The wrath of God upon us

We say that humanity is increasingly becoming isolated/lonely/without purpose and meaning/suicidal.

Studies show that if a person has a grudge and opens up social media, he is likely to commit acts of violence. The descendants of the Reformation have left their God. Now every blessing from Deuteronomy 28:1-14 is leaving us, and every curse listed in that chapter is clinging to us.

We have lost a knowledge of the love of God and have left the God of love. “Because iniquity [lawlessness] shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.” (Matt. 24:12).

A video by Conrad Vine said that today’s world has come to a sense of meaningless. The video said that the world has left the roots it had at the beginning of America when it became free from the godlessness and slavery of the past ages. Below lists the basic tenets that Americans used to have. Even the unchurched of Protestant America recognized the following three scenarios of 1) humanity before sin, 2) humanity because of sin, and 3) humanity’s potential because of God’s solution to the sin problem. The solution to our problem was a personal God, and a personal Son of God. The blessing on America was a personal God that we knew was watching over us. Jehovah’s involvement was the source of our forefathers’ power.

1) Created in God’s image by a loving, personal God for loving communion with Him and sacrificial service to others.

2) Our first parents replaced God with Self on the thrones of their hearts, allowing sin and death to enter creation.

3) Through faith in Jesus Christ, we live in the Kingdom of grace today and look forward to the Kingdom of glory at His second coming when all things are made new.

But, deism and atheism have appeared, and have worked their way into our consciousness like a pin worm that enters through the skin and grows into a tapeworm that slowly moves from consuming some of the host’s energy/life, to eventually all of his energy/life. Then the video listed the modern replacements of the Old World Order’s tenets. They have left us empty of all life and joy. We have a God-size hole in our hearts. And only God can fill that hole. Instead of our personal God in whose image we are made, we have dived into the deep waters of scientific findings. Nature has replaced the God of nature. Creation has taken the place of the God of Nature.

1) Matter is dynamic, containing the powers of motion, change and development. Matter replaces God. The universe is a self-originating, autonomous machine moving toward a classless society.

2) The creation of private property led to all the evils of exploitation and class struggle.

3) Revolution against the bourgeoisie oppressors to establish a classless society free of oppression, expectation of restrictions of any kind.

So, having departed from our Creator, we are at the tipping point where we are turning to totalitarianism.

Anger + social media = the commission of violent acts.

Without a personal God of love in our hearts, anger is taking His place. And that anger + social media = the commission of violent acts. The social media is full of people empty of life, and getting increasingly angry. The internet is filled with action-packed violence. Videos encourage and foment anger. What does the Bible say about the burgeoning anger and violence that is spreading around the globe? It says that our wrath comes from serving the false gods instead of serving the God of love.

“He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.” (John 3:36).

“He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.” (1John 5:12).

If we know Jesus and His mercy that endureth forever, then He gives us His Spirit and the Spirit brings us life and purpose and peace and joy.

But, the Bible says if we serve Satan and his other gods, then the wrath of God will abide on us because God cannot then force Satan to leave us; and the emptiness and anger comes in when Satan enters.

“And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand, 

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: 

And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name.” (Rev. 14:9-11).

“Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from the LORD our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations; lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood; 

And it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of mine heart, to add drunkenness to thirst: 

The LORD will not spare him, but then the anger of the LORD and his jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book shall lie upon him, and the LORD shall blot out his name from under heaven….” (Deut. 29:18-20).

But, one person serving Satan spreads to two people, which spreads to a family, then two families, which leads ultimately to the whole nation serving Satan.

“And the LORD shall separate him [the worshiper of false gods, devils] unto evil out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that are written in this book of the law: 

So that the generation to come of your children that shall rise up after you, and the stranger that shall come from a far land, shall say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses which the LORD hath laid upon it; 

And that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the LORD overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath: 

Even all nations shall say, Wherefore hath the LORD done thus unto this land? what meaneth the heat of this great anger? 

Then men shall say, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt: 

For they went and served other gods, and worshipped them, gods whom they knew not, and whom he had not given unto them: 

And the anger of the LORD was kindled against this land, to bring upon it all the curses that are written in this book: 

And the LORD rooted them out of their land in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as it is this day.” (Deut. 29:21-28).

This threatening warning was not hypothetical, but historical. It wasn’t simply a prediction, but a high expectation. Jehovah foresaw a national apostasy by the children of Israel, which is why He had Moses write the song in Deuteronomy 32:1-45.

