The Book of Joel and The Laodicean Seventh-day Adventist Church - Number Thirty-One

The last three Messianic fulfillments located within the Book of Matthew identify three elements of the Sunday law waymark; the scattering of God’s people at the Sunday law, as typified by the scattering of the little flock on October 22, 1844 and the scattering of the disciples at the cross. Both scatterings align with the Sunday law. In association with Galilee, which is a symbol of a prophetic turning point, the people who have been in darkness until the Sunday law are going to be called out of darkness. Those persons are God’s other flock, the eleventh-hour workers who are awakened to the issue of the Sabbath controversy as they are called out of Babylon. Their call out of Babylon is the second phase of the judgment, which begins at God’s house, and then at the Sunday law confronts those outside of Jerusalem.

At the Sunday law the latter rain will be poured out without measure and the Gentiles will see great light. Persecution will scatter the faithful and spread the message.

Judgment begins with the house of God at 9/11 and ends at the Sunday law, when judgment then moves to God’s other flock outside of the house of God.

The close of judgment for the house of God began in July of 2023, when a voice was heard in the streets where Moses and Elijah laid dead in a valley of dead dry bones. When the voice was heard, judgment began to close for the house of God, and proceeded towards the judgment of the Gentiles. There are twelve Messianic fulfillments in the book of Matthew which identify the major waymarks in the reform movement of the one hundred and forty-four thousand. Those twelve waymarks are typified by the Messiah. 1989; 1996; 9/11, 2001; July 18, 2020; July 2023; 2024; the Midnight Cry, the separation of the priests and the Sunday law are all identified, with 9/11 having an internal and external witness and the Sunday law having an internal witness of a scattering, and then two witnesses of the judgment period of the eleventh-hour workers. Nine waymarks of the reform movement of the one hundred and forty-four thousand directly identified in the book of Matthew.

Matthew is the alpha of the New Testament and Revelation is the omega. Matthew is a prophetic masterpiece whose significance was sealed up until the latter days. It contains the omega twelve chapters, that correspond to the alpha of Genesis chapter eleven to twenty-two. As the alpha to Revelation, it parallels the inspired relationship of Daniel and Revelation. What is revealed of the books of Daniel and Revelation concerning their prophetic relationship, would hold true with the relationship of Matthew and Revelation. What we have been informed along those lines would equate to:

In the book of Matthew, the same line of prophecy is taken up as in the book of Revelation.

The book of Matthew takes up the “same line of prophecy” as Revelation and Daniel, and it is brought to perfection in the book of Revelation, for the word “complement” means perfection.

Matthew, Daniel and Revelation are the same book.

It seemed important to take time to place the book of Matthew in context which could emphasize the prophetic significance of Peter being in Caesarea Philippi before I turned the study back to the book of Joel. I will try to summarize my observations of the book of Matthew in an attempt to illustrate the tremendous prophetic significance of Peter at Caesarea Philippi, which is Panium of Daniel eleven verses thirteen to fifteen.

The book of Matthew is structured upon three distinct prophetic lines. The first line is the first ten chapters; the second line is the next twelve chapters that are followed by the third line made up of six chapters. The first ten chapters represent the first angel of Revelation fourteen, the next twelve chapters represent the second angel of Revelation fourteen and the last six chapters represent the third angel of Revelation fourteen. I have not yet clearly proven this observation, but it can easily be accomplished. Before we do that, I wish to continue drawing some of the broader strokes upon the canvas that is the book of Matthew.

The second line of chapters eleven through twenty-two are represented by the second angel, and the second angel always identifies a doubling, for Babylon is fallen, is fallen. Chapters eleven through twenty-two of Genesis set forth the promise and then the three-step covenant of God with a chosen people through the patriarch Abram. The very center verse of those twelve chapters identifies “circumcision” as the sign of the covenant, and it was established in the second of three steps. The very center verse of Matthew’s parallel covenant line is when Simon Barjona’s name is changed to Peter.

Peter’s name represents the one hundred and forty-four thousand, and he is representing the class who base their faith upon hearing the message of Christ. Not simply the message about Jesus, but the message which Jesus identified as having been given to Peter by the Lord Himself.

