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The
Three Angel’s Messages Swell Into…à
“On this
battlefield comes the last great conflict of the
controversy between truth and error.” 5T
451
7BC
978-984; 5T
206; GC 449; See
Note 2
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The
Loud Cry
“Then will the message of the third angel
swell to a laud cry, and the whole earth will be lightened with
the glory of the Lord.” Thousands will be converted in a day
and join the ranks of Seventh-day Adventists. 8T
21. “… All who are honest will leave the fallen churches
and take their stand with the remnant.” EW
261; 7BC
984, 985, 978;
1T
183; Ev
692-695, EW
277-279; GC
390, 464, 603-612;
6T 19; IHP
334; EW 271, 272
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The Early Rain
“The light we have received upon the
third angel’s message is the true light … Not all in regard
to this matter is yet understood, nor will it be understood
until the unrolling of the scroll; but a most solemn work is to
be accomplished in our world.”
6T
17, 8T 159; RH
Mar. 29, 1892;RH
Nov. 22, 1892; 8T 118
A great many of God’s people are still in
Babylon. CG
390. These will come out under the latter experience.
GC
606, 611, 612;
PK
189; EW 33, 271,
277-279; TM 248;
1T
203
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The Latter Rain
Acts
3:19
- TM
506-512; GC
611-612; Hosea
6:3; Zech.
10:1, 4:6; Joel
2:23, 28, 29; Acts
2:16-18; EW
271
“Nearly
all who profess to believe present Truth… are wholly
unfitted to receive the later rain.” 1T
466. “The loud
cry will come and pass, the latter rain will fall, and many of
our people will know nothing at all about it.” RH
Nov. 22, 1892.
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The
Sabbath Message Advances …
à
The Sabbath becomes the focal point of the
controversy. 6T
352; DA 24;GC
579, 587, 590-592,
607, 614,
615; EW
33, 272, 279,
282;
7T 976; 5T
449, 450: PK 184,
187; RH
Mar. 18, 1884; PK
187; EW 33, 85,
86;
LS 101
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The
Sabbath Proclaimed More Fully
EW
33; 7BC
983
The time is not far distant when the test
will come to every soul.” 5T
81. “The
Sabbath will be the great test of loyalty; …” GC
582, 605.
“On this battlefield [Sabbath-Sunday] comes the last great
conflict of the controversy between truth and error.”5T
451. “The contest is between the commandments of God and
the commandments of men.” 5T
81. See also EW
85 and 6T
352.
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The
Shaking And the Shifting
à
The Coming Struggle will be marked with a
terrible intensity such as the world has never witnessed.” GC
xi. [see note 11];
1T
179-183;EW 269-273; 5T
80-82, 136, 463;
6T
400, 401; 2 SM 13,
380.
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The Great Shaking
The might shaking has commenced and will go
on…” “I saw
that we are now in the shaking time .” 1T
329 [ 1862]. “We are
in the shaking time. The time when everything that can be
shaken will be shaken.”6T
332. “God is now sifting His people, testing
their purposes and
their motive.” 4T
51. “The sleeve is moving.” 1T
100. “God is sifting His people.” 1T
99.
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The
Judgment Of The Righteous Dead
à
Christ entered the Most Holy Place in 1844
to begin the final phase of His mediatorial work for us in the
heavenly sanctuary. GC
352, 422, 400;
COL
310.
“God judges every man according to his
work. Not only does He judge, but, HE SUMS UP. DAY BY DAY AND
HOUR BY HOUR, our progress in well-doing.” 7BC
987.
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The Judgments Of The Righteous Living
“Then shall the sanctuary be cleansed.”
Dan.
8:13, 14.
Cleansing = Investigative Judgment. Lev.
16; Rev.
14:6, 7; Heb.
9:23-27’GC
422. Only the
professed people of God considered. I
Peter 4:17; GC
480. End’s at the close of probation. Rev.
22:11; GC
428. “See also
Rev.
11:1-3, 18, 19;
Rev.
3:7, 8; GC
424; Acts
3:19; PP
343-358; GC
409-432; GC
479-491; EW
260; Heb.
8 and 9.
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The
Sealing Time
à
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The Final, Eternal Seal
Rev.
7:1-4 Rev.
14:1-4
The following is said of those who receive
the seal of God. [1] “Not one spot or stain – cleansed the
soul temple of every defilement.” 5T
214.
[2] “Must be without spot.”5T
216.” [3] “Must reflect the image of Jesus
fully.” EW
71. [4] “Cleansed from every moral
defilement.” SD
342. [5] “The perfection of His character. “GC
Bul. 1118. [6] “Separated from sin.” Letter
12, 1886. Conditions for receiving the Seal &
Latter Rain are the same.
1T 187, 188,
619; EW
71; 6BC
1055; RH Dec. 12, 1908; RH Oct. 12, 1961; TH Mar. 22 1892;
GC Bul. 1893; P.
179. Rev
7:1-4; Ezekiel
20:12, 20; 5T
207-216; 467-476;
TM 234; 6T
130;
1 SM 66; 7BC 976;
EW
36, 38;
LS 116-119; EW
279, 280; Ephesians
5:27; MYP 144.
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