We are considering six historical lines within the history of Adventism where controversies over the symbol of Rome was the issue. We are employing the methodology of the latter rain, which is “line upon line” from “here a little” and “there a little.” We began by identifying that the first controversy over the symbol of Rome illustrates the current controversy, and therefore emphasizes that we are now in the last controversy before probation closes.
我们正在考察复临运动历史中的六条历史线，其中围绕罗马象征的争议是关键议题。我们采用晚雨的方法论，即“律上加律、例上加例”，源自“这里一点”和“那里一点”。我们首先指出，关于罗马象征的第一次争议阐明了当前的争议，因此强调我们现今正处于恩典期结束之前的最后一场争议之中。
The seriousness of this final controversy about the symbol of Rome is also represented by verses ten through sixteen of Daniel eleven, which typify the hidden history of verse forty of Daniel eleven. The history of verse forty brings the student of prophecy to 1989 and the collapse of the Soviet Union as represented in verse ten. The next verse, verse forty-one, which identifies the soon-coming Sunday law in the United States, is typified by verse sixteen. Inspiration has identified that what was sealed was “the portion of the book of Daniel that related to the last days”.
关于罗马象征的这场最终争端的严肃性，也体现在但以理书十一章第十至第十六节中；这些经文预表了但以理书十一章第四十节所隐藏的历史。第四十节的历史把研究预言的人带到1989年以及苏联的解体，正如第十节所预表的。下一节，即第四十一节，指出美国即将来临的主日法令，而这节是由第十六节所预表的。启示已经指出，被封住的是“但以理书中与末后日子有关的那一部分”。
1989 unto the Sunday law is the sealed portion of the last days, and it is typified in verses ten through sixteen. It is therefore the increase of knowledge that leads to the close of probation for Seventh-day Adventists, for Adventism’s probation in the United States is finished at the Sunday law. In verses ten through sixteen we find verse fourteen, which identifies that it is the “robbers” of God’s people that establish the vision.
从1989年直到星期日法令，是末后日子中被封住的一段时期，并在第十至第十六节中有所预表。因此，正是知识的增长导致基督复临安息日会信徒的恩典时期结束，因为基督复临安息日会在美国的恩典时期将在星期日法令时结束。在第十至第十六节中，我们看到第十四节，它指出，确立这异象的是抢劫神子民的“强盗”。
Therefore, the Millerite controversy that is represented upon the 1843 pioneer chart is the first controversy of Rome in Adventism’s history. The fact that the very same controversy has again arrived, informs anyone who wishes to see that Jesus, as the Alpha and Omega, always illustrates the end with the beginning. The current controversy is the final controversy which sifts the wise and foolish virgins.
因此，1843年图表上所呈现的米勒派争论，是罗马在复临运动历史中的第一次争论。同样的争论再次出现这一事实，向任何愿意看见的人表明，作为阿尔法和俄梅伽的耶稣，总是以始证终。当前的这场争论就是最终的争论，它要筛选聪明与愚拙的童女。
Sanctified prophetic logic teaches that the one hundred and forty-four thousand come into perfect unity before their close of probation at the soon-coming Sunday law. The refining fire of Malachi’s Messenger of the Covenant is now purifying the Levites as gold and silver. The Dirt Brush Man is now purging His floor with words of truth.
成圣的预言性逻辑教导说：十四万四千人将在即将来临的主日法令之时他们的恩典期结束之前达到完全合一。玛拉基书所说的“立约的使者”的熬炼之火，如今正如炼金银一般洁净利未人。“扫尘人”如今正用真理的话语扬净他的禾场。
“‘Whose fan is in His hand, and He will throughly purge His floor, and gather His wheat into the garner.’ Matthew 3:12. This was one of the times of purging. By the words of truth, the chaff was being separated from the wheat. Because they were too vain and self-righteous to receive reproof, too world-loving to accept a life of humility, many turned away from Jesus. Many are still doing the same thing. Souls are tested today as were those disciples in the synagogue at Capernaum. When truth is brought home to the heart, they see that their lives are not in accordance with the will of God. They see the need of an entire change in themselves; but they are not willing to take up the self-denying work. Therefore they are angry when their sins are discovered. They go away offended, even as the disciples left Jesus, murmuring, ‘This is an hard saying; who can hear it?’” The Desire of Ages, 392.
