Open Book Test

Daniel 2 questions:

1. Name the four kingdoms of the image that are symbolized by the gold, silver, brass, and iron.

Gold → Babylon

Silver → Medo-Persia

Brass → Greece

Iron → Pagan Rome

2. How many kingdoms total are there in the image?  What is the difference between the feet and the rest of the image?

There are a total of four kingdoms and then the fourth kingdom that is divided. So in essence there are 5 different kingdoms. The difference between the feet and the rest of the image is: The rest of the image is made of solid and pure metals….The feet and the toes are divided and a mix of iron and clay.

3. What is the common thread that runs through the whole image?

“The common thread though the whole image is paganism, the essence of which is creature worship.” – Daniel 2 in 4 Parts Handout

4. What two things does the iron and clay each symbolize? [two things for iron; two things for clay]

Iron → 1) Kingdom or state     2) System of paganism

Clay → 1) Church     2)  System of Christianity

5. Who does the feet of iron and clay represent?  What parallels are there in Revelation?

The feet of iron and clay in Dan. 2 equates with the woman who rides the beast in Revelation 17. Since a woman in the Bible represents a church and a beast represents a kingdom, this woman/beast combination symbolizes this entity’s structural system, a religious/political system. This new entity is called the papacy.

The feet of iron and clay represent: Pagan Rome (Iron) + Clay

The ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH

“The Roman Catholic Church (united) the forms of  paganism and Christianity…” {GC 569.2}

This is paralleled in Revelation to the Scarlet colored, leopard-like, Beast with Seven heads and Ten horns. With the Scarlet colored beast with seven heads and ten horns in Rev. 17:3 and the Leopard-like Beast in Rev. 13:1-10.

6. Who does the toes of iron and clay represent?  What parallels are there in Revelation?

The toes of iron and clay represent the Ten kings the lamb-like beast and the ten horns on the sixth head of the scarlet colored beast in (Rev. 17:13, Rev. 17:3.) They also equal the the lamb like beast. (Rev. 13:11-18) The divided kingdoms of Europe.

7.Why are the two entities in question 5 and question 6 both pictured as iron and clay?

Because they are both represent the divided fourth kingdom and the uniting of paganism and Christianity.

8. Name the two systems of the papacy.

The Ideological System → a combination of Christianity with paganism (mixing iron and clay)

The Structural System → a union of religion and politics, and union of church and state (mixing of iron and clay)

The iron and clay also represent the compromise of Christianity and the inclusion of paganism, which then creates its ideological way of thinking. The union of church and the state creates a religious-political system which makes up the structural system

9. Who are “these kings” talked about in Daniel 2:44? Where else in the Bible is there a parallel to “these kings” pictured in this verse?

“These kings” in verse 44 are referring to the toes of iron and clay in verse 42. In Revelation 17:12 it talks about “these kings” as well. They are clarified here as Protestantism and when they “give their power over to the beast” they are becoming apostate protestants which is connected to the lamb like beast who looked like a lamb but spoke as a dragon. They were “protestant” but in their hearts they were apostate and following Roman Catholicism. The toes symbolize Protestant America and these connections show how the US is going to soon combine church and state and become apostate and join hands with the papacy, thus combining church and state.

10. Who is the “they” of Dan. 2:43? Who is “the seed?”  HOW does “they” mingle themselves with “the seed?”

The “they” is referring to the ten toes of iron and clay in Dan. 2:42. “They” are  the Protestants that are not following Christ totally. They are mixing church and state and are not following God.  “The seed” is the true Christians who live in Christ. (Gal. 3:29) The seed of Abraham.(Gal. 3:16) When “they” are mingled with the “seed” it is talking about how the true Christians are in the same churches as the apostate Christians. But they are only together. They are not mixing with each other just as iron and clay can’t be mixed well together. God is calling all His people to not be mingled with “they” but to come out of the false churches.

11. What two things does the stone represent?

The stone represents the law of God, but it also represents Jesus who is said to be the living stone. (1 Peter 2:3,4)

Daniel 7 questions:

1. Name the four kingdoms that the four beasts of Daniel 7 symbolize.

Lion→ Babylon

Bear→ Medo-Persia

Leopard→ Greece

Great Beast→ Pagan Rome

2. What is the difference between Daniel 7:8 and Daniel 8:9?

Dan. 7:8 is talking about the fourth beast of that vision, the great and terrible beast. It is identifying the place of the little horn’s rising, among the other horns. Because of this little horns rising, there were three horns out by the roots. The little horn also had eyes like a man and a mouth speaking great things.

In Daniel 8, it is talking about the he goat and the horns on his head. It says in verse 8 that the goat became very strong and when he became strong the great horn on his head was broken and in its place came up 4 notable ones. Then in verse 9 it says that out of one of the 4 horns, came a little horn who grew “exceedingly great” in towards the south and east and the pleasant land.

