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■ ■■ KEEPING FUTURE EVENTS IN PROPER PERSPECTIVE.■■■
🌳"Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest." KJV — John 4:35
📢 ■ We are NOT to DESCRIBE Events in ACCURACY or EXACT IT.
"WE ARE NOT NOW ABLE TO DESCRIBE WITH ACCURACY THE SCENES TO BE ENACTED IN OUR WORLD IN THE FUTURE, but THIS WE DO KNOW, that THIS IS A TIME WHEN WE MUST WATCH UNTO PRAYER, for the great day of the Lord is at hand." —Selected Messages 2:35 (1901).
"We are NOT OF THAT CLASS WHO DEFINE THE EXACT PERIOD OF TIME that shall elapse before the coming of Jesus." LDE 34.1
"However, we do not claim that we have listed all future events in the EXACT ORDER OF THEIR OCCURRENCE. " (The S.D.A. Bible Commentary 7:983), LDE 7.4
🔮Exacting Events Discourages Present Duties.
"MANY WILL LOOK AWAY FROM PRESENT DUTIES, PRESENT COMFORT AND BLESSINGS, and BE BORROWING TROUBLE IN REGARD TO THE FUTURE CRISIS. This will be MAKING A TIME OF TROUBLE BEFOREHAND, and WE WILL RECEIVE NO GRACE FOR ANY SUCH ANTICIPATED TROUBLES."—3 Selected Messages: Pg.383, 384 (1884).
🙇🏼♂️Note: Beware of HUMAN SPECULATION, HUMAN SUPPOSITION or HUMAN PRESUMPTIONS - Such minds excites individuals to an extreme to set times or create fanaticism.
👉■ Need to KNOW History & Prophecy to Confirm Current Events.
Revelation 1:4 "John to the seven churches which are in Asia: Grace be unto you, and peace, from him WHICH IS [Present/Current Events], and WHICH WAS [Past/History], and WHICH IS TO COME [Future/Prophecy]; and from the seven Spirits which are before his throne," KJV
👁️"The HISTORY which the great I AM has MARKED OUT IN HIS WORD, UNITING LINK AFTER LINK IN THE PROPHETIC CHAIN, FROM ETERNITY IN THE PAST TO ETERNITY IN THE FUTURE, TELLS US 👉WHERE WE ARE TODAY IN THE PROCESSION OF THE AGES, and WHAT MAY BE EXPECTED IN THE TIME TO COME. All that prophecy has foretold as coming to pass, until the PRESENT TIME, has been TRACED ON THE PAGES OF HISTORY, and we may BE ASSURED that all WHICH IS YET TO COME WILL BE FULFILLED IN ITS ORDER." Ed 178.3
Isaiah 46:9,10. God will still declare the Future.....We don't have to mutter things not in God's plan.
🙏🏻■ Need To Know in Depth What is the Mark of the Beast [Sunday Laws]
"THE MARK OF THE BEAST is EXACTLY WHAT IT HAS BEEN PROCLAIMED TO BE. NOT ALL IN REGARD TO THIS MATTER IS YET UNDERSTOOD NOR WILL IT BE UNDERSTOOD UNTIL THE ENROLLING OF THE SCROLL."—Testimonies for the Church 6:17 (1900).
✍️■ Danger of Putting Last Days Events CONSTANTLY before People to Control them.
"THERE IS A TIME OF TROUBLE COMING TO THE PEOPLE OF GOD, BUT WE ARE NOT TO KEEP THAT CONSTANTLY BEFORE THE PEOPLE AND REIN THEM UP TO HAVE A TIME OF TROUBLE BEFOREHAND.
THERE IS TO BE A SHAKING AMONG GOD'S PEOPLE, BUT THIS IS NOT THE PRESENT TRUTH TO CARRY TO THE CHURCHES."—Selected Messages 1:180 (1890). LDE 17.4
👉■ Show People Where we Are in Prophetic History.
"There are MANY WHO DO NOT UNDERSTAND THE PROPHECIES RELATING TO THESE DAYS and THEY MUST BE ENLIGHTENED. It is the DUTY of both watchmen and laymen to GIVE THE TRUMPET A CERTAIN SOUND." Evangelism, 194, 195 (1875).
📢📢"Let the watchmen now lift up their voice and give the message which is PRESENT TRUTH FOR THIS TIME. Let us SHOW THE PEOPLE WHERE WE ARE IN PROPHETIC HISTORY."—Testimonies for the Church 5:716 (1889). LDE 16 - LDE 16.3
🕒■ Keeping up with the Principle of Three Watches.
Luke 12:36 "And ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their lord, when he will return from the wedding; that when he cometh and knocketh, they MAY OPEN UNTO HIM IMMEDIATELY.
37 Blessed are those servants, whom the lord when he cometh [FIRST WATCH?] SHALL FIND WATCHING: verily I say unto you, that he shall gird himself, and make them to sit down to meat, and will come forth and serve them.
38 And if he shall come in the SECOND WATCH or come in the THIRD WATCH, and FIND THEM so, BLESSED ARE THOSE SERVANTS.
39 And this know, that if the goodman of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched, and not have suffered his house to be broken through.
40 BE YE THEREFORE READY ALSO: FOR THE SON OF MAN COMETH AT AN HOUR WHEN YE THINK NOT." KJV — Luke 12:36 - KJV — Luke 12:40
☆☆1. FIRST WATCH - 1st Coming of Christ
☆☆2. SECOND WATCH - 1844, the Great Disappointment.
☆☆3. THIRD WATCH - After 1844 till NOW!
🔮🔮🔮■ The Three Worlds.
