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The Gospel Story

We were no accident. God created humanity out of love, but when Adam and Eve
sinned, they broke communication with God, giving Satan power over this earth.
God's beautiful world and His relationship with His newly created friends was
broken.

After Adam and Eve sinned, God proclaimed that He would take their punishment
because God couldn't bear the thought of
losing the human race through death. He
had told them that if they ate of the tree of
life they would surely die. And eventually
they did die.

All of nature began to die the day Adam and
Eve sinned. The first leaf fell that day, and
all of nature has had to cope with death
ever since. But there was another death
that Adam and Eve were to experience
the second death. This death was the death
God was really talking about when he said, "You shall not eat it, nor shall you touch
it, lest you die." The second death is complete annihilationeternal separation from
God's loving and living presence. It is non-existence. This was and is the terrible and
ultimate consequence of sin.
Death to Bring Life
So why didn't Adam and Eve die that very day? It was because God wanted to save
Adam and Eve. And so, even though they experienced death eventually (in Adam's
case 930 years later), it was only a sleep. They died in the hope of eternal life
because when Adam and Eve sinned, God stepped in to take the consequence of
second death upon Himself.

It was in Eden that Adam and Eve were promised a Saviour:

And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her
Seed; He shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise His heel (Genesis 3:15).
The Seed in this verse is God HimselfJesus. God's own Son, on the day Adam and Eve
sinned, stepped in to take their place. Later in verse 21, Adam and Eve are given tunics
of skin to cover their nakedness. This skin is from the first lamb that had to die. This
lamb was a symbol of God's own Son that would come one day and die in the place of
humanity.

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The lamb was also the first announcement that a Saviourthe Seedwould come,
born a part of the human race to redeem humanity from Satan's dominion. The lamb
signified that God would buy back with blood what was His in the first place.

The word Gospel means "good news." God's atoning sacrifice of the lamb in the
garden truly was good news for Adam
and Eve. It was the Gospel preached to
them from God Himself. Despite what
they had done, Adam and Eve would not
be annihilated as they should have been,
but were to be saved because God loved
them more than they could imagine.

Satan had accused God of being an
unloving tyrant, a control freak that
made angels and people serve Him only
out of fear. Yet here was God doing the
unthinkable. Adam and Eve must have
argued and said "No, God, you are everything, we are nothing. Why should you die
and let us live? We have sold your beautiful earth to Satan for a little apple. We
deserve to die. Kill us and start over."

Instead, God gave them a symbol of what He was going to doHe showed them how
to kill a little lamb. How He must have abhorred the act. How Adam and Eve must
have recoiled in horror as they received their first glimpse of death. How they must
have hated those skins they then covered themselves with. It was so against
everything they had known. But God explained to them that they needed to be
covered by God because otherwise they would be Satan's to be destroyed at His
whim. The skins were a reminder that God was stepping in to halt Satan's death
plans.

The Gospel is the ultimate hero story.
History Tells the Good News
Since that beginning, the good news story has grown and gathered further details.
As time passed, new happenings added additional pieces to the story. It was not long
before another announcement needed to be made. The words to Noah were that
humanity had reached such heights of evil and despotism that God had no choice but
to send a worldwide flood to limit the population. The good news was that anyone
who wanted to be saved only had to come into the ark, which would carry all inside
to safety. We all the know the story. No one listened, and so only eight people were
saved.

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Throughout the history of Earth, Gospel messages have been proclaimed. Jonah
brought the warning message that unless the inhabitants of Nineveh changed their
ways, God would have to destroy their city. The inhabitants of Nineveh heeded the
warning, and were saved.

Ironically, Jonah was displeased with God's grace:

Ah, Lord, was not this what I said when I was still in my country. Therefore I fled
previously to Tarshish; for I know that You are a gracious and merciful God, slow to
anger and abundant in lovingkindness, One who relents from doing harm (Jonah 3:2).

Jonah knew that God was good, and that He would relent and give Nineveh an
opportunity to repent, even though they deserved death.

Of course, the greatest Gospel message came 2000 years ago, when the long-awaited
Seed, the Messiah, the Saviour that had stepped in between Adam and Eve and Satan
finally arrived. The ultimate good news was that finally He had come!

But that was not the end of the Gospel story. The next chapter was that He died, and
rose again after having lived a victorious life without sin. He won the victory for us
and we now could receive His spotless history instead of our filthy one.

For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the
righteousness of God in him (2 Corinthians 5:21).

From that point on, the Gospel story took on new developments. Soon it was that
God had included everyone in His salvationnot only the Jewsand the Gospel
went to all the corners of the world.
Darkness and Truth
Then, the Christian Church reached a new milestone.
Instead of being persecuted, they became the national
religion. A period of darkness ensued in which the beauty of
the Gospel was covered up with lies and human tradition.
The next good news announcement started with the
reformers. John Huss began to uncover the beauty of the
Gospel, and then soon after came the powerhouse Martin
Luther and his 95 theses. These men and others
rediscovered the good news that salvation is a free gift that
comes through faith alone.
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This Gospel was great news to darkened minds who had become entrenched in
useless ceremonies and superstitious traditions that had nothing to do with the
beautiful Gospel started in Edenthe Gospel that had gained so many more
beautiful facets throughout history.
The Final Chapter
Through blood and tears, the Protestant Church was formed. But the Gospel story
isn't over because we haven't returned to Eden. God's ultimate plan was to restore
us into what humanity had been before the fall. Yet for 6000 years we have lived in
Satan's domains, even though purchased by the sacrifice of God. The world has not
yet been returned back to its original Owner. The promise isn't over. Rather, the
next chapter in the story is that Christ is coming to make a new earth and a new
heaven where there will be no tears, no curse, no sorrow, and no fear.
It was this part of the good news Gospel story that really started to take shape in the
mid 1800s. Throughout the Bible, we read about the "time of the end." Daniel was
shown visions of many things to take place at the time of the end. John also saw
great revelations while on the island of Patmos. These visions revealed what the
final culmination of this earth's history would be like.
The good news of our day is that almost all of the Bible's prophecies have been
fulfilled, and we are living in the final days of Earth's history. It is time for God to
come and redeem His people and put an end to the sin and sorrow and pain that has
plagued this planet since that fateful day in the garden of Eden. The great and
wonderful news is that every single human being on Earth has the opportunity to be
a part of the future eternal glorious heaven and Earth that God is going to set up
after sin and its originator, Satan, are destroyed.
The Second Advent Movement

The year 1844 is familiar to Seventh-day Adventists as the year that a group of
Millerites mistakenly expected the Second Advent of Jesus Christ.

On October 22, 1844, these men, women, and children longingly
expected to see their Saviour and their loved ones that had passed
away. They waited for the signs of Christs appearing. But as they
watched the sun slowly slide below the horizon after a long day of
waiting and watching, their hope slipped from them.

