Ensign 12

Time of Jacob’s Trouble & Fundamental Beliefs - part B

This is my response to Bro. Tony’s reply document to the Time of Jacob’s Trouble:

How many times does Assyria fall?

Isa. 31:8—”Then shall the Assyrian fall with the sword, not of a mighty man; and the sword not of a mean man, shall devour him: but he shall flee from the sword and his young men shall be discomfited.”

When we cast away our idols then the Assyrian will fall and the Assyrian yoke will be broken.

Isa. 31:9—”And he shall pass over to his strong hold for fear, and his princes shall be afraid of the ensign, saith the Lord, Whose fire is in Zion, and His furnace in Jerusalem.”

The “ensign” is the object of the Assyrians’ fear. AFTER God’s elect go through the baptism of fire and come out purified and refined, the ensign or Kingdom is to be set up in Jerusalem for a place of refuge for the others who will afterwards come into It. This is God’s schedule.—12SC6,7:17.3-18.1

Assyria is found in both chapters of Jer. 30 and 31. Does this mean that Assyria falls twice? Absolutely not.
(Proof: 8Tr:79, 80; 1TG47:15.2, 3; 1TG48:22.3-6; 13SC1,2.)

So what is the “ensign” in Jer. 30? and when is it manifested? Is it after the yoke of Assyria is broken or is it after Babylon reigns?

The ensign appears 38 times in the SRod and it will prove to constitute Rock solid supplemental support to Bro. Tony’s document that will cement the timing beyond the shadow of a reasonable doubt based again on the weight of evidence. But before we get to the “new” additional material let us reaffirm what was brought out by Bro. Tony from the SRod—the Golden Bowl.

1.     Jacob’s antitypical return to his homeland will be by supernatural means (1TG11:13) and not by his own physical effort.

 

2.     Jacob’s antitypical trouble will be experienced within the Seventh-day Adventist Church based on a threat from his brother Esau. (See: Gen. 32:6; 1TG47:15; 1SR:36, 62)

 

3.     Esau represents the unsaved members of the Latter-day SDA Church. (See: 1SR:55-57.)

 

4.     Jacob’s wrestling with the angel typifies the TIME of ‘Jacob’s trouble’ (for the church).” 1SR:62.

 

5.     The Assyrian Yoke is to be removed AFTER Jacob’s Time of Trouble—not before! Does not Jer. 30 verse 7 chronologically precedes verse 8? If JTT precedes the Assyrian yoke being removed, and the yoke is removed at the same time the Church is being purified then JTT has to be before—not after the slaughter of Eze. 9. (See: Jer. 30:7, 8; Nahum 1:13; Isa. 10:17; 1TG24:12, 15, 17; 14Tr:18, 19, 22, 25; 1TG24:14.)

 

6.     Crying Day and Night for Deliverance and JTT are the same event. (See: 1SR:62; EW:36, 37; PP:202-203; Luke 18:7, 8; 3SG:23; 1Srp:20; 5T:210.1, 2)

 

7.     11SC7:8.1 is the same as 14Tr:24.

 

8.     “The churches may incompletely confederate almost any time, but the union of church and state (the image of the beast) will take place only after the ‘investigative judgment’ of the dead is completed.”—2SC7,8:12.3

 

9.   Two sealings; Two probations; Two Judgments; Two Comings; Two death decrees [1. EW:36; 2. Rev. 13:15-17]; Two troubles [1. Jer. 30:5-7; 2. Dan. 12:1]; Two siftings [2SC12:6.12-7.4] Two deliverances.

 

10.   FB:12, 13 Nos. 5-7 cannot be out of harmony with the “weight of evidence.” there must be two phases to the meaning of the winds. Or you could say, it starts out with a partial confederation of the churches before the slaughter of EZ. 9 (2SC7,8:12.3), then AFTER the church is purified the winds reach their primary fulfillment as the MOB! (See: 14Tr:24.)

 

11.   FB:13 is not speaking about the JTT having his trouble after Babylon or the Image of the Beast, but after the winds are let loose during its early phase, but before the MOB—before Babylon! According to Jeremiah 30:7, 8, JTT takes place before the Assyrian “yoke” (Jer. 30:8) is removed, during the Assyrian period—not the Babylonian period. God’s people are delivered during the Assyrian period—not the Babylonian period.

 

Now that we have researched and affirmed Bro. Tony’s reply by acknowledging these 11 solid immovable summary points, the 12th point I hope to supply by God’s Grace will be the subject of the

 

“ENSIGN.”

