Then shall we know, if we follow on, to know the Lord. I'm on page 165 of the notes. This is part three of a series called Covenant Lines, and the next couple, the title will be An Exclusive Internal Gospel. What I mean by that, there's bound to be a better way to say that, but I'm saying there's a gospel work, inclusive is probably the wrong word, but what I mean by that is that there's a gospel work that goes on among Adventism in the judgment of the living that is exclusively for them, and to do any other work is not to come to God in his appointed way. This little church family here has recently been shaken over this very issue, and of course there's two sides to this issue and the shaking in this little church family, and the other side may tell it different than I would tell it, but there's about a third of our church family that as of a few weeks ago is not here any longer over this issue, and it has been going on for about a year or so, and I'm only talking about it to make some specific points about this sermon. I'm not bellyaching or trying to criticize, but there's been some misrepresentation here and it's went all around the world about what I or this ministry believes, so I had a sermon that I've derived most of these notes from once here for this church family, and I began it this way. I'm certain that all of the self-supporting ministries that are in this movement, that Future for America has more credentials to public evangelism than any of them, okay? And I say that for this reason, that for many, many years now, Future for America has been supporting a conference pastor in Africa, and his work in that country in Africa has reached a level that more than, well, at least three times, the Biblical Research Institute of the Seventh-day Adventist Church has went to his country and tried to restrain him from presenting this message, but they have not been able to do so because of the Lord's intercession in every case, and there was also a hesitancy to do so because in that particular country, he has been responsible for bringing in more people to the Adventist Church than any other pastor in that country, possibly more than any other person in Africa into the Adventist Church. So when we've received the criticism about public evangelism, I want to say out front that this isn't any pet idea that Jeff Pippenger or this ministry thought up, okay? Here's a new one to dazzle the crowd. This is coming from our understanding of what we presented a couple of presentations ago about the responsibility of eating the little book includes taking a message to Israel, and once this issue began to be agitated in this church family, there was some misrepresentation that went on. There were people here that were teaching and pursuing literature evangelism, and they were going different directions on other things with the main intent of this church family, and from my perspective, they made the subject of literature evangelism an excuse to further the direction they were going, and there came a point right at the outset of all this where Brother Mark was in the home of one of them, and in the discussion, one of the people involved said that taking care of the duties of their family had taken so much time that they did not even have time to be studying the Bible, where Mark told them, then if you don't have time to be doing regular personal Bible study, then you shouldn't be doing anything outside of studying the Bible and taking care of your family in that order, and it was in the context of literature evangelism. From that conversation, it has been spread all over the world that Future for America and Jeff Pippenger does not uphold literature evangelism. Okay, I hope that is totally false, but I will stand by Mark. If any of you are so wrapped up in your secular pursuits that you don't have time to study the Bible, then you need to set aside any and every one of those secular pursuits that is keeping you from reading the little book, okay? So that's what happened on that issue, and it has become an issue where on a regular basis, I get emails or telephone calls saying, why is it that you're against literature evangelism? And it's become an issue that before we were even done digesting what we were understanding about public evangelism that has been misrepresented about us, and I mean it all over planet Earth. Early on, early on, there was a report that came from Mexico asking people in this area, who is this Mark Bruce person from Scotland that has led Jeff Pippenger into darkness? This is the kind of things that have happened. This is not false witness. This has taken place. And it's just a couple of examples to tell you that the environment here about this subject of public evangelism. My wife doesn't read my emails very often, and not purposely. Sometimes she'll get on the computer after I have when she's going to check her emails without going outside where her computer is to check her emails. In the context of this subject, one of the self-supporting ministries in this movement fired off an email to me telling me that they had understood that I'm against public evangelism several months ago, and they were borderline cursing at me about what kind of darkness I was in. And one of the other ministries who was in this email chimed in saying, Amen, brother. And then he went off for a couple paragraphs of a tirade against us for our position on literature evangelism and public evangelism that we had not even publicly taken at that point. And I happened to read that, and it scorched my wife's mind that that's the kind of animosity that was developed