Daniels & revelations prophecies of jesus

1 PROPHECY CONTENTS

DANIEL

(Whole prophecies explained, Chapters 1-12)…… 4 Daniel’s habits, Visions and Dreams (Daniel 1)……………..… 4 The Metal Man (Daniel 2; 3-6)………………………………….. 6 The Anti-Christ/False-Priest (Daniel 7) (Four times is declared Antichrist then the Judgment of God, Jesus spoke of it)………... 13 Satan Counterfeits the Heavenly ministry of Jesus (Daniel 8)….. 22 The True high Priest, Jesus fulfills the Heavenly sanctuary once & forever (Beginning of the 2300 years) (Daniel 8, 9)…….…….. 28 Jesus and His Judgment/Atonement Year (End of the 2300 years) (Daniel 8, 9)…………………………………………………….. 49 End of days, after the 1260, 1290, 1335 years (Daniel 10-12)…. 55

REVELATION (Whole Book Explained, Chapters 1-22)....................................... 69 The Seven Churches,….Lamp & Bread of Sword, Word..............69 The Throne in Heaven .................................................................103 Jesus is Worthy.............................................................................108 The Seven Seals............................................................................111 The Sealed 144,000......................................................................121 The Seven Trumpet’s, …The Incense & the Heavenly Ark.........129 The Woman, the Child and the Dragon........................................194 The Beast, Dragon and two horned Buffalo, Mark and Seal....... 200 Three angels Messages, Seal of God and Mark of the Beast.......211 War of God and the flight home...................................................233 The Seven Last Plagues................................................................235 Babylon the great and its Doom...................................................241 Mystery of God revealed and the Destruction of Babylon...........245 The saving testimony of Jesus and His return..............................250 The Thousand years, the Executive Judgment on the wicked, the Devil and his angels..................................................................... 257

The New city Jerusalem.............................................................. 261 Heaven..........................................................................................266

The Sanctuary of God ..........................................................

The Old Testament Feasts point to Jesus ........................

The everlasting Sabbath Covenant ..................................

Sun worship, connected with child sacrifice ...................

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3 Written and noted by Jerrid Rains. God Interprets the Bible for you through the Prophets and Apostles. (2 Peter 3:1-2; Isaiah 28:9-10)

“We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts: Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation. For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.” (2 Peter 1:19-21) “For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.” (Rev. 19:10; 1:1) “And the dragon was angry 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.” (Rev. 12:17) The Devil knows his plans of deception are unveiled in these prophecies of Jesus. Jesus’ plan of saving us, building up our trust in Himself, and protecting us from deception is revealed in His own prophecies, especially Daniel and Revelation. As you Journey to find the most valuable treasure, take this Armor, Lamp, Map and Compass with you.

Armor of the King - Ephesians 6:10-20; Psalm 149:6-9; Hebrews.

4:12.

The Lamp - 2 Peter 1:19; Proverbs 6:23; Psalms 119:105; Ephesians 5:8; Proverbs 4:18.

The Map - John 14:1-6; Proverbs 2:1-22; Isaiah 45:2, 3; Matthew 7:13-27.

The Compass - Proverbs 3:5-6.

An ancient Princes’ Treasure Proverbs 8:11; Proverbs 2:3-22; Colossians 2:1-4; 2 Corinthians 4:5-7; Matthew 6:19-21; Matthew 13:44-46; Luke 18:22; 1 Corinthians 3:9-13; Malachi 3:16-18; Matthew 12:34-37; Exodus 19:5; Deuteronomy 32:34; Psalms 135:4; Matthew 19:21; Deuteronomy 28:12; 1 Timothy 6:17-21.

DANIEL The books of Daniel and Revelation are to be understood in our day. (Daniel 2:28-29; Daniel 12:9; Revelation 1:1-3; Rev. 22:6-7,10-12) Jesus claimed that Daniel was a true prophet of God. (Matthew 24:15; Mark 13:14). Portion’s of Daniel’s prophecies were to be understood in Christ’s day. In Matthew 24:15 the exhortation is given, “Whosoever reads let him understand.” These prophecies are the “revealings of God.” (Daniel 2:19-23) The main prophecies are Chapter 2 lesson that reveals a broad view of history from the time of Babylon in 605 b.c. To the return of Jesus in the sky.

Chapter 7 reveals close magnification of The AntiChrist/False Priest. Chapter 8 reveals Satan through the Anti-Christ counterfeiting Jesus Heavenly ministry, Chapter 8,9 reveals the 2300 year prophecy of the True High Priest Jesus and gives the exact years of His baptism, death, gospel to Gentiles and the Investigative Judgment of the whole earth. Chapter 12 reveals additional information of the Anti-Christ/False Priest and the years just before Heavens Judgment. As the Devil deceived almost half of Heaven, so these studies from God will reveal to us how not to be deceived and shows us clearly who and what the evil plan is.

These prophecies are God’s plans to keep us from deception. This is a deep history book in symbols. Follow the templates together.

Daniel 1. After Jerusalem is attacked by Babylon about 586 b.c.

Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah are captured and sent back to Babylon. They refuse to eat the king’s food and drink, and request their own food and drink. They are examined in a ten day test. To the king they are ten times wiser and in understanding.

These four men God gave knowledge and skill in all literature and wisdom. And Daniel had understanding in all visions and dreams, and they served the king.

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THE METAL MAN (Daniel 2) “And in the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuchadnezzar dreamed dreams, wherewith his spirit was troubled, and his sleep brake from him. Then the king commanded to call the magicians, and the astrologers, and the sorcerers, and the Chaldeans, for to show the king his dreams. So they came and stood before the king. And the king said unto them, I have dreamed a dream, and my spirit was troubled to know the dream. Then spake the Chaldeans to the king in Syriack, O king live forever: tell thy servants the dream, and we will show the interpretation. The king answered and said to the Chaldeans, the thing is gone from me: if you will not make known unto me, the dream, with the interpretation thereof, ye shall be cut into pieces, and your houses shall be made a dunghill.” (Daniel 2:1-5)

1. What did the wise men of Babylon answer?

“The Chaldeans answered before the king and said there is not a man upon the earth that can show the kings matter: therefore there is no king, lord, nor ruler that asked such things at any magician, or astrologer, or Chaldean. And it is a rare thing that the king requireth, and there is none other that can show it before the king, except the gods whose dwelling is not with flesh. For this cause the king was angry and very furious, and commanded to destroy all the wise men of Babylon. And the decree went forth that the wise men should be killed; and they sought Daniel and his fellows to be killed. Then Daniel went in, and desired of the king that he would give him time, and that he would show the king his interpretation.” (Daniel 2:10-13, 16)

7 2. Who was to understand and explain the dream from God? “Then was the secret revealed unto Daniel in a night vision.

Then Daniel blessed the God of Heaven.” (Daniel 2:19) Long before, this God had taught Egyptian senators by the mouth of Joseph. (Psalms 105:17-22). And God through Joseph told Pharaoh his dream. (Genesis 41:14-57) And as Daniel stood among the king and many teachers, the words of David were demonstrated. (Psalms 119:97-105) 3. Who did Daniel give thanks to for understanding the dream?

And why was the dream given?

“But there is a God in Heaven that reveals secrets, and makes known to the king Nebuchadnezzar what shall be in the latter days. Your dream and the visions of thy head upon your bed are these.” (Daniel 2:28) 4. Why was this dream given?

“As for thee, O king, your thoughts came into your mind upon your bed, what should come to pass hereafter: and he that reveals secrets makes known to you what shall come to pass.”

(Daniel 2:29; 2:19-23) (Romans 15:4; 1 Corinthians 10: 11; Isaiah 46:9, 10; Isaiah 41: 20-23; Ezekiel 12:25) 5. What was this metal image made from?

“You, O king, saw, and beheld a great image. This great image, whose brightness was excellent, stood before you, and the form thereof was terrible. This image's head was of fine gold, his breast and his arms of silver, his belly and his thighs of brass, his legs of iron, his feet part of iron and part of clay.” (Daniel 2:31-33)

6. Who is this head of gold?

“You, O king, are a king of kings: for the God of Heaven has given you a kingdom, power, and strength, and glory. And wheresoever the children of men dwell, the beasts of the field and the birds of the sky has given to your hand, and has made you ruler over them all. You are this head of gold.” (Daniel 2:37, 38) Babylon ruled from, 605 - 538 b.c. Jeremiah says, we would have healed Babylon, but she is not healed. (Jeremiah 51:9) As a nation Babylon turned away from God. Because of this all through scripture the term "Babylon" is symbolically used referring to those who willfully turn away from God. It is the golden city. (Isaiah 14:4) 7. Who is this breast and arms of silver?

“And after you shall rise another kingdom stronger than you.”(Daniel 2:39) The breast and two arms of silver are the kingdoms of Mede and Persia. Which conquered Babylon in 539 b.c. Darius of the Mede's and Cyrus of Persia ruled from 538 - 331 b.c. (Daniel 5, 6) (2 Chronicles 36:18-23; Daniel 6:28) (Isaiah 44:27, 28; Isaiah 45:1) 8. Who is this belly and thighs of brass?

“And another third kingdom of brass, which shall bear rule over all the earth.” (Daniel 2:39) Alexander the great and Greece at the battle of Arbela in 331 b.c. Conquered Mede and Persia, and ruled from 331 - 168 b.c. The armor of Grecian soldiers and weapons was brazen brass. Greece had turned away from the Creator God.

9 9. Who were the legs of iron?

“And the fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron: and as iron that breaketh all these, shall it break in pieces and bruise.”

(Daniel 2:40) The Iron monarchy of Rome broke in pieces, bruised and subdued kingdoms for nearly 600 years. Jesus was born in this time, and was crucified under Rome's authority. Rome ruled b.c.

168 - a.d. 476 Hippolytus, a great theologian died about a.d. 236 Wrote, “Rejoice, blessed Daniel! You have not been in error. Already the Iron rules.” Referring to Rome.) (Luke 2:1) Western and Eastern Rome.

10. Who were the feet and toes of iron and clay?

“And when you seen the feet and toes, part of potters clay, and part of iron, the kingdom shall be divided, but there shall be in it the strength of the iron, for as you seen the iron mixed with miry clay. And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken. And when you seen iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seeds of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay.”

(Daniel 2:41-43) As there were 10 toes on the image, so the Roman Empire was divided into 10 kingdoms. ("England" = Anglo-Saxons) ("Germany" = Alemani) ("Switzerland" = Burgundians) ("France" = Franks) (“Italy” = Lombard’s) ("Portugal" = Suevi) ("Spain" = Visigoth’s). (Heruli = -------) (Vandals = --------) (Ostrogoth’s = -------).

The last three have no modern names, for they originally took over parts of the Roman Empire but were soon destroyed. “Plucked

up by the roots.” (Daniel 7:8,20,24). By the “Little horn power,” established in and after a.d. 476 This system came up among the ‘ten toes’ or “kingdoms” and uprooted the (Heruli - a.d.493) the (Vandals - a.d.534) the (Ostrogoth’s - a.d.538). The "little horn power" is the antichrist in our next lesson. (Daniel 7; Rev. 12:1-17) (Rev. 13, 17, 18). Divided Rome rules from a.d. 476 - Jesus comes.

11. Who was the Stone that smashed the feet and toes of iron and clay?

“You seen that a stone was cut out without hands, which hit the image upon his feet that were of iron and clay, and brake them to pieces... no place was found for them: and the stone that hit the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.” (Daniel 2:34, 35) “And in the days of these kings shall the God of Heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall brake in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand forever. For as you saw the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it brake in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold, the great God has made known to the king what shall come to pass hereafter: and the dream is certain, and the interpretation sure.” (Daniel 2:44, 45) “And the heaven (space) departed as a scroll when it is rolled together, and every mountain and island moved out of their places.

And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every freeman, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains, and said to the mountains and rocks, fall on us, and hide from the face of Him that sits on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb: for the great day of his wrath is come, and who shall be able to stand” ? (Revelation 6:14-17).

11 God’s war. (Revelation 19: 11, 14; Isaiah 13: 1-13). And they shall see his face and his name shall be in their foreheads.

(Revelation 22:4). For they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ. (1 Corinthians 10:4)

Daniel 3 After Nebuchadnezzar heard the news that his kingdom would not rule forever, he made a golden statue. He forced all to bow down and worship it. Three young men did not worship it. The punishment was death by burning in a fiery furnace. It was heated seven times hotter.

They were thrown in. The soldiers died because of the heat.

As the three were in the furnace, the angel stood with them, protecting them. Astonished the king called them to come out, and he promoted them and their God. This points to our day and the open worshipping system of the Mark and Image of the beast. This chapter focuses on how and who you worship as all these prophecies and the whole bible teaches. (Rev. 13 and 14:9-20; Rev. 15:1, 8; Rev. 16:1) “Now all these things happened unto them for examples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.” (1 Corinthians 10:11)

Daniel 4 Nebuchadnezzar has a dream of a large tree that is chopped down, by one from Heaven. Daniel gives the interpretation that it is Babylon that will be chopped down because of Nebuchadnezzar’s pride of his own greatness. This decision is made by Heaven, so that the living know that the most high rules in the kingdom of men. At the end of this chapter Nebuchadnezzar praises and gives honor to the God of Heaven.

Daniel 5 God sets up kings and takes them down. The son of Nebuchadnezzar, king Belshazzar of Babylon is defeated by Darius and Cyrus. Their armies diverted the waters to Babylon, to capture the city through the dried river bottom, through the river gates.

(Isaiah 44:27-28; Isaiah 45:1; Ezra 1:1-3; 6:1-11) Isaiah began having visions from God and writing between about 740-680 b.c. Cyrus was from about 600-530 b.c. This story points to the end time at the close of Judgment and the beginning of the 7 last plagues on “Babylon the great” (Papacy).

The world will be in ruin and collapse. The kings of the east are Jesus and his angel soldiers. (Rev. 17:14; Rev. 5:10; Rev. 16:12-16)

Daniel 6 Daniel in the lion’s den. There were some evil men who did not know the God of Daniel. Governors did not like his high position and tried to find fault with Daniel to get him in trouble and could not. Rulers and advisors convinced the king to make a rule and law. Whoever worships another God and not the king alone would be killed in the lion’s den. The evil men who made this false law knew it would go against Daniel and the law of his God. For thirty days the law was decreed. Daniel continued to worship his God and praying openly.

He was taken and thrown into the lion’s den. He was protected by God all night and was taken out later by the king Darius. The evil people were thrown in and all were ripped apart before they fell to the ground. This points to the end time when a law will be forced against God’s commandment keeping people.

God will protect the faithful to him sometime during that time.

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THE ANTI-CHRIST/FALSE PRIEST (Daniel 7) 1. What vision did Daniel see in the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon? “In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon, Daniel had a dream and visions of his head upon his bed: then he wrote the dream, and told the sum of the matters.

Daniel spake and said, I seen in my vision by night, and behold, the four winds of the heaven fought upon the great sea. And four great beasts came up from the sea, different one from another. The first was like a lion, and had eagle’s wings: I beheld until the wings were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth, and made stand upon the feet as a

man, and a man’s heart was given to it. And behold another beast, a second, like to a bear, and it raised itself up on one side, and it had three ribs in the mouth of it: and they said this to it, rise devour much flesh. After this I beheld, and another like a leopard, which had upon the back of it four wings of a bird, the beast had also four heads, and dominion was given to it. After this I seen in the night visions, and behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly, and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces, and crushed the residue with the feet of it: and it was different from all the beast’s that were before it, and it had ten horns. I considered the horns, and behold there came up among them another little horn, before whom there were three of the first horns plucked up by the roots, and behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of a man, and a mouth speaking great things.” (Daniel 7: 1-8) 2. What do winds symbolize in bible prophecy?

“I will raise up against Babylon a destroying wind... The Lord has raised up the spirit of the king of the Medes.” (Jeremiah 51:1, 11) 3. What do seas or waters symbolize?

“And he said unto me, the waters which you seen, where the whore sits, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.” (Revelation 17:15) (Isaiah 17:12, 13) 4. Who are the four beasts?

“These great beasts, which are four, are four kings, which shall rise out of the earth... and he said the fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be different from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.” (Daniel 7:17, 23) The great image of Daniel 2 made of four metals represent four kingdoms. These four beasts represent the same four kingdoms

15 of the different metals. (Babylon), (Medo-Persia), (Greece), (Rome). The fourth kingdom is divided into ten parts. The ten horns are the same ten toes on the metal image.

5. Who do the ten horns symbolize from the fourth beast?

“And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall rise, and another shall rise after them, and he shall be different from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.” (Daniel 7:24) The fourth kingdom Rome was divided into ten kingdoms; the ten horns on the beast are the same ten toes on the metal man image. The little horn power arose after the ten horns or divided Rome. In a.d. 476. The little horn subdued and uprooted the whole nations of three kings, the same three as on the metal image.

6. Who was the Lion?

“The first was like a lion, and had eagle's wings: I beheld till the wings thereof were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth, and made stand upon the feet as a man, and a man's heart was given to it.” (Daniel 7:4).

The lion had eagle’s wings, and finally a man’s heart was given to it. The eagle’s wings represent the fast conquest of Babylon. (Deuteronomy 28:49). He stood up and a man’s heart was given to it when Nebuchadnezzar was humbled by God. Babylon was the lion.

7. Who was the Bear?

“And behold another beast, a second, like to a bear, and it raised up itself on one side, and it had three ribs in the mouth of it between the teeth of it: and they said thus unto it, Arise, devour much flesh.” (Daniel 7:5).

The bear had three ribs in its mouth. These symbolized the conquest by Medo-Persia, and had won and defeated, (Babylon,

Lydia, Egypt.) Darius of the Medes came up first, (represented here by the bear rising up on one side).

Cyrus and the Persians eventually became stronger (represented in "Daniel 8:3" by the ram's second horn which grew "higher," or taller). Medo-Persia was the bear.

8. Who was the Leopard?

“After this I beheld, and lo another, like a leopard, which had upon the back of it four wings of a fowl; the beast had also four heads; and dominion was given to it.” (Daniel 7:6) The leopard had four wings. This was very fast movement of Alexander the great and Greece. The four heads of the leopard was the kingdom of Greece divided among his four generals after Alexander died. (Cassander) (Lysimachus) (Ptolemy) (Seleucus).

Greece was the leopard.

9. Who was the fourth beast?

“After this I saw in the night visions, and behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it: and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it; and it had ten horns.” (Daniel 7:7).

A dreadful and strong beast with iron teeth. This beast had ten horns as did the metal image of Daniel 2 had ten toes, and are the same divisions of western Rome. (England, Germany, Switzerland, France, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Heruli, Vandals, Ostrogoth’s.)

Divided pagan Rome is the beast with iron teeth.

10. Who came up among the ten horns (the ten divided nations of Europe) and killed 3 horns?

“I considered the horns, and, behold, there came up among them another little horn, before whom there were three of the first horns plucked up by the roots: and, behold, in this horn

17 were eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great things. And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings. 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 7:8, 24-25).

There came up the little horn power, which had eyes like the eyes of a man, and a mouth speaking great blasphemous things.

This is the rise of the (Religious-Political) Power. Because the Ostrogoth’s, Heruli and Vandals did not agree with the teachings of this system.

The little horn power plucked them up and killed them. The little horn would be different from the other ten horns. It would be a false Religious and Government power mixed. The little horn power uprooted the Heruli in a.d. 493 The Vandals in a.d. 534 And the Ostrogoth’s in a.d. 538 The Pope’s Vatican in Rome is this little horn power. (Here speaks of a system, not members) “To the succession of the Caesars came the succession of the Pontiffs in Rome. When Constantine left Rome he gave his seat to the Pontiff.”(Lablanca, Professor of History, University of Rome) “The popes filled the place of the vacant emperors of Rome, inheriting their power, prestige, and titles from paganism.”

(Stanley's History, p. 40) What four identifying marks show the little horn power, as Antichrist?

“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 7:25)

1. “Shall speak great words against the most high.”

(This power has assumed titles belonging only to God) We hold upon this earth the place of God almighty. (Pope Leo xiii. The great encyclical letters. pg. 304). Hence the pope is crowned with a triple crown as king of heaven and of earth and of the lower regions. (Ferraris eccl. Dictionary, catholic article, pope).

Every human beings salvation depends upon submission to the authority of the pope. – (Papal decree, unam sanctum. Pope Boniface viii- 1302. World book 2008, pg. 664.)

Man was made a little lower than the angels. (Hebrews 2:7) Jesus claimed to be God's character and forgive sins. (John 10:3339) (Matthew 26:63-68) (Mark 14:60-65.) I believe only God in heaven and Jesus can forgive sins, if you ask him. Jesus said to the adulterous woman, I forgive you of your sins, go and sin no more.

(John 8:4-11) 2. “Shall wear out the saints of the most high.”

(Wearing out is persecuting) The decree of Justinian in a.d. 538 began the pope’s long persecution of the Christians to 1798, when pope Pius 6 was prisoned and died there by Napoleon.

Pope John Paul 2, during the day of pardon mass, in St. Peters basilica, apologized for the horrors and killings the church had done to peoples nearly 2000 years. 5 cardinals and 2 bishops confessed with the pope, who dressed in purple clothes. (Sunday.

March 12. 2000.)

The Catholic Church has shed more innocent blood than any other institution that has ever been among mankind. (W.e.h. Lecky, vol. 2. pg. 32. 1910 ed. History of the rise and influence of the spirit of rationalism in Europe).

19 A long article describing in detail the right of the Roman Catholic Church to do these killings. (Catholic encyclopedia, vol 12. pg. 266). I the pope have the power to dispose of temporal and spiritual leaders. The priests hold legislative (create laws) and judicial (punishes) powers over all Christians. – (Pope Gregory, 1075. World book, 2008. pg. 663,664. Peak of papal power.)

During a.d. 538 - 1798 About 100,000,000 Christians were put to death by this systems authority. (Ezekiel 22:25-31) The Christians were against the false teachings of this system. (Rev. 6:9) This system is the same Babylon in Rev. 18 with the ships and merchandice of slaves and all other things. Rev. 17 and 13. See last study at end of book.

3. “Will think to change times and laws.”

This system changes God’s Law as “Mark of its own authority.”

“We say this church instituted by Christ to teach and guide men through life, has the right to change the ceremonial laws of the Old Testament, and we accept her change of the Sabbath to Sunday. We say yes the church made the change... It is always somewhat laughable to see the protestant churches, in pulpit and legislature, demand the observance of Sunday, of which there is nothing in the bible.” With best wishes, Peter R. Tramer (The Catholic Extension Magazine. 180 Wabash Avenue, Chicago Illinois.)

“The church has substituted “Sunday” for “Saturday”, so now we sanctify the First and not the Seventh day.” – (Catholic catechism of Christian religion.) “The Catholic Church for over one thousand years before any protestant, by virtue of her divine mission, changed the day from Saturday to Sunday.” – (Catholic mirror.

Sept. 23, 1893.)

“The church is above the bible, and this transference of Sabbath observance is proof of that fact.” – (The catholic record of London Ontario, Canada. Sept 1, 1923.)

God's word predicted that many would worship another day and the emblem of the Sun. (Ezekiel 8:15, 16) (Numbers 25:3-5)

4. “And they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.”

Here God shows the time of the supremacy of this system.

“Forty days: I have appointed you each day for a year.”

(Ezekiel 4:6; Numbers 14:34; Genesis 29:27-30; Luke 13:32) The Christians were persecuted much from divided Rome and the reign of the little horn power, the antichrist, from a.d. 538 - 1798 The pope was put into prison by Napoleon. Much of its power was taken away. This was its deadly wound, and it would be healed and rule later, to deceive and persecute again God's people and followers of the bible and Jesus word. (Revelation 6:9-11; Revelation 12:17; Revelation 14:9-12) Esther 9:27. And according to their appointed time every year.

Nehemiah 10:34. At Times appointed year by year.

A prophetic year had 360 days. (Rev. 11:2-3; Gen. 7:11,24; 8:3-5) 1 time = 360 days. 2 times = 720 days. Half time = 180 days. 3 and half times = “1260 years.” A prophetic month had 30 days, 42 months = 1260 years.

In Daniel and Revelation the “1260 years” of religio-political reign of this little horn power, the Anti-Christ/False Priest, and persecution is mentioned. From a.d. 538 - 1798 Daniel 7:25. A time, times, and an half.

Daniel 12:7. A time, times, and an half.

Revelation 11:2. Forty and two months.

Revelation 11:3. Twelve hundred sixty days.

Revelation 12:6. Twelve hundred sixty days.

Revelation 12:14. A time, times, and half a time.

Revelation 13:5. Forty and two months.

21 Four times was mentioned the rise of the antichrist and then after this the Investigative Judgment of God, and the saints will have an everlasting kingdom from God, Jesus spoke of it!

“Daniel 7:8-10; Daniel 7:11-14; Daniel 7:15-22; Daniel 7:2328.”

Matthew 24:4-5, 15-31; Mark 13:5-6, 14-27. “The Abomination of Desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place where it should not.” (2 Thessalonians 2:1-13) Luke 21:8, 11-28. “It shall turn to you for a testimony.”

“But before all these, they shall lay their hands on you, and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues, and into prisons, being brought before kings and rulers for my name's sake.

And it shall turn to you for a testimony.”

Even Jesus will be testified of in this Judgment going on now.

(1 Timothy 2:5-6) This abomination of desolation is standing where it should Not, as in the holy place! There was the 1260 years of persecution by the Pope, then the sun moon and stars shaken and discolored before 1844.

The Heavenly Judgment in 1844. Later soon after, Satan would continue acting in the disguise of Jesus doing false miracles, even through false ministers, and then will do many false miracles in favor of the Pope and the false Sabbath Sunday laws, to get you and me to lose eternal life.

The ultimate ending is when the true Jesus who is in Heaven will come with all of his angelic kingdom to earth, soon after.

(Mark 13:14-27; Matthew 24:15-31; Luke 21:11-28) (Daniel 7:11; Revelation 19:19-20)

SATAN COUNTERFIETS CHRIST JESUS’ MINISTRY OF HEAVEN (Daniel 8) There is only one mediator between God and men. “The man Christ Jesus.” (1 Timothy 2:5) Christ is the 'New and Living' way (Hebrews 10:19-22) Into God's presence. He is the ladder from earth to heaven (1 John 1:51).

Our prayers and requests ascend to God through Christ. Jesus takes the place of human priests, alters, ceremonies, and sacrifices (John 14:6) The devil has done all he can to destroy this saving ministry of our Lord Jesus.

1. 8:1-8. Ram, He goat, Big horn breaks, four horns arise.

2. 8:9-12. Beginning and ending time of the little horn “Papacy” throwing down the sanctuary truth. He would stop killing close to the end of 2300 years. Ch.12.

3. 8:13-19. 2300 year prophecy.

1. 8:20-22. Two horns of the Ram, He goat, broken Horn, four horns come up.

2. 8:23-25. Little horn “Papacy”. He is defeated by the plagues and Jesus return. (Ch.2, 7; Rev. Ch. 14-19) 3. 8:26-27. 2300 year prophecy. Explained in next chapter.

23 1. What did Daniel see, and what was its symbol?

“Then I lifted up my eyes and seen, and behold, there stood before the river a ram which had two horns and the two horns were high, but one was higher than the other, and the higher came up last. I seen the ram pushing westward, and northward, and southward, so that no beasts might stand before him, neither was there any that could deliver out of his hand, but he did according to his will, and became great... The ram which you seen having two horns are the kings of Media and Persia.”

(Daniel 8:3, 4, 20) This ram power became great. It was represented in Daniel 2 by the silver breast and arms of the metal image, and in Daniel 7 by the bear that raised itself up on one side.

2. What animal did Daniel see next?

“And as I was considering, an he goat came from the west on the face of the whole earth, and touched not the ground, and the goat had a notable horn between his eyes. And he came to the ram that had two horns, which I had seen standing before the river, and ran unto him in the fury of his power. And I seen him come close unto the ram, and he was moved with "Choler" against him, and hit the ram and broke his two horns, and there was no power in the ram to stand before him, but he cast him down to the ground, and stomped upon him, and there was none that could deliver the ram out of his hand. Therefore the he goat waxed very great, and when he was strong, the great horn was broken, and for it came up four notable ones toward the four winds of heaven... And the rough goat is the king of Grecia, and the great horn that is between his eyes is the first king.” (Daniel 8:5-8, 21) This great power became very great. It was symbolized in Daniel 2 by the brass belly and thighs of the image, and in Daniel 7

by the leopard beast. The notable horn represented Alexander the great. After making Grecia a world empire he died suddenly of swamp fever. (“Choler”) (Malaria) 3. What did the 4 horns symbolize?

“Therefore the he goat waxed very great, and when he was strong, the great horn was broken, and for it came up four notable ones toward the four winds of heaven... Now that being broken, where four stood up for it, four kingdoms shall stand up out of the nation, but not in his power.” (Daniel 8:8, 22.)

After Alexander's death the Grecian empire was divided between four of Alexander's leading Generals. Cassander became the ruler of Macedonia and Grecia; Lysymachus became ruler of Thrace and portions of Asia Minor; Seleucus became ruler over Babylon and Assyria; Ptolemy became ruler of Egypt, Palestine, and a portion of Syria. As predicted Alexander's empire was divided “towards the four winds of heaven 4. What power does the Little Horn represent?

“And out of them came forth a little horn which waxed exceeding great, toward the south, and toward the east, and toward the pleasant land. And it waxed great, even to the host of heaven; and it cast down some of the host and of the stars to the ground, and stomped upon them. Yea he magnified himself even to the prince of the host, and by him the daily sacrifice was taken away, and the place of his sanctuary was cast down.

And a host was given him against the daily sacrifice by reason of transgression, and it cast down the truth to the ground, and it practiced, and prospered.” (Daniel 8:9-12) Here is pictured the power symbolized by the fourth beast and its little horn of Daniel 7:19-21. This little horn is the creation of Satan. Pagan/Papal Rome was exceeding great, toward the south,

25 and toward the east, and toward the pleasant land, she also stood up against the Prince of princes, Jesus Christ. Stars symbolize gospel workers they persecuted. (Daniel 12:3) and Rev. 12:1-6 in this book. Papal Rome would later turn pagan statues into christian statues to sale. It would rise itself up as a defiled sanctuary system, claiming right to forgive, kill and burn, explaining prophecy, burning all the peoples bibles. This little horn (little vatican nation) on and controlling the beasts heads (kingdoms) same as in Daniel 2 and 7, is the same woman riding on and controlling the same beast countries of Revelation 17 and 18. The beast will throw off the woman and eat her flesh and kill her about the time of the plagues.

Satan is working inside this little horn system to hurt Christians. And on earth casting down the Commandments of truth, and the saints who keep them by replacing them with its own changed and broken law in its own catechism books.

The chief emphasis is on the “little horn power.” Because of its desolating career against God, his sanctuary, and his saints, it is called “The transgression of desolation.” (Daniel 8:13). In Daniel 11:31. It is called “The abomination that makes desolate.”

When Jesus referred to these scriptures, he called it “The abomination of desolation.” (Matthew 24:15; 2 Thessalonians 2:113). There are two types of people. Some that do what God says and some that don’t. Ezekiel makes it easy for us to understand (Ezekiel 22:25-31) (Ezekiel 44:23, 24).

5. What did the little horn power take away?

“Yea, he magnified himself even to the prince of the host, and by him the daily sacrifice was taken away, and the place of his sanctuary was cast down. And an host was given him against the daily sacrifice by reason of transgression, and it cast down the truth to the ground; and it practiced and prospered. Then I heard one saint speaking, and another saint said unto that

certain saint which spake, how long shall be the vision concerning the daily sacrifice, and the transgression of desolation, to give both the sanctuary and the host to be trodden under foot? And he said unto me, unto two thousand and three hundred days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed.

And it came to pass, when I, even I Daniel, had seen the vision, and sought for the meaning, then, behold, there stood before me the appearance of a man.” (Daniel 8:11-15.)

The word “sacrifice” is not in the original Hebrew. The word for “Daily” in the Hebrew is “Tamid” meaning continual or regular. “Tamid” is used in Exodus, Leviticus, and Numbers in connection with the regular or continual service of the sanctuary.

The daily, continual features of the earthly sanctuary service, all pointed forward to the unceasing, personal mediation of Christ Jesus as our great high priest in Heaven. Over and over at least 15 times, the writer Paul of the book of Hebrews speaks of the constant mediation of Christ. (Hebrews 5:6; 6:20; 7:3,8,16,17,21,24,25,28; 9:24-28; 10:10-12; 13:8). The Heavenly ministry of Jesus Christ is the “True Daily” of Daniel 8) 6. How did the little horn take away the Daily?

It has done this by setting up a false counterfeit of the true daily- a human priesthood in the place of Christ's priestly Heavenly ministry. Man is taught to look to a human priest or pope in the Vatican and Roman churches and others, and for grace through works. It is God's mission that all should learn of Jesus and his ministry plan. Don’t be deceived by this little horn, the Vatican church riding and controlling the beast nations of divided pagan Rome. (Revelation 17; 18) We must be purified in understanding what Jesus has done and is doing for us now and forever. The pope system has set itself up as in the holy places of God where it should not. (2 Thessalonians 2:1-13; Matthew 24:4-5, 15-31; Mark 13:5-6, 14-27).

27 The Apostles believed and taught the truth that “Jesus Christ ministers continually in Heaven for those who voluntarily approach God through Jesus Christ in belief and concern of His plan of salvation for our lives.”

(Hebrews 7:25) (1 John 2:1) It is only the priesthood and ministry of "Christ Jesus" that can take away sin. This is a ministry in the Heavenly sanctuary. "If he were on earth, he should not be a priest (Hebrews 8:4) Meaning if he were to stay on earth.

He was a priest on earth and gave himself as a sacrifice to God once for all, and he later went back up to Heaven as our Heavenly high priest (Hebrews 9:24.) The vision of Daniel 8 brings our attention to the taking away of the “Daily” which is a worldwide attempt to take down Christ off His throne as man’s only mediator. The facts are, “If any man sin, we have an advocate (Lawyer) with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.” (1 John 2:1)

THE TRUE HIGH PRIEST, PRINCE JESUS. The beginning Seventy weeks (490 years) of the 2300 years Daniel 8:13,14; Daniel 9:20-27.

Five hundred years before Christ Jesus was born, a time prophecy was recorded, which foretold the year of Christ's baptism, the year of his crucifixion, the year of Stephens stoning when the gospel would go to the Gentiles and later, God’s Judgment/Atonement on earth.

This prophecy presents strong evidence of the truthfulness of God's word. Jesus fulfilled the whole sanctuary service in his own lifetime and forever as revealed in the Courtyard of earth, a.d. 2731 (Mark 1:9-15; Matthew 27:50-54; John 19:30-34; John 17:4;

29 Matthew – Jude) Holy service of Heaven, a.d. 31-1844 (Revelation chapters 1-11:14; 1:12-16; 8:3-4) Most holy service Day of Atonement of Heaven, 1844 Close of Judgment/Atonement and Jesus return. (Revelation 11:18-19; Hebrews chapters 8-10; Rev. 22:10-15) Jesus said “I say unto you that in this place is one greater than the Temple.” (Matt. 12:6) Jesus confirmed the lessons and objects of it pointed to him, being the center of attention in each one for the great and powerful universal courts of the Heavenly sanctuary.

(Hebrews 8:1-5) “Then I heard one saint speaking, and another saint said unto that certain saint which spake, How long shall be the vision concerning the daily sacrifice, and the transgression of desolation, to give both the sanctuary and the host to be trodden under foot? And he said unto me, Unto two thousand and three hundred days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed.”

(Daniel 8:13-14) 1. Who was sent to make Daniel understand the vision of Daniel 8?

“And I heard a man’s voice between the banks of Ulai, which called and said, Gabriel, make this man to understand the vision.” (Daniel 8:16) The angel Gabriel gave Daniel the explanation of the ram, the he goat, and the little horn. The 2300 days mentioned in Daniel 8:14 was not explained at the same time because “Daniel fainted, and was sick certain days.” (Daniel 8:27) Three times was told “the vision refers to the time of the end” “I will make thee know what shall be in the last end of the indignation: for at the time appointed the end shall be.” “it refers to many days into the future” (8:17,19,26) Cleanse, Purify, Blot out, and Judgment/Atonement mean the same. (Psalm 51:1-2; Isaiah 4:4; Hebrews 9:23-28; Daniel 8:14).

2. Gabriel returns to complete the explanation of the 2300 days.

“Yea, while I was speaking in prayer, even the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, touched me about the time of the evening oblation.

And he informed me, and talked with me, and said, O Daniel, I am now come forth to give you skill and understanding. At the beginning of your supplications the commandment came forth, and I am come to show you; for you are greatly beloved: therefore understand the matter, and consider the vision.”

(Daniel 9:21-23) 3. How much of the 2300 days was given to the Jewish nation?

“Seventy weeks are determined upon your people and upon your holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy.” (Daniel 9:24) The word “determined” means to come to an end. The seventy weeks (490 days) has the same beginning as the 2300 days, as the picture above shows. The Jews (God’s chosen people in this time only) had a probation time for study until their probation closed.

These seventy weeks and 2300 days are in a setting of symbolic prophecy (Daniel 8 and 9) these periods of time must be interpreted according to the (each-day for one-year) as mentioned in (Ezekiel 4:6; Numbers 14:34;Genesis 29:27-30; and Jesus used this symbolism in Luke 13:32, because Jesus in fact healed and preached “3 more years.” By this the seventy weeks are (70 weeks x 7) or 490 years.

The Jewish leaders bring to an end the probationary period of 490 years for the Jewish nation. It lasted from 457 b.c. – a.d. 34 They are no longer God’s chosen!

31 The stoning of Stephen in a.d. 34 Was the result of a formal rejection of the gospel by responsible Jewish leaders (Acts 7:57-60; 8:1-40) A young man named Saul watched him being killed. For a while Saul persecuted many Christians.

A light from Heaven shined around Saul and he heard a voice say, Saul, Saul why are you persecuting me, I am Jesus who you are persecuting. A short time later Saul was converted and renamed Paul, and became the “Apostle to the Gentiles.” (Acts 9:1-14, 15, 16) (Acts 22:19-21) Jesus had said before his death because of the Jews rejection of him, Jesus walked out of the city and said, “I leave you desolate.” (Matthew 23:38) “The kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof.”

(Mathew 21:43) The national probation was to end at the end of the prophetic seventy weeks. Daniel considers the prophecy in Jeremiah (Jeremiah 25:10-14; 29:10-14) regarding the seventy years of captivity (Daniel 9:2).

4. What four major events does this prophecy reveal?

“Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince, shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troubles times. And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary, and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined. And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the middle of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it

desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.” (Daniel 9:25-27) (1) There is “the commandment to restore and build Jerusalem.”

“The street shall be built again and the wall.” (2) “Unto the Messiah the Prince.” (3) “The Messiah was cut off “in the middle of the week.” “Confirm the Covenant with many for one week, cause sacrifice and oblation to end.” (4) “The Prince will come and destroy both city and sanctuary.” “and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.”

1. “The decree to rebuild Jerusalem.”

About 621 b.c. The Holy Ark was in the house that Solomon built. And Josiah kept a Passover to the Lord in Jerusalem. In the eighteenth year of the reign of Josiah was this Passover kept. (2 Chronicles 35:1, 3, 19) 35 years later in 586 b.c.

Jerusalem was destroyed, and many people and things were taken captive to Babylon. But the Ark is not mentioned. (2 Kings 24:13-16; Jeremiah 52:1-30; 2 Kings 25:9-20) Neither is it mentioned in the list of things brought back from Babylon. (Ezra 1:7-11; Jeremiah 27:21, 22) Jeremiah was held in the prison a short time until Jerusalem was taken and destroyed. And then set free by Nebuchadrezzar (Jeremiah 38:28; Jeremiah 39:11-14) The Ark and the main focal objects were hidden before the destruction. (Jeremiah 3:3,15- 16) On their return back because of these decrees a golden table was made and replaced the Ark only for blood sacrifices until Jesus came. (Ezekiel 44:1-16; Jeremiah 51:10-12) Jesus was to be a law and light to the people. (Isaiah 51:4-8)

33 There were three decrees which gave permission for the Hebrew exiles to return home. The decree of Cyrus in 537 b.c. had to do with rebuilding the temple, restoration of the sacred vessels and the temple worship. (Ezra 1:1-4). The decree of Darius in 519 b.c. was a renewal of the first decree since there had been some hindrance of the work (Ezra 6:7-12).

Finally the decree of the Persian King Artaxerxes in 457 b.c.

Authorizing God's people who were captive in Medo-Persia to return to Jerusalem and rebuild the city. In addition to promoting the reestablishing of the worship in Jerusalem, made possible the setting up of a Hebrew state and a local government (Ezra 7:7-26) In Ezra 6:14 these three decrees are referred to as “the commandment of the God of Israel” History records that this king began his rule in the year 464 b.c. Using simple mathematics, minus 7 from 464, because b.c. drops down in time, the actual "seventh year of Artaxerxes the king" would then be 457 b.c. This decree was fulfilled in the fall of this year after the arrival of Ezra in the city of Jerusalem.

Forty nine years it took for the completion of Jerusalem. The first three years were possibly for the building of the street and wall. "The street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times." (Daniel 9:25) The Jews labored against much opposition. (Nehemiah chapters 2-8) (John 2:19-20) The builders each had a sword as they were building.

2. “Unto the Messiah the Prince.”

According to Daniel, how much time must pass from the decree of Artaxerxes till the Messiah actually appears? Daniel 9:25 tells us, “unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks.” (69 weeks or 483 years) Using God's “day for a year” prophetic calculation we need to subtract 483 years from the date King Artaxerxes made the decree in 457 b.c. Because time goes down in b.c.

The Messiah was to appear at the end of the 69 weeks or 483 years. Beginning with the autumn of 457 b.c. And extending to a.d.1 would be 457 full years, but the prophecy said there would be 483 years to the Messiah, so 26 more years would extend this period to the autumn of a.d. 27 When Jesus stepped into the Jordan river to be baptized.

Messiah means Christ or the anointed one. Anciently, priests and kings were anointed when they began their work. God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, doing good and healing all that were oppressed of the devil, for God was with him. (Acts 10:38-43.)

Luke 3:1,21,22 “Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judaea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of Ituraea and of the region of Trachonitis, and Lysanias the tetrarch of Abilene Now when all the people were baptized, it came to pass, that Jesus also being baptized, and praying, the heaven was opened, And the Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape like a dove upon him, and a voice came from heaven, which said, Thou art my beloved Son; in thee I am well pleased.”

History confirms that the 15th year of Tiberius Caesar was in the year a.d. 27 Jesus Himself even acknowledged this prophecy of Daniel by saying, “The time is fulfilled.”

After his baptism Jesus came into Galilee, “preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God, and saying, the “time is fulfilled.”

(Mark 1:14, 15) He announced the close of the 69th week of this prophecy of himself fulfilling.

The Holy Spirit descended on Jesus at his baptism when he began his life's work (Matthew 3:16) Jesus said “the spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor.” (Luke 4:18) Jesus was called Messiah by his close followers. (John 1:41).

35 3. “The Messiah would be cut off in the middle of the week.”

For three and a half years Jesus Christ carried on His public ministry, then he was "cut off, but not for himself, (Isaiah 53:5-12; 1 Corinthians 15:3-8) “In the middle of the [70th] week.” “He caused the sacrifice and the oblation to cease.” Jesus with a loud voice before he died on the cross said “It is finished.” Revealing his fulfillment of this sacrifice. (Matt. 27:46-54; John 19:30,34; Hebrews 10) The evidence for this was the supernatural tearing of the temple veil, and the rocks split apart, under and behind his cross.

He did “Confirm the Covenant with many for 1 week” or (seven years). He did this for three and a half years of His public ministry and for three and a half years after his crucifixion by the original apostles preaching to the Jews. (Hebrews 2:3; Mathew 10:5, 6) Making a total of 7 years.

This brought to an end the [70th] week. The covenant was his blessed agreement to put his Law into our hearts and minds and save us from our sins. (Hebrews 10:16, 17) Jesus was the law in action. To follow him is to follow the law. (Isaiah 51:4, 5, 7) The next chapter reveals the beginning and ending of this Judgment, ending with the plagues and Jesus return, when Jesus says “It is done.” (Rev. 11:19; Rev. 22:10-15; Rev. 16:17-21) 4. “The prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary... to the end of the war desolations are determined, for the overspreading of Abominations he will make it desolate, even until The Consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.”

Cestius and Vespasian took their troops to Jerusalem after setting up pagan flags in a.d. 66-67 Both delayed in destroying it.

And on May 10, a.d. 70 Titus surrounded the city and destroyed the city and temple sanctuary.

The words “The end of it shall be with a flood, and to the end of the war, desolations are determined... For the overspreading of abominations he will make it desolate points to the Papacy of the end days in Daniel 11:45. (God will destroy it at his coming in the cloud of angels.)

(Consummation: the point at which something is complete or finalized.) This meaning the full understanding of the death of Jesus would be revealed in the end day by his blood on the mercy seat lid and over the Law of Heavens kingdom. In harmony with what is said in Rev. 10:7. “But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets.” (1 Timothy 2:5-6; Romans 5:5-11) 5. How important was it for Jesus' perfect life and sacrifice to atone or cover our sins for our eternal salvation?

“Seventy weeks are determined upon your people and upon your holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy.” (Daniel 9:24) Jesus lived the only Righteous life, His Father blessed him, he made an end of sins for repentant people, he brought in everlasting righteousness for us to behold in him, and when he had died on the cross, The veil in the temple to the earthly most holy room by a mighty angel was ripped apart and the ground was ripped apart beneath and behind his cross.

And he being stabbed in his side by the spear of the soldier about 30 minutes later, his own blood and water anointed and poured out onto the Most Holy Ark lid, under his cross hole in a cave. This signifying he made the application of his blood once for all for eternity to see, and had blessed what his Father wrote and

37 sealed it with his death and blood. (Matthew 27:50-54; John 19:3034; Matthew 6:10, 21) “The ark of the covenant of the LORD went before them... to search out a resting place for them.” (Numbers 10:33). One of the tasks was therefore to go before God’s people to lead them to a place which would provide rest... “When ye see the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God... ye shall remove from your place, and go after it.” (Joshua 3:3). So could this message still be relevant today? Where is the final “resting place” God wants to lead His people? The place where they could obtain true freedom and peace at heart? To the foot of the cross. How beautiful, if the purpose of the Ark is to guide us to our resting place, and it travelled all the way to Skull Hill, right at the foot of the cross!” (Journey of the Ark: From Sinai to Golgotha, page 6, by Rebecca Tourniaire. Google books)

Notice how the veil into the most holy was ripped apart, and the crack behind and under his cross. Jesus truly fulfilled the whole sanctuary service it pointed to, in his own lifetime. From his baptism, to his death.

“Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost. And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent.”

(Matthew 27:50-51)

Jesus did not enter the temple made by humans, for all the holy and most holy room furniture was taken away from the Jewish nation and would be hid and waiting in a cave for the messiah prince Jesus to bleed over the top of it. God arranged this for the world to believe on him and his son whom he sent to save us. (John 8:18, 28) God did allow them to make a small table and they did make other objects.

(Ezekiel 44:1-5, 10-16)

Jeremiah has the last knowledge of the Ark and was in Jerusalem.

“Therefore the showers have been withheld, and there has been no latter rain... They shall say no more, the ark of the covenant of the LORD: neither shall it come to mind: neither shall they remember it; neither shall they visit it; neither shall that be done any more.” (Jeremiah 3:3, 16; Jeremiah 40:1-5; 52:12; Ezekiel 44) Ramah is a city about 5 miles from Jerusalem. He knew or helped it to be secreted in Zedekiah’s queries.

Jesus blood fell into the cave containing the holies.

“Christ fulfilled still another feature of the type. “His visage was so marred more than any man and His form more than the sons of men; so shall He sprinkle many nations.” In the Temple service, when the animal brought as a sacrifice was slain, the high priest, clothed in white robes, caught in his hand the blood that gushed forth, and cast it in the direction of the tabernacle or Temple. This was done seven times, as an expression of perfection. So Christ, the great antitype, Himself both high priest and victim, clothed with His own spotless robes of righteousness, after giving His life for the world, cast the virtue of His offering, a crimson current, in the direction of the Holy Place, reconciling man to God through the blood of the cross. (“The True High Priest,” September, 1897.)

The verse quoted above reveals the astonished peoples and rulers expressions when this discovery of Jesus blood with the Law is revealed.

“As many as were astounded at thee; his visage was so marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men: So shall he sprinkle many nations; the kings shall shut their mouths at him: for that which had not been told them shall they see; and that which they had not heard shall they consider.” (Isaiah 52:14-15) Jesus with his spotless robes of righteousness was bleeding from seven wounds in the direction of the cave that contained the furniture of the holy rooms. Both feet, hands, head, back, side, were wounded.

39 Leviticus 16:2, 12-17 mentions the place of the ark as an holy place. The Law being revealed with Jesus blood shows approval and as a sealing touch as his name is written in the fourth command and is now sealed forever with His blood. “Thy kingdom come thy Will be done in earth as it is in Heaven... Where your treasure is there your Heart will be also.” (Matthew 6:10, 21) We are Jesus treasure, His ultimate goal is with his Fathers Law. His blood from his Heart is with his Fathers treasured Law.

“Jesus when he had cried again with a loud voice gave up the ghost... And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent.” (Matthew 27:33-35, 50-54) “But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side and there came out blood and water.” (John 19:34) and fell through the

split open rock crack onto the Mercy-seat lid of the ark, 20 feet below in a cave. (Leviticus 17:11) “There are three that bear witness in earth, the spirit, and the water and the blood, and these three agree in one. If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater: for this is the witness of God which he has testified of his son. He that believes on the son of God has the witness in himself, he that believes not God has made him a liar, because he believes not the record that God gave of his son. And this is the record that God has given to us eternal life, and this life is in his son.” (1 John 5:8-13.) There is the spirit, the water and blood of Jesus that is a witness in earth, to all people. The witness of God in His Son is greater. And this witness is on the altar of the ark mercy-seat lid.

(Leviticus 17:11) “For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus: who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time.” (1 Timothy 2:5, 6) In Romans 5 it mentioned “In due time he died.” In this verse It mentions Jesus being testified or evidence of His blood on the Ark shown as proof to his claims of himself being the Son of God. In (Leviticus 17:11) “For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that makes an atonement for the soul.” We know the animals blood sacrifices never made anything perfect or forgiven, only to whom it pointed to.

The prophecy of (Isaiah 45:8) is fulfilled. “Drop down you heavens from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness; let the earth open, and let them bring forth salvation, and let righteousness spring up together.” "Salvation" and the way for all mankind to obtain the "righteousness of Christ" did "spring up together" after the earth opened and His offering of His own blood was accepted by his Father.

41 In (Psalms 89:14) “Justice and judgment are the habitation of your throne: Mercy and Truth shall go before your face.”

Perfect “Justice” demands the death of the sinner. But perfect “Mercy” provided a substitute for the truly repentant sinner. The mercy of God the Father, which could never be seen without the existence of sin, is finally shown to all when He allowed His only Son to die. The “Truth” of His Law of Ten Commandments was covered with the blood of His Son, and provided salvation for all from the condemnation of that Law through the righteousness of Christ Jesus.

In (Psalms 85:10, 11) “Mercy and truth are met together, righteousness and peace have kissed each other. Truth shall spring out of the earth, and righteousness shall look down from heaven.” “Mercy and truth” met together on the Mercy-seat Lid of the Ark. The “Merciful blood of Jesus” poured out onto the mercyseat lid where God's presence was and the "law of truth" was below inside. “Truth shall spring out of the earth” when the Ark and Tables of stone (Ten Commandments) can be revealed to all the world. And as we sit here today, Christ our “righteousness” is looking down from Heaven, as our great high Priest pleads His blood for us to his Father.

In (Isaiah 52:15) “so shall he sprinkle many nations, the kings shall shut their mouths at him: for that which had not been told them, shall they see, and that which they had not heard, shall they consider.” The prophet Isaiah is connecting Jesus' death on the cross to a time when he will sprinkle many nations, when this will one day be revealed, making the worlds kings and rulers astonished and speechless.

In (Zechariah 12:10, 11; 13:1) “And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for

him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn. In that day shall there be a great mourning in Jerusalem... In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and uncleanness.” Gods holy spirit, the word of God, Jesus' blood on the ark lid, and the ten commandments, and the video movie that God had the 4 angels who guard the ark, help Ron Wyatt make in the cave of the ark, will all show and tell to all the world to save souls and witness at and against the Sunday law. (1 John 5:8-13; 1 Timothy 2:5, 6; Isaiah 42:4, 9) In (Isaiah 5:3, 4) “And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, Judge I pray you, between me and my vineyard. What could have been done more to my vineyard that I have not done in it?”

In (Leviticus 16:12-14; Exodus 30:34-36) “And he shall take a censer full of burning coals of fire from off the altar before the Lord, and his hands full of sweet incense beaten small, and bring it within the vail. And he shall put the incense upon the fire before the Lord that the cloud of the incense may cover the mercy-seat that is upon the testimony that he die not. And he shall take of the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle it with his finger upon the mercy-seat eastward, and before the mercyseat shall he sprinkle of the blood with his finger seven times.”

The incense is the righteousness of Jesus life with our prayers sent up with the angels to God in Jesus name. Jesus was wounded and did bleed in seven places. His head, back, two hands, two feet, and his side. When God allows this ark to be displayed to the world, it will not be used in temples or services. The Lid is to show to have the blood of the goats sprinkled on the east right side. And the fire and burning coal with the sweet incense burning a cloud of smoke above this mercy-seat lid should be seen on this ark. And we know that the blood of Jesus was poured out on the west left side of this ark.

43 In (1 John 4:10) “He loved us, and sent his son to be the propitiation for our sins.” The pure life of Jesus and his own death and blood on the mercy-seat lid of the ark calmed and satisfied the anger of God against us; if we receive him he will have mercy on us. (Romans 5:8-11) Jesus is our, High Priest (Hebrews 2:16-18) (Hebrews 4:14-16) (Hebrews 7:22-27) (Hebrews 9,10) Judge (John 5:22-24) Lawyer (1 John 2:1) Jesus is our spotless lamb killed for us (John 1:29) (Hebrews 9:14) (1 Peter 1:19-21) (2 Peter 3:13,14) Jesus is our saving blood on the mercy-seat lid of the ark (Leviticus 17:11) (1 John 5:8-13) (1 John 1:7-9) (Revelation 1:5) Intercession (Romans 8:26,27,34) (Hebrews 7:25) (Isaiah 53:11,12) (Isaiah 52:13-15) (Isaiah 59:16) Mediator (1 Timothy 2:5,6) (Hebrews 8:5,6) (Hebrews 9:14-28) (Hebrews 12:24-29) Propitiation (1 John 4:10) (Romans 3:24-31) (1 John 2:1-4) Remission (Acts 10:43) (Hebrews 10:17-22) Reconciliation (Romans 5:8-11) (Daniel 9:24) (2 Corinthians 5:17-21) (Hebrews 2:16,17) (Colossians 1:19-29) (Matthew 5:24) Atonement - Atone (Leviticus 17:11) (Leviticus 16:15-17,30) (1 Chronicles 6:49) (Romans 5:8-11) Forgiveness of our sins through Jesus. (Acts 5:30-32) Soon Jesus will come to take us up to Heaven for the one thousand years; we are forever reminded of Jesus' sacrifice to save us. “And one shall say unto him, what are these wounds in your hands? Then he shall answer, those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends.” (Zechariah 13:6.)

Jesus Christ is proven to be the true Messiah. “We have found Him, of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets did write.” (John 1:45).

“JESUS PREDICTED IN THE OLD TESTAMENT” “FULFILLED IN THE NEW TESTAMENT” We have found Him of whom Moses in the Law, and the Prophets, did write, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph. John 1: 41-51. “These are the words which I spake unto you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the Law of Moses, and in the Prophets, and in the Psalms concerning Me.” Luke 24:2527,44-46 / Luke 18:31-33/1 Peter 1:10,11/ “This second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you; in both which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance: That ye may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us the apostles of the Lord and Savior.” 2 Peter 3:1, 2/ 1 Peter 2:20, 21/ Acts 28: 23/2 Corinthians 5:17-21. “Whom shall he teach knowledge? And whom shall he make to understand doctrine? Them that are weaned from the milk and took away from the breasts. For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept, line upon line, line upon line, here a little and there a little.” Isaiah 28:9, 10. *Jesus created the worlds, earth and us. Genesis 1:1-31. 2: 1-3/ Isaiah 42: 4-12/ Isaiah 44: 24/ Isaiah 45:17-25/Nehemiah 9: 6,13,14/ John 1:1-14/Colossians 1:13-17/ 1 Corinthians 10: 14/Revelation 4: 11 ....... *Jesus, Lamb killed symbol from the foundation of the world. Genesis 3:21/ Genesis 4: 4/ Genesis 22: 2,7,8,13. 22:1-18 / Leviticus 5:5,6/John 1:29-45 / 1 John 1:7-10 / Revelation 7:14,17/Revelation 6:16/Revelation 17:14/Revelation 19:7,8/Revelation 13: 8 ....... *A man prepared the way for Jesus.

Isaiah 40:1-5/Malachi 3:1,5/Matthew 3/Mark 1:1-11/Luke 3/John 1:19-46 ....... *Son Jesus prophecied to be born in Bethlehem.

Wise men gave baby Jesus gifts of Gold (King), Frankincense (Priest), and Myrrh (Death ointment). Genesis 26:4/ Numbers 24:17/ Genesis 49:10/ Isaiah 11:1-5,10/ Isaiah 7:14/ Micah 5:1-4/ Isaiah 9:2,6,7/ /Isaiah 12:1-6/ Song of Solomon 2:1-4/ Matthew 1:1-25/Matthew 2:1-11/ Luke 1:26-27/ Luke 2:1-7,11; 3/ Galatians 4:3-6/John 1:1-17 ....... *Born of a virgin. Isaiah 7:14-16/Matthew 1:18-23 ....... *Of David’s lineage, and Abrahams seed. Jeremiah 23:5,6/Matthew 1:1-17/ Luke 2:4/ Revelation 22:16/ Hebrews 2:1618 ....... *Attempted murder by Herod. Jeremiah 31:15/Matthew 2:16-18 ....... *Jesus as boy was a wise learner and teacher.

Psalms 78:2/Psalms 119:16/Job 33:3/Isaiah 50:3-6/Luke 2:40-

45 49/John 7:41-46/Matthew 13:34,35 ....... *Priest washed/ Jesus baptized. Leviticus 8:6,10-12,33-36/ Isaiah 61:1,2/ Daniel 9:24-25/ Mark 1:9-13/Acts 10:38/Matthew 3:15-17/John 1:29-34,45 ....... *Jesus, anointed Messiah. Daniel 9:25/John 1:29-34,41-45 ....... *Jesus Anointed. Isaiah 61:1,2 /Luke 4:14-22 ....... *Jesus Gives Life, Heals. Psalm 146:5-8/John 11:1-45/Mark 7:31-37 ....... *I took Twelve men of you. Deuteronomy 1:23/Mark 1:17/Mark 6:17/Matthew 10:1,2/Acts 1:12-26 ....... *God's Son, hear him.

Daniel 3:25/ Mark 9:1-9 ....... *Feet washed/Jesus' feet. Exodus 40:30,31/Luke 7:37-50 ....... *King coming on a colt (donkey).

Zechariah 9:9/Luke 19:28-40/Matthew 21:1-11 ....... *Evil council on Jesus. Psalm 31:13/Matthew 26:3-5 ....... *Sold for 30 silver coins. Zechariah 11:12-13 / Matthew 27:1-10....... *Betrayed.

Psalms 41:9/John 13:18,19,26 ....... *Beaten, hurt. Isaiah 50:3-6 / Luke 22:61-65 ....... *Beaten, killed. Isaiah 52:13-15/ Isaiah 53:212/ Zechariah 12:10-14/Isaiah 49:15,16,18/ John 19:1-3,16 ....... *Blood on Priest's head, feet and hands/ Jesus was the High Priest, his hands,feet,and head, Crucified "See Me". Leviticus 8:23,24/Psalms 22/Zechariah 12:10/ Zechariah 13:6/Isaiah 53:112/Hebrews 2:16-18/ Mark 15:15-22/John 19:16-18,37/Luke 24:36-41/John 20:19-31/1 John 1:7-9 ....... *Lots cast for His clothes. Psalms 22:18 /Matthew 27:35 ....... *Vinegar to drink.

Psalms 69:21/John 19:28-30,36,37 ....... *No bones broken.

Psalms 34:20/Exodus 12:46/John 19:31-36 ....... *Cloud in Most Holy place/Transfiguration cloud/Dark cloud at the Cross of Jesus. 1 Kings 8:7-12 /Leviticus 16:1,2,13/Mark 9:2-9/Matthew 17:1-9/Matthew 27:45,50,51/John 19:28-35 ....... *In the volume of the book it is written of me. Psalm 40:7,8/Hebrews 10:4-27 ....... *Jesus is the Last Sacrifice. Daniel 9:26,27/Isaiah 1:11-18/ Jeremiah 3:16/ Isaiah 66:3/ Matthew 27:50-54 /Ephesians 2:1517/Hebrews 9:1-28/Hebrews 10:1-27/ Galatians 3:29 ....... *It is Finished. The hill split open under His cross, Jesus was speared in his heart and His blood anointed the most holy "golden Ark lid" in a Cave 20 feet below His Cross hole that had a crack across it. The Law is the only thing in the Ark. Psalm 31:5/Leviticus 17:11/Daniel 9:24/Isaiah 45:8/Psalm 89:14/Psalm 85:10,11/Isaiah 53:1-12/ Leviticus 1:10,11/Exodus 26:33,34/1 Kings 8:7-9/Leviticus 16:12-14/Exodus 32:15,16/ John 19:28-30 /Luke 23:46/Matthew 27:50-54/John 19:34/1 John 5:5-13/Matthew 6:10,21/John 15:10/Hebrews 2:16-18. WATER - Jeremiah 2:13;

17:13/Psalm 36:7-9/Isaiah 12:1-6/John 4:10-42/John 7:37,38/John 6:63/ 1 Corinthians 10:1-4. BLOOD - Leviticus 17:11/1 John 1:79/Rev. 1:5-9/John 6:43-48/Luke 22:19,20/ 1 Corinthians 11: 24-32/ Revelation 7: 14-17 ....... *Buried in rich man’s tomb. Isaiah 53:9 /Matthew 27:57-60 ....... *Year, Day, Hour of Jesus' death.