“And the LORD said unto Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleep with thy fathers; and this people will rise up, and go a whoring after the gods of the strangers of the land, whither they go to be among them, and will forsake Me, and break My covenant which I have made with them. 

Then My anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide My face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall befall them; so that they will say in that day, Are not these evils come upon us, because our God is not among us? 

And I will surely hide My face in that day for all the evils which they shall have wrought, in that they are turned unto other gods [devils]. 

Now therefore write ye this song for you, and teach it the children of Israel: put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for me against the children of Israel. 

For when I shall have brought them into the land which I sware unto their fathers, that floweth with milk and honey; and they shall have eaten and filled themselves, and waxen fat; then will they turn unto other gods, and serve them, and provoke Me, and break My covenant.” (Deut. 31:16-20).

I won’t paste the lengthy litany of woes with which Jehovah promised to punish His covenanted people listed in Deuteronomy 28:15-68, but you can read them and see that those very conditions are coming upon God’s covenanted, beloved Protestant America.

By the Assyrian Empire the fulfillment of Jehovah’s curses came upon Israel, the professed people of God’s patriarchs. And when God’s special people, His Sabbath-keeping and commandment-keeping Judah copied the people who professed the original patriarchal platform, Israel, then those special Jewish people, though Sabbath-keepers and commandment-keepers, got the same curses by Nebuchadnezzar the great, as God’s unstoppable whip. They worshiped the gods of Babylon. Therefore Babylon became Jehovah’s rod of jealousy.

History always repeats itself? It is this time.

The Reformation’s land of promise that flowed with joy and freedom, milk and honey, lost its first love for Jehovah. The people who professed the Reformation platform, deviated far from the original Protestantism. They couldn’t even believe their Bible that Jesus would come and destroy their world.

But, that’s not all. Then Jehovah’s other special people who kept His Sabbath and His other commandments, copied everything that the professed Protestants did. Adventism’s standard was an extremely high standard to live up to, as the Investigative Judgment began when they were born as a denomination. Their standard was not the Protestants’ standard who were born in the Dark Ages before the Investigative Judgment began. The Protestant commission and constitution had a standard much lower than the commission and constitution given to the Adventists. And we have thought that doing like our Protestant brethren would satisfy a God who we knew had ideals for His Advent movement that are higher than the highest human though could reach.

But, having known of our higher standard, here we are replacing our pulpits with stages for a band, our instructive and converting hymns for “I love You” praise music, our sin-condemning prophet for Warren and Osteen “Peace, peace”. And there is no peace. The peace and comfort come from the Testimony of Jesus. We have replaced Jesus’ Spirit of Prophecy for the Jesuit’s Spiritual Formation. And last but not least, for our original God the Father and His only-begotten Lord Jesus Christ Godhead we have brought in image of jealousy, the three-in-one, co-eternal, co-equal, co-eval Trinity god, the most ancient pagan god of sex and war. It is the god of the vile king of the north/ little horn power. It is the image that makes God the Father very angry. It’s a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God. Our God is a consuming fire.

The final straw for us is this god who wore a turreted crown, the god of fortifications. “But in his estate shall he honour the God of forces^H4581 [fortified place, defence, “fort-ress”, “strong holds”]: and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honour with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things. Thus shall he do in the most strong holds^H4581 with a strange god, whom he shall acknowledge and increase with glory: and he shall cause them to rule over many, and shall divide the land for gain.” (Dan. 11:38,39). “MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.” (Rev. 17:5). “THE MYSTERY OF INIQUITY.” (2Thess. 2:7).

“Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God…. Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, and with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.” (2Thess. 2:3,4,9,10).

Paul was giving the Thessalonian believers a commentary on Daniel 11:21-45. The vile king of the north was the apostate Christian church that would “honour the God of [war]... a god whom his [apostolic] fathers knew not.” It would replace the true religion for pagan religion. It would replace remembering the obedient Son of Jehovah for commemorating Nimrod’s rebellion against Jehovah. Catholicism would replace the atoning, bodily self-sacrifice of the Son, for a pagan minchah to the Sun. It would cast down the powerful, justifying Sanctuary of strength from the conceptions of God’s people for a Spirit-less religion that said, “God is dead and gone; let’s join in all the pagan frolics.”

