Habakkuk's Two Tables #74
[#74B of Notes, with DVD]
CONCLUSION
Presented by Jeff Pippenger
Invocation by Brother Jeff Pippenger: Heavenly Father, we ask your presence as we begin the next presentation in the series of Habakkuk's Tables. We want to see how the history connected to the 2520 connects with our history. We want to put it in its proper place as a waymark that we can understand the role that it plays here at the end. And in order to do this correctly, we need the direction of your Holy Spirit, so we ask that you grant us your Holy Spirit at this time and that you would open our understanding to your Word by pouring your Latter Rain out upon us. We know that as human beings we are corrupt and possess our own preconceived opinions. We ask that you would overrule my words and my thoughts and hide me behind your cross that I can simply convey the words that you have for us at this time. And we pray that your Holy Spirit will do the same for those that are hearing this message. We want to be blessed with light from your Throne Room, and we ask that you would accomplish this at this time. In Jesus's name, amen.
BROTHER PIPPENGER: We are in the conclusion phase of Habakkuk's Tables, and since Sunday we have put a few things in place. We are going to put one more thing in place.
And just for those of you who are watching LiveStream, tomorrow we are going to try to tie this presentation with the previous two together in a way that I am under conviction needs to be recognized. So, try to wrap your mind around what we are saying today in preparation of pulling several things together tomorrow.
The 2520
On Sunday we looked at the fact that the enemy is trying to prevent God's people from standing up, and we briefly referenced that God's people stand up in Ezekiel 37, verses 9 through 11. And the message that begins the sprinkling that causes them to stand up is the message of Islam being restrained. And in order to understand the role of Islam in Bible prophecy, you have to return to the Pioneer logic as represented on these two charts behind me. If the First Woe was Islam and the Second Woe was Islam, the Third Woe would be Islam.
And, we looked yesterday at and reminded ourselves that Sister White placed her seal of approval on William Miller's understanding that the Daily in the Book of Daniel represents Paganism. We looked at the role of William Miller, as far as a prophetic type, and put that in place. We have much more to say about the Daily as we proceed.
And today we want to say a little bit about the 2520. These are the three primary truths on the [1843] Chart that we are going to be dealing with; so, we are going to touch briefly on some aspects of the 2520, without really dealing with it as a doctrine.
Teaching and Learning
In Life Sketches, page 196, it says,
"We have nothing to fear for the future, except as we shall forget the way the Lord has led us, and His teaching in our past history." Life Sketches, 196.
All the prophets are speaking about the end of the world; so, [this is] what we have to fear at the end of the world.
If we remember how the Lord taught us and led us in the past, we have nothing to fear; but, if we are going to be among the fearful in Adventism at the end of the world, we see this represented in Isaiah 66.
Isaiah 66:4
"4I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears upon them; because when I called, none did answer; when I spake, they did not hear: but they did evil before mine eyes, and chose that in which I delighted not." Isaiah 66:4 (KJV).
And we are spending some time in Isaiah 66 here this whole week and maybe the beginning of next week. But, if you go to Isaiah 66, verse 4�we dealt with Isaiah 66, verse 4, a couple of presentations ago, showing that the delusions that the Lord is going to choose for God's people are the strong delusion of 2�Thessalonians, chapter 2. Sister White ties this verse together with 2�Thessalonians's strong delusion�but, in verse 4, it says, "I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears upon them; . . ."; but, they have nothing to fear for the future, except as they forget the Lord's teaching and leading in their past experience. So, their fears are directly related to their forgetfulness concerning the Lord's leading and His teaching in their past experience. And, because they forget that, they will receive the strong delusion.
Now, why is it that we should remember the Lord's leading and teaching in the past history?
In Publishing Ministry, page 175, Sister White says,
"Again and again"�
She is placing an emphasis upon this.
And if you take the various ways that Sister White says that history can be repeated, there are some places where she says, "history will be repeated," or in this quote she is going to say, "history will repeat itself." There are various expressions that she uses to emphasize the repeat of history. And if you run that through the CD-ROM, she repeatedly, repeatedly, identifies this principle.
And, in fact, this principle here that history repeats itself, when it is brought down to the end of the world (because all the prophets are speaking about the end of the world), the very essence of this principle is that the Millerite History is repeated in the history of the 144,000 to the very letter.
And this principle is the parallel principle to the year-day principle for the Millerites. The rule of Bible prophecy that established and empowered the Millerite message in their history is paralleling the principle for our day and age, which is that the Millerite History is repeated in the history of the 144,000. And Sister White repeatedly speaks about history repeating.
And here she says,
�"Again and again I have been shown that the past experiences of God's people are not to be counted as dead facts. We are not to treat the record of these experiences as we would treat a last year's almanac. The record is to be kept in mind, for history will repeat itself." Publishing Ministry, 175.
So, the reason that we should remember the Lord's leading and His teaching in our past history is because that past history is going to be repeated.
The Teaching
Okay. So, what were the teachings? We want to look at the teachings that she says that we should not forget.
In Manuscript Releases, volume 15, page 371, says,
"The truths that we received"�
"The truths . . . ," that would be the teachings, the doctrines.
�"The truths that we received in 1841, '42, '43, and '44 are now to be studied"�
You are studying something. It is a teaching, it is a lesson.
�"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.
So, the teachings that we are not to forget are the teachings of 1840 to '44 (here she is saying 1841, '42, '43, '44). So, what were the teachings that they were given in that history? And following I have them broken down:
May, 1842�Habakkuk 2:2
March 22, 1844�Habakkuk 2:3, Matthew 25:5
Summer 1844�Revelation 14:8
August 11�17, 1844�Daniel 9:25, Leviticus 16:29�30; Matthew 25:6
October 22, 1844�Daniel 8:14, Matthew 25:10, Revelation 3:7
The only one that I might have left out here but was not germane to what we are looking at is, in this history the state of the dead was also introduced into the Millerite Movement by George Storrs.
But, for purposes of what we are looking at, in 1842, the understanding of Habakkuk�2:2 came into that history; and, the understanding of Habakkuk 2:2 is, "Write the vision and make it plain upon tables. [Gestures to the 1843 and 1850 Charts.]" That was in May of 1842.
And then in March 22, 1844, Habakkuk 2:3 was recognized, because they recognized then that the vision tarried in Habakkuk 2:3; and, this tarrying time is also referenced in Matthew�25:5, the tarrying of the Ten Virgins. That was a teaching from that history [of the Millerites].
And then in the summer of 1844, they recognized another teaching, "Babylon is fallen," the Second Angel's Message proclaimed in the summer of 1844.
And then in August 11-17, 1844, they recognized the light that is identified as the Midnight Cry. It was based upon Daniel 9:25, from the going forth of the commandment to restore and rebuild Jerusalem. They realized that the commandment to restore and rebuild Jerusalem began in the fall of the year, not at the beginning of the year as they first thought. They combined that with the types of the Old Testament, Leviticus 16:29-30, that it was on the 10th day of the 7th month that the Day of Atonement was to take place; and, at that point, Matthew 25, verse 6, was fulfilled, "Behold, the bridegroom cometh. Go ye out to meet him." So, that was a teaching of that history that was recognized.
