Habakkuk's Two Tables #61

PART SIX: 1989

Presented by Jeff Pippenger

Invocation by Brother Jeff Pippenger: Heavenly Father, we thank you for giving us a good night's rest and bringing us together this morning that we can start our day by considering your Word. We ask that you grant us the presence of your Holy Spirit, that He would take control of this presentation and direct our understanding, that we would receive it as you see fit. We ask that you would forgive us of our sins, forgive us of anything that is preventing us from hearing your Voice and understanding your Words, and preventing me from being used as you would want me to be used to share this Message. Please hide me behind your cross. We pray that you would pour the Latter Rain out upon us and increase our understanding in the Books of Daniel and Revelation at this time. In Jesus's name, amen.

The Beginning and the End

Every Word

Depth

The Spirit of Prophecy

Elijah

Theme

Repetition of History

Connection with Revelation

Structure

Connection with Revelation

A Short Time

BROTHER PIPPENGER: We are still dealing with the connection between the events in Revelation 17 and 18, and Daniel 11:40-45.

I am going to do thing a little bit differently in terms of how I do the presentation this morning. I am not going to worry so much about giving an overview of where we are at until the end.

So, if you have your notes, you will notice that we have Revelation, chapter 12, verses 11 and 12.

For those of you who are watching, if you have a Bible, Revelation 12:11-12.

I just want to show something that has been established now, whether we recognize it or not.

Beginning in verse 11, it says,

"¹¹And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death. ¹²Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time. Revelation 12:11-12.

The Devil has come down here, and part of the reason he has come down is he knows that he has a short time.

What is the short time that the Devil has?

And this is what we have been looking at in Revelation 17. And what I am saying is that once you put Daniel 11 and Revelation 13 and Revelation 17 together, it begins to produce truths that help you better organize other passages of prophecy.

A Short Space—One Hour

Notice verses 10 through 12 of Revelation 17.

Sunday Law Message Close of

1798 USA of the Hour Probation

(The Beast)

Daniel 11 12:1

9/11/2001

(The False Prophet)

Revelation 13 :

Wrath of God;

7 Last Plagues

Four Winds

(The Dragon)

Revelation 17 Rev 17 18:1-3 18:4 18:21-24

Short Space

Eleventh Hour = One Hour

Figure No. 120

"¹⁰And there are seven kings:"—that is in here [the Short Space]—"five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come;"—

I have that underlined because that is one of the characteristics that allows you to know who this king is.

"—¹⁰And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come, and when he cometh, he must continue a short space. ¹¹And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition. ¹²And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet;"—

In verse 10 they had not yet come. The seventh kingdom are these Ten Kings, just from the grammatical structure of these three verses.

—"which have received no kingdom as yet, but receive power as kings one hour with the beast." Revelation 17:10–12 (KJV).

So, they are going to co-rule with the Papacy for one hour, which is a short space. So, you have two connections between verses 10 and 12. One is that the seventh kingdom has not yet come [verse 10], connects with verse 12 where it says they have received no kingdom as yet. And, then in verse 10 he is going to continue a short space, and he is going to co-rule with the Beast for one hour. And what I am saying here is the short time that the Devil has in Revelation 12, verse 12, is this short space. John is not going to be contradicting himself, and Revelation is one revelation.

The Devil Comes Down

So, the Devil comes down with great wrath for this short space; and, this short space, it begins right here at The Sunday Law in the United States. Okay? And it continues until the Close of Probation.

And in our previous studies, we have given other proofs of this fact. This short space is one hour that the Papacy co-rules with the Ten Kings of the United Nations. It is the time period that Satan appears, because he has just a short time. It is here.

It is here that not only does he appears to personate Christ but it is here where the persecution takes place.

We are going to look at verses 11 and 12 of Revelation 12 a little more carefully than that; so, you see it in your notes again.

In verse 12 it says,

The Sunday Law

The Devil comes down in this short space, and this connects with Revelation 13:13,

"¹³And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men." Revelation 13:13 (KJV).

And we have established already that Satan begins his personation of Christ immediately after The Sunday Law in the United States. So, he has come down right here. He has come down for this short space.

The Inhabiters of the Earth

Back to Revelation 12:11-12:

Now, we have not spent a great deal of time making the distinction that I am going to begin to make here in this study; but, two of the active players in this history [of the short space] is both the Devil (the Dragon) and the Ten Kings. They are going to burn the whore with fire and eat her flesh; so, they have a role in judging modern Babylon. Revelation 17, verses 1 and 2, the Angel tells John, "I will show you the judgment of the Great Whore that sits upon many waters," so this story is partially about the judgment of the Papacy, and the Dragon participates in that judgment.

But, also in this history, one of the other powers that is active is Islam. Islam (the East Wind) is the power that is sinking the economics structure; and, of course, one of the primary symbols of Islam is that it is a Woe. It is the First, Second, and Third Woes.

So, here in verse 12 it says, "Woe to the Inhabiters of the earth and of the sea!"

Okay. You might think that John is just using the word Woe as an expression here; but, notice that this Woe is pronounced upon the inhabitants of the earth and the sea. So, what I am saying is that in Revelation 12:11-12, once we understand Revelation 17, 13, and Daniel 11 as a complete unit of thought, there are other passages in The Revelation that open up to us.

This Woe, I am saying, is Islam, that Islam is in this history as well as the Dragon. And he is—how does it say it?—"Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea!"

The Third Woe

Notice Revelation 8:13, and the key thought here is, "the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea."

Verse 13 of Revelation 8 says,

"¹³And I beheld, and heard an angel flying through the midst of heaven, saying with a loud voice, Woe, woe, woe, to the"—what?

FROM THE AUDIENCE: To the inhabiters of the earth.

BROTHER PIPPENGER: —"to the inhabiters of the earth by reason of the other voices of the trumpet of the three angels, which are yet to sound!" Revelation 8:13 (KJV).

So, when in verse 12 of Revelation 12 John is saying, "Woe to the inhabiters of the earth," there is no reason to think that this Woe is any different than these Woes to the inhabiters of the earth.

And, of course, we understand that these three Woes here are the Fifth, the Sixth, and the Seventh Trumpets; and, we understand that the Pioneer position, which is upheld on these Charts [1843 and 1850 Charts], which are both upheld by the Spirit of Prophecy, that the First Woe is Islam, the Second Woe is Islam; the Fifth Trumpet is Islam, the Sixth Trumpet is Islam; therefore, the Third Woe, the Seventh Trumpet, would be Islam once again.

1844 – 9/11/2001

Now, notice Revelation 11, verses 14 through 19. We are dealing with the Woe that is pronounced upon the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea in verse 12 of Revelation 12.

