LOCATING THE THREE ANGELS MESSAGES

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LOCATING THE THREE ANGELS MESSAGES
Messenger Tarisai Ziyambi
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• Opposition is the lot of all whom God employs to
  present truths specially applicable to their
  time. There was a present truth in the days of
  Luther,--a truth at that time of special
  importance there is a present truth for the
  church today. He who does all things according to
  the counsel of His will has been pleased to place
  men under various circumstances and to enjoin
  upon them duties peculiar to the times in which
  they live and the conditions under which they are
  placed. If they would prize the light given them,
  broader views of truth would be opened before
  them. But truth is no more desired by the
  majority today than it was by the papists who
  opposed Luther. There is the same disposition to
  accept the theories and traditions of men instead
  of the word of God as in former ages. Those who
  present the truth for this time should not expect
  to be received with greater favor than were
  earlier reformers. The great controversy between
  truth and error, between Christ and Satan, is to
  increase in intensity to the close of this
  world's history. GC 143.3

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• The Message, Not the Messenger. When a new view
  is presented, the question is often asked, "Who
  are its advocates? What is the position or
  influence of the one who would teach us, who have
  been students of the Bible for many years?" God
  will send His words of warning by whom He will
  send. And the question to be settled is not what
  person is it who brings the message this does
  not in any way affect the word spoken. "By their
  fruits ye shall know them."--Letter 19d, 1892,
  pp. 7, 8. (To Elder O. A. Olsen, September 1,
  1892.) 5MR 351.1

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What is an off shoot?

• How do you know for sure that you are not an off
  shoot?

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• "I am the vine, ye are the branches. He that
  abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth
  forth much fruit for without me ye can do
  nothing." Is this the test? Then is not here
  given a reason why so little is accomplished by
  so many laborers? They have not a living
  connection with Christ. The dry branch is to be
  united to the living vine, grafted into it. Fiber
  by fiber, vein by vein, the graft grows into the
  vine stock, until the life of the vine becomes
  the life of the branch, and the branch buds and
  blossoms, and matures its clusters of rich fruit.
  Jesus says to all, whatever their riches, their
  learning, their talents, their position, "Without
  me ye can do nothing." There is the soul dead in
  trespasses and sins, and how is that soul to be
  made a partaker of the divine nature?--By coming
  to Christ and connecting with him, as the dry,
  sapless branch connects with the vine, and
  thereby lives. The sinner may unite his ignorance
  to Christ's wisdom, his weakness to Christ's
  strength, his frailty to Christ's enduring might
  and in this union there is confidence, love, and
  dependence. When this union is formed, the
  principle of the law of association takes effect,
  the will is surrendered to Christ's will, and the
  sinner has the mind of Christ. The humanity in
  Christ has touched our humanity, and our humanity
  has touched divinity. Thus, through the agency of
  the Holy Spirit, man becomes a new creature in
  Christ Jesus. He then abides in Christ, living by
  every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of
  God. New and heavenly principles are received
  through mental, moral, and spiritual association
  with Christ. ST, December 21, 1891 par. 9

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• The sapless twig, grafted into the living vine,
  partakes of the same nourishment as the vine,
  and becomes a branch. The closest possible
  relation between the sinner and the Saviour is
  seen when the sinner is a doer of the Word of
  God. Then the heart, the will, the mind, are in
  close union with Christ. By faith, finite,
  feeble, helpless humanity joins its feebleness to
  His strength. Such a union--showing entire
  confidence and love--our helplessness and
  dependence demands.DG 184.7

