Mat 17:11 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Elias truly shall first come, and restore all things.

Elias

1Ki 18:17 And it came to pass, when Ahab saw Elijah, that Ahab said unto him, Art thou he that troubleth Israel? 1Ki 18:18 And he answered, I have not troubled Israel; but thou, and thy father's house, in that ye have forsaken the commandments of the LORD, and thou hast followed Baalim.

Mat 3:1 In those days came John the Baptist, preaching in the wilderness of Judaea, Mat 3:2 And saying, Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. Mat 3:3 For this is he that was spoken of by the prophet Esaias, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.

The first Elijah

The second Elijah

The role of John the BaptistLuk 1:13 But the angel said unto him, Fear not, Zacharias: for thy prayer is heard; and thy wife Elisabeth shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name John. Luk 1:14 And thou shalt have joy and gladness; and many shall rejoice at his birth. Luk 1:15 For he shall be great in the sight of the Lord, and shall drink neither wine nor strong drink; and he shall be filled with the Holy Ghost, even from his mother's womb. Luk 1:16 And many of the children of Israel shall he turn to the Lord their God. Luk 1:17 And he shall go before him in the spirit and power of Elias, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.

Luk 1:76 And thou, child, shalt be called the prophet of the Highest: for thou shalt go before the face of the Lord to prepare his ways; Luk 1:77 To give knowledge of salvation unto his people by the remission of their sins, Luk 1:78 Through the tender mercy of our God; whereby the dayspring from on high hath visited us, Luk 1:79 To give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace. Luk 1:80 And the child grew, and waxed strong in spirit, and was in the deserts till the day of his shewing unto Israel.

Psa 119:165 Great peace have they which love thy law: and nothing shall offend them.

Josiah a type of the final reform2Ki 22:1 Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned thirty and one years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Jedidah, the daughter of Adaiah of Boscath. 2Ki 22:2 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, and walked in all the way of David his father, and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left. 2Ki 22:3 And it came to pass in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, that the king sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, the son of Meshullam, the scribe, to the house of the LORD, saying, 2Ki 22:4 Go up to Hilkiah the high priest, that he may sum the silver which is brought into the house of the LORD, which the keepers of the door have gathered of the people:

Josiah - yo'shı �yah yo'shı �yahuyo-she-yaw', yo-she-yaw'-hooFrom the same root as H803 and H3050; founded of Jah; Joshijah, the name of two Israelites: - Josiah.yedı �ydah

Jedidah - yed-ee-daw'Feminine of H3039; beloved; Jedidah, an Israelitess: - Jedidah.‛adayah ‛adayahu

Adaiah - ad-aw-yaw', ad-aw-yaw'-hooFrom H5710 and H3050; Jah has adorned; Adajah, the name of eight Israelites: - Adaiah.torah torah

2Ki 22:5 And let them deliver it into the hand of the doers of the work, that have the oversight of the house of the LORD: and let them give it to the doers of the work which is in the house of the LORD, to repair the breaches of the house, 2Ki 22:6 Unto carpenters, and builders, and masons, and to buy timber and hewn stone to repair the house. 2Ki 22:7 Howbeit there was no reckoning made with them of the money that was delivered into their hand, because they dealt faithfully. 2Ki 22:8 And Hilkiah the high priest said unto Shaphan the scribe, I have found the book of the law in the house of the LORD. And Hilkiah gave the book to Shaphan, and he read it. 2Ki 22:9 And Shaphan the scribe came to the king, and brought the king word again, and said, Thy servants have gathered the money that was found in the house, and have delivered it into the hand of them that do the work, that have the oversight of the house of the LORD.

2Ki 22:10 And Shaphan the scribe shewed the king, saying, Hilkiah the priest hath delivered me a book. And Shaphan read it before the king. 2Ki 22:11 And it came to pass, when the king had heard the words of the book of the law, that he rent his clothes. 2Ki 22:12 And the king commanded Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and Achbor the son of Michaiah, and Shaphan the scribe, and Asahiah a servant of the king's, saying, 2Ki 22:13 Go ye, enquire of the LORD for me, and for the people, and for all Judah, concerning the words of this book that is found: for great is the wrath of the LORD that is kindled against us, because our fathers have not hearkened unto the words of this book, to do according unto all that which is written concerning us.

Believers Bible Commentary2Ki 22:1-7 - King Josiah (22:1–23:30)

Josiah the son of Amon was king of Judah for thirty-one years (641–609 B.C.; cf. 2 Chron. 34–35).1. Josiah's Repairs of the Temple (22:1-7)Zephaniah (Zep_1:1) and Jeremiah (Jer_25:3) began their prophetic ministries at about this time. Habakkuk may have ministered toward the end of Josiah's time. Josiah's reign was the last era of reform in the kingdom of Judah. He took resolute action against idolatry and encouraged the people to return to the LORD. In the eighteenth year of his reign, when he was twenty-six, he instituted a program for the repair of the temple. Money that had been collected at the temple was turned over to workmen for labor and materials. Because of their honesty, no accounting was asked for the money which was turned over to them.

2Ki 22:14 So Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam, and Achbor, and Shaphan, and Asahiah, went unto Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe; (now she dwelt in Jerusalem in the college;) and they communed with her. 2Ki 22:15 And she said unto them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Tell the man that sent you to me, 2Ki 22:16 Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, and upon the inhabitants thereof, even all the words of the book which the king of Judah hath read: 2Ki 22:17 Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the works of their hands; therefore my wrath shall be kindled against this place, and shall not be quenched.

