Bible 11 test

Daniel 2

1. Question: Name the four kingdoms of the image that are symbolized by the gold, silver, brass, and iron.

Answer: The four kingdoms represented are Babylon, Medo Persia, grease, and rome.

2. Question: How many kingdoms total are there in the image?  What is the difference between the feet and the rest of the image?

Answer: four kingdoms are symbolized by the head, the chest, thighs, and feet.. Ten more kingdoms are represented by the toes. Thus fourteen kingdoms in all are represented. The feet are different from the rest of the image because they represent the Papacy or the mingling of paganism with Christianity.

3. Question: What is the common thread that runs through the whole image?

Answer: The common thread through the whole image is paganism, the essence of which is creature worship.

4. Question: What two things does the iron and clay each symbolize? [two things for iron; two things for clay]

Answer: The iron symbolizes a church or state and the system of paganism. The clay represents the church and/or the system of Christianity.

5. Question: Who does the feet of iron and clay represent?  What parallels are there in Revelation?

Answer: The feet of iron and clay represent the Roman Catholic Church, which mingles paganism with Christianity. The feet of iron and clay in Dan. 2 equates with the woman who rides the beast in Revelation 17.

6. Question: Who do the toes of iron and clay represent?  What parallels are there in Revelation? :

The characteristics of iron and clay that apply to the feet also apply to the toes. The toes then become a image of the feet or beast and the papacy. The iron and clay toes parallel with the ten horns on the sixth head of the leopard like beast. They also parallel with the lamblike beast in Revelation.

7. Question: Why are the two entities in question 5 and question 6 both pictured as iron and clay?

Answer: Because they both try to serve God and man by mixing iron (strong unyielding self service) and clay (humble submissive service to God).

8. Question: Name the two systems of the papacy.

Answer: A religious political system, and a system of mixing god and self worship.

9. Question: Who are “these kings” talked about in Daniel 2:44? Where else in the Bible is there a parallel to “these kings” pictured in this verse?

Answer: The toes are called kings in Dan. 2:44. “These kings” parallel with the ten toes of the image in Daniel 2. Daniel plainly states in Daniel 7:24 that the horns of the beast are ten kings which will arise. These ten kings or kingdoms will eventually rise and make war with the lamb in Revelation 17:14.

10. Question: Who is the “they” of Dan. 2:43? Who is “the seed?”  HOW does “they” mingle themselves with “the seed?”

Answer: “They” refers to the ten toes of the image in Daniel 2 which are comprised of iron and clay. “They” is referring to the apostate Protestants. The apostate protestants mingle themselves with the “seed” by being in the same church as the true Christians and by claiming to believe in the word of God while following Satan.

11. Question: What two things does the stone represent?

Answer: The stone represents the powerful and undeniable word and law of God. It also represents the foundation of God’s coming kingdom that will last forever.

Daniel 7

1. Question: Name the four kingdoms that the four beasts of Daniel 7 symbolize?

Answer: The four beasts symbolize Babylon, Mede Persia, Grease, and Rome.

2. Question: What is the difference between Daniel 7:8 and Daniel 8:9?

Answer: Daniel 7:8 is describing the rise of the little horn, or the papacy. Daniel 8:9 is describing the death of Alexander the great and the division of Grease among his generals.

3. Question: What are some characteristics that Daniel 7 talks about that you could point out that demonstrates that the little horn represents the papacy?

Answer: Daniel 7:25 describes the little horn as speaking great words against the most high and wearing out the saints of the most high and changing times and laws. The only entity known to do all of these things is the Roman Catholic Church which has professed a gospel and a system of worship that is contrary to the Bible.

4. Question: Fill in the blank:  “The prophecies present a succession of events leading down to the ___________________________________________. This is especially true of the book of Daniel.”   How is this demonstrated in Daniel 7?

Answer: “The prophecies present a succession of events leading down to the opening of the judgment. This is demonstrated in Daniel 7:26-27 when “the judgment shall sit and they shall take away his dominion, to consume and destroy it unto the end….and the kingdom and dominion and the greatness of the kingdom under the saints of the most high”.

5. Question: What is the connection between the beast and the horn in Daniel 7:11?

Answer: The beast and the horn in Daniel 7:11 represent the papacy.

6. Question: What is the kingdom talked about in Daniel 7:13,14?  What is the “status” of this kingdom in this verse?

Answer: The kingdom referred to in Daniel 7:13,14  is the kingdom of grace within our hearts. The “status” of this kingdom

7. Question: How could you demonstrate from this chapter that the four beasts are four kingdoms and not four kings?

Answer: Daniel 7:17- These great beasts, which are four, ARE FOUR KINGS, WHICH shall arise out of the earth. Even though verse 17 says that the four beasts are four kings, verse 23 says that the fourth beast is a kingdom. The words king and kingdom are used almost interchangeably in these verses because even though these kingdoms have kings, the individuals still stand for, and are joined to the nation as a whole.

8. Question: Which kingdom is given to the saints in verses 18, 22 and  27?

Answer: The kingdom that is given to the saints in verses 18,22 and 27 is God’s eternal kingdom which will last forever.

9. Question: How long does the little horn “bother” the saints?

Answer: Until a time and times and the dividing of times

10 Question: Who are the ten horns of Daniel 7:25?

Answer: Daniel 7:25 does not talk about the ten horns. however, if you are reffering to verse 24, the ten horns are ten kings. Three of which are later subdued by the little horn.

11. What is the “time, times and dividing of time?”  Identify some other passages of scripture that are referring to the same “time, times, and dividing of time?”

Answer: The “time, times, and dividing of times” is the period during which God’s people must flee to the wilderness and be sustained by God. Other verses that refer to the time times and dividing of times include Dan. 12:7 and Rev. 12:14

Daniel 8

1. Question: Identify the ram and the he goat of Daniel 8.  How can you demonstrate that the ram is referring to the same power as the bear of Daniel 7? How can you demonstrate that the he goat is the same as the leopard of Daniel 7?