You see the subtitle to these verses, verses 14 through 19, it says, "1844 and 9/11/2001." If you understand this correctly, you can see 1844 and 9/11/2001 in this following passage.

"¹⁴The second woe is past;"—

Now, we have not dealt with this in this worship series; but, many times publicly we have dealt with this thought I am going to explain to you here.

The Pioneers incorrectly thought that the Sixth Trumpet ended on August 11, 1840, with the collapse of the Ottoman Empire.

But, the Pioneers correctly taught that William Foy and Hazen Foss were truly given the Spirit of Prophecy. Both men declined to fulfill their responsibility and exercise the Spirit of Prophecy for the Millerite History. Ellen White accepted the calling. But, when the Pioneers of Adventism would address the Spirit of Prophecy in their writings, they would always refer to the fact that it was at this point in time when the Lord would raise up the Spirit of Prophecy. Based upon the prophetic record, they established it was time for the Lord to restore the Gift of the Spirit of Prophecy to His remnant people in the 1840s, and in so doing He called Hazen Foss and William Foy, and they both declined the calling; and, Ellen White took the Calling.

So, when the Pioneers were addressing the arrival of the Spirit of Prophecy in Adventism, they always argued that the gift given to Hazen Foss and William Foy was the genuine Spirit of Prophecy. They did not argue that these two men were given some kind of false prophecy from Satan. This was the Lord actually inspiring these men and giving them opportunity to serve in this fashion.

And I do not have it in the notes here, but it is available: William Foy had a vision in 1842, where he was shown that the Sixth Trumpet was still sounding. So, the Pioneers believed that the Sixth Trumpet ended on August 11, 1840, with the collapse of the Ottoman Empire; but, under Inspiration, under the Gift of the Spirit of Prophecy, William Foy went in and got his vision publicly registered by a Notary Public. So, it is a legal document that in 1842 he was told the Sixth Angel was still sounding; therefore—and this is just a secondary "therefore"—therefore, the Pioneers were wrong about the Sixth Trumpet ending in August 11, 1840. It ended on October 22, 1844, when the Seventh Trumpet began to sound.

We had reached that conclusion before we even knew about Hazen Foss and William Foy. It is like icing on the cake.

But, right here in verse 14, you are seeing the ending of the Sixth Trumpet and the arrival of the Seventh Trumpet. But, the Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh Trumpets are also Woes.

So, verse 14 says,

—"¹⁴The second woe is past; and, behold, the third woe cometh quickly. ¹⁵And 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 the reason that I have that bold-faced there, I am not going to put in any Spirit of Prophecy quotes to back this up because we have dealt with this.

One of the things that we know that Christ did on October 22, 1844, is He went in to the Father to receive a kingdom. Okay? So, this is one of the arguments here that this is October 22, 1844.

—"The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever. ¹⁶And the four and twenty elders, which sat before God on their seats, fell upon their faces, and worshipped God, ¹⁷Saying, We give thee thanks, O Lord God Almighty, which art, and wast, and art to come; because thou hast taken to thee thy great power, and hast reigned."—

And what I am suggesting here is the next phrase is 9/11; whereas, that beginning was October 22, 1844.

The next phrase says,

—"¹⁸And 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."—

Now, John has just taken us to the beginning and the ending of the Third Woe; and, now to bring this thought to a conclusion, he is going to take us back to the beginning, October 22, 1844, when he says,

—"¹⁹And 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 11:14–19 (KJV).

And, of course, we know that when the temple of God was opened in Heaven and you could see the ark of His testament, that is identifying when the door into the Most Holy Place was opened, on October 22, 1844. So, this is an overview of the Third Woe, the Seventh Trumpet, by John.

It begins October 22, 1844, and it goes on up to 9/11. And, the things that follow 9/11, all the way to the destruction of the wicked at the end of the thousand years, if you go back into those verses, the last phrase before "And the temple of God was opened," it says, "and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth." That is at the end of the thousand years.

So, the nations being angry, until the destruction of the wicked at the end of the thousand years, is the history of the Third Woe; but, the Third Woe begins on 9/11.

The Third Woe is the Seventh Trumpet, but the Seventh Trumpet begins to sound on October 22, 1844. All right?

The Woes are marking the activity of Islam.

Those Who Destroy the Earth—Revelation 20:7-15

Now, go to Revelation 20, verses 7 through 15.

Is there another place where Satan goes forth to deceive the nations? How about Revelation 13:13?

Keep your finger in Revelation 20, and go back to Revelation 13:13. It is more than verse 13 actually, but it says beginning in verse 13,

"¹³And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men."—

"On the earth in the sight of men," that would be the nations of the Earth, right?

—"¹⁴And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles . . . ." Revelation 13:13-14 (KJV).

So here, back in chapter 20, in verse 7,

"⁷And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, ⁸And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of who is as the sand of the sea. ⁹And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them."—

Now, the last time Satan was deceiving the nations, what happened? Fire came down on Earth out of heaven in the sight of men. That is Revelation 13:13.

Fire comes down once again when he is deceiving the nations, only it is not his false miracle that is doing it; this is the judgment of God. Okay? So, it is a parallel-type history that should be noted.

And verse 10,

"¹⁰And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and he false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever."—

When are the Beast and the False Prophet cast into the lake of fire? At Christ's Second Coming. They are there before the thousand years. Now the Devil is going to be cast into the lake of fire at the end of the thousand years.

Verse 11,

"¹¹And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them. ¹²And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works. ¹³And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works. ¹⁴And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. ¹⁵And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire." Revelation 20:7-15 (KJV).

So, back to your notes, we are commenting right now on Revelation 11:14-19, the history of the Third Woe (the Seventh Trumpet); and, we are saying that this destruction of the wicked at the end of the thousand years is when he destroys those that destroy the Earth. So, the Third Woe would encompass 9/11/2001, all the way to the Earth made new.

Notice what Sister White says about verse 18 of Revelation 11 from Early Writings, page 36. She says,

"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,"—

So, the angering of the nations is one event, the wrath of God.

Well, we know what that event is. What is the wrath of God?

FROM THE AUDIENCE: The Seven Last Plagues.

BROTHER PIPPENGER: That is right here [the Close of Probation (see Figure No. 120)]. This is the wrath of God. This takes place after probation closes. Right? It begins right when Michael stands up, right here [points to the whiteboard at the waymark of the Close of Probation in Figure No. 120].

And Michael stands up in Daniel 12:1. This is the line of Daniel here.

So, what is the angering of the nations? Well, I may not know what it is, but I know that it takes place before probation closes; because, Sister White says, "I saw they were separate and distinct, one following the other."