What is it? When is it? Where is it?

To keep this concise I will only be bringing out the high points of relevant passages as they address our supplemental subject directly.

[1] Read: 1SR:103.2. Which is the last >>TEST<< for all SDAs after the time to qualify for the mark on the forehead expires? 14Tr:49.1-50.1; 2TG38:26; 5SC6-12:8.18, 9.1; 8SC1-12:10.9.

NOTE: Although Bro. Houteff did not have yet light on the kingdom from God we can still faithfully conclude today that the barn then in relation to the Harvest is and has always been the pre-millennial kingdom as the the later writings bring out. The timing and location of a symbol (“the barn”) was just relocated from AFTER (when?) the close of probation (where?) in heaven to BEFORE the close of probation and in Palestine. This is huge and a grave oversight on those who want to still maintain JTT after Ezek. 9. This likewise is the same circumstance for Jacob’s allegory rather than his history being a detailed prescription for the antitype to literally be fulfill in every iota. The “time” of the time of trouble between Esau and Jacob within the SDA Church, while the Tares are commingled with the wheat has its place now in Dan. 11:45 instead of the 6th plague.

[2] Read: 8Tr:47.1, 3. This reference establishes where the “ensign” will eventually wind up. It will stand in Palestine but it is also simultaneously referring to the Church immediately after all the tares have been removed. (See also 8Tr:65.)

[3] Read: 9Tr:40.3, 4. Again we see that the church AFTER the purification is referred to “the kingdom of Christ in its beginning…in its infancy—the ‘first fruits’ only.”

[4] Read: 14Tr:26, 29.2. Thus we see that the “ensign” reign begins and it is also closely associated with the end of the reign of Assyria but BEFORE Babylon (the Woman) reigns upon the earth once again.

[5] Read: 1TG15:16.1, 2. The same is repeated.

[6] Read: 1TG24:16. The same confirmed above.

[7] Read: 1TG28:16-17.3. Notice the alignment with “the great and dreadful day of the Lord” with the “ensign.”

[8] Read: 1TG33:4.5, 6. Same once again. “…then the Assyrian (the power that now rules them) shall certainly fall,…”

[9] Read: 2TG31:6.1.

[10] Read: 2TG34:25.2-26.1. Logically the “ensign” must be set up first, then a place must be prepared before the call is made.

All of the above readings correspond faithfully with the following two outcast references by some professed Davidians contrary to the Stand that the Mountain Dale Association has held and still holds to this day.

[11] Read: 12SC6,7:17-18.1

[12] Read: 13SC1,2:30-31.1

 

All twelve direct reference dealing with the “ENSIGN” agree with each other cementing concretely the 12th point by 12 additional direct points answering not only the three questions namely who, what and where but most importantly in the scheme of time WHEN it is to be established. This furthermore re-affirms that Isa. chapter 7-13 are in prophetic chronological order both in subject matter and timing.

Simply isolating and quoting 1TG47 as the final word on Jacob’s Time of Trouble while biasedly presenting the information it contains and suppressing all other references to the contrary is verily disingenuous and gives the holder of such a position a reason to be ashamed when weighed and found to be wanting in the balances. “Moreover, whatever interpretation we may place 👉 ON ANY STATEMENT 👈 in reference to ANY truth, must be in harmony with every other statement on the subject.”—3SC1:11.1

 

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Additional, optional finer supporting details that are in harmony with the tenor of the whole SRod.

Does the SRod make a distinction between the four winds “loosed” and “loosed and blowing”? We want to find out

When The Winds Are Loosed And Blowing?

“The angels’ holding back the winds at the four corners of the earth denotes that they are holding back some world-wide trouble which, should it break out while the church is in her Laodicean condition, would block the sealing. And from this fact, it follows that immediately after the 144,000 are sealed, the trouble will begin, signalizing the angels’ loosing the winds.”—9Tr:58.3

Does the entire Laodicean church recover from her Laodicean condition long enough for the 144,000 to be sealed in order for prophecy to be fulfilled? Is this what the paragraph is stating?

“The angels’ holding back the winds at the four corners of the earth denotes that they are holding back some world-wide trouble which, should it break out while the church is in her Laodicean condition, would block the sealing.”

The answer is no. 144,000 will qualify to be sealed in spite of the trouble being held back and in spite of her Laodicean condition. Notice that the slaughter has not taken place.

