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Seven Prophecies That Must Be Fulfilled Before Jesus Christ's Return

2013-11-04T08:40:00.002+03:00

Shortly before His crucifixion and resurrection, Jesus Christ delivered a major prophecy of end-time events, recorded in Matthew 24, Mark 13 and Luke 21. He was asked by His disciples: "When will these things be? And what will be the sign of your coming, and of the end of the age?" (Matthew 24:3).
Jesus responded with a description of conditions and events that would lead up to His second coming. Moreover, He said that when these signs became evident, His return would occur within one generation (Matthew 24:34). Could this be that generation?
Throughout the nearly 2,000 years since Christ gave His prophecy, many have thought that theirs was the time of His return—and turned out to be wrong, of course. But interestingly, there are a number of prophecies in the Bible that could not be fulfilled until our modern era, the post–World War II period.

1. The human race would have the ability to exterminate itself

In Matthew 24:22, describing world conditions prior to His second coming, Jesus said that "if that time of troubles were not cut short, no living thing could survive; but for the sake of God's chosen it will be cut short" (Revised English Bible).
The main message that Jesus Christ brought was of the coming Kingdom of God. This is described as "the gospel" (Mark 1:14). Gospel means "good news." While some of the prophecies concerning events prior to the establishment of the Kingdom can seem negative, we should always keep in mind that the central focus of Bible prophecy is the good news (gospel) of the coming Kingdom of God.
Matthew 24:22 shows us that if Jesus Christ does not intervene in world affairs, the human race will be faced with extinction. It's crucial to note that humanity has had the capability for self-annihilation for only a little more than 50 years, since both the United States and the Soviet Union developed and stockpiled hydrogen bombs and the world had to learn to live with "mutually assured destruction."
At that time there were only three nuclear powers (Britain being the other). By the middle of the 1960s France and China had joined the nuclear club. Today at least eight nations have nuclear warheads and the number looks set to increase with a nuclear arms race in the Middle East.
Of course, the more nuclear powers we have in the world, the more likely it is that someone will use this deadly force for evil.
Although international attention has been focused on the nuclear programs of North Korea and Iran during the last few years, little attention has been given to the possibility of some or all of Pakistan's nuclear arsenal falling into the hands of radical Islamists.
During the ongoing crisis in Pakistan, the Taliban and al-Qaeda and their sympathizers have steadily gained more power, territory and influence, making nuclear terrorism more likely. Consider the consequences for the rest of the world if Osama bin Laden (or others like him) had access to nuclear weapons!
Meanwhile, Russia and China are determinedly flexing their military muscles, raising fears of a return to Cold War–era tensions.
The good news in all this is that Christians have an assurance that Jesus Christ will intervene to save mankind from annihilation. This prophecy could not be fulfilled until man had the potential for self-extinction through weapons of mass destruction. Again, only in the last 50 years has this become possible.

2. A Jewish homeland had to be reestablished in the Middle East

Geopolitically, the central focus of end-time events is Jerusalem and its environs, what many people refer to as the Holy Land.
Luke 21 is a parallel chapter to Matthew 24. Notice Luke's account of Christ's long prophecy that answered the disciples' questions: "Teacher, . . . when will these things be? And what sign will there be when these things are about to take place?" (Luke 21:7).
In response, Jesus showed that Jerusalem would be the central focus of the political and military upheavals that would immediately precede His return: "But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then know that its desolation is near . . . For these are the days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled" (verses 20-22).
Anyone living a century ago would have found these words nearly impossible to comprehend. Jerusalem in ancient times had been fought over countless times, but for four centuries from 1517 the city had been at peace within the boundaries of the Ottoman Empire. Jews lived there as a minority under Turkish rule. But this was going to change dramatically during the course of the 20th century.
It had to change for the fulfillment of Bible prophecy to take place.
The Old Testament prophet Zechariah was used by God to reveal a great deal about end-time events and the second coming of the Messiah. Zechariah lived and prophesied more than 500 years before Christ's first coming, yet his prophetic book tells us a great deal about our world of today.
In Zechariah 12:2-3 God says: "Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of drunkenness to all the surrounding peoples, when they lay siege against Judah [the Jews inhabiting the land of Israel] and Jerusalem. And it shall happen in that day that I will make Jerusalem a very heavy stone for all peoples; all who would heave it away will surely be cut in pieces, though all nations of the earth are gathered against it."
In verse 9 He adds, "It shall be in that day that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem."
Reading these verses, it is possible to think that they apply to ancient events, as Jerusalem has been fought over repeatedly down through the ages. However, chapter 14 makes clear that this is talking about future, not past, events. The time setting is immediately before Jesus Christ's return.
"Behold, the day of the Lord is coming . . . For I will gather all the nations to battle against Jerusalem; the city shall be taken, the houses rifled, and the women ravished. Half of the city shall go into captivity . . . Then the Lord will go forth and fight against those nations, as He fights in the day of battle.
"And in that day His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, which faces Jerusalem on the east. And the Mount of Olives shall be split in two, from east to west, making a very large valley; half of the mountain shall move toward the north and half of it toward the south" (Zechariah 14:1-4).
Clearly the last few lines of this prophecy remain to be fulfilled.
Further in this same chapter we read of how those nations that came against Jerusalem will have to go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, Jesus Christ (verse 16).
These chapters of Zechariah are a prophecy about the events that precede and include the second coming of Jesus. A Jewish-controlled Jerusalem is notice-ably the central focus.
Shortly before Zechariah, another Jewish prophet named Daniel lived during the time of the captivity of the Jews in Babylon. His book speaks of the Jews' daily sacrifices being cut off in the end time (Daniel 12:11; see verses 1-13)—an event that had a forerunner in the temple defilement under Syrian ruler Antiochus Epiphanes in the second century B.C.
However, Jesus Christ confirmed this as a future event to precede His return (compare Daniel 11:31; Matthew 24:15). This means that these sacrifices must first be reinstituted in Jerusalem—requiring Jewish rule over the city.
One hundred years ago such developments were hard to imagine for the simple reason that no independent Jewish political entity existed in the Middle East.
After rebelling against the Romans in A.D. 66 and again in 132, Judea was crushed and most of the remaining Jews were dispersed throughout the Roman Empire and beyond. No Jewish homeland existed again until 1948 when the modern nation of Israel was established.
An independent Jewish homeland was merely a dream for a small group of zealots a century ago. It moved a step nearer during World War I, when forces of the British Commonwealth took control of Jerusalem from the Turks in December 1916. A few months later, the British government pledged itself to the establishment of an independent Jewish homeland in the ancient lands the Jews had inhabited for centuries.
It was to be another 30 years before the dream was realized in 1948. Yet since then tiny Israel has had to fight wars for survival in 1948, 1967 and 1973 and has suffered countless terrorist attacks and threats of annihilation from hostile neighbors determined to eliminate the Jewish state.
Once again, here is a prophecy that can now be fulfilled in our time.

3. The end-time king of the North and king of the South

In Daniel 11 we find an amazing prophecy about two leaders, the kings of the North and South, the heads of regions that were geographically north and south of the Holy Land. To understand this prophecy we have to go to the time of Alexander the Great, who lived near the end of the fourth century B.C., 200 years after Daniel.
Alexander figures prominently throughout the book of Daniel, even though Daniel did not know his name and never knew him personally. He couldn't have, since he died almost two centuries before Alexander appeared on the world stage.
But God revealed to Daniel that after Babylon, Persia would arise as the greatest power of the region, to be followed in turn by Greece. Not surprisingly, the prophecies regarding the rise of Greece are centered on Alexander the Great, one of the greatest conquerors in history.
Daniel 8 gives a vivid account of the coming clash between Persia and Greece. As you read it, remember that a horn symbolizes royal power and authority. Persia had "two horns and the two horns were high; but one was higher than the other, and the higher one came up last." This refers to the Medo-Persian Empire, the coming together of two nations or peoples. As foretold here in verse 3, the Persians rose to greatness after the Medes.
In verse 5 we read of Persia's later defeat by Alexander the Great: "And as I was considering, suddenly a male goat came from the west, across the surface of the whole earth, without touching the ground; and the goat had a notable horn between his eyes" (verse 5).
The "notable horn" or royal leader was Alexander the Great. The prophecy about his army not even touching the ground is a reference to the incredible speed with which he conquered the known world. All this was achieved in a very short time. Alexander died in 323 B.C. when he was only about 33 years old.
Even his sudden, unexpected death was prophesied: "The male goat grew very great; but when he became strong, the large horn was broken, and in place of it four notable ones came up toward the four winds of heaven" (verse 8).
When Alexander died, his empire was eventually divided between four of his generals—the four "notable horns" mentioned here. Two of these established dynasties would have a profound effect on the Jewish people, caught in the middle between them. These two dynasties were the descendants of Seleucus, who ruled a vast empire from Antioch in Syria, north of Jerusalem, and Ptolemy, who ruled Egypt from Alexandria.
Daniel 11 is a long and detailed prophecy about the dynastic conflicts between these two powers, their respective leaders being referred to as "the king of the North" and "the king of the South." Of great significance is that whenever they went to battle against each other, the Jews got trampled on. This was to continue from the time of Alexander until the middle of the second century B.C., a period of almost two centuries.
Then, suddenly, the prophecy jumps down to the end time.
In verse 40 we read: "At the time of the end the king of the South shall attack him; and the king of the North shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter the countries, overwhelm them and pass through. He shall also enter the Glorious Land [the Holy Land], and many countries shall be overthrown" (Daniel 11:40-41).
While we don't have space here to cover all the details, the latter part of Daniel's prophecy of the North-South conflict describes a clash of civilizations between the leader of a soon-coming European superpower—a revived Roman Empire (successor to Seleucid Syrian rule)—and a leader who is the successor to the Ptolemaic rule of Egypt, which is now part of the Islamic world. (To learn more, request or download our free booklet The Middle East in Bible Prophecy .)
We now see geopolitical conditions lining up for this inevitable clash. Here is yet another prophesied circumstance for which the stage has now been set within our lifetime!

4. An end-time union of European nations

In Daniel 2 and 7 we see prophecies about four great gentile empires that would arise in the period between the time of Daniel and the coming establishment of the Kingdom of God (Daniel 2:44). Daniel was himself living in the first of these great empires (Daniel 7:4) as a Jewish exile in ancient Babylon.
Following the fall of Babylon in 539 B.C., Persia would become the greatest power, to be followed by Greece (verses 5-6). After Greece came the Roman Empire, "dreadful and terrible, exceedingly strong." This empire was to have "ten horns" and would continue in some form until the establishment of God's Kingdom at Christ's return (verses 7-9).
As we saw in the previous section, horns represent leaders or governments. Here these 10 horns symbolize 10 attempts to restore the Roman Empire to the power it had in ancient times. Various attempts at a restoration have taken place since the fall of the Western Roman Empire in A.D. 476. A final attempt is to be made shortly before Christ's return.
We find more details in Revelation 17. Here we read of a final attempt to revive the Roman Empire by "ten kings who have received no kingdom as yet, but they receive authority for one hour as kings with the beast. These are of one mind, and they will give their power and authority to the beast" (verses 12-13).
They will also "make war with the Lamb [Jesus Christ], and the Lamb will overcome them, for He is Lord of lords and King of kings" (verse 14). Again, it is clear that this prophecy is still future.
Previous attempts to forge a united European empire, from Justinian in the sixth century through Charlemagne, Napoleon, Mussolini and Hitler, all involved force. The final resurrection of the Roman Empire will not be attempted in the same way.
Revelation 17 suggests this will be a voluntary union. When these 10 leaders receive power, they will then give their authority to a single leader. Scripture refers to both this individual and the new superpower he leads as "the beast"—acknowledging it as the continuation of the four gentile empires prophesied in Daniel, each one depicted as a beast or wild animal.
Only now is it possible for this to be fulfilled.
In 1957, the Treaty of Rome was signed by six European nations that formed the European Economic Community. Today the EEC has grown into the European Union (EU) with 27 member nations. Out of these will likely come the 10 nations or 10 leaders that form the final resurrection of the Roman Empire. (For more details, read "The Coming European Superpower ")
Some have speculated that the 10 kings referred to in this prophecy will be leaders of 10 regions of the EU that will redraw the boundaries of Europe, ending the present nation-states. The Bible is not clear on exactly which 10 regions or nations will configure the final revival of the militaristic Roman superpower—only that this new superpower will indeed emerge just before Christ's return.
However, it wasn't until the 10th nation, Greece, was admitted in 1981 that any conceivable fulfillment of this prophecy was even possible.