And there are a lot of Laodicean Adventists that think that the third point here,

—"I saw that the anger of the nations, the wrath of God, and the time to judge the dead"—

—there are a lot of people that think that this time to judge the dead is the beginning of the judgment in 1844; but, they could not be separate and distinct, one following another, if this were true; because, Sister White is saying this Judgment of the Dead takes place after the wrath of God. There is a Judgment of the Dead that takes place after the Second Coming of Christ during the thousand years when God's people are going to review the decisions that were made concerning the dead.

—"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,"—

So, even in Sister White's day and age, the nations were already getting angry. But, there is a specific point in time that is marked when they get angry and are simultaneously held in check.

—"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.

"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." Early Writings, 36.

So, the full release of the Four Winds, the full release of the Four Winds,—and we have already established that the Four Winds slip through the Angels' fingers, even while they are holding them. All right? It is a progressive escalation. But, the Four Winds here, when they are fully released is another way to describe the Seven Last Plagues. It is another way to describe the wrath of God.

Now, Sister White is going to comment on something that she said on page 33. This is from Early Writings. We are still dealing with the angering of the nations, with Revelation 11, verses 14 through 19. Here is her comment.

"1. 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."—

Who are God's children that do not keep the Sabbath?

FROM THE AUDIENCE: The other sheep that He has.

BROTHER PIPPENGER: That is the other sheep that He has that are the eleventh-hour laborers, the one-hour laborers. It is those of God's children that are outside of Adventism.

—"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.'"—

She is quoting from page 33, because she is going to comment on this statement and she is going to explain what she meant by this time of trouble, the commencement of this time of trouble, and she is going to say that this is not the time of trouble when there is no more probation available. This is the time of trouble that takes place while probation is still open.

She continues on, and she says,

—"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 fulfillment 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"—what?

FROM THE AUDIENCE: To a short period.

BROTHER PIPPENGER: A what?

FROM THE AUDIENCE: A short period.

BROTHER PIPPENGER: A short space.

—"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,"—

And we have dealt with in this worship series that the closing work in the Sanctuary for Christ is the work of blotting out. It is the work that takes place during the Judgment of the Living. The closing work is the Judgment of the Living.

—"At that time, while the work of salvation is closing,"—

At that time during the Judgment of the Living.

—"trouble will be coming on the earth, and the nations will be angry, yet held in check"—

Now, we have already read a quote that "the nations are now getting angry"; but, there is a point in this end-time history where the nations are made angry, but at the same time they are held in check. Okay? There is a restraint marked.

—"the nations will be angry, yet held in check so as not to prevent the work of the third angel. At that time"—

At what time? When the angry nations are held in check.

—"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." Early Writings, 85.

Now, we have already established in this study that Islam was restrained on 9/11. The Mighty Angel of Revelation 18 descended, and the refreshing, the Latter Rain that is accomplished by the presence of the Lord because the Mighty Angel that comes down out of Heaven is no less the personage than Jesus Christ, this begins the Latter Rain.

The Latter Rain, we have established, comes in two parts. There is a sprinkling that takes place while the Lord is judging Adventism, and this time period when Adventism is being judged, the first temple cleansing of this history concludes at The Sunday Law; and, then, the Holy Spirit is poured out without measure as it was on Pentecost, and then the second temple cleansing takes place in this "short space."

Luke 21:25-26. And, of course, we are saying that the angering of the nations here in the Third Woe (the Seventh Trumpet) has been prefigured by the distress of nations in the Sixth Trumpet (the Second Woe). And in Luke 21, beginning in verse 25, it says,

"²⁵And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; ²⁶Men'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." Luke 21:25-26 (KJV).

1838

Now, for most Seventh-day Adventists it is pretty easy for us to see that the signs in the sun and the moon and the stars are the signs that ushered in the Millerite History. This is referenced several times in God's Word. But, sometimes we are king of vague that one of the signs of the Millerite History was the distress of nations with perplexity. But, Uriah Smith is going to tell us here in this next passage what the distress of nations in that history was. He says,

"As the prophetic period of this trumpet commenced by the voluntary surrender of power into the hands of the Turks by the Christian emperor of the East, so we might justly conclude that its termination would be marked by the voluntary surrender of that power by the Turkish Sultan back again into the hands of the Christians."—

He is talking about the Sixth Trumpet, and he is talking about the time prophecy of 391 years and 15 days, which began when the last emperor of Eastern Rome surrendered his sovereignty into the hands of the four great Ottoman sultans; and, that period ended when the last of those sultans, now the weak men of the East, surrendered his national sovereignty back into the four great Christian powers.

And now he is going to mark when this was taking place.

—"In 1838 Turkey became involved in war with Egypt. The Egyptians bid fair to overthrow the Turkish power. To prevent this,"—

Why were they wanting to prevent this? Because they were distressed: the nations were distressed at what was going on in Egypt.

—"In 1838 Turkey became involved in war with Egypt. The Egyptians bid fair to overthrow the Turkish power. To prevent this, the four great powers of Europe, England, Russia, Austria, and Prussia, interfered to sustain the Turkish government. Turkey accepted their intervention. A conference was held in London at which an ultimatum was drawn up to be presented to Mehemet Ali, the Pacha of Egypt. It is evident that when this ultimatum should be placed in the hands of Mehemet, the destiny of the Ottoman Empire would be virtually lodged in the hands of the Christian powers of Europe. This ultimatum was placed in the hands of Mehemet on the 11th day of August 1840! and on that very day the Sultan addressed a note to the ambassadors of the four powers, inquiring what should be done in case Mehemet refused to comply with the terms which they had proposed. The answer was that he need not alarm himself about any contingency that might arise; for they had made provision for that."—

His national sovereignty was gone. He was now being taken care of by the four great European powers.

—"The prophetic period ended, and on that very day the control of Mohammedan affairs passed into the hands of Christians, just as the control of Christian affairs had passed into the hands of the Mohammedans 391 years and 15 days before. Thus the second woe ended,"—

He is wrong. If you are going to call the activity of Islam a woe, fine; but, he is believing that this is the end of the Sixth Trumpet.

—"Thus the second woe ended, and the sixth trumpet ceased its sounding."—

William Foy was still told the Sixth Trumpet was still sounding in 1842. It sounds until 1844.

Continuing on, Uriah Smith says,

—"Passing over the 10th and a portion of the 11th chapters of Revelation, the series of trumpets is again taken up in verse 14 of chapter 11."—

We have just been reading that.

