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“The Hour of His Judgment Is Come”

Garrick Augustus

July 15, 2016

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God’s Judgement upon the Living


Outline for Analysis

1. The purpose for the judgment -- Why a cleansing? 2. The time of the Judgment—The period covered 3. The people of the judgment—The people who are

judged 4. The messages of the judgment—Which message

announces the judgment? 5. Preparing for the judgment—How shall God’s

people prepare? 6. The hour of the Judgment—when is the cleansing? 7. The fruits of the judgment—who survive the

judgment? The Hour of His Judgment 3

1. The purpose for the judgment -- Why a cleansing?

• “6 ¶ 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, 7 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.” Rev. 14: 6, 7

• “14 And he said unto me, Unto two thousand and three hundred days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed.” Dan. 8: 14

• “I beheld till the thrones were cast down, and the Ancient of days did sit…10 A fiery stream issued and came forth from before him… the judgment was set, and the books were opened.” Dan. 7: 9, 10


The Solemn Moment

• "The time of the Judgment is a most solemn period, when the Lord gathers His own from among the tares." -- "Testimonies to Ministers," p. 234.

• “You will see that its warning is the most solemn and momentous since Noah's prediction of the flood.” Tract 4, p. 6

• “How solemn a time have we come to! More solemn than the Passover in Egypt -- the type of the message of the Judgment for the Living, the "addition to the third message" ("Early Writings," p. 277).” Jezreel Letter, No. 6, p. 4


• “Solemn are the scenes connected with the closing work of the atonement. Momentous are the interests involved therein. The Judgment is now passing in the sanctuary above. For more than forty years this work has been in progress. Soon--none know how soon--it will pass to the cases of the living. In the awful presence of God our lives are to come up in review. At this time above all others it behooves every soul to heed the Saviour's admonition, ‘Watch and pray; for ye know not when the time is.’ [MARK 13:33.] ‘If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee.’ [REV. 3:3.]” The Great Controversy, p. 490


1. The purpose for the judgment -- Why a cleansing?

• “6 ¶ 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, 7 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.” Rev. 14: 6, 7

• “14 And he said unto me, Unto two thousand and three hundred days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed.” Dan. 8: 14


1. The purpose for the judgment –Cont’d

• “13 ¶ Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man. 14 For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.” Eccl. 12: 13, 14

• “2 By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments. 3 For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.” 1 John 5: 2, 3

• “12 Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.” Rev. 14: 12

• “17 And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.” Rev. 12: 17

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• “1 ¶ For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch. 2 But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall. 4 Remember ye [you that fear my name] the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all Israel, with the statutes and judgments.” Mal. 4: 1,2, 4

• “13 Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:” Eph. 4: 13



• “That which led to this movement was the discovery that the decree of Artaxerxes for the restoration of Jerusalem, which formed the starting-point for the period of the 2300 days, went into effect in the autumn of the year B. C. 457... Reckoning from the autumn of 457, the 2300 years terminate in the autumn of 1844. {GC88 398.3}

• “Arguments drawn from the Old-Testament types also pointed to the autumn as the time when the event represented by the “cleansing of the sanctuary” must take place. This was made very clear as attention was given to the manner in which the types relating to the first advent of Christ had been fulfilled.” {GC88 398.4}



• “Christ's ministration in the most holy place, to the investigative Judgment, and not to the coming of Christ for the redemption of his people and the destruction of the wicked. The mistake had not been in the reckoning of the prophetic periods, but in the event to take place at the end of the 2300 days. Through this error the believers had suffered disappointment, yet all that was foretold by the prophecy, and all that they had any Scripture warrant to expect, had been accomplished. At the very time when they were lamenting the failure of their hopes, the event had taken place which was foretold by the message, and which must be fulfilled before the Lord could appear to give reward to his servants.” {GC88 423.2}


New Duties Will be Revealed

• “But the people were not yet ready to meet their Lord. There was still a work of preparation to be accomplished for them. Light was to be given, directing their minds to the temple of God in Heaven; and as they should by faith follow their High Priest in his ministration there, new duties would be revealed. Another message of warning and instruction was to be given to the church. {GC88 424.3}

• "Wonderful possibilities are open to those who lay hold of the divine assurances of God's word. There are glorious truths to come before the people of God. Privileges and duties which they do not even suspect to be in the Bible will be laid open before them. As they follow on in the path of humble obedience, doing His will, they will know more and more of the oracles of God." -- Testimonies, Vol. 8, p. 322.


