter 9

This chapter begins with two end-time very important question documents.

The first of the two, #09_01, Who Does the Sealing? contemplates the very time we are in, the Sealing Time. How are we sealed? Who accomplishes the sealing in us? Are we involved, much more than we may have thought?

Scripture: Ezekiel 9:1-6, 11; 10:1, 2, 6, 7.

Title: Who does the Sealing?

Turn to Revelation 14, v. 7 please. Revelation 14, v.7. (read).

Daniel’s prophecy of 2300 days leads to the “cleansing of the Sanctuary,” which, according to Leviticus 16, verses 19 to 22 and v. 30, is the removal of the record of confessed and forgiven sins from the Sanctuary in heaven, by an Investigative Judgment of the books of record of our lives. (See Daniel 7, verses 9 and 10). We are in the “hour of His Judgment,” since 1844! Now note this fact carefully: in Lev. 23, verse 24, the Feast of Trumpets precedes the Day of Atonement (the Judgment Day) and warns the people to prepare for its coming in just 10 days. Since the Investigative Judgment (day of Atonement) has been, in our time, not just a single day, but an extended period of time, its end will be marked by the Sealing and the Trumpets. The parallel is in Rev. 7, 1-3 (the Sealing) and the Trumpets of Rev. 8 and 9 – (type and anti-type, example and final fulfillment).

We are now on the verge of the Sealing of the living and the blowing of the Trumpets of warning. As I have taught before, the Trumpets are the beginning of what happens in “the time of trouble such as never was since there was a nation, even to
that same time.” (Dan.12:1). Although I believe that it is during the Trumpets that millions will choose to serve God because of the warnings, and will then be sealed, I also believe that for Adventists, in this time just before the first Trumpet sounds, the sealing will already be complete! Those who now stand, and who consistently will stand for the Sabbath, are already sealed during this hour of His Judgment! This is very important, because many of us need to make our calling and election sure now, before the winds are let loose by the four angels who are yet holding them!

Let’s return to Ezekiel chapter 9, the Bible’s sealing chapter, to carefully note that fact, that most of the sealing will precede the First Trumpet. Ezekiel 9, verses 3 to 5. (read). The destroying angels were to go “after him (the man with the writer’s inkhorn) and smite.” Does this mean that they follow right behind him as he “sets the mark upon the foreheads” of the men found ready to be sealed? Note chapter 9, v. 11 and chapter10, vs. 1 and 2. (read).

When he casts the coals of fire over the city, then the destroying angels begin their work, destroying first the wicked leaders in the Temple area, then the city, and then on out to include all of Judea.
Ezekiel 12, vs. 19 and 20 confirms that all of Judea would be made desolate. (read). Now compare Ezekiel with Revelation 8 and the Trumpets. We will see once again the connecting link to what is coming very soon. Revelation 8, from v. 2 to 7a. (read).

The angel here casts coals of fire from the altar of burnt sacrifice unto the earth. This is parallel to what we read that the angel with the writer’s inkhorn did in Ezekiel! Revelation many times points us back to what Doug Batchelor [evangelist on 3 Angels Broadcasting TV] calls “storacles of prophecy”- in this case earlier accounts of prophecies from the Bible which illuminate the meaning of symbols and prophecies of Revelation.
By casting coals of fire from the altar of burnt sacrifice unto the earth, what kind of fire is cast unto the earth? As the first Angel sounds his Trumpet, v.7 – do you see it? Hail and fire mingled with blood were cast upon the earth! Fire mingled with the blood of the true sacrifice upon the altar in heaven, the blood of Jesus Himself! This is the signal for the destruction of the Trumpets, and since one of the seven angels is, according to Ezekiel, the man with the writer’s inkhorn, this man will cast the coals of fire unto the earth and his action is the first Trumpet!

People, who is this person, according to Rev.8, vs. 3 to 5? Isn’t the man with the writer’s inkhorn a priest? What is he wearing in Ezekiel chapter 9? He is clothed with linen – the special attire of the priests. Jesus is the High Priest of the Sanctuary in Revelation isn’t He? How appropriate that He has become the angel with the writer’s inkhorn, and, the first destroying angel!

God the Son will initiate the first warning Trumpet Himself! Next Question: When?

When the “abomination of desolation spoken of by Daniel the prophet stands in the holy place,” (Mt.24:15,16) “where it ought not!” (Mark 13, v.14).