And then on October 22, 1844, they recognized the closed door of Christ moving into the Most Holy Place. Matthew 25:10, the door was closed on the virgins. Revelation 3:7, the door into the Holy Place is closed and into the Most Holy Place is opened.
So, when Sister White says the truths we received in 1841, '42 '43, '44 are now to be studied and to be proclaimed, the truths that they received, the truths that they understood in this history were those truths.
Now, why do we want to understand that? Because, history will be repeated, and we have nothing to fear for the future, except we forget the Lord's teaching and His leading in our past history, not just His teaching but how He led us.
The Learning
So, we will look at His leading now.
"We understand the present feebleness and smallness of the work. We have had an experience. In doing the work God has given us, we may go trustingly forward, assured that He will be our efficiency."�
Assured that He will lead us, right? We can go forward, trusting that He is going to lead us; and, that is what we are talking about here, how the Lord led us in the past.
�"In doing the work God has given us, we may go trustingly forward, assured that He will be our efficiency. He will be with us in 1906,"�He will be with us in 2013�"as He was with us in 1841, 1842, 1843, and 1844." Loma Linda Messages, 156.
So, the teachings and the leadings that we are not to forget, because history is going to be repeated, are the teachings and the leadings that are referenced from 1841 to 1844.
So, how did the Lord lead the Millerites in that history?
May, 1842�1843 Chart produced
March 22, 1844�The tarrying time arrives
Summer 1844�Separation from churches
August 11�17, 1844�Midnight Cry arrives
October 22, 1844�The door shuts
Well, once again in May of 1842, He led them to produce this [1843] Chart; and, they all gave testimony that this was a fulfillment of prophecy, the production of this Chart was a fulfillment of prophecy, and that they had been led to do this. This was part of the Lord leading them in that history.
And then they were led into the Tarrying Time, the First Disappointment; and, it is repeatedly identified by Ellen White that this First Disappointment was designed by God. God designed this Disappointment to begin the separation process of those in the Millerite Movement that were there for the right purposes and those that were there for the wrong purposes. This was part of His leading. He brought them to the Tarrying Time on March 22, 1844.
He brought them to the Summer of 1844 where the Second Angel's Message was to be proclaimed and the separation from the churches took place. He led them to this experience. And, we will show you a nice little detail to show that the Lord was leading in this in a moment.
And then He led them to the Exeter Camp Meeting of August 11-17, 1844, where the Midnight Cry Message was proclaimed and recognized and received, and then carried to the United States. And it is nice to go back and look in that history. Joseph Bates was leading in that camp meeting, and the Lord had told him�I do not know if it was an audible Voice or just an impression�there would be new light at this camp meeting. So, he went there knowing to be open for a message that Samuel Snow was ultimately going to bring. So, you see that the Lord led in that whole experience.
And then the Lord led them into the Shut Door on October 22, 1844.
So, when Sister White says we have nothing to fear for the future, except we forget the Lord's leading and teaching in our past history, and then she isolates exactly what history that is, the history of 1841 to '44, and you look at what they learned in that history, what they were taught and what their experience was, you are putting together light that should provide you with some understanding about what is going to happen here at the end of the world.
His Leading and His Teaching
Now, when it comes to His leading and teaching, when you look at these two different breakdowns that we have given, this here [the 1843 Chart], this represents the teachings of the Millerites, but it also represents the leading of the Millerites; because, we have a nice quote here where James White basically says it was required that this Chart was published. They had to publish this in order to get their mindset, in order to get it established in their minds that in 1843 was the year of the coming of the Lord. It had to be published in order to lock them into that in order for the First Disappointment to accomplish its work. Okay?
Sister White says in Early Writings, page 74,
"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.
The Chart
Joseph Bates says in The Autobiography of Joseph Bates, page 263, about this [1843] Chart�and what I am saying is that this Chart represents the teachings of that history and the leadings of that history, at least a certain portion of it:
"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."�
Now, yesterday we dealt with a little bit about William Miller, and I hope you got what I was trying to say and infer, is that Gabriel was leading William Miller. And if that is too much for you to accept, it is unfortunate because it is true, but at minimum you can understand that an angel was leading William Miller. And there are places, and we referenced one and maybe two yesterday, where William Miller suddenly has an idea, and you can see there is the Angel Gabriel giving him that idea. And this brother here that is being discussed, Brother Fitch, we know he had a good experience with the Lord because Sister White saw him in the Earth made new. He is a saved man. There are very few people that she actually says Brothers Fitch and Stockman were there in the Earth mad new. It tells you that their experience was correct, because Elder Fitch died before October 22, 1844. So, in the time period leading to his death, he must have had a genuine walk with the Lord, because he is in the Earth made new. So, all I am saying is, logic tells me that when he is saying, "A thought came to my mind that I should produce this Chart," that it was not a human thought. It was an angel leading him, just like William Miller had been led; because, they were being led to produce this Chart.
That might be problematic for some of you, but okay.
�"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."�
This is Joseph Bates writing. He is recognizing that this [1843] Chart was more light on their 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."�
They understood the production of this Chart was a fulfillment of prophecy.
�"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.
So, how many of them thought that this Chart was a fulfillment of prophecy?
FROM THE AUDIENCE: All.
BROTHER PIPPENGER: According to the record, it was unanimous. Okay? So, they knew that this [1843 Chart] represented their teachings, but they also recognized that the Lord had led them to do this. Okay?
Leading Through Prophecy
James White says�James White actually here is making a very sober prediction about himself. Okay?
Second Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, volume 1, number 2, James White, says,
"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 B.C. 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.
He is saying that it was necessary that this [the 1843 Chart] gets published in order for 1843 to be marked, in order to create the Disappointment and fulfill Habakkuk 2:3, which says, "Though the vision tarry, wait for it." Okay? He is seeing that the production of this Chart is a fulfillment of Habakkuk 2:2, but he is also seeing that the Year 1843 had to be put in place to fulfill Habakkuk�2, verse 3. And, of course, in 1863 he steps off this platform.
Leading Through His Providence
I have another quote here from Joseph Bates, in a different publication of Joseph Bates's, and it is almost identical to the one that we just read from Joseph Bates; but, I want to show you one other thing in it. This one is from Second Advent Way Marks and High Heaps, page�53, by Joseph Bates. It says,
"In May, 1842,"�
It tells the same story about the Chart being published; and, I am going to drop down to where he quotes from Habakkuk, and it says,
�"a general conference was again convened in Boston, Mass. At the opening of this meeting Brother Charles Fitch and Apollos Hale of Haverhill, presented us the Visions of Daniel and John which they had painted on cloth, with the prophetic numbers and ending of the vision, which they called a chart. Brother Fitch, in explaining the subject said in substance as follows: he had been turning it over in his mind, and felt that if something of this kind could be done, it would simplify the subject, and make it much easier for him to present it to the people. Here new light seemed to spring up. These brethren had fulfilled a prophecy given by Habakkuk 2468 years before, where it says, 'And the Lord answered me and said, write the vision and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it.'"�
Now, this is where it is a little bit different than the previous quote. It says,
�"This thing now became so plain to all, that it was unanimously voted to have three hundred of these charts lithographed forthwith, that those who felt the message may read and run with it. A camp meeting also was appointed for the first time, and convened the last week in June, at East Kingston, New Hampshire, where an immense multitude assembled to hear the glad tidings of the reign of Christ." Joseph Bates, Second Advent Way Marks and High Heaps, 53.
