The Shaking

1. SEVERITY OF – “We are  in the shaking time, the time when everything that can be shaken will be shaken.” 6T 332; 9T 62; 5T 463, 136; 8T 41.
 

2. TIME OF – It has already begun and continues until the close of probation. 1T 429.
 

 

3. THREE CAUSES OF -  [1] The straight testimony -  1T 181; EW 270, [2] False doctrines – TM 112; 5T 707, [3] Persecution – 5T 81.
 

4. TWO PURPOSE OF -  [1] Tests God’s people and [2] purifies the church. Eph. 5:25-27; Mal. 3:1-3; 1T 99; 9T 228; 6T 400; 5T 81.
 

 

5. THOSE SHAKEN OUT – 5T 81, 463; GC 602, 608; TM 112; EW 50, EW 120, EW 271; 4T 246, 251; 3T 253; 8T 75; 6T 401.
 

6. THE GREAT PROPORTION SHAKEN OUT – 5T 81, 136; 2T 445, 446; GC 608; 6T 426, 427; GC Bul. 1891, p. 257; 1T 158; CS 41.
 

 

7. THOSE WHO CANNOT BE SHAKEN OUT – GC 602, 625; LS 93; 6T 401; 8T 298; TM 475. Many Seventh-day Adventists will apostatize and persecute their former brethren.    GC 608. Many from other churches will now join God’s remnant people, immediately filling up the vacancies. EW 271.