Daniel 9:26,27/Exodus 12:6/Matthew 27:45-50 ....... *Jesus Raised to Life the 3rd day. Hosea 6:1,2/ Psalm 16:10/ Mark 9:31/ Acts 10:38-40 ....... *Keys of the kingdom. Isaiah 22:22/Matthew 16:19/Revelation 1:18,19/Revelation 3:7-11/ John 6:63 ....... *The Ten Commandments on stone, the blood of Jesus on the mercyseat lid and the video recorded of the inside of the ark cave of Ron Wyatt and the Ark and Law, will be brought out of the cave under where Jesus was crucified, at and against the False Sunday counterfeit Sabbath laws. We all will look upon the evidence of Him whom we did pierce. Isaiah 52:15/Zechariah 12:10,11/Isaiah 5:3,4/Psalm 85:11/Isaiah 42:4,9/1 John 5:7-13/1 Timothy 2:5,6/Romans 1:18-20 ....... *After the testimony of Jesus is revealed fully, then 7 last Plagues will fall on the rejecters of Jesus and His Law. Isaiah 24:1-6,17-21/Isaiah 30:815/Jeremiah 25:31-36/Hosea 4:1-10/Ezekiel 13:22,23/Ezekiel 22:25-28,31/Revelation 14:9-14/Revelation 15:1/Revelation 9:4 ....... *Jesus is Coming again. Ezekiel 1:1-28/Psalms 18/Isaiah 13:1-13/ Daniel 2: 28-49. 3: 1-30/ John 14:1-7 /Revelation 11:1519/ Revelation 16:20,21/Revelation 22:11-15/ 1 Thessalonians 4:16-18 ....... *Wrath of the Lamb, the hiding of his power.

Habakkuk 3:3,4,13-19/ Revelation 6:14-17 ....... *Jesus takes us up to Heaven to be priests to judge and understand the future between the wicked and the righteous people. Malachi 3:1618/Revelation 20:4-6/John 14:3/ Revelation 22:1-5,14 ....... *At the end of the 1000 years, the wicked people are raised to life on the earth, for their judgment sentencing. Revelation 20:7,8,12,13 ....... *The holy city drops to earth with Jesus and the saints safely in it. Jesus steps on Mt. Olive, the land becomes flat, mountains move and the earth shakes. The wicked run away from the city coming down and the earthquake. Revelation 21:2-6,10-27/ Zechariah 14:3-12,13/Revelation 22:14,15 ....... *The great white throne, and the wicked are told by Jesus why they are going to be punished to death. Daniel 7:22,26,27/Revelation 20:11-13 ....... *The wicked people's knees shake, their hearts are sorrowed. (Nahum 2:10) ....... *The wicked bow down at the gates of the righteous city. (Proverbs 14:19) ....... *They give an

47 account of themselves before God who is high above the city.

(Romans 14:11,12) ....... *They are deceived by Satan again, and the tree of life is in the midst of the city, and they surround the beautiful city walls, their number is as the sand of the sea.

(Revelation 20:7-10,14,15) ....... *Fire comes down from God out of Heaven and they all, Satan the Devil and the wicked people burn to ashes. Revelation 20:9,10/ Jude 1:5-7/ Malachi 4:13/Zechariah 14:12/Proverbs 5:11-13 ....... *The saints look every place for the wicked people, and never find them. Psalms 37:10,20/Nahum 1:9 ....... *God creates us a New earth, and the Sabbath is kept forever. Revelation 21:5,1/ Isaiah 66:22,23/ Malachi 4:2,3/Revelation 22:1-5,14. *Romans 15:4 / 1 Corinthians 10: 11 / Isaiah 46: 9,10 / Isaiah 41: 20-23 / Ezekiel 12:25 What does this discovery of Christ, his law, and his blood tell us? “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten son, that whosever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.� (John 3:16; 1 John 4:19; 2 Thessalonians 2:16-17) God wants to reach everyone. In the past he has used visible lessons to teach the truth. A way of safety from destruction was always offered to the people. For many years the building of Noah's boat was a visible witness to the people of earth before the flood (Genesis 6:9-22) The plagues of Egypt and the blood of the lamb on the doorposts, and the parting of the red sea was a witness to Israel and the people of that time (Exodus 7-14) To prove his love to the children of Israel he provided for them in the desert. He sent bread from Heaven and water out of the rock. (Exodus 17:6) (Numbers 20:11) (Exodus 16:12-16) The destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah was a witness to the people of that time, that there is a God who Judges wickedness.

(Genesis 19:24-25) God used a visible witness in Elijah's time, to show that he himself was God and creator to the false people. He

showed who his true representatives and followers were (1 Kings 18: 37-39) In the sight of all the rulers and people in Babylon God saved the lives of three men in the fire that kept the ten commandments, and showed all that he was the true God. (Daniel 3:21-25) Jesus was the greatest witness from God, that he gave to man and woman, to teach them who God is and what his truth is and what is required (John 1:1-14; Romans 8:3; John 14:9) (John 8:28) (John 15:15) Jesus himself was a witness of God's truth. He also used visible evidence. He calmed the storms, healed the sick, and walked on water. (Matthew 8:27; Matthew 14:26-27; Mark 8:2225; John 11:43) Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and forever (Hebrews 13:8) God will not leave it to man to witness alone. (1 John 5:8-13; 1 Timothy 2:5,6; Psalms 119:126; John 16:7,8; Psalms 85:11) He wants to persuade all people of his love and his truth. When Gods law and blood are revealed, fully revealing the “mystery of God� to save, this will expose the Anti-Christ/Priest and mystery of iniquity around the world. (2 Thessalonians 2:3-13; Revelation 14:6, 9-12; Ephesians 5:11-13; Ephesians 6:11-18)

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JESUS & HIS JUDGMENT/ATONEMENT The End of the 2300 years Daniel 8:13,14; Daniel 9:20-27.

“For we must all appear before the Judgment seat of Christ that everyone may receive the things done in his body, according to what he has done, whether it be good or whether it be evil.” (2 Corinthians 5:10) “For the Father Judges no man, but has committed all Judgment to the Son.” (John 5:22, 23) The apostle Paul taught about “righteousness, temperance, and Judgment to come.” (Acts 24:25; 17:31) The apostle Peter teaches a Judgment before Jesus returns. (2 Peter 3:7-10; 2 Peter 2:9) Daniel was shown the judgment in session. (Daniel 7:9, 10.) The 3 angels’ message is given to every nation kindred tongue and people, that the hour of His Judgment is come, before Jesus comes. (Revelation 14:6-14) Jesus spoke of a Judgment which all must give an account. (Matthew 12:36, 37) Jesus taught that when he comes in

glory, he will reward people for their works. (Matthew 16:27; Rev 22:11-15; 1 Corinthians 4:4, 5) The prophecy of the 2300 years points to the exact beginning of this Judgment in Heaven.

1. What long time prophecy did God reveal to Daniel?

“And he said unto me, unto two thousand and three hundred days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed.” (Daniel 8:14) The 2300 days/years. This period of time also must be interpreted according to the (each-day for one-year) mentioned in (Ezekiel 4:6; Numbers 14:34; Genesis 29:27-30) Jesus used this as a symbol because he actually preached three more years. (Luke 13:32) 2. What time in history will this vision be fulfilled?

“So he came near where I stood: and when he came, I was afraid, and fell upon my face: but he said unto me, understand, O son of man: for at the time of the end shall be the vision.”

(Daniel 8:17) 3. When did the 2300 years begin?

According to Daniel 9:24 the angel Gabriel explained that 70 weeks-(490 years) were to be cut off, measured off, or appointed for God's people. This 490 year period was cut off from a longer period. That period was the 2300 days mentioned in the vision.

Therefore the 490 years and the 2300 years have the same beginning. The restoration decree issued by Artaxerxes in 457 b.c. marks the beginning of the 2300 years.

4. When did the 2300 years end?

The 490 years or 70 weeks ended in a.d. 34 at Stephens stoning. The remaining 1810 years would reach to a.d. 1844 when Judgment began. 490 + 1810 = 2300.

51 5. Which Sanctuary was to be cleansed?

The Sanctuary mentioned in Daniel 8:14 must refer to the sanctuary in Heaven. Because the sanctuary on earth did not exist for nearly 1800 years since Jesus died. Jesus said, "Your house is left unto you desolate." (Matthew 23:37, 38.) There was the supernatural tearing of the veil in the sanctuary at Jerusalem when Christ was crucified. Jerusalem and the temple were destroyed by the Romans in a.d. 70. (Luke 23:45) 6. What does it mean by the cleansing of the sanctuary on earth?

(Leviticus 16:14, 30; Leviticus 17:11) The earthly sanctuary was cleansed once every year by the offering of an animal blood sacrifice. This service was known as a service of atonement or intercession. It was a time of Judgment. All record of sin and unrepented sinners were banished from the camp.

7. What is involved in the cleansing of the Heavenly sanctuary?

In 1844 Christ Jesus entered into the Most Holy service of the Heavenly sanctuary (Daniel 7:9,10,13,22,26; Rev. 11:19; Hebrews 8:1,2; 9:1-28; Hebrews 10:10-27) Angels are our witnesses of every action and thought, Jesus is our Lawyer, and Judge going into the courts of Heaven. There is no sin in Heaven, but a work of Judgment of the records of sin. All names of all people dead and alive are written into these books or blotted out. Cleanse, Purify, Blot out, and Judgment mean the same. (Psalm 51:1-2; Isaiah 4:4; Hebrews 9:23) And the “Books were opened in Heaven.” (Ecclesiastes 12:14) (Daniel 7:9,10.)

The “Book of Life” (Revelation 20:12) (Revelation 13:8) (Revelation 22:9) (Revelation 17:8) (Revelation 3:5) (Revelation 21:27) (Daniel 12:1-3) (Luke 10:20) (Hebrews 12:23) (Exodus 32:33) (Psalms 69:27,28) (Philippians 4:3) (Psalms 87:5-7) The “Book of Remembrance” (Malachi 3:16) (Nehemiah 13:14) (Psalms 56:8) (Ecclesiastes 12:13,14) and

The “Book of Iniquity” (Sin) (Jeremiah 2:22) (Acts 3:19) (Job 10:14) (Nehemiah 4:5) (Deuteronomy 31:28) (Isaiah 65:2-6) (Exodus 32:32,33) (Exodus 34:7)=(Exodus 20:6) (Psalms 32:1-6) (1 John 1:5-9, 2:1) (2 Timothy 2:25) (Isaiah 30:8-15) (Isaiah 44:22) (2 Chronicles 7:14) (John 8:4-11) 8. When does this Heavenly Judgment End? At the plagues and Jesus return. (Rev. 22:11-15) This Judgment will show who has eternal life and who don’t. He will know who to reward when he brings his rewards at his coming in the cloud of angels. It will Judge all in the earth, vindicating God before the universe. (John 8:16-28,29; Luke 20:35) Those still “Found in the Book of life” will go with him. (Rev. 20:15; Daniel 12:1) It will vindicate and clear His people (Revelation 3:5) The ancient dead are judged first, then on to the living people in Christ or not, being judged when the ten commandments on tables of stone are revealed to the world, with the blood of Jesus on the Ark Lid revealed at and against the Sunday laws. (Ezekiel 9:6; 1 Peter 4:17-19; 1 Timothy 5:24, 25; Acts 3:19) The law revealed (Psalms 85:10,11; Romans 1:18-20; Revelation 14:6-12) The blood of Jesus revealed (1 Timothy 2:5,6; 1 John 5:5-13; Revelation 22:11,12) This Judgment will have the witness of Jesus, and the testimony of the law to testify and vindicate, because this time is the Most holy service for his people.

The people that were being persecuted by the church and rulers, Jesus said this would turn to them for a testimony. (Luke 21:12-13) In the fifth seal in a symbol of their death they were asking God, how long until the Judgment.

The beginning of the executive Judgments begin with the close of this investigative Judgment and the plagues and temporary death. And at the last after the thousand year review of all records to be set well with the saints, the eternal death penalty for the wicked. (Rev. 15; 16; Rev. 20:4-15)

53 8. Who is our Lawyer, witness, Judge, and jury in the investigative Judgment?

“If any man sin we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.” (1 John 2:1; John 5:22-24; Acts 5:30-32; Acts 17:31; 1 Timothy 2:5; Isaiah 33:22; Matthew 27:50-54; Rev 5:8) The angels will witness for us. Matthew 18:10; Hebrews 13:2.

9. What is the standard by which all will be Judged?

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believeth in him, should not perish, but have everlasting life” (John 3:16; 1 John 5:5-13). “Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: fear God and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man. For God shall bring every work into Judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.” (Ecclesiastes 12:13, 14; James 2:10-12; James 1:22-25) “Be as perfect even as your Father in Heaven is perfect.” (Matthew 5:48) “We are measured by the stature of the fullness of Christ.” (Ephesians 4:13; Hebrews 13:20, 21; Romans 12:1) All will be Judged with these books. Rev.20:1215 10. “Writing up the people.”

“And of Zion it shall be said, this and that man was born in her.

The Lord shall count, when he writeth up the people, that this man was born there.” (Psalms 87:5, 6) Jesus said “Unless a man be born of water and the spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom.” (John 3:5; Acts 22:16) Now we must search our hearts and confess our sins to the Father in Heaven in Jesus' name, asking forgiveness and do evil no more. If we do God will forgive us. (1 John 1:9)

11. Sin is separation from God and not believing in him.

“He that overcomes, the same shall be clothed in white raiment, and I will not erase his name out of the book of life.”

(Revelation 3:5). If we are separated from Jesus and God we do not have a trust relationship with them, we will not overcome this sinful world.

“Of sin because they believe not on me.” (John 16:8-9). “For whatsoever is not of faith is sin.” (Romans 14:23). “But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.”(Isaiah 59:2).

“For if we sin willfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more sacrifice for sins, but a certain fearful looking for of Judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.” (Hebrews 10:26-27).

“Wherefore, seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight and the sin which does so easily beset us... Looking unto Jesus, author and finisher of our faith.”(Hebrews 12:1-4).

“Submit yourselves to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you. Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you.”(James 4:7-8). The way to resist the devil is to submit to God. If you receive Jesus, you will have power. (John 1:12) “But God shall wound the head of his enemies and the hairy scalp of the one who still goes on in his trespasses.”(Psalms 68:21) “And when you stand praying, forgive, but if you do not forgive, neither will your Father which is in Heaven forgive your trespasses.”(Mark 11:25, 26). “God be merciful to me, a sinner.”(Luke 18:8-14; Ezekiel 33:7-20; Matthew 12:36, 37). Sin is breaking the law and statutes. (1 John 3:4; 1 Corinthians 6:9-11; Hosea 4:11).

This Judgment reveals the first rebellion of Lucifer the Devil, and his deceiving almost half of Heavens angels. Their actions were to play out for all Heaven and earth to see the results. Since Adam and Eve sinned, the human race has been under the power of the Devil and his angels. God allowes six thousand years for the results of the people of earth’s sins to play out before the Angels of Heaven and people of earth.

God is perfect in that he had not created robots for his pleasure, only free choice angels and people. After Jesus returns and takes us up to Heaven for the one thousand years we will see and learn all the record books of all the angels and people. This will help in wiping away all tears. (Malachi 3:16-18; 2 Peter 3:8-14)

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End of days after the 1260, 1290, 1335 years.

Daniel chapters 10-12 This historical prophecy vision begins the third year of Cyrus, king of Persia 535 b.c. And ends with the return of Jesus. This vision focuses in on the rise and fall of the Papacy beast nation.

And shows the close of Judgment/Atonement for the people of earth. Chapter 10 shows how Daniel was given this vision.

11:1-2. “Also I in the first year of Darius the Mede, even I, stood to confirm and to strengthen him. 2 And now will I shew thee the truth. Behold, there shall stand up yet three kings in Persia; and the fourth shall be far richer than they all: and by his strength through his riches he shall stir up all against the realm of Grecia.”

The angel Gabriel had strengthened Darius. “The Heavenly time prophecy of the 2300 years had to be on time.” In Daniel 9:12 the first year of Darius, is the time when Daniel realized how long Jerusalem would be desolate. Gabriel intended to point Daniel and us back to that period of time when these prophetic events he will show begins.

The four kings were his son Cambyses 2nd 530-522 b.c.

Gaumata the Magian 522 b.c. And the Persian Darius1st 523-486 b.c. The fourth king was Xerxes, Greek name for Ahasuerus, husband of Queen Esther. 486-465 b.c.

Darius gave him the job of punishing the Greeks because of their part in the Ionian rebellion, 499-494 b.c. And their defeat of Persian armies at the battle of Marathon, 490 b.c.

By 483 b.c. Xerxes began preparing for his battle against the Greeks. He raised a large army with many nations. In 480 b.c. He was defeated. He did stir up all against Greece. God sent his angels to set up and take down kings.

11:3-4. “And a mighty king shall stand up, that shall rule with great dominion, and do according to his will.

4 And when he shall stand up, his kingdom shall be broken, and shall be divided toward the four winds of heaven; and not to his posterity, nor according to his dominion which he ruled: for his kingdom shall be plucked up, even for others beside those.”

Alexander the great of Macedonia arose. He defeated king Darius 3rd Coddomannus in 333 b.c. At the battle of Issus in the Mediterranean coast, what is now south east Turkey. Alexander’s great dominion stretched from southern Europe to North Africa to central Asia. He fell ill and died in 323 b.c. Most of his family were killed, and did not inherit after him.

Later his kingdom was divided into four portions by 301 b.c.

Greece by Cassander, Asia Minor by Lysimachus, Babylon and Persia by Seleucus, and the holy land (Judah) and Egypt by Ptolemy.

11:5-6. “And the king of the south shall be strong, and one of his princes; and he shall be strong above him, and have dominion; his dominion shall be a great dominion.

6 And in the end of years they shall join themselves together; for the king's daughter of the south shall come to the king of the north to make an agreement: but she shall not retain the power of the arm; neither shall he stand, nor his arm: but she shall be given up, and they that brought her, and he that begat her, and he that strengthened her in these times.”

Twenty years later 281 b.c. Seleucus 1st had killed Lysimachus in battle. Only two of the divisions of the empire remained. The Seleucid king of the north and the Ptolemaic king of the south.

In 249 b.c. King of the south Ptolemy 2nd Philadelphus sent his daughter Berenice, to the king of the north, Antiochus 2 nd Theos. He wanted to stop the second Syrian war, and unite the two kingdoms through their marriage. Antiochus 2nd of the north put away his wife Laodice and married Berenice from the south. Later he went back to Laodice. Antiochus later was poisoned, and

57 Laodice convinced her son Seleucus 2nd to kill Berenice and her son.

Details of the divided kingdom of Greece, and two of these divisions dominated greatly as to be portrayed under the titles, “King of the north and King of the south.” As the enemies of Israel such as Egypt and Babylon symbolized as always attacking from the south and north. (Verses 5-15)

11:7-8. “But out of a branch of her roots shall one stand up in his estate, which shall come with an army, and shall enter into the fortress of the king of the north, and shall deal against them, and shall prevail: 8 And shall also carry captives into Egypt their gods, with their princes, and with their precious vessels of silver and of gold; and he shall continue more years than the king of the north.”

Ptolemy 3rd, Euergetes, the oldest son of Ptolemy 2 nd and brother of Berenice, was angry about the murder of his sister. He and his army invaded the Seleucid kingdom of the north and defeated them. Ptolemy 3rd from the south won victory from the Tigris River to the coast of Asia Minor. He captured and killed Laodice. He entered Seleucia of the capitol Antioch and left a group of soldiers there. With the third Syrian war, Ptolemy 3 rd recovered many statues that were stolen and captured three hundred years earlier. He obtained much gold and silver. Ptolemy 3 rd lived longer than Seleucus 2nd after he died of a horse fall.

11:9-10. “So the king of the south shall come into his kingdom, and shall return into his own land. 10 But his sons shall be stirred up, and shall assemble a multitude of great forces: and one shall certainly come, and overflow, and pass through: then shall he return, and be stirred up, even to his fortress.”

In 240 b.c. The king of the north, Seleucus 2nd attempted to invade Egypt, and returned home after difficulties with the weather.

The sons of Seleucus 2nd were Seleucus 3rd Ceraunos and Antiochus 3rd. His oldest son Seleucus 3rd began a war against the Egyptian provinces of Asia Minor. He was later killed 223 b.c.

Antiochus 3rd took the throne in 219-218 b.c. He went through Judea and close to the borders of Egypt.

11:11-14. “And the king of the south shall be moved with choler, and shall come forth and fight with him, even with the king of the north: and he shall set forth a great multitude; but the multitude shall be given into his hand. 12 And when he hath taken away the multitude, his heart shall be lifted up; and he shall cast down many ten thousands: but he shall not be strengthened by it. 13 For the king of the north shall return, and shall set forth a multitude greater than the former, and shall certainly come after certain years with a great army and with much riches. 14 And in those times there shall many stand up against the king of the south: also the robbers of thy people shall exalt themselves to establish the vision; but they shall fall.�

Antiochus 3rd met Ptolemy Philopater in the battle of Raphia (Gaza) in 217 b.c. Ptolemy won and forced Antiochus to retreat to Lebanon.

In the 5th Syrian war, 205-195 b.c. Antiochus 3rd marched through Judea from Syria. He regained territory he had occupied years before. He made an alliance with king Philip v of Macedonia.

11:15-19. “So the king of the north shall come, and cast up a mount, and take the most fenced cities: and the arms of the south shall not withstand, neither his chosen people, neither shall there be any strength to withstand.

16 But he that cometh against him shall do according to his own will, and none shall stand before him: and he shall stand in the glorious land, which by his hand shall be consumed.

17 He shall also set his face to enter with the strength of his whole kingdom, and upright ones with him; thus shall he do: and he shall give him the daughter of women, corrupting her: but she shall not stand on his side, neither be for him.

18 After this shall he turn his face unto the isles, and shall take many: but a prince for his own behalf shall cause the reproach offered by him to cease; without his own reproach he shall cause it to turn upon him. 19 Then he shall turn his face toward

59 the fort of his own land: but he shall stumble and fall, and not be found.”

Antiochus 3rd came into Jerusalem and controlled everything.

Mark Anthony took his Roman forces into Egypt and controlled it.

Cleopatra is the daughter of woman referred to here.

It is the king of the north that none shall stand before. In 63 b.c. The Roman general Pompey interceded in a Jewish civil war, and declared Judea a Roman protectorate. It is Julius Caesar who turned his face against the coastlands and his own land. Julius was killed by his own friends.

11:20. “Then shall stand up in his estate a raiser of taxes in the glory of the kingdom: but within few days he shall be destroyed, neither in anger, nor in battle.”

Caesar Augustus arose in his place. The glorious kingdom was Jerusalem. He ruled when Jesus was born and died of natural causes.

“And it came to pass in those days that their went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed.”(Luke 2:1-21) about 4 b.c.

11:21-22. “And in his estate shall stand up a vile person, to whom they shall not give the honour of the kingdom: but he shall come in peaceably, and obtain the kingdom by flatteries.

22 And with the arms of a flood shall they be overflown from before him, and shall be broken; yea, also the prince of the covenant.”

Gabriel describes to Daniel, that the vile person is Tiberius Caesar, who took the place of Augustus. Most of the life of Jesus Tiberius ruled. Not as a direct Heir to the throne, and never honored. “Jesus, the prince of the Covenant” was baptized and killed later during his rule. (Luke 3:1, 21) between a.d. 27-31.

11:23-30. “And after the league made with him he shall work deceitfully: for he shall come up, and shall become strong with a small people.

24 He shall enter peaceably even upon the fattest places of the province; and he shall do that which his fathers have not done, nor his fathers' fathers; he shall scatter among them the prey, and spoil, and riches: yea, and he shall forecast his devices against the strong holds, even for a time.

25 And he shall stir up his power and his courage against the king of the south with a great army; and the king of the south shall be stirred up to battle with a very great and mighty army; but he shall not stand: for they shall forecast devices against him.

26 Yea, they that feed of the portion of his meat shall destroy him, and his army shall overflow: and many shall fall down slain.

27 And both of these kings' hearts shall be to do mischief, and they shall speak lies at one table; but it shall not prosper: for yet the end shall be at the time appointed.

28 Then shall he return into his land with great riches; and his heart shall be against the holy covenant; and he shall do exploits, and return to his own land.

29 At the time appointed he shall return, and come toward the south; but it shall not be as the former, or as the latter.

30 For the ships of Chittim shall come against him: therefore he shall be grieved, and return, and have indignation against the holy covenant: so shall he do; he shall even return, and have intelligence with them that forsake the holy covenant.”

Constantine the great did what his Fathers fathers never done.

He left his heirs a new capitol, policies, and a pagan religion, changing the true Sabbath from Saturday to Sunday.

Constantine’s Sunday Law decreed in a.d.321.

"LET ALL THE JUDGES AND TOWN PEOPLE, AND THE OCCUPATION OF ALL TRADES REST ON THE VENERABLE DAY OF THE SUN; BUT LET THOSE WHO ARE SITUATED IN THE COUNTRY, FREELY AND AT FULL LIBERTY ATTEND TO THE BUSINESS OF AGRICULTURE; BECAUSE IT OFTEN HAPPENS THAT NO OTHER DAY IS SO FIT FOR SOWING CORN AND PLANTING VINES; LEST, THE

61 CRITICAL MOMENT BEING LET SLIP, MEN SHOULD LOSE THE COMMODITIES GRANTED BY HEAVEN." (GC,1888)

The Encyclopedia Brittanica says: "IT WAS CONSTANTINE THE GREAT WHO FIRST MADE A LAW FOR THE PROPER OBSERVANCE OF SUNDAY; AND WHO, ACCORDING TO EUSEBIUS, APPOINTED THAT IT SHOULD BE REGULARLY CELEBRATED THROUGHOUT THE ROMAN EMPIRE. BEFORE HIM, AND EVEN IN HIS TIME, THEY OBSERVED THE JEWISH SABBATH, AS WELL AS SUNDAY." AS TO THE DEGREE OF REVERENCE WITH WHICH SUNDAY WAS REGARDED, AND THE MANNER OF ITS OBSERVANCE, MOSHEIM SAYS THAT IN CONSEQUENCE OF THE LAW ENACTED BY CONSTANTINE, THE FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK WAS "OBSERVED WITH GREATER SOLEMNITY THAN IT HAD FORMERLY BEEN." (ECCL. HIST. CENT. 4, PART 2, CHAP. 4, SEC. 5.)

Barbarian tribes had recently begun taking Rome, Diocletian and Maximian ruled territories and had chosen others to guard the lands and laws. This did not last and wars broke out.

11:31-35. “And arms shall stand on his part, and they shall pollute the sanctuary of strength, and shall take away the daily sacrifice, and they shall place the abomination that maketh desolate.

32 And such as do wickedly against the covenant shall he corrupt by flatteries: but the people that do know their God shall be strong, and do exploits.

33 And they that understand among the people shall instruct many: yet they shall fall by the sword, and by flame, by captivity, and by spoil, many days.

34 Now when they shall fall, they shall be holpen with a little help: but many shall cleave to them with flatteries.

35 And some of them of understanding shall fall, to try them, and to purge, and to make them white, even to the time of the end: because it is yet for a time appointed.”

By a.d. 538 The Papacy was the Abomination that made desolate the true ministry of Jesus everlasting priesthood.

Persecution continued against rebels of the Pope. Many biblical righteous people suffered under this wicked system. Later they even started buying and selling slaves around the coasts of the world as shown in Rev. 18. As they owned most of the ships of the sea. And killed about 70,000,000 Christians. The world is ignorant and turns their eyes from truth and knowledge of this system, the beast and his mark.

11:36-39. “And the king shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done.

37 Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers, nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all.

38 But in his estate shall he honour the God of forces: and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honour with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things.

39 Thus shall he do in the most strong holds with a strange god, whom he shall acknowledge and increase with glory: and he shall cause them to rule over many, and shall divide the land for gain.�

This is a description of the Roman Papal church (Little horn power, Catholic Vatican, Papacy)

11:40-45. “And at the time of the end shall the king of the south push at him: and the king of the north shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.

41 He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.

42 He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape.

43 But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.

63 44 But tidings out of the east and out of the north shall trouble him: therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.

45 And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him.”

Here it shows the events leading up to the destruction of the Papacy. Which is portrayed as the “king of the north.” The rise and fall of this power at the end of time, labeled under the symbolism of “Babylon the great.” As portrayed in Rev. 17 and 18. And 13 and 14:9-11.

The king of the north will face an adversary symbolized by the “king of the south.” God’s people are caught in the middle.

Catholicism will be attacked by the king of the south at the time of the end. The king of the south is Atheism and Communism as shown in divided Rome’s countries and as Islamic Muslims, Buddhism and all Non-Christian religions and governments, even Jewish is against Jesus and wait for another as said by Jesus.

Atheism because as Egypt of old in the south said “Who is the Lord that I should obey his voice.”

In verse 45 the Papacy is said to place his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain. The pope is making alliances with the Muslims to set himself in Jerusalem. In scripture “Holy Mountain” refers both to Gods true church and church on earth and to Heaven itself, where Jesus continues on His high priestly ministry today. (Ezekiel 28:12-15; Isaiah 65:25; Daniel 9:16; Zechariah 8:3; Joel 3:17) The murderous Devil through the “Papacy” and false fallen protestant churches, false miracles (Matthew 24:23-31) sets itself up between the (seas of people) and the glorious holy mountain (Gods true church and Christ’s true sanctuary ministry in Heaven

and of the revealing of God’s golden Ark and Covenant ten commandments, with His son Jesus’ blood on its lid.) (Rev. 18:1) “Yet he shall come to his end, and no one will help him.” This is the very end of this Papacy system found in Rev. 17:15-18 and Rev. 18.

The Dragon of Revelations Dragon, Beast and False prophet consists of all Non-Christian religions and governments. When the plagues begin, they will all be angry and kill each other. Lastly God’s brightness will destroy wickedness.

DANIEL 12:1-13 12:1-3. “And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.

2 And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.

3 And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever.”

“Michael stands up.” This is the close of Investigative Judgment/Atonement. (Rev. 22:11-12) He is finished wearing His white and gold priestly garments and puts on His kingly red robe.

(Rev. 19:11-21; Isaiah 9:5; Isaiah 63:3; Rev. 14:14-20; Genesis 49:11) Plagues will fall as in Rev 16. God’s people will be safely guarded by Gods angels. Jesus returns to resurrect those righteous dead, and to translate both them and the living saints whose names were in the book of life, to bring back up to Heaven with Him at that time. The wicked will be destroyed by the plagues and brightness of Jesus coming.

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12:4-7. “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.

5 Then I Daniel looked, and, behold, there stood other two, the one on this side of the bank of the river, and the other on that side of the bank of the river.

6 And one said to the man clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of the river, How long shall it be to the end of these wonders?

7 And I heard the man clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand unto heaven, and swore by him that lives forever that it shall be for a time, times, and an half; and when he shall have accomplished to scatter the power of the holy people, all these things shall be finished.”

Beginning here the angel Gabriel explains to Daniel the dates of the Antichrist/False Priest. Daniel sees a large angel standing one foot on the land and one foot on the sea. The same angel is described in Rev. 10:1-7. In the time of Daniel “the book was to be shut and closed until the time of the end.” After the 1260 years. (Daniel 12:4,9). In the time of Rev. 10 the “book was opened.” The angel revealed the seven thunders and says “There should be time no longer.” “In the days of the voice of the seventh angel the mystery of God would be finished.” (Rev. 10:6-7) These messages in the book and the seven thunders were to be revealed and understood in the time of the seventh trumpet, seventh church and 6 th seal.

The 1260 years of the papacy's “Religio-Political” reign. a.d.

538 – 1798.

The papal church gains civil-political power and begins to persecute the saints of God (Daniel 7:21, 25; Daniel 12:7; Revelation 12:6, 14; Revelation 13:5, 7). The political reign of the church would last for 1260 years, from 538 – 1798 AD.. This is the Abomination of Desolation. (Mark 13:14-27; Luke 21:20-28; Daniel 7:21, 25; 8:9-13, 23-26; 9:17; 12:7).

The papal church loses its civil-political power over the masses, receiving the “deadly wound” foretold in prophecy (Daniel

11:40; Revelation 13:3). The long, dark reign of papal authority was finally broken as Napoleon’s general, Berthier, marched into Rome and took the pope captive. 1798 marks the beginning of “the time of the end” (Daniel 12:4, 9) Esther 9:27. “And according to their appointed time every year.”

Nehemiah 10:34. “At Times appointed year by year.”

A prophetic year had 360 days. 1 time = 360 days. 2 times = 720 days. Half time = 180 days. 3 and half times = "1260 years." A prophetic month had 30 days, 42 months = "1260 years."

Day = Year, in Prophecy. (Genesis 29:27-30; Numbers 14:34; Ezekiel 4:6.)

The 1260 years “political reign” of the little horn power, Pope, the AntiChrist/False Priest and his persecution. From a.d. 538 – 1798.

Daniel 7:25; 12:7. “A time, times, and an half.”

Revelation 11:2. “Forty and two months.”

Revelation 11:3. “Twelve hundred sixty days.”

Revelation 12:6. “Twelve hundred sixty days.”

Revelation 12:14. “A time, times, and half a time.”

Revelation 13:5. “Forty and two months.”

The decree of Justinian in a.d. 538 began the pope’s long Political persecution of the Christians to a.d. 1798, when pope pius (6th) was prisoned and died by Napoleon.

12:8-11. “And I heard, but I understood not: then said I, O my Lord, what shall be the end of these things?

9 And he said, Go thy way, Daniel: for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end.

10 Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall

67 understand; but the wise shall understand. And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, and the abomination that maketh desolate set up, there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days.”

The 1290 years of the papacy's “False-religious” reign. a.d.

508 – 1798.

Day = Year, in Bible Prophecy. (Genesis 29:27-30; Numbers 14:34; Ezekiel 4:6; Luke 13:32) The papal church gains ecclesiastical authority and usurps the priestly ministry of Christ by setting itself up in a mediatory position between God and the people. (Daniel 8:9-11; 1 Timothy 2:5, 6; Hebrews 4:15,16; 7:24,25; 8:1-5; 2 Thessalonians 2:1-4; Mark 2:7).

“In the year 508, Arthur, king of England, was elected monarch of Britain. The See of Rome was also in unusual circumstances at the time. As a recent convert from paganism, Symmachus by bloodiness ascended the pontifical throne and reigned until a.d. 514. He was lauded as being the successor to, or another, St. Peter. His flatterers began to maintain he was formally appointed judge in the place of God, and vice-regent of the Most High.

A strong papal party now existed in all parts of the empire and was encouraged by both east and west. In 508, civil war swept fire and blood through the streets of the eastern capital, which Gibbon records under the years 508-518, speaking of commotions in Constantinople.” (Decline And Fall, vol. 4, p. 526.)

The papal church loses its civil-political power over the masses, receiving the “deadly wound” foretold in prophecy (Daniel 11:40; Revelation 13:3). The long, dark reign of papal authority was finally broken as Napoleon’s general, Berthier, marched into Rome and took the pope captive. 1798 marks the beginning of “the time of the end” (Daniel 12:4, 9)

12:12-13. “Blessed is he that waiteth, and cometh to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days. 13 But go thou thy way till the end be: for thou shalt rest, and stand in thy lot at the end of the days.”

“After” 1335 years the gospel truth of Christ's sacrifice and mediation is restored. a.d. 508 - 1843.

The papal church gains false ecclesiastical authority and assumes the priestly ministry of Christ by setting itself up in a mediatory position between God and the people. (Daniel 8:9-13; 1 Timothy 2:5, 6; Hebrews 4:15, 16; 7:24, 25; 8:1-5; 2 Thessalonians 2:1-4; Mark 2:7).

The darkness would begin to break after 1335 years, in 1843, as the truth of the sanctuary would begin to emerge through a worldwide Bible study revival, just a year before the beginning of the investigative Judgment of the world in 1844, and cleansing of the true sanctuary of Heaven of the records of sin of the truly repentant sinners covered by Jesus.

The glorious truth of Jesus’ high priestly mediation in the heavenly sanctuary begins to be restored to the people through the study of Daniel’s prophecies (Daniel 8:11-14; Daniel 9:17; Daniel 12:4, 11, 12). The study of Daniel’s prophecies would be followed by a bitter disappointment, which in turn would be followed by a restoration of Biblical truth concerning the sanctuary of Jesus in Heaven and the mediation of Christ as our Savior. (Revelation chapters 10, 11; Hebrews 8; 9; 10).

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REVELATION This book builds our trust in and reveals Jesus to us and His most important actions taking place for us now. It is the “revealing of Jesus.” (1 Peter 1:13) Jesus fulfilled the whole Sanctuary service in his own lifetime and forever. An Important part of Revelation is the word in the Gospels from the books of Matthew through to Jude, including the whole Old Testament. These books contain the boy life of Jesus and his ministry in the Courtyard of earth of the Heavenly sanctuary service work for earths' lost people.

In Revelation He begins in Heaven His holy and most holy place ministry for the saving of souls on earth, the ending of sin, and the new earth and its chosen citizens. Holy service of Heaven, a.d. 31-1844 (Revelation chapters 1-11:14; 1:12-16; 8:3-4) Churches, throne room, Seals and beginning of Trumpets.

Most holy service Day of Atonement of Heaven, 1844 Close of Judgment/Atonement and Jesus return. (Revelation 11:18-19; Hebrews chapters 8-10; Rev. 22:10-15; Rev.16) Ending of the Trumpets.

The Old Testament model of the sanctuary was a miniature of the big truth in our universe. “Symbolism and real events” are used together throughout all Revelation and Daniel’s Prophecies as children learn easier with pictures, parables and symbols. Jesus said “if you are not as little children, you cannot enter the kingdom of Heaven.” Children being forgiving, everlearning and teachable.

This is a deep history book in symbols, given by Jesus himself.

These times may overlap.

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Revelation chapter 1:1-20 1:1-3. “The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John: 2 Who bare record of the word of God, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, and of all things that he saw. 3 Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand.”

What is this book written for?

“The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to show unto his servant’s things which must shortly come to pass.”

(Rev. 1:1-2) Jesus has the job of being the author and finisher of our faith and obtaining our trust. (Rev 22:6, 7; Mark 13:23; Romans 15:4; 1 Corinthians 10: 11; Isaiah 46: 9, 10; Isaiah 41: 20-23; Ezekiel 12:25; Matthew 16:3; John 14:29; Matthew 24; Isaiah 42:4,9) “These words testify of me.” (John 5:39) Read, hear, learn, keep, accept, and obey, echoes through the whole bible, even angels keep the sayings of this book. Jesus having John write these things in the Revelation says, “I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify to you these things in the churches ... for I testify to every man that hears the words of the prophecy of this book.” (Rev. 22:7-10, 16-18). Throughout time there where lessons to learn and especially for the last day people, who this book is written for.

1:4-8. “John to the seven churches which are in Asia: Grace be unto you, and peace, from him which is, and which was, and

which is to come; and from the seven Spirits which are before his throne; 5 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, 6 And hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father; to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever, Amen.

7 Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindred’s of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen. 8 I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.”

Jesus was the only true witness of the Father in heaven given to reveal his truth and plans for us for our future. Jesus was God in a son of flesh on earth. (Exodus 33:18-23; 34:5-9; Rev 6:14-16.)

He was in the mind of the Father, He became flesh and was born and he was killed and was raised and went up to the kingdom of Heaven, to soon return again. (John 1:1-18; Galatians 4:4-7; John 21:14, 24, 25; Acts 1:10, 11)

1:9. “I John, who also am your brother, and companion in tribulation, and in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, was in the isle that is called Patmos, for the word of God, and for the testimony of Jesus Christ.”

While a prisoner on the Island of Patmos, a rocky island in the Mediterranean Sea, about 40 miles off the southwest coast of Asia Minor; John wrote this book of Revelation about the time of the end of the rule of the Roman emperor Domitian (a.d. 81-96), a cruel persecutor of Christians. John was exiled here because he would not stop preaching about the Old Testament and Jesus. He

73 was not harmed when thrown into a boiling pot of oil, so he was sent there. (Acts of the Apostles)

1:10. “I was in the Spirit on the Lord's Day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet,” God with a voice like a trumpet had shown John things on the Sabbath day. All the early Christians kept the Lords day, the seventh day Saturday, the very week end. (Genesis 2:1-3; Exodus 20:8-11; Isaiah 58:13; mark 2:27, 28; Luke 4:16; Acts 17:2; John 14:15; Matthew 19:16-19; Luke 23:54-56. Matthew 28:1-4; Mark 15:42; 16:1-10; Luke 23:54-56; Luke 24:1-4; John 19:30-34, 42; John 20:1)

1:11. “Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last: and, What thou seest, write in a book, and send it unto the seven churches which are in Asia; unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto Pergamos, and unto Thyatira, and unto Sardis, and unto Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea.”

Jesus is the Alpha and omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last. Rev. 22:13-17. There were more churches than just these seven at this time. John was told to write to these seven real churches that existed in the days of John.

The symbolism of these seven churches were chosen to represent God's church history down through the centuries to this modern day to the time Jesus returns. The whole book of Revelation and the entire bible is for the whole Christian church through there centuries of phases, especially for these last days.

(Rev. 22:16-18; Daniel 2:28.)

The phrase, “He that has an ear let him hear what the spirit says to the churches.” (Rev. 2:7, 11, 17, 29; 3:6, 13, 22,) has an appeal for all persons to listen to the messages given to all the churches. Jesus reveals himself as one able to meet the individual needs of every human being.

1:12-16. “And I turned to see the voice that spake with me.

And being turned, I saw seven golden candlesticks; 13 And in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the pap’s with a golden girdle. 14 His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire; 15 And his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters. 16 And he had in his right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth went a sharp two-edged sword: and his countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength.”

Jesus is the originator of the light of the world. (John 1:9) Jesus was in the midst of the seven lighted lampstands. These represented seven churches. (Revelation 1:20) The light of the churches comes from him and his word. (1 Corinthians 3:11-13; Jeremiah 23:29; Jeremiah 5:14)If the candlesticks had oil, the oil represented the same thing. The Holy Spirit and the old and new testament. (Zechariah 4:2-4, 11-14; Psalm 68:13; John 1:32-34.)

Jesus has on himself a golden belt; the Old Testament priests never wore this belt. Jesus is the priest and King from Heaven. We will be Kings and priests as he leads forever. (Revelation 21:24; 20:6) “The silver haired head is a crown of glory, if it is found in the way of righteousness.” (Proverbs 16:31).

75 The fiery eyes of Jesus see through all things. (Hebrews 4:13; 1 Corinthians 3:11-17; Jeremiah 23:29; Zechariah 4:10.) The eye is the light of the body, as the bible is the light of the church.

(Matthew 6:22, 23) As gold, silver, and diamonds will get more pure and refined, under pressure, heat and fire, so will people get more pure and refined in the fiery word of God, the bible.

His feet were as shiny brass. This metal was commonly known in John’s time as Corinthian brass, used by the Greeks and Romans, made of a mixture of copper, gold and silver. It was of much more worth. (Isaiah 52:7; Ephesians 6:15; Hebrews 2:8-17.)

Fresh clean waters represent people with the pure doctrine of truth. (Revelation 17:15; 14:2; Hebrews 4:12, 13.) The source of living waters was Jesus, the living word. (John 7:37, 38; John 4:126) In his right hand Jesus had seven stars as angels which represent His ministers and pastors of his true doctrine through time, light bearers. (Daniel 12:3.) God's prophets, the bible and its followers and the church say come. (Revelation 22:8-9, 16, 17.)

John the Baptist. (Matthew 11:10, 11; Mark 1:1-5.)

Out of his mouth went a sharp two edged sword. The word of God, the old and new testament. (Matthew 5:17-22; Matthew 17:2, 3; Mark 9:2-4; John 5:39, 46-47; Matthew 10:33-37; Luke 2:25-35; Hebrews 4:12, 13; Ephesians 6:17; Revelation 1:16; Revelation 2:12, 16; Revelation 19:11-16; Isaiah 66:15-16; Isaiah 1:18-20) Just as we should speak and hold in our hands the sword of the word of truth standing on the side of the line with the bible.

(Hosea 6:1-3; Psalms 149:6-9; Matthew 10:33-37; Luke 12:49-53.)

The word of God the old and new testament rebukes and pleads, by it eternal death or eternal life, as it will be used against us or for us.

Jesus shines as the sun, shining its brightest. The gospel of Jesus Christ is the greatest light. (2 Corinthians 4:4-7; John 5:35; Matthew 17:2; Rev 12:1, 17; Rev 14:12; Rev 22:14, 17.)

1:17-20. “And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying unto me, Fear not; I am the first and the last: 18 I am he that lives, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.

19 Write the things which thou hast seen, and the things which are, and the things which shall be hereafter; 20 The mystery of the seven stars which you seen in my right hand, and the seven golden candlesticks. The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches: and the seven candlesticks which thou sawest are the seven churches.�

Sometimes whenever this person comes to a human, they would bow them self in fear. This is the same with angels. (Daniel 10:1-21; Matthew 28:2-7; Luke 24:1-7; Rev 22:8, 9.) Jesus was born in our human race; he was killed and was raised again to live forever. (Rev 22:13-16; Jesus is the rock the church is built on, and he has the keys of life and the kingdom of Heaven and of eternal death. Matthew 16:18-21; Ephesians 2:20; 1 Corinthians 3:11-14.)

From God Jesus knows the beginning from the end and tells us. (Romans 15:4; 1 Corinthians 10:11; Isaiah 46:9, 10; Isaiah 41:20-23; Isaiah 42:9; Ezekiel 12:25) Jesus also tells us in symbols and parable stories of the past present and future. (Luke 8:10; Mark 4:11-12, 33, 34; Matthew 13:11-17, 34, 35; Psalm 78:1, 2; Isaiah 6:9, 10.) David is told a parable about a rich man who steals a poor man’s lamb, at first David sees this and is angry. Then he is told he is that man, and David humbles himself and repents. (2 Samuel 12:1-24.)

77 Jesus ate butter and honey. (Isaiah 7:14, 15) To have butter, you need milk and churning back and forth in it. (Proverbs 30:33) But this is speaking of the milk of the word. (1 Peter 2:2, 3; 1 Corinthians 3:2; Hebrews 5:13, 14; John 17:17; Acts 17:11; Matthew 4:4.)

Searching the word back and forth. (Isaiah 28:9, 10.)

The honey is the Law and the word of God. (Psalm 19:7-11; Psalm 119:103.) The wicked people never eat or use this butter and honey. (Job 20:12, 16, 17.)

THE SEVEN CHURCHES Revelation Chapter 2:1-29; 3:1-22.

EPHESUS Rev. 2:1-7.

This first church was from about a.d. 31 - 100.

Ephesus means desirable.

2:1-3. “Unto the angel of the church of Ephesus write; These things saith he that holdeth the seven stars in his right hand, who walketh in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks; 2 I know thy works, and thy labor, and thy patience, and how thou canst not bear them which are evil: and thou hast tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars: 3 And hast borne, and hast patience, and for my name's sake hast labored, and hast not fainted.�

The first door of the Heavenly Holy service of Jesus opens and he begins. (Rev. 1:12-16; Rev. 4:1; Rev. 8:3-5) The door opened for the Most Holy service of Jesus begins in the seventh Trumpet. (Rev. 11:18-19) His Atonement ends before His coming.

(Rev. 22:10-14; Rev. 16:1,17; Rev. 15:1,5-8) These are personal letters from Jesus to the churches back in John's day and to all people now days. (Rev 22:16-18) Prescilla and Aquilla were two of the first ones to preach there. They taught a man named Appolos. (Acts 18:24-28.)

Paul later would come to Ephesus and stayed and worked there for three years. Timothy came and pastored it. John went there; Jesus committed his mother Mary to him. (Acts 19:10; Acts 19:1-41.)

79 There were many that claimed to be Christians. The bible and word of God reveals every person’s character. Jesus said by their fruits you will know them. (Acts 20:29, 30, 35; Matthew 7:13-20.)

2:4-7. “Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love. 5 Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou repent. 6 But this thou hast, that thou hatest the deeds of the Nicolaitanes, which I also hate. 7 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; to him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God.�

The church is the bride and if we lose our love for the husband Jesus and the gospel we first had, our relationship dies, and the church dies. (2 Corinthians 11:2; Isaiah 62:5; Ephesians 5:25; Jeremiah 6:2; 1 Peter 4:17.)

The love they had for Jesus, which can alone fulfill God's law, began to fade. (Romans 13:8-14). Nicholous believed and taught that a person could do anything he wanted and still be saved.

God's Law and his son say differently. (Job 22:22; Psalm 78:10; Matthew 5:17, 18; James 2:10-12.)

The family and Apostles kept the law, specifically the Sabbath law while Jesus kept it in his death. (Luke 23:50-56.) If we overcome this evil world (Mark 4:18-20.) we may eat freely from the tree of life in the future and spiritually now through Jesus' life and words. (John 6:63; Isaiah 66:22, 23; Rev 22:2, 14.)

SMYRNA Rev. 2:8-11.

Second Church, about a.d. 100 - 323.

This is a period of time that many Christians were being killed by the laws of the Emperors.

2:8-11. “And unto the angel of the church in Smyrna write; These things saith the first and the last, which was dead, and is alive; 9 I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan.

10 Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life. 11 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; He that overcometh shall not be hurt of the second death.”

This church gets its name from a sweet smelling myrrh plant that grew about six foot high. At the birth of Jesus the wise men brought him gold, frankincense, and myrrh. (Matthew 2:11.) Myrrh was used as a burial ointment. If this myrrh was crushed or beaten it put out much smell. This church gets its name from that aspect, because it would be crushed.

These letters are coming from the mind of Jesus. (Rev. 1:18; Luke 24:33-51) Jesus declared “I know” because he himself was one born as we and lived with suffering, trials, and poverty. “Looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.” (Hebrews 12:2; Isaiah 53:1-12)

81 The city and state was calling the Christians evil doers. (1 Peter 2:12). And Jesus said “The time will come that whoever kills you will think he does God service.” (John 16:1-3.)

We must have faith and good works. (James 2:18; Philippians 3:10.)

Patience produces the fruit of our lives, when we are in troubles of persecution, I should accept it with joy. As Paul and Silas was beaten and thrown in Jail, that night they sang praises to God and the angel of God broke open the prison doors and the bands that tied them. (Acts 16:19-36.) "For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that you through his poverty might be rich." (2 Corinthians 8:9; John 14:2.) Jesus said build up for yourselves treasure in heaven. (Matthew 6:19-21; Colossians 3:1-25; John 14:2-3; Nahum 1:9; Psalm 37:10; Isaiah 65:17-25.)

I need to be willing to let go of this old world. (Matthew 10:37; Proverbs 13:7.)

There was a Roman god called roma dia. If the Emperors did not get your allegiance, then you were persecuted. The persecution under Diocletian was the worst and lasted for ten years from a.d.

303-313. A day in bible prophecy is a year unless another meaning is used. (Numbers 14:34; Ezekiel 4:4-6; Genesis 29:20, 27-30.)

Mt. Pega was known as the crown to this Smyrna church.

Jesus said trust me to the end and I will give you something more greater, a crown of life. (James 1:12.)

“Blessed and holy is he who has part in the first resurrection, on such the second death has no power, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and will reign with him a thousand years.” (Rev 20:6-9, 14, 15; Rev 21:7, 8, 27; Rev 22:14, 15.) Hear and keep these valuable lessons, for the time is near. (Rev 22:7-10.)

This is a period of time that many Christians were being killed by the laws of the Emperors. Jesus was saying trust me I can offer you eternal life. Jesus was living proof that there is something beyond this life. (John 14:3) You and I can base our faith and trust on his words.

PERGAMOS Rev 2:12-17.

Third Church, about a.d. 324 - 538.

Pergamos represents height or elevation. A tall mountain top is where it sat. This was the capital of the Roman province of Asia.

Purgos- is a castle or tower. Gamos- is marriage. The state reached out and took the church in. Church and state was formed together.

This made pagan customs their Christianity. This city had a library with about 200,000 manuscripts in it. The temple of Zeus was here.

2:12-15. “And to the angel of the church in Pergamos write; These things saith he which hath the sharp sword with two edges; 13 I know thy works, and where thou dwellest, even where Satan's seat is: and thou holdest fast my name, and hast not denied my faith, even in those days wherein Antipas was my faithful martyr, who was slain among you, where Satan dwelleth.

14 But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a stumbling block before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed unto idols, and to commit fornication. 15 So hast thou also them that hold the doctrine of the Nicolaitanes, which thing I hate.�

83 Jesus is the one who has the double edged sword coming out of his mouth. The Old Testament and the New Testament. (Rev 1:16; Hebrews 4:12; 2 Corinthians 10:3-5; Ephesians 6:17.) Jesus described Pergamum as a city in bondage to the dictatorship of Satan. (Rev 12:9; 13:1, 2.)

There was one persecuted by them, who did uphold the True name and doctrine of Jesus. Since the church before this, Diocletian had died, later Constantine in a.d. 321 said he had seen a cross in the sun. So he took his whole army and marched them through a river and he told them they were all baptized.

Constantine wrote a law that changed the normal day of Sabbath from a Saturday to a Sunday. This was brought into this Pergamos church age, reviving idolatry and sun worship of Balaam and Baalpeor. (Numbers 22- 25:1-5; 31:13-18; Ezekiel 8:15, 16; Ezekiel 22:25-31.)

A man called Nicholas was a deacon who believed and taught against some of the teachings of Jesus. (Acts 15:28, 29.)

2:16, 17. “Repent; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will fight against them with the sword of my mouth. 17 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; to him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it.”

Jesus said “He that rejects me and receives not my words, has one that judges him, the word that I have spoken, the same will judge him in the last day.” (John 12:48; Psalm 149:6-9; Isaiah 66:16; Rev 19:13-16.) The only hope of the church was to allow

the sharp two edged sword of truth, upheld by Jesus to cut away their selfishness and pride and error. (Hebrews 4:12, 13.)

Hidden Manna of God's promises and his word. (1 Corinthians 10:3, 4; John 6:48-53, 63; Matthew 4:4.) The way the judges in this age gave their ruling decisions, was a white stone was shown to those people in court if they were found innocent, a black stone if guilty. Athletes were given a white stone with their names written in it, which gave them privileges because they had won.

Jesus knows all things, if we accept him and his bible, and his ways that are written in it and learn from these lessons, overcoming the sin of this world by beholding him he will give us a white stone and a new name written in it. (John 2:24, 25; Isaiah 62:2.)

He is our Lawyer, Judge, Witness, and can present us faultless before God's throne forever. (1 John 2:1; John 5:22-24; 1 Timothy 2:5, 6; Acts 5:30-32; Jude 1:24; Hebrews 10:10-27; 1 Peter 2:21-24.)

85

THYATIRA Rev. 2:18-29.

Fourth Church, about a.d. 538 - 1798.

Thyatira means, sweet savor of labor. Most of these people worked and were poor. This city sat on a plain. Possibly Paul and Lydia were the first to witness to this city. Here in Thyatira was a development of the color purple from the madder root tree which produced a red and purple color used for dyeing clothes, and painting.

“Now a certain woman named Lydia heard us, she was a seller of purple from the city of Thyatira... The Lord opened her heart to heed the things spoken by Paul.” (Acts 16:14.)

2:18. “And unto the angel of the church in Thyatira write; These things saith the Son of God, who hath his eyes like unto a flame of fire, and his feet are like fine brass;” It is Jesus who gives all good lessons, and to this city his word was meaningful. They had companies that made brass. They were acquainted with seeing fires that produced it.

2:19. “I know thy works, and charity, and service, and faith, and thy patience, and thy works; and the last to be more than the first.”

There works were fair. These attributes these church members had go in pares. If you love someone you will naturally want to help and serve them. If you learn of and love Jesus Christ, you will want to serve him. If you have faith then you will have patience. If you have faith trusting in someone, then you will be patient with them.

2:20-22. “Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols.

21 And I gave her space to repent of her fornication; and she repented not. 22 Behold, I will cast her into a bed, and them that commit adultery with her into great tribulation, except they repent of their deeds.”

Jezebel has been dead for about 500 years. She was the pagan wife of Ahab, an Israelite king who ruled in the 9th century BC. She persecuted God's true prophets and promoted paganism and idolatry in Israel. The spiritual meaning was in a.d. 538, the Bishop of Rome was Sylvarus; Emperor Justinian wanted to replace him. He sent his general Belisarius to replace him with Virgilus. Virgilus took the seat of the Caesar. The church now became the head of the state. This giving them religio-political power, and they persecuted many Christians. About 70,000,000 Christians were killed in between a.d. 538-1798.

The story of Elijah and the three and a half years of no rain.

Why did Elijah say these things to Ahab and Jezebel’s kingdom?

Because Elijah understood scripture. (Leviticus 26:1-4; 1 Kings 16:30-33; 17:1; 18:1; Luke 4:25; James 5:17-20.) Israel was sinning, every time a king or a nation sinned, God sent to them a messenger to teach or chasten it.

How many years did it not rain spiritually during this Thyatira church age? Each day in these three and a half years equals a year in biblical symbolism, making the number 1260 literal years. (Genesis 29:27-30; Numbers 14:34; Ezekiel 4:6; Luke 13:32) Exactly the years of this church age. a.d. 538-1798. This reference to Jezebel here is not literal here in flesh and blood, but

87 spiritual. It is talking about the time for her to repent, and she did not.

A woman represents a church. (Ephesians 5:25, 32; Jeremiah 6:2; Rev 21:2.) In Rev 17:2, 4-6, there is a bad woman church, which is for certain this Jezebel spoken of here. When a church teaches false doctrine, they are being unfaithful to the relationship of the true doctrine.

Adulterating with false doctrine in spiritual adultery and not the word of God. (James 4:4; 2 Thessalonians 2:3-14; Ezekiel 22:25-31.) Jezebel was there with Ahab leading the people away from God's word and his ten commandments.

2:23-24. “And I will kill her children with death; and all the churches shall know that I am he who searcheth the reins and hearts: and I will give unto every one of you according to your works. 24 But unto you I say, and unto the rest in Thyatira, as many as have not this doctrine, and which have not known the depths of Satan, as they speak; I will put upon you none other burden.”

And to mention the works of this Vatican papal system in one instance is when Turkish invaders beheaded 813 Italians in 1480, for refusing to convert to Islam. They had a taste of their own murderous killing rage. Most all the Emperor’s accepted the practices of this “purple and red clothed church.” (Rev 17:1-18; Rev 18:2-24.) And this church age was defiled with them. The state took in the church, and the church took in all pagan customs. Holy water, sprinkling, mass, Easter (east star) Sun worship. (Daniel 7:25; Ezekiel 22:26-31; 8:15, 16) and Christmas, the birthday of pagan sun god Tammuz and 40 day lent.

Jesus was most likely born end of Oct, 4 b.c. Only a few Christians remained faithful to Christ Jesus and his word. Most accepted the deep things of Satan's false teachings and went the path of compromise with wickedness as Jezebel, but she soon had her fate similar as this church would later. (1 Kings 16:31; 19:1-3; 21:23-25; 2 Kings 9:21-37; Revelation 17:1-18; 18:2-24.)

2:25-29. “But that which ye have already hold fast till I come.

26 And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations: 27 and he shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers: even as I received of my Father. 28 And I will give him the morning star. 29 He that hath an ear let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.�

The people of God recieved in due time the power of God to not be hurt, and to heal the sick, preach the word of truth to save souls. (1 Kings 17:17-24; Acts 3:1-16; Psalm 91; Acts 5:12-32.)

We moved into a period of dark ages also referred to as the Middle Ages, because this was the middle of the seven churches.

Before these dark ages the gospel of Jesus had expanded so greatly that by a.d. 500 the scriptures were translated in over 500 different languages. By a.d. 600 it was in only one language, Latin. Many people could not read Latin.

There were people that did not like this and moved into the mountains as the Waldenses, Albigenses and the Huguenots. And these held onto what they believed. Many gave their lives and died because of the word of God. (Rev 6:9; Daniel 7:21, 25; Rev 12:16, 17.) Jesus seen these days coming in his future. (Mark 13:14-27; Luke 21:20-28.) The abomination is related to Jerusalem being destroyed.

89 There were many who stood up for the word of God who tried to change her ways, and she did not.

Jesus, his gospel and the prophecy of his words is the morning star. (2 Peter 1:19-21.) The morning tells us the night is ending.

“I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star.” (Rev 22:16, 18.)

God did not allow the Bible to be destroyed; its truths were not to be hidden. In the different countries of Europe, men were moved by the spirit of God to search for the truth as for hid treasures. They studied the Holy Scriptures, and were willing to accept the light at any cost to themselves. We have the “Morning Star of the Reformation.” (Hebrews 9:10, 11) The reformers stood up to preach the word of God. And the light of the Reformation came up and shown across the earth. The last was more than the first.

Shining across the lands were many who stood up, here are some of those.

John Wycliffe. 1320-1384. Translated the Bible into the English language, and brought the teachings of God back to the people. About forty years after his death, the pope and bishops dug up his bones and burned them in their venting anger, by the decree of the council of Constance.

John Huss. 1372-1415. Accepted the teachings of the Bible from Wycliffe. He suffered death by burning, by the pope. When Huss was commanded to reject biblical truth or die by burning at the wooden stake, he replied, "With what face then should I behold the Heavens. How could I look upon those multitudes of men to

whom I have preached the pure gospel. No I esteem their salvation more than this old body, now appointed to death." And now when all was ready for the fire to be lighted, he was once more exhorted to save himself by renouncing his errors, and he said “what errors shall I renounce, I know myself guilty of none, I call God to witness that all I have written or preached, has been in the view of rescuing souls from sin and perdition. For most joyfully will I confer with my blood that truth which I have written and preached.”

Martin Luther. 1483-1546. Martin Luther translated the Bible in between 1521-1534. He finished the entire Bible in German. He opened a closed Bible to the people in Germany. The great thunderbolt that Martin Luther hurled at the Roman Catholic Church was that of the righteousness by faith alone. He added the word ‘alone’ to the German Bible, in Romans 3:28. In contrast to the papacy teaching of righteousness by works. By a decree of the pope, and indulgence was promised to all who would climb upon their knees up a staircase, which was said to be Pilate’s staircase.

And to do so as to pay for their sin.

Martin Luther was climbing these steps when suddenly a voice like thunder seemed to say to him, “The just shall live by faith.” He sprung upon his feet and rushed away from that place in shame and horror. That bible verse never lost its power over his soul. From that time on he saw more clearly the error of trusting to human works for salvation. Luther firmly declared that Christians should accept only doctrines that rest on the authority of the scriptures. Martin Luther declared, “We are of the conviction that the papacy is the seat of the real antichrist.” (Quoted in Leroy Froom. The prophetic faith of our fathers. Vol. 2. Pg. 256.)

“They [Roman Catholics] refer to the Sabbath Day, as having been changed into the Lord's Day, contrary to the Decalogue, as it seems. Neither is there any example whereof they make more than concerning the changing of the Sabbath Day. Great, say they, is the power of the Church, since it has dispensed with one of the Ten

91 Commandments!” (Augsburg Confession of Faith art. 28; written

by Melanchthon, approved by Martin Luther, 1530; as published in The Book of Concord of the Evangelical Lutheran Church Henry Jacobs, ed. (1911), p. 63) William Tyndale. 1494-1536. spread the Bible to England in their language and completed the work of John Wycliffe. William Tyndale said, ‘All doctrines must be tested by the scriptures of the Bible.’ For his faith he was imprisoned and burned at the stake. On September 5, 1538. King Henry ordered every church in England to display one book of the whole Bible in English. It remains as a memorial there to William Tyndale.