over this issue before we had even said anything about it. So what I'm telling you now, what I'm leading into in this presentation is that, number one, we've got evidence that we don't have any personal agenda, that some kind of weird harebrained idea about why anyone should not be doing public evangelism. What we have is what we understand, the leading of the Lord into this subject, it's led us to an understanding of what the work is for God's people during the time of the judgment of the living. And as we've been discovering some of these things that are leading us in this direction, there has been just an avalanche of resistance thrown our way. And I have a hunch there are some people in here in this room right now, and I'm certain there will be people that watch this DVD that just won't be even able to get by the initial thought that I'm suggesting that from 9-11 to the Sunday Law, Seventh-day Adventists have a work that takes place among Adventism, and to do anything outside of that is to step out of God's appointed way for salvation. I think the line-up online that we did on eating the little book two presentations ago is enough to answer that question, but amazing as it is, it seems now that the Lord has brought attention to this subject, I find that this truth is upheld from the beginning of the Bible to the end of the Bible, even though it hasn't ever been recognized before. So with that in mind, this particular presentation will be based upon Christ, the character of Christ, and what I mean by that is the character of Christ is He is the God that illustrates the end from the beginning, He is the Alpha and the Omega. And I want to identify that at the beginning of ancient Israel, there was a specific period of time where there was a work accomplished during a covenant time period that just took place exclusively among Israel. And then at the end of ancient Israel, the same experience took place. And even though we haven't checked it out, Ellen White and the Adventist historians identify that at the beginning of Adventism, the beginning of modern Israel, there was also a period of time where there was an exclusive internal work that was accomplished for the beginning of Adventism, and until that work was finished, Adventism did not do any public evangelism whatsoever. And therefore, because Jesus is the Alpha and the Omega, upon the testimony of three, if this is correct, I would suggest to you that when the Lord is entering into covenant with the 144,000 at the end of Adventism, at the end of modern Israel, during the time period of the judgment of the living, that He is calling us to set aside 160-some years of testimony concerning public evangelism and accept the Laodicean message which says that if we don't obtain a genuine experience of the incarnation of Christ within us, then we have nothing to offer to the world anyway. And that is what takes place in the judgment of the living. So that's what I'm going to try to show to you. And the problem I had to show this to you is I have, counting this one, which I've made some time up on, I have this one and three more presentations, and it's not enough. There are several witnesses from the Bible to show this. So let's get started. Page 165. 1888 materials, page 133. The Lord has need of men who are spiritually sharp and clear-sighted, men worked by the Holy Spirit, who are certainly receiving manna fresh from heaven. I like this quote because it talks about manna, and we're going to find in these histories that I'm speaking about, the manna is the issue, one of the issues. It's the symbol. The 40 years when the Lord was entering into covenant with ancient Israel at the beginning of their history, they were called to eat manna that came down from heaven. In the seven years when Christ was confirming the covenant at the end of ancient Israel and he was entering into covenant with the Christian church, the symbol of that testing period was the bread of heaven, Christ himself. They were to eat his flesh and drink his blood. In the period of time that he was entering into covenant with modern Israel, the beginnings of the Seventh-day Adventist church, the symbol of that testing history was the little book that was in the angel's hand that came down on August 11th, 1840, and the writings that were in the angel's hand that came down on April 19th, 1844. In each of these three covenant histories, the symbol of the testing process is something that needs to be eaten if you're going to live. And this is the end of the world, so you can even throw into the mix that it all started with Adam and Eve and they had a restriction upon their diet. They could eat anything they wanted, though, except one thing. So I'm telling you that when the Lord was dealing with the first man and woman, the symbol of their testing process had to do with eating. When he was entering into covenant with ancient Israel in the beginning and the end, the symbol was manna, the symbol was the bread of heaven. And when he's entering into covenant with modern Israel, it was the book in the angel's hand, and here at the end when he's entering into covenant with the 144,000, it's the hidden manna. Okay, so those are the symbols of these histories. The Lord has need of men who are spiritually sharp and clear-sighted, men worked by the Holy Spirit who are certainly receiving manna fresh from heaven. Upon the minds of such, God's word flashes light, revealing to them more than ever before the safe path. The Holy Spirit works upon mind and heart. The time has come when through God's messengers the scroll is being unrolled to the world. Seen any truce unrolled this week? Instructors in our schools should never be bound about by being told that they are to teach only what has been taught hitherto. Away with these restrictions. There is a God to give the message his people shall speak. Let not any minister feel under bonds or be gauged by men's measurement. The gospel must be fulfilled in accordance with the messages God sends. That which God gives his servants to speak today would not perhaps been present truth twenty years ago, but it is God's message for this time. First principle you need to see is that God sometimes changes his message, alright?

