Third Angel’s Message
Question: What is the core content of the Third Angel’s Message?
Answer: It was to show the world Jesus Christ as the bearer of all our sins. Because of our wandering from God, the third angel’s message was to inspire people to give their lives to Him and be brought back to His likeness. also that whenever we worship the beast (and his image), we are rejecting the law that God set out for us to follow, which is the keeping of the seventh day sabbath.
Support: This message was to bring more prominently before the world the uplifted Saviour, the sacrifice for the sins of the whole world. It presented justification through faith in the Surety; it invited the people to receive the righteousness of Christ, which is made manifest in obedience to all the commandments of God. Many had lost sight of Jesus. They needed to have their eyes directed to His divine person, His merits, and His changeless love for the human family. All power is given into His hands, that He may dispense rich gifts unto men, imparting the priceless gift of His own righteousness to the helpless human agent. This is the message that God commanded to be given to the world. It is the third angel’s message, which is to be proclaimed with a loud voice, and attended with the outpouring of His Spirit in a large measure. –Testimonies to Ministers, pp. 91-93. (1896) {Ev 190.4} Several have written to me, inquiring if the message of justification by faith is the third angel’s message, and I have answered, “It is the third angel’s message in verity.”– Review and Herald, April 1, 1890. {Ev 190.3} John was called to behold a people distinct from those who worship the beast and his image by keeping the first day of the week. The observance of this day is the mark of the beast (Letter 31, 1898). {7BC 979.11}`
Question: When did Jesus send the Third Angel’s message?
Answer: It was during the ending time of the work of atonement, which was when Jesus was moving from the Holy Place into the Most Holy Place in the heavenly sanctuary. Afterward, when the message was given to His people and was in progress, the second coming is seen by John in a vision.
support: When Christ entered the most holy place of the heavenly sanctuary to perform the closing work of the atonement, he committed to his servants the last message of mercy to be given to the world. Such is the warning of the third angel of Revelation 14. Immediately following its proclamation, the Son of man is seen by the prophet coming in glory to reap the harvest of the earth. {4SP 273.1}
Question: How did the third angel light up the past, the present, and the future to the early advent believers after the passing of the time in 1844?
Answer: By them making a mistake, it allowed God to show them their fault and allowed them to understand Christ’s ministration. finding there their mistake (past), gave them confidence and put them on the right path (present) for the future.
Support: After Jesus opened the door of the most holy, the light of the Sabbath was seen, and the people of God were tested, as the children of Israel were tested anciently, to see if they would keep God’s law. I saw the third angel pointing upward, showing the disappointed ones the way to the holiest of the heavenly sanctuary. As they by faith enter the most holy, they find Jesus, and hope and joy spring up anew. I saw them looking back, reviewing the past, from the proclamation of the second advent of Jesus, down through their experience to the passing of the time in 1844. They see their disappointment explained, and joy and certainty again animate them. The third angel has lighted up the past, the present, and the future, and they know that God has indeed led them by His mysterious providence. {EW 254.2}
Question: Why does the evangelical christian not accept the truth of Christ’s change of ministration from the Holy Place to the Most Holy Place in 1844?
Answer: The whole of our faith is based on the heavenly sanctuary By them not being able to understand and follow through withe the original sanctuary model, they cannot understand the mediation of Christ from the Holy Place to the Most Holy Place in the heavenly sanctuary, which is all contained and embodied in the original sanctuary.
Support: Many and earnest were the efforts made to overthrow their faith. None could fail to see that if the earthly sanctuary was a figure or pattern of the heavenly, the law deposited in the ark on earth was an exact transcript of the law in the ark in Heaven, and that an acceptance of the truth concerning the heavenly sanctuary involved an acknowledgment of the claims of God’s law, and the obligation of the Sabbath of the fourth commandment. Here was the secret of the bitter and determined opposition to the harmonious exposition of the Scriptures that brought to view the ministration of Christ in the heavenly sanctuary. How hard men tried to close the door which God had opened, and to open the door which he had closed! But “He that openeth and no man shutteth, and shutteth and no man openeth,” had declared, “Behold, I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it.” [REV. 3:7, 8.] Christ had opened the door, or ministration, of the most holy place, light was shining from that open door of the sanctuary in Heaven, and the fourth commandment was shown to be included in the law within the ark; what God had established, no man could overthrow. {4SP 275.1}
Question: How is the message of justification by faith the third angel’s message?
Answer: It is by faith that we are to accept and the seventh day sabbath and the ministration of Christ. the pardon of sin is Justification by faith, and by accepting this pardon and having faith, we are essentially accepting the mediation of Christ.