As night fell, they faced their dashed expectations with bitter
disappointment. Many turned their backs on God when He didnt
deliver on their understanding of Scripture. But some did not give up.
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Little did those people realize the momentous times in which they lived. Four years
later, in 1848, a group of people started coming together in what was known as the
Sabbath Conferences. They studied the Bible to correct the errors in their thinking
and to discover what the prophecies were really all about.

Adventist Pillars
Out of those Sabbath Conferences came a theology that was not new but
resurrectedmany of these doctrines had been discovered during the Reformation
and forgotten.

Here are the five key discoveries they made:

The Sanctuary doctrinethe whole plan of salvation laid out in type. The
ceremonial law God gave to ancient Israel symbolizes Jesus' work throughout
history. As the people started unraveling this plan, they began to understand the
ministry of Jesus and what had happened on the day of their disappointment.

Out of the sanctuary doctrine and the Great Disappointment, the great message of
the Second Advent was formed, the truth about the Sabbath was recovered, A
Biblical understanding of the state of the dead was unraveled, and the Spirit of
Prophecy was established.

These are the five pillars of Adventism, which make this denomination unique.
These doctrines inspired the pioneers to recognize the Three Angels Messages, and
thereafter the Adventist Church movement was born.
Satan's Counter-Strategies
Back in 1844, as all these events were happening, and the Second Advent message
was spreading across the globe, was Satan sitting idly? No, the dragon was wroth
with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed (Revelation
12:17).

Satan devised a plan to confuse every kind of individualfrom the one who doesnt
want anything to do with God to the one who tries to follow God devoutly.

His first strategy was a counter-theology. But he knew that a counter-theology
would only offer two opposing theologies. Anyone could use the Bible to decide
which theology was correct. So, he decided to pervert truth and present lies as
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Counter-Theology
The Sabbath Conferences were Bible-based, so Satan initiated strategies that were
not Bible-based:

Marxism
In August of 1844, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels met in Paris and started a lifelong
association. On November 19, 1844, Engels wrote to Marx, We are at present
holding public meetings all over the place to set up societies for the advancement of
the workersBy a huge majority everything Christian was banned from the rules.
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Marx had already written the book The Essence of Christianity, where he called
religion the opium of the people, so Engels and Marx were very pleased with the
ban.

This strategy still operational today. The trade unions of the world run on Marxist
strategies. The sickle and hammer are their symbols, and they have kept the same
old rhetoric since the beginning. The strategy of Marxism satisfied the underdog.
The next strategyatheismtargeted the intellectual.

Atheism
In the same year, 1844, Charles Darwin wrote the first draft of The Origin of Species
and sent it out to all his colleagues for evaluation. Satan was very successful with
that ideology. We see it everywhere nowin universities and textbooks and even
on buses.

The great professors of the worldsuch as Dawkinssit in the chairs of Cambridge
and Oxford and belong to a society that calls themselves the Brights.
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Dawkins
writes, God almost certainly does not exist.

These counter-strategies negate God and soothe the mind in the belief that we can
be happy without God. But not everyone will fall for such a strategy, so Satan had to
also begin a campaign of perversion of truth.

Perversion of Truth
Dispensationalism
In 1844, John Nelson Darby came up with a doctrine called dispensationalisma
method of interpreting the Bible that divides history into distinct eras or
dispensations in which God deals with people in a distinctive way and, in some
cases, in which Gods ethical standards change. The dispensationalist doctrine
spread through the world like wildfire. Ninety-five percent of the Christian world
today is dispensationalist.

Dispensationalism is a Jesuit doctrine. Roman Catholic sources say that the founder
of dispensationalism was the Jesuit priest Manuel Lacunza (1731-1801). Born in
Chile and posing as a converted Jew under the pseudonym Juan Josafat Ben-Ezra, he
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wrote a large apocalyptic work in Spanish entitled The Coming of the Messiah in
Glory and Majesty. It remained virtually unknown for many years. Then an
enterprising man named Edward Irving translated it into English. Is it just
coincidental that modern speaking in tongues started in Irving's church?

Darby took this doctrine and modernized it, after which Roman Catholic cardinals
added a touch or two about the Antichrist coming from the tribe of Dan.

Not only did Satan bring in dispensationalism, he also brought in antinomianism
going so far as to say that it is sinful to keep Gods law. Thats really turning the
Gospel on its head.

Satan also added a few extra twists in his perversion of truth:

Quakerism
Satan wanted counterfeit religion to flourish, so in 1844, the Society of Friends, or
Quakers, formed. The Society denied the bodily resurrection of Christ and
communicated with the spirit world.

Rapping
In 1844, the rapping also started in a certain house, which a few years later, would
be occupied by the famously occult Fox Sisters.

Mormon Movement
In 1844, Joseph Smith started the Mormon
movement, claiming to be divine and of
the order of Melchizedek.
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On June 27,
1844, Smith was martyred. Mormonism
became a mega-movement of counterfeit
Christian ideology.

Spiritualism
The spiritualistic secret society Delta
Kappa Epsilon also began in 1844 at Yale,
ensuring that the universities were
accessible for New Age error.

Babism (the Baha'i Faith)
Siyyid Ali-Muhammad rose in 1844 to
say, I am the Bab, starting the Baha'i
movement. Ultimately, the movement for the unification of all religions under one
umbrella began.

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Feminism
In the same year of 1844, the rise of the feminist movement began, inverting Genesis
1 and putting the doctrine of God on its head.
Concealment of Scripture
On May 8, 1844, Pope Gregory XVI condemned the Bible Societies as enemies of
Catholicism, and condemned the distribution of Bibles to the common people. He
confirmed "the decrees recited above delivered in former times by apostolic
authority against the publication distribution reading and possession of books of the
holy scriptures translated into the vulgar [i.e., common] tongue."
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That same year, the Codex Sinaiticus manuscript, which agrees with the distorted
Codex Vaticanus version of Scripture found in 1481, was discovered in the
monastery of St. Catherine on Mount Sinai.

Every single one of these movements started in 1844, so that Satan could prepare
the world for his deception.

God's work in 1844
In that same year, God was quietly working to set up a truth that would stand for all
eternity. In 1844, a Seventh-day Baptist lady, Rachel Oakes, challenged a Millerite
preacher, Frederick Wheeler, to keep all the commandments of God. He preached
his first sermon on the Sabbath in March 1844, and the Sabbath was reestablished in
that year.

In 1844, the noble preacher Charles Fitch accepted the Biblical teaching of soul sleep
and another important truth surfaced.

In 1844, we also see the emergence of the Spirit of Prophecy. Typology tells us not
to wait for another prophet. One has already come. The testimonies have been
written and the health message is there.