Hugh Latimer. 1475-1555. Proclaimed, “Do you know who is the most diligent bishop in England? It is the Devil. He is never out of his diocese, you will never find him idle, where the devil is resident, there away with books, and up with candles, away with bibles, and up with beads, away with the light of the gospel, and up with the light of wax tapers, yea, at noon day, down with Christ's cross, up with purgatory pick purse, away with clothing the naked, the poor, the impotent, up with the decking of images and the gay garnishing’s of stones and stocks, down with God and his most holy word, up with traditions, human councils, and a blinded pope.

Oh that our prelates would be as diligent to sow the corn of good doctrine as Satan is to sow cockle and darnel.” (Great Controversy. p. 248. 1888) He was prisoned for many years by bloody Mary the queen, and eventually led out with Ridley and Cranmer, fellow reformers, to be burned at the stake on October 16, 1555. Some of Latimers last words before burning were, ‘Be of good comfort, master Ridley, and play the man, we shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.’

John Calvin. 1509-1564. Speaking of the Pope, he said, “I deny him to be the Vicar of Christ... He is antichrist, I deny him to be head of the church.” (John Calvin tracts, vol. 1, pp. 219,220) John Knox. 1514-1570. The reformer of Scotland. He said, "That tyranny which the Pope himself has for so many ages exercised over the church, the very antichrist and son of perdition of whom Paul speaks."

John Wesley. 1703-1791. His followers numbered over a half a million people by the teachings of the Bible alone. John Wesley declared, 'Roman papacy, he is the man of sin.' (John Wesley, Antichrist and his ten kingdoms, pg. 110.) “But, the moral law contained in the Ten Commandments, and enforced by the prophets, he [Christ] did not take away. It was not the design of his coming to revoke any part of this. This is a law which never can be broken.... Every part of this law must remain in force upon all mankind, and in all ages; as not depending either on time or place, or any other circumstances liable to change, but on the nature of God and the nature of man, and their unchangeable relation to each other.” (John Wesley, The Works of the Rev. John Wesley, A.M., John Emory, ed. (New York: Eaton & Mains), Sermon 25, vol. 1, p. 221.)

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SARDIS Rev. 3:1-6.

Fifth church, about a.d. 1798 - 1833.

Means that which remains.

3:1-3. “And unto the angel of the church in Sardis write; These things saith he that hath the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars; I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest, and art dead. 2 Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die: for I have not found thy works perfect before God. 3 Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee.�

The holy spirit of the word comes from Jesus. It was given to him and he gives it to us. He has and is able to give us the seven messages and the seven churches through the ages as pastors who are as bright stars that have the spirit of his word. The reformation had been cleaning his church. (Daniel 12:3.) The reformation had brought in hope and pure word to the people. Many reformers taught the Bible truth that the Roman Catholic Church was the antichrist and the beast.

Not many were added to the truth message. Many were biblically dead and without knowledge. The council of Trent confirmed that the Roman Catholic Church made a stand to have scripture with their traditions they had created. (Matthew 15:7-9; Daniel 7:25; Ezekiel 22:25-31; Daniel 8:9-12, 23-26.)

This council began a false reformation against the truth and the Bible. The Pope sent two men to get the blame off of the Catholic Church. These priests taught and wrote about the predister and futurist view of the bible.

The predister view takes the prophecies and puts them all in the past, saying they have already been fulfilled. The futurist view says everything after chapter four of revelation is in the future.

These both are wrong. The reformers who brought the Bible back into their languages were historicists. We today are of a historical view.

This period of time many different denominations were formed, each with a different list of teachings. Formalism came in and spiritual death resulted.

3:4-6. “Thou hast a few names even in Sardis which have not defiled their garments; and they shall walk with me in white: for they are worthy. 5 He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels. 6 He that hath an ear let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.�

There were some who maintained pure characters. (Isaiah 64:6.) Christ promised victory symbolized by the white garments and eternal life to the overcomers of error and false teachings and sin of the world. (Matthew 10:32; Luke 12:8; Isaiah 1:16-18; Rev. 7:9-17; Luke 2:10; Isaiah 61:10,11; Lamentations 3:58; Ecclesiastes 12:13; Isaiah 64:6; Zechariah 3:1-4; Romans 13:14; Galatians 3:27; Colossians 3:10-14; Ephesians 6;10-18; Psalm 91;4; Psalm 31:23; Rev. 22:11,12,14.)

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PHILADELPHIA Rev. 3:7-13.

Sixth church, about a.d. 1833-1844.

3:7,8. “And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write; These things saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of David, he that openeth, and no man shutteth; and shutteth, and no man openeth; 8 I know thy works: behold, I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it: for thou hast a little strength, and hast kept my word, and hast not denied my name.�

The brother of Aldeus Philadelphias was the king of Lydia. In a.d.

17 an earthquake destroyed the city and Emperor Tiberius rebuilt it.

Philadelphia became a Christian base to take the gospel to Asia. It was God's open door to a new continent. The church was faithful and was committed to God, and his word. God blessed their faithfulness and opened a door for them to share His love and grace throughout the Mediterranean region.

This city controlled a narrow path that opened between the Hermos and Merandian valley. To get to this valley you had to go through this pass. The officials who lived here controlled who went through this pass. They had the key that opened for the people, the other part of Asia Minor. There were large pillars in this pass way.

We heard previously how the counter-reformation had brought the true reformation and gospel of Jesus to a stop. Many people had lost their light and witness they had gotten from the true reformation. They were as a body and movement dead. In the end of the 1700's Thomas Paine wrote a book called ' The age of reason.' He warred against the bible and many stopped believing in it. France led this out and killed many by guillotine. In 1796 things were very bad. France voted the bible back into their society. And

because of the working of God began the British bible society in 1804. The American bible society in 1816. Men began to stand up and preach. Foreign missions and revivals started to go around the world.

Jesus who has the key of David, a symbol of his authority to lead and govern his people, opened the door. (Isaiah 22:20-22.)

Also has the keys of life from death. (Mathew 16:19; John 6:40, 63; Rev 1:18.)

God's temple plan in heaven has two rooms. The first door was when he entered heaven after his resurrection of death and the cross forty days later to intercede for all people. (Daniel 7:13, 14; Hebrews chapters 8; 9; 10.) He passed through the second door into the most holy place of Heaven in the seventh church of Laodicea, in 1844. Daniel 7:9,10,26,27; Daniel 8:14; Psalm 51:1-14; Rev 11:18,19; Rev 14:6,7,12-14; Hebrews 10:19-27.) Many years ago Jesus began inviting everyone to the Judgment/Atonement. He is the one holy and true high priest to present you faultless before his Father. He is your Lawyer and Judge. (1 John 2:1; John 5:22-25)

3:9-10. “Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee. 10 Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.�

A Jew Inwardly represents a true follower of Christ. All the promises of old are now given to spiritual Israel. (Galatians 3:29; Romans 2:28, 29.) True followers will have his care during the time of trouble, plagues and second coming.

97 “God keeping the covenant and mercy to them that love him and to them that keep his commandments.” (Daniel 9:4.) “A thousand shall fall at your side, and ten thousand at your right hand, but it will not come near you. Only with your eyes will you behold and see the reward of the wicked.” (Psalm 91:7, 8.)

3:11. “Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown.”

Esau had the birthright and blessings, he gave it away for a bowl of beans, and Jacob took his place. Saul was anointed king if he obeyed God, but he did not. David took his place and received the promise that Jesus would come from his lineage. Judas, one of the twelve apostles lost his place and understanding the plan of Jesus, and Mathias took his place. Will we let someone take our crown and take our place in the kingdom and this earth made new.

3:12, 13. “Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name.

13 He that hath an ear let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.”

In many of the temples and buildings they would write people’s names on the pillars, particularly those who donated large amounts of money or if they were a leader or Emperor. God is calling us who overcome sin, pillars in his new kingdom because they stood firm for what was right. (Ezekiel 44:23, 24.) He will write upon us his new name, ‘The Lord our Righteousness’ (Jeremiah 23:6.) God's name is the seal of God in the minds of our foreheads. (Rev 9:4; Rev 22:4; Name title and territory. Exodus 20:11)

His gospel seal. (Ephesians 1:13, 14; 4:30; 2 Timothy 2:15, 19; 2 Corinthians 1: 22, 24; John 14:16, 17; 15:3; 16:13-15, 28-33.)

The name of the city is New Jerusalem. (Rev 21:2.)

Now the name of our God and his new city are written in our crowns to show we are his people and we belong to him. (Exodus 28:36, 37; Leviticus 8:9; Amos 5:26, 27.)

LAODICEA Rev. 3:14-22.

Seventh church, 1844 - Jesus returns.

Laodicea means a people Judged or the church of the Heavenly Judgment hour.

Laodicea was destroyed in a.d. 60 by an earthquake. The citizens refused help from Rome to rebuild. They said we have enough money to rebuild. There was many chariot and horse races here. A stadium here seated over ten thousand people. Through the old and new testaments God points out all the characteristics of his people, and last day people.

The remnant is the last. (Rev 12:17.) The testimony of Jesus and his witness is his doctrine. (Rev 19:10; Hebrews 10:16.)

Years earlier many men began to study the prophecies. They believed from Daniel 8 and 9 that the cleansing of the sanctuary was to be this earth by fire, and that Jesus was coming back. After the disappointment, they read more that Jesus went from the holy to the most holy in Heaven in 1844. (Daniel 7:9, 10; Daniel 8:14.)

This is when he came to his Father as our mediator and high priest to atone, cleanse and plead our case before the Father,

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3:14. “And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; these things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God,” The word Amen in this verse refers to the name of Jesus. As Christ is giving the message, he is saying this is it. When we are finished praying, we say Amen. This means the prayer is finished.

Jesus is saying these seven messages to the church ages are finished. This is the last message to our day.

Jesus is the true witness of God himself, and of the truth. The faithfulness of keeping truth is only shown through Jesus. And Jesus is the creator of all things. (1 Timothy 3:16; John 1:1-18; Genesis 1:1-31. 2: 1-3; Isaiah 42: 4-12; Isaiah 44: 24; Isaiah 45:1725; Nehemiah 9: 6,13,14; John 1:1-14; Colossians 1:13-17; 1 Corinthians 10: 1-4; Revelation 4:11.)

“So that you come short in no gift, eagerly waiting for the revelation of the Lord Jesus Christ.” (1 Corinthians 1:7; 1 Peter 1:13.)

“And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven having the everlasting Gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people. Saying with a loud voice, fear God and give glory to him, for the hour of His Judgment has come, and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters.” (Rev 14:6, 7.)

3:15. “I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.”

The people had many uses for the water if it was hot or cold.

(Matthew 7:21-23; 1 John 2:3-7.)

3:16. “So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.”

The waters that flowed here from the hot springs of the city of Hierapolis flowed in channels and pipes over the hills to Laodicea.

By the time the hot waters reached Laodicea, the waters cooled, making it warm. If one drank this water, it tasted like gas and you would have spit it out. This meaning the church the way it was, was warm and not desirable or fruitful. (Mark 4:19)

3:17-19. “Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked: 18 I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eye salve, that thou mayest see. 19 As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.”

Laodicea had garment industries and made black cloth from black sheep’s hair. They had a medicine used as an eye ointment.

These people were rich they thought with their goods, businesses.

Jesus is speaking out to these people as well as us today. (Rev 22:16, 18.)

Describing the spiritualness of the church back then as well as today, it was very much in need. If we ask him he will give to us.

(Mathew 25:1-2, 6-10; Zechariah 4:12-14; Isaiah 55:1; Proverbs 23:23.) Soon it will be too late. (Amos 8:12.)

Gold represents the heavenly character and faith of Jesus in us and gets purer through the fire of his word and law and yes persecution. (Rev. 6:9-11.)

“That the genuineness of your faith, being much more precious than gold that perishes, though it is tested by fire, may be found to praise, honor, and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ.” (1 Peter 1:7; Psalm 19:7-10.) Fire also represents the word of God. (1 Corinthians 3:11-13; Jeremiah 23:29; Jeremiah 5:14.) Rich in faith

101 that works by love. (Galatians 5:6; James 2:5; Job 23:10.) In Christ Jesus. (Philippians 3:9; Rev. 14:12.)

White Raiment represents Jesus’ robe of righteousness to cover us. (Isaiah 61:10; Rev 19:8.) We receive it by beholding and believing in Jesus, and following his footsteps. (2 Corinthians 3:18; Zechariah 3:1-5; Romans 1:17; 1 John 3:2-12; James 2:14-26; Job 29:14; Isaiah 64:6; Romans 13:14; Galatian 3:27; Colossian 3:1014; Ephesians 6:10-18; Psalm 91:4; Psalm 31:23; Rev 22:11,12; James 4:6-10.)

Eye salve ointment means to understand God’s word. (John 14:26; Ephesians 1:17-19; Ephesians 4:11-13; Psalm 119:18,105; 1 John 2:20, 27-29; 2 Corinthians 4) We see his grace, love and plan in Jesus. (Romans 3:24; Romans 5:9-11.) Stories, parables and prophecy is understood spiritually and symbolically and it opens our eyes. (1 Corinthians 2:12-16; 2 Timothy 3:14-17.)

3:20-22. “Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hears my voice, and opens the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me. 21 To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne. 22 He that hath an ear let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.”

If we will hear him, the door opens for us to learn from Jesus.

(John 10:1-4, 9, 14-16, 25-27; Luke 24:13-48.) He is the wisest teacher. (Psalm 78:2; Psalm 119:16; Job 33:3; Isaiah 50:3-6; Luke 2:40-49; John 7:41-46; Matthew 13:34,35.)

The overcomers of the wickedness of this life had a better future in mind to be up in Heaven with Jesus when he comes for them. And they did not accept worldliness and did not receive the

false Sunday worship created by the government and pope. (Rev 20:4,6.) “In my Father's house are many mansions, if it were not so I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you, and if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you unto myself, that where I am, there you may be also. And where I go, you know, and the way you know.� (John 14:2-4.)

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THE THRONE IN HEAVEN Revelation Chapter 4:1-11 God’s throne, 24 Elders, Sea of glass, 4 living creatures, praising God. 4:1-3. “After this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me; which said, Come up hither, and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter. 2 And immediately I was in the spirit: and, behold, a throne was set in heaven, and one sat on the throne. 3 And he that sat was to look upon like a jasper and a sardine stone: and there was a rainbow round about the throne, in sight like unto an emerald.”

Jesus is allowing John to see things and write down what will happen in the future course of time from the literal and symbolic meaning of chapter four through the next chapters of the seals and trumpets.

God the Father sat on the throne, later in chapter 5:7 it says the lamb comes to the one on the throne. His appearance was as a jasper and sardius stone. These are a light yellow orange and red color. Amber is a clear yellow orange. The rainbow around him was as a clear light green emerald easy to see through. A soft clear mist of colors as the bow in the clouds on a rainy day. God and Jesus both have light. (Rev 21:23; 1 Timothy 6:16; Psalm 104:1,2; Ezekiel 1:1,4,25-28; Psalms 80:1; Matthew 17:1,2.) There is a river

of life coming out of the throne close where God is. (Rev 22:1, 5, 17.)

4:4, 5. “And round about the throne were four and twenty seats: and upon the seats I saw four and twenty elders sitting, clothed in white raiment; and they had on their heads crowns of gold. 5 And out of the throne proceeded lightnings and thunderings and voices: and there were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God.” Many saints were resurrected and ascended to Heaven with new bodies at the cross as Jesus had after his resurrection.

(Matthew 27:52, 53.) These twenty four have the same gifts that all the saved will get at the return of Jesus. They have on white robes and gold crowns. They each have a harp.

Harps and Incense were used for worship and prophecy during the 24 courses of the sanctuary of old. (1 Chronicles 1-31; 2 Kings 3:15; Rev. 22:9-10) These elders have golden bowls full of incense which are the prayers of the saints. (Rev 5:8; Rev 15:2,3; Psalms 141:1,2,6; Psalms 145:18; Proverbs 28:9; Proverbs 15:29; John 11:25,39-44) Harp symbolizes the bible a tool used in Judgment.

Fire and sword are a symbol of the word. (Isaiah 66:16) The twenty four elders are the antitype and what the twenty four courses of the priests of the old Jewish economy pointed. (1 Chronicles 24:1-19.) The job of Zacharias was to burn incense in the temple. These twenty four courses of the priests were still happening up to the time of Jesus. (Luke 1:5-10) Pointing forward to our bible, the twelve patriarchs representing the old and the twelve apostles the New Testament.

(Genesis 49; Rev 21:12-27.) “We are built on the prophets and apostles, Jesus Christ being the chief cornerstone.” (Ephesians 2:20; Ephesians 4:10-13; Ephesians 3:2-6; Mathew 5:17; Luke 24:25-27, 44.)

105 These represent the faithful and true ministers of Jesus and the different characters of the redeemed families.

Seven lamps burning which are the spirits of God. (Isaiah 11:1-9; Rev 1:4; Rev 3:1; Rev 5:6; Zechariah 4:10; Psalms 12:6; Isaiah 6:3.) The earthly holy places and the furniture pointed forward to Jesus and his ongoing ministry in the Heavenly sanctuary above. (Hebrews 8:5; and chapters 7-10.)

In royal clothes as a priest Jesus is tending the lamp of a universal church through time. (Rev 22:16-18.) He has a continual service keeping them burning. (Rev. 1-3)

4:6. “And before the throne there was a sea of glass like unto crystal:” There is a sea of glass clear as a sapphire diamond around the throne in Heaven. Under the feet of Jesus when he comes to earth will be a sapphire glass platform. As it enters in above the earth it will be very large and fire and clouds and angels under and all around it. It is written that there will be seven plagues then the saved will get to stand on it with Jesus. (Rev 15:1,2; Exodus 24:10; Ezekiel 1:4,25,26; Rev 14:14,19; Rev 6:14-17; Exodus 19; Exodus 20.)

4:6-8. “And in the midst of the throne, and round about the throne, were four beasts full of eyes before and behind. 7 And the first beast was like a lion, and the second beast like a calf, and the third beast had a face as a man, and the fourth beast was like a flying eagle.

8 And the four beasts had each of them six wings about him; and they were full of eyes within: and they rest not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come.”

The four living creatures symbolize the whole New Testament church in character and chronology under the gospel dispensation of four stages of trial the church passes through.

(Ephesians 3:1-6; Colossians 1:24-29) The four living creatures are typified by the four divisions of the Jewish camp under Moses. To the east, first was the Lion of the tribe of Judah and marched behind the Ark, and represented the time of the Apostles when the church went forth bold as a lion, preaching the gospel to every nation. This represented Jesus as king, and he is the lion of the tribe of Judah. (Rev 5:5.) The book of Matthew traces the royal lineage from Abraham to David, and from David to Jesus.

To the west, second in the march was the calf or ox of the tribe of Ephraim, and represented the second age of the church in the times of slaughter and persecution by the Roman emperors.

Jesus was the peace offering between us and the Father, and suffered for our sins. (Numbers 7:88; Exodus 24:5; Ephesians 2:1315; John 14:6; John 1:29-30, 36; John 3:14-17; Hebrews 7-10.) The book of John shows us that Jesus was our sacrifice and servant.

To the south, third was the man of the tribe of Ruben. The third age of the church was the days of Constantine when the church became independent and was worldly and proud as a man.

Jesus became a man to redeem sinful and fallen away man.

(Philippians 2:8.) The book of Luke explains to us our savior who came into humanity through the lineage of Adam, and is referred to as the son of man through scripture.

To the north, fourth was the eagle of the tribe of Dan. This church age of when the anti-Christian government arose persecuting true Christians. The pure church was given wings of an eagle; she flew into the wilderness and was nourished 1260 years.

(Rev 12:6, 14.) Jesus the son of God is divine. (Psalms 104:1-4; Acts 1:9-11.) The book of Mark records the most miracles done by Jesus.

107 These four creatures are the same that Isaiah calls Seraphim’s. (Isaiah 6:1-3.) Ezekiel differs calling them Cherubim’s. (Ezekiel chapters 1 and 10.)

The wings symbolize the graces of the spirit. “And they went everyone straight forward; whither the spirit was to go they went; and they turned not when they went.” “With two they covered their face” (humility and repentance), “with two they covered their feet” (that is, they walked by two of the graces, faith and patience, faith in God and patient in tribulation) “and with two they did fly” (hope and love. They “mount up with wings as eagles, they shall run and not be weary, walk and not faint.” Isaiah 40:31.)

Full of eyes in front and back, around and within. They look back and see the sin they were saved from. They look forward remembering their savior and in faith believe the promises of God. They look into their own hearts and minds and desire the need to put off the old man of sin and his deeds. Symbolically Jesus is said to have seven eyes, representing understanding, revealing, knowledge, and perfect righteous judgment. (Isaiah 11:2-4; Psalm 66:7; Ephesians 1:17, 18.)

4:9-11. “And when those beasts give glory and honor and thanks to him that sat on the throne, who lives for ever and ever, 10 The four and twenty elders fall down before him that sat on the throne, and worship him that liveth for ever and ever, and cast their crowns before the throne, saying, 11 Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honor and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.”

To God we give thanks and praise for what he has done for us and for all things that he created. (Genesis 1:1-31. 2: 1-3; Isaiah 42:4-12; Isaiah 44:24; Isaiah 45:17-25; Nehemiah 9: 6,13,14; John 1:1-14; Colossians 1:13-17; 1 Corinthians 10: 1-4; Rev 14:6,7; Exodus 20:11.)

JESUS IS WORTHY Revelation Chapter 5:1-14.

5:1-7. “And I saw in the right hand of him that sat on the throne a book written within, and on the backside sealed with seven seals. 2 And I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice, Who is worthy to open the book, and to loose the seals thereof? 3 And no man in heaven, nor in earth, neither under the earth, was able to open the book, neither to look thereon. 4 And I wept much, because no man was found worthy to open and to read the book, neither to look thereon. 5 And one of the elders saith unto me, Weep not: behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, hath prevailed to open the book, and to loose the seven seals thereof. 6 And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth. 7 And he came and took the book out of the right hand of him that sat upon the throne.�

God the Father is sitting on his throne and has a scroll with messages sealed with seven seals. There is none found on earth or Heaven who is able to open and reveal the messages. One of the Elders said there is one and he is Jesus who he referred to, the lion of the tribe of Judah, the root of David as in Matthew chapter 1 shows the lineage from Abraham to David and from David to Jesus.

The lamb is Jesus and the seven horns are a symbol of perfect power, the seven eyes is a symbol of understanding, knowledge, and perfect righteous Judgment. The seven spirits go through the whole earth. (Isaiah 11:2-4; Psalm 66:7; Ephesians 1:17, 18.)

Jesus went and took the scroll from his Father's hand.

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5:8-14. “And when he had taken the book, the four beasts and four and twenty elders fell down before the Lamb, having every one of them harps, and golden vials full of odors, which are the prayers of saints. 9 And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation; 10 And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth.

11 And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne and the beasts and the elders: and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands; 12 Saying with a loud voice, Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honor, and glory, and blessing.

13 And every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, heard I saying, Blessing, and honor, and glory, and power, be unto him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb for ever and ever. 14 And the four beasts said, Amen.

And the four and twenty elders fell down and worshipped him that liveth for ever and ever.�

As the high priest entered on the Day of Atonement first into the holy place he took a burning coal sprinkled with incense made his offering for the people with much incense, a cloud ascended from the censer up the curtain of angels first. Today in heaven those who once lived on earth and was resurrected and ascended up sometime after Jesus crucifixion, (Matt. 27:50-54) representatives to every kindred, people and nation that had passed through every age of earthly experience with the help of God and his angels hold the prayers offered by repented sinners, given by the angels voices

(verse 11) and present them before Jesus. Jesus ascended to Heaven 40 days after his resurrection to his holy service inauguration.

Repentance is a sweet odor before our God, it tells of our sorrow for our sin, and the acceptance of the life of Jesus Christ.

(Matthew 27:50, 52, 53) (Rev 11:16,17) The four living creatures and the twenty four elders lead first in worshipping the lamb, Jesus at his ascension to Heaven forty days after his crucifixion, because Jesus redeemed them from the earth by his blood and made them kings and priests. They are helping God and Jesus in the Judging and justifying of earths people. (810). Later their seen in the Most holy last service.

Kings because it was promised and priests because of being assistant's with Jesus in his priestly mediation. All the redeemed and saved from the earth give thanks and praise to Jesus and the Father who sits on the throne, who lives forever and ever. (11-14; Rev 4:11) All who were born on this earth since Adam and Eve to the coming of Jesus, who are saved will inherit again this new created earth to live on together for eternity. We will get to live with them in truth and peace as we are all promised these same gifts. (Rev. 20)

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THE SEVEN SEALS Revelation Chapter 6:1-17; 8:1 The future of the Christian church is revealed in four horses and natural events.

1. What did John see in the hand of Him who sat on the throne of God? “And I seen in the right hand of Him that sat on the throne a book written within, and on the backside sealed with seven seals.”

(Revelation 5:1) 2. Why did John cry when it appeared that no one would open the book?

John had been told in Revelation 4:1 that this vision would have to do with “things which must be hereafter.” and it appeared that no one in Heaven or on earth could open it.

3. Who was able to open the sealed book?

“And one of the elders said unto me, Cry not: behold, the lion of the tribe of Juda, the root of David, has prevailed to open the book, and to loose the seven seals thereof. And I beheld, and there, in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a lamb as it had been killed, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of God sent forth into all the earth. And he came and took the book out of the right hand of him that sat upon the throne.” (Revelation 5:5-7) Jesus Christ took the book and broke the seals to open the book, because he was worthy. This chapter covers 2000 years of

human history. This vision is about the condition of Gods church from the time of Jesus Christ to his glorious return. It reveals the Judgment and results of it, and events that happen. The seven horns are a symbol of perfect power, the seven eyes is a symbol of understanding, knowledge, and perfect righteous Judgment. The seven spirits go through the whole earth. (Isaiah 11:2-4; Psalm 66:7)

SEAL 1.

The first condition of the church, a.d. 31 – 100.

6:1,2. “And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see. 2 And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.”

In Zechariah 10:3. The prophet compares Gods people to a horse. This was the time period of the 12 Apostles (a.d. 31 - 100.)

The church remained pure and is represented by the white horse. It grew rapidly, the gospel went everywhere. The bow and arrows were the words. (Ezekiel 39:3.) In Job's day it seems the Bow of steal was called a sword. (Job 20:24, 25) The word of God, the bible, the old and new testaments is a double edge sword (Hebrews 4:12) The apostles of Jesus taught the whole word of God, with power and pureness from God. (Colossians 1:23; Acts 20:27-30; Acts 5:14, 29-32) Within 70 years the church went from 12 to about 5,000,000. Symbolically Jesus is riding a white horse when he returns. (Rev 19:11)

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SEAL 2.

The second condition of the church, about a.d. 100 – 313.

6:3, 4. “And when he had opened the second seal, I heard the second beast say, come and see. 4 And there went out another horse that was red: and power was given to him that sat thereon to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another: and there was given to him a great sword.”

This was a period of conflict (a.d. 100 - 313.) Truth began to be adulterated, as by the changing color of the horse. Because much truth was not followed, the sword and bloodshed followed.

Paul had talked about an apostasy in (Acts 20:28-30; 2 Thess 2:7) and this is the time period when this was fulfilled. Rome had turned its hatred upon the church.

SEAL 3.

The third condition of the church, about a.d. 313 – 538.

6:5, 6. “And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, come and see. And I beheld, and lo, a black horse, and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hands. 6 And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny, and see thou not hurt the oil and the wine.”

This was a period of error, sorrow, defeat, and moral darkness (a.d. 313 - 538.) These prices are famine prices. Barley was less sustaining than wheat for nutrition and health. This represents the real famine for the word of God and the real truth of God in this period when the world walked into the church. Traditions began to be placed above the bible. The state began to interfere in matters of religion and the church, and a cheaper spiritual food was offered to the people. Spiritual wheat is the Word of God, the “Bread of

Life.” "I am the bread of life, he who comes to me shall never hunger, and he who believes in me shall never thirst... The words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life." (John 6:35, 63) The roots of grapevines and olive trees dig down much deeper than the roots of wheat and barley. Famine does no harm to them and spiritually the oil and wine is easy to get In this time of widespread famine for truth and the pure word, The wine, "For this is my blood of the New Testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins." (Matthew 26:26-29) The new wine of true doctrine and his covenant must be given to newly converted people and it will be kept. (Luke 5:37-38) The oil of the Holy Spirit and grace guides us in the word of God. (Zechariah 4:6-14) Jesus has the Holy Spirit and covenant available to the people. These times brought in traditions of men, worshipping of saints, relics, idols, false Sabbath. (Colossians 2:18-22)

SEAL 4.

The fourth condition of the church, about a.d. 538 – 1517.

6:7, 8. “And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, come and see. 8 And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was death, and hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.”

This is the church of the dark ages (a.d. 538 - 1517.) During this time Justinian, the emperor of the east Roman kingdoms, made the Pope a god. The Pope's church was a mixture of church and government power. A fourth part of earth was the Popes territory at this time. Millions were put to death by sword, hunger, locked in jails, and killed by wild animals as a sport in coliseums and arenas.

115 Compare to Ezekiel 14:21-23. They were forced or killed if they did not accept the Roman Catholic gods and keep the first day, Sunday holy. Many were killed for keeping the bible seventh-day Sabbath, Saturday. Almost all bibles were taken away and burned.

But the Christians stayed faithful to the God of the Bible.

(Revelation 12:17) Compare (Ezekiel 22:25-31 and Ezekiel 44:23, 24) A quote from the Pope in a.d. 1075. - I have the power to dispose of temporal and spiritual leaders; the priests hold legislative and judicial powers over all Christians. (Pope Gregory, 1075. World book, pg. 663,664; 2008, peak of papal power.) In between a.d. 1347-1352. The bubonic plague killed about 20 million people. Dieing of diseases many could not plow or harvest fields. Towns and cities once supplied with much food now faced hunger.

SEAL 5.

Explains the Judgment and the return of Jesus, about a.d.

1517 – 1755.

6:9-11. “And when he had opened the fifth seal, I seen under the alter the souls of them that were killed for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held: 10 And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, doest thou not Judge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?

11 And white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellow servants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were should be fulfilled.”

Who were the souls under the altar? These were the martyrs who were put to death during the previous period of Seal 4. These souls were not alive. As Abel by faith he still speaks. His blood cries out as a witness from the ground against the guilty. (Genesis 4:10; Hebrews 11:4.) These souls are alive only when they receive their white robes when Jesus returns. (Revelation 20:4-6; John 5:28, 29.) Why were these souls under the alter? Death had come for two reasons: They had been killed for their "stand for the bible" and because of their "Testimony for Christ." During this period from (a.d. 1517 - 1755.)

This is the time of the reformation and thousands gave their hearts to Jesus. In John Calvin’s day about 500,000 Frenchmen became Christian. Many died by persecution. a.d. 1560.

A change was taking place and persecution slowing. The image of the beast in this period was Sunday worship erected. ("The church is above the bible and this transference of Sabbath observance is proof of that fact. - The Catholic record of London Ontario Canada, September 1, 1923) (Daniel 7:25-27) Also this revealed that later there would be more fellow servants killed as they were, for the word of God, and the testimony of Jesus Christ.

(Rev. 6:11; Rev 12:17; Rev 14:12, 13; Rev 20:4) The white robes will be literal. Obtaining them comes from the gift of the righteousness of Christ, we accept and put on. (Rev 7:9, 14; Rev 19:8; Matthew 22:11-14) This seal asks "how long, O Lord Doest thou not Judge our blood." This shows the Judgment began after the persecution of these people. The investigative Judgment began in 1844. (Daniel 8:9-14) God’s final decision as to who will have eternal life or eternal death. The end of the 6th seal shows the "results of this investigative Judgment."

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SEAL 6.

Explains events of the time before the Judgment began, and the results of this Judgment. a.d. 1755 – Return of Jesus.

6:12-17. “And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sacloth of hair, and the moon became as blood; 13 And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind.

14 And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places; 15 And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every freeman, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains; 16 And said to the mountains and rocks, fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the lamb: 17 For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?”

This seal is different from the first four by showing events which mark the signs of the times the church is in, other than conditions of the church. (Matthew 16:1-3.)

In (November 1, 1755 was the Great Quake of Lisbon Portugal. Great Controversy, chapters 17, 18.) (In May 19, 1780 the Sun became black and the moon looked as blood that night.

Connecticut Historical records and Milo bostick in Stones history of Massachusetts.) (And in November 13, 1833. The Great star shower. Peter A Millman, "The Falling of the Stars" The Telescope.) We are living in between verse 13 and 14, for the heavens did not depart and open as a scroll yet. The last quote of this verse is, "who shall be able to stand? The next Chapter 7 tells

us. The 144,000 are the ones who have the Seal of God, which is the name of the Lord in our foreheads before he comes back. (Rev. 22:4) This period of time is from 1755 to the return of Jesus when the seventh seal is broken and then the skies will roll away as a scroll.

1. The twelve apostles asked Jesus, "What are the signs of your coming"?

“And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars, and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity, the sea and the waves roaring, men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken. And then shall they see the son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth near.” (Luke 21:25-28) 2. When will these signs happen?

“Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of heavens shall be shaken, and then shall the sign of the son of man in heaven, and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.”

(Matthew 24:29, 30) (Matthew 24:21-44) (Mark 13:19-37) (Luke 17:22-37) (Joel 2:28-30) (Joel 3:14-18) The period of “tribulation” dates from a.d. 538 - 1798.

Known as the dark ages when there was a union of church and state government rule. There was much persecution in that time. Public persecution stopped in 1773. About 25 years before 1798. Why? God Said “If those days had not been cut short, no one would survive, but for the sake of the elect, those days will be shortened.”

(Matthew 24:22) There was a revival for 25 years that gave the bible and the gospel to the people and the opportunities for

119 religious freedom. And in 1798, pope Pius the 6th was imprisoned

by Napoleons general, Berthier. And he died there. Persecution had stopped for a temporary season, for the Gospel to go to all the peoples of the world. (Revelation 14:6-14) Jesus says, "In those days, after that tribulation, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars of heaven shall fall." (Mark 13:24, 25) The first sign in the sky was to happen "after the days of persecution" had ended and yet “In those days" or just before 1798.

The sun was darkened and that night the moon reflected the color of red, like blood. (May 19, 1780.)

The Great Star shower happened on the night of (November 13, 1833) The heavens seemed blazing over North America and as far south as Mexico and the island of Jamaica. Many could see clearly to read a newspaper through the whole nights of the falling stars. Men became sober believing the Day of Judgment had arrived.

Today we have been having many money problems around the world. And it will end with ruin and death, as never before.

Disasters are more and more today and will get worse. The sun getting hotter, more floods, earthquakes, famines. "The seas and the waves roaring." In 2005 there were 13 bad hurricanes that hit the east coast of America and Mexico. And many of the islands surrounding. We have had many Tsunamis hitting many countries, caused by under ocean earthquakes and other disasters.

In Hosea 4:1-10, it says because there is no truth in the land or God, and much evil, the land will mourn and all that lives in it.

The beasts of the land, and the birds of the sky, and the fish of the sea will be taken away. Today there are many animals’ inland and sea dieing around the world because of manmade and natural

causes. These disasters will continue to culminate and be used against earths inhabitants good or bad.

SEAL 7.

The coming of Jesus.

8:1. “And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in Heaven about the space of half an hour.”

Chapter 8:1 gives us the conclusion of the seven seals. There is a message of who will be gathered having the seal of God and being with the 144,000 and saved and the time between the time of events of the sun, moon and stars, to the time when Jesus would return for his people.

This seventh and last seal is the Advent and return of Jesus, with all of his angels coming to earth, and heaven will be empty and silent. (Matthew 25:31; Luke 9:26; Ezekiel 1:4, 25, 26.) The half hour of silence in heaven would be in prophetic time about “seven days.”

Heaven would be silent from the time Christ and all his angels leave until he returns back to heaven with his people. “In my father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so I would have told you, I go to prepare a place for you, and if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there you may be also.” (John 14:2, 3)

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THE SEALED 144,000 Revelation Chapter 7:1-17 The five angels, Seal of God, 144,000, Twelve tribes of Israel, The Great Multitude, The leading of Jesus.

7:1-3. “And after these things I saw four angels standing on the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow on the earth, nor on the sea, nor on any tree. 2 And I saw another angel ascending from the east, having the seal of the living God: and he cried with a loud voice to the four angels, to whom it was given to hurt the earth and the sea, 3 Saying, Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads.”

God’s four angels around the Ark and over the angry nations are holding back the four universal winds of the whole earth, that the winds of war and bloodshed, and plagues will not hurt his people. These four will be told by God’s presence the close of probation has began and they will alert all other angel’s. (Daniel 7:2,3,17; Jeremiah 25:31-33; Jeremiah 51:1,11; Rev 15:1,7.) Jesus told the Apostles That when he comes back he would “gather his elect from the “four winds” from “one end of earth to the other end.” (the whole earth is held back from fighting and destruction.

At the same time the restraints on Romans, Muslims, Americans, Russians, Chinese, and all others will be held back. The Glory of God in the Gospel witness and testimony of his Son Jesus blood on the ark that contains his Fathers Law, will be shown and told, ‘sealing the believers.’ (1 Timothy 2:5, 6; 2 John 1:6-11) before the plagues and Jesus coming with all his soldier angels. God’s faithful people will then stand on their feet as alive with the latter rain.

(Ezekiel 37:9-12; Rev. 7:1-3; Rev. 18:1; Rev 14:6, 7, 12-14) This is the angel with the last Sealing message of the Lord's glory going

around the whole earth, as the morning sun lightens the whole earth. (Rev 18:1) God begins to remove his restraining protection and grace from the wicked (disobeyers) soon after, and punish them with seven last plagues. (Rev 14:9-12, 15-19; Isaiah 24:1-6,17-21; Isaiah 30:8-15; Jeremiah 25:31-36; Hosea 4:1-10; Ezekiel 13:22,23; Ezekiel 22:25-28,31; Rev. 14:9-14; Rev. 15:1; Rev. 9:4 The Gospel Seal. (Ephesians 1:13, 14; Ephesians 4:30; 2 Timothy 2:15, 19; 2 Corinthians 1:22, 24; John 14:16, 17; John 15:3; John 16:13-15, 28-33)

What is a king’s seal and what is God's seal?

“He made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing saying, thus saith Cyrus King of Persia, all the kingdoms of earth the Lord God of Heaven, has given me.” (Ezra 1:1, 2) “Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.” (Jeremiah 50:17) “Lord God, King of Earth.” (Psalm 47:2, 7) (Psalm 10:16) “Now, O king, sign the writing, that it be not changed.” (Daniel 6:8, 9) “For the writing which is written in the king’s name, and sealed with the king’s ring, may no man reverse.” (Esther 8:8) “Behold I have received commandment to bless: and he has blessed, and I cannot reverse it.” (Numbers 23:20) An official Seal shows God's (Name, Title, and Territory.) which all “LORD,” “MAKER,” “EVERYTHING.” Are signed by His finger, in the Sabbath rest and Worship commandment of His royal Law. (Exodus 31:16-18) (James 2:8, 12) (Isaiah 66:22, 23)

123 “For in six days the “Lord” “Made” “Heaven and earth, the sea and all that in them is,” and rested the seventh day, wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.” (Exodus 20:11; Exodus 31:16-18.) A seal is a sign. (Romans 4:11)

Where is the Seal of God placed in us?

“And I seen another angel ascending from the east having the seal of the living God, and he cried with a loud voice to the four angels, to whom it was given to hurt the earth and the sea, saying hurt not the earth neither the sea, nor the trees, until we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads.” (Revelation 7:2, 3) “And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree, but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads.”

(Revelation 9:4) The seal of God's name and authority in his covenant law, is put in our hearts, and wrote in our minds (Hebrews 10:16) (Isaiah 8:16) (John 3:33) (Psalms 37:37) (Ezekiel 9:1-6) The law that Jesus lived, is love (Romans 13:8-10) (John 15:10) Love is placed in our hearts by the holy spirit of truth, guiding us into all truth (Romans 5:5) (John 16:13) to do His will (Hebrews 10:7) (Hebrews 13:20, 21) (John 14:15) “Our help is in the name of the Lord, who made heaven and earth.”

(Psalm 124:8) “Because he has set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he has known my name.” (Psalm 91:14) “We shall see his face and his name shall be in their foreheads.” (Revelation 22:4)

7:4-8. “And I heard the number of them which were sealed: and there were sealed an hundred and forty and four thousand

of all the tribes of the children of Israel. 5 Of the tribe of Juda were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Reuben were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Gad were sealed twelve thousand. 6 Of the tribe of Aser were sealed twelve thousand.

Of the tribe of Nephthalim were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Manasses were sealed twelve thousand. 7 Of the tribe of Simeon were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Levi were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Issachar were sealed twelve thousand. 8 Of the tribe of Zabulon were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Joseph were sealed twelve thousand.

Of the tribe of Benjamin were sealed twelve thousand.�

The holy city has 12 Gate's, with the 12 names of the sons of Jacob written, one name for each gate. (Rev. 21:10-13) The 144,000 have the "Seal of God" before the plagues and Jesus returns. Name, Title, Territory. (Exodus 20:11; Ezra 1:1, 2; Hebrews 10:16; Isaiah 8:16; Revelation 22:4; Revelation 9:4, 20, 21) Here are the Names of the 12 sons that are sealed. (Rev. 7:1-8) Now in (Rev. 6:14-17) Who survive the plagues and are able to stand when Jesus comes?

The symbolic 144,000 is a larger group of people all around the world, and are all who have the Seal of God, and the Gospel seal of Jesus and settling into the truth in the end days and at his coming. (Ephesians 1:13, 14; Ephesians 4:30; 2 Timothy 2:15, 19; 2 Corinthians 1:22, 24; John 14:16, 17; 15:3; 16:13-15, 28-33) These are like him in character, virgins and true to God and his truth and law; they sing a new song from their experience. They allow Jesus to change them into a faultless character. (Rev 14:1-5) What is Israel? (Romans 2:28, 29; Galatians 3:16, 27-29; Galatians 6:15-18; Ephesians 2:11-22; - (Spiritual and Not Literal) (Symbolic Jews Inwardly is the same as Symbolic Israel inwardly and outwardly) The 144,000 Israelites symbolize all they that except Jesus as Savior and Lord. (Romans 9:6-8, 24, 27)

125 Most of the sons of Jacob were evil, murderers, adulterers, but these sons were changed by God and overcame their evils. (Rev 21:7; Rev 2:7) That is why their Names are forever written on the Gates. All overcomers will go through their very own Gate with their group. It is decided by their characters here on earth. Now when Jacob tells his sons to come to him when he was old, he told them each their own Characters. Jacob said to them “That I may tell you what shall befall (become of) you in the Last Days.”

(Genesis 49:1-28).

There are 12 different attitudes or profiles. The name DAN of Jacob’s sons is not written in the city Gates. Manasseh, the son of Joseph, took over Dan's place on the city gate, because Dan was evil and never changed. (Genesis 48:17-22.) Joseph had 2 sons Manasseh and Ephraim. Ephraim was evil and never changed. All the people of earth who will Not go into the city in heaven, will be under the Character names of “DAN”(Genesis 49:17) (Psalms 104:35) and “EPHRAIM” (Hosea 7:1-16) (Hosea 8:11).

We (144,000) who this book is written for in these last days who follow Jesus and come out of the world of sin, will judge the 12 tribes of Israel. The world is the 12 tribes. The 144,000 end day remnant or small amount of the world’s population is all who accept and follow Jesus. We will judge the world with him in heaven. (Malachi 3:17, 18; Matthew 19:28, 29; Luke 22:30; 1 Corinthians 6:2, 3).

Wash Your Robes. “Wash our garments in the Blood of the Lamb.” (Rev. 7:14). (Receive Jesus and be justified). “Keep the Commandments of God and the faith of Jesus.” (Rev. 12:17; Rev. 14:12; Rev. 22:14; John 17:17). (We are sanctified). In (Rev. 22:11, 14) it says “Those who are Righteous and Holy continue to be. And those who are Filthy and Unjust continue to be.” This is at the close of probation and plagues, and there is No more chance to be saved.

“Open ye the Gate's that the Righteous nation which keepeth the Truth may enter in.” (Isaiah 26:1-3). “Pure in heart.” (Matthew 5:8). “Many shall be purified and made white.” Sometimes persecution is the only thing that can do this in Jesus. (Daniel 12:9, 10).

The wise shall understand God's purpose to be purified and made white by Jesus. It is said of Rev 3:18, Gold= Faith and Love.

White Raiment= Righteousness of Christ Jesus. Eye salve (medicine for eyes) = Spiritual understanding, Light. God gave light and many reject it.

Now in their mouth are no evil words and they are without fault before the throne of God as Jesus. (1 Peter 2:21-25; Rev 14:1, 5; Rev 22:4; Isaiah 60:18; Rev 19:1, 2).

The 12 Gates are 12 Pearls. (Rev 21:21.) We walk through the middle of the pearl. A pearl is formed and made by an irritation.

A small sand or rock or dirt gets inside the ocean clam. To protect itself the clam begins coating it with a beautiful white and shine cream that hardens to protect the clam and has a reflection of the rainbow on the white of the pearl. In (Acts 14:12) we are told that "Through many tribulations we enter the Kingdom of God." We are all irritations and sinners to God, but God is shining us white with the righteousness of Jesus. To be precious jewels to God and His treasure forever. (Malachi 3:16-18). He will change us from the inside out and “He will put on us, white robes.” (Rev 3:5; 2 Corinthians 3:18.) A small group is who God will use.

7:9-17. “After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindred’s, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands; 10 And cried with a loud voice, saying, Salvation to our God which sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb.

127 11 And all the angels stood round about the throne, and about the elders and the four beasts, and fell before the throne on their faces, and worshipped God, 12 Saying, Amen: Blessing, and glory, and wisdom, and thanksgiving, and honor, and power, and might, be unto our God for ever and ever. Amen.

13 And one of the elders answered, saying unto me, What are these which are arrayed in white robes? And whence came they? 14 And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

15 Therefore are they before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple: and he that sitteth on the throne shall dwell among them. 16 They shall hunger no more, neither thirst anymore; neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat. 17 For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.�

The Great multitude that no man could number are they who are resurrected from the beginning of time, from about six thousand years ago to the return of Jesus. (Matthew 25:34, 46; 1 Thessalonians 4:15, 17; 2 Peter 3:8-13; Rev 20:4-10; Rev 21:1, 2).

After 1844 Jesus went into the Most Holy place service of His Heavenly ministry for us, and his law was shining out as a test to those who learned it, and God's Sabbath keeping church was formed gradually collecting all the prophecy and members. (Rev 22:9, 10, 17, 18; Psalms 87:5-7) The symbolic 144,000 are the end day people from about 1844 on who understood the three angel’s messages. (Rev 14:1-14.)

All the Old Testament services pointed forward to Jesus and his white robe of his righteousness. (Hebrews 10:1-20; Hebrews chapters 8, 9.)

The Palm branches in their hands. Palm trees were important to the ancient Jewish people. The first city captured by the children of Israel while entering the Promised Land was Jericho, known as the city of Palm trees. (Duet 34:2; 2 Chronicles 28:15) The palm trees became a symbol of the provisions and the lands promised to Israel. The palm branch was an important symbol. After God delivered them from their bondage in Egypt, he commanded them to celebrate the feast of tabernacles. They were to gather palm and olive, and other leafed branches to build booths to live in for the seven day celebration. (Leviticus 23:33-44.) It was a celebration from their captivity. They made themselves booths upon the roofs of their houses, in their court yards, and in the courts of the house of God, and in the street of the water gate. (Nehemiah 8:14-18.)

This would point forward to when we will build real houses around this newly made earth and around the New Jerusalem, where we also will have a second home and the river of life, and tree of life. (Isaiah 65:16-25; Rev 21:1-27; Rev 22:1-15.) All the wicked of earth who does not rejoice in the God of Heaven will in time be plagued and destroyed. (Zechariah 14:16-19; Rev 16.)

And the triumphant entry of Jesus riding on a donkey into the old Jerusalem, they cut down palm branches laying them on the path for his entry giving praises to him. (Matthew 21:1-11.)

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THE SEVEN TRUMPETS Revelation 8:1-13; 9:1-21; 10:1-11; 11:119.

8:1, 2. “And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour. 2 And I saw the seven angels which stood before God; and to them were given seven trumpets.�

The writer John finishes with the seven seals in this verse.

This is when Jesus returns for his people mentioned in the seven seals. Then immediately in the next verse begins the study of the Trumpets that covers over the years from a.d. 70 - 1844. Jesus is presenting history from another angle, and John is writing down what he has been shown by Jesus.

The voice of Jesus is like a trumpet. (Rev 4:1; Rev 1:10-19; Hebrews 12:19-21; 1 Corinthians 15:51, 52; 1 Thessalonians 4:16; John 5:27-29; Isaiah 58:1; 1 Corinthians 14:6-8) The voice in these trumpet messages are from God and Jesus, things are allowed to take place. The messages of Jesus are given to angels to sound them and to let go of certain protections on earth.

They were given seven messages of different periods in time, of their fate. (1 Chronicles 21:12, 14-16; Hosea 8:1, 14) Remember the feast of trumpets in the Old Testament, that a trumpet was sounded at the beginning of each month. Each new Month the blowing of the trumpet was understood as a day of judgment in miniature, which warned people to prepare for the final judgment ushered in by the Feast of Trumpets in the seventh

month. In like manner history shows seven trumpets sounded. The ceremonial trumpets were spaced over the entire seven months between Passover and the Day of Atonement. Each trumpet call held the concept of a miniature" or foretaste of the final judgment.

In like manner Revelation’s trumpets cover the period from the “Cross” the fulfillment of the Passover or the time of the judgments because of rejection of it, to the final judgment when the righteous receive their rewards and those who destroy the earth are destroyed.

8:3-5. “And another angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer; and there was given unto him much incense, that he should offer it with the prayers of all saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne. 4 And the smoke of the incense, which came with the prayers of the saints, ascended up before God out of the angel's hand. 5 And the angel took the censer, and filled it with fire of the altar, and cast it into the earth: and there were voices, and thundering’s, and lightnings, and an earthquake.”

Rev 8:2-5 gives the starting and ending point of the seven trumpets. The starting point is when the Intercessory work of Jesus began. His courtyard experience was on this earth. He was the Gate, the perfect Lamb, Baptized and crucified. (John 1:28-36; John 10; Rev 5:6, 9; 1 John 5:5-13.) He then went to Heaven in 31 AD. Forty days after His resurrection, to the first room of the sanctuary service in Heaven, where the lamp, bread and table of burning incense were to show us in symbols the larger truth.

(Hebrews 9:1-5, 11, 23, 24; Rev 4:5; Rev 1:12-20) The much incense that he was given was brought in by his righteousness, Jesus offers up to God our prayers mixed with the sweet smoke of His perfect life and teaching words at the altar of Incense. (Psalms 141:1, 2, 6; Ephesians 5:2; Philippians 4:18; 2

131 Corinthians 2:15; Hebrews 7:22-25; Leviticus 10:1; 16:12, 13; Numbers 16:46) Up out of the nail scarred hands of Jesus, to his Father in the most holy room of Heaven, came his pleading merciful intercession and perfect righteousness with our prayers.

This would be done by the priest long ago. (Exodus 30:1-10; Leviticus 16:12, 13) Eventually man’s rituals given him by God would come to an end for the purpose of his son Jesus to be the center of attention.

Revelation has already depicted Christ as "tending the lamps" and having "the double edged sword" representing the Bread of the Word old and new Testaments, filling His churches through time with the oil of himself and the Holy Spirit of his word, here we see Him offering incense before the throne in Heaven. Just as the Old Testament priest. (Exodus 30:7, 8) Throughout the ages of the Christian Church, Christ was officiating as the High Priest for them in the first holy room of the Heavenly sanctuary, but then in verse five, we see a change, the angel takes fire from the altar and fills the censer. He is getting ready to go into the Most Holy Place by the Ark. In the Seventh Trumpet Jesus goes in and sees the Ark in the most holy service of Heaven in 1844. (Rev. 11:19) After the Old Testament priest went into the most holy and was finished with his work, he came out and the censer was put down and sin and unrepentant sinners were “cast out” of the camp.

(Leviticus 16:12; Leviticus 23:29) It is in the end after the very last 7th trumpet is sounded that the noise, thundering’s, lightning’s and an earthquake are again mentioned. (Rev. 11:19) The voice in the temple says “It is done.”

The plagues begin to fall, culminating with the last plague of hailstones. (Rev. 16:17-19; Rev. 14:9, 10; Rev. 15:1, 5-8)

Jesus will step out and cast down the censer to earth.

Probation has closed for all on earth, plagues fall, and Jesus soon comes for his people after the last plague. He has changed his white ministry clothes for a red robe. (Rev. 15:8; Psalms 11:1-7; Rev. 19:11-16)

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Beginning of the Seven Trumpets First Trumpet Judgment on Jerusalem by the Romans, for rejecting Jesus. About a.d. 70-378.

8:6, 7. “And the seven angels which had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound. 7 The first angel sounded, and there followed Hail and fire, mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.”

God’s chosen nation rejected Christ, their King. (Hosea 8:1, 14.)

Their destruction came because they failed to see CHRIST in all their religious ceremonies which pointed to Christ. They believed a lie and rejected truth. This is where the first judgment falls. Jesus cried in agonizing voice, "Your house is left to you desolate" (Matthew 23:13-38; Isaiah 10:5-6) The first chapter in the Great controversy is an in depth story of the destruction of Jerusalem in a.d. 70. Judgment began at the house of God first. (1 Peter 4:17; Ezekiel 9:6.) They would fall by the edge of the sword. Trodden down by the Gentiles, and because of the sins of the Jews, the temple was to be destroyed. (Luke 21:20-28; Luke 19:42-44; Matthew 23:29-38; 24:1,2; Matthew 27:24-26; Mark 13:1,2; Luke 21:5,6) 40 years after Jesus predicted these events, in 66 AD. The Jews rebelled against the Roman Empire. Cestus withdrew his troops in October of 67 AD. And on May 10, 70 AD. Titus surrounded the city.

“Hail and Fire and Blood” Represent God's Judgments and destruction on sinful Israel, and forsaking the covenant with God. (Jeremiah 11:16,17; Ezekiel 15:6-8; Ezekiel 20:47-49; Ezekiel 22:26,31; Psalms 80:8-11,15,16; Matthew 22:1-13; Psalm 11:6; Ezekiel 38:22; Isaiah 28:1,2; Isaiah 29:1,6) Hail has the general meaning of a weapon God uses to give out judgment against false religion.

“Hail will sweep away your refuge of lies.” (Isa 28:17) “They have seduced my people saying, Peace and there was no peace...they built up a wall...hailstones shall fall and a storm wind shall rend it...great hailstones will consume it....the prophets of Israel which prophesy concerning Jerusalem of peace for her, and there is no peace.” (Ezekiel 13:10-16) “I smote you with, hail... yet you turned not to me says the Lord.”

(Haggai 2:17)

Bible Symbolism: “Thou shalt burn with fire a third part in the midst of the city... a third part thou shalt scatter in the wind... the sword after them.”

(Ezekiel 5:1-12) This describes the destruction of Jerusalem at the time of the exile to Babylon.

“I will bring the third part through the fire and will refine them as silver is refined and will try them as gold is tried and they shall call on my name and I will hear them.” (Zechariah 13:8, 9) The “Trees” Represent proud leaders. (Isaiah 2:12, 13)

135 Israel was often likened to Trees. "How goodly are thy tents ... O Israel! ... As the trees of lign aloes which the LORD hath planted, and as cedar trees beside the waters." (Numbers 24:5, 6) “And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame: and it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day; and shall consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field, both soul and body: and they shall be as when a standard bearer fainteth. And the rest of the trees of his forest shall be few, that a child may write them.” (Isaiah 10:17-19) “For thus hath the LORD of hosts said, Hew ye down trees, and cast a mount against Jerusalem: this is the city to be visited; she is wholly oppression in the midst of her.” (Jeremiah 6:6) John the Baptist speaking to the Jewish nation, compared Israel with a tree. If it did not bear fruit would be cut down and burned. (Matthew 3:7-12) There was a ruler of Rome mingling the blood of the Jews with their sacrifices. In this first trumpet the Romans are mingling the blood of the Jews of Jerusalem with fire. (Luke 13:1-9) “I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in me, and I in him, bears much fruit, for without me you can do nothing. If anyone does not abide in me, he is thrown out as a branch and is withered. And they gather them and throw them into the fire, and they are burned.” (John 15:5, 6)

The “Grass” Represents the common people. (2 Kings 19:26; Isaiah 37:27; Isaiah 40:6-8; Psalm 37:2; Psalm 90:5-7; Psalm 92:7) “Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded; they were as the grass of the field, and

as the green herb, as the grass on the house tops, and as corn blasted before it be grown up.” (Isa. 37:27) “The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the LORD bloweth upon it: surely the people are grass. The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever.” (Isaiah 40:7, 8) Not only were the trees and grass symbolic, but in a literal sense we find that most of the trees around Jerusalem were cut down by the Roman armies and used for crosses, and attack equipment.

A “Third part” Many actions had taken place in Scripture where there were three's, representing completeness. (1 Samuel 20:41; 1 Kings 9:25; Daniel 6:10) In the seven plagues this partial term thirds is never used.

When God foretold every nation's doom and the return of Jesus, he said, “I will, overturn, overturn, overturn it, and it shall be no more, until he come, who’s right it is, and I will give it to him.” (Ezekiel 21:27) The parables of Jesus in Matthew 22 and 21:33-46.

God sent his servants to Israel to prepare Israel for the marriage of his son. (Verses 2-3) This represents the Old Testament prophets sent to prepare Israel for the coming of Jesus the messiah.

These messages were rejected. Then after Jesus was sacrificed, (Verse 4.) More servants as Stephen, Peter, Paul and others representing the New Testament were sent to the same people Israel, but these messages too were rejected. (Verses 5-6) “But when the king heard of it, he was angry, and he sent forth his armies, and destroyed those murderers, and burned up their city.”

137 Who destroyed Jerusalem the first time?

Daniel 9:11, 14, 15. Says God destroyed Jerusalem because of their sins. (Hosea 13:9; 14:1) 2 Chronicles 36: 17-20. Says Nebuchadnezzar destroyed the city and temple, of whom God called “my servant.� (Jeremiah 27:6; Jeremiah 38:17, 18, 23; Jeremiah 39:8) (Isaiah 9:5; Rev. 19:11-21)

Second Trumpet The Fall of Pagan Rome. About a.d. 378- 508.

8:8,9. “The second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea, and the third part of the sea became blood; 9 and the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, and had life, died; and the third part of the ships were destroyed.”

This great empire that persecuted the Christians and later helped combine paganism with Christianity, was the Roman Empire. It is the Roman Empire which receives the next judgment.

The “Mountain” in symbolism represents a great nation or kingdom. (Daniel 2:34, 35, 44, 45; Isaiah 14:13; Psalm 48:1, 2) Thrown or rolled down into the sea. Thrown represents God's Judgment.

“I am against thee, O destroying mountain says the Lord, which destroys all the earth: and I will stretch out my hand upon you and roll you down from the rocks and will make you a burnt mountain.”

(Jeremiah 51:24, 25; Jeremiah 50:3, 9, 10, 41, 42) This reference is to the oppressive kingdom of Babylon which is compared to a “destroying mountain”, and will be thrown down.

In the New Testament the term “Babylon” is used for Rome.

The mountain in the last days is “Babylon the great," in the end days. (Rev 16:19; Rev 17:1, 5-6; Rev 18:2, 8-19, 21, 24.) This end day church began the Jesuit order under the Roman church in the 1500's and sold many slaves and merchandise and infiltrating every part of the world in disguise.

139 The “Sea.” “The waves of the sea came over Babylon when she was destroyed.” (Jeremiah 51:42) Waters represent nations and many peoples. (Isaiah 27:12, 13; Isaiah 60:5; Rev 17:1, 15; Rev 18:1721.)

A portion of the sea, the creatures and the ships were destroyed. (Ezekiel 35:1-8.)

“The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them and they shall flee and be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind.” (Isaiah 17:13) “The Sea is come up upon Babylon; she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof, her cities are desolation.” (Jeremiah 51:42) “As Babylon has caused the slain of Israel to fall, so at Babylon shall fall the slain.” (Jeremiah 51:49) “Because the Lord spoiled Babylon and destroyed out of her the great voice; when her waves do roar like great waters, …the spoiler came upon her.” (Jeremiah 51:55) “Thus shall Babylon sink.” (Jeremiah 51:64)

The “Fish.”

Men are compared to fish. (Habakkuk 1:13-17; Ecclesiastes 9:12; Ezekiel 29:3-5; Matthew 4:19; Jeremiah 16:15, 16.)

“I will put hooks in your jaw and cause the fish of your rivers to stick to your scales, and I will leave thee and all the fish of your rivers, thou shalt fall upon the open field.” (Ezekiel 29: 4, 5)

“Behold, I will send for many fishers, says the LORD, and they shall fish them;” (Jer. 16.16) The “Ships.”

A symbol of merchandise and wealth, trade and commerce.

Used to carry commercial goods for trading. (Ezekiel 27:9, 25, 29; Rev 18:8-19.)

“Thy riches and thy fairs, thy merchandise, thy mariners and thy pilots…shall fall into the midst of the seas in the day of thy ruin.”

(Ezekiel 27:25-27) The story of the Ship that Paul rode on, to the island of Melita, represented the good church and the last days. (Acts 27 and 28.)

The Barbarians came and destroyed the routes of these ships, slowing their commerce and prosperity, collapsing the economy of the Roman Empire.

Like a great burning mountain the mighty Roman Empire fell as the barbaric tribes came in waves leaving bloodshed and confusion in their wake.

The century of disasters upon Rome happened after Rome had professed to accept Christianity, and mixed it with paganism.

Constantine, in 312, converted mixed with paganism. He and his successors turned Rome into a Christian empire. In 378 the Visigoths wiped out an entire Roman army. In 410 they ravaged again. And in 455 the Vandals ravaged it a second time. By AD. 476. Western Rome was defeated. (Galatians 6:7).

Assyria was God's instrument to punish his sinning people, and then he punished Assyria for treading down his people. (Isaiah 10:5, 6, 12.) Nebuchadnezzar was God's servant to punish sinful Israel. (Jeremiah 27:6, 7.) Then God punishes Babylon for their

141 sins and for oppressing His people. (Jeremiah 50:11, 15, 17, 18; Jeremiah 51:24, 34, 35, 49, 50.)

Rome too foreshadows a time when government will pass religious laws and those who honor God's law are accused of bringing judgments upon the world, But God will pour out judgment upon those who oppress His people.

