The Three Angel s Messages

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1 The Three Angel s Messages Our Work Slides can be seen at:

2 ... A spurious sabbath is presented to be legislated into power, compelling the observance of a sabbath which God has not enjoined upon man. {16MR 239.2}{ } 2

3 The persecutions of Protestants by Romanism, by which the religion of Jesus Christ was almost annihilated, will be more than rivaled when Protestantism and popery are combined. The darkest pages of history will be opened in that great day when it will be too late for wrongs to be righted. Registered in the book are crimes that have been committed because of religious differences. We are not ignorant of the history. Europe was shaken as though with an earthquake, when a church, lifted up in pride and vanity, haughty and tyrannical, devoted to condemnation and death all who dared to think for themselves, and who ventured to take the Bible as the foundation of their faith. {16MR 239.3}{ } 3

4 Our own land is to become a battlefield on which is to be carried on the struggle for religious liberty to worship God according to the dictates of our own conscience. Then can we not discern the work of the enemy in keeping men asleep who ought to be awake, whose influence shall not be neutral but wholly and entirely on the Lord s side? Shall men cry peace and safety now, when sudden destruction is coming upon the world, when God s wrath shall be poured out? {16MR 240.1} { } 4

5 No truth is more clearly taught in the Bible than that God by His Holy Spirit especially directs His servants on earth in the great movements for the carrying forward of the work of salvation. Men are instruments in the hand of God, employed by Him to accomplish His purposes of grace and mercy. Each has his part to act; to each is granted a measure of light, adapted to the necessities of his time, and sufficient to enable him to perform the work which God has given him to do. But no man, however honored of Heaven, has ever attained to a full understanding of the great plan of redemption, or even to a perfect appreciation of the divine purpose in the work for his own time. Men do not fully understand what God would accomplish by the work which He gives them to do; they do not comprehend, in all its bearings, the message which they utter in His name. {GC 343.2} 5

6 Satan is now using every device in this sealing time to keep the minds of God s people from the present truth and to cause them to waver. I saw a covering that God was drawing over His people to protect them in the time of trouble; and every soul that was decided on the truth and was pure in heart was to be covered with the covering of the Almighty. {EW 43.2} 6

7 Sacrifice at Every Step.--We are nearing the end of this earth s history, and the different departments of God s work are to be carried forward with much more self-sacrifice than has yet been practiced. The work for these last days is a missionary work. Present truth, from the first to the last letter of its alphabet, means missionary effort. The work to be done calls for sacrifice at every step of advance. The workers are to come forth from trial, purified and refined, as gold tried in the fire.--review and Herald, Nov. 18, {Ev 631.3} 7

8 But God still has a people in Babylon; and before the visitation of His judgments these faithful ones must be called out, that they partake not of her sins and receive not of her plagues. Hence the movement symbolized by the angel coming down from heaven, lightening the earth with his glory and crying mightily with a strong voice, announcing the sins of Babylon. In connection with his message the call is heard: Come out of her, My people. These announcements, uniting with the third angel s message, constitute the final warning to be given to the inhabitants of the earth. {GC 604.1} 8

9 The truth for this time, the third angel s message, is to be proclaimed with a loud voice, meaning with increasing power, as we approach the great final test.... The present truth for this time comprises the messages, the third angel s message succeeding the first and the second. The presentation of this message with all it embraces is our work. We stand as the remnant people in these last days to promulgate the truth and swell the cry of the third angel s wonderful distinct message, giving the trumpet a certain sound. Eternal truth, which we have adhered to from the beginning, is to be maintained in all its increasing importance to the close of probation. The trumpet is to give no uncertain sound.... {9MR 291.1} 9

10 The Theme of the SDA church is:! The Three Angelʼs Messages The Foundation and Central Pillar of the Advent Faith:!!!! Unto two thousand and three hundred days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed. The Pillars of our Faith are: Daniel 8:14 1. The personality of God and Jesus (Who God and Jesus are) 2. The law of God including the Seventh-day Sabbath 3. The faith of Jesus (Christ, His mission, His priesthood) 4. The Two Compartment Heavenly Sanctuary Including: the Temple of God, the Ark containing the law of God, Christ's priesthood, Cleansing of the Sanctuary transpiring in Heaven, and having decided relation to Godʼs people upon the earth. 5. The Three Angels' Messages (The first, second, & third angels with a fourth angel 6. The testimony of Jesus (includes: The Spirit of Prophecy) Rev. 14 & 18) 7. The nature of man 8. The Non-Immortality of the wicked (includes: the state of the dead) 10

