Eatonville 2008 Series 
01: The Foundation 
Notes 

Jeff Pippenger 

We want to address here the foundations and the role of the foundations in Adventism. 

1 Corinthians 10:11 “Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for 
our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.” 

Romans 15:4 “For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we 
through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.” 

1 Corinthians 14:32 “And the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets. 33 “For God is not the 
author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.” 

1 Peter 1:10-12. “Of which salvation the prophets have enquired and searched diligently, who 
prophesied of the grace that should come unto you: Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit 
of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the 
glory that should follow. Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto us they did 
minister the things, which are now reported unto you by them that have preached the gospel unto you 
with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven; which things the angels desire to look into.” 

Daniel 12:3 “And they that be wise (teachers) shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they 
that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever. 4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, 
and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be 
increased.” 

Daniel 12:9 “And he said, Go thy way, Daniel: for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the 
end. 10 Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none 
of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand.” 

Hosea 4:6 “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will 
also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will 
also forget thy children.” 

Genesis 3:15 “And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; 
it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.” 

“And I saw those who rose up with Jesus send up their faith to Jesus in the Holiest, and praying, Father 
give us thy spirit. Then Jesus would breathe on them the Holy Ghost. In the breath was light, power and 
much love, joy and peace. Then I turned to look at the company who were still bowed before the 
throne. They did not know that Jesus had left it. Satan appeared to be by the throne trying to carry on 
the work of God. I saw them look up to the throne and pray, My Father give us thy spirit. Then Satan 
would breathe on them an unholy influence. In it there was light and much power, but no sweet love, 
joy and peace. Satan's object was to keep them deceived and to draw back and deceive God's children. I 
saw one after another leave the company who were praying to Jesus in the Holiest, go and join those 
before the throne and they at once received the unholy influence of Satan.” {DS, March 14, 1846 par. 1} 


Hosea 4:6 “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will 
also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will 
also forget thy children.” 

Isaiah 58:12 “And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the 
foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of 
paths to dwell in.” 

 “Here are given the characteristics of those who shall be reformers, who will bear the banner of the 
third angel's message, those who avow themselves God's commandment-keeping people, and who 
honor God, and are earnestly engaged, in the sight of all the universe, in building up the old waste 
places. Who is it that calls them, The repairers of the breach, The restorers of paths to dwell in?--It is 
God. Their names are registered in heaven as reformers, restorers, as raising the foundations of many 
generations.” {RH, October 13, 1891 par. 9} 

Jeremiah 6:16 “Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is 
the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk 
therein.” 

Jeremiah 6:17 “Also I set watchmen over you, saying, Hearken to the sound of the trumpet. But they 
said, We will not hearken.” 

Jeremiah 18:15 “Because my people hath forgotten me, they have burned incense to vanity, and they 
have caused them to stumble in their ways from the ancient paths, to walk in paths, in a way not cast 
up; 16 To make their land desolate, and a perpetual hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be 
astonished, and wag his head. 

 17 I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy; I will shew them the back, and not the 
face, in the day of their calamity. 

 18 Then said they, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from 
the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us smite him with 
the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.” 

 “God is not giving us a new message. We are to proclaim the message that in 1843 and 1844 brought 
us out of the other churches.” Review and Herald, January 19, 1905. 

 “God bids us give our time and strength to the work of preaching to the people the messages that 
stirred men and women in 1843 and 1844.” Manuscript Release, Number 760. 

 “The truths that we received in 1841, ‘42, ‘43, and ‘44 are now to be studied and proclaimed. The 
messages of the first, second, and third angels will in the future be proclaimed with a loud voice. They 
will be given with earnest determination and in the power of the Spirit.” Manuscript Releases, volume 
15, 371. 

“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. 


 “I saw a company who stood well guarded and firm, giving no countenance to those who would 
unsettle the established faith of the body. God looked upon them with approbation. I was shown three 
steps-- the first, second, and third angels' messages. Said my accompanying angel, "Woe to him who 
shall move a block or stir a pin of these messages. The true understanding of these messages is of vital 
importance. The destiny of souls hangs upon the manner in which they are received." I was again 
brought down through these messages, and saw how dearly the people of God had purchased their 
experience. It had been obtained through much suffering and severe conflict. God had led them along 
step by step, until He had placed them upon a solid, immovable platform. I saw individuals approach the 
platform and examine the foundation. Some with rejoicing immediately stepped upon it. Others 
commenced to find fault with the foundation. They wished improvements made, and then the platform 
would be more perfect, and the people much happier. Some stepped off the platform to examine it and 
declared it to be laid wrong. But I saw that nearly all stood firm upon the platform and exhorted those 
who had stepped off to cease their complaints; for God was the Master Builder, and they were fighting 
against Him.” {EW 258.3} 

“All the messages given from 1840-1844 are to be made forcible now, for there are many people who 
have lost their bearings. The messages are to go to all the churches. 

“Christ said, "Blessed are your eyes, for they see; and your ears, for they hear. For verily I say unto you, 
That many prophets and righteous men have desired to see those things which ye see, and have not 
seen them; and to hear those things which ye hear, and have not heard them" [Matthew 13:16, 17]. 
Blessed are the eyes which saw the things that were seen in 1843 and 1844. 

“The message was given. And there should be no delay in repeating the message, for the signs of the 
times are fulfilling; the closing work must be done. A great work will be done in a short time. A message 
will soon be given by God's appointment that will swell into a loud cry. Then Daniel will stand in his lot, 
to give his testimony.” {21MR 437.3} 

 “Those who stand as teachers and leaders in our institutions are to be sound in the faith and in the 
principles of the third angel's message. God wants His people to know that we have the message as He 
gave it to us in 1843 and 1844. We knew then what the message meant, and we call upon our people 
today to obey the word, "Bind up the law among My disciples." In this world there are but two classes,--
the obedient and the disobedient. To which class do we belong? God wants to make us a peculiar 
people, a holy nation. He has separated us from the world, and He calls upon us to stand on vantage 
ground, where He can bestow on us His Holy Spirit.” {GCB, April 1, 1903 par. 42} 

 “I have seen that the 1843 chart was directed by the hand of the Lord, and that it should not be altered; 
that the figures were as He wanted them; that His hand was over and hid a mistake in some of the 
figures, so that none could see it, until His hand was removed.” {EW 74.1} 

Habakkuk 2:2 “And the LORD answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, 
that he may run that readeth it.” 

 “I saw that God was in the publishment of the chart by Brother Nichols. I saw that there was a prophecy 
of this chart in the Bible, and if this chart is designed for God's people, if it [is] sufficient for one it is for 
another, and if one needed a new chart painted on a larger scale, all need it just as much.” {13MR 
359.1} 

 “In the year 1840 another remarkable fulfillment of prophecy excited widespread interest. Two years 
before, Josiah Litch, one of the leading ministers preaching the second advent, published an exposition 
of Revelation 9, predicting the fall of the Ottoman Empire. According to his calculations, this power was 
to be overthrown "in A.D. 1840, sometime in the month of August;" and only a few days previous to its 


accomplishment he wrote: "Allowing the first period, 150 years, to have been exactly fulfilled before 
Deacozes ascended the throne by permission of the Turks, and that the 391 years, fifteen days, 
commenced at the close of the first period, it will end on the 11th of August, 1840, when the Ottoman 
power in Constantinople may be expected to be broken. And this, I believe, will be found to be the 
case."--Josiah Litch, in Signs of the Times, and Expositor of Prophecy, Aug. 1, 1840. 

“At the very time specified, Turkey, through her ambassadors, accepted the protection of the allied 
powers of Europe, and thus placed herself under the control of Christian nations. The event exactly 
fulfilled the prediction. (See Appendix.) When it became known, multitudes were convinced of the 
correctness of the principles of prophetic interpretation adopted by Miller and his associates, and a 
wonderful impetus was given to the advent movement. Men of learning and position united with Miller, 
both in preaching and in publishing his views, and from 1840 to 1844 the work rapidly extended.” GC 
334-335. 

Isaiah 28:1 “Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty is a fading 
flower, which are on the head of the fat valleys of them that are overcome with wine!” 

Isaiah 28:14 “Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in 
Jerusalem.” 

Isaiah 29:1 “Woe to Ariel, to Ariel, the city where David dwelt! add ye year to year; let them kill 
sacrifices.” 

Isaiah 29:9 “Stay yourselves, and wonder; cry ye out, and cry: they are drunken, but not with wine; they 
stagger, but not with strong drink. 10 For the LORD hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, 
and hath closed your eyes: the prophets and your rulers, the seers hath he covered.” 

 Isaiah 29:11 And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed, which men 
deliver to one that is learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I cannot; for it is sealed: 12 
And the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I am not 
learned.” 

 Isaiah 29:11 “And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed, which men 
deliver to one that is learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I cannot; for it is sealed:” 

12 “And the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I am 
not learned.” 

Isaiah 29:16 “Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the potter's clay: for shall 
the work say of him that made it, He made me not? or shall the thing framed say of him that framed it, 
He had no understanding?” 

Isaiah 28:9 “Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them 
that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts.” 

Hosea 4:6. “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I 
will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I 
will also forget thy children.” 

Isaiah 28:9 “Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them 
that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts.” 

Hebrews 5:12 “For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again 
which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of 
strong meat. 13 For every one that useth milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe. 


14 But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their 
senses exercised to discern both good and evil. 6:1 Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of 
Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and 
of faith toward God, 2 Of the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the 
dead, and of eternal judgment. 3 And this will we do, if God permit.” 

Isaiah 28:9 “Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them 
that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts. 10 For precept must be upon precept, 
precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little: 11 For with 
stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people. 12 To whom he said, This is the rest 
wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear. 13 But 
the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line 
upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and 
snared, and taken.” 

 

 

 


Eatonville 2008 Series 
02: The Seven Thunders 
Notes 

Jeff Pippenger 

Millerite History repeats in the development and work of the 144,000. 

“The parable of the ten virgins of Matthew 25 also illustrates the experience of the Adventist people.” 
{GC 393.2} 

“I am often referred to the parable of the ten virgins, five of whom were wise, and five foolish. This 
parable has been and will be fulfilled to the very letter, for it has a special application to this time, and, 
like the third angel's message, has been fulfilled and will continue to be present truth till the close of 
time." {RH, August 19, 1890 par. 3} 

Parable of the Ten Virgins: 

Matthew 25:1 “Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, 
and went forth to meet the bridegroom. 2 And five of them were wise, and five were foolish. 3 They 
that were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them: 4 But the wise took oil in their vessels 
with their lamps. 5 While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept. 6 And at midnight there 
was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him. 7 Then all those virgins arose, 
and trimmed their lamps. 8 And the foolish said unto the wise, Give us of your oil; for our lamps are 
gone out. 9 But the wise answered, saying, Not so; lest there be not enough for us and you: but go ye 
rather to them that sell, and buy for yourselves. 10 And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came; 
and they that were ready went in with him to the marriage: and the door was shut. 11 Afterward came 
also the other virgins, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us. 12 But he answered and said, Verily I say unto you, 
I know you not. 13 Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man 
cometh.” 

Daniel 12:13 “But go thou thy way till the end be: for thou shalt rest, and stand in thy lot at the end of 
the days.” 

“When God gives a man a special work to do, he is to stand in his lot and place as did Daniel, ready to 
answer the call of God, ready to fulfill His purpose.” {6MR 108.4} 

“Daniel stood in his lot to bear his testimony which was sealed until the time of the end, when the first 
angel's message should be proclaimed to our world.” {TM 115.3} 

“After these seven thunders uttered their voices, the injunction comes to John as to Daniel in regard to 
the little book: "Seal up those things which the seven thunders uttered." These relate to future events 
which will be disclosed in their order. Daniel shall stand in his lot at the end of the days. John sees the 
little book unsealed. Then Daniel's prophecies have their proper place in the first, second, and third 
angels' messages to be given to the world. The unsealing of the little book was the message in relation 
to time.” {7BC 971.4} 

Book of Daniel Unsealed: 

Daniel 12:4 “But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: 
many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.” 


“The prophecies present a succession of events leading down to the opening of the judgment. This is 
especially true of the book of Daniel. But that part of his prophecy which related to the last days, Daniel 
was bidden to close up and seal "to the time of the end." Not till we reach this time could a message 
concerning the judgment be proclaimed, based on the fulfillment of these prophecies. But at the time 
of the end, says the prophet, "many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased." Daniel 
12:4. {GC 355.3} 

“The book that was sealed was not the book of Revelation, but that portion of the prophecy of Daniel 
which related to the last days. The Scripture says, "But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the 
book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased" (Daniel 
12:4). When the book was opened, the proclamation was made, "Time shall be no longer." (See 
Revelation 10:6.) The book of Daniel is now unsealed, and the revelation made by Christ to John is to 
come to all the inhabitants of the earth. By the increase of knowledge a people is to be prepared to 
stand in the latter days.” {2SM 106.} 

Purification process: 

Daniel 12:10 “Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and 
none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand.” 

“The remnant people of God, who keep His commandments, will understand the word spoken by Daniel, 
"Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the 
wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand" (Daniel 12:10).” {TDG 84.} 

Revelation 14:6 “And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to 
preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people, 7 
Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and 
worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters. 8 And there 
followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations 
drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication. 9 And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud 
voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand, 
10 The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the 
cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy 
angels, and in the presence of the Lamb: 11 And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and 
ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever 
receiveth the mark of his name. 12 Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the 
commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.” 

Revelation 10:1 “And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and a 
rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire: 2 And he 
had in his hand a little book open: and he set his right foot upon the sea, and his left foot on the earth, 
3 And cried with a loud voice, as when a lion roareth: and when he had cried, seven thunders uttered 
their voices. 4 And when the seven thunders had uttered their voices, I was about to write: and I heard 
a voice from heaven saying unto me, Seal up those things which the seven thunders uttered, and write 
them not.” 

No Less a Person Than Christ. 

“The mighty angel who instructed John was no less a personage than Jesus Christ. Setting His right foot 
on the sea, and His left upon the dry land, shows the part which He is acting in the closing scenes of the 
great controversy with Satan. This position denotes His supreme power and authority over the whole 


earth. The controversy had waxed stronger and more determined from age to age, and will continue to 
do so, to the concluding scenes when the masterly working of the powers of darkness shall reach their 
height. Satan, united with evil men, will deceive the whole world and the churches who receive not the 
love of the truth. But the mighty angel demands attention. He cries with a loud voice. He is to show the 
power and authority of His voice to those who have united with Satan to oppose the truth.” {7BC 971.} 

The Sealed Book: 

Revelation 5:1 “And I saw in the right hand of him that sat on the throne a book written within and on 
the backside, sealed with seven seals. 2 And I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice, Who is 
worthy to open the book, and to loose the seals thereof? 3 And no man in heaven, nor in earth, neither 
under the earth, was able to open the book, neither to look thereon. 4 And I wept much, because no 
man was found worthy to open and to read the book, neither to look thereon. 5 And one of the elders 
saith unto me, Weep not: behold, the Lion of the tribe of Juda, the Root of David, hath prevailed to 
open the book, and to loose the seven seals thereof.” 

“When Christ came to this earth, the traditions that had been handed down from generation to 
generation, and the human interpretation of the Scriptures, hid from men the truth as it is in Jesus. 
The truth was buried beneath a mass of tradition. The spiritual import of the sacred volumes was lost; 
for in their unbelief men locked the door of the heavenly treasure. Darkness covered the earth, and 
gross darkness the people. Truth looked down from heaven to earth; but nowhere was revealed the 
divine impress. A gloom like the pall of death overspread the earth.” {SpM 58.4} 

“But the Lion of the tribe of Judah prevailed. He opened the seal that closed the book of divine 
instruction. The world was permitted to gaze upon pure, unadulterated truth. Truth itself descended to 
roll back the darkness and counteract error. A Teacher was sent from heaven with the light that was to 
light every man that comes into the world. There were men and women who were eagerly seeking for 
knowledge, the sure word of prophecy, and when it came, it was as a light shining in a dark place.” 
{SpM 58.5} 

“The scribes and Pharisees professed to explain the Scriptures, but they explained them in accordance 
with their own ideas and traditions. Their customs and maxims became more and more exacting. In its 
spiritual sense, the sacred Word became to the people as a sealed book, closed to their 
comprehension.” {ST, May 17, 1905 par. 2} 

William Miller's Dream 

 “I dreamed that God, by an unseen hand, sent me a curiously wrought casket about ten inches long 
by six square, made of ebony and pearls curiously inlaid. To the casket there was a key attached. I 
immediately took the key and opened the casket, when, to my wonder and surprise, I found it filled with 
all sorts and sizes of jewels, diamonds, precious stones, and gold and silver coin of every dimension and 
value, beautifully arranged in their several places in the casket; and thus arranged they reflected a light 
and glory equaled only to the sun. 

 “I thought it was not my duty to enjoy this wonderful sight alone, although my heart was overjoyed at 
the brilliancy, beauty, and value of its contents. I therefore placed it on a center table in my room and 
gave out word that all who had a desire might come and see the most glorious and brilliant sight ever 
seen by man in this life. 

 “The people began to come in, at first few in number, but increasing to a crowd. When they first 
looked into the casket, they would wonder and shout for joy. But when the spectators increased, 


everyone would begin to trouble the jewels, taking them out of the casket and scattering them on the 
table. 

 “I began to think that the owner would require the casket and the jewels again at my hand; and if I 
suffered them to be scattered, I could never place them in their places in the casket again as before; and 
felt I should never be able to meet the accountability, for it would be immense. I then began to plead 
with the people not to handle them, nor to take them out of the casket; but the more I pleaded, the 
more they scattered; and now they seemed to scatter them all over the room, on the floor and on every 
piece of furniture in the room. 

 “I then saw that among the genuine jewels and coin they had scattered an innumerable quantity of 
spurious jewels and counterfeit coin. I was highly incensed at their base conduct and ingratitude, and 
reproved and reproached them for it; but the more I reproved, the more they scattered the spurious 
jewels and false coin among the genuine. 

 “I then became vexed in my physical soul and began to use physical force to push them out of the 
room; but while I was pushing out one, three more would enter and bring in dirt and shavings and sand 
and all manner of rubbish, until they covered every one of the true jewels, diamonds, and coins, which 
were all excluded from sight. They also tore in pieces my casket and scattered it among the rubbish. I 
thought no man regarded my sorrow or my anger. I became wholly discouraged and disheartened, and 
sat down and wept. 

 “While I was thus weeping and mourning for my great loss and accountability, I remembered God, 
and earnestly prayed that He would send me help. 

 “Immediately the door opened, and a man entered the room, when the people all left it; and he, 
having a dirt brush in his hand, opened the windows, and began to brush the dirt and rubbish from the 
room. 

 “I cried to him to forbear, for there were some precious jewels scattered among the rubbish. He told 
me to "fear not," for he would "take care of them". 

 “Then, while he brushed the dirt and rubbish, false jewels and counterfeit coin, all rose and went out 
of the window like a cloud, and the wind carried them away. In the bustle I closed my eyes for a 
moment; when I opened them, the rubbish was all gone. The precious jewels, the diamonds, the gold 
and silver coins, lay scattered in profusion all over the room. 

 “He then placed on the table a casket, much larger and more beautiful than the former, and gathered 
up the jewels, the diamonds, the coins, by the handful, and cast them into the casket, till not one was 
left, although some of the diamonds were not bigger than the point of a pin. 

 “He then called upon me to "come and see." 

 “I looked into the casket, but my eyes were dazzled with the sight. They shone with ten times their 
former glory. I thought they had been scoured in the sand by the feet of those wicked persons who had 
scattered and trod them in the dust. They were arranged in beautiful order in the casket, every one in its 
place, without any visible pains of the man who cast them in. I shouted with very joy, and that shout 
awoke me.” {EW 81-83.} 

Unsealing Truth: 

“After these seven thunders uttered their voices, the injunction comes to John as to Daniel in regard to 
the little book: "Seal up those things which the seven thunders uttered." These relate to future events 
which will be disclosed in their order. Daniel shall stand in his lot at the end of the days. John sees the 


little book unsealed. Then Daniel's prophecies have their proper place in the first, second, and third 
angels' messages to be given to the world. The unsealing of the little book was the message in relation 
to time. 

 “The books of Daniel and the Revelation are one. One is a prophecy, the other a revelation; one a 
book sealed, the other a book opened. John heard the mysteries which the thunders uttered, but he was 
commanded not to write them. 

“The special light given to John which was expressed in the seven thunders was a delineation of events 
which would transpire under the first and second angels' messages. It was not best for the people to 
know these things, for their faith must necessarily be tested. In the order of God most wonderful and 
advanced truths would be proclaimed. The first and second angels' messages were to be proclaimed, 
but no further light was to be revealed before these messages had done their specific work. This is 
represented by the angel standing with one foot on the sea, proclaiming with a most solemn oath that 
time should be no longer. 

