"The Bible is God’s voice speaking to us, just as surely as though we could hear it with our ears. If we realized this, with what awe would we open God’s word, and with what earnestness would we search its precepts! The reading and contemplation of the Scriptures would be regarded as an audience with the Infinite One." 6T, p. 393.
"The scribes of God wrote as they were dictated by the Holy Ghost, having no control of the work themselves. They penned for literal truth, and stern, forbidding facts are revealed for reasons that our finite minds cannot fully comprehend." 4T, p. 9.
Phil. 2:9, 10. At the name of Jesus every knee in heaven and earth shall bow.
Ps. 138:2. The Lord magnifies His word above all His name.
Ps. 119:89. God’s word is forever settled in heaven.
Ps. 12:6; Prov. 30:5, "The words of the Lord are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times." E. 244.
Matt. 4:4, 7, 10. The Savior was fortified against temptation by the written word. He used nothing except what we have within our reach. D.A. 123-126; 5T, p. 434.
1 Peter 1:22-25. The new birth comes by the word of God. P.K. 626.
1 Peter 2:2, 3. As new-born babes we should desire the sincere milk of the word that we may grow thereby.
Ps. 119:9. The word will cleanse the life. C.O.L. 110, 111.
Ps. 119:133. Our steps should be ordered by the word. M.H. 458.
Matt. 4:4. It is as essential as our daily food. 4T, p. 499.
2 Cor. 3:1-3. Unbelievers read the Bible in the lives of God’s people.
1 Peter 3:1. They "may without the word" be converted by the godly lives of earnest Christians.
Heb. 4:12. All the power of God is in His word. E. 254, 255.
Jer. 23:29. "Is not my word like as a fire? saith the Lord; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?" 5T, pp. 24, 25.
Ps. 33:6-9; Heb. 11:1-3. "By the word of the Lord were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of His mouth." E. 125, 126.
Ps. 107:20. There is healing power in the word of God.
Matt. 8:8-13. One word from Christ brought health to the sick. D.A. 316, 317.
Ps. 103:3. God heals all diseases.
Prov. 4:20-22, margin. The words of God are medicine to those who receive them. M.H. 466.
John 1:1. The words that God speaks are synonymous with Himself. 4T, p. 312.
John 1:14. The Word and Christ are synonymous terms. D.A. 390.
John 6:63. The Spirit of God is the same as the Word. C.O.L. 113.
Rom. 10:4-8. The righteousness of Christ is the same as the Word.
1 John 5:7. The Father, the Word (which is Christ), and the Holy Ghost, are one.
1 Tim. 3:16. This union is a mystery that human minds cannot comprehend.
Deut. 10:4, margin. Each one of the commandments is a word, or a complete thought.
Heb. 4:12. God’s word is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
Ps. 119:11. Hid in the heart, it will shield from sin.
Matt. 8:9,10. Great faith is simply to believe, because God speaks. E. 257.
Deut. 8:3. When deprived of every earthly resource, we learn to live upon the word of God. P.K. 428.
1 John 5:4. Faith in the Word as the word of God, carries the transforming power of God to the soul. 4T, pp. 545, 546.
Neh. 8:8. Whether reading alone or before others, pronounce every word distinctly, giving the sense. 6T, pp. 380-383.
Luke 10:26. Jesus laid as much stress on the reading of the Scriptures as on what they contained. G.C. 598.
2 Tim. 2:7. "Consider what I say; and the Lord give thee understanding in all things." E. 189,
Dan. 10:11. "Understand the words that I speak unto thee." G.C. 599,
600.Matt. 28:20. The disciples’ commission was to teach what Christ had commanded.
2 Tim. 4:2. Paul charged Timothy to preach the Word. A.A. 506.
Rev. 22:18; Prov. 30:5, 6. No one is to add to, or take from, the words of God.
God has expressed the thoughts He intended to convey, and we are to study the words and get from them the thoughts He designed to convey when He gave the words. E. 227.
Jer. 23:28. Man’s words are but chaff when compared with the words of God. A.A. 474, 475.
1 Cor. 2:13. The Holy Ghost’s method of teaching is by comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
John 5:39. Christ commands us to search the Scriptures. D.A. 390.
Luke 24:25-27, 44, 45. He appeals to the Scriptures to prove His resurrection.
John 10:34-36. Jesus teaches that the omission of one letter, making the word singular when the prophet had used the plural form, would break the Scriptures.
Gal. 3:16. The apostle Paul holds the same view of the Scriptures.
2 Sam. 23:2. David says that the Lord’s "word was my tongue."
Dan. 10:17, 19. Inspiration is God’s breath, using the vocal organs of the prophet.
2 Tim. 3:16, 17. All Scripture is thus inspired that man may know the way of life.
Rom. 4:16-22. Because Abraham believed the word of God, it was counted unto him for righteousness. P.P. 152, 153.
1 Sam. 15:2, 3, 26-29. Because Saul did not believe the word of God, he lost his kingdom. P.P. 634-636.
1 Sam. 15:22, 23. It is as the sin of witchcraft to think that God’s words can be changed. The entire fifteenth chapter 1 Samuel should be studied carefully. P.P. 680-682.
"OUR duty will only be discerned and appreciated when viewed in the light which shines from the life of Christ." 3T, p. 403.
Job 23:12. We should esteem God’s word above food.
Deut. 6:5; Luke 10:27. Love God with all the heart, soul, mind, and strength. 8T, p. 139.
1 Sam. 12:24; Rom. 12:11. Serve Him with the whole heart.
1 Cor. 6:19, 20. Glorify God in our bodies.
Matt. 6:24; Luke 14:33. Give Him unreserved service.
Mark 8:34. Deny self and take up our cross daily.
Matt.19:21, 28, 29. Give all for Christ.
Rev. 3:16. Want of full consecration condemned.
Ex. 22:29; Prov. 3:9. Honor God with our substance. 4T, pp.76, 77.
1 Thess. 2:12. Walk worthy of God.
1 Cor. 10:31. Do all to God’s glory.
Rom. 13:1. God ordained the nations.
Matt. 22:19-21. Render the nation all the honor that belongs to it.
Rom. 13:1. Be subject to the nation. 1T, pp. 361, 201, 202.
Rom. 13:1, 2. Disrespect for the just claims of the nation is showing disrespect to God.
Rom. 13:3, 4. Nations are ministers under God for good.
Dan. 4:13-18; 10:20; 11:1. Angels watch over the nations. 1T, p. 203.
1 Tim. 2:1-3. Pray for the rulers of the nation.
Prov. 8:15, 16. God establishes national rulers.
Acts 5:29. When nations step over the boundary and enforce laws contrary to God’s requirements, then the Christian should always obey God rather than men.
"THE doctrine of the second advent is the very key-note of the Sacred Scriptures. From the day the first pair turned their sorrowing steps from Eden, the children of faith have waited the coming of the Promised One to break the destroyer’s power and bring them again to the lost Paradise." G.C. 299.
John 14:1-3. Promise to come again. E.W. 286.
Acts 1:9-11. Will come in person as He went. 2T, pp. 194, 195; D.A. 831, 832.
Rev. 1:7. Will come in clouds visible to all.
Matt. 24:30. Come with power and great glory. 2T, p. 41.
Luke 9:26. Three-fold glory,-His own, His Father’s, and the angels’. D.A. 739.
Matt. 17:2. Christ’s glory,-face as the sun, raiment as light. A.A. 33.
Eze. 1:28. The Father’s glory like the rainbow.
Ex. 24:16, 17. God’s glory like devouring fire to the wicked.
Matt. 28:2,3. The glory of one angel.
Matt. 28:4. The effect of that glory.
Matt. 25:31. All the angels come with Christ.
Rev. 5:11. Compare the effect of one with the whole company of angels.
Rev. 6:15-17. Wicked seek to hide.
2 Thess. 1:8, 9, 2:8. Effect upon the wicked.
Jer. 25:30-33. Wicked slain.
Luke 17:26-30. Compared with the time of Noah and Lot. P.P. 90-95, 156-161.
Matt. 28:5. No fear for those who seek Jesus. G.C. 641.
1 Thess. 4:16, 17. The righteous caught up.
1 Cor. 15:51-53. Made immortal. D.A. 320.
Phil. 3:20, 21. Bodies like Christ’s.
Matt.17:2. Faces like the sun.
Matt. 13:43. Shine as the sun in the kingdom of their Father.
Luke 21:34-36. Preparation for His coming. 4T, pp. 306, 307.
Isa. 2:17-21. Earth terribly shaken. E.W. 272.
Rev. 6:14-17. Every mountain and island moved. E.W. 285.
Rev. 16:17-21. Greatest earthquake that has ever been.
Isa. 24:1, 3-6. Earth utterly emptied. E.W. 289, 290.
1 Thess. 4:13-17. Righteous taken.
Jer. 25:33. Wicked slain.
Jer. 4:23-27; Zeph. 1:2,3. Earth wholly desolate.
Rev. 20:1-3. Satan bound; no one to tempt. E.W. 290.
Rev. 20:4-6. Wicked live again after a thousand years.
Rev. 20:7,8. Satan loosed.
Rev. 20:9-10. Wicked gather about the city and are destroyed. C.O.L. 318, 319.
2 Peter 3:7-13. Same fire purified the earth. E.W. 295.
Leave the reader with the thought of the new earth. Avoid controversy about the fate of the wicked.
Ps. 115:16. Earth given to the children of men. P.P. 44-49.
Gen. 1:27, 28. Adam and Eve given dominion.
Gen. 3:1-6. Man fell.
Rom. 6:16. In yielding they lost the dominion. P.P. 55-61.
John 14:30. Satan prince of this world.
Gen 13:14-17. Promise to Abraham.
Rom. 4:13. Abraham heir of the world. P.P. 133.
Acts 7:2-5. Never possessed it in this life.
Heb. 11:8-13. Abraham’s children never possessed it.
Heb. 11:13. They fully expected to receive it.
Eze. 37:12-14. Given after the resurrection. G.C. 674.
Gal. 3:7. Abraham’s children.
Gal. 3:29. Heirs to the earth.
2 Peter 3:7-13. Earth purified.
Isa. 65:17. New earth promised.
Rev. 21:1. A new earth.
Isa. 51:3. Made like Eden.
Isa. 35:1-10. Description of new earth. G.C. 674-676.
Isa. 65:21-25. Employment on the new earth. E.W. 18.
Isa. 33:24. Inhabitants never sick.
Rev. 21:4. No pain nor death. 9T, p. 287.
Isa. 66:22, 23. Regular seasons of worship.
Matt. 5:5. Meek will inherit the earth.
Rev. 21:1, 2. Holy city descends upon the earth. E.W. 18, 291.
Rev. 21:9-11. The city the bride.
Rev. 21:12, 13. Angel gate-keepers.
Rev. 21:21. Gates of pearl.
Rev. 21:18. Wall of jasper.
Rev. 21:18. City of pure gold.
Rev. 21:21. Streets of gold.
Rev. 21:16. Size of the city.
Rev. 21:19, 20. Twelve foundations garnished with all manner of stones.
Rev. 21:23. No need of sun in the city.
Isa. 24:23. Glory of Christ puts sun to shame. G.C. 676.
Isa. 30:26. Sun seven times brighter than now.
Rev. 21:24. Gather in the city from all over the world.
Rev. 22:1, 2. The tree of life with twelve manner of fruits. E.W. 289.
Isa. 66:22, 23. Gather monthly and partake of the fruit.
Rev. 21:8. Fearful and unbelieving never enter.
Rev. 22:14. Obedient enter the city.
Gen. 3:17. The Lord said unto Adam: "Cursed is the ground for thy sake." Adam’s sin affected the earth.
Isa. 24:5. "The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof."
Gen 4:9-11. There must be some remedy to meet the demand, and free the earth from the curse.
Num. 35:33. The only way the land can be freed from the curse is through the offering of the blood of the same race that brought the sin upon the earth. E.W. 126, 127.
Neh. 5:4, 5. Man is powerless to redeem the earth from the curse of sin.
Mark 3:26, 27. Satan is prince of this world. Some one stronger than Satan must arise to destroy him and remove the curse.
Heb. 2:14-16. Christ partook of flesh and blood, became one of the sons of Adam, clothed Himself in humanity that He might destroy the devil. E.W. 150.
Ruth 2:20, margin. Only one "near of kin" has the right to redeem.
Lev. 25:23-25. When God placed Israel in the promised land, He gave him special directions that the land should never be sold. If one became involved, the land should never be sold. If one became involved, the land passed into the hands of another, the one "near of kin" could redeem it. P.P. 534.
Heb. 2:17. Christ partook of the nature of man, became our brother, one "near of kin," that He might deliver us and pay the redemption price for the earth. D.A. 327.
Eph. 1:13, 14. The future inheritance of the saints is called "the purchased possession"; it has been bought by the precious blood of Christ.
Lev. 4:7, 18, 25, 30. In every sin-offering, after the atonement was made for the sinner, the remainder of the blood was poured on the ground at the bottom of the brazen altar, thus signifying that the blood of Christ would cleanse the land from the curse of sin.