Third Trumpet The rise of Papal Rome’s false religious power. a.d. 508538.

8:10,11. “And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters; 11 And the name of the star is called Wormwood: and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.”

The “Falling Star” burning as a lamp.

Poisonous to the waters. Waters represent many peoples, and this falling star poisons them with deadly lies and false doctrines.

Falling represents apostasy and false teachings. (Isaiah 14:12-20; Rev 2:5; Romans 11:11; 1 Corinthians 10; 12; Hebrews 4:11; Rev 14:8; Rev 18:2-8, 21-24) Satan compared to the falling star. (Isaiah 14:12-20; Rev 12:7-9) Fallen from Heaven. (Luke 10:18-24.) Satan's tail took a third of all the angels with him to be thrown out of Heaven. “The prophet that teaches lies, he is the tail. For the leaders of this people cause them to err, and they that are led of them are destroyed.”

(Isaiah 9:15, 16; Rev 12:3-17) He deceived Adam and Eve with his poisonous teaching lies; through them he poisoned the whole human population that brought death as a consequence. (Genesis 3:1-6, 19-24.)

The star falling from heaven pretends to be the lamp, but it is a counterfeit religious system teaching false doctrines containing counterfeit commandments and counterfeit “light”. (Daniel 7:25)

143 “Fallen, Fallen, Babylon is fallen that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication” (Rev. 14:8) (False doctrines) Babylon is the Roman Catholic papacy and her daughter church's that keep her Sunday Sabbath and traditions outside the bible. (Rev. 17:5) “For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ….Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever.” (Jude 1:4, 13) The Righteous and the Gospel are compared to lights shining in darkness. (2 Corinthians 4:4-7; John 5:35; Matthew 5:14-16; Matthew 17:2; 2 Peter 1:19; Ephesians 5:8) “And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever.” (Daniel 12:3) “For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light.” (Proverbs 6:23) “Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.”

(Psalms 119:105) “Prophecy is a light.” (2 Peter 1:19) Fresh “Life giving Water.”

“The teaching of the wise is as a fountain of life.” (Proverbs 13:14; John 4:6-26; Psalms 1:3; Psalm 23:2,3; Deuteronomy 8:7,8; Proverbs 14:27; John 7:37-39; Jeremiah 2:13) “Christ loved the church; he sanctified and cleansed it by the washing of water by the Word.” (Ephesians 5:25, 26)

Deadly wormwood that “Bitter the Waters” False deadly teachings. (Proverbs 5:1-5; Jeremiah 9:13-15; 2 Thessalonians 2:9-13; Jeremiah 23:15, 16, 36; Deuteronomy 29:17, 18; Amos 5:7; Amos 6:12, 13; Proverbs 25:25, 26; Acts 8:23; Hebrews 12:15) Biblical symbolism used: The name of the star is Wormwood: “We came through the nations which you passed by; and you have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which were among them: Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turns away this day from the LORD our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations; lest there should be among you a root that bears gall and wormwood;… when he hears the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of mine heart… Why has the LORD done thus unto this land? What is the meaning of the heat of this great anger? Then men shall say, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt: For they went and served other gods, and worshipped them, gods whom they knew not, and whom he had not given unto them:” (Deut 29:17-19,24-26) “And the LORD said, Because they have forsaken My Law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein, But have walked after the imagination of their own heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them: Therefore this said the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.” (Jeremiah 9:13-16) “I have also seen in the prophets of Jerusalem an horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands of evildoers, that none doth return from his wickedness: they

145 are all of them unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah. Therefore is what the LORD of hosts says concerning the prophets; Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink the water of gall: for from the prophets of Jerusalem is profaneness gone forth into all the land. This says the LORD of hosts, Hearken not unto the words of the prophets that prophesy unto you: they make you vain: they speak a vision of their own heart, and not out of the mouth of the LORD. They say still unto them that despise me, The LORD has said, you shall have peace; and they say unto every one that walks after the imagination of his own heart, No evil shall come upon you.” (Jer. 23:14-17) “Ye who turn judgment to wormwood and leave off righteousness in the earth,” (Amos 5.7) Wormwood is false doctrines and beliefs; it is turning away from truth and following other gods, smooth preaching. It is as contaminated stinking and rotten dirty food and water.

Compare with 2 Thess. 2:3-12 “Comes a falling away… mystery of iniquity… exalts himself above all that is called God… because they receive not the love of truth, God sends strong delusion, that they should believe a lie, and be damned who believe not the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.”

The vast empire of Rome crumbled to pieces, and from its ruins arose that mighty power, the Roman Catholic Church. She received her seat from Rome and changed the living waters of the gospel into wormwood.

A great star fell. As more and more power was transferred upon the pope we see that “the dragon had given to the beast ‘his power, and his seat, and great authority.” (Revelation 13:2) Satan was elevated to power and then began to work through the papal system, just as he had formerly worked through the Roman Empire.

The rivers and fountains of water are symbolic of the “waters” of life which Christ offers to all who come to Him, if they partake of this “living water” they will never thirst, they will have eternal life. (John 4:6-26) But the Papal system filled those waters with “wormwood” and made them bitter. Polluting the sweet waters of the gospel of truth and life, with wormwood doctrines that lead only to death. “And many died” of the poisoned doctrines.

It is the wine of the wrath of her fornication.

What a warning this message contains. The papal system poisoned the truth of the covenants, the streams of living water. God calls us to “worship HIM that made heaven and earth and the sea and the fountains of waters.” The truths were brought forth, but most people chose to continue to drink the wormwood water of bitter poison. “Babylon made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.” (Rev. 14:8) This fornication is the Vatican giving itself to all pagan practices, and worldly cultural traditions, and ‘she and her followers’ will end up “drinking the wine of the wrath of God poured out without mixture.” (Rev. 14:812)

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Fourth Trumpet The Roman Papacy’s (false religious-political) persecuting power set up. a.d. 538-1798.

8:12,13. “And the fourth angel sounded, and the third part of the sun was smitten, and the third part of the moon, and the third part of the stars; so as the third part of them was darkened, and the day shone not for a third part of it, and the night likewise.

13 And I beheld, and heard an angel flying through the midst of heaven, saying with a loud voice, Woe, woe, woe, to the inhabiters of the earth by reason of the other voices of the trumpet of the three angels, which are yet to sound.”

Darkness covering over of the truth. The Bible was a witness and prophesied under darkness of the Papacy until 1798. The Bible and work of Jesus Christ were eclipsed!

The people of God that had the Gospel to preach were most all being persecuted. (Daniel 7:23, 25.)

When we silence the true prophetic voice, and listen to false preachers, darkness comes. (Micah 3:5-7; 2 Peter 1:19.)

There is darkness because there is no word of God being taught. (Amos 8:9-12; Jeremiah 31:31-36) The fourth trumpet warns of more destructive religious delusions. Christ's heavenly ministry is partially darkened from the sight of the inhabitants of the earth. The light of truth, the light of heaven, was partially darkened. This is the “dark ages.”

An earthly false sanctuary was set up taught by the Catholic Papacy. The pope, priests, confessional, Mary, saints, mass, traditions, east star. Easter Sunday and Sun worship day. (Ezekiel 8:15, 16; Ezekiel 22:25-31) This was put in place and the Heavenly sanctuary ministry of Jesus' life was thrown down and stepped on.

(Daniel 7:25; Daniel 8:9-12, 23-26; Daniel 12:7, 11) The “Sun, Moon and Stars.”

(Genesis 1:16; Genesis 37:9, 10; Daniel 8:10, 24; Judges 5:20.)

“Sun.” Jesus and his Gospel is the greatest Light. (John 1:4-9; Matthew 4:12-17; 2 Corinthians 4:4-11; Ephesians 5:8-21; John 5:35; Rev 1:16; Rev 21:23; Psalm 27:1; Psalm 84:11; John 8:12; John 9:5; John 12:46-48; Colossians 1:13-14; 1 Peter 2:9) “Moon.”

John the Baptist was a lesser light. (John 1:6-8) The Old Testament is a witness of Jesus and a lesser light of the greater light. (John 5:39-47; Luke 24:25-27, 44-48.) The New Testament. (John 21:24, 25; Luke 22:20) Jesus said you are the light of the world, and a witness of Him. (Matthew 5:14-16; Luke 24:44-48; John 5:32-47; John 15:26, 27) The Word is a light. (Psalm 119:105.) The Law is a light.

(Proverbs 6:23.) Prophecy is a light. (2 Peter 1:19)

“Stars.”

You being purified and understanding knowledge and truth is being brightened. (Daniel 12:3, 10; Daniel 8:10, 23, 24; Matthew 5:14-16; John 5:33-47).

149 “For Zion's sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest, until the righteousness thereof go forth as brightness, and the salvation thereof as a lamp that burns.� (Isaiah 62:1, 2).

This period of time ended with signs in the sun, moon and stars, before 1844. (Matthew 24:29).

This too, foreshadows the day when people will search for truth, but will not find it during the plague of darkness.

There are three more revealing’s through time, each warning more serious than the one before.

Fifth Trumpet About a.d. 1299-1449. There was an earlier spreading out of Muhammedan warriors from a.d. 632-782.

A false, Non-Christian religion, called Muhammed and Allah, Arabian Muslims rise to torment the Christian/Pagan church and deny Jesus as the true Son and character of God. There was Over 550 Muslim attacks between a.d. 600-1840. (Great Controversy, ch. 18.)

Revelation 9:1-12 9:1-12. “Then the fifth angel sounded: And I saw a star fallen from heaven to the earth. To him was given the key to the bottomless pit. 2 And he opened the bottomless pit, and smoke arose out of the pit like the smoke of a great furnace. So the sun and the air were darkened because of the smoke of the pit. 3 Then out of the smoke locusts came upon the earth. And to them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power. 4 They were commanded not to harm the grass of the earth, or any green thing, or any tree, but only those men who do not have the seal of God on their foreheads. 5 And they were not given authority to kill them, but to torment them for five months. Their torment was like the torment of a scorpion when it strikes a man. 6 In those days men will seek death and will not find it; they will desire to die, and death will flee from them. 7 The shape of the locusts was like horses prepared for battle. On their heads were crowns of something like gold, and their faces were like the faces of men. 8 They had hair like women’s hair, and their teeth were like lions’ teeth. 9 And they had breastplates like breastplates of iron, and the sound of their wings was like the sound of chariots with many horses running into battle. 10 They had tails like scorpions, and there were stings in their tails. Their power was to hurt men five months. 11 And they had as king over them, the angel of the

151 bottomless pit, whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon, but in Greek he has the name Apollyon. 12 One woe is past. Behold, still two more woes are coming after these things.”

9:1. “Then the fifth angel sounded: And I saw a star fallen from heaven to the earth. To him was given the key to the bottomless pit.”

Now we see a fallen star who is Abaddon or a representative of Abaddon, the king of the bottomless pit, who has been given the key to the bottomless pit. This Fallen star denies the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

The Star Fallen represents an imposter, as Satan was a fallen angel long ago. (Luke 10:18). Now he is working through the Muslim powers to send more of a flood of false lies to drown the truth out of existence. (Rev 12:9, 12-17) He is giving them the key of the power of darkness, as he did Rome and the papacy. (Rev. 13:2).

The Muslims and their Koran say, ‘There is no God but Allah, and Muhammed is his messenger.’

Who is Allah? Many people mistakenly say Allah is just another name for the Biblical God. Comparing the two shows us, Allah is not the same as the God of the Bible!

Allah chose Hagar and her son Ishmael for his covenant. (A covenant that has no mediator between God and man) Jesus is the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Not Ishmael's lineage. (Matthew 1) The God of our Bible chose Abraham’s son, Isaac, the son of promise, as heir to His Covenant.

(Genesis 17:19-21.) A covenant based on God's Promises, in which Christ is the true Israel, and all who are in Him are Abraham's seed.

(Galatians 3:29; Genesis 25:19; Genesis 25:11; Exodus 2:24; Exodus 3:1-6, 14, 15; 1 Chronicles 16:15-17; Psalm 105:9, 10; Matthew 8:11; Matthew 22:32; John 8:58; Acts 7:8; Luke 3:34; James 2:21)

The Muslim Allah denies Jesus. “For the Christians to call Christ the Son of God is to imitate what the unbelievers of old used to say. God's curse upon them.” (Sura at-taubah, 30) The God of our Bible is “One God” yet is not single, because He revealed Himself through Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit, who is declared as God. (Hebrews 1:1, 8; John 1:1-14) Allah advocates salvation by works, The God of our Bible paid the atonement price with His own Blood and writes His laws upon our hearts.

Allah is not the God of Heaven.

Allah is not the name for the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Allah and the Koran book is a god of fear and terrorism that commands destruction upon those who refuse to convert to Islam.

History records that Allah originated as a purely Arabic Deity.

Allah already existed in Mecca before Muhammad. The god Sin, “The Controller of the Night,” had the crescent moon as his emblem, and the lunar-based calendar, which became the primary religious symbols of Islam, was worshipped in Arabia as AI-Ilah Lord of the Ka'aba. So the tribe to which Muhammad belonged was already worshipping AI-Ilah – the moon God. Allah is still associated with the crescent moon of the lunar goddess.

Allah was represented by a black stone which was believed to have come down from heaven. This black stone is supposedly a sign or symbol of being the corner stone in the Kingdom of Allah.

153 “The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner?” (Matthew 21:42) “The Kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof.” (Matthew 21:43) The Muslims understand these verses to mean that the rejected black stone in the prophecy (21:42) meant Israel rejected it, and the Ishmaelite’s, now have been given what the Israelites lost. (21:43)

Jesus of our Bible is Our “living Stone, and Rock,” and has the keys of Heaven!

(Isaiah 28:14-16,19-22; Psalms 118:22; Isaiah 53:3; 49:7; Matthew 21:42-46; Acts 4:10-13; 1 Corinthians 3:9-14; Malachi 3:17; Ephesians 2:19,20; Ephesians 4:9-15; 1 Peter 2:4-10; Matthew 7:24-27; Matthew 16:16-20; Rev 3:7)

The lineage of where most of the Muslims and Muhammed came.

"Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant."...

10th commandment. (Exodus 20:17.)

Hagar was an Egyptian woman, the handmaid of Sarah, (Genesis 16:1) a gift, perhaps, from Pharaoh when Abram dissembled to him in Egypt (Genesis 12:16). Mention is made of her in two passages (Genesis 16; Genesis 21:8-21). Paul refers to her as the type of the old covenant of the law. (Galatians 4:25) It is said that Sarah, despairing at her age of having no children, gave Hagar as a concubine to Abram, after he had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan and had no children by Sarah.

(Genesis 16:2, 3)

As Hagar was not an ordinary household slave but the peculiar property of her mistress (Genesis 29:24, 29), any offspring which she might bear to Abram would be reckoned as Sarah's (Genesis 30:3-9). In the prospect of becoming a mother, Hagar, forgetting her position, seems to have assumed an insolent bearing toward her childless mistress. Sarah felt keenly the contempt shown her by her handmaid and in angry tones brought her conduct before Abram. Now that her plan was not working out smoothly, she unfairly blamed her husband for what originated with herself, and appealed to Heaven to redress her grievance. Abram put her entirely at Sarah's disposal. Under the harsh treatment of her mistress Sarah, Hagar’s life became intolerable, and she fled into the wilderness, turning her steps naturally toward Egypt, her native land.

By the fountain in the way to Shur the angel of the Lord found her, and charged her to return and submit herself under the hands of her mistress, and gave her the news respecting her unborn child recorded in (16:10-12) On her return she gave birth to Ishmael, and Abram was then eighty-six years old.

In (Genesis 21:8-21) Occurs the weaning of Isaac and the conduct of Ishmael about sixteen years old, he was caught by Sarah mocking her young son Isaac.

During the family feast held on the occasion roused the anger and jealousy of Sarah who, fearing that Ishmael would share the inheritance with Isaac, demanded the expulsion of the slave-mother and her son. But the instincts of Abram’s fatherly heart recoiled from such a cruel course, and it was only after the revelation was made to him that the ejection of Hagar and her son would be in the line of the Divine purpose, for Isaac was his real seed, while Ishmael would be made a nation too. He would allow Sarah’s demand. The next morning the bondwoman and her son were sent forth with the bare provision of bread and a skin of water into the wilderness of Beersheba. The boy grew up amid the desert's hardships, He made his home in the wilderness of Paran, and his

155 mother took a pagan wife for him out of her own country. Joseph was sold to Ishmaelite traders. (Genesis 37:28)

9:2,3. “And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit. And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power.”

The bottomless pit represents destruction, barrenness and chaos. The world, in Genesis 1, was “a bottomless pit” without form and void.

In Revelation at the end of earth's history, Satan will be bound in the bottomless pit, which will be this world in total ruins.

(Rev. 20:1) The king of the bottomless pit is Abaddon or Apollyon which represents the destroyer. (Rev. 9:11). This is Satan, and he is working through The Muslims and a man called Mohammed in the dusted and rocky desert of Arabia.

In times past these people believed mystical things took place in caves and often had rituals there. Mohammed’s place of retreat was Hira, a cave in a mountain called the Mountain of Light. Who was in the Cave with Mohammed? Satan! Yes he convinced Mohammed to lead souls away from Jesus, who is the way, the truth and the light. Satan gave Mohammed a form of religion that offers no way to redemption, yet inspired thousands of men to fight and destroy for what they thought would earn them paradise. The smoke that arose from this cave arose as a great furnace.

God’s true angel Gabriel from Heaven appeared to many people. We see this in his encounter with Daniel, (Dan. 8:16-18; 10:12) the encounter with Zachariah (Luke 1:13) the encounter with Mary (Luke 1:3) But the spirit who squeezed Muhammad left

him frightened and in distress. Mohammed was not visited by Gabriel. He was visited by Satan in disguise.

Gabriel told Mary that this “holy one to be born will be called the Son of God.” (Luke 1:35) The evil spirit that revealed things to Muhammad said there is no need for Jesus the son of God. (Allah: Glory be to Him: far exalted is He above having a son. To Him belong all things in the heavens and on earth. Quran (4.171) The key gave Mohammed power over the Saracens roving bands. This key was not given to him by the angel Gabriel, but by the fallen angel, Lucifer (Satan).

It was false doctrines of evil spirits of fallen angels that inspired this counterfeit of Christianity, which was a destructive religion, united with military conquest, in time with a sword in one hand and the Koran in the other they arose out of Arabia and spread across a large part of Asia, Africa, and Europe. This smoke was spread across from the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean. The decline of the French made it easy for them to spread farther.

The “Smoke” Represents Judgment, armies, and false doctrines of error and confusion.

“Howl, O gate; cry, O city; thou, whole Palestina, are dissolved, for there shall come from the north a smoke, and none shall be alone in his appointed times.” (Isaiah 14:30-31) This symbolic smoke in this verse represents the Assyrian army, spreading far and wide to destroy the country of Philistia, but Jerusalem "escapes."

157 The “Sun and Air Darkened” The Gospel of Jesus and the fresh spirit of God was blacked out from the people, by the false spirit of the religion of Islam and covered over by their teachings. (Romans 11:7-10; 2 Thessalonians 2:7-12) The “Locusts and Scorpions” “Make thyself many, as the Locusts... Thy crowned are as the Locusts and thy captains as the great grasshoppers...” (Nahum 3:15, 17) (Judges 7:12; Judges 6:5) The Muslim Arab Saracen warriors were loosed to punish the Eastern Roman territories. God’s mercy held it back. Since they lastly rejected God's law and his Son Jesus. The Muhammadans swarmed over the Eastern Empire, leaving behind their sting of death, or as it were much pain it would cause. There were over 550 Muslim war attacks in Europe from 600 – 1840 AD. This Muslim (Islam) army religion substituted Friday for their Sabbath. They replaced the Bible with their Koran. They reject Jesus as the Messiah. They have a false prophet, Muhammed.

(Luke 10:18-20) The first “falling star” brought darkness by obscuring Christ’s heavenly ministry, this Muslim Star, denies Christ’s divinity altogether. The scriptures say; “He that believes on the Son has everlasting life; and he that does not believe in the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abides on him.” (John 3:36)

9:4. “And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads.”

In history we find an interesting story. Christians opposed to Catholicism were “protected” from the Muslim Saracens.

DECREE OF ABU BECKR (Mohammed’s uncle who succeeded him).

“When you fight the battles of the lord (Allah), acquit yourselves like men, without turning your backs: but let not your victory be stained with the blood of woman or children, destroy not the palm trees, nor burn any fields of corn. Cut down no fruit trees, nor do any mischief to cattle, only such as you kill eat… As you go on you will find some religious persons who live retired in monasteries, and purpose to serve God that way: let them alone, and neither kill them nor destroy their monasteries: and you will find another sort of people, that belong to the synagogue of Satan, who have shaven crowns (Catholic Munks) be sure you cleave their skulls and give no quarter till they either turn Mohammetans or pay tribute.” – (E. Gibbons, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Ch.51, par.10.)

The Paulicians were known for their stand on the Bible alone.

Some more firm on it than others.

Anti-Catholic groups which originated in the 7th century (possibly earlier), experienced many alternations of imperial favor and ruthless persecution, and remained influential till the 12th century. They survived in Armenia, Mesopotamia, N. Syria, Asia Minor, and eventually into Eastern Europe. They Rejected Mariolatry and the worship of saints and images, a similar rejection of sacramental symbolism, and a special emphasis on adult baptism as the only valid form. The basis of these opinions is found on Scripture to be their sufficient authority to the exclusion of tradition and the 'teaching of the Church.'

The Muslims regarded them as a separate group from the mainline Christians who were persecuting them, and often assisted and protected them, in Asia and in Europe.

159 The “Paulicians” in Europe was “a generic description of any of these movements which opposed the development of Catholic hierarchy and doctrine” including the Albigenses and other antiCatholic groups.

God knows who His true followers are, and in this punishing scourge upon the Catholic Church, His faithful followers, hiding from the persecution of this church that called itself by His name, (Ezekiel 22: 25-28) were not harmed and found a degree of comfort from the Muslims.

The Seal of God on the foreheads of the protected in this time was the Gospel Seal!

The Vegetation is the people of God not harmed. (Isaiah 51:12; Psalms 1:1-3; Jeremiah 17:8; Psalms 92:12) The Gospel Seal. (Ephesians 1:13, 14; Ephesians 4:30; 2 Timothy 2:15, 19; 2 Corinthians 1:22, 24; John 14:16, 17; John 15:3; John 16:13-15, 28-33)

9:5,6. “And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he strikes a man. And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.”

Five months in prophetic time is, 5 X 30 =150 years. A day equals a year. (Genesis 29:27-30; Numbers 14:34; Ezekiel 4:6) Historians usually place the starting date of the Saracenic conquests under Abu-Bekr, in the year a.d. 632. Between 632 and 641 they conquered Syria, Palestine, Persia, and Egypt. By 709 they held all of northern Africa. In 711 they invaded Spain, and moved on into Gaul, where they were stopped by Charles Martel in the Battle of Tours in 732. Though "checked" they were by no means crushed,

they continued to "torment" for another half century. It took another two generations for the Franks to drive all the Arab garrisons out of what is now France and across the Pyrenees.

Charles Martel's halt of the invasion of Islamic conquests, and the unification of the Frankish kingdom would lead to the “Holy Roman Empire.” By 762 the Saracen Empire began moving its capital to Bagdad. By 782 they relaxed from war.

In July 27, 1299. The beginning of the Ottoman Empire (Muhammedans) armies first invaded the Nicomedian territory in the eastern Byzantine Empire. They finally captured Constantinople on July 27, 1449.

The repeated reference to scorpions in Verses 3, 5, and 10 emphasizes that it is a false spiritual power, as interpreted by Isaiah 9:15. “The prophet who teaches lies, he is the tail.” (Rev 12:4, 7-9; John 8:44) Life and immortality came from Jesus and his doctrine, and many were forced to abandon this gospel of life. (2 Timothy 1:10)

9:7. “And the shapes of the locusts were like unto horses prepared unto battle; and on their heads were as it were crowns like gold, and their faces were as the faces of men.”

Locusts naturally destroy green plants. These locusts are not natural locusts; their attack is directed against “unrighteous men.”

The “shapes of the Locust's appeared as horses prepared for battle.”

The Saracen Muslim men with beards were an army on Arabian horseback!

161 “And we taught him the fashioning of coats of armor to protect you from your enemy in battle. So will you then be grateful?” (Quran 21:80) These were fierce swarms of armies harassing the Christian Pagan Roman Empire. There were sometimes up to 40,000 armored horsemen in the field at one time.

“Crowns of Gold.”

Ezekiel describes the turbans of the Sabaen or Keturite Arabs under this precise description.

“Sabaeans from the wilderness, which put beautiful crowns upon their heads.” (Ezekiel 23:42) Many of them in different ranks had painted gold, metal helmets, inscribed with their writings. They were a converting military, to convert people any way possible.

“Faces of Men.” They are men with beards, and they also had decorated metal face plates that attached to their crowns. These were all different and had the appearance of a face.

9:8. “And they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were as the teeth of lions.”

These are wild Muslim men with long hair. They had Metal chain mail hanging from their crowns to guard their necks and shoulders in battle.

It was the religion of Muhammad that made the Saracens (Arabs) what they were. United by a common religion they speed forth as its propagandists like locusts with the teeth of lions to convert the world with the sword, and their Quran.

“For a nation is come up upon my land, strong, and without number, whose teeth are the teeth of a lion...” (Joel 1:6)

9:9. “And they had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron; and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle.”

The breast-plate of iron and coats of mail was a feature mentioned in the Quran as, God's gifts to the Arabs. They inscribed into their armor words that they thought would reflect away the enemy’s weapons.

“And we taught him the fashioning of coats of armor to protect you from your enemy in battle. So will you then be grateful?” (Quran 21:80) Wings symbolize the speed with which they moved forward to conquer.

“Behold, he shall come up as clouds, and his chariots shall be as a whirlwind: his horses are swifter than eagles. Woe unto us! For we are spoiled.” (Jeremiah 4:13) “The appearance of them is as the appearance of horses; and as horsemen, so shall they run. Like the noise of chariots on the tops of mountains shall they leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that devoureth the stubble, as a strong people set in battle array.” (Joel 2:4-5).

Akıncı is "raider," they were some of the front line defense to plunder and wildly attack the enemy, Akıncı forces were led by certain families. Some known akıncı families were Malkocoglu, Turhanlı, Omerli, Evrenosoglu, and Mihalli. These akıncı clans

163 were mainly composed of Turkmen tribal warriors with a leading dynasty which descended from the warrior ghazis of the first Ottoman ruler Osman I. Akıncıs used to wear colorful and interesting clothes to shock and confuse their opponents. They used to wear eagle wings on their backs (this was imitated by Polish cavalry troops later, and used in other Ottoman wars later.) These type of warriors existed from between the 14th and 16th century. They had wings attached to their backs and saddles, on frames or poles upon which eagle; ostrich, swan and goose feathers had been used. These made a loud intimidating sound and looked unusual, confusing there enemies.

The back row fighters were excellent horsemen. Armor plated both rider and horse in later years. Earlier a whole lion’s skin covered the horse back and head of the horse. Here is a drawing of an Ottoman on horseback by Melchior Lorck between 1526-1598.

Courtesy of Wikimedia. A search of Metal covered horses and Canons will show these exact Trumpets 5 and 6.

9:10. “And they had tails like unto scorpions, and there were stings in their tails: and their power was to hurt men five months.”

“The ancient and honorable, he is the head; and the prophet that teaches lies, he is the tail.” (Isaiah 9:15) The opening of the pit was the release of deceptions.

Scorpions inject their venom through a barbed stinger on the end of their tail. Like a scorpion, Muhammad’s religion stung the people with the poison of the Islamic doctrine. Wherever they conquered there the religion was imposed.

They had many types of weapons as spears, arrows, axes, swords, that would be used to inflict pain or death. 5 months vs 5.

9:11. “And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon.”

The fallen star who is Abaddon or a representative of Abaddon, the king of the bottomless pit, who has been given the key to the bottomless pit. This Fallen star denies the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

The Star Fallen represents an imposter, Satan. He was a fallen angel long ago. (Luke 10:18.) Now he is working through Othman who began the Ottoman Empire, and the Muslim powers to send more of a flood of false lies to drown the truth out of existence.

(Rev 12:9, 12-17.) He is giving them the key of the power of darkness, as he did Rome and the papacy. (Rev 13:2.)

The Son of God declares: “I will give you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy; and nothing shall by any means hurt you” (Luke 10:19)

9:12. “One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more hereafter.”

There are two more Woes (warnings) more greater coming!

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Sixth Trumpet a.d. 1449 - 1840. The Turkish Ottoman Islamic Muslims.

More Judgments on the Papacy and the world for rejecting God’s word and people. (Great Controversy, ch.18.)

9:13-21. “And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God. 14 Saying to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates. 15 And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men. 16 And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand: and I heard the number of them.

17 And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone. 18 By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths. 19 For their power is in their mouth, and in their tails: for their tails were like unto serpents, and had heads, and with them they do hurt.

20 And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk: 21 Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.�

9:13. “And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God.” The voice from the four horns of the golden altar reminds us of the fifth seal, where the blood of the martyrs slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held: and they cried out with a loud voice saying, 'How long, O Lord, holy and true, do you not avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?"

The papacy gained more and more power between 1000 1500 AD. persecuting Protestants.

From 1160-1560 AD. Whole families young and old of the Waldensians who dwelt in the Italian Alps were visited with 36 different persecutions. About 1,000,000 people were put to death, by the Catholic Church’s order. Reformer John Huss was a Bohemian preacher of the Bible. After his burning on July 6, 1415, Pope Martin on March 17, 1420 ordered a crusade to destroy the followers of Wycliffe, Huss and others in Bohemia.

Would God send a Judgment against the Catholic Church?

Yes the disorganized Islamic Muslim tribes unrestrained came crashing in on the Papacy in different locations wave after wave.

Between 1480-1481 the city and fort of Otranto, in Apulia, southern Italy, was attacked and invaded by Ottoman troops. 800 citizens who refused to convert to Islam were taken to the Hill of the Minerva and beheaded. The Bishops and others were killed in the churches, some sawn in half. After desecrating the Cathedral, they gathered the women and older children to be sold into slavery.

Men and small children, and infants were killed. An estimated 12,000 were killed and 5,000 enslaved. This continued in many places, even today, secretely and openly as Isis/Isil.

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9:14. “Saying to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, Release the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates.”

Since the fifth trumpet had sounded there was a short time of “restraint” on the Muslim powers. Islam had been stopped by Charles Martel in the Battle of Tours, 725 A.D. And In 762 they placed their capital in Baghdad. In 781 Caliph Haroun Al Rashid was the main ruler and for centuries the Arabs were “restrained.”

Though restrained, they were still a strong military and tried to take Rome in 846.

There was four leading Sultanies of the Ottoman Empire. Aleppo, Bagdad, Damascus, and Icomium.

9:15. “And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men.”

Revelation 7 speaks of four angels holding back the four winds of strife and chaos; these are not these angels here. Angels do preside over nations, good and bad. (Daniel 10:5-21; Rev 12:712) Muslims thought their religion was better than the Christians infidels. Othman, a Turkish emir, began conquering the countryside, and uniting Muslims under what would become the Ottoman Empire. Islamic Muslim tribes continued crashing in on the Papacy wave after wave.

Constantine the 11th had fought against the Turks during the crusade. When the emperor, John the 8th died in 1449 AD. Constantine the 11th inherited the throne. Yet he postponed his coronation until he made a new truce with the Sultan Turk, Murad 2, who accepted him as a vassal. The emperor in Constantinople

publically showed that he could not rule till the Muslim leader sanctioned it.

When Murad 2 died, and his son Mehmed 2 became sultan.

This new Sultan soon made preparations for the siege of Constantinople which began April 6, 1453. May 16th the Byzantine Empire ceased to exist, its capital now became the seat of the Ottoman Empire.

When the eastern empire went down, the Turks were released.

No power stood in their way.

This period amounts to three hundred and ninety-one years and fifteen days; during which the Ottoman supremacy was to exist in Constantinople. It began about July 27, 1449 with the voluntary submission of the emperor to the sultan, and ended in August 11, 1840 with the voluntary submission of the sultan to Christian Europe.

“Two years before in 1838, Josiah Litch, one of the leading ministers preaching the Second Advent, published an exposition of Revelation 9, predicting the fall of the Ottoman Empire, and specifying not only the year but the very day on which this would take place. According to this exposition, which was purely a matter of calculation on the prophetic periods of Scripture, the Turkish government would surrender its independence on the eleventh day of August, 1840. The prediction was widely published, and thousands watched the course of events with eager interest. At the very time specified, Turkey, through her ambassadors, accepted the protection of the allied powers of Europe, and thus placed herself under the control of Christian nations. The event exactly fulfilled the prediction.” (Great Controversy, Ch. 18)

9:16, 17. “And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand: and I heard the number of them. 17 And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that

169 sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone.”

200,000,000 could be their population through different ages.

The Greek Bible says, “Two Myriads of Myriads.” A Myriad is ten thousand. This would represent the greatness in number of their armies. There was up to 700,000 in full fight sometimes. (Isaiah 5:29, 30) The colors of their uniforms were red, blue and yellow. In 1834 the Romanian flag needed approval of the 30th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, Mahmud 2, for the colors yellow, blue and red design.

A Book of Horsemanship and the Art of War was written in 1285 by Najm al-Din Ahdab, a Syrian officer. It is full of information on how to distill oil to make fuel as gasoline, how to prepare explosives from gunpowder, how to fit fuses into "naphtha pots," and even build flying fire rockets. In their Iron Cavalry, they had wheeled machines with cannons made to look like horses spitting out fire. Much of these cannons had lions heads carved into the ends, as if it were spitting fire. These weapons were used in the 1200’s and on through the Ottoman wars. Men sat on them wearing red blue and yellow fireproof clothing, to light the fuses.

The warriors used a naphtha fuel and soaked fireproof cloth with it, they had fireproof uniforms and padding for the naphtha troops and their horse, they would then light the naphtha on fire. At night they charged into the camps of the European crusaders who saw them as “warriors from hell.” There were hand guns and pole guns used.

9:18-21. “By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued

out of their mouths. 19 For their power is in their mouth, and in their tails: for their tails were like unto serpents, and had heads, and with them they do hurt.

20 And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk: 21 Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.�

These wars were fierce and killed many. The cannon's used were made in different ways over the years, to be used easily on the battle fields. They used spears at first and then began using small pipe guns, some on poles that spit out fire and other objects.

Because of the corruption and the oppression of the Catholic Church and its many daughter churches (Follow traditions as Sunday worship... not coming out) it had been labeled of breaking all the commandments of God, and rejected the life changing lessons of Jesus his Son. (Ezekiel 22:25-31; Daniel 7:25; James 2:10.) God's sixth trumpet Judgment had been served. By 1798 Napoleons General Berthier had been sent to take the Pope down and into prison where he died. This was not the last of the power of Satan working through the Pope. (Matthew 24:15, 23-26; 2 Thessalonians 2:1-13; 2 Corinthians 11:12-15; Rev 13:11-14; Rev 19:20.)

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Between the Sixth and Seventh Trumpet's.

Revelation 10:1-11; 11:1-14.

10:1-6. “And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire.

2 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, 3 And cried with a loud voice, as when a lion roareth: and when he had cried, seven thunders uttered their voices. 4 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. 5 And the angel which I saw stand upon the sea and upon the earth lifted up his hand to heaven, 6 And sware by him that liveth for ever and ever, who created heaven, and the things that therein are, and the earth, and the things that therein are, and the sea, and the things which are therein, that there should be time no longer.�

In this vision John sees a prophetic book that is now open.

Twice he focuses on the fact the book is open. (10:2, 8) this would suggest the book was closed, its contents not understood.

The same being is seen in Daniel 12:7 standing upon the land and sea. In Daniel we are told the book would be sealed for 1260 years or parts of the book.

Both John and Daniel saw a glorious heavenly Being standing on land and sea. These messages of truth were to go to all the world by land and sea. There is one difference. In Daniel the book is “closed up” and “sealed till the time of the end.”

In this period of time of Revelation the book is “open” and the long waiting time is over. This message was given to Daniel to seal it, in order that in the time of the end its truths were to brighten the world. Also, this message concerns Christ and His plan of redemption for mankind.

Many Protestants had understood that the 1260 years of papal reign had ended in 1798, confirming the prophecies. But now the attention of the prophetic students of scripture were being turned to the 2300 year prophecy the true high priest, Prince Jesus. (Daniel 8:14; 9:21-27) Some had a false belief on the end period of this 2300 year prophecy, it was not yet the end of the world. Right here in Rev. 10 prophecy reveals it is not the end of all things for at that point in time the seven thunders were yet sealed. This also explains why they didn't fully understand what was to take place at that time, until after the Great Disappointment. They thought the first “thunder” was already Christ's coming.

John is told to seal the seven thunders. These seven messages were yet sealed to the people as they received the open scroll of Daniel. These seven thunders are the messages of Revelation 14.

These messages were to unfold one by one as the first and second angels’ messages were to be proclaimed, yet even they were not fully understood until later.

173 The “Seven Thunders.”

“Through the brightness before him were coals of fire kindled. The Lord thundered from Heaven, and the most high uttered his voice.” (2 Samuel 22:13-14) “Listen closely to the thunder of His voice, and the rumbling that goes out from His mouth. Under the whole heaven He lets it loose, and His lightning to the ends of the earth. After it, a voice roars; He thunders with His majestic voice, and He does not restrain the lightnings when His voice is heard.” (Job 37:2-5; Psalm 18:13)

1. (Rev. 14:7) Hour of Judgment is come, worship the Creator God! (Announces Investigative Judgment in 1844) 2. (Rev. 14:8) Babylon (Papacy and Daughters) is fallen come out.

3. (Rev. 14:9-12) Reject the mark of the beast (false Sunday worship of the Papacy) and keep God's Ten Commandments, having the trust and faith of Jesus.

4. (Rev. 18:1) The show and tell of Jesus blood and God’s Law with the Ark. A repeat of the first three, with added emphases that spiritualism has invaded the Catholic and Protestant churches.

Come out that you receive not there plagues.

5. (Rev. 14:14-16) Christ comes to reap the earth (2nd coming) to take His faithful home. Those who keep His Covenant with him.

6. (Rev. 14:17) Angel with sickle 7. (Rev. 14:18) Another angel who had power of fire crying to the angel with the sickle.

These last two messengers declare the great battle after the 1000 years. The wicked are about to receive their final reward. The winepress filled with the “grapes” is trodden outside the city. This city is a reference to the beloved city which the wicked as

numerous as the sands of the sea march against. Outside the holy city is gathered the wicked. (Rev. 22:17).

The angel has power over fire, and Rev. 20 gives us more detail as to this final judgment which puts an end to all sin for all eternity.

10:7. “But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets.”

We are now almost in the time of the seventh trumpet, it is when the "Seventh Trumpet" sounds that Judgment and cleansing of the sanctuary record books of Heaven would happen as spoken in Daniel and the prophets, all the prophecies would be opened for people to understand and the witness of God and His Son Jesus proving Him worthy, would be fully shown to all. (Colossians 2:13; Ephesians 1:17, 18; Ephesians 6:19; Rev. 14:6, 7; Romans 3:4; Psalms 51:1-14)

10:8-10. “And the voice which I heard from heaven spake unto me again, and said, Go and take the little book which is open in the hand of the angel which standeth upon the sea and upon the earth. 9 And I went unto the angel, and said unto him, Give me the little book. And he said unto me, Take it, and eat it up; and it shall make thy belly bitter, but it shall be in thy mouth sweet as honey. 10 And I took the little book out of the angel's hand, and ate it up; and it was in my mouth sweet as honey: and as soon as I had eaten it, my belly was bitter.”

The people at this period of time took the little book which was opened and discovered the longest time period (2300 day prophecy) in Daniel 8:14.

“And he said unto me, Unto two thousand and three hundred days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed.” (Genesis 29:27-30; Numbers 14:34; Ezekiel 4:6; Luke 13:32)

175 With joy the advent message swelled into a loud cry! They thought and taught that Christ was coming in October, 1844 and “time should be no more.” The message went around the whole world. They had eaten the little book of Daniel’s prophecies and filled their hearts and minds with it. It was sweet! (Ezekiel 2:8-10; 3:1-3) Realizing the autumn of 1844 passed with no coming of Jesus, in great disappointment they had felt the “bitterness” of error in not understanding scripture. (Matthew 22:29)

10:11. “And he said unto me, Thou must prophesy again before many peoples, and nations, and tongues, and kings.”

Much study and prayer later a group of these Adventist’s broke away from the millerite movement and began to keep the true Saturday Sabbath and learned its importance. They understood from the 2300 year prophecy that Jesus went into the most holy service of the Sanctuary ministry of Heaven of the highest courts in 1844, with the Heavenly original Ark and “Ten Commandments.”

(Hebrews 8; 9; 10; Daniel 9) as explained in the “seventh trumpet.”

Did God tell and show us through events that the Judgment was near? Yes the seven Seals and a study on events leading up to 1844 on page 334.

“And the temple of God was opened in heaven, and there was seen in his temple the ark of his testament: and there were lightnings, and voices, and thundering’s, and an earthquake, and great hail."

(Rev. 11:19) These most important messages to be revealed to the whole world are the prophecies of Daniel and Revelation. The seven thunders beginning with the three angels’ messages, and the investigative Judgment of the whole earth.

“And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people, Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of

his Judgment is come: and worship Him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters.” (Rev. 14:6-14) “For in six days the (Lord) (made) (heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day, and hallowed it.”) (Exodus 20:11) All three His Name, Title and Territory are written in the fourth commandment, his Sabbath commandment. This is God’s Seal.

Opposite of the forceful Popes Mark, in Rev. 13; 14:9

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Between the end of the Sixth and Seventh trumpet’s.

Revelation 11:1-14.

11:1, 2. “And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein. 2 But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.”

The inner holy places of the earthly sanctuary represented the great Heavenly sanctuary. The Heavenly sanctuary was to be cleansed of all sinners names in the books of Heaven and the Righteous names be known, and this happened in the end of the 2300 years of Daniel 8:14

What three things were to be measured in Rev. 11:1?

The same three things were to be Measured and Cleansed as in the Day of Atonement!

The sanctuary, the altar, and the worshipers. (Leviticus 16:16-18) While they studied "what sanctuary" was to be "cleansed" at the end of the 2300 years, they understood that during the seventh trumpet, the temple in Heaven was opened and the ark of the testament was seen by Jesus in heaven. This part of the temple was opened near the end of earth's history, the seventh trumpet! The ark of the testament is in the Most Holy Place, where the High Priest entered in on the "Day of Atonement."

It was correctly being understood by the people after 1844 that the heavenly "Day of Atonement" had begun at the end of the

2300 years in 1844! This chapter is helping us to know how the Judgment will take place.

In the Old Testament there was a measuring of the temple and ordinances. (Ezekiel 40:1, through 42:20) It caused the Israelites to make a separation between the holy and unholy. (Ezekiel 42:20; 43:10, 11; 22:24-31) There was a measuring after the return from there captivity, showing them to trust that God would protect his people. (Zechariah 2:1-8) What does measuring mean? "Measure" means "Judge."

“For with what judgment you judge, you shall be judged: and with what measure you mete, it shall be measured to you again.”

(Matthew 7:2) A measuring judgment is an investigative judgment.

“Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ.” (Ephesians 4:13).

“We will be judged by the Law of liberty.” (James 2:12) “For the time has come for judgment to begin at the house of God; and if it begins with us first, what will be the end of those who do not obey the gospel of God? Now If the righteous one is scarcely saved, where will the ungodly and the sinner appear?” (I Peter 4:17-18; Rev. 22:12) “For we dare not make ourselves of the number, or compare ourselves with some that commend themselves: but they measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves among themselves, are not wise.” (1 Cor. 10:12) “Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves: Therefore thus

179 saith the Lord God, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste. Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.”

(Isaiah 28:15-17) Jesus is the Stone we are to build upon and the words of the Apostles and Prophets, and the Ten Commandments. Jesus the sun of righteousness shines through us, and we are his building, reflecting in every direction His rays of light. (Isaiah 8:20; Malachi 4:2; Rev 22:16; Isaiah 60:19; Isaiah 28:14-16,19-22; Psalms 118:22; Isaiah 53:3; 49:7; Matthew 21:42-46; Acts 4:10-13; 1 Corinthians 3:9-14; Malachi 3:17; Ephesians 2:19,20; Ephesians 4:9-15; 1 Peter 2:4-10; Matthew 7:24-27; Matthew 16:16-20; Rev 3:7.)

The Word of God in His Bible is a fire and will Judge who we are and burn the fake. (1 Corinthians 3:11-13; Jeremiah 23:29; Jeremiah 5:14; Hebrews 4:12) (Job 29:14; Zechariah 3:4; Isaiah 61:10; Psalm 35:24; 2 Corinthians 5:17; Romans 4:5-7; John 14:12,15,21; Rev. 14:12; Rev. 22:14) These verses point us directly back to the old Day of Atonement in Leviticus 16:16-18 where the sanctuary, altar and worshippers are cleansed, their sins blotted out, cleared in Judgment. (Psalms 51:1-14) “It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these. For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true, but into Heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us.” (Hebrews 9:23, 24)

These worshippers are not literal Jews or priests praying for people to a Pope, worshiping in a literal temple, but those who direct their worship to the heavenly temple, where Christ ministers for His worshipers. (Hebrews 8; 9; 10) This measuring that is to take place is the same as the sealing of the 144,000 in chapter 7. And this will separate and protect his people. The temple or sanctuary represents God's dwelling place among men and women. (1 Corinthians 3:9-17; 2 Corinthians 6:1418; Ephesians 2:19-22) The Christian church, (Hebrews 12:22-29) would be protected by this measuring, while the wicked world would not.

11:2. “But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.�

What does the courtyard represent?

The courtyard was where the altar of burnt sacrifice and the laver of water sat. It represented the earth outside the temple of God in heaven. The courtyard experience was Jesus Christ's work upon earth, being baptized and sacrificed upon the cross. (1 John 5:6) The courtyard of the old Jerusalem temple was divided into inner courts for the Jewish worshippers, and a large outer court for the Gentiles. The symbolism here is that the worshippers of Jesus are looking to the Heavenly sanctuary, when the unconsecrated ones are in the outer court or the world. The phrase "time of the Gentiles" is a symbolic meaning.

181 Who are the Gentiles?

“And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled. And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars.” (Luke 21:24) See Matthew 24:29-30 and lesson under 6th Seal.

“The Jerusalem which is above is the mother of all true believers.”

(Galatians 4:26).

Israel is spiritual and not literal. (Romans 2:28, 29; Galatians 3:16, 27, 29; Romans 9:6-8, 24, 27) Revelation 11:2-3 and Luke 21:24 speak of the “TEMPLE” and “JERUSALEM.” When John wrote the book of Revelation the earthly temple and Jerusalem lay in ruins and could not be literally measured. This measuring represents a symbolic measuring.

Who is Trampling on the spiritual followers of God? The plan and people of God were being stepped on much through Daniel 7:7, 19; 8:7, 10. The one doing the trampling was the antichrist papacy that came up out of the Roman Empire and revealed itself as a religious and political power that causes desolation. (Daniel 7:21, 25; 8:11-13; 11; 21-25; 12:11). It appears to reach into heaven itself, counterfeiting Christ's daily ministry and casting truth to the ground. It reaches into heaven, the true place of the sanctuary, and casts the "place” or plan of the sanctuary to the ground, claiming power over it, and trampling on it and the people of God who observe it.

Galatians 4:26. “The Jerusalem which is above is the mother of all true believers.” The Gentiles of this Judgment would be the wicked world outside the church.

When was this Time?

This oppressive power is given a set time in prophecy while the saints suffer under its trampling. “A time, times, and half time” or 3 1/2 years. (Daniel 7:25; 12:7) Rev. 11 explains this time in two ways. 42 months in verse 2 and 1260 days in verse 3. Forty-two prophetic months of 30 days equal 1260 days. This is the same time in Rev. 12:6, 14. This is the “Gentiles” trampling on God's true church in the wilderness from A.D. 538 -1798. (Rev. 17:3-6) The “Gentiles” would be the little horn arising out of the Roman Gentile beast. It is a false religious power, persecuting God's people who are in the wilderness during this “time” and claiming the power over Christ's ministry work in the sanctuary.

11:3, 4. “And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth. 4 These are the two olive trees, and the two candlesticks standing before the God of the earth.”

In the Council of Tolosanum in a.d. 1229, under Pope Gregory IX, we read in canons 14 and 2, “We prohibit laymen possessing copies of the Old and new Testament…We forbid them most severely to have the above books in the popular vernacular, The lords of the districts shall carefully seek out the heretics in dwellings, hovels, and forests, and even their underground retreats shall be entirely wiped out.”

The word of God was to witness under the darkness of the Pope's rule and false doctrines and persecution's. The bible was

183 clothed in Sacloth, a potato bag and distributed secretely by the few faithful to the word of God. Who are the two witnesses, olive trees, and the lamps?

Zechariah 4:1-14 In verse 14, The meaning of the word “anointed” in this phrase in Hebrew is (Hayitshaar) “one who produces light.” These are the “two” who produce light. The old and new testaments drip the Holy Spirit out into the different times in history to all who would read and hear. “Thy name is as oil poured forth.” (Song of Solomon 1:3) “Thy word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path.” (Psalm 119:105) “For the commandment is a lamp and the law a light, and reproofs of instruction are the way of life.” (Proverbs 6:23; Isaiah 55:4; Rev. 1:5) The bible is two witnesses that give agreeing testimonies.

(Matthew 18:16; John 8:17) These witnesses of Jesus and truth are the Old and New testaments.

11:5, 6. “And if any man will hurt them, fire proceedeth out of their mouth, and devoureth their enemies: and if any man will hurt them, he must in this manner be killed. 6 These have power to shut heaven that it rain not in the days of their prophecy: and have power over waters to turn them to blood, and to smite the earth with all plagues, as often as they will.”

“For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book. And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.” (Rev. 22:18, 19) (2 Thessalonians 1:8, 9; Malachi 4:1; Rev. 20:15)

These are not Moses and Elijah, because they are in Heaven and cannot come back to die.

Elijah prayed and it did not rain because God told him that it would not. (Amos 4:7, 8; 1 Kings 17; 18; 1 Samuel 12:17; James 5:17, 18) Moses prayed and the water turned to blood, this happened because God told him to. (Exodus 7:17-21)

11:7-11. “And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them. 8 And their dead bodies [shall lie] in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified. 9 And they of the people and kindred’s and tongues and nations shall see their dead bodies three days and an half, and shall not suffer their dead bodies to be put in graves. 10 And they that dwell upon the earth shall rejoice over them, and make merry, and shall send gifts one to another; because these two prophets tormented them that dwelt on the earth. 11 And after three days and an half the Spirit of life from God entered into them, and they stood upon their feet; and great fear fell upon them which saw them.”

About the time of the end of the Bible witnessing under darkness of the dark ages, on January 21, 1793. The French assembly voted on the Bible to be banned, and bibles were thrown into piles on the streets and burned. The rise of the beast of Atheism killed the word of God. France declared as the ruler of Egypt did, "Who is the Lord that I should obey his voice?" (Exodus 5:2) Some stood up for the Bible and God's word, and many were threatened and killed by beheading. The words, "Where also our Lord was crucified," reminded the people "Inasmuch as ye have

185 done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me." (Matthew 25:40) When France established the Age of Reason and Idolatry, and rejected the Christian religion and the bible, the corrupted surrounding nations sent letters telling them how wise they were.

It was on January 21, 1793, when France abolished religion and the bible. Just three and a half years later religion and the bible were reestablished on June 10, 1796. A day in prophecy is a year.

(Genesis 29:27-30; Numbers 14:34; Ezekiel 4:6; Luke 13:32) Many were changed by its teachings.

11:12-14. “And they heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them, Come up hither. And they ascended up to heaven in a cloud; and their enemies beheld them. 13 And the same hour was there a great earthquake, and the tenth part of the city fell and in the earthquake were slain of men seven thousand: and the remnant were afraid, and gave glory to the God of heaven.

14 The second woe is past; and, behold, the third woe cometh quickly.�

The Word of God, which had been clothed under sacloth and darkness had risen after three and a half years and ascended to Heaven, and was established in the sight of the people, as the sun, moon, and stars, and became great and well known. The British Bible Society began in 1804; bibles were easily available and affordable to the people. The American Bible Society began in 1816, and hereon the bibles were sent around the world once again.

Missionaries began to spread the Word of God everywhere.

The city referred to is symbolically Babylon the Great, through chapters 14, 16, 17, and 18. Babylon was supported by ten kingdoms, the same as in Daniel 2 and 7. And here she loses the support of one of them in some ways because of reestablishing the

Bible. (Rev. 17:12-18) Because of the rejection of the Bible, the earthquake represented a sudden change and destruction and crimes shook the country, and thousands died, physically and spiritually.

The same with the Egyptians that made the Idol in the sight of the real God, there fell about three thousand men dead. (Exodus 32:2629) Seven thousand represented the full punishing of those who turn against God, still in a setting of a part. (Proverbs 1:29, 31) The results of the Age of Reason was noticed by many around the world, and they accepted the Bible and gave glory to the God of Heaven. “Jesus answered and said unto him, if a man love me, he will keep my words, and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.� (John 14:23) The Second woe is past, meaning the sixth trumpet is done, because the Third and last woe, the Seventh trumpet is now going to begin.

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Seventh Trumpet Revelation 11:15-19.

1844 – Jesus returns. The Heavenly Investigative Judgment of Jesus of all people on earth. (Great Controversy, ch. 25.)

11:15-19. “And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever. 16 And the four and twenty elders, which sat before God on their seats, fell upon their faces, and worshipped God, 17 Saying, We give thee thanks, O Lord God Almighty, which art, and wast, and art to come; because thou hast taken to thee thy great power, and hast reigned.

18 And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth. 19 And the temple of God was opened in heaven, and there was seen in his temple the ark of his testament: and there were lightnings, and voices, and thundering’s, and an earthquake, and great hail.”

(Daniel 7:22) John begins with the ending results of this Seventh and last trumpet Judgment of the world.

11:15. “And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever.”

“In the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he has declared to his servants the prophets.” (Rev. 10:7; Colossians 1:25-28; Colossians 2:1-3; Romans 14:23; Romans 16:25; 1 Corinthians 2:7; Ephesians 1:9; Ephesians 3:3,4,9; Ephesians 5:32; Ephesians 6:19; 1 Timothy 3:9-16; Luke 18:34; Mark 4:10-20; Romans 11:25-28) This is the opposite of the mystery of iniquity and the antichrist. The Devil will walk the earth as Jesus deceiving many by false miracles, turning people attention away from the Ark of God. (2 Thessalonians 2:1-13; 2 John 1:6-11) “And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people, Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his Judgment is come: and worship Him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters.” (Rev. 14:6, 7) The people, who understand this message, preach to all who dwell on the earth, and they give God glory and worship him of Creation, the law and the Sabbath. By faith in Jesus they can keep the Commands of God. (Rev 14:12; Romans 8:4; Mark 2:27-28; John 1:1-14; Hebrews 1:10) “For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day, and hallowed it.”

(Exodus 20:11; Psalms 124:8) In the Lord's Prayer Jesus said “Thy kingdom come, Thy Will be done in earth as it is in Heaven.” (Matthew 6:10) This is our message, the Sabbath kept as with the whole law as it is in Heaven, and the coming of Jesus and his father and all his angels to war and to battle the lawbreakers and rejecters of Jesus, who alone could have saved them. He is coming to take us, who are in his favor through Jesus, and his covenant home with him.

189 Before the mediation and probation for this world ends, the Gospel of God and his son Jesus will be taught to the world and then the testimony of God's law and Sons blood will be revealed at and "against" the Sunday law and false miracles of Satan, and workings of his many false church followers, fulfilling the Gospels last chance call for law breaking sinners. Romans 1:18-20; Leviticus 17:11; 1 John 5:7-13; Matthew 6:10, 21; Rev. 22:10-15) “But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory.” (1 Corinthians 2:7) “And over it the cherubim’s of glory shadowing the mercy seat; of which we cannot now speak particularly.” (Hebrews 9:5) “For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus; who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time.” (1 Timothy 2:5-6) Jesus and the Law are both a Mirror to show us our sins.

(Romans 3:20; James 1:22-27; 2 Corinthians 3:18; John 15:10; Matthew 6:10, 21) The Blood is the Washcloth of the birth, life, death and life again of Jesus, his righteous life covering us. (1 John 1:5-9; 1 John 5:7-13; Leviticus 17:11; Luke 24:44; Matthew 6:10, 21)

This is God’s finishing and fulfilling work of the latter rain and will show and tell of Jesus will and promises for us, when the Ark is revealed with Jesus blood on it and the Ten Commandments from under where he

was crucified at and against the government Sunday laws. The Video of Ron Wyatt in the cave will be brought out of the cave and revealed.

(Jeremiah 3:3, 16; Ezekiel 44; 1 Timothy 2:5-6; 1 John 5:5-13)

John, begins with the ending results of this Seventh and last trumpet Judgment of the world.

Daniel 7:13-14; 20-22 tells us when Christ is brought before the Ancient of days at the 1844 Investigative Judgment, He is given dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages, should serve him: his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed. (Daniel 2:34, 35, 43- 45) Through Christ this greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people of the saints of the most high, whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom. (Dan. 7:27) This kingdom is promised to us and will be given to us when the true Jesus comes again in the air with all of his angels to take us back up to Heaven for the thousand years, until it is time for him to create the earth new. (John 14:1-3; Rev 19, 20, 21) More verses under Future timeline.

Cry a loud voice as a trumpet, give the message. Sigh is to pray. (Isaiah 40:1; Isaiah 52:8-10; Isaiah 58:1)

11:16,17. “And the four and twenty elders, which sat before God on their seats, fell upon their faces, and worshipped God, 17 Saying, We give thee thanks, O Lord God Almighty, which art, and wast, and art to come; because thou hast taken to thee thy great power, and hast reigned.”

The twenty four elders, who were present before God’s throne at Christ's ascension and witnessed His inauguration, exclaiming “Worthy, worthy is the Lamb that was slain”, (Rev. 5:23) and who have served with their “bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints” (Rev. 5:8), worship Him who is

191 crowned King of Kings. Their song was "You have redeemed us to God by Your blood... You have made us unto our God kings and priests, and we shall reign on the earth. (Rev. 5:10) Much joy they express because Christ has redeemed them, and bought back there lost inheritance! Their joy is a reflection of the great joy all the redeemed will experience as Christ receives the kingdom which He has won back with His own blood. The twenty four jury/witness elders are thanking Jesus and are present for this Most holy service Judgement. Jesus is from eternities past and was born our savior, and went up to eternities future, waiting for the time His Father says it is done, go get those whom I given to you. (John 1:1-14; John 6:37-40; John 17:1-26)

11:18-19. “And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth. 19 And the temple of God was opened in heaven, and there was seen in his temple the ark of his testament: and there were lightnings, and voices, and thundering’s, and an earthquake, and great hail.”

Continually peoples fought for dominion. All dominion and power will be given to Christ, and only the pure in heart will inherit the new created earth. (Daniel 2, 7, and 8; Matt. 5:5, 6) The nations were angry because the Dragon, beast and false prophet are the whole world being gathered for Armageddon.

Dragon-- (Atheism and communism as Muslims, Buddhism, Russians, Germans...) Beast— (Catholisism and the heads of the beast that are in Daniel 7) False prophet—(Non biblical churches as protestants following the beast worship day and teachings.

Jewish Non-Christians and fallen churches.)

“And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, and against his

army. And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone. And the remnant was slain with the sword of him that sat upon the horse, which sword proceeded out of his mouth: and all the fowls were filled with their flesh.” (Rev. 19:19-21) “And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet. For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.”.. “And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.” (Rev. 16:14, 16) The deceived are gathered into one of these groups against God and eternal life.

In Daniel 7, three times it is mentioned that after the 1260 years of the rule of papacy, the Judgment of Heaven would happen.

(Daniel 7:8-10; Daniel 7:20-22; Daniel 7:23-27) The papacy ended for a short time in 1798, and in 1844 Judgment in Heaven began, as we understood in Daniel 8 and 9, how the sanctuary of Heaven would be cleansed of the names of sinners, and the Life, Sin, and Remembrance books of record would play a roll, with the Bible, and Law. (Daniel 8:13, 14; Psalm 51:1-14; Isaiah 4:4) To cleanse, blot out, or Judge righteous. (Acts 17:31) The copy of the ark and God's testament Law was in the most holy place on earth. This room was opened only on the great day of atonement for the cleansing of the sanctuary once a year. The 2300 years in Daniel 8:14, point to 1844 when Jesus Christ entered into the Heavenly Most holy place where He seen the Ark and Law, and performs His last work. In between this time from when he goes into the most holy service until the ending of his service, there is still mercy for all who come to him. (Leviticus 16:12, 13)

193 When He comes out and casts the censor into the earth, there were voices, and thundering’s, and lightning’s, and an earthquake, and great hail culminating with the seven last plagues pouring onto earth. (Leviticus 16:20, 23, 27; Rev. 15:1, 5-8; Rev. 16:1-21) Jesus the mediator between man and God for repented sinners will finish his work, and the Investigative Judgment in Heaven to decide who has eternal life with Jesus and who has eternal death, will end. (Great Controversy Ch. 25 explains that the Judgment of 1844 is the starting of the Seventh Trumpet)

The Woman, the Child, and the Dragon.

Revelation 12:1-17.

“And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars: 2 And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered. 3 And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads. 4 And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born.

12:1-6.

5 And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and to his throne. 6 And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days.”

This Woman represents the early church. (2 Corinthians 11:2; Isaiah 62:5; Ephesians 5:25; Jeremiah 6:2; 1 Peter 4:17; Rev. 21:2) Israel and remnant (Jacob was called Israel by God) In Genesis 37:9-10 Joseph has a dream that the sun, moon and stars bow to him. His father Jacob said “Shall your mother and I and your eleven brothers bow to you.” It is through their involvement that we see the coming of the Messiah. Jesus became our servant to clothe us with His righteousness.

The sun represents Jesus and His gospel.(Psalm 84:11; Malachi 4:2) The woman (church) is clothed with the light of the gospel.

Jesus said "I am the light of the world."

195 “She Travailing�

In Isaiah 26:17-18 the prophecy moans the fact that his nation Israel has been in travail. They have suffered at the hands of other nations, they have not produced the righteousness and justice in the earth that has been desired. They have produced no child yet. In Isaiah 66:7-9 predicted a time when Zion travailed and brings forth fruit, Jesus.

She is standing on the moon, which represents the Old Testament period she is coming out of. She is clothed with the sun which represents the gospel and New Testament and all of its glory.

The ceremonial laws and feast days of offerings and sacrifices were a type and shadow of things to come, and vanished in the sunshine of the gospel of Jesus. (John 8:12; 9:5; Isaiah 61:10) The crown of twelve stars represents the twelve Apostles that Jesus had given the commission to. The woman was expecting Jesus to be born, and only a few knew and met him as a baby and a boy at the temple. There was sufficient literature and scripture for all to know.