New Duties Will be Revealed

• “Before the final visitation of God's judgements upon the earth there will be among the people of the Lord such a revival of primitive godliness as has not been witnessed since apostolic times.”--GC 464 (1911).

• “In the time of the end every divine institution is to be restored. The breach made in the law at the time the Sabbath was changed by man, is to be repaired.”-- Prophets and Kings, p. 679

• “The Catholic Church abolished not only the Sabbath, but all the Jewish Festivals.” T. Enright C.S.S.R., The Mission Church of the Most Holy Redeemer, Detroit, Michigan, Letter, April 26, 1902.


Rome’s Confession to Changes She Made

• "As to the Sabbath, which was a sign recalling the first creation, its place is taken by the Lord's Day, which recalls the beginning of the new creature in the Resurrection of Christ. In like manner other solemnities of the Old Law are supplanted by new solemnities because the blessings vouchsafed to that people foreshadowed the favours granted us by Christ. Hence the feast of the Passover gave place to the feast of Christ's Passion and Resurrection; the feast of Pentecost when the Old Law was given, [gave place ] to the feast of Pentecost on which was given the Law of the living spirit;

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Rome’s Confession to Changes She Made

• the feast of the New Moon, [gave place ] to the feast of the Blessed Virgin, when appeared the first rays of the sun, that is Christ, by the fullness of grace; the feast of Trumpets, [gave place ] to the feasts of the Apostles; the feast of Expiation [Day of Atonement], [gave place ] to the feasts of Martyrs and Confessors; the feast of Tabernacles, [gave place ] to the feast of the Church Dedication; the feast of the Assembly and Collection [The Last Great Day of Tabernacles], [gave place ] to the feast of the Angels, or else to the feasts of All Saints." -- Saint Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica, Question CIII [103], Of The Duration Of The Ceremonial Precepts, Article 3.

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• “The slaying of the Passover lamb was a shadow of the death of Christ... The sheaf of first-fruits, which at the time of the Passover was waved before the Lord, was typical of the resurrection of Christ… Like the wave-sheaf, which was the first ripe grain gathered before the harvest... {GC88 399.1}

• “These types were fulfilled, not only as to the event, but as to the time. On the fourteenth day of the first Jewish month, the very day and month on which, for fifteen long centuries, the Passover lamb had been slain, Christ, having eaten the Passover with his disciples, instituted that feast which was to commemorate his own death as “the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.”… {GC88 399.2}



• “In like manner, the types which relate to the second advent must be fulfilled at the time pointed out in the symbolic service. Under the Mosaic system, the cleansing of the sanctuary, or the great day of atonement, occurred on the tenth day of the seventh Jewish month, ... So it was believed that Christ, our great High Priest, would appear to purify the earth by the destruction of sin and sinners, and to bless his waiting people with immortality. The tenth day of the seventh month, the great day of atonement, the time of the cleansing of the sanctuary, which in the year 1844 fell upon the 22d of October, was regarded as the time of the Lord's coming.” {GC88 399.3} ; GC pp. 398-400


2. The time of the Judgment—The period covered

• “And as the angel said, "Unto two thousand and three hundred days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed," the cleansing must thence have commenced in 1844, the very year in which, for the first time in history, the first angel's message rang forth the proclamation: "Fear God, and give glory to Him; for the hour of His judgment is come" (Rev. 14:7; Dan. 7:9, 10) -- the time that the Great Judge and the heavenly tribunal sit in judgment to separate the bad from the good; that is, to blot from the Book of Life the names of those who have entered the service of Christ but have not endured to the end.” Tract 3, 41-42 The Hour of His Judgment 18

2. The time of the Judgment—The period covered, Cont’d.

• “The concentrated light now shining forth from the prophecies herein viewed in their correlative connection, shows that both the sanctuary in heaven and the one on earth were polluted, not by the political and military conquests of heathen powers, but rather, first, by some of its converts' not enduring (Matt. 10:22); second by Satan's bringing in the tares while men slept (Matt. 13:25); and third, by the exceeding great horn's casting out the "daily," treading down the truth, and bringing in the abomination that maketh desolate: thus involving both the earthly and the heavenly sanctuaries.” --Tract 3, p. 53


“The exceeding great horn's casting out the "daily," treading down the truth.”