Believers Bible Commentary:

22:14-20 The officials went to Huldah, a prophetess who dwelt in Jerusalem in the Second Quarter, a district or suburb of the city. They did not go directly to either Jeremiah or Zephaniah. Huldah was probably Jeremiah's aunt (v. 14; cf. Jer_32:7). She confirmed Josiah's fears that God was going to punish Judah soon because of the corruption of the people. But she added that it would not happen during Josiah's lifetime because he had humbled himself and was penitent.The fact that Josiah later died in battle (2Ki_23:29) does not contradict verse 20. "You shall be gathered to your grave in peace" may mean "before the promised catastrophe of the Babylonian captivity." Or it may mean that Josiah would die at peace with God (he certainly did not die at peace with man).

Wesley: 2Ki 22:8 The book - That original book of the law of the Lord, given or written by the hand of Moses, as it is expressed, 2Ch_34:14, which by God's command was put beside the ark, Deu_31:26, and probably taken from thence and hid, by the care of some godly priest, when some of the idolatrous kings of Judah persecuted the true religion, and defaced the temple, and (which the Jewish writers affirm) burnt all the copies of God's law which they could find. It was now found among the rubbish, or in some secret place. And what a providence was this, that it was still preserved! Yea, what a providence, that the whole book of God is preserved to us. If the holy scriptures had not been of God, they had not been in being at this day. God's care of the bible, is a plain proof of his interest in it. It was a great instance of God's favour, that the book of the law was thus seasonably brought to light, to direct and quicken that blessed reformation, which Joash had begun.

2Ki 22:18 But to the king of Judah which sent you to enquire of the LORD, thus shall ye say to him, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, As touching the words which thou hast heard; 2Ki 22:19 Because thine heart was tender, and thou hast humbled thyself before the LORD, when thou heardest what I spake against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and hast rent thy clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard thee, saith the LORD. 2Ki 22:20 Behold therefore, I will gather thee unto thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered into thy grave in peace; and thine eyes shall not see all the evil which I will bring upon this place. And they brought the king word again.

The king must leave with God the events of the future; he could not alter the eternal decrees of Jehovah. But in announcing the retributive judgments of Heaven, the Lord had not withdrawn opportunity for repentance and reformation; and Josiah, discerning in this a willingness on the part of God to temper His judgments with mercy, determined to do all in his power to bring about decided reforms. He arranged at once for a great convocation, to which were invited the elders and magistrates in Jerusalem and Judah, together with the common people. These, with the priests and Levites, met the king in the court of the temple. {PK 400.1}

2Ch 34:3 For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his father: and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images. 2Ch 34:4 And they brake down the altars of Baalim in his presence; and the images, that were on high above them, he cut down; and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images, he brake in pieces, and made dust of them, and strowed it upon the graves of them that had sacrificed unto them. 2Ch 34:5 And he burnt the bones of the priests upon their altars, and cleansed Judah and Jerusalem. .

God’s chronicle of Josiah

Thus Josiah even destroyed altars and images of pagan deities in cities of the tribes of Manasseh, Ephraim, and Simeon, even unto Naphtali which were outside of his kingdom and he returned the Ark of the Covenant to the Temple and reinstated the Passover.

2Ch 34:6 And so did he in the cities of Manasseh, and Ephraim, and Simeon, even unto Naphtali, with their mattocks round about. 2Ch 34:7 And when he had broken down the altars and the groves, and had beaten the graven images into powder, and cut down all the idols throughout all the land of Israel, he returned to Jerusalem. 2Ch 34:8 Now in the eighteenth year of his reign, when he had purged the land, and the house, he sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, and Maaseiah the governor of the city, and Joah the son of Joahaz the recorder, to repair the house of the LORD his God.

2Ki 23:21 And the king commanded all the people, saying, Keep the passover unto the LORD your God, as it is written in the book of this covenant. 2Ki 23:22 Surely there was not holden such a passover from the days of the judges that judged Israel, nor in all the days of the kings of Israel, nor of the kings of Judah;

2Ki 23:1 And the king sent, and they gathered unto him all the elders of Judah and of Jerusalem. 2Ki 23:2 And the king went up into the house of the LORD, and all the men of Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem with him, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the people, both small and great: and he read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant which was found in the house of the LORD.

2Ki 23:3 And the king stood by a pillar, and made a covenant before the LORD, to walk after the LORD, and to keep his commandments and his testimonies and his statutes with all their heart and all their soul, to perform the words of this covenant that were written in this book. And all the people stood to the covenant. 2Ki 23:4 And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the door, to bring forth out of the temple of the LORD all the vessels that were made for Baal, and for the grove, and for all the host of heaven: and he burned them without Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron, and carried the ashes of them unto Bethel.

2Ki 23:5 And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places round about Jerusalem; them also that burned incense unto Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven. 2Ki 23:6 And he brought out the grove from the house of the LORD, without Jerusalem, unto the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and stamped it small to powder, and cast the powder thereof upon the graves of the children of the people. 2Ki 23:7 And he brake down the houses of the sodomites, that were by the house of the LORD, where the women wove hangings for the grove. 2Ki 23:15 Moreover the altar that was at Bethel, and the high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, had made, both that altar and the high place he brake down, and burned the high place, and stamped it small to powder, and burned the grove.

2Ki 23:16 And as Josiah turned himself, he spied the sepulchres that were there in the mount, and sent, and took the bones out of the sepulchres, and burned them upon the altar, and polluted it, according to the word of the LORD which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these words. 2Ki 23:17 Then he said, What title is that that I see? And the men of the city told him, It is the sepulchre of the man of God, which came from Judah, and proclaimed these things that thou hast done against the altar of Bethel. 2Ki 23:18 And he said, Let him alone; let no man move his bones. So they let his bones alone, with the bones of the prophet that came out of Samaria.