At the same meeting where they unanimously voted to produce this [1843] Chart, they voted to set up the first Millerite camp meeting. The point about that is, is this [1843] Chart is what is going to close the doors of the churches against the Millerites, and the Lord was leading in this. This was the Lord leading, and He knew, the Lord knew, the churches were going to close their doors. So, at the same time He is producing the Chart that is going to make the doors close, He is having them get prepared to do camp meetings outside the church. So, this was the Lord's leading in this history.
Removing the "IF"
William Miller gives us explanation, if we will see it, why this [1843] Chart is what forces the churches to close their doors against them. This is William Miller from his Apology and Defense, page 24:
"I had never been positive as to any particular day for the Lord's appearing, believing that no man could know the day and hour. In all my published lectures, it will be seen on the title page, 'about the year 1843.' In all my oral lectures, I invariably told my audiences that the periods would terminate in 1843, if there were no mistake in my calculation; but that I could not say the end might not come even before that time, and they should be continually prepared. In 1842,"�
That is when they published this [1843] Chart. That is when they unanimously voted to publish this Chart.
And this Chart says specifically, 1843 is the end of the world. So, Miller says,
�"In 1842, some of my brethren preached with great positiveness the exact year, and censured me for putting in an IF."�
How did they preach "with great positiveness" with this Chart? This [1843] Chart was nailing it down, "The Lord is returning in 1843," and now they turned to William Miller and said, "Hey, get your "IF" out of your presentations. We want to stand united on this presentation."
He continues on,
�"The public press had also published that I had fixed upon a definite day, the 23rd of April, for the Lord's Advent."�
He had not done that, but the press was saying that he had done that.
�"Therefore, in December of that year, as I could see no error in my reckoning, I published my belief, that sometime between March 21st, 1843, and March 21st, 1844, the Lord would come. Some had their minds fixed on particular days; but I could see no evidence for such, unless the types of the Mosaic law pointed to the feast of Tabernacles."�
Miller had written an article suggesting that maybe the clue to identifying when the 2300 Days would end would be in the types, well before Samuel Snow saw it. Samuel Snow uses this identical logic to arrive at October 22, 1844. So, Miller was seeing the glimpses of that, even before Snow.
But, now he continues on,
�"During the year '43, the most violent denunciations were heaped upon me,"�
Why? Because, now he was not saying, "1843, maybe a little bit before, or maybe a little bit after." Now he was saying, "The Lord is returning in 1843, period," and that is what gave the ammunition for the false-hearted in the Protestant world to start calling them fanatics and a diluted people.
�"During the year '43, the most violent denunciations were heaped upon me, and those associated with me, by the press, and some pulpits. Our motives were assailed, our principles misrepresented, and our characters traduced."�
What is traduced? Traduced is when you cut someone in half with a sword. Okay? Which would be a more familiar term back them, because the wars that we were fighting in those times were using swords; not exclusively, but they were still using swords.
�"Time passed on: and the 21st of March, 1844 went by, without our witnessing the appearing of the Lord. Our disappointment was great; and many walked no more with us." William Miller's Apology and Defense, 24.
So, on March 22, 1844, there is a large group of the Millerites that turned away from that. Okay? That is where the separation process begins.
And the separation process was accomplished by whom?
FROM THE AUDIENCE: The Lord.
BROTHER PIPPENGER: By the Lord.
How did He do it?
FROM THE AUDIENCE: (Various responses.)
BROTHER PIPPENGER: By introducing this [1843] Chart. And by introducing this Chart, he [William Miller] was being very dogmatic that the Lord was going to return in 1843. He was setting them up for a test to demonstrate who was really in the Movement for the right reason. It was the Chart that was leading them. He [the Lord] was using the Chart to lead them.
While at the same time, the Chart represents the teachings; and, what we are looking at is the fact that we have nothing to fear for the future, except as we forget the Lord's leading and His teaching in our past history. Okay? So, that is why we are emphasizing these things.
The Separation Process Begins
So, with the First Disappointment on March 22, 1844, the separation process begins.
Now, Sister White comments about this history, and this is where we are dealing with the 2520. This is the passage in the Spirit of Prophecy where Sister White conclusively, directly, absolutely airtight places her seal of approval on the 2520. She says, and this is a comment in reference to Early Writings, page 74, which we have already read, that she says that the 1843 Chart was directed by the hand of the Lord, but the Lord held His hand over a mistake in some of the figures.
The Lord held His hand over this portion up here [referring to the upper right-hand portion of the 1843 Chart], with these figures [2520, 2300, and 1843].
She says from Early Writings, pages 235 � 237,
"I saw the people of God joyful in expectation, looking for their Lord. But God designed to prove them."�
What does it mean "to prove them"?
FROM THE AUDIENCE: To test them.
BROTHER PIPPENGER: To test them.
�"His hand covered a mistake in the reckoning of the prophetic periods."�
This is the same book where she says the Lord held His hand over a mistake in some of the figures. This is Early Writings. She is now giving the explanation of the Lord holding His hand over these figures [again referring to the upper right-hand portion of the 1843 Chart].
�"Those who were looking for their Lord did not discover this mistake, and the most learned men who opposed the time also failed to see it. God designed that His people should meet with a disappointment."�
It was God's design. It was His leading that this Tarrying Time arrived.
�"The time passed, and those who had looked with joyful expectation for their Saviour were sad and disheartened, while those who had not loved the appearing of Jesus, but embraced the message through fear, were pleased that He did not come at the time of expectation. Their profession had not affected the heart and purified the life. The passing of the time was well calculated to reveal such hearts. They were the first to turn and ridicule the sorrowful, disappointed ones who really loved the appearing of their Saviour. I saw the wisdom of God in proving His people and giving them a searching test to discover those who would shrink and turn back in the hour of trial."�
He was leading them with this Chart.