 “This time, which the angel declares with a solemn oath, is not the end of this world's history, neither 
of probationary time, but of prophetic time, which should precede the advent of our Lord. That is, the 
people will not have another message upon definite time. After this period of time, reaching from 1842 
to 1844, there can be no definite tracing of the prophetic time. The longest reckoning reaches to the 
autumn of 1844.” {7BC 971.} 

 “In June, 1842, Mr. Miller gave his second course of lectures in the Casco street church, in Portland. . . 
This second course created much more excitement in the city than the first. The different 
denominations, with a very few exceptions, closed the doors of their churches against Mr. Miller.” {LS80 
148.} 

Revelation 22:10 “And he saith unto me, Seal not the sayings of the prophecy of this book: for the time 
is at hand. 11 He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he 
that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still.” 

“There are not many, even among educators and statesmen, who comprehend the causes that underlie 
the present state of society. Those who hold the reins of government are not able to solve the problem 
of moral corruption, poverty, pauperism, and increasing crime. They are struggling in vain to place 
business operations on a more secure basis. If men would give more heed to the teaching of God's 
word, they would find a solution of the problems that perplex them.” {9T 13.3} 

“In the year 1840 another remarkable fulfillment of prophecy excited widespread interest. Two years 
before, Josiah Litch, one of the leading ministers preaching the second advent, published an exposition 
of Revelation 9, predicting the fall of the Ottoman Empire. According to his calculations, this power was 
to be overthrown "in A.D. 1840, sometime in the month of August;" and only a few days previous to its 
accomplishment he wrote: "Allowing the first period, 150 years, to have been exactly fulfilled before 
Deacozes ascended the throne by permission of the Turks, and that the 391 years, fifteen days, 
commenced at the close of the first period, it will end on the 11th of August, 1840, when the Ottoman 
power in Constantinople may be expected to be broken. And this, I believe, will be found to be the 
case."--Josiah Litch, in Signs of the Times, and Expositor of Prophecy, Aug. 1, 1840. {GC 334.4} 

 “At the very time specified, Turkey, through her ambassadors, accepted the protection of the allied 
powers of Europe, and thus placed herself under the control of Christian nations. The event exactly 
fulfilled the prediction. (See Appendix.) When it became known, multitudes were convinced of the 
correctness of the principles of prophetic interpretation adopted by Miller and his associates, and a 
wonderful impetus was given to the advent movement. Men of learning and position united with Miller, 


both in preaching and in publishing his views, and from 1840 to 1844 the work rapidly extended.” {GC 
335.1} 

Revelation 10:8 “And the voice which I heard from heaven spake unto me again, and said, Go and take 
the little book which is open in the hand of the angel which standeth upon the sea and upon the earth. 9 
And I went unto the angel, and said unto him, Give me the little book. And he said unto me, Take it, and 
eat it up; and it shall make thy belly bitter, but it shall be in thy mouth sweet as honey. 10 And I took the 
little book out of the angel's hand, and ate it up; and it was in my mouth sweet as honey: and as soon as 
I had eaten it, my belly was bitter. 11 And he said unto me, Thou must prophesy again before many 
peoples, and nations, and tongues, and kings.” 

“Each of the ancient prophets spoke less for their own time than for ours, so that their prophesying is in 
force for us. "Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our 
admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come" (1 Corinthians 10:11). "Not unto themselves, 
but unto us they did minister the things, which are now reported unto you by them that have preached 
the gospel unto you with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven; which things the angels desire to look 
into" (1 Peter 1:12).” {3SM 338.1} 

The Seven Thunders 

1. August 11, 1840—First Angel’s Message Empowered 

2. June 1842—Second Angel’s Message Arrives as a Door Closes 

3. March 21, 1844—First Disappointment 

4. Spring 1844—Tarrying Time & 1843 Chart 

5. Summer 1844—Second Angel’s Message Proclaimed 

6. August 12–17, 1844—Midnight Cry 

7. October 22, 1844—Another Door Closes as Third Message Arrives 

 


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Jeff Pippenger 

“After these seven thunders uttered their voices, the injunction comes to John as to Daniel in regard to 
the little book: "Seal up those things which the seven thunders uttered." These relate to future events 
which will be disclosed in their order. Daniel shall stand in his lot at the end of the days. John sees the 
little book unsealed. Then Daniel's prophecies have their proper place in the first, second, and third 
angels' messages to be given to the world. The unsealing of the little book was the message in relation 
to time.” {7BC 971.4} 

 “The special light given to John which was expressed in the seven thunders was a delineation of 
events which would transpire under the first and second angels' messages. It was not best for the 
people to know these things, for their faith must necessarily be tested. In the order of God most 
wonderful and advanced truths would be proclaimed. The first and second angels' messages were to be 
proclaimed, but no further light was to be revealed before these messages had done their specific work. 
This is represented by the angel standing with one foot on the sea, proclaiming with a most solemn oath 
that time should be no longer.” {7BC 971.6} 

Revelation 10:4 “And when the seven thunders had uttered their voices, I was about to write: and I 
heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Seal up those things which the seven thunders uttered, and 
write them not.” 

Revelation 22:10 “And he saith unto me, Seal not the sayings of the prophecy of this book: for the time 
is at hand. 11 He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he 
that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still.” 

Foundation of Adventism 

Daniel 8:13 “Then I heard one saint speaking, and another saint said unto that certain saint which spake, 
How long shall be the vision (Chazown) concerning the daily sacrifice, and the transgression of 
desolation, to give both the sanctuary and the host to be trodden under foot? 14 And he said unto me, 
Unto two thousand and three hundred days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed.” 

Mareh: Strongs 4758, appearance–snapshot. Daniel 8:16, 17, 26 first vision, 27; 10:1, (7 twice, 8 
feminine), 16. 

Chazown: Strongs 2377, complete. Daniel 8:1, 2 twice, 13, 15, 26 second vision; 9:21, 23, 24; 10:14; 
11:14. 

And the snapshot vision of the evening and the morning which was told is true: wherefore shut thou up 
the complete vision; for it shall be for many days. Daniel 8:26. 

THE VISION OF THE EVENINGS AND MORNINGS 

And he said unto me, Unto two thousand and three hundred days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed. 
Daniel 8:14. 

And he said unto me, Unto two thousand and three hundred evenings and mornings; then shall the 
sanctuary be cleansed. Daniel 8:14. 


And it came to pass, when I, even I Daniel, had seen the complete vision, and sought for the meaning, 
then, behold, there stood before me as the appearance [mareh] of a man. Daniel 8:15. 

Then I heard one saint speaking, and another saint said unto that certain saint which spake, How long 
shall be the complete vision concerning the daily (Paganism)sacrifice, and the transgression of 
desolation, (Papacy) to give both the sanctuary and the host to be trodden under foot? Daniel 8:13. 

It Is Established: 

John 8:17 “It is also written in your law, that the testimony of two men is true.” 

2 Corinthians 13:1 “This is the third time I am coming to you. In the mouth of two or three witnesses 
shall every word be established. 

Deuteronomy 17:6 “At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, shall he that is worthy of death 
be put to death; but at the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death.” 

Deuteronomy 19:15 “One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any 
sin that he sinneth: at the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall the matter 
be established.” 

Genesis 41:32 “And for that the dream was doubled unto Pharaoh twice; it is because the thing is 
established by God, and God will shortly bring it to pass.” 

Striking Similarity: 

“The work of God in the earth presents, from age to age, a striking similarity in every great reformation 
or religious movement. The principles of God's dealing with men are ever the same. The important 
movements of the present have their parallel in those of the past, and the experience of the church in 
former ages has lessons of great value for our own time. {GC 343.} 

“Whatever may be man's intellectual advancement, let him not for a moment think that there is no 
need of thorough and continuous searching of the Scriptures for greater light. As a people we are called 
individually to be students of prophecy. We must watch with earnestness that we may discern any ray 
of light which God shall present to us. We are to catch the first gleamings of truth; and through prayerful 
study clearer light may be obtained, which can be brought before others.” {5T 708.2} 

Spiritually Dead: 

“A revival of true godliness among us is the greatest and most urgent of all our needs. To seek this 
should be our first work. There must be earnest effort to obtain the blessing of the Lord, not because 
God is not willing to bestow His blessing upon us, but because we are unprepared to receive it.” {1SM 
121.} 

“A revival and a reformation must take place, under the ministration of the Holy Spirit. Revival and 
reformation are two different things. Revival signifies a renewal of spiritual life, a quickening of the 
powers of mind and heart, a resurrection from spiritual death. Reformation signifies a reorganization, a 
change in ideas and theories, habits and practices. Reformation will not bring forth the good fruit of 
righteousness unless it is connected with the revival of the Spirit. Revival and reformation are to do their 
appointed work, and in doing this work they must blend.--The Review and Herald, Feb. 25, 1902.” {1SM 
128.} 

“When the books of Daniel and Revelation are better understood, believers will have an entirely 
different religious experience. They will be given such glimpses of the open gates of heaven that heart 


and mind will be impressed with the character that all must develop in order to realize the blessedness 
which is to be the reward of the pure in heart. 

Line upon Line: 

 “The Lord will bless all who will seek humbly and meekly to understand that which is revealed in the 
Revelation. This book contains so much that is large with immortality and full of glory that all who read 
and search it earnestly receive the blessing to those "that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep 
those things which are written therein."” {TM 114.} 

“Historical events, showing the direct fulfillment of prophecy, were set before the people, and the 
prophecy was seen to be a figurative delineation of events leading down to the close of this earth's 
history. The scenes connected with the working of the man of sin are the last features plainly revealed 
in this earth's history.” {2SM 102.} 

Waymarks: 

“God speaks in his word, and fulfills this word in the world. We need now to seek to understand the 
movements of God's providence. Said Paul, "Ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should 
overtake you as a thief. Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the 
night nor of darkness." God's people are not left to depend on man's wisdom. With prophetic 
guideposts God has marked out the way he wishes them to take. These great waymarks show us that 
the path of obedience is the only path we can follow with certainty." {RH, February 6, 1900 par. 11} 

“Today Satan is seeking opportunities to tear down the waymarks of truth,--the monuments that have 
been raised up along the way; and we need the experience of the aged workers who have built their 
house upon the solid rock, who through evil report as well as good report have been steadfast to the 
truth.” {GW 103.} 

“Our faith in reference to the messages of the first, second, and third angels was correct. The great 
waymarks we have passed are immovable. Although the hosts of hell may try to tear them from their 
foundation, and triumph in the thought that they have succeeded, yet they do not succeed. These pillars 
of truth stand firm as the eternal hills, unmoved by all the efforts of men combined with those of Satan 
and his host. We can learn much, and should be constantly searching the Scriptures to see if these things 
are so. God's people are now to have their eyes fixed on the heavenly sanctuary, where the final 
ministration of our great High Priest in the work of the judgment is going forward,--where He is 
interceding for His people.--Review and Herald, Nov. 27, 1883.” {Ev 223.} 

“The great waymarks of truth, showing us our bearings in prophetic history, are to be carefully 
guarded, lest they be torn down, and replaced with theories that would bring confusion rather than 
genuine light. I have been cited to the very erroneous theories that have been presented over and over 
again. Those who advocated these theories presented Scripture quotations, but they misapplied and 
misinterpreted them. The theories supposed to be correct were incorrect, and yet many thought them 
the very theories to be brought before the people. The prophecies of Daniel and John are to be 
diligently studied.” {2SM 101.} 

“At this time many efforts will be made to unsettle our faith in the sanctuary question; but we must not 
waver. Not a pin is to be moved from the foundations of our faith. Truth is still truth. Those who 
become uncertain will drift into erroneous theories, and will finally find themselves infidel in regard to 
the past evidence we have had of what is truth. The old waymarks must be preserved, that we lose not 
our bearings. Letter 395, 1906, p. 4. (To Elder S. M. Cobb, December 25, 1906.)” {1MR 55.3} 


“We should study the great waymarks that point out the times in which we are living.--4MR 163 (1895)”. 
{LDE 14.5} 

“Brethren and sisters, my faith is as strong as ever that the things of this world are about to close. It is 
stronger than when I saw you last. We can see the waymarks that are all along the way. When we are 
traveling along a road alone, and see a guide board; if we can read we know that we are at such a place; 
so it is if our minds are active and so consecrated to God that we can understand His workings, we can 
know just where we are in this world's history. Things we spoke of 25 years ago are just working up. 
The powers of darkness are working with an intensity from within, but God has been working for us, and 
He will work for us that Christ shall not have died in vain, that we may have of the life that runs parallel 
with the life of Jehovah. It is this little, little atom of a world that is absorbing all our force. 

“Is there not something that will have a reviving influence on [our] lives? Should we not study the Word 
of God, and when duty is made known, meet every objection to it with a "thus saith the Lord"? Should 
we not search out the truths that are clustered about the truths of God? We have no time to fold our 
hands, brethren; the Lord is soon coming, and we have heard the note of warning till we have consoled 
ourselves and a sleep has taken hold of us, of the life and the character. There is nothing about us to 
show the world that we have the most sacred truth that has ever been given to man. We want to know 
where we are in history.” {2SAT 48.} 

“Unless we are daily advancing in the exemplification of the active Christian virtues, we shall not 
recognize the manifestations of the Holy Spirit in the latter rain. It may be falling on hearts all around 
us, but we shall not discern or receive it.” {TM 507.} 

History of the Past: 

“The dealings of God with His people should be often repeated. How frequently were the waymarks set 
up by the Lord in His dealings with ancient Israel! Lest they should forget the history of the past, He 
commanded Moses to frame these events into song, that parents might teach them to their children. 
They were to gather up memorials and to lay them up in sight. Special pains were taken to preserve 
them, that when the children should inquire concerning these things, the whole story might be 
repeated. Thus the providential dealings and the marked goodness and mercy of God in His care and 
deliverance of His people were kept in mind. We are exhorted to call to "remembrance the former days, 
in which, after ye were illuminated, ye endured a great fight of afflictions." Hebrews 10:32. For His 
people in this generation the Lord has wrought as a wonder-working God. The past history of the 
cause of God needs to be often brought before the people, young and old. We need often to recount 
God's goodness and to praise Him for His wonderful works.” {6T 364.4} 

“Those who passed through these experiences are to be as firm as a rock to the principles that have 
made us Seventh-day Adventists. They are to be workers together with God, binding up the testimony 
and sealing the law among His disciples. Those who took part in the establishment of our work upon a 
foundation of Bible truth, those who know the waymarks that have pointed out the right path, are to 
be regarded as workers of the highest value. They can speak from personal experience, regarding the 
truths entrusted to them. These men are not to permit their faith to be changed to infidelity; they are 
not to permit the banner of the third angel to be taken from their hands. They are to hold the beginning 
of their confidence firm unto the end. 

 “The Lord has declared that the history of the past shall be rehearsed as we enter upon the closing 
work. Every truth that He has given for these last days is to be proclaimed to the world. Every pillar that 
He has established is to be strengthened. We cannot now step off the foundation that God has 


established. We cannot now enter into any new organization; for this would mean apostasy from the 
truth.--Manuscript 129, 1905.” {2SM 389, 390.} 

“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. Brethren and 
sisters, God lives and reigns and works today. His hand is on the wheel, and in his providence he is 
turning the wheel in accordance with his own will. Let not men fasten themselves to documents, saying 
what they will do, and what they will not do. Let them fasten themselves to the Lord God of heaven. 
Then the light of heaven will shine into the soul-temple, and we shall see the salvation of God.” {RH, 
April 14, 1903 par. 35} 

“I saw a company who stood well guarded and firm, giving no countenance to those who would unsettle 
the established faith of the body. God looked upon them with approbation. I was shown three steps-- 
the first, second, and third angels' messages. Said my accompanying angel, "Woe to him who shall 
move a block or stir a pin of these messages. The true understanding of these messages is of vital 
importance. The destiny of souls hangs upon the manner in which they are received." I was again 
brought down through these messages, and saw how dearly the people of God had purchased their 
experience. It had been obtained through much suffering and severe conflict. God had led them along 
step by step, until He had placed them upon a solid, immovable platform. I saw individuals approach the 
platform and examine the foundation. Some with rejoicing immediately stepped upon it. Others 
commenced to find fault with the foundation. They wished improvements made, and then the platform 
would be more perfect, and the people much happier. Some stepped off the platform to examine it 
and declared it to be laid wrong. But I saw that nearly all stood firm upon the platform and exhorted 
those who had stepped off to cease their complaints; for God was the Master Builder, and they were 
fighting against Him. They recounted the wonderful work of God, which had led them to the firm 
platform, and in union raised their eyes to heaven and with a loud voice glorified God. This affected 
some of those who had complained and left the platform, and they with humble look again stepped 
upon it.” {EW 258.} 

“I was pointed back to the proclamation of the first advent of Christ. John was sent in the spirit and 
power of Elijah to prepare the way of Jesus. Those who rejected the testimony of John were not 
benefited by the teachings of Jesus. Their opposition to the message that foretold His coming placed 
them where they could not readily receive the strongest evidence that He was the Messiah. Satan led on 
those who rejected the message of John to go still farther, to reject and crucify Christ. In doing this they 
placed themselves where they could not receive the blessing on the day of Pentecost, which would have 
taught them the way into the heavenly sanctuary. The rending of the veil of the temple showed that the 
Jewish sacrifices and ordinances would no longer be received. The great Sacrifice had been offered and 
had been accepted, and the Holy Spirit which descended on the day of Pentecost carried the minds of 
the disciples from the earthly sanctuary to the heavenly, where Jesus had entered by His own blood, to 
shed upon His disciples the benefits of His atonement. But the Jews were left in total darkness. They lost 
all the light which they might have had upon the plan of salvation, and still trusted in their useless 
sacrifices and offerings. The heavenly sanctuary had taken the place of the earthly, yet they had no 
knowledge of the change. Therefore they could not be benefited by the mediation of Christ in the holy 
place. {EW 259.} 


Many look with horror at the course of the Jews in rejecting and crucifying Christ; and as they read the 
history of His shameful abuse, they think they love Him, and would not have denied Him as did Peter, or 
crucified Him as did the Jews. But God who reads the hearts of all, has brought to the test that love for 
Jesus which they professed to feel. All heaven watched with the deepest interest the reception of the 
first angel's message. But many who professed to love Jesus, and who shed tears as they read the story 
of the cross, derided the good news of His coming. Instead of receiving the message with gladness, they 
declared it to be a delusion. They hated those who loved His appearing and shut them out of the 
churches. Those who rejected the first message could not be benefited by the second; neither were 
they benefited by the midnight cry, which was to prepare them to enter with Jesus by faith into the 
most holy place of the heavenly sanctuary. And by rejecting the two former messages, they have so 
darkened their understanding that they can see no light in the third angel's message, which shows the 
way into the most holy place. I saw that as the Jews crucified Jesus, so the nominal churches had 
crucified these messages, and therefore they have no knowledge of the way into the most holy, and 
they cannot be benefited by the intercession of Jesus there. Like the Jews, who offered their useless 
sacrifices, they offer up their useless prayers to the apartment which Jesus has left; and Satan, pleased 
with the deception, assumes a religious character, and leads the minds of these professed Christians 
to himself, working with his power, his signs and lying wonders, to fasten them in his snare. Some he 
deceives in one way, and some in another. He has different delusions prepared to affect different minds. 
Some look with horror upon one deception, while they readily receive another. Satan deceives some 
with Spiritualism. He also comes as an angel of light and spreads his influence over the land by means of 
false reformations. The churches are elated, and consider that God is working marvelously for them, 
when it is the work of another spirit. The excitement will die away and leave the world and the church in 
a worse condition than before. {EW 260.1} 

 


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Series 04: Every Reformatory Movement 
Notes 

Jeff Pippenger 

 Daniel 12:4 “But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: 
many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.” 

Daniel 12:9 “And he said, Go thy way, Daniel: for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the 
end.” 

Isaiah 28:9 “Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them 
that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts. 10 For precept must be upon precept, 
precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little: 11 For with 
stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people. 12 To whom he said, This is the rest 
wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear. 13 But 
the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line 
upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and 
snared, and taken.” 

“The great work of the gospel is not to close with less manifestation of the power of God than marked 
its opening. The prophecies which were fulfilled in the outpouring of the former rain at the opening of 
the gospel are again to be fulfilled in the latter rain at its close. Here are "the times of refreshing" to 
which the apostle Peter looked forward when he said: "Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that 
your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord; 
and He shall send Jesus." Acts 3:19, 20.” {GC 611.} 

3+1 Combination: 

Three Angels + Fourth 

End from the Beginning: 

Isaiah 46:9 “Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and 
there is none like me, 10 Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that 
are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:” 

“The work of God in the earth presents, from age to age, a striking similarity in every great reformation 
or religious movement. The principles of God's dealing with men are ever the same. The important 
movements of the present have their parallel in those of the past, and the experience of the church in 
former ages has lessons of great value for our own time.” {GC 343.} 

Daniel 11:36 “And the king shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself 
above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the 
indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done.” 

Daniel 7:21 “I beheld, and the same horn made war with the saints, and prevailed against them; 22 Until 
the Ancient of days came, and judgment was given to the saints of the most High; and the time came 
that the saints possessed the kingdom.” 



Ezra 1:1 “Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the LORD by the mouth of 
Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a 
proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying, 2 Thus saith Cyrus king of 
Persia, The LORD God of heaven hath given me all the kingdoms of the earth; and he hath charged me 
to build him an house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah. 3 Who is there among you of all his people? his 
God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and build the house of the LORD 
God of Israel, (he is the God,) which is in Jerusalem. 4 And whosoever remaineth in any place where he 
sojourneth, let the men of his place help him with silver, and with gold, and with goods, and with beasts, 
beside the freewill offering for the house of God that is in Jerusalem.” 