Answer: Daniel 8:21 states that the he goat is the king of Grecia. Daniel 8:20 states that the ram having two horns two horns are the kings of media and Persia. Daniel 7 and 8 both clearly state that that the ram and the bear represent the same kingdom (medo Persia). Daniel 8 also states that the he goat represents the same kingdom as the leopard in Danl. 7:6.

2. Question: Who is the notable horn of the he goat?  the four notable horns?

Answer: The notable horn is the first king of Persia.(Dan. 8:21)  The four notable horn that arise are four kingdoms that arise out of medo Persia.

3. Question: Who is the host and stars being referred to in Daniel 8:10?  Who is the prince of the host in verse 11?

Answer: The host and the stars are God’s last day saints. The prince of the host is Jesus who is our example of perfection.

4. Question: What is the “daily” being talked about in verse 11?  How does the little      horn take away the “daily?”

Answer: The “daily” is referring to God’s daily mediation on our behalf in the form of a daily sacrifice or daily prayer for forgivness. The little horn takes away the “daily” by instituting its own form of sacrifice in the form of penances and confessions to priests.

5. Question: Explain verse 12.

Answer: Daniel 8:12 speaks about how the Roman Catholic Church prospered from its own version of the gospel and mediation of Christ. It also speaks about how a host or a great power was given him against the daily sacrifice. This host is the army, political power, and great influence of the church.

6. Question: What two elements does the vision include, according to verse 13?  What is the vision that is sealed up?

Answer: the two elements of the vision are the daily sacrifice and the transgression of desolation. The vision that was sealed up was the vision of the appointed time of the end.

7. Question: What is the “transgression of desolation” talked about in verse 13?  What passage in the Bible could you use to support your answer?

Answer: The transgression of desolation was Adam’s sin by which all mankind became sinful. Dan. 8:12 Dan 9:24

8. Question: What period of time does the vision apply to, according to Daniel 8?

Answer: The vision applies to the time of the end according to Dan. 8:19 and Dan 12:4

9. Question: How long was the vision going to be sealed?

Answer: Daniel 12:4 …..shut up the book….even to the time of the end…                                        The book or the vision as recorded in the Bible is to be revealed by the Holy Spirit to God’s people in the last days.

10 Question: Explain verse 23.

Answer: Verse 23 describes the rise and the reign of the emperor of Rome who was a “king of fierce continence” and (verse 24) “shall prosper, and practice and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people”. The emperor of Rome caused many of God’s saints to be persecuted and killed. Verse 25 also tells of how “through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand”. That policy is the policy of Roman democracy by which Rome became a powerful nation.

11. Question: Where in Daniel 2 can you find a similar phrasing that is found in Daniel 8:25:  he shall be “broken without hand?”

Answer: Dan. 2:34 Thou sawest till that a stone was cut out without hand……

Daniel 9

1. Question: What does the word “determined” mean?

Answer: In its context, the word “determined” means, cut out, set aside, or set apart.

2.Question: How are seventy weeks of Daniel 9 connected to the 2300 days of Daniel 8

Answer: The seventy weeks are a part of the 2300 days.

3. Question: What was the starting point for the seventy week period? Give a scripture verse for support for your answer.

Answer: The seventy weeks started at the rebuilding of Jerusalem. Ezra 6:14 tells about the decree to rebuild Jerusalem. “From the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, or and threescore and two weeks” the seventy weeks started at the command to rebuild Jerusalem.

4. Question: What does “Messiah” mean?

Messiah means the anointed one. (GC 327.1)

5. Question: Why does Daniel 9:25 say “seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks” instead of just saying threescore and nine weeks?

Answer: because the seven weeks and the two weeks are referring to important specific prophetic events.

6. Question: What does it mean when verse 27 says “in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease?

Answer: during the last seven years of the 70 week prophecy, Christ was crucified and fulfilled all the obligations and promises that had pointed to the sacrifice of God’s only son.

7. Question: What event is connected to the end of the seventy weeks?

The stoning of Stephen was the end of the seventy weeks. (GC 328.1)

8. Question: Explain what it means in verse 27:  “he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week?”

Answer: In the last seven years of the 70 week prophecy, Christ ministered unto God’s chosen people. In the middle of those seven years, Christ was crucified, fulfilling the covenant that was made to Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden.

The Loud Cry

1.QUESTION:  How does the fourth angel relate to the third angel?

ANSWER: The fourth angel joins the third angel and gives power and force to his message. It also joins with the last work of the third angel’s message and God’s people are empowered to proclaim these last messages.

SUPPORT: “I saw angels hurrying to and fro in heaven. They were descending to earth, and again ascending to heaven, preparing for the fulfillment of some important event. Then I saw another mighty angel commissioned to descend to earth, and unite his voice with the third angel, and give power and force to his message. …The work of this angel comes in at the right time, and joins in the last great work of the third angel’s message, as it swells into a loud cry. And the people of God are fitted up every where to stand in the hour of temptation which they are soon to meet. I saw a great light resting upon them, and they united in the message, and fearlessly proclaimed with great power the third angel’s message.” {1SG 193.2}

2. Question:  What are the two parts to the Loud Cry?

ANSWER: The two parts to the Loud Cry are: the announcement of Babylon’s sins and her fall, and the call to come out of fallen Babylon.

SUPPORT: “Hence the movement symbolized by the angel coming down from heaven, lightening the earth with his glory and crying mightily with a strong voice, announcing the sins of Babylon.  In connection with his message the call is heard: ‘Come out of her, My people.’ ” {GC 604.1}

3. Question:  What are the two parts to the final warning?

ANSWER: The third angel’s message and the loud cry are the two parts to the final warning.