1Ki 13:1 And, behold, there came a man of God out of Judah by the word of the LORD unto Bethel: and Jeroboam stood by the altar to burn incense. 1Ki 13:2 And he cried against the altar in the word of the LORD, and said, O altar, altar, thus saith the LORD; Behold, a child shall be born unto the house of David, Josiah by name; and upon thee shall he offer the priests of the high places that burn incense upon thee, and men's bones shall be burnt upon thee.

This had been prophesied 300 hundred years earlier:

Josiah died at the hands of the Egyptian Pharaoh Necho at Megiddo in 609 BC, and his program of religious reform came to an end as Judah was subjugated first to Egypt and then to Babylon prior to the destruction of Jerusalem.

Josiah is mentioned in the genealogy of Jesus:

Mat 1:10 And Ezekias begat Manasses; and Manasses begat Amon; and Amon begat Josias; Mat 1:11 And Josias begat Jechonias and his brethren, about the time they were carried away to Babylon:

The advent movement arose at the end of the eighteenth century. It was an international movement and it came at a low tide of human spirituality. America had witnesses the turmoils of war and bloodshed and Europe had witnessed the French Revolution which had sacrificed truth to the goddess of reason amidst scenes that transformed men to the image of brute beasts rather than the image of God. In the US Leonard Woolsey Bacon summarized the moral standing as follows:

The final reforms must be of a similar nature. The Elijah message was one of repentance and a call to follow God with the whole heart and to keep His commandments, John the Baptist the first antitype of Elijah, had the same clarion call and so will the final Elijah.

“The closing years of the eighteenth century show the lowest low-water mark of the lowest ebb tide of spiritual life in the history of the American church. The demoralization of army life, the fury of political factions, the catch-penny materialist morality of Franklin, the philosophic deism of men like Jefferson, and the popular ribaldry of Tom Paine, had wrought, together with other untoward influences, to bring about a condition of things which to the eye of little faith seemed almost desperate.”- Leonard Woolsey Bacon, A History of American Christianity, The American Church History Series, vol. 13, p. 230.

Out of this apparent hopeless situation arose what has been termed the “Great Revival”. In Europe and America there was a great emphasis in the second coming of Jesus and the prophecies of Daniel and Revelation were once again taken under scrutiny. The British and Foreign Bible Societies were formed in 1804 and the American Bible Society was launched in 1816, as well as the American Home Missionary Society.

One of the most prominent preachers heralding the second coming was William Miller. Miller was an unlikely candidate as his early religious convictions would classify him as a Deist and he had no formal religious training. Later he became disillusioned with deism and attended a Baptist congregation. In 1816 he became a serious Bible student allowing nothing but the Bible to be its own expositor. He wrote:

“While thus studying the Scriptures, I became satisfied, if the prophecies which have been fulfilled in the past are any criterion by which to judge of the manner of the fulfillment of those which are future, that the popular views of the spiritual reign of Christ, a temporal millennium before the end of the world, and the Jews' return, are not sustained by the word of God; for, I found that all the Scriptures on which those favorite theories are based, are as clearly expressed as are those that were literally fulfilled at the first advent, or at any other period in the past. I found it plainly taught in the Scriptures that Jesus Christ will again descend to this earth, coming in the clouds of heaven, in all the glory of his Father: that, at his coming the kingdom and dominion under the whole heaven will be given to Him and the saints of the Most High, who will possess it forever, even forever and ever: …….

that, at his coming, the bodies of all the righteous dead will be raised, and all the righteous living be changed from a corruptible to an incorruptible, from a mortal to an immortal state; that they will all be caught up together to meet the Lord in air, and will reign with him forever in the regenerated earth: …….. I found that the only millennium taught in the word of God is the thousand years which are to intervene between the first resurrection and that of the rest of the dead, as inculcated in the twentieth of Revelation; and that it must necessarily follow the personal coming of Christ and the regeneration of the earth: that, till Christ's coming, and the end of the world, the righteous and wicked are to continue together on the earth, and that the horn of the Papacy is to war against the saints until his appearing and kingdom, when it will be destroyed by the brightness of Christ's coming; …..

it must necessarily follow that the various portions of Scripture that refer to the millennial state must have their fulfillment after the resurrection of all the saints that sleep in Jesus. I also found that the promises respecting Israel's restoration are applied by the apostle to all who are Christ's,—the putting on of Christ constituting them Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.”—William Miller, Apology and Defence, pages 7-9. (written in 1845.)

Regarding prophetic interpretation, William Miller applied the day year principle to the prophecies of Daniel and concluded that the 2300 days of Daniel 8:14 began with the seventy-week period of Daniel 9:24, and that they would terminate “about A.D. 1843.” “I was thus brought, in 1818, at the close of my two years' study of the Scriptures, to the solemn conclusion, that in about twenty-five years from that time [about 1843] all the affairs of our present state would be wound up.”—Ibid., pp. 11, 12.

William Miller (1782-1849)Samuel S. Snow later emphasized the autumnal Jewish seventh month, Tishri, as the true ending of the prophetic 2300-year span, with the beginning dated from the autumn of 457 B.C. Further study showed that the Day of Atonement in the typical sanctuary service occurred on the tenth day of the seventh month of the Jewish religious year so that the antitypical day of atonement would occur in the autumn of 1844.

Miller’s preaching led to the great Advent awakening with preachers like Josiah Litch, a Methodist Minister, Charles Fitch a former pastor of the Congregational Church and V. Himes. Pastor of the Second Christian Church of Boston joining Miller who eventually preached to large crowds in many cities. Himes started a daily newspaper, the Midnight Cry, to publicize the advent teachings of which at one stage up to 10 000 copies were distributed per day. They preached at some 130 camp meetings held between 1843 and 1844 up to 1,000,000 people attended (the total population of the States at that time was only 17,0000,000. Miller himself preached some 4000 sermons in approximately 500 towns and cities.