Peter’s faith is based upon Jesus becoming the Christ—the Messiah. Peter’s name is changed, as was Abram’s to mark a covenant relationship, and his name equates to 144,000, and in that very verse, the great controversy is identified as a Rock who is the foundation of a church, that would prevail against the churches of hell. The one hundred and forty-four thousand are the final manifestation of a chosen covenant people, and Peter represents that group.

Peter also simultaneously represents the first Christian church, the church of the disciples, for that is the history where Christ placed the foundation of His church. Christ is the foundation and He is also the capstone, and Peter is a symbol of the first Christian bride and the last Christian bride. Therefore, Peter is both an alpha and an omega symbol in one verse.

That one verse is the center verse of twelve chapters that represent the second angel’s message, and Peter “doubles” as the first bride and the last bride. The last bride will be in a war with the synagogue of Satan, and the last bride will be made up of two groups. One group, the one hundred and forty-four thousand, the other group are the great multitude. The great multitude are represented by Smyrna and the one hundred and forty-four thousand by Philadelphia.

The one hundred and forty-four thousand are Philadelphians and Peter’s name change in verse eighteen represents the sealing of the one hundred and forty-four thousand. He is the symbol of those who are sealed, and in the verse, the very center verse of the twelve covenant chapters, he aligns with the very center verse in the twelve chapters of Genesis, where circumcision is identified as the sign. Revelation chapters eleven through twenty-two provide the third line to the twelve chapters of covenant testimony, and the center verse of those twelve chapters identifies the marriage of the whore of Revelation seventeen with the kings of the earth.

This verse is involved with identifying the final fall of Babylon the great, and the first fall of Babel was in the first chapter of Genesis’ twelve-chapter covenant line. Peter is representing the one hundred and forty-four thousand in the center verse, that aligns with the center verse of Genesis. In the center verse of Revelation, the fall of Babylon the great, brings to the conclusion the story of Nimrod the great hunter of Babel.

The center verses of each of these three prophetic lines identify either the seal of God or the mark of the beast. The beginning Babylonian covenant of death in Genesis reaches its end in Revelation. In doing so it places a beginning and an ending upon all three lines, when they are brought together, line upon line. Where Peter is employed as a symbol of the great controversy between the Rock and the gates of Hell is the second angel’s message, for the second angel’s message is Babylon is fallen (Nimrod) is fallen (the whore of Rome). The second line in Matthew’s three lines is the second angel’s message for it identifies two falls of Babylon. It presents a counterfeit marriage right where the true marriage in consummated, at the Sunday law. It represents the number “8” as counterfeit of God’s people who are the true eight. The papacy is also portrayed as counterfeiting God, for it was, and yet is, and shall ascend. It ascends, right where the ensign ascends—the Sunday law.

In Matthew there are twelve Messianic fulfillments, and there is between three hundred to five hundred prophecies of the Messiah in the Old Testament. Matthew contains twelve directly identified fulfillments, far and above any of the other three gospels. Those twelve fulfillments align with nine distinct waymarks in the reformatory movement of the one hundred and forty-four thousand. Nine symbolizes completeness, for there is no number beyond “nine,” for every other amount following “nine,” employs only the nine digits of one through nine, and the zero. Nine is fullness. Of those nine waymarks, two have more than one of Matthew’s fulfillments. 9/11 has two, and the Sunday law has three.

The time of the end in 1989, the formalization of the message in 1996, followed by 9/11, followed by the disappointment of July 18, 2020, followed by the voice in the wilderness in July of 2023, which led to the resurrection of 2024, which leads to the Midnight Cry, followed by the separation of the priests, that culminates at the Sunday law. Nine waymarks, one which has two witnesses and one that has three witnesses; 9/11 has two and the Sunday law three. This means that in the reform line of the one hundred and forty-four thousand, 9/11’s two witnesses unto the Sunday law’s three witnesses—marks the sealing time of the one hundred and forty-four thousand. The twelve waymarks align with every reformatory movement, and in doing so, they emphasize and identify the sealing time of the one hundred and forty-four thousand from 9/11 unto the Sunday law.