“An host was given him against the daily sacrifice [because] of transgression, and it cast down the truth to the ground; and it practised, and prospered.” (Dan. 8:12). “When the people saw that [Jesus] delayed to come down out of [heaven], the people gathered themselves together unto [their high priest], and said unto him, ‘This [Jesus], the Man that brought us up out of the land of [paganism], we wot not what is become of Him.’ (Exo. 32:1)”. “Up, make us gods, which shall go before us.” And the early church fathers pulled down the biblical “strong holds”, by which Paul so successfully was “casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ” (2Cor. 10:4,5). And the Christian leadership resurrected the pagan strongholds of pride, lawlessness, and violence. And the people loved to have it so. The prophecy would be fulfilled, “Thus shall he do in the most strong holds with a strange god, whom he shall acknowledge and increase with glory.” (Dan. 11:39).

“Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.” (2 Thess. 2:3). 

“And the king shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done…. And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him.” (Dan. 11:36,45).

The Protestants have made amends with their old enemy from the Dark Ages. 178 years ago, the Protestant church stretched their hand across the gulf and clasped hands with the Church of Rome. Now our beloved Adventist church is doing the same by copying everything their sister church has been doing.

“And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot also. 

And it came to pass through the lightness of her whoredom, that she defiled the land, and committed adultery with stones and with stocks. 

And yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah hath not turned unto Me with her whole heart, but feignedly, saith the LORD.” (Jer. 3:8-10).

And in the end we’re all worshiping their Babylonian Trinity and its blasphemous third person--just like ancient Israel and Judah worshiped Babylon’s Trinity gods. Soon, very soon, the Lord’s whip in the hand of the Vatican will be upon us not only for discipline, but for punishment.

So much talk about Blood Moons

Why so much talk about Blood Moons? Are they a distraction away from the true Moon turned to blood that happened on the night of May 19, 1780? Are lunar eclipses more significant than the fulfillment of Bible prophecy? Connect them with certain dates, sensationalize them and make them bigger than life. But nothing is bigger than the fulfillment of the written prophecies of Jehovah. 

“The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come. And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the LORD shall be delivered: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the LORD hath said, and in the remnant whom the LORD shall call.” (Joel 2:31,32).

As so much greater was the May 19, 1780 cosmic event, the Revelation vision included even more than a deep red moon. 

“And I beheld when He had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood; 

And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind. 

And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places." (Rev. 6:12-14).

“Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken.” (Matt. 24:29).

The sun went dark the daytime preceding the deep red moon. It went down in American history as the “Dark Day”.  That day the darkness was so deep that, during the Revolutionary War, General Washington hunkered down his troops for the day. It was a warning to Protestant America that their God was living and waiting to build their faith in Him. Lanterns were lit yet were difficult to see at a short distance. Words written with black ink on white paper could not be read. Their hands couldn't be seen directly in front of their faces. Everyone didn't cry that “yet another forest fire was burning down Ontario!” And everyone didn't call it fog.

Then November 12, 1833 a meteorite show lasted almost all night. That meteor shower was the densest of any other known before it and ever afterwards. Scientists still use that meteor shower as the baseline to gage all Leonid events.

And the first of the Revelation 6:12 oddities of nature, the great earthquake was the Lisbon Earthquake. It is another extraordinary natural occurrence. It was felt across the Atlantic in the Caribbean islands to Morocco, to Greenland, the British Isles, Norway and Sweden--4 million square miles in area. the 8.7 magnitude quake and its accompanying tsunami destroyed Lisbon and the whole coast causing extensive damage. Mountains, “some of the largest in Portugal, were impetuously shaken, as it were, from their very foundations and some of them opened at their summits, which were split and rent in a wonderful manner, huge masses of them being thrown down into the adjacent alleys. Flames are related to have issued from these mountains”.--Sir Charles Lyell, Principles of Geology, p. 495.

All of these phenomena came after the great tribulation the great tribulation of the papal Dark Ages, just as Jesus promised.

But there is another tribulation, even bigger than were the Dark Ages. This one will be during the age of light. It will not be longer than the 1,260 year time of trouble, but being worse and shorter, it will be much greater in intensity. This will happen just previous to Jesus return in power and searing glory. It will be like the star Sirius coming as close as the Moon. It will overthrow every natural law we have. 

Rivers flowing backward. Volcanoes blowing, earthquakes ripping up the landmasses. Tornadoes and hurricanes raising havoc. Heavenly bodies moving out of His way. Meteorology in chaos. Mountains writhing.

“God came from Teman, and the Holy One from mount Paran. Selah. His glory covered the heavens, and the earth was full of His praise. 

