Transcript Rest for You Part 4

HOLY SABBATH -4
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be judged…
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It is not that God has no care for His
darkness. We are told: Dan 7:25 And
suffering people that they ‘are given’
he shall speak great words against
into the hand of the beast power, nor
the most High, and shall wear out the
does it mean He is not with them; but
saints of the most High, and think to
in His infinite wisdom He knows that
change times and laws: and they shall
all created beings must see that
be given into his hand until a time and
‘Lucifer’ has been given a fair chance
times and the dividing of time.
to prove his claims of a ‘superior’
government
Rev 11:2 Butand
the religion.
court which is
without the temple leave out, and
Of God’s true ones at this time it is
measure it not; for it is given unto
said: Dan 11:32,33 … but the people
the Gentiles: and the holy city shall
that do know their God shall be
they tread under foot forty and two
strong, and do exploits. And they
months.
that understand among the people
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Satan to demonstrate the working
out of his ‘religion’. But God’s people
are encouraged – it will end!
Now
notice the phrase ‘time of the
It continues:
end’ and ‘time appointed’. Here God is
Dan.11:34,35
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Daniel 12:4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up
the words, and seal the book, even to
the time of the end: many shall run to
and fro, and knowledge shall be
increased.
Something else was going to happen at
the end of that time prophecy; the
larger 2300 day/year prophecy of the
book of Daniel, called the ‘Mystery of
God’, (Rev. 10:7) would be unsealed as
attention was drawn to the book of
Daniel and people all over the world
began to study into the time
prophecies.
Hundreds of books and papers were
written on the subject and all
presented the conclusion that
something notable was about to
happen in the 1840s.
It was called the ‘Great Advent
Awakening’ and it swept the
world like wild-fire. A man
named William Miller devoted
many years to studying out the
time prophecies of Daniel and
saw they pointed to around
1843-44.
Impressed with the need of the
people to know these things he
began to preach in 1833 that the
coming of the Lord could be
looked for around that time. The
Millerite movement shook the
world, but when the time passed
and nothing seemed to have
happened, most rejected the
prophecy and the preachers as
deluded.
But a few faithful ones knew
their studies were correct and
so they searched to find out
what HAD happened on that day
so clearly pointed to in the
Bible.
They soon learned from
scripture that this date was
when Jesus came into the Most
Holy Pace of the sanctuary in
heaven to begin the pre-Advent
judgment - where the cases of
all who have claimed to be God’s
people were to be examined and
decision made as to whether or
not they were to be saved. This
was to be completed before
Christ returns for His people .
Daniel saw it this way:
I beheld till the thrones were cast down, (this means ‘placed’ as in place
seats for a group to sit on.) and the Ancient of days did sit, whose
garment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like the pure wool:
his throne was like the fiery flame, and his wheels as burning fire. A
fiery stream issued and came forth from before him: thousand
thousands ministered unto him, and ten thousand times ten thousand
stood before him: the judgment was set, and the books were opened.
Daniel 7:-10
Daniel 7:13,14 I saw in the night visions,
and, behold, one like the Son of man
came with the clouds of heaven, and
came to the Ancient of days, and they
brought him near before him. And there
was given him dominion, and glory, and a
kingdom.
Then they knew that 1844 on Oct.22 was
the time the Lord came in before His
Father and the final work of atonement,
equal to the ‘Day of Atonement in the
ceremonial year of Israel, was to begin.
As the books of record are opened in the
judgment, the lives of all who have
believed on Jesus come in review before
God. Beginning with those who first lived
upon the earth, our Advocate presents
the cases of each successive generation,
and closes with the living.
Although they do not appear in person, every name is mentioned,
every case closely investigated. Names are accepted, names rejected.
When any have sins remaining upon the books of record, unrepented
of and unforgiven, their names will be blotted out of the book of life,
and the record of their good deeds will be erased from the book of
God's remembrance.
We are told in particular that this
savage Beast-power was judged:
Daniel 7:26 But the judgment
shall sit, and they shall take away
his dominion, to consume and to
destroy it unto the end.
Revelation 18:8 Therefore shall
her plagues come in one day,
death, and mourning, and famine;
and she shall be utterly burned
with fire: for strong is the Lord
God who judgeth her.