• “Just as God chastened her in olden time by permitting Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, to abolish the ceremonial system by destroying ancient Jerusalem and its temple, just so did He chasten her in the Christian era by permitting Rome to gain control over her and to supplant her true religious system by a counterfeit -- a pagan priesthood and a pagan sabbath. Then was His word fulfilled: "I will also cause all her mirth to cease, her feast days, her new moons, and her sabbaths, and all her solemn feasts.” [Hos 2: 11]-- Tract 4, pp. 25



• “Since these ordinances (her feast days, her sabbaths, etc.) were part of "a compacted prophecy of the gospel, a presentation in which were bound up the promises of redemption" (The Acts of the Apostles, p. 14), and since Hosea's symbolization has brought us into the Christian era, the ceasing of the ordinances therefore typifies Rome's supplanting the Truth. Daniel, also, was shown that this was to be accomplished through Rome, the "exceeding great" horn, which "cast down...to the ground" the Truth "and the place of His [Christ's] sanctuary." Dan. 8:12, 11.--Tract 4, pp. 25, 26


Doctrinal Cleansing of the Sanctuary

• “The daily, the desolation, also the Sanctuary and the host pertain both to the doctrines and the people. Both are to be cleansed. And the angel explained that the cleansing of the Sanctuary (cleansing it from both error and hypocrisy) takes place after the 2300 days, during the time of the end…

• While we have already seen that the house of God is to be cleansed from error and from Hypocrites, here in Zechariah's prophecy [Zech. 3:1-5] we see that the saints themselves are cleansed from their sins -- their filthy garments are taken away, and clean and beautiful garments are given in their place. This phase of the cleansing is again illustrated by the wedding garment. (Matt. 22:11).” Timely Greetings, Vol. 2, No. 42, pp. 32, 33 The Hour of His Judgment 22

Truth Have Been “Marred With Error”

• For all ages Jesus, the author of truth, through prophets and people, had presented truth upon truth to the Jews, from the pillar of cloud and fire. But the truth he had given had become mingled with error, and it was necessary to separate from the companionship of heresy and evil. It was necessary to readjust it in the framework of the gospel, in order that it might shine forth in its original luster and illuminate the moral darkness of the world. Wherever he found a gem of truth that had been lost from its setting, or had been marred with error, he reset it, and stamped upon it the signature of Jehovah. He proved himself to be the word and the wisdom of God. {ST, December 11, 1893 par. 3}



• "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." The Great Controversy, p. 436.


3. The people of the judgment—The people who are being judged

• “17 For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God? 18 And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?” 1 Pet. 4: 17, 18

• “But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.” 1Tim. 3:15


3. The people of the judgment, Cont’d.

• “14 ¶ And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God; 15 I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. 16 So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.” Rev. 3: 14-16

• Laodicea may be infallibly recognized amidst the many "isms" of Christendom by the work she is doing--declaring the judgment. Indeed, this mark of identification is pointed out by the very name Laodicea, compounded of the two Greek words lao and dekei, the one meaning "people," also "speak," the other meaning "judgment," the two in one meaning the people declaring judgment [or the judgment preaching people].” --The Answerer Book 1, p. 11


3. The people of the judgment, Cont’d.

• “The church therefore, which declares, "Fear God, and give glory to Him; for the hour of His judgment is come" (Rev. 14:7), is evidently the one called Laodicea. And it is almost as well known outside Seventh-day Adventist circles as within, that the Seventh-day Adventist church is endeavoring to carry the judgment message of Revelation 14:7, and is therefore unchallenged in her claim to the title, Laodicea.

• “Since, therefore, the Seventh-day Adventist church is the only one proclaiming the judgment, and since each of the seven messages is addressed to the angel of the respective churches, the message to Laodicea is accordingly addressed To the Seventh-day Adventist Angel.” The Answerer Book 1, p. 11, 12


4. The messages of the judgment—Which message announces the judgment?

• “Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come” Rev. 14: 7

• “1 ¶ Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the LORD of hosts. 2 But who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appeareth? for he is like a refiner’s fire, and like fullers’ soap: 3 And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the LORD an offering in righteousness.” Mal. 3: 1-3


4. The messages of the judgment, Cont’d.

• “4 Then shall the offering of Judah and Jerusalem be pleasant unto the LORD, as in the days of old, and as in former years. 5 And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts.” Mal. 3: 4, 5


5. Preparing for the judgment—How shall God’s people prepare?

• “3 And the glory of the God of Israel was gone up from the cherub, whereupon he was, to the threshold of the house. And he called to the man clothed with linen, which had the writer’s inkhorn by his side; 4 And the LORD said unto him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof.” Ezek. 9: 3, 4


5. Preparing for the judgment, Cont’d.

• “In 1844, as all Seventh-day Adventists know, Sister White was given a vision of the 144,000 signalizing the sealing angel's starting his ascent from the east (Rev. 7:2-4). From then on he was ascending, and the saints were awaiting his arrival. Finally, in 1929, through the Sabbath School Lessons the Lord announced throughout the Seventh-day Adventist Denomination that the angel had arrived. Then the scroll began to unroll and the angel's presence to be felt by many of those who were agonizing for truth and righteousness.” – The Shepherd's Rod Tract 1, p. 10, 1945.