And His brightness was as the light; He had horns coming out of His hand: and there was the hiding of His power. 

Before Him went the pestilence, and burning coals went forth at His feet. 

He stood, and measured the earth: He beheld, and drove asunder the nations; and the everlasting mountains were scattered, the perpetual hills did bow: His ways are everlasting. 

I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction: and the curtains of the land of Midian did tremble. 

Was the LORD displeased against the rivers? Was Thine anger against the rivers? Was Thy wrath against the sea, that Thou didst ride upon Thine horses and Thy chariots of salvation? 

Thy bow was made quite naked, according to the oaths of the tribes, even Thy word. Selah. Thou didst cleave the earth with rivers. 

The mountains saw Thee, and they trembled [writhed as in childbirth]: the overflowing of the water passed by: the deep uttered His voice, and lifted up His hands on high. 

The sun and moon stood still in their habitation: at the light of thine arrows they went, and at the shining of Thy glittering spear. 

Thou didst march through the land in indignation, Thou didst thresh the heathen in anger. 

Thou wentest forth for the salvation of Thy people, even for salvation with Thine anointed; Thou woundedst the head out of the house of the wicked, by discovering the foundation unto the neck. Selah. 

Thou didst strike through with his staves the head of his villages: they came out as a whirlwind to scatter Me: their rejoicing was as to devour the poor secretly. 

Thou didst walk through the sea with thine horses, through the heap of great waters. 

When I heard, my belly trembled; my lips quivered at the voice: rottenness entered into my bones, and I trembled in myself, that I might rest in the day of trouble: when He cometh up unto the people, He will invade them with His troops.” (Hab. 3:5-16).

The blessed Spirit of Prophecy schoolmaster

The deep Sabbath rest comes from the deep comfort which comes from the deep repentance which comes from the strong straight testimony to the church of the Laodiceans. When Jesus gives us pointed and strong conviction we give Him whole and total repentance. Then He gives us whole and total forgiveness, and we give Him whole and total surrender and meekness. We are justified, reconciled to the Father. Then Jesus gives us His blessed Spirit as a witness that we are joined in Their perfect acceptance and fellowship, and we give Them perfect obedience. The straight testimony is utterly essential for the deep repentance for the deep comfort and deep Sabbath rest for the Most Holy sanctification, which is the blotting out of sin and the sealing. The footprint for this comes from Galatians 3:23-25, the apostolic template.

“But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe. But before faith came, we were kept under [‘the curse of’ (vs. 13)] the Law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed. Wherefore the Law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith. But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster. For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.”

And just so that the apostolic church wouldn’t misunderstand Paul, he adds an illustration:

“Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all; but is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father.” (Gal. 4:1,2).

The apostolic church was the heir of God and joint-heir with Christ, under Jesus the governor/schoolmaster, and His angelic tutors for presenting to the saints the fearful judgments of God to deepen their sense of need. Finally, they were saved and sealed and reverent children of God, able and happy to obey His Law. 

The object lesson uses a real life situation. Either the father in the parable is a king or he is a wealthy landholder/president of a company. Nevertheless it is utterly essential that if his son or daughter is some day going to take over the operation/business they need to be taught all the ins and outs of that important leadership position. There is nothing worse or more shameful than for the children to undo all that their father did to build his business. Therefore, once they have been through business school and have had a period of internship alongside the father/president, or, as prince/princess, have received an education on the statutes of the land and royal etiquette, and co-reign with his/her father/king, then the president/king can trust his/her child to operate the family business/kingdom correctly.

Is it right, at that point, for the child to throw out all the training and do whatever is right in his own eyes? Is it OK to fly by the seat of his/her pants? Then neither is it true, that once we are justified by faith and then have no need for the schoolmaster, that it’s OK to throw out the Law because we are all children of God by faith in Jesus. We still need to obey the Law as much as the new presidents and kings/queens need to keep to his/her training. What we don’t need is the Law as our supervisor/authoritarian teacher (unless we lose our justification), because Jesus has facilitated our internalizing of the Law; we have fully conceptualized the Law, we live by it naturally, we obey by a new nature from the Spirit of Him who raised us from the dead. If a new prince threw out the law of the kingdom and Parliament, and then became an arbitrary dictator he/she would be immediately fired or assassinated by the people of the kingdom. If a newly sworn-in President of the United States immediately threw out the U.S. Constitution he would immediately be impeached. This is the assumption of Paul’s real life parable. Abrogating God’s Law is not part of Paul’s illustration, as many godless presumers upon God’s grace wish to make into church doctrine. And if we abrogate the authority of the Spirit of Prophecy we are just as godless and presumptuous.