All who have truly repented of sin, and by faith claimed the blood of
Christ as their atoning sacrifice, have had pardon entered against
their names in the books of heaven; as they have become partakers
of the righteousness of Christ, and their characters are found to be
in harmony with the law of God, their sins will be blotted out, and
they themselves will be accounted worthy of eternal life. It is thus
the Saviour receives His kingdom of those He has redeemed.
This is the meaning of the text: Daniel
8:14 And he said unto me, Unto two
thousand and three hundred days; then
shall the sanctuary be cleansed.
The ‘Cleansing of the Sanctuary’ took
place once a year, when the High Priest
would go in before the Ark of the
Covenant in the Most Holy Place and
make an atonement for the sins of the
people, symbolically removing them from
the sanctuary.
This was a solemn time and pointed to
the final cleansing of sin from the
repentant believer and the records of
that sin from the Heavenly Sanctuary by
the Blood of the Lamb of God.
But there will come a point that this Investigative Judgement will proceed
to the cases of those still living on earth! What then?
Remember that wounded beast-power of 1798? Well, we learned it would
be healed! Revelation 13:3 “… and his deadly wound was healed: and all
the world wondered after the beast.”
The wound was the loss of political power and we see a time that the
political power will return and Revelation 13:8 “And all that dwell upon the
earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of
the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.”
Aha! We see the judgement brought out here! Those that worship this
false religious-political power are blotted out of the Lamb’s Book of Life ;
those that refuse to worship It - overcome and are saved! Revelation 20:4
“… which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had
received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived
and reigned with Christ a thousand years.”
Notice although, the wounded Beast springs into action again—the saints
are NOT given into his hand as before!
Those that worship the Beast, do it by receiving his MARK:
Revelation 7:2,3 And I saw another angel ascending from the east, having
the seal of the living God: …till we have sealed the servants of our God in
their foreheads. Those who refuse the MARK receive the SEAL of GOD!
Do you remember what the Seal of God is? See #1 in this series. The
Seal of God is the 4th commandment – the 7th day Sabbath that declared
the right of the Creator to be obeyed by His creatures!
And the MARK? What is the MARK of the Beast-power, that
great sun-worshipping counterfeit that Satan has set up to
destroy the knowledge of the True God and put himself in its
place? Let’s ask that power what is its MARK of authority, shall
we?
“The church...took the pagan Sunday and made it the Christian
Sunday.... The Sun was a foremost god with heathendom.... And thus
the pagan Sunday, dedicated to Balder, became the Christian
Sunday.” Dr. William L. Gildea, The Catholic World , March, 1894.
“The Catholic Church for over one thousand years before the
existence of a Protestant, by virtue of her Divine mission, changed
the day from Saturday to Sunday.”—The Catholic Mirror , September
23, 1893.
“The Sunday, as a day of the week set apart for the obligatory public
worship of Almighty God...is purely a creation of the Catholic Church.
It is...not governed by the enactments of the Mosaic law. It is part
and parcel of the system of the Catholic Church.”—John Gilmary
Shea, The American Catholic Quarterly Review , January, 1883.
"Of course the Catholic Church claims that the change (Saturday
Sabbath to Sunday) was her act... And the act is a MARK of her
ecclesiastical authority in religious things." H.F. Thomas, Chancellor
of Cardinal Gibbons.
"The observance of Sunday by the Protestants is an homage they
pay, in spite of themselves, to the authority of the [Catholic]
church." Monsignor Louis Segur, Plain Talk About the Protestantism
of Today (1868), p. 213
"Reason and sense demand the acceptance of one or the other of
these alternatives: either Protestantism and the keeping holy of
Saturday, or Catholicism and the keeping holy of Sunday.
Compromise is impossible. -James Cardinal Gibbons. Catholic mirror,
December 23, 1893
"Sunday is our MARK of authority. . .the Church is above the Bible,
and this transference of Sabbath observance is proof of that fact"
Catholic Record of London, Ontario Sept 1, 1923.