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• The branches represent the believers in Jesus
  Christ. Those who truly believe, will do the same
  works that He did. They are united to Christ by
  the faith that works by love and purifies the
  soul. As the branch is nourished by the sap which
  flows from the parent stock, so the believer in
  Christ is sustained by the life of Christ. The
  branches represent the very youngest of the
  followers of Christ, as the branch includes all
  the tiny tendrils that belong to it. Jesus is our
  center. He is the parent stock that bears the
  branches. In Him our eternal life is centered.
  The words that He has spoken unto us are spirit
  and life, and those who feed upon his Word, and
  are doers of his Word, represent Him in
  character. His patience, meekness, humility, and
  love pervade their hearts. Jesus said, "Herein is
  my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit so
  shall ye be my disciples." If we are indeed
  grafted into the True Vine, we shall bear fruit
  similar to that of the parent stock. SW 52.2

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• The gospel of Christ was preached to the Jewish
  nation. Had they accepted its truths, it would
  have proved their salvation. Through belief in
  Christ they might have become members of the
  royal family, manifesting through the succeeding
  ages the riches of His grace. But they, as a
  nation, rejected Christ, refused His offers of
  mercy, and were cut off from the parent vine,
  that the Gentiles might be grafted in. Still it
  is their privilege to become partakers with the
  Gentiles of the salvation of God. Belief in
  Christ will work in every man a transformation of
  character. UL 309.3

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• The Three Angels' Messages.--The proclamation of
  the first, second, and third angels' messages has
  been located by the word of Inspiration. Not a
  peg or pin is to be removed. No human authority
  has any more right to change the location of
  these messages than to substitute the New
  Testament for the Old Councils to writers and
  editors p26-27

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Who are the angels?

• "I have had precious opportunities to obtain an
  experience. I have had an experience in the
  first, second, and third angels' messages. The
  angels are represented as flying in the midst of
  heaven, proclaiming to the world a message of
  warning, and having a direct bearing upon the
  people living in the last days of this earth's
  history. No one hears the voice of these angels,
  for they are a symbol to represent the people of
  God who are working in harmony with the universe
  of heaven. Men and women, enlightened by the
  Spirit of God, and sanctified through the truth,
  proclaim the three messages in their order. LS
  429.1

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• This message is declared to be a part of "the
  everlasting gospel." The work of preaching the
  gospel has not been committed to angels, but has
  been entrusted to men. Holy angels have been
  employed in directing this work, they have in
  charge the great movements for the salvation of
  men but the actual proclamation of the gospel is
  performed by the servants of Christ upon the
  earth. GC 312.1
• Faithful men, who were obedient to the
  promptings of God's Spirit and the teachings of
  His word, were to proclaim this warning to the
  world. They were those who had taken heed to the
  "sure word of prophecy," the "light that shineth
  in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the
  daystar arise." 2 Peter 119. They had been
  seeking the knowledge of God more than all hid
  treasures, counting it "better than the
  merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than
  fine gold." Proverbs 314. And the Lord revealed
  to them the great things of the kingdom. "The
  secret of the Lord is with them that fear Him
  and He will show them His covenant." Psalm 2514.
  GC 312.2

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• When God sends to men warnings so important that
  they are represented as proclaimed by holy angels
  flying in the midst of heaven, He requires every
  person endowed with reasoning powers to heed the
  message. FLB 286.8

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Misrepresentation of God

• Long had Satan sought to lead men to look upon
  their Creator as the author of sin and suffering
  and death. Those whom he had thus deceived,
  imagined that God was hard and exacting. They
  regarded Him as watching to denounce and condemn,
  unwilling to receive the sinner so long as there
  was a legal excuse for not helping him. The law
  of love by which heaven is ruled had been
  misrepresented by the archdeceiver as a
  restriction upon men's happiness, a burdensome
  yoke from which they should be glad to escape. He
  declared that its precepts could not be obeyed
  and that the penalties of transgression were
  bestowed arbitrarily. PK 311.1

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Revelation 1613-14 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.
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LOCATING WARNING MESSAGES TO JEWISH NATION

• Close of probation in AD 34 Destruction of
  Jerusalem (AD 70) (Dan 9 v 24-26)

