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 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.

当我们回过头来辨明第四十节那段隐藏的历史时，似乎谨慎的做法，是先回顾本系列前四篇文章的基本要点。本系列四篇文章中的第一篇提出了一种预言性的解释，将基督描绘为犹大支派的狮子（也是阿拉法和俄梅戛），祂在关键时刻开启但以理书第十一章的若干部分，以引导十四万四千人最后的改革运动。该文指出，第一位与第二位天使的历史，与第三位天使信息的历史彼此对应；因此表明，在1989年（即1863年复临信徒背叛之后126年），那狮子开启了但以理书11:40–45。这些被开启的经文追溯了教皇制度于1798年所受的致命伤，以及它借着龙、兽和假先知三重联合而得医治，并一直引向第四十五节“荣美的圣山”之上的哈米吉多顿。随着十四万四千人的运动日益临近那即将来到的美国星期日法，第四十节那段隐藏的历史（从1989年延续至那项星期日法）自2023年7月开始被开启。

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 ending 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.

根据怀爱伦的注释，《但以理书》中那与末后的日子有关、先前封住而后开启的部分，会产生“知识的增长”，以预备一班子民能够站立得住。“油”在十童女的比喻中被认定为圣灵、神圣的信息以及品格。那开启引发了《但以理书》12:10所说的三重试验过程，其中许多人“使自己清净洁白，且被熬炼。”这段历史代表了若干预言性的时点，在这些时点上，预言自1989年开始、经由2001年9月11日，并于2023年7月结束而被开启。那些不同的开启，分别代表了从1989年至9/11的一段时期、从9/11直到即将来到的星期日法令的一段时期，以及从2020年7月18日至2023年12月31日之迟延时期的一段时期；在此期间，午夜呼声的信息不断地被开启，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.

那些有资格列入十四万四千人之中的候选者之觉醒——由以西结书第37章的枯骨，以及启示录第11章中那两位在被圣灵充满时站立起来的见证人所预表——乃是借着开封而完成的。若上帝的子民未能醒悟于这“宝贵的亮光”，即那显明教皇权势与星期日法等危险的亮光，异端便要筛净他们（将糠秕与麦子分别出来）。较早的预言路标，如1888年的Blair Bill与Patriot Act，被认定为预言性的警告。该文指出，先前一切包含在但以理书第11章中的预言历史线，都在第40-45节中重演。该文指出，兽像先在美国形成，随后在全世界形成；前者由321年和第一次星期日法所预表，继而是由538年所预表的全球性兽像；届时米迦勒站起来，恩典时期结束。

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 replacing 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.

四篇文章中的第二篇继续这一预言框架，指出《2001年爱国者法案》就是美国在应验《启示录》13:11中“说话”的表现。《爱国者法案》乃是三次宪政背离中的第一次；这三次背离与《圣经》预言中第六国起始阶段的三个路标彼此平行：1776年的《独立宣言》、1789年的《宪法》以及1798年的《外国人与煽动叛乱法》。1888年失败的《布莱尔法案》——一次全国性星期日法的尝试——被撤回，正如公元66年塞斯提乌斯的围城一般；二者都预表2001年，即《爱国者法案》在美国开启了兽像试验时期。《爱国者法案》对应1776年，并以罗马“未证明无罪即有罪”的民法，取代了英国“未经证明有罪即无罪”的普通法。中间的路标由1789年所代表——即始于2022年1月的佩洛西审判——借着政治法律战、假旗行动和机构腐败，践踏了程序性与实体性的正当法律程序，公开否认基本权利。这三个“说话”的路标，即2001年的《爱国者法案》、2022年的佩洛西审判，以及将来的星期日法，逐步背弃美国宪法的每一项原则。

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.

于是，新教与教皇制及招魂术在三重联合中携手；届时，美国便如龙说话，完全形成兽像，装满其恩 probation 的杯，并作为第六国而止息。随后，国家性的背道便引来国家性的毁灭。主日法案中的“说话”，乃由君士坦丁于321年所颁布之开端与第一道主日法所预表，而其终结与最后一道主日法，则由538年所表征。

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, 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.