Dr. Josiah Litch, a 19th Century physician and itinerant minister for the Methodist Episcopal Church, accurately predicted two years in advance, the fall of the Ottoman Empire in August of 1840

Josiah Litch

Joshua V. Himes

In 1840 he published first Millerite newspaper, the Signs of the Times. He organizing general conferences and camp meetings, published hundreds of pamphlets, Miller's lectures and the first Millerite prophetic chart, designed by Charles Fitch and Apollo's Hale. He organized the lecture tours for Miller, and had "great tent” manufactured at that time the largest tent in the United States. In 1842 he started a second newspaper, the Midnight Cry.

By 1843 Fitch was one of the most prominent of the Millerite leaders and the designer of the “1843 chart”. He also edited the weekly journal the Second Advent of Christ. On July 26, 1843 he published his sermon on Rev. 14 and 18 concerning the mighty angel who cried, “Babylon the great is fallen,” followed by the admonition, “Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.” Fitch maintained that Babylon was no longer confined to Roman Catholicism, but now included also the great body of Protestant Christendom who had refused to accept the light on the second coming.

Charles Fitch (1805–1844)

Hab 2:1 I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will watch to see what he will say unto me, and what I shall answer when I am reproved. Hab 2:2 And the LORD answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it. Hab 2:3 For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry. Hab 2:4 Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith.

Among these prophecies was that of Habakkuk 2:1-4: "I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will watch to see what He will say unto me, and what I shall answer when I am reproved. And the Lord answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it.

For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry. Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith." {GC 392.1}

As early as 1842 the direction given in this prophecy to "write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it," had suggested to Charles Fitch the preparation of a prophetic chart to illustrate the visions of Daniel and the Revelation. The publication of this chart was regarded as a fulfillment of the command given by Habakkuk. No one, however, then noticed that an apparent delay in the accomplishment of the vision--a tarrying time--is presented in the same prophecy. After the disappointment, this scripture appeared very significant: "The vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry. . . . The just shall live by his faith." {GC 392.2}

Hiram Edson (1802-1882)

After the great disappointment Hiram wrote: “Our fondest hopes and expectations were blasted, and such a spirit of weeping came over us as I had never experienced before. It seemed that the loss of all earthly friends could have been no comparison. We wept, and wept till the day dawn. I mused in my own heart, saying, My advent experience has been the richest and brightest of all my Christian experience.

If this had proved a failure, what was the rest of my Christian experience worth? Has the Bible proved a failure? Is there no God, no heaven, no golden home city, no paradise? Is all this but a cunningly devised fable? Is there no reality to our fondest hope and expectation of these things? And thus we had something to grieve and weep over, if all our fond hopes were lost. And as I said, we wept till the day dawn.”

Hiram Edson, a former Methodist, was the one who unfolded the meaning of the cleansing of the sanctuary. After the great disappointment God opened to Edson - as if in a vision - a scene of wonderment; Christ, our High Priest, entering into the Most Holy place of the Heavenly Sanctuary to begin a special work of judgment prior to His return. Together with his friends Owen Crosier and Dr. F. B. Hahn they studied the topic of the cleansing of the sanctuary from the Biblical perspective and published their conclusion in the advent paper the ‘Day Dawn’ and later in the ‘Day Star’.

From this time forth, the advent message gradually evolved.

Ro 5:20 Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:

In order for grace to abound, the need for grace must be portrayed for all to see. The law, the mirror of character, was to be upheld so that the transgressor should turn to the Savior to find the solution to its condemnation. Custodians of His Grace must therefore of necessity also be custodians of His Law.

The Law was the standard of righteousness and the sanctuary message was the way of escape from the condemnation of the law. Both were given at Sinai and both are integral to the plan of salvation. If we understand the binding claims of the law then we will cling to the sanctuary message which opens the door to grace.

Joh 15:10 If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.

Ro 1:5 By whom we have received grace and apostleship, for obedience to the faith among all nations, for his name:

Grace and obedience are inseparably linked

In the beginning God placed man under law as an indispensable condition of his very existence. He was a subject of the divine government, and there can be no government without law. . . . {HP 146.2}

Before God destroyed the antediluvian world, he sent a message of grace and righteousness (grace and law) to the people. Before His second coming the same message will be broadcast.

Ge 6:8 But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.

2Pe 2:5 And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;

Luk 17:26 And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.

When Moses was on Mount Sinai receiving the Law written with the finger of God, the people apostatized citing the delay as a reason. Moses was a type of Christ. Is it possible that the “delay” in the Lord’s coming could have similar results at the end of time?

Exodus 32:1 And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down out of the mount, the people gathered themselves together unto Aaron, and said unto him, Up, make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him.

2Pe 3:9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

Three distinctive development led to the formation of the final advent message:First the sanctuary doctrine developed, and then on a December day in 1844, a little group of five women were kneeling in prayer in the Haines home in South Portland, Maine, when one of the group, Ellen Gould Harmon, underwent an experience which ushered in the fulfillment of Revelation 12: 17, Namely the Spirit of Prophecy.

Rev 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 19:10 And I fell at his feet to worship him. And he said unto me, See thou do it not: I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren that have the testimony of Jesus: worship God: for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.