5. End-time rise and fall of Israel and Judah

" Israel" was the new name God gave the biblical patriarch Jacob in Genesis 32. The 12 tribes of Israel were descended from his 12 sons. These tribes later formed a united kingdom.
It's been almost 3,000 years since the kingdom of Israel was split in two. Ten of the 12 tribes of Israel rebelled against King Rehoboam, the son of King Solomon and grandson of King David. The Bible continued to refer to these 10 tribes as Israel while the other two tribes (Judah and Benjamin) that remained loyal to David's descendants were known as the kingdom of Judah or simply Judah.
Sometimes Israel is referred to as the northern kingdom and Judah as the southern kingdom. Dominant among the northern tribes were to be the descendants of Jacob's son Joseph through his sons Ephraim and Manasseh—prophesied by Jacob to be the chief nations of the world in the last days (Genesis 49:1, 22-26; compare Deuteronomy 33:13-17).
About 200 years after the kingdom split, the northern tribes of Israel fell to Assyria and were deported by the Assyrians to the northern parts of their empire. Often referred to now as the lost tribes, they later migrated northwest across Europe, eventually settling in new homelands far from the Middle East.
The kingdom of Judah fell to Babylon more than a century after Israel's deportation, but its people were not lost to history. We know them today as the Jews.
The name Ephraim is sometimes used representatively in Scripture for the entire northern kingdom, though it can also refer solely to the descendants of Joseph's son of that name—prophesied to become a "multitude of nations" (Genesis 48:19). Remarkably, this promise to Ephraim was fulfilled in the British Empire and Commonwealth.
Ephraim's older brother Manasseh was also prophesied to become a great nation (same verse), separating himself from the multitude of nations. This prophecy would be fulfilled in the formation, growth and dominance of the United States of America.
In a revealing prophecy regarding the United States and Britain, Jacob (Israel) said, "Let my name be named upon them" (verse 16). References to " Israel" in end-time prophecy often refer to the United States or the English-speaking countries of the British Empire or both. Sometimes " Israel" can mean all 12 tribes. We have to look at specific verses in their context to see which is meant.
"Judah," however, always refers to the Jews, the descendants of the house or kingdom of Judah. We must also understand that the modern nation called Israel is really Judah, made up of Jews. (For much more detail, download or request our free booklet The United States and Britain in Bible Prophecy .)
Understanding this critical part of biblical history will help us more fully comprehend a passage of Scripture in the book of Hosea, which is a prophecy about Ephraim (the multitude of nations—Great Britain and some of those nations that came out of her). It warns of destruction to follow the end-time ascendancy of the Israelite nations.
In Hosea 5 we read a prophecy that mentions Israel, Ephraim and Judah: "The pride of Israel testifies to his face; therefore Israel and Ephraim stumble in their iniquity; Judah also stumbles with them" (verse 5). The prophecy continues: "With their flocks and herds they shall go to seek the Lord, but they will not find Him; He has withdrawn Himself from them. They have dealt treacherously with the Lord, for they have begotten pagan children. Now a New Moon shall devour them and their heritage" (verses 6-7).
New moons occur a month apart. A new moon "devouring" them would seem to mean that Israel, Ephraim and Judah will all fall within one month.
This prophecy was not fulfilled in ancient times. As already mentioned, ancient Judah fell to Babylon more than a century after Israel fell to Assyria. Yet in the end it appears they will fall together—within one month of each other. This prophecy remains to be fulfilled.
Remember that Israel gave his name to Ephraim and Manasseh, the ancestors in turn of the British and American peoples. As Ephraim is mentioned separately in this prophecy, the reference to " Israel" must apply to the United States, which is now the more dominant of the two nations.
For two centuries prior to World War II, the roles were reversed with the multitude of nations—the British Empire—a greater power than the single nation, the United States. But today America is the greater.
"Judah" refers to the Jewish people, particularly those who now constitute the modern nation in the Middle East that calls itself Israel.
Here then is a prophecy regarding all three nations—the United States, Britain and Israel (Judah). According to this prophecy, it appears that all three will fall within the span of a month. Verse 6 shows these nations turning back to God, but finding it's too late. Because of their sins, He will let them suffer defeat and collapse.
This prophecy could not have been fulfilled until after the rise of Britain and the United States as world powers in the 19th century and the formation of the Jewish state of Israel in the 20th.
Lest the idea seem outlandish, consider that Israel and the United States are perhaps the most maligned and criticized nations on earth. Among Muslim hard-liners, America is commonly called "the great Satan" and Israel and Britain "the little Satans."

6. The gospel will be preached in all the world

In His major end-time prophecy, Jesus answers the question posed by the disciples: "When will these things be? And what will be the sign of your coming, and of the end of the age?" (Matthew 24:3).
After listing a number of signs of the nearness of His coming, He reveals that "this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a witness to all the nations, and then the end will come" (verse 14).
The gospel is the good news of the coming Kingdom of God. This message could not be preached around the world without the Bible and freedom of religion. Both came gradually with the ascendancy of the English-speaking peoples from the 16th century until the present day.
However, it was only with the technological advances of television and radio and other means of mass communication after World War II and their widespread acceptance that it became possible to reach hundreds of millions of human beings with the message of the Bible. The gospel of the Kingdom of God will continue to be preached to all nations as long as we have the freedom to continue The Good News magazine and our other media efforts.
Even so, during the last 50 years it has not been possible to reach all countries. The former communist nations did not allow freedom of religion. China, with one quarter of the world's people, still does not. Other nations also try to suppress the publication of biblical truth and even the Bible itself. Many Islamic nations do not allow religious freedom. In some countries people risk the death penalty for changing religion.
But the Internet is changing everything. It is much harder for governments to control. The gospel message of the coming Kingdom of God is still going out to the world. It will finish when God has decided that His work is completed and the time is right for the final end-time events to take place.
This is yet another prophecy that could not be fulfilled until recent times.

7. Instant worldwide communications and God's final witnesses

Another end-time Bible prophecy could not be fulfilled until this era of instant worldwide communications.
In His major end-time prophecy of Matthew 24, Mark 13 and Luke 21, Jesus gave an outline of disasters that would occur on the world scene with increasing frequency and magnitude—to the point where people would be shaken with fear (Luke 21:26). Discerning an increase in the scale of these events and reacting to them requires knowing about them.
At the time this prophecy was given, it could be many months or years before people heard about various disasters—and many they would never hear about at all, much less be able to put together the fact that catastrophes were on some kind of global increase.
Only with the proliferation of newspapers and other forms of mass communications did this become remotely possible. Yet the level of awareness and consequent fear in many that Christ speaks of implies an even greater availability of information—possible only since the development of rapid electronic communications.
In any case, only with the technological advances of the last few years has it become possible for the events in Revelation 11 to occur—for people around the world to see the fate of God's final two witnesses.
These two witnesses, reminiscent of other biblical prophets like Elijah and Elisha, will carry God's final warning to the world in the last 3 1/2 years leading up to Christ's return.
"And I will give power to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy one thousand two hundred and sixty days . . . When they finish their testimony, the beast that ascends out of the bottomless pit will make war against them, overcome them and kill them. And their dead bodies will lie in the street of the great city which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified.
"Then those from the peoples, tribes, tongues and nations will see their dead bodies three-and-a-half days, and not allow their dead bodies to be put into graves. And those who dwell on the earth will rejoice over them, make merry, and send gifts to one another, because these two prophets tormented those who dwell on the earth" (verses 3, 7-10).
Note that people the world over will be able to see their dead bodies during the 3 1 ⁄ 2 days that they lie on display in Jerusalem. This was not possible before satellite television, portable communications devices and the Internet. Again, only in the last few years has it become possible for this prophecy to be fulfilled . It still lies in the future, of course, but only now it is clearly possible for this to take place.

Will this generation see God's Kingdom established on earth?

We have seen how seven biblically prophesied circumstances could not have come to pass until recent times. In fact, the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948 was clearly a major turning point in the fulfillment of Bible prophecy, as was the acquisition of the hydrogen bomb by the two superpowers of the 1950s that led to the period of mutually assured destruction.
All has now become possible. This, in turn, makes it much more likely that our generation will live to see Jesus Christ return and establish the Kingdom of God on earth. After all, Jesus Himself said that once these things begin, the generation alive at that time "will by no means pass away till all these things take place" (Matthew 24:34).
It's both sobering and encouraging to think that we appear to be living in the generation that will ultimately witness the most important event in the history of mankind. As Jesus Christ tells His followers in Luke 21:28, "Now when these things begin to happen, look up and lift up your heads, because your redemption draws near." GN

Creation and the Revelation of God By Ellen G. White

2013-06-21T09:42:00.000+03:00

In the garden of Eden the existence of God was demonstrated in the objects of nature that surrounded them. Every tree of the garden spoke to them. The invisible things of God were clearly seen, being understood by the things which were made, even His eternal power and Godhead. . . .
    The things of nature upon which we look today give us but a faint conception of Eden's beauty and glory; yet the natural world, with unmistakable voice, proclaims the glory of God. In the things of nature, marred as they are by the blight of sin, much that is beautiful remains. One omnipotent in power, great in goodness, in mercy, and love, has created the earth, and even in its blighted state it inculcates truths in regard to the skilful Master Artist.
     In this book of nature opened to us—in the beautiful, scented flowers, with their varied and delicate coloring—God gives to us an unmistakable expression of His love. After the transgression of Adam, God might have destroyed every opening bud and blooming flower, or He might have taken away their fragrance, so grateful to the senses. In the earth, seared and marred by the curse, in the briers, the thistles, the thorns, the tares, we may read the law of condemnation; but in the delicate color and perfume of the flowers, we may learn that God still loves us, that His mercy is not wholly withdrawn from the earth.
     Nature is filled with spiritual lessons for mankind. The flowers die only to spring forth into new life; and in this we are taught the lesson of the resurrection. All who love God will bloom again in the Eden above. But nature can not teach the lesson of the great and marvelous love of God. Therefore, after the fall, nature was not the only teacher of man. In order that the world might not remain in darkness, in eternal spiritual night, the God of nature met us in Jesus Christ. The Son of God came to the world as the revelation of the Father. He was that "true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world." We are to behold "the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ." . . .
     The psalmist says: "The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament showeth his handiwork. Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night showeth knowledge. There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard." Some may suppose that these grand things in the natural world are God. They are not God. All these wonders in the heavens are only doing the work appointed them. They are the Lord's agencies. God is the superintendent, as well as the Creator, of all things. The divine Being is engaged in upholding the things that He has created. The same hand that holds the mountains and balances them in position, guides the worlds in their mysterious march around the sun. . . .
     Those who think they can obtain a knowledge of God aside from His Representative, whom the Word declares is "the express image of his person," will need to become fools in their own estimation before they can be wise. It is impossible to gain a perfect knowledge of God from nature alone; for nature itself is imperfect. In its imperfection it can not represent God, it can not reveal the character of God in its moral perfection. But Christ came as a personal Saviour to the world. He represented a personal God. As a personal Saviour, He ascended on high; and He will come again as He ascended to heaven—a personal Saviour. He is the express image of the Father's person. "In him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily."