这一切事件都隐藏在但以理书11:40的预言历史之中，这段历史与米勒派的路线以及基督至十字架的路线并行。启示录12:15–16将宪法描绘为那曾吞灭龙所发逼迫洪水的“地”，而这“地”最终将在即将来临的星期日法案中说出龙的话。怀爱伦在《教会证言》第五卷（第711页及451–452页）中的警告——即任何向教皇制度让步的宗教立法，以及星期日法将显露龙的精神——证实了1776、1789、1798这三个步骤乃是路标，预表那以最后试验为终点的末后三步试验过程，而这试验的过程正是预备上帝子民站立得住的。

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).

第三篇文章进一步阐述了怀爱伦在《证言》第五卷第451—452页中的警告，主张美国即将来临的星期日法，标志着这个国家完全与公义脱离的决定性时刻，并完成三重联合（新教攫取罗马教与招魂术）。届时，美国将作为一个新教和共和政体，否弃其一切宪法原则，并散布教皇制度的迷惑。这就是上帝宽容之限已达的信号，从而使这个国家的罪恶之杯满盈，促使施怜悯的天使离去，并开启国家的毁灭。随后，对第五印中殉道者“要等到几时呢？”之呼喊的回应便来到，因为第二批教皇制度下的殉道者已被凑满。当“星期日运动”发声时，龙的灵便显露出来——这作为现代的“那行毁坏可憎的”（但以理所说、基督所提及者），成为在毁灭临到之前逃离城市的记号。星期日法乃是对宪法之渐进性否弃的终局；这种否弃始于2001年的《爱国者法案》（其预表见于1888年的布莱尔法案、主后66年塞斯提乌斯的围城、基督的受洗、1840年8月11日，以及《独立宣言》）。

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.

美国兽像形成的时期包含一条复杂的双重脉络，涉及彼此平行的共和制（政治）与新教（宗教）两“角”；这两者最终在政教联合强制执行星期日法之中合而为一。这种关系映照了教皇兽中妇人驾驭兽的掌控模式，并在推翻宪法所坚持之政教分离这一核心原则之时得以完全显明。

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.

在内在层面上，兽像试验的时期检验万民品格的塑造（基督的形像对比撒但兽的形像），将聪明的童女与愚拙的童女分别出来；而在外在层面上，则标示末后的政治斗争、联盟与所破坏的条约。2001年直至星期日法令期间，开启了晚雨的洒降（始于2001年9月11日《启示录》第18章的天使降下之时，借着纽约大楼的倒塌使全地发光）。9/11借着人对那当照《启示录》第10章所示“吃下去”的“小书卷”信息之接受或拒绝，开始了对老底嘉状态之基督复临安息日会的筛净。麦子和稗子仍一同存留，直到在星期日法令时被分开；那时，十四万四千人被高举为大旗，并且在全球性兽像形成期间——其预表为321年至538年——晚雨的完全倾降来到。随后，从巴比伦招聚大群众的工作开始，直到米迦勒站起来、恩典时期结束。这与审判先从上帝的家起首、始于9/11，然后在星期日法令之后临到第十一时辰工人的次序相一致。

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.

第三篇强调：要在天上的荣耀与过去的逼迫交织重演之时期得以存留，必须预先借着以赛亚书第28章“命上加命、令上加令”的方法，通达并掌握预言。这一方法由但以理书中的忠贞之士、五旬节前基督的门徒，以及炉火中的沙得拉、米煞、亚伯尼歌所作范例说明；他们乃是那些在撒但奇异的作为与伪冒之事充斥之中，已经预备好稳稳站立在“经上记着说”之上的人所预表的。

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.