The third distinctive doctrine that bound this little body of adventists together, and which more than ever set them apart from those about them, was the seventh-day Sabbath. At about the time of the disappointment a few advent believers had accepted the Sabbath at Washington, New Hampshire. Early in 1845, Joseph Bates read an article by T. M. Preble, of Nashua, New Hampshire, published in The Hope of Israel, which led him to an acceptance of the claims of the fourth commandment. In turn, Bates taught the Sabbath truth to others, and wrote tracts explaining its significance and urging its observance. In August, 1846, Bates published a tract, “The Seventh-day Sabbath a Perpetual Sign,” a copy of which came into the hands of James White and Ellen Harmon White at about the time of their marriage that same month. They, too, began to observe and teach the fourth commandment. The Sabbath teaching spread quickly among the scattered adventists who had already accepted the sanctuary light given through Edson and the revelations to Ellen White. http://www.whiteestate.org/books/pay/PAYc11.html

After the great disappointment, between April and September 1848 a series of meetings were held known as “Sabbath Conferences” where the five pillars of Adventism were established. These were:

The Sanctuary doctrine, the doctrine of the second advent, the Sabbath, the state of the dead the Spirit of Prophecy.

Out of these, the realization emerged of the context of the three angels’ messages that had to be preached to the whole world. The health message later added its voice as the right arm of the gospel herald.

2Pe 1:3 According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue: 2Pe 1:4 Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. 2Pe 1:5 And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; 2Pe 1:6 And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; 2Pe 1:7 And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity. 2Pe 1:8 For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. 2Pe 1:9 But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.

Peter’s ladder

I spoke to the people about one hour and a half upon Peter's ladder of sanctification consisting of eight rounds. I dwelt upon temperance and the importance of parents' teaching their children self-denial, and self-control, guarding the appetite and taste from indulgence at the expense of mental, moral, and physical strength. {RH, May 11, 1876 par. 2} The lessons upon self-control and self-denial are to be received by education, in childhood and youth. The appetite is to be restrained and educated, and this is the responsible work that devolves upon parents. The youth in generations past have been the index to society. {RH, May 11, 1876 par. 3}

Point the youth to Peter's ladder of eight rounds, and place their feet, not on the highest round, but on the lowest, and with earnest solicitation urge them to climb to the very top. {6T 147.1} Christ, who connects earth with heaven, is the ladder. The base is planted firmly on the earth in His humanity; the topmost round reaches to the throne of God in His divinity. The humanity of Christ embraces fallen humanity, while His divinity lays hold upon the throne of God. We are saved by climbing round after round of the ladder, looking to Christ, clinging to Christ, mounting step by step to the height of Christ, so that He is made unto us wisdom and righteousness and sanctification and redemption. Faith, virtue, knowledge, temperance, patience, godliness, brotherly kindness, and charity are the rounds of this ladder. All these graces are to be manifested in the Christian character; and "if ye do these things, ye shall never fall: for so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ." 2 Peter 1:10, 11. {6T 147.2}

It is no easy matter to gain the priceless treasure of eternal life. No one can do this and drift with the current of the world. He must come out from the world and be separate and touch not the unclean. No one can act like a worldling without being carried down by the current of the world. No one will make any upward progress without persevering effort. He who would overcome must hold fast to Christ. He must not look back, but keep the eye ever upward, gaining one grace after another. Individual vigilance is the price of safety. Satan is playing the game of life for your soul. Swerve not to his side a single inch, lest he gain advantage over you. {6T 147.3}

James Springer and Ellen Gould White (1821- 1881)

James White was born on the 4th of August 1821. He was the fifth of nine children and suffered as a boy from weakness of eyesight which prevented him from attending school until he was 19 years old. Ellen White suffered a facial injury from a stone thrown by a classmate when she was nine years old which prevented her from receiving further formal education. Ellen and James were married on August 30, 1846. Shortly after the young couple read a pamphlet written by Joseph Bates and accepted the Seventh- day Sabbath. The couple had four children, two of whom died at an early age.

Ellen G. WhiteEllen G. White

Born, 1827, Maine.Died, 1915, California

“After I had the vision and God gave me light, He bade me deliver it … but I shrank from it. I was young, and I

thought they would not receive it from me.” Ellen G.

White, Letter 3, 1847.

Dr. Molleurus Couperus, retired physician in Loma Linda and founding Editor of Spectrum magazine claimed the Ellen White visions were induced by seizures. He was not the first and neither was Ellen White the first to be accused in this way, as critics also claimed that Paul’s visions were similarly induced.

In 1981, for instance, Delbert H. Hodder, a pediatrician with a special interest in pediatric neurology, wrote in Evangelica (a magazine now defunct) that Ellen White’s visions were “consistent with what is now known as partial-complex or psychomotor seizures.” Four years later Molleurus Couperus, a retired dermatologist, made a similar allegation in an article in Adventist Currents when he said that Ellen White’s visions were due to “temporal lobe epilepsy.” (Molleurus Couperus, “The Significance of Ellen White’s Head Injury,” Adventist Currents, vol. 1, no. 6 (June 1985), p. 31.) http://www.whiteestate.org/issues/visions.html

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Rev 10:9 And I went unto the angel, and said unto him, Give me the little book. And he said unto me, Take it, and eat it up; and it shall make thy belly bitter, but it shall be in thy mouth sweet as honey. Rev 10:10 And I took the little book out of the angel's hand, and ate it up; and it was in my mouth sweet as honey: and as soon as I had eaten it, my belly was bitter. Rev 10:11 And he said unto me, Thou must prophesy again before many peoples, and nations, and tongues, and kings.