Originally published in Review and Herald, Nov. 8, 1898.

WORSHIP GOD ACCORDING TO THE WAY HE HAS DESIGNED

2013-01-27T11:07:00.001+03:00

Jeremiah 8:7 “Yea the stock in heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the Lord.”

God has declared it openly that his people (i.e. in the Seventh day Adventist church) ‘‘know not the judgment of the Lord.” He says they do not know the appointed times’’ (the times that the Lord has appointed Himself).Truthfully speaking, the stock, turtle and crane know the seasons of the Lord. That is why they migrate to other continents when seasons change and this they keep on doing through out all ages but, the people of God who prophesy to be the church of God do not know the appointed times of worshiping God according to seasons that God created.

Jeremiah 8:8-9 says “How do ye say, we are wise, and the law of God is with us? Lo, certainly in vain made he it; the pen of scribes in vain. The wise men (leaders) are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they have rejected the word of the Lord; and what wisdom is in them?’’

If we go back to creation in Genesis 1: 3-5   “And God said, let there light: and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.

And God called the light day, and the darkness He called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.” Here we see that the sun initially was not created, there was light and darkness, but there was no sun. And God did this deliberately for a good purpose.     The earth went on for three days without the sun but with adequate light for one to see. So the sun and moon were not created for lights only but also for a special reason. Let us look at the reason why the sun, moon and stars were created, for in Genesis 1:14 “And God said, let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night, and let them be signs and for season, and for days and years.” Now this is clear that God created the sun moon and stars for determining signs, seasons, days, and years. So God was putting a Calendar in the Universe where no human being can change or temper with it. Nobody can change the time a season starts or the time a day starts or the time a year starts because the objects that determine this change are up in the universe.

Though these objects, the sun, moon and stars are in the universe, the devil through the “little horn” during the Dark Ages has attempted to change the beginning of the year, day and seasons and has tabulated its calendar on paper (The Julian Calendar) which we all have in our homes and offices.

This calendar has the following changes:

I) The year starts in January instead of March-April, which is Abib or Nissan as the Bible states (read Exodus 12:1-2, Exodus 13: 4).

ii)The month starts anytime instead of in the New Moon as in the Bible (read Ezekiel 46: 1,3, Isaiah 66: 22-24,   Psalms 81: 3-5). The days of the month also differ some months have 28 days, 29 days, 30 days and 31 days etc The new moon comes after every 30 days - naturally.

iii) The week starts on the second day (Monday ) of the week instead of Sunday the Biblical first day of the week (read Mark 15: 42-   , Mark 16: 1-2, 9) - (we all know Jesus arose on the first day of    the week (Sunday) and was crucified on the Preparation Day (Friday) before the Sabbath (Saturday).

iv) The day starts at midnight instead of even to even (Leviticus 23: 32).                                                                Above all this, it has changed all the feasts of God and has tabled Babylonian feasts which are;

. Christmas (which is Tamuz’s birthday)

.   Easter (which is a memorial of the goddess Eashter an anti Christ)

.   Seventh -day Sabbath to Sunday

This all originated from Babylon and was instituted by Nimrod why initiated the building of the tower of Babel against God’s instructions. And he (Nemrod) is the one who instituted sun worshipping, and the day the sun was being worshipped was called Sunday, the day the moon was worshipped was called moon day -Monday and all the rest for the days of the week were named according to the planets of the universal which were being worshipped. The “little horn” in Daniel 7: 25 took over this work and enforced it upon the Christian Church after Christ’s ascension to heaven. During the period 538 A. D. to 1798 A.D, the Papacy wore out the saints of God that did not submit to his dogmas after he changed all God’ institutions as prophesied by Daniel 7: 25 we read “ And he shall speak great words against the most High, 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. ’’ During this time he changed all the Divine institutions which were appointed for man’s salvation and substituted with his institutions and therefore, fulfilling the prophecy of

Ezekiel 22: 26 which says “Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned mine holy things: they have put no difference between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my Sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.’’

These Sabbaths are written in plural “Sabbaths’’ not “Sabbath” and therefore are many types of Sabbaths including the Seventh-day Sabbath. We shall be studying them a lot in this study.

Let us now have a look at the Sabbaths which were instituted together during the times appointed by God.

Deuteronomy 6: 1, 17 says “Now these are the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments, which the Lord your God commanded to teach you, that ye must do them in the land ye go to possess it.’’

Verse 17 “Ye shall diligently keep the commandments of the Lord your God, and His testimonies, and His statutes, which He hath commanded the.” Read from the King James Version Bible.

From these verses, we find that God did not only give them the Ten Commandments but that He also gave statutes, testimonies and judgments. Let us see what judgments are: These are laws governing neighbor to neighbor relations, examples are those in Leviticus 18:4 - 30.

We also should keep the statutes which are the Lord’s feasts, see Leviticus 23:14 (this is the feast of unleavened bread) and Leviticus 23: 41 (the feast of tabernacles) Leviticus 23:41 Leviticus23:31 (the day of Atonement which is also a feast.)

Psalms 81:3; (The New Moon which is the first day of the Biblical month and is a feast.) All these and many are called statutes, and are commanded that we should keep them.

We are commanded to keep the testimonies and these are testimonies in the Bible and also in the Spirit of Prophecy. Revelations 12:17, Revelations 19:10, Isaiah 8:20.

We have now seen that the Lord requires us to do four things which are to keep the;

    1. Commandments

    2. Statutes

    3. Judgments

    4. Testimonies

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These were all given on Mount Sinai or Horeb, Nehemiah 9:13 says “Thou camest down also upon Mount Sinai, and speakest with them from heaven, and gavest them right judgments, and true laws, good statutes and commandments.”

Let us look at the reason God gave us these four laws; commandments, statutes, judgments and testimonies. Deuteronomy 6:24 -25 reads

“And the Lord commandments us to do all these statutes, to fear the Lord our God, for our good always (our blessings) that He might preserve us alive, as it is at this day.” Verse 25 “And it shall be our righteousness, if we observe to do all these commandments before the Lord our God, as He hath commanded.”

Verse 24 has given us three reasons for keeping these laws which are:

To fear God

For Blessings always (for our good always)

For our protection (preserve alive) as to this day verse 25 has one major reason which is;

For our righteousness or our (seal) or Perfection.

During the Old Testament period, before Christ was crucified, God had added the law of ordinances - these were animal sacrifices which were killed during the feast days and also during animal sacrifices. Read Numbers 19:1 - 2 “And the Lord spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying. This is the ordinance of the Law which the Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring thee a red heifer without spot, wherein is no blemish, and upon which never came yoke.’’ These animal sacrifices pointed to the sacrifice that was to be done by Christ on the cross, and these are the only ones that were blotted by the cross since they pointed to the body of Christ. Read Colossians 2: 14, 16-17. “Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross.’’ Sow we see that the handwriting of ordinances or Animal sacrifices (as given in number 19: 1-2) was blotted out at the cross but not the commandments, statutes, judgment nor testimonies as some have thought. This handwriting of ordinances or animal sacrifices was against us since it involved killing of animals all the time yet the Lord says “Thou shalt not kill.” This was a burden. Colossians 2:16-17 says “Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or drink, or of the New Moon, or of the Sabbath days: which are a shadow of things to come: but the body is Christ.”

Let us carefully analyse these verses.

The Ordinances/ Animal sacrifices have been nailed to the cross; therefore, let no man judge you in meat. Most people think meat is flesh, meat is food Read Genesis 1:29.But when the Bible says flesh then this is of animal (Numbers 11:4). So the meat is the specified food that is supposed to be eaten in feast days, let no man judge you in this food nor in drink or in respect of an holyday, or of the New moon, or of the Sabbath days: These have been blotted out, but are a shadow of things to come meaning they still have a fulfillment e.g.,-the Sabbath has fulfillment of the millennium which is in heaven. So sin was permitted for 6000 years and millennial rest is 1000 years , bringing a total of 7000 years complete everything , therefore, 1000 years is equal to one day (2Peter3:8).To meet this fulfillment we have to work for six (6)days and rest for one (1)day, giving a total of seven (7) days (or 7000) .

-The New moon still has a future fulfillment you see; even in heaven we shall be observing the New moon. (See Isaiah 66:22-24). “For as the New heavens and the new earth which l 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 .And they shall go forth, and look upon the carcasses of the man that have transgressed before me: for their worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched :and they shall be an abhorring unto all flesh .” So you see God will use the New moon and the Sabbath as a day when people shall go out to see the carcasses of men who did not observe the New moon and the Sabbath.

Therefore, Paul in Colossians 2:16 says the keeping of the New moon and Sabbath is a “shadow of things to come.’’ Paul is not saying these have been nailed to the cross but he is saying let no man judge you in “meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holy day, or of the new moon or of the Sabbath days. Paul is actually saying; Since the Ordinances (animal sacrifices) have been nailed to the cross, no man should say on the New moon bring a lamb or an animal for sacrifices because the animal sacrifices have been nailed as they pointed to the body of Christ but the new moon, holy days, Sabbath days are still a shadow of things to come (verse 17) says “ but the body is of Christ” meaning the body of the animals that were being slain represented the body of Christ.

lf the New moons are blotted as well, so why are they still to be kept in heaven and new earth? lf they were nailed at the cross, who has removed the nail? It is visibly clear that the New moons and Sabbaths and holy days are still binding. And these are statutes that should be kept.

Let us look at the statutes/feast of the Lord.

FEAST NUMBER 1: Leviticus 23: 1-3

“And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying. Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, concerning the feasts of the Lord, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, even these are my feasts. Six days shall work be done but the seventh day is the Sabbath of rest, an holy convocation; ye shall do no work therein: it is the Sabbath of the Lord in all your dwellings.”

Here we learn that the Sabbath day, besides being the fourth commandment, is the first feast of the Lord. In Exodus 20:8-11, the Sabbath is a commandment to rest only, but in Leviticus 23:1-3 the Sabbath is a commandment of convocation which means the day of a holy coming together to worship. Therefore, if you are keeping the Sabbath by resting at home only then you are keeping the commandment of Exodus 20:8-11, but if you are keeping the Sabbath by holy convocation as well (holy coming together), then you are keeping the feast of Leviticus 23:1-3. The Sabbath is a shadow of things to come, as explained earlier on, it points to a future fulfillment which is the 1000 years of millennium. In these 1000 years nobody shall afflict one self, everybody is to rejoice, so nobody is allowed to fast on a Sabbath since it will be the opposite of the happiness that will be experienced during the millennium, besides that, the lord says the Sabbath is a feast, who can fast in a feast? If fast on a Sabbath, we are surely joining the devil who will be bound in chains during the 1000 years of millennium. The devil will not rejoice during the millennium, he will be in the bottomless pit - Simple!

Feast Number 2: Leviticus 23:4

“These are the feasts of the Lord, even holy convocations, which ye shall proclaim in their seasons. In all the feasts God has put emphasis on convocation that is, gathering together and also each feast should be kept at the Right Season “which ye shall proclaim in their seasons” For instance, we have spring, summer, autumn, winter, if a feast should be in spring God does not want it kept in summer or winter NO!! but it should be kept at the right season because God made the seasons for that purpose.

Remember Genesis 1:14.

Leviticus 23:5 says “In the fourteenth day of the first month at even is the Lord’s Passover.” This verse calls for wisdom. God has indicated the day and time of the Passover for one to know the fourteenth day of the first month, he needs to know which one is the first Biblical month of the year. In this case it is March-April or Abib/Nissan

(Exodus 13:4, Exodus12:1-8). If one knows the first month of the year, he needs to know

the first day of that month, which is the new moon, then counting from the New moon of the first month, one should know the fourteenth day of the first month, then at (even) or night of that fourteenth day, it then becomes the fifteenth day since a day starts at sunset, therefore, this is the time of the Passover feast. This calls for simple calculation using the

moon as calendar not the Roman calendar which we have on our walls. Now you see why

God wants us to keep the New moon, so we can maintain God’s calendar.