Lev. 6:9-11. As the ashes accumulated on the altar, they were carefully collected and carried forth and put in a "clean place."
Ps. 37:20; 73:12-18. The burning of those offerings typified the destruction of all sin and sinners in the lake of fire.
Mal. 4:1-3. When the fire of the last days has destroyed sin and sinners and purified the earth, the saints will walk over the ashes of the wicked on a "clean place,"-the earth made new.
Lev. 6:10. In the type the priest changed his garments before he carried the ashes to the "clean place."
Rev. 19:11-16. Christ lays aside His priestly robes and clothes Himself in kingly garments when He comes to destroy the wicked.
Jer. 9:21. The air is laden with death and disease.
Ex. 15:23. Water is contaminated by the curse of sin.
Gen. 3:17. The land, air, and water all share in the curse of sin.
Lev. 14:1-17. The offering for the cleansing of the leper included the cleansing of the earth, air and sea, from the curse of sin.
Lev. 14:7. The blood of the sacrifice was sprinkled upon the leper, thus typifying the blood of Christ which cleanses man from sin.
Lev. 14:5, 6. Two birds were chosen; one was slain over running water, and the blood was caught in an earthen vessel; thus the blood came in contact with water and earth, typifying the blood of Christ which will purify the earth and sea.
Lev. 14:6,7. The living bird, after being dipped in the blood, was let loose, bearing through the air the blood of cleansing, thus typifying that the blood of Christ will remove every taint of sin and death from the atmosphere, and give us a "new heaven and a new earth."
1 Kings 4:33. The cedar and hyssop are given as the two extremes in vegetation, thus representing all vegetation.
Lev.14:6. The cedar and hyssop were dipped in the blood as a pledge that the blood of Christ would remove the curse of sin from all vegetation and again clothe the earth in Edenic beauty.
Luke 21:25, 26. There shall be signs in the heavens and earth.
Joel 3:15. Sun, moon, and stars darkened. G.C. 306-308.
Rev. 6:12. Sun black as sackcloth.
Isa. 13:10. Sun darkened in its going forth, - morning.
Amos 8:9. Darkest at noon, in a clear sky.
Eze. 32:7. Sun covered with cloud.
Amos 5:8. Night also dark.
Rev. 6:12. Moon like blood.
Matt. 24:29. Immediately after the tribulation of 1260 years.
Mark 13:24. Darkened in the days, but after the tribulation.
Matt. 24:22. Days were shortened.
Tribulation ceased about 1776. The 1260 years of Dan. 7:25 began 538 A. D. and ended 1798. The signs in the sun and moon were to be seen between the end of the tribulation and 1798 A. D. An account of the fulfillment is given in Webster’s Dictionary, 1869 edition, as follows: -
"The Dark Day, May 19, 1780,-so called on account of the remarkable darkness on that day extending all over New England. In some places, persons could not see to read common print in the open air for several hours together. . . The obscuration began at about ten o’clock in the morning, and continued till the middle of the next night, but with differences of degree and duration in different places. For several days previously the wind had been variable, but chiefly from the southwest and northeast. The true cause of this remarkable phenomenon is not known."
Herschel, the astronomer, says:
"The Dark Day in North America was one of those wonderful phenomena of nature which will always be read of with interest, but which philosophy is at a loss to explain."
Rev. 6:13. Stars fell as green fruit. G.C. 333, 334.
An entire chapter in Deven’s "Our First Century," pp. 329-336, is devoted to the description of the great shower of stars of Nov. 13, 1833, which fulfilled this prophecy in every respect.
Luke 21:28-31. The signs began to come to pass in 1780, and now they have come to pass.
Matt. 24:33, margin. Saviour at the door.
Luke 21:32; Matt. 24:34. This generation shall not pass till all these things are fulfilled. D.A. 632.
It must be either the generation addressed by the Saviour or the generation that saw the signs fulfilled.
Luke 11:29. The generation living in Christ’s day had only one sign, and therefore could not sin be the one that would not pass away until all things were fulfilled. D.A. 632, 406.
Matt. 24:35. God’s word can not fail. D.A. 234, 235.
Luke 21:34-36. Need of preparation.
Rev. 6:12. Great earthquake. G.C. 304, 305.
Matt. 24:7,8. Earthquake and pestilence. 8T, p. 252; v. 7, p. 11.
Luke 21:25. Distress of nations.
Matt. 24:7. Nation against nation. 9T, pp. 14-28.
Mark 13:7, 8. Wars and rumors of wars. P.K. 278.
Joel 3:9, 10. Prepare war; beat plowshares into swords.
Joel 3:11, 12. Heathen nations awaken.
Jer. 25:26-28. All kingdoms of the world will be drawn into war.
Isa. 8:9, 10. Trusts and combines broken.
Isa. 8:12-14. Righteous principles will endure.
Dan. 12:4. Knowledge increased; much traveling.
Jas. 5:1-3. Riches heaped together. G.C. 654.
Ps. 49:11. Hope their houses will continue forever.
Jas. 5:4. Laboring man oppressed.
Nahum 2:3. "In the days of His preparation" the chariots have flaming torches,- great headlights.
Nahum 2:5. A description of the conductor of any rapid train of cars, as he recounts his passengers and collects fares.
Nahum 2:4. Automobiles running like lightening and raging in the streets.
Nahum 3:16, 17. One who has lived in the countries where locusts abound and has seen the sun darkened for hours by dense clouds of locusts flying so high they could scarcely be distinguished from the clouds, can readily think the prophet saw the "merchant," "crowned" ones and "captains" soaring in the airplanes "as the locusts."
Isa. 8:19. Spiritualism will increase. E.W. 263.
Rev. 16:13-15. Strongly manifested in powers of earth.
Rev. 16:14. Devil power to work miracles. 9T, p. 16.
2 Cor. 11:14, 15. Power to personate individuals. G.C. 552.
Isa. 8:20. Word of God the supreme test.
Matt. 24:24. False prophets arise.
Luke 17:26-28. Feasting and revelry. 3T, pp. 164, 165.
Isa. 22:12-14. Flesh-eating and drunkenness. 9T, pp. 153-157.
Isa. 66:15-17. Those who do not control their appetites destroyed. 9T, pp. 159, 160.
1 Tim. 4:1. Some depart from the faith.
1 Tim. 4:3. These apostates strive to turn others from God’s original diet. Gen. 1:29.
Matt. 24:48, 49. Evil servants say the Lord delays His coming.
2 Tim. 3:1. The last days perilous times. C.O.L. 228.
2 Tim. 3:2-5. Nineteen sins which predominate in the last days.
Matt. 24:14. In spite of all obstacles the gospel will be preached to all the world.
Matt. 25:15; Dan. 12:9, 10. The prophecies of Daniel will be understood in the last days. P.K. 547.
Joel 3:16. The Lord, the hope of His people in that day.
THERE are three separate positions taken in regard to the advent of Christ; 1st , He comes to judge the world; 2nd , He comes as a thief; 3rd , He comes to take His people to heaven. These is truth in each position, for they do not relate to the same event but to three separate events which take place in their order.
Mal. 3:1-5. Christ will suddenly come to judgment.
Dan. 7:9, 10, 13, 14; Matt. 25:10. Christ went to the marriage when He went to the judgment. G.C. 427.
Rev. 21:9, 10. The New Jerusalem, the bride.
Isa. 62:4. The land is married, becomes the bride.
2 Cor. 11:2; Isa. 54:5; Eph. 5:23. The church is the bride. Christ is married to the city, the land, and the church.
Dan. 7:13, 14. Christ brought before the Father to receive His kingdom. It takes four things to make a kingdom: viz., territory, people, capital, or seat of government, and a king. The giving of the city, people and land to Christ, the King, constitutes the marriage.
Luke 19:12. Christ has gone into a far country to receive a kingdom. 8T, p. 37.
Dan. 7:9, 10. Judgment precedes the marriage, as it must be determined who are the subjects of the kingdom before they are given to Christ. G.C. 428.
Matt. 22:2, 8-14. The judgment is compared to the examination of wedding garments. G.C. 427.
Matt. 25:1-10. All that are ready will have on the wedding garment. C.O.L. 406, 407.
Rev. 19:7, 8. The necessary garment is the white robe of righteousness.
Isa. 61:10. The garments are provided; guests have only to accept them.
Rev. 3:5. They are given to the overcomers.
Matt. 24:42-44. One coming of the Lord is compared to a thief; no one knows when a thief comes until after he has done his work and gone. 6T, p. 129; v. 9, p. 135.
Dan. 7:13, 14; Rev. 22:11, 12. When the judgment closes and Christ receives the kingdom, the decree is given which forever determines the destiny of every soul on earth. But he comes as a thief; none know when they pass the line which forever closes probation. G.C. 491; 2T, pp. 190-193.
Rev. 8:5. Christ then throws down His censer and ceases to be a mediator, or priest. 2T, p. 691.
1 Thess. 5:2. This event is also spoken of as the coming of the day of the Lord.
2 Peter 3:10. During the "day of the Lord," the judgments of God fall upon the earth.
Rev. 14:10. At that time the unmixed wrath of God is poured out.
Hab. 3:2. Previous to this time mercy is mingled with all the judgments of God. E.W. 281.
Ps. 75:7, 8. The wicked drink the dregs.
Heb. 11:16. Christ has prepared the city.
Dan. 7:13, 14. The city and subjects are all ready when the kingdom is given to Christ, but the land is still occupied by the enemy.
Luke 19:15. After having received the kingdom Christ returns to the earth. E.W. 251, 280.
Luke 12:35-37. This is also called returning from the wedding.
Matt. 13:38-41. Having received the kingdom, He comes to set it in order, and remove all trace of sin. E.W. 55.
Rev. 19:16. Christ comes in kingly robes.
Rev. 20:1-9. It takes over 1000 years to destroy the last race of sin from the earth.
Rev. 20:4. During this time the saints are with Christ.
1 Thess. 4:16. When Christ comes for His people, He remains in the clouds. E.W. 286, 287.
Zech. 14:4. At the end of 1000 years His feet will touch on the Mount of Olives, and the work of purifying the earth begins. E.W. 291.
Rev. 21:9, 10. The city descends.
Rev. 20:9. Fire from God devours the wicked. E.W. 294.
2 Peter 3:7-13. The same fire purifies the earth.
2 Peter 3:5-7. As the earth was once cleansed from sin by water, so it will again be cleansed by fire.
Nahum 1:9. Sin arose again after the flood; but after the fires have done their work, it will never rise up again a second time.
Isa. 33:14, 15; Gen. 8:1. As Noah rode in safety on the waters of the flood, so the righteous in the city of God will dwell safely in the midst of the fire. G.C. 673.
Isa. 35:1-10. Earth purified,-clad in wedding garments.
Rev. 19:9. Then will come the marriage supper. E.W. 19.
Luke 12:37. Christ Himself will serve.
Eze. 9:3, 4. The work of placing the mark, or seal, upon God’s children entrusted to one angel.
Rev. 7:1-3. The sealing message is the most important work on earth, and nothing is to retard it.
Eze. 9:11, margin. When the work is completed, the angel returns to God with the words, "I have done as thou hast commanded me." G.C. 613.
Rev. 22:11. Christ then makes the following solemn announcement: "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." G.C. 622.
Isa. 4:3, margin. The saved are "written to life." G.C. 480, 481.
Dan. 12:1; Rev. 3:5. Their names are in the book of life.
Dan. 12:1; 11:20, 21. The term "stand up," indicates that Michael (Christ) at this time ceases to be high priest, and takes His kingdom and is called "King of kings" from that time forward.
1 Tim. 2:5. Christ is the only mediator between God and man; and when he ceases to be priest there is no one to plead for guilty man. E.W. 280.
Rev. 14:8-10. When there is no mediator in the heavens, there is nothing to prevent the wrath of God from being poured out upon the wicked.
Isa. 59:16-18; Lev. 16:23. Christ puts on the garments of vengeance.
Rev. 15:1. The work of pouring out the unmixed wrath of God upon the earth is assigned to seven angels, and is called the seven last plagues.
Rev. 15:8; 1 Tim. 2:5. "The man Christ Jesus" can not enter the temple while the seven last plagues are being poured out upon the earth.
Ex. 8:20-23, margin. The Lord sent ten plagues upon Egypt; the first three plagues fell upon the Israelites as well as upon the Egyptians, but none of the seven last plagues of Egypt fell upon the children of Israel. Ex. 8:22; 9:4-7, 26; 10:23; G.C. 627, 628.
Ps. 91:1-10. Likewise, when the psalmist foretold the effect of the seven last plagues, he said no plague would come nigh the dwelling of the righteous. G.C. 630.
Rev. 16:1. The seven angels pour out the vials of God’s wrath upon the earth. G.C. 628, 629.
Rev. 16:2. The first plague is a "noisome and grievous sore."
Rev. 16:3. The second plague causes the sea to become "as the blood of a dead man."
Rev. 16:4. The third plague causes the rivers and fountains of water to become blood.