�"Jesus and all the heavenly host looked with sympathy and love upon those who had with sweet expectation longed to see Him whom their souls loved. Angels were hovering around them, to sustain them in the hour of their trial. Those who had neglected to receive the heavenly message were left in darkness, and God's anger was kindled against them, because they would not receive the light which He had sent them from heaven. Those faithful, disappointed ones, who could not understand why their Lord did not come, were not left in darkness. Again they were led to their Bibles to search the prophetic periods."�plural�"The hand of the Lord was removed from the figures,"�
There was a singular mistake in some of the figures, she says in Early Writings, page 74; and, now she is saying they were led again to search out the prophetic periods and the Lord removed His hand from the figures, and the singular mistake,
�"and the mistake was explained. They saw that the prophetic periods reached to 1844, and that the same evidence which they had presented to show that the prophetic periods closed in 1843, proved that they would terminate in 1844."�
The prophetic periods that they had been identifying concluding in 1843 were the 2520 and the 2300; but, the Lord removed His hand from that so that they could see their mistake and their mistake was the fullness of the year mistake that impacted these predictions.
So, when Sister White says they then saw that the same evidence that had proved that these prophecies had ended in 1843 and then was recognized to prove they ended in 1844, Ellen White is saying the same evidence that marks 1843 as a conclusion for the 2520 was then recognized to demonstrate the 2520 ended in 1844. This is an absolute, airtight proof that Ellen White supported the Millerite understanding of the 2520.
�"Light from the Word of God shone upon their position, and they discovered a tarrying time"�
Now they are going to see Habakkuk 2, verse 3, "the vision tarry, wait for it."
�"�'Though it [the vision] tarry, wait for it.' In their love for Christ's immediate coming, they had overlooked the tarrying of the vision, which was calculated to manifest the true waiting ones. Again they had a point of time. Yet I saw that many of them could not rise above their severe disappointment to possess that degree of zeal and energy which had marked their faith in 1843.
"Satan and his angels triumphed over them, and those who would not receive the message congratulated themselves upon their farseeing judgment and wisdom in not receiving the delusion, as they called it. They did not realize that they were rejecting the counsel of God against themselves, and were working in union with Satan and his angels to perplex God's people, who were living out the heaven-sent message.
"The believers in this message"�
In what message? This is where you really need to be careful and specific.
"The believers in this message," and the message here in context is the message that the evidence that we had thought proved the 2520 and 2300 and 1843 actually shows the 2520 and the 2300 ends in 1844.
�"The believers in this message were oppressed in the churches. For a time, those who would not receive the message were restrained by fear from acting out the sentiments of their hearts; but the passing of the time revealed their true feelings. They wished to silence the testimony which the waiting ones felt compelled to bear, that the prophetic periods extended to 1844."�
So, after the Tarrying Time, what is the message that the true Millerites are then proclaiming? The historical logic will tell you this.
"We thought it was 1843, but now we see it is 1844," is that what they are going to be explaining to people, logically? Yes, and this message becomes THE message. It is not anymore about Islam being restrained. It is not the other messages here. Now they are explaining to people why it is no longer 1843; it is 1844. And as they do so, the persecution in the churches is amped up.
�"With clearness the believers explained their mistake and gave the reasons why they expected their Lord in 1844. Their opposers could bring no arguments against the powerful reasons offered. Yet the anger of the churches was kindled; they were determined not to listen to evidence, and to shut the testimony out of the churches, so the others could not hear it. Those who dared not withhold from others the light which God had given them, were shut out of the churches; but Jesus was with them, and they were joyful in the light of His countenance. They were prepared to receive the message of the second angel." Early Writings, 235�237.
I got an email yesterday from a brother in Tennessee that had just received an email from some brethren in Wales, and the brethren in Wales were telling him in their email to the brother in Tennessee that this weekend, I think it is�I think it was this weekend�that they [the church] are going to deal with them, disfellowship them over their association with this message.
And then this morning I got an email from a brother in Canada. His conference is going to deal with him now because he has continued to discuss the 2520.
So, all around the world, this experience here is being repeated over the very same message, the message being that the 2300 and the 2520 both are fulfilled in 1844.
Okay. So, at the Tarrying Time the separation process begins.
The Summer of 1844
The Great Controversy, pages 375 � 376, it says this,
"As his [Miller's] work tended to build up the churches,"�
I mean, Miller was producing a revival in Christianity, his message. The Millerite preachers were preachers from all denominations, and the people that were receiving this message were being revived and awakened. And that was no problem for these Protestant churches to see their churches come alive. The problem came when they began to say the Lord was coming in 1843; and, then thereafter when He did not return in 1843, the Tarrying Time, the problem increased even more.
�As his [Miller's] work tended to build up the churches, it was for a time regarded with favor. But as ministers and religious leaders decided against the advent doctrine and desired to suppress all agitation of the subject, they not only opposed it from the pulpit, but denied their members the privilege of attending preaching upon the Second Advent, or even of speaking of their hope in the social meetings of the church."�
"You go to that meeting over there where they are talking about these things, you are going to be removed from the church."
What things were they talking about? The things they were talking about is that the same evidence that had led them to first predict 1843 then proved that the prophetic periods, the 2520 and 2300, ended in 1844.
"You better not be going to those meetings!"
�"Thus the believers found themselves in a position of great trial and perplexity. They loved their churches and were loath to separate from them; but as they saw the testimony of God's word suppressed and their right to investigate the prophecies denied they felt that loyalty to God forbade them to submit. Those who sought to shut out the testimony of God's word they could not regard as constituting the church of Christ, 'the pillar and ground of the truth.' Hence they felt themselves justified in separating from their former connection. In the summer of 1844 about fifty thousand withdrew from the churches." The Great Controversy, 375�376.
Okay. Now we are in the Summer of 1844, and the separation process is meeting its climax. This is when the Second Angel's Message is proclaimed, because they realized that these churches that were fighting against this message were not in the pillar of the ground of Truth. Those churches had then become, in their understanding, part of Babylon and they separated.
Sister White says in The Great Controversy, page 389,
"The second angel's message of Revelation 14 was first preached in the summer of 1844, and it then had a more direct application to the churches of the United States, where the warning of the judgment had been most widely proclaimed and most generally rejected, and where the declension in the churches had been most rapid. But the message of the second angel did not reach its complete fulfillment in 1844. The churches then experienced a moral fall, in consequence of their refusal of the light of the advent message; but that fall was not complete." The Great Controversy, 389.
Fanaticism
In this time period, in the time period of the Second Angel�and this is worth noting�this is where fanaticism comes in.
FANATICISM IN THE MILLERITE HISTORY
MIDNIGHT CRY
Tarrying Time Exeter
Aug 11, June Mar 22 Summer Aug 12�17, Oct 22,
1840 43 1842 1844 1844 1844 1844
1AM Empowered 2AM Arrives 2AM Empowered 3AM Arrives
Fanaticism
May 1842 DEBATE
1st ANGEL 2nd ANGEL 3rd ANGEL
Figure No. 146.
Just so you can follow my logic [draws timeline upon the whiteboard], the First Angel's Message was empowered when the year-day principle was confirmed on August 11, 1840, with the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, in fulfillment of Revelation 9, verses 14 and 15.
So, the First Angel's Message, it has been proclaimed by Miller. He has understood it since 1818, and begins to publish it in 1831. But, here, this is the First Angel's Message and it is empowered, and it begins to test the churches from August 11, 1840, onward.