The Israelites were eating the Passover lamb every year on the fifteenth day (night of the fourteenth) of the first month. This lamb pointed to the body of Christ (see Exodus12:1-14). They did not eat this lamb four times a year but once every year at even/night. Let us

Read Patriarchs and Prophets page 539 “On the fourteenth day of the first month, at even, the Passover was celebrate, its solemn, impressive ceremonies commemorating

The deliverance from bondage in Egypt, and pointing forward to sacrifice that should deliver us from the bondage of sin. When the Saviour yielded up His life on Calvary, the significance of the Passover ceased, and the ordinance of the Lord’s Supper was instituted as a memorial of the same event of which the Passover had been a type.”

Here we see that the ordinance of the Lord’s Supper was instituted as a memorial of the same event which is the fifteenth day (night of the fourteenth) of the

First Biblical month. So Mrs. E. White says we should often eat the Lord’s Supper - meaning every year on the fourteenth day of the first month. Jesus Christ sat with the disciples on the fourteenth day of the first month at even (which then becomes fifteenth)

to institute the Lord’s Supper and did not eat the Lord’s Supper every three months or thirteenth Sabbath at mid-day, but on the night of the fourteenth day ( which is fifteenth )

of the first month. So it is a discord to put the Lord’s Supper on a Sabbath at mid-day because the Sabbath is already another feast as we have read, if the fifteenth day of the first month coincides with the weekly Sabbath, it is then a High day/big Sabbath - which

is a feast within a feast. Not the “big Sabbaths” that we always see.

So those who lived before the cross ate the actual lamb on the fourteenth day of the first Biblical month at even, and those who lived after the cross should eat the bread and wine or Lord’s Supper on the same date and time - this is proper keeping of the Passover feast.

The Lamb was substituted by bread and wine. If we read Exodus 12: 1-4, we will find that this Lamb was eaten by every member of the family, in fact, the lamb was selected according to size of the family including children. So even the Lord’s Supper should be given to children as well since they also are included in the Kingdom of heaven and, therefore, should unite with the body of their Lord. Denying them to partake of the Lord’s Supper is offering them to the devil. Where is it written in the Bible that children

Should not partake of the Lord’s Supper, when the actual lamb was being eaten by every member of the family?

FEAST NUMBER 3: Leviticus 23:6

“And no the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread unto the Lord: seven days ye must eat unleavened bread.” After the Lord’s Supper is eaten on the evening of the fourteenth day it will already be fifteenth day since a day starts at sunset. So for seven days which is from the fifteenth day to twenty-first day of the first Biblical month bread without leaven is eaten. This preaches that we are supposed to have sinless lives-since leaven is a symbol of sin. So anything with leaven is not permitted in that week.

Leviticus 23:7 “In the first day ye shall have a holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.” If the fifteenth day of the first month falls on any day of the week, that day is a Sabbath or a holy convocation. No servile work is done except preparing food. We are not supposed even to go to work (that brings income) since this work is servile. The fifteenth day and the twenty-first day of the first Biblical month and also the seventh-day Sabbath of that week, bringing the total number of Sabbaths in the week to three Sabbaths.

Leviticus 23:8”But ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord seven days: in the seventh day is an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.” We no longer burn offerings since these animal sacrifices were nailed to the cross, but we are expected to live holy exceptional lives in that whole week and fire is a symbol of the Holy Spirit. If we do not observe this unleavened bread feast then we preach that people are never going to be perfect.

Feast Number 4: Leviticus 23:9-11

“And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, when ye be come into the land which I give unto you and shall reap the harvest thereof, then ye shall bring a sheaf of the first fruits of your harvest unto the priest: And he shall wave the sheaf before the Lord, to be accepted for you. On the morrow after the Sabbath the priest shall wave it.” On the fourteenth day of the first Biblical month is the Lord’s Passover then the fifteenth day starts the first day of unleavened bread, the morrow after that week’s Sabbath is a Sunday during the week of unleavened bread. God is not interested in the first fruits of grains only, but in the first fruits of saints for the saints are His Harvest. If we look back when Jesus died, it was the Passover week-graves of the saints were opened but they came out on the Sunday Jesus was resurrected.

(Matthew 27:52-53). These were the first fruits of the dead and a first harvest to the Lord who went to Heaven that Sunday to be offered as First fruits to the high Priest. So this is the format of how God’s Harvest is going to go about, at one of the Passover feast on the morrow after Sabbath (Sunday) of the week of unleavened bread, a group of the first of the first fruits or (wave sheaf) are to be ordained from the living saints. These are those who become perfect first from the church of God. This group shall be responsible for the training of the first fruits or the 144 000 which are to be ordained at the feast of Pentecost which is fifty (50) days after this Passover Sunday where the first of first fruits or wave sheaf were ordained. So the wave sheaf are actually the teachers of the first fruits or the 144 000.

Leviticus 23:15-16 says” And ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the Sabbath, from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven Sabbaths shall be complete. Even unto the morrow after the seventh Sabbath shall ye number fifty days; and ye shall offer a new meat offering unto the Lord.” Fifty (50) days counting from the Sunday of the Passover week when the wave sheaf was offered, will bring us to the Sunday and this fiftieth day is called the day of Pentecost. “Pente” means “fifty” so on the day of Pentecost.

Leviticus 23:17 says,” ye shall bring out of your habitations two wave loaves of two tenth deals: They shall be of fine flour; they shall be baken with leaven; they are the first fruits unto the Lord.” This day is when the 144 000 shall receive the latter rain after being trained by the wave sheaf. For seven Sabbath from the Sunday of the Passover

week to the fiftieth day is the day of Pentecost. So this is the day when John in Revelation 14: 1 says “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.” Mount Sion is in Israel - This is where there was David’s capital city.

So this day of Pentecost in Leviticus 23:15. So the latter rain is going to come exactly on the day of Pentecost like it did with the former rain of Acts 2:1. “And when the day of Pentecost was fully come.” So it had to be a day of Pentecost counting from the Passover Sunday after the resurrection of Christ stayed for forty (40) days with His disciples and later on left them to wait for this Pentecost, and they waited for ten more days which adds up to fifty, then the former rain came on time, on the of Pentecost. So the latter rain is promised in Jeremiah 5: 24 “Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear the lord our God (by keeping feasts) that giveth rain, both the former and

the latter, in His season: He reserveth unto us the appointed weeks of the harvest.”

Those seven weeks of harvest in Leviticus 23:15 from the Passover Sunday to Pentecost

day, are reserved by God for us to observe and thereby receive the latter rain in its season

This is why Zechariah 10:1 says “Ask ye the lord rain in the time of the latter rain;” And the time of the latter rain is the day of Pentecost in the spring season. How easy it is!

So, when the 144000 are harvested on the day of Pentecost they in turn should preach so that the second fruits are harvested on the feast of Tabernacles (camp meeting). Just the same way the 120 disciples received the former rain on the day of Pentecost in AD31, they preached until 3 000 Jews were baptized on that same day (Acts 2:41). The 120 disciples who had received the former rain had been taught by the wavesheaf who had risen when Jesus was resurrected. (See Mathew 27:53). “After they arose they appeared unto many.” Telling people the truth since the Jews had lied that Christ had been stolen by his disciples. So these saints told the truth that Christ was the one who had been raised from the grave. This resulted into 120 disciples being prepared for the early rain. Even the Christians who lived after the cross kept the feasts. ( Read Acts 20:16, Acts 27:9, 1 Corinthians 16:8, Daniel 8;14-the 2300 years determined on 22 October 1844 which was the tenth day of seventh month, the day of Atonement feast).

FEAST NUMBER 5: Day of Atonement (Leviticus 23:27-33)

Leviticus 23:27 “Also on the tenth day of this seventh month there shall be a day of Atonement: it shall be a holy convocation unto you; and ye shall afflict your souls, and offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord,” To get seventh month we count from the first month which is Abib/Nisan, March-April. So we get to September-October. We also must count ten days from the new moon of the seventh month and that tenth day is the day of Atonement. We are supposed to afflict ourselves (fast). This is the only feast were food is not allowed to be eaten. In that day as in the typical service either sins which have accumulated for the whole year are blotted from the books in heaven or names of those who do not confess their sins are blotted out from the records in heaven. For we read in Leviticus 23:28-31 “And ye shall do no work in that same day: for it is a day of atonement, to make an atonement for you before the Lord your God. For whatsoever soul it be that shall not be afflicted in that same day , he shall be cut off from among his people. And whatsoever soul it be that doeth any work in that same day, the same soul will I destroy from among his people. Ye shall do no manner of work: it is a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.” Even if the 2300 days of Daniel 8:14 terminated in 1844, and we are in the Day of Atonement prophetically (we cannot afford to practically fast from 1844 to today), but it is a requirement that the tenth day of the seventh month should be kept as a fast. The disciples also kept this day well after the cross (Acts 27:9).

FEAST NUMBER 6: feast of Tabernacles (Camp Meeting) (Leviticus 23:34 -42)

Exactly five days after the Day of Atonement, people are required to go and celebrate that their sins have been blotted out and this feast is the feast of tabernacles.

Leviticus 23: 33-41 “And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, The fifteenth day of this seventh month shall be the feast of tabernacles for seven days unto the lord. On the first day shall be an holy convocation: (a Sabbath) ye shall do no servile work therein. ……(verse 38) Beside the Sabbath of the Lord, and beside your gifts and beside your vows, and beside your free will offerings, which ye give unto the Lord……(verse 39) Also in the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when ye have gathered in the fruit of the land, ye

shall keep the feast unto the Lord seven days: on the first day shall be a Sabbath, and on the eight day shall be a Sabbath……. (Verse 41) And ye shall keep it a feast unto the Lord seven days in the year. It shall be a statute for ever in your generations: ye shall celebrate it in the seventh month.” When the first fruits (144000)

are ordained on the day of Pentecost they then also preach and harvest the second fruits in the church since Leviticus 23:39 says “when ye have gathered in the fruit of the land” meaning the second fruits from the church. Then probation for the church closes during the feast of tabernacles. Thereby harvest commences from the fallen churches and these are called Gentiles. Mrs. E.G. White says Jesus is coming to collect His saints at the feast

of tabernacles. So we should observe the feast of tabernacles in the appointed date, fifteenth day of the seventh month. Great controversy page 399 says it all: “These types were fulfilled, not only as to the event, but as to the time.’’ Last paragraph.   “In like manner the types which relate to the second advent must be fulfilled at the time pointed out in the symbolic services.’’

So the symbolic service started with the Passover feast, then Pentecost, then the feast of Tabernacles. So these feasts are the three harvests of the Lord in their order:

    Passover           = Wave sheaf

            Pentecost          = 144000

            Tabernacles     = Great multitude which no man can number (Revelation 7:9)

All these feasts were abolished by the “little horn” of Daniel 7:25 that says “it shall think to change times and laws.” The Amplified Version Bible says “it shall think to change times and religious feasts.” So we all along, have been observing feasts according to the Catholic way and thereby worshipping the beast. Why not worship God alone and keep His calendar, hence this will enable you to keep His feasts at the correct appointed times rather than keeping the Beasts feasts? So God says He shall send Elijah the prophet to straighten up the statutes. Read Malachi 4:4-5 “Remember ye the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded unto him in Horeb (Mt Sinai) for all Israel, with the statutes and judgments. Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord.” We are living near the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord, so any one who feels and teaches that the statutes should be observed is doing Elijah’s work which has been promised. And God says well done faithful servant of God. Remember Elijah had a great

Opposition from Ahab ruler of Israel, so Elijah of today should have greater opposition from King Ahab (church leaders) ruler of Israel of today which is the Church of God.