“‘他手里拿着簸箕，要扬净他的场，把他的麦子收在仓里。’（马太福音3:12）这正是一次洁净的时候。借着真理的话，糠秕与麦子被分别出来。因为他们太虚荣、自以为义，不肯接受责备；又太爱世界，不愿过谦卑的生活，许多人就离开了耶稣。如今仍有许多人这样做。今日的人心也像当年在迦百农会堂里的那些门徒一样受试验。当真理临到人心时，他们看见自己的生活不符合上帝的旨意。他们看出自己需要完全的改变，却不愿担起舍己的工作。因此，当他们的罪被揭露时，他们就发怒。他们带着受冒犯的心离去，正如那些门徒离开耶稣时喃喃抱怨：‘这话甚难，谁能听呢？’” 《历代愿望》，第392页。
The fact that the first sixteen verses are the beginning of Daniel’s last prophecy, and that those verses align with the last six verses of the chapter, indicates that the Alpha and Omega is using the verses in the beginning to accomplish the final separation of the wise and wicked, as represented by Daniel in chapter twelve, which is now occurring.
前十六节是但以理最后一次预言的开端，而且这些经文与本章最后六节相一致，这表明阿尔法与欧米伽正在借助开头的经文来成就对智慧人与恶人的最终分别，正如但以理书第十二章所描绘的那样，而这件事如今正在发生。
A third witness to the serious nature of the controversy is the fact that inspiration, through the writings of Sister White, clearly upholds the 1843 pioneer chart, which represents the controversy of Rome in verse fourteen. The beginning controversy represents the ending controversy, and the inspired endorsement of the Millerite understanding of verse fourteen’s “robbers of thy people,” means that if that foundational truth is rejected, it is simultaneously a rejection of the authority of the Spirit of Prophecy. In agreement with the previous two witnesses that emphasize that this controversy occurs just before probation closes is the certainty that the last, or final, deception for those who profess to uphold the Spirit of Prophecy, is a rejection of the Spirit of Prophecy.
第三个见证，证明这场争端的严肃性，是这样的事实：启示通过怀特姐妹的著作，明确维护了1843年的先锋图表，而该图表呈现了第十四节中关于罗马的争端。起始的争端预示着结束的争端；启示对米勒派关于第十四节中“抢夺你子民的人”的理解所作的认可，意味着只要否认那项基础真理，就同时否认了“预言之灵”的权威。与先前两位见证一致、并强调这场争端恰发生在宽限期结束之前的，还有这样一个确定无疑的事实：对那些自称坚持“预言之灵”的人来说，最后、也就是最终的迷惑，就是对“预言之灵”的拒绝。
“Satan is . . . constantly pressing in the spurious—to lead away from truth. The very last deception of Satan will be to make of none effect the testimony of the Spirit of God. ‘Where there is no vision, the people perish’ (Proverbs 29:18). Satan will work ingeniously, in different ways and through different agencies, to unsettle the confidence of God’s remnant people in the true testimony.
撒但……不断地推行虚假的事物，为要使人偏离真理。撒但最后的迷惑，就是使上帝之灵的见证失去效力。“没有异象，百姓就灭亡”（箴言29:18）。撒但将会巧妙地，以不同的方式并借着不同的渠道，来动摇上帝余民对真实见证的信心。
“There will be a hatred kindled against the Testimonies which is satanic. The workings of Satan will be to unsettle the faith of the churches in them, for this reason: Satan cannot have so clear a track to bring in his deceptions and bind up souls in his delusions if the warnings and reproofs and counsels of the Spirit of God are heeded.” Selected Messages, book 1, 48.