“And from this fact, it follows that immediately after the 144,000 are sealed, the trouble will begin, signalizing the angels’ loosing the winds.

Now again, the reading does not bring out any slaughter or separation at the completion of the sealing. We cannot read into the text nor transpose another thought from another place with its peculiar context. We must resist the urge to make foreign constructions. The Sealing of the 144,000 comes first then Trouble breaks out against the SDA (Laodicean) Church. The nature of this trouble while the 144,000 unbeknownst to themselves are sealed but do not know it themselves, while they are comingled with the tares in the SDA Church is political only. Certainly it cannot be at this time that the woman (Babylon) is sitting on the seven heads.

Afterwards, “With this trouble ‘such as never was since there was a nation’ (Dan. 12:1), the great multitude is to be brought face to face while being called out of Babylon (Rev. 18:4) into the kingdom.”

1.   Why didn’t the prophet quote the whole portion as some are making it out to be if they are one and the same thing, at the same time of one and the same event?

2.   Why did Bro. Houteff rather isolate under Inspiration only the applicable portion of the phrase “such as never was since there was a nation” in regard no longer of the 144,000 but for the great multitude alone?

3.   How can there be a “called out” of Babylon if the 144,000 have no established kingdom, and the 144,000 are facing Jacob’s Time of Trouble AFTER their great deliverance at the commencement of the great and dreadful day of the Lord?

“This time of trouble [the one just described, the isolated portion: “such as never was since there was a nation”] is foreshadowed by the present trouble which the church is bringing upon the first fruits, those who are being ¹sealed, ²marked, in her midst, to be removed to the kingdom — the barn (Matt. 13:30), the vessels (Matt. 13:48).”—9Tr:58.

Again, how and what trouble can the church [the impenitent] bring upon the first fruits if they are not alive to bring it, the trouble that is? The only present trouble that can only be foreshadowed by the one in the future is what is to take place among the Esauites in the SDA Church with the Jacobites in the SDA Church first. Esauites will confederate with the civil power of the nations against Jacobites before the name of the SDA Church is changed in order to remove what they believe is a hindrance for their success and the human plan they have (while rejecting Eljah’s message) to finish the gospel.

Likewise, in the time when the trouble in Laodicea shifts beyond the commencement of the Ezek. 9 (the earth swallows up the flood) from the 144,000 to the great multitude it will also be among the nations. The nations at this time will no longer be at two general ideological East and West block war with each other as during the Assyrian war in the Promised Land was taking place. They will then come to unite under the threefold apostate union to embrace each other for the answer to the world’s wars and catastrophes. They will uphold the spurious sabbath internationally for their perceived survival and for the success of what they will believe (through miracles and wonders) is necessary to finish the work of their counterfeit version of the gospel.

“Consequently, as the making of the image of the beast (Rev. 13:11-18) is, in prophecy, the only world-wide event of this kind, and as the great multitude with palms in their hands come out of great tribulation, the only logical conclusion is that after the 144,000 are sealed, and WHILE the winds are blowing, the second fruits will be gathered and the work of the gospel closed.”—9Tr:58.5

Clearly we can see that there is a distinct difference between the loosing of the winds that produce the “time of trouble” and when it blows into becoming “such as never was since there was a nation” in which the Great Multitude shall be gathered out and into a kingdom already prepared for them even before the IMOB is ratified and enforced throughout Babylon’s dominion.

Let us continue with the overlooked Davidian distinction that Bro. Houteff makes between winds “loosed” only from

“winds loosed and blowing.”

Let us turn to 6SC1-6:13.4, 5

THE TIME TO LET THE WINDS LOOSE

QUESTION NO. 207:

     If the angel who seals the firstfruits (the 144,000), continues the sealing of the second fruits (the great multitude—Revelation 7:9), will the four angels be holding the four winds (Rev. 7:1) throughout the sealing of both fruits?

ANSWER:

     As Revelation 7:14 says that the great multitude (the second fruits) “came out of great tribulation,” it is therefore conclusive that the four winds will be held only until the servants of God (the 144,000) are sealed, and that ***WHEN*** the winds are loosed 👉👉👉 AND 👈👈👈 blowing, THEN will the great multitude be gathered and sealed—thus coming out of “great tribulation,” a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time.”  Dan. 12:1.— 6SC1-6:13.4, 5

Next Reference.