In Matthew 17:11 Jesus promised that “……Elias truly shall first come, and restore all things.” Yes before the great and dreadful day of the Lord we should remember the Sabbath day and keep it holy.

Israel of old was led astray in statutes and judgments by its leaders (see Ezekiel 20:11-12) “And I gave them my statutes and shewd them my judgments, which if a man do, he shall even live in them. 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.” Israel of old was given statutes which are feasts but they trampled on them. We also are repeating their mistakes. If you have observed, all the feasts had holy convocations which are Sabbaths, this is why we have a plural on the word “Sabbaths”. Sabbaths are many Sabbaths. Ezekiel 20:13 says “But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness: they walked not in my statutes. And they despised my judgments …. Read Ezekiel 20:18 which says “But I said unto their children in the wilderness, walk ye not in the statutes of your fathers’ neither observe their judgments. (Verse 19) “I am the Lord your God, walk in my statutes and keep my judgments and do them.” He still repeats that we should not walk in the statutes of our fathers which are: Christmas, Easter etc. Even the church of God still keeps the Feast of Tabernacles at wrong times, in this district during Heroes day, the other district on the following week and so on, and you wonder which one of these weekly tabernacles the harvest will take

place? How gross darkness this is, dense, dense darkness indeed!

Read 1 Kings 12:32-33 “And Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month on the fifteenth day of the month, like unto the feast that is in Judah …… So he offered upon the altar which he had made in Bethel the fifteenth day of the eighth month, even in the month which he had devised of his own heart; and ordained a feast unto the children of Israel.” What a close miss. He actually went to the feast of Tabernacles but on the wrong date “which he devised of his own heart.” No wonder why God used Prophets even when the kings of Israel were present. Look at how they twisted God’s statutes. Therefore God would definitely use Elijah and Jeremiah, Isaiah and some other prophets to give these kings of Israel a stern rebuke. Those who have the Study Bible with Mrs. E. G. White’s commentary should read the comments over this text of 1King 12:32-33 which begins by saying. “Danger in manifesting Jeroboam’s spirit” and ask yourself “Who designs your dates of the feast of Tabernacles?” Is it God or Jeroboam King of Israel (leaders)?

Is there anywhere in the Bible where the seventh month is indicated to be August? If not, why kill yourself with that cold weather which makes others to even miss the morning manna because it will be too cold - when the actual feast of Tabernacles was instituted for the warmer season Autumn - in September-October when branches are fresh. Think twice and save your lives.

Is it right to shun God’s feasts and exchange them for the so called Dorcus, Amo, Youth camps, Dorcamo rallies etc instead?

THE SEVENTH FEAST IS THE NEW MOON

As explained earlier, the New moon is the first day of the month in Heaven. One shall not know when the month begins. The following are verses on New moon. Ezekiel 46:1-3, Amos 8:5, Psalms 81:3,4, Numbers 10:10, Leviticus 23:31, Ezekiel 45:17 and 2 Chronicles 2:4.

The only way to know when God’s feasts begin is to keep record of the new moon. Since all the feasts are based on the heavenly (lunar) calendar.

Sister White has shown that in these last days the Holy Spirit will expose errors and give us truth from the Bible, in its native purity and entirely new. “Great truths that have lain unheeded and unseen since the day of Pentecost are to shine from God’s Word, in their native purity. To those who truly love God, the Holy Spirit will reveal truths that…… are entirely new.” (Fundamentals of Christian Education page 473) “For His church in every generation God has a special truth and a special work….. As in earlier ages, the special truths for this time are found, not with the ecclesiastical authorities (Ministry), but with men and women who are not too learned or too wise to believe the word of God.” (Christ Object Lessons pages 78, 79)

Early Writings Topic- The Mystery Of Iniquity- Page 215

"Satan could not hinder the plan of salvation. Jesus was crucified, and rose again the third day. But Satan told his angels that he would make the crucifixion and resurrection tell to his advantage. He was willing that those who professed faith in Jesus should believe that the laws regulating the Jewish sacrifices and offerings ceased at the death of Christ, if he could push them farther and make them believe that the law of ten commandments also died with Christ.

I saw that many readily yielded to this device of Satan. All heaven was moved with indignation as they saw the holy law of God trampled underfoot.

Jesus and all the heavenly host were acquainted with the nature of God's law; they knew that He would not change or abrogate it. The hopeless condition of man after the fall caused the deepest sorrow in heaven, and moved Jesus to offer to die for the transgressors of God's holy law. But if that law could be abrogated, man might have been saved without the death of Jesus. Consequently His death did not destroy the law of His Father, but magnified and honored it and enforced obedience to all its holy precepts."

Here are presented two groups (Christians) of which both have fallen under the deceptions of the Lucifer, the first group believe that the laws regulating the Jewish sacrifices (Statutes, .e.g. Passover, Pentecost, New Moon, Day of Atonement etc) have been nailed to the cross (yet the commandments they keep therefore non-other than the seventh day Adventist Church fit this description), the second group is even more deceived as the devil has pushed them further to even say that the laws of the 10 commandments have been nailed to the cross( these are those who disregard the 10 commandment Sabbath and thus worship on Sunday)

Yet a careful study of the New Testament will show that all these laws that these two groups are disregarding where in actual fact not nailed to the cross as we see the apostles (who where Christians) keeping them long after the death of Christ. (Acts 2:1; 18:21; 20:6,16 1Corinthians5:7-8;16:8 Isaiah 66:22- 23) and Jesus Himself never bloated them out at the cross (Matthew 5:17 -19) except the sacrificial law (law of Ordinances) Colossians 2:14 -17

Thus because the devil through the papacy/Rome during the dark ages changed God’s laws (Daniel7:25)(not one law but many thus not the Sabbath only) and times (God’s calendar Genesis 1:14-19).

Prophets & Kings 678 “ ….in the time of the end every divine institution will be restored…”

Malachi 4:4,5 here we see the promise of a restorer of the ways of god, a prophet whom God sends to his people Israel(the SDA Church) as in the days of old ( 1Kings18) to restore the true worship of God.

Vatican works to stop Sunday shopping in Italy

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Vatican works to stop Sunday shopping in Italy

In yet one more development to establish Sunday sacredness, the Roman Catholic Church, trade unions and small business associations have joined forces in a bid to save Sundays.
           Clearly the call for honoring Sunday is being presented to the masses as a time of rest from the stresses and bustle of everyday life. However, the ultimate objective of the prime mover behind the Sunday movement, the church of Rome, is more dogmatic.
          Hence, we read these revealing words in Dies Domini, the late Pope John Paul II call for universally legislated Sunday sacredness: “When, through the centuries, she has made laws concerning Sunday rest, the Church has had in mind above all the work of servants and workers, certainly not because this work was any less worthy when compared to the spiritual requirements of Sunday observance, but rather because it needed greater regulation to lighten its burden and thus enable everyone to keep the Lord's Day holy. In this matter, my predecessor Pope Leo XIII in his Encyclical Rerum Novarum spoke of Sunday rest as a worker's right which the State must guarantee" (Dies Domini, Section 66).
           All this, of course, is contrary to God's word. more informations

The Pope of Rome is not only calling for Sunday sacredness, his mark of authority in religious matters; but has vowed to have it universally enacted and enforced.

Sunday Law

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2013 Global 666 Sunday Martial Law? By OBAMA, OPRAH, POPE, UN, JAY-Z, whole-World-Presidents, Freemasons, Illuminati‘s and all the Secret Societies Group: Please watch the video here

PURPOSE OF THE PLANNED GLOBAL ECONOMIC COLLAPSE: TO PREPARE FOR THE FINAL WORLD SYSTEM

2012-11-02T17:03:00.000+03:00

Notice the date on the above article that was carried by USA TODAY.

At least 2 years ago, a religious authority with world-wide recognition called for an interesting kind of global change. It was a call for the kind of change that only the Bible could have foreseen. Are you ready ? Were you sleeping ? Let's take a look at what some of us are noticing in the news and pay special attention to the dates here too.

Recently it has been mentioned to me that the Vatican is calling for a new global economic order. I grieve for our slumbering people and my own sin-sick soul. My thoughts are regarding those of us who are just now noticing what has been happening in our world. I question in my mind, "Where have you been for the past several years ?" The Pope/Vatican has made this call several times before. Are we just now awaking from sleep ? May the Lord shake us out of this deathlike stupor.

According to the Bible, there is coming a time when human beings, regardless of class, color or gender, will be forced to choose between participating in a controlled economic system that has specific worship requirements or choose to trust in God and respect His specific worship requirements.

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. (Revelation 13:16,17)

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, The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb: (Revelation 14:9,10)

Which power do you think is represented by the beast with 7 heads, 10 horns and 10 crowns in Revelation 13:1-8 ? We will explore that in future articles. You have some clues in this article. In previous posts to this site, we have discovered that the United States is the power represented by the beast with two horns like a lamb in Revelation 13:11.
Some poor misguided souls are looking for the U.S. government and Federal Reserve to do something, perhaps another round of stimulus or a QE3 as they call it. It's not here and some still strongly believe that it's coming. I've had some people get a bit angry and even mock me for going contrary to the popular opinion about it and saying that there will be no QE3. Why the anger ? Maybe because they believe they understand how things work and they think that I don't. Many don't realize or believe that what we are seeing is the unfolding of final events.

The fluctuating prices of gold and silver are not really the issue. Neither Greece's defaulting economy nor the Euro are the true causes of the world economic crisis. Since, Bible prophecy points to the U.S. as leading the world into the final sequence of events leading to the return of Jesus Christ, it is the American form of currency, the dollar, that should be watched for signs of deterioration towards the coming new system of oppression. Hyperinflation (excessive money printing and price increase) or deflation (continual decrease in the prices of goods and services) or even both along with the steady erosion of the principles in the U.S. constitution will help to achieve this.

Yet, there are other influences at work even more powerful than the U.S. Federal Reserve, the global bankers and IMF all of which are lending institutions. Hence, there will soon be many more bank failures preparing the way for change. The fact of the matter is that there is a NEW ECONOMIC/RELIGIOUS/POLITICAL SYSTEM scheduled for arrival on planet earth in the near future. It is the last one mentioned in the last book of the Bible. No nation will escape the purging of old economic systems. Not even China will be exempt from the "extreme economic makeover."

China - http://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/2011/10/10/special-report-chinas...

Libya was not economically stressed so what happened ? Libya had 3 strikes against it which called for it's downfall.

#1 - Libya's now deceased leader, Gaddafi, was attempting to be independent of the world system which is currently manipulated and oppressed in large measure by the beast described in Revelation 13:11.

#2 - Libya's former leader had firmly held religious beliefs that were directly opposed to the religion of the beast of Revelation 13:1-8.

#3 - Libya's final offense against these two world "powers that be" was in seeking independence from the corrupt global financial system by returning to the use of gold as money. (see the video links below) This offense was not to be tolerated by the powers that be because the new system which will be based on completely different principles is almost here and wealth or the lack thereof will not help anyone. Read that Bible verse again and take heed to the warning those of you who think gold and silver will save you.

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. (Revelation 13:16,17)

If you are considering starting a family right now, it may not be the wisest plan to do so at this time. Consider the words of Jesus Christ Himself which is recorded by 3 different disciples under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit.

And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days ! (Matthew 24:19)

And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earthdistress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; (Luke 21:25)

But woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck, in those days! for there shall be great distress in the land, and wrath upon this people. (Luke 21:23)

But woe to them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days ! (Mark 13:17)

If Jesus speaking through Bible verses doesn't appeal to our reasoning abilities, maybe some other truth will. Try the link below as a starting point.

30 Signs That America Has Become A Horrible Place For Children - http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/30-signs-that-america-has...