SUPORT: “Of Babylon, at the time brought to view in this prophecy, it is declared: “Her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.” Revelation 18:5. She has filled up the measure of her guilt, and destruction is about to fall upon her. But God still has a people in Babylon; and before the visitation of His judgments these faithful ones must be called out, that they partake not of her sins and ‘receive not of her plagues.’ Hence the movement symbolized by the angel coming down from heaven, lightening the earth with his glory and crying mightily with a strong voice, announcing the sins of Babylon. ” In connection with his message the call is heard: “Come out of her, My people. These announcements, uniting with the third angel’s message, constitute the final warning to be given to the inhabitants of the earth.” {GC 604.1}

4. QUESTION: What is the difference between “Babylon is fallen” in the second angel’s message of Revelation 14, as given in the summer of 1844, and “Babylon is fallen” in the Loud Cry of Revelation 18?

ANSWER: The second angel’s message announced the beginning of the fall of Babylon. Its fall was caused by the rejection of the first angel’s message by the Protestant churches of America. Babylon continues to fall lower as it rejects the three angels’ messages.  By the time the Loud cry announces its fall again, Babylon will have completely fallen and will have made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.

SUPPORT: “As the teachings of spiritualism are accepted by the churches, the restraint imposed upon the carnal heart is removed, and the profession of religion will become a cloak to conceal the basest iniquity. A belief in spiritual manifestations opens the door to seducing spirits and doctrines of devils, and thus the influence of evil angels will be felt in the churches.” {GC 603.2}

“They had chosen a ruler who chained them to his car as captive… Satanic agencies were incorporated with men. The bodies of human beings, made for the dwelling place of God, had become the habitation of demons. The senses, the nerves, the passions, the organs of men, were worked by supernatural agencies in the indulgence of the vilest lust. The very stamp of demons was impressed upon the countenances of men. Human faces reflected the expression of the legions of evil with which they were possessed.” {DA 36.3}

“As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich.” (Jeremiah 5:27)

“Mine heritage is unto me as a speckled bird, the birds round about are against her; come ye, assemble all the beasts of the field, come to devour.”{Jeremiah 12:9, KJV}

6. QUESTION: List and explain the sins of Babylon, as stated in Revelation 18.

ANSWER: The sins of Babylon are summarized in Revelation 18: 3. She has committed fornication with the “kings of the earth” by “cheating” on God, committing adultery with all the leaders of the earth, and gaining bad influence from these secular “great ones” and corrupting her faith. This influence causes her to gain the wine of error, or false doctrines, which she then gives to all nations, causing them to break God’s law and believe other false doctrines; so she commits fornication with them also. She is also living extravagantly, making the “merchants” of the earth rich by her delicious living, and she is glorifying herself, not living unselfishly like Christ, but living only for herself.

QUESTION:  “The great sin charged against Babylon is that she ‘made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.’ This cup of intoxication which she presents to the world represents the false doctrines that she has accepted as the result of her unlawful connection with the great ones of the earth. Friendship with the world corrupts her faith, and in her turn she exerts a corrupting influence upon the world by teaching doctrines which are opposed to the plainest statements of Holy Writ.” {GC 388.2}

“The fallen denominational churches are Babylon. Babylon has been fostering poisonous doctrines, the wine of error. This wine of error is made up of false doctrines, such as the natural immortality of the soul, the eternal torment of the wicked, the denial of the pre-existence of Christ prior to His birth in Bethlehem, and advocating and exalting the first day of the week above God’s holy and sanctified day. These and kindred errors are presented to the world by the various churches, and thus the Scriptures are fulfilled that say, ‘For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.’ It is a wrath which is created by false doctrines, and when kings and presidents drink this wine of the wrath of her fornication, they are stirred with anger against those who will not come into harmony with the false and satanic heresies which exalt the false sabbath, and lead men to trample underfoot God’s memorial.” {TM 61.3}

“But the man of sin, exalting himself above God, sitting in the temple of God, and showing himself to be God, thought to change times and laws. This power, thinking to prove that it was not only equal to God, but above God, changed the rest day, placing the first day of the week where the seventh should be. And the Protestant world has taken this child of the papacy to be regarded as sacred. In the Word of God this is called her fornication”. {7BC 979.7}

“…Extravagance in the use of means, selfishness, heresies, have taken the world captive. For centuries satanic agencies have been at work…(MS 172, 1899)?” {7BC 985.3}

7. QUESTION: When do Babylon’s sins reach unto heaven?

ANSWER: When Babylon makes God’s law void by man’s law (legislation), or when the Sunday law is passed compelling people to worship on Sunday and regard it as the Sabbath, with punishment for breaking this law, then will Babylon’s sins have reached to heaven, and her cup will be full.

SUPPORT: “When do her sins reach unto heaven [Rev. 18:2-5]? When the law of God is finally made void by legislation. – ST June 12, 1893.” {LDE 198.5}

“God keeps a record with the nations. The figures are swelling against them in the books of heaven, and when it shall have become a law that the transgression of the first day of the week shall be met with punishment, then their cup will be full.–7BC 910” (1886).

8.  QUESTION: Why does Revelation 18 say that Babylon receives the plagues?

ANSWER: Babylon will receive the plagues because she has lived deliciously and she has not sacrificed her desires or lusts. She has opposed and rejected God by not obeying any of his laws. The wages of sin is death.

SUPPORT: “How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow. Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the Lord God who judgeth her.” {Revelation 18:7, 8}

9. QUESTION: If you are honestly serving God, what difference does it make which church you belong to?

ANSWER: The honest followers of God will search the bible for its truths, and in searching they will learn of Babylon and her associates.  After learning of the true nature of Babylon, the good honest followers of God will leave their corrupt churches that are currently rejecting the three angels’ messages because they became part of Babylon by refusing the truth.