In doing so, it identifies two witnesses at 9/11, and three witnesses at the Sunday law. The two witnesses at 9/11 are the second angel’s message and the three witnesses at the Sunday law are the third angel’s message. Therefore, the line produced with Matthew’s fulfillments of Messianic prophecies isolates and magnifies the sealing time, while identifying the second angel as the alpha to the history of the sealing time, and the third angel as the omega. That means the sealing time is bookended between a number two and a number three, thus placing twenty-three, a symbol of the atonement—over the entire history of the sealing.

In the book of Matthew there are three prophetic lines, that represent the first, second and third angels respectively, and that the twelve chapters in the second line of Matthew represents the covenant with the one hundred and forty-four thousand, for it is the omega to Genesis’ alpha covenant with Abram. This also means that as the second angel, when Peter represents both the first and last Christian bride, Peter’s doubling establishes the prophetic requirement of a doubling in the second angel. Upon three witnesses the number twelve is the rope that binds the three lines of twelve chapters together, so when we find another representation of the number twelve in the book of Matthew, it must be aligned with the other twelve in the book of Matthew.

The twelve chapters of Matthew, that begin with the symbolic number eleven and end with its symbolic counterpart, number twenty-two, align with the reform line of the one hundred and forty-four thousand represented by the twelve Messianic fulfillments, thus manifesting a second “doubling” in the line of the second angel. The twelve Messianic fulfillments, together with the twelve chapters are the “doubling” of the second angel, but when multiplied they represent 144,000. Peter is doubled, and the number twelve is also doubled. Those doublings fulfill the doubling of Babylon falling twice.

Chapters eleven through twenty-two represent the second angel of Revelation fourteen. Ten is symbolic of a test, and the first of three tests, is the first ten chapters of Matthew. “Ten” symbolizes a test. Because Matthew is the alpha to Revelations omega, chapter one of either book begins with a revelation of Jesus Christ. In chapter one Joseph is tested over believing the angel or not. His counterpart was John the Baptist’s father Zechariah, who disbelieved and failed the same test. One accepted a providential birth, the other doubted.

In chapter two Herod feared the birth of a new king, and Joseph and Mary fled into Egypt. John the Baptist brought the first test in chapter three, a first test which Sister White identifies as a life or death test, for she wrote that “those who rejected the message of John could not be benefitted by Jesus.” The first angel is a testing message that calls on men, as did John to fear God, for the hour of God’s judgment is coming. This is represented by John when he asked “who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?”

Then in chapter four, Jesus is fasting for forty days that culminate with three distinct tests, for the three tests are always represented in the first angel’s message. Then Jesus began to build the foundations by selecting His disciples, for with Ezra and Nehemiah the foundations of the temple were laid in the history of the first decree, and with the Millerite’s, the foundations were laid in the history of the first angel. The foundations are the beatitudes, followed by His miracles that led to His sending out the twelve disciples to end chapter ten. The twelve disciples were then in place, and inspiration identifies the disciples were the foundation of the Christian church. By chapter eleven the foundations were finished.

In chapter eleven the disciples are ministering on their own, Jesus is alone identifying a distinct break between chapter ten and eleven. Chapters one through ten are the first angel’s message, that ended at the arrival of the second. The second angel produces a division, a separation as with the Millerites and the Protestants. Chapter ten ends with Jesus separating from the disciples, and in chapter eleven He is alone.

Chapter eleven through twenty-two represents the second angel, leading to chapter twenty-three through to twenty-eight, as the third line of the third angel. Of course the third angel arrives at the Sunday law, which is what the Passover of chapters twenty-six through twenty-eight represents. “23” is the symbol of the atonement, and the first of those six chapters represent the first angel’s message and the last three chapters represent the third angel’s message. The two chapters in the middle (24 & 25) represent the second angel. The last three chapters contain “23” specific waymarks aligning chapter “23,” as the first angel or the beginning and chapters twenty-six through twenty-eight as the third, with “23” waymarks. Chapter 23 is the first angel, and the next two chapters are the second angel and the last three chapters are the third angel.

The third line in Matthew represents the third angel, and it is divided into three steps. Chapter 23 is the first step, and the first angel. Chapters 24 and 25 are the second step, and the second angel. Chapters 26, 27, and 28 are the third step and the third angel. One chapter for the first angel, two chapters for the second angel and three chapters for the third. The third, which is Passover, which represents the cross, which in turn aligns with the Sunday law, is also represented by Pentecost.