Daniel 9:2 “In the first year of his reign I Daniel understood by books the number of the years, whereof 
the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah the prophet, that he would accomplish seventy years in the 
desolations of Jerusalem. 3 And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, 
with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes:” 

Ezra 7:25 “And thou, Ezra, after the wisdom of thy God, that is in thine hand, set magistrates and judges, 
which may judge all the people that are beyond the river, all such as know the laws of thy God; and 
teach ye them that know them not. 26 And whosoever will not do the law of thy God, and the law of the 
king, let judgment be executed speedily upon him, whether it be unto death, or to banishment, or to 
confiscation of goods, or to imprisonment.” 


 

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Manifestation of 
the Power of God 


Enemies 


Time of 
the End 


Formalization of 
the Message 


Darkness


Worldwide 


Local 


Increase of 
Knowledge 


The Great Reformatory Movements in Sacred History 


Sin 


Righteousness 


Judgment 


Disappointment 


Troublous 
Times 


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Backsliding 


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Eatonville 2008 Series 
05: The Time of the End 
Notes 

Jeff Pippenger 

Islam in Bible Prophecy: 

Isaiah 46:10 “Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet 
done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:” 

Isaiah 44:6 “Thus saith the LORD the King of Israel, and his redeemer the LORD of hosts; I am the first, 
and I am the last; and beside me there is no God. 7 And who, as I, shall call, and shall declare it, and set 
it in order for me, since I appointed the ancient people? and the things that are coming, and shall come, 
let them shew unto them.” 

Parallel movements: see chart in 4th presentation. 

“Ezra had expected that a large number would return to Jerusalem, but the number who responded to 
the call was disappointingly small. Many who had acquired houses and lands had no desire to sacrifice 
these possessions. They loved ease and comfort and were well satisfied to remain. Their example 
proved a hindrance to others who otherwise might have chosen to cast in their lot with those who were 
advancing by faith.” {PK 612.} 

“The number who responded to the call to leave Babylon, was disappointingly small. Ezra had expected 
that a large number would return. But many of those who had acquired houses and lands, had no desire 
to sacrifice these possessions. They loved ease and comfort rather than hardship and privation, and 
were well satisfied to remain. Their example proved a hindrance to many who might otherwise have 
chosen to cast in their lot with God's people, and advance by faith.” {RH, February 13, 1908 par. 3} 

“Ezra's arrival in Jerusalem was opportune. There was great need of the influence of his presence. His 
coming brought courage and hope to the hearts of many who had long labored under difficulties. Since 
the return of the first company of exiles under the leadership of Zerubbabel and Joshua, over seventy 
years before, much had been accomplished. The temple had been finished, and the walls of the city had 
been partially repaired. Yet much remained undone.” {PK 618.1} 

2520 

723 BC Hoshea a prisoner; Northern Tribes Dispersed 

2520 years divides exactly in half at 538 AD. 538 AD - 1798 AD when the Pope is taken prisoner 1798 to 
1844 is 46 years. 

The Time Frame (2520) of the Northern Kingdom is a Plummet for the (2520) Line of the Southern 
Kingdom! 2 Kings 21:13 

Prophecy of Isaiah 7:8 given in 742 BC to Ahaz. 

19 yrs. to 723. 46 yrs. to 677 BC 

677 BC Manasseh a prisoner 

Southern Tribes Scattered for 2,520 years 


1831-1844 Prison door of knowledge unlocked, Gathering taking place: 1844. 

Two Themes are Represented 

1. The first theme is the SCATTERING or the TRAMPLING DOWN. 

2. The second theme is the GATHERING (which really began in 1798), but on October 23, 1844, the day 
after the disappointment, God gathered another people, few as they were. 

Temple Built: 

John 2:13 “And the Jews' passover was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem, 14 And found in the 
temple those that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the changers of money sitting: 15 And when he 
had made a scourge of small cords, he drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; 
and poured out the changers' money, and overthrew the tables; 16 And said unto them that sold doves, 
Take these things hence; make not my Father's house an house of merchandise. 17 And his disciples 
remembered that it was written, The zeal of thine house hath eaten me up. 18 Then answered the Jews 
and said unto him, What sign shewest thou unto us, seeing that thou doest these things? 19 Jesus 
answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up. 20 Then said the 
Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days? 21 But he 
spake of the temple of his body.” 

“Solemnly and publicly the people of Judah had pledged themselves to obey the law of God. But when 
the influence of Ezra and Nehemiah was for a time withdrawn, there were many who departed from the 
Lord. Nehemiah had returned to Persia. During his absence from Jerusalem, evils crept in that 
threatened to pervert the nation. Idolaters not only gained a foothold in the city, but contaminated by 
their presence the very precincts of the temple. Through intermarriage, a friendship had been brought 
about between Eliashib the high priest and Tobiah the Ammonite, Israel's bitter enemy. As a result of 
this unhallowed alliance, Eliashib had permitted Tobiah to occupy an apartment connected with the 
temple, which heretofore had been used as a storeroom for tithes and offerings of the people.” {PK 
669.} 

4th Decree: 

Nehemiah 2:5 “And I said unto the king, If it please the king, and if thy servant have found favour in thy 
sight, that thou wouldest send me unto Judah, unto the city of my fathers' sepulchres, that I may build 
it. 6 And the king said unto me, (the queen also sitting by him,) For how long shall thy journey be? and 
when wilt thou return? So it pleased the king to send me; and I set him a time. 7 Moreover I said unto 
the king, If it please the king, let letters be given me to the governors beyond the river, that they may 
convey me over till I come into Judah; 8 And a letter unto Asaph the keeper of the king's forest, that he 
may give me timber to make beams for the gates of the palace which appertained to the house, and for 
the wall of the city, and for the house that I shall enter into. And the king granted me, according to the 
good hand of my God upon me.” 

“His request to the king had been so favorably received that Nehemiah was encouraged to ask for still 
further assistance. To give dignity and authority to his mission, as well as to provide protection on the 
journey, he asked for and secured a military escort. He obtained royal letters to the governors of the 
provinces beyond the Euphrates, the territory through which he must pass on his way to Judea; and he 
obtained, also, a letter to the keeper of the king's forest in the mountains of Lebanon, directing him to 
furnish such timber as would be needed. That there might be no occasion for complaint that he had 


exceeded his commission, Nehemiah was careful to have the authority and privileges accorded him, 
clearly defined.” {PK 633.} 

Immanuel: 

Isaiah 7:8 “For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin; and within threescore 
and five years shall Ephraim be broken, that it be not a people.” 

Isaiah 7:10 “Moreover the LORD spake again unto Ahaz, saying, 11 Ask thee a sign of the LORD thy God; 
ask it either in the depth, or in the height above. 12 But Ahaz said, I will not ask, neither will I tempt the 
LORD. 13 And he said, Hear ye now, O house of David; Is it a small thing for you to weary men, but will 
ye weary my God also? 14 Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall 
conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel. 15 Butter and honey shall he eat, that he 
may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good. 16 For before the child shall know to refuse the evil, 
and choose the good, the land that thou abhorrest shall be forsaken of both her kings.” 

Darkness: 

“He (Wm. Miller) could see hypocrisy, darkness, and death everywhere. His spirit was stirred within him. 
God called him to leave his farm, as He called Elisha to leave his oxen and the field of his labor to follow 
Elijah. With trembling, William Miller began to unfold to the people the mysteries of the kingdom of 
God, carrying his hearers down through the prophecies to the second advent of Christ. With every effort 
he gained strength. As John the Baptist heralded the first advent of Jesus and prepared the way for His 
coming, so William Miller and those who joined with him proclaimed the second advent of the Son of 
God.” {EW 229.} 

“Before the days of Christ, men asked in vain, "What is truth?" Darkness covered the earth, and gross 
darkness the people. Even Judea was shrouded in gloom, although the voice of God spoke to them in His 
oracles. The truth of God had been silenced by the superstition and traditions of its professed 
interpreters, and contention, jealousy, and prejudice divided the professed children of God. Then was a 
Teacher sent from God, even Him who was the Way, the Truth, and the Life. Jesus presented to view the 
pure, rich truth of heaven to shine amid the moral darkness and gloom of earth. God had said, "Let 
there be spiritual light," and the light of the glory of God was revealed in the face of Jesus Christ.” {FE 
238.} 

Matthew 3:5 “Then went out to him Jerusalem, and all Judaea, and all the region round about Jordan, 6 
And were baptized of him in Jordan, confessing their sins.” 

Matthew 3:2 “And saying, Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. . . “ 

7 “But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, O 
generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come? 8 Bring forth therefore 
fruits meet for repentance: 9 And think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: 
for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham. 10 And now also 
the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is 
hewn down, and cast into the fire. 11 I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that 
cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the 
Holy Ghost, and with fire: 12 Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and gather 
his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.” 

“The angel who unites in the proclamation of the third angel's message is to lighten the whole earth 
with his glory. A work of world-wide extent and unwonted power is here foretold. The advent 


movement of 1840-44 was a glorious manifestation of the power of God; the first angel's message was 
carried to every missionary station in the world, and in some countries there was the greatest religious 
interest which has been witnessed in any land since the Reformation of the sixteenth century; but these 
are to be exceeded by the mighty movement under the last warning of the third angel.” {GC 611.} 

Revelation 10:8 “And the voice which I heard from heaven spake unto me again, and said, Go and take 
the little book which is open in the hand of the angel which standeth upon the sea and upon the earth. 9 
And I went unto the angel, and said unto him, Give me the little book. And he said unto me, Take it, and 
eat it up; and it shall make thy belly bitter, but it shall be in thy mouth sweet as honey. 10 And I took the 
little book out of the angel's hand, and ate it up; and it was in my mouth sweet as honey: and as soon as 
I had eaten it, my belly was bitter.” 

John 18:14 “Now Caiaphas was he, which gave counsel to the Jews, that it was expedient that one man 
should die for the people.” 

“The midnight cry was not so much carried by argument, though the Scripture proof was clear and 
conclusive. There went with it an impelling power that moved the soul. There was no doubt, no 
questioning. Upon the occasion of Christ's triumphal entry into Jerusalem, the people who were 
assembled from all parts of the land to keep the feast, flocked to the Mount of Olives, and as they joined 
the throng that were escorting Jesus, they caught the inspiration of the hour, and helped to swell the 
shout, "Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord!" [Matthew 21:9.] In like manner did 
unbelievers who flocked to the Adventist meetings--some from curiosity, some merely to ridicule--feel 
the convincing power attending the message, "Behold, the Bridegroom cometh!" {4SP 250.} 

Deuteronomy 18:15 “The LORD thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy 
brethren, like unto me; unto him ye shall hearken;” 

Deuteronomy 18:18 “I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and will 
put my words in his mouth; and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him.” 

Exodus 4:24 “And it came to pass by the way in the inn, that the LORD met him, and sought to kill him. 
25 Then Zipporah took a sharp stone, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet, and said, 
Surely a bloody husband art thou to me. 26 So he let him go: then she said, A bloody husband thou art, 
because of the circumcision.” 

Exodus 5:4 “And the king of Egypt said unto them, Wherefore do ye, Moses and Aaron, let the people 
from their works? get you unto your burdens. 5 And Pharaoh said, Behold, the people of the land now 
are many, and ye make them rest from their burdens. 6 And Pharaoh commanded the same day the 
taskmasters of the people, and their officers, saying, 7 Ye shall no more give the people straw to make 
brick, as heretofore: let them go and gather straw for themselves. 8 And the tale of the bricks, which 
they did make heretofore, ye shall lay upon them; ye shall not diminish ought thereof: for they be idle; 
therefore they cry, saying, Let us go and sacrifice to our God. 9 Let there more work be laid upon the 
men, that they may labour therein; and let them not regard vain words. 10 And the taskmasters of the 
people went out, and their officers, and they spake to the people, saying, Thus saith Pharaoh, I will not 
give you straw. 11 Go ye, get you straw where ye can find it: yet not ought of your work shall be 
diminished.” 

“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 was that of the Hebrews at the Red Sea. 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 
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“The coming of Christ as our high priest to the most holy place, for the cleansing of the sanctuary, 
brought to view in Daniel 8:14; the coming of the Son of man to the Ancient of Days, as presented in 
Daniel 7:13; and the coming of the Lord to His temple, foretold by Malachi, are descriptions of the same 
event; and this is also represented by the coming of the bridegroom to the marriage, described by Christ 
in the parable of the ten virgins, of Matthew 25.” {GC 426.} 

Malachi 3:1 “Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, 
whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye 
delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the LORD of hosts. 2 But who may abide the day of his coming? 
and who shall stand when he appeareth? for he is like a refiner's fire, and like fullers' soap: 3 And he 
shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold 
and silver, that they may offer unto the LORD an offering in righteousness.” 

See chart in notes for # 04. 

Revelation 10:4 “And when the seven thunders had uttered their voices, I was about to write: and I 
heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Seal up those things which the seven thunders uttered, and 
write them not.” 

“The special light given to John which was expressed in the seven thunders was a delineation of events 
which would transpire under the first and second angels' messages. It was not best for the people to 
know these things, for their faith must necessarily be tested. In the order of God most wonderful and 
advanced truths would be proclaimed. The first and second angels' messages were to be proclaimed, 
but no further light was to be revealed before these messages had done their specific work. This is 
represented by the angel standing with one foot on the sea, proclaiming with a most solemn oath that 
time should be no longer.” {7BC 971.} 

 “After these seven thunders uttered their voices, the injunction comes to John as to Daniel in regard to 
the little book: "Seal up those things which the seven thunders uttered." These relate to future events 
which will be disclosed in their order. Daniel shall stand in his lot at the end of the days. John sees the 
little book unsealed. Then Daniel's prophecies have their proper place in the first, second, and third 
angels' messages to be given to the world. The unsealing of the little book was the message in relation 
to time.” {7BC 971.} 

 “It has been reported that on the occasion of the vision I declared that in forty days the end of the 
world would come. No such words were uttered by me. I had no light concerning the end of time. The 
subject of Nineveh, her lengthened probation, and the consequent grief of Jonah, was presented to me 
as a parallel case with our own disappointment in 1844. The case of Elder Morse was presented to me as 
one that represented the condition of a large class of our people at that time. Their duty was plainly 
marked; it was to trust in the wisdom and mercy of God and patiently labor as his providence opened 
the way before them.” {LS80 204.} 

Isaiah 28:9 “Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them 
that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts. 10 For precept must be upon precept, 


precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little: 11 For with 
stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people. 12 To whom he said, This is the rest 
wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear. 13 But 
the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line 
upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and 
snared, and taken.” 

“In June, 1842, Mr. Miller gave his second course of lectures in Portland. I felt it a great privilege to 
attend these lectures, for I had fallen under discouragements and did not feel prepared to meet my 
Saviour. This second course created much more excitement in the city than the first. With few 
exceptions the different denominations closed the doors of their churches against Mr. Miller. Many 
discourses from the various pulpits sought to expose the alleged fanatical errors of the lecturer; but 
crowds of anxious listeners attended his meetings, while many were unable to enter the house.” {1T 
21.} 

Revelation 18:1 “And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great 
power; and the earth was lightened with his glory. 2 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. 3 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. 4 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.” 

"Another angel" is to come down from heaven. This angel represents the giving of the loud cry, which is 
to come from those who are preparing to cry mightily, with a strong voice, "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" (Revelation 18:1, 2). {3SM 412.} 

“That work is the voice of the people of God proclaiming a message of warning to the world. Has God, 
through John, given us light relating to the things which are to transpire in the remnant of time just at 
the end? Then with pen and voice we are to proclaim that very message to the world, not in a tame, 
indistinct whisper.” {1888 926.} 

 


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Scattering and Gathering: 

“September 23, the Lord showed me that He had stretched out His hand the second time to recover the 
remnant of His people, and that efforts must be redoubled in this gathering time. In the scattering, Israel 
was smitten and torn, but now in the gathering time God will heal and bind up His people. In the 
scattering, efforts made to spread the truth had but little effect, accomplished but little or nothing; but 
in the gathering, when God has set His hand to gather His people, efforts to spread the truth will have 
their designed effect. All should be united and zealous in the work. I saw that it was wrong for any to 
refer to the scattering for examples to govern us now in the gathering; for if God should do no more for 
us now than He did then, Israel would never be gathered. I have seen that the 1843 chart was directed 
by the hand of the Lord, and that it should not be altered; that the figures were as He wanted them; that 
His hand was over and hid a mistake in some of the figures, so that none could see it, until His hand was 
removed. Then I saw in relation to the "daily" (Daniel 8:12) that the word "sacrifice" was supplied by 
man's wisdom, and does not belong to the text, and that the Lord gave the correct view of it to those 
who gave the judgment hour cry. When union existed, before 1844, nearly all were united on the 
correct view of the "daily"; but in the confusion since 1844, other views have been embraced, and 
darkness and confusion have followed. Time has not been a test since 1844, and it will never again be a 
test.” {EW 74.2} 

Jeremiah 6:16 “Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is 
the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk 


therein. 17 Also I set watchmen over you, saying, Hearken to the sound of the trumpet. But they said, 
We will not hearken.” 

Jeremiah 18:15 “Because my people hath forgotten me, they have burned incense to vanity, and they 
have caused them to stumble in their ways from the ancient paths, to walk in paths, in a way not cast 
up;” 

Isaiah 58:12 “And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the 
foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of 
paths to dwell in.” 

William Miller's Dream 

 “I dreamed that God, by an unseen hand, sent me a curiously wrought casket about ten inches long 
by six square, made of ebony and pearls curiously inlaid. To the casket there was a key attached. I 
immediately took the key and opened the casket, when, to my wonder and surprise, I found it filled with 
all sorts and sizes of jewels, diamonds, precious stones, and gold and silver coin of every dimension and 
value, beautifully arranged in their several places in the casket; and thus arranged they reflected a light 
and glory equaled only to the sun. 

 “I thought it was not my duty to enjoy this wonderful sight alone, although my heart was overjoyed at 
the brilliancy, beauty, and value of its contents. I therefore placed it on a center table in my room and 
gave out word that all who had a desire might come and see the most glorious and brilliant sight ever 
seen by man in this life. 

 “The people began to come in, at first few in number, but increasing to a crowd. When they first 
looked into the casket, they would wonder and shout for joy. But when the spectators increased, 
everyone would begin to trouble the jewels, taking them out of the casket and scattering them on the 
table. 

 “I began to think that the owner would require the casket and the jewels again at my hand; and if I 
suffered them to be scattered, I could never place them in their places in the casket again as before; and 
felt I should never be able to meet the accountability, for it would be immense. I then began to plead 
with the people not to handle them, nor to take them out of the casket; but the more I pleaded, the 
more they scattered; and now they seemed to scatter them all over the room, on the floor and on every 
piece of furniture in the room. 

 “I then saw that among the genuine jewels and coin they had scattered an innumerable quantity of 
spurious jewels and counterfeit coin. I was highly incensed at their base conduct and ingratitude, and 
reproved and reproached them for it; but the more I reproved, the more they scattered the spurious 
jewels and false coin among the genuine. 

 “I then became vexed in my physical soul and began to use physical force to push them out of the 
room; but while I was pushing out one, three more would enter and bring in dirt and shavings and sand 
and all manner of rubbish, until they covered every one of the true jewels, diamonds, and coins, which 
were all excluded from sight. They also tore in pieces my casket and scattered it among the rubbish. I 
thought no man regarded my sorrow or my anger. I became wholly discouraged and disheartened, and 
sat down and wept. 

 “While I was thus weeping and mourning for my great loss and accountability, I remembered God, 
and earnestly prayed that He would send me help. 


 “Immediately the door opened, and a man entered the room, when the people all left it; and he, 
having a dirt brush in his hand, opened the windows, and began to brush the dirt and rubbish from the 
room. 

 “I cried to him to forbear, for there were some precious jewels scattered among the rubbish. He told 
me to "fear not," for he would "take care of them". 

 “Then, while he brushed the dirt and rubbish, false jewels and counterfeit coin, all rose and went out 
of the window like a cloud, and the wind carried them away. In the bustle I closed my eyes for a 
moment; when I opened them, the rubbish was all gone. The precious jewels, the diamonds, the gold 
and silver coins, lay scattered in profusion all over the room. 

 “He then placed on the table a casket, much larger and more beautiful than the former, and gathered 
up the jewels, the diamonds, the coins, by the handful, and cast them into the casket, till not one was 
left, although some of the diamonds were not bigger than the point of a pin. 

 “He then called upon me to "come and see." 