SUPPORT: “The whole chapter shows that Babylon that has fallen is the churches who will not receive the messages of warning the Lord has given in the first, second, and third angels’ messages.” {2SM 68.1}

“The fallen denominational churches are Babylon…” {TM 61.3}

10.  QUESTION: Why are there only two distinct calls made to the churches?

ANSWER: The first call (the second angel’s message) was made announcing the beginning of Babylon’s fall, which was caused by the rejection of the first angel’s messages by the Protestant churches of America. It came at the beginning of her fall. But the second distinct call is the Loud Cry, saying again that Babylon is fallen, and fully fallen this time by rejecting all three angels’ messages and regarding God’s law as void, and she is about to be destroyed by plagues. It by itself urges God’s people to come out of Babylon to escape her destruction, while the Midnight Cry had to accompany the second angel to tell people to come out of the fallen churches. God’s people receive much power in the form of the latter rain (Holy Spirit) to proclaim the Loud Cry, the last warning before Babylon is destroyed.

SUPPORT: “In the last work for the warning of the world, two distinct calls are made to the churches. The second angel’s message is, ‘Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.’ And in the loud cry of the third angel’s message a voice is heard from heaven saying, ‘Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues. For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.’ ” {Mar 189.1}

“Revelation 18 points to the time when, as the result of rejecting the threefold warning of Revelation 14:6-12, the church will have fully reached the condition foretold by the second angel, and the people of God still in Babylon will be called upon to separate from her communion. This message is the last that will ever be given to the world; and it will accomplish its work… ‘Come out of her, My people’ (Revelation 18:4).” {GC 390.2}

“The glory of God rested upon the patient, waiting saints, and they fearlessly gave the last solemn warning, proclaiming the fall of Babylon, and calling upon God’s people to come out of her; that they might escape her fearful doom.” {1SG 194.1}

11.QUESTION:  When is the Loud Cry supposed to be given?

ANSWER: The Loud Cry is supposed to be proclaimed now. We must warn the whole world that Babylon is fallen, and warn God’s people to come out. If we take on this task of proclaiming the final warning that God has given us, the work will soon be accomplished. The powers of Babylon will retaliate to this threat to their power and authority, and will bring persecution on God’s commandment-keeping people who are proclaiming Babylon’s sins and warning the rest of the world. Our part in proclaiming the Loud Cry now will bring the end nearer; Babylon will try to stifle this proclamation of how it is breaking of God’s law, and it will eventually pass a Sunday law directed against those who keep God’s commands. Technically, the very last sounding of the Loud Cry comes after the Sunday law has been passed, and the latter rain with the seal of God will descend on those who stay true to God’s commands and not to human laws when they conflict. Then will God’s people proclaim the Loud Cry for the last time, and it is then that I believe it will have the greatest effect, and millions will “come out of Babylon”. Then will everyone’s decision have been made, and Jesus will come again!

“The message of the angel following the third is now to be given to all parts of the world. It is to be the harvest message. –Letter 86, 1900.” {LDE 208.1}

12.  What is it that gives power to the Loud Cry?

ANSWER: The latter rain, the last great outpouring of the Holy Spirit (the “refreshing” from the presence of the Lord”), will come with the Loud Cry, to give power to the third angel’s loud voice. It refreshes and empowers those who proclaim the message, so that they are able to finish the work of the gospel commission and warn the world with great power and urgency.

SUPPORT: “At that time the “latter rain,” or refreshing from the presence of the Lord, will come, to give power to the loud voice of the third angel, and prepare the saints to stand in the period when the seven last plagues shall be poured out.–EW 86 (1854).” {LDE 186.4}

“I heard those clothed with the armor speak forth the truth with great power. It had effect. . . . I asked what had made this great change. An angel answered, ‘It is the latter rain, the refreshing from the presence of the Lord, the loud cry of the third angel.’–EW 271 (1858).” {LDE 186.5}

Third Angel’s Message

1.QUESTION:  What is the core content of the third angel’s message?

ANSWER:The most important parts of the third angel’s message are god’s everlasting law and His work of mercy and redemption. The third angel’s message warns the world of the coming fire.

SUPPORT: “Those who had accepted the light concerning the mediation of Christ and the perpetuity of the law of God, found that these were the truths brought to view in the third message.” {4SP 275.2}

2.QUESTION: When did Jesus send the third angel’s message?

ANSWER:      Jesus sent the third angel’s message when he moved into the Most Holy place right after the Great Disappointment on October 22, 1844.

]SUPPORT “As foretold in the Scriptures, the ministration of Christ in the most holy place began at the termination of the prophetic days in 1844. To this time apply the words of the Revelator, “The temple of God was opened in Heaven, and there was seen in his temple the ark of his testament.” [REV. 11:19] The ark of God’s testament is in the second apartment of the sanctuary. As Christ entered there, to minister in the sinner’s behalf, the inner temple was opened, and the ark of God was brought to view. To those who by faith beheld the Saviour in his work of intercession, God’s majesty and power were revealed. As the train of his glory filled the temple, light from the holy of holies was shed upon his waiting people on the earth.” {4SP 273.2}

3.QUESTION:  How did the third angel light up the past, the present, and the future to the early advent believers after the passing of the time in 1844?

ANSWER: The third angel showed the advent believers that God was still ministering for them in the most holy place. They saw how they were mistaken in their past interpretations and how God was still caring for them. They also knew that God would lead them in the future because he had led them in the past. In their study of the scriptures, they also saw the light of the fourth commandment and the seventh day Sabbath.