Now when Jesus was born, and the devil through Herod's government tried killing him. (Matthew 2:1-23) After His three and a half year ministry he was crucified. Jesus three days later had risen from death and ascended up to Heaven forty days later, to finish his Heavenly ministry from this courtyard of earth to the holy and most holy places in Heaven, for you and me. To see who has eternal life or death when he returns up in the clouds. (Mark 16; 19, 20) The Dragon is the Devil. (Rev. 12:9) The horns and heads are the same spoken of in the book of Daniel. The ten horns are the same as in Rev. 13, in 17:9-16, and in chapter 12 one of the heads is pagan Rome, Italy. The Devil long ago did deceive almost half of all the angels in Heaven to follow him instead of God, only with murderous lies. "The prophet who speaks lies, he is the tail."

(Isaiah 9:15; John 8:44; Jude 1:6-16; Rev. 19:20) In Psalm 74:14 God broke the heads of the Dragon.

Represented as Egypt the persecutor of the Hebrews before the

Exodus to safety. The Dragon represents the Devil working through Egypt. What Egypt was to the Hebrews the Devil is to us through modern day governments and organizations. The blood of the Passover lamb delivered them from the curse of Egypt. The blood of Jesus delivers us from the Devil.

“A third of the stars” Antiochus IV Epiphanes was a fierce persecutor of the Jews about 168 years before Jesus was born. There were others. He overthrough and killed many Godly men, prominent biblical men and the people. It says in Daniel 12 stars represent Godly men.

“Those who turn many to righteousness shall shine as the stars forever.”

The life of Jesus is in a brief sentence and after focuses immediately on the woman (church) preserved in the wilderness of seclusion and secrecy and actual mountains. (Matthew 24:15-21) This points out the posting of the flags of Roman paganism in Jerusalem before the destruction of a.d. 70. By Titus, and the building up eventually by Costantine giving the kingdom to Bishops and popes being the abomination that makes desolate.

Jesus foretold when Jerusalem would be destroyed. He added warning of the future beast that would rule for 1260 days, and take away the ministry of Jesus and put into its place its own ministry.

(Daniel 11:31-33; 12:7; Mark 13; 14-20) The Pope’s long false religious and political persecuting rule lasted from a.d. 538- 1798.

“And according to their appointed time every year.” (Esther 9:27).

“At Times appointed year by year.” (Nehemiah 10:34).

A prophetic year had 360 days. 1 time = 360 days. 2 times = 720 days. Half time = 180 days. 3 and half times = "1260 years." A prophetic month had 30 days, 42 months = 1260 years.

The Woman or pure church fled into the wilderness or secluded places for 1260 years to escape the persecution, and to be fed by the sun, moon, and stars of the old and New Testament and

197 Jesus and the apostle’s writings. A day in Bible prophecy equals a year. (Genesis 29:27-30; Numbers 14:34; Ezekiel 4:6; Luke 13:32)

12:7-12. “And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels, 8 and prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven. 9 And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.

10 And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night. 11 And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death. 12 Therefore rejoice ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! For the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.”

The conflict long ago had brought face to face Michael and the Devil. Michael's name means, "Like God." Jude 1:9 says he is an archangel which would place him nearest to God. He is the Great prince in Daniel 12:1. and here he is the commander of his angels.

The Devil and the angels he deceived were thrown out of Heaven to this earth. There was no place in Heaven for them anymore. Their Judgments were made and death soon would be their eternal punishments. (Matthew 25:41; Rev. 20:7-10) "No man can serve two masters; he will love one and hate the other." The Devil was the accuser of the angels in Heaven and now the people of this earth, in their invisible forms they have an advantage over us and they know that.

This war in Heaven corresponds to what is going on in earth during the life of Jesus. Jesus was casting out Demons, exsposing the enemy, healing the sick and revealing the kingdom of God. John see’s the victory of Christ in his life and at the cross as though a great war between the angels and demons had been won. In verse 10 “Now is come salvation and strength and the kingdom of our God and the power of his Christ.” This was fulfilled in Jesus’ life.

Jesus in Mark 9:1 said “Some of you standing here will not taste death before you see the kingdom come with power.” His whole life, his teachings, temptations, arrest, death and resurrection, ascension, day of Pentecost were the victory of Christ.

God was vindicating himself with all of this and preserving the purity of Heaven. The Devil Lucifer tried taking God off his throne and did kill Jesus on this earth. (Isaiah 14:11-20) God said “I will give my “Glory” to no other” (Isaiah 42:8; Exodus 33:1819; 34:5-8) Jesus is God’s glory to us. (John 17:1-5; Luke 9:26; John 1:14; Hebrews 1:3; 2 Cor 4:4-6; 1 Cor 2:8) The Devil will deceive almost all, except the ones who know their Bible.

12:13-17. “And when the dragon saw that he was cast unto the earth, he persecuted the woman which brought forth the man child. 14 And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent.

15 And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood. 16 And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth. 17 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.”

199 The Devil was no more heard by the high courts of Heaven when Jesus came and overcame him, and he went to make war on the followers of Christ, the glory and true character of God and his kingdom.

“The accuser” verse 10, the Devil through scripture always accuses. He fought in Heaven against Gods rule and character, he accuses Job in Job 1-2. Accuses the high priest Joshua in Zechariah 3. He debated with Michael over the body of Moses in Jude 1:9.

Satan the Devil had grounds to accuse us when God gave the law.

Paul said the law condemns us because we broken the law.

What happened in Jesus’ life brought in justification for any of us through grace, faith (trust) in the plan and blood of Jesus forgiving us. Romans 8 says “Whom God has justified, who can bring charge against us.”

God will not listen to his accusations in Heaven anymore, now Satan accuses us to ourselves in many ways and we plead the blood of the lamb, Jesus. Many who lay there lives down for the kingdom of God is an act of war against the enemy and brings great gain to the kingdom of God The sword that comes from Jesus mouth is his word the bible.

The flood out of the dragons mouth is his pagan teachings and doctrines of mens deceptions. Through many systems persecuted the true considerers, studiers and followers of Jesus and his word.

(2 John 1:6-13) With the scriptures they had many lived in desolate areas. Reformers stood up with messages of righteousness by faith and freedom of religion to study for their selves. At the Diet of Spires, stood up the princes of Europe against the oppression of the people by Rome and Charles the fifth. Protestant movements were born. At this time a new world was being discovered, America. The land of religious and civil liberty for a time. The Devil is regrouping and coming after Gods followers who keep His Law and the testimony of his son Jesus' life plan. The Devil is coming up again against God's people who keep the royal signed law and the prophecies that expose him, in America and around the world, in Chapter 13.

The Beast, the Dragon, and the two horned Buffalo Revelation chapter 13:1-18.

13:1-10. “And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy. 2 And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority. 3 And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast. 4 And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, who is like unto the beast? Who is able to make war with him?

5 And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months. 6 And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven. 7 And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindred’s, and tongues, and nations.

8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. 9 If any man has an ear, let him hear. 10 He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.”

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13:1-4. This beast is a mixture of all the beasts' of Daniel 7 that had accumulated over the years. This group of nations surrounding the Vatican in Rome Italy, received its power from the Devil that worked through pagan Rome, to attack Jesus, and then on to his followers. “To the succession of the Caesars came the succession of the Pontiffs in Rome. When Constantine left Rome he gave his seat to the Pontiff.” (Lablanca, Professor of History, University of Rome) “The popes filled the place of the vacant emperors of Rome, inheriting their power, prestige, and titles from paganism.”

(Stanley's History, p. 40) Napoleon’s General Berthier on February 15, 1798 marched into Rome and took the Pope captive, where he later died in jail. He abolished the papal government and established a secular one. “The murder of a Frenchman in Rome in 1798 gave the French an excuse for occupying the eternal city and putting an end to the Papal temporal power. The aged Pontiff himself was carried off into exile to Valence. The enemies of the church rejoiced. The last pope, they declared had resigned.” (Church History, p. 24) Later Mussolini came to power in Italy and on February 11, 1929, they signed the Lateran Treaty and gave the papacy the right to be a sovereign government. "In affixing the autographs to the memorable document healing the wound." (San Francisco Chronicle, February 11, 1929)

13:5-10. It is from a.d. 538-1798 that equals forty two months, in a day for a year principle in prophecy time. This is when the papacy made war against the true followers of Jesus and the Bible. "The church may by divine right confiscate the property of heretics, imprison their persons and condemn them to the flames." (Public Ecclesiastical Law, Vol. 2, p. 142)

The bible defines blasphemy as claiming to be God and forgive sins. (John 10:33; Luke 5:21) The pope's and Vatican, has thrown down the Heavenly sanctuary plan of Jesus. The Vatican and many around the world has set up their own curtains and ways of salvation through the church, instead of allowing the only name of Jesus under Heaven to save. The Vatican has power to decieve as many as they can. We have the Bible to set us on the right path to eternity and a safe foundation.

13:11-18. “And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon. 12 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.

13 And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men, 14 And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live. 15 And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.

16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: 17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. 18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.�

13:11, 12. The two horned Buffalo is America. Christ-like in character as a lamb with two horns of Religious and Civil

203 liberties. (1 Peter 1:19) This beast came up from dry land and was represented by coming up among no peoples. Since the Dragon and the Papacy chased after the commandment keepers, they eventually started taking charge of many things in government here and spoke with legislative and judicial powers against us and those who have a chance to learn truth. Unfortunately America is deceived and will make an Image and character of what the beast in the dark ages was, and causes the whole earth to accept error and deception with the false help of the false prophet of protestant daughter churches who are fed by the mother church in Rome. (Rev. 16:13; 19:20; 20:10)

13:13-18. The Devil himself and the false protestant church peoples and pastors will do false healings and signs to deceive many. And in blaming the worlds chaotic weather and disasters on the true followers of the Word of Life, they try passing a Sunday law and want all on earth to bow down and worship the Vatican and pope. (Rev. 19:20; 16:13) (Matthew 24:23-44) (Mark 13:2137) (Luke 17:22-37) (Genesis 3:1-24) (Job 1:1-22) (Isaiah 14:6-22) (Ezekiel 28:1-19) (Revelation 12:1-17) (2 Corinthians 11:12-15) (Galatians 1:7, 8) (Galatians 5:7, 8) (2 Thessalonians 2:1-13) (Revelation 13:13-18) (Revelation 16:14) (2 John 1:10, 11) (John 8:44) (Mark 9:17-29) (Ephesians 2:1-3) (John 12:31) (Psalms 78:49, 50) (James 4:7, 8) (1 Timothy 4:1) (Luke 10:20) (1 John 4:1-3, 6) (Matthew 11:43-45) (John 14:30) (John 16:11) (2 John 1:6-11) False pastors, shepherds and priests. (Isaiah 24; 1-6) (Jeremiah 25:31-36) (Jeremiah 23:1-6) (Zechariah 14:12, 13) (Isaiah 50:5, 6) (Isaiah 30:8-15) (Ezekiel 13:22) (Jeremiah 8:11) (Hosea 4:1-10) (2 Peter 3:16-18) (2 Peter 2:1-9, 21-22) (Psalms 119:126) “I the pope have power to dispose of temporal and spiritual leaders; the priests hold “Legislative and Judicial powers” over all Christians.” (Pope Gregory, 1075 A.D. World book. Pgs. 663,664,

2008. Peak of papal power.) (Note: “Speak and Cause” is “Legislative and Judicial.” Speaking laws into existence and Judgment to punish by them. This system is a false religious and political power.)

In John 19:20 the most common languages are Latin, Greek and Hebrew. Paul described the anti-Christ being in his day.

In 1610, the first Sunday law in America, in Virginia, required: "Every man and woman shall repair in the morning to the divine service and sermons preached upon the Sabbath (Sunday), and in the afternoon to divine service, and catechizing, upon pain for the first fault to lose their provision and the allowance for the whole week following; for the second, to lose the said allowance and also be whipped; and for the third to suffer death." (Laws and Orders, Divine, Politique, and Martial, for the Colony in Virginia: first established by Sir Thomas Gates, knight, Lieutenant - General, the 24th of May, 1610.)

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Gratian’s Decretum 1512

Words in the Pope’s crown IN “ROMAN NUMERALS” Latin for (Substitute Christ) (Christ means anointed one)

VICARIUS FILII DEI, is written in the Popes crown. You can find this at, (Our Sunday visitor, bureau of information, Huntington Indiana, April 18, 1915. RC Journal.)

Many other names of the pope in Roman Numerals equal 666.

DUX CLERI = Captain of the Clergy.

ROMIITH = Roman Kingdom. In Hebrew.

ROMITI = Roman Man. ITALIKA EKKLESIA = Italian Church, in ancient Greek.

Now that we know who the Beast is, we can know his own Mark!

SAYINGS FROM THE VATICAN CHURCH “The church is the voice of Christ himself. The church is above the bible, and this transference of Sabbath observance from Saturday to Sunday is proof positive of that fact.” (The Catholic Record of London Ontario Canada, September 1, 1923.)

“Of course the Catholic church claims that the change of the Sabbath to Sunday was her act. And the act is a "mark" of her ecclesiastical power and authority in religious things.” (From the Office of Cardinal Gibbons, through Chancellor H.F. Thomas.

November 11, 1895.)

“The Catholic church for over one thousand years before any protestant, by virtue of her divine mission, changed the day from Saturday to Sunday.” (Catholic Mirror, September 23, 1893.)

“Saturday is the Sabbath day. We observe Sunday instead of Saturday, because the Catholic Church transferred the solemnity from Saturday to Sunday.” (Peter Geiermans, A Doctrinal Catechism. 1957 edition. Pg. 50) The whole law of God changed; see General Catholic Catechism under their ten commandments.

“The church has substituted Sunday for Saturday, so now "We sanctify the First, not the Seventh day.” (Catholic Catechism of Catholic religion.)

207 MARK and SEAL of the Pope is a deception, Opposite of God’s Seal and Mark. Learn more on this in Rev. 14 and 16:13-14 Armageddon.

“Then I saw another beast coming up out of the earth, and he had two horns like a lamb and spoke like a dragon. And he exercises all the authority of the first beast in his presence, and causes the earth and those who dwell in it to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed. He performs great miracles, so that he even makes fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men. And he deceives those who dwell on the earth by those signs which he was granted to do in the sight of the beast, telling those who dwell on the earth to make an image to the beast who was wounded by the sword and lived. He was granted power to give breath to the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak and cause as many as would not worship the image of the beast to be killed. He causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a Mark on their right hand or on their foreheads, and that no one may buy or sell except those who have the Mark or the Name of the beast, or the number of his name. Here is wisdom. Let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man: His number is 666.” (Rev. 13:11-18) “

And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man Worship the beast and his image, and receive His Mark in his forehead, or in his hand, 10 The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb: And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who Worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the Mark of his Name. Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.” (Rev. 14:9-12) “And I saw another sign in heaven, great and marvelous, seven angels having the seven last plagues; for in them is filled up the wrath of God. And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire: and them that had gotten the victory over the beast, and over his image, and over his Mark, and over the number of his name, stand on the sea of glass, having the harps of God.” (Rev. 15:1-2)

“And I heard a great voice out of the temple saying to the seven angels, Go your ways, and pour out the vials of the wrath of God upon the earth. And the first went, and poured out his vial upon the earth; and there fell a noisome and grievous sore upon the men which had the Mark of the beast and upon them which Worshipped his image.”

(Rev. 16:1-2) “And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the Mark of the beast, and them that Worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.” (Rev. 19:20) “And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not Worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his Mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.” (Rev. 20:4)

*God will MARK and SEAL His people with his name who are faithful to him. A Seal and Mark means the same. The Seal and Mark is all about who you worship and the day. See more of God’s Seal in The everlasting Sabbath covenant lesson and God’s Seal lesson in Rev 14:6-7.

And see more on the Mark of the beast in Rev. 14:9-12 "And I seen another angel ascending from the east having the Seal of the living God, and he cried with a loud voice to the four angels, to whom it was given to hurt the earth and the sea, saying hurt not the earth neither the sea, nor the trees, until we have Sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads." (Revelation 7:2, 3) "And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree, but only those men which have not the Seal of God in their foreheads." (Revelation 9:4) “This is the Covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my Laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them.” (Hebrews 10:16)

209 “Bind up the testimony, Seal the Law among my disciples. To the law and to the testimony... If they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.” (Isaiah 8:16, 20) “He that hath received His testimony hath set to his Seal that God is true.” (John 3:33) “And they shall see his face; and his Name shall be in their foreheads.”

(Rev. 22:4) “Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end of that man is peace.” (Psalm 37:37) “He cried also in mine ears with a loud voice, saying, Cause them that have charge over the city to draw near, even every man with his destroying weapon in his hand. And, behold, six men came from the way of the higher gate, which lay toward the north and every man a slaughter weapon in his hand; and one man among them was clothed with linen, with a writer's inkhorn by his side: and they went in, and stood beside the brazen altar. And the glory of the God of Israel was gone up from the cherub, whereupon he was, to the threshold of the house. And he called to the man clothed with linen, which had the writer's inkhorn by his side; And the Lord said unto him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a Mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof.

And to the others he said in mine hearing, Go ye after him through the city, and smite: let not your eye spare, neither have ye pity: Slay utterly old and young, both maids, and little children, and women: but come not near any man upon whom is the mark; and begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at the ancient men which were before the house.” (Ezekiel 9:16) FOREHEAD, HEART, HAND. "My Commandments... Therefore shall you lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes." (Deuteronomy 11:13, 18) Works, our actions or going along with it, and serving with the mind who we receive to serve is the big issue here between God or the Beast.

“And it shall come to pass, if ye shall hearken diligently unto my commandments which I command you this day, to love the Lord your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul, That I will give you the rain of your land in his due season, the first rain and the latter rain, that thou mayest gather in thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil.

And I will send grass in thy fields for thy cattle, that thou mayest eat and be full. Take heed to yourselves, that your heart be not deceived, and ye turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them; And then the Lord's wrath be kindled against you, and he shut up the heaven, that there be no rain, and that the land yield not her fruit; and lest ye perish quickly from off the good land which the Lord giveth you. Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes.”

(Deut. 11:13-18) "So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God." (Romans 7:25) "Whatsoever your hand finds to do, do it with your might... No more work in the grave..." (Ecclesiastes 9:10) "If you love me, keep my commandments." (John 14:15) "He that says I know Him and keeps not his commandments is a liar and the truth is not in him." (1 John 2:4) (Knowing, Loving, Doing) (Mark 12:30-34) (Romans 13:8-10) It is the mind and actions that the Devil wants to control and rule and to hurt you and God. The above verses in Deuteronomy says if we lay up the words of God and His law in our knowledge diligently, we will not be deceived and serve and worship another God or his Mark and Seal. The Armageddon study is the battle between God’s seal and the Beast’s mark and who will gain our worship and service. See Revelation 16.

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GOD'S THREE ANGELS' MESSAGES In chapter 13 we had seen the beast from the past, and the beginning of America that was infiltrated and deceived. In this 14th chapter we see the 144,000 in symbolic number around the whole earth being gathered to the truth. The Three angels' messages announce the Seal of God, Fallen Babylon, and the Mark of the beast, and then refers to safety in keeping the commandments of God and having the faith of Jesus. People are privileged to accept truth or error and share these messages. The Return and victory of Jesus will be the conclusion as he spoke of in the Lord's Prayer.

(Matthew 6:10)

Revelation 14: 1-20.

14:1-5. “And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion, and with him an hundred forty and four thousand, having his Father's name written in their foreheads. 2 And I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of a great thunder: and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps: 3 And they sung as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four beasts, and the elders: and no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand, which were redeemed from the earth.

4 These are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were redeemed from among men, being the first fruits unto God and to the Lamb. 5 And in their mouth was found no guile: for they are without fault before the throne of God.�

14:1-5. These are the same 144,000 symbolic in number as in chapter 7. This is a depiction of Jesus standing with his people

who overcame by him, and having his character, the Fathers Law and his son Jesus forever leading them. (2 Timothy 2:19; Isaiah 8:16; Rev. 20:11) These have not gone astray with the multitude of churches with error. A bad woman represents all her following churches under her as in (Rev. 17) And a good woman who represents all her true gospel accepting people. (Rev. 12) The Lords' people with his truth and plan, and his Word did not be unfaithful to him; they were not led away with false doctrine of others. (Jeremiah 50:5, 6; 2 John 1:1-11) With following the life of Jesus and helped by the holy spirit we will be without fault before the throne of God, he is the author and finisher of our faith even to the day he comes up in the clouds.

(Philippians 1:6; Hebrews 12:2) “There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.�

(Romans 8:1; Zechariah 4:6, 14)

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1st Angel, Seal of God 14:6,7. “And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people, 7 Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his Judgment is come: and Worship Him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters.�

14:6,7. These angels are as Rev 1:20 describes the preachers and guiders of truth in the word of God. There is a paradise and the farthest away in the third Heavenly atmosphere where the true Judgment throne is. (2 Corinthians 12:2-4) the second is the space

where the sun moon and stars are. And the first, where we dwell in the earth. (Genesis 1:16-20) The Judgment year message in the 2300 year prophecy of Daniel 8:13,14; Daniel 9:13,20-27, points to the time of this first angel’s message given by a people to the whole world, and is to give us understanding and skill in the truth in the big picture of the actions that God and Heaven are doing, and for our good if we learn and follow Jesus. He created all things. (Genesis 1:1-31; 2:13; Isaiah 42: 4-12; Isaiah 44: 24; Isaiah 45:17-25; Nehemiah 9: 6,13,14; John 1:1-14; Colossians 1:13-17; 1 Corinthians 10: 1-4; Revelation 4: 11) 1. How do we give glory and worship him, and what is a king’s seal and what is God's seal?

“He made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing saying, thus saith Cyrus King of Persia, all the kingdoms of earth the Lord God of Heaven, has given me.” (Ezra 1:1, 2) “Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.” (Jeremiah 50:17) “Lord God, King of Earth.” (Psalm 47:2, 7; Psalm 10:16) “Now, O king, sign the writing, that it be not changed.” (Daniel 6:8, 9) “For the writing which is written in the king’s name, and sealed with the king’s ring, may no man reverse.” (Esther 8:8) “Behold I have received commandment to bless: and he has blessed, and I cannot reverse it.” (Numbers 23:20) A Kings sealing ring was used to press seal and sign important documents or decrees with a royal red wax. God's ring of the seventh day Sabbath weekly of creation, was spoken, written and sealed into the fourth commandment with His name. (Exodus 16:22-30)

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God’s Sabbath SIGN is His SEAL. “Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant. It is a Sign between me and the children of Israel for ever: for in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed. And he gave unto Moses, when he had made an end of communing with him upon mount Sinai, two tables of testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God.” (Exodus 31:16-18; Ezekiel 20:12) “And he received the Sign of circumcision, a Seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had.” (Romans 4:11) An official Seal shows God's (Name, Title, and Territory.) which all “LORD,” “MAKER,” “EVERYTHING.” Are signed by His finger, in the Sabbath rest and Worship commandment of His royal Law. (Exodus 31:16-18; James 2:8, 12; Isaiah 66:22, 23) “For in six days the “Lord” “Made” “Heaven and earth, the sea and all that in them is,” and rested the seventh day, wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.” (Exodus 20:11; Exodus 31:16-18; Exodus 16:22-30) He double vindicated the signing by living the decree in the life of Jesus. Jesus on the last day of his righteous life was crucified dead and was speared in his side in his heart. His blood flowed down the earthquake crack, onto the mercy seat lid of the ark that contained the Ten Commandments, sealing and anointing them worthy with his royal red blood, under the glorious presence of God above that lid. He kept the Sabbath in his death. Give glory to him by accepting his righteous life and offering of himself.

(Matthew 6:10, 21; Luke 23:54-56; Hebrews 9:18-19; Matthew 27:50-54; John 19:34; John 15:10; 1 Timothy 2:5-6; 1 John 5:5-13; 2 John 1:6-11) (The earthly most holy room veil was ripped apart

and the ground under his cross was ripped apart signifying he applied the blood once for all. (Matthew 27:51)

2. Where is the Seal of God placed in us?

“And I seen another angel ascending from the east having the seal of the living God, and he cried with a loud voice to the four angels, to whom it was given to hurt the earth and the sea, saying hurt not the earth neither the sea, nor the trees, until we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads.” (Revelation 7:2, 3) “And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree, but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads.”

(Revelation 9:4) The seal of God's name and authority in his covenant Sabbath law, is put in our hearts, and wrote in our minds (Hebrews 10:16; Isaiah 8:16; John 3:33; Psalms 37:37; Ezekiel 9:1-6) The law that Jesus lived, is love (Romans 13:8-10) (John 15:10) Love is placed in our hearts by the holy spirit of truth, guiding us into all truth (Romans 5:5) (John 16:13) To do His will (Hebrews 10:7) (Hebrews 13:20, 21) (John 14:15) “Our help is in the name of the Lord, who made heaven and earth.”

(Psalm 124:8) “Because he has set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he has known my name.” (Psalm 91:14) “We shall see his face and his name shall be in their foreheads.” (Revelation 22:4) FOREHEAD, HEART, HAND. “My Commandments... Therefore shall you lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes.”

217 (Deuteronomy 11:13, 18) “So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God.” (Romans 7:25) “Whatsoever your hand finds to do, do it with your might... No more work in the grave.”

(Ecclesiastes 9:10) “If you love me, keep my commandments.”

(John 14:15) “He that says I know Him and keeps not his commandments is a liar and the truth is not in him.” (1 John 2:4) (Knowing, Loving, Doing) (Mark 12:30-34) (Romans 13:8-10)

REMEMBER THE SABBATH. Exodus 20:8-11 REMEMBER NOW YOUR CREATOR. Ecclesiastes 12:1,13,14 God's Sabbath Saturday is the seventh day of the week. See the Bible, Dictionary, World book, Calendar, Scriptures, (Genesis 2:1-3; Exodus 16:22-30; Exodus 20:8-11; Hebrews 4:3-13) “Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the Sabbath, to observe the Sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant.

It is a sign between me and the children of Israel forever: For in six days the Lord Made Heaven and Earth, and on the seventh day he rested and was refreshed. And he gave unto Moses, when He had made an end of communing with him upon Mt. Sinai, two tables of testimony, Tables of Stone written with the finger of God.” (Exodus 31:16-18) “Moreover also I gave them my Sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them that they might know that I am the Lord that sanctify them... And hallow my Sabbaths and they shall be a sign between me and you, that you may know that I am the Lord your God.” (Ezekiel 20:12, 20) “Nevertheless having this seal, the Lord knows

them that are His, whoever names the name of Christ, depart from iniquity.” (2 Timothy 2:19) “For the Son of man is Lord even of the Sabbath day.” (Matthew 12:8) Jesus said, “Verily, verily, I say unto you, before Abraham was, I Am.” (John 8:58; Exodus 3:14, 15) Jesus blessed the Sabbath, created it, and signed His name, title and territory in the Sabbath command of His Law. JESUS and the SABBATH are BLESSED, SANCTIFIED, HALLOWED “And God blessed the Sabbath day and sanctified it, because that in it He had rested from all his work which God created and made.”

(Genesis 2:3) “For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day, wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.” (Exodus 20:11) “Creator is blessed forever.” (Romans 9:5; Romans 1:25) Jesus said “And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth.” (John 17:17, 19) (Hebrews 10:14) “Hallowed be your name.” (Luke 11:2; Isaiah 6:2, 3) COMMANDED BEFORE MT. SINAI “And it came to pass, that there went out some of the people on the seventh day for to gather, and they found none. And the Lord said to Moses, how long refuse you to keep my commandments and my laws? So the people rested on the seventh day.” (Exodus 16:22-30)

WRITTEN IN STONE AT MT. SINAI “Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy. Six days shall you labor, and do all your work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God, in it you shall not do any work, you nor your son, nor your daughter, your manservant, nor your maidservant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger that is within your gates. For in six

219 days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day, wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.” (Exodus 20:8-11) SABBATH AFTER THE CROSS OF JESUS “And that day was the preparation and the Sabbath drew on. And the women also which came with him from galilee, followed after, and beheld how his body was laid. And they returned and prepared spices and ointments, and rested the Sabbath day according to the commandment.” (Luke 23:55, 56) “In the End of the Sabbath as it began to dawn toward the first day of the Week.” (Matthew 28:1) (Mark 16:1, 2) “The seventh day is the Sabbath.” (Exodus 20:10) “From Even unto Even shall you celebrate your Sabbath.”

(Leviticus 23:32) “And at Even when the sun did set.” (Mark 1:32) “And the evening and the morning were the first day.” (Genesis 1:5) EVERY MONTH, EVERY SABBATH FOREVER “As the new heavens and the new earth which I will make, shall remain before me, says the Lord, so shall your seed and your name remain. And it shall come to pass that from one new moon (month) to another, and from one Sabbath to another shall all flesh come and worship before Me says the Lord.” (Isaiah 66:22, 23) “The tree of life which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month, and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.” (Revelation 22:2) “To him that overcomes will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God.” (Revelation 2:7)

2ND Angel, Fallen Babylon 14:8. “And there followed another angel saying, Babylon is fallen is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.”

Roman Papacy is this fallen city. False pagan doctrines, infiltration, confusions, wars, murders, slavery are this cities works. By church and state, humanitarian efforts making itself look good fornicates self gain for power.

“And she brought forth a man child who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron, and her child was caught up unto God and to his throne. And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent called the devil and Satan, which deceives the whole world, he was cast out into earth, and his angels were cast out with him. And they overcame him by the blood of the lamb, and by the word of their testimony, and they loved not their lives unto the death. And when the dragon seen that he was cast unto the earth, he persecuted the woman which brought forth the man child. And the dragon was angry 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.” (Revelation 12:5, 9, 11, 13, 17) Jesus is born into his church. (Revelation 12:1, 2; Revelation 19:7, 8) That Satan working through government and church persecutes. And then goes after Gods followers. (Matthew 2:1-4, 13-19; Revelation 17, 18) “And I seen a woman sit upon a red colored beast full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. And the woman was dressed in purple and red color, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication: And upon her forehead was written, mystery Babylon the great, the mother of harlots and abominations of the earth. And I seen the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the

221 martyrs of Jesus... And the woman which you seen is that great city which reigns over the kings of the earth.” (Revelation 17:3-6, 18) Blasphemy is calling yourself God when you are not and acting to forgive sins when it’s impossible. Only Jesus can do both, and the people of His day accused him of blasphemy (Mark 14:6164) (Matthew 9:2, 3) “And I heard another voice from Heaven saying, come out of her my people, that you be not partakers of her sins, and that you receive not of her plagues... She sits a queen saying, I am no widow. That great city that was clothed in fine linen, purple and red, decked with gold and precious stones, and pearls...

Rejoice over her thou Heaven and you holy apostles and prophets, for God has avenged you on her. And a mighty angel took up a stone, like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all. And in her was found the blood of prophets, and of saints, and of all that were killed upon the earth.”

(Rev. 18:4, 7, 16, 20, 21, 24) “And the ten horns which you seen upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire.” (Rev. 17:16) “Therefore shall her ‘plagues’ come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine, and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the Lord God who Judges her.”(Rev. 18:8-24)

SAYINGS FROM THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH “It must always be clear that the one, holy Catholic universal church, is not the sister, but the mother of all churches.” (Cardinal Ratzinger, 9-4-2000.)

Pope John Paul 2, during the day of pardon mass, in St. Peters basilica apologized for the killings and tortures that his church had

done during 2000 years. 5 cardinals and 2 bishops confessed with the pope, who all dressed in purple on a Sunday. - (March 12, 2000.) “The Catholic church of Rome has shed more innocent blood than any other institution that has ever existed among mankind.� (History of the rise and influence of the spirit of rationalism in Europe. WEH Lecky, vol. 2 pg. 32. 1910 edition.) A long paper describing in detail the right of the Catholic Church to do these killings, see the (Catholic Encyclopedia, vol. 12, pg. 266.)

Every cardinal, archbishop, and bishop in the Catholic Church, takes an oath of allegiance to the pope. Heretics, schismatics, and rebels to our said lord, or his first successors, I will to my utmost persecute and appose. - (Josiah strong, Our country. Ch. 5, pg. 2.)

The Jesuit oath is in the library of congress catalog card #66-43354.

The Jesuit order was ordered by the catholic pope in August 15, 1534, to end the protestant reformation. Being the traditional feast day for Lucifer since 70 AD. Jesuit Extreme Oath of Induction as recorded in the Journals of the 62D Congress, 3d Session of the U.S. (House Calendar No. 397. Report No. 1523) Congressional Record---House, 15 Feb. 1913, pp3215-3216.

This oath is taken from the book Subterranean Rome by Carlos Didier, translated from the French and published in New York in 1843. Dr. Alberto Rivera escaped from the Jesuit Order in 1967, and he describes his Jesuit oath in exactly the same way as it appears in this book. Semper idem: always the same.

The Jesuit Oath of Induction is also recorded in the Congressional Record of the U.S. (House Bill 1523, Contested election case of Eugene C. Bonniwell, against Thos. S. Butler, Feb. 15, 1913, pp. 3215-3216).

It tells of their allegiance to the pope and how to infiltrate and dissemble. Today there are many groups under different names.

223 The name Heretic by them is easily interchangeable with the word terrorist today. More on them in the last chapter of this book.

“Every human beings salvation depends on submission to the authority of the pope.” - (Papal decree, Unam Sanctum. Pope Boniface 8, 1302. World book 2008, pg. 664) “For unity, all churches must accept papal authority.” (John Paul 2, 1995) “When the United States rules the world, the Catholic Church will rule the world.” (Archbishop Quigley, 1903. Chicago tribune.)

Many denominations will unite with them to support the pagan worship day, Sunday.

3rd Angel, Pope’s Mark 14:9-12. “And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image and receive his mark in his forehead or in his hand, 10 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 holy lamb, 11 and the smoke of their torment ascends up forever and ever, and they have no rest day or night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receives the mark of his name. 12 Here is the patients of the saints, here are they which keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus.”

The beast is the Roman Catholic system self gaining around the world. Opposite of God’s seal the Popes seal or mark of his name title and territory is his “Sunday image” erected. His Catechism is his own law with the second command taken out the fourth changed and the tenth split in two. If we know this is wrong in our minds and obey it then we will be hurt by plagues and death.

If we go along with it, we receive it in our hands as works and will have the plagues and death by God. “And he had power to give life to the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both “speak and cause” that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed. And he causes all to receive a mark in their right hand or in their foreheads.

And that no man can buy or sale, only them that have the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. Here is wisdom, let him that has understanding, count the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man, and his number is 666.”

(Revelation 13:15-18)

225 Compare speak and cause “I the pope have power to dispose of temporal and spiritual leaders; the priests hold “Legislative and Judicial powers” over all Christians.” (Pope Gregory, 1075 A.D. World book. Pgs. 663,664, 2008. Peak of papal power.) (Note: “Speak and Cause” is “Legislative and Judicial.” Speaking laws into existence and Judgment to punish by them. This system is a false religious and political power.)

VICARIUS FILII DEI, is written in the Popes crown. You can find this at, (Our Sunday visitor, bureau of information, Huntington Indiana, April 18, 1915. RC Journal.)

Other Names that designate the Pope in Rome the Antichrist Beast by his number 666. In John 19:20 the most common languages are Italic, Greek and Hebrew. Paul described the antiChrist beginning in his day.

DUX CLERI = Captain of the Clergy.

LUDOVICUS = Vicar of the Court.

Numeric equivalents of Hebrew Letters that designate 666.

ROMIITH = Roman Kingdom.

ROMITI = Roman Man. Ancient Greek for "Italian Church" ITALIKA EKKLESIA = Italian Church. EKKLESIA is Strong's # G1577.

SAYINGS FROM THE CATHOLIC CHURCH The church is the voice of Christ himself. The church is above the bible, and this transference of Sabbath observance from Saturday to Sunday is proof positive of that fact. (The Catholic Record of London Ontario Canada, September 1, 1923.)

Of course the Catholic Church claims that the change of the Sabbath to Sunday was her act. And the act is a "Mark" of her ecclesiastical power and authority in religious things. (From the Office of Cardinal Gibbons, through Chancellor H.F. Thomas.

November 11, 1895.)

Agitation for national Sunday Law in the U.S. Congress Dec. 11, 18, 1888; Jan. 1, Mar. 26, Dec. 24, 1889. U.S. Supreme court Declared State Sunday Laws are not religious but, Constitutional. May 29, 1961. Vatican claims to own 70 % of earth, to pass own laws.

The Catholic Church for over one thousand years before any protestant, by virtue of her divine mission, changed the day from Saturday to Sunday. (Catholic Mirror, September 23, 1893.)

Saturday is the Sabbath day. We observe Sunday instead of Saturday, because the Catholic Church transferred the solemnity from Saturday to Sunday. (Peter Geiermans, A Doctrinal Catechism. 1957 edition. Pg. 50) The whole law of God changed; see General Catholic Catechism under their ten commandments.

The church has substituted Sunday for Saturday, so now "We sanctify the First, not the Seventh day. (Catholic Catechism of Catholic religion.)

The church changed the observance of the Sabbath to Sunday, the person claiming the bible to be the only rule of faith, has no warrant for observing Sunday. In this matter the seventh day Adventist is the only consistent person. (The Catholic Universe Bulletin. August 14, 1942. Pg. 4)

227 We say this church instituted by Christ to teach and guide men through life, has the right to change the ceremonial laws of the Old Testament, and we accept her change of the Sabbath to Sunday. We say yes the church made the change. We also say that of all the Protestants, the seventh day Adventist’s are the only group that reason correctly, and are consistent with their teachings.

It is always somewhat laughable to see the protestant churches, in pulpit and legislature, demand the observance of Sunday, of which there is nothing in the bible. With best wishes, Peter R. Tramer (The Catholic Extension Magazine. 180 Wabash Avenue, Chicago Illinois.)

The sun was a foremost god with heathendom. The sun has worshippers at this hour in Persia and other lands; there is in truth something royal, kingly about the sun, making it a fit emblem of Jesus, the sun of justice. The church in these countries would seem to have said, keep that old pagan name. It shall remain consecrated, sanctified, and this pagan Sunday, dedicated to balder, became the Christian Sunday. (The Catholic World, March 1894, Pg. 809) In 1610, the first Sunday law in America, in Virginia, required: "Every man and woman shall repair in the morning to the divine service and sermons preached upon the Sabbath (Sunday), and in the afternoon to divine service, and catechizing, upon pain for the first fault to lose their provision and the allowance for the whole week following; for the second, to lose the said allowance and also be whipped; and for the third to suffer death." (Laws and Orders, Divine, Politique, and Martial, for the Colony in Virginia: first established by Sir Thomas Gates, knight, Lieutenant - General, the 24th of May, 1610.)

THE BIBLE SAYS In Ezekiel 22:25-31. “There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst thereof... her priest's have violated my Law... They have put no difference between holy and profane, clean and unclean; they have hid their eyes from my Sabbaths... Telling lies to them, saying “thus says the Lord God”, when the Lord has not spoken.”

(Compare to Ezekiel 44:23, 24) In Daniel 7:25. “And he shall speak great words against the most high, and shall wear out the saints of the most high, and think to change times and laws.”

In 2 Thessalonians 2:4, 9-13. “Who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshipped, so that he as God, showing himself that he is God.” In Ezekiel 8:16. “Great abomination... With their backs toward the temple of the Lord, and their faces toward the east, and they worshipped the Sun toward the east.”

God told Moses to hang the worshippers of the Sun in the Sun to be burned and kill them. (Numbers 25:3-5) (Romans 1:25) (Acts 5:29) (2 Peter 2:20, 21) (Revelation 19:20) (Revelation 20:10) (2 Corinthians 11:12-15) (Matthew 24:23-26) The mark of the beast until it has been passed again in these last days, then it will be the test of worshiping the pope or worshiping God and his Sabbath of creation and his son who created it. There is many in Sunday keeping churches that will be saved, to the day when the test will be evident to every soul.

(The Papacy will rekindle the fires of Persecution again)

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Commandments of God and the Faith of Jesus

(3rd Angels’ Protective warning) 14:12-13. “Here is the patience of the saints: here are they which keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus.

13 And I heard a voice from Heaven saying to me, write, blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from hereon, yea says the spirit, that they may rest from their labors, and their works do follow them.”

“Our help is in the name of the LORD, who made heaven and earth.” (Psalm 124:8) We must look to Jesus to keep his signed law.

Keep the Commandments of God and the Faith of Jesus, is sounding by many who understood these messages and the Bible.

The revealing of the Fathers' Ark, Law, and Blood of Jesus on the lid will be a show and tell against the Sunday law. All will be at His mercy to be saved. The following verses in 2 John 1:6-11 is

echoed and repeated through the bible, and is important to know to not lose any soul for the kingdom of Heaven. In 1 Timothy 2:5, 6, it shows that he is testifying at this time.

“And this is love that we walk after his commandments. This is the commandment, that, as ye have heard from the beginning, ye should walk in it. For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist.”

“Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have wrought, but that we receive a full reward.

Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son. If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed: For he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds.” (2 John 1:6-11; 1 Timothy 2:5, 6) “Think not that I have come to destroy the law or the prophets, not to destroy but fulfill.” (Matthew 5:17-22) “Fulfill law of Christ.”

(Galatians 6:2) “That the righteousness of the law be fulfilled in us.” (Romans 8:4) “Do we then make void the law through faith?

God forbid, yea we establish the law.” (Romans 3:20, 28-31) “Shall we sin because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.” (Romans 6:15) “For sin is the transgression of the law.” (1 John 3:4) “For the wages of sin is death.” (Romans 6:23) Warned by the law. (Psalms 19:7-11) The law is a mirror. (James 1:22-25) “The law is the knowledge of sin.” (Romans 3:20) “If you say you love me and keep not my commandments, you are a liar and the truth is not in you.” (1 John 2:4) Not one tittle of the law fails.

(Luke 16:17) Eternal life, keep commandments. (Mark 10:17-21) Law, life everlasting. (John 12:50) Blessed are they that do his commandments that they may have right to the tree of life and enter in through the gates into the city. (Revelation 22:14) Judged by the law before rewarded. (Ecclesiastes 12:13, 14) (Revelation 22:12) Perish or die, knowing or not, braking it. (Romans 2:12, 13) Join

231 the Covenant. (Jeremiah 50:5, 6) Restorer of paths to dwell in.

(Isaiah 58:12-14) Without understanding, Covenant breakers.

(Exodus 31:16-18; Romans 1:31, 32) Destroyed for rejecting knowledge, forgetting the law. (Hosea 4:1-9) He magnified the law.

(Isaiah 42:21) Break one command, guilty of all. (James 2:10) Many die because they have not the love or belief of the truth. (2 Thessalonians 2:9-13) If you turn from the law, your prayer is an abomination. (Proverbs 28:9) Go sin no more. (John 8:4-11)

14:14-20. “And I looked and behold, a white cloud, and on the cloud, one sat like the son of man, having on his head a golden crown, and in his hand a sharp sickle. And another angel came out of the temple, crying with a loud voice to him that sat on the cloud, Thrust in thy sickle, and reap: for the time is come for thee to reap; for the harvest of the earth is ripe. 16 And he

that sat on the cloud thrust in his sickle on the earth; and the earth was reaped.

17 And another angel came out of the temple which is in heaven, he also having a sharp sickle. 18 And another angel came out from the altar, which had power over fire; and cried with a loud cry to him that had the sharp sickle, saying, Thrust in thy sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth; for her grapes are fully ripe.

19 And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of God. 20 And the winepress was trodden without the city, and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs.�

Glory of the Father, Son, Angels. Luke 9:26) (Father- (Exodus 33:18-23; Exodus 34:6, 7, 29-35) (Son- (Matthew 17:2; John 17:5) (Angels- (Luke 2:9-12; Matthew 28:2-4; Revelation 5:11; Matthew 24:23-39; Ezekiel 1:1-28) Jesus describes his coming in the cloud of angels. (Matthew 13:24-30, 36-50; Daniel 7:13, 14) The angels are protecting his people, while the wicked and those against Jesus are visited with plagues. The four angels have let go of all protections of the lost.

The sweet ripe grapes are the ones who understand the message, commandments of God and faith of Jesus, having his gospel seal. The wicked are also symbolically referred to as bitter poisonous grapes that will be destroyed outside the city.

(Deuteronomy 32:32-43) Plagues are the wrath of God on the many that are lost. (Rev. 15:1; Duet 32:32-43) Nations are angry and fight against each other. The winds are blowing as wars and strife. The lost now are murderous against each other. (Zechariah 14:13) The wicked that lay dead at Christ’s coming and the wicked living fall down dead, in heaps around the whole earth. The wicked as the sand of the sea, if piled up together would stretch for hundreds of miles square.

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A Picture of the beginning war of God and the flight home

Revelation 15:1-8.

15:1-8. “And I saw another sign in heaven, great and marvelous, seven angels having the seven last plagues; for in them is filled up the wrath of God. 2 And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire: and them that had gotten the victory over the beast, and over his image, and over his mark, and over the number of his name, stand on the sea of glass, having the harps of God. 3 And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvelous are thy works, Lord God Almighty; just and true are thy ways, thou King of saints. 4 Who shall not fear thee, O Lord, and glorify thy name? For thou only art holy: for all nations shall come and worship before thee; for thy judgments are made manifest.

5 And after that I looked, and, behold, the temple of the tabernacle of the testimony in heaven was opened: 6 And the seven angels came out of the temple, having the seven plagues, clothed in pure and white linen, and having their breasts girded with golden girdles. 7 And one of the four beasts gave unto the seven angels seven golden vials full of the wrath of God, who liveth for ever and ever. 8 And the temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God, and from his power; and no man was able to enter into the temple, till the seven plagues of the seven angels were fulfilled.�

This is not saying that the saved are taken away from the time of the plagues, it is telling that they will be the ones safe through them and on a flying platform of the cloud of angels and chariots after the plagues are finished at the time Jesus comes and return with him up to Heaven. (Rev 1:8; Ezekiel 1, 10; Exodus 24:10) These overcomers by Jesus life sing a beautiful song. The understanding of the Old Testament represented by Moses, and the New Testament represented by Jesus are a harmonious echo through eternity of the saving plan and restoration of God the Father and his Son Jesus. Verse 5 is Jesus coming out and ending His most holy service.

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THE

SEVEN

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Revelation 16:1-21.

The Trumpet Judgments were as seven plagues with mercy, and are in parts with mercies. These seven last plagues are with No mercy on the wicked who did not turn to Jesus and quit sinning.

PLAGUE 1 16:1,2. “And I heard a great voice out of the temple saying to the seven angels, Go your ways, and pour out the vials of the wrath of God upon the earth. 2 And the first went, and poured out his vial upon the earth; and there fell a noisome and grievous sore upon the men which had the mark of the beast and upon them which worshipped his image.”

A painful disease on people's bodies, an outward sign of those who accept Sunday worship of the pope and have the mark of the beast.

PLAGUE 2 16:3. “And the second angel poured out his vial upon the sea; and it became as the blood of a dead man: and every living soul died in the sea.”

The sea turns to a blood colored poisonous liquid. It may be red bacteria, sulpher from earthquake cracks. God said these plagues would be with no mercy.

PLAGUE 3 16:4-7. “And the third angel poured out his vial upon the rivers and fountains of waters; and they became blood. 5 And I heard the angel of the waters say, Thou art righteous, O Lord, which art, and wast, and shalt be, because thou hast judged thus.

6 For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink; for they are worthy. 7 And I heard another out of the altar say, Even so, Lord God Almighty, true and righteous are your Judgments.”

Rivers and springs of water turn to blood colored poisonous liquid.

PLAGUE 4 16:8, 9. “And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun; and power was given unto him to scorch men with fire. 9 And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, which hath power over these plagues: and they repented not to give him glory.”

Sun burns people with great heat, because they worshipped the “Sun-day” that is not in God’s voice or law to rest and worship Him on. (Numbers 25:3-5; Ezekiel 8:15-18; Deuteronomy 17:3-5; Ezekiel 22; 25-31)

PLAGUE 5 16:10,11. “And the fifth angel poured out his vial upon the seat of the beast; and his kingdom was full of darkness; and they gnawed their tongues for pain, 11 And blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores, and repented not of their deeds.”

Darkness in the evil kingdoms of earth and the Vatican and their places, the people had pains and sores from teaching and worshipping the sun. (Exodus 10:21-23; Zephaniah 1:15-17; Matthew 24:29, 30) they cannot repent because when the first

237 plague had fallen it was the end of anyone else being saved. (Rev. 22:11)

PLAGUE 6 16:12-16. “And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared. 13 And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet.

14 For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty. 15 Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame. 16 And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.”

As the army of Cyrus dried up and diverted the waters from Babylon to take the city, this is telling us what will happen before and during the plagues and close of probation. Drying up Babylon the great and the world in ruin and collapse because of the plagues, people all around the world turn against the Vatican system, make it desolate and naked, kill her people and burn her places on fire.

(Rev. 17:15-18). The kings of the east are Jesus and his angels and the faithful followers on earth. (Rev. 17:14; Rev. 5:10) Satan and his fallen angels go out to the whole earth at the time of the witness of Jesus is being revealed and deter and deceive all, they do false miracles to deceive people to worship a man made Sabbath before the plagues and close of probation. The kings of the earth make war. (Revelation 18:2-24; Revelation 19:19, 20; Revelation 18:4, 8-16) We need the pure righteous covering of Jesus in our lives, and his protection and knowledge to prepare us, before these plagues begin.

Dragon. The dragon, Satan, worked through pagan Rome, through Herod’s government to kill baby Jesus, and now he is working through Non-Christian religions and governments as

Muslims to kill god’s followers. (Matthew 2:1-4, 13-19; Revelation 12:7-17) Beast. Roman Vatican system. (Revelation 13:14-18) (Revelation 19:19, 20) (2 Thessalonians 2:1-13) False prophet. The false church movement of most all churches that will lead the world into worshipping the catholic first day Sunday of the Pope. This begins in America, the two horned buffalo that will speak as a dragon. (Revelation 19:19, 20; Matthew 24:5, 11, 23, 24; Revelation 13:11-14) These 3 will unite as most of the people of earth’s population: Non-Christian religions and governments as Buddhists, Muslims and others, Roman Vatican priests, False church movements and false revivals of miracles that Satan works through also in the sight of the Vatican system for the Sunday law. These will unite together in Armageddon. The final and last war against God, His Law, and His Loyal Followers. God will fight for us. (Revelation 19:19, 1116) Armageddon happens before the plagues begin and ends here.

Gideon was given a challenge by God to fight a great battle in the valley of Megiddo with an army of only 300 men, each with a lamp, trumpet and sword. He had to fight against an army of almost 150,000 and won with God’s help. Judges 7. In Hebrew below Challenge = aw-mar’...

Gideon = ghid-ohn Aw-mar-ghid-ohn This is a war between Jesus the lamb, the Seal of God and his followers, against the Devil the dragon, the Mark of the Beast and his followers.

“And the dragon was angry 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.” (Rev. 12:17)

239 “For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of Prophecy.” (Rev.19:10; 1:1) All the prophecies especially of Daniel and Revelation expose the Devil.

“And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations. And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world... And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men, and deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live. And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed. And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.” (Rev. 13:7-8,13-17) The Devil will decieve all and be in favor of the Vatican system around the world, doing miracles through himself and fallen church leaders decieving all to accept and force the Mark of the Beast, Sunday of the Vatican.

“And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, and against his army. And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.” (Rev. 19:19-20)

Jesus said there would be wars and rumors of wars to the end and not to worry. He wants our hearts and minds to be guarded from the real war and deceptions of the Devil. Read Matthew 24:6,23-31.

(Judges 5:19, 20) (Revelation 2:26, 27) (Revelation 9:4, 13-21) (Jeremiah 7:30-34) (Jeremiah 8:1-9) (Jeremiah 25:31-36) (Zechariah 14:12, 13)

PLAGUE 7 16:17-21. “And the seventh angel poured out his vial into the air; and there came a great voice out of the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying, It is done.

18 And there were voices, and thunders, and lightning’s; and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake, and so great. 19 And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nation’s fell: and great Babylon came in remembrance before God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath.

20 And every island fled away, and the mountains were not found. 21 And there fell upon men a great hail out of heaven, every stone about the weight of a talent: and men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail; for the plague thereof was exceeding great.”

Three times Jesus says "It is Done." On the cross. (John 19:30) When the plagues are completed. (Rev. 16:17) And after sin is forever erased from paradise. (Rev 21:6)

“Three Parts” Many actions had taken place in Scripture where there were three's, representing completeness. (1 Samuel 20:41; 1 Kings 9:25; Daniel 6:10) In these seven last plagues this partial term "thirds" is never used. When God foretold every nation's doom and the return of Jesus, he said, "I will, overturn, overturn, overturn it, and it shall be no more, until he come, whose right it is, and I will give it to him. (Ezekiel 21:27) Hailstones from space or Saturn’s belts, Jesus returns for his faithful saints. (Jeremiah 50:25; Joel 3:16; Rev. 11:15, 18, 19; Rev. 8:1; Rev. 6:14-17; 1 Thessalonians 4:16-18; Isaiah 26:19-21; Psalms 18:7-28; Joshua 10:11; Job 38:22, 23) God's arrows are hailstones scattered

toward the wicked.

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BABYLON THE GREAT AND ITS DOOM Revelation 17:1-18.

17:1-6. “And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters: 2 With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.

3 So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet colored beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. 4 And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet color, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication: 5 And upon her forehead was a name written, Mystery, Babylon the Great, The Mother of Harlots and Abominations of the Earth. 6 And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.�

Spiritually a bed represents rest and relationship. (Hebrews 13:4; 2 Kings 1:4,6,16; Psalms 63:6; Isaiah 57:7-9; Rev. 2:21-23) The Sabbath is the true bed and Jesus is the king of it. Many choose another bed or false Sabbath Sunday with the Vatican Church and popes who created it and many other abominations. (Jeremiah 50:5, 6; Isaiah 56:1-6; Ezekiel 22:25-31; Ezekiel 44:23, 24) A Woman represents a Church, good or bad. (2 John 1:1, 13; Jeremiah 6:2; Rev. 12:1, 2, 5) And this bad woman is dressed in purple and red to easily identify her as the Roman Vatican church

and all those daughter churches and people who follow her day and ways.

The seven heads are those remaining after this church came into power in around 508 AD. In Daniel 2. The ten horns are the same kingdoms and gained by the wars of the pope against the whole ten kingdoms of Western Europe who three were there before he killed them. (Daniel 7:7, 8) She is a world power and proves it, she blasphemes meaning she claims to be God and know and spread truth and she only goes against the true word of the Bible. She unites herself as church with the state governments. She persecutes and kills. She consists' of paganism and apostate Protestantism around the world. She is in the wilderness, representing she is in seclusion and secrecy. This is why it is a mystery to many people. This is the mystery of iniquity, the antichrist. (2 Thessalonians 2:1-13; 2 John 1:6-11) The wilderness also means the land of America, and not where many waters of people are.

17:7-11. “And the angel said unto me, wherefore didst thou marvel? I will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carried her, which hath the seven heads and ten horns. 8 The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.

9 And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth. 10 And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space.

11 And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition.�

These are the eight beast kings in verse 10. The first is the Lion of Babylon, 538 BC. (Daniel 7:4) The second is the Bear of

243 Medo-Persia, 331 BC. (Daniel 7:5) The third is the Leopard of Greece, 168 BC. (Daniel 7:6) The fourth is the Dragon of Pagan Rome, 476 AD. (Daniel 7:7) The fifth is the Little horn and the Sea beast of Papal Rome, 538 -1798 AD. (Daniel 7:8, 15-25; Rev. 13:114; Rev. 17 and 18) The sixth one is Atheistic France beast from the pit, 1798-1991 AD. France sent Napoleon during the revolution in 1798 to take captive the Pope who died in jail, wounding the beast of papal Rome, taking away its civil power for a season, he will rise again. (Rev. 13:3, 12, 14) The seventh beast is not yet come. America came up as the Buffalo with two horns of religious and civil liberties. It is not until later, after being infiltrated by Rome that it spake as a Dragon, then it had come. George, Abraham, and Kennedy all warned of the infiltration by Rome and the Vatican. (Rev. 13:11-18) The eighth beast is again Papal Rome working in America, and around the whole earth. It goes into perdition as all the infiltrators and persons there for money, personal gain, as Judas then sent by others and now Jesuits and others sent into the churches by the pope today, wanting this earthly rule. (John 17:12) The Pope and priests are influencing the whole earth to follow them, and for their own gain. Killing many by leading them down wrong paths. (2 Thessalonians 2:1-17) Their doom and destruction is seen in Rev. 17:16-18 and chapter 18.

17:12-18. “And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.

13 These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast.

14 These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful.

15 And he saith unto me, the waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues. 16 And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire.

17 For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled. 18 And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth.�

17:12-14. These ten horns could have been changed since 476 AD. And the Visigoths, Vandals, and Heruli replaced. The European Monarchies they choose would determine who the ten kings are. This is the time they give their powers and support to the Catholic Church to pass a worldwide Sunday law against Gods' will. For God allows the nations of earth to unite for about half a month for the mystery of iniquity to be fully shown, the plagues will ruin their party and at this time Gods' people will be delivered safe through the plagues and forever.

Other than the faithful Christians of God and the Bible, the world’s people are comprised into three groups, The Papacy, Apostate Protestantism, and non-Christian religions and governments as the Muslims and Buddhists. The Devil using false magic in all of them. (Rev. 16:13, 14, 16) These will gather the kings of the earth and the whole world. These will gather together to destroy Gods people and fight against Jesus the Lamb. (Rev. 17:12, 14; Rev 19:11, 19)

17:15-18. As the ten kings realize Babylonian Catholics' have deceived them and as the plagues are falling on them and the peoples, multitudes, nations, and tongues, these will turn away from supporting it as Rev. 16:12 says the drying up of the great Euphrates river represented as the people ending their supporting Catholicism. (Jeremiah 25:30-38; Ezekiel 38:18-23; Zechariah 14:12-15) The woman is the great city ruling over the kings of the earth.

This is the Catholic Church system, not the peoples in it that will come out and see she disregards pure truth for religious and political control of her own gain. In the next chapter 18, the whole earth is lightened with the glory of God in His son Jesus. The mystery of God to save is fully revealed and the messages of Rev 14: 6-14 accepted or rejected for the last time.

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MYSTERY OF GOD REVEALED AND THE DESTRUCTION OF BABYLON Revelation 18:1-24.

18:1-5. “And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory.

2 And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird. 3 For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.

4 And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues. 5 For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.”

“Glory shall be revealed... The God of all grace who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus.” (1 Peter 5:1, 10) Salvation and Righteousness will be revealed from it. (Isaiah 56:1-6; “Latter

rain with the Ark.” Jeremiah 3:3,16) (The latter rain will come and go and many people will know nothing of it.)

In due time Christ died. (Romans 5:6-11) And later in due time he will testify of this, his glory. (1 Timothy 2:5, 6; 1 John 5:513) “For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist. Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have wrought, but that we receive a full reward. Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son. If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed: For he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds.” (2 John 1:7-11) The three angels messages of Rev 14:6-12 will be taught by his people with this the Lords help of his own blood on the Ark lid above the Fathers Law to keep, revealed, before the plagues and his coming to earth to take us up to Heaven. As when the Ark was beside the false god Dagon and all the philistines will be the result and worse if people reject the Lord Jesus and his blood on the Ark to pay and cover for their guilty sins. (1 Samuel chapters 3-7) The seventh trumpet was when this mystery of God and his Son would be fully revealed, then finished, or closed for acceptance sometime later, and then the plagues would be poured out full strength. Chapter 19 will tell more on the Testimony of Jesus to earths' people and his return.

The three angels messages' will be taught warning and pleading with people, worship the God of Creation Jesus, Babylon is fallen and the world’s ways, come out of Babylon churches and worldliness and dont receive the mark of the Pope, Sunday worship of him. (Rev. 14:6-12) The Bible and Jesus' life and teachings shows and warns of the right paths and wrong, so we can live, covered by Jesus' perfect life.

Babylon the Vatican around the world with false confused doctrines makes people drunk and stumble. They keep people

247 caged and trapped from the truth and God's saving word in the bible. (Isaiah 51:21-23; Jeremiah 5:27)

18:6-24. “Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double according to her works: in the cup which she hath filled fill to her double. 7 How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow.

8 Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the Lord God who judgeth her. 9 And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her, and lament for her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning, 10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! For in one hour is thy judgment come. 11 And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her; for no man buyeth their merchandise any more: 12 The merchandise of gold, and silver, and precious stones, and of pearls, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet, and all thyine wood, and all manner vessels of ivory, and all manner vessels of most precious wood, and of brass, and iron, and marble, 13 And cinnamon, and odors, and ointments, and frankincense, and wine, and oil, and fine flour, and wheat, and beasts, and sheep, and horses, and chariots, and slaves, and souls of men.

14 And the fruits that thy soul lusted after are departed from thee, and all things which were dainty and goodly are departed from thee, and thou shalt find them no more at all. 15 The merchants of these things, which were made rich by her, shall stand afar off for the fear of her torment, weeping and wailing, 16 And saying, Alas, alas that great city, that was clothed in fine linen, and purple, and scarlet, and decked with gold, and precious stones, and pearls! 17 For in one hour so great riches

is come to naught. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off, 18 And cried when they saw the smoke of her burning, saying, What city is like unto this great city! 19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! For in one hour is she made desolate.

20 Rejoice over her, thou heaven, and ye holy apostles and prophets; for God hath avenged you on her. 21 And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all. 22 And the voice of harpers, and musicians, and of pipers, and trumpeters, shall be heard no more at all in thee; and no craftsman, of whatsoever craft he be, shall be found any more in thee; and the sound of a millstone shall be heard no more at all in thee; 23 And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived.

24 And in her was found the blood of prophets, and of saints, and of all that were slain upon the earth.�

The drying up of the Euphrates River of people as in the sixth plague, is telling here in verses 2-24. (Rev. 16:12) As king Cyrus marched his armies and digged diversion streams, the river was dried up, and his army marched under the river gate and took and destroyed Babylon that night, so the Lord will cause the plagues on Babylon the great city of the Vatican and its organizations around the world, and the people in her will stop supporting her, and will turn against her and kill her people and burn there buildings. (Rev. 17:15, 16) She glorified herself, her plagues come. She even has merchandise of slaves and souls of men. As the Jesuit oath was given by bishop's and cardinals, the Jesuits were sent by the Roman Vatican Catholic church around the 1500's traded and sold by sea, everything that could be bought including slaves, and still today they do the same, under many names they sin. Holding people,

249 men, woman, and children as slaves for evil purposes, and hold them back from the word of life. Even before Jesus comes in this chapter setting at the end of the plagues. (Rev. 6:14-17) Who knows the hearts of the people inside these churches' but God alone, we can see their fruits. John Paul the second said on the day of pardon mass, that he was sorry for the hundreds of millions of people the Roman Catholic Church visited persecution on in the dark ages. (Proverbs 23:4, 5; Matthew 19:16-26) Verse 21 refers to the breaking down of this system and its punishing, as a millstone thrown into the sea not to be found again.