Rev. 16:5, 6. After the plagues have affected all the water upon the earth, the angel of the waters declares it to be a righteous judgment.
Rev. 16:7. An angel from heaven responds.
Rev. 16:8. The fourth plague will cause the sun to "scorch men with fire."
Rev. 16:9. These plagues will cause men to blaspheme God; naturally they accuse God’s people, who are sheltered from the plagues as being responsible for the plagues.
Rev. 16:10. The fifth plague is darkness that fills all the kingdom of the beast. C.O.L. 420.
Rev. 16:11. The wicked are still suffering because of the sores that come under the first plague, and they blaspheme God and continue to blame God’s people for all the plagues that have fallen upon them. If they blaspheme God, naturally they will hate His representatives.
Rev. 13:15. Special life and power begins to show itself in the beast and its image.
Rev. 16:12, 16. The sixth plague,-drying up of the river Euphrates.
Isa. 8:7. A river, flowing through a country, is taken as a type of the country; hence, the drying up of the Euphrates would indicate the drying up of the Turkish empire under the sixth plague.
Rev. 16:13. Aside from the people of God, there remain three classes; "the dragon," the power which sought to destroy the child Jesus, or paganism (Rev. 12:1-5); "the beast," which persecuted the church during the 1260 years (the period known in history as the Dark Ages); and "the false prophet," or apostate Protestantism.
Rev. 16:13, 14. Spiritualism takes control of all three of these classes and unites them in a war against God and His people. 5T, p. 451.
Rev. 16:15; Isa. 33:14. Those who are holy and righteous are protected and blessed; while those who are classed with the people of God, but are not really of them at this time, are fully revealed.
Rev. 13:15. The decree goes forth that all who do not worship the beast will be slain. Esther 3:13-15; G.C. 635; E.W. 282.
Rev. 16:16, 17. When all plans are laid to destroy the people of God from the earth, the seventh angel pours out his vial into the air; and God the Father from His throne in the temple says, "It is done." No longer will the powers of the earth be allowed to afflict the people of God. G.C. 636.
Rev. 16:18-20. The voice of God causes a great earthquake. The whole earth heaves and swells like the waves of the sea. E.W. 285.
Dan. 12:2. A partial resurrection takes place at this time. G.C. 637.
Isa. 30:27, 28. God puts "a bridle in the jaws of the people." They are powerless to carry out their murderous schemes, and are afraid of the righteous.
Ex. 11:4-8. It was about midnight that the last plague of Egypt was poured out upon the Egyptians. Before the angel passed through Egypt at midnight, the Israelites were slaves; after midnight the Egyptians bowed down to the Israelites and Israel was free. G.C. 636.
Job 34:20. At midnight "the mighty shall be taken away without hands."
Rev. 16:21; Job 38:22, 23. The great hailstones of the seventh plague fall on every side and destroy the cities of the earth.
Isa. 30:29. While the earth is heaving under the feet of the righteous, their voices ascend to heaven in song.
Psalm 46. This Psalm seems to have been written for this special occasion when mountain chains are sinking and inhabited islands disappearing. It is the song the righteous will sing. G.C. 639.
Job 22:30. Islands inhabited by the righteous will be spared, and the song of trust will also ascend from them.
Isa. 30:30. This song of holy trust touches the heart of God. The again causes His glorious voice to be heard pronouncing a blessing upon those who have kept His law, and announcing the day and hour of Jesus’ coming.
Matt. 24:32-39. After Christ taught that the generation which saw the signs would not pass away before His coming, He said that none but the Father knew the day and hour of Jesus’ coming; then He said, "But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be."
Gen. 6:3-7; 7:1-7. Noah was given a period of 120 years to prepare the ark; but the day when the flood would come was not revealed to him until God called him into the ark and an eternal line of demarcation was placed between Noah and his family and the wicked. Then the Lord said that in seven days the flood would come; even so, after God from heaven says, "It is done," and His people are forever free from the power of the wicked, then He announces the day and hour of Christ’s coming. G.C. 640.
Matt. 24:30. The saints will know the day and hour when the small cloud, the immediate sign of Christ’s coming, will appear. G.C. 640, 641.
Hab. 3:3, 4. Christ rides forth a mighty conqueror. "His glory covers the heavens, and the earth was full of His praise."
Rev. 19:11-14. He is escorted by all the hosts of heaven. Matt. 25:31.
Rev. 19:16. "He hath on His vesture and on His thigh a name written, King of kings, and Lord of lords."
Rev. 6:14-16; Isa. 2:17-21. The wicked seek to hide from His presence. C.O.L. 421.
Isa. 25:9. The righteous rejoice at His coming.
Isa. 26:19. Christ looks upon the graves of the sleeping saints and cries, "Awake and sing, ye that dwell in the dust."
1 Cor. 15:51-55. The righteous dead come forth with the song, "O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is they victory?" The whole earth resounds with the tread of the innumerable multitude of redeemed. The living righteous are changed in a moment from mortal to immortal.
Matt. 24:31; Ps. 50:5. The command is given to the angels, "Gather my saints together unto me."
2 Thess. 2:8; Jer. 25:30-33. The wicked are left dead upon the earth, and remain dead until the resurrection of damnation at the end of 1000 years. John 5:28, 29; Rev. 20:4, 5.
1 Thess. 4:16-18. The living righteous are caught up to meet the Lord in the air and will remain forever with Him.
"Every redeemed one will understand the ministry of angels in his own life. The angel who was his guardian from his earliest moment; the angel who watched his steps, and covered his head in the day of peril; the angel who was with him in the valley of the shadow of death, who marked his resting-place, who was the first to greet him in the resurrection-morning,-what will it be to hold converse with him, and to learn the history of divine interposition in the individual life, of heavenly cooperation in every work for humanity! "All the perplexities of life’s experience will then be made plain. Where it us have appeared only confusion and disappointment, broken purposes and thwarted plans, will be seen a grand, overruling, victorious purpose, a divine harmony." E. 305.
Ps. 8:4, 5; Heb. 2:2, 7. Man was made lower than the angels; therefore, angels are not men.
Heb. 1:7. Angels were made spirits.
1 Cor. 15:44-46. Because they are made spirits, it does not mean that they do not have bodies.
Eze. 10:12, margin. Angels have flesh, backs, and hands. They are real, tangible bodies.
Gen. 19:1-3. They ate and drank with Lot in Sodom.
Gen 3:22-24. They were sent to guard the way of the tree of life before the first man died; therefore, they are an entirely different order of beings from man.
Num. 22:22-27. While they are invisible to the naked eye, yet God has opened the eyes of even animals to see them.
Num. 22:31-35. When God opens the eyes of men they can see the angels.
Rev. 1:1. Angels are sent to communicate God’s messages to prophets.
Rev. 19:10. Could men see and sense the sacredness of these messengers of God, they would worship them.
John 8:44. Satan once abode in the truth, but he lost his first estate.
Jude 6. Other angels fell.
2 Peter 2:4. They sinned.
1 John 3:4. Disobeyed the law of God.
Rev. 12:7-9. Satan and evil angels cast from heaven.
Rev. 13:14; 16:14. Evil angels work miracles.
Job 1:6-19. Have power over the elements. 9T, p. 93.
Ps. 103:20. Good angels excel in strength.
2 Chron. 32:21; 2 Kings 19:35. One loyal angel slew 185,000 men in one night.
Acts 12:23. Herod smitten by an angel.
Ps. 34:7. Good angels protect God’s people. D.A. 142, 143.
Acts 5:19. Open prison doors.
Dan. 6:22. Animals subject to them.
Rev. 14:18. Have power over fire.
Rev. 21:12. Gate keepers. E.W. 39, 37.
Acts 8:26. They direct God’s people.
Heb. 1:13, 14. All minister to humanity. 3T, pp. 381, 516.
Matt. 18:10. Each child of God has a guardian angel. 3T, p. 364.
Isa. 37:14-36; Dan. 9:20-23. Answer prayer. D.A. 112.
Dan. 4:13-17; 11:1; 10:20. Control the affairs of nations. E. 305.
Ex. 23:20-22. Went before Israel in the wilderness.
Acts 1:9-11. Escorted Jesus into heaven. T, v. 6, p. 309.
Gen. 18:1-3; Heb. 13:2. Entertained on earth. 6T, p. 342; E. 304.
Matt. 13:39; Rev. 14:15-20. Reap the harvest of the earth.
Matt. 24:31. Gather the righteous.
Dan. 7:9, 10. Present when the judgment opened.
Acts 10:3, 4. When we pray and whether we give alms or not. 3T, pp. 363, 364.
Acts 10:5. Both our given and surname.
Acts 10:6. Where we lodge and our occupation.
Judges 13:3-14. How to instruct parents in training their children. D.A. 517.
1 Kings 19:5-8. How to prepare food.
2 Kings 1:2, 3. Whether we inquire of spiritualist mediums or not. D.A. 259.
2 Chron. 32:21. The rank or office men fill.
Gen. 16:7, 8. Names of servants and mistresses.
Eccl. 5:6. Take notice of words spoken. 3T, p. 312, v. 5, p. 59.
Luke 1:19. Angels stand in the presence of God.
Matt. 18:10. Behold God’s face.
Eze. 1:14. More swiftly like lightening.
Rev. 5:11. More than 100,000,000.
Ps. 68:17. God’s chariots composed of angels.
Isa. 6:2, 6. Seraphim have their work.
Ex. 25:16-18. The cherubim were at either end of the mercy-seat.
Ps. 80:1. God dwells between the cherubim.
Eze. 28:14. Before his fall Satan was a covering cherub.
Dan. 10:21. Gabriel is the angel of prophecy.
Rev. 14:18. One angel has power over fire.
Rev. 16:5. There is an angel of the waters.
Rev. 2:1, 8, 12, 18; 3:1, 7, 14. Seven angels have charge of the messages to the seven churches.
Rev. 7:1. Four angels control war.
Rev. 7:2; Eze. 9:2-4. Angel in charge of the sealing work.
Rev. 8:2. Seven angels in charge of the sounding of the seven trumpets.
Rev. 10:1-10. A mighty angel opened the little prophetic book.
Rev. 14:6-12. The last warning messages are in charge of three angels.
Rev. 15:1. Seven angels pour out the last plagues.
Rev. 18:1-3. The angel of the loud cry.
Matt. 25:31; Rev. 19:14. The angels are perfectly organized, appear like armies as they come with Christ.
Rev. 19:17. One angel calls the fowls to the great supper.
Rev. 20:1. To another is given the work of binding Satan.
Luke 1:19. Stands in presence of God. D.A. 98, 99.
Dan. 9:21. Appeared in vision to Daniel.
Dan. 10:21. There is none but Michael, or Christ, that unite with Gabriel in revealing prophecy.
Rev. 1:1-3. Four steps in giving prophecy; 1st , God; 2nd , Christ; 3rd , angel; 4th , the prophet. D.A. 234.
Rev. 22:16, 6. Christ’s own angel.
Luke 22:43; Matt. 28:2. Strengthened Him in the garden, and called Him from the grave. D.A. 693, 779, 780.
Dan. 8:15-25; 9:21-26. Not only reveals prophecy, but explains it to the prophets.
Dan. 10:20; 11:1. Also influences individuals to work for the fulfillment of the prophecy. P.K. 571, 572.
Isa. 7:14; Luke 1:26-38. When the time came for the fulfillment of the prophecy, Gabriel announced the fact to one who should fulfill it.
Luke 1:5-20. Comes from the presence of God to the one interested in the fulfillment of prophecy.
Gen. 24:1-48. "His angel" goes before the one interested in carrying out the plan of God.
Rev. 22:9. The fellow servant of John, the prophets, and those who keep the sayings of Revelation. Gabriel is the servant and will go before the individual who will give his life to assist in fulfilling the prophecies of Revelation.
"Such subjects as the sanctuary, in connection with the 2300 days, the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus, are perfectly calculated to explain the past Advent movement and show what our present position is, establish the faith of the doubting, and give certainty to the glorious future. These, I have frequently seen, were the principal subjects on which the messengers should dwell." E.W. 63.
Heb. 9:1. Earthly sanctuary. P.P. 343.
Ex. 25:9, 40, margin; 1 Chron. 28:19. Made after divine models. P.P. 313, 343, 349.
Heb. 8:1-5. Earthly shadow of heavenly. P.P. 343.
Heb. 9:1-3. Two apartments in earthly. P.P. 348.
Heb. 9:24. Two apartments in heavenly. E.W. 32, 251, 252; G.C. 414, 415.
Heb. 9:2; Ex. 25:37. Seven lamps in earthly. G.C. 412.
Rev. 4:5. Seven lamps of fire in heavenly. E.W. 251.
Ex. 30:1-6. Golden altar in earthly sanctuary. P.P. 348.
Rev. 8:1-4. Golden altar in heavenly. 8T, p. 177.
Ex. 30:7, 8. Incense burned on earthly altar. G.C. 412.
Rev. 8:3, 4. Incense offered on heavenly. P.P. 353, 367; 8T, 178.
Lev. 16:12, 13. Incense burned in censer in earthly.