“To find out what will make these men immune to death, we shall refer to Revelation 7.  I doubt that we need to read the chapter, because everyone of us is so well acquainted with it that we can almost quote it verse by verse.  You recall that there were four angels stationed on the four corners of the earth, and they were to hold the winds from blowing on the earth and the sea and the trees UNTIL the servants the 144,000, are sealed, for ***WHEN*** the winds are loosed they will hurt. AFTER they receive the seal, though, the winds will blow but they will not hurt the sealed ones for they have received perfect and absolute protection from all harm.”—12SC2:8.2

Who is the “they” being referred to as soon as the winds are “loosed” AFTER 144,000 revived and reformed saints qualify themselves for the seal (by sighing and crying [2Tr:66]) and the preparation TIME for the seal expired? AFTER the winds are “loosed” those Esauites who disregarded the warning in Tract 14 and confederated with Assyria [14Tr:50.1] against their own brethren (Jacobites) for their unjust hurt (death sentence) are the only ones that can be hurt for they are without the seal but, they will not be hurt by the winds.

“…After they receive the seal, though, the winds will blow but they will not hurt the sealed ones for they have received perfect and absolute protection from all harm.”—12SC2:8.2

Notice keenly the lengths in details that Inspiration is taking to mark out every step. After the saints qualify for the seal then the winds are loosed (no longer being restrained). Who are the only class of saints that can have the winds held before they are sealed in the SDA Church? Isn’t it only the 144,000?

Doesn’t the SRod teach that the ONLY saints that receive the seal AFTER and while the winds are “loosed and blowing” during the harvest TIME and gathered also is the Great Multitude?

“…the winds BLOW but they will not hurt the sealed ones…” means in light of the subtle distinction that the only ones that can be hurt at that time of this “blowing” could only be the impenitent in the world. The winds cannot hurt anyone who has the seal but the statement says “…they will hurt” in the previous sentence. So, who is the “they” being referenced, after the winds are “loosed” and NOT “blowing” yet? Is it the winds or is it the four angels? It would have to be the four angels for they are the only ones that can hurt at this time AFTER the winds are first loosed. The loosing of the four winds takes place during the Assyrian confederacy period for “the time of the ‘time of trouble’ is found in the eleventh chapter of Daniel.” (2TG7:3.1.)

There is only one set of saints that have qualified for the seal AFTER the winds are loosed and that is the 144,000 while commingled with the tares in the SDA Church—The firstfruits before the first reaping. The other set of saints (second fruits) are reaped and gathered while the winds were “loosed and blowing” is the GM.

The same is repeated in 2Ans:90.3-91.1.

For further understanding, we can compare these last two references to finish this study of the four winds “loosed” and “loosed and blowing.”

Can “loosed” be different from “loosed and blowing”? I think there is a distinction made when we compare 2SC1:9.9, 10 and the reference that follows in 5SC6-12:8.16-9.1

Is Satan working for God’s and His church’s interest or against? If against, he will never do one thing to purify the church or to fulfill the prophecy.

The only thing that would compel him to pass blue Sunday laws and

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go “to make war with the remnant of her seed” (with those that are left, Rev. 12:17) is the purity of the church when God by the slaughter weapons of Ezekiel Nine takes away the tares which received not the mark, and even then Satan will not enact “blue Sunday laws” until after he has exhausted every other weapon against the church. Therefore, as long as the church remains in her present Laodicean condition, there will be no blue laws or “war” against her, but a bluff only to make her members believe that they are free from his snares and that he is still trying to cause them to fall.—2SC1:9.9, 10

The Mark of the Beast, When and What Is It?

Question No. 202:

“Is the mark of the beast the Sunday law? Is it to be enforced before or after the fulfillment of Ezekiel 9? And when will ‘the gold…be separated from the dross in the church’?” (“Testimonies,” Vol. 5, p. 81.)

Answer:

Former publications of Present truth have made clear that “the winds” held by the four angels of Revelation 7:1, represent the angel’s holding back “the anger of the nations,”—the image of the beast,—also that the angels will not let “the winds” BLOW INTO BEING the image of the beast before the 144,000 are sealed. (“Early Writings,” p. 38.)

Thus those who in the TIME of the sealing are among the 144,000, and who do not receive the mark of God, according to Ezekiel’s vision, are to be TESTED, 👉👉👉 not by the image of the beast, 👈👈👈 but by their attitude toward the abominations in the church; and those who do not “sigh and cry” against the abominations therein, will be separated by the angels’ slaughter weapons (Ezek. 9:6), rather than be left TO BE TESTED by the image beast and to be separated WHEN it enforces the reception of the mark of the beast. (Rev. 13:11 through 18; 3 T 266, 267; 5 T 211.)