The final message to the world

"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. 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."GC p 379

The Sanctuary a Point of Special Attack.-- In the future, deception of every kind is to arise, and we want solid ground for our feet. We want solid pillars for the building. Not one pin is to be removed from that which the Lord has established. The enemy will bring in false theories, such as the doctrine that there is no sanctuary. This is one of the points on which there will be a departing from the faith. Where shall we find safety unless it be in the truths that the Lord has been giving for the last fifty years?-- Review and Herald, May 25, 1905. {CW 53.2}

Satan is striving continually to bring in fanciful suppositions in regard to the sanctuary, degrading the wonderful representations of God and the ministry of Christ for our salvation into something that suits the carnal mind. He removes its presiding power from the hearts of believers, and supplies its place with fantastic theories invented to make void the truths of the atonement, and destroy our confidence in the doctrines which we have held sacred since the third angel's message was first given. Thus he would rob us of our faith in the very message that has made us a separate people, and has given character and power to our work.--Special Testimonies, Series B, No. 7, p. 17. (1905.) {CW 53.3}

I have seen that the 1843 chart was directed by the hand of the Lord, and that it should not be altered; that the figures were as He wanted them; that His hand was over and hid a mistake in some of the figures, so that none could see it, until His hand was removed. 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}

John N. Andrews (1829-1883)

J.N. Andrews quit school at 11, was self-taught, spoke 7 languages and could read the Bible in all seven languages as well as recite the New Testament from memory. He began to observe the seventh-day Sabbath at the age of 17 and began to work as a minister at the age of 21 and at 22 he was a member of the publishing committee. He was also the first SDA missionary sent to countries outside North America and he died in Basel, Switzerland, at the age of 54 years. He and Uriah Smith married sisters

Uriah Smith 1832 – 1903

Uriah lost his leg in 1844 when he was 12 years old. He invented the flexible knee and ankle joints still used to this day in prosthesis. At the age of 20 he joined the Adventists and at age 21 he joined the publishing work.

John Norton Loughborough (1832-

1924)

Loughborough pioneered the selling of Adventist literature when in 1854 he began selling it at 35 cents a packet at one of his tent meetings in Michigan. Because of personal illness he became deeply interested in health reform and wrote a book called Hand Book of Health; or a Brief Treatise on Physiology and Hygiene (1868). Later he was sent to England to open the work there.

Joseph Bates 1792 - 1872

At age 15 he was already a cabin boy. He suffered shipwreck and was also imprisoned. Joseph Bates was the oldest of the three founders of the Seventh- day Adventist denomination and was instrumental in spreading the Sabbath truth. Joseph Bates had a faithful and devoted wife by the name of Prudence Nye who placed a Bible and devotional books in his luggage for him to take on his voyages leading to his conversion in solitude on board his ship. He gave up his habits of drinking , smoking and swearing and became a model of health reform and spiritual fervor.

Stephen Nelson Haskell (1833-

1922)

Evangelist, administrator. He began preaching for the non-Sabbatarian Adventists in New England in 1853, and later the same year began to observe the Sabbath. In 1850, he married Mary How, who in 1869 assisted in organizing the first Vigilant Missionary Society. He was president of the New England Conference and later the California and Maine Conferences. He started numerous missionary bodies and was sent to open denominational work in Australia. Preaching in New Zealand was climaxed by the forming of the first group of Seventh-day Adventists in that country. In 1887 with three Bible instructors he began SDA work in London, England, and organized a church there. He made a world tour in behalf of missionary work in 1889-1890, visiting Western Europe, Southern Africa, India, China , Japan and Australia it is noted in a report to the General Conference that on that world tour he baptized one individual in China and another in Japan, the first in these countries (see Review and Herald 99:17, Dec. 14, 1922).

Ellen Harmon age 17 first vision

George Washington Amadon 21

John Allen Burde 20

George Butler converted at 22

Arthur Daniels 20

Hiram Edson 37

Haskel 20

Moses Hull 20

Loughborough 20

Sarah Mc Enterfer 20

Christ has given to the church a sacred charge. Every member should be a channel through which God can communicate to the world the treasures of His grace, the unsearchable riches of Christ. There is nothing that the Saviour desires so much as agents who will represent to the world His Spirit and His character. There is nothing that the world needs so much as the manifestation through humanity of the Saviour's love. All heaven is waiting for men and women through whom God can reveal the power of Christianity. {RC 225.4} 1Co 2:4 And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power: 1Co 2:5 That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

1Co 1:26 For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called: 1Co 1:27 But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; 1Co 1:28 And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are: 1Co 1:29 That no flesh should glory in his presence. 1Co 1:30 But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption: 1Co 1:31 That, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.

The most useful men in the world have not been the exalted, self sufficient ones, who have been praised and petted by ‑society; but those who have walked humbly with God, who have been unassuming in manner and guileless in conversation, who have given all the glory to God, not taking any of it to themselves, are the ones who have exerted the most decided and healthful influence upon the church. When they stand before the people, as a mouth piece for God, everything around them is forgotten. Their ‑words come forth in the demonstration of the Spirit and with power. They exert their God given ability to set things in order in ‑the church, whether it makes them friends or foes. When straight, solemn testimony is needed, in rebuking sin and iniquity, even though it be in those of high position, they will not hold their peace, but will heed the instruction of the God of truth, when he commands, "Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and show my people their transgressions, and the house of Jacob their sins." {RH, September 4, 1888 par. 10}

The Seventh Day Adventist Church is to be the custodian of God’s grace at the end of time.

Every institution established by Seventh day Adventists is to be to ‑the world what Joseph was in Egypt and what Daniel and his fellows were in Babylon. As in the providence of God these chosen ones were taken captive, it was to carry to heathen nations the blessings that come to humanity through a knowledge of God. They were to be representatives of Jehovah. They were never to compromise with idolaters; their religious faith and their name as worshipers of the living God they were to bear as a special honor. {CH 203.1}

Will the church be perfect? Was Israel perfect?