Rev. 8:5. Incense burned in heavenly censer. E.W. 32, 256; 8T, p. 178.
Ex. 40:22, 23. Table or showbread. P.P. 354; E.W. 251.
Heb. 9:3-5; Ex. 25:10-22. Ark in second apartment of earthly. P.P. 348, 349.
Rev. 11:19. Ark in heavenly sanctuary. E.W. 32; G.C. 415.
Deut. 10:1-5; Ex. 25:16. The ark in earthly sanctuary contained the law of God. E.W. 32, 33.
Ex. 31:18; 25:16. Law of God called the testimony.
Rev. 11:19. Heavenly ark called the ark of His testament.
Heb. 7:28; 5:1. Priests from among the people.
Heb. 4:14, 15; 2:16-18. Our High Priest taken from humanity. D.A. 296, 442.
Heb. 5:4. Priests did not appoint themselves.
Heb. 5:5, 6. Christ appointed by the Father. D.A. 757.
Heb. 5:1. Priests offered gifts and sacrifices for sin.
Heb. 9:26-28. Christ put away sin by offering Himself. D.A. 25.
Rev. 11:19; Ps. 102:19. Heavenly temple. G.C. 489.
Heb. 6:20; 8:1, 2. Jesus priest in heavenly temple. E.W. 48.
Heb. 4:14, 15. We are the congregation. 6T, p. 366; E.W. 55.
Heb. 8:1-5. Service in earthly a shadow of heavenly. G.C. 420.
Heb. 9:26; Lev. 4:27-31; 16:30. Object of service was to put away sin. P.K. 684, 685.
Heb. 9:22. Without shedding of blood there is no remission of sin. E.W. 149.
Matt. 26:28. Christ’s blood shed for the remission of sins. A.A. 552, 553.
Lev. 4:27, 28. Sinner brought a lamb.
Lev. 4:29; Num. 5:6, 7. Sin confessed over the lamb.
Lev. 4:5, 6. Blood presented before the Lord.
Lev. 10:16-18; 6:30. Flesh eaten by priest before the Lord when the blood was not taken into the sanctuary. Either blood or flesh of every sin-offering was taken into the sanctuary. This was a type of the real work. G.C. 418.
John 1:29. Christ is the real Lamb of God. A.A. 33.
1 Peter 2:24. Christ bore our sins in His own body, or flesh. D.A. 751.
Heb. 9:12. Christ entered the heavenly temple with His own blood. E.W. 38, 253; G.C. 430.
Heb. 9:6. This service continued throughout the year. G.C. 421, 430.
All of this service was an object-lesson to lift up the great Sin-bearer before the people.
Heb. 9:7. Service in the second apartment only one day in the year. P.P. 352, 355.
Lev. 16:2, 29, 30. Atonement made on the tenth day of the seventh month. All sin put away on that day.
Lev. 16:2-4, 11-14. Preparation of the priest for service.
Lev. 16:7,8. Lots cast upon the two goats. G.C. 419.
Lev. 16:9, 15-19. The Lord’s goat offered as a sin-offering. P.P. 355, 356.
Num 29:7-11. Sin-offering offered on the day of atonement besides the sin-offering of atonement.
Lev. 16:18-19. The last work performed by the priest in the sanctuary was at the altar in the first apartment. E.W. 280, 281.
Lev. 16:20. When the priest comes out from the sanctuary, in type, he bears all the confessed sins of the people. There is then an end of all reconciling. 2T, p. 691; E.W. 280; G.C. 490, 491.
Lev. 16:10, 21. The sins all laid upon head of scapegoat. G.C. 485.
Ps. 7:16. David understood that the sins would come down upon the head of the evil one.
Lev. 16:22. The goat was led into the wilderness. P.P. 355.
Rev. 22:11, 12. When our High Priest leaves the sanctuary to come into the earthly court, every case will have been decided for eternity. E.W. 36, 279, 280.
Rev. 20:1-3. Satan, the antitypical scapegoat, receives the sins of the righteous, and is left upon the desolate earth. G.C. 658; E.W. 178, 280, 281.
The Lamb of God that taketh away the sins of the world should be made the central though of every text.
Lev. 16:29, 30. The sanctuary cleansed from the confessed sins of the people on the day of atonement. G.C. 480.
Heb. 9:23. The heavenly sanctuary will be cleansed. G.C. 352.
Jer. 2:22. Every sin is written in heaven. G.C. 482.
Acts 3:19-21. The sins of the righteous will all be blotted out. Every case will be decided before the sins are blotted out; this will be the cleansing of the heavenly sanctuary. G.C. 352, 611, 612.
1 Thess. 4:16, 17. Before Christ comes, a line is drawn between the righteous and the wicked. 2T, p. 355.
Dan. 7:9-11. Daniel was shown earthly powers carrying forward their work while the judgment was in session in heaven.
Rev. 11:18, 19. John saw the nations angry during the judgment. L.S. 413, 421.
Acts 24:25. The judgment was still in the future in Paul’s day; therefore, it must take place between Paul’s day and the second coming of Christ.
Acts 17:31. Judgment appointed. Christ’s resurrection a pledge of judgment.
Rev. 14:6, 7. An angel announces the opening of the judgment.
Rev. 14:8-14. There were only two other messages to be given to the world. The work of cleansing the earthly sanctuary was not seen by the people; they accepted it by faith. The real work of judgment is in heaven. We follow our Priest by faith. P.P. 353; D.A. 166.
Rom. 2:12, 13; Eccl. 12:13, 14; Jas. 2:12; Ps. 96:13. The law of God is the standard in the judgment. G.C. 482.
Dan 7:10. The judgment is an examination of books. G.C. 480.
Rev. 20:12. The people are judged by what is written in the books. G.C. 487.
Rom 14:11, 12. Everyone, "shall give an account of himself to God." 4T, pp. 384-387.
Acts 24:25. The preaching of the judgment and temperance caused kings to tremble.
Eccl. 12:14; Luke 8:17. Every secret thing brought to light. G.C. 482.
1 Cor. 4:5. Counsels and thoughts of the heart. E.W. 58.
1 Sam. 2:3. Every action weighed. P.K. 639.
Matt. 12:36. All idle words. D.A. 323.
Rev. 20:13. Judged according to works. 6T, pp. 310, 311.
Jer. 2:22. Every sin written. G.C. 482.
Dan. 7:9, 10; Rev. 20:12. Judged out of the things written in the books. C.O.L. 310.
1 Peter 4:17. Judgment begins with the righteous. G.C. 480.
Luke 20:35; 1 Thess. 4:16, 17. Those "accounted worthy" come up in the first resurrection. G.C. 482.
Luke 21:34-36. The living righteous will also be accounted worthy. G.C. 483; 6T, p. 130.
Eccl. 7:27. To "account" is to consider one by one. G.C. 490.
1 Cor. 4:3-5. We are not to judge one another, but keep in mind the judgment of God. 8T, p. 85; v. 9, pp. 185, 186.
1 Kings. 8:39. God only know the heart. D.A. 58.
1 Cor. 11:31. If we "judge ourselves, we should not be judged." D.A. 314.
1 Cor. 11:32. Chastening is to prepare us for the judgment. E.W. 67.
Rev. 3:5. Names of the righteous retained in the book of life. G.C. 490.
Dan. 7:10; Rev. 20:12. "The books were opened," showing there were more than one. E.W. 52.
Mal. 3:16-18. The book of remembrance records thoughts and victories gained. D.A. 637; G.C. 481.
Ps. 56:8. Our wanderings and tears of repentance are recorded in God’s book. G.C. 481.
Ps. 87:4-6. Place of birth and influences that go to make up our characters.
Ps. 139:15, 16. The members of our body are written in the Lord’s book.
Rom. 2:1-5. A man’s life is written so accurately that if he professes one thing and lives another, he treasurers up wrath against the day or wrath. G.C. 487.
Luke 10:19, 20. To be enrolled in the book of life is the highest honor given mortals. C.O.L. 299.
Phil. 4:3. Names of faithful workers recorded. D.A. 313, 638.
Ex. 32:33. Names of those who cling to sin will be removed. G.C. 483, 486.
Rev. 3:5. Names of the faithful retained. G.C. 484.
Rev. 13:8; 17:8. Wicked are not recorded. G.C. 483.
Rev. 20:15. None will be saved whose names are not recorded in the book of life. Isa. 4:3, margin; Ps. 69:28; Heb. 12:23; Dan. 12:1.
Jer. 17:13. Those who forsake God are written in the earth, or book of death. E.W. 52; G.C. 661.
Hosea 13:12; Job 14:17. Sins sealed up.
Deut. 32:32-36. Sins of the wicked are all laid up in store until the day of punishment. G.C. 666.
Ps. 1:5. Wicked will not stand in the judgment.
1 John 3:4. The law detects the sinner. G.C. 639.
1 Tim. 5:24-25. Unconfessed sins follow after and condemn the individual. C.O.L. 294.
Jude 6, 7. Past punishments illustrate the future. G.C. 22.
Matt. 11:20-24. Wicked cities will answer in judgment.
2 Peter 2:4. Fallen angels reserved for judgment. E.W. 291.
2 Peter 2:9. Unjust reserved for judgment.
1 Cor. 6:2, 3. Saints assist in judging the wicked. G.C. 661; E.W. 54, 291.
Rev. 20:1-4. This judgment is during the 1000 years. E.W. 53.
Rev. 20:5-7. At end of thousand years wicked are raised. G.C. 661.
Ps. 2:7-9. They refused a mediator, now they meet a judge. D.A. 210; E.W.292.
Ps. 149:5-9. The saints take part in the execution of the judgment. E.W. 52.
Mal. 4:1-3. Wicked are destroyed by fire. G.C. 672, 673.
Rev. 20:13. All judged by their works.
Rev. 20:12. All judged by the record in the books.
Luke 12:47, 48. There will be degrees of punishment. G.C. 673; E.W. 294, 295.
Eze. 28:17-19. Satan himself reduced to ashes. G.C. 673.
Rev. 21:1-5. A new earth after sin is destroyed. G.C. 675, 676.
The time of the opening of the judgment is given in the Bible study on the 2300 days, page 45.
Dan. 8:1. The third year of Belshazzar, the last year of Babylon.
Dan. 8:2. Daniel in Elam when given the vision.
Dan. 8:3-14. Symbols given, -a ram, a rough goat, a little horn, and the 2300 days.
Dan 8:15. Daniel sought for the meaning. P.K. 553.
Dan. 8:16. Gabriel commissioned to make him understand.
Dan. 8:20. Ram represented Medo-Persia.
Dan. 8:21. Goat a symbol of Greece.
Dan. 8:6, 7. Overthrow of Grecia by Medo-Persia.
Dan. 8:8, 22; 11:4. Grecia divided into four divisions.
Dan. 8:24, 25. The power following Grecia, which will be understood at the time of the end. Verse 17.
Dan. 8:26, 27. Gabriel began to explain the time mentioned in the 14th verse, but Daniel fainted and could not understand. P.K. 554.
Dan. 9:1. The first year of Medo-Persia’s universal reign. Since the vision of the 8th chapter Babylon had been overthrown.
Dan. 9:2. Daniel studied Jeremiah’s prophecy. Jer. 25:11, 12; 29:10; P.K. 554, 555.
Dan. 9:3-19. Daniel’s prayer reveals fear of lengthened captivity.
Dan. 9;20, 21. Gabriel appeared while Daniel was praying. P.K. 556.
Dan. 9:22, 23. Came to give understanding. Daniel told to consider the vision.
Dan. 9:24. Gabriel begins where he left off in Dan. 8:26, and explains the 2300 days. P.K. 556.
Dan. 9:25. The period begins with the command to restore and build Jerusalem.
Ezra 6:14. It took three kings to complete the decree. G.C. 326, 327.
Ezra 1:1-4. The first part given by Cyrus 536 B.C. P.K. 558-578.
Ezra 6:1-12. The second part given by Darius, the Persian. P.K. 578-609.
Ezra 7:11-27. Artaxerxes completed the decree in 457 B.C. It required 79 years to complete the decree. P.K. 610-617.
Ezra 7:9. Nearly half of the year passed before the decree reached Jerusalem. It was 456 1-2 before the decree went into effect. G.C. 327, 398, 399.
Dan. 9:25. The 2300 days began when the decree went in to effect 456 B.C.; 70 weeks, or 490 years, were determined, or cut off for the Jews. The six definite things mentioned were all fulfilled by Christ within the 70 weeks. His death sealed the vision. He was anointed at His baptism, the heavenly sanctuary was anointed before Christ entered it with His blood to fulfill the type. Ex. 40:9-11.
Dan. 9:25. The 70 weeks were divided into seven, sixty-two, and one week. P.K. 698-700.
Num. 14:34; Eze. 4:6, margin. A day of prophetic time equals a year.
Gen. 29:27. Seven years equal a week of symbolic time.
Dan. 9:25. Seven weeks and 62 weeks, or 483 years, reached to Messiah.
Subtracting 456 years from 483, leaves 27 A.D., the date for the Messiah. G.C. 327, 328.