Then will the influence of the truth “testify” to the world of its sanctifying, ennobling character. (“Testimonies to Ministers,” p. 18.) Then the church will appear “fair as the moon, clear as the sun, and terrible as an army with banners,” going forth “into all the world, conquering and to conquer.”—“Prophets and Kings,” p. 725.

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Consequently,” the gold…separated from the dross in the church “ (“Testimonies,” Vol. 5, p. 81), by the enforcement of the mark of the beast, cannot be the 144,000, the first fruits (“Testimonies to Ministers,” p. 445), but rather is the second fruits,—the great multitude of Rev. 7:9,—to whom, after the sealing of the 144,000, will come the test of choosing between the commandments of God and the commandments of men.—5SC6-12:8.16-9.1

Page 8 paragraph 17, 18 has the key portions to help us respect the distinctions that’s in 2SC1. Along with the test of the abominations already being practiced the last abomination that the SDA Church will practice that we will have to publically denounce is when the call will be heard to join the last (WWII part II the ending of it) day Assyrian Confederacy because God is not with them He is with us. The winds are “loosed” AFTER the sealing time expires. But they are not “loosed” and “blow into” becoming before the sealing. “Blow into” applies after the kingdom is set up. “Loosed” is only applicable to AFTER the sealing time expires and just before the Slaughter. AFTER the slaughter the winds were loosed and now blow into becoming the IMOB, AFTER the kingdom is set up and when Satan wants now to prevent the GM from joining the 144,000 upon Mt. Zion because he failed to choke out the wheat through His flood of tares before in the SDA Church.

I repeat, “the trouble will begin” cannot be while the nations are at war. There is no IMOB while the west and the east block (the two belligerents 14Tract calls them) are locked against each other at war after the time to fill the vessels with “extra oil” has expired and before Assyria falls in the promised land (Dan. 11:45). The time to refill the lamps is not the time to “learn” the message in order to “sigh” and “cry” after the fact. So the loosing of the four winds which begins immediately after, I say again, after the preparation for the sealing time expires. The mark placed upon the foreheads will come later on at the time right before the separation leaving the 144,000 as survivors (1Tr:38.2). This has always meant from the SRod perspective that the loosening of the four winds have to take on a broader meaning than simply isolating and limiting it just to the IMOB.

The IMOB will come about AFTER Assyria’s fall. Then to prevent the rest of the saints of God in the GM from exiting the dominions of both the eastern and western block the woman will leave the seven heads that are now completely confederated after the fall of Assyria onto the back of the SCB. The kingdom was already established before that event according to the chronological order of the appearance of Isa. 11. Babylon then follows the establishment of the pre-millennial kingdom in Isa. 13. Remember that the Assyrian global political war precedes the establishment of the kingdom (Isa. 11) recorded in Isaiah chap. 7 - 10 on the other side.

This chronological sequence in Isaiah chap. 7 - 13 is proof positive truth that must be acknowledged. It is not to be ridiculed because it appears in the reproduced sermon codes. The Canon is to be supreme and everything must conform to what the Bible says, always.

From what I have observed and by the fruit of this inexcusable, rude, unchristlike behavior manifested against dissenting brethren just because their “new” opinions are being closely scrutinized leads me to believe that their “new” point of view may have become an idol. Christ has given us gold tried in the fire meaning it can withstand close scrutiny, investigation, and falsification.

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Furthermore, “And at that time” – that is, at the time the king of the north comes to his end (chapter 11, verse 45) – shall Michael stand up and deliver His people, the Church, all who are written in the Book. What else takes place?– 2TG42:29.2

Some are portraying this phrase here “the church” in this passage to be referring to what is left after the earth helped the woman by swallowing the flood. In all actuality this is the very exact same TIME when the flood is being swallowed up. Does the woman get swallowed or does she receive help? The woman is being helped.

What event and by WHOM is the KON comes to HIS end? If we are deceived into reading this in a false “light” then we will not be in harmony with other portions of the SRod. Here is an Inspired example of what may happen to us when “very frequently failing to view a subject in full perspective from the writer’s point of view” (3Ans:91.2).