I'm not denying that Adventism has instruction after instruction after instruction on how to and why we should do public evangelism, but that which was present truth 20 years ago may not be present truth today, she says. And I'm saying in the judgment of the living, you have lots of just basic logic to suggest to you that what we're saying is correct. If you don't think so, brothers and sisters, look around and point out for me to see which one of your brothers and sisters sitting in these pews do you think is prepared to close their probation right now? What about yourself? You can point at yourself if you want. Brothers and sisters, if you're not prepared to close your probation right now, are you so certain that you really should be going outside of Adventism to bring people into these circumstances? The beginning of ancient Israel, Numbers 14, verse 22 through 39, Numbers 14. Now I want to tell you up front, brothers and sisters, one history we're going to hit is the seven years that Christ confirmed the covenant. And I'm here to emphasize the fact that in John chapter 6 where Christ lost most of his disciples because he told them they had to eat his flesh and drink his blood, I'm saying that that history is typifying this very message. And I am well aware, I believe fully that this is the prophetic truth where most of the people that are involved with this movement are going to turn against the prophetic message. They may still think they're in the prophetic message, but I'm letting you know up front, I have no high hopes that the majority of you that hear this are going to understand it like I'm understanding it. Numbers 14, verse 22. And we've read this earlier on, but not in this series. And I want to back up to verse 21, because that ties you in with Revelation 18. It says, but as truly as I live, all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the Lord because all those men which have seen my glory and my miracles which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness and have tempted me now these ten times and have not hearkened to my voice, surely they shall not see the land which I swear unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked me see it. But my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, he had another spirit with him, there was two classes of spirits there, two classes of people, he had another spirit with him and have followed me fully, him will I bring into the land whither into he went and his seed shall possess it. Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites dwelt in the valley, tomorrow turn you and get you into the wilderness by the way of the Red Sea. And the Lord spake unto Moses and Aaron, saying, How long shall I bear with this evil congregation which murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel which they murmur against me. Say unto them, As truly as I live, saith the Lord, as ye have spoken in my ear, so will I do to you. Your carcasses shall fall in this wilderness, and all that were numbered of you according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, which have murmured against me. Doubtless ye shall not come into the land concerning which I swear to make you dwell there, and save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun, but your little ones which he said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have despised. But as for you, your carcasses, they shall fall in this wilderness, and your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms until your carcasses shall be wasted in the wilderness. After the number of the days in which ye searched the land, even forty days each day for a year, shall ye bear your iniquities even forty years, and ye shall know my breach of promise. I the Lord have said, I will surely do it unto this evil congregation that are gathered together against me in this wilderness. They shall be consumed, and there they shall die. And the men which Moses sent to search the land who returned and made all the congregation to murmur against him by bringing up a slander upon the land, even those men that did bring up the evil report upon the land died by the plague before the Lord right then and there. But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of the men that went to search the land, live still. And Moses told these sayings unto all the children of Israel, and the people mourned greatly. What I'm saying here is when they came out of Egypt, the Lord entered into covenant with them. Did he not do that? Immediately, when they come to Mount Sinai and they're given the law, he's entered into covenant. But there is a process here, initially, of ten tests, ten being the number of a testing process on several witnesses. And when they fill that tenth test, they have broken the covenant, and the Lord is entering into covenant now with Joshua and the children. And I want you to see that. He enters into covenant, but he's going to enter into covenant with Joshua, and he's going