Transcript Slide 1

Enoch, the seventh from Adam, was ever
prophesying the coming of the Lord. This great
event had been revealed to him in vision. Abel,
though dead, is ever speaking of the blood of
Christ, which alone can make our offerings and
gifts perfect. The Bible has accumulated and
bound up together its treasures for this last
generation. All the great events and solemn
transactions of Old Testament history have
been, and are, repeating themselves in the
church in these last days…
The prophets are still testifying of the sufferings of
Christ and the glory that should follow. There the
whole accumulated truths are presented in
force to us, that we may profit by their
teachings. We are under the influence of the
whole. {Christ Triumphant, p. 357}
Prophecy has been fulfilling, line upon line. The more
firmly we stand under the banner of the third angel's
message, the more clearly shall we understand the
prophecy of Daniel; for the Revelation is the supplement
of Daniel. The more fully we accept the light presented by
the Holy Spirit through the consecrated servants of God,
the deeper and surer, even as the eternal throne, will
appear the truths of ancient prophecy; we shall be
assured that men of God spake as they were moved upon
by the Holy Ghost. Men must themselves be under the
influence of the Holy Spirit in order to understand the
Spirit's utterances through the prophets. These messages
were given, not for those that uttered the prophecies, but
for us who are living amid the scenes of their
fulfillment. {Selected Messages, book 2, p.114}
Each of the ancient prophets spoke less for their own
time than for ours, so that their prophesying is in
force for us. "Now all these things happened unto
them for ensamples: and they are written for our
admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are
come" (1 Corinthians 10:11). "Not unto themselves,
but unto us they did minister the things, which are
now reported unto you by them that have preached
the gospel unto you with the Holy Ghost sent down
from heaven; which things the angels desire to look
into" (1 Peter 1:12).
{Selected Messages, book 3,
p.338}
There was a shut door in Noah's day. There was at
that time a withdrawal of the Spirit of God from the
sinful race that perished in the waters of the Flood.
God Himself gave the shut-door message to Noah…
There was a shut door in the days of Abraham.
Mercy ceased to plead with the inhabitants of Sodom,
and all but Lot, with his wife and two daughters, were
consumed by the fire sent down from heaven.
There was a shut door in Christ's day. The Son of
God declared to the unbelieving Jews of that
generation, "Your house is left unto you desolate"
(Matthew 23:38).
Looking down the stream of time to the last days, the
same infinite power proclaimed through John:
"These things saith he that is holy, he that is true,
he that hath the key of David, he that openeth, and no
man shutteth; and shutteth, and no man openeth"
(Revelation 3:7). {1SM 63.8}
I was shown in vision, and I still believe, that there
was a shut door in 1844. All who saw the light of the
first and second angels' messages and rejected that
light, were left in darkness. And those who accepted it
and received the Holy Spirit which attended the
proclamation of the message from heaven, and who
afterward renounced their faith and pronounced their
experience a delusion, thereby rejected the Spirit of
God, and it no longer pleaded with them. {1SM 63}
• HISTORICAL EVENTS MARK THE ARRIVAL OF THE THIRD
MESSAGE
• A FORM OF JUDGMENT TAKES PLACE
• THERE IS A SHUT DOOR
• THE “GATHERING” IS ACCOMPLISHED
• TWO CLASSES ARE DEMONSTRATED
• A COVENANT IS ESTABLISHED
• FOLLOWED BY A DISAPPOINTMENT
• ASSOCIATED WITH THE NUMBER SEVEN
- THE PEOPLE OF GOD ARE GIVEN A PARTICULAR WORK
- FOLLOWED BY BACKSLIDING OR VACILLATING
When God's people are at ease and satisfied with
their present enlightenment, we may be sure that He
will not favor them. It is His will that they should be
ever moving forward to receive the increased and
ever-increasing light which is shining for them. The
present attitude of the church is not pleasing to God.
There has come in a self-confidence that has led
them to feel no necessity for more truth and greater
light. We are living at a time when Satan is at work on
the right hand and on the left, before and behind us;
and yet as a people we are asleep. God wills that a
voice shall be heard arousing His people to action.
{Testimonies for the Church, vol. 5, p. 708}
• MIND
• HEART
• INTELLECTUALLY
• SPIRITUALLY
Just as soon as the people of God are sealed in their
foreheads--it is not any seal or mark that can be
seen, but a settling into the truth, both intellectually
and spiritually, so they cannot be moved--just as
soon as God's people are sealed and prepared for
the shaking, it will come. Indeed, it has begun
already; the judgments of God are now upon the land,
to give us warning, that we may know what is coming.
{Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary, vol. 4,
p. 1161}
The comprehension of truth, the glad
reception of the message, is
represented in the eating of the little
book.
{Seventh-Day Adventist Bible
Commentary, vol.7, p. 971}
A revival and a reformation must take place, under
the ministration of the Holy Spirit. Revival and
reformation are two different things. Revival signifies
a renewal of spiritual life, a quickening of the powers
of mind and heart, a resurrection from spiritual death.
Reformation signifies a reorganization, a change in
ideas and theories, habits and practices. Reformation
will not bring forth the good fruit of righteousness
unless it is connected with the revival of the Spirit.
Revival and reformation are to do their appointed
work, and in doing this work they must blend.
{Selected Messages, book 1, p. 128}
The third angel's message, embracing the messages
of the first and second angels, is the message for
this time. We are to raise aloft the banner on which
is inscribed, "The commandments of God, and the
faith of Jesus." The world is soon to meet the great
Lawgiver over His broken law. This is not the time to
put out of sight the great issues before us. God calls
upon His people to magnify the law and make it
honorable. {Counsels on Health, p. 357}
Justification means the saving of a soul from
perdition, that he may obtain sanctification, and
through sanctification, the life of heaven. Justification
means that the conscience, purged from dead works,
is placed where it can receive the blessings of
sanctification…
Our crucified Lord is pleading for us in the presence
of the Father at the throne of grace. His atoning
sacrifice we may plead for our pardon, our
justification, and our sanctification. The Lamb slain
is our only hope. {Seventh-day Adventist Bible
Commentary, vol. 7, pp. 908, 948}
Before His crucifixion the Saviour explained to His
disciples that He was to be put to death and to rise
again from the tomb, and angels were present to
impress His words on minds and hearts. But the
disciples were looking for temporal deliverance from
the Roman yoke, and they could not tolerate the
thought that He in whom all their hopes centered
should suffer an ignominious death. The words which
they needed to remember were banished from their
minds; and when the time of trial came, it found
them unprepared…