As we return to identify the hidden history of verse forty it seems prudent to first review the basics of the first four articles of this series. The first of four articles in this series presented a prophetic interpretation, portraying Christ as the Lion of the tribe of Judah (and Alpha and Omega) who unseals portions of Daniel chapter eleven at pivotal moments to direct the final reform movement of the 144,000. It identifies that the history of the first and second angels aligns with the history of the third angel’s message, thus identifying that in 1989, (126 years after the 1863 Adventist rebellion), the Lion unsealed Daniel 11:40–45. Those unsealed verses trace the papacy’s 1798 deadly wound, its healing through a threefold union of a dragon, beast, and false prophet leading on to Armageddon at “the glorious holy mountain” of verse forty-five. As the one hundred and forty-four thousand movement nears the soon coming Sunday law in the United States, the hidden history of verse 40 (spanning 1989 to that Sunday law) began to be unsealed in July, 2023.
阿拉转转来辨认第四十节所隐藏个历史辰光，先温习本系列头四篇文章个基本要点，看起来是审慎个。此系列四篇文章里个第一篇，提出一个预言性个解释，将基督描绘成功犹大支派个狮子（并阿尔法同俄梅戛），伊勒在关键个时刻开启但以理书第十一章个部分封印，为着引导十四万四千人末后个改革运动。该文指出，第一位同第二位天使个历史，跟第三位天使信息个历史是相一致个；因此也就指出，到1989年（即1863年复临信徒背道以后126年），狮子开启了但以理书11:40–45个封印。此些被开启个经节，追溯教皇权在1798年所受个致命伤，以及伊借着龙、兽并假先知个三重联合而得医治，直引到第四十五节“荣美个圣山”个哈米吉多顿。正当十四万四千人个运动临近美国快要来到个星期日法令辰光，第四十节所隐藏个历史（从1989年一直延伸到该星期日法令）开始于2023年7月被逐步开启。
Drawing on Ellen White’s commentary that the portion of the unsealed book of Daniel which related to the last days produces an “increase of knowledge” that prepares a people to stand. “Oil” is identified as the Holy Spirit, divine messages and character in the ten virgin’s parable. The unsealing triggered the threefold testing process of Daniel 12:10, where many are “purified, made white, and tried.” The history represents several prophetic points when prophecy was unsealed beginning with 1989, September 11, 2001 and July, 2023. Those various unsealing’s represent a period from 1989 unto 9/11, the period of 9/11 unto the soon coming Sunday law, and the period of the tarrying time from July 18, 2020 unto December 31, 2023 when the Midnight Cry message is progressively unsealed unto the Sunday law.
根据艾伦·怀特个注解，《但以理书》里向末后日子有关、还朆开封个那部分，会产生“一种知识个增长”，预备一班子民得以站立得住。“油”被认作圣灵，也认作十个童女比喻里个神圣信息搭性格。这种开封引发了《但以理书》12:10 所讲个三重试炼过程，许多人在其中“得洁净，自白，并受试炼”。这段历史表明了若干先知性个节点，在这些节点上，预言自 1989 年、2001 年 9 月 11 日搭 2023 年 7 月开始被开封。这些不同个开封，代表了从 1989 年到 9/11 个一段时期，从 9/11 到即将来到个星期日法令个一段时期，以及从 2020 年 7 月 18 日到 2023 年 12 月 31 日个迟延时期；在这段时期里，子夜呼喊个信息逐步被开封，直到星期日法令。
The awakening of the candidates to be among the one hundred and forty-four thousand, represented by Ezekiel 37’s dry bones and Revelation eleven’s two witnesses who stand when filled with the Spirit is accomplished by the unsealing. If God’s people fail to awaken to this “precious light” showing perils like the papal power and Sunday law, heresies sift them (separating chaff from wheat). Earlier prophetic waymarks such as the 1888 Blair Bill and the Patriot Act are identified as prophetic warnings. The article identifies that all prior lines of prophetic history represented within Daniel chapter eleven repeats in verses 40-45. The article identifies that the image of the beast is formed first in the United States and then in the world as typified by 321 and the first Sunday law, followed by the global image of the beast typified by 538 as Michael stands up and probation closes.