Then in June of 1842, the process of the churches closing their doors against this message begins; because, in May of 1842 the Chart predicting the end of the world in 1843 is introduced.
And then on March 22, 1844, the Tarrying Time arrives, and the separation process begins in the Millerite History. And as in this history, the faithful begin to show that the same evidence that identified that the 2520 and 2300 ended in 1843 was then recognized to demonstrate that it ended in 1844, then the churches really began to reject this message.
And in the Summer of 1844, the faithful have determined that the Protestant churches had become Babylon because of their rejection of the message.
This here is the First Message going through history. It is empowered here [August 11, 1840]; the First Message is empowered. All the messages arrived and are thereafter empowered.
Here, the Second Angel's Message arrived, but it gets empowered down here at the Exeter Camp Meeting. August 12-17, 1844, the Second Angel's Message is empowered and leads to the arrival of the Third Angel's Message.
And, of course, the Third Angel's Message, as was the First and the Second, is not empowered until the Fourth Angel joins it on September 11, 2001.
So, let us go back to this quote now and try to make sure we understand the sequence of the history that Ellen White is dealing with.
The Great Controversy, page 398:
"It was not the proclamation of the second advent that caused fanaticism and division."�
This here, the First Angel's Message when it was empowered, that did not cause fanaticism and division. Okay? That was the Mighty Angel of Revelation 10 that had come down, and Sister White said that was "no less than the personage of Jesus Christ." This Message was empowered, and it was so powerful that it prevented fanaticism from coming in.
�"It was not the proclamation of the second advent that caused fanaticism and division. These appeared in the summer of 1844,"�
What is the Summer of 1844? This is the time of the Second Angel's Message.
�"These appeared in the summer of 1844, when Adventists were in a state of doubt and perplexity concerning their real position. The preaching of the first angel's message and of the 'midnight cry' tended directly to repress fanaticism and dissension."�
No fanaticism and dissension in here [between August 1, 1840 and June 1842]; none in here, not with the Midnight Cry [between August 11-17, 1844 and October 22, 1844].
But, in here [between March 22, 1844, and August 11, 1844], fanaticism arrives. And the reason you want to see this is because history repeats. So, when we take this history down to our time period, we will realize that this time period of fanaticism that is being referenced is marking the strong delusion that comes to Adventism at the end of the world.
�"Those who participated in these solemn movements were in harmony;"�the the Midnight Cry and the First Angel's Message�"their hearts were filled with love for one another and for Jesus, whom they expected soon to see. The one faith, the one blessed hope, lifted them above the control of any human influence, and proved a shield against the assaults of Satan.
"'While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept. And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him. Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps.' Matthew 25:5-7. In the summer of 1844, midway between the time when it had been first thought that the 2300 days would end, and the autumn of the same year, to which it was afterward found that they extended, the message was proclaimed in the very words of Scripture: 'Behold, the Bridegroom cometh!'" The Great Controversy, 398.
So, in this history of the Midnight Cry, fanaticism melts away like dew with the morning sun.
The proclamation of the First Angel's Message, no fanaticism; but, in here, the Tarrying Time, the separation process, the uncertainty about what just took place, this is where the fanaticism arrives.
And those people that are getting drawn into fanaticism�you see, when the Tarrying Time arrives, two classes are demonstrated, right? We have just read that. Some people are led back to their Bible, and they discover that the same evidence that showed the prophecies ended in 1843 were then recognized to show they ended in 1844. But, as Miller said, "Many no more walked with us at that time period." There is a large body of Millerites at this point that turn against the Message, and Sister White says they become the worst critics of those that are carrying on with the Message. Right?
Are you with me on that?
FROM THE AUDIENCE: Yes.
BROTHER PIPPENGER: So, these people that have lost their ways, they are getting drawn into fanaticism here [indicating the period of the Tarring Time]. They are still professing to be Christians, of no doubt; but, their views of truth are now out in darkness. And the reason for it is what? Why is that?
FROM THE AUDIENCE: Because they rejected the message.
BROTHER PIPPENGER: Because they rejected the light. When you reject the light, you go into darkness; and, in that darkness is where the delusions and the fanaticisms arrive.
Notice what Sister White says, The Great Controversy, beginning at page 430. And, this is a principle. She is not talking necessarily here about the Summer of 1844 but the principle of rejecting light and what happens.
"Men cannot with impunity reject the warning which God in mercy sends them. A message was sent from heaven to the world in Noah's day, and their salvation depended upon the manner in which they treated that message. Because they rejected the warning, the Spirit of God was withdrawn from the sinful race, and they perished in the waters of the Flood. In the time of Abraham, mercy ceased to plead with the guilty inhabitants of Sodom, and all but Lot with his wife and two daughters were consumed by the fire sent down from heaven. So in the days of Christ. The Son of God declared to the unbelieving Jews of that generation: 'Your house is left unto you desolate.' Matthew 23:38. Looking down to the last days,"�
Now, he went to Christ, and he jumps over Millerite History, and he brings it right down to our time period.
But, what we are looking at is the history of the Millerites when they rejected the light.
What light did they reject that brings on the fanaticism?
What was the teaching? What was the light that these people are going to go into delusion and fanaticism, what was the light that they rejected?
FROM THE AUDIENCE: The Tarrying Time?
BROTHER PIPPENGER: No. The Tarrying Time is the experience.
They rejected the light that the evidence that proved the 2520 ended in 1843 was then recognized to prove that it ended in 1844. That was the light that they were rejecting.
But, let us continue on here.
�"Looking down to the last days, the same Infinite Power declares, concerning those who 'received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved': 'For this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: that they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.' 2 Thessalonians 2:10-12. As they reject the teachings of His word, God withdraws His Spirit and leaves them to the deceptions which they love." The Great Controversy, 430�431.
Of course, if you are going to be a very literal person, if you understand that the Millerite History is repeated to the very letter, what light would it be that Adventists reject that bring the strong delusion, if we are going to use the Millerite History as a point of reference? Well, it would be the light about the 2300 and the 2520 ending in 1844 and not 1843.
Maranatha, page 173, says this:
"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." Maranatha, 173.
The point being here is that Adventism goes into strong delusion before The Sunday Law. It is at The Sunday Law that God's people are going to call God's other children out of Babylon. But here, she says when those who did not receive the love of the truth receive the strong delusion of 2 Thessalonians, chapter 2, THEN (meaning after) God's other children in Babylon are to be called out.
So, what I am saying is this darkness and fanaticism here [between March 22, 1844, and August 11, 1844], in this history of the Millerites, based upon the rejection of this message here [the Tarrying Time of March 22, 1844], the separation process begins, this is the history that is prefiguring the history of the strong delusion in Adventism at the end of the world.
The Midnight Cry
What led to the message of the Midnight Cry, which is here [August 11-17, 1844]? It is a familiar quote, no doubt, from The Great Controversy, page 398.