John 1:41, margin. The Hebrew word Messiah in English is anointed; the 483 years reached to the Anointed One.
Acts 10:38. Jesus was anointed with the Holy Ghost.
Luke 3:21, 22, margin. This anointing took place at the baptism of Christ, A.D. 27. D.A. 111, 112.
Mark 1:9-15. Jesus, as He entered upon His ministry, announced that "the time was fulfilled." G.C. 327.
Dan. 9:26, 27. In the midst of the 70th week, Messiah "was to be cut off," and "cause the sacrifice to cease."
Dan. 9:27. He was to confirm the covenant for one week, and yet be cut off in the midst of the week. D.A. 233.
Heb. 2:3. The Saviour taught the first part of the week, and His followers the last part.
Luke 24:47. According to Christ’s instruction, the disciples confined their labors to Jerusalem for 3 1-2 years after the crucifixion. G.C. 327.
Acts 8:1-4. After the rejection of the gospel and the stoning of Stephen, the disciples went everywhere preaching the word. This was A.D. 34, the end of the 70 weeks. The gospel was no longer confined to the Jews. Seventy weeks, or 490 years, taken from the 2300 days, leaves 1810 years. The 70 weeks ended A.D. 34; 1810 added to A.D. 34 brings us to the autumn of 1844.
Dan. 8:14. In the autumn of 1844, at the end of the 2300 days, the cleansing of the heavenly sanctuary, or the investigative judgment, began in the heavenly sanctuary. G.C. 486.
Heb. 8:1. Christ, our High Priest, at the right hand of the throne of God. M.H. 71.
Heb. 8:2. He ministers in the heavenly sanctuary. A.A. 552, 553.
Ex. 25:40, margin. Earthly sanctuary pattern of the heavenly.
Heb. 8:1-5. The service of earthly priests an example or shadow of Christ’s work in heaven. By studying of earthly priests, we learn of Christ’s work. L.S. 278.
Heb. 9:6. There was a continual service in the first apartment of the earthly sanctuary. G.C. 418.
1 Chron. 6:49. The high priest officiated at the brazen altar in the court at the golden altar in first apartment, and did all the work of the place, most holy, or second apartment.
Ex. 30:7, 8. Aaron, the high priest, officiated twice every day, morning and evening, in the first apartment.
Ex. 30:8. It was a perpetual incense; hence, was replenished on the day of atonement the same as other days. P.P. 348.
Ex. 29:42, 43. God’s visible presence was seen sometimes at the door of the first apartment, or tabernacle of the congregation.
Ex. 30:36; Num. 17:4; Ex. 40:34, 36. He also met with them in the second apartment.
Rev. 1:11-13. John saw Christ officiating in the first apartment of the heavenly sanctuary. A.A. 585, 586.
Rev. 8:3, 4. He also saw the prayers and incense being offered on the golden altar in the first apartment of the heavenly sanctuary. P.P. 356.
Rev. 4:2-5. John was shown the throne of God in heaven with the seven lamps of fire before it, and the seats of the twenty-four elders round about it. This was the first apartment.
1 Chron. 24:1-31. The common priests of the earthly priesthood were divided into twenty-four courses. This custom was followed to the time of Christ. Luke 1:8. There were twenty-four chief men sometimes called governors of the sanctuary. 1 Chron. 24:4. The twenty-four elders that had been redeemed from the earth (Rev. 5:8-10) could not be allowed to enter the most holy place; hence, the throne as seen by John was in the first apartment of the heavenly sanctuary. D.A. 93.
Rev. 5:1-10. With Christ in the midst of the throne a service was held by those redeemed from the earth; hence, it must have been in the first apartment.
Heb. 9:7. The high priest went alone into the second apartment.
Lev. 16:17. There was no man in the tabernacle of the congregation, or first apartment, when the high priest went in to officiate on the day of atonement.
Lev. 16;29, 30. The sanctuary was cleansed on the tenth day of the seventh month from all the sins that were "before the Lord," all that had been confessed.
During the year, the service had been confined to the first apartment: it was not carried into the second apartment. The high priest alone officiated in both apartments that day. The incense on the altar had to be kept burning, and if necessary, sin offerings were offered. Num. 29:7-11.
Lev. 16:2. God promised to meet with Aaron, the high priest, in the second apartment.
Dan. 7:9, 10. Daniel saw the thrones placed, or change positions, and the Father take His seat upon His throne for judgment. His attention was attracted to the "wheels of burning fire" as the throne was moved from the 1st to the 2nd apartment of the heavenly sanctuary. E.W. 54, 55.
Eze. 1:1-27; 10:1-20. God’s throne is a movable throne.
Dan 7:13, 14. Daniel beheld Christ borne in before the Father by the angels of God as our Advocate in the judgment. E.W. 55; G.C. 480.
1 Tim. 2:5. There is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus. G.C. 482.
Dan. 7:9-10. God the Father sits as judge, the angels are witnesses, the books with their record of every thought and intent of the heart, as well as of every word and action, represent the individual to be judged. Christ is the mediator.
Acts 3:19-21. The sins of all who have repented of their sins will be blotted out, thus cleansing the heavenly sanctuary of all the sins of the righteous. P.P. 357, 358.
Dan. 8:14. Daniel was shown that the sanctuary would be cleansed at the end of the 2300 days, or in the autumn of 1844.
Lev. 16:29, 30. On the tenth day of the seventh Jewish year, the confessed sins of the righteous were cleansed from the sanctuary.
Isa. 59:2. Sin separates God from His people. P.K. 323.
Lev. 16:16, 33. Atonement means at-one-ment. The atonement was for both apartments of the sanctuary and the people.
Lev. 16:7-19. Cleansed with blood.
Lev. 16:18, 19. Last work at the golden altar. E.W. 280, 281.
Lev. 16:20; Rev. 20:11, 12. When the high priest leaves the sanctuary, the work of reconciling, or atonement for the people, is complete. E.W. 281.
2 Cor. 5:18-21. Christ removes the sins from the people, thus making them atone- ment with God. D.A. 116.
Lev. 16:8, margin. Scapegoat is Azazel. The Syr. Trans. Has Azazel the "angel [strong one] who revolted." The oldest opinions of the Hebrews and Christians are that Azazel is the name of the devil.
Lev. 16:20-22. When the high priest had completed the work of atonement for the people, the sins were placed on Azazel.
Rev. 20:1-3. After every case is decided for eternity, Satan, the antitype, with the sins of the righteous placed upon him, is left on the desolate earth.
Lev. 16:23. High priest changed his garments.
Lev. 16:24-28. Clad in other garments, he proceeded to cleanse the court. At the end of the day nothing but ashes remained of sin.
Matt. 13:40-42. At the end of the world, Christ will cleanse the earth, the antitypical court, from all sin. G.C. 673.
Rev. 19:14-16. When he comes to do that work, He wears kingly, not priestly, garments. E.W. 286, 36.
Isa. 63:1-4. They are garments of vengeance.
Mal. 4:1-3. When the antitypical day of atonement is complete, there is nothing but ashes remaining of sin and sinners. E.W. 295.
Isa. 65:17, 18. Every trace of sin will be wiped from the face of the earth.
John 14:27. Christ left His peace on earth. D.A. 672.
John 16:33. Peace in tribulation. D.A. 335.
Lev. 3:1, 2, 8. Confessed sin over offering.
Isa. 57:21. No peace with a sinful heart. D.A. 336, 337.
Lev. 3:3-5; 7:30. The one desiring peace separated the fat.
Ps. 37:20. Fat represented sin.
2 Cor. 13:5. Must examine our hearts if we desire peace. D.A. 304, 305.
Lev. 7:32, 33. Shoulder given to the priest that offered the blood.
1 John 1:7. Christ’s blood cleanses us.
Isa. 9:6. Government of all that concerns us must be laid on the shoulder of the Prince of Peace. D.A. 330, 331.
Isa. 22:22. The key to every path before us must be laid on Christ’s shoulder.
Lev. 7:30, 31. Breast given the priest.
Isa. 40:11. Carries the lambs in His bosom.
John 13:23-25. John leaned on Christ’s breast. Perfect open communion between the soul and Christ. A.A. 85, 86.
Deut. 18:3. Maw, or stomach, given priest.
Num. 11:4-10. No peace with appetite uncontrolled. P.P. 377, 378.
1 Cor.10:6; Dan. 1:8. Peace with controlled appetite. P.K. 482, 483.
Deut. 18:3. Cheeks given priest.
Isa. 50:6; Matt. 26:67. Christ’s cheeks betrayed neither shame nor anger. Peace within gives victory. D.A. 734, 735.
Phil. 4:7. The peace of God which passeth understanding obtained only by surrender to Christ. A.A. 563, 564.
Col. 3:15; Ps. 119:165. Peace must rule the life.
2 Peter 3:14. "Be diligent that ye may be found of Him in peace."
Ex. 30:1-6. Golden altar before the vail.
Ex. 30:7, 8. Perpetual incense renewed morning and evening. The high priest was to offer the incense.
Ex. 30:34-38. Special incense which could not be used for any other purpose.
Ex. 30:9. No strange incense could be offered.
Heb. 8:5. A shadow of heavenly service.
Rev. 8:2-5. John saw the heavenly altar.
Rev. 8:3. An angel officiated.
Jude 9:1 Thess. 4:16; John 5:28, 29. Michael, the archangel, is Christ, our High Priest.
Rev. 8:3, 4, margin. Incense is added to the prayers. P.P. 359.
John 14:13, 14. The name, or righteous character, of Christ makes our prayers acceptable. 4T, pp.124, 528.
1 John 1:9; Isa. 61:10. Pardoned one clothed with righteous. 4T, p. 124.
Isa. 64:6. Our righteousness is strange incense.
Ex. 30:7, 8; Heb. 9:6. Incense was perpetual; hence, offered on day of atonement.
Rev. 8:3. Incense added to the prayers of all saints.
Rev. 5:8, margin. All prayers not answered at once. After they are accepted by the incense being added, they are put in golden vials to be answered in God’s own time.
Rev. 14:6. The angel having the everlasting gospel is the first of a series of three angels. L.S. 278.
Rev. 14:7. The burden of the message is the hour of God’s "judgment is come." Men are to fear God and give glory to Him. G.C. 355, 356.
Acts 24:25. This message could not have been given in Paul’s day, for the judgment was then future.
2 Tim. 4:1. The day of judgment is connected with the coming of Christ.
Luke 21:36; 20:35. The righteous are "accounted worthy" before Christ comes.
Rev. 22:12. Christ brings His reward with Him.
Rev. 10:1-10. This message is based upon the contents of a "little book," which announces that time should be no longer.
Rev.10:11. As this is followed by another world-wide message, it is not real time, but prophetic time, that ends.
Dan. 8:14. Daniel is the only "little book" that gives the 2300 days,-the longest prophetic period in the Bible, which ended in 1844.
Rev. 10:1-3. The proclamation of this message is compared to the roar of a lion.
Lev. 23:23-32. Ten days before the earthly sanctuary was cleansed, the warning was sounded through all Israel. About ten years before 1844, Bible students began to study the prophetic period of 2300 days, and commenced to warn the world, telling them that the judgment day was near. Joseph Wolfe preached it in Asia; Edward Irving and more than three hundred ministers proclaimed the same message in Europe; while Wm. Miller and his co-laborers declared the message in America. G.C. 357-370.
Zech. 9:9; Luke 19:35-40. The disciples fulfilled prophecy at the time of Christ’s triumphal entry into Jerusalem, but were disappointed. G.C. 351.
Rev. 10:8-10. In like manner God’s people fulfilled prophecy during the ten years prior to 1844. As they studied the prophetic symbols in Daniel, the thought of Christ coming in 1844 was sweet to them, but the disappointment was bitter. G.C. 373.
Heb. 10:32-34. God desires that this experience should be kept in remembrance by His people.
Dan. 7:9, 10. The people expected the judgment to take place on earth and were disappointed in the location of the judgment and not the event. It was by God’s appointment that while heaven was interested in the opening of the judgment in heaven, Christ’s followers on earth should have their love and thoughts all centered on the movements of their Saviour. G.C. 374, 457.
Heb. 10:32-34. Many rejected the first angel’s message and persecuted those who accepted it. G.C. 380.
Rev. 14:8. The second angel followed, announcing the fall of Babylon.
Rev. 17:5, 6. Babylon is the power that put to death the martyrs of Jesus.
Rev. 17:5, 18. Babylon represents an apostate church.
Rev.17:5. The term Babylon includes mother and daughters. G.C. 382, 383.
Gen. 11:7, 9, margin. Babylon means confusion. G.C. 381.
Rev. 14:8. Lest any should doubt that Babylon is fallen, it is repeated twice.
Gen. 41:32. The daughters as well as the mother are fallen.
Rev. 18:1-5. The message repeated with greater force. G.C. 603, 604.
Rev. 18:1. Great power attends the giving of the message.
Rev. 18:2. It is given when the "daughter churches" have become wholly corrupt.
Rev. 18:3. Unlawful connection with the nations the crowning sin.