But what's the use of a message without the means to broadcast to the world? Gods
hand was over the creation of a system whereby this message could go to the world.
In 1844, Samuel Morse, a Protestant who wrote more about the Bible than he did
about telecommunications and was a fervent student of Daniel and Revelation,
created the Morse code.

On May 24, 1844, he sent the first message from the Capital in Washington to the
B&O Railway in Baltimore. The first words to run across the wire were, What hath
God wrought? And from those humble beginnings, technology exploded.

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Even the Columbus and Zinnia railroad was chartered on March 12, 1844. In that
year, there were great advances in technology, transportation, and information. God
had a message for the world, and Satan has a counter-message.

As the Lords people show their determination to follow the light God has given
them, the enemy will bring all his powers to bear to discourage them, but they are
not to give up because of the difficulties that arise when they try to follow the
counsels of the Lord.
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The Beginning of the End of Time
We are living in what the Old Testament calls the "time of the end," a period just
before the Second Coming of Christ. Daniel uses the phrase five times in chapters 8-
12, and tells us that the period would arise at a very specific time appointed by God.
That time came in 1798, as we will learn.

And some of those of understanding shall fall, to refine them, purify them, and make
them white, until the time of the end; because it is still for the appointed time (Daniel
11:35 NKJV, emphasis added).

How do we know that era of the end times has begun?
Daniel 7:25 tells us about the period of papal dominance, which, as we can see from
the chart, was 1260 years long:

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.

Daniel 12:6-7 uses the
same time period to
explain when the end times
would be. With the
completion of the 1260-
year period of papal
dominion in 1798, the time
of the end began.

During the era of papal dominance, the truth about Christ and His Gospel were
trampled on"great words" were spoken "against the most High." However, Daniel
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12:4 tells us that the beginning of the time of the end also signifies the restoration of
those truths:

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.

Daniel also had a vision in which he was told that the sanctuary would be cleansed
after 2300 days. Daniel himself did not understand this vision, nor did he fully
understand what would unfold during the time of the end. This is because the
prophecy was sealed until the time of the end, as we just read in Daniel 12:4.

In the Hebrew, the definite article is given with the word "knowledge," indicating
that knowledge of the book of Daniel itself will be increased at the time of the end. If
the time of the end has begun, then knowledge must have already increased, and
Daniel's prophecy must have been unsealed. Has this happened?

Increasing Knowledge
In Psalm 119:98-99, we read, "Thou through thy commandments hast made
me wiser than my enemies: for they are ever with me. I have more
understanding than all my teachers, for thy testimonies are my meditation."
Understanding comes from obedience to Gods law (Psalm 119:100,104) and to
God's testimonyHis Word spoken through the prophets of all ages (Psalm
119:125,130,144). If truth is to be restored, then knowledge and understanding of
the Biblical concept of truth is essential.
Three definitions of truth are given in the Scriptures:
I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father but by me (John
14:6).
Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth (John 17:17).
Thou art near, O LORD; and all thy commandments are truth (Psalm 119:151).
Truth restored contains all these elements. It is Christ-centered, Word-based, and
involves obedience to Gods law.
According to the book of Daniel, the time of the end will include an increase of
knowledge and unveiling of Daniel's sealed prophecies. History confirms that a great
resurgence of interest in the Scriptures, accompanied by missionary zeal, began
around 1798the beginning of the end times:
In 1795, the London Missionary Society was organized, followed a year later
by the New York Missionary Society.
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The great Bible societies of the world were also formed in the period
between 1798 and 1844, which is the close of the 2300-year prophecy.
Associated with this resurgence of interest, numerous health and temperance
societies were formed. By 1807 William Metcalf had even founded the
vegetarian and teetotaler Society of Bible Christians of Philadelphia.
Many of the historical names and accounts in the Bibleespecially in the
book of Danielwere unsubstantiated by other sources until the end of the
18
th
century. According to page 10 of Archaeology and the Old Testament,
Modern archaeology may be said to have had its beginning in 1798 when
the rich antiquities of the Nile Valley were opened up to scientific study by
Napoleons Expeditions. In this era, ancient hieroglyphics were deciphered
that aligned perfectly with the Scriptures' historical accounts.
The first steam engine was patented in 1769, and this opened the way for
steamboats (1810-1807) and the railroads (1825). The Gospel was to be
spread to all the world and God saw to it that the means to achieve this end
would also be available.
In the world of music, the great Biblical themes were a prominent source of
inspiration with Handels Messiah focusing attention on the King of kings
and Haydn composing The Creation in 1844.

Unsealing Daniel's Prophecy
During this period of renewed interest in the Scriptures, Baptist William Miller
began exploring the themes of Biblical prophecy. He rejected the popular
interpretations of Scripture and reintroduced the idea that the return of Christ, and
the actions of His followers, were at the heart of Biblical prophecy.

While some of his ideas were correct, Miller incorrectly concluded that the date of
Christ's Second Coming would be October 22, 1844. As we know, Christ did not
return in 1844. Those expecting His return were greatly disappointed, and many
turned away from Miller's teachings altogether.

A few believers, however, began to study the Scriptures deeply to find the meaning
of their disappointment. It was these faithful who uncovered the mysteries in
Daniel's prophecy of the sanctuary. They found that the books of Hebrews and
Revelation held many clues to understanding the prophecy of Daniel 8.






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The Great Disappointment and the Birth of Adventism
William Miller
In the early 1800s, a young Baptist farmer named William Miller (1782-1849)
published a series of articles in the Baptist weekly Vermont
Telegraph about the prophecies of Daniel. He used a simple
set of rules to unravel the great themes of prophecy:

The New Testament is the expositor of the Old Testament

Scripture must be its own expositor

The symbolism of type and antitype

Every word must be taken into consideration

Prophecy compliments prophecy

Miller's study of Daniel 8 led him to believe that the cleansing of the sanctuary,
which was to take place at the end of the 2300-year period (Daniel 8:14), referred to
the cleansing of the earth from sin. He concluded that this meant Christ would
return at that time.
Miller was just beginning to understand the sanctuary message, and misunderstood
its connection to the 2300-day prophecy. He believed that the cleansing of the
sanctuary meant the cleansing of the earthly sanctuarythe cleansing of the Church
at the return of Christ. However, the sanctuary referred to here is instead the
heavenly sanctuary.
Using the day-year principle, he at first calculated that Christ would return in 1843.
He believed the spiritual sanctuary, the Church, would be cleansed at that time.
Miller rejected the popular interpretations of the day such as futurism, preterism,
and dispensationalism. He stressed the premillennial return of Christ, and
reintroduced the old Protestant, Christ-centered interpretation, which saw the
followers of Jesus at the heart of the end-time prophecies. And even though
Scripture tells us that we cannot know the hour of Christ's return (see Matthew
24:36 and Luke 12:40), Miller eventually set a definite date for this event: October
22, 1844.
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The Great Disappointment
Miller, together with some 100,000 others were expelled from their churches for
their beliefs. These believers in the soon advent of Christ came from all
denominations, and included at least 200 ministers from prominent Protestant
churches.
Drawing from the parable of the ten virgins, Miller's message became known as the
midnight cry," the return of the bridegroom. There was a return to primitive
godliness, as the various groups of believers awaited the return of the Lord.
As we know, Jesus did not return to this earth in 1844. Those that eagerly awaited
His return were devastated, and the day became known as the Great
Disappointment. Many were disillusioned and left the movement. Those that
remained were ridiculed and became objects of scorn.