3. What are some characteristics that Daniel 7 talks about that you could point out that demonstrates that the little horn represents the papacy?

Verse 25: 1) He speaks great words against the Most High…2)He shall think to change times and laws…3)-He shall wear out the saints of the Most High for a time and times and the dividing of time

The papacy has done (and will do) all these things. They have set themselves “above” God. They have changed Sabbath to Sunday and revised the 10 commandments. And they have persecuted the saints of God, and will persecute them in the future as well. They are combing paganism with Christianity and that creates apostacy in the church. (great words against Most High) The apostate church unites with the state (thinks to change times and the law….Sunday law…) The undeniable result of this union of church and state is persecution and intolerance of anything but their own rules. (wear out the saints of the Most High)

4. Fill in the blank:  “The prophecies present a succession of events leading down to the ___________________________________________. This is especially true of the book of Daniel.”   How is this demonstrated in Daniel 7?

—Opening of the judgment—“The prophecies present a succession of events leading down to the opening of the judgment. This is especially true of the book of Daniel.{GC 355.3} In Daniel 7:9-14, it is talking about God sitting down on His thrown and passing judgment on the great beast and the other beasts. Then in the vision, the Son of Man is given a kingdom. In Dan. 7: 22 it talks about the Ancient of days coming and giving judgment from the saints. Dan. 7:26 talks about taking away the dominion of Satan and sitting in judgment against him.

5. What is the connection between the beast and the horn in Daniel 7:11?

The beast of Daniel 7 is the

The prophecy of Revelation 13 declares that the power represented by the beast with lamblike horns shall cause “the earth and them which dwell therein” to worship the papacy –there symbolized by the beast “like unto a leopard.” The beast with two horns is also to say “to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast;” and, furthermore, it is to command all, “both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond,” to receive the mark of the beast. Revelation 13:11-16. It has been shown that the United States is the power represented by the beast with lamblike horns, and that this prophecy will be fulfilled when the United States shall enforce Sunday observance, which Rome claims as the special acknowledgment of her supremacy. But in this homage to the papacy the United States will not be alone. The influence of Rome in the countries that once acknowledged her dominion is still far from being destroyed. And prophecy foretells a restoration of her power. “I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.” Verse 3. The infliction of the deadly wound points to the downfall of the papacy in 1798. After this, says the prophet, “his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.” Paul states plainly that the “man of sin” will continue until the second advent. 2 Thessalonians 2:3-8. To the very close of time he will carry forward the work of deception. And the revelator declares, also referring to the papacy: “All that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life.” Revelation 13:8. In both the Old and the New World, the papacy will receive homage in the honor paid to the Sunday institution, that rests solely upon the authority of the Roman Church. {GC 578.3}

6. What is the kingdom talked about in Daniel 7:13,14?  What is the “status” of this kingdom in this verse?

This is the kingdom of Grace. The kingdom of grace is found in within us. (Luke 17:20-21) This kingdom is the righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost. (Rom. 14:17) The symbol of the K. of G. is a seed. Christ is that seed. (Gal. 3:16) and we are the fruits of His death. (John 12:24) The Holy Spirit in us produces christ being revealed in our lives, through the fruits of the Spirit, and That is the kingdom of Grace.

“The time is fulfilled, the kingdom of God is at hand,” had been their message. At the expiration of “the time”–the sixty-nine weeks of Daniel 9, which were to extend to the Messiah, “the Anointed One”–Christ had received the anointing of the Spirit after His baptism by John in Jordan. And the “kingdom of God” which they had declared to be at hand was established by the death of Christ. This kingdom was not, as they had been taught to believe, an earthly empire. Nor was it that future, immortal kingdom which shall be set up when “the kingdom and dominion, …(that) shall be given to the people of the saints of the Most High;” Daniel 7:27 The kingdom of grace is brought to view by Paul in the Epistle to the Hebrews. … “Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace.” Hebrews 4:15, 16. The throne of grace represents the kingdom of grace; for the existence of a throne implies the existence of a kingdom….” {GC 346.4}

The “status” of this kingdom is not fully complete yet. The K. of G. was instituted  at the fall of man. It was established on the cross and will be completely received by the close of probation.

7. How could you demonstrate from this chapter that the four beasts are four kingdoms and not four kings?

In verse17 it says, “These great beasts, which are four, are four kings, which shall arise out of the earth.” And in verse 23, it says that “…The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon the earth…” A king is an individual and can die and go out of power, but a kingdom can have many different rulers and still be the same kingdom.