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Darkness

• At first there was little intercourse between the
  Israelites and their heathen neighbors, but after
  a time Midianitish women began to steal into the
  camp. Their appearance excited no alarm, and so
  quietly were their plans conducted that the
  attention of Moses was not called to the matter.
  It was the object of these women, in their
  association with the Hebrews, to seduce them into
  transgression of the law of God, to draw their
  attention to heathen rites and customs, and lead
  them into idolatry. These motives were studiously
  concealed under the garb of friendship, so that
  they were not suspected, even by the guardians of
  the people. PP 454.2
• At Balaam's suggestion, a grand festival in honor
  of their gods was appointed by the king of Moab,
  and it was secretly arranged that Balaam should
  induce the Israelites to attend. He was regarded
  by them as a prophet of God, and hence had little
  difficulty in accomplishing his purpose. Great
  numbers of the people joined him in witnessing
  the festivities. They ventured upon the forbidden
  ground, and were entangled in the snare of Satan.
  Beguiled with music and dancing, and allured by
  the beauty of heathen vestals, they cast off
  their fealty to Jehovah. As they united in mirth
  and feasting, indulgence in wine beclouded their
  senses and broke down the barriers of
  self-control. Passion had full sway and having
  defiled their consciences by lewdness, they were
  persuaded to bow down to idols. They offered
  sacrifice upon heathen altars and participated in
  the most degrading rites. PP 454.3

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1st Angel Message( John The Baptist)

• Reform message, Self decreasing and Christ
  increasing, being grafted to the vine

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John The Baptist
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• The call to repentance was sounded with
  unmistakable clearness, and all were invited to
  return. "Seek ye the Lord while He may be found,"
  the prophet pleaded "call ye upon Him while He
  is near let the wicked forsake his way, and the
  unrighteous man his thoughts and let him return
  unto the Lord, and He will have mercy upon him
  and to our God, for He will abundantly pardon."
  Isaiah 556, 7. PK 319.2

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• As a prophet, John was "to turn the hearts of the
  fathers to the children, and the disobedient to
  the wisdom of the just to make ready a people
  prepared for the Lord." In preparing the way for
  Christ's first advent, he was a representative of
  those who are to prepare a people for our Lord's
  second coming. The world is given to
  self-indulgence. Errors and fables abound.
  Satan's snares for destroying souls are
  multiplied. All who would perfect holiness in the
  fear of God must learn the lessons of temperance
  and self-control. The appetites and passions must
  be held in subjection to the higher powers of the
  mind. This self-discipline is essential to that
  mental strength and spiritual insight which will
  enable us to understand and to practice the
  sacred truths of God's word. For this reason
  temperance finds its place in the work of
  preparation for Christ's second coming. DA
  101.2

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2nd Angel Message(2nd Cleansing triumphant
entry)

• Righteousness manifested, obedience brings about
  the fall of Babylon

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Christ righteousness

• Philippians 25 Let this mind be in you, which
  was also in Christ Jesus
• 26 Who, being in the form of God, thought it
  not robbery to be equal with God
• 27 But made himself of no reputation, and
  took upon him the form of a servant, and was made
  in the likeness of men
• 28 And being found in fashion as a man, he
  humbled himself, and became obedient unto death,
  even the death of the cross.