欲做一十四萬四千人當中个候選者，其覺醒，正如《以西結書》三十七章个枯骨，以及《啟示錄》十一章裏向靈充滿而立起來个兩個見證人所表徵个樣，是藉着開印來完成个。若是上帝个子民弗曾覺醒於此種顯明教皇權勢同星期日法等危險个「寶貴亮光」，伊拉就會畀異端所篩，將糠秕對麥子分開。較早先知預言个路標，像一八八八年个布萊爾法案（Blair Bill）同《愛國者法案》（Patriot Act），乃是先知性个警告。該文指出，《但以理書》第十一章當中所表現个一切先知歷史線，在第四十至四十五節裏重新重複。該文又指出，獸像先形成於美國，隨後形成於全世界，正如三二一同第一次星期日法所預表个樣；其後，全球性个獸像，正如五三八所預表个樣，隨着米迦勒興起、恩典時期結束而形成。
The second of the four articles continues the prophetic framework by identifying the Patriot Act of 2001 as the United States “speaking” in fulfillment of Revelation 13:11. The Patriot Act was the first of three constitutional repudiations that parallel the three waymarks at the beginning of the sixth kingdom of Bible prophecy; 1776 Declaration of Independence, 1789 Constitution, and 1798 Alien and Sedition Acts. 1888’s failed Blair Bill, a national Sunday-law attempt was withdrawn like unto Cestius’ siege in the year 66; both typifying 2001, when the Patriot Act initiated the image-of-the-beast testing period in the United States. The Patriot Act aligns with 1776, and replaced English “innocent until proven guilty” common law, with Roman “guilty until proven innocent” civil law. The middle waymark, represented by 1789—the Pelosi Trials beginning in January 2022—trampled procedural and substantive due process through political lawfare, false-flag operations, and agency corruption, openly denying fundamental rights. These three waymarks of speaking in the 2001 Patriot Act, 2022 Pelosi Trials, and the coming Sunday law progressively repudiate every principle of the U.S. Constitution.
四篇文章里向第二篇，接续先知个框架，认明二〇〇一年个《Patriot Act》乃美国照《启示录》13:11所应验个“开口讲闲话”。《Patriot Act》是三次宪政否认当中个头一遭；此三次，恰与《圣经》预言里第六国度起头个三个路标相平行：一七七六年《独立宣言》、一七八九年《宪法》、并一七九八年《外国人与煽动叛乱法案》。一八八八年失败个 Blair Bill——一次全国性星期日法个企图——撤回去，正如主后六十六年 Cestius 个围攻退去一样；两者都预表二〇〇一年，就是《Patriot Act》在美国发动兽像试验时期个辰光。《Patriot Act》对齐一七七六年，并且用罗马式“未证清白先算有罪”个民法，替代了英国式“未证有罪先算无辜”个普通法。中间个路标，由一七八九年所代表——就是二〇二二年一月开始个 Pelosi Trials——借着政治法律战、假旗行动、并机构腐败，践踏程序性并实体性个正当法律程序，公开否认基本权利。这三个“开口讲闲话”个路标，就是二〇〇一年《Patriot Act》、二〇二二年 Pelosi Trials、并将来个星期日法，渐进咁否认美国《宪法》个每一项原则。
Then Protestantism joins hands with popery and spiritualism in the threefold union, at which point the United States speaks as a dragon, fully forms the image of the beast, fills its cup of probation, and ceases as the sixth kingdom. National apostasy is then followed by national ruin. The speaking at the Sunday law is typified by the beginning and first Sunday law of Constantine in 321 and then the ending and last Sunday law is represented by 538.