Because of its desolating powers over people and the true doctrine of Jesus, God's angel armies will defeat this evil. (Matthew 18:6)

THE SAVING TESTIMONY OF JESUS AND HIS RETURN This chapter tells of events to happen close before and after the plagues. As doubting Thomas represents a good amount of earth’s people today, he would not believe Jesus was alive after death. Jesus came to him and allowed him to touch the scar holes in his hands and side for his belief to be strong. Many I have heard denies' there is any connection of the Ark with Jesus.

He will prove to save much more than we could by ourselves. The golden Ark with the blood of Jesus on the left side of the lid and the lambs blood on the right and the coal with Incense, the Commandments inside and the leather scroll book with the old testament will be brought out at and against the Sunday laws and sinners to show the only name who earths' people can be saved by, Jesus, before the plagues and Jesus return.

Revelation 19: 1-10 19:1-10. “And after these things I heard a great voice of much people in heaven, saying, Alleluia; Salvation, and glory, and honor, and power, unto the Lord our God: 2 For true and righteous are his judgments: for he hath judged the great whore, which did corrupt the earth with her fornication, and hath avenged the blood of his servants at her hand. 3 And again they said, Alleluia, and her smoke rose up for ever and ever.

4 And the four and twenty elders and the four beasts fell down and worshipped God that sat on the throne, saying, Amen; Alleluia. 5 And a voice came out of the throne, saying, Praise our God, all ye his servants, and ye that fear him, both small

251 and great. 6 And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thundering’s, saying, Alleluia: for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth.

7 Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honor to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come and his wife hath made herself ready. 8 And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints.

9 And he saith unto me, Write, Blessed are they which are called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb. And he saith unto me, these are the true sayings of God. 10 And I fell at his feet to worship him. And he said unto me, See thou do it not: I am thy fellow servant, and of thy brethren that have the testimony of Jesus: worship God: for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.”

These visions given to John seem to tell of plagues with mercy on certain places and people before the full gospel of Jesus is revealed and the major plagues with no mercy on Babylon and the whole earths' peoples. Ultimately God in Heaven is praised worthy, because he is salvation, glory, honor and power. We will forever praise God with the saved in the old and New Testament and the multitudes of other angels, cherubim, and seraphim. We learned in earlier chapters how these beings and there places represented certain actual historical times we are in, or will go through.

In the events and moments before the close of probation and seven last plagues of rev. 16. The three angels' messages' of Rev. 14. will be preached to earths' people by some of earths' people, who understand the bible and that let it interpret itself.

A voice came out from the throne saying, praise our God. Then a great multitude said, Alleluia, meaning praise be to God. The wife in clean white has made herself ready for the “marriage of Jesus,” and to accept him. Those who have had communion with the unleavened bread and fresh grape juice of Jesus in ceremonies at church know a little about it. This is the life and death and plan

of Jesus in the New Testament for saving all who will believe in him and his plan. The bread represents his righteous life to plead for you to the father, the blood for his death and resurrection and can give us new life. These represent much more. (Matthew 26:2629; Luke 22:14-22) The bride represents the marriage plan of Jesus to his kingdom of new citizens. (Isaiah 54:5, 6; 2 Corinthians 11:2; Ephesians 5:25-33; Rev. 21:2 New Jerusalem’s citizens in it.) By faith and trust, the faithful ones will go in with him into the most holy place ministry plan of Heaven for this marriage. The law will be present. (Matthew 25:1-13; Matthew 22:1-14) (Isaiah 61:8-11; Zechariah 3:3-7) After understanding these verses, there is a Wedding marriage to Jesus, and after, a Marriage supper. This supper spiritually and symbolically represents his body and the blood, his life and his words. (Matthew 26:26-29; Luke 22:14-22; Romans 3:19-31) These represent the Law and His Blood on the golden Ark, being revealed by God's soldiers' and the saved of earth being the helpers to the truth. At this time before Jesus returns he will reveal them, and all people will have a choice and a chance to repent and ask forgiveness and receive eternal life or death before the plagues and his coming.

The faithful to him as they learn the communion of Jesus and his life, and the whole earth will see this evidence. The chosen and faithful will in Heaven for eternity have a communion with Jesus.

In the Feast of Tabernacles study in the end of this book, we learn that this was a fall feast and the last one. This revealed that the wine and water would be poured down a pipe out of the sanctuary and into the river, and would heal the waters and the waters would rise higher and higher. This fall feast pointed forward to and would happen before the plagues, to convince, compel, and convert before the coming of Jesus. In the Lords' prayer he hints: “Thy kingdom come, thy Will be done in earth as it is in Heaven...

Where your Treasure is, there will your Heart be also.� (Matthew 6:10, 21)

253 Before him and his kingdom comes, He will reveal the Law of his kingdom is precious, and to be kept to enter into Heaven. He kept his Fathers' commandments and abides in his love as he taught us to. (John 15:10) We are all his treasure, and he was with us to save us. His nail scarred hands can point to the Law of the land of his Father, where His blood from his Heart is there above that law, forever reminding us the sacrifice of a Fathers' son for our salvation, the testimony of Jesus.

(Zechariah 13:6, 7; Matthew 26:31; 2 John 1:7-11) All the verses compiled for scripture proof are in the study lesson in Daniel, the true messiah 2300 years, the sanctuary, and the seven feasts.

19:11-21. “And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war. 12 His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself. 13 And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God. 14 And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean. 15 And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God. 16 And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, King of Kings, And Lord of Lords. 17 And I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven, Come and gather yourselves together unto the supper of the great God; 18 That ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that

sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, both small and great.

19 And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, and against his army. 20 And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone. 21 And the remnant were slain with the sword of him that sat upon the horse, which sword proceeded out of his mouth: and all the fowls were filled with their flesh.�

19:11-16. This white horse is symbolic and represents the first church that went forth conquering with pure doctrine. Jesus is coming now from Heaven with all his angel saints who keep his commandments. (Rev. 6:2; Matthew 25:31; Psalms 103:20) We are told by him to keep his commandments. (Rev. 14:12; Rev. 22:14) (Exodus 19:11-25; Exodus 20:1-26; Exodus 24:8-12; Ezekiel 1:128; Ezekiel Ch. 9,10; Isaiah 66:15; Daniel 7:9; Matthew 6:10; Rev. 15:1-8) He comes to battle against and kill the wicked and bring back to Heaven both the righteous resurrected dead and living "additional saints" to Heaven. (1 Thessalonians 4:16,17; 2 Thessalonians 2:8; Rev. 6:14-17; Acts 1:9-11; John 14:1-3) Jesus is the faithful and true witness, even to earths' last church age. (Rev. 3:14) His eyes were a flame of fire representing that he sees as the word of God, and will fulfill all that it has said and was written, for those in line with the bible, and those out of line with it. (1 Corinthians 3:11-13; Jeremiah 23:29; Jeremiah 5:14) After Jesus ended his only saving, Heavenly priestly ministry, he put on his war clothes of red. (Isaiah 9:5) All his angels with him come on white horses, representing they come with a pure doctrine. Their clothes white and clean are

255 the same the saints on earth are bidden to wear, righteousness.

(Rev. 19:8; Psalms 11; 7) Out of his mouth goes a sharp Sword of truth, the bible. (Rev. 11:3-6; Rev. 22:18,19; Matthew 10:33-37; Luke 12:49-53; Ephesians 6:17; Hebrews 4:12,13; Isaiah 66:16; Psalms 149:1-9; Matthew 5:17-22; Matthew 17;2,3; Mark 9:2-4; John 5:39,46-47; Luke 2:25-35; Rev. 1:16; Rev. 2:12,16) Jesus is called many names, in this chapter, three names. In the quantity of three in previous chapters we were shown symbolized completeness. He is called, Faithful and true, Word of God, and King of kings and Lord of lords, representing he is complete now with his people looking to him as their guardian over them and study. In the end of the seventh trumpet he was to gain all power and begin to rule forever. He was, he came to be born, live, die and live again, and he will come again. (Rev 11:15, 17)

19:17-19. All that has not God's seal of protection will be killed when he comes, and the birds will eat their flesh. (Ezekiel 39:4-8, 17-22; Rev. 6:14-17; Matthew 24:23-31) The Devil was sending all peoples and evil after the true followers of Jesus, and armies against God. (Rev. 12:15, 17; Rev. 13:15-18; Rev. 16:13, 14)

19:20-21. The earths' protestant churches in error will accept the Devil, when he falsely pretends to be Jesus and do miracles, through himself, his fallen angels, and false pastors and members.

They did this to deceive people to accept Sunday worship of the Pope, the beast system. "In sight of the beast." or in favor for this false system. (Rev. 13:11-18; Matthew 24:23-27; 2 Thessalonians 2:1-13) The Devil deceived the Jewish nation to reject Jesus, now in the end he will get the whole world to reject the Law of God and the Blood of Jesus in and on the Ark, the Doctrine of Christ. (2 John 1:7-11)

The hailstones on fire is the seventh and last plague before Jesus comes. (Psalms 18:1-34; Isaiah 66:15, 16) The cities and people will be destroyed and laid dead on the ground when Jesus comes. (Matthew 24:27-31; Jeremiah 25:30-38; Jeremiah 4:21-26; Isaiah 14:12-20) At this time all the saints from earth, some resurrected and some living were taken up with Jesus to Heaven for a thousand years. The wicked dead or living both lay dead for this time. (1 Thessalonians 4:16, 17; John 14:1-3; Rev. 20:4-6)

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THE THOUSAND YEARS AND THEN THE EXECUTIVE JUDGMENT ON THE WICKED, THE DEVIL AND HIS ANGELS Revelation 20:1-15.

20:1-3. “And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand.

2 And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years, 3 And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season.”

The earth is the bottomless pit of the universe. At the coming of Jesus, the Devil was bound by circumstance, and cannot tempt or deceive, because the wicked are dead and the saints are in Heaven. (Isaiah 24:17-23; Jeremiah 4:23-26)

20:4-6. “And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.

5 But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.

6 Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.”

At the coming of Jesus there was the resurrection of life, of the dead saints from Adam and Eve till this time, and the last day living saints and the killed who did not receive the Popes worship, or false Sabbath. (John 5; 28, 29; Luke 20:35-36) The saints go to Heaven for one thousand years.

(Malachi 3:16-18; 1 Corinthians 6:2, 3; Jude 1:6) We see the Devil on earth and judge and understand bad angels and the dead people that are not saved, from the record books of Heaven. (Isaiah 14:1220; 1 Corinthians 4:5; Daniel 7:22) The Devil is jailed to earth and the wicked dead for the same one thousand years.

(Jeremiah 25:33; Matthew 24:27, 28; Rev. 19:21; Jeremiah 4:2327) All sins of all people are on Satan for 1000 years. (Leviticus 16:21; Rev. 20:1-3) Satan lives to think about what he has done and wait for his punishment with the dead wicked. (Isaiah 14:12, 18-20; Isaiah 24:22) (House = grave) (Job 17:13-16; Jude 1:5-7; 2 Peter 2:4, 9) The rest of the wicked dead did not live again until the thousand years were finished. This is the resurrection of damnation of the wicked. (John 5:29; Rev. 20:4-6)

20:7-15. “And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, 8 And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog, and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea. 9 And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them.

10 And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.

11 And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them. 12 And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and

259 another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.

13 And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works. 14 And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.

15 And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.�

After the 1000 years.

At the end of the 1000 years, the wicked people are raised to life on the destroyed earth, for their judgment sentencing.

(Revelation 20:7, 8, 12, 13) The holy city drops to earth with Jesus and the saints in it. Jesus steps on Mt. Olive, the land becomes flat, mountains move and the earth shakes. The wicked run away from the city coming down and the earthquake. (Revelation 21:2, 10-27; Zechariah 14:3-12, 13; Revelation 22:14, 15) The great white throne, and the wicked are told by Jesus why they are going to be punished to death with the books they were written in. (Revelation 20:11-13) The wicked people's knees shake, their hearts are sorrowed. (Nahum 2:10) The wicked bow down at the gates of the righteous city. (Proverbs 14:19) They give an account of themselves before God who is high above the city. (Romans 14:11, 12) They are deceived by Satan again, and the tree of life is in the midst of the city, and they surround the beautiful city walls, their number is as the sand of the sea. (Revelation 20:7-10, 14, 15) Fire comes down from God out of Heaven and they all, Satan the Devil and the wicked people burn to ashes. This is the second and last death of sinners and sin. (Revelation 20:9,10; Rev. 21:8; Jude 1:57; Lamentations 4:6; Malachi 4:1-3; Zechariah 14:12; Proverbs 5:11-13) The saints look every place for the wicked people, and never find them. (Psalms 37:10, 20; Nahum 1:9) God creates us a New earth, and the Sabbath is kept forever. (Revelation 21:5, 1; Isaiah 66:22, 23; Malachi 4:2, 3)

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A DESCRIPTION OF HOW THE NEW CITY LOOKS Revelation 21:1-27.

21:1-27. “And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. 2 And I John saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. 3 And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God. 4 And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.

5 And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful. 6 And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely.

7 He that overcomes shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son. 8 But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death. 9 And there came unto me one of the seven angels which had the seven vials full of the seven last plagues, and talked with me, saying, Come hither, I will shew thee the bride, the Lamb's wife.

10 And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and shewed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God, 11 Having the glory of God: and her light was like unto a stone most precious, even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal; 12 And had a wall great and high, and had twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names written thereon, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel: 13 On the east three gates; on the north three gates; on the south three gates; and on the west three gates. 14 And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in them the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.

15 And he that talked with me had a golden reed to measure the city, and the gates thereof, and the wall thereof.

16 And the city lieth foursquare, and the length is as large as the breadth: and he measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand furlongs. The length and the breadth and the height of it are equal. 17 And he measured the wall thereof, an hundred and forty and four cubits, according to the measure of a man, that is, of the angel.

18 And the building of the wall of it was of jasper: and the city was pure gold, like unto clear glass.

19 And the foundations of the wall of the city were garnished with all manner of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, a chalcedony; the fourth, an emerald; 20 The fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolyte; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, a topaz; the tenth, a chrysoprasus; the eleventh, a jacinth; the twelfth, an amethyst.

21 And the twelve gates were twelve pearls: every several gate was of one pearl: and the street of the city was pure gold, as it were transparent glass.

22 And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it. 23 And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof. 24 And the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it:

263 and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honor into it. 25 And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day: for there shall be no night there. 26 And they shall bring the glory and honor of the nations into it. 27 And there shall in no wise enter into it anything that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb's book of life.�

21:1-8. The new creation of the earth happens after the wicked are destroyed the second and last death. The wicked dead who were already dead and the wicked living that were killed by the coming of Jesus comprise the people who died the first death. After the thousand years, these wicked and the bad angels will be resurrected to damnation and the second and last death. The holy new city comes down before this happens. God and his son were with his people, during the thousand years, when looking through the books of life, remembrance, and sin, and seeing the pure and reverent holiness of Heaven, there tears were wiped away, replaced with everlasting joy. (Jeremiah 31:9-13; Psalms 126:5-6)

21:9-21. The bride, new citizens for Jesus the lamb are the spiritual building, Jesus has built upon himself, the apostles and prophets of the bible. (Ephesians 2:19; Jesus is the Cornerstone and has the keys of Heaven, and is only worthy to be worshipped. (Isaiah 28:14-16,19-22; Psalms 118:22; Isaiah 53:3; 49:7; Matthew 21:42-46; Acts 4:10-13; 1 Corinthians 3:9-14; Malachi 3:17; Zechariah 9;16; Ephesians 2:19,20; Ephesians 4:9-15; 1 Peter 2:4-10; Matthew 7:24-27; Matthew 16:16-20; Rev 3:7) Just as gold, silver, and diamonds, are formed and refined more pure with more fire and pressure, so is the people of God formed and refined precious and righteous to God in the fire of his word, pure teachings and judgment, and trials through this hard life. (Jeremiah 23:29; Jeremiah 5:14; 1 Corinthians 3:11-13; Psalms 12:6-7; Zechariah 13:9; Hebrews 11:24-25; Acts 14:22; Ezekiel 44:23-24)

Someone tried to worship peter, and he would never allow anyone to do that. (Acts 10:25-26) Peter said Jesus was the only rock and foundation to be worshipped in the above verses. The Devil tried to deceive Jesus to worship him when Jesus was very weak in the desert and hungry. (Matthew 4:9-10; Rev. 13:13, 14; Rev. 19:20) No Pope or man is to be worshipped. (2 Thessalonians 2:1-13) Jesus is only to be worshipped, and he accepted men and women to worship him. (Matthew 2:2; Matthew 8:2-3; Matthew 9:18; Matthew 14:33; Matthew 28:9-10, 16-18; John 5:23; Philippians 2:9-11; Rev. 5:12-14; 2 Corinthians 5:21; 1 Peter 2:22) Even angels should not be worshipped, the good angels worship Jesus. (Rev. 19:10; Rev. 22:8, 9) There is a physical, great large city made by Jesus, where we will meet once a week on Sabbath, and every month to eat the fresh fruit of the tree of life. This is where our mansions are inside. We all have other homes outside the city, around the earth with all the saved of the old and new testament peoples. (1 Corinthians 2:9; John 14:1-3; Isaiah 66:22,23; Rev. 22:2; Isaiah 65:21-25; Matthew 8:11) The city is about 375 miles on each side. 1500 miles square, about the size of Colorado. The yard in between the city and the gate walls could be hundreds of more miles.

The colors of the foundations under the city gate wall are all clear, some made of different mixtures of minerals or mixtures of colors in some of them.

21:22-27. Jesus said he himself was greater than the temple.

(Matthew 12:6) There will be no sanctuary inside this great city.

The saved will walk in its light. There will be no night in this city.

The light will be very bright here and will never dim. On the

265 outside of the city around the earth the moon light at night will be as bright as the light of the sun, and the day light will be seven times more brighter. (Isaiah 30:26) The books of life are a balance in Gods hand, with his law and son Jesus. If we ask forgiveness and learn of Jesus to be able to trust in him, our names will be in the book of life, the book of remembrance has all our good acts and thinking on Jesus name.

The book of sin has all our sins, if we accept to ask forgiveness from Jesus in our mind and heart then our names are erased from the sin book and forgotten, and placed in the book of life. Much more on this topic in Daniel the Investigative Judgment study. It is called Jesus' book of life, because he is your judge, lawyer, and witness. (John 5:22-24; 1 John 2:1) The “Book of Life” (Revelation 20:12; Revelation 13:8; Revelation 22:9; Revelation 17:8; Revelation 3:5; Revelation 21:27; Daniel 12:1-3; Luke 10:20; Hebrews 12:23; Exodus 32:33; Psalms 69:27,28; Philippians 4:3; Psalms 87:5-7) The “Book of Remembrance” (Malachi 3:16; Nehemiah 13:14; Psalms 56:8; Ecclesiastes 12:13,14) and The “Book of Iniquity”(Sin) (Jeremiah 2:22; Acts 3:19; Job 10:14; Nehemiah 4:5; Deuteronomy 31:28; Isaiah 65:2-6; Exodus 32:32,33; Exodus 34:7Exodus 20:6; Psalms 32:1-6; 1 John 1:5-9, 2:1; 2 Timothy 2:25; Isaiah 30:8-15; Isaiah 44:22; 2 Chronicles 7:14; John 8:4-11)

HEAVEN Revelation 22:1-21. “And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb. 2 In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.

22:1-21.

3 And there shall be no more curse: but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it; and his servants shall serve him: 4 And they shall see his face; and his name shall be in their foreheads. 5 And there shall be no night there; and they need no candle, neither light of the sun; for the Lord God giveth them light: and they shall reign for ever and ever.

6 And he said unto me, These sayings are faithful and true: and the Lord God of the holy prophets sent his angel to shew unto his servants the things which must shortly be done. 7 Behold, I come quickly: blessed is he that keepeth the sayings of the prophecy of this book. 8 And I John saw these things, and heard them. And when I had heard and seen, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel which shewed me these things. 9 Then saith he unto me, See thou do it not: for I am thy fellow servant, and of thy brethren the prophets and of them which keep the sayings of this book: worship God. 10 And he saith unto me, Seal not the sayings of the prophecy of this book: for the time is at hand. 11 He that is unjust, let

267 him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still. 12 And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be. 13 I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.

14 Blessed are they that do his commandments that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city. 15 For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.

16 I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star. 17 And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.

18 For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book: 19 And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.

20 He which testifieth these things saith, surely I come quickly.

Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus. 21 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all, Amen.”

“To him that overcomes will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God.” (Rev. 2:7) “Whom shall he teach knowledge? And whom shall he make to understand doctrine? Them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts. 10 For precept must be upon precept,

precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little.� (Isaiah 28:9-10) Heavens people, place, and things.

(Revelation 21:5, 1) (Isaiah 30:26) (Job 22:24-26) (Job 28:6) (Psalms 102:27) (Psalms 116:9) (Psalms 149:1-5) (Isaiah 8:2) (Isaiah 11:6-9) (Isaiah 24:23) (Isaiah 32:17, 18) (Isaiah 33:20-24) (Isaiah 35:1-10) (Isaiah 40:31) (Isaiah 54:9-13) (Isaiah 60:18-20) (Isaiah 65:17-25) (Isaiah 66:22, 23) (Ezekiel 1:23-28) (Daniel 7:9) (Matthew 6:19-21, 33) (Psalms 46:4) (Matthew 7:21) (Matthew 8:11) (Matthew 13:43) (John 14:1-6) (1 Corinthians 13:12, 13) (Revelation 1:13-15) (Revelation 4:1-4, 11) (Revelation 5:11-13) (Revelation 7:9-17) (Revelation 14:2, 3) (Revelation 15:2) (Revelation 21:1-27) (Nahum 1:9) (Micah 4:1-5, 8) (Psalms 22:26) (Isaiah 14:7) (Psalms 37:11, 29) (1 Corinthians 2:9) (Isaiah 55:12) (Psalms 64:10) (Isaiah 65:14) (Psalms 97:11) (Psalms 33:21) (Habakkuk 3:18) (Isaiah 61:10) (Ephesians 3:15) (Zechariah 14:79) (Isaiah 62:12) (Isaiah 61:3)

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THE SANCTUARY MAP, FOLLOWING THE FOOTSTEPS OF JESUS “Thy way 'o God' is in the Sanctuary: who is so great a God as our God?” (Psalms 77:13). “Praise him in the sanctuary in the firmament of his power.” (Psalms 150:1; Jeremiah 17:12) The Lord told Moses, “Let them make me a sanctuary that I may dwell among them.” (Exodus 25:8; 1 Kings 8:27). “Send thee help from the sanctuary.” (Psalms 20:1, 2) Jesus said, “But I say unto you, that in this place is one greater than the temple.” (Matthew 12:6; Hebrews Ch. 8-10) “Destroy this temple, and in three days I

will raise it up... But he spake of the temple of his body” (John 2:19-22) Eventually these people were not convinced of the messiah to come in these ceremonies and God would shake off these ceremonies from the ignorance of the people and his son would be born and be the whole attention they pointed to. (Jeremiah 6:20; Hebrews Ch. 8-10; Acts 7:44) Read Ezekiel 44.

The Old Testament sanctuary pointed to Jesus. Jesus fulfilled the whole Sanctuary service in his life. Jesus was baptized and later killed on this courtyard earth in 31 AD. The temple veil to the most holy room ripped apart and the ground under Jesus broke apart the same time. (Matthew 27:51) He went up to Heaven forty days later to the holy place service. In 1844 he began his most holy place service for all sinful people. The sanctuary symbols continue to play an important role and lessons for ever.

The sanctuary had three areas: the Courtyard, the Holy place and the most holy place. There are three steps in the plan of salvation known as justification, sanctification and glorification. (Romans 5:1; 1 Corinthians 6:11; Romans 8:30) His sacrifice, his priestly mediation, and his final judgment. The most holy place represents the presence of God. The walls around the Courtyard and the Holy place show man's separation from God. "But your iniquities have

271 separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear." (Isaiah 59:2) In this earthly sanctuary, the Day of Atonement was a symbol of Judgment. Once a year this service cleansed all sins of the people.

Those whose sins were not transferred by a sacrifice that was brought through the sanctuary were cut off. (Leviticus 16:5-34; 23:27-32; 4:27-30) This was a day of atonement or cleansing.

(Hebrews 9:3, 4; Exodus 40; 20, 21; Exodus 25; 21-22; Deut. 10:45) The priest served everyday here. (Hebrews 9:6) Then once a year on the Day of Atonement. (Leviticus 16; 29-30) This small temple lesson was for us to see Jesus in the great universal Heavenly temple of time. This temple wherever it was taken involved many feasts, and killings of lambs. The courtyard pointed to the time when Jesus fulfilled this from 27 AD. to 31 AD. (Romans 5:6-11; Ephesians 5:25-27) The Holy place he was in Heaven 31 AD. to 1844 AD. The Most holy place 1844 AD. to Close of investigative Judgment. (1 Timothy 2:5, 6; Revelation chapters, 1-11; Rev. 22:11-15) Before God gave the Israelites His law on tables of stone on Mt Sinai, he saved them from slavery in Egypt, and by their faith in the Passover lambs blood that they painted onto their door posts of their house, that the angel of death would pass over and not kill them. (Lamb and burn altar) symbolically they were baptized in the sea crossing (the laver). In the wilderness wandering, the pillar of fire was their (lampstand menorah) The manna was their (showbread) The pillar of cloud was their (cloud of incense) (Numbers 14:14; 1 Corinthians 10:1-6)

THE DOOR (courtyard gate) When a person sinned, he brought a lamb, after his sins were placed on the lamb, it was killed. The blood was sprinkled onto the

horns of the burnt altar. The blood of the sin offering for the whole congregation was sprinkled by the priest on the veil of the holy place, and then on the horns of the altar of incense, and veil. And then once a year entered in the priest to cleanse and sprinkle the most holy place, to atone and forgive the people of their sins.

(Leviticus 6:25-30; Leviticus 16:29-34; Hebrews 9) On this one day a year two goats were chosen, the Lord's goat was killed and the blood brought into the most holy place. The priest put all the sins of the people on the scapegoat and led it into the wilderness to die. (Leviticus 16:1-34; Rev. 20:1-3, 7-10) This day was a Day of Judgment, if people did not ask forgiveness for sins; they were cut off from Gods people. (Leviticus 23:27-30) Jesus is the Lords goat, he went to Heaven to soon return after he ends his priestly job to save, The Devil is the scapegoat stranded here on this desolate broken earth for the thousand years, soon to die after to receive punishment for his own sins and the sins of the righteous saved people whose sins were transferred to him, and the wicked people will bear their own sins and receive their punishment.

These people in old times looked forward to the true act of the coming Jesus, or should have, and we look back to the cross of Jesus. (2 Corinthians Ch. 3; Hebrews Ch. 8-10) There is only one door to this sanctuary temple. Remember Jesus' words: "I am the door: by Me if any man enter in, he shall be saved." (John 10:9; John 10:1-18) "Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under Heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved." (Acts 4:12; Exodus 40:33) When John seen Jesus walking to him for baptism, John said, behold, the Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world. (John 1:29-34, 41-45) Jesus was our one and only Passover lamb killed for us. (1 Corinthians 5:7, 8; Rev. 5:6-14) on the Day of Atonement, he was laying dead that Sabbath. The day before on a Friday he was crucified and died, and the veil in the temple was ripped apart, showing Jesus was the true high priest, and lamb. This ended all sacrificial services forever. (Galatians 3:16, 19; Hebrews 8:1-5;

273 Hebrews 9:24) The life was in the blood and was given by the death of Jesus on the altar. (Leviticus 17:11) The unfermented grape juice and the unleavened bread symbolize the blood and body of Jesus. (1 Corinthians 10:16-21) Now we give sacrifices of righteousness. (Psalms 4; 4, 5) The sanctuary was surrounded by a courtyard and fence made of linen curtains. The gate door was facing east. The worshipers and priest who stood at the door had their backs to the rising sun, instead of facing it like the pagan sun worshiping religions of their day. (Ezekiel 8:16)

THE COURTYARD AND ITS OBJECTS Here we pass through the fire and water. Jesus said, "Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God" (John 3:5)

The Altar of burnt offering After walking into the door of the courtyard, we see the brass burn altar. It was here where the Lamb or offering was brought by the sinner. It was then cut and killed and blood fell on the ground and some blood was kept and taken into the holy places, by the priests (Exodus 40:29-31; Hosea 6:6). Jesus died on the cross in Jerusalem at Golgotha skull hill, and his blood was shed for all who accept him to cover their sins. (Isaiah 52:13-15) (Isaiah 53:1-12) (Zechariah 12:10, 11; 13:6, 7) (John 1:29) (Matthew 27:33-54) (John 19:34) (1 John 1:7-9) (1 John 2:1-4) (Hebrews 10:10-27) The lambs were offered daily and continually, and Jesus is for us a continual minister to his father for us. (Exodus 29; 38-39; Hebrews 10:10-14; John 6:53, 63)

The Laver (Bowl of water for hands and feet) Now we come to the Laver or bowl made of brass and was filled with water for the cleansing of the priest. (Exodus 40:30). Once we accept Jesus as our savior then we are asked to be baptized. (Acts 2:38). The sinner is justified in the courtyard. God takes us just as we are and forgives our sins. When we accept Christ Jesus, confess our sins and ask for forgiveness, our heavenly record of sin is covered by Jesus' blood. (1 John 1: 7-9). Then we are to be baptized. (Acts 2:38) (John 3:3, 5) (1 Peter 3:21) (Romans 6:4)

THE HOLY PLACE AND ITS 3 OBJECTS On the outer door of the holy and most holy places were angels in gold on curtains or on the stoned building, olive wood doors, and on the inside both in the holy and most holy room walls were golden images of angels all around, representing these two places were in Heaven. (1 Kings 6:32,35; Exodus 26:31-37; Exodus 36:35)"And he made a covering for the tent of ram's skins dyed red, and a covering of badgers' skin above that." (Exodus 36:19).

The priest could look up and see the red skin. Christians are a nation of priests and kings that serve Jesus under His living blood.

The Golden 7 Lamp light stand Inside the holy place stood the golden 7 bowl lamp stand. These lamps burned with pure olive oil all the time and lightened the whole room, there wicks were trimmed to keep them burning continually. (Leviticus 24:1-4) The name of Jesus is as oil poured out. (Song of Solomon 1:3) Jesus said "I am the light of the world." (John 8:12). Jesus said "You are the light of the world."

(Matthew 5:14). The two olive trees are the old and new testaments, word of God, and the olive oil in the lamps symbolized the Holy Spirit that brightens the church. (Zechariah 4:1-6) The Lamp is a symbol of the Word of God. (Psalms 119:105) The wise

275 took oil in their vessels with their lamps. (Matthew 25:1-13) (Exodus 25:31-40) (Exodus 27:20) (Revelation 4:5)

The Table of Showbread On it were twelve loaves of unleavened bread. (Leviticus 24:5-9) This bread would be made fresh continually every Friday Jesus is the bread of life, the living bread. (John 6:26-27, 47-51). The number 12 represented the 12 apostles of Jesus, who were to feed God's people with the bread of life. The bread is a symbol of the word of God. (Matthew 4:4; John 1:14) The unfermented grape juice and the unleavened bread symbolize the blood and body of Jesus. (1 Corinthians 10:16-21) The new bread would be baked every Friday, and placed fresh hot on the Sabbath. The bread before was eaten. This fresh bread pointed to our Sabbath service. Jesus has special blessings from his words and teachings on the Sabbath and for eternal Sabbaths to come. (1 Samuel 21:6; Isaiah 58:7-14; Isaiah 56:2,3; 1 Timothy 4:12; Numbers 4:7; Deuteronomy 8:3-4; John 15:3; Ephesians 5:26; Exodus 25:30) Jesus desired to eat and drink with his apostles the bread and juice of communion, and said he would not again until we all drink and eat it new and fresh in Heaven together.

(Luke 22:13-30; Matthew 26:26-29; Isaiah 66:22, 23)

The Altar of Incense Contained a brass pot that held burning hot coals. On this alter of incense on the inside of the holy place they put on the hot coals a very special blend of incense which filled the sanctuary continually with a sweet smelling cloud rising up the curtain with angels stitched on it, into the Most holy place, representing the prayers of intercession and confession of the believers sweetened by the Holy Spirit and life of Jesus. (Exodus 30:8) Once a year the priest would

take the censer full of coals and incense in his hand and go into the most holy place and put the incense and burning coal onto the ark lid. Repentance in the name of Jesus is a sweet odor to God, telling of sorrow for sin and acceptance of the righteous life of Jesus. The angels of God take our prayers to God. (Romans 8:26-27; Psalms 141:1, 2, 6; Rev. 5:8; Ephesians 5:2; Philippians 4:18; 2 Corinthians 2:15)

Sanctification is the process in the Christians life of learning to obey. It is made up of a series of justifications. Each time we sin we ask for forgiveness when we confess, and we are justified again.

In 1 John 1:9 He promises us that, "If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness."

The key ingredients in our sanctification are a devotional life in the Word, Prayer and Witnessing. The sanctuary's bread, incense and lamp represent these 3 elements. (Exodus 40:26, 27) (Revelation 8:3) (Revelation 9:13).

THE MOST HOLY PLACE The size of the room of the most holy place was 15 feet wide and 15 feet long, a perfect square and cube. Just as the New Jerusalem city is equal in length, width, and height in Heaven but much greater and larger. About 1500 miles around it. (Revelation 21:16).

In the earthly sanctuary of the past the only thing in this room was the golden Ark box with the glory of God above it shining forth.

(Exodus 25: 21, 22) (Exodus 26:34) (Exodus 40:34) (Psalms 80:1).

With angels on the curtain veil first entering the most holy place.

The walls were covered all around the inside with angels in gold representing all the heavenly angels surrounding God in Heaven. (1 Kings 6:29)(Exodus 26:31-34) (Hebrews 8:1-5) (Hebrews 9:11-28) (Hebrews 10:16, 19-27) (Psalms 102:19)(Jeremiah 17:12)

277 (Revelation 16:17) (Psalms 11:4). The holy temple of God in heaven. (Psalms 11:4) (Habakkuk 2:20) (Revelation 11:19) (Revelation 16:17).

THE VEIL This veil or curtain separating the holy place from the most holy place in the sanctuary building in Jerusalem was torn apart from top to bottom at the very moment Jesus died on the Cross. And the rocks under Jesus cross ripped apart. (Matthew 27:50-54) (Mark 15:38) (Luke 23:45) The veil represents the body of Jesus (Hebrews 10:19, 20) (Hebrews 4:16) Jesus' death marked the end of the need for the Levitical priesthood. (Isaiah 1:11-18) The blood, I have given it to you upon the Altar to make atonement for your souls. (Leviticus 17:11) Jesus anointed the most holy 'Ark' and He caused the sacrifice and oblation to cease in the middle of the week or 7 years. (Daniel 9:24, 27) The tearing or ripping of the veil by God and His angels represented the death of the Lamb of God, "Jesus." (John 1:29-45). All believers in Jesus have access to the most holy place (Heaven) through the new high priest, Jesus Christ.

(Hebrews 4:14, 15)(Hebrews 9:11-28). The one and only mediator between man and God. (1 John 2:1-4).

THE ARK AND THE LAW This sacred box covered in gold and with a solid gold angel connected at both ends, and having a solid gold lid called the Mercy Seat. (Exodus 25:17-22). God's dwelling place was above this lid and in between the golden angels. (Exodus 25:21, 22) (Exodus 26:34) (Psalms 99:1) (Exodus 40:34) (Psalms 80:1) Inside this box was the Ten Commandments written on 2 tables of stone, Aaron's rod that budded and a pot of Manna. Later the Tables of stone were the only thing in the Ark box. (1 Kings 8:9). (Exodus 25:10-22) (Exodus 31:18) (Exodus 32:15, 16) (Exodus 20:1-21) (Exodus 40:20, 21). Now the truth is that the furniture from the

holy and most holy rooms were taken out and hidden by Jeremiah, before the destruction of Jerusalem and the temple before 586 BC. By the Babylonian army. (2 Kings 25:1-17) Jeremiah knew very well the Ark and furniture would not be used any more after that, “I will give you pastors according to my heart, which will feed you with knowledge and understanding. And it shall come to pass when you be multiplied and increased in the land, in those days, saith the Lord, they shall say no more, the ark of the covenant of the Lord: neither shall it come to mind: neither shall they remember it; neither shall they visit it neither shall that be done any more.”(Jeremiah 3:15-17) “The Shekinah no longer abode between the cherubim in the most holy place; the ark, the mercy seat, and the tables of the testimony were not to be found therein.” (Great Controversy, Ch. 1, destruction of Jerusalem.1858; Prophets and Kings)

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THE MERCY-SEAT LID The Mercy-Seat was made of solid gold, and once a year the high priest went in and sprinkled this lid in the most holy room with blood of the spotless lamb. And put sweet spices mixed with burning coal onto the lid, burning up into smoke for a sweet smelling savor to the Lord God, whose presence was above this lid.

(Leviticus 16:11-16) (Exodus 30:34-36) (Exodus 25:21, 22) (Exodus 26:34). Jesus was our spotless Lamb killed for us, being our propitiation, lawyer, Judge, High Priest, saving blood on the mercy-seat of the ark, mediator. Propitiate is to Atone, have mercy on, make atonement and intercession for us.

Jesus did calm, satisfy and propitiate God's anger against us, by living His pure life and spilling His own blood onto the golden ark lid. (Isaiah 52:13-15) (Isaiah 53:2-12) (Exodus 20:6) (1 John 2:1-4)

(1 John 4:10) (Romans 3:24-31) (John 5:22-24) (Hebrews 2:16-18) (1 John 5:5-13) (1 John 1:7-9) One mediator between God and man, the man Christ Jesus. (1 Timothy 2:5) As the incense went up to God's presence above the ark, so if we ask anything and pray to God in Jesus name, he hears us and will give it. (John 15:16/ John 16:23, 24). "Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant, make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is well pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ. (Hebrews 13:20, 21) Present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your service. (Romans 12:1) Important, the priest brought blood with him into this room once a year, the true Jesus was the priest and sacrifice, and he brought his own blood spilled at the cross. On the day Jesus was crucified and died, the veil in the temple ripped and the earthquake split the rocks behind and below the cross-hole of Jesus 20 feet down to the cave where the Ark and sanctuary furniture is. After Jesus died and the earthquake, the soldier speared His side into His heart and blood and water came out, and went down the crack onto the Mercy-Seat lid of the Ark. (Leviticus 17:11) (Daniel 9:24) (Matthew 27:50-54) (John 19:34) (1 John 5:5-13) (1 Timothy 2:5,6) (Hebrews 9:12-28) (Hebrews 10:1-39). When this is revealed with the law, we will know this to be the true witness, the doctrine of Christ; he has came in the flesh. Because the Devil will come walking the earth with many deceptions. (2 John 1:6-11; 1 John 4:1-3; 1 John 5:1-13; 2 Thessalonians 2:1-13) The ark of God will not be used in temples or services. (Jeremiah 3:15, 16)

BLOOD -- Leviticus 17:11/ Isaiah 52:13-15/ Isaiah 53:2-12/ 1 John 1:7-9/ Revelation 1:5-9/ John 6:43-48/ Luke 22:19,20/ 1 Corinthians 11:24-32/ Revelation 7:14-17.

281 WATER -- Jeremiah 2:13/ Jeremiah 17:13/ Psalm 36:7-9/ Isaiah 12:1-6/ John 4:10-42/ John 7:37, 38/ John 6:63/ 1 Corinthians 10:14.

THE LAW (TEN COMMANDMENTS) The Law of God is the only thing inside the ark at this time. (1 Kings 8:9). And on the side of the ark is the scroll book of the books of Moses. (Deuteronomy 31:24-26). The Word was made flesh and lived among us. Jesus is the Word of God and in Him is life. (John 1:1-51). "For the commandment is a lamp, and the law is light: and reproofs of instruction are the way of life. (Proverb 6:23).

Jesus said "I am the light of the world. (John 8:12). "You are the light of the world." (Matthew 5:14-16). "That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us." (Romans 8:4). The seal of God's name in His covenant Law is put in our hearts and wrote in our minds. (Hebrews 10:16). The law is love. (Romans 13:8-10). Love is placed in our hearts by the holy spirit of truth, guiding us into all truth. (Romans 5:5) (John 16:13) To do His will. (Hebrews 10:7) (Hebrews 13:20, 21) (John 14:15) (John 15:10). Plagues on law breakers. (Ezekiel 22:26, 31) (Zechariah 7:10-12) (Isaiah 24:2-6) (Malachi 2:7-9) (Isaiah 30:8-15) (Isaiah 29:10, 11) (Hosea 4:1-9) (Proverbs 28:9) (2 Thessalonians 2:9-13 / Blessings on doers.

(Revelation 22:14) (Isaiah 26:2) (Jeremiah 17:19-27; 18:8-11, 1523) (Matthew 5:17-19)

BREASTPLATE OF JUDGMENT OF THE PRIEST The 12 tribes of Israel's names were engraved and signed on each stone. (Exodus 28:15-30). The Heavenly city, New Jerusalem.

(Revelation 21:2-27). Has a fenced wall around it great and high, and at the 12 gates 12 angels. On the gates were written the names of the 12 tribes of the children of Israel. The wall of the city had 12 foundations, and in them were the names of the 12 apostles of the

lamb. (Revelation 21:9-27) Jesus is the perfect righteous Judge; he will build his new citizens on the foundation of himself. Here is symbolism and the physical as one. (Ephesians 2:19-21; 1 Corinthians 3:16)

THE SCAPE-GOAT, SATAN THE DEVIL There were 2 lambs or goats and they would cast lots to see which one would be sacrificed and the other, the scape-goat, would have all the sins of the people placed on it and led into the desert alone to die. (Leviticus 16:7-10, 21-34). This goat represented Lucifer the devil and Satan, who is jailed to earth with the wicked dead for 1000 years. (Jeremiah 25:33) (Matthew 24:27, 28) (Revelation 19:21) (Jeremiah 4:23-27). All sins of all people are on Satan for 1000 years. (Leviticus 16:7-10, 21-34) (Revelation 20:1-3) Satan lives to think about what he has done for the 1000 years. (Isaiah 14:12, 18-20) (House = Grave) (Isaiah 24:22) And after the 1000 years Satan will burn to ashes with all the wicked. (Revelation 20:1-3, 7-10, 14, 15.) Forever burned to ashes. (Malachi 4:1-3)

BLOOD, WATER, HYSSOP, SPRINKELED THE BOOK.

AND

RED

WOOL

He took blood and water and sprinkled it upon the words of the covenant. (Hebrews 9:18-19) This symbolized 2 things. These very words written in the book are the covenant. (Exodus 24:4, 7, 8) (2 kings 23:2, 3.) And the blood symbolized forgiveness for breaking that covenant. As the blood from the sacrificed animal was always a symbol of Christ. (Leviticus 5:9-18) (Hebrews 10:4-27) (John 1:29) Red scarlet wool and hyssop represented the true mission of the sacrificial lamb. In the bible we are told that wool represents purity and red scarlet symbolizes sin. (Hebrews 9:19-28) (Isaiah 1:18) So just as the wool became red scarlet, so Christ, the innocent Lamb of

283 God took upon himself our sin. (Isaiah 53) (Romans 4:25) (Exodus 12:5) (1 John 2:16) In the bible, hyssop is a symbol of cleansing.

Jesus took our sins to cleanse us. (Psalms 51:7) (1 John 1:7) (Exodus 12:22, 23) From this ceremony we know exactly what happened in the true. According to the symbol and shadow, we can expect Jesus did confirm the true covenant by sprinkling his own blood and water over what now makes up the covenant, the Ten Commandments. While at the same time offering himself to cleanse people from their sins. These people he confirmed the covenant with were asked by Christ Jesus to keep the very words of that covenant. (Hebrews 9:15:18-20) (Hebrews 10:10-27) Jesus said “I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love." (John 15:10) When Jesus went into the Heavenly true sanctuary, God's earthly sanctuary was made of all believers in Jesus. (1 Corinthians 3:1617) It is our temple bodies around the world that the antichrist wants to place himself in and seek to destroy (John 4:23) (Acts 5:29, 32) The antichrist seeks to make himself a leader in our spiritual minds and hearts (Romans 6:16) (Jeremiah 17:5) (Jeremiah 6:13-14) (Jeremiah 7:4-6) This discovery tells us what God's covenant with us is, and what law we have broken, and need forgiveness for (Hebrews 10:16, 2531) (Hebrews 8:10-13) (Hebrews 9:12) (Exodus 26:34)

OLD TESTAMENT FEAST’S POINT TO JESUS The first four were springtime and summer Feasts. The last three were autumn feasts. These all were to show all people then and now, that Jesus was the fulfilment of them all. He made himself the show of attention at every feast of whom they pointed. If we study and understand Jesus was in every point in them it is sufficiently beneficial. Jesus was coming to fulfil them and God wanted the people to stop ceremonies and killings to better see Jesus born.

Here are some scriptures on them. (Isaiah 1:11-18; Isaiah 65:4; Colossians 2:13-22; Galatians 4:9-11; Acts 13:39; 2 Corinthians 3; Matthew 26:2; Acts 6:1-8) We must see the major events in what these shadows pointed.

God told Moses to tell the people not to forget the seventh day weekly Sabbath of rest. This was to let them know to not confuse this day with all that he was about to have them do. (Leviticus 23:1-3, 38; Exodus 20:8-11)

PASSOVER. Leviticus 23:5; Genesis 14:18 This feast had origins from God telling Moses that every house was to take a lamb without blemish, and keep it for four days, and at the evening of the fourth day kill it, roasted on fire, and eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs. They were to put the blood on their doorposts for the angel of death to pass by and the angel would see the blood and let them live. (Exodus 12:1-51) This pointed to Jesus coming into Jerusalem on a donkey, being there with the people and being killed on the cross, for the sins of all people. (Mark chapters 10-16) From his triumphal entry, he told his apostles he would die; to his death was about four days. He had no Passover lamb to kill. He was the Lamb. He instituted for them his life, the unleavened bread and unfermented juice. (John 6:2663; Deuteronomy 32:14) Leaven and fermenting represented sin.

Jesus had no sin in him.

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UNLEAVENED BREAD. Leviticus 23:6.

This feast began the next day after Passover. Friday night was the beginning of Saturday. For seven days they could eat only unleavened bread. (Leviticus 23:5-6; Ezekiel 45:21; Exodus 12:1520; Luke 22:1, 13-20; Mark 10:33-34; Mark 14:12, 22-25) Jesus laid dead in his tomb on the beginning of this Sabbath day.

Jesus is the pure sinless savior. (John 6:27-63) The death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus are the symbol for baptism. (Romans 6:1-13; Colossians 3:1-25) Jesus said a wheat kernel needs to fall into the ground to produce more wheat. (John 12:23-33; Mark 10:32-34) Leaven is a symbol for Sin, as leaven is an organic acid gas that rots fruits. Leaven multiplies as sinning will. (Ephesians 2:1-3; Galatians 5:19-21; James 1:13-15) Jesus said beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, and their hypocrisy. (Luke 12:1) Paul warns of the dangers of sin spreading.

(1 Corinthians 5:6; Galatians 5:9) We need help from Jesus to stop sinning. (2 Corinthians 10:3-5; Philippians 2:13; Romans 8:29; 1 Peter 1:16; 1 Chronicles 28:9; Isaiah 55:6-7)

FIRST FRUITS. Leviticus 23:9-14.

This feast originated when the people came to the land God gave them. They were told to give to the priests the first fruits of the harvests of their land, bundles of wheat stalks or other grain gathered and tied. They would then give it to the lord waving it to God. This was the day after unleavened bread, on Sunday. A lamb without blemish was offered to God the same day, as a burnt offering. Flour mixed with oil was made by fire to God, and a drink offering of wine. This pointed to Jesus being offered to God as our

sweet sacrifice. He was the first fruit of the many resurrected righteous at his death, being the first to die put in the ground as a wheat kernel planted producing much more wheat. Jesus was resurrected and went to Heaven, and all other righteous dead will be resurrected at his coming, and the living saints, caught up in the air on his flying sea of glass. (1 Corinthians 15:20-26; Matthew 27:50-54; John 14:1-4; Ezekiel 1:1-28)

WEEKS. Leviticus 23:15-22.

Called the feast of weeks because God told them to count seven weeks, beginning at the time of first fruits, when they put the sickle to the corn. At the end of these days, the day after would be Pentecost, meaning "fifty days." (Leviticus 23:16; Acts 2:1-47) Two loaves of bread with leaven was offered with lambs, bulls, and rams. These two loaves with leaven, representing with sin, symbolized both Jews and Gentiles. At this time the church had not yet been sanctified and glorified. Jesus was without sin or leaven.

(John 7:39) Paul said, "For he is our peace, who hath made both Jew and Gentile one, and has broken down the middle wall of partition between us... To make in himself of two, one new man, so making peace." (Ephesians 2:14-15; Leviticus 23:17-23; Numbers 28:2631) This feast points to the great harvest of people, from the gift of the Holy Spirit pouring out onto the apostles and people exactly fifty days after Jesus was resurrected. Jesus told them he would send the comforting Holy Spirit. After his resurrection he was with them forty days, was raised to Heaven, and ten days later sent the Holy Spirit. (John 14:16-30; John 16:7-15; Acts 2:1-47)

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TRUMPETS. Leviticus 23:23-25.

The first of the end of the year feasts. These seven trumpet blasts were blown every month between Passover and the Day of Atonement. Each trumpet blast warned of the final Judgment to come, as seen in and pointed to the seven trumpets of Revelation 811. (Psalms 81:3; Ezekiel 33:6; Joshua 6) This feast pointed to the house of God in Jerusalem being judged first and last to the whole earth being judged. This reveals the time from 70 AD. to 1844 AD. on to the close of Investigative Judgment, and return of Jesus. (1 Peter 4:17-18; John 16:8-12)

DAY OF ATONEMENT. Leviticus 23:26-32. Leviticus 16:1-34; Hebrews 9, 10.

The Day of Atonement was a symbol of Judgment. Once a year this service cleansed all sins of the people. Those whose sins were not transferred by a sacrifice that was brought through the sanctuary were cut off. (Leviticus 16:5-34; 23:27-32; 4:27-30) This was a day of atonement or cleansing. (Hebrews 9:3, 4; Exodus 40:20, 21; Exodus 25:21-22; Deut. 10:4-5) The priest served everyday here.

(Hebrews 9:6) Then once a year on the day of atonement.

(Leviticus 16:29-30) This day the priest took the lambs blood into the most holy place of the sanctuary, he had incense with a burning coal to put on the ark lid, and lambs blood to sprinkle seven times on the right side of the ark lid. Everyone’s sins needed to be confessed with the killing of the lamb to bring them new life and forgiveness.

"For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul." (Leviticus 17:11) "And there are three that bear witness in earth, the Spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one. If we receive the

witness of men, the witness of God is greater: for this is the witness of God which he hath testified of his Son. He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself: he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son. And this is the record that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. (1 John 5:8-11; 1 Timothy 2:5, 6) This pointed to Jesus being the perfect lamb crucified on the cross, sprinkling his blood from seven wounds, through the earthquake crack below, on the ark. (Romans 5:6-11; Matthew 27:50-54; John 19:34; 1 John 5:8-11) Later to ascend to Heaven, where he later went into the most holy work in 1844 AD. to complete this service of atonement for earths' people once for all time, before he ends hearing the prayers of people mixed with the sweet incense of His life and name with his Father. (Leviticus 16:1-34; Matthew -Jude, Revelation) All who refused this atonement were cut off and sent out of the camp. (Leviticus 23:29) The people who confessed and truly accept Jesus and believe he came in the flesh, and spilled his blood on the ark, were cleared and forgiven. (2 Corinthians 5:17; 2 Peter 3:13; 2 John 1:6-11) We need to be in much study, prayer and deprivation of earthly things. (Isaiah 53:3,5,10; Psalms 35:13; Psalms 69:11; Acts 27:9; Matthew 6:2,5,16; Matthew 17:21) In the old days there was a ransom of money to be given for the atonement of a life. This pointed to Jesus giving his life for a ransom for all, and we now accept it freely. (Exodus 30:11-16; 1 Timothy 2:5-6)

TABERNACLES. Leviticus 23:33-34.

Five days after the Day of Atonement, was the feast of Tabernacles. When they brought in all the harvest, for seven days the people were to bring in meat and drink offerings. From the time God had Moses hit the rock and water flowed out for the people to

289 drink, was a memorial for later years, now used two silver bowls by the altar, where the priests was to pour water down one and wine down the other, both meeting in a pipe under the sanctuary flowing out to the kedron river and then into the dead sea. The waters were then healed, the fish multiplied greatly because the healed waters, the trees and fruit for food and the leaves for medicine. (Ezekiel 47:1-12; Zechariah 14:19, 20; 2 Samuel 15:23, 24) (Ch. Feast of Tabernacles, The Desire of Ages. 1898) As the priests in the temple were pouring the juice and water down separate silver bowls down the pipes under the sanctuary to the dead sea, “On the last great day of the feast Jesus stood and cried loud, saying, “If any man thirsts, let him come to me and drink.”

He that believes on me as the scriptures has said, out of his belly will flow rivers of living water. He said this about the Spirit and those who believe would receive.” (John 7:1-46) The Apostles received it at Pentecost and the world receives it by learning the Bible and asking Jesus. (2 Peter 3:1-2) The feast of Tabernacles pointed to Jesus, his teachings, life and death, being crucified and speared in his side, his water and blood poured out, sprinkling all peoples and nations, and the mercy seat lid of the ark, to be presented and revealed to all the earths' people "In due time."

In due time he died. (Romans 5:6-11) And In due time he will testify of this death by revealing his water and blood on the ark. (1 Timothy 2:5, 6; 1 John 5:5-12; 2 John 1:6-11) The Law of Ten Commandments will be shown with his blood and water.

Jesus and the Law are both a mirror to show us our sins. (Romans 3:20; James 1:22-27; 2 Corinthians 3:18) The blood is the washcloth of the birth, life, death, and life again of the righteous life of Jesus. (1 John 1:5-9; 1 John 5:7-13; Leviticus 17:11; Luke 24:44)

The symbolism of Ezekiel 47.

Jesus' life teachings are the waters from the temple, he is the temple. (Matthew 12:6) The waters risen higher and higher. Waters represent peoples. (Rev. 17:15) There was many more fish because of the healed waters. Many more people will be added because of this testimony of Jesus blood on the ark pouring out into the knowledge of people. (Habakkuk 1; 13-17; Ecclesiastes 9:12; Ezekiel 29:3-5; Jeremiah 16:15, 16; Matthew 4:19) Tree for food every month and the leaves for medicine. (Rev. 22:17) The Lord is there. (Ezekiel 48:35) The Booths people made to live in for the seven days pointed to our mansions in the new made Jerusalem in Heaven. and our other houses we build around the whole new earth. (John 14:1-3; Isaiah 65:17-25) At the end of every seven year cycle on this day was a releasing of all credit lended. (Deuteronomy 15:1-6) This pointed to Jesus telling us "For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you: But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses." (Matthew 6:14, 15) (Exodus 23:16; Exodus 34:22; Deuteronomy 16:13; Isaiah 32:10, 15-20)

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~ THE EVERLASTING SABBATH COVENANT ~ “And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.” (Rev. 19:1316) They of old entered into a Covenant or oath by placing their hand on the thigh. Genesis 24:2-3. Christ’s name on His thigh when He comes back represents His covenant he has with his people, returning to gather them to take back with Him. He can say these are my people who covenanted with me. Malachi 3:16-18; Ps 124:8 “For you are a holy people to your God, and the Lord has chosen you to be a people for himself, a special treasure above all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.” (Deuteronomy 14:2) (This is not written for the Jews only but all who come to Jesus. It is written in the New Testament the same.)

“But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light; you who once were not a people, but are now the people of God, who had not obtained mercy but now have obtained mercy.” (1 Peter 2:9-10) “Now therefore, if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, then you shall be a special treasure to me above all people, for all the earth is mine.” (Exodus 19:5) “But this is what I commanded them, saying, ‘Obey My voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be My people. And walk in all the ways I have commanded you that it may be well with you.” (Jeremiah 7:23)

What is the Covenant God wants to make with us?

“For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put My Laws in their mind and write them on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.” (Hebrews 8:10) “Then I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within them, and take the stony heart out of their flesh, and give them a heart of flesh, that they may walk in my statutes and keep my Judgments and do them, and they shall be my people, and I will be their God.” (Ezekiel 11:19-20) “And what agreement has the temple of God with Idols? For you are the temple of the living God. As God has said: I will dwell in them, and walk among them. I will be their God, and they shall be my people.” (2 Corinthians 6:16) (Are we willing to say we will be His people, and He our God. God made an everlasting covenant that has its roots in Him at creation, and with Abraham.)

“And I will establish My Covenant between me and you and your descendants after you in their generations, for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and your descendants after you.” (Genesis 17:7) “And confirmed it to Jacob for a statute, to Israel as an everlasting covenant.” (Psalms 105:10) “For as the new heavens and the new earth which I will make, shall remain before me, saith the Lord, so shall your seed and your name remain. And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to another, and from one Sabbath to another shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith the Lord.” (Isaiah 66:22-23; Revelation 22:2-4, 14)

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Who all can covenant with God and receive His promises?

“And if you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.” (Galatians 3:29) “Therefore remember that you, once Gentiles in the flesh that at that time you were without Christ, being aliens from the common wealth of Israel and strangers from the Covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world. But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ.” (Ephesians 2:11-13) “Just as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness. Therefore know that only those who are of faith are sons of Abraham. That the blessing of Abraham might come upon the Gentiles in Christ Jesus, that we might receive the promise of the spirit through faith.” (Galatians 3:6-7, 14) (When we open ourselves and give time to Jesus and accept Him and building our trust in Him we will receive the treasured promises. Faith is not a feeling, it is a Trust.)

“Therefore it is of Faith that it might be according to grace, so that the promise might be sure to all the seed, not only to those who are of the law, but also to those who are of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all.” (Romans 4:16)

Then God gives them something to help them Remember their Agreement with the Covenant.

“Therefore the children of Israel shall keep the Sabbath, to observe the Sabbath throughout their generations as a perpetual covenant. It is a sign between me and the children of Israel forever; For in six days the LORD, MADE, the

HEAVENS AND THE EARTH, and on the Seventh day He rested and was refreshed.” (Exodus 31:16-18) (His Sign is His Seal with His own name, title and territory written in His fourth commandment. Romans 4:11; Exodus 20:11; Song of Solomon 8:6-7) (He is saying He will give us the Sabbath for us to keep as evidence that we are His people.)

“Moreover also I gave them My Sabbaths, to be a sign between them and me that they might know that I am the Lord who sanctifies them. I am the Lord your God: walk in my statutes, keep my Judgments, and do them; hallow my Sabbaths, and they will be a sign between me and you, that you may know that I am the Lord your God.” (Ezekiel 20:12, 19-20)

Is this Covenant for the Gentiles and all people?

The children of Israel are on the banks of the Jordan River, about to go into the land of Canaan, and Moses says to them, “I make this covenant and this oath, not with you alone, but with him who stands here with us today before the Lord our God, as well as with him who is not here with us today.”

(Deuteronomy 29:14-15) Who was there?

“A mixed multitude went up also with them, and flocks, and herds, even very much cattle.” (Exodus 12:38) “Blessed is the man who does this, and the son of man who lays hold on it, who keeps from defiling the Sabbath, and hold fast My Covenant. Also the sons of the foreigner who join themselves to the Lord, to serve Him. For my house will be a house of prayer for all nations.” (Isaiah 56:2, 5-7)

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Scripture mentions a New Covenant.

“For if that first covenant had been faultless, then no place would have been sought for a second.” (Hebrews 8:7) (What went wrong, the people said “All the Lord has said we will do, and be obedient.” (Exodus 24:7) “Because finding fault with them, He says: Behold the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a New Covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah.” (Hebrews 8:8) (They were not obedient. Ezekiel 44:13-16.)

“The earth is defiled under its inhabitants, because they have transgressed the Laws, changed the ordinance, broke the everlasting Covenant.” (Isaiah 24:5)

THE NEW COVENANT The old and new Testaments are the old and new covenants or agreements or Will.

“For this is My blood of the New Covenant, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.” (Matthew 26:28) When we participate in the communion of the bread and wine of Jesus body, we are entering into the New Covenant with God. “But now He has obtained a more excellent ministry, inasmuch as he is also mediator of a better covenant, which was established on better promises.” (Hebrews 8:6) (Is our promises better than the people of the old covenant? no, They were trying to obtain salvation from the Law, now we need to look to Jesus. if we sin, we broke it. Jesus came to live the perfect life for us.)

If we wrote an Agreement, Will or Contract at a notary, could it be changed? Yes. “For a testament is in force after men are dead, since it has no power at all while the testator lives.” (Hebrews 9:17) “And for this reason He is the mediator of the New Covenant, by means of death.” (Hebrews 9:15) “For where there is a Testament, there must also of necessity be the death of the Testator.” (Hebrews 9:16-17) “But God demonstrates His own love toward us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him.” (Romans 5:8-9) (When Jesus died He put into force the new covenant, having already voiced and signed the Law, He lived it and died, and spilled His precious blood through the earthquake crack onto the Golden ark lid Sealing it forever unchangeable. Exodus 20:11; Matthew 27:51; John 19:34; Daniel 9:24) Jesus said, “If you love Me, keep My commandments.” (The Law is involved in His New Covenant.)

“For if when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of His son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life.” (Romans 5:10)

“Now may the God of peace, who brought up our Lord Jesus from the dead, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the Blood of the Everlasting Covenant, Make You Complete in every good work to do His Will, working in you what is well pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever, amen.” (Hebrews 13:20-21)

297 (This is the work of God, for when we ask and trust, he completes it in us.)

“Then He said, Behold, I have come to do your Will “O God.” He takes away the first that he may establish the second.”

(Hebrews 10:9) (We can receive eternal life from accepting what Jesus has done for us. Our responsibility is to obey, if we are obedient, then we can be sanctified by Him and be rewarded all His promises.)

Jesus says, “I will put My laws in their mind, and write them on their hearts, and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.” (He is doing this, we are to open to him our minds and hearts and surrender our lives to Him, and he will come in and sanctify us.)

“And He said Abba Father; all things are possible for you.

Take this cup away from me; nevertheless, not what I will, but what you will.”

(This word ABBA is the word for Dad and means a very close relationship with the Lord. When Jesus said Abba Father, he had a close relationship with him. He wants to have this same loving relationship and time with you in Sabbath.

“And they shall see his face; and his name shall be in their foreheads.” (Rev. 22:4)

SUN WORSHIP THROUGH THE BIBLE, CONNECTED TO CHILD SACRIFICE’S

The first mention of the sun in the bible is found in Genesis 1:4-5. “God created light and separated the night from the day. The evening and the morning were the first day.”