 “I looked into the casket, but my eyes were dazzled with the sight. They shone with ten times their 
former glory. I thought they had been scoured in the sand by the feet of those wicked persons who had 
scattered and trod them in the dust. They were arranged in beautiful order in the casket, every one in its 
place, without any visible pains of the man who cast them in. I shouted with very joy, and that shout 
awoke me.” {EW 81-83.} 

Jewels of Truth: 

“The jewels of truth lie scattered over the field of revelation; but they have been buried beneath human 
traditions, beneath the sayings and commandments of men, and the wisdom from heaven has been 
practically ignored; for Satan has succeeded in making the world believe that the words and 
achievements of men are of great consequence. The Lord God, the Creator of the worlds, at infinite cost 
has given the gospel to the world. Through this divine agent, glad, refreshing springs of heavenly 
comfort and abiding consolation have been opened for those who will come to the fountain of life. 
There are veins of truth yet to be discovered; but spiritual things are spiritually discerned. Minds 
beclouded with evil cannot appreciate the value of the truth as it is in Jesus. When iniquity is cherished, 
men do not feel the necessity of making diligent effort, with prayer and reflection, to understand what 
they must know or lose heaven. The have so long been under the shadow of the enemy, that they view 
truth as men behold objects through a smoked and imperfect glass; for all things are dark and perverted 
in their eyes. Their spiritual vision is feeble and untrustworthy; for they look upon the shadow, and turn 
away from the light.” {CE 86.} 

“The apostle says, "All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, 
for correction, for instruction in righteousness: that the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly 
furnished unto all good works." [2 Timothy 3:16, 17.] The Bible is its own expositor. One passage will 
prove to be a key that will unlock other passages, and in this way light will be shed upon the hidden 
meaning of the word. By comparing different texts treating on the same subject, viewing their bearing 
on every side, the true meaning of the Scriptures will be made evident. 

“Many think that they must consult commentaries on the Scriptures in order to understand the meaning 
of the word of God, and we would not take the position that commentaries should not be studied; but it 
will take much discernment to discover the truth of God under the mass of the words of men. How little 
has been done by the church as a body professing to believe the Bible, to gather up the scattered jewels 
of God's word into one perfect chain of truth? The jewels of truth do not lie upon the surface, as many 


suppose. The master mind in the confederacy of evil is ever at work to keep the truth out of sight, and to 
bring into full view the opinions of great men. The enemy is doing all in his power to obscure heaven's 
light through educational processes; for he does not mean that men shall hear the voice of the Lord, 
saying, "This is the way, walk ye in it." [Isaiah 30:21.] {CE 85.} 

“I stated that I was a stockholder and I could not let the resolution pass, that there was to be special 
light for God's people as they neared the closing scenes of this earth's history. Another angel was to 
come from heaven with a message, and the whole earth was to be lightened with his glory. It would 
be impossible for us to state just how this additional light would come. It might come in a very 
unexpected manner, in a way that would not agree with the ideas that many have conceived. It is not at 
all unlikely, or contrary to the ways and works of God, to send light to His people in unexpected ways. 
Would it be right that every avenue should be closed in our school so that the students could not have 
the benefit of this light? The resolution was not called for.--Letter 22, 1889.” {13MR 334.} 

“Thus the substance of the second angel's message is again given to the world by that other angel who 
lightens the earth with his glory. These messages all blend in one, to come before the people in the 
closing days of this earth's history. All the world will be tested, and all that have been in the darkness of 
error in regard to the Sabbath of the fourth commandment will understand the last message of mercy 
that is to be given to men.” {2SM 116.} 

“The great message, combining the first, second, and third angels' messages, is to be given to the 
world. This is to be the burden of our work. Those who truly believe in Christ will openly conform to the 
law of Jehovah. The Sabbath is the sign between God and His people; and we are to make visible our 
conformity to the law of God by observing the Sabbath. It is to be the mark of distinction between God's 
chosen people and the world (MS 10, 1900).” {7BC 949.} 

“The whole earth is to be lightened with the glory of the Lord. The pure in heart shall see God. It is those 
who are following the Lamb whithersoever He goeth that will receive power from that angel that came 
down from heaven "having great power." The first message is to be repeated proclaiming the second 
advent of Christ to our world. The second angel's message is to be repeated, "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 18:2, 3].” {16MR 40.} 

“God has given the messages of Revelation 14 their place in the line of prophecy, and their work is not 
to cease till the close of this earth's history. The first and second angel's messages are still truth for this 
time, and are to run parallel with this which follows. The third angel proclaims his warning with a loud 
voice. "After these things," said John, "I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great 
power, and the earth was lightened with his glory." In this illumination, the light of all the three 
messages is combined.” {1888 804.} 

“I was shown the interest which all heaven had taken in the work going on upon the earth. Jesus 
commissioned a mighty angel to descend and warn the inhabitants of the earth to prepare for His 
second appearing. As the angel left the presence of Jesus in heaven, an exceedingly bright and glorious 
light went before him. I was told that his mission was to lighten the earth with his glory and warn man of 
the coming wrath of God. Multitudes received the light. Some of these seemed to be very solemn, while 
others were joyful and enraptured. All who received the light turned their faces toward heaven and 
glorified God. Though it was shed upon all, some merely came under its influence, but did not heartily 
receive it. Many were filled with great wrath. Ministers and people united with the vile and stoutly 


resisted the light shed by the mighty angel. But all who received it withdrew from the world and were 
closely united with one another.” {EW 245.} 

 “Another mighty angel was commissioned to descend to earth. Jesus placed in his hand a writing, and 
as he came to the earth, he cried, "Babylon is fallen, is fallen." Then I saw the disappointed ones again 
raise their eyes to heaven, looking with faith and hope for their Lord's appearing. But many seemed to 
remain in a stupid state, as if asleep; yet I could see the trace of deep sorrow upon their countenances. 
The disappointed ones saw from the Scriptures that they were in the tarrying time, and that they must 
patiently wait the fulfillment of the vision. The same evidence which led them to look for their Lord in 
1843, led them to expect Him in 1844. Yet I saw that the majority did not possess that energy which 
marked their faith in 1843. Their disappointment had dampened their faith.” {EW 247.} 

 “As the people of God united in the cry of the second angel, the heavenly host marked with the 
deepest interest the effect of the message. They saw many who bore the name of Christians turn with 
scorn and derision upon those who had been disappointed. As the words fell from mocking lips, "You 
have not gone up yet!" an angel wrote them. Said the angel, "They mock God." I was pointed back to a 
similar sin committed in ancient times. Elijah had been translated to heaven, and his mantle had fallen 
upon Elisha. Then wicked youth, who had learned from their parents to despise the man of God, 
followed Elisha, and mockingly cried, "Go up, thou bald head; go up, thou bald head." In thus insulting 
His servant, they insulted God and met their punishment then and there. In like manner, those who 
have scoffed and mocked at the idea of the saints' going up, will be visited with the wrath of God, and 
will be made to feel that it is not a light thing to trifle with their Maker. {EW 247.} 

 “Jesus commissioned other angels to fly quickly to revive and strengthen the drooping faith of His 
people and prepare them to understand the message of the second angel and the important move 
which was soon to be made in heaven. I saw these angels receive great power and light from Jesus and 
fly quickly to earth to fulfill their commission to aid the second angel in his work. A great light shone 
upon the people of God as the angels cried, "Behold, the Bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet Him." 
Then I saw these disappointed ones rise and in harmony with the second angel proclaim, "Behold, the 
Bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet Him." The light from the angels penetrated the darkness 
everywhere. Satan and his angels sought to hinder this light from spreading and having its designed 
effect. They contended with the angels from heaven, telling them that God had deceived the people, 
and that with all their light and power they could not make the world believe that Christ was coming. 
But notwithstanding Satan strove to hedge up the way and draw the minds of the people from the light, 
the angels of God continued their work.” {EW 248.} 

Loud Cry: 

“I saw angels hurrying to and fro in heaven, descending to the earth, and again ascending to heaven, 
preparing for the fulfillment of some important event. Then I saw another mighty angel commissioned 
to descend to the earth, to unite his voice with the third angel, and give power and force to his message. 
Great power and glory were imparted to the angel, and as he descended, the earth was lightened with 
his glory. The light which attended this angel penetrated everywhere, as he cried mightily, with a strong 
voice, "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." The message of the fall of Babylon, as given by 
the second angel, is repeated, with the additional mention of the corruptions which have been entering 
the churches since 1844. The work of this angel comes in at the right time to join in the last great work 
of the third angel's message as it swells to a loud cry. And the people of God are thus prepared to stand 
in the hour of temptation, which they are soon to meet. I saw a great light resting upon them, and they 
united to fearlessly proclaim the third angel's message. {EW 277.} 


 “Angels were sent to aid the mighty angel from heaven, and I heard voices which seemed to sound 
everywhere, "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." This 
message seemed to be an addition to the third message, joining it as the midnight cry joined the second 
angel's message in 1844. The glory of God rested upon the patient, waiting saints, and they fearlessly 
gave the last solemn warning, proclaiming the fall of Babylon and calling upon God's people to come out 
of her that they might escape her fearful doom.” {EW 277.} 

Revelation 18:4 “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. 5 For her sins have reached unto 
heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.” 

 “Revelation 18 points to the time when, as the result of rejecting the threefold warning of Revelation 
14:6-12, the church will have fully reached the condition foretold by the second angel, and the people 
of God still in Babylon will be called upon to separate from her communion. This message is the last that 
will ever be given to the world; and it will accomplish its work. When those that "believed not the truth, 
but had pleasure in unrighteousness" (2 Thessalonians 2:12), shall be left to receive strong delusion and 
to believe a lie, then the light of truth will shine upon all whose hearts are open to receive it, and all the 
children of the Lord that remain in Babylon will heed the call: "Come out of her, my people" (Revelation 
18:4).” {Mar 173.} 

“There are true Christians in every church, not excepting the Roman Catholic communion. None are 
condemned until they have had the light and have seen the obligation of the fourth commandment. 
But when the decree shall go forth enforcing the counterfeit sabbath, and the loud cry of "the third 
angel" shall warn men against the worship of the beast and his image, the line will be clearly drawn 
between the false and the true. Then those who still continue in transgression will receive the mark of 
the beast.” {ST, November 8, 1899 par. 2} 

Revelation 9:13 “And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden 
altar which is before God, 14 Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels 
which are bound in the great river Euphrates. 15 And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared 
for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men.” 

August 11; 1840 – Islam Restrained. 

September 11; 2001 – Islam Restrained. 

Revelation 7:1 “And after these things I saw four angels standing on the four corners of the earth, 
holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow on the earth, nor on the sea, nor on 
any tree. 2 And I saw another angel ascending from the east, having the seal of the living God: and he 
cried with a loud voice to the four angels, to whom it was given to hurt the earth and the sea, 3 Saying, 
Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God in their 
foreheads.” 

 


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3rd Woe: 9–11 

“After these seven thunders uttered their voices, the injunction comes to John as to Daniel in regard to 
the little book: "Seal up those things which the seven thunders uttered." These relate to future events 
which will be disclosed in their order. Daniel shall stand in his lot at the end of the days. John sees the 
little book unsealed. Then Daniel's prophecies have their proper place in the first, second, and third 
angels' messages to be given to the world. The unsealing of the little book was the message in relation 
to time.” {7BC 971.4} 

“The special light given to John which was expressed in the seven thunders was a delineation of events 
which would transpire under the first and second angels' messages. It was not best for the people to 
know these things, for their faith must necessarily be tested. In the order of God most wonderful and 
advanced truths would be proclaimed. The first and second angels' messages were to be proclaimed, 
but no further light was to be revealed before these messages had done their specific work. This is 
represented by the angel standing with one foot on the sea, proclaiming with a most solemn oath that 
time should be no longer.” {7BC 971.6} 

“Here is the greatest deception that can affect the human mind,--for persons to believe that they are 
right when they are wrong. They think that they are doing a great work in their religious life. Finally 
Jesus tears off their self-righteous covering, and vividly presents before them the true picture of 
themselves, in all their wrongs and deformity of religious character. They are found wanting when it is 
forever too late to have their wants supplied.” {RH, August 3, 1886 par. 7} 

“What greater deception can come upon human minds than a confidence that they are right when they 
are all wrong! The message of the True Witness finds the people of God in a sad deception, yet honest in 
that deception. They know not that their condition is deplorable in the sight of God. While those 
addressed are flattering themselves that they are in an exalted spiritual condition, the message of the 
True Witness breaks their security by the startling denunciation of their true condition of spiritual 
blindness, poverty, and wretchedness. The testimony, so cutting and severe, cannot be a mistake, for it 
is the True Witness who speaks, and His testimony must be correct.” {3T 252.} 

“In the midst of a world by its iniquity doomed to destruction, Enoch lived a life of such close 
communion with God that he was not permitted to fall under the power of death. The godly character 
of this prophet represents the state of holiness which must be attained by those who shall be 
"redeemed from the earth" (Revelation 14:3) at the time of Christ's second advent. Then, as in the world 
before the Flood, iniquity will prevail. Following the promptings of their corrupt hearts and the teachings 
of a deceptive philosophy, men will rebel against the authority of Heaven. But like Enoch, God's people 
will seek for purity of heart and conformity to His will, until they shall reflect the likeness of Christ. Like 
Enoch, they will warn the world of the Lord's second coming and of the judgments to be visited upon 
transgression, and by their holy conversation and example they will condemn the sins of the ungodly. As 
Enoch was translated to heaven before the destruction of the world by water, so the living righteous will 
be translated from the earth before its destruction by fire. “ {PP 88.3} 


John 16:7 “Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, 
the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you. 8 And when he is come, 
he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment:” 

Daniel 11:40 “And at the time of the end shall the king of the south push at him: and the king of the 
north shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; 
and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over. 41 He shall enter also into the 
glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even 
Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon. 42 He shall stretch forth his hand also upon 
the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape. 43 But he shall have power over the treasures of 
gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be 
at his steps.” 

1989 fulfillment of verse 40 second part. 

“Revelation is a sealed book, but it is also an opened book. It records marvelous events that are to take 
place in the last days of this earth's history. The teachings of this book are definite, not mystical and 
unintelligible. In it the same line of prophecy is taken up as in Daniel. Some prophecies God has 
repeated, thus showing that importance must be given to them. The Lord does not repeat things that 
are of no great consequence.--Ms 107, 1897, pp. 1, 2. (Search the Scriptures," undated.)” {8MR 413.} 

Revelation 1:11 “Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last: and, What thou seest, write in a 
book, and send it unto the seven churches which are in Asia; unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto 
Pergamos, and unto Thyatira, and unto Sardis, and unto Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea.” 

Isaiah 44:6 “Thus saith the LORD the King of Israel, and his redeemer the LORD of hosts; I am the first, 
and I am the last; and beside me there is no God. 7 And who, as I, shall call, and shall declare it, and set 
it in order for me, since I appointed the ancient people? and the things that are coming, and shall come, 
let them shew unto them.” 

Genesis 49:1 “And Jacob called unto his sons, and said, Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you 
that which shall befall you in the last days.” 

Genesis 25:16 “These are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names, by their towns, and by their 
castles; twelve princes according to their nations.” 

Genesis 16:11 “And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a 
son, and shalt call his name Ishmael; because the LORD hath heard thy affliction. 12 And he will be a 
wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him; and he shall dwell in 
the presence of all his brethren.” 

The Turk Appeared on the Eastern Frontier 

“Again and again the immediate destruction of all who dared to oppose themselves to Rome appeared 
inevitable; but at the critical moment the armies of the Turk appeared on the eastern frontier, or the 
king of France, or even the pope himself, jealous of the increasing greatness of the emperor, made war 
upon him; and thus, amid the strife and tumult of nations, the Reformation had been left to strengthen 
and extend.” The Great Controversy, 197. 

Down through history both in Bible times and after, we can see the descendants of Ishmael providing 
both deliverance and annoyance to the descendents of Isaac. 


Enclosed Europe: Islam wrapped itself around Europe and prevented Catholicism from spreading to the 
whole world. 

Preserved the Received Text of the Bible: It was Islam that indirectly, through their interest in 
education, protected the Apostolic Church of the East, and preserved the true Greek manuscripts of the 
Received Text of the Bible, that later were used in the Authorized King James Bible. 

Preserved the Reformation: The Lord used the descendents of Ishmael, to bring warfare against Europe, 
during the Reformation time period. At certain time when the Pope was about to send his forces to 
destroy the Reformation, and they would be forced to turn back and defend against the oncoming 
Turks. 

Blessing and a Curse: 

Numbers 23:11 “And Balak said unto Balaam, What hast thou done unto me? I took thee to curse mine 
enemies, and, behold, thou hast blessed them altogether. 12 And he answered and said, Must I not take 
heed to speak that which the LORD hath put in my mouth?” 

Triple Application: 

Pagan Rome + Papal Rome = Modern Rome. 

Elijah + John Baptist = God’s Modern people. 

Messenger 

Civil Power 

Impure Woman 

Dance of Deception 

1st Elijah 

Ahab: Improper Marriage 

Jezebel 

Prophets of Baal 

2nd Elijah: John the 
Baptist 

Herod: Improper Marriage 

Herodias 

Salome Daughter of 
Herodias. 

3rd Elijah: 

United Nations: 10 Kings: 
Dragon 

Papacy: Beast 

USA: False Prophet 



In Revelation 8-11 the Trumpets represent the forces that bring down Rome. 

1: Alaric: Revelation 8:7 “The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, 
and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was 
burnt up.” 

2: Genseric: 8 And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast 
into the sea: and the third part of the sea became blood; 

3: Attila: Re 8:10 And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were 
a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters; 

4: Odoacer: Re 8:12 And the fourth angel sounded, and the third part of the sun was smitten, and the 
third part of the moon, and the third part of the stars; so as the third part of them was darkened, and 
the day shone not for a third part of it, and the night likewise. 


First four trumpets—Western Rome, 476 

Fifth and Sixth Trumpet—Eastern Rome, 1449. 

Seventh Trumpet—Modern Rome. 

Revelation 8:13 And I beheld, and heard an angel flying through the midst of heaven, saying with a loud 
voice, Woe, woe, woe, to the inhabiters of the earth by reason of the other voices of the trumpet of the 
three angels, which are yet to sound! 

Islam Arabia – First Woe + Islam Turkey – Second Woe = Islam worldwide – Third Woe. 

First Woe 

Islam (Arabian) 

Wars against the Armies of Rome 

Hurts the Armies of Rome 

Strikes Suddenly and Unexpectedly 

Rises After Prolonged Warfare between Two Powers 

Occurs During a Sealing Time 

A Blessing and a Curse 

Inspired and Directed by Religious Leaders 

Second Woe 

Islam (Turkish) 

Wars against the Armies of Rome 

Kills the Armies of Rome 

Strikes Suddenly and Unexpectedly with Explosives 

Occurs During a Sealing Time 

A Blessing and a Curse 

Inspired and Directed by Religious Leaders 

Third Woe 

Islam (Worldwide) 

Wars against the Armies of Rome 

Hurts & Kills the Armies of Rome 

Strikes Suddenly and Unexpectedly with Explosives 

Occurs During a Sealing Time 

A Blessing and a Curse 

Inspired and Directed by Religious Leaders 

 


1st: 

Revelation 9:6 And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and 
death shall flee from them. 7 And the shapes of the locusts were like unto horses prepared unto battle; 
and on their heads were as it were crowns like gold, and their faces were as the faces of men. 8 And 
they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were as the teeth of lions. 9 And they had 
breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron; and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots 
of many horses running to battle. 10 And they had tails like unto scorpions, and there were stings in 
their tails: and their power was to hurt men five months. 

Attacks suddenly and unexpectedly. 

Isaiah 9:15 The ancient and honourable, he is the head; and the prophet that teacheth lies, he is the tail. 

2nd: 

Revelation 9:17 And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates 
of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of 
their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone. 18 By these three was the third part of men killed, by 
the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths. 19 For their power 
is in their mouth, and in their tails: for their tails were like unto serpents, and had heads, and with them 
they do hurt. 

Attacks suddenly and unexpectedly. With Explosives; Gunpowder used in 2nd Woe. 1453. 

THE CHRISTIAN EXPERIENCE of WILLIAM E. FOY TOGETHER WITH THE TWO VISIONS HE RECEIVED IN THE 
MONTHS OF JAN. AND FEB. 1842. PORTLAND: 

“But three steps remained for him to take. Against his breast, and across his left hand, was as it were, a 
trumpet of pure silver; and a great and terrible voice came from the midst of the boundless place, 
saying, "The sixth angel hath not yet done sounding." {1845 WEF, CEWF 17.2} 


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“The events connected with the close of probation and the work of preparation for the time of trouble, 
are clearly presented. But multitudes have no more understanding of these important truths than if they 
had never been revealed. Satan watches to catch away every impression that would make them wise 
unto salvation, and the time of trouble will find them unready.” {GC 594.1} 

Formalized Message: 

Daniel 11:40 “And at the time of the end shall the king of the south push at him: and the king of the 
north shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; 
and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over. 41 He shall enter also into the 
glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even 
Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon. 42 He shall stretch forth his hand also upon 
the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape. 43 But he shall have power over the treasures of 
gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be 
at his steps. 44 But tidings out of the east and out of the north shall trouble him: therefore he shall go 
forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many. 45 And he shall plant the tabernacles 
of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none 
shall help him.” 

Close of Probation: Judgment 

Daniel 12:1 “And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of 
thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that 
same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the 
book.” 

1989: Daniel 11:40 second part takes place. 

9-11-2001: Revelation 18 Mighty Angel. 