其後，新教要同羅馬教廷並交鬼邪靈之道三方聯合；到該個辰光，美利堅合眾國便要像龍一樣說話，將獸像完全造成，叫伊試煉之杯盈滿，並且作為第六國而止息。國家性之背道，隨後便有國家性之敗亡。主日法令之「說話」，係預表於君士坦丁在三二一年所立之開端與第一道主日法；其後終結與末了一道主日法，則以五三八年為其表徵。
All of these events are hidden within the prophetic history of Daniel 11:40, which runs parallel to the Millerite and also Christ-to-cross lines. Revelation 12:15–16 portrays the Constitution as the “earth” that once swallowed the dragon’s flood of persecution, that ultimately speaks as the dragon at the soon coming Sunday law. Ellen White’s warning in Testimonies, volume 5 (pages 711 and 451, 452) that any religious legislation that concedes to the papacy, and that the Sunday law will reveal the dragon’s spirit; confirms the three steps of 1776, 1789, and 1798 are waymarks that typify the final three-step testing process that concludes at the final test and the testing process is what prepares God’s people to stand.
阿拉格些事体侪藏勒《但以理书》11:40个预言历史里向，该条线搭米勒派个线，也搭基督到十字架个线，是平行个。《启示录》12:15–16描写《宪法》作“地”，伊曾经吞落龙个逼迫洪水，末后到将近来到个星期日法令辰光，终究要像龙介样开口讲话。怀爱伦勒《证言》第5卷（711页并451、452页）里个警告，说凡一切宗教立法，若向教皇权让步；并且星期日法令会显明龙个灵；就证实1776年、1789年、并1798年个三步，实在是路标，预表末后个三步试验过程；该试验过程结束勒最终个试验，而正是该试验过程预备上帝个百姓，叫伊拉能够站立得住。
The third article elaborates further on Ellen White’s warnings in Testimonies, volume 5, pages 451, 452, asserting that the soon coming Sunday law in the United States marks the decisive moment when the nation fully disconnects from righteousness, accomplishes the threefold union (Protestantism grasping Romanism and spiritualism). The United States then repudiates every constitutional principle as a Protestant and republican government, and propagates papal delusions. This is the signal that the limit of God’s forbearance has been reached, thus filling up the nation’s cup of iniquity, prompting the angel of mercy’s departure and initiating national ruin. Then the answer to the martyrs’ cry from the fifth seal of, “How long?” arrives as a second group of papal martyrs is made up. The dragon’s spirit is revealed when the “Sunday movement” speaks—serving as the modern “abomination of desolation” (spoken of by Daniel and referenced by Christ) as a sign to flee the cities before destruction. The Sunday law is the conclusion of the progressive repudiation of the Constitution that began in 2001 with the Patriot Act (typified by the 1888 Blair Bills, Cestius’s 66 AD siege, Christ’s baptism, August 11, 1840 and The Declaration of Independence).
第三篇进一步阐发 Ellen White 于《Testimonies》卷五第451、452页所发个警告，指出美国即将来到个星期日法，标志着该国完全脱离公义个决定性时刻，并完成三重联合（Protestantism 攥牢 Romanism 搭 spiritualism）。到辰光，美国就会背弃其作为 Protestant 搭 republican government 个一切宪法原则，并传播 papal 个迷惑。此即表明上帝宽容个限度已经达到个信号，于是该国罪孽之杯盛满，促使怜悯个天使离去，并开启国家个毁灭。随后，第五印里殉道者“还要到几时？”个呼声便得到应答，因为第二班 papal 殉道者要被补满。迭个“Sunday movement”一开口，就显明龙个灵——充当现代个“那行毁坏可憎个”（但 Daniel 所说、基督所提及者），作为在毁灭来临之前逃离城市个记号。星期日法乃是逐步背弃 Constitution 个终局；此过程始于 2001 年个 Patriot Act（其预表见于 1888 年个 Blair Bills、主后 66 年 Cestius 个围困、基督个受洗、1840 年 8 月 11 日，以及《The Declaration of Independence》）。
The period of the formation of the image of the beast in the United States includes a complicated dual line, involving parallel Republican (political) and Protestant (religious) “horns” that ultimately unite in church-state enforcement of Sunday laws. The relationship mirrors the papal beast’s woman-over-beast control and is fully manifested at the overturning of the Constitution’s core principle of the separation of church and state.