2 Cor. 11:2; Eph. 5:23. Christ is the head of the church. When the churches appeal to the earthly governments to make religious laws, earthly governments to make religious laws, they are committing fornication and are unfaithful to their true husband, Christ. G.C. 381.
Rev. 17:3, 6. The mother church is represented as guiding the civil power, and being drunk with the blood of martyrs. G.C. 382.
Rev. 18:3. This union of church and state to be world-wide. G.C. 389, 390.
Rev. 18:4. God calls His people out of Babylon; all who refuse receive of her plagues. G.C. 390, 604.
Rev. 14:9-12. This is the most solemn message in the Bible.
Rev. 14:14. It is the last message before the coming of Christ.
Rev. 14:9. It follows the first and second messages and is world-wide. It addressed to "any man"; none are excluded. It is a warning against the worship of the beast and its image. G.C. 611.
Rev. 13:5-7. The beast is the power that persecuted the saints for 42 months, or 1260 years.
Dan. 7:25. The power that persecuted the people of God for 1260 years thinks to change the law of God. One power has arisen that claims to change the law for God. We quote from their own writings as follow:
"Q. What are the days which the church commands to be kept holy". . .
"A. First the Sunday, or Lord’s day, which we observe by apostolic
example instead of the Sabbath. . .
"Q. What warrant have you for keeping Sunday preferably to the ancient
Sabbath which was Saturday?
"A. We have for it the authority of the Catholic church and apostolic tradition. . ." Catholic Christian Instructed. Chap., 23, p. 272.
Ex. 20:8-11. The law of God commands us to keep the seventh day, or Saturday, holy.
1 Sam. 15:22. Obedience highest type of worship. Gen. 22:5.
1 Kings 18:21. As in Elijah’s day, all are asked to decide whom they will serve.
Joshua 24:15; G.C. 604.
Rev. 13:8. Only those whose names are in the book of life refuse to worship the beast.
Rev. 14:10. Those whom obey the beast receive his mark and drink the unmixed wrath of God.
Rev. 15:1, 7. The unmixed wrath of God is the seven last plagues.
Rev. 14:9, 10. The seven last plagues are poured out on those who worship the beast and his image and receive his mark.
Eze. 9:1-11. Ezekiel describes this work.
Ps. 91:1-10. The righteous are shielded.
Rev.3:10. Shielded because they have kept the word of God’s patience.
Rev. 14:12. Finally only two parties, commandment-keepers and commandment-breakers. G.C. 605.
Rev. 14:14-16. When finished Christ gathers the harvest of the earth.
Rev. 22:14. All who have kept the commandments of God will have a right to the tree of life.
"The Passover was to be both commemorative and typical, not only pointing back to the deliverance from Egypt, but forward to the greater deliverance which Christ was to accomplish in freeing His people from the bondage of sin." P.P. 277.
Lev. 23:5. There was only one day in the year upon which the Passover could be kept. P.P. 539.
Ex. 12:27. It commemorated the passing over, or shielding, of God’s people when the "first-born" of Egypt was slain.
1 Cor. 5:7. It typified the death of Christ. P.P. 539.
Ex. 12:3-6. Lamb selected the tenth day and kept apart from the flock.
Ex. 12:6, margin. Lambs slain between the "two evenings," or the middle of the afternoon.
Ex. 12:22. Blood on the sides and top of the door-frame.
Ex.12:8, 9. The lamb roasted.
Ex. 12:8-10. Eaten that night. If any remained until morning, it was burned.
Ex. 12:11. Ready for marching while eating.
Ex. 12:8. Unleavened bread and bitter herbs eaten with the flesh.
Ex. 12:29. While they were eating the destroying angel passed over.
Ex. 12:4. Neighboring families were gathered together at this feast.
Ex. 12:48, 49. Strangers that complied with the requirements could eat it.
Ex. 12:26, 27. The children were taught the meaning of the Passover.
1 Cor. 5:7. Christ is our "Passover Lamb." G.C. 399.
John 11:47-54. The 10th day of the first month, (31 A.D.) the council set Him apart for death.
John 18:28. Friday morning Jews had not eaten the Passover.
John 19:14. Christ was crucified at the time of "the preparation of the Passover."
Matt. 27:46-50. Christ died between the evenings, about three o’clock, at the time the Passover lambs were being slain. D.A. 756.
John 19:31. The day following the crucifixion was an "high day"; that is, the yearly Passover Sabbath, and also the Sabbath of the Lord, the seventh day of the week.
Luke 23:54:56; Lev. 23:5-7. While Christ, the true Passover, rested in the tomb from His finished earthly work on the Passover Sabbath, the 15th day of the first month, His followers were resting according to the commandment, upon the same day, the creation Sabbath. The day from that time was doubly blessed. D.A. 769.
1 Cor. 15:20. Christ, the "first fruits of them that slept." D.A. 785.
Matt. 27:52, 53. "Many bodies of the saints which slept arose" and followed Christ from the tomb.
Rom. 8:29. He was the "first-born among many brethren."
Eph. 4:7, 8, margin. When he ascended to heaven He took His company with Him as a sample of the final great harvest.
Lev. 23:10, 11, margin. In the type the priest waved a "handful," or sheaf, of the heads of the ripened grain before the Lord on the 16th day of the first month. D.A. 77, 786.
John 20:16, 17. In the early morning of that memorable 16th day of the first month, the Saviour had not ascended.
Matt. 28:9. A little later in the same day He permitted them to touch and worship Him; for He had ascended to the Father and His sacrifice had been accepted. D.A. 834.
"God designs that the family of earth shall be a symbol of the family in heaven, Christian homes, established and conducted in accordance with God’s plan, are among His most effective agencies for the formation of Christian character and for the advancement of His work." 6T, p. 430.
Gen. 2:24. Leave father and mother for wife.
Deut. 13:6-8. Husband should never allow his wife to turn him from God.
Deut. 24:5. First year of married life, husband should remain at home and "cheer" up his wife."
Prov. 5:18. Rejoice with his wife.
Eccl. 9:9. Live joyfully with her. M.H. 374, 375.
Eph. 5:25:33. "Love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for it." M.H. 360.
Col. 3:19. Be not bitter against them.
Prov. 31:28. Commend and praise.
1 Peter 3:7. Honor the wife. 5T, pp. 180, 181; M.H. 373, 374.
Mal. 2:14, 15. God is witness if any deal treacherously with their wives.
Matt. 19:3-9. One reason for separation.
1 Cor. 7:12-16. Convert wife by godly life.
The man who lives up to God’s requirements will have a happy home. He can kneel with his wife and together their prayers will ascend unhindered to the throne of grace.
Gen. 3:6, 17-24. The wife should never, like Eve, ask her husband to disobey God. M.H. 361.
Prov. 12:4. A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband.
Eph. 5:23. Husband the head of the wife.
Eph. 5:33. Wife reverence the husband.
Titus 2:4, 5. Love and obey the husband.
Col. 3:18. "Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands as it is fit in the Lord." If a husband commands a wife to disobey God, then obedience could not be fit in the Lord.
Prov. 19:13; 21:9, margin. A contentious wife makes and unhappy home.
Prov. 21:19, margin. Better dwell in the desert than with such a woman.
Prov. 31:10-12, 26. A husband can safely trust a virtuous woman who speaks kindly.
1 Cor. 7:10, 11. "Let not the wife depart from her husband."
Rom 7:2, 3. The wife bound to her husband as long as he lives.
Mark 10:12. If the wife leaves her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.
1 Cor. 7:13, 16. Godly life may win unbelieving husband.
If every young woman was taught these principles by her parents, she would be careful to select for a husband a man she could reverence and obey. M.H. 357, 358. God takes the marriage relation to represent the connection between Himself and His people. Eph. 5:31-33; Jer. 3:14; Hosea 2:19, 20; Jer. 31:32.
Titus 2:4. Love them. 4T, p. 363.
Matt. 19:13, 14. Bring to Christ. 4T, pp. 113, 199, 200.
Prov. 22:6; Eph. 6:4. Train for God. M.H. 44.
Deut. 4:9. Isa. 38:19. Instruct in God’s word. E. 185.
Joel 1:3. Tell of God’s judgment. E. 34, 35.
Ex. 10:2; Ps. 78:4. Of God’s work. E. 52.
Deut. 32:46. Command them to obey God.
Gen. 48:15. Bless them.
Ps. 103:13. Pity them. 2T, p. 57.
Job 42:15; 2 Cor. 12:14; 1 Tim. 5:8. Provide for them. 2T, p. 85.
1 Tim. 3:4, 12. Rule them.
Prov. 13:24; 19:18; 23:13; 29:17; Heb. 12:7. Correct them.
Eph. 6:4; Col. 3:21. Do not provoke them.
Gen. 24:1-4; 28:1, 2. Not to make unholy connections for them.
Ps. 127:3. "Children are an heritage of the Lord."
Ex. 2:9. God offers wages to every parent just as surely as Pharaoh’s daughter did to the mother of Moses.
Prov. 29:17; 10:1. Rest and delight of soul paid the faithful parent. 7T, p. 186.
Prov. 29:15; 17:25; 15:20. Shame, contempt and bitterness, are the wages of the parents that fail to properly train their children. 7T, p. 66.
Prov. 29:15; 22:15. No child naturally good.
1 Sam. 3:11-14. Restrain the child. 5T, pp. 44, 45.
Prov. 31:26-28. Govern by law of kindness. 7T, pp. 47, 48.
Prov. 19:18. Do not wait until it is too late to control the child.
Prov. 20:11. Every child reveals its character.
Prov. 23:13, 14. Do not withhold correction.
Prov. 13:24. True love will control. 5T, pp. 319, 320.
Prov. 29:22. To strike a child in anger stirs up strife.
Prov. 25:28. Without self-control no one can properly train others. M.H. 131; P.P. 142, 143.
Prov. 16:32. Self-control of great value. M.H. 371, 372.
1 Sam. 2:27-34. The priesthood was taken from the family of Eli because he failed to control his children.
1 Sam. 2:23-25. Eli reported his sons for their wrong course; but reproof alone is not sufficient.
1 Sam. 3:13. Parents must "restrain" and control their children as well as reprove the. 5T, pp. 323, 324.
1 Sam. 2:29. It is dishonoring to God for parents to allow their children to grow up disobedient.
Prov. 29:15. Disobedient children bring their parents to shame.
1 Sam. 8:1-5. The disobedience of Samuel’s sons caused the office of judge to pass from Samuel’s family.
2 Kings 19:37. Uncontrolled children will even slay their parents.
Prov. 17:25. A "foolish son" brings grief and bitterness to parents.
1 Sam. 3:19. The Lord is with good children. P.K. 245, 246.
2 Tim. 3:15. They are acquainted with the Scriptures.
Prov. 28:7. A wise son obeys the law of God.
Col. 3:20. God is well pleased with obedient children.
Acts 2:39. They share in the promises of God.
Eph. 6:2. A blessing is pronounced upon good children.
Gen 46:29. A good son will never be ashamed to love and caress his parents.
Prov. 13:1. A wise son will heed the instruction of his parents.
Prov. 23:22. Parents in old age will be treated with respect by good children.
Job 32:6, 7. One of judgment will recognize age and experience.
Heb. 12:9. The respect and reverence paid to earthly parents is a reminder of the reverence due the Lord.
Ps. 101:7. Deceitful and wicked people should not be kept in the house.
1 Cor. 15:33. You can not keep evil people in your family without their exerting an evil influence over your children. T, v. 4, pp. 110-112.
1 Cor. 5:6. A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.
Eph. 6:4. Parents should not provoke their children.
Col. 3:21. Should not discourage them.
Prov. 22:6. Children should be trained.
1 Tim. 3:4, 5. One that does not control his own family can not be trusted to manage the things of God.
Titus 1:6, 7. The children of a bishop should be above reproach.
1 Tim. 3:12. A deacon should control his family.
Gen 18:17-19. God can trust a man that command his children and his household. E. 187.
2 Cor. 12:14. Parents should provide for their children.
1 Tim. 5:8. Every Christian should supply the needs of his family.
Deut. 6:7-9. Teach diligently. The word of God should be the topic of daily conversation in the home and out of it. P.P. 141.
Deut. 4:9-13. Teach the children about the giving of the law.
2 Tim. 3:15. A knowledge of the word of God will give wisdom.
2 Tim. 3:16, 17. Such knowledge will prepare a man for every good work.
2 Tim. 1:5. Often when a mother was faithful in teaching her children, God mentioned her name.
1 Tim. 4:12. Six things in which the young who are properly taught will be an example.
Esther 2:20. Children properly educated will obey their parents after they are grown.
Gen. 45:7, 8. Children, educated after God’s plan, can be sent as foreign missionaries at an early age. P. P. 244.
Joshua 4:6, 7. Children should be taught by the objects around them. P.P. 572.
Ex. 12:25-27. Taught by object-lessons. E. 186.
Ex. 13:8. Taught by customs.