Revelation 18:1 “And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great 
power; and the earth was lightened with his glory. 2 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. 3 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.” 

Verse 4 is the Sunday Law–Loud Cry. Wheat and Tares separated. 

Revelation 18:4 “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. 5 For her sins have reached unto 
heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.” 

John 16:8 “And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of 
judgment:” 


“The act of Christ in breathing upon his disciples the Holy Ghost, and in imparting his peace to them, was 
as a few drops before the plentiful shower to be given on the day of Pentecost. Jesus impressed this fact 
upon his disciples, that as they should proceed in the work intrusted to them, they would the more fully 
comprehend the nature of that work, and the manner in which the kingdom of Christ was to be set up 
on earth. They were appointed to be witnesses for the Saviour; they were to testify what they had seen 
and heard of his resurrection; they were to repeat the gracious words which proceeded from his lips. 
They were acquainted with his holy character; he was as an angel standing in the sun, yet casting no 
shadow. It was the sacred work of the apostles to present the spotless character of Christ to men, as the 
standard for their lives. The disciples had been so intimately associated with this Pattern of holiness that 
they were in some degree assimilated to him in character, and were specially fitted to make known to 
the world his precepts and example.” {3SP 243.} 

Revelation 18:4 parallels Daniel 11:41. 

Revelation 9:1 “And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him 
was given the key of the bottomless pit. 2 And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke 
out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the 
smoke of the pit. 3 And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given 
power, as the scorpions of the earth have power.” 

The Key: 

A long drawn out war between Persia and Rome. Persia defeats Rome but Rome comes back and 
defeats Persia. This allows Islam to gain power. Battle of Nineveh. 

 Verse 40 is a parallel history to this Key. 

1798 France, a 2 fold power attacks Rome and defeats it. Rome comes back in 1989 and sweeps King of 
the South away. Islam gains power. And 3rd woe begins. 

“Kings and rulers and governors have placed upon themselves the brand of antichrist, and are 
represented as the dragon who goes to make war with the saints--with those who keep the 
commandments of God and who have the faith of Jesus. In their enmity against the people of God, they 
show themselves guilty also of the choice of Barabbas instead of Christ.” {TM 38.} 

Messenger 

Civil Power 

Impure Woman 

Dance of Deception 

1st Elijah 

Ahab: Improper Marriage 

Jezebel 

Prophets of Baal 

2nd Elijah: John the 
Baptist 

Herod: Improper Marriage 

Herodias 

Salome Daughter of 
Herodias. 

3rd Elijah: 

United Nations: 10 Kings: 
Dragon 

Papacy: Beast 

USA: False Prophet 




Revelation 17: 

Revelation 17:12 “And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom 
as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast. 13 These have one mind, and shall give their 
power and strength unto the beast. 14 These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall 
overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him are called, and 
chosen, and faithful.” 

Revelation 17:17 “For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will, and to agree, and give their kingdom 
unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled.” 

Ezekiel 29:2 “Son of man, set thy face against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and prophesy against him, and 
against all Egypt: 3 Speak, and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, Pharaoh king of 
Egypt, the great dragon that lieth in the midst of his rivers, which hath said, My river is mine own, and I 
have made it for myself.” 

Ezekiel 29:19 “Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will give the land of Egypt unto 
Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon; and he shall take her multitude, and take her spoil, and take her prey; 
and it shall be the wages for his army. 20 I have given him the land of Egypt for his labour wherewith he 
served against it, because they wrought for me, saith the Lord GOD.” 

Revelation 13:2 “And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a 
bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great 
authority.” AD 330. 

Daniel 11:24 “He shall enter peaceably even upon the fattest places of the province; and he shall do that 
which his fathers have not done, nor his fathers' fathers; he shall scatter among them the prey, and 
spoil, and riches: yea, and he shall forecast his devices against (from) the strong holds, even for a time.” 

360 years Rome rules supreme from Battle of Actium. 

“A time is coming when the law of God is, in a special sense, to be made void in our land. The rulers of 
our nation will, by legislative enactments, enforce the Sunday law, and thus God's people be brought 
into great peril. When our nation, in its legislative councils, shall enact laws to bind the consciences of 
men in regard to their religious privileges, enforcing Sunday observance, and bringing oppressive power 
to bear against those who keep the seventh-day Sabbath, the law of God will, to all intents and 
purposes, be made void in our land; and national apostasy will be followed by national ruin.” (RH Dec. 
18, 1888). 

Constantine passes Sunday Law in 321 AD – the kingdom of Rome began to crumble. 

333 AD Justinian’s Decree gave authority to the Papacy. 

The end time situation is the religious crisis brought by Islam. The civil power gives authority to the 
Papacy to solve this. 

“I was pointed back to the proclamation of the first advent of Christ. John was sent in the spirit and 
power of Elijah to prepare the way of Jesus. Those who rejected the testimony of John were not 
benefited by the teachings of Jesus. Their opposition to the message that foretold His coming placed 
them where they could not readily receive the strongest evidence that He was the Messiah. Satan led on 
those who rejected the message of John to go still farther, to reject and crucify Christ. In doing this they 
placed themselves where they could not receive the blessing on the day of Pentecost, which would have 
taught them the way into the heavenly sanctuary. The rending of the veil of the temple showed that the 
Jewish sacrifices and ordinances would no longer be received. The great Sacrifice had been offered and 


had been accepted, and the Holy Spirit which descended on the day of Pentecost carried the minds of 
the disciples from the earthly sanctuary to the heavenly, where Jesus had entered by His own blood, to 
shed upon His disciples the benefits of His atonement. But the Jews were left in total darkness. They lost 
all the light which they might have had upon the plan of salvation, and still trusted in their useless 
sacrifices and offerings. The heavenly sanctuary had taken the place of the earthly, yet they had no 
knowledge of the change. Therefore they could not be benefited by the mediation of Christ in the holy 
place.” {EW 259.} 

“All heaven watched with the deepest interest the reception of the first angel's message. But many who 
professed to love Jesus, and who shed tears as they read the story of the cross, derided the good news 
of His coming. Instead of receiving the message with gladness, they declared it to be a delusion. They 
hated those who loved His appearing and shut them out of the churches. Those who rejected the first 
message could not be benefited by the second; neither were they benefited by the midnight cry, which 
was to prepare them to enter with Jesus by faith into the most holy place of the heavenly sanctuary. 
And by rejecting the two former messages, they have so darkened their understanding that they can see 
no light in the third angel's message, which shows the way into the most holy place. I saw that as the 
Jews crucified Jesus, so the nominal churches had crucified these messages, and therefore they have no 
knowledge of the way into the most holy, and they cannot be benefited by the intercession of Jesus 
there. Like the Jews, who offered their useless sacrifices, they offer up their useless prayers to the 
apartment which Jesus has left; and Satan, pleased with the deception, assumes a religious character, 
and leads the minds of these professed Christians to himself, working with his power, his signs and lying 
wonders, to fasten them in his snare.” {EW 260.1} 

“I saw a company who stood well guarded and firm, giving no countenance to those who would unsettle 
the established faith of the body. God looked upon them with approbation. I was shown three steps-- 
the first, second, and third angels' messages. Said my accompanying angel, "Woe to him who shall move 
a block or stir a pin of these messages. The true understanding of these messages is of vital importance. 
The destiny of souls hangs upon the manner in which they are received." I was again brought down 
through these messages, and saw how dearly the people of God had purchased their experience. It had 
been obtained through much suffering and severe conflict. God had led them along step by step, until 
He had placed them upon a solid, immovable platform. I saw individuals approach the platform and 
examine the foundation. Some with rejoicing immediately stepped upon it. Others commenced to find 
fault with the foundation. They wished improvements made, and then the platform would be more 
perfect, and the people much happier. Some stepped off the platform to examine it and declared it to 
be laid wrong. But I saw that nearly all stood firm upon the platform and exhorted those who had 
stepped off to cease their complaints; for God was the Master Builder, and they were fighting against 
Him. They recounted the wonderful work of God, which had led them to the firm platform, and in union 
raised their eyes to heaven and with a loud voice glorified God. This affected some of those who had 
complained and left the platform, and they with humble look again stepped upon it. 
{EW 258.3} 

“The angel who unites in the proclamation of the third angel's message is to lighten the whole earth 
with his glory. A work of world-wide extent and unwonted power is here foretold. The advent 
movement of 1840-44 was a glorious manifestation of the power of God; the first angel's message was 
carried to every missionary station in the world, and in some countries there was the greatest religious 
interest which has been witnessed in any land since the Reformation of the sixteenth century; but these 
are to be exceeded by the mighty movement under the last warning of the third angel. 

 “The work will be similar to that of the Day of Pentecost. As the "former rain" was given, in the 
outpouring of the Holy Spirit at the opening of the gospel, to cause the upspringing of the precious seed, 


so the "latter rain" will be given at its close for the ripening of the harvest. "Then shall we know, if we 
follow on to know the Lord: His going forth is prepared as the morning; and He shall come unto us as the 
rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth." Hosea 6:3. "Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and 
rejoice in the Lord your God: for He hath given you the former rain moderately, and He will cause to 
come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain." Joel 2:23. "In the last days, saith God, I 
will pour out of My Spirit upon all flesh." "And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the 
name of the Lord shall be saved." Acts 2:17, 21. 

 “The great work of the gospel is not to close with less manifestation of the power of God than 
marked its opening. The prophecies which were fulfilled in the outpouring of the former rain at the 
opening of the gospel are again to be fulfilled in the latter rain at its close. Here are "the times of 
refreshing" to which the apostle Peter looked forward when he said: "Repent ye therefore, and be 
converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the 
presence of the Lord; and He shall send Jesus." Acts 3:19, 20. {GC 611.} 


Eatonville 2008 Series 
10: Islam 3 
Notes 

Jeff Pippenger 

Seventh Trumpet: 

7th Trumpet began in October 22–1844: 3rd Woe Began at 9-11-2001. 

In the 6th Trumpet 2nd Woe we also see the activities of the Dragon Power as we do in the 3rd woe. 

Revelation 11:15 “And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The 
kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for 
ever and ever.” 

Revelation 11:19 “And the temple of God was opened in heaven, and there was seen in his temple the 
ark of his testament: and there were lightnings, and voices, and thunderings, and an earthquake, and 
great hail.” 

Revelation 10:1 “And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and a 
rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire: 2 And he 
had in his hand a little book open: and he set his right foot upon the sea, and his left foot on the earth, 3 
And cried with a loud voice, as when a lion roareth: and when he had cried, seven thunders uttered their 
voices. 4 And when the seven thunders had uttered their voices, I was about to write: and I heard a 
voice from heaven saying unto me, Seal up those things which the seven thunders uttered, and write 
them not. 5 And the angel which I saw stand upon the sea and upon the earth lifted up his hand to 
heaven, 6 And sware by him that liveth for ever and ever, who created heaven, and the things that 
therein are, and the earth, and the things that therein are, and the sea, and the things which are 
therein, that there should be time no longer:” 

Revelation 11:18 “And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that 
they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the 
saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the 
earth.” 

“I saw that the anger of the nations, the wrath of God, and the time to judge the dead were separate 
and distinct, one following the other, also that Michael had not stood up, and that the time of trouble, 
such as never was, had not yet commenced. The nations are now getting angry, but when our High 
Priest has finished His work in the sanctuary, He will stand up, put on the garments of vengeance, and 
then the seven last plagues will be poured out. {EW 36.1} 

 “I saw that the four angels would hold the four winds until Jesus' work was done in the sanctuary, and 
then will come the seven last plagues. These plagues enraged the wicked against the righteous; they 
thought that we had brought the judgments of God upon them, and that if they could rid the earth of 
us, the plagues would then be stayed. A decree went forth to slay the saints, which caused them to cry 
day and night for deliverance. This was the time of Jacob's trouble. Then all the saints cried out with 
anguish of spirit, and were delivered by the voice of God. The 144,000 triumphed. Their faces were 
lighted up with the glory of God. Then I was shown a company who were howling in agony. On their 
garments was written in large characters, "Thou art weighed in the balance, and found wanting." I asked 
who this company were. The angel said, "These are they who have once kept the Sabbath and have 


given it up." I heard them cry with a loud voice, "We have believed in Thy coming, and taught it with 
energy." And while they were speaking, their eyes would fall upon their garments and see the writing, 
and then they would wail aloud. I saw that they had drunk of the deep waters, and fouled the residue 
with their feet--trodden the Sabbath underfoot-- and that was why they were weighed in the balance 
and found wanting.” {EW 36.2} 

Times of the Gentiles: 

Luke 21:7 “And they asked him, saying, Master, but when shall these things be? and what sign will there 
be when these things shall come to pass?” 

Luke 21:24 “And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: 
and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.” 

Revelation 11:2 “But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given 
unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months. 3 And I will give 
power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, 
clothed in sackcloth.” 

Daniel 8:13 “Then I heard one saint speaking, and another saint said unto that certain saint which spake, 
How long shall be the vision concerning the daily sacrifice, and the transgression of desolation, to give 
both the sanctuary and the host to be trodden under foot? 14 And he said unto me, Unto two thousand 
and three hundred days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed.” 

Two lines of 2520: First one ends in 1798 and the second one in 1844. 

Luke 21:25 “And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth 
distress of nations, (Islam) with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring;” 

Luke 21:26 Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the 
earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken. 27 And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a 
cloud with power and great glory.” 

Daniel 7:13 “I saw in the night visions, and, behold, one like the Son of man came with the clouds of 
heaven, and came to the Ancient of days, and they brought him near before him. 14 And there was 
given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages, should serve 
him: his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which 
shall not be destroyed.” 

Final Generation: 

Luke 21:29 “And he spake to them a parable; Behold the fig tree, and all the trees; 30 When they now 
shoot forth, ye see and know of your own selves that summer is now nigh at hand. 31 So likewise ye, 
when ye see these things come to pass, know ye that the kingdom of God is nigh at hand. 32 Verily I say 
unto you, This generation shall not pass away, till all be fulfilled.” 

“Christ had bidden His people watch for the signs of His advent and rejoice as they should behold the 
tokens of their coming King. "When these things begin to come to pass," He said, "then look up, and lift 
up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh." He pointed His followers to the budding trees of 
spring, and said: "When they now shoot forth, ye see and know of your own selves that summer is now 
nigh at hand. So likewise ye, when ye see these things come to pass, know ye that the kingdom of God is 
nigh at hand." Luke 21:28, 30, 31.” {GC 308.2} 


Angering of the Nations: 

“The end of all things is at hand, and the message of warning must be given. A spirit of anger is stirring 
the nations, and it will soon be too late to work for the Lord. Every conceivable deception will be 
brought in, and the enemy will work with masterly power. Stronger and stronger will be his efforts, until 
in heaven it is said, "It is finished." {PC 196.} 

“We are standing on the threshold of great and solemn events. Prophecies are fulfilling. Strange and 
eventful history is being recorded in the books of heaven--events which it was declared should shortly 
precede the great day of God. Everything in the world is in an unsettled state. The nations are angry, 
and great preparations for war are being made. Nation is plotting against nation, and kingdom against 
kingdom. The great day of God is hasting greatly. But although the nations are mustering their forces for 
war and bloodshed, the command to the angels is still in force, that they hold the four winds until the 
servants of God are sealed in their foreheads.” {1SM 221.} 

Command to Islam: 

Revelation 9:4 “And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither 
any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of God in their 
foreheads.” 

“When you fight the battles of the lord, acquit yourselves like men, without turning your backs; but let 
not your victory be stained with the blood of women or children. . . As you go on, you will find some 
religious persons, who live retired in monasteries, and propose to themselves to serve God that way: let 
them alone and neither kill them nor destroy their monasteries. And you will find another sort of people 
that belong to the synagogue of Satan, who have shaven crowns; be sure you cleave their skulls, and 
give them no quarter, till they either turn Mahometans or pay tribute.” Abubeker's command Edward 
Gibbon 'Decline & Fall'!, Vol. V: 489-490. 

Revelation 7:1 “And after these things I saw four angels standing on the four corners of the earth, 
holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow on the earth, nor on the sea, nor on 
any tree. 2 And I saw another angel ascending from the east, having the seal of the living God: and he 
cried with a loud voice to the four angels, to whom it was given to hurt the earth and the sea, 3 Saying, 
Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God in their 
foreheads.” 

Sixth Trumpet: 

Revelation 9:13 “And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden 
altar which is before God, 14 Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels 
which are bound in the great river Euphrates. 15 And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared 
for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men.” 

July 22, 1449 Four Angels were loosed. 

August 11, 1840 Four Angels were restrained. 

Seventh Trumpet Third Woe: 

September 11, 2001 – Beginning of the Sealing of 144,000 – Four Angels are restrained. 

Islam is the War Horse in Revelation. 


“Angels are holding the four winds, represented as an angry horse seeking to break loose, and rush over 
the face of the whole earth, bearing destruction and death in its path. . . .” {3SM 409.} 

“Only those who are living up to the light they have will receive greater light. Unless we are daily 
advancing in the exemplification of the active Christian virtues, we shall not recognize the 
manifestations of the Holy Spirit in the latter rain. It may be falling on hearts all around us, but we shall 
not discern or receive it.” {TM 507.} 

“Unless those who can help in ----- are aroused to a sense of their duty, they will not recognize the work 
of God when the loud cry of the third angel shall be heard. When light goes forth to lighten the earth, 
instead of coming up to the help of the Lord, they will want to bind about His work to meet their narrow 
ideas. Let me tell you that the Lord will work in this last work in a manner very much out of the common 
order of things, and in a way that will be contrary to any human planning. There will be those among us 
who will always want to control the work of God, to dictate even what movements shall be made when 
the work goes forward under the direction of the angel who joins the third angel in the message to be 
given to the world. God will use ways and means by which it will be seen that He is taking the reins in His 
own hands. The workers will be surprised by the simple means that He will use to bring about and 
perfect His work of righteousness.” {TM 299.} 

Last Message: 

“The angel who unites in the proclamation of the third angel's message is to lighten the whole earth 
with his glory. A work of world-wide extent and unwonted power is here foretold. The advent 
movement of 1840-44 was a glorious manifestation of the power of God; the first angel's message was 
carried to every missionary station in the world, and in some countries there was the greatest religious 
interest which has been witnessed in any land since the Reformation of the sixteenth century; but these 
are to be exceeded by the mighty movement under the last warning of the third angel. The work will be 
similar to that of the Day of Pentecost. As the "former rain" was given, in the outpouring of the Holy 
Spirit at the opening of the gospel, to cause the upspringing of the precious seed, so the "latter rain" will 
be given at its close for the ripening of the harvest.” {GC 611.} 

“If the truth for this time, if the signs that are thickening on every hand, that testify that the end of all 
things is at hand, are not-sufficient to arouse the sleeping energy of those who profess to know the 
truth, then darkness proportionate to the light which has been shining will overtake these souls. There 
is not the semblance of an excuse for their indifference that they will be able to present to God in the 
great day of final reckoning. There will be no reason to offer as to why they did not live and walk and 
work in the light of the sacred truth of the word of God, and thus reveal to a sin-darkened world, 
through their conduct, their sympathy, and their zeal, that the power and reality of the gospel could not 
be controverted.” {RH, July 21, 1896 par. 2} 

 “The Scriptures are constantly opening to the people of God. There always has been and always will 
be a truth specially applicable to each generation. The message given to Noah was present truth for 
that time; and if the people had accepted that message, they would have been saved from drinking the 
waters of the flood. Now suppose a certain people should say, "We have all the truth that our fathers 
had; we don't want any more," and the God of heaven should send them a message as he did to 
Nineveh. What would be the result?--The same as would have resulted to the Ninevites if they had not 
repented. Sentence was pronounced upon them, but their repentance saved them. How thankful we 
should be that we have a God who will repent of the threatened evil, when the erring return to him with 
true contrition of soul.” {RH, June 29, 1886 par. 9} 


 “Soon the four winds of heaven will be loosed, and in every part of the globe there will be dissension, 
strife, war, bloodshed. Satan is stirred with intensity from beneath. The power of God will be the 
defense of His people until their warning message will have been proclaimed to every nation, kindred, 
tongue, and people.” {18MR 177.3} 

Genesis 16:12 “And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand 
against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.” 

“On page 33 is given the following: "I saw that the holy Sabbath is, and will be, the separating wall 
between the true Israel of God and unbelievers; and that the Sabbath is the great question to unite the 
hearts of God's dear, waiting saints. I saw that God had children who do not see and keep the Sabbath. 
They have not rejected the light upon it. And at the commencement of the time of trouble, we were 
filled with the Holy Ghost as we went forth and proclaimed the Sabbath more fully." {EW 85.2} 

 “This view was given in 1847 when there were but very few of the Advent brethren observing the 
Sabbath, and of these but few supposed that its observance was of sufficient importance to draw a line 
between the people of God and unbelievers. Now the fulfilment of that view is beginning to be seen. 
"The commencement of that time of trouble," here mentioned does not refer to the time when the 
plagues shall begin to be poured out, but to a short period just before they are poured out, while Christ 
is in the sanctuary. At that time, while the work of salvation is closing, trouble will be coming on the 
earth, and the nations will be angry, yet held in check so as not to prevent the work of the third 
angel. At that time the "latter rain," or refreshing from the presence of the Lord, will come, to give 
power to the loud voice of the third angel, and prepare the saints to stand in the period when the seven 
last plagues shall be poured out.” {EW 85.} 

 


Restoring the Foundations 

Jeff Pippenger 2004 

Build—Repair—Restore 

“They that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of 
many generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell 
in. Isaiah 58:12. 