8. Which kingdom is given to the saints in verses 18, 22 and  27?

The kingdom of glory is given to the saints

9. How long does the little horn “bother” the saints?

The little horn “prevailed against” the saints “until the Ancient of days came and judgment was given to the saints of the most High;”

10. Who are the ten horns of Daniel 7:24?

The ten horns of Daniel 7:24 are the 10 kings and countries of Europe that make “divided fourth kingdom”.

11. What is the “time, times and dividing of time?”  Identify some other passages of scripture that are referring to the same “time, times, and dividing of time?”

This is the allotted amount of time that the saints of God shall be given into the hands of the little horn to be persecuted and God will sustain them and give them refuge.

In Rev. 12:6,14 “ ⁶And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days. … ¹⁴And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent.”

And Rev. 13:5 “And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months.”

Daniel 8 questions:

1. Identify (reference) the ram and the he goat of Daniel 8.  How can you demonstrate that the ram is referring to the same power as the bear of Daniel 7?

The ram is Medo-Persia (Dan 7:5, 8:20) and the he goat is referenced in Dan. 8:5.

In Daniel 7:5 it says that the bear is raised up on one side. And the ram in Dan. 8:3, is described as having two horns of which one is higher than the other. So you can very safely say that they are both the same power.

2. How can you demonstrate that the he goat is the same as the leopard of Daniel 7?

The leopard has four wings and four heads. The he goat has four horns.

3. Who is the notable horn of the he goat?  the four notable horns?

The he goat is Alexander the Great. Because the he goat is a representation of Greece, which was proven in Daniel 7 where it shows that the four wings and heads of the leopard like beast, correlate with the he goat that has four horns. Therefore, the he goat can equal Greece, and Alexander was the most prominent power of that time (the great horn). The four horns are the four different kingdoms or kings that Alexander’s kingdom was divided into after his death.

4. Who is the host and stars being referred to in Daniel 8:10?  Who is the prince of the host in verse 11?

The host and stars are God’s people who are “stamped upon” or persecuted by the little horn. Because in Dan. 12:3, it says that the righteous are referred to as the “stars”.

The Prince of the Host is Jesus. In Rev. 22:16 it talks about Him being the “bright and morning star”, the Highest Star of all. And the leader of God’s people, the stars, would be the brightest one….Jesus.

5. What is the “daily” being talked about in verse 11?  How does the little horn take away the “daily?”

The “daily” is the daily mediation that Christ does in the sanctuary. “The incense, ascending with the prayers of Israel, represents the merits and intercession of Christ, His perfect righteousness, which through faith is imputed to His people, and which can alone make the worship of sinful beings acceptable to God. Before the veil of the most holy place was an altar of perpetual intercession, before the holy, an altar of continual atonement. By blood and by incense God was to be approached–symbols pointing to the great Mediator, through whom sinners may approach Jehovah, and through whom alone mercy and salvation can be granted to the repentant, believing soul.”{PP 353.2}

The little horn takes away the daily by instituting the pope as mediator and intercessor for the people. “Faith was transferred from Christ, the true foundation, to the pope of Rome. Instead of trusting in the Son of God for forgiveness of sins and for eternal salvation, the people looked to the pope, and to the priests and prelates to whom he delegated authority. They were taught that the pope was their earthly mediator and that none could approach God except through him; and, further, that he stood in the place of God to them and was therefore to be implicitly obeyed. Thus the minds of the people were turned away from God to fallible, erring, and cruel men, nay, more, to the prince of darkness himself, who exercised his power through them. Sin was disguised in a garb of sanctity. When the Scriptures are suppressed, and man comes to regard himself as supreme, we need look only for fraud, deception, and debasing iniquity. With the elevation of human laws and traditions was manifest the corruption that ever results from setting aside the law of God.” {GC 55.1}

6. Explain verse 12.

“A prayerful study of the Bible would show Protestants the real character of the papacy and would cause them to abhor and to shun it; but many are so wise in their own conceit that they feel no need of humbly seeking God that they may be led into the truth. Although priding themselves on their enlightenment, they are ignorant both of the Scriptures and of the power of God. They must have some means of quieting their consciences, and they seek that which is least spiritual and humiliating. What they desire is a method of forgetting God which shall pass as a method of remembering Him. The papacy is well adapted to meet the wants of all these. It is prepared for two classes of mankind, embracing nearly the whole world–those who would be saved by their merits, and those who would be saved in their sins. Here is the secret of its power.” {GC 572.2}

The daily is not referring to the daily sacrifice. This word is supplied.  “Then I saw in relation to the “daily” (Dan. 8:12) that the word “sacrifice” was supplied by man’s wisdom, and does not belong to the text, and that the Lord gave the correct view of it to those who gave the judgment hour cry. When union existed, before 1844, nearly all were united on the correct view of the “daily”; but in the confusion since 1844, other views have been embraced, and darkness and confusion have followed. Time has not been a test since 1844, and it will never again be a test.” {EW 74.2}

7. What two elements does the vision include, according to verse 13?  What is the vision that is sealed up?

The vision has two elements, the daily sacrifice and the transgression of desolation. The vision that is sealed up is the one “of the evening and the morning”. It is the one of the 2300 days.