Support: Several have written to me, inquiring if the message of justification by faith is the third angel’s message, and I have answered, “It is the third angel’s message in verity.”– Review and Herald, April 1, 1890. {Ev 190.3}
Question: What is the purpose for the numbering system for the angel’s messages of Revelation 14?
Answer: they are all in order of their rise. and in order of their events that take place and are proclaimed. the first, being about the creator, the second is about the fallen world, and the third is judgment upon the followers of the beast and his image. but after they have all risen, they go together as a threefold message.
Support:The three messages are but one threefold message. They are three only in the order of their rise. But having risen, they go on together and are inseparable. {GC 693 appendix}
Question: How does the first, second, and third messages all blend into one?
Answer: the first message is about the law of God, the second is God’s true kingdom, and the third is the judgment to take place. these all three point to on creator God and one God to worship. These three messages, though they are presented at different times and assembled in order, are all merge into a threefold message. When all the messages are given, they combine and become three in one.
Support: A THREEFOLD MESSAGE.–REVELATION 14:6, 7 FORETELLS THE PROCLAMATION OF THE FIRST ANGEL’S MESSAGE. THEN THE PROPHET CONTINUES: “THERE FOLLOWED ANOTHER ANGEL, SAYING, BABYLON IS FALLEN, IS FALLEN. . . . AND THE THIRD ANGEL FOLLOWED THEM.” THE WORD HERE RENDERED “FOLLOWED” MEANS “TO GO ALONG WITH,” “TO FOLLOW ONE,” “GO WITH HIM.” SEE HENRY GEORGE LIDDELL AND ROBERT SCOTT, GREEK ENGLISH LEXICON (OXFORD: CLARENDON PRESS, 1940), VOL. 1, P. 52. IT ALSO MEANS “TO ACCOMPANY.” SEE GEORGE ABBOTT-SMITH, A MANUAL GREEK LEXICON OF THE NEW TESTAMENT (EDINBURGH: T. AND T. CLARK, 1950), PAGE 17. IT IS THE SAME WORD THAT IS USED IN MARK 5:24, “JESUS WENT WITH HIM; AND MUCH PEOPLE FOLLOWED HIM, AND THRONGED HIM.” IT IS ALSO USED OF THE REDEEMED ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY-FOUR THOUSAND, REVELATION 14:4, WHERE IT IS SAID, “THESE ARE THEY WHICH FOLLOW THE LAMB WHITHERSOEVER HE GOETH.” IN BOTH THESE PLACES IT IS EVIDENT THAT THE IDEA INTENDED TO BE CONVEYED IS THAT OF “GOING TOGETHER,” “IN COMPANY WITH.” SO IN 1 CORINTHIANS 10:4, WHERE WE READ OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL THAT “THEY DRANK OF THAT SPIRITUAL ROCK THAT FOLLOWED THEM,” THE WORD “FOLLOWED” IS TRANSLATED FROM THE SAME GREEK WORD, AND THE MARGIN HAS IT, “WENT WITH THEM.” FROM THIS WE LEARN THAT THE IDEA IN REVELATION 14:8, 9 IS NOT SIMPLY THAT THE SECOND AND THIRD ANGELS FOLLOWED THE FIRST IN POINT OF TIME, BUT THAT THEY WENT WITH HIM. THE THREE MESSAGES ARE BUT ONE THREEFOLD MESSAGE. THEY ARE THREE ONLY IN THE ORDER OF THEIR RISE. BUT HAVING RISEN, THEY GO ON TOGETHER AND ARE INSEPARABLE. {GC 693.1}The first, second, and third angels’ messages are all linked together. {2SM 117.2} Thus the substance of the second angel’s message is again given to the world by that other angel who lightens the earth with his glory. These messages all blend in one, to come before the people in the closing days of this earth’s history. {2SM 116.2}
Question: How can you show that the mediation of Christ and the perpetuity of the law of God are the truths of the third angel’s message?
Answer: those who ally themselves with the beast and his image cannot be saved through mediation. the perpetuity of God’s law embodies the whole government of heaven, and the third angel’s message which goes against the non followers of heaven, is about the steadfast law of God which has never changed.
Support: Not one command has been annulled; not a jot or tittle has been changed. While God gave to Moses a copy of his law, he preserved the great original in the sanctuary above. Tracing down its holy precepts, the seekers for truth found, in the very bosom of the decalogue, the fourth commandment, as it was first proclaimed: “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work; but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy man-servant, nor thy maid-servant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: for in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day; wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day, and hallowed it.” [EX. 20:8-11.] {4SP 273.3}Those who had accepted the light concerning the mediation of Christ and the perpetuity of the law of God, found that these were the truths brought to view in the third message. {4SP 275.2}They find nothing there informing them that the Sabbath has been abolished, or changed to the first day of the week. The commandment reads as when spoken by the voice of God in solemn and awful grandeur upon the mount, while the lightnings flashed and the thunders rolled; it is the same as when written with His own finger on the tables of stone: “Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work: but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God.” They are amazed as they behold the care taken of the Ten Commandments. They see them placed close by Jehovah, overshadowed and protected by His holiness. {EW 255.1}
Question: Where is the here in Revelation 14:12: ” Here is patients of the saints”, here are they which keep the commandments of God” ” and their faith in Jesus?”