The modern version of Galatians 3:23-25 in Adventism’s case goes like this:

“The Spirit of Prophecy hath concluded all under sin during this investigative judgment, that the blotting out of sin and sealing by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe. But before the blotting out of sin and sealing faith came, we were kept under the doctrine, correction, reproofs, instructions in righteousness from the Spirit of Prophecy, shut up unto the blotting out of sin and sealing faith which should afterwards be revealed. Wherefore the Spirit of Prophecy was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might have the blotting out of sin and sealing by faith. But after that the blotting out of sin and sealing are come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster. For we will be all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.” Once the blotting out of sin and the sealing have taken place we will keep on obeying and perfectly reproducing the character of Jesus because the Law will be permanently written in our hearts.

“And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ: 

To the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God, 

According to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord: 

In whom we have boldness and access with confidence by the faith of him. 

Wherefore I desire that ye faint not at my tribulations for you, which is your glory. 

For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, 

Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, 

That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man; 

That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, 

May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; 

And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God. 

Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us, 

Unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen. ” (Eph. 3:9-21).

First the scripture calling all the world to be sinners, the condemnation of the whole world that all might become guilty before God. Then kept under that curse and shut away from the faith that would come out of the condemnation.

Eventually, as Paul also described in Romans 7:9ff, during the Jacob wrestling with the Angel, faith rubs off of Christ to Paul, and a final thrust by Christ and His angels (“God does not send messengers to flatter the sinner. He delivers no message of peace to lull the unsanctified into fatal security. He lays heavy burdens upon the conscience of the wrongdoer, and pierces the soul with arrows of conviction. The ministering angels present to him the fearful judgments of God to deepen the sense of need, and prompt the cry, ‘What must I do to be saved?’ Then the hand that has humbled in the dust, lifts up the penitent. The voice that has rebuked sin, and put to shame pride and ambition, inquires with tenderest sympathy, ‘What wilt thou that I shall do unto thee?’” Desire of Ages, p. 76).

Once the pride is utterly laid in the dust of death, and the cry for mercy and blessing ascends to heaven, then Jesus lifts up the penitent and inquires with tenderest sympathy, “What wilt thou that I shall do unto thee?”, then the dove of peace is sent as a witness from Jesus that the Father is satisfied and has received another trusting child of Adam.

Then the Sabbath rest begins. But, this rest is not only far beyond any rest that could come out of the Protestant salvation that abrogates the Schoolmaster, but is even greater than the new covenant’s condemnation of, and atonement for, sin, because the abundance of light for this sealing period of the investigative judgment atonement is greater than the first atonement under the propitiatory death of Christ during the past 1,813 years until His ministry began in the Most Holy. It’s the Sabbath rest that makes the sanctification happen. The rest that remained for the people of God during the Most Holy heavenly sanctuary time is a rest greater in proportion to the greater abundance of condemning light and resulting forgiveness that have been given the world through the Spirit of Prophecy compared to that which came from Moses and the prophets, and even from Paul and the apostles. Therefore the result from the deeper rest from the straight testimony is the most holy justification, i.e. the blotting out of sin, and the most holy sanctification, i.e. the sealing.

This greater condemnation and greater justification and sanctification help explain the final events in the following two statements from Early Writings, page 33, “...at the commencement of the time of trouble, we were filled with the Holy Ghost as we went forth and proclaimed the Sabbath more fully.” The time of trouble statement was clarified on page 85 of the same book, “‘The commencement of that time of trouble,’ here mentioned does not refer to the time when the plagues shall begin to be poured out, but to a short period just before they are poured out, while Christ is in the sanctuary. At that time, while the work of salvation is closing, trouble will be coming on the earth, and the nations will be angry, yet held in check so as not to prevent the work of the third angel. 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.”

This refreshing from the presence of the Lord is the finale of the Sabbath rest given for the final sweetening to the firstfruits that the Lord of the harvest will come for. Don’t you want to be there to say, “Lo, this is our God; we have waited for Him, and He will save us: this is the LORD; we have waited for Him, we will be glad and rejoice in His salvation.” (Isa. 25:9). Our Bridegroom wants a big crowd to hail Him in when He appears. Let’s not let Him down.