5. Preparing for the judgment—How

• “5 ¶ And to the others he said in mine hearing, Go ye after him through the city, and smite: let not your eye spare, neither have ye pity:6 Slay utterly old and young, both maids, and little children, and women: but come not near any man upon whom is the mark; and begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at the ancient men which were before the house. 7 And he said unto them, Defile the house, and fill the courts with the slain: go ye forth. And they went forth, and slew in the city.” Ezek. 9: 5-7


5. Preparing for the judgment—How

• “1 ¶ Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me: and behold a basket of summer fruit. 2 And he said, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A basket of summer fruit. Then said the LORD unto me, The end is come upon my people of Israel; I will not again pass by them any more. 3 And the songs of the temple shall be howlings in that day, saith the Lord GOD: there shall be many dead bodies in every place; they shall cast them forth with silence.” Amos 8: 1-3


6. The hour of the Judgment—when is the cleansing?

• “As the "Passover" and the slaughter of the "first-born (first fruits) who had not the blood on the "door posts," released God's ancient people from the bondage of Egypt, so shall the antitypical Passover (Ezek. 9:4; Isa. 66:16) free the first fruits, the 144,000, His first-born now, from the bondage of sin and sinners today.”-- Tract 8, p. 74

• “How solemn a time have we come to! More solemn than the Passover in Egypt -- the type of the message of the Judgment for the Living, the "addition to the third message" ("Early Writings," p. 277).” Jezreel Letter, No. 6, p. 4


The Antitypical Passover

• Again: "In cleansing the temple from the world's buyers and sellers, Jesus announced His mission," first, "to cleanse the heart from the defilement of sin, -- from the earthly desires, the selfish lusts, the evil habits, that corrupt the soul" (The Desire of Ages, p.161); and second, to cleanse the entire church from sin and sinners. As twice (once in the closing of John the Baptist's proclamation of the kingdom, and in the opening of the gospel dispensation, at the beginning of Christ's ministry, and once at the close of His work and at the opening of the apostles' -- Special Testimonies to Ministers, No. 7, p. 54).-- Tract 8, pp. 27, 28


The Antitypical Passover, Cont’d.

• Since both of these cleansings, moreover, took place at the feast of the Passover, and since, too, all who "had not sanctified themselves sufficiently" (2 Chron. 30:3; Ex. 12:3-6) were forbidden to participate in the Passover in the first month, but were permitted to prepare for it and to celebrate it in the second month (Num. 9-11; 2 Chron. 30:13), thereby is typified the purification of the church in two sections...-- Tract 8, pp. 28, 1941


The Antitypical Passover, Cont’d.

• “The Passover, too, in which perished all the first-born of man and beast that were found in dwellings which had not the blood on the doorposts, forespoke an antitypical Passover in which all who are left without the mark because of not sighing and crying for the abominations in their midst will surely fall under the slaughter weapons of the angels (Ezek. 9:2).

• “When will this come to pass? -- The type unquestionably reveals the time through the fact that only the first-born were then in danger. Accordingly, the antitypical Passover will take place in the time of the firstfruit harvest -- the sealing of the 144,000, the firstfruits, the first to go to antitypical Jerusalem, the first to stand on Mount Zion with the Lamb, the first-born by the Spirit.-- The Shepherd's Rod Tract 1, p. 55, 56


7. The fruits of the judgment—who survive the judgment?

• “2 ¶ In that day shall the branch of the LORD be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and comely for them that are escaped of Israel. 3 And it shall come to pass, that he that is left in Zion, and he that remaineth in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, even every one that is written among the living in Jerusalem:4 When the Lord shall have washed away the filth [filthy garments ] of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning.” Isa. 4: 2-4


7. The fruits of the judgment, Cont’d.

• “While the investigation for the congregation of the dead is in progress, there can be no separation among the congregation of the living. But when our High Priest shall begin the atonement for the living, there must be a message of present truth -- sounding of the trumpet -- urging every one to lay hold on the Lamb of God (Christ) by which only, can he in figure, come to the sanctuary, confess his sin and secure his life.” –The Shepherd's Rod book, Vol. 2, p. 164



• Nah. 1:15 -- "Behold upon the mountains the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace! O Judah, keep thy solemn feasts, perform thy vows: for the wicked shall no more pass through thee; he is utterly cut off."