1 Tim. 1:4. Fictitious reading should be discarded. 2T, p. 410.
1 Tim. 4:7. Refuse profane writing. E. 227.
1 Tim. 6:20. Shun science, falsely so called.
Deut. 11:19-21. Teaching the word of God in the home as God directs, will make the home "as the days of heaven upon earth."
Ex. 20:12. The new earth promised to the one who honors his parents.
Lev. 19:3. Not only in childhood should children honor their parents, but after they are men they are to honor "mother and father." 3T, p. 294.
Gen 9:20-27. Disrespect shown to even a drunken parent brings punishment, and respect brings reward.
Ex. 21:15. In olden times it was a serious offense to smite a parent.
Ex. 21:17. Cursing a parent was punishable with death.
Deut. 27:16. A curse was pronounced upon the child that "setteth light by his parents."
Deut. 21:18-21. The stubborn and rebellious children were punished by death.
Jer. 35:18, 19. Respect and obedience rewarded.
Mark 7:9-13. Any attempt to evade providing for parents is a violation of the commandments of God.
Matt. 15:5-7. One who claims to be a Christian and neglects to care for his parents is a hypocrite.
Col. 3:20. Obedience is well pleasing.
Eph. 6:1. All obedience must be according to the word of God. Obey in the Lord.
Matt. 10:37. While children should respect parents, whether they are good or bad, we must love and obey God above all parents.
Lev. 19:32. Age commands respect.
Prayer is the link that connects us with Christ; or, as it is sometimes stated, "Prayer is the key that opens heaven." Few realize the mighty power there is in the prayer of faith. "The prayer of the humble suppliant Christ presents as His own desire in that soul’s behalf. Every sincere prayer is heard in heaven. It may not be fluently expressed; but it the heart is in it, it will ascend to the sanctuary where Jesus ministers, and He will present it to the Father without one awkward, stammering word, beautiful and fragrant with the incense of His own perfection." D.A. 667.
Heb. 11:6. "He that cometh to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him." D.A. 200.
Matt. 6:12-15. We must forgive those that have wronged us as we wish God to forgive us.
Matt. 5:23-25. If others have anything against us, we should seek to make it right.
Ps. 66:18. There should be a hatred of sin. God hears prayer when the sinner is ready to exchange sin for righteousness.
Prov. 28:9. Three must be an obedient mind. The transgressor of the law is heard if he is willing to obey. 9T, p. 164.
John 15:16. Our requests must be presented in the name of Jesus. D.A. 668.
Job 35:13. Pride and vanity should be put away.
Jas. 1:6, 7. The individual that one day asks God to help him overcome sin and the next day chooses sin, can not expect help.
Rom. 8:26, 27. "The spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered."
Dan. 9:21-23. Prayers are sometimes answered immediately.
Luke 18:2-7. Sometimes after delay. C.O.L. 142, 143.
2 Cor. 12:8, 9. As earthly parents who really love their children will give them what is best rather that what they cry for, so God sometimes answers our prayers different from our desires.
Jer. 33:3; Eph. 3:29. God often gives us far more than we ever think of asking for.
Jas. 5:14-16. The sick will be healed in answer to the prayer of faith.
1 John 5:14. All requests are to be according to God’s will. M.H. 229.
1 John 3:22. The one who obeys God can expect answers to his prayers.
Phil. 4:6. With thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.
Col. 4:2. "Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving."
Matt. 21:22; Jas. 1:6. Prayer is carried on the wings of faith. D.A. 126.
2 Chron. 30:27. Prayers of faith enter God’s holy dwelling place in heaven. A.A. 564.
Acts 12:5-11. Angels are sent to answer the prayers of God’s people. C.O.L. 341, 342.
Matt. 6:6. If we grow in grace, we must have seasons of secret communion with the Lord. 6T, pp. 47, 50; v. 5, p. 161.
Mark 1:35. If the day is crowded with cares, we can do as the Saviour did,- arise before daylight in the morning and spend the time alone with God.
Matt. 14:23. The Saviour also spent time alone with the Father after the perplexities of the day were past.
Ps. 55:17. At "evening, and morning, and at noon" there should be special seasons of prayer.
Ps. 88:1, 2. We may pray during the day or night. G.C. 210.
1 Thess. 5:17. We should be in a prayerful from of mind continually. 5T, pp. 200, 201.
Job 22:27, 28. It is the privilege of the Christian to believe that his prayer is heard.
Isa. 43:26. The Lord is pleased when we plead the promises He has made.
Isa. 41:21. God invites us to produce our cause, and bring forth our strong reasons.
Luke 11:1. We should ask the Lord to teach us how to pray.
Rom. 8:26, 27. The Holy Spirit presents the prayer of the broken and contrite heart before God in an acceptable manner.
Amos 5:4. There is life in earnest prayer. 6T, p. 266; G.C. 621, 622.
Phil. 4:6. We should always thank the Lord for what He has done for us when we present our requests for greater blessings. 5T, p. 317.
Matt. 18:19. The Lord’s word is pledged to answer the united prayer of two or more individuals.
Matt. 18:20. As the family of two or more kneel in prayer, it is their privilege to claim the promise of God’s presence with the. 6T, p. 357.
Acts 2:46, 47. A church whose members have daily prayer in their homes will always be a growing church.
Gen. 12:7, 8. Abraham erected a family altar wherever he lived.
Gen. 35:2-4. Jacob gathered his family together for family worship.
Gen. 35:5. A family that is faithful in worship will be respected by their neighbors.
Joshua 24:15. Every Christian should say with Joshua "As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord."
Job 1:5. Job made offerings for his family continually.
Jer. 10:25. The families that do not have family worship are classed with the heathen. M.H. 392, 393.
Jer. 10:25. The cause of God is "devoured," "consumed," and made "desolate" by families that do not honor God sufficiently to have family worship.
Kings and all in authority, 1 Tim. 2:2.
Ministers, 2 Cor. 1:11; Phil 1:19.
The church, Ps. 122:6; Isa. 62:6, 7.
All saints, Eph. 6:18. All men, 1 Tim. 2:1.
Children, Gen. 17:18; Matt. 15:22.
Masters, Gen. 24:12-14.
Servants, Luke 7:2, 3.
Friends, Job 42:8, 10.
Fellow-countrymen, Rom. 10:1.
The sick, Jas 5:14; 5T, pp. 315, 443.
Persecutor, Matt. 5:44.
Enemies among whom we dwell, Jer. 29:7.
Those who envy us, Num. 12:13.
Those who forsake us, 2 Tim. 4:16.
Sin of neglecting, 1 Sam. 12:23.
Ps. 95:6. "Let us kneel before the Lord our Maker."
Luke 22:41. The Saviour "kneeled down and prayed."
Acts 20:36. Paul "kneeled down and prayed."
2 Chron. 6:13. Solomon "kneeled down upon his knees before all the congregation" and prayed.
Matt. 26:39. The Saviour when in agony "fell on His face, and prayed."
1 Chron. 21:16. David when in distress fell upon his face in prayer. G.C. 156, 157.
Joshua 5:14. Joshua fell upon his face and worshiped.
Num. 16:20-22. Moses and Aaron fell upon their faces and prayed.
Mark 11:25. One may stand while praying.
Isa. 38:1, 2. Hezekiah prayed while lying in bed.
Isa. 1:15. Some spread forth their hands in praying.
Ps. 28:2. The psalmist lifted up his hands toward the heavenly sanctuary when he prayed.
Lam. 2:19. Whatever the posture, the heart must be poured out before God.
Ps. 66:18. "If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me."
Prov. 28:9. "He that turneth away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer shall be an abomination."
When prayer delights the least, then learn to say, "Soul, now is greatest need that thou shouldst pray."
"Hallowed by the Creator’s rest and blessing, the Sabbath was kept by Adam in his innocence in holy Eden; by Adam, fallen, yet repentant, when he was driven from his happy estate. It was kept by all the patriarchs, from Abel to righteous Noah, to Abraham, to Jacob. When the chosen people were in bondage in Egypt, many, in the midst of prevailing idolatry, lost their knowledge of God’s law; but when the Lord delivered Israel, He proclaimed His law in awful grandeur to the assembled multitude, that they might know His will, and fear and obey Him forever. From that day to the present, the knowledge of God’s law has been preserved in the earth, and the Sabbath of the Fourth commandment has been kept." G.C. 453.
"The Sabbath is a golden clasp that unites God and His people." 6T, p. 351.
Gen. 2:3. Instituted by God.
Gen. 2:2, 3; Ex. 20:11. The Sabbath is a memorial of creation. E. 251.
Ex. 20:9-11. The seventh day is the Sabbath of the Bible.
Mark 2:27. It was made for man.
Gen. 2:3. God blessed the Sabbath.
Ex. 31:15. Sanctified the Sabbath.
Ex. 20:11. Hallowed the Sabbath.
Lev. 19:30. Commands us to keep the Sabbath.
Ex. 20:8. Commands us to recognize the sanctity of the Sabbath. 6T, pp. 349-352.
Ex. 16:23, 25, 26. A threefold miracle marked the Sabbath during the wilderness wanderings. P.P. 296.
Deut. 5:15. God will have His goodness commemorated in the observance of the Sabbath.
Neh. 9:12-14. The Lord shows favor to His people in appointing a Sabbath.
Ex. 23:12. Considerate kindness was shown in appointing the Sabbath.
Ex. 31:13. The Sabbath is a sign of God’s power to sanctify His people.
Heb. 4:4, 9. The Sabbath is a type of the heavenly rest.
Mark 2:28. Christ is Lord of the Sabbath. D.A. 288.
Luke 4:16. Jesus was accustomed to keep the Sabbath when he was on the earth.
Matt. 24:20. Taught His disciples to pray that they might not break the Sabbath. D.A. 630.
Luke 4:31; 6:6. Christ taught on the Sabbath day.
John 5:5-9. Healed on the Sabbath day.
Mark 3:1-5. He taught that it was right to perform acts of mercy on the Sabbath day. D.A. 286.
Matt. 12:12; Luke 13:16. The Saviour recognized the Sabbath law.
Ex. 20:10; Deut. 5:14. Servants and cattle should be allowed to rest upon the Sabbath.
Lev. 23:3; Ex. 20:10. No manner of work is to be done on the Sabbath. 6T, pp. 354-356.
Neh. 10:31; 13:15-17. No purchases are to be made. P.K. 667, 671.
Neh. 13:19; Jer. 17:21. No burdens are to be carried. P.K. 411.
Ex. 16:23. Food prepared the day before. 6T, p. 357; M.H. 307.
Gen. 1:5, 8, 13, 19. 23, 31. Day begins with the evening.
Lev. 23:32; Mark 1:21, 32. Sabbath begins at sunset.
Neh. 13:19. All work set aside when it begins to be dark, before the Sabbath.
Acts 16:13. Divine worship is to be celebrated on the Sabbath.
Acts 13:27; 15:21. The Scriptures are to be read on the Sabbath.
Acts 13:14, 15, 42-44; 17:2; 18:4. The word of God is to be preached on the Sabbath. A.A. 229.
Num. 28:9; Matt. 12:5; John 7:23. Work connected with religious services is allowed on the Sabbath.
Matt. 12:1; Luke 13:15, 16; 14:1. Necessary wants may be supplied on the Sabbath day.
Ex. 20:10; Lev. 23:3; Deut. 5:14. It is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God.
Ex. 31:15. The Sabbath of rest. P.P. 47.
Ex. 16:23. The rest of the holy Sabbath.
Isa. 58:13. It is God’s holy day.
Rev. 1:10. It is the Lord’s day. A.A. 581.
Gen. 2:2, 3. It is the rest day of the Lord. D.A. 769.
Ex. 34:21. A rush of work is no excuse for breaking the Sabbath. P.P. 314.
Amos 8:5. Sabbath-breaking is classed with false balances and short measures.
Neh. 13:22. Saints observe the Sabbath.
Ps. 118:24; 58:13. Saints rejoice in the Sabbath.
Neh. 13:15, 20, 21. Testify against those who desecrate the Sabbath.
Isa. 58:13, 14. There is a blessedness in honoring it. D.A. 207.
Isa. 56:2-6. There is a blessing in keeping the Sabbath. P.P. 48.
Isa. 66:22, 23. The Sabbath will be kept throughout eternity.
Lam. 1:7. The wicked mock at the Sabbath.
Isa. 56:2. They pollute it.
Neh. 13:17. They profane it. P.P. 113.
Amos 8:5-7. The wicked weary of the Sabbath.
Eze 22:26. They hide their eyes from the Sabbath.
Neh. 13:15. They also bear burdens upon the Sabbath.
Neh. 10:31. The wicked traffic on the Sabbath.
Luke 13:14; John 9:16. Sometimes they pretend to be zealous for it.
There are nine references in the Bible to the first day of the week, as follows: Gen. 1:5; Matt. 28:1; Mark 16:1, 2, 9; Luke 24:1; John 20:1; 20:19; Acts 20:7; 1 Cor. 16:2.
The first day of the week was named by Jehovah 6,000 years ago.