Trinitarian Adventists, I beg you, Come back to the truth

Mary as Mediatrix

• FR. WILLIAM SAUNDERS

Why is Mary referred to as the "mediatrix?"

Mary as Mediatrix (catholiceducation.org)

The Second Vatican Council dedicated the eighth chapter of the "Dogmatic Constitution on the Church" to our Blessed Mother. Since our Lord continues His work and saving mission through His body, the Church, the council fathers, particularly under the guidance of Pope Paul VI, decided that it was most appropriate to address the role of our Blessed Mother here because "she is endowed with the high office and dignity of the Mother of the Son of God, and is...the beloved daughter of the Father and the temple of the Holy Spirit " (No. 53). The whole Church honors Mary as a pre-eminent and wholly unique member of the Church, and as a model in faith, hope and charity.

Given this basis, Vatican II here again repeated the titles of Mary as Advocate, Helper, Benefactress and Mediatrix" (No. 62). In its basic definition, a mediator is one who serves as an intermediary between two other parties. Oftentimes, the mediator assists in reconciling differences and bringing the parties to an understanding.

Examining the references to our Blessed Mother in the sacred Scripture, we find this role of "mediator." Mary, recognized by Archangel Gabriel as full of grace, one with the Lord and blessed among all women, conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit and bore Jesus Christ; through her "mediation" Jesus entered this world — true God becoming also true man.

In the Gospel passages in which she appears, our Blessed Mother always presented our Lord to others: the shepherds, the Magi, the priest Simeon, and the wedding party at Cana. She stood at the foot of the cross, sharing in our Lord's sufferings, and at that point He gave her to us as our mother. Finally, Mary was with the Apostles at Pentecost; she who brought Jesus into this world was there for the birth of the Church.

At the end of her life, Mary was assumed body and soul into heaven, the fulfillment of the promises of eternal life of body and soul given to all of the faithful. The "Dogmatic Constitution on the Church" captured her life well in stating, "Thus in a wholly singular way she cooperated by her obedience, faith, hope and burning charity in the work of the Savior in restoring supernatural life to souls" (No. 61).

Therefore we could look at Mary as the Mediatrix in three senses. First, as mother of the Redeemer, she was the intermediary through which the Son of God entered this world to save us from sin.

Second, by the witness of her own faith and thereby of presenting Christ to others, she aided in reconciling sinners to her Son. Mary, sinless yet knowing the suffering caused by sin, continues to call sinners to her Son. Through her example, she inspires all of us to the faith, hope and love that our Lord would want all of us to have.

Finally, because of her assumption and role as mother for all of us, she prays for us, interceding on our behalf just as she did at Cana, asking the Lord to bestow graces to us as He wills.

This title and role of Mediatrix, however, in no way is meant to distract the faithful from Christ or erode His role as the one Mediator (No. 62). Christ's mediation is primary, self-sufficient and absolutely necessary for our salvation, whereas the mediation of our Blessed Mother is secondary and dependent upon Christ. Vatican II stated, "In the words of the Apostle (St. Paul), there is but one mediator: 'for there is but one God and one mediator of God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who gave Himself a redemption for all' (1 Tim 2:5-6). But Mary's function as mother of men in no way obscures or diminishes this unique mediation of Christ, but rather shows its power. But the Blessed Virgin's salutary influence on men originates not in any inner necessity but in the disposition of God. It flows forth from the superabundance of the merits of Christ, rests on His mediation, depends entirely on it, and draws its power from it. It does not hinder in any way the immediate union of the faithful with Christ but on the contrary fosters it" (No. 60)

As we draw closer to Christmas, let us implore our Blessed Mother's prayers. May her example inspire us to strive to be full of grace, seeking forgiveness of sin, and to present Christ to others in our words and deeds. As she held Christ in her womb, may we hold Christ in our hearts. In so doing, we too may become like mediators, leading others to Christ through our own witness.

"The 'Dogmatic Constitution on the Church' captured her life well in stating, 'Thus in a wholly singular way she cooperated by her obedience, faith, hope and burning charity in the work of the Savior in restoring supernatural life to souls' (No. 61)."