"That which led to this movement"�the Midnight Cry Movement�"was the discovery that the decree of Artaxerxes for the restoration of Jerusalem, which formed the starting point for the period of the 2300 days, went into effect in the autumn of the year 457 B.C., and not at the beginning of the year, as had been formerly believed. Reckoning from the autumn of 457, the 2300 years terminate in the autumn of 1844." The Great Controversy, 398.
And if you read on in this passage, she says from that point, once they realized that the decree was in the end of the year, in the Autumn of the year of 457BC, then the next step was that they went into the types and concluded that the Day of Atonement took place in the 7th month, the 10th day, which was also in the Autumn of the year, allowing them to determine that the 10th day of the 7th month in the Year 1844 would occur on October 22nd. So, this truth is what removes fanaticism here at the Midnight Cry. Now you have a group of people that are carrying the message to their world, and fanaticism is no longer in the Movement. The fanaticism is in here [from the Tarrying Time beginning March 22, 1844, to the Summer of 1844].
So, if this Midnight Cry experience is paralleling the Loud Cry experience when the message is carried to the world at our day and age, then the fanaticism, the delusion, is something that takes place before that time period: Right now!
The Things Seen in 1843 and 1844
Manuscript Releases, volume 21, page 437, says,
"All the messages given from 1840�1844 are to be made forcible now,"�
All the messages are to be made forcible now? Well, the message here [from March 22, 1844 in Figure No. 146] in this history that separated the believers and closed the doors of the churches against the Millerites is a message that the 2520 and the 2300 ended in 1844.
�"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.
Now, Brothers and Sisters, she says, "Blessed are the eyes which saw the things that were seen in 1843 and 1844." What was seen in 1843 and 1844?
What was Seen in 1843 and 1844?
The Prophetic Periods Ended in 1844
Your next quote, we have already read it, but we are going to read a portion of it. It says, from Early Writings, page 236:
"The hand of the Lord"�
Right here [referring from March 22, 1844 (the Tarrying Time)].
�"The hand of the Lord was removed from the figures, and the mistake was explained. They saw that the prophetic periods reached to 1844, and that the same evidence which they had presented to show that the prophetic periods closed in 1843, proved that they would terminate in 1844." Early Writings, 236.
That is what they saw! Blessed are the eyes that saw these things.
What did they see? They saw the 2520 ending in 1844, and she says there should be no delay in repeating this message, and she says it in the context of all the messages of 1840 to 1844 are to be made forcible now.
Revelation 14:8�Babylon is Fallen
What else did they see? In here [the Summer of 1844] they saw Revelation 14:8, "Babylon is fallen!"
They saw churches that were no longer the pillar and the ground of the truth. And why were the churches identified as no longer being the ground and pillar of the truth? Because, they had rejected the message that the 2520 and the 2300 ended in 1844.
The Types�the Shut Door
What else did they see? They see the shut door. The message of the Midnight Cry is the Shut Door Message.
The Great Controversy, page 398:
"That which led to this movement was the discovery that the decree of Artaxerxes for the restoration of Jerusalem, which formed the starting point for the period of the 2300 days, went into effect in the autumn of the year 457 B.C., and not at the beginning of the year, as had been formerly believed. Reckoning from the autumn of 457, the 2300 years terminate in the autumn of 1844." The Great Controversy, 398.
They believed the Lord was going to return to Earth and shut the door of probation for all mankind at that point in time, point in time; but, it was still a shut door message. And sure enough, on October 22, 1844, the door in the parable of the Ten Virgins was shut upon the virgins of the Millerites, and the door in the Holy Place was shut.
What they saw here at the Midnight Cry was the Shut Door Message. Okay?
The Message that Brought Us Out of the Churches
Review and Herald, January 19, 1905:
"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.
What message in 1843 and 1844 brought us out of the churches?
". . . They saw that the prophetic periods reached to 1844, and that the same evidence which they had presented to show that the prophetic periods closed in 1843, proved that they would terminate in 1844." Early Writings, 236.
We have no new message. The message of the 2520 and the 2300 ended in 1844 is the message that through the Lord's leading brought them out of the churches. Had they not presented that message, they would have stayed in the churches and went into delusion and fanaticism that the churches went into. What brought them out was the message of the 2520 and the 2300.
The Chart
Life Sketches, page 27:
"In June, 1842, Mr. Miller gave his second course of lectures at the Casco Street church 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, and many were unable to enter the house. The congregations were unusually quiet and attentive." Life Sketches, 27.
Right here [June 1842], the closing of the door begins. The reason it begins and the reason that we need to understand this is we have no new message. We are to present the message that 1843 and 1844 brought us out of the other churches. Right here the process begins.
The introduction of the 1843 Chart and the removal of the "IF" by William Miller saying the Lord is returning in 1843 begin this process. It is a Closed Door Message: "In 1843 the Lord is coming back to the Earth." This Chart begins this process.
So, what I am saying is that there will come a time here at the end of the world where not this [1943] Chart but THESE CHARTS [the 1843 and the 1850 Charts] will be introduced and they will begin the process of the churches closing their doors. Okay?
But, what comes after this, once the process begins here [the Tarrying Time] and you get to this history [the Summer of 1844], then you begin to get removed from out of the churches. All right?
So, in this history right here [June 1842], Sister White just said that she was at the meetings at the Casco Street Church in Portland when Miller is giving his second course of lectures and the doors began to closed. Ellen White is there in the audience hearing these things; and, during this time, she and her family and others begin to get disfellowshipped. All right?
Notice what she says from Early Writings, page 13.
"Most of my father's family were full believers in the advent, and for bearing testimony to this glorious doctrine seven of us were at one time cast out of the Methodist Church. At this time the words of the prophet were exceedingly precious to us: 'Your brethren that hated you, that cast you out for My name's sake, said, Let the Lord be glorified: but He shall appear to your joy, and they shall be ashamed.' Isaiah 66:5.
"From this time, up to December, 1844, my joys, trials, and disappointments were like those of my dear Advent friends around me. At this time I visited one of our Advent sisters, and in the morning"�and she describes her first vision, in December�"we bowed around the family altar. It was not an exciting occasion, and there were but five of us present, all women. While I was praying, the power of God came upon me as I had never felt it before. I was wrapped in a vision of God's glory, and seemed to be rising higher and higher from the earth, and was shown something of the travels of the Advent people to the Holy City, as narrated below." Early Writings, 13.
What I want you to see here, Brothers and Sisters, if you go to Isaiah 66 again, is there are a few places that Sister White quotes Isaiah 66, verse 5; and, of those few places, she always ties it in to this history here [between March 22, 1844, and August 11, 1844], to when they were being cast out of the churches.
Isaiah 66, verse 4, says,
"4I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears upon them;"�
And we have already shown that this is the delusions of 2 Thessalonians, chapter�2.
�"because when I called, none did answer, when I spake, they did not hear:"�
They rejected the light. Just like in the time of Noah, Abraham, Christ, they rejected the light.
�"but they did evil before mine eyes and chose that in which I delighted not.