8. What is the “transgression of desolation” talked about in verse 13?  What passage in the Bible could you use to support your answer?

9. What period of time does the vision apply to, according to Daniel 8?

“the vision concerns the appointed time of the end.” Dan. 8:19 NIV

10. How long was the vision going to be sealed?

“for many days.” Dan. 8:26

11. Where in Daniel 2 can you find a similar phrasing that is found in Daniel 8:25:  he shall be “broken without hand?”

Daniel 2:34 “Thou sawest till that a stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image upon his feet that were of iron and clay, and brake them to pieces.”

Daniel 9 questions:

1. What does the word “determined” mean?

After bidding Daniel “understand the matter, and consider the vision,” the very first words of the angel are: “Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy Holy City.” The word here translated “determined” literally signifies “cut off.” {GC 326.2}

2. How are seventy weeks of Daniel 9 connected to the 2300 days of Daniel 8?

“As the 2300 days was the only period of time mentioned in chapter 8, it must be the period from which the seventy weeks were cut off; the seventy weeks must therefore be a part of the 2300 days, and the two periods must begin together.” {GC 326.2}

3. What was the starting point for the seventy week period? Give a scripture verse for support for your answer.

In the seventh chapter of Ezra the decree is found. Verses 12-26. In its completest form it was issued by Artaxerxes, king of Persia, 457 B.C. But in Ezra 6:14 the house of the Lord at Jerusalem is said to have been built “according to the commandment ["decree," margin] of Cyrus, and Darius, and Artaxerxes king of Persia.” These three kings, in originating, reaffirming, and completing the decree, brought it to the perfection required by the prophecy to mark the beginning of the 2300 years. Taking 457 B.C., the time when the decree was completed, as the date of the commandment, every specification of the prophecy concerning the seventy weeks was seen to have been fulfilled. {GC 326.3}

4. What does “Messiah” mean?

“The Anointed One”

5. Why does Daniel 9:25 say “seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks” instead of just saying threescore and nine weeks?

Because it is not a one big chunk of time. There are certain things that happen at the end of the 62 weeks and the 7 weeks and the 2 weeks. These are important

6. What does it mean when verse 27 says “in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease?

7. What event is connected to the end of the seventy weeks?

The stoning of Stephen.

8. Explain what it means in verse 27:  “he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week?”

The Second Angel’s Message

Second Angel’s Message

1. 1.     When was the second angel’s message given?

ANSWER:

The second angel’s message was given in the early summer of 1844.

QUOTE:

THE SECOND ANGEL’S MESSAGE HAD ITS INITIAL SOUNDING EARLY IN THE SUMMER OF 1844 IN THE CALL TO THE ADVENT BELIEVERS TO COME OUT OF THE NOMINAL CHURCHES THAT HAD REJECTED THE PROCLAMATION OF THE FIRST ANGEL’S MESSAGE. {EW 304.1}

2.  Who did the second angel’s message have a more direct application to?

ANSWER:

This message directly applied to the people and churches in the United states during 1844, that had rejected the message of the first angel.

QUOTE:

The second angel’s message of Revelation 14 was first preached in the summer of 1844, and it then had a more direct application to the churches of the United States, where the warning of the judgment had been most widely proclaimed and most generally rejected, and where the declension in the churches had been most rapid. {GC 389.2}

 

TO THE ADVENT BELIEVERS TO COME OUT OF THE NOMINAL CHURCHES THAT HAD REJECTED THE PROCLAMATION OF THE FIRST ANGEL’S MESSAGE. {EW 304.1}

3.  Why was the second angel’s message given?

ANSWER:

It was given because the church rejected the first angel’s message. If the churches had received the first angel’s message, then the second angel’s message might not have had to have been given. Yet those churches did reject the first message and so the proclamation came that “Babylon is fallen. This message was predicting the doom of those who had rejected the first message.