—"The events of this trumpet are described in the five following verses. They are such as to show that this trumpet witnesses the conclusion of all earthly kingdoms and the beginning of the everlasting reign of Christ. Among the events introduced is the opening of the temple of God in heaven. Verse 19. This was the commencement of the work of cleansing the sanctuary, as explained in the exposition of that subject,—a work which constitutes the finishing of the mystery of God spoken of in Revelation 10:7, and marks the beginning of the sounding of the seventh trumpet."—

What marks the beginning of the sounding of the Seventh Trumpet? October 22, 1844.

—"It is therefore evident that the seventh angel began to sound in the autumn of 1844; and the little space termed 'quickly,' which was to intervene between the second and third woes, reached from August 11, 1840, where the sixth trumpet ceased to sound, to the autumn of 1844 where the seventh commenced."—

Now, because of the way he thinks he makes that conclusion. I personally disagree with that conclusion. What was going to come quickly is the Third Woe, and it came on 9/11/2001.

And how can that be "quickly" after October 22, 1844? It can be "quickly" in terms of conditional prophecy. Ellen White told us more than once that if we had finished the work of developing the character of Christ, "Christ would have come 'ere this."

So, all of this history, from 1844 to here [to 9/11/2001], it is "quickly" in the context of conditional prophecy: "The third woe cometh quickly." But, that is not really the point we want to make here.

—"The 18th verse of Revelation 11 shows that this trumpet covers the concluding troubles of the last days, and reaches over to the destruction of the wicked at the end of the thousand years of Revelation 20." Uriah Smith, Synopsis of Present Truth, 218.

That is what we just showed you, and we were showing you now that this is Pioneer logic.

Early Writings, page 41, concerning the angering of the nations and what that represents, it says,

"December 16, 1848, the Lord gave me a view of the shaking of the powers of the heavens. I saw that when the Lord said 'heaven,' in giving the signs recorded by Matthew, Mark, and Luke, He meant heaven, and when He said 'earth' He meant earth."—

Seventh-day Adventists need to wrap their minds around this statement, if they believe in the authority of the Spirit of Prophecy; because, the passage where Sister White says that when the mighty buildings of New York City are thrown down, then Revelation 18, verses 1 through 3 will be fulfilled. That is a paraphrase, but she says that. In that passage she says then shall the Lord arise to shake terribly the Earth; and, people that fight against that passage take the passages and the Scriptures that talk about the Lord shaking heavens and Earth, or shaking the heavens, and try to read those definitions into what she says about 9/11 and the buildings of New York City when she says there that the Lord would arise to shake terribly the Earth, period. And here Sister White, among other things, is emphasizing that the shaking of the Earth is different than the shaking of the heavens; and, she is emphasizing it in such a way that this is how the Bereans, the students of prophecy, do not confuse these two things.

—"December 16, 1848, the Lord gave me a view of the shaking of the powers of the heavens. I saw that when the Lord said 'heaven,' in giving the signs recorded by Matthew, Mark, and Luke, He meant heaven, and when He said 'earth' He meant earth. The powers of heaven are the sun, moon, and stars. They rule in the heavens. The powers of earth are those"—

What are "those"? It is talking about human beings, probably; because, it says,

—"those that rule on the earth."—

The powers of the Earth are the rulers of the Earth.

—"The powers of heaven will be shaken at the voice of God. Then the sun, moon, and stars will be moved out of their places. They will not pass away, but be shaken by the voice of God. "Dark, heavy clouds came up and clashed against each other. The atmosphere parted and rolled back; then we could look up through the open space in Orion, whence came the voice of God. The Holy City will come down through that open space. I saw that the powers of earth are now being shaken and that events come in order. War, and rumors of war, sword, famine, and pestilence are first to shake the powers of earth, then the voice of God will shake the sun, moon, and stars, and this earth also. I saw that the shaking of the powers in Europe is not, as some teach, the shaking of the powers of heaven, but it is the shaking of the angry nations." Early Writings, 41

What is "the shaking of the angry nations"? It is the shaking of the powers in this passage that were controlling Europe. It is the powers, the political powers, on Planet Earth, the angry nations that are shaken. All right? So, the distress of nations in 1838, which distressed the powers of Europe in that time period, that distress of nations is Luke 21:25; but, it is prefiguring the angering of the nations at the end of the world. The nations that are shaken are identifying when the political powers of the world are going to be angered and distressed.

So, we are saying that 9/11 is the angering of the nations, paralleling the distress of nations in Luke 21:25.

Were the political powers of Planet Earth shaken at 9/11? Well, absolutely.

Woe to the Earth and the Sea

Okay. So, we are dealing with Revelation 12:12. You may not realize it, but we are. It says,

"¹²Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time." Revelation 12:12 (KJV).

". . . inhabiters of the earth and of the sea!": We are saying that in this passage where "the devil is come down unto you," the Devil comes down to us immediately after The Sunday Law when he begins to persecute Christ, because he knows he has a short time, because "a short time" starts right here at The Sunday Law until human probation closes. He knows.

We may not know because we are fat and happy in our Laodicean condition; but, Satan knows the Scriptures. He knows that when The Sunday Law arrives in the United States, this is his last opportunity to kill Christians.

Okay. But, at that time period, you also have the woe activity going on, which is Islam.

And I am not suggesting that Islam is not a satanic power as well, but there is a distinction made between the Dragon power and Islam in prophecy; so, we need to hold to that description.

"Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea!"

In Revelation 7, verse 1 through 3, it says,

"¹And 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. ²And 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"—what?

FROM THE AUDIENCE: To hurt the earth and the sea.

BROTHER PIPPENGER: —"to hurt the earth and the sea,"—

"Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea!" These four angels, these Four Winds, they are the Woes that are going to hurt the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea.

—"³Saying, Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads." Revelation 7:1–3 (KJV).

Okay. The sealing time begins when the nations are angry, yet—what?

FROM THE AUDIENCE: They are restrained.

BROTHER PIPPENGER: —yet held in check when there is a restraint placed upon them [9/11/2001].

And at this time what begins to happen? The Latter Rain begins to sprinkle.

And in Revelation 9:4, it says,

"⁴And it was commanded them"—

And in Revelation 9:4, who is it? It is right here [indicating the First Woe on the 1850 Chart]. It is Islam.

—"⁴And 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." Revelation 9:4 (KJV).

The active agents to punish those that do not have the Seal of God in this history [between the waymarks identified as the Message of the Hour and the Close of Probation (see Figure No. 120)] are the Woe power. It is Islam.

Okay. So, in this history you have the Devil coming down [immediately after The Sunday Law to the close of human probation] because his time is short; but, you also have the activity of Islam taking place in this history.

Having Great Wrath

Okay. In verse 12 of Revelation 12, the Devil comes down because he has great wrath, with great wrath.

"¹²Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time." Revelation 12:12 (KJV).