Rediscovering the Truth
Centuries before the Great Disappointment, the Church experienced a similar
disappointment. The followers of Christ had awaited His coronation as the Messiah
in Jerusalem. They had hailed Him as their King and thrown palm branches before
His feet (John 12:12-13). But instead of a coronation, they had to witness a
crucifixion. Their disappointment was real, and many lost their faith. Even the
disciples were filled with fear and hid themselves for fear of the Jews (John 20:19).
Two followers of Jesus were contemplating His death when Jesus Himself joined
them and, "beginning at Moses and all the Prophets, He expounded to them in all the
Scriptures the things concerning Himself" (Luke 24:27 NKJV).
Similarly, the Great Disappointment of 1844 led to ardent study of the Scriptures
and the truths uncovered by the Reformation. Those who remained in the Advent
movement after 1844 considered themselves the remnant. The prophecies of
Daniel were reexamined and a number of believers discovered that the books of
Hebrews and Revelation are full of references to a sanctuary in heaventhe very
topic of Daniel's sealed prophecy in Daniel 8.
They rediscovered the great doctrine of the sanctuary. The role of Jesus as our
sacrificial lamb and high priest in heaven were understood in the correct context.
The typology of the Jewish feasts and their meaning and fulfillment were also
uncovered.
Along with this breakthrough in understanding came the realization of what the
ancient Day of Atonement symbolized, and what its relevance was in terms of the
cleansing of the heavenly sanctuary or the judgment in heaven. The standard of
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judgmentthe lawand its significance was also understood in its relationship to
the plan of salvation. The truths that had served as a guard against evil were being
rebuilt, as Isaiah had prophesied.
The law and the Sabbath were rediscovered, as was the correct relationship
between the law and grace. The commandments of God and faith in Jesus Christ
became pillars on which the faith of the remnant rested, fulfilling Revelation 12:17's
description of the last generation of believers before the return of Christ:
And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant
of her seed, which keep the commandments of God and have the testimony of Jesus
Christ.

The Birth of Adventism
Out of the ashes of the Millerite movement grew the Seventh-day Adventist Church.
They adopted, coordinated, and continued reforms that had been lost since the
Reformation. These doctrines were grounded on Scriptural teaching about the
following concepts:
1. The Second Coming of Christ
2. The binding claims of the Seventh-day Sabbath
3. The Third Angels Message in relation to the First and Second Angels'
Messages
4. The ministry of Christ in the heavenly sanctuary
5. The non-immortality of the soul
What are the Three Angels' Messages?

Revelation 14 tells of three important messages to the world. Johns vision here is
not symbolic of three literal angels who will come and proclaim these messages to
the world. Rather, it refers to Gods peopleHis ambassadorswho proclaim these
truths.

The Three Angels Messages are the final messages of warning to the world. These
messages ensure that everyone has had a chance to choose between the Kingdom of
God and the kingdom of EarthSatan's kingdom. When the messages have reached
everyone, the time of probation will close and Christ will return to free His people.

The great war between Christ and Satan reaches its climax as these messages are
preached, and the people of the world will be split into two groups: the followers of
Christ and the followers of Satan. The contest will be fierce and there will be a time
of the worst trouble to ever happen (Daniel 12:1).
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Throughout the book of Revelation, the two great camps are contrasted. Satan tries
his best to counterfeit the plan of salvation, in order to deceive Gods chosen people
(Matthew 24:24). Revelation tells of a Beast power, which we see to be Roman
Catholicism, that Satan uses to counterfeit the ministry of Christ. He even sets up a
false trinity to lead the world astray.

Only the true Prince of this world, Jesus Christ, can save us and cleanse us from all
unrighteousness:

And from Jesus Christ who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead,
and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto Him that loved us, and washed us from
our sins in His own blood (Revelation 1:5).

When Christ returns, the false princeSatanwill be judged and cast out (John
16:11).

The battle and stark differences between the two sides is a theme in the book of
Revelation.
The First Angels Message
The First Angels Message was to remind Gods people fear God and worship Him as
Creator, because the judgment is coming. This was the message proclaimed by the
Millerite movement.
The First Angels Message is not only a message of judgment, but also a message of
the restoration of all things. It is the Elijah message, the final reformation that
would separate the remnant of spiritual Israel from the world, and prepare a people
for the coming of the Lord.
Then I saw another angel flying in the midst of heaven, having the
everlasting gospel to preach to those who dwell on the earthto
every nation, tribe, tongue, and peoplesaying with a loud voice,
Fear God and give glory to Him, for the hour of His judgment has
come; and worship Him who made heaven and earth, the sea and
springs of water (Revelation 14:6-7 NKJV).
The angel spreads the everlasting Gospel to every nation. We see this as God using
His people to be coworkers together with Him in the spreading of the Gospel around
the world.
The First Angel's Message has three central themes:
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The Everlasting, Unchanging Gospel
The everlasting Gospel is the great theme of salvationwe are saved by the blood of
the Lamb. This Gospel has never changed.
Adam and Eve were taught the lesson of salvation by grace when God covered their
nakedness with the pelt of a sheep to symbolize the righteousness of Christ which
would cover them.
Abel offered a lamb as sacrifice because he understood that salvation was to be
found outside himself in the merits of the Lamb that was to be slain for the sins of
the world. Cain, however, sought favor through the works of his hands and his
offering was not acceptable to God. The great divide between salvation by grace and
salvation by works was established from the very beginning.
Abraham understood the significance of the Lamb when God demonstrated the plan
of salvation in miniature form through Abrahams own son, Isaac. Isaac was a
symbol of Gods Son who was to be offered. But in Isaacs stead God provided His
own lamba ram, a symbol of Jesus who would die for the sins of the world.
The Jews were taught the plan of salvation through the ceremonial law, and the
same principles still apply today: our salvation lies in the Lamb that was slain. The
Gospel has never changed, but Satan perverts the Gospel to suit his ends.