Are we Adventists expecting Jesus to do the same for the Adventist as Mary does for the Catholic, to be a Mediator if we come to Him with our own generated need for pardon? Or, are we going to the Schoolmaster, i.e. the Law (like Galatians 3:24 tells us to do), and letting it scourge us with its cat-o-seven tails, i.e. infinite righteousness (scourging us like Hebrews 12:6 says it will do)? I ask this question because the only way we can have true repentance is to be convicted by the Schoolmaster and the prophet for these last days. Then He can bring us to His Son to be justified by a faith that sprang up from our terrifying situation as sure candidates for the second resurrection, lost before the Law without a Saviour from our exceeding sinfulness. Such terrifying conviction of sin is exactly what Paul suffered under in Romans 7. The difference between the remnant and Catholic religions is that with our scourging and justification came the Spirit of His Son by which we cried, "Abba" "Abba". The Spirit of the Son won't come to anyone who is going to Mary. Mary gives her spirit to her votives. And Mary is the Queen of Heaven, as John Paul II proclaimed.

Until 1844 God's Law was expounded to His children by His prophets. And especially so is His Law expounded in these last days in the most solemn and comprehensive way through Ellen White. Thus, only by the Spirit of Prophecy can our minds be fortified by the words of truth and sealed, so that we will be able to stand through the last great crisis. But if we lightly esteem, or worse, entirely disregard, her solemn testimony "upon which the destiny of the [Seventh-day Adventist] church hangs" Early Writings, p. 270, then we are avoiding the conviction from Jesus "whom God hath exalted...to give repentance to Israel, and forgiveness of sins" (Acts 5:31). To come to God without hearing His prophet is to be convicting ourselves and to be under the curse of Proverbs 28:9. Then we are essentially prostrating ourselves at the feet of Mary, the abomination, the other Mediator, and the counterfeit Comforter. (Mary is called the temple of the Holy Spirit and, in Catholicism, is essentially interchangeable with the third person of the Trinity god). We are partaking of the Corpus Christi Mass that does away with the sacrifice of the Lamb of God because the Law is not leading us to His propitiation for exceedingly sinful sin.

And then when the current battle over the identity of the Holy Spirit is ended, and the majority of the SDAs go with the third person of the Catholic Trinity god, then the abomination that "maketh desolate" (Dan. 11:31) (i.e. the abomination that ends the covenants made by the Great Reformation and the Great Disappointment and will ultimately force our Saviour to abandon us to Satan, per Romans 1:18-32) will be set up in the Remnant church, God's holy place on Earth. And, simultaneously, the abomination of desolation will again stand in the heavenly Holy Place ('the sanctuary of strength' spoken of in the same verse, Daniel 11:31) because the SDAs will be presumptuously following the Evangelical churches, placing the abomination in their hearts. And Matthew 24:15 will be fulfilled. This is why John was commanded to "measure...them that worship therein [in the heavenly temple]" (Rev. 11:1). All during the apostolic age to the post-Reformation Protestant church, until the fifth trumpet opened the bottomless pit in 1849 in the middle of the Sabbath conferences, the mighty and holy people had remained faithful. But, beginning with the seven trumpets investigative judgment's five prophetic months, Seventh-day Adventism has been the mighty and holy witnesses that were born again neither by man nor the will of man, but "by My Spirit, saith the Lord". But, now, by turning away from the prophet of the Lord, we have turned away from the God of the mighty and holy people. We are prostrating ourselves before the Queen of heaven.

That “image of jealousy, which provoketh [the Lord God] to jealousy...toward the north” (Eze. 8:5, Isa. 14:13) will be what SDAs worship and fill their hearts with, as they are already doing today with adoring the Trinity and celebration worship. Jesus will be lost to them for the "nicer" third person of the Trinity, which will make Jesus hotly jealous and prepare Him to punish Adventism. [His punishment, as seen in Revelation 11:7-10, is accomplished by the sixth trumpet rampaging, voracious locusts of the Revelation 9 trumpets, which began in 1849 (at the transformation of the Pope Pius IX administration to a Jesuit ultra-montanist Vatican). Before Jesus would be able to return in Revelation 6:17, the seventh seal had yet to come off the mysterious book of God (the book from Revelation 5:1). Therefore, the scene of the Lamb's return, which was in the sixth seal, could not represent the return of Christ, but rather must have represented the warning of His return through William Miller. Christ's second advent must be delayed until His remnant people are sealed in their foreheads. But, part of their sealing, which began in the first trumpet of the seventh seal, was for them to fall asleep in Laodicea (per Revelation 11:8-10), failing to give the 3^rd angel's message and failing to accomplish its special work of purification that Jesus called us to in The Great Controversy, page 425, until we get our offensive punishing and humbling first time of trouble. The work of the Jesuit locusts is to kill, not literally but spiritually, the conscience, conversion, justification, Spirit of prophecy, genuine faith, original SDA doctrine, etc. The great time of trouble will come after we wake up and agonizingly afflict our rebellious souls via the first time of trouble and give the loud cry, per Revelation 11:11-13.]