“In the work of reform to be carried forward today, there is need of men who, like Ezra and 
Nehemiah, will not palliate or excuse sin, nor shrink from vindicating the honor of God. Those 
upon whom rests the burden of this work will not hold their peace when wrong is done, neither 
will they cover evil with a cloak of false charity. They will remember that God is no respecter of 
persons, and that severity to a few may prove mercy to many. They will remember also that in 
the one who rebukes evil the spirit of Christ should ever be revealed. 

“In their work, Ezra and Nehemiah humbled themselves before God, confessing their sins and 
the sins of their people, and entreating pardon as if they themselves were the offenders. 
Nehemiah was not a priest; he was not a prophet; he made no pretension to high title. He was a 
reformer raised up for an important time. It was his aim to set his people right with God. 
Inspired with a great purpose, he bent every energy of his being to its accomplishment. As he 
came into contact with evil and opposition to right he took so determined a stand that the 
people were roused to labor with fresh zeal and courage. 

“The work of restoration and reform carried on by the returned exiles, under the leadership of 
Zerubbabel, Ezra, and Nehemiah, presents a picture of a work of spiritual restoration that is to 
be wrought in the closing days of this earth’s history. God’s remnant people, standing before the 
world as reformers, are to show that the law of God is the foundation of all enduring reform and 
that the Sabbath of the fourth commandment is to stand as a memorial of creation, a constant 
reminder of the power of God. In clear, distinct lines they are to present the necessity of 
obedience to all the precepts of the Decalogue. Constrained by the love of Christ, they are to co-
operate with Him in building up the waste places. They are to be repairers of the breach, 
restorers of paths to dwell in.” Conflict and Courage, 269. 

Last Friday night, when we arrived to a Bible study at my daughter’s home, my grandson told me he had 
a verse for me. When we started, he shared a verse from the Psalm that he had been memorizing during 
the week. The verse was Psalms 11:3. 

“If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?” 

Today the foundations of Adventism are as strong as ever—but they have been fully rejected by the 
leadership of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. This pronouncement is not directed to the leadership 
alone, for the greatest majority of the members of the Seventh-day Adventist Church don’t know what 
the foundations of Adventism are. In this sense, we are all held accountable for rejecting the 
foundations. It is not my intent to convey the idea that I alone understand what the foundations are, but 
the stated position of the leadership today needs to be identified and exposed—for inspiration has 
raised the question, “If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?” The answer is given 
by Isaiah: 

“And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the 
foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The 
restorer of paths to dwell in.” Isaiah 58:12. 


What we must do if the foundations are destroyed is build up the old waste places and raise up the 
foundations of many generations, and in so doing—restore the paths to dwell in. The paths to dwell in 
are emphasized by Jeremiah: 

“Thus saith the Lord, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good 
way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk 
therein. Also I set watchmen over you, saying, Hearken to the sound of the trumpet. But they 
said, We will not hearken. Therefore hear, ye nations, and know, O congregation, what is 
among them. Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil upon this people, even the fruit of their 
thoughts, because they have not hearkened unto my words, nor to my law, but rejected it.” 
Jeremiah 6:16–19. 

And then again Jeremiah states: 

“Because my people hath forgotten me, they have burned incense to vanity, and they have 
caused them to stumble in their ways from the ancient paths, to walk in paths, in a way not 
cast up.” Jeremiah 18:15. 

Today the old paths of Adventism are virtually unknown. Yet the restoration of the paths to dwell in is 
identified as part of the work that is accomplished by God’s end-time people. But the work of restoring 
of the old paths takes place with resistance from those in Adventism that proclaim that “they will not 
walk” within the old paths, and when the watchmen sound the trumpet identifying the old paths as the 
safe paths, they cry out—“we will not hearken.” Obviously the restoration of the old paths is part of the 
shaking of Adventism that precedes the purification of the Sunday law. As Laodiceans, it is now time to 
cry out as did David: 

“Show me thy ways, O Lord; teach me thy paths. Lead me in thy truth, and teach me: for thou 
art the God of my salvation; on thee do I wait all the day. . . . All the paths of the Lord are mercy 
and truth unto such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.” Psalms 25:4, 5, 10. 

In this day, when the argument between those who desire to walk within the old paths and those who 
do not, it is up to the Lord to plainly teach us His paths. 

“Teach me thy way, O Lord, and lead me in a plain path, because of mine enemies.” Psalms 
27:11. 

The plain path of the Lord is the path of obedience. 

“Make me to go in the path of thy commandments; for therein do I delight.” Psalms 119:35. 

To walk in the path of obedience, we must submit our will unto the Lord. 

“Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy 
ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.” Proverbs 3:5, 6. 

As we walk in the old plain path of obedience, with our wills submitted unto the Lord, He will illuminate 
the path through His Word. 

“Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.” Psalms 119:105. 

As His Word lights up the old plain path of submission and obedience—the path itself will shine. 

“But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect 
day.” Proverbs 4:18. 

That which enlightens the old path that we are to walk within is the sure word of prophecy. 


“We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a 
light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts: 
Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation. For the 
prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were 
moved by the Holy Ghost.” 2 Peter 1:19–21. 

 

“The Lord has one path of safety for His people, and that is the path of obedience to His word. 
That word is given to us as our guide.” Bible Echo, August 19, 1895. 

 

 “To him who receives the love of the truth, the word of God is as a light that shineth in a dark 
place, pointing out the path so plainly that the wayfaring man though a fool need not err 
therein. He realizes that ‘the entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the 
simple.’” Signs of the Times, August 20, 1894. 

Today there are two roads within Adventism, but the old paths have been forgotten, denied and 
attacked. It is high time to begin the work of restoring the old paths. The ancient landmarks of 
Adventism have been removed and God’s people know it not. Sister White just identified that “the word 
of God” has pointed “out the path so plainly that the wayfaring man though a fool need not err therein.” 
With her reference to the “wayfaring man”, she is comparing the “path” to walk in with Isaiah’s highway 
of holiness. 

“And an highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The way of holiness; the 
unclean shall not pass over it; but it shall be for those: the wayfaring men, though fools, shall 
not err therein.” Isaiah 35:8. 

Even the foolish virgins of Adventism can find the highway of holiness if they would locate and accept 
the waymarks, and then in faith, incline their hearts toward the highway of holiness. 

“Set thee up waymarks, make thee high heaps: set thine heart toward the highway, even the 
way which thou wentest: turn again, O virgin of Israel, turn again to these thy cities.” Jeremiah 
31:21. 

The obstacle today is that the waymarks, the high heaps, the landmarks of the old time have been 
removed, or at least covered up by traditions and custom that have been handed down from generation 
to generation. 

“Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour’s landmark, which they of old time have set in thine 
inheritance, which thou shalt inherit in the land that the Lord thy God giveth thee to possess it.” 
Deuteronomy 19:14. 

The Lord has warned men not to remove the ancient or “old” landmarks. 

“Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set.” Proverbs 22:28. 

The Lord has not only warned against removing the landmarks, but He pronounces a curse upon those 
who would do so. 

“Cursed be he that removeth his neighbour’s landmark. And all the people shall say, Amen.” 
Deuteronomy 27:17. 

It is high time to restore the old paths. 

“The enemy is seeking to divert the minds of our brethren and sisters from the work of 
preparing a people to stand in these last days. His sophistries are designed to lead minds away 


from the perils and duties of the hour. They estimate as of little value the light that Christ came 
from heaven to give to John for His people. They teach that the scenes just before us are not of 
sufficient importance to receive special attention. They make of no effect the truth of heavenly 
origin, and rob the people of God of their past experience, giving them instead a false science. 
‘Thus saith the Lord: Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good 
way, and walk therein.’ [Jeremiah 6:16.] 

“Let none seek to tear away the foundations of our faith,—the foundations that were laid at the 
beginning of our work, by prayerful study of the Word and by revelation. Upon these 
foundations we have been building for more than fifty years. Men may suppose that they have 
found a new way, that they can lay a stronger foundation than that which has been laid; but this 
is a great deception. ‘Other foundation can no man lay than that is laid.’ [1 Corinthians 3:11.] In 
the past, many have undertaken to build a new faith, to establish new principles; but how long 
did their building stand? It soon fell; for it was not founded upon the Rock.” Gospel Workers, 
306. 

Today in Adventism our past experience has been robbed, and that past experience is where and when 
the foundations were laid at the beginning of our work. We were warned that this would happen. 

“After the passing of the time, God entrusted to His faithful followers the precious principles of 
present truth. These principles were not given to those who had had no part in the giving of the 
first and second angels’ messages. They were given to the workers who had had a part in the 
cause from the beginning. 

“Those who passed through these experiences are to be as firm as a rock to the principles that 
have made us Seventh-day Adventists. They are to be workers together with God, binding up 
the testimony and sealing the law among His disciples. Those who took part in the 
establishment of our work upon a foundation of Bible truth, those who know the waymarks that 
have pointed out the right path, are to be regarded as workers of the highest value. They can 
speak from personal experience, regarding the truths entrusted to them. These men are not to 
permit their faith to be changed to infidelity; they are not to permit the banner of the third 
angel to be taken from their hands. They are to hold the beginning of their confidence firm unto 
the end. 

“The Lord has declared that the history of the past shall be rehearsed as we enter upon the 
closing work. Every truth that He has given for these last days is to be proclaimed to the world. 
Every pillar that He has established is to be strengthened. We cannot now step off the founda-
tion that God has established. We cannot now enter into any new organization; for this would 
mean apostasy from the truth.” Selected Messages, book 2,389–390. 

Those who had a “part” in the “giving of the first and second angel’s messages” were the “workers” 
“who had had a part in the cause from the beginning.” It is “those who passed through” the 
“experiences” of “the giving of the first and second angel’s messages” who “took part in the es-
tablishment of our work upon the foundation of Bible truth” who “know the waymarks that have 
pointed out the right path.” Those pioneer workers were entrusted with “truths.” Those truths are the 
foundational truths that are the “beginning of” our “confidence” that we are to hold firmly “unto the 
end.” Yet we as a people, no longer understand the foundational truths that were established during the 
history of the first and second angel’s messages. More alarming than this is that the leaders we have so 
foolishly placed our confidence in today have either directly or indirectly rejected those foundational 
truths. 

Though the foundational truths have been rejected by the leadership of the Seventh-day Adventist 
Church and lost sight of by the majority of the membership, they are still as strong and sound as they 


ever were. 

“Our faith in reference to the messages of the first, second, and third angels was correct. The 
great waymarks we have passed are immovable. Although the hosts of hell may try to tear them 
from their foundation, and triumph in the thought that they have succeeded, yet they do not 
succeed. These pillars of truth stand firm as the eternal hills, unmoved by all the efforts of men 
combined with those of Satan and his host. We can learn much, and should be constantly 
searching the Scriptures to see if these things are so. God’s people are now to have their eyes 
fixed on the heavenly sanctuary, where the final ministration of our great High Priest in the work 
of the judgment is going forward,—where He is interceding for His people.” Evangelism, 223. 

We have been warned several times that as the history of Adventism unfolded the foundational truths 
would come under attack. 

“The great waymarks of truth, showing us our bearings in prophetic history, are to be carefully 
guarded, lest they be torn down, and replaced with theories that would bring confusion rather 
than genuine light. I have been cited to the very erroneous theories that have been presented 
over and over again. Those who advocated these theories presented Scripture quotations, but 
they misapplied and misinterpreted them. The theories supposed to be correct were incorrect, 
and yet many thought them the very theories to be brought before the people. The prophecies 
of Daniel and John are to be diligently studied.” Selected Messages, book 2, 102. 

 

“When men come in who would move one pin or pillar from the foundation which God has 
established by His Holy Spirit, let the aged men who were pioneers in our work speak plainly, 
and let those who are dead speak also, by the reprinting of their articles in our periodicals. 
Gather up the rays of divine light that God has given as He has led His people on step by step in 
the way of truth. This truth will stand the test of time and trial.” Manuscript Releases, volume 1, 
760. 

The foundational truths that were established during the first and second angel’s messages are 
identified as waymarks or landmarks. They are the truths that are referred to as the foundation or the 
platform. These truths have a direct connection with each other and their connection to each other 
holds the complete platform and foundation together—hence those foundational truths are referred to 
as pegs and pins. 

“Listen not a moment to the interpretations that would loosen one pin, remove one pillar, from 
the platform of truth. Human interpretations, the reception of fables, will spoil your faith, 
confuse your understanding, and make of none effect your faith in Jesus Christ.” Manuscript 
Releases, volume 1, 55. 

“The truths that have been substantiated by the manifest working of God are to stand fast. Let 
no one presume to move a pin or a foundation stone from the structure. Those who attempt to 
undermine the pillars of our faith are among those of whom the Bible says that ‘in the latter 
times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils.’” 
Manuscript Releases, volume 1, 55. 

“Not a pin is to be moved from the foundations of our faith. Truth is still truth. Those who 
become uncertain will drift into erroneous theories and will finally find themselves infidel in 
regard to the past evidence we have had of what is truth. The old waymarks must be preserved, 
that we lose not our bearings.” Manuscript Releases, volume 1, 56. 

The old waymarks are the pegs and pins that are not to be removed. Those waymarks or landmarks 
arrived at a specific point in history, and they arrived in a specific order. The waymarks and the location 


of the waymarks must be preserved, for it is through the application of these original waymarks that 
God’s people will demonstrate and identify for the world—“the things that will be.” 

“The proclamation of the first, second, and third angels’ messages has been located by the Word of 
Inspiration. Not a peg or pin is to be removed. No human authority has any more right to change the 
location of these messages than to substitute the New Testament for the Old. The Old Testament is the 
gospel in figures and symbols. The New Testament is the substance. One is as essential as the other. The 
Old Testament presents lessons from the lips of Christ, and these lessons have not lost their force in any 
particular. 

“The first and second messages were given in 1843 and 1844, and we are now under the 
proclamation of the third; but all three of the messages are still to be proclaimed. It is just as 
essential now as ever before that they shall be repeated to those who are seeking for the truth. 
By pen and voice we are to sound the proclamation, showing their order, and the application of 
the prophecies that bring us to the third angel’s message. There cannot be a third without the 
first and second. These messages we are to give to the world in publications, in discourses, 
showing in the line of prophetic history the things that have been and the things that will be.” 
Selected Messages, book 2, 104. 

With all the emphasis that inspiration has placed upon preserving the foundations of Adventism, there 
are very few who even know for certain what the foundational truths are. Sister White has clearly 
identified the foundation and the platform, yet we know it not. 

“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. 

The foundation or the platform represents the “message” proclaimed by the Millerites before October 
22, 1844. Those foundational truths were the platform that supported the pillars of truth that were 
erected by the correct understanding of the sanctuary immediately after October 22, 1844. Those 
foundational truths are still the very message that we are to proclaim today. 

“God is not giving us a new message. We are to proclaim the message that in 1843 and 1844 
brought us out of the other churches.” Review and Herald, January 19, 1905. 

 

“God bids us give our time and strength to the work of preaching to the people the messages 
that stirred men and women in 1843 and 1844.” Manuscript Release, Number 760. 

 

“Those who stand as teachers and leaders in our institutions are to be sound in the faith and in 
the principles of the third angel’s message. God wants His people to know that we have the 
message as He gave it to us in 1843 and 1844.” General Conference Bulletin, April 1, 1903. 

The truths that were proclaimed “from 1840–44” are the foundational truths that today we are to 
continue to proclaim. 

“All the messages given from 1840–1844 are to be made forcible now, for there are many 
people who have lost their bearings. The messages are to go to all the churches. 


“Christ said, ‘Blessed are your eyes, for they see; and your ears, for they hear. For verily I say 
unto you, That many prophets and righteous men have desired to see those things which ye see, 
and have not seen them; and to hear those things which ye hear, and have not heard them.’ 
[Matthew 13:16, 17] Blessed are the eyes which saw the things that were seen in 1843 and 
1844. 

“The message was given. And there should be no delay in repeating the message, for the signs 
of the times are fulfilling; the closing work must be done. A great work will be done in a short 
time. A message will soon be given by God’s appointment that will swell into a loud cry. Then 
Daniel will stand in his lot, to give his testimony.” Manuscript Releases, volume 21, 437. 

The foundational truths proclaimed “from 1840–44” have a direct connection with the loud cry message 
of the third and fourth angels of Revelation fourteen and eighteen—yet God’s people, usually, know it 
not! 

“The truths that we received in 1841, ‘42, ‘43, and ‘44 are now to be studied and proclaimed. 
The messages of the first, second, and third angels will in the future be proclaimed with a loud 
voice. They will be given with earnest determination and in the power of the Spirit.” Manuscript 
Releases, volume 15, 371. 

The landmarks of Adventism are the truths connected with the first, second and third angel’s that 
arrived in history during the Millerite movement. 

“The passing of the time in 1844 was a period of great events, opening to our astonished eyes 
the cleansing of the sanctuary transpiring in heaven, and having decided relation to God’s 
people upon the earth, also the first and second angels’ messages and the third, unfurling the 
banner on which was inscribed, ‘The commandments of God and the faith of Jesus.’ One of the 
landmarks under this message was the temple of God, seen by His truth-loving people in 
heaven, and the ark containing the law of God. The light of the Sabbath of the fourth 
commandment flashed its strong rays in the pathway of the transgressors of God’s law. The 
non-immortality of the wicked is an old landmark. I can call to mind nothing more that can come 
under the head of the old landmarks. All this cry about changing the old landmarks is all 
imaginary.” Counsels to Writers and Editors, 30. 

When we acknowledge that “we have no new message” and that our message today is the messages 
that were proclaimed “from 1840–44” we are confronted with the work of returning to the old paths of 
Adventism in order to understand just what truths were proclaimed between 1840 and 1844. When we 
take up the work of investigating those old paths, we find that the message that was proclaimed during 
that history is the message set forth upon the 1843 pioneer chart. We also find that all the Millerite 
preachers used the 1843 chart exclusively in their presentations. Joseph Bates speaks of the role of the 
1843 chart: 

“In May, 1842, a General Conference was convened in Boston, Massachutes. At the opening of 
this meeting, Brethren Charles Fitch and Apollos Hale, of Haverhill, presented the pictorial 
prophecies of Daniel and John, which they had painted on cloth, with the prophetic numbers, 
showing their fulfillment. Brother Fitch in explaining from his chart before the Conference, said, 
while examining these prophecies, he had thought if he could get out something of the kind as 
here presented it would simplify the subject and make it easier for him to present to an 
audience. Here was more light in our pathway. These brethren had been doing what the Lord 
had shown Habakkuk in his vision 2,468 years before, saying, ‘Write the vision and make it plain 
upon tables, that he may run that readeth it. For the vision is yet for an appointed time.’ 
Habakkuk 2:2. 


“After some discussion on the subject, it was voted unanimously to have three hundred similar 
to this one lithographed, which was soon accomplished. They were called ‘the ‘43 charts.’ This 
was a very important Conference.” The Autobiography of Joseph Bates, 263. 

Bates and the Millerites understood that the production of the chart was a fulfillment of prophecy, and 
Bates further informs us that all the Millerites were “teaching from the same chronological charts that 
William Miller was” and that they were “all of one stamp.” There was only one message in that time-
period and it was the message represented upon the 1843 pioneer chart. 

“Now our history shows that there were hundreds teaching from the same chronological charts 
that William Miller was, all of one stamp. Then it was the oneness of the message all on one 
theme, the coming of the Lord Jesus at a certain time, 1844.” Joseph Bates, Early SDA 
Pamphlets, 17. 

When we are told that, “God is not giving us a new message” and that “we are to proclaim the message 
that in 1843 and 1844 brought us out of the other churches” we then must understand, that the 
message that is being endorsed—is the message represented on the 1843 pioneer chart. James White 
identifies that the role of the chart in that history was a component of the “original faith”—the “old 
paths.” 

“It was the united testimony of Second Advent lecturers and papers, when standing on ‘the 
original faith,’ that the publication of the chart was a fulfillment of Habakkuk 2:2, 3. If the chart 
was a subject of prophecy (and those who deny it leave the original faith), then it follows that 
BC 457 was the year from which to date the 2300 days. It was necessary that 1843 should be the 
first published time in order that ‘the vision’ should ‘tarry,’ or that there should be a tarrying 
time, in which the virgin band was to slumber and sleep on the great subject of time, just before 
they were to be aroused by the Midnight Cry.” Second Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, 
Volume I, Number 2, James White. 

The message represented upon the 1843 chart is a component of the “original faith” that the pioneers 
stood upon, and here at the end of the world we are to stand where the pioneers stood as they traveled 
down the old paths. Inspiration endorsed that the production of the 1843 chart was directed by the 
hand of the Lord, and further warned that the chart should not be altered. 

“I have seen that the 1843 chart was directed by the hand of the Lord, and that it should not be 
altered; that the figures were as He wanted them; that His hand was over and hid a mistake in 
some of the figures, so that none could see it, until His hand was removed.” Early Writings, 74. 