It is only by the grace of God that any of us are awake to the situation. However, it is interesting to note that in His parable of the ten virgins, Jesus spoke of all 10 virgins, both the foolish and the wise, as being asleep. The difference is that the wise had oil in their lamps and were prepared for the hour of need; the time when the bridegroom arrived. Tough times are directly ahead and the work for the salvation of souls is almost ended. Many of even God's truly converted people, the wise virgins, have to a large degree been asleep with regard to this work. What will you do for Christ, in Christ and by the grace of God in these last days ? Would you like to know how America will work for the beast of Revelation 13:1-8 ? Look for more details in the soon coming articles and posts.

If you have not done so already or if you have backslidden toward the world and are now worldly...please in the name of Jesus awake and stay alert if you are awake.

Please...surrender your heart to God while there is still time; surrender your thoughts and feelings to Jesus Christ the one who loves you and died in order for you and I to be able to obtain victory over all sin and selfishness in our lives...God loves you..God wants you...Not just to be forgiven...Not to play church, but to truly become Christ-like before you die so that you can be prepared to enjoy eternity with Him. A Christlike person is the only kind of person that could enjoy heaven and the only kind of person that could be trusted in heaven.

Pray like this - Father in heaven, I am a sinner and I believe that Jesus Christ died on the cross to pay the penalty for my sins. I accept Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior right now and I ask you to give me a new heart. New motives, new desires and new purposes that will be in harmony with your law of 10 commandments. I thank you and praise you for the forgiveness of my sins and for causing me to be born again right now, In Jesus, name, amen.

MUSIC AND MOODS

2012-10-17T17:08:00.001+03:00

No study of Christian standards would be complete without considering the influence of music. Multiplied millions of young people all over the world have been brought under the hypnotising spell of rock-and-roll. Like a common denominator, it has crossed the boundaries of language, culture, and religion to affect more lives than almost any other social force. Even the Christian church has been invaded by so-called "gospel rock" which has become the evangelistic vehicle of church young people in communicating with other youth. But what message is being communicated by the tempo and rhythm of this "now" music? How can we explain the obsessive devotion of so many millions to the same kinds of sounds?

Very few people understand the tremendous power that music exercises over the conscious and the subconscious nature of those who listen to it. It has long been known that martial music, band music, and religious music could produce predictable emotional responses. Moods of listeners have been programmed by certain kinds of music. Vast segments of people have reacted in almost uniform togetherness to the same controlled music. They have been tranquilised into nostalgia or lethargy by soothing melodies, or they have been agitated to actual violence by appropriate "wild" syncopated rhythms.

How does music produce moods? It has now been established scientifically that moods have a biological basis. They are produced by a combination of brain activity, blood circulation, and body chemistry. All these functions are affected in an extraordinary degree by music. Medical research has revealed that nerves of the ear have more extensive connections than any other nerves of the body. In fact, there is hardly a function of the human system which cannot be affected by musical tones. Actual tests have proved that music has a direct influence on pulse rate, blood pressure, the nervous system, digestion, muscles, and glands of the body.

Dr. Schoen makes this remarkable statement in his book, The Psychology of Music: "Music is made of the stuff which is in and of itself the most powerful stimulant known among the perceptual processes .... Music operates on our emotional faculty with greater intensiveness and rapidity than the product of any other act." Page 39.

The most amazing fact of all is how the physical organs react to music. Since the body only functions when the brain commands it to, we know that music, in some way, has to reach the brain first of all. But what part of the brain perceives the music? One of the most important discoveries ever made in this area has established that music is "heard" in that portion of the brain which receives the stimuli of emotions, sensations, and feelings. In fact, music completely bypasses the brain centres involving reason and intelligence. It does not depend upon the master brain to gain entrance into the body. It enters by way of the thalamus, which is a relay station of all emotions, sensations, and feelings. Schullian and Schoen describe it thus: "Once a stimulus has been able to reach the thalamus, the master brain is automatically invaded, and if the stimulus is continued for some time, a closer contact between the master brain and the world of reality can be thus established." Music and Medicine, pp. 270, 271. (Emphasis supplied.)

Notice that the music has to be "continued for some time" to produce physical reactions through the conscious, master brain. The repetitive, percussive amplification of sound through the electric instruments of rock-and-roll produces a phenomenon which is better described than understood. Time magazine describes it in these words: "The hypnotic beat works a strange kind of magic. Many dancers become oblivious to those around them. They drift away from their partners. Inhibitions flake away, eyes glaze over, until suddenly they are seemingly swimming along in a sea of sound."

The most frightening thing about this whole subject is the irresistible assault of the music upon the emotions and then upon the actions. Since the attack is made through the thalamus, the individual who listens will be affected by the music without even making any conscious decision in the matter. This is why doctors have grasped music as a new way to reach the minds of the retarded and the mentally ill. It has opened the door for music to be used therapeutically to communicate with emotionally disturbed patients. Even autistic children are being remarkably stimulated to respond because they do not have to make any kind of voluntary decision-the music reaches the brain centre just by being perceived as sound, through the thalamus. Words may mean nothing to the children, but the sensory level is pried open by the music, providing access to the conscious brain.

Now this fascinating fact about music, though beneficial in reaching the mentally disturbed, has also provided a way for Satan to make a sneak attack upon almost anyone who will listen to the wrong kind of music. Without his even realising it, the listener's mind will be bent to whatever emotional attitude the devil wants to incorporate into the musical beat. Van deWall sums it up in this manner, "Much of what we call irresistible in music is so because we react on this sensory-motor level of functioning." Music in Hospitals, p. 15.

Later in his book Van deWall describes how the nerves transmit the music message to the various parts of the body: "Sound vibrations acting upon and through the nervous system give shocks in rhythmical sequence to the muscles, which cause them to contract and set our arms and hands, legs and feet in motion. On account of their automatic muscular reaction, many people make some movement when hearing music; for them to remain motionless would require conscious muscular restraint." Page 106.

With this summary of the subtle psychological effect of music on the brain and the body, we are better able to understand how the rhythm and beat of modern rock music has created so much moral havoc among the young. The incessant themes of illicit sex, drugs, and rebellion have been dinned into the brain, creating an emotional attitude of acceptance toward these aberrations of conduct.

By operating through the thalamus, Satan bypasses the mental and spiritual barricades of intelligent reason, and enters the citadel of the mind--the great control centre of all human decisions and action. There, in the mind, Satan has the equipment to translate sensual musical impressions into physical action. Through the telegraphic network of nerves reaching every part of the body, he can communicate the appropriate commands to act in accordance with the emotional stimuli of the music.

It has been no secret that some of the most popular rock-and-roll musicians are not only tied in with drugs but also with spiritualism. Bob Larson has documented the confession of some such performers that their success has been guaranteed by a covenant with Satan. This means that Satan is controlling the production of the music as well as the manner of its communicating with the listener. No great wonder then, that many rock-and-roll concerts have turned into orgies of obscenity, where both performers and listeners are virtually emotional pawns of satanic control.

Many have defended rhythmic music on the basis that it correlates with the natural body rhythms in producing more coordinated activity and accomplishment. It is certainly true that specially selected music increases the working capacity of the muscles. In his article, U.S.S.R.: Music and Medicine, Leonid Melnikov enlarges on this remarkable fact. "At the same time the tempo of the movements of the worker changes with the change of musical tempo. It is as if the music determines a good rapid rhythm of movement. Another series of experiments on students proved that not only the working capacity changes under the influence of music, but also the pulse and blood pressure." Music Journal XXVll: 18 (Nov., 1970).

Does this bodily response to specifically programmed musical selections mean that all rhythmic musical tones are beneficial to the body? On the contrary, although man has an inherent affinity for certain rhythms, there are some broken-meter, harmonic dissonances in the melodic line which are completely out of harmony with natural body rhythms. Such is the typical, insistent tempo of rock-and-roll music. Alice English Monsarrat in an article entitled Music--Soothing, Sedative or Savage, wrote, "A broken meter in the treble, played over an insistently regular beat in the left hand with gradually increasing rapidity almost to the point of frenzy ... is capable of producing the identical disintegrating and almost hysterical effect on an organism; as if a person would try to rush madly in two directions at the same time. Any psychiatrist knows that it is precisely this two-directional pull of conflicting drives of emotions that is helping to fill our mental hospitals with broken wrecks of humanity."

What Ms. Monsarrat is really saying is that to maintain a sense of well-being and integration, people must not be subjected too much to rhythms not in accord with one's natural body rhythms. If the truth were fully known, a vast proportion of the present teen-age restless rebellion might be traced to this constant exposure to incompatible rhythms.

The strategy of exploiting the sensual appetites is not a new approach for Satan. He has experimented with teenage emotions for almost 6,000 years and is well acquainted with their vulnerability. He has been delighted to manipulate the lives of unconverted young people through rock music, but he is even more delighted when he can intrude his mind-bending, hypnotic music into the church. By his age-old program of gradualism, he has managed to break down the fine sense of discrimination and to reproduce the same erotic musical beat in some Seventh-day Adventist churches. What a triumph for the devil when he manages to compromise the high standards of the last-day church! Any mingling of spiritual and carnal brings a reproach upon the people who are chosen to proclaim God's last warning message.

The only correct attitude for those who are called out of Babylon and the world is to close every door to the deceptive musical snares of our great spiritual enemy. There can be no compromise with the degrading music forms which have been Satan's tools of corrupting and destroying. We are reminded of Christ's words, "For that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God." Luke 16:15 [Open in Logos Bible Software (if available)] . In the light of this statement we should be even more guarded against music which has become so intensely popular with the world. Only a deep heart experience of love for Christ will empower our young people to take an unreserved stand against this "highly esteemed" deceptive instrument of Satan.

What is Jesuit?

2012-10-14T12:17:00.000+03:00

What is the Jesuit?~~~ QUESTION: What is the Jesuit Order? ANSWER: The Jesuit Order was founded in 1534 by Ignatius of Loyola, and was officially approved as a religious order of the Roman Catholic Church in 1540 by Pope Paul III. The head of the Jesuit Order is the Jesuit Superior General – the “Black Pope”. The “Black Pope” is the real power behind the Papal throne, and it is through the Papacy mechanism of the Roman Catholic Church-State that he controls the entire . The Jesuit Superior General is also the master these: his Jesuit Order , the Knights of Malta , the highest levels of the Knights of Columbus of all , the highest levels of Opus Dei , and the highest levels of Freemasonry through– and of all the subgroups that he controls these powerful and influential orders and organizations. (For example, through the Knights of Malta and high-level Freemasonry, the “Black Pope” controls the International Banking Community and the International Intelligence Community.)
The primary goals of the Jesuit Order are: (1) to roll back the Protestant Reformation and the freedoms that it brought to many of the inhabitants of this planet; (2) to enhance the power and prestige of the Papacy (and its “White Pope”); and, (3) to rule despotically over the governments of the world through the Papacy . (The Jesuits want a one-world government , a one-world religion , and a one-world economy – run by the Jesuit-controlled Roman Catholic Church-State!) The Jesuit Order is infamous for fomenting revolutions and wars, assassinating heads of State (e.g., President Abraham Lincoln and Mexican President Benito Juarez), and subverting nations. I believe that it is nearly impossible to understand European history and Church history (of the past 4½+ centuries) without a good understanding of the Protestant Reformation and the Jesuit-led Counter-Reformation. John Adams (1735-1826; 2nd U.S. President) stated: “My history of the JESUITS is not eloquently written, but it is supported by unquestionable authorities, [Ed.: and] is very particular and very horrible. Their restoration [Ed.: i.e., the Jesuits’ reinstatement as a religious order by Pope Pius VII in 1814] is indeed a step toward darkness, cruelty, perfidy, despotism , [Ed.: and] death . …I do not like the reappearance of the JESUITS. If ever there was a body of men who merited eternal damnation on earth and in hell , it is this Society of Loyola’s [Ed.: i.e., the Jesuit Order, “the Company”].” Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865; 16th U.S. President) stated: “This [Ed.: American Civil] war [Ed.: of 1861-65] would never have been possible without the sinister influence of the JESUITS.” French General Marquis de Lafayette (1757-1834) stated: “It is my opinion that if the liberties of this country – the United States of America – are destroyed , it will be by the subtlety of the Roman Catholic JESUIT priests, for they are the most crafty, dangerous enemies to civil and religious liberty . They have instigated most of the wars of Europe.” know the truth and the truth will set you free