The apparent discrepancies between the SRod and the Spirit of Prophecy are fabricated by men whose minds are filled with private interpretations, opinions of uninspired men, self-exaltation, etc., to such an extent that their vision of the Scriptures and the writing of Sr. White has so greatly 👉 shrunk 👈 that they cannot see BOTH ENDS of ONE subject at the same time, 👉👉👉 and when they are brought face to face with the truth they prefer to change their former position rather than to acknowledge the truth! 👈👈👈 We can prove this statement in black and white through the official organs of the denomination, i.e., “The Review and Herald,” and “The Signs of the Times,” etc.—1SC18:8.4

What happens when we truncate (shrink) simple delicate intricacies between many subjects that seem to converge altogether in one place because the same verse (i.e. Dan. 12:1) of scripture is being quoted to prove the source of the deliverance of both the “second fruits” and first and foremost the “firstfruits” while they are commingled with the Tares? Is the event and the timing of God’s true and only deliverance of the penitent SDAs (Jacobites) allowed to be transposed into the time of the deliverance of the GM from Babylon?

Some are reading into the passage because of a preconceived, untested theory based on a misunderstanding of the FBs. The word AFTER is missing from 2TG42:29.2. It does not read after the KON comes to his end then shall Michael stand up. Read the passage again and then continue with this explanation. 

“And AT that time” – that is, AT the time the king of the north comes to HIS end (chapter 11, verse 45) – shall Michael stand up and deliver His people, the Church, all who are written in the Book.—2TG42 29.2

The same is brought out in 2TG7:3.1. It reads:

Our subject for this afternoon is found in Daniel, chapters 11 and 12. Chapter 12 contains the “time of trouble,” but 👉👉👉 the time 👈👈👈 of the “time of trouble” IS FOUND in the eleventh chapter of Daniel. The twelfth chapter is, of course, a continuation of the eleventh chapter. We shall begin our study with—2TG7:3.1

See also 2TG7:8.6-10.5

Michael’s standing up AT the time the king of the North comes to his end is the revealed cause, the revealed reason and the revealed TIMING why the KON comes to his end. Michael is the cause! Why? The Assyrian confederates failed to heed the warning proclaimed during the Jonah’s message contained in 14 Tract - WAR NEWS FORECAST when WW No. 2 is to be concluded. What is the reward of all the righteous whether in the SDA Church or gentiles who heed the warning contained in Tract 14 if not God’s protection and the establishment of the much anticipated, long awaited kingdom of David? Is that not correct?

Michael’s putting on garments of vengeance is because as the High Priest in the Most Holy Place He ceases His mediatorial work for the space of half-hour. The work He is about to perform upon the earth 👉👉👉 AT THAT TIME 👈👈👈 has not been witnessed since God brought ancient Israel out of ancient Egypt through Judgments. But this final second Exodus shall be the culmination of all antitypes and yet a little different and not according to any human planning.

Isaiah 26:9-10 KJV
[9] With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee early: for WHEN thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.
[10] Let favour be shewed to the wicked, yet will he not learn righteousness: in the land of uprightness will he deal unjustly, and will not behold the majesty of the Lord.

Ere long the obedient will see the blessed results that follow the keeping of all God’s commandments and the transgressors of his law will reap the reward of their doings. The Judge of all the earth will vindicate his insulted authority. Already we see his judgments in the land. And the end is not yet. 👉👉👉 He will work until sin and sinners are destroyed from the earth. 👈👈👈 —ST December 15, 1881 Par. 21

Some brethren do not want to give the credit to Whom it belongs for the reason that JTT was revealed to Sis. White as though it will take place in the time of the plagues long after Ezek. 9, the purification of the Church, took place. All the credit belongs to God. Sis. White is just a pipe. She is not responsible for the order in which the truth flows and we are not to dictate to God in our formed opinions how He should reveal this message. “God gives us sufficient evidence to enable us to accept the truth understandingly; but he does not propose to remove all occasion for doubt and unbelief.”—ST, June 23, 1887 par. 3. This is a huge clue, this is evidence that God does not have to neatly reveal every iota of prophetic events in the order we would like the truth of God to be seen without our effort and humility. Our humility is to be tested according to His wisdom purging us of the dross of envy, strife, private interpretation and self-exaltation.

Thus we have proved the meaning of 1. The “ensign,” 2. The difference between the winds “loosed” from “loosed and blowing,” and 3. The Bible meaning of “…AT that TIME…” yet some will still not believe and hold tenaciously to a “new” foreign untenable point of view. 

 

By Neftalí Garay 10/22/2019

Continues with part C