So, having turned down heaven's message for restoring our original anti-Vatican, counter-Trinitarian present truth of the Father and His only-begotten Son Godhead, here Adventism is today, dead in the aisles of the Advent Movement, and under the rebuke of our God. But, good news yet mercifully wafts down from the Most Holy Place because there are yet a few minutes left to renounce the third throne where Satan sits on the sides of the north. Abandon the pagan Trinity god. Fellow Adventists, please download Nader Mansour’s free book, Putting the Pieces Together (revelation1412.org), and see the truth about the Trinity delusion. Please I beg you brother, sister, go to https://revelation1412.org and learn the real truth that will save you from this great, final deception. If you will read and heed then you will get ready to awaken with the wise virgins who also stood before the Spirit of Prophecy Schoolmaster and who returned to the Whites’, the Andrews’, the Waggoners’, and the other pioneers’ original, biblical, only true God and His precious only-begotten Child. You will awaken with the wise virgins. "Truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with His Son Jesus Christ." (1John 1:3). Prepare for the big spanking! But afterwards we will much more clearly see the need to deny self and to do the special work of purification. Then the finale will end in victory for the saints of Jesus.

“And after three days and an half the Spirit of life from God entered into them, and they stood upon their feet [see Ezekiel 37:1-10]; and great fear fell upon them which saw them. 

And they heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them, Come up hither. [See Ephesians 2:6 and Colossians 1:13] And they ascended up to heaven in a cloud; and their enemies beheld them. 

And the same hour was there a great earthquake, and the tenth part of the city fell, and in the earthquake were slain of men seven thousand: and the remnant were affrighted, and gave glory to the God of heaven [per Revelation 14:7 the multitudes, nations, tongues, and peoples renounce their adoration of the Trinity god. They fear God the Father and give Him glory]. 

The second woe is past; and, behold, the third woe cometh quickly." (Rev. 11:11-14).

However, as stated above, when the Seventh-day Adventist Church unites with the Evangelical churches—not on the false day of worship, but before the false god of worship—then all the daughters of Babylon will be Ecumenized and back with the Mother of harlots, MYSTERY BABYLON THE GREAT, The Great Whore of Revelation 17. The whole time the Adventist church was expecting to flee from Sunday legislation, but the real enemy was a whole different dogma. All along the hidden enemy was the Trinity dogma and its god. So, in the end, only those Adventists and 11^th hour Protestants who will see that the precious truth of the Father and Son Godhead is abundantly clear in scripture (once the Jesuit paradigm comes off their tradition-holding, scaled-over eyes), and that the Spirit of Prophecy 100% lines up with scripture against Trinitarianism, then they can agonize in the shaking, they will go through to the end, and stand when Jesus returns in His Father's glory. They will be fortified to face the great time of trouble. And all the Trinitarian Adventist prophecy students will wonder why they are not being persecuted. It will be because, on the borders of the heavenly land, they are caught in Baalpeor. They have slowly, completely become on board with the Beast, receiving its mark. And it will be too late to redo the investigative judgment! 

The Loud Cry of the Third Angel gospel preaching to the whole world for a witness to all nations, will be finished and the great persecutions will be in full momentum by the time that it dawns on the Seventh-day Adventist church that persecution is falling only on Semi-Arian Sabbatarian Adventists instead of on the whole denomination. And the Trinitarian Adventists won’t be sealed and fortified to endure the last great crisis.

Terrible will be the case of the foolish Trinitarian virgins that enjoyed Baalpeor! They will be absolutely unable to preach the straight truth gospel because they had a single common doctrine with the Beast, and that one commonality was enough to create not only a bond of sympathy with the Church of Rome, but a gushing adoration of her smooth indulgences and devilish absolutions! The Trinitarian Adventists were deceived by the Queen of Heaven, drooling for her lawless grace, so that they were unable to bow low before the Spirit of Prophecy condemnations, and therefore could not courageously stand erect before kings and princes as did John the Baptist.

Oh, how could this be after all of Ellen White's warnings against final deceptions?! How? Why? Because they were deceived into obeying their Trinitarian pastors and conference presidents, all of whom either were fully deceived or Jesuit plants bent on their overthrow, 

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                                      LOSS!!!!!