PLEASE READ THIS AND COMPARE TO YOUR DAILY LIFE AND CHURCHES

2012-10-01T17:32:00.001+03:00

In my dream, I am standing in a large green grassy field and am reminded of the dream “The Old Gray Gate” and how the grass was green and the air was fresh. Many others are busy working in the field but it is as if the work we are doing is not fruitful. Suddenly my heavenly name is called and an angel descends from the sky. As he lands, his wings fold and fold and fold again into his back. As he approaches, he smiles and I recognize his dimples. It is the Herald. He comes up to me and I tell him that I have missed him and that it has been a while. He says that they (the angels) have been busy with much preparation to be done. I ask if he was the one that spoke to the lady named Candace. He answers no but that many angels are preparing many individuals for the King’s return and that he has been sent to show me something very important.
The Herald asks for my right hand and then his wings unfold from his back. We begin to ascend into the air. As we fly upwards, I say I have some other questions that I have wanted to ask. He says that God knows all our questions. I ask about the book Creeping Compromise and how I have seen this book mentioned so many times in my other dreams. I question why this book is not available to the many who want to read it. He answers that God knows of this and that He will take care of providing this book when it is time and in the way that He sees best. I ask if he or some of the other angels have been giving the book to certain individuals that need it. He responds that God provides when necessary the things that are necessary. The Herald tells me that God has heard the many prayers of individuals who have prayed about this book and that when the Great Creator is ready He will provide these, but it will be His way.
The Herald and I now arrive in the corridor and he says, “Let us sit here for a moment. I am now to show you some very private things. You are not to divulge the identity of who I now show to you. It is very important as to the work that lies ahead for those ‘who are they.’ We [the angels] have been working and soon you ‘who are they’ will begin your work. But you are not ready. Notice the details of what I show you and help in teaching others.” He smiles at me and says, “There is a great work to be done. Remember the whole universe is watching these important final moments.”
The Herald stands up and we walk through a wall and enter a room. I now see families sitting down to eat. He explains that they do not know we are there. I realize it is a special meal for a special occasion. The foods that are spread out on the table are what one would expect from a worldly person. The individuals hold hands and a prayer is given that is a mockery to the Creator of the universe. I watch as they serve up foods. The Herald says, “Notice the details. Notice they are fueling themselves on things that those who are they should not partake of.” I watch as they gorge themselves in the name of a special day. The Herald says that I need to understand and share the importance of what I am being shown. He asks me to tell him what I see them eating. I say that I see the main thing is something that used to be one of God’s creations.
The Herald calls me by my heavenly name and says, “You are to mention in detail what you see them partaking of. I need you to tell me what you see them eating.” I tell him that I see they have prepared a turkey with stuffing to be eaten. He inquires, “What other details do you notice?” I respond that I see potatoes and gravy. He says to notice that the gravy is all fat and also made from parts of a dead animal. I tell him, “There are vegetables though.” He questions, “But what of the vegetables? Notice these have been cooked, spread with oils and butters, and then spiced for flavor. Also notice these items are so cooked that all nutrients are cooked out of them.” I see large bowls containing different kinds of nuts that are not in a natural state. They are roasted and some are honey or sugar-coated. Others are covered in a hot flavor. The Herald asks, “Tell me what else you notice?” I answer that I see different breads and pastries with a variety of jams and jellies. He says to notice the drink they have. Some have served regular juice but others have served a fermented juice. I see cups of coffee waiting to stimulate them so they can keep eating.
The Herald says to come and see what they have waiting for later. We walk into another room and I see different pies--pumpkin, apple, cherry, lemon, and banana. He says to notice that they have all forms of toppings for these. There are also many kinds of cookies and candies. He says to notice they have ice cream as well. I open the freezer and there is almost every kind of flavor. We walk back to the tables and watch them eat and eat. Some have to undo their belts to make room for their swelling bellies.
The Herald now says to notice the clock. The hands are spinning quickly and when I look back, everyone is gone. When I ask where they are, he says he will show me. We walk throughout the house and everyone is sleeping and getting fatter after their feast. He says we must leave now. We walk back into the corridor and the Herald says that God’s people have asked for the Holy Spirit but how can God pour out His Spirit into vessels that sleep.
The Herald now says, “Come, I want to show you something.” We walk through the corridor and are in a field where wild horses live. He says, “These horses do not belong to anyone and they are only fed by the Great Creator. Notice how they run.” I watch them run and it is as if they have tremendous strength and energy. The Herald asks me what kind of condition I think these horses would be in if they lived and ate like the group I just saw.
The Herald says again to come with him to see something else. We walk through the wall and come upon a beautiful sports car. It is an exotic-looking car that cost thousands and thousands of dollars. He says to watch as the driver starts up the car. The engine instantly idles smoothly. The driver puts the car in gear and slowly accelerates out onto the track. It is now running very fast. He returns, gets out, and lovingly begins to wipe the beautiful finish with a soft towel. He now picks up a jug of high grade gasoline and carefully pours it into the car.
The Herald now tells me to come so he can show me this in a different way. We walk through the wall, through the corridor and back into where we just were. The driver walks over to this beautiful car and dumps cheap gasoline into it. He then pours bottles of soft drinks, caffeinated teas, and a large pot of coffee into the car. He stuffs many pastries, fast food hamburgers, French fries, burritos, chicken and turkey sandwiches, and hot dogs down the tank. Then he begins pouring a ten pound bag of sugar into the tank. Now the driver takes bottles of fuel additives that look like vitamins and dumps these into the tank. He then walks around the car and gets in. He tries to start the car and it begins jerking and coughing and belching out smoke. It finally starts and as he drives off, it backfires and smokes. The Herald turns to me and says, “The creator of that car designed a most perfect running machine. The driver chose to place the worst fuel in the tank rather than the best.” I watch as the car drives in the direction of a garage where a mechanic can work on it. The Herald says that as soon as the mechanic would repair the car, the driver would place other things back into the car.
The Herald is still holding my hand as we return to the corridor. We sit down and he explains that it is now time that we who are they correct our diets. We have a great work ahead of us and the things that we have been fueling ourselves with will prohibit the Holy Spirit’s work. We are to stop eating any living thing which God created that flies, walks, or swims. We are to put away and not eat of the desserts of life and to use the example of the horse and car to show how we should fuel ourselves.
The Herald now tells me, “Come. I want to show you something that you have seen before.” We stand up and walk through the wall. I know instantly where we are. This is the dream I had of our first meal in heaven (“At the Table”). I stand looking only as an observer. The table is long and everyone reclines on their side. The things that I see are too wonderful to put into words. The Herald says that he wants me to notice the things that have been placed on the table. I see a variety of foods spread out. There are things that look like bananas, apples, oranges, pears, grapes, and cherries. There is an assortment of leaves of different colors. I see an array of flowers to be eaten as well as to enjoy their beauty. There are all kinds of nuts that have been shelled and different kinds of grains harvested from the heavenly fields.
The Herald calls me by my heavenly name and says to look to the right down the table. I see Jesus as if He is walking through the table and coming towards me. He is pouring from a large pitcher into pure gold goblets framed in silver. The Herald informs me that each one sitting at the table has their names on each of their goblets. Their names are also written on the table. Jesus stops, looks at me and says, “I have asked my Herald to show you the things I have. I need you to notice the feast that I have prepared for you here. It is nothing like the feast you have now. I so want to work with My people but I cannot. I have asked you to prepare a vessel for which I can pour out My Spirit but you have not. Soon I will need to begin a great work. I have already begun with my angels, who are doing a great work.” I look at the table and ask if I may have a flower or a leaf from the table. The Great Host calls me by my heavenly name and says, “You must stay faithful to me and soon this, as well as so much more, is yours to enjoy. To those who are they, please come and dine at My table. Choose you now how you will live.” He calls me by my heavenly name once again and says, “I need you to share what I have shown you.” Jesus looks at the Herald and says, “Thank you.”

Seriousness

The Herald and I return to the corridor. We sit down and I begin crying. He says, “I know this is hard but soon, if you remain faithful, you will see the Great Host.” He tells me that diet is the hardest of anything to change but that we must change. Soon the Great Healer will have us working as healers. We cannot serve if we are sick like the car. The Herald says, “I am to have you read something and I will help you find it so you can share it with His people.” He informs me that Jesus instructed His prophet, Ellen White, to write what is now in the book Counsels on Diet and Foods. He says, “This book has information that needs to be read and understood. I have already shown you this book and you are now starting to understand the importance of it. It will soon be a year since the Great Healer healed you. All of Heaven rejoices with the miracle He has done and the mighty fruits that have already been harvested through your healing. Because of your healing there have been so many that have returned to that walk with God through the messages you have shared. Many have also been laid to rest after learning and believing in the messages. They will awake to see Jesus come in the clouds. Those that have severe health problems will be well if they only change the way they eat. In time the body can and will heal itself through the power of the Great Healer. I have shown you and you are now to write what Ellen White wrote so as to prepare those that are still learning. Please share this message from the Father.”
Counsels on Diet and Foods, pp. 17, 18:Our Saviour warned His disciples that just prior to His second coming a state of things would exist very similar to that which preceded the flood. Eating and drinking would be carried to excess, and the world would be given up to pleasure. This state of things does exist at the present time. The world is largely given up to the indulgence of appetite; and the disposition to follow worldly customs will bring us into bondage to perverted habits,--habits that will make us more and more like the doomed inhabitants of Sodom. I have wondered that the inhabitants of the earth were not destroyed, like the people of Sodom and Gomorrah. I see reason enough for the present state of degeneracy and mortality in the world. Blind passion controls reason, and every high consideration is, with many, sacrificed to lust. To keep the body in a healthy condition, in order that all parts of the living machinery may act harmoniously, should be a study of our life. The children of God cannot glorify Him with sickly bodies or dwarfed minds. Those who indulge in any species of intemperance, either in eating or drinking, waste their physical energies and weaken moral power.
The Herald now instructs me that it is time he return me, as I have a great work to do. We walk through the side of the corridor and descend back to the earth. As we land I am back in the green field where I began. The Herald says that we are to work now and prepare ourselves, but that we cannot do it alone. Always call on Jesus and He will help us. The Herald steps back from me and says, “I will be visiting with you again soon, as we have a great work to do.” I look down and now notice that the grassy field begins growing many beautiful wild flowers. As all the other individuals in the grassy field begin to walk, a variety of flowers begin to grow.

PEOPLE ARE NOT SERIOUS WHEN THEY PRAY

MEAT OR UNMEAT?

2012-10-01T17:09:00.002+03:00

For well over a hundred years Seventh-day Adventists have enjoyed the tremendous advantage, health wise, of having special divine counsel on the subject of nutrition and diet. The beneficial results have been documented by scores of researchers and writers. We have a life span five years longer than non-Adventists in the state of California.
Almost every category, of degenerative disease is less prevalent among our people than among the general population. This is in spite of the fact that the majority of our membership only gives lip service to the wealth of inspired information on this subject. I've tried to imagine what a testimony this church could bear if every Adventist was a true health reformer.