The story of Nimrod. (Genesis 11:2-9; 10:8-10) When Nimrod died, his wife Semiramis told the people he went into the sun and is now the sun God. Hezekiah was a king of Judah. Isaiah was sent to tell him he was to set his house in order because he would die. Hezekiah wanted to live longer.

Isaiah asked of the God of Heaven and Isaiah told to Hezekiah he had 15 years to live. Hezekiah asked him how can I be sure. Isaiah told him the sun would go backwards and the sundial shadow would go back ten degrees. Many ambassadors came to see the the miracle of God the creator through Elijah. (Isaiah 38:1-7; 2 Chronicles 32:24, 31) Close by in the city Babylon everyone worshipped the sun as a god. To them the sun was a conqueror in every direction and always went forward.

Later Babylon is fought against. The wife of Nimrod kills herself and tells her people she will go to be the moon goddess. She is known as Diana, Venus and the Queen of heavens planets. Before she died she gave birth to a son on December 25, and called his name “Tammuz.” She told people

299 her son came from her spirit husband in the sun. They worshipped him as a Sun god of fertility.

62 years later God sends Elijah against Jezebel and King Ahab because they worshipped the sun. (1 Kings 16:30-31) Baal is Sun worship. (2 Kings 23:4-5) Elijah told them it would not rain for three and a half years. (1 Kings 17:1) (1 Kings 18:17-18) The queen of heaven is Diana or Simiramus. (Jeremiah 7:17-18) In the New Testament Paul preaches against this Baal Sun worship in Ephesus. The people are angry and yell out their Sun worshipping gods.

(Acts 19:34-35) In Ezekiel 8:10-15.

Tammuz: They believed that Tammuz died every fall; they believed every spring he could come to life again. Every spring before the Sun reached its height in the sky they weeped 40 days for Tammuz to come back to life.

“40 days of Lent.” The Pagan customs made traditions of rabbits and eggs on Easter (East Star, “Sun”). This is a symbol of fertility. We should not corrupt the Lords resurrection.

In Ezekiel 8:16. There is greater abominations than these. “Sun worship” In Numbers 25:1-5. Moses has worshippers of the Sun killed.

After Jesus came and spread the gospel, the Romans persecuted. The Romans forced all to come once a year to offer burnt incense as allegiance to their Roman god (Roma Dia). Many Christians would not do this and were killed.

The days of the week were named more than a thousand years ago in Anglo Saxon days in England and Scotland. The English names are based on the early Pagan Roman names of the planets they worshipped as gods.

Picture on next page. Here are verses of the planets and Sun being worshipped. Deuteronomy 4:15-19; Deuteronomy 17:2-7; Deuteronomy

18:10-12; Leviticus 19:26; 2 kings 21:1-6; 2 Kings 23:4-5; Ezekiel 8:618; Isaiah 47:10-15; Jeremiah 10:2; Acts 7:39-43; Numbers 25:1-5.

Child sacrifice is in connection with Sun worship, verses.

Leviticus 18:21; Deut. 12:31; Leviticus 20:1-5; Ezekiel 16:20-21, 36-38; 2 Kings 17:17-18; 2 Kings 21:2-6; Psalm 106:37-38; Jeremiah 7:30-34; Ezekiel 20:31; Ezekiel 16:36-38; Deut. 18:10; 2 Kings 3:27; Exodus 21:22-25.

You will be surprised to know these murder sacrifices for (Molech, Baal, Sun worship) are continuing today in some countries and groups. Many tribes and temples are proof. God has stopped much of it and will end it all at the plagues and His coming.

God provided Jesus as our sacrifice once forever, there should be no more murdering. (Matthew 18:6; Hebrews 9:11-28; Romans 5:6-11; Ex 20)

301 Constantine, 321 AD. Constantine seen that half of his kingdom was Christian. He was Pagan and wanted it to be Pagan. He made a Sunday Law on the first day of the week.

“On the Venerable day of the Sun let the Magistrates and people residing in cities rest, and let all the workshops be closed.” (Constantine) About 40 years later the council of Laodicea confirmed Constantine’s Law. “Christians should not rest and be Idle on Saturday, but should work on that day.” (Council of Laodicea, Canon 29.)

“To the succession of the Caesars came the succession of the Pontiffs in Rome. When Constantine left Rome he gave his seat to the Pope.”

(Professor of history, University of Rome, La Blanca) “The authority of the church could not be bound to the authority of the scriptures, because the church had changed... the Sabbath into Sunday, not by a command of Christ but by its own authority.” (Catholic- Canon and Traditions, p. 263) Continue this study with much more Bible verses and Catholic quotes in Revelation 14:9-11, Popes Mark. (Mark of the Beast) It is important to know. The first Plague will be on those who accept it.

(Rev. 16:1; Rev. 19:20)

Ron Wyatt Discovers the Golden Ark. His true story.

Ronald E. Wyatt, a Seventh~day Adventist Anesthetist found much biblical evidence, and discovered the golden Ark holding the ten commandments, Mt Sinai, Noah's boat, Red sea crossing of Moses, Sodom and Gomorrah, Cross hole and tomb of Jesus, Alter pyramid of Joseph and much more. Much of the Bible verses he gives and pictures are after this story.

Walking beside the tomb area of Jesus one day in August 1978 with an IAA Official of Antiquities, talking about the diggings of old Roman ruins, 'then suddenly' Ron's arm and hand went up in the air, pointing at a spot in the mountain, his voice unnaturally spoke, "there is Jeremiah's cave, the Ark of the Covenant is in there."

The IAA Official raised his hands up and responded back to Ron and said "well great we will get you a permit to start digging, and we will supply your lights and help you" For a moment Ron Wyatt wondered what just happened to him, this has never happened to him before and he never once thought about finding the Ark. A few years later on Wednesday, January 6. 1982. Ron entered a small Cave hole in Zedekiah's queries; he found piles of rocks and a concrete box. He saw that the top of the cave had a large crack across it and a dark substance on one side of the crack. Then he discovered the large box had a lid on top of it, and it was cracked and moved over. The lid on the box also had a dark substance on both sides of the crack on the lid and it had dripped inside the box onto the ark he seen inside.

303 He knew from digging up top above ground, where the Cross hole of Jesus was, and that the Cross hole also had a crack split across the left side of it, right above where this Cave was. He passed out knowing this was Jesus' Blood that flowed down through the crack, onto the lid of the Ark. Later he would put a tape measure end up through the crack to someone above. This Cave was 20 feet below the Cross hole where Jesus was crucified. He found a lot of things in the Cave. These gold objects were covered over with old deer skins and then boards and rocks. He seen the 7 lamp candlestick, table of showbread, 5 foot long sword, an ivory pomegranate on display now, clay oil lamps, the censer, he painted and made copies of what they looked like. He could not take anything out because the tunnels he went through were very small. He visited it a few times and held most of his discovery secret. He gave some proof to Jerusalem department of antiquities.

During one of his last visits there, he brought his video movie camera, and a 35mm camera, which some pictures came out clear enough to see but blurred. While entering into the dark Cave as he stood up, a light came on and he seen a crystal glowing wall that radiated the colors of the rainbow. He seen all the sanctuary furniture was out in its place and the Ark was out of the box and against this wall of crystal glowing light that radiated the rainbow.

This was the source of light that brightened the Cave. He then noticed four men in normal clothing in the cave with him. He thought to ask them what they were doing in that cave and who gave them permits to be there, and then he felt that he was in the presence of angels and could not breathe fast.

One of the angels came up to him and said "When God first put the Law into this Ark, he had four of us angels guard and protect it.

God wants everyone to see these Ten Commandments" then the angel told him to set up his video camera and point and face it toward the Ark and turn it on. Ron Wyatt did, and then the four angels went over to the ark and lifted up and off the mercy-seat lid and set it to the side. One angel motioned for Ron to come over.

Ron lifted them out of the Ark and held them awhile in his arms.

The angels put the lid back onto the ark. The angel then took the Law from Ron and set them down on a ledge shelf in the cave.

The angel told Ron "If you are faithful, you will have a part in bringing out these Ten Commandments to be put on display for the whole world to see." Then the angel told him "During the first passings of a Sunday law to enforce Sunday worship, Then God would bring out these ten commandments out of this cave to be displayed to the world.� The angel then told Ron “Take some of the blood off of the Ark lid and go and have it tested." Ron scraped and took some of the blood off of the mercy-seat lid. He gathered up his video camera and left the cave. He went back to his small hotel in Jerusalem, and watched the video tape in his room, and to his surprise, the four angels lifting the lid and him taking out the law and holding them were all on that video. He suddenly was afraid of what the angel told him, that the Laws would be shown at and against the Sunday laws. So he took the video tape back through the tunnels into the cave where the angel was and Ron told the angel he had no place to hide the movie video. So the angel took the video tape and set it on top of the Ten Commandments. Ron left that cave for the last time, and later he asked the Department of Antiquities where a reliable place was to test blood, and he went to a laboratory in Jerusalem. Ron told them that he wanted to be there when they tested it for the results. So he went back to the laboratory and the Jewish people there said, "It has 24 chromosomes. 23 x chromosomes from the mother, and 1 y chromosome, not a human males." "This blood is still living." the people there were walking around and looking into the microscope, speaking very fast.

Then they asked Ron, 'who's blood is this? Ron said "The blood of your Messiah." They began to slap there chest and shout words out and then asked Ron, who is the Messiah? Ron said, Jesus of Nazareth who was crucified." Ron left there. He believed that in Zechariah 12:10, 11. Zechariah 13:4-7. Foretells that, "They shall look upon me whom they have pierced and they shall mourn for him,... in that day there shall be a great mourning in Jerusalem."

Ron said that he did see some of those in the Jewish laboratory, who looked upon Jesus whom they have pierced and did mourn.

305 We believe these verses and many others tell that when the Ten Commandments and the living Blood of Jesus and the video movie God had Ron make in that cave, will all be brought out in God's time at and against the Sunday laws. All peoples around the whole earth will see and hear about the evidence of Jesus whom they have pierced and shall mourn for Him who is in Heaven. Ron said they have been doing tests on Jesus' blood and keeping it secret. He said we will get to see it on video and the other objects at the time of the Sunday laws.

Do not be confused or deceived when the Devil will come walking around as a perfect person, in the desert or temple. Many false pastors and the Devil himself will be disguised as an angel of light to deceive all to break Gods Law. The true Jesus has came in the flesh, and has placed his evidence securely for our trust in him; he will come in the clouds of all his angels from the sky. (Matthew 24:23-35; 2 John 1:6-11) Danny Shelton of 3ABN had been with Ron Wyatt to video the Ark on t.v. in the 80’s and 90’s but because Danny had not found the ark he assumed it was not true as many others who paid for a tour. The angel told Ron “at the Sunday Laws” it will be revealed.

The Jews sent four Jews to carry it out in Levitical clothing who all died in the tunnel as the result, Ron had to carry their bodies out.

The angels collapsed the tunnel with rock for now. Ron had been getting many people asking about the Ark and he began to try himself to go back to the cave and reveal it before its time with many unsuccessful try’s. Ron was still a faithful man. The angel told him he would have a part in revealing it to the world if he stayed faithful. He had died in 1999.

Ron Wyatt said the Seventh~day Adventist understanding of the simple and biblical Doctrines of the prophecy teachings of Jesus in the Heavenly Sanctuary were inspired by God, aside from this he said that Ellen G. White and her writings were inspired by God. – Ballarat, Australia. Sept. 1998. Youtube video name “Ron Wyatt on Ellen White, and Q&A on the Ark of the Covenant.” https://youtu.be/Fp7fzWZoS74

Ellen G. White quotes on the two Arks and Laws, and the blood of Jesus. “After the building of the tabernacle was completed, Moses examined all the work, and compared it with the pattern, and directions he had received of God, and he saw that every part of it agreed with the pattern; and he blessed the people. God gave a pattern of the ark to Moses, with special directions how to make it. The ark was made to contain the tables of stone, on which God engraved, with His own finger, the Ten Commandments. It was in form like a chest, and was overlaid and inlaid with pure gold. It was ornamented with crowns of gold round about the top. The cover of this sacred chest was the mercy-seat, made of solid gold.

On each end of the mercy-seat was fixed a cherub of pure solid gold.

Their faces were turned toward each other, and were looking reverentially downward toward the mercy-seat, which represents all the heavenly angels looking with interest and reverence to the law of God deposited in the ark in the heavenly sanctuary. These cherubs had wings. One wing of each angel was stretched forth on high, while the other wing of each angel covered their forms. The ark of the earthly sanctuary was the pattern of the true ark in heaven. There, beside the heavenly ark, stand living angels, at either end of the ark, each with one wing overshadowing the mercyseat, and stretching forth on high, while the other wings are folded over their forms in token of reverence and humility.� (Spirit of Prophecy.

Vol.1, 272) "Four Heavenly angels always accompanied the ark of God in all its journeying’s, to guard it from all danger, and to fulfill any mission required of them in connection with the ark. Jesus the son of God,

307 followed by heavenly angels, went before the ark." (Spiritual Gifts, Volume 4a) “But the second temple had not equaled the first in magnificence. No cloud of glory, no fire from heaven, descended upon its altar. The ark, the mercy seat, and the tables of the testimony were not to be found there. No voice from heaven made known to the priest the will of God. The second temple was not honored with the cloud of God’s glory, but with the living presence of One who was God Himself manifest in the flesh. The “Desire of all nations” had come to His temple when the Man of Nazareth taught and healed in the sacred courts. But Israel had put from her the proffered Gift of heaven. With the humble Teacher who had that day passed out from its golden gate, the glory had forever departed from the temple. Already were the Savior’s words fulfilled: “Your house is left unto you desolate.” (Haggai 2:3-10; Matthew 23:38) (Great Controversy, ch.1. 1888) “Among the righteous still in Jerusalem, to whom had been made plain the divine purpose, were some who determined to place beyond the reach of ruthless hands the sacred ark containing the tables of stone on which had been traced the precepts of the Decalogue. This they did. With mourning and sadness they secreted the ark in a cave, where it was to be hidden from the people of Israel and Judah because of their sins, and was to be no more restored to them. That sacred ark is yet hidden. It has never been disturbed since it was secreted.” Prophets and Kings, 453. (1915-17) (Spiritual Gifts, vol.4, 114,115. 1864; Spirit of Prophecy, vol.1, 414.

1870) Jeremiah has the last knowledge of the Ark and was in Jerusalem. “They shall have No latter rain... they shall say no more, The ark of the covenant of the LORD: neither shall it come to mind: neither shall they remember it; neither shall they visit it; neither shall that be done any more.”

(Jeremiah 3:3,16; Jeremiah 40:1-5; 52:12) Ramah is a city about 5 miles from Jerusalem. He knew or helped it to be secreted in Zedekiah’s queries.

Jesus blood fell into the cave containing the holies.

“Christ fulfilled still another feature of the type. “His visage was so marred more than any man and His form more than the sons of men; so shall He sprinkle many nations.” In the Temple service, when the animal brought as a sacrifice was slain, the high priest, clothed in white robes, caught in his hand the blood that gushed forth, and cast it in the direction of the tabernacle or Temple. This

was done seven times, as an expression of perfection. So Christ, the great antitype, Himself both high priest and victim, clothed with His own spotless robes of righteousness, after giving His life for the world, cast the virtue of His offering, a crimson current, in the direction of the Holy Place, reconciling man to God through the blood of the cross. (Manuscript 101, 1897, 11, 12. (“The True High Priest,” September, 1897.) (Manuscript Releases Volume Four [Nos. 210-259] (12MR 397.1) (Manuscript Releases Volume Twelve [Nos. 921-999] The verse she quoted above reveals the astonished peoples and rulers expressions when this discovery of Jesus blood with the Law is revealed.

“As many as were astounded at thee; his visage was so marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men: So shall he sprinkle many nations; the kings shall shut their mouths at him: for that which had not been told them shall they see; and that which they had not heard shall they consider.” (Isaiah 52:14-15) Jesus with his spotless robes of righteousness was bleeding from seven wounds in the direction of the cave that contained the furniture of the holy rooms. Both feet, hands, head, back, side, were wounded.

Leviticus 16:2, 12-17 mentions the place of the ark as an holy place.

The earthly Law of God will be brought out and revealed at and Against the Sunday Blue Laws.

“By these words Christ has placed this matter beyond all the sophistry of human conjecture. ‘And He Christ gave unto Moses, when He had made an end of communing with him upon Mount Sinai, two tables of testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God’(Exodus 31:18). Nothing written on those tables could be blotted out. The precious record of the law was placed in the ark of the testimony and is still there, safely hidden from the human family. But in God’s appointed time He will bring forth these tables of stone to be a testimony to all the world against the disregard of His commandments and against the idolatrous worship of a counterfeit Sabbath.” (Manuscript

309 Releases, vol.8, 100.3) (Nos. 526-663) (1 BC 1109.2) (SDA Bible Commentary vol.1) (Manuscript 122, 1901) In harmony with what is said in Isaiah 52:14-15.

The Law revealed to people to see and understand when the Judgment moves from the dead to the living.

"With His own finger God wrote His Commandments on two tables of stone. These tables were not left in the keeping of men, but were placed in the ark; and in the great day when every case is decided, these tables inscribed with the Commandments, will be placed so that all the world will see and understand.... The witness against them will be unanswerable.

And upon those who have taken upon them the work of shepherds of the flock, will be visited the heaviest judgments, because they have presented to the people fables instead of truth. Children will rise up and curse their parents. Church members who have seen the light and been convicted, but have trusted the salvation of their souls to the minister, will learn in that day that no other soul can pay the ransom for their transgression. A terrible cry will be raised, 'I am lost, eternally lost...� (Manuscript Releases, 1401-5, pg. 265,266)

TRUTH SHALL SPRING OUT OF THE EARTH. Psalms 85:11 NOAH'S ARK Genesis 6:23 / Genesis 7:11, 12 / Genesis 7:23 / Genesis 8:4 / Genesis 4:22 / Luke 17: 22-37 LOT, SODOM AND GOMORRAH Genesis 19:1-29 / Jude 1:7 / Luke 17:22-37 / 2 Peter 2:4-9 / Ezekiel 16:49, 50 / Genesis 10:19 / 1 Kings 18:38 / Deuteronomy 4:24 / Deuteronomy 29:23 / Genesis 19:24 / Revelation 21:8 / Micah 4:6 JOSEPH, ALTER PYRAMID AND CORN STORES Genesis 37-47 / Genesis 41:1-57 / Genesis 41:39-46 / Genesis 42:3,6 / Psalms 105:17-22 / Genesis 50:25,26 / Exodus 13:19-22 / Exodus 3:14 / John 8:58 / Genesis 41:45 (Zaphenath-Paneah) = "The God lives and

speaks." / (Imhotep = "Voice of I AM." / "He who listens to prayers." is written on the scroll Joseph holds on his statue. / Isaiah 19:19 Alter pyramid Joseph made to God in Egypt, beside his corn stores.

Joshua 22: 26-28 GOD AND MT. SINAI Galatians 4:25. / Exodus 15:27. 12 wells, 70 Palms. / Exodus 16:1. / Exodus 17:5, 6. Water Rock in Horeb. / Exodus 17:15. War alter. / Exodus 19:18-20. Burned Black top of Mountain. / Exodus 24:4. Alter, 12 pillars. / Exodus 19:12, 21-23. / Hebrews 9:1-5, 23, 24. / 1 Kings 19:1-18. / Exodus 31:16-18.

MOSES AND THE RED SEA CROSSING Exodus 1-20 / Exodus 1:22 / Exodus 2:1-25 / Exodus 3:1-14 Burning bush / Exodus 13:18-22 from Succoth / Exodus 14:1-31 Migdol fortress / Exodus 15:1-5 Chariots and Bones / Isaiah 19:19 (2 PILLARS) / Isaiah 51 / 1 Kings 9:26 Solomon possibly built the pillars at both ends of where Moses crossed. On them were writings of him and the exodus.

JESUS' CROSS AND TOMB Matthew 20:18, 19. / John 19:1, 17-20, 41, 42. / Matthew 27:33, 50, 51, 54, 66. / Mark 15:46. / Matthew 28:1-4. / Mark 16:5, 6.

JESUS AND THE ARK OF THE COVENANT LAW. Isaiah 42:9.

Matthew 27:50-54. / John 19:34. / 1 John 5:5-13. / Daniel 9:24. Jesus blood anointed the most holy Ark. / Leviticus 16:14. Jesus' 2 hands, 2 feet, His back, His head, and His pierced side are 7 places blood came out. / Psalm 77:13. / 1 Timothy 2:5, 6. Jesus' Blood, Law and Video will show and tell at Sunday laws. / Leviticus 17:11. / Isaiah 53:7, 5. / Hebrews 9:11-14, 24, 28. / John 1:29, 36. / Hebrews 4:14. / 1 Kings 8:6-12. Inside earthly ark is the Law only. / Exodus 32:15, 16. Written on both sides. / Isaiah 5:3, 4/ Revelation 22:14. / Exodus 25:17-21. / Revelation 11:15-19. /Revelation 16:17-21. / Revelation 6:14-17. Pastors, Ark, Name of the Lord. Jeremiah 3:15-17. / Law in mind and Heart, sun moon stars, seas roaring, Heaven and earth searched and measured above and beneath.

Jeremiah 31:31-37. / Righteousness, temple, standard. Jeremiah 51:10-12. / Revealed from heaven and without excuse. Romans 1:18-20. /Hebrews 13: 20, 21 / Romans 12:1. Present our bodies a living sacrifice holy and acceptable unto God.

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Ron Wyatt snapped a photo of the golden Ark inside the cave. It is blurred. This Ark is the small pattern God had Moses make to show earth’s people the big truth and saving plan of redemption. The video Ron made inside the cave will be brought out soon with the Ten Commandments and Blood of Jesus on the Ark lid that God made and arranged for his son, at and against the Sunday blue laws. See videos of Discoveries at Arkdiscovery.com / RonWyatt.com / Anchorstone.com / Wyattmuseum.com.

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317 KEYS TO SYMBOLISM 1. WINDS = Kingdoms, war, invasion, divine judgment.

Daniel 7:2, 3. The four winds of heaven fought upon the great sea.

Daniel 11:40. The king of the north shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships.

Jeremiah 51:1, 2, 11. I will raise up against Babylon a destroying wind, the Lord has raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes.

Revelation 7:1, 2. Four angels holding back the four winds of 'earth' to whom it was given to hurt the 'earth.'

2. WATERS = peoples, multitudes, nations, armies.

Revelation 17:1, 15. The waters which you seen are peoples, multitudes, nations and tongues.

Isaiah 8:7, 8. / Isaiah 17:12, 13. The Lord brings up upon them the waters of the river... even the kings of Assyria.

3. BEASTS = nations, kingdoms, kings.

Daniel 7:17. These great beasts which are four are four kings, which shall arise out of the earth.

Daniel 7:23. The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth.

4. HEADS = mountains, kingdoms.

Revelation 17:9, 10. The seven heads are seven mountains on which the woman sits, and there are seven kings.

5. HORNS = kings, kingdoms.

Daniel 7:24. The ten horns are ten kings that shall arise.

Daniel 8:3, 20. The ram which you seen having two horns, are the kings of Media and Persia.

6. WINGS = fast battles, fast moving army.

Ezekiel 17:3, 12. A great eagle with great wings... Behold the king of Babylon is come.

Deuteronomy 28: 49. The Lord shall bring a nation against you from a far, as fast as the eagle flies.

7. DAYS = YEARS, in prophecy.

Ezekiel 4:6. Forty days: I have appointed you each day for a year.

Numbers 14:33, 34. Wander in the wilderness forty years... After the number of days of which you searched the land, even forty days, each day for a year.

Genesis 29:27-30 8. TIME = YEAR in prophecy.

Esther 9:27. And according to their appointed time every year.

Nehemiah 10:34. At Times appointed year by year.

A prophetic year had 360 days. 1 time = 360 days. 2 times = 720 days.

Half time = 180 days. 3 and half times = "1260 years." A prophetic month had 30 days, 42 months = 1260 years.

The 1260 years political reign of the little horn power, the antichrist, and persecution. From 538 A.D. - 1798 A.D. Daniel 7:25. A time, times, and an half.

Revelation 11:2. Forty and two months.

Revelation 11:3. Twelve hundred sixty days.

Revelation 12:6. Twelve hundred sixty days.

Revelation 12:14. A time, times, and half a time.

Revelation 13:5. Forty and two months.

(Note: The decree of Justinian in 538 A.D. began the pope’s long

319 persecution of the Christians to A.D. 1798, when pope Pius 6 was prisoned and died by Napoleon.)

9. CROWN = King, rulers, reward.

1 Chronicles 20:2/ 2 Kings 11:12/ Ezekiel 21:26, 27/ 2 Timothy 4:7, 8/ 1 Corinthians 9:25.

10. PURE, TRUE WOMAN = God's true faithful Church.

Jeremiah 6:2/ Ephesians 5:22-33/ 2 Corinthians 11:2/ Revelation 12:1, 2,5,17.

11. THE BAD WOMAN = Satan's False church religions with lies, and kills.

Isaiah 1:21/ Revelation 17:1-18/ Revelation 18:1-24.

12. SICKLE IN GOD'S HAND = God's angels.

Revelation 14:14-19/ Matthew 13:39/ Matthew 24:30, 31.

LIGHT = Truth.

Psalm 43:3/ John 3:21/ Psalm 119:130/ Psalm 119:105/ John 8:12/ John 9:5/ Matthew 5:14.

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FUTURE TIMELINE Now is the time to learn and teach others how to obtain country lands away from cities and peoples. Learning how to build sun heat slat boxes for drying fruits and grains, and using hand pump (Brake bleeding hand pump) vacuum sealing for glass jars with extra lids for storing boiled soups in for the winter to come until next harvest. Dried foods can be vacuum sealed in Jars, research this. Solar panels are important. Collecting tools for our work in our own gardens, getting jars to store food in fresh yearly. We need fire steels to make sparks for fires, or matches, stored for the time we need them. Helping others with this knowledge and preparing, ourselves, for the Sunday laws will be the time of national ruin and collapse. We are aware God will provide bread and water, and we will do all we can for our families with these helpful solutions we are forewarned to practice. Wood boxes can be made to collect heat under glass window on black surfaces tilted upward for the slat drying box. YouTube has a lot to teach on this.

God has been feeding his followers. Real manna has been falling for faithful Christians in certain locations around the world; we have to believe he will provide our needs when we have not. We still should garden for now. Do not worry, pray to God if you need help or food and cannot obtain. After the Sunday law, national ruin and collapse follow.

HISTORY OF SATAN, He and his angels and false churches WILL ACT AS JESUS AND APOSTLES deceiving the whole world.

Jesus said "I am come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive." (John 5:43) And the Devil will come as bright angels and false pastors leading many away from Gods Law and Jesus blood, Before the the true Jesus who spilled his own blood on the ark lid in 31 AD. Returns. (Matthew 24:2331) Sometime before the Sunday law is enforced in government against Sabbath keepers and all people, the sign to leave the big cities in preparation to the smaller ones, Satan and his fallen angels will act as Jesus and the apostles and bright angels doing false miracles and mighty looking works to the close of God's investigative Judgment and the

321 plagues. These miracles will be done by false pastors in deceptive denominations. They deceive all the earth to break God's commandments and to worship on the First-day Sunday, the popes mark. The Devil and false pastors will do false miracles even fake fire(Light) from Heaven in peoples site and tell them to make a Sunday blue law Image. (Rev. 19:20; Rev. 13:13-18) They try to deceive all to not receive the Name of Jesus and his Seventh-day Saturday rest, Gods seal of protection, through the plagues and forever. (Rev. 7:2, 3) (Rev. 9:4) (Matthew 24:23-44) (Mark 13:21-37) (Luke 17:22-37) (Genesis 3:1-24) (Job 1:1-22) (Isaiah 14:6-22) (Ezekiel 28:1-19) (Rev. 12:1-17) (2 Corinthians 11:12-15) (Galatians 1:7, 8) (Galatians 5:7, 8) (2 Thessalonians 2:1-13) (Rev. 13:13-18) (Rev. 16:14) (2 John 1:6-11) (John 8:44) (Mark 9:17-29) (Ephesians 2:1-3) (John 12:31) (Psalms 78:49, 50) (James 4:7, 8) (1 Timothy 4:1) (Luke 10:20) (1 John 4:1-3, 6) (Matthew 11:43-45) (John 14:30) (John 16:11) (2 John 1:6-11) The latter rain against the Sunday law Enforcement, and the destruction of the evil in the church before the seven plagues and destruction of the world. The revealing of the Ark will be in focus of Gods people, it is the refreshing from the Lords presence, the latter rain. (Jeremiah 3:3, 16) A great many people are in Babylon and will come out during the latter rain. (Hosea 6:3; Zechariah 4:6; Zechariah 10:1; Joel 2:23, 28, 29; Acts 2:16-18) The latter rain will come and go and many of our people will know nothing about it. Remember this quote; it is because we need to know now the connection of the Ark and blood of Jesus on it, before it is revealed. “The straight forward testimony is of the Lord.� The ark and Jesus blood is the fulfilling and finishing act of the latter rain. (Jeremiah 3:3, 16; 1 Timothy 2:5-6) God will allow the beast to enforce his Sunday mark and this will spue out some people from the midst of the true messengers and helpers to the truth. He will as in Achan's day put them away from the crowd, for the purpose that the true messengers cannot fully win victorious with them in their midst. He will then take out some church peoples and places who are not helpers to his sons witness and who are not reverent and holy in the treasure of truth to share in its riches. Now the peoples around earth can fully be assured God is in control and he is leader and will win

victoriously for us.

"The time of his destructive judgments is the time of mercy for those who had no opportunity to learn what is truth. Tenderly the Lord will look upon them. His heart of mercy is touched; his hand is still stretched out to save, while the door is closed to those who would not enter. Large numbers will be admitted who in these last days hear the truth for the first time. (Letter 103, June 3, 1903. This day with God p. 163) God's destructions happen and probation closes for the church first and then for the world last.

"I will give her her vineyards from thence, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope." (Hosea 2:15) Three times is the Valley of Achor mentioned in the bible. (Joshua 7:1-26; Isaiah 65:10; Hosea 2:15) "Now all these things happened unto them for examples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come."

(1 Corinthians 10:11) The valley of achor was a door of hope to the people and us today. Joshua was losing the war, and God told him to take away the cursed people causing troubles in the camp. Achan was taken because he stole and hid under his tent, a garment, silver and gold. He was taken to the valley of achor and stoned with stones and burned with fire. Joshua could be victorious and win the war after this occurred, and the camp was cleansed.

The last day church will be cleaned out, before the final messages and warnings of God and his true people are given. (Ezekiel 9:1-11; 1 Peter 4:17, 18) "I saw that the Israel of God must arise and renew their strength in God, by renewing and keeping their covenant with him. Covetousness, selfishness, love of money, and love of the world, are all through the ranks of Sabbath keepers. Unless it is rooted out, their destruction will be as sure as Achan's." (1 T. 140)

323 Conflagration Last Friday morning, just before I awoke, a very impressive scene was presented before me. I seemed to awake from sleep, but was not in my home. From the windows I could behold a terrible conflagration. Great balls of fire were falling upon houses, and from these balls fiery arrows were flying in every direction. It was impossible to check the fires that were kindled, and many places were being destroyed. The terror of the people was indescribable.—Evangelism.

God’s Efforts to Arouse the People While at Loma Linda, Calif., April 16, 1906, there passed before me a most wonderful representation. During a vision of the night, I stood on an eminence, from which I could see houses shaken like a reed in the wind.

Buildings, great and small, were falling to the ground. Pleasure resorts, theaters, hotels, and the homes of the wealthy were shaken and shattered.

Many lives were blotted out of existence, and the air was filled with the shrieks of the injured and the terrified.

The destroying angels of God were at work. One touch, and buildings so thoroughly constructed that men regarded them as secure against every danger, quickly became heaps of rubbish. There was no assurance of safety in any place. I did not feel in any special peril, but the awfulness of the scenes that passed before me I cannot find words to describe. It seemed that the forbearance of God was exhausted, and that the judgment day had come.

The angel that stood at my side then instructed me that but few have any conception of the wickedness existing in our world today, and especially the wickedness in the large cities. He declared that the Lord has appointed a time when He will visit transgressors in wrath for persistent disregard of His law.

Terrible as was the representation that passed before me, that which impressed itself most vividly upon my mind was the instruction given in connection with it. The angel that stood by my side declared that God’s supreme rulership, and the sacredness of His law, must be

revealed to those who persistently refuse to render obedience to the King of kings. Those who choose to remain disloyal, must be visited in mercy with judgments, in order that, if possible, they may be aroused to a realization of the sinfulness of their course.—Testimonies for the Church; Evangelism. Country living.

To understand the "latter rain" we must understand the "early rain" In (Acts 2) was the first rain. And in (Acts 4) there was another rain. The house was shaken and the Holy Spirit filled the room. (Acts 8:14-17; Acts 9:17; Acts 10:44-47; Acts 11:15; Acts 13:51-52; Acts 19:1-7) All these were outpourings of the Holy Spirit and the early rain. (John 14:26-29; John 16:12-16) Peter says, then God gave them the spirit, as we had been given at the beginning. (Acts 11:15) The early rain lasted over a period of time.

In (Zechariah 10:1) speaking of the "Latter rain" said there will be "showers." (Many different times of the rain and showers of the holy spirit on people and groups.)

As the parable story of the ten virgins, when it was too late, and probation had closed, and only half of the virgins had oil in their vessels with their lamps.(Matthew 25:1-13) (Revelation 14:9-12) The angel proclaiming the Commandments of God and the faith of Jesus are the people who receive these messages and sound the trumpet of warning to the world, to keep the Commandments of God, many will accept the true Sabbath of the Lord." God has his own show and tell waiting for this time. His law and sons blood waiting with the golden Ark. Remember when Daniel was forced not to pray for 30 days, but Daniel prayed to God the same anyway and was saved from the lions. There was a group of bad men who could not find any wrong in Daniel. They wanted to get Daniel in trouble concerning his own way of worshipping to His God. So in the same way bad people will pass a Sunday law in governments all over the world against God's true followers, it is really meant for those who are keeping God's true Sabbath Saturday. To get

325 them to break it. We know best that God wants us to obey him and to keep His Ten Commandments and His Sabbath Saturday forever, even if I go to jail or die for it. God will save us as in (Daniel 6) And as the 3 men that were saved by not bowing down to the image and breaking God's law in. (Daniel 3) if we do die it is because our good God chooses us to for his good to save others by them seeing us live and die for God's truth.

As the repairing of the breach was being done to the house of God, the book of the Law is discovered. They went to Huldah the prophetess for understanding. Repentance was made by the kings and people. Prophecies of blessings and evil were told. Reformations because of the covenant were made. (2 Kings 22:3-20; 2 Kings 23:1-29) All this will play out as some are keeping the Sabbath and repairing the breach and restoring paths to dwell in. The Law will be revealed. The word of God proves this and those he chooses to preach it. (Isaiah 58:7-14)

THE BIBLE AND DIVISION IN THE FAMILY There will be many people that will be lightened with the glory of Jesus and his Father God. Many will stand on the side of truth and the bible. But there will be separation of families all over the world because of the truth of Jesus word. Some will not stand with truth, but accept error instead.

(Matthew 22:29) (Matthew 10:32-37) (Luke 12:49-53) (Ephesians 6:17) (Hebrews 4:12)

WICKED IN THE PLAGUES Jesus says, people were eating, drinking, and marrying, and the people knew not until the floods came and destroyed them all, In Noah's day. So shall the plagues fall, before Jesus comes after the plagues. (Luke 17:2637) The wicked were confused and angry and ran after the saints with swords and guns and weapons against us, but their weapons fall powerless as grass straw and rotten wood. Angels of God are guarding the saints.

(Psalms 79:11-13) (Job 41:25-34) (Joel 2:1-13) The wicked bow down at the feet of the righteous to purify themselves. (Revelation 3:8-12) (Revelation 2:26, 27) The wicked know they are lost forever and cannot be saved no more; probation has closed for them all. They then get up and go after their false pastors, teachers of religion, and family that led them to eternal destruction. "Every hand against his neighbor" is fulfilled.

(Zechariah 14:13) (Luke 17:26-30) (Amos 9:5, 6) (Jeremiah 30:12, 13, 23) (2 Peter 2:4-9) (Matthew 24:37-39) (Amos 5:16-30) (Amos 8:3, 1113) (Joel 1:10-12, 17-20) (Revelation 16:1-21) (Revelation 8:6-13) (Revelation 9:4, 20, 21) (Revelation 11:15-19) (Psalms 78:40-50) The plagues of God will hurt people with no mercy. (Revelation 14:10) (Revelation 15:1)

FALSE PASTORS, SHEPHERDS, PRIESTS Many false pastors, and priests, and shepherds of people around the world will lead many people to be confused, to be wrong and lost forever. Much of these pastors "makes void God's Law" and would still keep first day Sunday worship of the pope, and not the true Sabbath Saturday. The weapons of the wicked people that were held up against the saints were now turned against their false pastors, shepherds, priests, teachers and family who deceived them, because now they know they are lost forever.

And every hand of his neighbor will be against his neighbor. (Zechariah 14:13) And at the last (Ezekiel 9:1-6) says, the angel of death starting with the sanctuary does his work on all these people who do not have the pure mark of truth, and that do not have the Seal of God. (Revelation 9:4) Only a few people will be saved through it, which are the saints. (Ezekiel 14:19-23) Compare (Ezekiel 22:25-28,31 / Ezekiel 44:23,24) (Isaiah 24;16) (Jeremiah 25:31-36) (Jeremiah 23:1-6) (Zechariah 14:12,13) (Isaiah 50:5,6) (Isaiah 30:8-15) (Ezekiel 13:22) (Jeremiah 8:11) (Hosea 4:1-10) (2 Peter 3:16-18) (2 Peter 2:1-9,21-22) (Psalms 119:126)

THE SAINTS IN THE PLAGUES Some people will be saved and protected, those that have the seal of God. The saints will have struggles in heart and mind of conversations with God in the past through prayers. They will be pale faced and shocked at what is happening. God will save alive those that are appointed to die at this time. (Psalms 79:8-11) The angels are falling on swords and weapons protecting us. (Joel 2:1-13) Iron swords fall powerless as straw hay; brass

327 is as rotten wood to us. (Job 41:25-34) (Isaiah 49:14-16) (Revelation 3:811) (Luke 10:18-20) (Revelation 2:26, 27) (Zechariah 2:8) (Genesis 32:912, 24-30) (Jeremiah 30:5-8) (Isaiah 30:17) (Ezekiel 14:19-23) (Revelation 9:4) (Revelation 7:2, 3) (Psalms 91:1-16) (Daniel 12:1) (Isaiah 26:20, 21) (Exodus 10:21-23) (Isaiah 33:16, 17) (Isaiah 41:17) (Hebrews 11; 38) (Psalms 46:1-3, 10-11) (Psalms 37:17, 19, 32, 39, 40) (Isaiah 49:8-13) (Hosea 1:7) (Hosea 2:18-23) (Psalms 18:1-33, 34-41) (Joshua 23:10, 11) (Psalms 46:8-10) (Luke 18:7, 8) (Psalms 34:7) (Isaiah 51:12-16, 21-23) (Malachi 3:17) (Psalms 27:5) (Isaiah 26; 20, 21) (Psalms 91:1) (Exodus 14:14) (2 Chronicles 32:8) (Revelation 17:14) (2 Chronicles 16:9) (Psalms 125:1-4) (Zechariah 2:5) (Psalms 56:4) (Isaiah 25:9) (Psalms 30:5) (Psalms 32:7) (Psalms 46:1-3) (Psalms 144:5-9) He is a shield unto them that put their trust in him. (Proverbs 30:5) (Zephaniah 2:3) ADVENT COMING OF JESUS, AND OUR REWARDS God's war with the wicked began with the Gospel then the plagues, then he comes with His mighty army of angels to battle and to war against the wicked people, and to come to give the dead saints life and the living saints transformation and to take them up to Heavens New Jerusalem.

(Revelation 19:11-16) (Isaiah 13:1-13) (Luke 18:1-8) (2 Thessalonians 2:8-13) (Revelation 6:14-17) (Luke 23:29, 30) (1 Thessalonians 4:16-18) (John 5:28, 29) (Psalms 68:17) (Psalms 104:1-4) (Revelation 22:4) (Isaiah 25:8, 9) (Isaiah 26:19) (1 Corinthians 15:51-55) (Daniel 12:1-3) (2 Corinthians 3:18) (Glory of the Father, Son, Angels. Luke 9:26) (Father- (Exodus 33:18-23) (Exodus 34:6,7,29-35) (Son- (Matthew 17:2) (John 17:5) (Angels- (Luke 2:9-12) (Matthew 28:2-4) (Revelation 5:11) (Matthew 24:23-39) (Mark 13:26,27) (Luke 21:34-37) (1 John 2:28,29) (Acts 1:9-11) (Ezekiel 7:5-7) (Luke 17:26,28-30) (Genesis 6:13) (Matthew 24:14,37) (Psalms 18:1-20) (Hebrews 12:18-23) (Exodus 19:925) (Exodus 20:18-20) (Leviticus 10:1-11) (Zephaniah 3:13-17) (Amos 5:4-27) (Ezekiel 37:1-14) (Revelation 1:5-8) (Zephaniah 1:14-18) (Isaiah 2:8-21) (Joel 2:1-11) (Ezekiel 38:19-23) (James 2:19) (Nahum 2:10) All faces paled. (Jeremiah 30:6) (Psalms 50:3, 4) (Isaiah 62:12) (Isaiah 61:3) (Isaiah 21:12) (Revelation 16:17-21) (Isaiah 30:29, 30) (Isaiah 31:4) (Joshua 10:11) (Psalms 69:23-28) (Micah 4:1-5) (Matthew 24:23-44) (Mark 13:21-37) (Luke 17:22-37) Rewards. (Revelation 22:12-14) (1 Peter 1:3-5) (1 John 2:25) (1 Corinthians 15:51-55) (2 Timothy 4:8) (Revelation 3:11, 12) (Revelation 2:17) (Isaiah 62:1-3) (Revelation 14:2) (Revelation 15:2) (Revelation 3:5) (Isaiah 40:31) (Matthew 5:5) (John 14:2)

HEAVEN (Revelation 21:5, 1) (Isaiah 30:26) (Job 22:24-26) (Job 28:6) (Psalms 102:27) (Psalms 116:9) (Psalms 149:1-5) (Isaiah 8:2) (Isaiah 11:6-9) (Isaiah 24:23) (Isaiah 32:17, 18) (Isaiah 33:20-24) (Isaiah 35:1-10) (Isaiah 40:31) (Isaiah 54:9-13) (Isaiah 60:18-20) (Isaiah 65:17-25) (Isaiah 66:22, 23) (Ezekiel 1:23-28) (Daniel 7:9) (Matthew 6:19-21, 33) (Psalms 46:4) (Matthew 7:21) (Matthew 8:11) (Matthew 13:43) (John 14:1-6) (1 Corinthians 13:12, 13) (Revelation 1:13-15) (Revelation 4:1-4, 11) (Revelation 5:11-13) (Revelation 7:9-17) (Revelation 14:2, 3) (Revelation 15:2) (Revelation 21:1-27) God of hosts of the New Jerusalem. The size of this city will be 1500 miles square and 375 miles high. The outside fence wall and pearl gates about 216 feet high. (Nahum 1:9) (Micah 4:1-5, 8) (Psalms 22:26) (Isaiah 14:7) (Psalms 37:11, 29) (1 Corinthians 2:9) (Isaiah 55:12) (Psalms 64:10) (Isaiah 65:14) (Psalms 97:11) (Psalms 33:21) (Habakkuk 3:18) (Isaiah 61:10) (Ephesians 3:15) (Zechariah 14:79) (Isaiah 62:12) (Isaiah 61:3)

SAINTS GO TO HEAVEN FOR 1000 YEARS (Revelation 20:1-6; Malachi 3:16-18) (1 Corinthians 6:2, 3; Jude 6) We see Satan on the earth and Judge the bad angels. (Isaiah 14:12-20; 1 Corinthians 4:5; Daniel 7:22)

SATAN JAILED TO EARTH, WICKED ARE DEAD FOR 1000 YEARS (Jeremiah 25:33) (Matthew 24:27, 28) (Revelation 19:21) (Jeremiah 4:2327) All sins of all people are on Satan for 1000 years. (Leviticus 16:21) (Revelation 20:1-3) Satan lives to think about what he has done and wait for his punishment with the dead wicked. (Isaiah 14:12, 18-20) (Isaiah 24:22) (House = grave) (Job 17:13-16) (Jude 1:5-7) (2 Peter 2:4, 9)

AFTER THE 1000 YEARS At the end of the 1000 years, the wicked people are raised to life on the earth, for their judgment sentencing. (Revelation 20:7, 8, 12, 13) The holy city drops to earth with Jesus and the saints in it. Jesus steps on Mt. Olive, the land becomes flat, mountains move and the earth shakes. The wicked

329 run away from the city coming down and the earthquake. (Revelation 21:2, 10-27; Zechariah 14:3-12, 13; Revelation 22:14, 15) The great white throne and the wicked are told by Jesus why they are going to be punished to death. (Revelation 20:11-13) The wicked people's knees shake, their hearts are sorrowed. (Nahum 2:10) The wicked bow down at the gates of the righteous city. (Proverbs 14:19) They give an account of themselves before God who is high above the city. (Romans 14:11, 12) They are deceived by Satan again, and the tree of life is in the midst of the city, and they surround the beautiful city walls, their number is as the sand of the sea. (Revelation 20:7-10, 14, 15) Fire comes down from God out of Heaven and they all, Satan the Devil and the wicked people burn to ashes.

(Revelation 20:9, 10; Jude 1:5-7; Malachi 4:1-3; Zechariah 14:12; Proverbs 5:11-13) The saints look every place for the wicked people, and never find them. (Psalms 37:10, 20) (Nahum 1:9) God creates us a New earth, and the Sabbath is kept forever. (Revelation 21:5, 1; Isaiah 66:22, 23; Malachi 4:2, 3) “GREAT WEEK OF HISTORY of HEAVENS COURT” The Imminence of the Second Coming or prophetic timeline - Ed Reid 2 Peter 3:8; Psalms 90:4; Psalms 84:10,1-10.

The apostle Peter tells us that in this time of Jesus coming, that 1 day is 1000 years to God. (2 Peter 3:6-14) So now we know that there are 7 days in a week, and each day is 1000 years, so that means that at the end of the full 6000 years, Jesus will come to take us to heaven for 1000 years.

(Revelation 20:1-6; Malachi 3:17, 18) There is 6000 years of ruin by Satan and 1000 years of peace for us in heaven after the 6000 years. So, when is the end of the full 6000 years? (a.d. 2027-2031) ? There will be destructions of worldly places and on places and people who will harm God's treasured show & tell. Attention please upon the Son. God will reveal his Law from the Ark and Son’s blood on it, against the Sunday laws and the devil walking the desert and in fake holy places for a short time before the 7 last plagues.. and His long awaited coming. (Matthew 24:15-31) We will see the events and signs. This is not a time setting; it is based only upon prophecy and Gods' word. It is the full six thousand year date. The bible says no man knows the day or hour, if Gods word leads us to the events of the years ahead of his coming he will reveal it in his word.

There are about 2000 years from Adam to Abraham, 2000 from Abraham to Jesus, and almost 2000 years from Jesus to now.

Ellen G. White quotes: “Christ, in the wilderness of temptation, stood in Adam's place to bear

the test he failed to endure. Here Christ overcame in the sinners behalf four thousand years after Adam turned his back upon the light of his home.” (Confrontation, pg. 32) “For six thousand years, Satan’s work of rebellion has “made the earth to tremble.” He had “made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof.” And he “opened not the house of his prisoners.” For six thousand years his prison house has received God’s people, and he would have held them captive forever; but Christ had broken his bonds and set the prisoners free.”(Great Controversy) “For 6000 years Satan’s prison-house has received God’s people, but Christ has broken his bonds and set the prisoners free. Alone with his evil angels he realizes the effect of sin: “The kings of the nations, even all of them, lie in glory, everyone in his own house [the grave]. But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch. ... Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial, because thou hast destroyed thy land, and slain thy people.” Isaiah 14:18-20.

For 1000 years, Satan will behold the results of his rebellion against the law of God. His sufferings are intense. He is now left to contemplate the part he has acted since he rebelled and to look forward with terror to the dreadful future when he must be punished.” (From here to forever) Revelation.20:1-7.

We are in generation 5 since 1844 Investigative Judgment, the last generation. Exodus 20:5, 6. tells us that God is visiting the sins of the Fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation. We know the Judgment began in 1844 from the 2300 year prophecy of Daniel 8, 9. that the sins began to be visited. The governments today are hurting for money, the seas and the waves roaring. The 2005 season was the most active season on record. A record 28 tropical and subtropical storms formed, of which a record fifteen became hurricanes., Jesus said this generation will not pass until all is fulfilled. (Luke 21:25-36) This generation Jesus was talking about is this last generation we are in now.

This generation 5 began in 2004-2044.

And many who profess to believe the Bible record are at a loss to account for wonderful things which are found in the earth, with the view that creation week was only seven literal days, and that the world is now only about six thousand years old. 1SP 87.1 (The Spirit of Prophecy, vol. 1) For six thousand years Satan has struggled to maintain possession of the earth. Now God’s original purpose in its creation is accomplished. “The saints of the Most High shall take the kingdom, and possess the kingdom for ever, even for ever and ever.”2 {AH 539.3} (Adventist Home) DougBatchelor https://youtu.be/7DGofVspuJM https://youtu.be/ihYH2 UXXb8g

331 BIBLE STORIES 1. Creation of the world. (Genesis 1,2) 2. Adam and Eve, thrown out of garden. (Genesis 3) 3. Cain and Abel. (Genesis 4) 4. Noah's boat and flood. (Genesis 6-8) 5. The tower of Babel. (Genesis 11:1-9) 6. God calls Abraham. (Genesis 12) 7. Abraham saves Lot. (Genesis 14) 8. Hagar flees into the desert. (Genesis 16:6-13) 9. Angels visit Abraham. (Genesis 18:133) 10. God destroys Sodom and Gomorrah. (Genesis 19:1-29) 11.

Abraham offers Isaac. (Genesis 22:1-19) 12. Abrahams servant seeks a wife for Isaac. (Genesis 24) 13. Esau sales his birthright. (Genesis 25:2934) 14. Jacob and Esau. (Genesis 27) 15. The dream of Jacobs ladder.

(Genesis 28:10-15) 16. Jacob and Laban. (Genesis 29) 17. Rachel hides the images. (Genesis 31) 18. Jacob wrestles with angel. (Genesis 32) 19.

Joseph and brothers. (Genesis 37-50) 20. Pharaoh's dream. (Genesis 41) 21. Moses (Exodus 1-20,24; Numbers 10-27) Moses in the baby basket.

(Exodus 2:1-10) 22. Moses at burning bush. (Exodus 3) 23. Moses staff turns into snake. (Exodus 4:1-5) 24. The 10 plagues in Egypt. (Exodus 712) 25. Cross the sea. (Exodus 14) 26. Manna sent. (Exodus 16) 27. 10 Commandments. (Exodus 20) 28. The golden idol. (Exodus 32) 29. Nadab and Abihu. (Leviticus 10:1-11) 30. The quail birds come. (Numbers 11:435) 31. Miriam becomes leper. (Numbers 12) 32. The 12 spies. (Numbers 13,14) 33. Korah, Dathan and Abiram. (Numbers 16) 34. Moses hits the rock, water comes out. (Numbers 20:1-13) 35. Fiery snakes. (Numbers 21:4-9) 36. Balaam. (Numbers 22-24) Moses hangs sun worshippers in the sun to die. (Ezekiel 8:16) (Numbers 25:3-5) (Romans 1:25) (Acts 5:29-32) 37. Moses' death. (Deuteronomy 34) 38. Rahab hides the spies.

(Joshua 2) 39. The fall of Jericho. (Joshua 6) 40. Achan. (Joshua 7) 41. Ai captured. (Joshua 8:1-29) 42. Sun and moon stand still. (Joshua 10:1-14) 43. Gideon and his army. (Judges 6,7) 44. Parable of talking trees. (Judges 9:17-15) 45. Samson. (Judges 13-16) 46. Story of Ruth. (Ruth 1-4) 47.

Samuel hears a voice. (1 Samuel 3) 48. The philistines capture the ark. (1 Samuel 5,6) 49. Israel asks for a king. (1 Samuel 8) 50. Jonathan and his armor bearer. (1 Samuel 14:1-23) 51. Saul disobeys. (1 Samuel 15) 52.

David (1 Samuel 16-31- 2 Samuel; 1 Kings 1,2) David anointed. (1 Samuel 16) 53. David and Goliath. (1 Samuel 17) 54. David and Jonathan.

(1 Samuel 18:1-4) 55. David in the cave. (1 Samuel 24) 56. David in Saul's camp. (1 Samuel 26) 57. Saul and the witch. (1 Samuel 28) 58.

Uzzah killed. (2 Samuel 6:1-7) 59. Davids great sin. (2 Samuel 11,12) 60.

Absalom. (2 Samuel 15-18) 61. The 4 giants killed. (2 Samuel 21:15-22) 62. Solomon's dream. (1 Kings 3:5-15) 63. The judgment of Solomon. (1 Kings 3:16-28) 64. The queen of Sheba. (1 Kings 10) 65. Solomon's wives. (1 Kings 11:1-13) 66. The prophet and the lion. (1 Kings 13) 67.

Elijah (1 Kings 17- 2 Kings 13) Elijah and the birds. (1 Kings 17) 68.

Elijah and the false prophets of baal. (1 Kings 18) 69. Elijah in the cave.

(1 Kings 19:1-14) 70. Jezebel in Naboth's vinyard. (1 Kings 21) 71.

Ahab's death. (1 Kings 22:1-40) 72. Elijah brings fire from heaven. (2 Kings 1:5-16) 73. Elijah translated to heaven. (2 Kings 2:1-18) 74. Elisha and the bears. (2 Kings 2:23-25) 75. The widows oil multiplied. (2 Kings 4:1-7) 76. The shunammite's son. (2 Kings 4:16-37) 77. Naaman's leprosy.

(2 Kings 5) 78. The floating axe head. (2 Kings 6:1-7) 79. The great famine in Samaria. (2 Kings 7) 80. Baal worshippers killed. (2 Kings 10;18-28) 81. Hezakiah's life lengthened 15 years. (2 Kings 20:1-11) 82.

Good queen Esther. (Book of Esther) 83. The virtuous woman. (Proverbs 31:10-30) 84. The New earth. (Isaiah 35) (Isaiah 65:17-25) (Isaiah 66:22,23) 85. History of Satan. (Isaiah 14:6-20) (Ezekiel 28:11-19) (Revelation 12:1-9) 86. Jeremiah in the dungeon. (Jeremiah 38:1-13) 87.

Daniel refuses the kings meat. (Daniel 1) 88. The metal man image.

(Daniel 2) 89. 4 people in the fire. (Daniel 3) 90. Nebuchadnezzar eats grass. (Daniel 4) 91. Belshazzar's feast. (Daniel 5) 92. Daniel in the lions den. (Daniel 6) 93. Jonah and the big fish. (Book of Jonah) 94. Jesus (Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Revelation, Daniel 9) Jesus born in Bethlehem. (Matthew 2) 95. Jesus and Doctars of the law. (Luke 2:39-52) 96. John baptizes Jesus. (Matthew 3) 97. Temptation. (Matthew 4:1-11) 98. Jesus stops the storm. (Matthew 8:23-27) 99. walking on water.

(Matthew 14:22-33) 100. The 10 virgins. (Matthew 25:1-13) 101. The prodigal son. (Luke 15:11-32) 102. The resurrection of Lazarus. (John 11) 103. Jesus death and resurrection. (Matthew 27,28) 104. Jesus goes up to heaven. (Acts 1:1-12) 105. The stoning of Stephen. (Acts 6:9-15) (Acts 7:54-50) 106. Paul (Acts 7:58-Acts 22) Saul converted. (Acts 9:1-30) 107.

Peter broke out of prison by an angel. (Acts 12) 108. The new Jerusalem in heaven. (Revelation 21,22) Seek you out of the book of the Lord and read, no one of these will fail. (Isaiah 34:16)

333 STUDY LESSONS THE ONE LOST PIECE OF SILVER, THE SABBATH. "Either what woman having ten pieces of silver, if she lose one piece, doth not light a candle, and sweep the house, and seek diligently till she find it? And when she hath found it, she calleth her friends and her neighbours together, saying, Rejoice with me; for I have found the piece which I had lost. (Luke 15:8,9) The woman represents the church. (Isaiah 54:5-6; Rev. 19:7-8) There is ten pieces of silver the ten commandments of God. (Psalms 119:72; Psalms 12:6) One piece is lost, and she lights a candle, the word. (Psalms 119:105; Psalms 18:28; Psalms 43:3; John 3:21) The darkness is error or not understanding. (Psalms 82:5) She sweeps the house. Dust and sand are the words and teachings of men, that have covered over God's words and law. (Matthew 15:3-9; Joshua 11:4; Job 10:9) The house represents God's people in the world. (Hebrews 3:6; Zechariah 13:6) After didligent search, she finds the lost Sabbath, and invites all her friends and neighbours to rejoice with her. (Jeremiah 50:5-6; Isaiah 58:7-14; Rev. 22:14-17; Rev. 14:12-14; Exodus 20:8-11) Paraphrased. "What church keeping ten commandments, loses one command, would she study the bible and remove away the teachings of men, until she finds the lost commandment, and when she finds it, she calls everyone to rejoice with her, saying I have found the fourth commandment that I have lost."

ONLY EIGHT FIRST-DAY TEXTS IN THE NEW TESTAMENT. The first day of the week, Sunday is found only eight times in the new testament. Six of these verses refer to the fact of the resurrection of Jesus, the day after the sabbath rest. (Matthew 28:1; Mark 16:1,2,9; Luke 24:1; John 20:1,19) The seventh text speaks of a special meeting with Paul on Saturday night at Troas. Paul would be leaving the next day, Sunday. He walked 19 miles on Sunday to Assos. (Acts 20:7) The last text shows that Paul had a mission of people laying aside things to give for liberality to the saints, because of the famine and dearth in the land. Paul told them to have it ready to be took on Sunday. There was famine in the land in the years of Claudius Caesar. 10 BC. - 54 AD. (1 Corinthians 16:1-4; Acts 7:11,28) Dearth is Famine. (Genesis 41:54,55)

SEERS and DREAMERS (Sons and Daughters) “And he said, Hear now my words: If there be a prophet among you, I the LORD will make myself known unto him in a vision, and will speak unto him in a dream.” (Numbers 12:6) Self photos snapped of photos by author.

“And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions: And also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out my spirit.

And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke. The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of the Lord come. And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be delivered: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the Lord hath said, and in the remnant whom the Lord shall call.” (Joel 2:2832) Jesus reminded us of the time the events and signs of earthquakes, the sun, moon, and stars, volcanoes, would happen, just after these events we would begin to see dreams and prophecy. (Luke 21:25-27; Rev. 6:12-17; Matthew 24:29-30) after the tribulation of AD. 538-1798. As seen in the 7 Seals!

The courtyard service of Christ was marked by him at his baptism and the outpouring of the holy spirit on Him. The Holy service was marked by the outpouring of the holy spirit at Pentecost on the Apostles.

The Most holy service was marked by Events and signs in the earth, an earthquake, sun, moon and stars and the outpouring of the holy spirit on “Sons and Daughters” before the Judgment year of 1844 in this same order.

The great earthquake in 1755, the Sun and moon darkened in 1780, the stars fell to earth in 1833, the “Sons and Daughters” begin having visions in 1842 of this great approaching Heavenly Judgment/Atonement day. “Behold, the former things are come to pass, and new things do I declare: before they spring forth I tell you of them.” (Isa 42:4-9) “Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may

335 be for the “time to come for ever and ever”: That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of the Lord: Which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits: Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us. Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon: Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant.” (Isaiah 30:8-14) There were three people who were given visions and dreams of Heavenly things. These are legitimate claims I believe lead us to the Bible.

William Ellis. Foy, 1818-1893. A young black American freewill Baptist minister receives the first of two visions he had on January 18, 1842. In Boston Massachusetts. These visions were of the Heavenly world and approaching Judgment. Eyewitnesses say his first dream lasted two and a half hours. Less than three weeks later he experienced a second dream that lasted twelve and a half hours. People were before heaven's bar of judgment, a mighty angel with silver trumpet about to descend to earth, the books of record in heaven; the coming of Christ and the reward of the faithful are explained in his book.

Reluctant to tell of his visions, having no peace of mind, he began sharing his visions in public meetings. He published a book of his visions in 1845.

As a young girl Ellen Harmon (White) heard Foy explain his visions during one of his visits to Portland Maine. Later Foy heard Ellen speak of her dreams, and Foy stood and shouted that he had the same similiar dreams as her. He had joined the millerite movement.

Hazen Foss, a follower of the Millerite message, received a vision of the travels of people to the city of God, in September 1844. He was told to explain the vision to others and refused, because he was unreconciled to the disappointment that Jesus did not come back when the millerite movement said. Later he had strange feelings and heard a voice say, “you have grieved away the spirit of the Lord.” Scared by this he quickly called a meeting and attempted to explain the vision. He finally spoke out, “It is gone from me, I can say nothing, and the spirit of the Lord has left me.”

Ellen G. Harmon, Her name is in the Smithsonian as one of the 100 most signifigant religious figures in America. Rejected from the Methodist church for following Millers teachings. She later understood that 1844 time from miller was right, only the event was wrong, a small group and Ellen understood the importance of the Law and Sabbath connected to the 2300 year study in Daniel 9. At age 17 she received her first vision in south Portland, Maine in December 1844. She seen believers walking on a narrow pathway high above the world, the message of Christ’s soon return lighted the path behind, while Christ was at the end of the path leading his followers to the holy city. She saw some falling off the path through discouragement or disbelief, if they kept their eyes fixed on Jesus they were safe. Hazen Foss heard her visions and told her, “You are chosen of God, be faithful in doing your work.”

This was the beginning of many more years of Ellen’s life, when she would have many more visions and dreams to ready the people of earth to be pointed to the Bible and Jesus soon coming. She has written more books than any other woman on many topics in harmony with the Bible.

In February 1845 she had a dream of what happened at the end of the 2300 day prophecy from Daniel 8,9. She described the transfer of the ministry of Christ from the holy place to the Most holy. The vision is recorded in Early Writings, pgs. 54-56.

She had about 2000 dreams and visions, wrote more than 5,000 periodical articles and 40 books. Today, including compilations from her 50,000 pages of manuscript, more than 100 titles are available in English. She is the most translated woman writer in the entire history of literature, and the most translated American author. Her writings cover a broad range of subjects, including religion, education, relationships, evangelism, prophecy, nutrition, and lifestyle. She said her writings are in harmony with the Bible, and not above it. Read her writings at Ellenwhite.org She helped and joined the SDA church.

