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Contents
1 - The Counterfeit Revival and The Threefold Union
2 - The National Sunday Law
3 - The False Latter Rain
4 - The Shaking and Sifting
5 - The Seal and the Mark
6 - Perfection of Character
7 - The Judgment Passes to the Living and The Blotting Out of Sin
8 - The Marriage in the Most Holy Place
9 - The Latter Rain
10 - The Loud Cry
11 - The Little Time of Trouble
12 - The Close of Probation
13 - The Great Time of Trouble
14 - The Voice of God
15 - The Second Coming of Christ
16 - The Ascension and Millennium
17 - The Third Advent of Christ
18 - The Eternity Beyond
We urgently need a clearer understanding of coming events. That knowledge can help protect us from a
variety of errors when they are presented.
(NOTE- This series has not only the more common quotes from the Spirit of Prophecy, but also many rare and
even some unpublished material.)
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THE NO-BUY-SELL PROVISO
What about the No-buy-sell penalty? Is it the same as the national Sunday law, or is it issued later as a
separate decree or law? We are not told much about it, and it could be a follow-up piece of legislation to render
even more stringent the provisions and penalties of the national Sunday law (cf. DA 121-122).
(1) The present writer knows of no conclusive instance in which the no-buy-sell stipulation is referred to
as a separate piece of legislation (but see 5T 152, quoted below).
(2) The penalties in the original national Sunday law are so strong that all but the totally principled -in
spite of learning the momentous issues involved -will yield, keep Sunday, and receive the mark.
(3) We are told that the threat of imprisonment and death will be included in the Sunday law itself, and that would be far stronger than the no- buy-sell stipulation.
(4) Thus-whether or not the no-buy-sell proviso is a separate act -does not seem to be significant.
1 - Assets will then be worthless.
Hoarded wealth will soon be worthless. When the decree shall go forth that none shall buy or sell
except they have the mark of the beast, very much means will be of no avail. God calls for us now to do all in
our power to send forth the warning to the world. -Last Day Events, 148:2.
2 - The no-buy-sell restriction will apply to commandment-keepers.
The work must not stop for want of means. More means must be invested in it. Brethren in America, in the
name of my Master I bid you wake upl You that are placing your talents of means in a napkin, and hiding them in
the earth, who are building houses and adding land to land, God calls upon you, Sell that ye have, and give alms.
There Is a time coming when commandment keepers can neither buy nor sell. Make haste to dig out your
buried talents. If God has entrusted you with money, show yourselves faithful to your trust; unwrap you napkin,
and send you talents to the exchangers, that when Christ shall come, He may receive His own with interest. Counsels on Stewardship, 40:1,
3 - The faithful will be penalized for refusing to break Gods law.
When we learn the power of His word, we shall not follow the suggestions of Satan in order to obtain food or
to save our lives. Our only questions will be, What is Gods command? and what His promise? Knowing these,
we shall obey the one, and trust the other.
In the last great conflict of the controversy with Satan those who are loyal to God will see every earthly
support cut off. Because they refuse to break His law In obedience to earthly powers, they will be forbidden to
buy or sell. It will finally be decreed that they shall be put to death. See Revelation 13:11-17. But to the obedient
is given the promise, He shall dwell on high: his place of defense shall be the munitions of rocks: bread shall be
given him; his waters shall be sure. Isaiah 33:16, By this promise the children of God will live. When the earth
shall be wasted with famine, they shall be fed. They shall not be ashamed in the evil time: and in the days of famine they shall be satisfied. Psalm 37:19.Desire of Ages, 121:2-122:0.
4 - Only those with the mark will be permitted to buy and sell.
It is now that our brethren should be cutting down their possessions instead of increasing them. We are
about to move to a better country, even a heavenly. Then let us not be dwellers upon the earth, but be getting
things into as compact a compass as possible.
The time Is coming when we cannot sell at any price. The decree will soon go forth prohibiting men to buy
or sell of any man save him that hath the mark of the beast. We came near having this realized in California a
short time since; but this was only the threatening of the blowing of the four winds. As yet they are held by the
four angels. We are not just ready. There is a work yet to be done, and then the angels will be bidden to go, that
the four winds may blow upon the earth. That will be a decisive time for Gods children, a time of trouble such as
never was since there was a nation. Now is our opportunity to work,-5 Testimonies, 152:3-2.
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THE IMAGE OF THE BEAST
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6. PERFECTION OF CHARACTER
Perfection of character is an aspect in last-day events. This major section should actually be placed prior
to the church-state union and the national Sunday law-for that is when it occurs, but, by locating it here, you will
be better able to compare it with five closely related topics: the seal of God, the passing of the judgment to the
living, the blotting out of sin, the marriage, and the latter rain. Because all six topics are very closely intertwined
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If we are continuing In repentance our sins will be removed. A group in the early 1960s believed that their sins
would be removed when the judgment passed to the living, and, prior to then, they need only pray for
repentance and await the forthcoming removal of their sins in the twinkling of an eye. That concept is a serious
error.
Now it is true that the record of the sins of the faithful will be cancelled when the investigative judgment
passes to their names. But that occurs only because those individuals had, in the strength of Christ, earlier put
away the sin. It is now that we are to put away sin, in preparation for that time when our cases will come up in the
judgment.