QUOTE:

The second angel’s message of Revelation 14 was first preached in the summer of 1844, and it then had a more direct application to the churches of the United States, where the warning of the judgment had been most widely proclaimed and most generally rejected, and where the declension in the churches had been most rapid. But the message of the second angel did not reach its complete fulfillment in 1844. The churches then experienced a moral fall, in consequence of their refusal of the light of the advent message; but that fall was not complete. As they have continued to reject the special truths for this time they have fallen lower and lower. Not yet, however, can it be said that “Babylon is fallen,… because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.” She has not yet made all nations do this. The spirit of world conforming and indifference to the testing truths for our time exists and has been gaining ground in churches of the Protestant faith in all the countries of Christendom; and these churches are included in the solemn and terrible denunciation of the second angel. But the work of apostasy has not yet reached its culmination.  {GC 389.2}

Revelation 18 points to the time when, as the result of rejecting the threefold warning of Revelation 14:6-12, the church will have fully reached the condition foretold by the second angel, and the people of God still in Babylon will be called upon to separate from her communion. {GC 390.2}

4.  What were the consequences to the churches when they rejected the first angel’s message? 

ANSWER:

When the churches rejected God, He turned away from them and couldn’t lead and guide them anymore. They trusted in their own strength and because of this were not able to see the light of the second angel’s message because they had rejected the first and already purposed in their hearts that they didn’t need God anymore.

QUOTE:

When the churches spurned the counsel of God by rejecting the Advent message, the Lord rejected them. {4SP 232.1}

As the churches refused to receive the first angel’s message, they rejected the light from heaven and fell from the favor of God. They trusted to their own strength, and by opposing the first message placed themselves where they could not see the light of the second angel’s message. {EW 237.2}

 

 

5.  What was/is the “action step” of the second angel’s message? [In other words, what is the message telling us to do?]

ANSWER:

We are to come out of Babylon and be apart of her no more.

QUOTE:

Furthermore, in the eighteenth chapter of the Revelation the people of God are called upon to come out of Babylon. According to this scripture, many of God’s people must still be in Babylon. And in what religious bodies are the greater part of the followers of Christ now to be found? Without doubt, in the various churches professing the Protestant faith. {GC 382.3}                

6. When was the climactic closing up of the second angel’s message?

ANSWER:

The climatic closing up of the second angel’s message came immediately before October 22, 1844. This doesn’t mean that the second angel’s message should be ignored, it is still present truth and should be regarded as such.

QUOTE:

Near the close of the second angel’s message, I saw a great light from heaven shining upon the people of God. The rays of this light seemed bright as the sun. And I heard the voices of angels crying, “Behold, the Bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet Him!”  {EW 238.1}

“WHILE IT IS TRUE THAT THE SECOND ANGEL’S MESSAGE CONTINUES TO BE PRESENT TRUTH, THERE WAS A CLIMACTIC CLOSING UP OF THE SECOND ANGEL’S MESSAGE IMMEDIATELY PRECEDING OCTOBER 22, 1844. WHEN THE MESSAGES OF THE THREE ANGELS COME PROMINENTLY BEFORE THE WORLD AGAIN JUST BEFORE THE SECOND ADVENT OF CHRIST, THE ANGEL OF REVELATION 18:1 JOINS IN THE PROCLAMATION OF THE SECOND ANGEL IN THE MESSAGE THAT “BABYLON IS FALLEN.” “COME OUT OF HER, MY PEOPLE.”  {EW 304.1}

 

 

 

7. What was the Midnight Cry?

ANSWER:

The angels crying, “Behold, the Bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet Him!” This was the Midnight Cry, which gave power to the second angel’s message.

QUOTE:

Near the close of the second angel’s message, I saw a great light from heaven shining upon the people of God. The rays of this light seemed bright as the sun. And I heard the voices of angels crying, “Behold, the Bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet Him!”  {EW 238.1}

This was the midnight cry, which was to give power to the second angel’s message. Angels were sent from heaven to arouse the discouraged saints and prepare them for the great work before them. The most talented men were not the first to receive this message. Angels were sent to the humble, devoted ones, and constrained them to raise the cry, “Behold, the Bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet Him!” Those entrusted with the cry made haste, and in the power of the Holy Spirit sounded the message, and aroused their discouraged brethren. This work did not stand in the wisdom and learning of men, but in the power of God, and His saints who heard the cry could not resist it. The most spiritual received this message first, and those who had formerly led in the work were the last to receive and help swell the cry, “Behold, the Bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet Him!” {EW 238.2}

8.  When was the Midnight Cry given?

ANSWER:

Near to the end of the second angel’s message.

QUOTE:

Near the close of the second angel’s message, I saw a great light from heaven shining upon the people of God. The rays of this light seemed bright as the sun. And I heard the voices of angels crying, “Behold, the Bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet Him!”  {EW 238.1}

 

 

9.  What was the purpose of the Midnight Cry?

ANSWER:

The purpose of the Midnight cry was to give power to the second angel’s message.