One of the strongest and most unique contributions of the Spirit of Prophecy writings has been in the area of diet and disease. Over a period of years, in which almost nothing was being said on the subject of nutrition, Mrs. White insisted that meat eating was a basic cause of disease, including cancer. She wrote: "People are continually eating flesh that is filled with tuberculosis and cancerous gems. Tuberculosis, cancer, and other fatal diseases are thus communicated." The Ministry of Healing, p. 313.

"If meat eating was ever healthful, it is not safe now. Cancers, tumours, and pulmonary diseases are largely caused by meat eating." Counsels on Health, p. 133.

During her own lifetime Mrs. White had scant opportunity to see her inspired positions vindicated. Her contention that cancer was caused by a germ, or virus, was completely contrary to all accepted medical opinion. Since her death in 1915, intensive medical research has confirmed, one after another, the principles she introduced. Men like Dr. Clive McKay, world-renowned nutritionist at Cornell University, affirmed that she was years ahead of her time in understanding the subject of diet. She often described health dangers, such as cholesterol, long before the discovery had been made in the laboratories of science.

One of the most recent developments which gives support to our historic position, comes from the National Cancer Institute. Under the prodding of the Senate nutrition subcommittee the NCI released a statement that promises a complete new direction in their basic research. Here is the way Science News of October 13,1979, reported the release:

"The NCI's recommendations are based on increasing research Findings that diet can be an influence for or against cancer. For instance, cancers of the oesophagus and larynx have been linked with alcohol abuse combined with smoking. A high-fat diet has been linked with cancers of the breast, ovaries, prostate, intestines and rectum. A diet rich in unsaturated fats is even more co-carcinogenic, at least in rats, than is a saturated fat diet. In contrast, Seventh-day Adventists, who eat a low-fat diet, have only 70 percent of the risk of others of developing various kinds of cancers. Dietary fibre has been linked with low levels of colon-cancer. Vegetarian diets have been associated with resistance to breast cancer." How unfortunate it is that many Adventists wait until the worldly researchers announce the scientific evidence before they will believe what has been given by revelation. As a result, our health record is not as impressive as it should be. As the evidence piles up indicating meat as a factor in cancer and disease, more and more non-Adventists are turning to a vegetarian diet.

Incredibly, the large block of meat-eating Seventh-day Adventists seems the hardest to impress. In the face of pages and books of divine warnings, admonitions and pleas, thousands of laymen and ministers continue to eat the flesh of animals.

Is there anything ambiguous about the counsel of God on the matter? None whatsoever. It almost appears that those who fly in the face of the counsel have come to a serious credibility crisis concerning the Spirit of Prophecy. If there is doubt in some theological areas which are probed in the red books, there is absolutely none in dealing with the subject of meat eating. Consider statements like these which are representative of hundreds more:

"The liability to take disease is increased tenfold by meat eating. The intellectual, the moral, and the physical powers are depreciated by the habitual use of flesh meats. Meat eating deranges the system, beclouds the intellect, and blunts the moral sensibilities." Counsels on Health, p. 70.

"Not an ounce of flesh meat should enter our stomachs. The eating of flesh is unnatural. We are to return to God's original purpose in the creation of man." Counsels on Diet and Foods, p. 380.

"Many who are now only half converted on the question of meat eating will go from God's people, to walk no more with them .... Far better give up the name of Christian than make a profession and at the same time indulge appetites which strengthen unholy passions .... [God] calls for decided reformation." Counsels on Health,pp. 575-579.

"Again and again I have been shown that God is trying to lead us back, step by step, to His original design---that man should subsist upon the natural products of the earth. Among those who are waiting for the coming of the Lord, meat eating will eventually be done away; flesh will cease to form a part of their diet. We should ever keep this end in view, and endeavour to work steadily toward it." Ibid., p. 450.

"Those who are in a position where it is possible to secure a vegetarian diet, but who choose to follow their own preferences in this matter, eating and drinking as they please, will gradually grow careless of the instruction the Lord has given regarding other phases of the present truth and will lose their perception of what is truth." Testimonies, Vol. 9, pp. 156, 157.

"I have the subject presented to me in different aspects. The mortality caused by meat eating is not discerned; if it were, we would hear no more arguments and excuses in favor of the indulgence of the appetite for dead flesh." Medical Ministry, p. 278.

One amazing fact about this counsel is the way it is rejected by ministers and leaders in the church. With the time of trouble at hand and the flock starving for spiritual direction, pastors are still feasting on the flesh pots of Egypt and causing the people to err by their own perverted examples. Although meat eating per se has never been designated as a sin by this church, what about preachers who do not respond to specific counsel like the following?

"Let not any of our ministers set an evil example in the eating of flesh meat. Let them and their families live up to the light of health reform." Counsels on Diet and Foods, p. 399.

"Can we possibly have confidence in ministers who at tables where flesh is served join with others in eating it?" Ibid., p. 402.

"Will any who are ministers of the gospel, proclaiming the most solemn truth ever given to mortals, set an example in returning to the fleshpots of Egypt? Will those who are supported by the tithe from God's storehouse permit themselves by self-indulgence to poison the life-giving current flowing through their veins? Will they disregard the light and warnings that God has given them?" Ibid., p. 404, 405.

The position of flesh-eating Seventh-day Adventists becomes more untenable when we consider the massive physical evidence pointing to contaminated, diseased meat sources. It is more than stomach-turning to read recent reports of packing-house inspections which have uncovered the grossest violations of minimum sanitary standards. The Consumers Union tested hundreds of hamburger samples from a cross-section of retail suppliers. The test specifically identified fecal contamination, often indicating a disease-causing organism. The startling result of this research was published in the Consumer Reports magazine of August, 1971. The objective conclusion of this test indicated that 73 percent of the samples had a coliform count high enough to cause mild illness. In view of the fact that hamburgers constitute more than half of America's beef consumption, we have to believe that a vast health danger is involved, even if we consider only the external handling of meat. Consumers Union estimated that almost a quarter of the ready-ground samples had begun to putrefy at the retail outlet.

An independent check of 68 poultry processing plants by the Government Accounting Office (GAO) in 1971 found sanitation conditions "unacceptable" in most of them. Products in over half of them were contaminated with fecal matter, digestive tract contents, bile and feathers.

But what about the internal condition of the various meat sources? Millions of diseased carcasses are processed through packing houses, and sold to American consumers. At least 80 diseases are common to animals, which can be transmitted to other animals, and very likely to human beings as well. Even proper meat inspection does not mitigate the disease hazard, because microscopic examinations are not possible in the inspection procedures. Open cancerous sores are often cut out of the carcass and the rest of the animal is sold for food. Obviously, the cancer virus is spread throughout the body of the animal.

In poultry alone 26 diseases have been identified which are common to both man and animal. Virtually all chickens carry leucosis viruses, and chicken farmers run six times more risk of dying from leukaemia than do non-farmers.

Meat is the perfect medium for growing bacteria. Putrefaction begins almost immediately in a slaughtered animal and progresses rapidly. There is no way to prevent the deterioration. When the effects of spoilage become obvious through colour, smell and taste, large amounts of chemicals are pumped into the decaying flesh to restore appearances. Picture if you can the combined effects of the animal's own waste materials, trapped in the flesh, plus the chemical additives of the animal's fast-grow food supply, plus the external filth factor of the packing house, plus the various injections of cosmetic preservatives. What do you have? A wholly unfit source of protein.

But what can be said to impress Seventh-day Adventists who have not been impressed by the clear statements of inspiration? Those who are ruled by appetite rather than principle will be no more moved by scientific fact than by divine counsel. In the light of indisputable evidence some still feed on hot dogs that contain a mishmash of animal ears, feet, snouts, udders, brains, bladders, eyes, tongues, and blood.

Finally, what are we going to do about the New Testament law concerning the eating of blood? The inspired leaders of that early church spent long hours in discussing the basic requirements for Gentile membership. Their conclusion is recorded in Acts 15:19, 20, where James speaks for the entire Council: "Wherefore my sentence is ... that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood."

How can anyone abstain from eating blood when he feeds on the marketplace variety of slaughtered animals? The flesh is gorged with blood sometimes artificially injected to give a healthy colour to rotting meat. To follow the prescribed biblical laws of draining all blood from the animal would render the flesh almost tasteless. Few are willing to deny their craving for animal blood in order to meet the requirements of the Word of God. Various semantical manipulations have been devised to justify eating the blood, but most carnivorous Christians uncomfortably skim past Acts 15. They assume that the New Testament law must refer to drinking blood, instead of eating it in the animal. But that is not the basis for proscribing blood in the Old Testament. Why should it be different in Acts? It is surely something for Seventh-day Adventists to weigh carefully, especially in the light of additional counsel.

I sincerely hope that no Seventh-day Adventist reading this book will presume to scoff at the position here taken.

Some ministers have told me about being ridiculed and shunned by their fellow ministers because they would not eat meat with them. It is serious enough to disobey the counsel of God, but to mock at the divine message and seek to make others disobey must approach open blasphemy. The light we have on the subject is far beyond that which was revealed to the historic church of the past.

To reject that light is to reject the work of the Holy Spirit, who inspired the writings. And though we cannot measure degrees of guilt in those who had no light on this subject, we cannot be guiltless if we flaunt the very message which is sent from God to make us a holy and healthy people. Pastors, church officers, and members should repent before God for ignoring His revealed will. Sin is the deliberate violation of known truth, and this makes Seventh-day Adventists, with their advanced light, more accountable before God. By living and sharing that light we not only reap the physical and spiritual benefits ourselves, but become a savour of life unto others also.

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our king Is Comming

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God is the same, yesterday, today and forever more.

Some of us, may be of the belief that Jesus , is only depicted in the New Testament. But the truth is Jesus is depicted in the Old Testament as well. If the whole bible describes of the greatness of this one Person in such; wonders ways. Then it should be sufficient for us to understand that even The lord almighty admits that Jesus is salvation, life, the way to eternal life and there is no other, name in all the known wonders of God, Than Jesus Christ himself. So why have second thoughts. So why waste life, finding ways to eternal happiness and the way to heaven. Jesus, is the only way. Take the bold stand, come to Jesus accept him as he has accepted you as his very own.

Rev 3:20 Behold, I stand at the door and knock: if any man hear my voice and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.

We sincerely believe that this generation is living during the end times, and Jesus will return very soon. Do you often think in your mind that Jesus must return soon with the state the world is in? You only need to look at end times news to see how terrible a mess this world is in. One thing we can be sure of is that Jesus IS coming back to receive those who have followed Him with all their heart, soul, mind and strength, just as Jesus gave us the beautiful promise in John 14:1-3 ...'Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. 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 ye may be also.' ... What a verse this is to keep close to your heart! This is an amazing promise! It's a promise that should keep our minds focused on Christ Jesus, knowing that one day soon, Jesus will return at the second coming to take us home. Friends, this earth is not our home. We belong with our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. That's where our home is, with Him! And one day soon, we will live with Him for eternity, after He has returned to take us home.

Jesus He Takes It Personally

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"For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, I was naked and you clothed me, I was sick and you visited me, I was in prison and you came to me.’

Then the righteous will answer him, saying, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you drink? And when did we see you a stranger and welcome you, or naked and clothe you? And when did we see you sick or in prison and visit you?'

And the King will answer them, 'Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.'"
(Matthew 25.35-40 ESV)

Handel - Messiah - Hallelujah Chorus

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4. Chorus: And the glory of the Lord

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14-17. Chorus: Glory to God in the highest

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33. Chorus: Lift up your heads, O ye gates

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Hear My Prayer - Maranatha Singers

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The Family Prayer Song - Maranatha Singers

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Maranatha - Jesus is Coming Again

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mwana kondoo TM MUSIC TANZANIA

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mwana kondoo TM MUSIC TANZANIA

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Heritage Singers "O Happy day"

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I Can Only Imagine - Heritage Singers (With Lyrics)

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Faith First Singers - Champion Of Love

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