to take Joshua and the rest of the congregation into the promised land. When he's entering into covenant with Joshua and Caleb, those represented by Joshua and Caleb, he's simultaneously breaking the covenant with those that came out of Egypt. You've got to see that, because when the Lord's entering into covenant with the Christian church, he's breaking the covenant with Israel. When the Lord's entering into covenant with the Millerite Adventism, he's breaking the covenant with the Protestants. And when the Lord's entering into covenant here at the end with the 144,000, he's breaking the covenant with the Seventh-day Adventist church. This is part of the way marks of every one of these histories, and this way mark is in this history. He entered into covenant with these people and put them into a ten-step testing process, and when they failed that tenth test, he's then entering into covenant with Joshua and Caleb. You follow my logic? Okay. Spirit of Prophecy, volume 1294, the Lord declared that the children of the Hebrews should wander in the wilderness 40 years, reckoning from the time they left Egypt. So I wanted to put that in there, that you know that right here, this 40 years, begins when they come out of Egypt, it ends here. It doesn't start when they fail the tenth test, okay? Reckoning from when they left Egypt, because of the rebellion of their parents until their parents should die. They should bear and suffer the consequence of their iniquity 40 years, according to the numbers of days they were searching the land, okay? During that time period, if you go to Exodus 16, verse 35, you'll see that during that entire time period, they were being fed manna. It says in verse 1 of Exodus 16, and they took their journey from Elam, and all the congregation of the children of Israel came under the wilderness of sin, which is between Elam and Sinai, and on the 15th day of the second month after their departing out of the land of Egypt, and verse 35 says, and the children of Israel did eat manna 40 years until they came to the land inhabited, did they eat manna until they came to the borders of the land of Canaan. So what I'm saying is, the symbol of these 40 years is the manna. And what does manna mean? What is it? Okay, that's always a question mark. What is this food we're supposed to eat? What is this that we're, what's the little, the hidden manna in the angel of revelation hand, 18's hand that we're supposed to eat? What's the little book the Millerites were supposed to eat? Most of Christ's disciples turned away from him because they didn't know what he meant about eating his flesh and drinking his blood, supposedly, okay? So that's part of the story of the manna, the food that is a symbol of this testing history where the Lord's entering into covenant with a people. Notice under 11 days, a distance of only 11 days journey lay between Sinai and Kadesh. What's that tell you? They could have been there in less than a month, okay? Less than a month, okay? Ancient and modern Israel. The history of ancient Israel is a striking illustration of the past experience of the Adventist body. God led his people in the Advent movement even as he led the children of Israel from Egypt. In the great disappointment, their faith was tested as that was of the Hebrews at the Red Sea. They were comparing modern Israel with ancient Israel. Had they still trusted to the guiding hand that had been with them in their past experience, they would have seen the salvation of God. If all who had labored unitedly in the work in 1844 had received the third angel's message and proclaimed it in the power of the Holy Spirit, the Lord would have wrought mightily with their efforts. A flood of light would have been shed upon the world. Years ago, the inhabitants of the earth would have been warned. The closing work completed and Christ would have come for the redemption of his people. It was not the will of God that Israel should wander 40 years in the wilderness. His will was that they went right into the promised land and praise the Lord that it didn't happen that way for us because we wouldn't have been born and we wouldn't even have the possibility of salvation. You can say, praise the Lord on one hand, but had they finished the work, you wouldn't have had the slaughter that took place in World War II, you wouldn't have had Pol Pot, you wouldn't have had Stalin's massacre, you wouldn't have all kinds of sin and destruction that has at least some inferred responsibility to the neglect of carrying the third angel's message to the world that Adventism has demonstrated. So we can't be that happy. It's kind of a bittersweet fact. He desired to lead them directly to the land of Canaan and establish them there a wholly happy people, but they could not enter in because of unbelief. Because of their backsliding and apostasy, they perished in the desert, and others were raised up to enter the promised land. In like manner, it was not the will of God that the coming of Christ should be so long delayed and his people should remain many years in this world of sin and sorrow. But unbelief separated them from God as they refused to do the work which they appointed him to do. There's always an appointed work. I suggest to you, our appointed work is to eat the hidden manna, which includes to take a message to the house of Israel. As they refused to do the work which he had appointed them to do, others were raised up to proclaim the message, in mercy to the world, Jesus delays his coming, that sinners may have an opportunity to hear the warning and find in him a shelter before the wrath of