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• In every age there is given to men their day of
  light and privilege, a probationary time in which
  they may become reconciled to God. But there is a
  limit to this grace. Mercy may plead for years
  and be slighted and rejected but there comes a
  time when mercy makes her last plea. The heart
  becomes so hardened that it ceases to respond to
  the Spirit of God. Then the sweet, winning voice
  entreats the sinner no longer, and reproofs and
  warnings cease. DA 587.1That day had come to
  Jerusalem. Jesus wept in anguish over the doomed
  city, but He could not deliver her. He had
  exhausted every resource. In rejecting the
  warnings of God's Spirit, Israel had rejected the
  only means of help. There was no other power by
  which they could be delivered. DA 587.2.The
  Jewish nation was a symbol of the people of all
  ages who scorn the pleadings of Infinite Love.
  The tears of Christ when He wept over Jerusalem
  were for the sins of all time. In the judgments
  pronounced upon Israel, those who reject the
  reproofs and warnings of God's Holy Spirit, may
  read their own condemnation. DA 587.3. In this
  generation there are many who are treading on the
  same ground as were the unbelieving Jews. They
  have witnessed the manifestation of the power of
  God the Holy Spirit has spoken to their hearts
  but they cling to their unbelief and resistance.
  God sends them warnings and reproof, but they are
  not willing to confess their errors, and they
  reject His message and His messenger. The very
  means He uses for their recovery becomes to them
  a stone of stumbling. DA 587.4

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• The Pharisees built the tombs of the prophets,
  and adorned their sepulchers, and said one to
  another, If we had lived in the days of our
  fathers, we would not have united with them in
  shedding the blood of God's servants. At the same
  time they were planning to take the life of His
  Son. This should be a lesson to us. It should
  open our eyes to the power of Satan to deceive
  the mind that turns from the light of truth. Many
  follow in the track of the Pharisees. They revere
  those who have died for their faith. They wonder
  at the blindness of the Jews in rejecting Christ.
  Had we lived in His day, they declare, we would
  gladly have received His teaching we would never
  have been partakers in the guilt of those who
  rejected the Saviour. But when obedience to God
  requires self-denial and humiliation, these very
  persons stifle their convictions, and refuse
  obedience. Thus they manifest the same spirit as
  did the Pharisees whom Christ condemned. DA
  618.2

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3rd Angel Message (The Cross)

• Judgement (Christ blood fully grafts the branch
  to the Vine, bearing of fruits reveals the true
  branch from off shoots!

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Revelation 18 Angel (Pentecost leading to AD 34
AD 70)

• Unites all three messages to ripen the fruit,
  giving Glory to the Husbandman Vine. Whole
  earth feeds on these fruits and partake of divine
  nature of The Vine, those who dont suffer close
  of probation destruction

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• I was pointed back to the proclamation of the
  first advent of Christ. John was sent in the
  spirit and power of Elijah to prepare the way of
  Jesus. Those who rejected the testimony of John
  were not benefited by the teachings of Jesus.
  Their opposition to the message that foretold His
  coming placed them where they could not readily
  receive the strongest evidence that He was the
  Messiah. Satan led on those who rejected the
  message of John to go still farther, to reject
  and crucify Christ.

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• In doing this they placed themselves where they
  could not receive the blessing on the day of
  Pentecost, which would have taught them the way
  into the heavenly sanctuary. The rending of the
  veil of the temple showed that the Jewish
  sacrifices and ordinances would no longer be
  received. The great Sacrifice had been offered
  and had been accepted, and the Holy Spirit which
  descended on the day of Pentecost carried the
  minds of the disciples from the earthly sanctuary
  to the heavenly, where Jesus had entered by His
  own blood, to shed upon His disciples the
  benefits of His atonement.

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• But the Jews were left in total darkness. They
  lost all the light which they might have had upon
  the plan of salvation, and still trusted in their
  useless sacrifices and offerings. The heavenly
  sanctuary had taken the place of the earthly, yet
  they had no knowledge of the change. Therefore
  they could not be benefited by the mediation of
  Christ in the holy place. EW 259.1

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Locating Warning Messages to Protestant Christians

• Close of probation Judgement in 1844
• (Dan 8 v 14)

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Darkness

• Daniel 7 v 8, 21 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 man, and a
  mouth speaking great things. I beheld, and the
  same horn made war with the saints, and prevailed
  against them