SUPPORT: “After Jesus opened the door of the most holy, the light of the Sabbath was seen, and the people of God were tested, as the children of Israel were tested anciently, to see if they would keep God’s law. I saw the third angel pointing upward, showing the disappointed ones the way to the holiest of the heavenly sanctuary. As they by faith enter the most holy, they find Jesus, and hope and joy spring up anew. I saw them looking back, reviewing the past, from the proclamation of the second advent of Jesus, down through their experience to the passing of the time in 1844. They see their disappointment explained, and joy and certainty again animate them. The third angel has lighted up the past, the present, and the future, and they know that God has indeed led them by His mysterious providence.” {EW 254.2}

4. QUESTION: Why does the evangelical Christian world not accept the truth of Christ’s change of ministration from the holy place to the most holy place in 1844?

ANSWER: The evangelical Christian churches knew that if the earthly sanctuary was the same as the heavenly sanctuary described in the bible, then the laws that applied to heavenly sanctuary, also applied to the them. They did not want to accept the laws of the heavenly sanctuary and worship on the seventh day Sabbath. This is why the evangelical churches rejected the change of ministration from the holy place to the most holy place.

SUPPORT: “None could fail to see that if the earthly sanctuary was a figure or pattern of the heavenly, the law deposited in the ark on earth was an exact transcript of the law in the ark in Heaven, and that an acceptance of the truth concerning the heavenly sanctuary involved an acknowledgment of the claims of God’s law, and the obligation of the Sabbath of the fourth commandment. Here was the secret of the bitter and determined opposition to the harmonious exposition of the Scriptures that brought to view the ministration of Christ in the heavenly sanctuary. How hard men tried to close the door which God had opened, and to open the door which he had closed! But ‘He that openeth and no man shutteth, and shutteth and no man openeth,’  had declared, ‘Behold, I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it.’ [REV. 3:7, 8.] Christ had opened the door, or ministration, of the most holy place, light was shining from that open door of the sanctuary in Heaven, and the fourth commandment was shown to be included in the law within the ark; what God had established, no man could overthrow.” {4SP 275.1}

5. QUESTION: How is the message of justification by faith the third angel’s message?

ANSWER:The third angel’s message presents justification by faith in its truest form. It urges God’s people to accept the truths of the bible and to accept the seal of God which is the seventh day Sabbath.

SUPPORT: “Several have written to me, inquiring if the message of justification by faith is the third angel’s message, and I have answered, ‘It is the third angel’s message in verity.’ – Review and Herald, April 1, 1890.” {Ev 190.3}

“This message was to bring more prominently before the world the uplifted Saviour, the sacrifice for the sins of the whole world. It presented justification through faith in the Surety; it invited the people to receive the righteousness of Christ, which is made manifest in obedience to all the commandments of God. Many had lost sight of Jesus. They needed to have their eyes directed to His divine person, His merits, and His changeless love for the human family. All power is given into His hands, that He may dispense rich gifts unto men, imparting the priceless gift of His own righteousness to the helpless human agent. This is the message that God commanded to be given to the world. It is the third angel’s message, which is to be proclaimed with a loud voice, and attended with the outpouring of His Spirit in a large measure. –Testimonies to Ministers, pp. 91-93. (1896”) {Ev 190.4}

6. What is the purpose of the numbering system for the angels’ messages of Revelation 14?

ANSWER:

SUPPORT “The three messages are but one threefold message. They are three only in the order of their rise. But having risen, they go on together and are inseparable.” {GC 693 appendix}

7.SUPPORT: How do the first, second, and third angels’ messages all blend into one?

ANSWER: The third angel’s message cannot be proclaimed without the support of the other two messages. The first two still apply to people today, and show the fulfillment of prophecy up to the third angel’s message. After they rose, they continued to be proclaimed with the next message. They are all given to prepare the world for Jesus’ Second Coming. 

SUPPORT :“A THREEFOLD MESSAGE.–REVELATION 14:6, 7 FORETELLS THE PROCLAMATION OF THE FIRST ANGEL’S MESSAGE. THEN THE PROPHET CONTINUES: ‘THERE FOLLOWED ANOTHER ANGEL, SAYING, BABYLON IS FALLEN, IS FALLEN. . . . AND THE THIRD ANGEL FOLLOWED THEM.’ THE WORD HERE RENDERED ‘FOLLOWED’ MEANS ‘TO GO ALONG WITH,’ ‘O FOLLOW ONE,’ ‘GO WITH HIM… IT ALSO MEANS ‘TO ACCOMPANY’… IT IS EVIDENT THAT THE IDEA INTENDED TO BE CONVEYED IS THAT OF ‘GOING TOGETHER,’ ‘IN COMPANY WITH.’…THE IDEA IN REVELATION 14:8, 9 IS NOT SIMPLY THAT THE SECOND AND THIRD ANGELS FOLLOWED THE FIRST IN POINT OF TIME, BUT THAT THEY WENT WITH HIM. THE THREE MESSAGES ARE BUT ONE THREEFOLD MESSAGE. THEY ARE THREE ONLY IN THE ORDER OF THEIR RISE. BUT HAVING RISEN, THEY GO ON TOGETHER AND ARE INSEPARABLE.” {GC 693.1}

“Thus the substance of the second angel’s message is again given to the world by that other angel who lightens the earth with his glory. These messages all blend in one, to come before the people in the closing days of this earth’s history.” {2SM 116.2} “The first, second, and third angels’ messages are all linked together.” {2SM 117}

8. How can you show that the mediation of Christ and the perpetuity of the law of God are the truths of the third angel’s message?

Following the great disappointment of 1844, the early advent believers sought to find in the scriptures where they had been mistaken. In their studies, they saw that God had finished judging the dead and that he is now judging the living. They also saw that they had been neglecting the fourth commandment.