Gods Word is very clear on when sin must be removed from our lives. Spirit of Prophecy statements, as
given in two of our earlier tracts, clearly disprove the errors. You Can Overcome [IC-1] clearly reveal that our sins
CAN be eliminated and that it is NOW that we must put them away. The Center of the Crisis [IC-2] show that
they must be put away prior to the sealing, latter rain, close of probation, and second advent of Christ.
In contrast to these errors, in this present study, below, it is quite clear that, in the strength of Christ, our
sins must be put away NOW before the Sunday law crisis begins. This is a daily work, and, frankly, it is a sweet
work. Our happiest hours are when we live in conscious approval by our kind heavenly Father. He is so good to
us, and we are so happy to please the One we love so much. The wicked can denounce us as legalists, but we
are quite content to live close to Jesus, and dwell in the cleft of such a mighty Rock of protection and enabling.
(5) In contrast with the above four errors, which postpone separation from sin to some later time, there is
a fifth error: There are those who claim they have perfection of character and have not sinned for so many months
or years. Some in this group travel from place to place, and teach that all present and future sin can instantly be
put away never to return. All that is necessary to have temptation removed forever from your life is to believe the
speaker standing before you and therefore it is so immediately, that night!
But BEWARE OF SUCH PEOPLE! The Spirit of Prophecy statements are clear that the closer we come
Christ, the more we will sense our inadequacies, frailness, and great need of His enabling grace. We are told that
those who live the closest to God are the last to parade their virtues or tell men they are sinless.
Gods people can draw very close to God as His trusting children, and then be deluded into accepting this
false teaching that they are now perfect. Instantly, Satan enters their mind. We know of instances in which
Christian wives accept this teaching and, within a week, leave their husbands and have sexual relations with the
itinerant perfect man who took over their minds. They were deluded into forsaking Scripture and trust in Christ,
and instead placing their faith in the words of a holy man they had never met before.
Friend, apart from Christ you are nothing! Apart from Him you are lost and a captive of Satan. In Christ,
you are His obedient child. Only through His strength can you depart from a single sin; only by His continual help
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There is no forgiveness of sin after the close of probation. Early Writings, 71, quoted below, is one of the
most solemn warnings ever written to those willing who read it. Yet few of those, to whom these books have been
entrusted, read anything in that book. They are too busy compromising with the world. But the warning has been
given, and we had better heed it. That warning is this: It is now, with the enabling help of Christ, that we are to put
away our sins; later will be too late.
At this point in this set of studies on last day events, we will switch to present tense in our
paragraph introductions to quotations.
1 - There is no intercessor, the restraint removed, and Satan controls the wicked.
When He [Christ] leaves the sanctuary, darkness covers the inhabitants of the earth. In that fearful time
the righteous must live in the sight of a holy God without an Intercessor. The restraint which has been upon the
wicked is removed, and Satan has entire control of the finally impenitent. Gods long-suffering has ended. The
world has rejected His mercy, despised His love. and trampled upon His law. The wicked have passed the
boundary of their probation; the Spirit of God, persistently resisted, has been at last withdrawn. -Great
Controversy.
As Jesus moved out of the most holy place, I heard the tinkling of the bells upon His garment; and as He
left, a cloud of darkness covered the inhabitants of the earth. There was then no mediator between guilty man and
an offended God. While Jesus had been standing between God and guilty man, a restraint was upon the people;
but when He stepped out from between man and the Father, the restraint was removed and Satan had entire
control of the finally impenitent. Early Writings, 280:2.
When Christ shall cease His work as mediator in mans behalf, then this time of trouble will begin.
Then the case of every soul will have been decided, and there will be no atoning blood to cleanse from sin. When
Jesus leaves His position as mans Intercessor before God the solemn announcement is made, He that is unjust,
let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous
still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still (Revelation 22:11). Then the restraining Spirit of God is withdrawn
from the earth. -Patriarchs and Prophets. 201 :2.
2 - The wicked have no shelter, no mediator, and no preparation for the final conflict.
I also saw that many do not realize what they must be In order to live In the sight of the Lord without a
high priest In the sanctuary through the time of trouble. Those who receive the seal of the living God and are
protected in the time of trouble must reflect the image of Jesus fully.
I saw that many were neglecting the preparation so needful and were looking to the time of refreshing
and the latter rain to fit them to stand in the day of the Lord and to live in His sight. Oh, how many I saw in the
time of trouble without a shelter! They had neglected the needful preparation; therefore they could not receive the
refreshing that all must have to fit them to live in the sight of a holy God. Those who refuse to be hewed by the
prophets and fail to purify their souls in obeying the whole truth, and who are willing to believe that their
condition is far better than it really is, will come up to the time of the falling of the plagues, and then see that they
needed to be hewed and squared for the building.
But there will be no time then to do it and no Mediator to plead their cause before the Father. Before
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Angels were all about us as we marched over the sea of glass to the gate of the city. Jesus raised His
mighty, glorious arm, laid hold of the pearly gate, swung it back on its glittering hinges, and said to us, You have
washed your robes in My blood, stood stiffly for My truth, enter in. We all marched in and felt that we had a perfect right in the city.- Early Writings, 17:0.
Jesus threw open the gates of the golden city and led us in. Here we were made welcome, for we had
kept the commandments of God, and had a right to the tree of life. -Early Writings, 35:1.
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