Zechariah 13:8, "And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the LORD, TWO PARTS therein shall be cut off and die; but the THIRD shall be left therein.
9 And I will bring the THIRD PART through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The LORD is my God."
Note: According to Julius Caesar and Pope Gregory 1583 lunar Calender making:
☆☆ First World - THE ANCIENT WORLD
● ● Creation (Adam) > 604 AD
☆☆ Second Word - THE MEDIEVAL (Dark Ages)
● ● AD 604 > 1844.
☆☆ Third World - THE END TIME GENERATION.
● ● 1844 to 2nd Coming of Jesus.
Note: Two World's (Ancient & Medieval) cuts off, END TIME GENERATION still survives since 1844.
🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻■ The Three Watchwords.
"There are THREE WATCHWORDS in the Christian life, which must be heeded if we would not have Satan steal a march upon us; namely, WATCH, PRAY, WORK." 2T 283.2.
● Three Watchwords, which are Our Duty is:
☆☆1. WATCH - Bible Study, Accquainted with Prophecy, History & Last Day Events.
☆☆2. PRAY - Seek God's guidance.
☆☆3. WORK - Preach, Teach and Baptise (Great Commission Matt. 28:16-18)
"BE YE THEREFORE READY ALSO: for the SON OF MAN COMETH AT AN HOUR WHEN YE THINK NOT." KJV — Luke 12:36
"OCCUPY TILL I COME." KJV — Luke 19:13
🕒✍️■ Time Excitements Sets Time.
2 Peter 3:8 "But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but IS LONGSUFFERING TO US-WARD, NOT WILLING THAT ANY SHOULD PERISH, but that ALL SHOULD COME TO REPENTANCE.
10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; (surprisingly) in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.[as concern by Climate Summits]
11 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved [fulfilment of prophecies], WHAT MANNER OF PERSONS OUGHT YE TO BE IN ALL HOLY CONVERSATION AND GODLINESS,
12 Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat? [As witnessed today in coming events]
13 Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness [our focus as Adventists]
14 Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, BE DILIGENT THAT YE MAY BE FOUND OF HIM IN PEACE, WITHOUT SPOT, AND BLAMELESS." KJV
Thought: Which is important in the eyes of God - The Time or the Event or the Salvation of Mankind.
Like a Shepherd, leaving 99 sheep in fold within the green pasture, and went out for one lost sheep in the wild woods, Christ with longing desire still is: LONGSUFFERING (suffer long) for souls....That is why, in His Mercy, He still postpones and delays for His Sheep to come home, lest that "many mansions" He promised to prepare for His people will be an empty mansion.
🤔"Christ is WAITING WITH LONGING DESIRE FOR THE MANIFESTATION OF HIMSELF IN HIS CHURCH. When the CHARACTER OF CHRIST SHALL BE PERFECTLY REPRODUCED IN HIS PEOPLE, then HE WILL COME TO CLAIM THEM AS HIS OWN." COL 69.1
☝️🕒■ There Should Be Time No Longer.
Revelation 10:6 - The Mighty Angel with one foot on sea and land, which is none other Jesus Christ, Himself raised His hand and made a VOW, that "THERE SHOULD BE TIME NO LONGER."
Note: NO EVENTS is to be set on TIME LINE or TIME FACTORsince 1844. We are leaving in the SURPRISING GENERATION, when ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN AT ANY TIME."
👎■ Our Duty in This Coming Crises.
●Petition To Avert Threaten Danger."
"It is OUR. DUTY to do all in our power TO AVERT the THREATENED DANGER.... A vast responsibility is devolving upon men and women of prayer throughout the land to petition that God may SWEEP BACK this cloud of evil, and give a few more years of grace to work for the Master.—The Review and Herald Extra, December 11, 1888.
"Those who are now keeping the commandments of God need to BESTIR THEMSELVES that they may OBTAIN THE SPECIAL HELP which God alone can give them. They SHOULD WORK MORE EARNESTLY TO DELAY as long as possible the THREATENED CALAMITY."—The Review and Herald, December 18, 1888.
Let not the commandment-keeping people of God be silent at this time AS THOUGH WE GRACEFULLY ACCEPTED THE SITUATION."—The S.D.A. Bible Commentary 7:975 (1889).
"We are NOT DOING THE WILL OF GOD IF WE SIT IN QUIETUDE, DOING NOTHING TO PRESERVE LIBERTY OF CONSCIENCE. Fervent, effectual prayer should be ascending to heaven THAT THIS CALAMITY MAY BE DEFERRED UNTIL WE CAN ACCOMPLISH THE WORK WHICH HAS SO LONG BEEN NEGLECTED. Let there be most earnest prayer and then let us work in harmony with our prayers."—Testimonies for the Church 5:714 (1889). LDE 126 - LDE 127.2
● Don't Delay, Don't Postpone Events.
"WE ARE NOT TO LIVE UPON TIME EXCITEMENT....
You will NOT BE ABLE TO SAY that HE WILL COME IN ONE, TWO, or FIVE YEARS, NEITHER are YOU TO PUT OFF HIS COMING by stating that it may not be FOR TEN or TWENTY YEARS."—The Review and Herald, March 22, 1892 LDE 33.1,2.
🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻APPEAL:
Luke 18:7 "And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them?
8 I tell you that he will avenge them speedily. NEVERTHELESS WHEN THE SON OF MAN COMETH, SHALL HE FIND FAITH ON THE EARTH?" KJV — Luke 18:7,8.
Will you or I be in faith, when Jesus comes? Or in state of Unbelieve?
"Open our eyes that we may behold wondrous things out of the law." Ps. 119. 105.
God help us.
Compiled By Pastor Harold S Peiko.