美利坚合众国里兽像形成个时期，包含一条复杂个双重脉络，牵涉到平行个共和党（政治）搭新教（宗教）个“两角”；伊拉末后终归联合起来，以政教合一个强制手段推行星期日律法。此种关系映照教皇兽之妇人驾驭兽个控制，并于推翻宪法政教分离这一核心原则之时，得着完全个显明。
Internally, the image of the beast testing time tests character formation (Christ’s image versus Satan’s beast image) among all people, separating wise and foolish virgins, while externally identifying the latter days political struggles, alliances and broken treaties. The 2001 unto the Sunday law period initiates the sprinkling of the latter rain (beginning when the Revelation 18 angel descended on September 11, 2001, lightening the earth via the fall of New York’s great buildings). 9/11 begins the sifting of Laodicean Seventh-day Adventism through acceptance or rejection of the “little book” message that is to be eaten as in Revelation 10. The wheat and tares remain together until their separation at the Sunday law, when the one hundred and forty-four thousand are lifted up as the ensign and the arrival of the full outpouring of the latter rain during the worldwide image-of-the-beast formation, typified by 321 to 538. Then the gathering of the great multitude from Babylon commences until Michael stands up and probation closes. This aligns with judgment beginning first with God’s house from 9/11, then to the eleventh-hour workers post-Sunday law.
对内而言，兽个像试验之时期，乃系对众人品格塑造个考验（基督个形像对撒但兽个形像），分别智慧个童女搭愚拙个童女；对外而言，则显明末后日子之政治争斗、结盟以及毁约。自2001年至星期日法令之时期，发动晚雨个洒降（其开始，乃在2001年9月11日《启示录》第18章个天使降下之时，藉纽约大楼个倾倒，使全地发亮）。九一一藉着人对《启示录》第10章所言当吃个“小书卷”信息个接受或拒绝，开始筛净老底嘉时期之基督复临安息日会。麦子搭稗子一直并存，直到伊拉等在星期日法令时被分别；其时，十四万四千人被高举为大旗，而晚雨全然倾降也到来，正当全世界兽像形成之时，预表于321年至538年之间。随后，自巴比伦中招聚大群众个工作便开始，直到米迦勒站起来，恩典时期结束。此与审判先从上帝家起首相吻合：自九一一开始，随后于星期日法令之后临到第十一个钟头个工人。
The third article emphasizes that surviving the period when celestial glory and past persecutions are blended and repeated requires prior mastery of prophecy, via line-upon-line methodology of Isaiah 28. The methodology is exemplified by Daniel’s worthies, Christ’s disciples pre-Pentecost, and Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego at the furnace who are typify as those who are prepared to stand securely on “It is written,” amid Satan’s marvelous workings and counterfeits.