If we reject the fact that the foundational message is the message that was proclaimed from 1840–1844 
we are not simply denying the foundations, but also rejecting the inspiration of Sister White. 

“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. 

The foundational message was presented by William Miller and his associates, but it is Miller that 
inspiration identifies as the specific representative of the foundational message. 


“Thousands were led to embrace the truth preached by William Miller, and servants of God 
were raised up in the spirit and power of Elijah to proclaim the message. Like John, the 
forerunner of Jesus, those who preached this solemn message felt compelled to lay the ax at the 
root of the tree, and call upon men to bring forth fruits meet for repentance.” Early Writings, 
233. 

Speaking of Miller inspiration calls him “the messenger himself.” 

“The instigator of all evil sought not only to counteract the effect of the advent message, but to 
destroy the messenger himself. Miller made a practical application of Scripture truth to the 
hearts of his hearers, reproving their sins and disturbing their self-satisfaction, and his plain and 
cutting words aroused their enmity. The opposition manifested by church members toward his 
message emboldened the baser classes to go to greater lengths; and enemies plotted to take his 
life as he should leave the place of meeting. But holy angels were in the throng, and one of 
these, in the form of a man, took the arm of this servant of the Lord and led him in safety from 
the angry mob. His work was not yet done, and Satan and his emissaries were disappointed in 
their purpose.” The Great Controversy, 336. 

Miller’s conclusions were not simply brought about through his human effort, but angel’s were sent to 
minister to him concerning prophetic truths. 

“God sent His angel to move upon the heart of a farmer who had not believed the Bible, to lead 
him to search the prophecies. Angels of God repeatedly visited that chosen one, to guide his 
mind and open to his understanding prophecies which had ever been dark to God’s people.” 
Early Writings, 229. 

The angels that had guided Millers’ mind, continued to be in Miller’s presence as he proclaimed the 
message that he had been entrusted with. 

“Angels of God accompanied William Miller in his mission. He was firm and undaunted, fear-
lessly proclaiming the message committed to his trust.” Early Writings, 232. 

The foundational message of Adventism was the message that was brought about through the ministry 
of William Miller. Miller’s message was represented upon the 1843 chart, which all the Millerites 
proclaimed in unity. Miller’s message was represented upon the 1843 chart which was produced 
through the fulfillment of the prophecy of Habakkuk. Miller’s message was represented upon the 1843 
chart which Sister White informs us was directed by the hand of the Lord and should not be altered. 

Today in Adventism, the leadership specifically rejects three of the truths represented upon the chart 
and in so doing destroys three other prophecies represented upon the chart. The foundations have been 
destroyed and God’s people, by and large know it not. There is another way to demonstrate that Wil-
liam Miller is the messenger that set forth the foundational truths of Adventism. 

“The work of God in the earth presents, from age to age, a striking similarity in every great 
reformation or religious movement. The principles of God’s dealing with men are ever the same. 
The important movements of the present have their parallel in those of the past, and the 
experience of the church in former ages has lessons of great value for our own time.” The Great 
Controversy, 343. 

The Millerite history was a “great” “religious movement” and the “important movements” of the past 
“parallel” the Millerite movement, for “God’s dealing with men” is “ever the same.” More than once, 
Sister White compares Miller with John the Baptist. Miller’s work has been paralleled by John and the 
other messengers that are raised up during those great religious movements of the past. Miller as the 


messenger of a religious movement parallels John, Moses, Noah, Elijah and even Cyrus at the prophetic 
level. 

The prophetic characteristics of the histories associated with Miller, John, Moses, Noah, Elijah and Cyrus 
are ever the same. Some of the histories provide more prophetic details than others, but the basic 
prophetic structure of all the histories are identical. We will consider three of those histories in order to 
identify that Miller is the man the Lord used to establish the foundations of Adventism. In so doing, we 
will also raise up the foundations of many generations. 

The great reformatory movements begin with a “time of the end.” The “time of the end” marks the 
fulfillment of a prophecy that within its fulfillment opens up prophetic light concerning the next epoch 
of sacred history. When the “time of the end” arrives there are students of prophecy that begin to 
understand the increase of knowledge connected with the upcoming epoch of sacred history. 

“But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many 
shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.” Daniel 12:4. 

As the prophetic understanding increases a present truth message for that epoch of sacred history is 
recognized. 

“Not only is the growth of Christ’s kingdom illustrated by the parable of the mustard seed, but in 
every stage of its growth the experience represented in the parable is repeated. For His church 
in every generation God has a special truth and a special work. The truth that is hid from the 
worldly wise and prudent is revealed to the child-like and humble. It calls for self-sacrifice. It has 
battles to fight and victories to win. At the outset its advocates are few.” Christ’s Object Lessons, 
78. 

 

“In every age there is a new development of truth, a message of God to the people of that 
generation. The old truths are all essential; new truth is not independent of the old, but an 
unfolding of it. It is only as the old truths are understood that we can comprehend the new. 
When Christ desired to open to His disciples the truth of His resurrection, He began ‘at Moses 
and all the prophets’ and ‘expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning 
Himself.’ Luke 24:27. But it is the light which shines in the fresh unfolding of truth that glorifies 
the old. He who rejects or neglects the new does not really possess the old. For him it loses its 
vital power and becomes but a lifeless form.” Christ’s Object Lessons, 127. 

As the prophetic light increases the Lord chooses a man as the representative of that message. The 
messenger is not always a prophet. The messenger is employed by the Lord to formalize a specific 
message for that generation and the foundational truths for that generation are established. As history 
moves forward the Lord then empowers the formalized message. When the message is empowered a 
life or death testing process begins within the generation that is confronted with the formalized 
message of that time. Once the message is empowered and the testing process is initiated the enemies 
of the message and the work connected with the message are raised up. Following the activities of the 
enemies there is a manifestation of the power of God that culminates with some type of judgment. The 
judgment is followed by a disappointment. Following the disappointment there is a work identified for 
God’s people, but ultimately those people stop doing the work. 

We understand that 1798 was the “time of the end” for Millerite history and that in 1798 the prophecy 
identifying that the papacy would receive a deadly wound was fulfilled. 


“And at the time of the end shall the king of the south push at him: and the king of the north 
shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; 
and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.” Daniel 11:40. 

We also understand that Daniel seven teaches that it was not until after the “little horn” that spoke 
“great words” against the Most High was “slain” that “one like the Son of man came with the clouds of 
heaven, and came to the Ancient of days” and the judgment would begin. 

“And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most 
High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and 
times and the dividing of time. But the judgment shall sit, and they shall take away his 
dominion, to consume and to destroy it unto the end.” Daniel 7:25, 26. 

At the “time of the end” in 1798 there were students of prophecy that began to run “to and fro” in 
God’s prophetic word in fulfillment of Daniel twelve. As the prophetic knowledge increased, the Lord 
raised up William Miller to formalize the message of that time period. The primary rule of prophecy that 
William Miller employed was the year–day principle. In 1840 the Ottoman Empire collapsed in 
fulfillment of Revelation 9:14, 15 and the year–day principle of Bible prophecy that Miller and his 
associates had been placing so much emphasis upon was confirmed as correct, and the message that 
had previously been formalized by Miller was then empowered. 

“At the very time specified, Turkey, through her ambassadors, accepted the protection of the 
allied powers of Europe, and thus placed herself under the control of Christian nations. The 
event exactly fulfilled the prediction. When it became known, multitudes were convinced of the 
correctness of the principles of prophetic interpretation adopted by Miller and his associates, 
and a wonderful impetus was given to the advent movement. Men of learning and position 
united with Miller, both in preaching and in publishing his views, and from 1840 to 1844 the 
work rapidly extended.” The Great Controversy, 335. 

The empowerment of the first angel’s message is marked in Revelation ten when the angel who Sister 
White informs us is “no less a personage than Jesus Christ” came down with the little book of Daniel 
open in His hand. The first angel’s message was then empowered. 

“And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow 
was upon his head, and his face was as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire: And he had 
in his hand a little book open: and he set his right foot upon the sea, and his left foot on the 
earth.” Revelation 10:1, 2. 

While the descent of the angel marks the empowerment of the message, the little book that was 
opened marked the beginning of a testing process, for John was then told to go and take the little book 
and eat it. Based upon Jeremiah’s and Ezekiel’s experience when they ate the little book, we understand 
that the eating of the book marks the beginning of a testing process among God’s people. The test is in 
relation to how God’s people respond to the message contained in the book that is eaten. 

“Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of 
mine heart: for I am called by thy name, O Lord God of hosts. I sat not in the assembly of the 
mockers, nor rejoiced; I sat alone because of thy hand: for thou hast filled me with indignation. 
Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuseth to be healed? wilt thou be 
altogether unto me as a liar, and as waters that fail? Therefore thus saith the Lord, If thou 
return, then will I bring thee again, and thou shalt stand before me: and if thou take forth the 
precious from the vile, thou shalt be as my mouth: let them return unto thee; but return not 
thou unto them. And I will make thee unto this people a fenced brazen wall: and they shall 


fight against thee, but they shall not prevail against thee: for I am with thee to save thee and 
to deliver thee, saith the Lord. And I will deliver thee out of the hand of the wicked, and I will 
redeem thee out of the hand of the terrible.” Jeremiah 15:16–21. 

See also Ezekiel 3. 

After the empowerment of the message and the initiation of the testing process the Protestant 
denominations closed their doors against the Millerite message, thus marking the activities of the 
enemies of that particular work and message. Then in the summer of 1844 the Holy Spirit was poured 
out in the fulfillment of the midnight cry and the manifestation of the power of God was marked in the 
sacred history. The midnight cry climaxed when judgment began and the Great Disappointment arrived. 
Then it was time for the faithful few to rise and measure the temple of God in order to take up the work 
connected with the understanding of the sanctuary, the law of God, the Sabbath and the third angel’s 
message. Sometime after that God’s people ceased to accomplish the work. 

“It was not the will of God that Israel should wander forty years in the wilderness; He desired to 
lead them directly to the land of Canaan and establish them there, a holy, happy people. But 
‘they could not enter in because of unbelief.’ Hebrews 3:19. 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 so many years in this world of sin and sorrow. But unbelief separated 
them from God. As they refused to do the work which He had appointed them, 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 
shall be poured out.” The Great Controversy, 458.14. 

The Millerite history was accomplished at the conclusion of the 2300 years of Daniel 8:14 and the 
history of Cyrus is the beginning of the 2300 years. 

The “time of the end” in the history of Cyrus was the fulfillment of the seventy years of captivity set 
forth in Jeremiah 25:12: 

“And it shall come to pass, when seventy years are accomplished, that I will punish the king of 
Babylon, and that nation, saith the Lord, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans, and 
will make it perpetual desolations.” 

In Daniel nine verse two, we see Daniel representing the students of prophecy in that time period that 
were running “to and fro” in God’s prophetic word. 

“In the first year of his reign I Daniel understood by books the number of the years, whereof the 
word of the Lord came to Jeremiah the prophet, that he would accomplish seventy years in the 
desolations of Jerusalem.” 

Daniel recognized the fulfillment of Jeremiah’s prophecy as the prophetic announcement that it was 
now time for the Jews to come out of Babylon and rebuild Jerusalem. Cyrus is the man that recognized 
this work and formalized the message with his decree. Take note that though Cyrus is a type of Christ, 
he is not a prophet. Neither was Miller. 

“And now, just at the time God had said He would cause His temple at Jerusalem to be rebuilt, 
He moved upon Cyrus as His agent to discern the prophecies concerning himself, with which 
Daniel was so familiar, and to grant the Jewish people their liberty.” Prophets and Kings, 557. 

Later Cyrus began to backslide on his purpose of helping the Jews accomplish their work. In Daniel ten 
the angel Gabriel struggled with Cyrus for three weeks in order to help him make the right decision in 


regard to the work he had begun, but when Gabriel could do no more, then Christ, as Michael came and 
interceded with Cyrus. With the arrival of Michael the message of Cyrus was empowered just as the 
arrival of Christ as the angel in revelation ten empowered Miller’s message. 

“While Satan was striving to influence the highest powers in the kingdom of Medo-Persia to 
show disfavor to God’s people, angels worked in behalf of the exiles. The controversy was one in 
which all heaven was interested. Through the prophet Daniel we are given a glimpse of this 
mighty struggle between the forces of good and the forces of evil. For three weeks Gabriel 
wrestled with the powers of darkness, seeking to counteract the influences at work on the mind 
of Cyrus; and before the contest closed, Christ Himself came to Gabriel’s aid. ‘The prince of the 
kingdom of Persia withstood me one and twenty days,’ Gabriel declares; ‘but, lo, Michael, one 
of the chief princes, came to help me; and I remained there with the kings of Persia.’ Daniel 
10:13. All that heaven could do in behalf of the people of God was done. The victory was finally 
gained; the forces of the enemy were held in check all the days of Cyrus, and all the days of his 
son Cambyses, who reigned about seven and a half years.” Prophets and Kings, 571. 

The activities of the enemies of that time period are marked by the decree that stopped the work, just 
prior to the second decree of Darius. 

“During the reign of Cambyses the work on the temple progressed slowly. And during the reign 
of the false Smerdis (called Artaxerxes in Ezra 4:7) the Samaritans induced the unscrupulous 
impostor to issue a decree forbidding the Jews to rebuild their temple and city.” Prophets and 
Kings, 571. 

Although we do not have a specific identification of the manifestation of the power of God as the next 
waymark within the history of Cyrus, it is established based upon the prophetic characteristics identified 
in the other prophetic lines describing every great reformatory movements. Prophetic waymarks, just as 
all biblical truths, are established based upon the testimony of two or three. When we consider these 
sacred lines of prophecy we find that more than three times the manifestation of the power of God is 
identified as following after the activities of the enemies of the work and message, and just prior to the 
illustration of judgment. Judgment in this history is located in the third decree, when national 
sovereignty is returned to the Jews and they then have the authority to enforce judgment against both 
civil and religious crimes. 

And thou, Ezra, after the wisdom of thy God, that is in thine hand, set magistrates and judges, 
which may judge all the people that are beyond the river, all such as know the laws of thy God; 
and teach ye them that know them not. And whosoever will not do the law of thy God, and the 
law of the king, let judgment be executed speedily upon him, whether it be unto death, or to 
banishment, or to confiscation of goods, or to imprisonment. Ezra 7:25–26. 

Following this illustration of judgment we find disappointment identified. 

“The number who responded to the call to leave Babylon, was disappointingly small. Ezra had 
expected that a large number would return.” Review and Herald, February 13, 1908. 

 

“Ezra had expected that a large number would return to Jerusalem, but the number who 
responded to the call was disappointingly small.” Prophets and Kings, 613. 

Those that did return were to take up the work of finishing the rebuilding of Jerusalem, but shortly 
thereafter they ceased their efforts to finish the work. There are other characteristics within the 
prophetic structure of every great reformatory movement that we have not yet identified. God’s dealing 
with men during the great religious movements are ever the same and as with the Millerite time and the 


time of the three decrees—within the history of Christ the prophetic characteristics are identical. 

The “time of the end” in the history of Christ was His birth in fulfillment of Isaiah’s prophecy in chapter 
seven verse fourteen. 

“Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, 
and shall call his name Immanuel.” 

At the birth of Christ there are several students of prophecy identified that recognize His birth. There 
was Simeon and Anna, the shepherds on the hills and the wise men from the east. The increase of 
knowledge during is represented by Herod’s actions and Christ’s life. 

“Herod now invited the magi to a private interview. A tempest of wrath and fear was raging in 
his heart, but he preserved a calm exterior, and received the strangers courteously. He inquired 
at what time the star had appeared, and professed to hail with joy the intimation of the birth of 
Christ. He bade his visitors, ‘Search diligently for the young child; and when ye have found Him, 
bring me word again, that I may come and worship Him also.’ So saying, he dismissed them to 
go on their way to Bethlehem.” The Desire of Ages, 62. 

 

And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favour with God and man. Luke 2:52. 

The increase of knowledge led to the raising up of a messenger that formalized the message for that 
time. 

In those days came John the Baptist, preaching in the wilderness of Judaea, And saying, Repent 
ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. For this is he that was spoken of by the prophet Esaias, 
saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths 
straight. And the same John had his raiment of camel’s hair, and a leathern girdle about his 
loins; and his meat was locusts and wild honey. Matthew 3:1–4. 

The formalized message was empowered when a symbol of divinity descended. 

And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water: and, lo, the heavens 
were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon 
him: And lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. 
Matthew 3:16, 17. 

It was the baptism of Christ that empowered John’s message. 

“Repairing to the temple where He was teaching, they proceeded to question Him: ‘By what 
authority doest Thou these things? and who gave Thee this authority?’ They expected Him to 
claim that His authority was from God. Such an assertion they intended to deny. But Jesus met 
them with a question apparently pertaining to another subject, and He made His reply to them 
conditional on their answering this question. ‘The baptism of John,’ He said, ‘whence was it? 
from heaven, or of men?’ 

“The priests saw that they were in a dilemma from which no sophistry could extricate them. If 
they said that John’s baptism was from heaven, their inconsistency would be made apparent. 
Christ would say, Why have ye not then believed on him? John had testified of Christ, ‘Behold 
the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.’ John 1:29. If the priests believed 
John’s testimony, how could they deny the Messiahship of Christ? If they declared their real 
belief, that John’s ministry was of men, they would bring upon themselves a storm of 
indignation; for the people believed John to be a prophet. 


“With intense interest the multitude awaited the decision. They knew that the priests had 
professed to accept the ministry of John, and they expected them to acknowledge without a 
question that he was sent from God. But after conferring secretly together, the priests decided 
not to commit themselves. Hypocritically professing ignorance, they said, ‘We cannot tell.’ 
‘Neither tell I you,’ said Christ, ‘by what authority I do these things.’” The Desire of Ages, 594. 

Not only was John’s message empowered at the baptism, but at that point Christ went into the wil-
derness to be tested. Just as Michael descended to empower the message of Cyrus, and the angel de-
scended in Revelation ten to empower Miller’s message, the dove had descended to empower John’s 
message. And just as John took the little book and ate it in Revelation ten marking the beginning of a 
testing process, so Christ immediately went into the wilderness to be tested. After this we find the ac-
tivities of those opposing the work and message of John. The action that marks this waymark specifically 
is when the Sanhedrin chose that Christ should die, rather than the whole nation perish. 

“And one of them, named Caiaphas, being the high priest that same year, said unto them, Ye 
know nothing at all, Nor consider that it is expedient for us, that one man should die for the 
people, and that the whole nation perish not.” John 11:49, 50. 

Following this waymark we should see a manifestation of the power of God that parallels the 
manifestation of the power of God in the midnight cry experience of the Millerites. 

“The midnight cry was not so much carried by argument, though the Scripture proof was clear 
and conclusive. There went with it an impelling power that moved the soul. There was no doubt, 
no questioning. Upon the occasion of Christ’s triumphal entry into Jerusalem, the people who 
were assembled from all parts of the land to keep the feast, flocked to the Mount of Olives, and 
as they joined the throng that were escorting Jesus, they caught the inspiration of the hour, and 
helped to swell the shout, ‘Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord!’ [Matthew 21:9] 
In like manner did unbelievers who flocked to the Adventist meetings—some from curiosity, 
some merely to ridicule—feel the convincing power attending the message, ‘Behold, the 
Bridegroom cometh!’” The Spirit of Prophecy, volume 4, 250. 

This manifestation of the power of God concluded with an illustration of the judgment at the cross only 
to be followed by a disappointment. 

“I was carried back to the time when Christ rode triumphantly into Jerusalem. The joyful 
disciples believed that He was then to take the kingdom and reign a temporal prince. They 
followed their King with high hopes. They cut down the beautiful palm branches, and took off 
their outer garments, and with enthusiastic zeal spread them in the way; and some went before, 
and others followed, crying, ‘Hosanna to the Son of David: Blessed is He that cometh in the 
name of the Lord; Hosanna in the highest.’ The excitement disturbed the Pharisees, and they 
wished Jesus to rebuke His disciples. But He said unto them, ‘If these should hold their peace, 
the stones would immediately cry out.’ The prophecy of Zechariah 9:9 must be fulfilled; yet the 
disciples were doomed to a bitter disappointment. In a few days they followed Jesus to Calvary, 
and beheld Him bleeding and mangled upon the cruel cross. They witnessed His agonizing death 
and laid Him in the tomb. Their hearts sank with grief; their expectations were not realized in a 
single particular, and their hopes died with Jesus. But as He arose from the dead and appeared 
to His sorrowing disciples, their hopes revived. They had found Him again.” Early Writings, 244. 

The disciples were then given the task of carrying the message of the cross to the world, but they ceased 
to accomplish their work and decided to go fishing. 