Now all these things happened unto them for examples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come. (1 Corinthians 10:11) In 2 Kings Chapter 22. There was the fixing and rebuilding of the temple, then the book of the law was discovered, and they went to a prophetess named Huldah in a college for knowledge. Our day now, - We are

337 repairers of the breach and restorers of paths to dwell in. Building up the ten commandment wall and Sabbath “from creation� and then Ron Wyatt was led to discover the Law of ten commandments, true story. The majority of the church does not believe and the world does not know.

Ellen White has many quotes on this law being revealed with the blood of Jesus to the world for further witnessing at and against the Sunday law of the pope and fallen protestants.

WICKED DESTROYED. (Revelation 20:7-10) (Ezekiel 33:11-20) (2 Peter 3:9) 'Everlasting punishment,' 'not punishing.' (Matthew 25:41,46) (Psalms 92:7) (Malachi 4:1-3) (Isaiah 47:14) (2 Peter 3:6-8) (Isaiah 34:8,9) (Joel 2:3,6) (Nahum 2:10) (Zechariah 14:12) (Psalms 37:10,18-20) (Proverbs 5:11-13) (2 Peter 2:6) (Matthew 13:40-43) (Jude 1:5-7) (Matthew 8:12) (Matthew 13:42,50) (Matthew 22:13) (Matthew 24:51) (Matthew 25:30) (Luke 13:28) (Job 21:30) (Ezekiel 3:18,19) (Ezekiel 18:4,20) DESTROYED BECAUSE. (2 Thessalonians 2:9-13) (Revelation 21:6-8) (Revelation 22:11-20) (Galatians 5:19-21) (Romans 1:23-32) (Colossians 3:1-25) (Revelation 9:4,20,21) (Revelation 19:20) (Revelation 20:15) (Matthew 25:31-46) (2 Peter 2:12-22) (James 2:10-13) (Hebrews 10:2527) (Hosea 4:1-11) (2 Peter 3:16-18) (Proverbs 10:17) (Romans 6:23) (Proberbs 5:11-13) (Isaiah 30:8-15) No marriages in Heaven. Holy ordained friendships only. (Mark 12:25) (Genesis 19:1-10) (Leviticus 18:5-22,23) (Leviticus 20:10-17) (1 Corinthians 6:9-11) (Romans 1:26-32) (2 Timothy 3:1-9) SAINTS LIVE FOREVER BECAUSE. (Ephesians 2:5,8) (Romans 3:31) (Revelatio 22:14,15) (John 3:16) (1 John 1:8,9) (Matthew 25:31-46) (Mark 37:37-40) STUDY HOW. (Matthew 10:34) (Hebrews 4:12) (Matthew 4:4) (Isaiah 28:9,10) (Isaiah 34:16) (2 Timothy 2:15) (2 Timothy 3:15-17) (Acts 17:11) (John 5:39,46-47) (Ecclesiastes 12:9) (Proverbs 4:1-27) (1 John 3:1-3) (Mark 13:23) (Isaiah 8:16,20) (2 Peter 1;19,20) (Psalms 119:105,106) (Proverbs 6:23) (John 8:12) (Matthew 5:14-48) (Proverbs 1:5-7) (Matthew 22:29) (Mark 12:24) (Proverbs 3:1-7) POOR AND TITHE. (2 Corinthians 8:9) (Matthew 25:34-36) (Acts 20:35) (Isaiah 58:6-14) (Philippians 4:19) (Malachi 3:6-10) TITHE. (Malachi 3:8-10) (1 chronicles 39:13,14) (2 Corinthians 9:7-9) (1 Corinthians 16:2) (Matthew 23:23) (Deuteronomy 28:2-4) (Deuteronomy 14:1-29)

SPIRIT OF THE WORD OF GOD. (John 6:63) (John 14:16-18) (John 16:7,13) (John 17:17) (John 15:3) (Romans 8;14,15) (Philippians 4:8,9) (Ephesians 5:26) (Matthew 10:34) (Hebrews 4:12) (1 Peter 1:22,23) (Psalms 119:9) (1 John 3:1-3) You will know in the word of truth of Jesus, how to stop sinning and be free from sinning. (John 8:31-34) (Acts 5:31-32) GIFTS AND FRUITS, OF THE SPIRIT. (John 14:27) GIFTS- (1 Corinthians 12:1-12,27-31) (Ephesians 4:11-13) FRUITS- (Galatians 5:22) (2 Corinthians 6:1-7) (Isaiah 64:6) (Zechariah 3:1-7) (Romans 13:14) (Galatians 3:26,27) (Colossians 3:10-14) (Ephesians 6:10-18) (Psalms 91:4) (Revelation 22:14,15) LOVE. (Ephesians 5:22-33) (James 5:16) (Philippians 3:13) (Philippians 4:8) (Ephesians 4:32) (Colossians 3:16-21) (1 Corinthians 13:4-7,11) (1 John 3:18-21) (2 corinthians 9:7,9) (1 Peter 3:1-12) (Proverbs 5:18-20) (Proverbs 18:22-24) (1 Corinthians 7:9-19) PRAYER FOR. (Mark 1:35) (John 16:23) (James 5:16) (Genesis 48:16) (Ephesians 6:18) (James 5:15) (Matthew 9:37,38) (Zechariah 10:1) (1 Timothy 2:1) (Matthew 5:44) (1 John 5:16,17) (1 Timothy 2:1,2) (1 Timothy 2:2-4) (Matthew 6:10) (Psalms 86:5) (Psalms 119:125) (James 1:5) (Ephesians 3:16) (2 Thessalonians 3:5) (1 Thessalonians 5:23) (Matthew 6:11) (Revelation 5:8) FAITH, HOPE, BELIEF. (Romans 8:23-30) (Hebrews 11:1) (Acts 26;18) (Romans 10:5-11,16-17) (Romans 9:25-33) (James 1:3,4,22-25) (James 2) (Ephesians 4:24,25) (Luke 7:50) (Mark 11:22) (Ephesians 2:5,8) (Romans 4:13,16) (Romans 1;16,17) (Matthew 9:27-29) (Mark 5:25-34) (Luke 8:41-48) (John 11:23-44) (Luke 22:41-43) (Mark 6:1-6) (1 John 5:4) (Matthew 8:2,3) (Matthew 9:22,32,33) (Matthew 15:28) (Mark 5:27-34) (Mark 5:35-43) (Mark 10:46-52) (Mark 11:12-26) (Luke 17:1119) (Luke 17:5-10) (Luke 22:32) THE WORD OF GOD IS THE SWORD OF GOD. (Matthew 5:17-22) Old and New testaments of the bible. (Matthew 17:2,3) (Mark 9:2-4) (John 5:39,46-47) (Matthew 10:34-36) (Luke 2:25-35) (Hebrews 4:12) (Ephesians 6:17) (Revelation 1:16) (Revelation 2:12,16) (Revelation 19:13-21) (Isaiah 66:15,16,17) (Isaiah 1:18-20) DIRTY TO CLEAN. (Romans 3:20) (James 1:22-27) (Matthew 5:17-22) (Romans 8:4) (Isaiah 64:6) (Zechariah 3:1-7) (1 John 1:9) (Acts 22:16) (Romans 13:14) (2 Peter 3:12,14) (Ephesians 5:1-5) (Galatians 3:26,27) (Colossians 3:10-14) (Ephesians 6:10-18) (Psalms 91:4) (Psalms 31:23) (2 Corinthians 6:1-7) (Revelation 22:14,15) (Revelation 19:8) (1 Corinthians 1:8) (Philippians 2:15) (2 Thessalonians 5:23) (1 Timothy 3:2,10) (2

339 Timothy 3:17) (James 1:27) (Matthew 5:48) (1 Peter 1:16) (Ephesians 4:13) NARROW WAY. (Luke 2:8-14) (John 10:1-28) (Matthew 7:13,14) (John 6:51,62-63) (Proverbs 6:23) (John 14:1-7,15) (Isaiah 35:8) (Revelation 6:9-13) (Revelation 12:17) (Revelation 14:12,13) (John 16:32-33) (1 Peter 4:14-16) (Isaiah 50:5-10) (Hebrews 13:11-14) (Ecclesiastes 9:5-12) (Matthew 5:10-12) (2 Thessalonians 1:4-10) GRACE AND LAW. (Ephesians 2:5,8) (Romans 3:31) (Romans 6:1523) (1 John 3:4-24) (Romans 11:5,6) (Hebrews 10:16,25-27) (2 Thessalonians 2:9-13) (James 4:17) (Romans 7:12) (John 8:11-34) (James 2:8-26) (John 4:23-26) (John 16:13) (John 17:14,17) (Revelation 14:12,13) (Revelation 22:11-15) (Revelation 20:12,13) (Ecclesiastes 12:13,14) (John 5:28,29) (Romans 2:1-23) (Revelation 16:2,9,11) (2 Chronicles 7:14) (Galatians 3:1) (Galatians 5:7) (Romans 2:6-23) (Romans 13:8-10) DOING THE COVENANT LAW. (Exodus 31:12-13,16-18) (Psalms 89:34) (Jeremiah 50:5,6) (Isaiah 56:1-6) (Hebrews 4:3-13) (Romans 2:12,13) (James 1:22-26) (Philippians 2:13-16) (2 Corinthians 8:11) (Deuteronomy 4:13) (Psalms 31:23) (Matthew 24:46) (Hebrews 13:20,21) (Hebrews 10:16-30) (Deuteronomy 30:10-14-16) MIND- (Romans 7:12,25) HEART- (John 14:15,21) (Acts 5:31,32) (Deuteronomy 11:13,18-28) (Ezekiel 22:25-31/Ezekiel 44:23,24) (1 John 1:5-9) (1 John 2:4) (1 John 3:4-12) (Romans 6:23) (Isaiah 55:11) (Zechariah 8:16,17) The covenant Law and the name of Jesus in it, is put into our hearts and wrote in our minds. (Hebrews 10:16) The law is love. (Romans 13:8-10) Love is placed in our hearts by the holy spirit of truth, guiding us into all truth. (Romans 5:5) (John 16:13) To Do His Will. (Hebrews 10:7) (Hebrews 13:20,21) FATHERS LAST WILL. Sealed with His blood. (Hebrews 8:6-13) (Hebrews 9) (Hebrews 10:1-27) (Daniel 9:24) (Matthew 27:50-54) (1 John 5:8-13) (Hebrews 13:20,21) (Matthew 5:17-22) (Romans 8:4) (Luke 23:52-56) (Luke 24:1-8) (Matthew 12:48-50) (Matthew 7:21-27) (Matthew 6:10) (Colossians 2:10-23) (Ephesians 2:11-22) JESUS IS GOD'S CHARACTER. (Matthew 12:8) (John 8:58/ Exodus 3:14,15) (John 12:45) (John 14:15) (John 1:1-14) (1 John 5:7) (Colossians 1:13-17) (Hebrews 4:3-10) (Psalms 89:34) (Malachi 3:6) (Hebrews 13:8) MEAT AND ANIMAL LAW/ VEGETARIAN. (Leviticus 11:1-43,4447) (Isaiah 65:2-4) (Isaiah 66:15-17) (1 Corinthians 3:16,17) (1 Corinthians 6:19,20) (2 Corinthians 6:17) (Ezekiel 22:25-28,31/ Ezekiel

44:23,24) (Psalms 89:34) (Hebrews 13:8) (Malachi 3:6) (Acts 10:9-17,2836) VEGETARIAN- (Genesis 1:29) The story of Daniel and his three friends that eat vegetarian and are stronger and wiser to the king. (Daniel 1:3-21) ANGELS, CHERUBIM, SERAPHIM, ARCHANGEL. ANGELS- (2 Thessalonians 1:7) (Hebrews 1:7) (Hebrews 13:2) (1 Corinthians 21:30) (1 Peter 1:12) (Mark 16:5) (Genesis 19:1-29) (Acts 7:30) (Isaiah 40:31) (Luke 15:4-10) (Psalms 78:49) (Psalms 78:16-72) CHERUBIM- (Psalms 18:10) (Ezekiel 41:18,19) (Ezekiel 10:7,14) (Ezekiel 1:1-28) (Genesis 3:24) (1 Kings 6:25,27) (2 Chronicles 3:11) ARCHANGEL- (1 Thessalonians 4:16) (Jude 1:9) SERAPHIM- (Isaiah 6:2,6) EVANGELIST. (2 Timothy 4:1-5) (Acts 21:8) (Colossians 4:6) (1 Peter 3:15) (Titus 1:6-9) (2 Timothy 2:24-26) JEWS AND GENTILES. (Revelation 14:6-12) (Exodus 12:36-38,47-49) (Exodus 20:8-11) (Deuteronomy 31:11-13) (Deuteronomy 29:9-16) (Isaiah 56:1-8) (Galatians 3:27-29) (Romans 3:29-31) (Isaiah 66:9-17) NEEDS. (Matthew 6:30-34) (Proverbs 6:5-8) (Psalms 104:1-23) (Isaiah 49:8-11) (Song of Solomon 2:8-17) (Luke 12:22-24) (Isaiah 33:2-17,22) (Psalms 37:1-13,25-27) (Proverbs 5:15-19) (Philippians 4:19) (Malachi 3:6-10) JEWELRY AND DRESS. (Deuteronomy 22:5) (Leviticus 19:19) (Isaiah 3:16-26) (1 Peter 3:5-15) (1 Timothy 2:9) (Genesis 35:1-5) IN BREAKING OF BREAD THEY KNEW HIM In the opening of Gods word from Jesus, the apostles, the prophets, pastors and family studies we should understand all about Jesus. (Luke 24:13-45) (Acts 2:41-47) FROM MILK TO MEAT (FOOD) We ask in prayer to god and for the holy spirit to have an understanding of the bible, and who Jesus is. We come to Jesus and then onto more food of the word that he teaches, and root down deeper into the scriptures and prophecy to be strong in what we believe, as a tree rooted deep down in the ground, the storms come and the tree is standing strong. (Isaiah 28:9,10) (Daniel 6:10) (1 Peter 2:2) (1 Corinthians 3:2) (Hebrews 5:13,14) (Job 22:21) (Matthew 11:28,29) (John 16:13) (John 17:17) (Acts 17:11) (Matthew 4:4)

341 Quotes from The Pope sent with Christopher Columbus, and quotes from King James, Abraham Lincoln, Charles Chiniquy and others on slavery and world dominion.Quotes not in order.

Some quotes can be found with David A. Plaisted’s work online.

“If, on the one side, we shall be traduced by Popish Persons at home or abroad, who therefore will malign us, because we are poor instruments to make God's holy Truth to be yet more and more known unto the people, whom they desire still to keep in ignorance and darkness.”-- Authorized ‘King James’ Bible. 1611 Transatlantic slave trade, was initiated at the request of Bishop Las Casas and authorised by Charles V in 1517.

The Order of the Knights of Malta, also known as Order of Saint John, Order of Hospitallers, Knights Hospitaller, were among the most famous of the Roman Catholic military slave trading (selling) orders during the Middle Ages.

The Order was weakened in the Reformation, when rich commanderies of the Order in northern Germany and the Netherlands became Protestant (and, largely separated from the Roman Catholic main stem, remain so to this day), and the Order was disestablished in England, Denmark, and elsewhere in northern Europe. The Roman Catholic order was further damaged by Napoleon's capture of Malta in 1798 and became dispersed throughout Europe. It regained strength during the early 19th century as it redirected itself toward humanitarian and religious causes. In 1834, the order, by this time known as the Sovereign Military Order of Malta (SMOM), acquired new headquarters in Rome where it has remained since. (Wikipedia) The Pope The 15th century Portuguese exploration of the African coast is commonly regarded as the harbinger of European colonialism. In 1452, Pope Nicholas V issued the papal bull Dum Diversas, granting Afonso V of Portugal the right to reduce any "Saracens, pagans and any other unbelievers" to hereditary slavery which legitimized slave trade under

Catholic beliefs of that time. This approval of slavery was reaffirmed and extended in his Romanus Pontifex bull of 1455.

Below is a letter, which King Ferdinand sent along with Columbus on his second voyage to Haiti on September 24, 1493.. It was to be communicated to the Taino/Arawak Indians.

The letter: “In the name of King Ferdinand and Juana, his daughter, Queen of Castile and Leon, etc., conquerors of barbarian nations, we notify you as best we can that our Lord God Eternal created Heaven and earth and a man and woman from whom we all descend for all times and all over the world. In the 5,000 years since creation the multitude of these generations caused men to divide and establish kingdoms in various parts of the world, among whom God chose St. Peter as leader of mankind, regardless of their law, sect or belief. He seated St. Peter in Rome as the best place from which to rule the world but he allowed him to establish his seat in all parts of the world and rule all people, whether Christians, Moors, Jews, Gentiles or any other sect. He was named Pope, which means admirable and greatest father, governor of all men. Those who lived at that time obeyed St. Peter as Lord and superior King of the universe, and so did their descendants obey his successors and so on to the end of time.

The late Pope gave these islands and mainland of the ocean and the contents hereof to the above-mentioned King and Queen, as is certified in writing and you may see the documents if you should so desire.

Therefore, Their Highnesses are lords and masters of this land; they were acknowledged as such when this notice was posted, and were and are being served willingly and without resistance; then, their religious envoys were acknowledged and obeyed without delay, and all subjects unconditionally and of their own free will became Christians and thus they remain. Their Highnesses received their allegiance with joy and benignity and decreed that they be treated in this spirit like good and loyal vassals and you are under the obligation to do the same.

Therefore, we request that you understand this text, deliberate on its contents within a reasonable time, and recognize the Church and its highest priest, the Pope, as rulers of the universe, and in their name the

343 King and Queen of Spain as rulers of this land, allowing the religious fathers to preach our holy Faith to you. You own compliance as a duty to the King and we in his name will receive you with love and charity, respecting your freedom and that of your wives and sons and your rights of possession and we shall not compel you to baptism unless you, informed of the Truth, wish to convert to our holy Catholic Faith as almost all your neighbors have done in other islands, in exchange for which Their Highnesses bestow many privileges and exemptions upon you. Should you fail to comply, or delay maliciously in so doing, we assure you that with the help of God we shall use force against you, declaring war upon you from all sides and with all possible means, and we shall bind you to the yoke of the Church and of Their Highnesses; we shall enslave your persons, wives and sons, sell you or dispose of you as the King sees fit; we shall seize your possessions and harm you as much as we can as disobedient and resisting vassals. And we declare you guilty of resulting deaths and injuries, exempting Their Highnesses of such guilt as well as ourselves and the gentlemen who accompany us. We hereby request that legal signatures be affixed to this text and pray those present to bear witness for us, etc.

These Papal bulls came to serve as a justification for the subsequent era of slave trade and European colonialism.

PRESIDENT ABRAHAM LINCOLN In 1856, a runaway slave named Dred Scott had sought to gain freedom in the free state of Kansas. The case was so important that it went all the way to the Supreme Court. The infamous Dred Scott Decision was rendered by the fanatical Roman Catholic Judge Taney, the Chief Justice of the United States at that time. The Taney Decision, in a nutshell, was that the Negro had no rights that the white man had to respect. This basically said that the black man was inferior to the white man and had no rights. Abraham Lincoln as a child had watched the selling of young black men and women in a small Illinois town. As he and a friend walked past a slave auction, Lincoln turned to his friend and said, “Some day, I am going to hit it hard!�

In November of 1855, Charles Chiniquy, a Catholic priest of Kankakee, Illinois, had been attacked in a series of court cases by the Bishop of the

Chicago Diocese. Chiniquy had spoken often on the subject of temperance and the evils of liquor. Since many of the priests were alcoholics, and most of the others were social drinkers, Chiniquy’s talks on temperance were not appreciated. Chiniquy often quoted the Bible in defense of certain positions he held. This greatly inflamed the Catholic bishop of Chicago against him. In order to silence him, Chiniquy was framed, being accused by an immoral priest’s female relative of misconduct towards her.

Charles Chiniquy’s case had been so publicized in the Illinois press that very few lawyers wanted to defend him. They realized that they were not just fighting against a priest in Chicago; they were fighting against the Roman Catholic Church. Charles Chiniquy learned of Abe Lincoln, a very loyal and upright lawyer in Illinois. Chiniquy sent Lincoln a wire asking for his services and within twenty minutes of Chiniquy’s wire, he got a reply that said, “Yes, I will defend your life and your honor at the next May term of the Court at Urbana. Signed A. Lincoln.”

Chiniquy relates, The time arrived when the Sheriff of Kankakee had to drag me again as a criminal and a prisoner to Urbana, and deliver me into the hands of the sheriff of that city. I arrived there on the 20th of October with my lawyers, Messrs. Osgood and Paddock, and a dozen witnesses. Mr. Abraham Lincoln had preceded me only by a few minutes from Springfield. — Charles Chiniquy, Fifty Years in the Church of Rome, Chick Publications, p. 273.

When Charles Chiniquy was defended by Abraham Lincoln, we read, He then went on and depicted the career of Father Chiniquy, how he had been unjustly persecuted and in conclusion said, “As long as God gives me a heart to feel, a brain to think, or a hand to execute my will, I shall devote it against that power which has attempted to use the machinery of the courts to destroy the rights and character of an American citizen.” And this promise made by Abraham Lincoln in his maturer years he also kept.

— Burke McCarty, The Suppressed Truth about the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln, Arya Varta Publishing, p. 41.

345 Lincoln realized that Chiniquy had been unjustly accused. The night before Chiniquy was to be condemned to prison for a crime he did not commit, an eye witness, who had overheard the plot to destroy Chiniquy, came forward and he was saved.

Abraham Lincoln made a lot of enemies as a result of the Chiniquy trial.

As they left the courtroom, Charles Chiniquy was in tears. Abraham Lincoln asked him, Father Chiniquy, what are you crying for? “Dear Mr. Lincoln,” I answered, “allow me to tell you that the joy I should naturally feel for such a victory is destroyed in my mind by the fear of what it may cost you. There were in the court not less than ten or twelve Jesuits from Chicago and St. Louis, who came to hear my sentence of condemnation to the penitentiary……What troubles my soul just now and draws my tears, is that it seems to me that I have read your sentence of death in their fiendish eyes. How many other noble victims have already fallen at their feet!” — Charles Chiniquy, Fifty Years in the Church of Rome, p. 280, 281.

Chiniquy, “Fifty Years in the Church of Rome,” chapter 60, quotes ‘President Abraham Lincoln’ as follows: Abraham Lincoln said to Charles Chiniquy, There is a fact which is too much ignored by the American people, and with which I am acquainted only since I became President; it is that the best, the leading families of the South have received their education in great part, if not in whole, from the Jesuits and the nuns. Hence those degrading principles of slavery, pride, cruelty, which are as a second nature among so many of those people. Hence that strange want of fair play, humanity; that implacable hatred against the ideas of equality and liberty as we find them in the Gospel of Christ. You do not ignore that the first settlers of Louisiana, Florida, New Mexico, Texas, South California and Missouri were Roman Catholics, and that their first teachers were Jesuits. It is true that those states have been conquered or bought by us since. But Rome had put the deadly virus of her antisocial and antiChristian maxims into the veins of the people before they became American citizens. Unfortunately, the Jesuits and the nuns have in great part remained the teachers of those people since. They have continued in a

silent, but most efficacious way, to spread their hatred against our institutions, our laws, our schools, our rights and our liberties in such a way that this terrible conflict became unavoidable between the North and the South. As I told you before, it is to Popery that we owe this terrible civil war.�

I will be forever grateful for the warning words you have addressed to me about the dangers ahead to my life, from Rome. I know they are not imaginary dangers. If I were fighting against a Protestant South, as a nation, there would be no danger of assassination. The nations who read the Bible fight bravely on the battlefield, but they do not assassinate their enemies. The pope and the Jesuits, with their infernal inquisition, are the only organized powers in the world which have recourse to the dagger of the assassin to murder those who they cannot convince with their arguments or conquer with the sword.

Unfortunately, I feel more and more every day that it is not against the Americans of the South, alone, I am fighting, it is more against the pope of Rome, his perfidious Jesuits and their blind and bloodthirsty slaves. As long as they hope to conquer the North, they will spare me; but the day we route their armies, take their cities and force them to submit, then, it is my impression that the Jesuits, who are the principal rulers of the South, will do what they have almost invariably done in the past. The dagger or the pistol will do what the strong hands of the warriors could not achieve.

This civil war seems to be nothing but a political affair to those who do not see, as I do, the secret springs of that terrible drama. But it is more a religious than a civil war. It is Rome who wants to rule and degrade the North, as she has ruled and degraded the South, from the very day of its discovery. There are only very few of the Southern leaders who are not more or less under the influence of the Jesuits through their wives, family relations, and their friends. Several members of the family of Jeff Davis belong to the Church of Rome....

But it is very certain that if the American people could learn what I know of the fierce hatred of the priests of Rome against our institutions, our schools, our most sacred rights, and our so dearly bought liberties, they would drive them away tomorrow from among us, or they would shoot them as traitors. But you are the only one to whom I reveal these sad secrets for I know that you learned them before me. The history of these last thousand years tells us that wherever the Church of Rome is not a

347 dagger to pierce the bosom of a free nation, she is a stone to her neck, to paralyze her, and prevent her advance in the ways of civilization, science, intelligence, happiness and liberty.” (pg. 294,295) “The common people see and hear the big, noisy wheels of the Southern Confederacy's cars; they call they Jeff Davis, Lee, Toombs, Beauregard, Semmes, ect., and they honestly think that they are the motive power, the first cause of our troubles. But this is a mistake. The true motive power is secreted behind the thick walls of the Vatican, the colleges and schools of the Jesuits, the convents of the nuns, and the confessional boxes of Rome.

(Pg. 305) In the trial of John Surratt, a French minister by the name of Rufus King stated this: “I believe that he [John Surratt] is protected by the clergy and that the murder is the result of a deep-laid plot, not only against the life of President Lincoln, but against the existence of this republic, as we are aware that the priesthood and royalty are and always have been opposed to liberty.” — Burke McCarty, The Suppressed Truth About the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln, Arya Varta Publishing, p. 185.

“Avro Manhattan, world authority on Vatican politics, has blown the cover on the real reason our boys suffered and died in Vietnam. He traces their death to the Vatican’s passionate desire to make Asia Roman Catholic. Vatican agents hatched and plotted the Vietnam War. American soldiers were serving the Vatican in their desperate struggle to survive the jungles, the hell of warfare, pain, death and destruction. It was all engineered by…her Jesuits.” - (Avro Manhattan, Vietnam: Why Did We Go?, Chick Publications, 1984, p. 3) "For we are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies primarily on covert means for expanding its sphere of influence--on infiltration instead of invasion, on subversion instead of elections, on intimidation instead of free choice, on guerrillas by night instead of armies by day. It is a system which has conscripted vast human and material resources into the building of a tightly knit, highly efficient machine that combines military, diplomatic, intelligence, economic, scientific and political operations. Its preparations are concealed, not published. Its mistakes are buried not headlined. Its dissenters are silenced, not praised. No expenditure is questioned, no rumor is printed,

no secret is revealed." - John F. Kennedy's secret society speech on April 27, 1961 When Kennedy called for a return of America’s currency to the gold standard, and the dismantling of the Federal Reserve System — he actually minted non-debt money that does not bear the mark of the Federal Reserve; when he dared to actually exercise the leadership authority granted to him by the U.S. Constitution…Kennedy prepared his own death warrant. It was time for him to go. — Colonel James Gritz, Called to Serve: Profiles in Conspiracy from John F. Kennedy to George Bush, Lazarus Publishing, pp 511, 512.

"There exists in this country a plot to enslave every man woman and child. Before I leave this high and noble office, I intend to expose this plot."-President John F. Kennedy -7 days before he was assassinated.

(The source is from him to another and cannot be found yet written.)

The following quotation is from a web site: “'Father' Petar Oajic, in the publication organ of the Archbishop of Sarajevo, Katolicki Tjednik, No.35, August 31, I941 has these 'Catholic' words to say from the place of power … : Until now God spoke through papal encyclicals, numerous sermons, catechisms, the Christian Press, through missions, through the heroic examples of the saints, and so on ... And ? They closed their ears. They were deaf. Now God has decided to use other methods. He will prepare missions. European missions. World missions. They will be upheld, not by priests, but by army commanders, led by Hitler. The sermons will be heard with the help of cannons, machine guns, tanks and bombers. The language of these sermons will be international. No one will be able to complain that he did not understand it, because all people know very well what death is, and what wounds, disease, hunger, fear, slavery and poverty are.

The archbishop was not dismissed, his words condemned as heresy; it was not secret; it was read; meant to be read. Its language was soon to be followed in fact by the deeds of its doctrine.” In fact, these examples are not exceptional, but typical:

349 Wars.-Probably at the tribunal where Christian morals and philanthropy preside and arbitrate, to no charge is the system of Popery more exposed, and to no condemnation more equitably doomed, than that of having been the chief cause and the primary instigator of all those pestiferous wars which, during the last thousand years, have filled the European kingdoms and their dependencies with confusion, famine, slaughter, and all diversified wickedness. This attribute of the Roman court has been exemplified in a series of acts, the record of which is too lamentably true to be disputed. -- Bourne, George, The American Textbook of Popery, Griffith & Simon, Philadelphia, 1846, pp. 400-401.

Considering all wars instigated by the Papacy in the Middle Ages and at other times, the total number of victims would be large indeed. Adding these victims to those killed in persecutions and those who died in convents would result in an enormous total.

The Catholic crusade against the Albigenses in Southern France (from 1209-1229), under Popes Innocent III., Honorius III. and Gregory IX., was one of the bloodiest tragedies in human history. ‌ The number of Albigenses that perished in the twenty years’ war is estimated at from one to two millions. -- Cushing B. Hassell, History of the Church of God, Chapter XIV. W. E. H. Lecky says: "That the Church of Rome has shed more innocent blood than any other institution that has ever existed among mankind, will be questioned by no Protestant who has a competent knowledge of history. The memorials, indeed, of many of her persecutions are now so scanty, that it is impossible to form a complete conception of the multitude of her victims, and it is quite certain that no power of imagination can adequately realize their sufferings." -- "History of the Rise and Influence of the Spirit of Rationalism in Europe," Vol. II, p. 32. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1910.

The following quotation is from The Glorious Reformation by S. S. SCHMUCKER, D. D., Discourse in Commemoration of the Glorious Reformation of the Sixteenth Century; delivered before the Evangelical Lutheran Synod of West Pennsylvania, by the Rev. S. S. Schmucker,

D.D., Professor of Theology in the Theological Seminary at Gettysburg.

Published by Gould and Newman. 1838.

Need I speak to you of the thirty years’ war in Germany, which was mainly instigated by the Jesuits, in order to deprive the Protestants of the right of free religious worship, secured to them by the treaty of Augsburg?

Or of the Irish rebellion, of the inhuman butchery of about fifteen millions of Indians in South America, Mexico and Cuba, by the Spanish papists?

In short, it is calculated by authentic historians, that papal Rome has shed the blood of sixty-eight millions of the human race in order to establish her unfounded claims to religious dominion (citing Dr. Brownlee’s “Popery an enemy to civil liberty”, p. 105).

This was the century of the last religious wars in “Christendom,” the Thirty Years’ War in Germany, fomented by the Jesuits, reducing the people to cannibalism, and the population of Bohemia from 4,000,000 to 780,000, and of Germany from 20,000,000 to 7,000,000, and making Southern Germany almost a desert, ... -- Cushing B. Hassell, History of the Church of God, Chapter XVII. In addition to the Jesuit or Catholic atrocities of this century already enumerated with some particulars, they massacred 400 Protestants at Grossoto, in Lombardy, July 19th, 1620; are said to have destroyed 400,000 Protestants in Ireland, in 1641, by outright murder, and cold, and hunger, and drowning; … -- Cushing B. Hassell, History of the Church of God, Chapter XVII.

The figure of 68 million appeared in Schmucker’s talk in 1838, in Brownlee’s book of 1836, and also in a book “Plea for the West” by Lyman Beecher (Cincinnati, Truman and Smith, 1835), pp. 130-131:

And let me ask again, whether the Catholic religion, in its union with the state, has proved itself so unambitious, meek, and unaspiring so feeble, and easy to be entreated, as to justify-a proud, contempt of its avowed purpose and systematic movements to secure an ascendancy in this nation? It is accidental that in alliance with despotic governments, it has swayed a sceptre of iron, for ten centuries over nearly one-third of; the

351 population of, the globe, and by a death of violence is estimated to have swept from 'the' earth about sixty-eight millions of its inhabitants, and holds now in darkness and bondage nearly half the civilized world?

The exact quote of Brownlee referenced above is as follows: In one word, the church of Rome has spent immense treasures and shed, in murder, the blood of sixty eight millions and five hundred thousand of the human race, to establish before the astonished and disgusted world, her fixed determination to annihilate every claim set up by the human family to liberty, and the right of unbounded freedom of conscience.

-- Popery an enemy to civil liberty, 1836, pp. 104-105.

There perished under pope Julian 200,000 Christians: and by the French massacre, on a moderate calculation, in 3 months, 100,000. Of the Waldenses there perished 150,000; of the Albigenses, 150,000. There perished by the Jesuits in 30 years only 900,000. The Duke of Alva destroyed by the common hangman alone, 36,000 persons; the amount murdered by him is set down by Grotius at 100,000! There perished by the fire, and tortures of the Inquisition in Spain, Italy, and France 150,000. … In the Irish massacres there perished 150,000 Protestants!

To sum up the whole, the Roman Catholic church has caused the ruin, and destruction of a million and a half of Moors in Spain; nearly two millions of Jews South America in Europe. In Mexico, and , including the islands of Cuba and St. Domingo, fifteen millions of Indians, in 40 years, fell victims to popery. And in Europe, and the East Indies, and in America, 50 millions of Protestants, at least, have been murdered by it!

Thus the church of Rome stands before the world, “the woman in scarlet, on the scarlet colored Beast.” A church claiming to be Christian, drenched in the blood of sixty-eight millions, and five hundred thousand human beings! -- W. C. Brownlee, Letters in the Roman Catholic controversy, 1834, pp. 347-348.

This great antichristian power robbed the church of its gospel light and plunged the world into the Dark Ages. It put to death and thus took away

the lives of from fifty to one hundred millions of the saints of the Most High...

One thousand years covers the crest of the persecutions when from 50,000,000 to 150,000,000 martyrs died of the sword, at the stake, in dungeons, and of starvation because of the confiscation of their earthly possessions. -- Bunch, Taylor, The Book of Daniel, 1950, p. 170,185.

Treasonable plots, conspiracies, insurrections, and rebellions, were formed, promoted, executed, and by pretended pleas of religion were justified, delighted in, and eulogized. Those infernal proceedings were blasphemously ascribed to the inspiration of God...the votaries of the Romish Priesthood, who are divested of every sentiment of religion, virtue, or humanity. The absolute duty of assassinating Protestant rulers, especially after sentence has been pronounced against them by the Pope, is constantly taught. -- Bourne, George, The American Textbook of Popery, Griffith & Simon, Philadelphia, 1846, pp. 410-412.

The persecutions were not at all limited to the Inquisition, but took many forms. Many of the victims were killed secretly and never brought to trial or sentenced. These deaths would never have appeared in the official records of the Inquisition. Such persecutions even continued until very recent times, as illustrated by the following quotation from W. C. Brownlee, Popery the Enemy of Civil and Religious Liberty, J. S. Taylor, New York, 1836, page 124: Listen, I beseech you, to your fellow-citizens, who have returned from their travels in Italy, Austria, and Naples, or South America. In these lands the drawn sword of papal myrmidons is put to the throats of every public speaker, and editor, and author! One unpopish idea,--one single charge against despotism,--one word in praise of liberty,-one innuendo against priestcraft‌ The dungeon cells, placed by papal care, at the bishop's service, in each cathedral; and the cells of the inquisition, and the agonies, and moanings, and shrieks of the oppressed, breathed only on the ear of heaven, these are the overwhelming proofs of popery's deadly hostility to the freedom of speech, and the press!

This description of persecution derives from the testimony of many travelers to Catholic countries at that time. If such persecution took place in the early nineteenth century, how much more must it have occurred in the Middle Ages when the Papacy was at the height of its power! For

353 example, M’Crie relates (The Reformation in Spain, pp. 181-188) how a Spaniard in the year 1546 converted to Protestantism and was in consequence killed by his brother, who never was punished for his deed.

There must have been many such assassinations in the Middle Ages by loyal Catholics who were jealous for the reputation of the Virgin Mary.

In fact, threats and persecution even took place in the United States, according to Brownlee, pp. 210-211: Who have their dungeon cells under their cathedrals, in which they claim, as inquisitors of their own diocese, to imprison free men in our republic?

Foreign popish bishops! And the facts respecting a man being so confined and scourged, in the cells at Baltimore, until he recanted, have been published, and not to this day contradicted! ... Who are in the habit of uttering ferocious threats "to assassinate and burn up" those Protestants who successfully oppose Romanism? The foreign papists! I have in my possession the evidence of no less than six such inhuman threatenings against myself.

Even as recently as the mid twentieth century, dissenters from Catholicism were in danger, according to the following quotations: But to even bring things closer home; an acquaintance told me of a recent conversation between a Protestant relative of hers and a Roman Catholic.

The Catholic said, "I would like to see the blood of Protestants flow down the streets of this city." The Protestant was rightly surprised and said, "How can you say that, we are friends and you know that I am a Protestant?" The Catholic responded, "Yes, I know, but the greater the sacrifice, the greater the reward." Since they teach Catholics from childhood on, that to kill a Protestant is to do God a service, we had better be careful how we put Catholics in public office [but note that such teaching does not appear to be continued today, and also other quotations show that many Catholics oppose such persecution].

While I was in Ohio recently, I was told the same story by two people at different times, of a pastor who has a Christian broadcast. The pastor responded that surely the Catholic Church would not be guilty of such an unchristian act. The answer came that the Catholic Church was too "holy" to shed blood, but they had their agents who would. Mark you, what an outrage on human intelligence, to leave the impression that the instigators

of bloodshed are innocent. This is a perfect example how they do their nefarious acts, whether to individuals or nations, and manage to keep hidden from the public.-- Peterson, 1960, pp. 50-51. *While travelling on a train in Spain I talked with quite a number of Spanish Catholics, and some of them in hushed voices said, while armed soldiers were passing to and fro outside our compartment door, "I am a Catholic, but I do not agree with the way the priests are persecuting the Protestants." You hear such statements in all Catholic countries. Six months ago, in Brazil, a fanatical mob led by a priest destroyed a Baptist and a Presbyterian Church. It got out into the papers there, and honest Catholics all over the land raised their voices against such barbarity. The same is true of the priestly murders of Christians in Colombia. But Rome does not mind, nor is she checked by mere protests.-- "The Rise and Fall of the Roman Catholic Church" by F. Paul Peterson, published privately, 1959, page 21.

A pastor in Britain, who had been a missionary in Lebanon, told me the following story: A young man had visited America when World War II had broken out, and remained there until the war was over. He then returned to Lebanon enquiring about his relatives. He was told that only a cousin remained and she had entered a Convent. He went there and saw her and they decided to be married, which is lawful in Lebanon. They spoke to the Superior about it and it was agreed that he should come back the next day to take her away. When he came back the Superior said that she had already given him the girl. He responded, "Why no, you did not give me the girl." The Superior insisted and called two nuns and asked them if it was not true that they had given him the girl, and they bore testimony to the statement. His first thought was to notify the police, but then he realised that he would have to give an account as to what had been done with the girl, since there were testimonies against him. But murder will out. Next door to the Convent lived an old couple. The man was not feeling well, and he asked his wife to make him some tea from the lemon blossoms of a tree which they had in their back yard. The wife climbed the tree, picked the blossoms, when she noticed that over the high wall the nuns were digging a large hole in the ground. She told her husband of the strange incident, who accused her of being mad to say that at night the nuns were digging a large hole in the ground. But he went out and verified the fact. They reported the incident to the police, who were directed to the spot, and excavation was made and the girl was found. She had been

355 poisoned. The Convent was made into a Government institution, and the nuns were judged according to the law. A large book could be written over modern occurrences of this type. Rome never changes.-- Peterson, 1959, pp. 44-45.

A British Consul in Yugoslavia told the following incident to a good friend of mine, which happened in the early days of Marshall Tito. There was a boys' school run by priests and, not far away, was a small village made up of Protestants. One day the priests told the boys that the Protestants should be killed and, together with the priests, the horrible massacre was carried out. Tito, hearing of this, sent his troops and killed every priest and boy in the school. -- Peterson, 1959, p 50.

Just recently I was in various cities in Eire (Southern Ireland), and while travelling there I spoke to over 15 priests about salvation through Christ. I realized I was treading on dangerous ground, but one Irishman seemed to realize it more than I did. I was in a compartment in a train with about sixteen people, one of whom was a priest. I gave him a good testimony, telling him of my experience of conversion. I had just asked him about his own experiences with God (which is quite an embarrassing question), when the Irishman next to him entered into the talk, but quickly steered the conversation to other matters. Later, when we had to change trains, this Irishman came to me and apologized for the way he had changed the subject. But he asked me, "Didn't you know that man was a priest ? "I replied that I knew that. He then said, "You were in danger, for this is Southern Ireland." -- Peterson, 1959, p. 111.

The Thirty Years War had started as a Religious War; it ended as a Political War; it resulted in the deaths of 10,000,000 to 20,000,000. Jesuit educated Ferdinand II started it with the purpose of crushing Protestantism.

Halley, Henry H., Pocket Bible Handbook, Chicago, 13th edition, 1939, p.

418. (The thirty year war in Bohemia and Germany, 1618-1648) “the king [of France] publically declared he would exterminate the protestants from France….” “The general cry was ‘Turn papists, or die.’

“Those who were not put to death suffered imprisonment, had their houses pulled down, their lands laid waste, their property stolen, and their

wives and daughters, after being ravished, sent into convents…. If any fled from these cruelties, they were pursued through the woods, hunted and shot like wild beasts....At the head of the dragoons, in all the provinces of France, marched the bishops, priests, friars, &c. the clergy being ordered to keep up the cruel spirit of the military. An order was published for demolishing all protestant churches….” [pp. 108-109] [Southwell, Henry, The new book of martyrs; or complete Christian martyrology.] Containing an authentic and genuine historical account of the many dreadful persecutions against the Church of Christ, in all parts of the world, ... Imprint London : printed for J. Cooke, [1765?]

W. C. Brownlee, Popery the Enemy of Civil and Religious Liberty, J. S. Taylor, New York, 1836, p. 102: The following is from the Jesuit Confession of Faith imposed on papists in Hungary, published in German, at Berlin, 1829 ; and translated in The London Protestant Journal of 1831. "We also swear, that we will persecute this cursed evangelical doctrine, as long as we have a drop of blood in our bodies; and. we will eradicate it secretly and publicly; violently and deceitfully, with words, and with deeds; the sword not excluded." Land.

Prot. Jour. p. 210.

Speaking of Germany and Austria after 1620, Newman [p. 388] writes, Within a few years Protestantism had been almost completely exterminated throughout the Hapsburg domains, multitudes having been slaughtered, and the rest banished or forcibly converted. The Jesuits were the instigators and the chief agents in this horrible work.

Concerning Belgium, Newman [p.388] writes, In Belgium the Counter-Reformation was carried forward under Jesuit influence with remarkable rapidity…. Half the population had been Protestant. Within a few years it became exclusively Catholic.

Lest anyone think that these people were fleeing to other countries, it is important to recall that the objective of the Jesuits was to eliminate Protestants and not to push them from one country to another. Thus the

357 Jesuits would have attempted by every means to prevent their escape. In support of this, Halley [pp. 780-781] writes, “In Spain, Netherlands, South Germany, Bohemia, Austria, Poland, and other countries, they [the Jesuits] led in the Massacre of Untold Multitudes. By these methods they Stopped the Reformation in Southern Europe and virtually saved the Papacy from ruin.” Also, Halley [p. 790] writes, In Bohemia, by 1600, in a population of 4,000,000, 80 per cent were Protestant. When the Hapsburgs and Jesuits had done their work, 800,000 were left, all Catholics.

In some places they shut up the people in the church, and forced them to receive in one kind, and if they would not kneel before the host, they used to beat their legs with clubs till they fell down; others they gagged, and when they had propped their mouths wide open, they thrust the host down their throats. Others were detained in prisons and bonds so long till they died, and particularly one was kept in a loathsome dungeon so long till his feet rotted off. If any, to avoid this tyrrany, fled to the woods or other private places for shelter, edicts were published forbidding all to entertain them, upon pain of forfeiting great sums of money for every night’s entertainment. The country people were fetched out of their houses; nay, out of their very beds, by troops of soldiers, who drove them before them like beasts in the sharpest of cold and bitter weather. And with these poor creatures they filled the common prisons, towers, cellars, stables; nay, and hog-sties too, where they were killed with hunger, cold, and thirst.

Marriage, burial and baptism were forbidden to the Protestants, and if they did it privately, they were imprisoned, or else put to great fines. … In some places the heretics were shut up in privies, to the end that they might be poisoned with the stench. And these were the charitable ways, by which the Bohemian Catholics endeavored to reclaim such as were revolted from the tyrrany of the Pope. [The true spirit of popery, or, The treachery and cruelty of the Papists exercis’d against the Protestants …, London : Printed for Richard Baldwin ..., 1688, pp. 17-18] Also, speaking of Rome, “not content with petty cruelties, but still clearing her way to absolute dominion, by general massacres, entire desolations, and utter extirpations.” [The true spirit of popery, or, The treachery and cruelty of the Papists exercis’d against the Protestants …, London : Printed for Richard Baldwin ..., 1688, p.3]

After describing the persecutions in Germany in the Thirty Years’ War, R.B. states [R.B., The scarlet whore, or, the wicked abominations, horrid cruelties and persecutions of the Pope and Church of Rome …, Macnair, Glasgow, 1779, p. 41] “the same cruelties were also committed in the kingdom of Hungary and in other countries ….” Concerning Poland, “In lower Poland … In the year 1654 the papists put to death all the Protestants they could find by most exquisite tortures” [R.B, op. cit., p.

42].

When the papal government was temporarily suspended in 1849 by the Roman Republic, the Inquisition was found in active operation, and it was restored the moment the Pope returned to Rome. The various horrors of the place,--its iron rings, its subterranean cells, its skeletons built up in the wall, its trap-doors, its kiln for burning bodies, with parts of humanity remaining still unconsumed,--were all exposed at the time. These partial disclosures may convince us, perhaps, that it is better that the veil which conceals the full horrors of the Inquisition should remain unlifted till that day when the graves shall give up their dead.

Wylie, op. cit.

Also, Berg [Lectures on Romanism, p. 258] writes, When the inquisition was thrown open in 1820, by order of the Cortes of Madrid, of the twenty one prisoners who were found in it, not one of whom knew the name of the city in which he was, some had been confined three years, some a longer period, and not one knew perfectly the nature of the crime of which he was accused.

One of these prisoners had been condemned, and was to have suffered the following day. His punishment was to be death by the pendulum. here is the testimony of one of the victims: Before we let fall the curtain upon this awful subject, let us listen for a moment to some of the words of William Lithgow, a Scotsman, who suffered the tortures of the Inquisition in the time of James I. After telling of the diabolical treatment he received, which was very similar to that I have just described, he says, “Now mine eyes did begin to startle, my mouth to foam and froth, and my teeth to chatter like the dobbling of drumsticks. Oh, strange, inhuman, monster man-manglers!. . And

359 notwithstanding of my shivering lips in this fiery passion, my vehement groaning, and blood springing from my arms, my broken sinews, yea, and my depending weight on flesh-cutting cords, yet they struck me on the face with cudgels to abate and cease the thundering noise of my wrestling voice. At last, being released from these pinnacles of pain, I was handfast set on the floor with this their ceaseless imploration: ‘Confess, confess, confess in time, or thine inevitable torments ensue.’ Where, finding nothing from me but still innocent, — Oh! I am innocent. O Jesus, the Lamb of God, have mercy on me, and strengthen me with patience to undergo this barbarous murder — ’” Enough! Here let the curtain drop. I should sicken you were I to pursue the subject further; it is too horrible, too damnable.

-- Romanism and the Reformation by H. Grattan Guinness, lectures, London, England, 1887, Lecture 4 pp. 103-104.

There is indirect evidence that many were killed by the Papacy: However the Pope had his own inquisition at Rome. He ruled what is known as the Papal States of Central Italy directly from 756 to 1870. So the responsibility for the persecution and destruction of "heretics" in that region rested with him. When he was finally deprived of these states in 1870 it was thrown open to the inspection of the public. Letters appeared in the London Daily News at the time. The Daily News correspondent himself, visited Rome only to discover the grim truth of those horrors imposed by the Papal authorities. He reports to have seen skeletons and human remains in huge underground vaults, as they were removing masses of decayed and stinking animal matter. Attached to some of this decaying flesh, he saw silken hair clearly identifiable as human. He reports to have been thoroughly sickened by the sight. A report of his newspaper article was given by Robert Roberts of Birmingham in 1893 in the course of four town hall lectures.

This information comes from a Christadelphian web site. The lectures were given Sunday February 12 through Sunday March 12, 1893 in the town hall of Birmingham, England, and entitled “Christ in the Earth Again.” The above quotation is from the fourth lecture. I received the following message by email concerning the above quotation:

The information that you have queried came from the fourth of a series of Town Hall Lectures given by Robert Roberts of Birmingham. He was the editor of the Christadelphian magazine at the time, and contemporary with the events he relayed in his lecture. They were from reports in the London Daily News by a correspondent who was an eyewitness of what he reported to have seen in the vaults under the Vatican.

The Christadelphian Editor, Michael Ashton, currently has a copy of those lectures given and edited by Robert Roberts himself, in his Birmingham office. They have been preserved there, and were also published in a booklet form in Australia when Robert Roberts himself was residing in Australia and was able to authenticate the contents of the booklet, entitled “The Town Hall Lectures.�

A similar account is given in an http://www.ianpaisley.org/main.asp:

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The discoveries made by the armies of the First Napoleon on taking Karne and opening the Inquisition are well known, but the abomination was restored. The revolution at Rome in 1819 was the means of opening the Inquisition there, to the gaze of an astonished world. For the accommodation of the military it was intended to modify one of the convents, and in the course of the work human bones were found, and a trap-door discovered.

This led to excavations being made, and further discoveries of human bones. Digging deeper still the workmen lighted upon a vault, where a great number of human skeletons were found; some of them so close together and so amalgamated with lime, that no bone could be moved without being broken.

In another vault was found a vast quantity of black rich earth, mixed with pieces of decayed animal matter, and human hair of such length as to lead to the belief that it belonged to women rather than to men. From the manner in which the skeletons found in the vaults were placed, it was evident that they must have been deposited there since the erection of the edifice, which was within a period of less than twenty-four years.

The bones of such a multitude of human beings, supplies volumes touching the doings of the so-called Holy Office. The full history of the

361 dread place, however, will not be known till the day which will reveal the hidden things of dishonesty.

Another evidence of massive persecution is a statement made by Colonel Lehmanowsky who had served in Napoleon’s army sent to Spain under the command of Marshal Soult. This statement was included in History of the Old Albigenses, by Jean Paul Perrin with additions written in the 1840s, 1991 edition, Ages Digital Library, Book 3, pp. 311ff. Col Lehmanowsky commanded three regiments of soldiers who took part in the destruction of a secret prison of the Inquisition at Madrid, Spain in 1809. Here is a portion of the account: From this room we proceeded to the right, and obtained access to small cells, extending the entire length of the edifice; and here such sights were presented as he hoped never to see again. Those cells were places of solitary confinement, where the wretched objects of inquisitorial hate were confined year after year, till death released them from their sufferings, and there their bodies were suffered to remain until they were entirely decayed, and the rooms had become fit for others to occupy. To prevent this being offensive to those who occupied the inquisition, there were flues or tubes extending to the open air, sufficiently capacious to carry off the odor. In these cells we found the remains of some who had paid the debt of nature; some of them had been dead apparently but a short time, while of others nothing remained but their bones, still chained to the floor of their dungeon.

In other cells, we found living sufferers of both sexes — and of every age, from three-score years and ten down to fourteen or fifteen years — all naked as when born into the world! and all in chains! Here were old men and aged women, who had been shut up for many years! Here too were the middle aged, and the young man and the maiden of fourteen years old.

A historian of Napoleon’s wars, describing the capture of Toledo, Spain

by Napoleon’s army, discussed the opening of another Inquisition prison: When the French took Toledo, and broke open the Inquisition prison there, we read, "Graves seemed to open, and pale figures like ghosts issued from dungeons which emitted a sepulchral odour. Bushy beards hanging down over the breast, and nails grown like birds claws, disfigured the skeletons, who with labouring bosoms inhaled, for the first time for a

long series of years, the fresh air. Many of them were reduced to cripples, the head inclined forward, and the arms and hands hanging down, rigid and helpless: they had been confined in dens so low they could not rise up in them: . . . in spite of all the care of the surgeons, many of them expired the same day. The light of the sun made a particularly painful impression on the optic nerve. . . . On the following day General Lasalle minutely inspected the place, attended by several officers of his staff. The number of machines for torture thrilled even men inured to the battle-field with horror; only one of these, unique in its kind for refined cruelty, seems deserving of more particular notice.

"In a recess in a subterraneous vault, contiguous to the private ball for examinations, stood a wooden figure, made by the hands of monks, and representing the Virgin Mary. A gilded glory encompassed her head, and in her right hand she held a banner. It struck us all, at first sight, as suspicious, that, notwithstanding the silken robe, descending on each side in ample folds from her shoulders, she should wear a sort of cuirass. On closer scrutiny, it appeared that the fore part of the body was stuck full of extremely sharp nails and small narrow knife-blades, with the points of both turned towards the spectator. The arms and hands were jointed; and machinery behind the partition set the figure in motion. One of the servants of the Inquisition was compelled, by command of the General, to work the machine, as he termed it. When the figure extended her arms, as though to press some one most lovingly to her heart, the well-filled knapsack of a Polish grenadier was made to supply the place of a living victim. The statue hugged it closer and closer; and when the attendant, agreeably to orders, made the figure unclasp her arms and return to her former position, the knapsack was perforated to the depth of two or three inches, and remained hanging on the points of the nails and knife-blades.

To such an infernal purpose, and in a building erected in honour of the true faith, was the Madonna rendered subservient!" [Thiers & Bowen, THE CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON, cited by H. Grattan Guinness, The Approaching End Of The Age (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1878), 205-207] Another such account is given by Roth, who as explained on a web site, “records the opening of the Office in Lisbon before it was made into the Opera House. The accounts from eyewitnesses (printed in the Annual Register of 1821) show beyond doubt, that there were human remains found in the dungeons, which were in use (from an inscription on a

363 dungeon wall) as late as 1809. These included monks whose garments were found among the human and other remains lying in the tiers of dungeons and among the evidence of murder both old and recent, committed there” (Cecil Roth, The Spanish Inquisition, Robert Hale Ltd, London, 1937, pp. 84-85). Though somewhat suspicious of this account, Roth states “In the main, nevertheless, the picture is probably as reliable as it is vivid” (page 86).

There were even then sixteen convents, but now there are over four hundred of these barred and bolted and impenetrable prisons, in which fifteen thousand Englishwomen are kept prisoners at the mercy of a celibate clergy, who have power, unless their behests are obeyed, to inflict on these hapless and helpless victims torture under the name of penance.

-- Romanism and the Reformation by H. Grattan Guinness, lectures, London, England, 1887. Lecture 1, page 14.

Rome has, on the other hand, persecuted on principle, and steadily from the seventh century right on to the French Revolution and to some extent almost to the present time. She does so still in the secret recesses of her nunneries and monasteries, under the name of penance. Why else does she require shops for the sale of instruments of bodily torture, such as exist this day in London? -- Guinness, Lecture 2, pp. 41-42.

St. Ligori himself asserts a fact which, as Mr. Smith justly observes, strongly corroborates the Revelations of Maria Monk; namely, that refractory, incorrigible nuns are punished by imprisonment for life. "A nun (says he) who is guilty of a grievous or pernicious crime, and who appears to be notoriously incorrigible is to be confined in perpetual imprisonment." But they are not expelled as some monks are. The reason is obvious. Nuns, if expelled, would reveal the licentious and brutal treatment they have received from the priests, whilst the latter would be careful not to inform on themselves. Smith’s Synopsis of Ligori’s Moral Theology, p. 231, 232. Now let it be remembered, that the writings of Ligori were approved by Pope Pius VII. and by the Sacred Congregation of Rites so late as 1816: and that, as Dr. Varela, the priest of New York asserted three years ago, are in the hands of almost every priest, and therefore also of those at Montreal; and there will be nothing incredible in

the following narrative of Maria Monk. …

Reformation, page 17.

-- Schmucker, Glorious

The position of the cloistered nuns, those committed to certain convents for life, is quite different from that of the regular nuns.

Cardinal Peter D'Ailly said he dared not describe the immorality of the nunneries, and that 'taking the veil' was simply another mode of becoming a public prostitute. (Henry Charles Lea, A History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages, vol. 3, 1888, pp. 629-631.) (Priests are not allowed to marry)

Convents were banned in Mexico in 1857, but one, the Convento de Santa Monica, continued to operate secretly until it was discovered in 1934 and abolished. It is now a museum. A web site of a homosexual order of hospitaler Friars contains the following statement: The sexual-orientation and/or inclination of the priesthood has been scandalous and so very damaging for a very long time. With the rest of the world, we shamefacedly have to look at the "lime-pits" that academic archeology has unearthed close to almost every convent while the "official church" feigns zero tolerance for birth-control or abortion.

In a sermon “Wisdom versus Faith,” delivered on Sunday, 1st April 1962 at the Branham Tabernacle in Jeffersonville, Indiana, U.S.A, William Branham stated, I went down there in Mexico myself and seen them lime pits … . That's what made communism spring up in Mexico. They broke up that tommyrot. That's what made communism spring up yonder.

It is hard to believe that all of these statements could result from antiCatholicism without some basis in fact. In fact, the discovery of the bodies of babies buried in a great many convents in Spain helped to lead to the Second Republic which lasted from 1931 to 1936. I received email from a person whose father was present in Spain when one of these convents was opened at this time and the bodies of babies were discovered buried inside. This person verified that the bodies of babies were found in a great number of convents, that the exposure of these convents took place

365 over a number of years, and that these exposures generated considerable hostility towards the Roman Catholic Church among the Spanish people.

Also, the graves of the babies were not marked in any way. In addition, there are many labyrinths of underground passages in Spain connecting churches, monasteries, castles, and convents and some of them are opened to the public on rare occasions. Probably many others are still alive who either recall these incidents themselves or have heard about them from their parents. Such occurrences have even been noted by historians: In the ninth century, many monasteries were the haunts of homosexuals, many convents were brothels in which babies were killed and buried.

Since the end of the Roman Empire, historians say that infanticide was probably not practiced in the West on any great scale -- except in convents. The Council of Aix-la-Chapelle in the year 836 openly admitted it. As to the sex-starved secular clergy, they were so often accused of incest that they were at length forbidden to have mothers, aunts or sisters living in their house. Children, the fruits of incest, were killed by the clergy, as many a French prelate put on record.

-- Peter de Rosa, Vicars of Christ: The Dark Side of the Papacy, pp. 566567.

Here is a particularly sad example of a nun who escaped from St. Joe’s Convent in Tipton County, Indiana and was sent back by the sheriff: Menace, Feb., 1927 Rome has won another victory, a victory which forever places a dark blot upon the history of one of the strongest Protestant counties in one of the strongest Protestant States in the Union Tipton County, Indiana.

Little Nellie Fortune, a girl of twenty years, Convent Number 096, saw a chance to escape. Although the night was bitter cold she made her way across fields, through woodlands and over streams, finally reaching a farm house a distance of five miles away, before the coming of daylight forced her to seek shelter She crept into an out-building and was found by a kindly farmer and was taken in and given food and clothing. This man was preparing to move and Nellie was taken to the home of a neighbor, Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Fuller of the Rock Prairie community. Here she was welcomed and given a home by this good Protestant family.

She related the many things which take place behind the convent walls of St. Joseph's Convent, and said she could stand the conditions there no longer and resolved to escape or die in the attempt. She had come to America from Northern Ireland, and stated that conditions in the convents here were far worse than they were in Ireland.

She was happy in her new home, telling her benefactors that "it felt good to be a Protestant." Plans had been made for her to attend church and "be a real Protestant", as she expressed it.

Life was beginning to take on a brighter aspect for poor little Nellie Fortune. She had a good home. she had freedom, and what was more, human love and companionship. But her joy was to be short lived. The unrelenting hounds of Rome were hot on the trail. At last she was located.

Sheriff Claud Louks, of Tipton, (elected on a 100 per cent ticket and sworn to defend the American home, etc.) was called and without a warrant or any authority, save the request of the church of Rome, went straightway to the home of Mr. and Mrs. Fuller and seized the pleading, crying defenseless girl, who begged for her liberty and fought with her last ounce of strength to be permitted to remain with those who had befriended her. Mr. and Mrs. Fuller also pleaded and begged but to no avail.

Nellie was dragged back to the convent of St. Joseph, to face God alone knows what.

An article written in 1886 and http://www.ianpaisley.org/main.asp web site states:

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So late as the 25th of last January, a gentleman writes to a London journal of great repute, as follows:—"In your paper of the 17th you have inserted a letter from ` C. F.,' relative to a strange occurrence, in 1829, at Charenton-sur-Marne. May I be allowed to state that your correspondent has made a mistake as to the locality? It should have been at Charentonsur-Seine, near Paris. I was engaged on the works of Messrs. Manby and Wilson, under Mr. Holroyd, the engineer of the works, when time after time large numbers of infant skeletons were discovered in all parts of the premises, which, I believe, had been, a convent of a very strict order of nuns. At first we did not take much notice of the circumstance; but when the attention of Mr. Holroyd and Mr. Armstrong was called to the singular affair, we were directed to count the remains; and from that day we

367 counted, and placed to one side, no less than 387 entire skeletons of infants. We took no account of parts of skeletons, which if they had been all put together, would have far outnumbered the entire ones which were counted. I speak far within bounds when I say that there were found not fewer than the remains of 800 children, and there was not a single bone of an adult person among them. The mayor came to the premises, and had the bones placed in boxes and privately buried in the cemetery, and orders were given to hush up the affair."

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God will bring to life again all those hurting, abused, and killed ones since sin began of whom he chooses as he is the righteous merciful perfect king and judge who has a new city for his chosen citizens, where sin will not rise a second time. When Jesus comes, he will come upon this world as it was in the days of Noah, with every type of evil.

Not all doctrine in this book is accepted by names and orginizations mentioned here in this book including my church especially on the findings of Ron Wyatt, until we all study deeper and it be revealed. God bless us in our further study and trust in His everlasting purifying Word in Jesus name ~ Your ‘Seventh-day Adventist’ Christian friend, Jerrid Rains.