Judgment and Grace
The Lamb was slain because the law could not be compromised. If the law could
have been done away with, then Christ need not have died. To be saved by grace
does not give a license for sin, which is transgression of the law (1 John 3:4):
For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be
justified...Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish
the law...How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein (Romans 2:13, 3:31,
6:2)?
Every deed will be brought into judgment (2 Corinthians 5:10). Gods grace is as
great as Gods justice:
Not everyone who says to Me, Lord, Lord, shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he
who does the will of My Father in heaven (Matthew 7:21 NKJV).
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The Gospel rests on the twin pillars of law and grace. Satan knows this and wars
against those who bring these twin pillars into a right relationship:
And the dragon was enraged with the woman, and he went to make war with the rest
of her offspring, who keep the commandments of God and have the testimony of Jesus
Christ (Revelation 12:17 NKJV).
In ancient Israel, Satan exalted the law and crucified the Lamb while in spiritual
Israel he exalts the Lamb and crucifies the law. Make no mistakewe cannot claim
the merits of Christ while we deliberately keep on sinning:
For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there no
longer remains a sacrifice for sins (Hebrews 10:26 NKJV).
We cannot accept justification before God without also accepting His work in our
lives to make us holy (2 Corinthians 5:15). Without holiness, no one will see God
(Hebrews 12:14).
We accept sanctification in the same way as which we accepted justification
through faith in Christ. We cant keep the law in our own strength. It is only through
Christ in us that obedience becomes possible. Sanctification is a growth in Christ and
not a magic wand. Through abiding trust in God, our bent sinful nature can be
overcome.
Some strive for perfection, and some even believe that they are sinless. All such
striving is useless for only through Christ in us can we attain the victory. By
ourselves we can do nothing.
Now he who keeps His commandments abides in Him, and He in him. And by this we
know that He abides in us, by the Spirit whom He has given us (1 John 3:24 NKJV).
You therefore, beloved, since you know this beforehand, beware lest you also fall from
your own steadfastness, being led away with the error of the wicked (2 Peter 3:17
NKJV).
Therefore let him who thinks he stands take heed lest he fall (1 Corinthians 10:12
NKJV).
The nearer we are to Christ, the more we will be humbled by His beauty. Like Isaiah
of old, we will be led to exclaim, Woe is me! For I am undone; because I am a man of
unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for my eyes have
seen the King, the LORD of hosts (Isaiah 6:5).
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Creation and its Memorial
The everlasting Gospel to be preached by the remnant will set the record straight
and put the issues of law and grace in the right perspective:
Fear God and give glory to Him, for the hour of His judgment has come; and worship
Him who made heaven and earth, the sea and springs of water (Revelation 14:7 NKJV).
The remnant will not only preach the judgment but also exalt the Creator who made
heaven and earth and the sea and the fountains of water. This is the seal of God,
which is the sign of His authority. It also appears in the Sabbath commandment
which emphasizes not only Gods authority over, but also His ownership of the
universe.
The Sabbath is a memorial to creation and the remnant is to point to and exalt God
as Creator. It is noteworthy that, at the close of the 2300-day prophecy in 1844, God
sent a message into the world reminding the world of its origins while at the same
time (1844), Darwins concept of evolution was being readied for the world.
The First Angels Message calls for a choice between truth and error; between the
binding claims of the Gospel and popular humanism; between exalting God and
exalting self.
The Second Angels Message
When Advent believers were expelled from the established churches in the 1800s,
they came to believe that because these churches refused to accept Gods warning,
they had fallen in the eyes of God.
They associated this fall with the fall of Babylonthe Second Angels Message in
Revelation 14:8:
And another angel followed, saying, "Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city,
because she has made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication"
(NKJV).
Ancient Babylon was opposed to Israel. Babylon enticed Jerusalem into paganism
and idolatry. Babylon eventually took the whole nation of Israel captive, and only a
small remnant returned to rebuild the ancient ruins.
God pronounced judgment on ancient Babylon:
Babylon was a golden cup in the LORDs hand,
That made all the earth drunk.
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The nations drank her wine;
Therefore the nations are deranged.
Babylon has suddenly fallen and been destroyed.
Wail for her!
Take balm for her pain;
Perhaps she may be healed.
We would have healed Babylon,
But she is not healed.
Forsake her, and let us go everyone to his own country;
For her judgment reaches to heaven and is lifted up to the skies (Jeremiah 51:7-9
NKJV).
In similar fashion, antitypical Babylonthe
confederacy of religious powers that opposes God at
the end of timewill lead people astray and take them
captive through her numerous false doctrines. The
same judgment pronounced in Jeremiah 51:8 on
ancient Babylon is given to end-time Babylon in
Revelation 14:8. And, the same call given in Jeremiah
51:6 and 9 to come out of Babylon is given in Revelation
18:1-5:
After these things, I saw another angel coming down
from heaven, having great authority, and the earth was illuminated with his glory. And
he cried mightily with a loud voice, saying, "Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and
has become a dwelling place of demons, a prison for every foul spirit and a cage for
every unclean and hated bird! For all the nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath
of her fornication, the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the
merchants of the earth have become rich through the abundance of her luxury." And I
heard another voice from heaven saying, "Come out of her, my people, lest you share in
her sins, and lest you receive of her plagues. For her sins have reached to heaven, and
God has remembered her iniquities" (NKJV).
The Second Angel announces the fall of Babylon, but the loud call to "come out of her
my people" is made later. Gods people are thus still in Babylon. It is Babylon's
system of religious structures aligned against God that is condemnednot the
individuals.
There are two calls out of Babylon. Just as Jesus began and ended His ministry on
Earth by cleansing the temple, so there are two calls to the churches at the end of
time. The first of these calls was made at the beginning of the Advent movement
around 1844, and was confined largely to America, whereas the final call will be
worldwide and climax in the loud cry just prior to the close of probation. This
experience will be accompanied by the outpouring of the latter rain.

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The Third Angels Message
The Third Angels Message is the most fearful message ever given to the world.
Then a third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, "If anyone worships the
beast and his image, and receives his mark on his forehead or on his hand, he himself
shall also drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out full strength into
the cup of His indignation. 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 ascends forever and ever; and they have no rest day or night, who worship the
beast and his image, and whoever receives the mark of his name." Here is the patience
of the saints; here are those who keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus
(Revelation 14:9-12 NKJV).
It was only after the Great Disappointment in 1844 that the message of the Third
Angel began to be understood.
The Third Angels Message is the final message of warning to the world. It is filled
with power and deep spiritual truths. As its significance came to be understood, the
symbolism of the entire book of Revelation was unfolded.
Consider these elements of the Third Angels Message:

The Message warns against the worship of the Beast or its image.
Accepting the authority of the counterfeit religious system instead of God's
authority is the same as worshiping the Beast system rather than God. Accepting the
first-day Sabbath means accepting of the authority of the Beast in the place of the
authority of God. As the Beast obtains his authority from the Dragon (Revelation
13:2), acknowledgment of that authority is worship
of the DragonSatan himself. Revelation 13:4 NKJV
explains:
So they worshiped the dragon who gave authority to
the beast; and they worshiped the beast, saying, "Who
is like the beast? Who is able to make war with him?"
To worship the counterfeit system, one must not
only accept its authority but follow its principles.
For example, end-time Babylon teaches that in
Christ all are free to do as they please.
For as in the days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving
in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and did not know until the flood
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came and took them all away, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be (Matthew
24:38-39 NKJV).
Her priests have violated My law and profaned My holy things; they have put no
difference between the holy and unholy, nor have they made known the difference
between the unclean and the clean; and they have hidden their eyes from My Sabbaths,
so that I am profaned among them (Ezekiel 22:26).
Those that are in Christ, on the other hand, will align themselves with the principles
of Christ (Romans 12:1-2). They will strive for holiness and stay away from things
that separate them from Christ:
Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath
righteousness with unrighteousness? And what communion has light with darkness?
And what concord has Christ with Belial?