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GC - The Great Controversy (1911)
Chap. 21 - A Warning Rejected
To secure converts, the exalted standard of the
Christian faith was lowered, and as the result "a
pagan flood, flowing into the church, carried
with it its customs, practices, and idols."
--Gavazzi, Lectures, page 278. As the Christian
religion secured the favor and support of secular
rulers, it was nominally accepted by multitudes
but while in appearance Christians, many
"remained in substance pagans, especially
worshiping in secret their idols."--Ibid., page
278. GC 384.5
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GC - The Great Controversy (1911)
Chap. 21 - A Warning Rejected
What was the origin of the great apostasy? How
did the church first depart from the simplicity
of the gospel? By conforming to the practices of
paganism, to facilitate the acceptance of
Christianity by the heathen. The apostle Paul
declared, even in his day, "The mystery of
iniquity doth already work." 2 Thessalonians 27.
GC 384.5
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1st Angel MessageMiller Associates(1798,1840,
1841)

• Repent for Christ Comes, Study to understand work
  of preparation to be done, prophesying to dry
  bones

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Millerites

• Thousands were led to embrace the truth preached
  by William Miller, and servants of God were
  raised up in the spirit and power of Elijah to
  proclaim the message. Like John, the forerunner
  of Jesus, those who preached this solemn message
  felt compelled to lay the ax at the root of the
  tree, and call upon men to bring forth fruits
  meet for repentance. Early Writings, 233

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• Their testimony was calculated to arouse and
  powerfully affect the churches and manifest their
  real character. And as the solemn warning to flee
  from the wrath to come was sounded, many who were
  united with the churches received the healing
  message they saw their backslidings, and with
  bitter tears of repentance and deep agony of
  soul, humbled themselves before God. And as the
  Spirit of God rested upon them, they helped to
  sound the cry, "Fear God, and give glory to Him
  for the hour of His judgment is come." EW
  233.1The preaching of definite time called forth
  great opposition from all classes, from the
  minister in the pulpit down to the most reckless,
  heaven-daring sinner. "No man knoweth the day nor
  the hour," was heard from the hypocritical
  minister and the bold scoffer. Neither would be
  instructed and corrected by those who were
  pointing to the year when they believed the
  prophetic periods would run out, and to the signs
  which showed Christ near, even at the doors. Many
  shepherds of the flock, who professed to love
  Jesus, said that they had no opposition to the
  preaching of Christ's coming, but they objected
  to the definite time. God's all-seeing eye read
  their hearts. They did not love Jesus near. They
  knew that their unchristian lives would not stand
  the test, for they were not walking in the humble
  path marked out by Him. These false shepherds
  stood in the way of the work of God. The truth
  spoken in its convincing power aroused the
  people, and like the jailer, they began to
  inquire, "What must I do to be saved?" But these
  shepherds stepped in between the truth and the
  people, and preached smooth things to lead them
  from the truth. They united with Satan and his
  angels, crying, "Peace, peace," when there was no
  peace. Those who loved their ease and were
  content with their distance from God would not be
  aroused from their carnal security. I saw that
  angels of God marked it all the garments of
  those unconsecrated shepherds were covered with
  the blood of souls. EW 233.2

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• It was not the scholarly theologians who had an
  understanding of this truth, and engaged in its
  proclamation. Had these been faithful watchmen,
  diligently and prayerfully searching the
  Scriptures, they would have known the time of
  night the prophecies would have opened to them
  the events about to take place. But they did not
  occupy this position, and the message was given
  by humbler men. Said Jesus "Walk while ye have
  the light, lest darkness come upon you." John
  1235. Those who turn away from the light which
  God has given, or who neglect to seek it when it
  is within their reach, are left in darkness. But
  the Saviour declares "He that followeth Me shall
  not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of
  life." John 812. Whoever is with singleness of
  purpose seeking to do God's will, earnestly
  heeding the light already given, will receive
  greater light to that soul some star of heavenly
  radiance will be sent to guide him into all
  truth. GC 312.3

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2nd Angel Message( 1842, 1843,1844)