SUPPORT “They had by faith followed their High Priest from the holy to the most holy, and they saw him pleading his blood before the ark of God. Within that sacred ark is the Father’s law, the same that was spoken by God himself amid the thunders of Sinai, and written with his own finger on the tables of stone. Not one command has been annulled; not a jot or tittle has been changed. While God gave to Moses a copy of his law, he preserved the great original in the sanctuary above. Tracing down its holy precepts, the seekers for truth found, in the very bosom of the decalogue, the fourth commandment, as it was first proclaimed: “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work; but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy man-servant, nor thy maid-servant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: for in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day; wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day, and hallowed it.” [EX. 20:8-11.]” {4SP 273.3}

9. Where is the “here” in Revelation 14:12: “Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God” “and their faith in Jesus.”

The saints and they that keep the commandments of God are in the most holy place where their characters are perfected, and their sins are covered by the blood of the God’s son.

SUPPORT “John was shown these things in holy vision. He saw the company represented by the five wise virgins, with their lamps trimmed and burning, and he exclaimed in rapture, “Here is the patience of the saints; here are they that keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus.” {16MR 269.2}

“The third angel closes his message thus: “Here is the patience of the saints: here [are] they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.” As he repeated these words, he pointed to the heavenly sanctuary. the minds of all who embrace this message are directed to the most holy place, where Jesus stands before the ark, making His final intercession for all those for whom mercy still lingers. This atonement is made for the righteous dead as well as for the righteous living.” {EW 254.1}

10. What is the “action step” for the third angel’s message ?

ANSWER: The third angel’s message should cause us as Christians to seek a living relationship with Christ and to receive the seal of God which is the seventh day Sabbath.

SUPPORT “…the earthly sanctuary was a figure or pattern of the heavenly, the law deposited in the ark on earth was an exact transcript of the law in the ark in Heaven, and…an acceptance of the truth concerning the heavenly sanctuary involved an acknowledgment of the claims of God’s law, and the obligation of the Sabbath of the fourth commandment.” {4SP 275.1}

“In place of wrapping about us the garments of self-righteousness, we should be found daily humbling ourselves before God, confessing our own individual sins, seeking the pardon of our transgressions, and cooperating with Christ in the work of preparing our souls to reflect the divine image. Unless we enter the sanctuary above, and unite with Christ in working out our own salvation with fear and trembling, we shall be weighed in the balances of the sanctuary, and shall be pronounced wanting (MS 168, 1898).” {7BC 933.14}

11. What are the two purposes for the warning against the beast and his image contained in the third message?

The warning against the beast and his image had two purposes. It warned God’s people against directly opposing God’s word, and it warned God’s people against receiving the mark of the beast.

SUPPORT “The third angel’s message has been sent forth to the world, warning men against receiving the mark of the beast or of his image in their foreheads or in their hands. To receive this mark means to come to the same decision as the beast has done, and to advocate the same ideas, in direct opposition to the Word of God. Of all who receive this mark, God says, ‘The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb.’ ” {7BC 979.12}

“The most fearful threatening ever addressed to mortals is contained in the third angel’s message. That must be a terrible sin which calls down the wrath of God unmingled with mercy. Men are not to be left in darkness concerning this important matter; the warning against this sin is to be given to the world before the visitation of God’s judgments, that all may know why they are to be inflicted, and have opportunity to escape them.” {GC 449.2}

“A parchment was placed in the angel’s hand, and as he descended to the earth in power and majesty, he proclaimed a fearful warning, with the most terrible threatening ever borne to man. This message was designed to put the children of God upon their guard, by showing them the hour of temptation and anguish that was before them. Said the angel, ‘They will be brought into close combat with the beast and his image. Their only hope of eternal life is to remain steadfast. Although their lives are at stake, they must hold fast the truth.’ ” {EW 254.1}

12. What does it mean to receive the mark of the beast?

To receive the mark of the beast is received on the forehead (thoughts) and the hand (actions). To think like the beast and to propagate the same ideas as the beast is to receive his mark. Also, to act like the beast and to live a life of lawlessness is to receive his mark on one’s right hand.

SUPPORT To receive this mark means to come to the same decision as the beast has done, and to advocate the same ideas, in direct opposition to the Word of God…” {7BC 979.12}

“If the light of truth has been presented to you, revealing the Sabbath of the fourth commandment, and showing that there is no foundation in the Word of God for Sunday observance, and yet you still cling to the false sabbath, refusing to keep holy the Sabbath which God calls “My holy day,” you receive the mark of the beast. When does this take place? When you obey the decree that commands you to cease from labor on Sunday and worship God, while you know that there is not a word in the Bible showing Sunday to be other than a common working day, you consent to receive the mark of the beast, and refuse the seal of God.” {7BC 980.1}

“If we receive this mark in our foreheads or in our hands, the judgments pronounced against the disobedient must fall upon us. But the seal of the living God is placed upon those who conscientiously keep the Sabbath of the Lord (RH July 13, 1897).” {7BC 980.2}

Revelation 14 and 18

1. Revelation 14: 1-5 - The Redeemed 144,000
   Revelation 14: 6-12 - The Thee Angels
   Revelation 14: 13-20 - The Harvest of the Righteous and the Wicked at the Second Coming

   Revelation 18: 1-8 The Loud Cry
   Revelation 18: 9-24 - the Judgment and Desolation of Babylon
   

   
   

Second Angels message

SECOND ANGELS MESSAGE

1: QUESTION: When was the second angel’s message given?

ANSWER: in the summer of 1844

SUPPORT: The proclamation, “Babylon is fallen,” was given in the summer of 1844, and as the result, about fifty thousand withdrew from churches. {4SP 232.1}

2: QUESTION: Who did the second angel’s message have a more direct application to?

ANSWER: The protestant churches in the United States, who rejected the message.

SUPPORT: The second angel’s message of Revelation 14 was first preached in the summer of 1844, and it then had a more direct application to the churches of the United States, where the warning of the judgment had been most widely proclaimed and most generally rejected, and where the declension in the churches had been most rapid{GC 389.2}

3: QUESTION: Why was the second angel’s message given?