...Wherefore, Come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord and touch
not the unclean thing; and I will receive you. And will be a Father unto you, and ye
shall be My sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty. Having therefore these
promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and
spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God (2 Corinthians 6:14-15, 17-18; 7:1).
The whole lifestyle of believers in Christ must reflect this relationship. Babylon is in
enmity with God, and teaches a doctrine of compromise, but compromise with sin is
impossible.

It is a Message of separation from Babylon and its principles.
The Third Angel's Message puts our relationship with Christ in its right perspective.
It is a message that brings about lifestyle changes necessary for those who want to
stand in the presence of a holy God.
Separating from the world does not mean retiring to solitary confinement. We are to
labor in the world as Christ labored, but we are not to be trapped by the ways of the
world. It will take courage for us to stand for truth, but we know that Christ has
overcome the world. The Bible tells us the consequences of following Babylon:
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
(Revelation 14:10).
When Revelation says "poured out without mixture" it means not watered down.
This wrath of God will contain no mercy or grace:
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Anyone who has rejected Moses' law die without mercy on the testimony of two or
three witnesses. Of how much worse punishment, do you suppose, will he be thought
worthy who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, counted the blood of the covenant
by which he was sanctified a common thing, and insulted the Spirit of grace? For we
know Him who said, "Vengeance is Mine, I will repay" says the Lord. And again, "The
Lord will judge His people." It is a fearful things to fall into the hands of the living God
(Hebrews 10:28-31 NKJV).
In ancient Israel, the enemies of God were to be totally destroyed (Deuteronomy
7:2; 20:16-18). The false prophets that led Israel astray were to be executed without
mercy (Deuteronomy 13:7-10). This typology is applicable also to the enemy of God
in the last days.
But to those who are self-seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey
unrighteousnessindignation and wrath, tribulation and anguish, on every soul of
man who does evil, of the Jew first and also of the Greek; but glory, honor, and peace to
everyone who works what is good, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. For there is no
partiality with God (Romans 2:8-11 NKJV).
We can see the Third Angel's Message coming to fruition today. Spiritualism is
making inroads into the Christian Church, the Papacy is making stealthy but rapid
progress towards global control, and the observances of the Catholic Church are
being enforced by civil authority. It is crucial that God's people cling to the truth and
do not become overtaken by these happenings.

Gods people need not fear the judgment in this Message.
There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has to do with
punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love. We love Him because He
first loved us (1 John 4:18-19 NIV).
We are heading for perilous times, a time such as never was. But be encouraged:
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or
persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written, For thy sake
we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. Nay, in all
these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us (Romans 8:35-
37).
In Scripture, those who accept the mark of the Beast are set in sharp contrast with
those that receive the seal of God. In Revelation 7, John sees the 144,000 who
receive the seal of God. These 144,000 have a number of identifying characteristics,
given in Revelation 14:
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1. They have the name of the Lamb and His Father written on their
foreheads (Revelation 14:1). The name stands for their character. They have
a share in the nature and character of God.
2. They are redeemed from the earth (Revelation 14:3). They stand in sharp
contrast to those who receive the mark of the Beastthey are a called out
people.
3. They have not defiled themselves with women, and they are chaste
virgins (Revelation 14:4). They refuse to be defiled by women, which means
that they refuse to become involved with idolatrous practices.
4. They follow the Lamb wherever he goes (Revelation 14:4). They remain
faithful to Jesus.
5. There is no lie found in their mouths and they are blameless (Revelation
14:5). Their character has been investigated, and they have been found
justified.
We should be holy and without blame before Him (Ephesians 1:4, Philippians 2:15,
Colossians 1:22, 2 Peter 3:11). This is not a message of legalism or perfectionism,
since without Jesus we can do nothing. It is a recognition of the power of Christ.
Christ depicts His bride dressed in spotless white, covered with the righteousness of
Christ. We should never dare to utter I am sinless, but Christ can write that very
truth in His book, because His forgiveness not only removes the stain of sin, but also
the record of sin.
In the book of Leviticus we read that priests were only permitted to marry virgins, a
type of Christ and His bride. The priests were not even permitted to marry chaste
widows, because they had previous relationships. Since all have sinned and fall
short of the glory of God, all of us fall into the category of having had previous
relationships with evil. To fulfill the requirements of the typology, the forgiveness of
God has to be so complete that not even the record of the previous unfaithfulness of
Gods people will remain. Only then can they qualify as the chaste virgin, pure and
undefiled.
All the honor and glory belong to God. This leaves no room for legalism or salvation
by works. There is nothing we can do to earn forgiveness.
We cannot receive a more emphatic warning than the one we find in the Third
Angels Message. God wants everyone to know the result of following the Deceivers
rationale. God wants everyone to choose Him and His grace.

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Revelation 10 and the Three Angels Messages
As Advent believers came to understand the Third Angels Message in Revelation 14,
the rest of Revelations prophecies began to become clear as well. The prophecy of
Revelation 10, in particular, was associated with the unfolding of the Third Angels
Message and the experience of the Advent believers. It "gave another picture of
God's last message to the world."
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In Revelation 10, a mighty angel has a little book open in his hand:
And he had in his hand a little book open: and he set his right foot upon the sea, and his
left foot on the earth,

And cried with a loud voice, as when a lion roareth: and when he had cried, seven
thunders uttered their voices.