11 {Counsels to Writers and Editors page 29 par. 3} {Counsels to Writers and Editors page 30 par. 2} {YRP Ye Shall Receive Power 235.4} {Manuscript Release No. 760 page 9 par. 6} {RH, May 25, 1905 par. 23 & 24} {GC 409.1} {Testimonies for the Church, vol. 1, p. 300 par. 1} Slides can be seen at: 11

12 The theme of greatest importance is the third angel s message, embracing the messages of the first and second angels. All should understand the truths contained in these messages and demonstrate them in daily life, for this is essential to salvation. We shall have to study earnestly, prayerfully, in order to understand these grand truths.--letter 97, {Counsels to Writers and Editors page 29 par. 3} 12

13 We talk about the first angel s message and the second angel s message, and we think we have some understanding of the third angel s message. But as long as we are content with a limited knowledge, we shall be disqualified to obtain clearer views of truth. He who holds forth the word of life must take time to study the Bible and to search his own heart. Neglecting this, he will not know how to minister to needy souls. The diligent, humble student, seeking by earnest prayer and study for the truth as it is in Jesus, will most assuredly be rewarded. He seeks for help, not from ideas of human writers, but from the Fountain of wisdom and knowledge; and under the guidance of holy intelligences he gains a clear understanding of truth. {GW }

14 The three angels of Revelation 14 are represented as flying in the midst of heaven, symbolizing the work of those who proclaim the first, second, and third angels messages. All are linked together. The evidences of the abiding, everliving truth of these grand messages, that mean so much to the church, that have awakened such intense opposition from the religious world, are not extinct.... {6T 17.4} 14

15 We see before us a special work to be done. We are now to pray as never before for the Holy Spirit s guidance. Let us seek the Lord with the whole heart, that we may find him. We have received the light of the three angels messages; and we need now to come decidedly to the front, and take our position on the side of truth. {RH, October 13, 1904 par. 1} The fourteenth chapter of Revelation is a chapter of the deepest interest. This scripture will soon be understood in all its bearings, and the messages given to John the revelator will be repeated with distinct utterance. {RH, October 13, 1904 par. 2} 15

16 The first angel s message of Revelation 14, announcing the hour of God s judgment and calling upon men to fear and worship Him, was designed to separate the professed people of God from the corrupting influences of the world and to arouse them to see their true condition of worldliness and backsliding. In this message, God has sent to the church a warning, which, had it been accepted, would have corrected the evils that were shutting them away from Him.... {GC first part} 16

17 Had they received the message from heaven, humbling their hearts before the Lord and seeking in sincerity a preparation to stand in His presence, the Spirit and power of God would have been manifested among them. The church would again have reached that blessed state of unity, faith, and love which existed in apostolic days, when the believers were of one heart and of one soul, and spake the word of God with boldness, when the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved. Acts 4:32, 31; 2:47. {GC last part} 17

18 17 And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; 18 They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover. Mark 16:

19 7 And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them? 8 I tell you that he will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth? Luke 18:7-8 19

20 Saith the Lord: My people shall never be ashamed. Joel 2:26. Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning. Psalm 30:5. When on His resurrection day these disciples met the Saviour, and their hearts burned within them as they listened to His words; when they looked upon the head and hands and feet that had been bruised for them; when, before His ascension, Jesus led them out as far as Bethany, and lifting up His hands in blessing, bade them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel, adding, Lo, I am with you alway (Mark 16:15; Matthew 28:20);... {GC 350.1} 20

21 The Three Angel s Messages Our Work Slides can be seen at:

Babylon comes in among SDA s! How? Its In the Pulpits. But where does it come from?

Babylon comes in among SDA s! How? As the storm approaches, a large class who have professed faith in the third angel's message, but have not been sanctified through obedience to the truth, abandon their