必将兴起一种出于撒但、敌对《证言》的仇恨。撒但的作为，就是要动摇各教会对这些证言的信心，原因在于：若人们留心听从上帝之灵的警告、责备与劝勉，撒但就无法有如此畅通的道路把他的欺骗带进来，并用他的迷妄捆绑人的灵魂。《信息选集》第一册，第48页。
The making of none effect, or the rejection of the authority of the “testimony of the Spirit of God” through the writings of Ellen White, is the “very last deception of Satan.” Sister White wrote that she was “shown” that the “1843 chart was directed by the hand of the Lord, and should not be altered.” The previous passage directly associates the rejection of the authority of the Spirit of Prophecy with the vision of the last days, for all the prophets speak most directly of the last days. Therefore when Daniel says in verse fourteen that “the robbers” establish the vision, it is Solomon’s vision of Proverbs 29:18, which says that those who do not have the vision “perish,” and the word “perish” means “to be made naked”.
通过怀爱伦著作而来的“上帝之灵的见证”之权威若被作废或遭拒绝，这就是“撒但最末后的迷惑”。怀爱伦姐妹写道，她蒙“指示”，“1843年图表是由主的手所引导的，不可更改。”前文直接把拒绝“预言之灵”的权威与末日的异象联系起来，因为众先知所最直接论及的，正是末后的日子。因此，当但以理在第十四节说“强盗”为要成就那异象时，所指的是所罗门在箴言29:18中的异象；那里说，没有异象的人就要“灭亡”，而“灭亡”一词的意思是“变得赤身露体”。
“Perish” is therefore identifying that those who profess to uphold the Spirit of Prophecy in the last days, but who reject the authority represented therein, become naked, and perish, which is a description of the Laodiceans, who are “wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked.” They are counseled to buy “white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear.” If they refuse the counsel they are spewed out of the mouth of the Lord.
因此，“灭亡”一词指出，那些自称在末后的日子维护“预言之灵”，却拒绝其中所代表之权柄的人，便成了赤身露体，并且灭亡；这正是对老底嘉人的描述，他们是“困苦、可怜、贫穷、瞎眼、赤身露体”的。他们被劝勉去买‘白衣，好叫你穿上，叫你赤身的羞耻不露出来’。若他们拒绝这劝告，就要被主从他口中吐出去。
Thus, we find another witness that this nakedness is manifested just before probation closes. At the soon-coming Sunday law those naked souls will receive the mark of the beast, as they are overthrown, as represented in verse forty-one of Daniel eleven. The reason they will be overthrown is that they rejected the authority of the Spirit of Prophecy, which upholds the 1843 pioneer chart, which represents the foundations of Adventism, and includes the “key” which establishes the vision with the identification that Rome is the power represented as “the robbers of thy people” in verse fourteen.
因此，我们又找到一个见证：这种赤裸正是在恩典时期结束之前显明出来的。在即将到来的星期日法令之时，那些赤裸的灵魂将领受兽的印记；当他们被倾覆时，正如但以理书十一章四十一节所描述的那样。他们之所以被倾覆，是因为他们拒绝了预言之灵的权威；预言之灵维护1843年先锋图表，这图表代表复临信仰的基础，并且包含那把“钥匙”，藉由认定罗马就是第十四节中所称“你民中的强盗”所代表的权势，从而确立这异象。
“One thing is certain: those Seventh-day Adventists who take their stand under Satan’s banner will first give up their faith in the warnings and reproofs contained in the Testimonies of God’s spirit.
有一件事是确定的：那些站到撒但旗下的基督复临安息日会信徒，必先放弃他们对上帝之灵的见证中所包含的警告和责备的信心。
“The call to greater consecration and holier service is being made, and will continue to be made. Some who are now voicing Satan’s suggestions will come to their senses. There are those in important positions of trust who do not understand the truth for this time. To them the message must be given. If they receive it, Christ will accept them, and will make them workers together with him. But if they refuse to hear the message, they will take their stand under the black banner of the Prince of Darkness.