• Here you see that the announcement of this long-expected event is to be made by someone's publications. Moreover, he publishes peace and thus announces the restoration of the Kingdom. This is the only peace that the world can have. There is to be no other. Those who [plan to?] keep God's solemn "feasts" and perform their vows shall have this peace. None others shall.”--Timely Greetings, Vol. 2, No. 42, pp. 41



• “In our study of this prophecy [Nah. 1:15] we learned that this happens when the Assyrian falls, but the Lord's call to the church in Isaiah 52 to awake comes first. After she awakes she is to behold something and she is to do something. What is she to do? -- She is to keep her solemn feasts. She is to perform her vows. From this we understand that at the close of the Assyrian period and in the time when the wicked no longer will be in the church, God's people in it are to keep their solemn feasts and perform their vows. The Lord's Supper being one of the solemn feasts, it will be celebrated next in the time when the wicked are no more to pass through the church. Do you not see that we are now closer to it than when we first believed?”--Symbolic Code, Vol. 12, Nos. 6, 7, p. 12


God’s Solemn Feasts



• “With these solemn words the Lord warns that the slaughter (the antitypical Passover -- Testimonies, Vol. 5, pp. 505, 211; Testimonies, Vol. 1, pp. 190, 198) is to take place among those who are of the household of God, the church, for the escaped ones are sent to the Gentiles who as yet have not heard of God's fame and His glory.”– VTH, 1951, The White-House Recruiter, p. 24.



• “There must be a cleansing of the institutions similar to Christ's cleansing of the temple of old. {PC 411.3} …

• The Lord will work to purify his church. I tell you in truth, the Lord is about to turn and overturn in the institutions called by his name. Just how soon this refining process will begin, I cannot say, but it will not be long deferred. He whose fan is in his hand will cleanse his temple of its moral defilement. He will thoroughly purge his floor.”-- EGW, The Paulson Collection pp. 411, 416


Signs of Our Times

• On July 16th, that’s tomorrow, one million Christians and other faith groups will converge on the national mall, as they listen to the event speaker, the Pope of Rome [Francis] addressing them on the dire need for religious unity.

• “Together 2016 is an event organized by Nick Hall, and his non-profit organization PULSE. It is set to take place on July 16th at the National Mall in Washington D.C. The aim of the event is to bring together people from all backgrounds for a unified day of worship and prayer, lift up Jesus and to ask Him to reset the nation. It has been confirmed that the event will feature a personal video message from Pope Francis.--World Religion News: "Pope Francis Will Address Crowd at D.C.’s National Mall During “Together 2016”-- http://www.worldreligionnews.com The Hour of His Judgment 45

http://www.worldreligionnews.com/religion-news/christianity/pope-francis-will-address-crowd-at-d-c-s-national-mall-during-together-2016

Signs of Our Times , Cont’d.

• “Hall said there will not be a focus on party or denomination, or stances on abortion or gay rights.”---http://religionnews.com

• “Our greatest need in America is for the next Great Spiritual Awakening to occur. What if Saturday, July 16, 2016 was the day that God brought Spiritual Awakening to the National Mall in Washington D.C.? Do not miss Together 2016.”-- Ronnie Floyd, President, Southern Baptist Convention; https://reset2016.com/churches/


http://religionnews.com/2016/04/07/organizer-predicts-1-million-for-together-2016-washington-event/

https://reset2016.com/churches/


• “Together 2016 is an event organized by Nick Hall, and his non-profit organization PULSE. It is set to take place on July 16th at the National Mall in Washington D.C. The aim of the event is to bring together people from all backgrounds for a unified day of worship and prayer, lift up Jesus and to ask Him to reset the nation. It has been confirmed that the event will feature a personal video message from Pope Francis.--World Religion News: "Pope Francis Will Address Crowd at D.C.’s National Mall During “Together 2016”" http://www.worldreligionnews.com


http://www.worldreligionnews.com/religion-news/christianity/pope-francis-will-address-crowd-at-d-c-s-national-mall-during-together-2016

Coup: Turkey army group announces takeover on TV

• July 15, 2016, today, just hours ago: “An army group in Turkey says it has taken over the country, with soldiers at strategic points in Istanbul and jets flying low in the capital, Ankara.