Answer: the “here” in Revelation 14:12, is meaning the Most Holy Place within the Heavenly sanctuary. This is because God’s people who keep His commandments are with him in the marriage to take place. This marriage that is to come is held in the Most Holy Place, therefore, “here” is in the Most Holy Place.
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Question: What is the action step[s] for the third angel’s message [in other words, how do I apply this to my own life]?
Answer: It is showing us to examine who we are following concerning spiritual life: if we are on God’s side or the side of the antagonist. it is inferring that we need to have God cleanse us from all unrighteousness and that we need to die daily by giving ourselves and our sins to Jesus for him to bear.
Support: This is the great day of atonement, and our Advocate is standing before the Father, pleading as our intercessor. In place of wrapping about us the garments of self-righteousness, we should be found daily humbling ourselves before God, confessing our own individual sins, seeking the pardon of our transgressions, and cooperating with Christ in the work of preparing our souls to reflect the divine image. Unless we enter the sanctuary above, and unite with Christ in working out our own salvation with fear and trembling, we shall be weighed in the balances of the sanctuary, and shall be pronounced wanting (MS 168, 1898). {7BC 933.14}. The third angel closes his message thus: “Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.” As he repeated these words, he pointed to the heavenly sanctuary. The minds of all who embrace this message are directed to the most holy place, where Jesus stands before the ark, making His final intercession for all those for whom mercy still lingers and for those who have ignorantly broken the law of God. This atonement is made for the righteous dead as well as for the righteous living. It includes all who died trusting in Christ, but who, not having received the light upon God’s commandments, had sinned ignorantly in transgressing its precepts. {EW 254.1}
Question: What are the two purposes for the warning against the beast and his image contained in the third message?
Answer: the first purpose is wake people up to reality while the second is persuading us to receive God and reject the beast.
Support: As the ministration of Jesus closed in the holy place, and He passed into the holiest, and stood before the ark containing the law of God, He sent another mighty angel with a third message to the world. A parchment was placed in the angel’s hand, and as he descended to the earth in power and majesty, he proclaimed a fearful warning, with the most terrible threatening ever borne to man. This message was designed to put the children of God upon their guard, by showing them the hour of temptation and anguish that was before them. Said the angel, “They will be brought into close combat with the beast and his image. Their only hope of eternal life is to remain steadfast. Although their lives are at stake, they must hold fast the truth.” The third angel closes his message thus: “Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.” As he repeated these words, he pointed to the heavenly sanctuary. The minds of all who embrace this message are directed to the most holy place, where Jesus stands before the ark, making His final intercession for all those for whom mercy still lingers and for those who have ignorantly broken the law of God. This atonement is made for the righteous dead as well as for the righteous living. It includes all who died trusting in Christ, but who, not having received the light upon God’s commandments, had sinned ignorantly in transgressing its precepts. {EW 254.1}
Question: What does it mean to receive the mark of the beast?
Answer: To receive the mark of the beast means to come to the same conclusions as the beast and to strive for the same ideas which oppose the laws of God. The mark signifies that we have chosen to follow the teachings and directions of Lucifer. As it will become a very large predicament in the last days, the followers of the beast (satan) will not stand for the right, while the people of God will keep his Holy Day undefiled.
Support: John was called to behold a people distinct from those who worship the beast and his image by keeping the first day of the week. The observance of this day is the mark of the beast (Letter 31, 1898). {7BC 979.11}
Question: Identify the following element and how they relate to each other: (1) fully ripe grapes (2) winepress (3) God’s wine (4)God’s wrath (5) [Babylon's own] cup (6) trodden without the city (7)blood came out of the city.
Answer: the fully ripe grapes are the people who are living in the last days that are ready to be given their sentence. the wine-press is the place where they will be punished (hell fire). God’s wine and God’s wrath are interchangeable, seeing that they both have the same meaning, which is his passion or anger against the evil people. Babylon’s cup is the world which has exceeded its mark of iniquity. trodden without the city is the slaughtering of satan’s follower’s, and the blood coming out of the city is their iniquity and their sinful-selves. these all relate in showing the wrath of God upon the followers of the beast and their punishment during the judgment.
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