• Righteousness of Christ exemplified by wise
  virgins, organised churches close their doors
  (moral fall), Midnight cry, in 1844 Obedience of
  50 virgins causes the fall of Babylon (apostate
  protestants)

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• In June, 1842, Mr. Miller gave his second course
  of lectures at the Casco Street church in
  Portland. I felt it a great privilege to attend
  these lectures for I had fallen under
  discouragements, and did not feel prepared to
  meet my Saviour. This second course created much
  more excitement in the city than the first. With
  few exceptions, the different denominations
  closed the doors of their churches against Mr.
  Miller. Many discourses from the various pulpits
  sought to expose the alleged fanatical errors of
  the lecturer but crowds of anxious listeners
  attended his meetings, and many were unable to
  enter the house. The congregations were unusually
  quiet and attentive. CET 21.3 Mr. Miller's
  manner of preaching was not flowery or
  oratorical, but he dealt in plain and startling
  facts, that roused his hearers from their
  careless indifference.CET 21.4

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3rd Angel Message(1844 to Daniel 12 v1)

• Investigative Judgement, 50 grafted to Vine and
  become branch (SDA), fruits of Spirit
  demonstrated, majority (apostates) become off
  shoots and bear wild grapes

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• Many look with horror at the course of the Jews
  in rejecting and crucifying Christ and as they
  read the history of His shameful abuse, they
  think they love Him, and would not have denied
  Him as did Peter, or crucified Him as did the
  Jews. But God who reads the hearts of all, has
  brought to the test that love for Jesus which
  they professed to feel. All heaven watched with
  the deepest interest the reception of the first
  angel's message.

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Judgement

• Daniel 7 v 10, 13, (8 v 14) A fiery stream issued
  and came forth from before him thousand
  thousands ministered unto him, and ten thousand
  times ten thousand stood before him the judgment
  was set, and the books were opened. I saw in the
  night visions, and, behold, one like the Son of
  man came with the clouds of heaven, and came to
  the Ancient of days, and they brought him near
  before him. And he said unto me, Unto two
  thousand and three hundred days then shall the
  sanctuary be cleansed.

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• But many who professed to love Jesus, and who
  shed tears as they read the story of the cross,
  derided the good news of His coming. Instead of
  receiving the message with gladness, they
  declared it to be a delusion. They hated those
  who loved His appearing and shut them out of the
  churches.Those who rejected the first message
  could not be benefited by the second neither
  were they benefited by the midnight cry, which
  was to prepare them to enter with Jesus by faith
  into the most holy place of the heavenly
  sanctuary.

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• And by rejecting the two former messages, they
  have so darkened their understanding that they
  can see no light in the third angel'smessage,
  which shows the way into the most holy place. I
  saw that as the Jews crucified Jesus, so the
  nominal churches had crucified these messages,
  and therefore they have no knowledge of the way
  into the most holy, and they cannot be benefited
  by the intercession of Jesus there.

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• Like the Jews, who offered their useless
  sacrifices, they offer up their useless prayers
  to the apartment which Jesus has left and Satan,
  pleased with the deception, assumes a religious
  character, and leads the minds of these professed
  Christians to himself, working with his power,
  his signs and lying wonders, to fasten them in
  his snare. Early writings p260.1

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Locating Warning Messages to Seventh-Day
Adventist Christians

• The Plagues Close of Probation
• (Dan 11 v 40 - 45) Daniel 12 v 1

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Revelation 18 Angel(1989,2001, Dan 11 v 41 up to
Dan 12 v 1)

• Unites foundational warning messages ( 1840-44)
  to swell to Loud Cry, 144 000 ripened to benefit
  earth, Daniel 11 v 44 probation for human race
  closes and plagues fall to bring final fall of
  Babylon in Daniel 11 v 45