There is no need to doubt, to be fearful that the work will not succeed. God is at the head of the work, and He will set everything in order. If matters need adjusting at the head of the work God will attend to that, and work to right every wrong. Let us have faith that God is going to carry the noble ship which bears the people of God safely into port. 2SM 390 (1892). ‑‑ {LDE 52.1}

The bulwarks of Satan will never triumph. Victory will attend the third angel's message. As the Captain of the Lord's host tore down the walls of Jericho, so will the Lord's commandment keeping ‑people triumph, and all opposing elements be defeated. ‑‑TM 410 (1898). {LDE 52.3}

They will stand as faithful watchmen upon the walls of Zion, ‑‑not to hide sin, not to flatter the wrong doer, not to obtain the ‑sympathy of their brethren, but to meet the approval of God. They will not suppress one syllable of truth that should be brought out, in reproof, or warning, or in vindication of the righteousness of the oppressed, in order to gain the favor and influence of any one. In a crisis, they will not be found in a neutral position, but they will stand firmly on the side of righteousness and truth, even when it is difficult to take this position; and to maintain it may imperil their prosperity, and deprive them of the friendship of those whom they love. {RH, September 4, 1888 par. 10}

What we owe to angels and to these men and women only eternity will reveal.

Not until the providences of God are seen in the light of eternity shall we understand what we owe to the care and interposition of His angels. Celestial beings have taken an active part in the affairs of men. They have appeared in garments that shone as the lightning; they have come as men, in the garb of wayfarers. They have accepted the hospitalities of human homes; they have acted as guides to benighted travelers. They have thwarted the spoiler's purpose and turned aside the stroke of the destroyer. {Ed 304.4} Though the rulers of this world know it not, yet often in their councils angels have been spokesmen. Human eyes have looked upon them. Human ears have listened to their appeals. In the council hall the court of justice, heavenly messengers have pleaded the cause of the persecuted and oppressed. They have defeated purposes and arrested evils that would have brought wrong and suffering to God's children. To the students in the heavenly school, all this will be unfolded. {Ed 305.1}

The greatest hero to have ever walked amongst men was born in a manger, crucified on a cross, was rejected and despised and to this day is maligned, marginalized and misrepresented even by those who supposedly serve Him.

Isa 53:2 For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him. Isa 53:3 He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.

Joh 7:14 Now about the midst of the feast Jesus went up into the temple, and taught. Joh 7:15 And the Jews marvelled, saying, How knoweth this man letters, having never learned?

What was it that made John the Baptist great? He closed his mind to the mass of tradition presented by the teachers of the Jewish nation, and opened it to the wisdom which comes from above. {CC 276.2} John the Baptist was not fitted for his high calling as the forerunner of Christ by association with the great men of the nation in the schools of Jerusalem. He went out into the wilderness, where the customs and doctrines of men could not mold his mind, and where he could hold unobstructed communion with God. {CC 276.3}

Mat 11:11 Verily I say unto you, Among them that are born of women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist: notwithstanding he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.

Christ's followers were also called upon to bare hardship and deprivation but without them the world’s probation would ere now have closed. They changed the course of history and the world may never know what debt they owe to a few great men who dared to stand in the breach and change the course of history. Besides the heroes of old such as Abraham, Moses, Joshua, Caleb, David and his mighty men, the prophets and the apostles, Paul, Barnabas and Stephen and the heroes of the apostolic times, there are the great reformers such as Johann Huss, Martin Luther, Tyndale and many others who often stood alone against king, country and church to give the entire world a lifeline.

Then there are the unsung heroes of the advent movement, unknown to most they changed the course of history and the world owes them a debt of gratitude which is only recorded in the books of heaven. William Miller, James and Ellen White and the pioneers of the advent movement opened the doors for the final gathering and the gates of hell will not prevent it.

Alfonso T. Jones, man alone, stopped the mighty engine of religious intolerance and held open the doors of probation so that you and I can still bask in the sunshine of God’s grace. What debt we owe to these people and the missionaries of the gospel who faced danger, hardship and disease to bring the message of hope to a dying world.

How are we to bring this message, with the blast of a trumpet or a whimper?

1Co 14:8 For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle?

Isa 58:1 Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins.

If our message is muted the advent movement will become just one denomination amongst many, perhaps a bridge builder to join all together, our message will become a whimper rather than a powerful call to separate from Babylon. The pope will turn out to be the world’s benefactor and perfect example of righteousness and justice instead of the antichrist which Scripture labels him and that the protestant world for a while was brave enough to confirm. Is his number 666 or not? Is the final confrontation going to be a whimper or is it going to be a cataclysm? Is all heaven going to be moved to display its arm or are we going to capitulate? Will there be a people to stand for principle though the heavens fall or are they going to compromise to the level of impotence? This is not a new war -

As soon as The Great Controversy came from the press, it should have been pushed forward above every other book. I have been shown this. Had it been circulated at the time it was lying idle, there would have been a very different order of things among our workers. The impressions made would have wrought decided changes. But instead of this, the book was suppressed, although the promise was made me that it should go forward if I would take the lowest royalty. The book that should have gone did not go, and the men who should have worked to carry it forward discouraged the canvassers from handling it. All that I could say was as water spilt upon a rock. Thus saith the Lord, I will judge for this false, dishonest work.--Lt 39, 1899. {PM 354.2}

Those who hindered the work will have to answer to God for this.--Lt 55, 1894. {PM 355.1}