The six inspired writers that mention it, call it by the same name,-the first day of the week. None allude to it as the holy rest day, while three of them state it came the day after the Sabbath, showing that they did not regard it as the Sabbath. P.K. 183, 184.
It is classed among the working days. Eze. 46:1.
Paul bore the following testimony 32 years this side of the cross: "I have committed nothing against the people or customs of our fathers." Acts 28:17. If he had kept any other Sabbath than the Seventh-day Sabbath, he would have departed from the customs of his fathers.
Gen. 1:5, 8, 13, 19, 23, 31; Gen. 2:1-3. The weekly cycle made at creation. Days numbered, but not named. P.P. 111.
Gen 4:3, margin. They gathered for worship at the close of the cycle of days.
Eze. 46:1. Six of the days are called working days; the remaining one is a rest day.
Gen. 2:2, 3. All are alike except the seventh day, which was blessed and sanctified.
Isa. 58:13. God calls it His "holy day."
Ex. 20:8-11. It is called the "Sabbath of the Lord thy God."
Mark 2:28. "The Son of man is Lord also of the Sabbath."
While all the days were numbered, the Lord gave names to the sixth and seventh days only; the 7th day was called the "Sabbath."
Mark 15:42; Luke 23:54. The sixth day was called the "preparation day."
Ex. 16:22, 23. Food was to be prepared on this day for the Sabbath.
Luke 23:54-56. The spices to embalm the Saviour were brought upon this day.
The week, unlike the day, month, and year, is not connected with the movements of any heavenly bodies. The names of the seven days of which the week is composed were derived by the Egyptians from the seven celestial bodies then known. The Romans, in their names for the days, observed the same order, distinguishing them as follows:-
Dies Solis, Sun’s day, Sunday
Dies Lunae, Moon’s day, Monday
Dies Martis, Mars’ day, Tuesday
Dies Mercurii, Mercury’s day, Wednesday
Dies Jovis, Jupiter’s day, Thursday
Dies Veneris, Venus’ day, Friday
Dies Saturni, Saturn’s day, Saturday
We can see at a glance the origin of our English names for the first, second, and seventh days; the remaining four are names from Tiu, Woden, Thor, and Frigga, northern deities equivalent to Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, and Venus, in classical mythology.
Isa. 66:22, 23. The weekly cycle will continue on the new earth, and all will gather for worship upon the Sabbath.
Lev. 23:7, 8, 21, 24, 25, 27, 32, 39. There are seven ceremonial Sabbaths as follows:-
1. 15th of Abib;
2. 23rd of Abib;
3. Pentecost;
4. 1st of the 7th month;
5. 10th of the 7th month
6. 15th of the 7th month;
7. 22nd of the 7th month.
These were annual Sabbaths, coming only once a year. As they always came on the same day of the month, they would come only occasionally on the 7th day of the week.
Col. 2:16, 17. These Sabbaths were all shadows of things to come.
Heb. 9:8-11. The types, or shadowy service, ceased at the cross. D.A. 774.
Matt. 27:50-51. At the death of Christ God rent the vail of the temple, thus showing that the shadowy service had ended.
Heb. 9:10; Rom. 14:1-6; Col. 2:16. All of these ceremonial Sabbaths were connected with the annual feast days. On the Passover Sabbath bitter herbs were mingled with the feast. The day of atonement was a fast day; the others were feast days.
Lev. 23:38. These annual Sabbaths were separate and distinct from the Sabbath of the Lord.
Ex. 20:10. The seventh day of the week is the Sabbath of the Lord.
Ex. 20:8-11. "Meats and drinks" not connected with the weekly Sabbath.
Ex. 20:11. Seventh-day Sabbath a memorial of creation. D.A. 289.
Isa. 66:22, 23. As long as the world stands the memorial of creation will be celebrated.
Matt. 5:17, 18. Wicked persons in the time of Christ were tempted to accuse Him of changing the law of God; but He read their thoughts and rebuked them for it before the words were spoken. P.K. 183.
John 5:10-19. The Hews sought to kill Jesus because he healed the sick upon the Sabbath day. D.A. 204, 211.
John 9:14-16. They thought He was not of God because He healed on the Sabbath day. D.A. 471, 472.
Matt. 12:10-12. The Saviour referred them to the Scriptures, stating that it was lawful to do acts of mercy on the Sabbath day, thus recognizing the Sabbath law. D.A. 285.
John 15:10. Jesus repudiated every charge of breaking the Sabbath by declaring that He kept his Father’s commandments.
Mark 7:6-12. He refused to honor "tradition of men," substituted for God’s law.
Isa. 42:21. The prophet Isaiah, looking down through the ages to the time of Christ, said that He would "magnify the law and make it honorable."
Luke 4:16. Jesus kept the Sabbath.
Matt. 24:20. He taught His disciples to honor it.
Luke 23:54-56. His followers kept it; Jesus never changed the Sabbath.
Gen. 2:2, 3. It was the seventh day of the week that was first sanctified and set apart as the Sabbath of the Lord.
Ex. 20:8-11. It was the same seventh day that the followers of the Saviour kept while He lay dead in Joseph’s new tomb. Luke 23:54-56.
Mark 16:1, 2. The Sabbath of the New Testament comes on the day before the first day of the week.
Luke 23:54-56; 24:1. From these verses we see that the Sabbath of the New Testament was the day between Friday, the preparation day, and Sunday, the first day of the week.
Acts. 13:14, 15, 42-44. Paul preached in Ephesus on the Sabbath day.
Acts 16:12, 13. Work in Philippi opened with the Sabbath service.
Acts 17:2. Thessalonica church had Sabbath service.
Acts 18:4, 11. For one and half years Paul held Sabbath services in Corinth.
Acts 18:17. If the apostles had not kept the seventh-day Sabbath, Paul could not have said that they had done nothing against the customs of the Jews.
Acts 15:21. As late as the year 52 A.D., 21 years this side of the cross, in every city the Scriptures were "read in the synagogues every Sabbath day." This Sabbath day was the same day that had been kept from the days of Moses Acts 13:42, 44. The Jews and believing Gentiles kept the same day for the Sabbath. There is no mention in the New Testament of any change of the Sabbath to the first day of the week. The disciples did not change the Sabbath. G.C. 451; P.K. 372.
Since we have found that neither Christ nor His disciples changed the Sabbath day, and that the Bible does not record any change, we will have to look to history for the change of the Sabbath.
The seventh day continued to be kept for several generations after Christ, but with a sacredness gradually decreasing in proportion to the rising influence of Sunday; until the church became so powerful that wherever it had sway, it put down the Sabbath, and exalted the first day of the week. This was a gradual work, taking several centuries for its accomplishment.
In the year A.D. 321, Constantine issued the following edict: "Let all the judges and townspeople, and the occupation of all trades rest on the venerable day of the sun; but let those who are situated in the country freely and at full liberty attend to the business of agriculture; because it often happens that no other day is so fit for sowing corn and planting vines; lest, the critical moment being let slip, men should lose the commodities granted by heaven." This is the first Sunday law. G.C. 53.
The church favored the keeping of Sunday, and different edicts were issued from time to time; but, notwithstanding all this many Christians still kept the seventh-day Sabbath "according to the commandment."
Because the practice of keeping the seventh-day Sabbath was evidently gaining ground in the Eastern church, the following decree was passed in the council help in Laodicea (A.D. 364); "That members of the church should not rest from work on the Sabbath-day like the Jews, but should labor on that day, and preferring in honor the Lord’s day; then, if it be in their power, should rest from work as Christians."-Sermons on the Sacrament and the Sabbath, pp. 122, 123. G.C. 65.
"In Augsburg Confession, which was drawn up by Melancthon (and approved by Luther), to the question, "What ought we to think of the Lord’s day?" it is answered that the Lord’s day, Easter, Whitsuntide, and other such holy days, ought to be kept, because they are appointed by the church." Dan. 7:25. There is no account in the Bible of any Sabbath of the Lord, except the seventh-day Sabbath; but Daniel prophesied of a power that would think to change the law of God. P.K. 179.
Eze. 22:26-28; 13:10-12. Ezekiel saw the law violated, Sabbath profaned, and those who should have led in right lines, using "untempered mortar," or giving falsehood instead of God’s words. P.P. 477.
The following is taken from the "Catholic Christian Instructed," 17th edition, revised and corrected, pp. 272, 273;-
"Question: What warrant have you for keeping Sunday preferably to the ancient Sabbath which was Saturday?
"Answer: We have for it the authority of the Catholic church, and apostolic tradition.
"Question: Does the Scripture anywhere command the Sunday to be kept for the Sabbath?
"Answer: The Scripture commands us to hear the church (St. Matt. 18:17; St. Luke 10:16), and to hold fast the traditions of the apostles, 2 Thess. 2:15. But the Scripture does not in particular mention this change of the Sabbath.
"St. John speaks of the Lord’s day (Rev. 1:10); but he does not tell us what day of the week this was, much less does he tell us what day was to take the place of the Sabbath ordained in the commandments. St. Luke speaks of the disciples meeting together to break bread on the first day of the week. Acts 20:7. And St. Paul (1 Cor. 16:2) orders that on the first day of the week the Corinthians should law by in store what they designated to bestow in charity on the faithful in Judea; but neither the one nor the other tells us that this first day of the week was to be henceforth a day of worship, and the Christian Sabbath; so that truly the best authority we have for this ancient custom is the testimony of the church. And therefore, those who pretend to such religious observers of Sunday, whilst they take no notice of other festivals ordained by the same church authority, show that they act more by humor, than by reason and religion; since Sundays and holidays all stand upon the same foundation namely, the ordinance of the church."
"The "Doctrinal Catechism," pp. 174, 352, offers proof that Protestants are not guided by the Scriptures. We present two of the questions and answers:-
"Question: Have you any other way of proving that the church has power to institute festivals of precept?
"Answer: Had she not such power, she could not have done that in which all modern religionists agree with her,- she could not have substituted the observance of Sunday, the first day of the week, for the observance of Saturday, the seventh day, a change for which there is no scriptural authority.
"Question: When Protestants do profane work on Saturday, or the seventh day of the week, do they follow the Scriptures as their only rule of faith-do they find this permission clearly laid down in the Sacred Volume?
"Answer: On the contrary, they have only the authority of tradition for this practice. In profaning Saturday, they violate one of God’s commandments, which He has never clearly abrogated,-‘Remember that thou keep holy the Sabbath day.’" G.C. 447.
Esther 8:8. A seal attached to a document makes it legal. A legal seal gives name of person issuing seal, also his title and territory. In this text Ahasuerus was the name, king and title, and Persia the territory over which he ruled.
Rom. 4:11. Sign and seal synonymous.
Isa. 8:16. The seal of earthly rulers is attached to their laws to make them binding upon their subjects. The seal of God is attached to His law to make it binding upon all His subjects. P.P. 307.
Matt. 5:17, 18; Rom. 7:7; Jas. 2:8-12; Ex. 24:12; Deut. 4:9-13. God’s law is the ten commandments.
Ex. 20:8-11. Read carefully each commandment and find where God has attached His seal,-His name, title, and territory.
Ex. 20:11. In the last part of the fourth commandment, we find all the specifications of the seal. Lord, His name; Creator, His title; His territory, the heavens and earth. All within that territory are amenable to His law.
Ex. 31:13. The Sabbath is a sign or seal of God’s authority. G.C. 605.
Gen. 2:2, 3. There were three steps in making the Sabbath. 1. God rested on the seventh day; that made it God’s rest day. 2. He blessed the seventh day after He had rested; that made all the succeeding seventh-days God’s blessed rest days. 3. He sanctified it, or set it apart for a holy use, and it became God’s blessed, holy, rest day. D.A. 281.
Joshua 5:15. It is God’s presence that makes anything holy.
Isa. 58:13. God calls the Sabbath His holy day. His presence is in the day.
Eze. 20:20. The Sabbath is the sign or seal of God. The one that hallows it acknowledges that he is a subject of God’s kingdom, and knows that the Lord is his god. 9T, p. 18.
Eze. 20:12. Just as the seventh day was set apart for a holy use, so the keeping of the Sabbath becomes a sign of sanctification between God and the individual that keeps it. In the act of keeping the Sabbath he acknowledges he is set apart for holy work. God is first in all his work and business. E. 250.
Ex. 20:8. The Sabbath is holy; God wishes us to regard it as holy time.
Ex. 31:13. The one that in the fear of God will keep the Sabbath holy, becomes holy.
Ex. 31:17. The rest, refreshing, and blessing were placed in the seventh day, not in any other day.
Num. 23:19, 20. The blessing can not be transferred by man to any other day. God’s blessing can not be reversed by man.
1 Chron. 17:27. God’s blessing continues forever.
Isa. 66:22, 23. The Sabbath will be God’s blessed, holy, rest day throughout eternity.
Isa. 8:16, 17. The command was given to bind up the testimony and seal the
law, at the time they were waiting for the coming of the Lord. The law was broken and needed binding up. The seal had been taken from the law and must be replaced. P.K. 678.
Isa. 58:13. The prophet foretold a period when the Sabbath would be trampled under foot. The seal disregarded and taken from