ANSWER: God was announcing the moral fall of the apostate protestant churches as they rejected the first angel’s message.

SUPPORT: This message was understood by Adventists to be an announcement of the moral fall of the churches in consequence of their rejection of the first message. {4SP 232.1}

4: QUESTION: What were the consequences to the churches when they rejected the first angel’s message?

ANSWER: The protestant churches fell from the favor of God as they rejected the first angel’s message and followed tradition, rather than the Bible and the Bible only.

SUPPORT: As the churches refused to receive the first angel’s message, they rejected the light from heaven and fell from the favor of God. {EW 237.2}

5: QUESTION: What is the “action step” of the second angel’s message?

ANSWER: The second angel’s message is a part of the third angel’s message because it tells God’s people to come out of the corrupt churches of Babylon. The advent believers were not a formal church. They were only people who had left their own churches in accordance with the second angel’s message. We as Christians and as Seventh day Adventists today, should seek keep ourselves pure and uncontaminated by worldly influences and pagan cultures. We must be actively serving God and spreading the gospel to the world. The second angel’s message should lead us to seek a living relationship with God.

SUPPORT: In every part of the land, light was given upon the second angel’s message, and the cry melted the hearts of thousands. It went from city to city, and from village to village, until the waiting people of God were fully aroused. In many churches the message was not permitted to be given, and a large company who had the living testimony left these fallen churches. A mighty work was accomplished by the midnight cry. The message was heart-searching, leading the believers to seek a living experience for themselves. They knew that they could not lean upon one another.” {EW 238.3}

6:QUESTION: When was the climactic closing up of the second angel’s message?

ANSWER: The  climatic  closing up of the second angel’s message occurred right before October 22, 1844. However, the second angel’s message continues to be proclaimed because it provides support to the third angel’s message.

SUPPORT:“WHILE IT IS TRUE THAT THE SECOND ANGEL’S MESSAGE CONTINUES TO BE PRESENT TRUTH, THERE WAS A CLIMACTIC CLOSING UP OF THE SECOND ANGEL’S MESSAGE IMMEDIATELY PRECEDING OCTOBER 22, 1844. WHEN THE MESSAGES OF THE THREE ANGELS COME PROMINENTLY BEFORE THE WORLD AGAIN JUST BEFORE THE SECOND ADVENT OF CHRIST, THE ANGEL OF REVELATION 18:1 JOINS IN THE PROCLAMATION OF THE SECOND ANGEL” {EW 304.1}

7: QUESTION: What was the Midnight Cry?

ANSWER: “Behold, the Bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet Him!”

SUPPORT: Near the close of the second angel’s message, I saw a great light from heaven shining upon the people of God. The rays of this light seemed bright as the sun. And I heard the voices of angels crying, “Behold, the Bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet Him!”  {EW 238.1}

This was the midnight cry, which was to give power to the second angel’s message. Angels were sent from heaven to arouse the discouraged saints and prepare them for the great work before them.

8:QUESTION: When was the Midnight Cry given?

ANSWER: near the close of  the second angel’s message in 1844

SUPPORT: Near the close of the second angel’s message, I saw a great light from heaven shining upon the people of God. The rays of this light seemed bright as the sun. And I heard the voices of angels crying, “Behold, the Bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet Him!”  {EW 238.1}

9: QUESTION: What was the purpose of the Midnight Cry?

ANSWER: To awaken the discouraged saints and prepare them for God’s work.

SUPPORT: Angels were sent from heaven to arouse the discouraged saints and prepare them for the great work before them. {EW 238.2}

10 QUESTION:  For those who had received the first angel’s message, how did the            Midnight Cry prepare them to enter with Jesus by faith into the most holy place of the heavenly sanctuary?

ANSWER: It prepared them by leading by leading the believers to seek a living experience that they could not gain by leaning on each other or by claiming to love God.

SUPPORT: . A mighty work was accomplished by the midnight cry. The message was heart-searching, leading the believers to seek a living experience for themselves. They knew that they could not lean upon one another. {EW 238.3}

11 QUESTION: Just as Jesus cleansed the temple both at the beginning and at the end of His public ministry, so in the last work for the warning of the world, two distinct calls are made to the churches. What are the two distinct calls to the churches, and when are these two calls made?

ANSWER: The two distinct calls are the second angel’s message and the loud cry that comes with the third angel’s message. The second angel’s message was proclaimed at the first in the summer of 1844, and is still being proclaimed. The loud cry will be proclaimed when Babylon has fully “fallen”, as the last message proclaimed before Jesus comes.

SUPPORT: “When Jesus began His public ministry, He cleansed the temple from its sacrilegious profanation. Among the last acts of His ministry was the second cleansing of the temple. So in the last work for the warning of the world, two distinct calls are made to the churches. The second angel’s message is, ‘Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.’ And in the loud cry of the third angel’s message a voice is heard from heaven saying, ‘Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues. For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities’ (RH Dec. 6, 1892).” {7BC 985.5}
“Revelation 18 points to the time when, as the result of rejecting the threefold warning of Revelation 14:6-12, the church will have fully reached the condition foretold by the second angel, and the people of God still in Babylon will be called upon to separate from her communion. This message is the last that will ever be given to the world; and it will accomplish its work… ‘Come out of her, My people’ (Revelation 18:4).” {GC 390.2} (RH Dec. 6, 1892).  {7BC 985.5}

12: QUESTION:  why are only two distinct calls made to the churches?

ANSWER: Christ, during his ministry, cleansed the temple twice. Similarly, God has made two distinct calls to his churches. The first message tells God’s people come out of Babylon. The second proclaims the fall of Babylon, and when this message is proclaimed, a last call will go forth to finish God’s work and separate God’s people from Babylon.