What is his great wrath? Well, the same way that when he personates Christ, he calls fire down from out of heaven; and, then at the end of the thousand years, he deceives the nations once more and there is fire that comes down out of Heaven—a point, counterpoint.

Here [in the history of the short space], so he is going to exercise great wrath; because, he knows when his time is over, the great wrath of God is going to be exercised against his followers. He is exercising his great wrath here [during the short space] in opposition to God's great wrath here [after the Close of Probation when the Seven Last Plagues are falling]. But, the key word there perhaps is the word great.

Matthew 24:21-22 says,

"²¹For then shall be great tribulation,"—it is in your notes—"such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be. ²²And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened. Matthew 24:21–22 (KJV).

This great wrath that he [the Devil] is going to exercise in this short space is the Great Tribulation. It is the greatest tribulation.

Now, Sister White definitely, more than once, applies this passage from Matthew 24 to the 1260 years; but, the 1260 years of Papal persecution is repeated here in this history [of the short space in Figure No. 120], only with more intensity. Because it is a shorter period of time, it is a last opportunity for Satan to kill Christians.

Revelation 18:1-8

Okay. What we are dealing with now is the connection between Daniel and Revelation, between Daniel 11 and Revelation 13 and 17. And what I have tried to show you here from just taking basically verse 12 of Revelation 12 is once you have these three lines of prophecy [Daniel 11, and Revelation 13 and 17], this is the line of the Dragon [Revelation 17]; this is the line of the False Prophet [Revelation 13], and, this is the line of the Beast [Daniel 11]. Once you have these lines in place, you have a structure that allows you to illustrate the end of the world. Okay?

But, we want to finish off our consideration of Revelation 17 and 18.

And in Revelation 18—and we have dealt with this more than once in this worship series—in verse 1 a Mighty Angel comes down out of Heaven and He cries with a loud voice; and, then in verse 4 of Revelation 18, he [John] says, "And I heard another voice." So, we have dealt with the fact that Revelation 18 is two voices. It is two Angels. It is two temple cleansings. It is two distinct calls.

Notice what the work is, though.

"John saw 'Another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the whole earth was lightened with his glory.' Revelation 19:1. That work is the voice of the people of God proclaiming a message of warning to the world." The 1888 Materials, 926.

So, the Earth being lightened with His glory has to do with the work that is accomplished during that history, and that work is a two-step work because there are two voices.

Two Voices

In Selected Messages, book 2, page 118—this is all review, by the way. We have been through these—it says,

"When Jesus began His public ministry, He cleansed the Temple from its sacrilegious profanation. Among the last acts of His ministry was the second cleansing of the Temple. So in the last work for the warning of the world, two distinct calls are made to the churches. The second angel's message is, 'Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication' (Revelation 14:8). And in the loud cry of the third angel's message a voice is heard from heaven saying, 'Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues. For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities' (Revelation 18:4, 5)." Selected Messages, book 2, 118.

So, in these two distinct calls, Revelation 18:1-3 is a distinct call; and, verse 4 is the second call. This is the two temple cleansings at the end of the world. We have studied this.

How did He accomplish these temple cleansings? Review and Herald, April 9, 1889, says,

"Christ had just cleansed the temple of those who defiled it with forbidden traffic. Divinity had flashed through humanity, and men had seen the glory and power of God manifested before them." Review and Herald, April 9, 1889.

On 9/11 a Mighty Angel comes down out of Heaven, no less the personage than Jesus Christ, and He enters into a relationship with those Laodiceans who are willing to wake up and return to the Old Paths and meet the conditions of the Gospel; and, Divinity begins to flash through humanity.

At The Sunday Law in the United States, the Adventist Church is purified. The wheat and tares are separated, and those Adventists that had prepared for the Seal of God are then lifted up as an ensign, and once again Divinity flashes through humanity.

This [9/11/2001 to The Sunday Law (Figure No. 120)] is the First Temple Cleansing.

This [from The Sunday Law to the Close of Probation] is the Second Temple Cleansing.

Okay. Let us pass over Revelation 14. It is in the wrong place in these notes.

Let us go to Revelation 18.

You may not know what I am doing right now, but I am trying to give you the structure of Revelation 18.

Revelation 18:1-3, the First Temple Cleansing:

"¹And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory. ²And 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. ³For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies." Revelation 18:1-3 (KJV).

It is the first distinct call that is given to the church.

Then in verse 4, it says,

"⁴And 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." Revelation 18:4 (KJV).

This is The Sunday Law. This is Revelation 18, verse 4,

This [9/11/2001] is Revelation 18, verses 1 through 3.

This is Revelation 17 in this history [from 1798 to 9/11/2001].

Reached Unto Heaven —Revelation 18:5

And then verse 5 of Revelation 18 says,

"⁵For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities. ⁶Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double according to her works: in the cup which she hath filled fill to her double." Revelation 18:5‑6 (KJV).

The Cup

Let us look at the cup: When is her cup filled?

Review and Herald, March 9, 1886:

"But Christ declared that not one jot or tittle of the law should fail until heaven and earth should pass away. The very work that he came to do was to exalt the law, and show to the created worlds and to heaven that God is just, and that his law need not be changed. But here is Satan's right-hand man ready to carry on the work that Satan commenced in heaven, that of trying to amend the law of God. And the Christian world has sanctioned his efforts by adopting this child of the papacy,—the Sunday institution. They have nourished it, and will continue to nourish it, until Protestantism shall give the hand of fellowship to the Roman power. Then there will be a law against the Sabbath of God's creation, and then it is that God 'will do a strange work in the earth.' He has borne long with the perversity of the race; he has tried to win them to himself. But the time will come when they shall have filled their measure of iniquity; and then it is that God will work. This time is almost reached. God keeps a record with the nations: the figures are swelling against them in the books of heaven; and when it shall have become a law that the transgression of the first day of the week shall be met with punishment, then their cup will be full." Review and Herald, March 9, 1886.

So, in Revelation 18:5-6, the filling up of the cup is another argument that verse 4 is marking The Sunday Law. Okay?

Her sins have reached unto Heaven in verse 5.

Signs of the Times, November 19, 1894.