呼召人更深奉献、更加圣洁地事奉已经发出，并且还要继续发出。现今为撒但的建议发声的人中，有些将会醒悟过来。身居受托重任的重要职位的人中，有些并不明白现今的真理。必须把这信息传给他们。若他们接受，基督必接纳他们，并使他们成为与他同工的人。但若他们拒绝听从这信息，他们就会站在黑暗之君的黑旗下。
“I am instructed to say that the precious truth for this time is open more and more clearly to human minds. In a special sense men and women are to eat of Christ’s flesh and drink of his blood. There will be a development of the understanding, for the truth is capable of constant expansion. The divine originator of truth will come into closer and still closer communion with those who follow on to know him. As God’s people receive his word as the bread of heaven, they will know that his goings forth are prepared as the morning. They will receive spiritual strength, as the body receives physical strength when food is eaten.” Spalding and Magan, 305, 306.
我受指示要说，这时候的宝贵真理正越来越清楚地向人的心智开启。在一个特殊的意义上，男女都要吃基督的肉，喝他的血。人的领悟将会发展，因为真理具有不断扩展的能力。真理的神圣创始者将与那些继续追求认识他的人进入越来越亲密的相交。神的子民把他的话当作天上的粮来领受时，他们就会知道，他的行动如清晨一般已经预备妥当。他们将获得属灵的力量，正如身体在进食时获得体力一样。 Spalding and Magan, 305, 306.
In our last article we identified that Uriah Smith was the champion of the rebellion of 1863, for it was he who introduced the counterfeit 1863 chart. The chart he produced in 1863 removed the seven times of Leviticus twenty-six from Laodicean Adventism’s prophetic message, thus marking the beginning of the progressive tearing down of the foundations, and also the beginning of the construction of the counterfeit Laodicean Adventist foundation, which is built upon sand. Later in Advent history, his private interpretation of the king of the north, bore the fruits of his prophetic model as people fled the church.
在上一篇文章中，我们指出，尤赖亚·史密斯是1863年反叛的旗手，因为正是他推出了那张伪造的1863年图表。他在1863年制作的图表，把《利未记》二十六章的“七次”从老底嘉复临派的预言信息中移除，从而标志着逐步拆毁根基的开端，也开启了那套建在沙土上的假冒老底嘉复临派根基的建造。后来在复临历史中，他对“北方之王”的私人诠释，使他那套预言模式结出了果子，人们纷纷离开教会。
Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them. Not everyone that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity. Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock: And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock. And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand: And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it. Matthew 7:15–27.
你们要防备假先知；他们披着羊皮来到你们这里，里面却是凶残的狼。你们可以凭着他们的果子认出他们。人岂能从荆棘上摘葡萄，或从蒺藜里采无花果呢？这样，凡好树都结好果子；坏树却结坏果子。好树不能结坏果子，坏树也不能结好果子。凡不结好果子的树，就被砍下，丢在火里。所以，你们必凭着他们的果子认出他们。不是每个对我说“主啊，主啊”的人都能进天国，惟有遵行我在天上的父旨意的人才能进去。到那日，许多人要对我说：“主啊，主啊，我们不是奉你的名说预言吗？奉你的名赶鬼吗？奉你的名行了许多奇事吗？”我就明明地告诉他们：“我从来不认识你们；你们这些作恶的人，离开我去吧！”所以，凡听见我这些话又去实行的，我要把他比作一个把房子建在磐石上的聪明人：雨淋，水冲，风吹，冲击那房子，它总不倒塌，因为根基立在磐石上。凡听见我这些话却不实行的，就好比一个把房子建在沙土上的愚拙人：雨淋，水冲，风吹，冲击那房子，它就倒塌了，而且倒塌得很厉害。马太福音 7:15-27。
The leadership of Laodicean Seventh-day Adventism was passed by in 1989, as assuredly as the leadership of the Jewish church was passed by at the birth of Christ.
1989年，处于老底嘉状态的基督复临安息日会的领导层被越过，其确凿无疑，正如基督降生时犹太教会的领导层被越过一样。
“Men know it not, but the tidings fill heaven with rejoicing. With a deeper and more tender interest the holy beings from the world of light are drawn to the earth. The whole world is brighter for His presence. Above the hills of Bethlehem are gathered an innumerable throng of angels. They wait the signal to declare the glad news to the world. Had the leaders in Israel been true to their trust, they might have shared the joy of heralding the birth of Jesus. But now they are passed by.