“There is an object before all Christians. They are to do the work Christ did while here upon 
earth. ‘Wist ye not,’ He said, ‘that I must be about My Father’s business?’ I came to show what 
the Lord requires of all who would win eternal life. Christ’s work was performed according to 
the law of service, and He says to us, ‘Without Me ye can do nothing.’ After His ascension He 
appeared to His disciples, who had returned to their fishing. So wearied and discouraged were 
they that at first they did not recognize His voice. He asked them if they had taken anything, and 
the mournful answer was returned. ‘We have toiled all night, and have taken nothing.’ In clear, 
calm tones Christ’s words sounded over the water, ‘Cast the net on the right side of the ship, 
and ye shall find.’ They hastened to do His bidding, yet saying at the same time, ‘We have toiled 
all night without success; it is not likely that we shall be successful now.’ But the success that 
always follows obedience crowned their efforts. They were not able to draw in the net, so full 
was it of fish. Immediately they forgot the fruitless labor of the night. They saw Jesus as a risen 
Saviour, and believed in Him. From this miracle they learned the lesson which all need to 
learn,—that without the co-operation of Christ, all work will be hard and profitless.” Signs of the 
Times, May 23, 1900. 

The history of the Millerites, the history of the three decrees and the history of Christ start with a “time 
of the end.” The “time of the end” marks the beginning of an progressive increase of prophetic light, 
that illuminates the upcoming period of sacred history. As the light develops the Lord selects a 
messenger that He uses to formalize the message for that generation. Thereafter the Lord empowers 
the message, while simultaneously marking the beginning of a testing process. The activities of the 
enemies of that work are then manifested and thereafter there is a manifestation of the power of God. 
The manifestation of the power of God climaxes at an illustration of judgment that is immediately 
followed by a disappointment. A work is then assigned to the people of God, which they at some point 
in time cease to accomplish. Every reformatory movement is the same. The history of Moses is a type of 
the history of Christ. Moses prophesied that the Lord would raise up a prophet like unto himself. 

“For Moses truly said unto the fathers, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of 
your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear in all things whatsoever he shall say unto you.” 
Acts 3:22. 

Though lacking a specific prophetic fulfillment for the “time of the end” in the history of Moses, still 
Moses’ birth can be identified as the “time of the end” in that history, for Moses was a type of Christ 
and the “time of the end” in the history of Christ was His birth. The birth of Moses identified the 
upcoming epoch of the deliverance of ancient Israel from the bondage of Egypt. Moses spent his first 
twelve years in the school of higher education that was conducted by his mother and then went to the 
schools of Egypt, thus representing an increase of knowledge. This symbolic increase of knowledge was 
continued as the Lord took Moses into the wilderness for forty years to get an even more important 
increase of knowledge as he tended sheep in a country setting. The message was formalized at the 
burning bush and then Moses returned to Egypt to accomplish his work. 

“And the Lord said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have 
heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows; And I am come down to 
deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good 
land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanites, and 
the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites. Now 
therefore, behold, the cry of the children of Israel is come unto me: and I have also seen the 
oppression wherewith the Egyptians oppress them. Come now therefore, and I will send thee 
unto Pharaoh, that thou mayest bring forth my people the children of Israel out of Egypt.” 
Exodus 3:7–10. 


Before Moses arrived in Egypt, Christ came down and empowered his work. 

“And it came to pass by the way in the inn, that the Lord met him, and sought to kill him.” 
Exodus 4:24. 

Moses had left off the circumcision of his son and would not have had the spiritual power necessary to 
accomplish his work in Egypt had he been disobedient to that rite. 

“On the way from Midian, Moses received a startling and terrible warning of the Lord’s 
displeasure. An angel appeared to him in a threatening manner, as if he would immediately 
destroy him. No explanation was given; but Moses remembered that he had disregarded one of 
God’s requirements; yielding to the persuasion of his wife, he had neglected to perform the rite 
of circumcision upon their youngest son. He had failed to comply with the condition by which his 
child could be entitled to the blessings of God’s covenant with Israel; and such a neglect on the 
part of their chosen leader could not but lessen the force of the divine precepts upon the 
people. Zipporah, fearing that her husband would be slain, performed the rite herself, and the 
angel then permitted Moses to pursue his journey. In his mission to Pharaoh, Moses was to be 
placed in a position of great peril; his life could be preserved only through the protection of holy 
angels. But while living in neglect of a known duty, he would not be secure; for he could not be 
shielded by the angels of God.” Patriarchs and Prophets, 255. 

Not only was Moses work empowered at this point, but his wife, as a woman prophetically representing 
the church—accomplished the act of circumcision. The test that is here illustrated identifies a testing 
process that confronts the church, while identifying that the church and the members thereof must 
participate in the act of circumcision of heart during this testing time. Moses’ test of circumcision 
parallels Christ baptism. At both waymarks the message was empowered and a test is identified. 
Baptism is of course—a type of circumcision for both are a pledge of obedience. 

“About forty days after the birth of Christ, Joseph and Mary took Him to Jerusalem, to present 
Him to the Lord, and to offer sacrifice. This was according to the Jewish law, and as man’s 
substitute Christ must conform to the law in every particular. He had already been subjected to 
the rite of circumcision, as a pledge of His obedience to the law.” The Desire of Ages, 50. 

 

“Those who submit to the solemn rite of baptism pledge themselves, before the heavenly 
universe, to come out from the world. They have taken their position under the blood-stained 
banner of Prince Emmanuel, to be laborers together with God, and, as such, to make known His 
will to those who are perishing in sin. They are to search the Scriptures diligently, feeling that it 
is of the highest importance for them to understand what saith the Lord. Having learned His will, 
they are to do it heartily, remembering that the truth is the seed they must sow in order to reap 
a harvest for God. But many of those who claim to believe the truth are not striving as they 
should for perfection of character.” Review and Herald, September 19, 1907. 

When Moses returned to Egypt in Exodus chapter five he presented the message of Sabbath reform. 
When Israel accepted the message Pharaoh was angered at Israel’s decision to no longer work on 
Sabbath and he increased the bricks that were to be made and also commanded the Hebrews to gather 
their own straw. Thus we see illustrated the activities of the enemies of that work and message. This 
was followed by the manifestation of the power of God in the plagues that were brought against Egypt. 
The climax of the plagues was judgment upon the firstborn, and immediately thereafter the Hebrews 
found themselves between Pharaoh’s army and the Red Sea. 

“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 was that of the Hebrews at the Red 
Sea.” The Great Controversy, 458. 

After this Moses assigned the people the work of preparing themselves for the receiving of the law. 

And the Lord said unto Moses, Go unto the people, and sanctify them to day and tomorrow, and 
let them wash their clothes, And be ready against the third day: for the third day the Lord will 
come down in the sight of all the people upon mount Sinai. Exodus 19:10, 11. 

The people began the work, but before Moses was finished receiving the law the people had stopped 
the work and they were dancing around the golden calf. Every great reformatory movement is the same. 
Within these histories we find the primary argument that identifies William Miller as the man the Lord 
used to establish the foundations of Adventism. The messenger in each of these movements is marked 
by the Lord as establishing the foundation of that generation. In the time of Cyrus, but before the 
second decree of Darius the foundation of the temple was completed. 

And when the builders laid the foundation of the temple of the Lord, they set the priests in their 
apparel with trumpets, and the Levites the sons of Asaph with cymbals, to praise the Lord, after 
the ordinance of David king of Israel. And they sang together by course in praising and giving 
thanks unto the Lord; because he is good, for his mercy endureth for ever toward Israel. And all 
the people shouted with a great shout, when they praised the Lord, because the foundation of 
the house of the Lord was laid. Ezra 3:10, 11. 

The foundational message in the time of Christ was proclaimed and established by John the Baptist, who 
Sister White often compares with William Miller. 

And were baptized of him in Jordan, confessing their sins. But when he saw many of the 
Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who 
hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come? Bring forth therefore fruits meet for 
repentance: And think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say 
unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham. And now also the 
ax is laid unto the root of the trees: therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is 
hewn down, and cast into the fire. I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that 
cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you 
with the Holy Ghost, and with fire: Whose fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly purge his 
floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable 
fire. Matthew 3:6–12. 

The foundational message in the history of Christ was proclaimed by John and it consisted of baptism, 
confession of sin, repentance, a warning against the wrath that was soon to come, while identifying that 
the Lord was going to divorce ancient Israel and gather a new people unto Himself. It also pointed to the 
promised of the dispensation of the Holy Spirit. John was used to establish the foundational message of 
his time, just as the foundations of the temple were completed within the history of Cyrus’ decree. The 
foundational message in the history of Moses was that the Lord desired to take the Hebrews away from 
Egypt in order that they might worship Him. The foundation to that message of worship is the reform 
message that Moses began with when he came to Egypt. That message was the Sabbath, which is the 
foundation of true worship. 

Therefore when we consider the great reformatory movements of the past, that inspiration informs us 
are ever the same and parallel one another, we find that the messenger of each of those histories is the 
one the Lord uses to establish the foundations. 

Inspiration identifies William Miller as the messenger of his time, and his message according to the 


historians and the pioneers was the message that is illustrated on the 1843 pioneer chart. The message 
that is illustrated on the 1843 pioneer chart is the only message that all the Millerite preachers 
proclaimed. Therefore the message on the 1843 pioneer chart is the Millerite message that was 
proclaimed from 1840 through 1844 and that message is the foundational message of Adventism. Today 
the leadership of the Seventh-day Adventist Church has discarded that message for fables that have 
come from the fallen churches of Babylon and the foundations have been destroyed. 

In the past we have discussed the fact that the men at the Biblical Research Institute of the Seventh-day 
Adventist church have adopted apostate Protestantism understanding of the “daily” in the book of 
Daniel. In so doing they reject the pioneer understanding of the 1290 year and 1335 year prophecy of 
Daniel 12:11, 12. 

And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, and the abomination that maketh 
desolate set up, there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days. Blessed is he that 
waiteth, and cometh to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days. 

The “daily”, the 1290 and the 1335 prophecies are all illustrated on the 1843 chart and when you 
determine that the “daily” represents Christ’s sanctuary ministry as the leadership suggests today, then 
you eliminate the ability to identify the year 508 as the time when the “daily” was taken away. Christ 
sanctuary ministry began in the year 31 and there is no historical support for any event that took place 
in 508 that can be understood as Christ’s sanctuary ministry being removed at that point. So in rejecting 
William Miller’s foundational understanding of the “daily” you destroy the symbolic meaning of the 
“daily” and the two time prophecies that are represented upon the chart. 

Although the men at the Biblical Research Institute will deny it, when you identify the “daily” as Christ 
sanctuary ministry you also destroy the 2300 year prophecy of Daniel 8:14. This is very simple to see, 
but totally ignored by those who hold the view that the “daily” represents Christ’s sanctuary ministry. 
The simplicity of this logic is in the very foundation of Adventism—which is Daniel 8:14. But verse 
fourteen is simply the answer to the question raised in verse thirteen. 

“Then I heard one saint speaking, and another saint said unto that certain saint which spake, 
How long shall be the vision concerning the daily sacrifice, and the transgression of desolation, 
to give both the sanctuary and the host to be trodden under foot?” 

After the vision covering the history from the Medes through papal Rome is set forth in the first twelve 
verses of Daniel eight, Daniel hears a dialogue between some heavenly beings. In verse thirteen a 
question of duration is raised. The question is concerning “how long” the vision would last concerning 
two specified entities. (I am aware that the Hebrew word translated as “how long” can be understood as 
“when”—but the context of the discussion in verse thirteen and fourteen identifies that the Hebrew 
word translated as “how long” is identifying a duration of time. It is obvious the translators of the King 
James thought the same, for they translated the word as, “how long” not “when.” The duration of time 
is the subject of the vision concerning the daily and the transgression of desolation.) 

The daily and the transgression of desolation are “to give both the sanctuary and the host to be trodden 
under foot” for a period of time. During that period of time both the daily and the transgression of 
desolation will tread the sanctuary and host under their feet. 

The foundational understanding of the “daily” was first understood and identified by William Miller as 
paganism. This foundational understanding was preached by Miller and his associates who gave what is 
termed the “judgment hour cry.” Miller’s understanding of the “daily is endorsed by inspiration in Early 
Writings page seventy-four when Sister White states, 


“Then I saw in relation to the ‘daily’ (Daniel 8:12) that the word ‘sacrifice’ was supplied by man’s 
wisdom, and does not belong to the text, and that the Lord gave the correct view of it to those 
who gave the judgment hour cry. When union existed, before 1844, nearly all were united on 
the correct view of the ‘daily’; but in the confusion since 1844, other views have been 
embraced, and darkness and confusion have followed.” 

The false view of the “daily” that is now promoted by the leadership of the Seventh-day Adventist 
Church is that the “daily” identifies Christ’s sanctuary ministry and Sister White informs us that this 
particular understanding came “from angels that were expelled from heaven.” In a manuscript where 
she rebukes A. G. Daniells for promoting this false view of the “daily” she tells us she saw the “after 
results” of accepting apostate Protestantism view of the “daily” as Christ’s sanctuary ministry and she 
says that it would bring confusion. God is not the author of confusion. 

“Now I am to tell them [that] when I was shown this matter, when Elder Daniells was lifting up 
his voice like a trumpet in advocating his ideas of the ‘Daily,’ the after results were presented. 
Our people were becoming confused. I saw the result, and then there were given me cautions 
that if Elder Daniells without respect to the outcome should thus be impressed and let himself 
believe he was under the inspiration of God, skepticism would be sown among our ranks 
everywhere, and we should be where Satan would carry his messages. Set unbelief and 
skepticism would be sown in human minds, and strange crops of evil would take the place of 
truth.” Manuscript Releases, volume 20, 21. 

It is clear that to accept the Daniells’ idea that the “daily” represents Christ sanctuary ministry is rejected 
by inspiration and that Miller’s foundational view that the “daily represented paganism is endorsed. If 
we believe that the “daily” represents Christ’s sanctuary ministry, then the “daily” could not arrive in 
history before Christ began His sanctuary ministry in AD 31. This is the problem with verses thirteen and 
fourteen. If the vision concerning the daily and the transgression of desolation is identifying duration of 
time that concludes at the end of 2,300 years in 1844, then the starting point of the vision must agree 
with the ending point. If we start in AD 31 and add 2,300 years we destroy 1844 and Adventism! 

No one argues that the transgression of desolation in verse thirteen is the papal power, so when we 
interpret verse thirteen to state: “How long shall be the vision concerning Christ sanctuary ministry that 
began in the year 31 and the transgression of desolation that began in the year 538” we are assigning a 
starting point to the vision that destroys 1844. The earliest starting point you can assign to the vision is 
the 31 and you thus place the cleansing of the sanctuary off until the year 2331. 

If we retain Miller’s foundational understanding that the “daily” represents paganism and the 
transgression of desolation represents the papal power, then the question is: “How long shall be the 
vision concerning paganism that started in the vision of Daniel eight with the Medes and the Persians in 
457 and the papacy that began in 538” the 2,300 years have a perfect fulfillment in 1844. 

When you are wrong on the “daily” you directly destroy the reference of the “daily” on the 1843 chart, 
and you remove your ability to establish the 1290 and 1335 year prophecies illustrated on the chart, and 
you indirectly destroy the 2300 year prophecy. So much for protecting the “pegs and pins.” 

Recently as we have been considering the 2520 year time prophecy of Leviticus 26 there have been 
three friends that have emailed the Biblical Research Institute to find out how they understand this 
prophecy, which is of course also represented upon the 1843 chart. One of the email inquiries also 
asked about the fifth and sixth trumpets, which are also illustrated upon the chart. Here is that email 
and the response: 

Dear Elder Pfandl, 


Some friends of mine are very busy studying the old 1843 chart and are wondering about the 2520 year 
prophecy on it, and we also wonder how the Islam of the 5th & 6th Trumpets connects with Islam 
nowadays. Do you have any light on these questions? Thank you for your consideration. Blessings! PR 

Dear PR: 

The 1843 chart was used by the Millerites with good success, but not everything on the chart is 
correct. One of the issues concerns the 2520 years. Please note, Judah was not taken into 
captivity in 677; King Manasseh was taken to Babylon for a period of time, but he was restored 
to the throne and cleaned house before he died (2 Chronicles 33:14–16). Judah continued as a 
kingdom until 586 when Jerusalem was destroyed by the Babylonians. 

The year-day principle cannot be used in Leviticus 26:28. The New American Bible correctly 
translates “I will increase the chastisement for your sins sevenfold.” The Hebrew text only has 
the word “seven” there is no reference to a time period. “Seven (fold or times)” is a proverbial 
expression for the full, complete measure of discipline (it is also used in 26:21, 24, 28, Psalms 
79:12). Seven was an appropriate number of completeness in view of the importance of “seven” 
in the Israelite religion. The year-day principle should only be used for time periods in 
apocalyptic texts (Daniel and Revelation). Outside of these books God always clearly spelled it 
out when he applied a day for a year (Numbers 14:34; Ezekiel 4:6). 

Most current Adventist interpreters do not identify Islam with the 5th and 6th trumpet. See J. 
Paulien, R. Stefanovic, and J. Doukhan on these texts. While Islam is a current issue, we must 
avoid interpreting Scripture with the newspaper. In the 60s and 70s communism was the great 
evil; well, it is gone. At the moment it is Islam, for how long? We don’t know! For now, Islam 
does not appear in my interpretation of Scripture. 

With kind regards and best wishes, 

Gerhard Pfandl, Ph.D. Associate Director Biblical Research Institute 

With that statement the Biblical Research Department has destroyed the 2520 time prophecy and the 
Islam of the fifth and sixth trumpet. There goes two more “pegs and pins” from the foundation of 
Adventism. In so doing we also reject the Spirit of Prophecy, for the Spirit of Prophecy specifically 
endorses the pioneer understanding of the fifth and sixth trumpet at least nine times; Nine times! 

When Sister White endorses Josiah Litch’s prediction of the collapse of the Ottoman Empire she is 
endorsing the pioneer understanding of the fifth and sixth trumpet. 

“At the very time specified, Turkey, through her ambassadors, accepted the protection of the 
allied powers of Europe, and thus placed herself under the control of Christian nations. The 
event exactly fulfilled the prediction. When it became known, multitudes were convinced of the 
correctness of the principles of prophetic interpretation adopted by Miller and his associates, 
and a wonderful impetus was given to the advent movement. Men of learning and position 
united with Miller, both in preaching and in publishing his views, and from 1840 to 1844 the 
work rapidly extended.” The Great Controversy, 335. 

 Litch was not the only Millerite to teach this truth, William Miller and all the Millerites taught the truth 
identified by Litch and endorsed by Sister White in the previous passage. Litch is simply the man who 
published the tract upon the subject. Miller dealt with the fifth and sixth trumpet as Islam in his 
presentations. The Millerite understanding of the trumpets is represented upon the 1843 chart that 
“was directed by the hand of the Lord” and that we have been told “should not be altered.” The fifth 
and sixth trumpet as Islam is also represented on the 1850 chart prepared by Otis Nichols. Sister White 
states of the 1850 chart: 


“I saw that God was in the publishment of the chart by Brother Nichols. I saw that there was a 
prophecy of this chart in the Bible, and if this chart is designed for God’s people, if it [is] 
sufficient for one it is for another, and if one needed a new chart painted on a larger scale, all 
need it just as much.” Manuscript Releases, volume 13, 359. 

We are told concerning the 1850 chart that there is “a prophecy of this chart in the Bible” and “that God 
was in the publishment of the chart by Brother Nichols.” Today the Biblical Research Institute tells us 
that, “most current Adventist interpreters do not identify Islam with the 5th and 6th trumpet,” and in so 
doing they are not only destroying the foundations but they are also denying the light on this subject 
provided by the prophet of the Lord. 

We have already referenced in this article six quotations where inspiration tells us things such as, 

“God bids us give our time and strength to the work of preaching to the people the messages 
that stirred men and women in 1843 and 1844.” Manuscript Release, Number 760. 

Those six references, along with the endorsement of Litch’s prediction in The Great Controversy and the 
two endorsements of both the 1843 and 1850 chart inform us nine times that the foundational message 
represented upon the 1843 chart was “directed by the hand of Lord” and that the message there 
represented “should not be altered.” 

As John the Baptist, Cyrus and Moses were used by the Lord to establish the foundations in their 
generations, so William Miller was used by the Lord to establish the foundations of Adventism. Sister 
White identifies the messages of 1840 through 1844 as the “platform” and “foundation” of Adventism, 
while repeatedly warning God’s people that the foundations would be attacked. The “foundations” of 
Adventism today have been destroyed through the modern theologian’s teachings and the lack of 
understanding of pioneer truths by the majority of God’s people here at the end of the world. In 
identifying this fact we have raised up the foundations of the generation of Moses, the generation of 
John the Baptist and the generation of Cyrus in an effort to point us back to the old paths. There is more 
to recognize in connection with the fact that the foundations have been destroyed and in our next 
newsletter we will illustrate how the Biblical Research Institute is incorrect in their analysis of the 2520 
time prophecy of Leviticus 26. 

And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the 
foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The 
restorer of paths to dwell in. Isaiah 58:12. 

 

“The time has come when we must firmly refuse to be drawn away from the platform of eternal 
truth, which since 1844 has stood the test.” Manuscript Releases, volume 1, 53. 

 

“Give to the world the message the Lord has given you. Remove not a pin or a pillar from the 
foundation of our faith. Preach the truth as it has been given by the Lord.” Manuscript Releases, 
volume 1, 56.