"5Hear the word of the Lord, ye that tremble at his word; Your brethren that hated you, that cast you out for my name's sake, said, Let the Lord be glorified: but he shall appear to your joy, and they shall be ashamed." Isaiah�66:4-5 (KJV).
So, Sister White takes verse 5 and places it in this history [from March 22, 1844, to the Summer of 1844], this history right here, exclusively, when she uses that verse.
The Lord's Hand Removed
The Lord's hand is removed from the figures here at the Tarrying Time. We are familiar with that from Early Writings, page 236.
"The hand of the Lord was removed from the figures, and the mistake was explained. They saw that the prophetic periods reached to 1844, and that the same evidence which they had presented to show that the prophetic periods closed in 1843, proved that they would terminate in 1844." Early Writings, 236.
And then Sister White says, in The Great Controversy, page 372,
"Many were persecuted by their unbelieving brethren. In order to retain their position in the church, some consented to be silent in regard to their hope;"�
I have seen men do that.
�"but others felt that loyalty to God forbade them thus to hide the truths which He had committed to their trust. Not a few were cut off from the fellowship of the church for no other reason than expressing their belief in the coming of Christ. Very precious to those who bore this trial of their faith were the words of the prophet: 'Your brethren that hated you, that cast you out for My name's sake, said, Let the Lord be glorified: but He shall appear to your joy, and they shall be ashamed.' Isaiah 66:5." The Great Controversy, 372.
Isaiah 66, verses 4 and 5, is fulfilled right in here [the period from the Tarrying Time to the Summer of 1844] because it is the fanaticism that comes in, and it is the separation process that takes place.
But, in The Great Controversy, page 393, it says,
"The parable of the ten virgins of Matthew 25 also illustrates the experience of the Adventist people." The Great Controversy, 393.
And then in Review and Herald, August 18, 1890, it says,
"I am often referred to the parable of the ten virgins, five of whom were wise, and five foolish. This parable has been"�in the Millerite History�"This parable has been and will be"�in our history�"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." Review and Herald, August 19, 1890.
This Millerite History here, it is going to get repeated to the very letter in our history.
Notice what she says about the Midnight Cry, from Bible Echo, May 4, 1896.
"There is a world lying in wickedness, in deception, and delusion, in the very shadow of death,�asleep, asleep. Who are feeling travail of soul to awaken them? What voice can reach them? My mind is carried to the future when the signal will be given, 'Behold the Bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet Him.' But some will have delayed to obtain the oil for replenishing their lamps, and too late they will find that character, which is represented by the oil, is not transferable. That oil is the righteousness of Christ. It represents character, and character is not transferable. No man can secure it for another. Each must obtain for himself a character purified from every stain of sin." Bible Echo, May 4, 1896.
Her mind is carried to the future when this history here [referring to August 11-17, 1844] is going to be repeated. But, this history here cannot be separated from this history [from 1840 to 1844 of the Millerite History], can it?
FROM THE AUDIENCE: No.
BROTHER PIPPENGER: So, if this is going to be repeated, the Midnight Cry in here, then this is going to be repeated [history of the Summer of 1844]; this is going to be repeated [the history of the Tarrying Time]; this is going to be repeated [the history of June 1842]; and this is going to be repeated [the history of August 11, 1840 through May of 1843].
FANATICISM IN THE MILLERITE HISTORY
MIDNIGHT CRY
Tarrying Time Exeter
Aug 11, June Mar 22 Summer Aug 12�17, Oct 22,
1840 43 1842 1844 1844 1844 1844
1AM Empowered Chart 2AM Arrives 2AM Empowered 3AM Arrives
Rev 10 Fanaticism
May 1842 DEBATE
1st ANGEL 2nd ANGEL 3rd ANGEL
REPEAT OF THE MILLERITE HISTORY IN THE TIME PERIOD OF THE 144,000
Sept 11, Sunday
2001 Tarrying Time Midnight Cry Law
43 50
Charts
Angel of STRONG DELUSION
Rev 18 and DEBATE
God's People Stand
Figure No. 147.
There is going to come a time after the Angel comes down (this is the Angel of Revelation�10, Millerite History), there is going to come a time when the Angel of Revelation 18 comes down [September 11, 2001, Period of the 144,000]. He is going to come down for the same reason that this Angel [of Revelation 10 at August 11, 1840] came down: the restraint of Islam.
And what is the restraint of Islam? It is the message that prepares God's people to stand. They stand up here.
And then there is going to come a time where the [1843 and 1850] Charts are introduced in our history, and that is going to begin the closing of the doors in Adventism.
Then there is going to be a debate, Isaiah says in Isaiah 27, that begins in this history; and, the debate is going to be the same debate that went on here [in the Millerite History], that debate being that the 2520 and the 2300 were valid prophecies that came to a conclusion in 1844.
And here fanaticism arrives [between March 22, 1844, and August 11, 1844]; and here [in the History of the 144,000] strong delusion arrives.
Strong Delusion is Isaiah 66, verse 4; and, verse 5 says [paraphrasing], "They are going to cast you out of the churches. Your brethren, your church brethren that hate you, are going to cast you out of the churches; and, they are going to think that they are doing God's work and will, because when they cast you out of the churches, they are going to say, 'Let the Lord be glorified!' But, He will appear to your joy and to their shame."
Cast Out
The Outcasts of Israel
Isaiah 66:5; Isaiah 11:12; Isaiah 5:26; Numbers 2:1�2; Isaiah 18:3; Isaiah 11:10; Psalm�147:2; Zechariah 9:16; Isaiah 56:8; Isaiah 30:8�21; Isaiah 66:18�21
So, I am out of time; but, I am going to take just a little more time.
A few weeks ago I went to a Friday night and Sabbath meeting, to a brother who was a deacon and his wife was a deaconess in the church. And he had invited his pastor and his head elder to come to the Friday night meeting, which they did, and we went over this series of quotes here. And in this series of quotes, in the evening meeting in his home, the pastor and the head elder got a little bit uncomfortable with some of the conclusions that I was drawing, but they fulfilled the very thing that was going to happen (that is suggested here) within a week.
I will explain as we go along.
Isaiah 66, verse 5,
"5. . . Your brethren that hated you, that cast you out for my name's sake, said, Let the Lord be glorified." Isaiah 66:5, in part (KJV).
So, those that are cast out, what are they? They are cast out of the church.
What is the church? What is the church?
FROM THE AUDIENCE: (Indiscernible response.)
BROTHER PIPPENGER: The church is modern Israel, right? So, they are the ones that are cast out of Israel. So, who are they?
Go to Isaiah 11, verse 12. We are going to move real quick.
Isaiah 11, verse 12, says,
"12And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth." Isaiah�11:12 (KJV).
Now, the ensign that is lifted up is what draws all the nations to the glorious Holy Mountain here at the end of the world; and, Sister White describes the ensign as Christ, as His Law, as His Sabbath, and as His people.