• “A statement read on TV said a "peace council" now ran the country and there was a curfew and martial law. There would also be new constitution.

• “It is unclear who the army group is. There are reports some senior army officials have been detained.”--http://www.bbc.com, July 15, 2016.


http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-36809083

The END

• “As the storm approaches, a large class who have professed faith in the third angel's message, but have not been sanctified through obedience to the truth, abandon their position, and join the ranks of the opposition. ... Men of talent and pleasing address, who once rejoiced in the truth, employ their powers to deceive and mislead souls. They become the most bitter enemies of their former brethren. When Sabbath-keepers are brought before the courts to answer for their faith, these apostates are the most efficient agents of Satan to misrepresent and accuse them, and by false reports and insinuations to stir up the rulers against them. In this time of persecution the faith of the Lord's servants will be tried.” {GC88 608.1}


THE JUDGMENT IS SET, # 482, Old Hymnal

• 1. The Judgment has set, the books have been open; How shall we stand in that great day When every thought, and word, and action, God the righteous Judge, shall weigh?

• Refrain How shall we stand in that great day? How shall we stand in that great day? Shall we be found before Him wanting? Or with our sins all washed a-way?


THE JUDGMENT IS SET, # 482

• 2. The work is begun with those who sleeping, Soon will the living here be tried, Out of the books of God’s remembrance, His decision to abide.



THE JUDGMENT IS SET, # 482

• 3. O how shall we stand that moment of searching, When all our sins those books reveal? When from the court, each case decided, Shall be granted no appeal?



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Supplemental Readings Noe included in Original presentation


The Solemn Moment

• "The time of the Judgment is a most solemn period, when the Lord gathers His own from among the tares." -- "Testimonies to Ministers," p. 234.

• “You will see that its warning is the most solemn and momentous since Noah's prediction of the flood.” Tract 4, p. 6


• “There must be a cleansing of the institutions similar to Christ's cleansing of the temple of old. ‘It is written,’ saith the Lord, ‘my house shall be called a house of prayer, but ye have made it a den of thieves.’ There are in our institutions today transactions similar to those that took place in the temple court in Christ's time; and all heaven is looking on. {PC 411.3} …The Lord will work to purify his church. I tell you in truth, the Lord is about to turn and overturn in the institutions called by his name. Just how soon this refining process will begin, I cannot say, but it will not be long deferred. He whose fan is in his hand will cleanse his temple of its moral defilement. He will thoroughly purge his floor.”-- EGW, The Paulson Collection pp. 411, 416 The Hour of His Judgment 58

• “In the light of the clear cut facts be fore us, we see that the main object of the sealing or marking of the servants of God is to cleanse the church from sin and sinners, so that she may be able to stand strong against the image-beast in the time of trouble; and that when this purifying work is completed, "it shall come to pass that he that is left in Zion, and he that remaineth in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, even every one that is written among the living in Jerusalem: when the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning." Isa. 4:3, 4.-- VTH Tract 8, p. 25


• “Besides this vivid illustration, Inspiration, through the prophet Daniel reveals that the Sanctuary is to be cleansed not only from sinners, but from doctrinal error, too, for one angel inquired,--

• Dan. 8:13, 14, 17 -- "...How long shall be the vision concerning the daily sacrifice, and the transgression of desolation, to give both the Sanctuary and the host to be trodden under foot? And He said unto me, Unto two thousand and three hundred days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed.... Understand, O son of man: for at the time of the end shall be the vision.” -- Timely Greetings, Vol. 2, No. 42, pp. 32…


• Isa 52:1 Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean.

• “15 Behold upon the mountains the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace! O Judah, keep thy solemn feasts, perform thy vows: for the wicked shall no more pass through thee; he is utterly cut off.” Nah. 1: 16


• As the time approaches for the cleansing to take place a call for spiritual awakening will be made:

• Isa. 52:1 -- "Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean."

• Inspiration here declares that after this call for revival and reformation, from then on the sinners will not be permitted to have any part among the people that have been cleansed.

• The prophet Nahum, too, is a witness of this call for Reformation. He writes: [Timely Greetings, Vol. 2, No. 42, pp. 40, Nov. 27, 1948] …


• “In our study today we have summarized some of the things which will take place during the time of the end, but the most important thing, so far as you are concerned, is the decision you are now left to make.”-- Timely Greetings, Vol. 2, No. 42, pp. 41


• Nah. 1:15 -- "Behold upon the mountains the feet of him that

bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace! O Judah, keep thy solemn feasts, perform thy vows: for the wicked shall no more pass through thee; he is utterly cut off."