And when the seven thunders had uttered their voices, I was about to write: and I
heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Seal up those things which the seven
thunders uttered, and write them not (Revelation 10:2-4).
These verses mean that a bookor prophecyonce sealed has become opened or
unsealed. According to Revelation commentator Roy Allan Anderson, this passage is
referring to a prophecy in Daniel:
The message symbolized by this angel unsealed the book to permit the study of its
message. What book could it be? There seems only one answer, for as far as it is
recorded, the only Scripture closed or sealed was a portion of the book of Daniel
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Anderson is referring to Daniel's instructions to "shut up the words, and seal the
book, even to the time of the end" (Daniel 12:4). The 2300-day prophecy of Daniel 8
fits this description as a sealed prophecy that would be opened at the time of the
end. As we know, the time of the end began in 1798, after which the Millerite
movement began to proclaim their newfound understanding of Daniel 8 and the
First Angels Message of Revelation 14.
No prophetic time is given in Scripture after the 2300-day prophecy. The statement
by the angel in Revelation 10:6 that there should be time no longer can be seen as
a reference to the prophecy of Daniel, which brings us to the end of prophetic time.
In Revelation 10:9 John is also given the instruction to eat the scroll. It is sweet in
his mouth but turns bitter in his stomach. To eat the scroll is to internalize it, make it
ones own, and understand it:
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Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and
rejoicing of my heart: for I am called by thy name, O LORD God of hosts (Jeremiah
15:16).
The sweetness was a joyful expectation that the understanding of the Word elicited,
and the bitterness reflects the disappointment experienced by wrong application.
The Advent believers had expected the return of Christ, but He had not come. They
thought the last message of warning had been given, but it had not.

Prophesy Again
In Revelation 10:11, the instruction is given, You must prophesy again about many
peoples, nations, tongues, and kings (NKJV).
The word again is of significance. The Advent believers thought they were finished
prophesying, but they had to prophecy again. And this time, the message to be
prophesied again was to reach all the nations of the world.
What was the all-important message that God wanted proclaimed to the entire
world? It was the Three Angels Messages recorded in Revelation 14, where the
instruction is given once again that the message must go to all peoples on the face of
the earth.
At the right time, God raised up a remnant from all denominations to preach the
Gospel in its fullness to the whole world. This is the remnant that the Dragon would
persecute at the end of time, those "which keep the commandments of God, and
have the testimony of Jesus Christ" (Revelation 12:17).

Who is the Remnant?
The remnant of Revelation 12 is the movement of Adventist believers to whom the
testimony of Jesus was givenbut there are other proofs of the remnant's identity
as well.
The attributes of God's remnant, as given in Scripture, are listed below. As we can
see, the Seventh-day Adventist Church is the only organism to satisfy all the
requirements:

1. Arises at the right time according to Prophecy

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2. Preaches the Three Angels Messages (Revelation 14:6-11)
The Seventh-day Adventist Church has been preaching the Three Angels' Messages
to the world since the 1800s.
In Revelation 18, John hears the Three Angels Messages repeated in a loud cry that
is the last call to return to God before the final judgment day. Those who remain
faithful to God through the trials of the end times will receive an outpouring of the
Holy Spiritprophesied in Joel as the latter rainand will speak this loud cry of the
Three Angels' Messages with power in the last days.

3. Has a worldwide distribution
The Seventh-day Adventist Church is the single most widespread Protestant
denomination in the world. Scripture tells us that once the Gospel has reached every
nation, the end will come:
And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all
nations; and then shall the end come (Matthew 24:24, see also Revelation 14:6-7).

4. Keeps the commandments of God (Revelation 12:17; 14:12; 22:14)
While most denominations are antinomian, Adventism emphasizes the permanent
nature of the law of Ten Commandments. In this regard, they emphasize that no one
is justified by keeping the law, "For by grace are ye saved through faith, and that not
of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest man should boast" (Ephesians
2:8-9).
Keeping the law is a consequence of being saved, and an expression of love to God:
If ye love me, keep my commandments (John 14:15).
Seventh-day Adventists practice the seventh-day Sabbath in keeping with the
Sabbath Commandment in Scripture. Most denominations keep Sundaya practice
not supported in the Bible.

5. Has the faith of Jesus (Revelation 14:12)
The Seventh-day Adventist Church has a Christ-centered religion. Adventists believe
that through trust in God, the believer will obtain grace to overcome as Christ did (1
John 5:4; Revelation 12:11; 1 John 2:6; 3:3,7).
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Adventism rejects the almost universally-accepted doctrine of the immortality of the
soul and accepts the Biblical doctrine of the resurrection from the dead. Above all,
Adventism exalts the high-priestly ministry of Christ in the heavenly sanctuary,
trusting that He is at work:
Wherefore He is able also to save to the uttermost them that come unto God by Him,
seeing He ever liveth to make intercession for them (Hebrews 7:25).
Adventists believe that only Christ is the mediator between God and humanity, and
through Him the whole creation was brought into existence (John 1:1-3; Colossians
1:15; Hebrews 1:1-3). Moreover, the Bible is regarded as the true and complete
revelation of the will of God to us.

6. Has the testimony of Jesus (Revelation 12:17)
What is the testimony of Jesus? Revelation 19:10 explains that "the testimony of
Jesus is the spirit of prophecy." The spirit of prophecy was restored in the 1800s to
help Advent believers unravel the truth. This was done through the prophetic
speaking and writing of Ellen White.