"God instituted the Sabbath as a sign of his authority and power, and the Papacy, acting for the prince of evil, points to the Sunday as a sign of her power and jurisdiction. The day of the sun, Sunday, was a day devoted to the most vile of the heathen worship, for it was celebrated in connection with sun-worship. This Sunday-sabbath has been accepted by many who know it to be the foundling of heathenism, which has been cherished and nourished by the Church of Rome, and by her clothed in the garments of sanctity. But while many are now aware of its origin, there are true Christians in every church who do not know the origin of the Sunday-sabbath, and believe that they are keeping the day which God sanctified and blest. This is true of worshipers even in the Catholic Church; and while this ignorance and integrity remain, God accepts of their sincerity; but when light shall fall upon their pathway, God requires them to come into harmony with his law, and to observe the Sabbath of his appointing. The time has come when the glory of the Lord is to fill the earth, and when the whole earth shall be lightened with his glory. The cry is sounding to the honest in heart to 'come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you, and will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.' 'And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues. For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.' 'Here is the patience of the saints; here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.'" Signs of the Times, November 19, 1894.

At The Sunday Law her sins have reached unto Heaven. This is another argument that verses 4, 5, and 6 of Revelation 18 are marking The Sunday Law.

Double Unto Her—Revelation 18:6

Her judgments are beginning here [at The Sunday Law]; but, her judgments are actually starting—the financial structure starts to sink back here [9/11/2001]—but her judgment is beginning here [at The Sunday Law], and it will be doubled unto her.

Revelation 18:6 we have already read:

"⁶Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double according to her works: in the cup which she hath filled fill to her double." Revelation 18:6 (KJV).

Revelation 6:9-11

But, go to Revelation 6:9-11.

"⁹And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held: ¹⁰And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth? ¹¹And white robes were given unto every one of them, and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellowservants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled." Revelation 6:9-11 (KJV).

These are the martyrs of the 1260 years, and they ask the question, "How long until you judge the Papacy for murdering us from AD538 to [the end of the] 1260 [years]."

And the answer given to them is, "Just rest in your graves, because there is another group of martyrs that is going to be made up here [during the short space]."

And this is the reason that the Papacy receives a double judgment. She is being judged for the 1260 years of persecution, but she is going to be judged for the persecution of this time period [of the short space] as well, "double unto her." And this begins at The Sunday Law in the United States.

The Great Controversy, page 390:

"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"—the Seventh-day Adventists—"When [Seventh-day Adventists} 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"—when those Seventh-day Adventists receive strong delusion—"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)." The Great Controversy, 390.

The cleansing of Adventism begins on 9/11 and it continues to The Sunday Law. Those people in Adventism that are preparing for the mark of the beast at The Sunday Law receive strong delusion. Then the call goes to those outside of Adventism, "Come out of her, my people!"

Revelation 18:4 is The Sunday Law in the United States.

Review and Herald—this is all review for us, by the way—Review and Herald, June 15, 1897:

"The one-hour laborers will be brought in at the eleventh hour, and will consecrate their ability"—

When will they be brought in?

So, what is this short space?

Now, I thought that in Revelation 17:10-12 says that when this seventh kingdom comes, he must continue for a short space.

And, then in verse 12 it says that he is going to rule for two hours with the Beast?

FROM THE AUDIENCE: One hour.

BROTHER PIPPENGER: This Eleventh Hour is one hour. Right?

FROM THE AUDIENCE: (Affirmations.)

BROTHER PIPPENGER: —"The one-hour laborers will be brought in at the eleventh hour, and will consecrate their ability and all their entrusted means to advance the work."—

Where are they coming from? Modern Babylon: Edom, Moab, and [the chief children of] Ammon.

But, who is going to finance this work? They are.

They are going to . . .

—"consecrate their ability and all their entrusted means to advance the work. These will receive the reward for their faithfulness, because they are true to principle, and shun not their duty to declare the whole counsel of God. When those who have had abundance of light"—

Who is that? Seventh-day Adventists.

—"throw off the restraint which the word of God imposes, and make void his law, others will come in to fill their places and take their crown." Review and Herald, June 15, 1897.

That is right here [at The Sunday Law].

And we have dealt with this repeatedly.

Especially the Last Two—Revelation 18:21-24

Okay. This is just a snippet of a passage that we read earlier. She is speaking of Revelation 18. She says,

"Take each verse of this chapter, and read it carefully, especially the last two: [verse 23, 24 quoted.]" Manuscript Releases, volume 16, 269–270.

And if you will go to Revelation 18—we have already looked at this. This is review—if you take the last three verses [verses 22 through 24]:

"²¹And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all. ²²And the voice of harpers, and musicians, and of pipers, and trumpeters, shall be heard no more at all in thee; and no craftsman, of whatsoever craft he be, shall be found any more in thee; and the sound of a millstone shall be heard no more at all in thee; ²³And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived. ²⁴And in her was found the blood of prophets, and of saints, and of all that were slain upon the earth." Revelation 18:21-24 (KJV).

Now, we have already looked at this in previous presentations, and the phrases (the thoughts that are in these three verses) are, in the Bible, phrases that mark the close of human probation.

Into the Euphrates—Jeremiah 51:61-64

"⁶¹And Jeremiah said to Seraiah, When thou comest to Babylon, and shalt see, and shalt read all these words; ⁶²Then shalt thou say, O Lord, thou hast spoken against this place, to cut it off, that none shall remain in it, neither man nor beast, but that it shall be desolate for ever. ⁶³And it shall be, when thou hast made an end of reading this book, that thou shalt bind a stone to it, and cast it into the midst of Euphrates: ⁶⁴And thou shalt say, Thus shall Babylon sink, and shall not rise from the evil that I will bring upon her: and they shall be weary. Thus far are the words of Jeremiah." Jeremiah 51:61-64 (KJV).

In Jeremiah 51—and it is in your notes; we are not going to go there—verses 61 through 64, Jeremiah says to take a stone, wrap it in a cloth, and throw it in the Euphrates River, marking the end of Babylon.

Especially the Last Two (Continued)

So, here in verse 21 [of Revelation 18] it says,

Verses 21, 22, 23, and 24 of Revelation 18 are marking the end of Babylon, the close of human probation.

The Voice of The Bride . . .

Jeremiah 25:10-11; Jeremiah 7:34

One of the expressions that is repeated in here, the voice of the Bridegroom and the Bride, if you will go to Jeremiah 25, verses 10 and 11; and, Jeremiah 7:34, you will see that when the voice of the Bride and the Bridegroom is 'no more heard at all in thee," it is marking the close of probation.

"¹⁰Moreover I will take from them the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones, and the light of the candle. ¹¹And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years." Jeremiah 25:10-11 (KJV).

"³⁴"Then will I cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride: for the land shall be desolate." Jeremiah 7:34 (KJV).

What am I saying? I am saying that verses 21 through 24 of Revelation 18—[marking on the whiteboard] This is the line of Revelation 17 and 18—[verses] 21 through 24, that is the close of human probation.

Revelation 13

And now we are going to switch gears quickly and bring this to a conclusion.

We did not get through this as quickly as I wanted.