第三篇文章強調：欲要熬過天上个榮光搭以往个逼迫相摻相重、交織重演个時期，必須預先藉著《以賽亞書》28章个「一行復一行」个方法，精通預言。迭種方法，喺但以理个忠義之士、五旬節以前基督个門徒，以及沙得拉、米煞、亞伯尼歌喺火爐裡个經歷當中得著示範；伊拉表徵嗰啲已經預備好个人，當撒但施行奇異个作為搭假冒个仿效之時，仍能穩穩當當立喺「經上記著」个根基之上。
The fourth article explains that the prophetic testing process of the formation of the image of the beast in the United States runs parallel to and is intertwined with the three constitutional waymarks (Patriot Act in 2001 as the initial “speaking,” Pelosi Trials in 2022 as the middle, and the Sunday law as the final). The testing process prepares the wise virgins (the 144,000) to endure the crowning trial of persecution that begins at the Sunday law, when national apostasy leads to ruin. Satan then unleashes marvelous counterfeits (claiming to be God with miracles), and celestial glory blends with repeated past persecutions, allowing God’s people to walk unmoved in the light proceeding from God’s throne. This preparation mirrors Christ’s strategy in John six (as commented on in The Desire of Ages, 394), where He permitted a severe test to weed out self-seeking followers early, strengthening the true disciples for their ultimate trial (Gethsemane, betrayal, crucifixion) by His presence. Similarly, the image-of-the-beast test—encompassing the internal character formation (Christ’s image vs. Satan’s beast image) and external church-state union overturning separation of church and state—sifts Laodicean Adventism. The test purifies the wise through acceptance of the unsealed message via the line-upon-line methodology of, Isaiah 28.
第四篇講明：美國形成獸像个預言性試驗過程，與三個憲法里程碑平行並交織進行（2001 年个《Patriot Act》作為起初个「講話」，2022 年个 Pelosi Trials 作為中段，主日法作為末了）。此試驗過程，係為著預備聰明个童女（十四萬四千人），使伊拉能忍受自主日法起頭个、戴冠冕个逼迫大試煉；到該辰光，國家个背道就導向敗亡。撒但隨後釋放奇異个假冒（自稱為上帝，並施行神蹟），天上个榮光又與往昔一再重演个逼迫交融，使上帝个百姓能在從上帝寶座發出个光中堅立不搖。 此種預備，正對應基督在《約翰福音》第六章个策略（如《歷代願望》394 頁所註解）：伊容許一場嚴厲个試驗及早篩除自私自利个跟從者，並藉著伊个同在，使真門徒得著堅固，為伊拉最終个試煉（客西馬尼、出賣、釘十字架）作好準備。同樣，獸像个試驗——包括內在品格个形成（基督个形像對撒但个獸形像），以及外在政教聯合、推翻政教分離——篩淨老底嘉時期个復臨信仰。此試驗藉著接受那尚未開啟印封个信息，並經由《以賽亞書》二十八章逐句逐行个方法，潔淨聰明人。
The unsealed light is the light of the seventh seal (Revelation 8:1–5), manifested as fire cast to earth in answer to the saints’ prayers, as typified by the tongues of fire at Pentecost’s outpouring. The unsealed light was also represented by the Millerite midnight cry (which prepared entry by faith into the Most Holy Place), and which will be fulfilled in the modern midnight cry unsealed in July 2023, within Daniel 11:40’s hidden history.
弗曾开启个光，就弗第七印个光（启示录 8:1–5）；伊显明成功应圣徒祷告、掼到地浪个火，正如五旬节浇灌辰光所显个火舌所预表。弗曾开启个光，也由米勒派个半夜呼声所表明（伊预备人凭着信进入至圣所）；并且伊还要应验于 2023 年 7 月所开启个现代半夜呼声，隐伏勒《但以理书》11:40 个历史当中。
The message of the latter rain sprinkling since 9/11, along with the increase of knowledge on the papacy and the Sunday law, accompanied with the unsealing of the seven thunders, the hidden history of verse forty are all encompassed in the unsealing of the Revelation of Jesus Christ. The detailed prophetic illumination of the image-of-the-beast formation; including both the Republican and Protestant horns’ struggles, political parties, Laodicean Adventism, 144,000 emergence, Islam’s third woe, Russia, UN, papal power, and Hasmonaean parallels equips the wise to recognize and appropriate God’s leading without forgetting past guidance (Testimonies to Ministers, 31).