"The authority of the church could therefore not be bound to the
authority of the Scriptures, because the Church had changed the
Sabbath into Sunday, not by command of Christ, but by its own
authority." Canon and Tradition, p. 263
"Is not every Christian obliged to sanctify Sunday and to abstain on
that day from unnecessary servile work? Is not the observance of
this law among the most prominent of our sacred duties? But you may
read the Bible from Genesis to Revelation, and you will not find a
single line authorizing the sanctification of Sunday. The Scriptures
enforce the religious observance of Saturday, a day which we never
sanctify." -James Cardinal Gibbons, The Faith of Our Fathers (1917
ed.), pp. 72, 73.
Question - Which is the Sabbath day?
Answer - Saturday is the Sabbath day.
Question - Why do we observe Sunday instead of Saturday?
Answer - We observe Sunday instead of Saturday because the
Catholic Church, in the Council of Laodicea (A.D. 364), transferred
the solemnity from Saturday to Sunday." The Convert's Catechism
of Catholic Doctrine, p. 50, 3rd ed.
Question—"Have you any other way of proving that the Church
has power to institute festivals of precept?
"Answer "Had she not such power, she could not have done that in
which all modem religionists agree with her ,—she could not have
substituted the observance of Sunday the first day of the week, for
the observance of Saturday the seventh day, a change for which
there is no Scriptural authority." —Priest Stephen Keenan, A
Doctrinal Catechism, chap. 2, P. 174 {Imprimatur by John Cardinal
McCloskey, archbishop of New York. Roman Catholic}.
"If Protestants would follow the Bible, they should worship God
on the Sabbath Day. In keeping the Sunday they are following a law
of the Catholic Church."—Albert Smith, Chancellor of the
Archdiocese of Baltimore, replying for the Cardinal in a letter of
Feb. 10, 1920.
I could go on, but I think you get the point.
Satan’s counterfeit religions have certain characteristics. It does us
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set up a counterfeit of everything including the Sabbath day.
•They all exalt Man’s ideas as equal to, or superior to the Word of God.
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Man says
“FORGETisIT”
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and ‘Divisive’. The ‘organisation’ is supreme; the individual is nothing.
The judgement soon will pass to the living.
God has a TEST of loyalty. That TEST is
keeping the Ten Commandments, including
the fourth, by the Grace of Christ. Soon
the governments of the world will follow
the false religious counterfeit and will
pass laws to force all to keep the Sunday
and those who obey the Lord will be
persecuted and finally sentenced to death.
But the obedient will win, they will receive
the Seal of God!
The beast will roar; but God’s truth will
triumph!
Revelation 18:21 And a mighty angel took
up a stone like a great millstone, and cast
it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence
shall that great city Babylon be thrown
down, and shall be found no more at all.
The Bible tells the story in 3 messages that go forth at the ‘time of
the end’ of the 1260 and 2300 day/year prophecy of Daniel:
Revelation 14:6-11 And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven,
having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the
earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people,
Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour
of his judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven, and
earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters.
Notice this clearly calls for a return to
loyalty to the Creator God, the ONE God
Who MADE, and the only One Who can REMAKE!
Fear Him! Reverence and obey the Creator
God, do it NOW! Why now? Because the
HOUR of His judgment is come!
Revelation 11:18 … and thy wrath is come,
and the time of the dead, that they should
be judged, and that thou shouldest give
reward unto thy servants the prophets, and
to the saints, and them that fear thy name,
small and great; and shouldest destroy them
which destroy the earth.
“And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen,
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To receive the Mark, when the
decree goes forth to FORCE
all to receive it, means Eternal
Death !
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:
And the smoke of their torment
ascendeth up for ever and ever:
and they have no rest day nor
night, who worship the beast and
his image, and whosoever receiveth
the mark of his name.
God has set up a TEST, by the CHOICE each person makes at the showdown, we will SEAL our destinies. We will show by our own choice – WHO
IS MY GOD ! The Creator who made me? Or myself and man’s authority?
Obey God and REMEMBER the 7th
Day Sabbath of the Creator!
Obey Man and Worship the
SUN-day!
Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that
keep the commandments of God, and the faith of
Jesus.Revelation 14:11
Revelation 22:14
Blessed are they that
do his commandments,
that they may have
right to the tree of
life, and may enter in
through the gates into
the city.
Revelation 22:15 For without are dogs, and sorcerers,
and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and
whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.