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• In every age there is a new development of truth,
  a message of God to the people of that
  generation. The old truths are all essential new
  truth is not independent of the old, but an
  unfolding of it. It is only as the old truths are
  understood that we can comprehend the new. When
  Christ desired to open to His disciples the truth
  of His resurrection, He began "at Moses and all
  the prophets" and "expounded unto them in all the
  scriptures the things concerning Himself." Luke
  2427. But it is the light which shines in the
  fresh unfolding of truth that glorifies the old.
  He who rejects or neglects the new does not
  really possess the old. For him it loses its
  vital power and becomes but a lifeless form.
  COL 127.4

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• Revelation 18 points to the time when, as the
  result of rejecting the threefold warning of
  Revelation 146-12, the church will have fully
  reached the condition foretold by the second
  angel, and the people of God still in Babylon
  will be called upon to separate from her
  communion. This message is the last that will
  ever be given to the world and it will
  accomplish its work. When those that "believed
  not the truth, but had pleasure in
  unrighteousness" (2 Thessalonians 212), shall be
  left to receive strong delusion and to believe a
  lie, then the light of truth will shine upon all
  whose hearts are open to receive it, and all the
  children of the Lord that remain in Babylon will
  heed the call "Come out of her, My people"
  (Revelation 184). GC 390.2

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Darkness

• Revelation 13 v 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. 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. 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. 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.

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• The Holy Spirit never reveals itself in such
  methods, in such a bedlam of noise. This is an
  invention of Satan to cover up his ingenious
  methods for making of none effect the pure,
  sincere, elevating, ennobling, sanctifying truth
  for this time. Better never have the worship of
  God blended with music than to use musical
  instruments to do the work which last January was
  represented to me would be brought into our camp
  meetings. The truth for this time needs nothing
  of this kind in its work of converting souls. A
  bedlam of noise shocks the senses and perverts
  that which if conducted aright might be a
  blessing. The powers of satanic agencies blend
  with the din and noise, to have a carnival, and
  this is termed the Holy Spirit's working. As
  with the holy flesh movement, music will again be
  used by Satan in an attempt to lead God's people
  into experiences that will blunt the true
  workings of the Holy Spirit. "Those things which
  have been in the past will be in the future.
  Satan will make music a snare by the way in which
  it is conducted" (Selected Messages, vol. 2, p.
  38).

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MYP - Messages to Young People (1930)
Chap. 97 - A Wrong Use of Music
Angels are hovering around yonder dwelling. The
young are there assembled there is the sound of
vocal and instrumental music. Christians are
gathered there, but what is that you hear? It is
a song, a frivolous ditty, fit for the dance
hall. Behold, the pure angels gather their light
closer around them, and darkness envelops those
in that dwelling. The angels are moving from the
scene. Sadness is upon their countenances.
Behold, they are weeping. 296
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MYP - Messages to Young People (1930)
Chap. 97 - A Wrong Use of Music
Anything will suit his purpose that will divert
the mind from God, and engage the time which
should be devoted to His service. He works
through the means which will exert the strongest
influence to hold the largest numbers in a
pleasing infatuation, while they are paralyzed by
his power. When turned to good account, music is
a blessing, but it is often made one of Satan's
most attractive agencies to ensnare souls. When
abused, it leads the unconsecrated to pride,
vanity, and folly. When allowed to take the place
of devotion and prayer, it is a terrible curse.
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• The line of distinction between professed
  Christians and the ungodly is now hardly
  distinguishable. Church members love what the
  world loves and are ready to join with them, and
  Satan determines to unite them in one body and
  thus strengthen his cause by sweeping all into
  the ranks of spiritualism. Papists, who boast of
  miracles as a certain sign of the true church,
  will be readily deceived by this wonder-working
  power and Protestants, having cast away the
  shield of truth, will also be deluded. Papists,
  Protestants, and worldlings will alike accept the
  form of godliness without the power, and they
  will see in this union a grand movement for the
  conversion of the world and the ushering in of
  the long-expected millennium. GC 588.3