自9/11以来后雨洒落个信息，连同对教皇制搭礼拜日法个知识增进，并七雷个开封，以及第四十节个隐藏历史，阿拉一切侪包含勒《耶稣基督启示录》个开封当中。对于兽像形成个详细预言性光照；包括共和党搭新教两只角个争斗、政治党派、老底嘉个复临信仰、一十四万四千人个兴起、伊斯兰教个第三样灾祸、俄罗斯、联合国、教皇权势，以及哈斯摩尼个平行对照，侪使智慧人能够认出并领受上帝个带领，同时弗忘记过去个引导（《传道良言》, 31）。
By eating the “little book” (Revelation 10), internalizing the history in advance through Berean study, the one hundred and forty-four thousand gain discernment to stand securely on, “It is written,” amid Satan’s deceptions. Their preparation allows them to avoid drawing back to perdition (Hebrews 10:37–39; Habakkuk 2:4), and they are thereafter manifested as tried-and-tested overcomers who keep God’s commandments (especially the fourth) and the faith of Jesus. They are those who navigate the final crisis where the just live by faith, protected by angels, while the foolish (who reject the methodology and message) face strong delusion and are without hope. This aligns with Testimonies, volume 9’s chapter For the Coming of the King, (beginning at page 11) with its 9/11 symbolism, thus identifying the period of 9/11 to the Sunday law as the sealing time where the wise understand Daniel eleven’s completion and fear nothing except forgetting God’s leading in past sacred histories.
藉着食用“细书卷”（《启示录》10章），并藉庇哩亚式个研，预先将历史内化，一十四万四千人便得着分辨力，能当撒但各样迷惑之中，稳稳站立于“经上记着说”之上。伊拉个预备，使伊拉得以免于退后沉沦（《希伯来书》10:37–39；《哈巴谷书》2:4）；此后，伊拉就显明为经过试炼、受过验证个得胜者，遵守上帝诫命（特别是第四条），并持守耶稣个信仰。伊拉就是能行过末后危机个一班人；于此辰光，义人因信得生，有天使保护；而愚拙个（拒绝此方法并此信息者）则遭遇强烈迷惑，毫无指望。此与《教会证言》第九卷中〈为王个来临〉一章（自第11页起）相符合，其中含有其9/11个象征意义；由此指明，从9/11到星期日法令个时期，就是盖印个时候；于此期间，智慧人明白《但以理书》第十一章个成全，且除仔忘记上帝于过去神圣历史中个引领以外，啥物也弗惊。
The four articles collectively present a prophetic interpretation of Christ, as the Lion of the tribe of Judah, and the Alpha and the Omega who unseals portions of Daniel chapter eleven at key moments to guide the final reform movement of the one hundred and forty-four thousand. In 1989, 126 years after the 1863 Adventist “rebellion,” the Lion unsealed Daniel 11:40–45, revealing the papacy’s 1798 deadly wound healing at the threefold union (dragon, beast, and false prophet) of verse forty-one and leading to Armageddon, “the glorious holy mountain” where the papacy receives her final judgment in verse forty-five. The unsealing initiates the movement’s beginning, producing an “increase of knowledge” (Selected Messages, book 2) on “the papacy and Sunday law”, triggering the threefold testing of being “purified, made white, and tried” as represented in Daniel 12:10.
此四篇文章合起来提出对基督个预言性解释：伊乃是犹大支派个狮子，也是假俄拉发同俄梅戛；伊勒关键辰光开启《但以理书》第十一章个若干段落，为要引导十四万四千人最后个改正运动。到1989年，就是1863年复临信徒“背叛”以后126年，狮子开启《但以理书》11:40–45，显明教皇制于1798年所受个致命伤，在第四十一节所讲个三重联合（龙、兽同假先知）里得着医治，并引到哈米吉多顿，就是“荣美个圣山”，即教皇制于第四十五节领受伊末后审判个所在。此种开启发动该运动个开端，产生关于“教皇制同星期日法令”个“知识增长”（《信息选粹》第二册），并触发《但以理书》12:10所表明个三重试验，就是“得洁净、成为洁白、且受熬炼”。
We will continue these thoughts in the next article.
阿拉将会勒下一篇文章里继续探讨箇些思想。