God be poured out. This is the wilderness here, and this is 40 years. This is the beginning of ancient Israel, and at the end of ancient Israel, Jesus is going to speak to that history because he's going to go 40 days into the wilderness. They were in the wilderness, him going into the wilderness, this has been typified by these 40 years, each day for a year, and he's going to go through a testing process, right? What's his test? It's the bread. Okay, and if he didn't pass the first test, the other two tests, they don't mean anything. He passed them all, of course, but the first test is the bread. It's the same test, it's the manna test. He's speaking to this history at the beginning of ancient Israel when he comes, among other things. He's also speaking to the history of Adam and Eve, but more importantly, he's speaking about the end of the world. He's speaking to you and I. What are we going to do? Are we going to eat the bread, or are we going to go do some work that we can exalt ourselves over? So when Christ said to the tempter, man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God, he repeated the words that more than 1400 years before he had spoken to Israel. The Lord thy God led thee these 40 years in the wilderness and he humbled thee and suffered thee to hunger and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know, that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread alone, bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the Lord doth man live. In the wilderness, when all means of sustenance failed, God sent his people manna from heaven and a sufficient and constant supply was given. This provision was to teach them that while they trusted in God and walked in his ways, he would not forsake them. The Savior now practiced the lesson he had taught to Israel. By the word of God, sukkur had been given to the Hebrew host and by the same word it would be given to Jesus. He awaited God's time to bring relief. When was he going to get relief? At the end of the 40 days, there was a timing involved. He was to wait. Was ancient Israel going to wait? No, they weren't going to wait, brothers and sisters. There was a period that they were supposed to wait, but they wouldn't do it. They were going to do something in their own strength and power.

Okay, the victory at Jericho, notice, where's Jericho? Where prophetically, not geographically, it's at the end of the 40 years, all right, that's Jericho. Okay, notice this. Nevertheless, the foundation of God stand assured, the Lord knoweth them that are his. The sanctified minister must have no guile in his mouth. He must be open as the day, free from every taint of evil. A sanctified ministry and press will be a power in flashing the light of truth on this untoward generation. Light, brethren, more light we need. Blow the trumpet in Zion. Sound the alarm in my holy mountain. Brothers and sisters, we've given you evidence of what that means. What's that? What's that trumpet? That's an alarm. It's the woe part of the seventh trumpet. It's to lift up thy voice like a trumpet and show my people their transgressions. But here, who are you supposed to be blowing the trumpet for? My holy mountain, Adventism. Gather the host of the Lord with sanctified hearts to hear what the Lord will say unto his people, for he has increased light for all who will hear. Who will hear? Remember, hear, you've got to hear it. What's the Hebrew word for hear? This kind of hear, not this kind of hear. What's the Hebrew word for hear? Anyone know? You didn't all go home and burn your strongs, did you? Okay. I'll tell you what. No, I guess it's the Greek word for hear. No, it's the Hebrew and the Greek. The Hebrew and Greek word for hear is what? Shaman. Close. Simon. Simon. Simon means hear. You ever know a guy named Simon? No? How about Simon bar Jonas? What's bar mean? Son of Jonah? What's Jonah mean? Dove. In fact, if you get to the root of dove there in Jonah, it's not only dove, it's wine. And it's not like it's real strong wine, but I think it's kind of an alcoholic wine because when they define it, if you get into the Greek and Hebrew dictionary, all right, when they define it, it's connected with dove. It's a kind of, they associate this wine and this dove that's translated as Jonah in the sense that the doves, they mate for life, right? And they have a wedding dance, and it's a joyful, gleeful wedding dance as if they're a little bit drunk with their love. Okay, that's the wine associated with the dove. It has to do with the joy of the marriage. So Simon bar Jonas, that name, that name means you hear the marriage that's represented by the new wine, right? And of course, Simon bar Jonas, he's the one in spite of all the evidence to the contrary when Jesus says, but who do you say that I am? He says, you're Christ, the anointed one, the son of the living God. And he says, I'm changing your name to Peter. Oh, Peter's a symbol of a changed name. He's someone that heard the message of the new wine that comes from the dove of the latter rain that speaks about the marriage, the covenant, and the Lord then and there changed his name to Peter, which means rock, and the Lord said at the same time, the gates of hell will not prevail against thee. So you know that the name he was changed to was not Peter's name. It was Christ's name because the gates of hell did prevail against Peter, but they did not prevail against Christ. His name was changed to Christ's name, the rock. So Peter represents someone that enters into covenant with Christ by hearing the latter rain message of the new wine and has his name