The noontide of the papacy was the world's moral midnight. The Holy Scriptures were almost unknown, not only to the people, but to the priests. Like the Pharisees of old, the papist leaders hated the light which would reveal their sins. God's law, the standard of righteousness, having been removed, they exercised power without limit, and practiced vice without restraint. Fraud, avarice, and profligacy prevailed. Men shrank from no crime by which they could gain wealth or position. The palaces of popes and prelates were scenes of the vilest debauchery. Some of the reigning pontiffs were guilty of crimes so revolting that secular rulers endeavored to depose these dignitaries of the church as monsters too vile to be tolerated. For centuries Europe had made no progress in learning, arts, or civilization. A moral and intellectual paralysis had fallen upon Christendom. {GC88 60.2}

The condition of the world under the Romish power presented a fearful and striking fulfillment of the words of the prophet Hosea: "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge; because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee; . . . seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children." "There is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land. By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood." [HOSEA 4:6, 1, 2.] Such were the results of banishing the Word of God. {GC88 60.3}

We are standing on the threshold of great and solemn events. Prophecies are fulfilling. The last great conflict will be short, but terrible. Old controversies will be revived. New controversies will arise. The last warnings must be given to the world. There is a special power in the presentation of the truth at the present time; but how long will it continue?--Only a little while. If ever there was a crisis, it is now. {GCDB, March 2, 1899 par. 1} Decided efforts should be made to bring the message for this time prominently before the people. The third angel is to go forth with great power. Let none ignore this work, or treat it as of little importance. The truth is to be proclaimed to the world, that they may see the light. {GCDB, March 2, 1899 par. 2}

Rome has not changed and she will persecute God’s people again.

The persecutions of Protestants by Romanism, by which the religion of Jesus Christ was almost annihilated, will be more than rivaled when Protestantism and popery are combined.--3SM 387 (1889). {LDE 147.2} Satan has a thousand masked batteries which will be opened upon the loyal, commandment-keeping people of God to compel them to violate conscience.--Letter 30a, 1892. {LDE 147.3} We need not be surprised at anything that may take place now. We need not marvel at any developments of horror. Those who trample under their unholy feet the law of God have the same spirit as had the men who insulted and betrayed Jesus. Without any compunctions of conscience they will do the deeds of their father the devil.--3SM 416 (1897). {LDE 147.4}

Let those who desire to be refreshed in mind and instructed in the truth study the history of the early church during and immediately following the Day of Pentecost. Study carefully in the book of Acts the experiences of Paul and the other apostles, for God's people in our day must pass through similar experiences.--PC 118 (1907). {LDE 148.1}

Some will be imprisoned because they refuse to desecrate the Sabbath of the Lord.--PC 118 (1907). {LDE 149.2}

Many will be imprisoned, many will flee for their lives from cities and towns, and many will be martyrs for Christ's sake in standing in defense of the truth.--3SM 397 (1889). {LDE 150.1}

Persecution Leads to Unity Among God's People

When the storm of persecution really breaks upon us, the true sheep will hear the true Shepherd's voice. Self-denying efforts will be put forth to save the lost, and many who have strayed from the fold will come back to follow the great Shepherd. The people of God will draw together and present to the enemy a united front. In view of the common peril strife for supremacy will cease, there will be no disputing as to who shall be accounted greatest.--6T 401 (1900). {LDE 152.2}

In the absence of the persecution there have drifted into our ranks men who appear sound and their Christianity unquestionable, but who, if persecution should arise, would go out from us. In the crisis they would see force in specious reasons that have had an influence on their minds. Satan has prepared various snares to meet varied minds. {Ev 360.4} When the law of God is made void, the church will be sifted by fiery trials, and a larger proportion than we now anticipate will give heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of devils. Instead of being strengthened when brought into strait places, many prove that they are not living branches of the true Vine, they bear no fruit, and the husbandman taketh them away. --Letter 3, 1890. {Ev 361.1}

Many are holding the truth only with the tips of their fingers. They have had great light and many privileges. Like Capernaum they have been exalted to heaven in this respect. In the time of test and trial that is approaching, they will become apostates unless they put away their pride and self-confidence, unless they have an entire transformation of character.--Letter 5, 1883. {3SM 415.4}

There is to be no change in the features of our work. It is to stand as clear and distinct as prophecy has made it. We are to enter into no confederacy with the world, supposing that by so doing we could accomplish more. If any stand in the way, to hinder the advancement of the work in the lines that God has appointed, they will displease God. No line of our faith that has made us what we are, is to be weakened. We have the old landmarks of truth, experience, and duty, and we are to stand firmly in defence of our principles, in full view of the world. {GCDB, March 2, 1899 par. 4}

There will come a time of refreshing

It is with an earnest longing that I look forward to the time when the events of the Day of Pentecost shall be repeated with even greater power than on that occasion. John says, "I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory" [Rev. 18:1]. Then, as at the Pentecostal season, the people will hear the truth spoken to them, every man in his own tongue.--6BC 1055 (1886). {LDE 202.3} In visions of the night, representations passed before me of a great reformatory movement among God's people. Many were praising God. The sick were healed, and other miracles were wrought. A spirit of intercession was seen, even as was manifested before the great Day of Pentecost.--9T 126 (1909). {LDE 202.4}

The great work of the gospel is not to close with less manifestation of the power of God than marked its opening. The prophecies which were fulfilled in the outpouring of the former rain at the opening of the gospel, are again to be fulfilled in the latter rain at its close. . . . {LDE 203.1} Servants of God, with their faces lighted up and shining with holy consecration, will hasten from place to place to proclaim the message from heaven. By thousands of voices, all over the earth, the warning will be given. Miracles will be wrought, the sick will be healed, and signs and wonders will follow the believers.--GC 611, 612 (1911). {LDE 203.2}

2Co 6:1 We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain.Heb 4:16 Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.1Pe 1:13 Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;