Pentecost is the number 50, and 50 is the symbol of the Jubilee. The Jubilee contains a forty-ninth year, the end of the seventh cycle of seven years. The number 49 precedes the number 50, but is directly connected to it. The third line in Matthew begins with chapter 23, it is then followed by two chapters (24, 25) that add up to 49, just before the third angel that represents the number 50.

The beginning of the line of six chapters is “23” and the end is “23” waymarks and the amount that is derived from adding chapter 26, with 27 and 28 equals “81,” which is a symbol of the priests embedded in the very verses that identify the shedding of the blood that the Heavenly High Priest would use in His high priestly ministry. For this reason, the title of chapter “81” in The Desire of Ages is based upon Matthew 28.

The number “81” represents the priesthood and in Leviticus 8 the seven days of consecration of the priests is set forth. In Numbers chapter 8, the purification of the Levites is set forth. In 2 Chronicles, “81” priests oppose king Uzziah, and the passage directly contributes to establishing the sealing message of the one hundred and forty-four thousand.

Eighty-one as a symbol is associated with the priests who opposed Uzziah’s efforts to offer sacrifices in the sanctuary. The prophetic structure of the passage of Uzziah aligns with the prophetic structure of Daniel eleven verses eleven and twelve. Both passages identify a southern king, whose heart is lifted up from military victories, and especially the recent victory over a king of the north. When verse eleven of Daniel eleven was fulfilled by Ptolemy at the battle of Raphia, he, as did Uzziah, sought to offer a sacrifice in the sanctuary at Jerusalem, but was resisted by the priests. Line upon line the two witnesses identify the Ukrainian war that is almost ended.

Chapter eighty-one of The Desire of Ages, is based upon Matthew 28, and identifies Christ ascending to begin His work as the Heavenly High Priest.

The number “81” is a symbol of the priests, and chapters 26, 27, 28; the third step of the third line in Matthew adds up to 81. The second step adds up to 49 and the first step is 23. Eighty-one represents 80 priests and a high priest in the testimony of Uzziah. At this level the 80 priests are human, and the high priest is Divine. 81 represents the combination of Divinity with humanity. The number one in the number eighty-one represents Divinity.

The number one in eleven represents humanity and also Divinity. The number one in the number twenty-one represents Divinity, and twenty humanity. The two and one combination can be seen in the disciples on the road to Emmaus.

The three and one combination is humanity and Divinity as represented by the fiery furnace of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego.

The four and one combination identifies that the combination of Divinity with humanity is accomplished in the fourth generation.

The five and one combination identifies the five virgins waiting for the bridegroom.

The six and one combination represents man’s relation to the seventh-day Sabbath, of which Divinity is the Lord of. The number “six” is a symbol of man, and the one is Christ.

The seven and one combination represents the transition of the seventh church of Laodicea into the Philadelphian experience.

81 is a symbol of the priests and their relation to the high priest.

The nine and one combination identifies completion. Pregnancy is nine months. There were 9 generations leading to Noah, and nine generations after which led to the covenant. Jesus gave up the ghost at the ninth hour. The nine and one combination is identifying the finishing of the work of sealing His people.

In this context, one is the combination of humanity and Divinity, number two is the Divine teacher, teaching humanity. Number three is the three angel’s message, which is the message they are taught in number two. Number four identifies the fourth generation, thus identifying the prophetic history when the five wise virgins are manifested, and recreated as represented by the sixth creation day. Then the seventh step identifies the transition to Philadelphia and the enigma of the eight being of the seven. At which point the covenant is accomplished and the priesthood of “81” is lifted up to finish the work represented by the number nine. At each step number one is the Lion of the tribe of Judah, who is also Palmoni, the Wonderful Numberer. 81 is a symbol of the priests. Palmoni created all the numbers.

The number eleven represents half of twenty-two, and they both represent the combination of Divinity with humanity. In a recent article I included two statements that address the beginning and ending.