changed to the name of Christ. Get it? Because when you eat the little book, your name gets changed. And in the history of Christ, brothers and sisters, there's two covenant markings. One, he enters into covenant with 12 disciples, the firstfruits, and then he enters into covenant with the Christian church, and there you have Saul getting his name changed to Paul. Keep that in mind because in our history, the Lord first enters into covenant with the disciples that represent the 144,000 and thereafter enters into covenant with the 11th hour workers. You follow the logic? So that was off track. Every lying tongue will be silenced. I'm in the bottom third of this quote. Angels' hands will overthrow the deceptive schemes that are being formed. The bulwarks of Satan will never triumph. Victory will attend the third angel's message. When does the third angel's message become victorious, brothers and sisters? The Sunday Law. So she's talking about the Sunday Law, isn't she? She says, as the captain of the Lord's horse tore down the walls of Jericho, so will the Lord's commandment keeping people triumph and all opposing elements will be defeated. Jericho is the Sunday Law. Jericho's the Sunday Law, brothers and sisters. What were they to do? They were to go conquer the heathen, the Amorites, the Hittites, the Hivites. They were to go in God's power and take the message of salvation to the world. But they didn't get to do it. Why? Because they rejected the message of Jones and Wagner, the message that identified when the earth was going to be lightened with his glory. Only back then, Jones and Wagner were called Joshua and Caleb. You follow me? Okay. The manna test is a three-step test that includes the health message and the Sabbath, among other things. All right? Notice, right in here somewhere at the 10th test, I'm on page 167. Let's do numbers 14. I better look at it before I get too far off track. Numbers 14, 40 to 45. Ah, yes, I'm glad that we read this. They'd just been told. They'd just been told. Get this, brothers and sisters. Not only have they just been told they're going to be in the wilderness for 40 years, the leaders of the rebellion have been just struck down. Pardon me? You were? Okay. Verse 40, And they rose up early in the morning and got them up into the top of the mountain, saying, Lo, we be here, and we'll go up unto the place which the Lord hath promised, for we have sinned. What does that mean? He just told them you're going to be in the wilderness now for 40 years because of your 10-step testing process that you failed. Their leaders are cut down with the plague, and then they decide the next morning, okay, we're going to conquer the promised land. Verse 41, And Moses said, Wherefore now do you transgress the commandment of the Lord, but it shall not prosper? Go not up, for the Lord is not among you, that you be not smitten before your enemies. For the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you, and you shall fall by the sword because you are turned away from the Lord. Therefore the Lord will not be with you, but they presume to go up unto the hilltop. Nevertheless, the ark of the covenant of the Lord and Moses departed not out of the camp. Then the Amalekites came down, and the Canaanites, which dwelt in that hill, and smote them and discomforted them, even unto Hormah. Right here, brothers and sisters, they attempt to conquer the promised land, and they're defeated. What were they trying to do? They were trying to conquer Jericho. They were trying to go into the promised land, and what's the conquering of Jericho? It's the greatest in-gathering of all time. It's the loud cry of the third angel, and they've been told no. You've broken your covenant. I'm entering into covenant with another people, and you're going to be in the wilderness for 40 years learning how to trust me. That's what Jesus came to do with the 40 days, to show them that man lives not by manna alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of the Lord, and they determined in their own strength that they're going to disregard that pronouncement and conquer the promised land, and they were defeated soundly and stayed in the wilderness until every one of the rebels was dead. Every prophet is speaking about the end of the world. This is where the Lord is entering into covenant with the 144,000, and it's saying that in the period when the Lord is entering into covenant with the 144,000, the Lord will pass by a group of rebels who have broken the covenant while simultaneously entering into covenant with another group, but this group will seek to do this work in their own power and be defeated, and Joshua and Caleb will wait upon the Lord's timing, and they will be there to watch Jericho come down. See it? Oh, it needs two or three witnesses to this, and then you've established something that is just upside down from what we've been taught in Adventism for 160-some years. Notice the third paragraph, the third complete paragraph from the top on page 167. God had made it their privilege and their duty to enter the land at the time appointed. They could have went right in, but they were rebellious, so there was another appointed time set 40 years down the road, and they refused to wait. They took the work into their own hands. To the middle of the paragraph, they had distrusted the power of God to work with their efforts in gaining possession of Canaan, yet now they presumed upon their own strength to accomplish the work independent of divine aid. We have sinned against the Lord, they cried. We will go up and fight according to all that the Lord our