• Here we are told that at the time the war is fought someone is to be publishing inspired revelations of newly revealed Truth, the Truth of the Judgment of the Living, the which is to forever separate the wheat from the tares (Matt. 13:30), the good fish from the bad (Matt. 13:47, 48), the sheep from the goats (Matt. 25:32), and the wise virgins from the foolish ones (Matt. 25:1-12). These shall "no more pass through" the church, declares the scripture, they are "utterly cut off." Timely Greetings, Vol. 1, No. 3, p. 15


• Thus urging Judah, the church, to keep this antitypical atonement feast and to perform her vows to God so as to be found worthy of escaping the judgments of God. Hence God's plea to His church is now [AUGUST 17, 1946] ringing throughout the land, saying, "Awake, awake: put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and unclean." (Isa. 52:1)-- Timely Greetings, Vol. 1, No. 3, p. 15


• “Nah. 1:15. "Behold upon the mountains the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace! O Judah, keep thy solemn feasts, perform thy vows: for the wicked shall no more pass through thee; he is utterly cut off."

• The term, "Judah," attaches to the Christian church not only because of antitypical significance but also because of hereditary factor. This will be seen as we review Judah's history: … Tract 14 . P. 20,


• Thus it was only the descendants of the Kingdom of Judah who became so unfaithful that they rejected and crucified the Lord. But the faithful from among them accepted Him, and became the Christians, the founding members of the New Testament church. The church herself therefore, is the daughter of the Kingdom of Judah. Hence she is appropriately still called Judah.

• While she is by virtue of parentage, faithfulness, and purity (absence of tares) entitled to be called "Judah," still because of their last-day lukewarmness and the resultant infiltration of "tares" into her membership, she is, of necessity, additionally termed "Laodicea.”--Tract 14 . P. 20, 21


• Nah. 1:15 -- "Behold upon the mountains the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that PUBLISHETH peace! O Judah, keep thy solemn feasts, perform thy vows: for the WICKED shall no more pass through thee; he is utterly CUT OFF."

• Here the prophetic Word of God plainly declares by both Isaiah and Nahum the prophets that when we see these good tidings published by him whose feet are seen upon the mountains (and this is now taking place for the first time since the prophets wrote), it is to be a sign that the wicked, the violators of the laws of Moses, are soon to be cut off from among God's people.--Timely Greetings, Vol. 2, No. 37, p. 25


• And now, since you are privileged to hear all these things, "happy are ye," says the Lord, "if ye do them." Job 13:17.

• PICTURE [Next Slide]

• For the summary of our study, I would have you seriously look at this illustration. Look at it, store it in your mind, and study it at your leisure. Yes, be convinced of the truth which I have tried to present to you, for it is your life, your prosperity, your health and happiness, your eternity.-- Timely Greetings, Vol. 2, No. 37, p. 25


The “PICTURE”


• “Your obeying "all the commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments" of the moral law of Moses, you see, is your evidence that you have been born again, that you have been endowed with power from above, that you are enabled to choose the good and to refuse the evil, that you are the children of God. Keeping the commandments and the statutes in the Lord, then is the light and shield of your life. It is the outward sign that by the life of Christ you have overcome the Enemy of your soul and body. This system of worship, therefore, is truly the Righteousness by faith that brings the righteousness of Christ in the people of God. Let us now with ears wide open hear the crier's bell:-- Timely Greetings, Vol. 2, No. 37,pp. 24…


• Isa. 52:1, 7 -- "Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean.... How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth!“--Timely Greetings, Vol. 2, No. 37,pp. 24, 25


• Nah. 1:15 -- "Behold upon the mountains the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace! O Judah, keep thy solemn feasts, perform thy vows: for the wicked shall no more pass through thee; he is utterly cut off."

• Here you see that the announcement of this long-expected event is to be made by someone's publications. Moreover, he publishes peace and thus announces the restoration of the Kingdom. This is the only peace that the world can have. There is to be no other. Those who [will?] keep God's solemn "feasts" and perform their vows shall have this peace. None others shall.

• In our study today [NOVEMBER 27, 1948] we have summarized some of the things which will take place during the time of the end, but the most important thing, so far as you are concerned, is the decision you are now left to make.” Timely Greetings, Vol. 2, No. 42 41


• Nah. 1:15 -- "Behold upon the mountains the feet of him that bringeth good tidings that publisheth peace! O Judah, keep thy solemn feasts, perform thy vows: for the wicked shall no more pass through thee; he is utterly cut off."