SUPPORT: “When Jesus began His public ministry, He cleansed the temple from its sacrilegious profanation. Almost the last act of His ministry was to cleanse the Temple again. So in the last work for the warning of the world, two distinct calls are made to the churches; the second angel’s message, and the voice heard in heaven, “Come out of her, my people. . . . For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities” (Rev. 18:4, 5).” {3SM 405.4}

“At the termination of the 2300 days in 1844, Christ then entered the most holy place of the heavenly sanctuary, into the presence of God, to perform the closing work of atonement, preparatory to his coming.” {4SP 266.2}

First Angels message

1. Question: Who gives the first angel’s message?

Answer:  God’s people who accept the message and go preach it to the world.

Support: These three angels represent the people who accept the light of God’s messages, and go forth as His agents to sound the warning throughout the length and breadth of the earth. {ST, January 25, 1910 par. 5}

2. Question: When was the first angel’s message first given?

Answer: 1843 and 1844 At the beginning of the advent movement.

Support: The first and second messages were given in 1843 and 1844, and we are now under the proclamation of the third ; but all three of the  messages are still to be proclaimed. {CW 26.2}

3: Question: Where did the prophecy of the first angel’s message have its most direct fulfillment?

Answer: In America during the Advent movement.

Support: To William Miller and his colaborers it was given to preach the warning in America. This country became the center of the great advent movement. It was here that the prophecy of the first angel’s message had its most direct fulfillment {GC 368.1}

4: Question: Why was the first angel’s message given?

Answer: To save the uncorrupted followers of god from the corrupted principals of the churches.

Support: 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. Had they received the message from heaven, humbling their hearts before the Lord and seeking in sincerity a preparation to stand in His presence, the Spirit and power of God would have been manifested among them.  {GC 379.1}

5:Question: How is the first angel’s message announcing “the hour of His judgment is come,” a part of the gospel?

Answer: It shows us the work of salvation and judgment God is performing. Fear God and worship Him, announces the beginning of the judgment and the perfecting of the characters of God’s people. The marriage is the third and last stage of the formation of character, to determine if one is ready for Jesus’ Second Coming. The first angel’s message is a warning to the professed followers of God. The angel cried with a loud voice “fear god and give him the glory. For the hour of his judgment has come.”  Sin is a part of our nature. Those whose sins are not crucified with Christ, will perish when God destroys sin once and for all.

Support: Hanging upon the cross Christ was the gospel. . . . This is our message, our argument, our doctrine, our warning to the impenitent, our encouragement for the sorrowing, the hope for every believer.

6: Question: What were the consequences to the churches when they rejected the first angel’s message?

Answer: They fell from the favor of God.

SUPPORT: As the churches refused to receive the first angel’s message, they rejected the light from heaven and fell from the favor of God. {EW 237.2}

7:Question: How does the first angel’s message influence the second angel’s message?

Answer: The second angel’s message was to be given only after the first angel’s message had been rejected. Since the churches rejected the first angel’s message, the second message could be given announcing their fall.

Support: “When the churches spurned the counsel of God by rejecting the Advent message, the Lord rejected them. The first angel was followed by a second, proclaiming, “Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.” [REV. 14:8] This message was understood by Adventists to be an announcement of the moral fall of the churches in consequence of their rejection of the first message.” {4SP 232.1}

8: QUESTION: How is the first angel’s message still relevant today?

ANSWER:  The three angel’s messages are given in order of their fulfillment in history. We are currently proclaiming the third angel’s message, but the first and second must be announced first to give power to the third. It is still relevant, as it announces the judgment work of Christ, which is still continuing now till the close of probation.

SUPPORT: -“The first and second messages were given in 1843 and 1844, and we are now under the proclamation of the third; but all three of the messages are still to be proclaimed. It is just as essential now as ever before that they shall be repeated to those who are seeking for the truth. By pen and voice we are to sound the proclamation, showing their order, and the application of the prophecies that bring us to the third angel’s message. There cannot be a third without the first and second. These messages we are to give to the world in publications, in discourses, showing in the line of prophetic history the things that have been, and the things that will be.–Manuscript 32, 1896.” {CW 26.2}
“The first message is to be repeated proclaiming the second advent of Christ to our world.” {16MR 40.2}

9: Question: What is the “action step” for the first angel’s message?

Answer: The first angel’s message urges us to worship God as creator and to follow all of his laws in righteousness. Including the Sabbath commandment, which is the seal of God.

Support: “In Revelation 14, men are called upon to worship the Creator; and the prophecy brings to view a class that, as the result of the threefold message, are keeping the commandments of God. One of these commandments points directly to God as the Creator. The fourth precept declares: “The seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God: . . . for in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day, and hallowed it.” Exodus 20:10, 11.” {GC 437.1}10: Question: How does the first angel’s message, as it was perceived during the advent movement of 1840-1844, fit together with the actual content of the first angel’s message?

10 Question: How does the first angel’s message, as it was perceived during the advent movement of 1840-1844, fit together with the actual content of the first angel’s message?

ANSWER: The Advent believers thought that the first angel’s message was proclaiming Jesus’ Second Coming. This was connected to “the judgment hour” part of the message. They thought it was the executive judgment right at that time. The Sabbath part (“worship the Creator”) was not proclaimed till after the Great Disappointment. The judgment is still occurring now; Jesus

SUPPORT: “WE RECOGNIZE ALSO THAT IN THEIR INITIAL PROCLAMATION THE SOUNDING OF THE FIRST ANGEL’S MESSAGE WITH ITS DECLARATION THAT ‘THE HOUR OF GOD’S JUDGMENT IS COME’ IS LINKED WITH THE PROCLAMATION OF THE EXPECTED ADVENT OF CHRIST IN THE 1830′S AND EARLY 1840′S.” {EW 304.1}