The Elijah to Come
The mission of the Adventist movement is to call a people out of evil and point them
to God. Just as God restored the law and the Sabbath to ancient Israel after calling
them out of pagan Egypt (Exodus 16:23-30; 20:1-17), so the law and the Sabbath
were restored to spiritual Israel after 1844.
Likewise, as God restored to Israel of old the principles of hygiene and healthful
living (Exodus 15:26), so Adventists preach a message of healthful living believing
that, as Christ saw to the physical maladies of people in His days, so the physical
needs must be met in our day when presenting the Gospel. No other Protestant
Church has such a large worldwide medical ministry as has the Seventh-Day
Adventist Church. According to the Adventist Review, "one hundred sixty-eight
hospitals are being operated by Adventist agencies" around the globe today.
In Matthew 17:11, Jesus promises the return of Elijah to restore all things prior to
the end:
...Elijah comes and will restore all things (NIV).
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Matthew 11:12 refers to the Elijah
who had already come, but whose
teaching had been rejected. This is a
reference to the preaching of John the
Baptist.
Clearly, the references to Elijah refer
to the message rather than the man.
The messages of Elijah, of John the
Baptist, and of the Seventh-day
Adventist Church bear striking
parallels: all three call the people
back to obedience to God, and a
worship of the Creator God. In
addition, the messages of John and the Adventist Church are of preparation for the
coming of the Lordjust as Isaiah prophesied (see Luke 1:17).
In 1 Kings 16, the story is told of the marriage of King Ahab to Jezebel the daughter
of Ethbaal, king of the Sidonians. This illicit marriage resulted in the introduction of
Baal worship, or sun-worship in Israel.
The result was total apostasy by the northern tribes of Israel:
So they left all the commandments of the LORD their God, made for themselves a
molded image and two calves, made a wooden image and worshiped all the host of
heaven, and served Baal (2 Kings 17:16 NKJV).
Elijahs mission was to call a people out of paganism and to restore the unity of
Israel. He personally restored the broken sacrificial altar made of twelve stones
symbolizing the unity of Israel. The altar itself is a symbol of salvation by grace, as it
is only through the blood of the Lamb that we may be saved.
Just as Elijah was a forerunner of the impending judgments of God in ancient Israel,
so end-time Elijah was to be a forerunner of the end-time judgment of God.
Remember the Law of Moses, My servant, which I commanded him in Horeb for all
Israel, with the statutes and judgments. Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet
before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord. And he will turn the
hearts of the fathers to the children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers.
Lest I come and strike the earth with a curse (Malachi 4:4-6 NKJV).
Elijah restored the ancient landmarks of obedience to God and trust in His saving
grace:
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Those from among you
Shall build the old waste places;
You shall raise up the foundations of many generations;
And you shall be called the Repairer of the Breach,
The Restorer of Streets to Dwell In.
"If you turn away your foot from the Sabbath,
From doing your pleasure on My holy day,
And call Sabbath a delight,
The holy day of the Lord honourable,
And shall honour Him, not doing your own ways,
Nor finding your own pleasure,
Nor speaking your own words,
Then you shall delight yourself in the LORD;
And I will cause you to ride on the high hills of the earth,
And feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father.
The mouth of the LORD has spoken" (Isaiah 58:12-14 NKJV).
Likewise, the Adventist Church is to restore the broken law and trust in the merits
of Jesus. The broken walls are a reference to the law of God. The paths are a
reference to the ancient paths, the truths of the Gospel that had been trampled in the
dust by paganism. In this end-time prophecy, the Sabbath is lifted up as the great
cleaver that would separate a people out of the world to restore a right relationship
with God. The Sabbath is not to be a burden, but a delighta day to honor God.
The Jewish feasts foreshadowed the events unfolding here at the end of time. The
telling of the soon coming of Christ is the antitype of the Feast of Trumpets. The
announcement of impending judgment is the antitype of the Day of Atonement. And
the Feast of Tabernacles foreshadowed the final deliverance and homegoing of the
people of God.
The Three Angels Messages immediately precede the Second Coming of Christ. They
prepare the way for the Second Coming and call out the people "who keep the
commandments of God and the faith of Jesus" (Revelation 14:12 NKJV). The battle
between Christ and Satan is coming to a head over the Sabbath commandment.
Where will you put your allegiance?
Adventism and the Final Conflict

The American Bible Society and Church Missions document lists the Seventh-day
Adventist Church as the only universally distributed Protestant denomination in the
world. The Catholic Church demands obedience to its system and claims Sunday as
the mark of her authority, and the Seventh-day Adventist Church propagates
obedience to God and Him only and upholds the Seventh day Sabbath as the sign of
obedience to God, in accordance with the Scriptures.
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As Catholics admit, compromise is impossible:
Reason and common sense demand the acceptance of One or the other of these
alternatives: either Protestantism and the keeping holy of Saturday, or Catholicity and
the keeping holy of Sunday. Compromise is impossible.
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Pope John Pauls IIs encyclical on
Sunday worship calls the world to
honor that day.
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Conversely, the
Seventh-day Adventist Church warns
the world against accepting
Sundaythe mark of the Beast. The
Adventist Church is protesting
against the stealing of Gods
authority. This is the recipe for the
final conflict.
As the Roman Catholic Church
admits, the Adventists have the authority of Scripture on their side in this
confrontation. In fact, they boast that Protestants keeping Sunday are paying
homage to them:
You may read the Bible from Genesis to Revelation, and you will not find a single line
authorizing the sanctification of Sunday. The Scriptures enforce the religious
observance of Saturday, A day which we never sanctify.
xi

Thus the observance of Sunday by Protestants is an homage they pay, in spite of
themselves, to the authority of the (Catholic) Church.
xii

The Catholic Church openly acknowledges that only the Seventh-day Adventist
Church is acting in accordance with the Scriptures:
The Adventists are the only body of Christians with the Bible as their teacher, who
can find no warrant in its pages for the change of the day from the seventh to the first.
Hence their appellation, "Seventh-day Adventists." Their cardinal principle consists in
setting apart Saturday for the exclusive worship of God, in conformity with the
positive command of God himself, repeatedly reiterated in the sacred books of the
Old and New Testaments, literally obeyed by the children of Israel for thousands of
years to this day, and endorsed by the teaching and practice of the Son of God whilst on
earth (emphasis added).
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The (Catholic) Church changed the observance of the Sabbath to Sunday by right of
the divine, infallible authority given to her by her Founder, Jesus Christ. The Protestant
claiming the Bible to be the only guide of faith has no warrant for observing Sunday. In
this matter the Seventh-day Adventist is the only consistent Protestant.
xiv

The Saint Catherine Catholic Church Sentinel had this to say on the issue:
People who think that the Scriptures should be the sole authority, should logically
become 7th Day Adventists, and
keep Saturday holy.
xv

The choice is ours: will we follow
the commandments of God or the
commandments of people? Those
who knowingly disobey God will
have to give an account to God.
The final conflict in the great war
between Christ and Satan is about
to unfold. Once the mark of the
Beast has been legislated and each
person has a chance to choose
where they will put their
allegiance, probation will close and
Christ will return.
The redeemed will sing a new song before the throne. Their unique experience as
those who come out of the last tribulation will qualify them to sing this song of
praise to the God. The choice is clear. God longs to redeem us. He didn't even spared
His own Son, and wants to give us all things. Today, if you hear His voice, do not
harden your heart.



i. http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/letters/44_11_19.htm
ii. http://the-brights.net/
iii. http://www.gnosis.org/ahp.htm
iv. Pope Gregory XVI (May 8, 1844), as quoted in The Bibliotheca sacra and biblical repository volume 17 (W.F. Draper, 1860):
338.
v. Ellen White, This Day with God, 309.1.
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vi. Miller originally calculated the end of the 2300-day prophecy to be in 1843. However, he was a year off because he had not
considered the transitional year when the calendar moved from BC to AD. This is why, upon recalculation, Miller's date was
moved to 1844.
vii. Roy Allan Anderson, Unfolding the Revelation (Pacific Press Publishing, 1974): 97.
viii. Ibid: 98.
ix. The Catholic Mirror, (September 23, 1893).
x. John Paul II, Dies Domini (July 5, 1998).
xi. Cardinal James Gibbons, The Faith of Our Fathers 92
nd
edition (Baltimore: John Murphy Company): 89.
xii. Monsignor Louis Segur, Plain Talk about the Protestantism of To-Day (London: Thomas Richardson and Son, 1874): 213.
xiii. The Catholic Mirror (September 23, 1893).
xiv. The Question Box, The Catholic Universe Bulletin (August 14, 1942): 4.
xv. "Pastor's Page," The Saint Catherine Catholic Church Sentinel Volume 50, Number 22 (May 21,1995).