世人尚不知晓，然而这佳音已使天庭欢腾。来自光明世界的圣洁生灵怀着更深、更温柔的关怀被吸引来到人间。因着祂的同在，整个世界都更加明亮。伯利恒的群山之上，聚集着不可胜数的天使。他们等待号令，要向世人宣告这大喜的讯息。若以色列的领袖忠于所托，他们本可以一同分享传报耶稣降生的喜乐。但如今他们却被越过了。
“God declares, ‘I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground.’ ‘Unto the upright there ariseth light in the darkness.’ Isaiah 44:3; Psalm 112:4. To those who are seeking for light, and who accept it with gladness, the bright rays from the throne of God will shine.” The Desire of Ages, 47.
上帝宣告：“我要将水浇灌口渴的人，将河水浇灌干旱之地。” “正直人在黑暗中必有光升起。”以赛亚书44:3；诗篇112:4。凡寻求光明并欣然接受的人，来自上帝宝座的明亮光芒将照耀他们。The Desire of Ages, 47.
The time of the end in the line of Christ was His birth, and it was then that the message which would test that generation was unsealed. 1989 was the time of the end for the candidates who are called to be among the one hundred and forty-four thousand. Uriah Smith’s prophetic model rejected the foundational truths which are represented on the 1843 chart. Those truths were the “Rock.”
在基督这条线上的末时就是祂的诞生，而就在那时，将要考验那一代人的信息被解封。对于那些被呼召要列在十四万四千人之中的候选者来说，1989年就是末时。Uriah Smith 的预言模型否定了1843年图表上所代表的根基真理。那些真理就是“磐石”。
“The warning has come: Nothing is to be allowed to come in that will disturb the foundation of the faith upon which we have been building ever since the message came in 1842, 1843, and 1844. I was in this message, and ever since I have been standing before the world, true to the light that God has given us. We do not propose to take our feet off the platform on which they were placed as day by day we sought the Lord with earnest prayer, seeking for light. Do you think that I could give up the light that God has given me? It is to be as the Rock of Ages. It has been guiding me ever since it was given.” Review and Herald, April 14, 1903.
“警告已经临到：不可容许任何会动摇我们信仰根基的东西闯入。自从1842、1843和1844年信息临到以来，我们一直在这根基上建造。我在这信息之中；从那时起，我一直站在世人面前，忠于上帝赐给我们的亮光。我们不打算把脚从那平台上挪开；当我们日复一日以恳切的祷告寻求主、寻求亮光时，我们的脚就被安置在其上。你以为我能放弃上帝赐给我的亮光吗？它当如万古磐石一般。自从这亮光赐下以来，它一直在引导我。” 评论与先驱，1903年4月14日。
On September 11, 2001 the latter rain began to sprinkle as the winds representing Islam of the third Woe were released, and the Patriot Act marked a transition from English to Roman law prophetically announcing that the flood of the papal power had begun to flow. The final testing process for the house of Laodicean Adventism began, and “the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it”.
2001年9月11日，晚雨开始微微降下，代表第三样祸灾之伊斯兰的风被释放；而《爱国者法案》则标志着从英国法向罗马法的过渡，先知性地宣告教皇权势的洪流已经开始涌动。老底嘉的复临派之家的最终考验过程开始了，并且“雨降下，洪水来了，风刮起，冲击那房子；它就倒塌了，其倒塌甚大”。
The message that the mighty angel announced at that time identified that all nations had drunk the wine of Babylon, and the counterfeit methodology of papal Rome and apostate Protestantism which had been progressively adopted since the rebellion of 1863, is represented by the wine (doctrine) of Babylon.