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April, 2008 and South Hill Park, Bracknell, 27
April, 2008
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South England Conference Camp Meeting, Prestatyn,
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2SM - Selected Messages Book 2 (1958)

Chap. 1 - Warnings Against Sensational
Teachings and Emotional Religion
A new order of things has come into the ministry.
There is a desire to pattern after other
churches, and simplicity and humility are almost
unknown. The young ministers seek to be original,
and to introduce new ideas and new plans for
labor. Some open revival meetings, and by this
means call large numbers into the church. But
when the excitement is over, where are the
converted ones? Repentance and confession of sin
are not seen. The sinner is entreated to believe
in Christ and accept Him, without regard to his
past life of sin and rebellion. The heart is not
broken. There is no contrition of soul. The
supposed converted ones have not fallen upon the
Rock, Christ Jesus. 2SM 18.4
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Events of 1st Angel Message repeat, work of
reform now agitated

• Matthew 38 Bring forth therefore fruits meet
  for repentance
• Matthew 310 And now also the ax is laid unto
  the root of the trees therefore every tree which
  bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and
  cast into the fire.

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Reform Revival

• Dress reform
• Country living
• Health reform
• Bible study
• Making an end of sin
• Teaching the truth for this time
• Genuine work of Grace in the heart
• All other reforms

103
During probationary time the grace of God is
offered to every soul. But if men waste their
opportunities in self-pleasing, they cut
themselves off from everlasting life. No
after-probation will be granted them. By their
own choice they have fixed an impassable gulf
between them and their God. Many are deceiving
themselves by thinking that the character will be
transformed at the coming of Christ, but there
will be no conversion of heart at His appearing.
Our defects of character must here be repented
of, and through the grace of Christ we must
overcome them while probation shall last. This is
the place for fitting up for the family above.
Probation is almost ended. . . . Get ready! get
ready! Work while the day lasts, for the night
cometh when no man can work. AG 243
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1840 repeated in 2001
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These types of music should go
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Gospel Music Fit For The Dance Clubs 2001 Stella
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• Shackles became a huge hit in dance clubs across
  the country, proving to you that gospel artist
  can cross over and at the same time take the
  cross over.

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Emotional worship should go
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Drums Bedlam should go
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• But Christ has given us no assurance that to
  attain perfection of character is an easy matter.
  A noble, all-round character is not inherited. It
  does not come to us by accident. A noble
  character is earned by individual effort through
  the merits and grace of Christ. God gives the
  talents, the powers of the mind we form the
  character. It is formed by hard, stern battles
  with self. Conflict after conflict must be waged
  against hereditary tendencies. We shall have to
  criticize ourselves closely, and allow not one
  unfavorable trait to remain uncorrected. COL
  331.1Let no one say, I cannot remedy my defects
  of character. If you come to this decision, you
  will certainly fail of obtaining everlasting
  life. The impossibility lies in your own will. If
  you will not, then you can not overcome. The real
  difficulty arises from the corruption of an
  unsanctified heart, and an unwillingness to
  submit to the control of God. COL 331.2

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Righteousness manifested

• Revelation 144 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 firstfruits unto God and to the Lamb.
  
• 145 And in their mouth was found no guile
  for they are without fault before the throne of
  God.

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Judgement

• Revelation 2211 He that is unjust, let 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.
• 2212 And, behold, I come quickly and my
  reward is with me, to give every man according
  as his work shall be.

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Plagues

• Will distinguish true branch from off shoot

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• In every generation and in every land the true
  foundation for character building has been the
  same--the principles contained in the word of
  God. The only safe and sure rule is to do what
  God says. "The statutes of the Lord are right,"
  and "he that doeth these things shall never be
  moved." Psalms 198 155. It was with the word
  of God that the apostles met the false theories
  of their day, saying, "Other foundation can no
  man lay than that is laid." 1 Corinthians 311.
  AA 475.2