The Three Angel’s Messages Swell Into…­-->

Rev 14:6-12

“On this  battlefield comes the last great conflict of the controversy between truth and error.” 5T 451

7BC 978-984;  5T 206; GC 449; See Note 2

The Early Rain

“The light we have received upon the third angel’s message is the true light … Not all in regard to this matter is yet understood, nor will it be understood until the unrolling of the scroll; but a most solemn work is to be accomplished in our world.”  6T 17, 8T 159; RH Mar. 29, 1892;RH Nov. 22, 1892; 8T 118

A great many of God’s people are still in Babylon. CG 390. These will come out under the latter experience. GC 606, 611, 612; PK 189; EW 33, 271, 277-279; TM 248; 1T 203

The Sabbath Message Advances … -->

The Sabbath becomes the focal point of the controversy. 6T 352; DA 24;GC 579, 587, 590-592, 607, 614, 615; EW 33, 272, 279, 282; 7T  976; 5T 449, 450: PK 184, 187; RH Mar. 18, 1884; EW 85, 86; LS 101

The Shaking And the Shifting -->

The Coming Struggle will be marked with a terrible intensity such as the world has never witnessed.” GC xi.  [see note 11]; 1T 179-183;EW 269-273; 5T 80-82, 136, 463; 6T 400, 401; 2 SM 13, 380.

 

 

The Judgment Of The Righteous Dead -->

Christ entered the Most Holy Place in 1844 to begin the final phase of His mediatorial work for us in the heavenly sanctuary. GC 352, 422, 400; COL 310.

“God judges every man according to his work. Not only does He judge, but, HE SUMS UP. DAY BY DAY AND HOUR BY HOUR, our progress in well-doing.” 7BC 987.

 

The Sealing Time -->

The Loud Cry

Rev. 18:1-4; 7BC 983-985   [The Fourth Angel]

 “Then will the message of the third angel swell to a laud cry, and the whole earth will be lightened with the glory of the Lord.” Thousands will be converted in a day and join the ranks of Seventh-day Adventists. 8T 21. “… All who are honest will leave the fallen churches and take their stand with the remnant.” EW 261; 7BC 984, 985, 978; 1T 183; Ev 692-695, EW 277-279; GC 390, 464, 603-612; 6T 19; IHP 334; EW 271, 272

The Latter Rain

Acts 3:19  -  TM 506-512; GC 611, 612; Hosea 6:3; Zech. 10:1, 4:6; Joel 2:23, 28, 29; Acts 2:16-18; EW 271

“Nearly  all who profess to believe present Truth… are wholly unfitted to receive the later rain.” 1T 466. “The  loud cry will come and pass, the latter rain will fall, and many of our people will know nothing at all about it.” RH Nov. 22, 1892.

The Sabbath Proclaimed More Fully

EW 33;  7BC 983

The time is not far distant when the test will come to every soul.” 5T 81.  “The Sabbath will be the great test of loyalty; …” GC 582, 605. “On this battlefield [Sabbath-Sunday] comes the last great conflict of the controversy between truth and error.”5T 451. “The contest is between the commandments of God and the commandments of men.” 5T 81. See also EW 85 and 6T 352.

The Great Shaking

EW 50 [1850]

The might shaking has commenced and will go on…”  “I saw that we are now in the shaking time .” 1T 329 [ 1862]. “We are  in the shaking time. The time when everything that can be shaken will be shaken.”6T 332. “God is now sifting His people, testing their  purposes and their motive.” 4T  51. “The sleeve is moving.” 1T 100. “God is sifting His people.” 1T 99.

 

The Judgments Of The Righteous Living

“Then shall the sanctuary be cleansed.” Dan. 8:13, 14. Cleansing = Investigative Judgment. Lev. 16; Rev. 14:6, 7;  Heb. 9:23-27, GC 422. Only  the professed people of God considered. I Peter 4:17; GC 480. End’s at the close of probation. Rev. 22:11; GC 428. “See also Rev. 11:1-3, 18, 19; Rev. 3:7, 8; GC 424; Acts 3:19; PP 343-358; GC 409-432; GC 479-491; EW 260; Heb. 8 and 9.

The Final, Eternal Seal

Rev. 7:1-4, Rev. 14:1-4

The following is said of those who receive the seal of God. [1] “Not one spot or stain – cleansed the soul temple of every defilement.” 5T 214. [2] “Must be without spot.”5T 216.” [3] “Must reflect the image of Jesus fully.” EW 71. [4] “Cleansed from every moral defilement.” SD 342. [5] “The perfection of His character. “GC Bul. 1118. [6] “Separated from sin.” Letter 12, 1886. Conditions for receiving the Seal & Latter Rain are the same. 1T 187, 188, 619; EW 71; 6BC 1055; RH Dec. 12, 1908; RH Oct. 12, 1961; TH Mar. 22 1892; GC Bul.  1893; P. 179. Rev 7:1-4;  Ezekiel 20:12, 20; 5T 207-216; 467-476; TM 234; 6T 130;  1 SM 66; 7BC 976; EW 36, 38; LS 116-119; EW 279, 280; Ephesians  5:27; MYP 144.