The first statement identified that when Ellen White had her initial visions of the sanctuary, she was shown that the Sabbath commandment shown brighter than the other commandments. She was also shown that in the latter days the “doctrine of the incarnation” was invested with a soft radiance. The Sabbath was a light at the beginning that typified the doctrine of the incarnation at the end. The combination of Divinity with humanity is the doctrine of the incarnation, for it is the doctrine of Christ taking upon Himself human flesh, and thus setting the example that Divinity combined with humanity does not sin.

Eleven plus eleven equals twenty-two, and the number eleven begins each of the twelve-chapter covenant lines, and each end with twenty-two. The chapters elevens and verse elevens within the Scriptures represent waymarks of the one hundred and forty-four thousand.

The Ukrainian war began in 2014, and is the external line of the sealing time of the one hundred and forty–four thousand.

The first disappointment was Jesus’ tarrying to go to raise Lazarus, the crowning miracle and the seal of God. Jesus waited four days before resurrecting Lazarus. The verse in John is identifying the last of seven miracles that are directly identified in the gospel of John. The first was changing water to wine. There is much light in considering the seven miracles that culminate with John 11:11, and all the theologians agree that there are only seven miracles in John, based upon those miracles being directly identified. For this reason, they do not include Christ’s resurrection as the eighth sign, but it was a miracle, and His resurrection is the sign of the covenant, so the resurrection in the book of John is the eighth miracle, that is of the seven, for each of the previous seven miracles was accomplished through the power of His resurrection.

In July 2023, the voice in the wilderness began to cry out a message that possesses the Spirit of life.

John is born eight days before the Sunday law, for it is at the Sunday law that his father Zechariah speaks. John’s name is changed from Zechariah unto John at the Sunday law, when his name change identifies a covenant relationship. The birth typifies the resurrection of those slain in the streets on July 18, 2020.

Isaiah identifies the second gathering that was fulfilled in 1849. The second gathering began in July of 2023, and ends when God’s people are sealed.

Jesus just finished the triumphal entry, thus identifying the transition from the Midnight Cry to the Sunday law, He has the twelve disciples with Him, for they are already chosen before the Sunday law.

When the sealing is accomplished upon the one hundred and forty-four thousand, just before the Sunday law, the joining together of the husband of Divinity with the wife of humanity is finished, and the two are eternally one, for the atonement is finished.

The miracle birth of Sarah, a birth long overdue since the rebellion of 1863, is accomplished when the woman of Revelation twelve gives birth to twins. The first child arrives at the Midnight Cry and the second child at the Sunday law. The child who came out second, had the scarlet thread that represents the sign of Rahab at Jericho.

Jeremiah identifies the judgment of the Laodicean Seventh-day Adventist church.

Ezekiel agrees with Jeremiah’s judgment upon Adventism.

The passing by of ancient Israel as God’s covenant people includes God provoking the former covenant people to jealousy over what they threw away. This is repeated upon Adventism at the Sunday law.

Adventism, based upon the work of William Miller, which they reject, is still the movement that built the temple; but as with Solomon, who also built the temple, they broke the covenant and their kingdom will be taken from them, and given to a people who will manage God’s vineyard as He directs.

At the Sunday law the church triumphant is placed into its own land, according to the prophets, and that land is a land that is abundant with the message of the latter rain. Jericho was rebuilt in 1863, and at the Sunday law Jericho comes down.

A city is a kingdom, and the church triumphant represents Christ’s kingdom of glory. That kingdom of the church triumphant, begins at the Sunday law, when His church is lifted up and exalted above all the mountains and hills.

It was at the ninth hour that the angel came to Cornelious instructing him to send for Peter, thus identifying when the gospel goes to the Gentiles at the Sunday law. When Peter was instructed by God to go, it was in the context of a vision of eating unclean animals. This is fulfilled at the Sunday law. The ninth hour aligns with the ninth hour, when Christ died. The ninth hour represents the end of a period that begins at the third hour, when Jesus was crucified, dying six hours later. It is the same period of Peter who is in the upper room at the third hour, then in the temple at the ninth hour. One ninth hour ends at the death of Christ, the next ninth hour Peter is in the temple proclaiming the message of Joel. Christ death ended the covenant relation with Israel, and opened the door for the Gentiles, represented by Cornelious.

We will continue this study in the next article.