We are going to go to Revelation 13 now. We have already looked at Revelation 13, but we are going to put a couple more things in place.

Okay. All these are review.

The Great Controversy, page 443:

"But what is the 'image to the beast'? and how is it to be formed? The image is made by the two-horned beast, and is an image to the beast. It is also called an image of the beast. Then to learn what the image is like and how it is to be formed we must study the characteristics of the beast itself—the papacy.

"When the early church became corrupted by departing from the simplicity of the gospel and accepting heathen rites and customs, she lost the Spirit and power of God; and in order to control the consciences of the people, she sought the support of the secular power. The result was the papacy, a church that controlled the power of the state and employed it to further her own ends, especially for the punishment of 'heresy.' In order for the United States to form an image of the beast,"—

Does the United States form an image of the Beast?

FROM THE AUDIENCE: Yes.

BROTHER PIPPENGER: Yes. In order for the United States to form an image of the beast,

—"the religious power must so control the civil government that the authority of the state will also be employed by the church to accomplish her own ends." The Great Controversy, 443.

The image of the beast is the combination of church and state, with the church in control of the relationship.

Beginning at page 448 of The Great Controversy, it says,

"The enforcement of Sundaykeeping on the part of Protestant churches is an enforcement of the worship of the papacy—of the beast. Those who, understanding the claims of the fourth commandment, choose to observe the false instead of the true Sabbath are thereby paying homage to that power by which alone it is commanded. But in the very act of enforcing a religious duty by secular power,"—

And what is that religious duty? In the very act of passing The Sunday Law in the United States.

—"But in the very act of enforcing a religious duty by secular power, the churches would themselves form an image to the beast; hence the enforcement of Sundaykeeping in the United States would be an enforcement of the worship of the beast and his image." The Great Controversy, 448–449.

The image of the beast is fully formed at the enforcement of the mark of the beast, but the mark of the beast and the image of the beast are two different things.

Notice what Sister White says on page 445 of The Great Controversy.

"The 'image to the beast' represents that form of apostate Protestantism which will be developed when the Protestant churches shall seek the aid of the civil power for the enforcement of their dogmas. The 'mark of the beast' still remains to be defined." The Great Controversy, 445.

Okay. Now we are in Revelation 13. We have put those things in place.

Revelation 13, verse 11, what is Revelation 13, verse 11?

Sunday Law Sunday Law Close of Message

1798 USA WORLD Probation of the Hour

Daniel 11 11:40 11:41 11:42-43 Dan 12:1 Dan 11:44

9/11/2001

Revelation 13 13:11 13:11 13:14-15 13:15 Death Decree Rev 14

Wrath of God;

7 Last Plagues

Four Winds

Revelation 17 Rev 17 Rev 18:1-3 18:4 18:21-24 18:1-9

Short Space

Eleventh Hour = One Hour

Healing of Deadly Wound

PERGAMOS THYATIRA

EPHESUS SMYRNA

LAODICEA PHILADELPHIANS SARDIS

Figure No. 121. (See Figure No. 122 regarding the erroneous repositioning of the waymark for the "Message of the Hour.")

What is Revelation 13, verse 11?

"¹¹And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb; and he spake as a dragon." Revelation 13:11 (KJV).

Well, one of the things it is, Revelation 13, verse 11, begins when? 1798, and it ends at The Sunday Law in the United States.

So, one of the things that verse 11 is, it is the history of 1798 until The Sunday Law; because, when the United States speaks, when it passes The Sunday Law, then verse 12 is the history that follows after.

But, right here [at The Sunday Law] the mark of the beast is enforced, but the image of the beast is fully developed in the United States.

And then in verse 14, it says,

"¹⁴And he [the United States] deceiveth them that dwell on the earth"—

This is not the United States now; this is the whole world.

—"by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live. ¹⁵And he [the United States] had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed." Revelation 13:14-15 (KJV).

Now, what is that? This here in verses 14 and 15 is when the United States commands the world to accept the One World Government, with the Papacy in control.

The image of the beast by definition is the combination of the church and state. The state here is the Government of the entire world. It is a One World Government. But, the church that is in control of this political apparatus is the Papacy. The United States forces the whole world in verses 14 and 15 to accept the One World Government, with the Pope of Rome as the moral authority of that One World Government.

And then when you get to verse 18, you are at the close of probation. Let us read verse 16 [of Revelation 13]..

"¹⁶And he causeth all,"—

Once this is in place, "he causeth all,"

—"both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: ¹⁷And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. ¹⁸Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man: and his number is Six hundred threescore and six." Revelation 13:16-18 (KJV).

Now, we have not the time to go through and make the argument, but I am going to give it to you. Here, those that do not have the mark of the beast, it gets to the point where if you do not have the mark of the beast, you are killed. Okay? That is the Death Decree.

And at the death decree in the time of Stephen, at his death decree, which was the close of probation for Ancient Israel in AD34, at his death decree, as he was dying, what did he do? Acts 7:55-56; what did he do?

FROM THE AUDIENCE: He preached to them.

BROTHER PIPPENGER: He looked up into Heaven and he saw Jesus standing. This, right here [at the waymark of the close of human probation], is the final verses of Revelation 13, the Death Decree, the close of probation.

All right. All this time—this is a bummer! I have not said it, but that is okay; but, you have been—what is it when you learn just by—anyway, subliminally you have been learning that the Message of the Hour comes here before the Close of Probation. Bad idea! WRONG! I did not want to put that in place [removes the waymark line identified as "Message of the Hour" depicted in Figure No. 120 and repositions it in Figure No. 121.]¹

Let me show this to you now. We are at the point where we can bring this to a conclusion.

Here is what we are saying: What we have been saying and taught about the last six verses of Daniel 11, one of the strongest arguments, one of the strongest proofs of why this understanding of these verses is correct is that it lines up with Revelation 13 and 17; and, because Sister White often tells us that these are the same books. You would expect them to line up together.

So, Daniel 11, verse 40 is what? It is the same history as Revelation 13:11. It is from 1798 until The Sunday Law. And The Sunday Law per Daniel 11 is verse 41, which corresponds with this.

Then, the King of the North is going to conquer Egypt in verses 42 and 43 [of Daniel11]. And Egypt represents the entire world; whereas, in Revelation 13:11, the United States is going to speak as a dragon. That is The Sunday Law in the glorious land.

And then the United States goes out to the entire world to Egypt and says, "You must accept the One World government." All right?

And this, of course, leads to the close of [human] probation.

And I wish that I would have not done this backwards [referring to the Close of Probation waymark], if I would have pulled this line [the Close of Probation] over here where I had a little more room.