• In our study of this prophecy we learned that this happens when the Assyrian falls, but the Lord's call to the church in Isaiah 52 to awake comes first. After she awakes she is to behold something and she is to do something. What is she to do? -- She is to keep her solemn feasts. She is to perform her vows. From this we understand that at the close of the Assyrian period and in the time when the wicked no longer will be in the church, God's people in it are to keep their solemn feasts and perform their vows. The Lord's Supper being one of the solemn feasts, it will be celebrated next in the time when the wicked are no more to pass through the church. Do you not see that we are now closer to it than when we first believed?--Symbolic Code, Vol. 12, Nos. 6, 7, p. 12


• Moreover, pleads Inspiration: "Awake, awake, put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean." Isa. 52:1.

• Note that after this call of awakening is made to the church, to Zion and Jerusalem, from then on the unclean and the uncircumcised are no more to pass through her. Furthermore the prophet Nahum adds:

• "Behold upon the mountains the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace! O Judah, keep thy solemn feasts, perform thy vows: for the wicked shall no more pass through thee; he is utterly cut off." Nah. 1:15.

• Again note, my friend, that God is directing your eyes to one whom He has sent to bring peace to you and to effect a revival and reformation among His people, and that thereafter the wicked are no longer to pass through the church, they are cut off. --Jezreel Letter, No. 8, p. 6


• The Spirit's Voice through Isaiah is now [1944 and beyond] also crying aloud: "Awake, awake, put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean....How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of Him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth!" Isa. 52:1, 7.

• The same Voice through Nahum also pleads: "Behold upon the mountains the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace! O Judah, keep thy solemn feasts, perform thy vows: for the wicked shall no more pass through thee; he is utterly cut off." Nah. 1:15.--Answerer Book 1, p. 73, 74


• “The people whom God has afflicted (by their dispersion among the nations) and whom He promises to afflict no more, and to break the Assyrian yoke from off their shoulders, are His people, His church -- antitypical Judah. They are, therefore, the other people.

• The title of God's people, you note, is "Judah." They are counselled to behold the messenger of God who at the fulfillment of this prophecy brings to them good tidings, tidings of peace...the message of the Kingdom of peace (Isa. 11:6-9). The Lord counsels them to be honest with Him, honest in their profession of faith. They are, moreover, assured that at the fulfillment of this prophecy the destroying angels are to remove the wicked from the midst of the righteous.” -- Timely Greetings, Vol. 1, No. 24, p. 12


• “Most important of all, though, the prophet Nahum plainly tells that all these things take place in our day, and that the fall of Assyria takes place while God's people are turning to Him, while revival and reformation are successfully carried by him who "publisheth peace" (Nah. 1:15). If we, therefore, fail to take hold of the message, and if we fail to reform as it recommends, then it is not possible to survive the day of the Lord.-- Timely Greetings, Vol. 1, No. 24, p. 19


• “Recline no longer, brother, sister: "Arise, shine; for they light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee." Isa. 60:1. "Behold upon the mountains the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace! O Judah, keep thy solemn feasts [the truth of the sanctuary], perform thy vows: for the wicked shall no more pass through thee; he is utterly cut off." Nah. 1:15.-- Tract 4, p. 61, 1934-1943


• “Nahum's burden is concerning the restoration, and the fall of Assyria, the powers which rule them in the day He restores the latter-day Kingdom of Judah; in the day He breaks the Assyrian yoke, in the day He bursts asunder the bands that bind His people. In that day He sends His messenger to bear good tidings to His people, tidings of peace while the world is upset with wars. Through His messenger He is urging His people to perform their vows, for He is to take away the wicked from among them. Assyria is to vacate and give room to Judah. "For through the voice of the Lord shall the Assyrian be beaten down, which smote with a rod." Isa. 30:31. --Timely Greetings, Vol. 1, No. 15, p. 15


• “When the judgment opened in 1844, as previously explained, the investigation began with the dead, and when that part of the work is finished, then commences the judgment of the living. While the investigation for the congregation of the dead is in progress, there can be no separation among the congregation of the living. But when our High Priest shall begin the atonement for the living, there must be a message of present truth -- sounding of the trumpet -- urging every one to lay hold on the Lamb of God (Christ) by which only, can he in figure, come to the sanctuary, confess his sin and secure his life. Unless the close of the judgment for the dead and the commencement for the living be made known to us, we would have no present truth while the judgment for the living is in session.” Shepherd's Rod book, Vol. 2, p.164


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