God commanded us. They're going to try to do a work that the Lord had commanded them to do in the past, but He had changed the conditions because of their rebellion, and the Lord was not going to go with them. So terribly blinded, who's blinded? Glad to see you. So terribly blinded had they become by transgression, the Lord had never commanded them to go up and fight. He was going to drive their enemies out before them. They were seeking to do it in human power. Okay. Let's see if we can put some second witnesses on this. Page 168. Human strength in 40 years. This 40 years? If we see another 40 years in the Scripture, or maybe a couple more 40 years in the Scriptures, then we will have established a 40-year period, and we can analyze if bringing those 40-year periods together, line upon line, if they are the same lines, and if so, we may be able to derive some secondary and tertiary evidence to what we're saying, right? Okay, so in the Spirit of Prophecy, volume 1, page 167, it says, Moses was too fast in slaying the Egyptian. He supposed that the people of Israel understood that God's special providence had raised him up to deliver them. See, brothers and sisters, Moses knew that he was to be the deliverer of Egypt. Moses knew that he was the fulfillment of Abraham's prophecy of 400 years of bondage in Egypt. He knew it. And when he was 40 years old, he thought the rest of the Hebrews knew it, too. Continuing on. But God did not design to deliver the children of Israel by warfare, as Moses thought. Moses had a misconception of public evangelism. Okay? The battle...

of Jericho, brothers and sisters, is the loud cry of the third angel. It's the work of entering into the promised land. God did not design to deliver the children of Israel by warfare, as Moses thought, but by his own mighty power that the glory might be ascribed to him. So Moses here, is it okay for a Bible character to represent both Cain and Abel? What about Peter? We put that in the record today. Peter was the Pharisee and the publican. Moses represents a person in this 40-year period that's gonna do the work of the Lord in his own human strength. Notice the next quote. When Moses was 40 years old, he went out unto his brethren and looked upon their burdens, and he spied an Egyptian smiting a Hebrew, smiting a Hebrew, one of his brethren. Okay, so with this history of Moses, he's 40 years old, and what does he manifest in this 40-year period? He's going to deliver Egypt in his own human strength. But that's not how God intended to deliver them. He's gonna deliver the Hebrews out of Egypt in his own human strength. That is not how God intended to do it. You follow my logic? So what's the Lord gonna do with him? He's gonna send him into the wilderness for 40 years of preparation. Another 40-year testimony here, notice this. And count the befores, count the befores. Come up to me into the mount, God bids us. To Moses, before he could be the instrument in delivering Israel, was appointed the 40 years of communion with him in the mountain solitudes. Okay, here's another 40-year period in Moses' life, but it's gonna have a different end result. Before bearing God's message to Pharaoh, he spoke with the angel in the burning bush. Before receiving God's laws, a representative of his people, he called into the mount and beheld his glory. Before executing justice on the idolaters, he was hidden in the cleft of the rock, and the Lord said, I will proclaim the name of the Lord before thee, merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth, and that will by no means clear the guilty. Before he laid down with his life his burden for Israel, God called him to the top of Pisgah, and spread out before him the glory of the promised land. Before the disciples went forth on their mission, they were called up into the mount with Jesus. Before the power and glory of Pentecost came the night of communion with the Savior, the meeting on the mountain of Galilee, the parting scene upon all of it with the angels' promise and the days of prayer and communion in the upper chamber. Jesus, when preparing for some great trial or some important work, would resort to the solitude of the mountains and spend the night in prayer to his Father. A night of prayer preceded the ordination of the apostles, and the sermon on the mount, the transfiguration, the agony in the judgment hall and the cross, and the resurrection glory. There's always a work of preparation before an event. That tells me that before the Sunday law, there's a work of preparation. But sticking to our subject, when Moses is truly going to be used to deliver Egypt, he spends a 40-year period being prepared. So Moses represents people that are trained to accomplish the work in the power of the Lord, and he represents the man that wants to accomplish the work in his own power. Do you see it? It's the same history, by the way, brothers and sisters. What's Hebrew? Yeah, he's Cain and Abel. He's the Pharisee and the publican. Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today, and forever. All the prophets are speaking about the end of the world. There's going to be one class in Adventism that wants to finish the work in their own strength, but they're not going to be willing to wait upon the Lord's timing. There's going to be another group in Adventism that know that they have to enter into a time of preparation and they know they have to do it in God's appointed way. And the symbol of this 40 years is the manna to eating the little book. It's the hidden manna. What about Isaac? He's a covenant player, right? The covenant gets handed down and it finally gets to Isaac, right? Isaac was highly honored by God in being made inheritor of the promises through which the world was to be blessed. Yet when he was 40 years of age, he submitted to his father's judgment. How many of you would do that? How many of you would submit to your father in picking out your wife? What's your wife? What's your wife? Where did she come out of? Where did Rebecca come out of? Oh, she came out of Babylon, didn't she? She's the woman in Babylon. She's the church in Babylon. But Isaac, he's going to submit when he's 40 years old. He's not going to go get his wife. He's going to submit to his father. Does his father go get his wife? No, he sends his helper. His name's Eliezer. And what's Eliezer? It means God's helper. Who's God's helper? It's the Holy Spirit. Isaac and Abraham are going to submit the work of bringing the church out of Babylon to the marriage into the hands of the Holy Spirit. And they're going to wait till the end of the 40 years to do it. There's another 40 year witness for you, brothers and sisters. And that's covenant history. Do you see it? Yes. Yes, Eliezer, the helper. You can see it there. Oh man, we're just getting started and they're giving me the, all right. Romans 8, Romans 8, 25 and 26. I have no one to blame but myself. I made these notes. But if we hope for that we see not, then we do with patience wait for it. Likewise, the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities for we know not what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit itself make intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. Our helper is the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit was sent into Babylon to bring Rebecca back to Isaac. And when she got there, he took her into his tent and he was comforted over his mother's death. That's what the Bible says, okay. That's a covenant history. You've just changed from one church to another at the marriage. But the covenant, the church that's brought from Babylon isn't done in Abraham's strength or Isaac's strength. It's done under the power of the Holy Spirit. If you follow the logic, it fits in with the story of the 40 years. The 40 years is about taking down Jericho. It's about bringing the woman, Rebecca, out of Babylon. You know that story, right? Now, have I been saying Rebecca? Yeah, it's okay. Notice the next verse. It says, and Isaac was 40 years old. I'm at the third quote on the top of page 169. I'm going to have to end here. I'm not even getting started, all right. I'm going to have to end here. But you see this, the next quote, it says Isaac was 40 years old. Say amen if you see it. Okay, it says, and Isaac was 40 years old when he took Rebecca to wife, the daughter of Bethuel. Now, I never intended to go long into here, but I want you to see something here. Bethuel means God of desolation, okay. And through Rebecca is going to come who? What child's going to come from Rebecca? It's twins, right? It's Esau and Jacob. This is the next covenant line. And from Jacob, what do we get? We get the beginning of the 2520, don't we? He has to go work seven years for Rachel and seven years for Leah. We have both 2520s. Jacob starts the story flowing on the 2520, right? Seven times for this church, seven times for that church. Everyone understand that? Probably not everyone, but if you understand it, say amen. Okay, but the story of Jacob begins here. Well, it begins probably with Adam and Eve, but for my purposes, it begins here with Rebecca because it says she was the daughter of Bethuel, which means the God of desolation. And Bethuel was the Syrian, okay. And both powers that are going to start the captivity come from Syria, the Assyrians for the northern kingdom, the Babylonians from the southern kingdom. So this is the very beginnings of the 2520, and it's from Bethuel, the Syrian of Panaram, however you say that, and that means the two rivers, the Tigris and Euphrates. So this Rebecca, she's a descendant of someone whose name means the God of desolation, and it just so happened that these two desolations against the northern and the southern kingdom, they come from Syria, they come from these two rivers, the area of two rivers, the Tigris and Euphrates, and it is not an accident that you find this verse in Genesis 2520. Well, it isn't, brothers and sisters. It isn't. Because this is covenant history, brothers and sisters. So I didn't get through these notes, but let's have a word of prayer. Heavenly Father, we know that it's the time of the Laodicean message and that we will be tempted to use our own human strength and wake up and realize we have no oil if we don't learn the lesson of patience, to wait upon your timing, to eat your little book, to bring your life into our life, that we might be a fit representation of the incarnation. We ask that the time we're spending here this week will allow us to enter into that work, and we ask that as we go through these covenant lines, you will show us that your word is teaching us that we're in a time period now where we must be about our business of acknowledging that the Laodicean message is for us personally and that our priorities are totally wrong if we think that we can do anything other than take the time to make the preparation necessary to stand up for you in the greatest crisis of Earth's history. We ask that you'd grant us the Holy Spirit so we could have that discernment and ask for your continued blessing as we bring this day of study to a conclusion in the next presentation, in Jesus' name, amen. ♪ Then shall we know if we follow on to know the Lord ♪