QUOTE:

This was the midnight cry, which was to give power to the second angel’s message. Angels were sent from heaven to arouse the discouraged saints and prepare them for the great work before them. The most talented men were not the first to receive this message. Angels were sent to the humble, devoted ones, and constrained them to raise the cry, “Behold, the Bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet Him!” Those entrusted with the cry made haste, and in the power of the Holy Spirit sounded the message, and aroused their discouraged brethren. This work did not stand in the wisdom and learning of men, but in the power of God, and His saints who heard the cry could not resist it. The most spiritual received this message first, and those who had formerly led in the work were the last to receive and help swell the cry, “Behold, the Bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet Him!” {EW 238.2}

10.  For those who had received the first angel’s message, how did the Midnight Cry prepare them to enter with Jesus by faith into the most holy place of the heavenly sanctuary?

ANSWER:

The midnight cry told them to go out and meet the bridegroom. This was a soul searching message that lead the believers to seek a living experience with God for themselves without having to go through pastors and priests. Each individual had to see himself fully accountable to God alone.  They couldn’t lean upon the teachings of other for their beliefs. They had to  seek their own relationship with God. As they looked for themselves into the law of God, they discovered many truths that the churches were not teaching. (like the Sabbath Commandment) To be able to keep all of the commandments and obey God’s law fully, required a new group of believers to be formed. This group was made up of those who accepted the second angel’s message and the midnight cry. These people believed in Bible truths, whether popular doctrine went against it or not and  came out of the churches to be wholly God’s.

QUOTE:

In every part of the land, light was given upon the second angel’s message, and the cry melted the hearts of thousands. It went from city to city, and from village to village, until the waiting people of God were fully aroused. In many churches the message was not permitted to be given, and a large company who had the living testimony left these fallen churches. A mighty work was accomplished by the midnight cry. The message was heart-searching, leading the believers to seek a living experience for themselves. They knew that they could not lean upon one another. {EW 238.3}

They had by faith followed their High Priest from the holy to the most holy, and they saw him pleading his blood before the ark of God. Within that sacred ark is the Father’s law, the same that was spoken by God himself amid the thunders of Sinai, and written with his own finger on the tables of stone. Not one command has been annulled; not a jot or tittle has been changed. While God gave to Moses a copy of his law, he preserved the great original in the sanctuary above. Tracing down its holy precepts, the seekers for truth found, in the very bosom of the decalogue, the fourth commandment, as it was first proclaimed: “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work; but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy man-servant, nor thy maid-servant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: for in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day; wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day, and hallowed it.” [EX. 20:8-11.]  {4SP 273.3}

 

11.  Just as Jesus cleansed the temple both at the beginning and at the end of His public ministry, so in the last work for the warning of the world, two distinct calls are made to the churches. What are the two distinct calls to the churches, and when are these two calls made?

ANSWER:

The first distinct call was “Babylon is fallen, is fallen” from the second angel’s message along with “Behold the bridegroom cometh, go ye out to meet Him.” from the midnight cry. The second distinct call was from the loud cry saying “Come out of her my people.”.  These calls were both given in 1844.

QUOTE:

When Jesus began His public ministry, He cleansed the temple from its sacrilegious profanation. Among the last acts of His ministry was the second cleansing of the temple. So in the last work for the warning of the world, two distinct calls are made to the churches. The second angel’s message is, “Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.” And in the loud cry of the third angel’s message a voice is heard from heaven saying, “Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues. For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities” (RH Dec. 6, 1892).  {7BC 985.5}   

 

12. Why are there only two distinct calls made to the churches?

ANSWER:

QUOTE:

So in the last work for the warning of the world, two distinct calls are made to the churches. The second angel’s message is, “Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.” And in the loud cry of the third angel’s message a voice is heard from heaven saying, “Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues. For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities” (RH Dec,. 6 1892).  {7BC 985.5}

The First Angel’s Message

Who does the first angel symbolize (who gives the first message)?

ANSWER:

William Miller and his associates were the ones who were given the first angel’s message to spread throughout the world.

SUPPORT:

   To William Miller and his co laborers it was given to preach the warning in America. This country became the center of the great advent movement. It was here that the prophecy of the first angel’s message had its most direct fulfillment.  The writings of Miller and his associates were carried to distant lands. Wherever missionaries had penetrated in all the world, were sent the glad tidings of Christ’s speedy return. Far and wide spread the message of the everlasting gospel: “Fear God, and give glory to Him; for the hour of His judgment is come.”  {GC 368.1}

When was the first angel’s message first given?

ANSWER: (in own words)

The first angel’s message was given in 1843-44.

SUPPORT: (quote)

    The first and second messages were given in 1843 and 1844, and we are now under the proclamation of the third ; but all three of the  messages are still to be proclaimed. It is just as essential now as ever before that they shall be repeated to those who are seeking for the truth. By pen and voice we are to sound the proclamation, showing their order, and the application of the prophecies that bring us to the third angel’s message. There cannot be a third without the first and second. These messages we are to give to the world in publications, in discourses, showing in the line of prophetic history the things that have been, and the things that will be.–Manuscript 32, 1896.  {CW 26.2}

Where did the prophecy of the first angel’s message have its most direct fulfillment?