The pope, whom the Bible identifies as “the abomination that maketh desolate,” (the 1290 days – Dan.12:11) will fulfil Daniel 11, v. 45, by being invited [by Jewish Israel!] to Jerusalem, as head of all religions, to plant the temporary base of his New World Order government there! This abomination will bring on the First Trumpet, which will cause the desolation of all of Jewish Israel!

For the THIRD time! It will be the fulfillment of Mt. 24, vs. 15 and 16! The Jewish nation will accept the pope as the representative of Jesus on earth and thus the leader of religion on earth! (so will Christianity and Islam). It is an abomination
to God that the pope (God’s enemy in mankind) is thus received, especially by the Jews (who “ought not” allow him to come to “God’s glorious holy mountain,” to set himself up as the leader of religion on earth, as the representative of Jesus!) This is the “indignation” (Daniel 11:36) for which Jesus will cause the desolation of the land
of Israel! For the THIRD time! It is an alliance with the Papacy (the “beast”) helping make him the leader of the New World Order, believing he will bring them peace and safety in the world. The Messianic Jews, only those that believe Jesus’ warning in Mt. 24 and Mark 13, will be given time by God to escape the destruction by fleeing to the mountains outside Israel [across the Jordan River to the other side] as the Christian Jews did in 70 AD!
Now turn to Revelation 7. Rev. 7, vs. 1 to 3. (read).
People, these 4 angels are about to release the winds of destruction upon the earth, which are the Trumpets; and “the time of trouble such as never was, since there was a nation, even to that same time!”
Even the two World Wars were not the fulfillment of these verses!

The Trumpets will be much worse: but, until today, you have not been taught to expect them!

Turn now to Revelation 13, verses 11 and 12. This also is connected closely with the sealing. “I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth, and he had two horns like a lamb, 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.”

To use force to get people to worship the “beast,” is for North American Protestantism to use the methods of the “dragon.”

Here too, the 4 angels are holding back the winds “till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads.” Can you see that most Adventists will be sealed before the Trumpets, in order to preserve our lives through the Trumpets?

Are you really awake? Fear God, and give glory to Him, for the hour of His Judgment is come: and worship Him who made (who Created is a clearer word) heaven and earth! (If you don’t know that Jesus was the Creator, see John 1:1-4, v.10 and v.14;
and Heb.1:1-3).
Choose you this day whom you will serve – Jesus, the Creator God, or the “beast” and “his image.” When the test comes, the Universal Sunday law proclaimed by Satan masquerading as Jesus on the earth, (Great Controversy, p. 624) only those who have consistently stood for the Sabbath and the Law of God will be empowered by Holy Spirit to refuse, to the death, to worship the beast and his image by keeping their day of worship!

Have you thought that your lax Sabbath-keeping was not important enough to worry about? You are determining whether you are actually sealed or not! Who does the sealing? You do! By your choice now, you are either being sealed, or lost!

Now is the time to receive the true, Saturday Sabbath, and keep it holy. Now, at this end of the hour of His Judgment, the Three Angel Messengers of Rev. 14 are to be joined by the Fourth Angel Messenger of Rev. 18:1-4. (read).

Everyone, you are to warn your corner of the world around you that they must not worship the “beast” and his “image,” but instead should worship Him who Created heaven and earth. As force of law is applied, all who are made aware of the Sabbath
Commandment, as it is written in the Bible, will either receive worship of Jesus our Creator God, by keeping His Sabbath holy, and be sealed, or, they will receive the “mark” of the “beast,” which is Sunday worship!

People, isn’t it obvious that by receiving the true Sabbath and all of the Law of God, you receive the seal of God? Of course you must continuously stand for the Law of God, even unto death, but Holy Spirit can only seal you and empower you to stand
continuously for the Law of God, even unto death, if you solidly make that decision!

When the winds are let loose, which according to Catholic prophecy is overdue, who will you be found serving? The pope was to fulfil Daniel 11, verse 45, during the year 2000, according to the written down instructions of the apparitions of Mary of Fatima, his “image.” All these things foretold by Jesus are about to come to pass! The kingdom of heaven is at hand! Make straight the way of the Lord Jesus in your own heart! Choose you this day whom you will serve!

Again I ask, for emphasis, Who does the Sealing? You do! By your choice right now, you are either being sealed, or lost!

Have you been baptized? Or, have you been putting it off till a better season? Today is the day of salvation for you!

Choose you this day whom you will serve! Baptism is the making of your personal Covenant with God!

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