And Isaiah here is saying that the ensign is the Outcasts of Israel. And Isaiah is Isaiah. He is Isaiah in chapter 11 and he is Isaiah in chapter 66; so, he is not going to disagree with himself. He says, "Your brethren that hated you, cast you out of Israel," out of modern Israel.
So, what bothered this head elder is that I said that the people who are the ensign that are going to get lifted up, they are going to get disfellowshipped from the Seventh-day Adventist Church over this Message, for the same reason that the Millerites were disfellowshipped from their churches in those time periods, because they are preaching the 2300 and the 2520 ended in 1844. And that made him nervous.
But, the next Sabbath after that when this friend of ours, that held the meetings that was a deacon and his wife a deaconess, went to church, it was put in the bulletin that they were no longer a deacon and deaconess. They had been cast out in one week without any church board meeting.
So, as I understand it, God's Word never fails.
Go to Isaiah 5:26.
"26And he will lift up an ensign to the nations from far and will hiss unto them from the end of the earth: and, behold, they shall come with speed swiftly:�.�.�." Isaiah 5:26 (KJV).
And the ensign is the Outcasts of Israel.
And he is going to lift up an ensign. What is an ensign?
Go to Numbers, chapter 2, verses 1 and 2.
"1And the Lord spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying, 2Every man of the children of Israel shall pitch by his own standard, with the ensign of their father's house: far off about the tabernacle of the congregation shall they pitch." Numbers�2:1-2 (KJV).
The ensign is a symbol of their father's house. He is going to lift up an ensign, and the ensign that is a symbol of the Heavenly Father's House are those that are cast out, the Outcasts of Israel.
And, Sister White only uses Isaiah 66:5 when she is describing those people that are cast out of the churches in this history of the Millerite time period; and, "We have nothing to fear for the future, except we forget the Lord's leading and teaching in our past history." This was the Lord leading. He led them into an experience where they were cast out.HHH
And verse 4 of Isaiah 66 is that this casting out goes on in the time of fanaticism, or the time of strong delusion; and, it is for the identical reason, the identical message, the identical leading.
Go to Isaiah 18:3.
"3All ye inhabitants of the world, and dwellers on the earth, see ye, when he lifteth up an ensign on the mountains, and when he bloweth a trumpet, hear ye." Isaiah 18:3 (KJV).
He lifts up an ensign to bring God's other sheep together with the Outcasts of Israel, and He does so when He is blowing a trumpet.
What trumpet gets blown in this history?
FROM THE AUDIENCE: The Third Woe.
BROTHER PIPPENGER: It is the Third Woe of the Seventh Trumpet. It is an identification that the world, that this period of time is being brought to its knees because the Third Woe of Radical Islam is bringing the world down. It is sinking the ships of Tarshish before their very eyes.
Go back to Isaiah 11, verse 10.
"10And in that day"�
And if you want to know what day it is, go back to chapter 10, verse 1, same vision.
Verse 1, of chapter 10, it says,
"1Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which they have prescribed; . . ." Isaiah 10:1, in part (KJV).
And in Manuscript Releases, volume 14, page 91, Sister White tells us that this unrighteous decree here is The Sunday Law.
So, in the history of The Sunday Law, if you go back to Isaiah 11, verse 10, at The Sunday Law, it says,
�"10And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand for an ensign of the people; to it shall the Gentiles seek: and his rest shall be glorious." Isaiah�11:10 (KJV).
The Outcasts of Israel, those that get disfellowshipped in this history before the door closes, when the door closes at The Sunday Law they are lifted up as an ensign to bring the whole world to the glorious Holy Mountain to stand with God's people.
Go to Psalm 147, verse 2. We will put this in the record. Hopefully we will deal with this within the next couple of worships. We are almost done here.
Psalm 147, verse 2:
"2The Lord doth build up Jerusalem: he gathereth together the outcasts of Israel." Psalm�147:2 (KJV).
Okay. The building up of Jerusalem is accomplished by the Outcasts of Israel.
And who are the Outcasts of Israel? They are those that were cast out by their brethren which did hate them, and thought they were doing God's will.
Okay. So, the story of the Outcasts is the story also of building Jerusalem. And when you build Jerusalem, what are you going to have to do? You are going to have to get some tools.
And what are the tools that are referenced in the Bible for building Jerusalem? Well, there is a line stretched, there is a rod, there is a measuring that goes on.
And here in this history [of the Millerites], right after the Disappointment, Revelation�10:8-10, John is told to take the Little Book, and it would be sweet in his mouth and bitter in his stomach.
And then in verse 11, it says, "You must prophesy again before many nations, kindreds, tongues, and peoples."
And then John is given a rod and told to do what?
FROM THE AUDIENCE: Measure.
BROTHER PIPPENGER: Measure the temple, but leave out the courtyard, for it is given to the Gentiles.
So, in this history [of the Millerites], Jerusalem is getting built once right here when the door closes [October 22, 1844].
And when the door closes at The Sunday Law for Seventh-day Adventists, prophetically Jerusalem is going to be built again. It is going to get built by the Outcasts of Israel.
A big story in a small amount of time.
Go to Zechariah, chapter 9, verse 16.
"16And the Lord their God shall save them in that day as the flock of his people: for they shall be as the stones of a crown, lifted up as an ensign upon his land." Zechariah 9:16 (KJV).
And, we have already found out that the ensign is the Outcasts of Israel. They are going to be lifted up as stones on a crown, the Outcasts of Israel.
Isaiah 56, verse 8, says,
"8The Lord God which gathereth the outcasts of Israel saith, Yet will I gather others to him, beside those that are gathered unto him." Isaiah 56:8 (KJV).
The Outcasts of Israel are the flock, His flock; but, He has other sheep that He is going to gather. There are two gatherings. The second gathering begins when the ensign is lifted up and the world is called to the ensign.
Okay. Go to Isaiah 30. I probably should pass over Isaiah 30, verses 8 through 2110, and deal with it another time; because, there is so much light in that passage that you need sunglasses even to look it; but, we are out of time, and it takes a certain amount of time to consider these things.
So, Isaiah 30, verses 8 through 21, we will deal with that and Isaiah 66:18-21, tomorrow. We are out of time and these verses are just too profound to race through.
Shall we pray?
Benediction: Heavenly Father, we want to proclaim the message that brought the Millerites out of the churches in 1843 and 1844; and, we see very specifically that very message is the message that is causing a shaking in Adventism at this time. It is the message of the Chart, and now the Charts, and it is the message that upholds that the 2520 is a valid prophecy that ended in 1844. We want to uphold these teachings and present these teachings, but we also understand that these teachings in the Millerite experience produced an experience that you led them through, and that therefore you are also leading your people through this experience at this very time. And we want to be benefited by the light of the past that we might go through this testing process in a way that glorifies your name and secures us salvation. So, we ask that you would give us discernment to understand the significance of this past history and how it applies to us this very day. We thank you for the work that you are doing with the LiveStreaming and the DVD recordings, and ask for your continued blessing upon them. As we begin our work for you this day, we ask that you would keep us safe, watch over and protect us. In Jesus's name, amen.