ANSWER:

The prophecy had its most direct fulfillment in America.

SUPPORT:

    To William Miller and his co laborers it was given to preach the warning in America. This country became the center of the great advent movement. It was here that the prophecy of the first angel’s message had its most direct fulfillment.  The writings of Miller and his associates were carried to distant lands. Wherever missionaries had penetrated in all the world, were sent the glad tidings of Christ’s speedy return. Far and wide spread the message of the everlasting gospel: “Fear God, and give glory to Him; for the hour of His judgment is come.”  {GC 368.1}

Why was the first angel’s message given?

ANSWER:

It was given to warn the churches because they had slipped and fallen into worldly ways. It was a calling to wake up and realize that the hour of judgment had come and they weren’t ready.

QUOTE:

     The first angel’s message of Revelation 14, announcing the hour of God’s judgment and calling upon men to fear and worship Him, was designed to separate the professed people of God from the corrupting influences of the world and to arouse them to see their true condition of worldliness and backsliding. {GC 379.1}

How is the first angel’s message announcing “the hour of His judgment is come,” a part of the gospel?

ANSWER:

         The gospel is the story of God’s gift to us, Jesus dying on the cross to save us from our sins. He did this that we might have the privilege of spending eternity with Him. Not all however, will be able to spend that glorious time with Christ forever. Many are not willing to accept what He has done for them and still go about their own ways of evil. These people would not be happy in heaven. Therefore there must be a way of separating those who would be happy in God’s kingdom and those who would not. This is where the judgment comes in. It is the deciding of who is willing to follow Christ and be happy in Him and who will follow the enemy and stay with him. There are two parts of the judgment that happens in the Most Holy Place, the judgment, and the marriage. It is the marriage that is part of the gospel. The judgment is the seperation of those who would be happy and who wouldn’t. The second part of the judgment is the marriage. This is the reward of those who are willing to be with Christ and obey him. It is the  third stage of the gospel. It is also called the final atonement.

QUOTE:

Christ came to our world to reveal God.  The gospel is his instrument of redemption.  {RH, July 3, 1900 par. 13}

The announcement, “The hour of His judgment is come,” points to the closing work of Christ’s ministration for the salvation of men. It heralds a truth which must be proclaimed until the Saviour’s intercession shall cease and He shall return to the earth to take His people to Himself. The work of judgment which began in 1844 must continue until the cases of all are decided, both of the living and the dead; hence it will extend to the close of human probation.  {GC 435.2}

While the investigative judgment is going forward in heaven, while the sins of penitent believers are being removed from the sanctuary, there is to be a special work of purification, of putting away of sin, among God’s people upon earth. This work is more clearly presented in the messages of Revelation 14.  {GC 425.1}

What were the consequences to the churches when they rejected the first angel’s message?

ANSWER:

When the church rejected the first angel’s message, God rejected them. He had given them a warning and a message that was to help them. They rejected the things that would have drawn them closer to Christ so since they rejected the very thing that would make them grow closer to God, He rejected them because they were rejecting Him.

QUOTE:

All who saw the light of the first and second angels’ messages and rejected that light, were left in darkness. {1SM 63.9}

When the churches spurned the counsel of God by rejecting the Advent message, the Lord rejected them. The first angel was followed by a second, proclaiming, “Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.” [REV. 14:8] This message was understood by Adventists to be an announcement of the moral fall of the churches in consequence of their rejection of the first message. The proclamation, “Babylon is fallen,” was given in the summer of 1844, and as the result, about fifty thousand withdrew from these churches.  {4SP 232.1}

In this message, God has sent to the church a warning, which, had it been accepted, would have corrected the evils that were shutting them away from Him. Had they received the message from heaven, humbling their hearts before the Lord and seeking in sincerity a preparation to stand in His presence, the Spirit and power of God would have been manifested among them. The church would again have reached that blessed state of unity, faith, and love which existed in apostolic days, when the believers “were of one heart and of one soul,” and “spake the word of God with boldness,” when “the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved.” Acts 4:32, 31; 2:47. {GC 379.1}

How does the first angel’s message influence the second angel’s message?

ANSWER:

It is a cause and effect. If the people had accepted the first angel’s message, the second might not have had to been given.