当时那位大能天使所宣告的信息指出，万国都喝了巴比伦的酒；而自1863年的反叛以来逐步被采纳的教皇罗马与背道新教的假冒方法论，则由巴比伦的酒（教义）所代表。
And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory. And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird. For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies. Revelation 18:1–3.
此后，我又看见另一位天使从天降下，带着大能；他的荣耀使大地明亮。 他用洪亮的声音呼喊说：“巴比伦大城倾倒了！倾倒了！她成了鬼魔的住处，成了各种污秽之灵盘踞之地，也成了各样不洁可憎的飞鸟的巢穴。 因为万国都喝了她淫乱所引发的烈怒之酒，地上的君王也与她行淫，地上的商人因她奢华的丰盛而富足起来。” 启示录18:1-3。
At the disappointment of July 18, 2020, the testing process was over for the Laodicean Seventh-day Adventist church, and the testing process of those who were the candidates to be among the one hundred and forty-four thousand began. When Michael began to awaken those candidates in July of 2023, the message, represented as oil in the parable of Adventism was again unsealed. Whether post September 11, 2001 or post July 2023, there was an outpouring of the oil, and the message that was unsealed in July 2023, when fully developed, is the Midnight Cry message of the parable.
在2020年7月18日的失望之时，处于老底嘉状态的基督复临安息日会的考验过程已经结束，而那些有望列入十四万四千人之中的人的考验过程开始了。当米迦勒在2023年7月开始唤醒这些候选者时，那在复临运动的比喻中以油所代表的信息再次被解封。无论是在2001年9月11日之后，还是在2023年7月之后，都有油的浇灌；而在2023年7月被解封的信息，在完全发展之后，就是那比喻中的午夜呼声信息。
It begins in the testing time as the message for the wise and foolish virgins, but it swells to the loud cry message. That message arrives at the soon-coming Sunday law, and when it arrives the second voice of Revelation chapter eighteen calls God’s other flock out of Babylon.
它在考验时期以给聪明与愚拙的童女的信息开始，却逐渐高涨成为大呼喊的信息。那信息一直延续到即将来临的星期日法令；而当那时刻来到时，启示录第十八章的第二个声音便呼召上帝其他的羊群从巴比伦出来。
And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues. For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities. Revelation 18:4, 5.
我又听见另有一个声音从天上说：我的民哪，你们要从她出来，免得你们与她的罪有份，也免得你们受她所受的灾殃。因为她的罪恶已经直达天上，神也记念她的罪孽。启示录18:4、5。
The first voice of verse one through three announced the arrival of a testing time, and the sprinkling of the latter rain then began. The second voice identifies the end of that testing time, and announces the testing time for God’s other flock that is still in Babylon.
第一至第三节中的第一个声音宣告试炼时期的到来，随后晚雨的点滴便开始降下。第二个声音指出那段试炼时期的结束，并宣告仍在巴比伦中的神的另一群羊将进入试炼时期。
“So in the last work for the warning of the world, two distinct calls are made to the churches. The second angel’s message is, ‘Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.’ And in the loud cry of the third angel’s message a voice is heard from heaven saying, ‘Come out of her, my people.’” Review and Herald, December 6, 1892.
因此，在向世界发出末后警告的工作中，向各教会发出了两个截然不同的呼召。第二位天使的信息是：“巴比伦那大城倾倒了！倾倒了！因为她使万国喝了她淫乱烈怒的酒。”而在第三位天使信息的大声呼喊中，有声音从天上说：“我的民哪，你们要从她中间出来。”《评论与通讯》，1892年12月6日。
It is during the outpouring of the Holy Spirit that Paul’s strong delusion of Second Thessalonians is accomplished. Whether it was the testing of the Laodicean Seventh-day Adventist church that began on September 11, 2001 or the testing of the virgins who experienced the disappointment of July 18, 2020, the testing occurs during an outpouring of the Holy Spirit. That outpouring represents a testing message.