We are out of room, but this here is the Message of the Hour. Now, this is not talking about—what I am putting this here, this is not talking about the sequence of events. All right? The Message of the Hour does not come after human probation closes. That is not what I am saying here. What I am trying to show you here now is the structure of Daniel 11:40-45, of Revelation 13, and Revelation 17; it is identical, it is identical. All right?

Daniel 11, verse 40 (1798) until The Sunday Law (verse 41). Then, the King of the North conquers Egypt (the entire world); and, then you have the Message of the Hour emphasized in verse 44.

Okay. Now, in Revelation 17, you have the history of how the threefold union comes together: the sixth, seventh, and eighth kingdoms comes together to form the Sixth Kingdom.

Are you with me?

FROM THE AUDIENCE: (Affirmations.)

BROTHER PIPPENGER: But, Revelation 17, in verses 1 and 2, we are told it is about the judgment of the Great Whore. So, Revelation 17, it tells us about how the threefold kingdom comes together; and, in Revelation 17, it tells us that the Dragon and the Ten Kings, they are going to bring judgment on the Great Whore. They are going to burn her with fire and eat her flesh. We have dealt with that.

But then in Revelation 18, what do we have? We have the Message of the Hour.

In Revelation 13, verse 11, we have 1798 until The Sunday Law, when the United States speaks as a dragon.

Then in verses 14 and 15 [of Revelation 13], the King of the North conquers Egypt: the whole world sets up an image of the Beast.

You get down here [Close of Probation, Revelation 13:15] where is the Death Decree: if you do not have the mark of the Beast, you are put to death. Human probation closes.

And then you have Revelation what?

FROM THE AUDIENCE: Fourteen.

BROTHER PIPPENGER: You have Revelation 14.

And what is Revelation 14?

FROM THE AUDIENCE: It is the Message of the Hour.

BROTHER PIPPENGER: It is the Message of the Hour.

Okay. So, in each of these histories you see first the story from here (1798) to here [the World Sunday Law). This story is the story of the healing of the deadly wound.

And then, once that story is told in each of these instances, you have the Message of the Hour emphasized. Revelation 17 tells the story of the healing of the deadly wound, and then Revelation 18 tells of the Message of the Hour (the Fourth Angel's Message).

Revelation 13 tells the story of the healing of the deadly wound. This is where we get the phrase "the deadly wound" from, Revelation 13. Once that story is told, we have the Message of the Hour (Revelation 14, the Three Angels' Messages, swelled to a Loud Cry).

Daniel 11:40-43 is the story of the healing of the deadly wound. Now the Papacy is in control of Egypt [the world]; and, then in verse 44, you have the Message of the Hour.

This is the identical structure: What we are saying about the last six verses of Daniel 11 fits perfectly with the testimony of Revelation.

And in here, this history here, what do we have?

Okay. Because you do not know the question, you really cannot answer very clearly.

In here what history do we have? We have the history of Pergamos.

What is Pergamos? It is the compromise church. It is the history of Constantine bringing in Paganism with Christianity, preparing the way for Thyatira.

We have made this point that all of these churches exist during this time period.

In this history here [Pergamos], we are going to have God's people lifted up as an ensign. If you are going to be lifted up as an ensign and perfectly reflect the character of Christ, are you living godly in Christ Jesus?

FROM THE AUDIENCE: Amen.

BROTHER PIPPENGER: That is Ephesus.

But, what happens to those people that are lifted up as an ensign?

FROM THE AUDIENCE: They are persecuted.

BROTHER PIPPENGER: They are persecuted. What is that?

FROM THE AUDIENCE: Smyrna.

BROTHER PIPPENGER: [Writes Smyrna on the whiteboard].

But, there are two classes of worshippers. Sister White tells us that the Laodiceans are foolish virgins. If the Laodiceans are foolish virgins, who are the Philadelphians?

FROM THE AUDIENCE: The wise virgins.

BROTHER PIPPENGER: So, you have here Laodicea, and then you have the Philadelphians that are taken out; and, the Philadelphians are lifted up as an ensign to what, for what purpose?

FROM THE AUDIENCE: To call out Sardis.

BROTHER PIPPENGER: To call Sardis, the eleventh-hour workers.

All of these histories [of the Seven Churches] correspond to what we are saying about the last six verses of Daniel 11. And what we are saying about the last six verses of Daniel 11, it corresponds to Revelation 13 and 14; and, it corresponds to Revelation 17 and 18.

Question?

FROM THE AUDIENCE: That line right there after The Sunday Law, the conquering of Egypt, is that like the conquering of the world?

BROTHER PIPPENGER: What is the title? World Sunday Law.

FROM THE AUDIENCE: The Message of the Hour, that is the eleventh hour? That the message for that time is what you are saying?

BROTHER PIPPENGER: Yes; but, remember: I am at just one level when I am dealing with—the question was the Message of the Hour is the message for this period [the short space]? Yes, in each case.

The Message of the East and the North is the Three Angels' Messages of Revelation 14, are the two calls of the churches of Revelation 18, verses 1 through 4: the same message.

But, what I am wanting you to see at another level, not in the sequence of prophecy but at the structure of the prophetic narrative, the way that prophecy is structured grammatically, also you see that in each of these chapters [Daniel 11, Revelation 13 and 17], first the story of the healing of the deadly wound is told, and then the Message of the Hour is marked. This is a prophetic way to prove that verse 44 of the Message of the East and the North is Revelation 14, and the Three Angels' Messages is Revelation 18. It is two distinct calls being made to the Churches.

So, we are not done making our defense of what we are teaching about Daniel 11:40-45; but, one of those arguments is that what we teach about the last six verses of Daniel 11, it fits like a glove in the testimony of Revelation.

And we have left lots of stuff out that we have already put in place. The one that I like is Daniel 11:40 and Revelation 13:11, the same history, 1798 to The Sunday Law. But, that is also Isaiah 23, when Tyre is forgotten for 70 years, as the days of one king.

Shall we pray?

Benediction: Heavenly Father, we are amazed at the accuracy of your Word, the way that the testimony that Daniel recorded, that was repeated by John hundreds and hundreds of years later, is so spot-on. We thank you that you have allowed us to see these connections that we might have confidence that what we understand about the last six verses of Daniel 11 is truly the message of the events connected with the close of probation that multitudes in Adventism have no more understanding of than if they had never been revealed. We ask that you would allow these truths to impact our lives and changes that we might perfectly reflect your character and that we might be tools in your hands to share this oil with those that we come in contact with. We ask that you would give us each a divine appointment today to meet with someone or a group of people that want to hear these truths; and, we ask that as we go to do our different tasks this day that you would keep us safe and that you would let us do what we do for your honor and glory. In Jesus's name, amen.