QUOTE:

            The first and second messages were given in 1843 and 1844, and we are now under the proclamation of the third; but all three of the messages are still to be proclaimed. It is just as essential now as ever before that they shall be repeated to those who are seeking for the truth. By pen and voice we are to sound the proclamation, showing their order, and the application of the prophecies that bring us to the third angel’s message. There cannot be a third without the first and second. These messages we are to give to the world in publications, in discourses, showing in the line of prophetic history the things that have been, and the things that will be.–Manuscript 32, 1896.  {CW 26.2}

            When the churches spurned the counsel of God by rejecting the Advent message, the Lord rejected them. The first angel was followed by a second, proclaiming, “Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.” [REV. 14:8] This message was understood by Adventists to be an announcement of the moral fall of the churches in consequence of their rejection of the first message. The proclamation, “Babylon is fallen,” was given in the summer of 1844, and as the result, about fifty thousand withdrew from these churches. {4SP 232.1}

 

How is the first angel’s message still relevant today?

ANSWER:

The cry “the hour of His judgement is come” has been given. It began in 1844 and is still going on today. Because the judement is still going on, the first angel’s message, which proclaims the beginning of that judgement, is still in effect.

QUOTE:

        The announcement, “The hour of His judgment is come,” points to the closing work of Christ’s ministration for the salvation of men. It heralds a truth which must be proclaimed until the Saviour’s intercession shall cease and He shall return to the earth to take His people to Himself. The work of judgment which began in 1844 must continue until the cases of all are decided, both of the living and the dead; hence it will extend to the close of human probation.  {GC 435.2}

The first and second messages were given in 1843 and 1844, and we are now under the proclamation of the third ; but all three of the  messages are still to be proclaimed. It is just as essential now as ever before that they shall be repeated to those who are seeking for the truth. By pen and voice we are to sound the proclamation, showing their order, and the application of the prophecies that bring us to the third angel’s message. There cannot be a third without the first and second. These messages we are to give to the world in publications, in discourses, showing in the line of prophetic history the things that have been, and the things that will be.–Manuscript 32, 1896.  {CW 26.2}

What is the “action step” for the first angel’s message?

ANSWER:

Originally the first message was addressed to the protestant churches in 1843-44. The application of the message was to “fear God and give glory to Him”. But following the reformation churches slowly started to fall away from God and focus on themselves and their “greatness” instead of the God. So they needed a reminder to redirect them to where their focus should really be.  Today we need to also follow this advice and instead of focusing on what we are doing and what we can do, we need to give all the glory to God.

QUOTE:

     The announcement, “The hour of His judgment is come,” points to the closing work of Christ’s ministration for the salvation of men. It heralds a truth which must be proclaimed until the Saviour’s intercession shall cease and He shall return to the earth to take His people to Himself. The work of judgment which began in 1844 must continue until the cases of all are decided, both of the living and the dead; hence it will extend to the close of human probation.  {GC 435.2}

While the investigative judgment is going forward in heaven, while the sins of penitent believers are being removed from the sanctuary, there is to be a special work of purification, of putting away of sin, among God’s people upon earth.  {GC 425.1}

    How does the first angel’s message, as it was perceived during the advent movement of 1840-1844, fit together with the actual content of the first angel’s message?

ANSWER:

   The advent believers thought that the part of the first angel’s message “the hour of his judgment is come:” (Rev. 14:7) pointed forward to the 2^nd coming of Christ in 1843-44. Actually it was referring to Christ entering the Most Holy Place of the heavenly Sanctuary to start the investigative judgment of the people who profess to be Christians.

QUOTE:

     WHILE WE UNDERSTAND CLEARLY THAT THE MESSAGES OF THE FIRST AND SECOND AND THIRD ANGELS ARE MESSAGES THAT HAVE THEIR APPLICATION TODAY, WE RECOGNIZE ALSO THAT IN THEIR INITIAL PROCLAMATION THE SOUNDING OF THE FIRST ANGEL’S MESSAGE WITH ITS DECLARATION THAT “THE HOUR OF GOD’S JUDGMENT IS COME” IS LINKED WITH THE PROCLAMATION OF THE EXPECTED ADVENT OF CHRIST IN THE 1830′S AND EARLY 1840′S.  {EW 304.1} The first message is to be repeated proclaiming the second advent of Christ to our world.  {16MR 40.2}

Revelation 14 & 18

Chapter: Revelation 14 & 18
Entry Mode 1: Get the Story Straight.

REVELATION 14
Revelation 14:1-5 —> The 144,000
Revelation 14:6-12,13 —-> The Three Angels’  Message (Preparation of Harvest Message)
Revelation 14:13,14-20 —> Harvest of Righeous and Wicked at the Second Coming
REVELATION 18
Revelation 18:1-8 —> The Loud Cry
-sub-division: Rev. 18:4-8 Come out of Her My People
Revelation 18:9-24 —> Reactions of Wicked and Kings and God’s people to Babylon’s Judgement
-sub-division: Revelation 18: 20-24 Heaven and Saints rejoicing

Bible Class

This is going to be my blog for Bible Class. We are studying about Daniel and Revelation. It is very interesting. I will be posting assignments on here often…..I think….lol

Well, I need to listen to the teacher now!

BYE