保罗在《帖撒罗尼迦后书》中所说的“强烈的迷惑”，是在圣灵浇灌期间发生的。无论是2001年9月11日开始临到老底嘉的基督复临安息日会的考验，还是2020年7月18日经历失望的童女所受的考验，考验都发生在圣灵浇灌之时。那样的浇灌代表着一条考验的信息。
“The anointed ones standing by the Lord of the whole earth, have the position once given to Satan as covering cherub. By the holy beings surrounding his throne, the Lord keeps up a constant communication with the inhabitants of the earth. The golden oil represents the grace with which God keeps the lamps of believers supplied, that they shall not flicker and go out. Were it not that this holy oil is poured from heaven in the messages of God’s Spirit, the agencies of evil would have entire control over men.
站在全地之主旁的受膏者，拥有那曾赐给撒但的遮掩基路伯的职位。借着环绕他宝座的圣洁生灵，主与地上的居民保持着持续不断的沟通。那金油象征着神的恩典，神借此不断为信徒的灯补给，使它们不至于摇曳而熄灭。若不是这圣油借着神之灵的信息从天上倾注下来，邪恶的势力就会完全掌控人类。
“God is dishonored when we do not receive the communications which he sends us. Thus we refuse the golden oil which he would pour into our souls to be communicated to those in darkness. When the call shall come, ‘Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him,’ those who have not received the holy oil, who have not cherished the grace of Christ in their hearts, will find, like the foolish virgins, that they are not ready to meet their Lord. They have not, in themselves, the power to obtain the oil, and their lives are wrecked. But if God’s Holy Spirit is asked for, if we plead, as did Moses, ‘Show me thy glory,’ the love of God will be shed abroad in our hearts. Through the golden pipes, the golden oil will be communicated to us. ‘Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, saith the Lord of Hosts.’ By receiving the bright beams of the Sun of Righteousness, God’s children shine as lights in the world.” Review and Herald, July 20, 1897.
当我们不接受祂赐给我们的信息时，就使上帝蒙羞。这样，我们就拒绝了祂本要浇灌在我们心灵里的金油，使之得以传给在黑暗中的人。当那呼声传来：“看哪，新郎来了，你们出来迎接他”时，那些没有领受圣油、没有在心中珍惜基督恩典的人，就会像愚拙的童女一样，发现自己并未预备好去迎见他们的主。他们本身没有得着这油的能力，他们的生命因此毁了。但若求上帝的圣灵，像摩西那样恳求说：“求你将你的荣耀显给我看”，上帝的爱就必浇灌在我们心里。藉着金管，金油就要输送给我们。“不是倚靠势力，不是倚靠才能，乃是倚靠我的灵，这是万军之耶和华说的。”因着领受公义的日头明亮的光线，上帝的儿女便在世上发光如明灯。《评论与先驱》，1897年7月20日。
The sealing time of the one hundred and forty-four thousand began on September 11, 2001, and it represents two testing periods. The first is the final testing of the Laodicean Seventh-day Adventist church, and the second is for those who are the subjects of the parable of the ten virgins. To be either a wise or a foolish virgin requires that all the virgins experience a tarrying time.
十四万四千人的封印时期始于2001年9月11日，并且它代表两个考验时期。第一个是对老底嘉的基督复临安息日会的最终考验，第二个是针对十童女比喻所指之人的考验。要成为聪明或愚拙的童女，所有的童女都必须经历一段迟延的时期。
In Millerite history the tarrying time began with the arrival of the second angel, which occurred at the first disappointment. At that point the Protestants, who were God’s former covenant chosen people were passed by. On July 18, 2020 the former covenant chosen people were passed by, and the testing process that occurred during the tarrying time in the Millerite history began to be repeated. The message of the Midnight Cry was then developed in Millerite history, as it is currently being developed. When it fully arrived at the Exeter Camp meeting it was manifested who had the message (oil) and who did not. The former covenant chosen people of either history is the first to be tested and passed by.