第四篇文章阐明，在美国，兽像形成的预言性试验过程，与三个宪政路标并行推进且彼此交织（《爱国者法案》于2001年作为最初的“说话”，佩洛西审判于2022年作为中间阶段，而星期日法则作为最终阶段）。这一试验过程使聪明的童女（十四万四千人）预备好，能忍受自星期日法开始的那场加冕性的逼迫试炼；届时，国家性的背道将导致毁灭。随后，撒但释放出奇妙的伪冒之事（藉着神迹自称为上帝），而天上的荣光与过去一再重演的逼迫交织在一起，使上帝的子民得以在从上帝宝座发出的光中坚定前行，毫不动摇。这一预备过程与基督在《约翰福音》第六章中的策略相呼应（正如《历代愿望》第394页所注释的那样）；祂容许一场严峻的试验及早剔除那些自私自利的跟从者，并藉着祂的同在，使真实的门徒得以为他们最终的试炼（客西马尼、被出卖、被钉十字架）而得坚固。同样，兽像的试验——既包括内在品格的形成（基督的形像对撒但兽的形像），也包括外在政教联合对政教分离原则的推翻——筛净老底嘉状态中的复临信仰。藉着按着《以赛亚书》二十八章逐句逐段的方法领受那尚未封住的信息，这场试验洁净了聪明人。

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 the 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. 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).

那未启封的亮光，就是第七印的亮光（启示录 8:1–5）；它显现为火被投在地上，乃是对圣徒祈祷的回应，正如五旬节浇灌时那如火舌所预表的。未启封的亮光也曾借米勒派的“半夜呼声”表明出来（那呼声预备人凭信心进入至圣所）；而这也将在现代的“半夜呼声”中得以应验，此呼声已于 2023 年 7 月在但以理书 11:40 的隐藏历史之内被启封。自 9/11 以来后雨洒下的信息，连同对教皇制度与星期日法之知识的增长，并七雷的启封，以及第四十节的隐藏历史，这一切都包含在《耶稣基督的启示》的启封之中。关于兽像形成的详尽预言性阐明——包括共和党与新教两角的争战、政党、老底嘉状态下的复临信仰、十四万四千人的兴起、伊斯兰教的第三样灾祸、俄罗斯、联合国、教皇权，以及哈斯蒙尼王朝之平行对应——装备智慧人，使他们能够辨识并领受上帝的引导，而不忘记过去的带领（《传道良助》，31 页）。

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.

借着吃下这“⼩书卷”（启示录第10章），并通过庇哩亚式的查考，预先将这段历史内化于心，那十四万四千人便获得了分辨力，得以在撒但的迷惑之中稳固地站立于“经上记着说”之上。他们的预备使他们得以避免退后以致沉沦（希伯来书10:37–39；哈巴谷书2:4）；此后，他们便显明为经过试炼、经得起考验的得胜者，遵守上帝的诫命（尤其是第四条）和耶稣的真道。他们正是那些经历最后危机的人，在那里，义人必因信得生，有天使保护；而愚昧的人（拒绝这方法论与信息者）则遭遇强烈的迷惑，毫无指望。这与《证言》卷九中〈为王的来临〉一章（始于第11页）及其9/11象征相一致，因此表明，从9/11到星期日法令的这段时期，就是盖印的时候；在此期间，智慧人明白但以理书第十一章的应验完成，且一无所惧，惟独惧怕忘记上帝在过去神圣历史中的引领。

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.

这四篇文章共同提出了一个关于基督的预言性诠释：祂是犹大支派的狮子，是阿拉法，也是俄梅戛；祂在关键时刻开启但以理书第十一章的若干部分，以引导十四万四千人之最终改革运动。1989年，即1863年复临信徒“背叛”之后126年，狮子开启了但以理书11:40–45，显明教皇权在第41节所述三重联合（龙、兽和假先知）中，其1798年的死伤得医治，并导向哈米吉多顿——“荣美的圣山”，在那里，教皇权于第45节领受她最终的审判。这一开启启动了该运动的开端，在“教皇权和星期日法”之上产生了“知识的增长”（《信息选粹》，第2卷），并触发了但以理书12:10所表明的那三重试验：被“洁净、洗白，并且被熬炼”。

We will continue these thoughts in the next article.

我们将在下一篇文章中继续这些思想。