在米勒派的历史中，耽延时期随着第二位天使的到来而开始，这发生在第一次失望之时。那时，作为上帝先前立约所拣选的子民的新教徒被越过了。2020年7月18日，先前立约所拣选的子民被越过，米勒派历史中耽延时期所经历的试验过程开始被重复。随后，“午夜呼声”的信息在米勒派历史中得以发展，正如它如今正在被发展一样。当这信息在埃克塞特露营大会上完全临到时，谁有这信息（油）、谁没有就显明出来了。在这两段历史中，先前立约所拣选的子民都是首先被试验并被越过的。
“‘A new heart will I give you and a new spirit will I put within you.’ I believe with all my heart that the Spirit of God is being withdrawn from the world, and those who have had great light and opportunities and have not improved them, will be the first to be left. They have grieved away the Spirit of God. The present activity of Satan in working upon hearts, and upon churches and nations should startle every student of prophecy. The end is near. Let our churches arise. Let the converting power of God be experienced in the heart of the individual members, and then we shall see the deep moving of the Spirit of God. Mere forgiveness of sin is not the sole result of the death of Jesus. He made the infinite sacrifice not only that sin might be removed, but that human nature might be restored, rebeautified, reconstructed from its ruins, and made fit for the presence of God.” Selected Messages, book 3, 154.
“‘我要赐给你们一个新心，也要将新灵放在你们里面。’我全心相信，神的灵正在从这世界撤回；那些曾蒙大光、得着许多机会却未加以善用的人，将是最先被撇下的。他们使神的灵忧伤而离去。撒但如今在人的心中、在教会并在列国中的作为，足以使每一位研究预言的人震惊。结局临近了。让我们的教会兴起吧。让神转化人心的大能在各个成员的心中得以经历，然后我们就要看见神之灵深切的动工。对罪的赦免并非耶稣之死的唯一结果。他献上无穷的牺牲，不仅为除去罪孽，也为使人性得以恢复、重新美化，从其废墟中重建，并被造就成为配得站在神面前的样式。”《信息选集》，第三册，第154页。
In either testing period, those who rejected the message that is unsealed receive Paul’s strong delusion.
在任一测试期内，拒绝那被解封的信息的人都会受到保罗的强烈迷惑。
“It is a fearful thing to treat lightly the truth which has convinced our understanding and touched our hearts. We cannot with impunity reject the warnings which God in mercy sends us. A message was sent from heaven to the world in Noah’s day, and the salvation of men depended upon the manner in which they treated that message. Because they rejected the warning, the Spirit of God was withdrawn from the sinful race, and they perished in the waters of the flood. In the time of Abraham, mercy ceased to plead with the guilty inhabitants of Sodom, and all but Lot with his wife and two daughters were consumed by the fire sent down from heaven. So in the days of Christ. The Son of God declared to the unbelieving Jews of that generation, ‘Your house is left unto you desolate.’ Looking down to the last days, the same infinite power declares, concerning those who ‘received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved,’ ‘For this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: that they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.’ As they reject the teachings of His Word, God withdraws His Spirit, and leaves them to the deceptions which they love.” Early Writings, 46.
“轻视那已经说服我们理智、触动我们心灵的真理，是一件可怕的事。我们不能无所顾忌地拒绝上帝出于怜悯赐给我们的警告，以为可以不受惩罚。在挪亚的日子，天上曾向世人发出信息，人类的得救取决于他们如何对待那信息。因他们拒绝那警告，上帝的圣灵就从这罪恶的族类中撤回，他们便在洪水中灭亡。在亚伯拉罕的时候，怜悯不再为所多玛有罪的居民代求，除了罗得与他的妻子和两个女儿之外，众人都被从天降下的火所吞灭。基督的日子也是如此。上帝的儿子对那一代不信的犹太人宣告：‘你们的家成为荒场留给你们。’展望末后的日子，这同样无限的权能论到那些‘不接受爱真理之心，使他们可以得救’的人宣告说：‘因此，上帝就使他们陷入强烈的迷惑，叫他们信从虚谎，使一切不信真理、倒喜爱不义的人都被定罪。’当他们拒绝祂话语的教训时，上帝便撤回祂的圣灵，任凭他们落在自己所喜爱的迷惑之中。”《早期著作》，46。
We will continue this study in the next article.
我们将在下一篇文章中继续这项研究。