Habakkuk's Two Tables #95

Presented by Jeff Pippenger

Invocation by Brother Jeff Pippenger: Heavenly Father, as we bring Habakkuk's Two Tables to a conclusion, we ask that you would watch over the production and make sure that it gets finished according to your will. We ask a blessing upon the production of the DVDs and the LiveStreaming, and we ask that you would allow the Holy Spirit to be with us now and abide with us all, both that what I say would be according to your will and what the Brothers and the Sisters that are here would be received in the fashion that you have designed. We know that Emiliano is on his way home. We ask that you would give him traveling mercies all the way there and continue to mend him. And we ask that all those that are beginning to break from this encampment and travel that they would be granted traveling mercies. We ask that you would send your angels to fill this room that we might breathe the atmosphere of Heaven and that they might be empowered to keep the distractions away. And I ask that you would let me make all the points that I have been thinking about to bring this to a conclusion, as we put the capstone on this study. In Jesus's name, amen.

BROTHER PIPPENGER: Okay. For those of you that were watching last Friday, you saw us do the conclusion of Habakkuk's Two Tables; but, then we found that our brother that was doing the recording forgot to turn on the audio part of the recording for the first 20 minutes of that study; and, of course, that was a little bit of a stumbling block for some of us because we have been dealing with these 95 presentations for quite some time. But, it was not so much a stumbling block for me in one sense, because on Friday my energy level was down and at that point I knew that I had not said everything that I had been fanaticizing that I would say to bring it to a conclusion.

So, we began to struggle on how we were going to fix it, either go onto the Web and grab some of the LiveStreaming that was out there and cut the audio out of that and paste it to the DVDs; but, that corrupts the audio and it is not the same. And my son-in-law who manages these things is a perfectionist, and he was not really happy about trying to do that.

So, it came it me: I was going to do this presentation one more time as that will relieve the stress on my son-in-law.

And you do not understand what these meetings this week—this is not so much about Habakkuk's Two Tables; but, when you have a meeting like this, and you know probably for eight or nine months that Emiliano is going to be here this week and, as it approaches, the sisters in the ministry six weeks before they are ordering and gathering food and preparing food; and, the brethren here, they are making sure the grounds here (the 10 acres here and the 13 acres at the school) look nice and neat, so when the people that come to visit see it nice and neat. There is a lot of work that goes into it, and then you have up to 35 to 40 people here sometimes eating breakfast and lunch for a week long, and you have the expense of flying your speakers in and paying for the LiveStreaming, it is a big deal. It is a big work, especially when we only have a handful of people with this ministry.

So, when it all comes to pass and Emiliano gets sick, you have got to wonder why did he get sick. And I am here this morning praising the Lord that he got sick.

I will explain myself. I am not happy that he is sick. Do not misunderstand me. I see the Lord's hand in this, and I am going to explain why.

We have a brother here that has been helping us from Scotland. He has been an Adventist Christian for four years, and it was just a couple of weeks ago that we were walking across the property, and he was telling me how since he has been an Adventist Christian, he has been zealous to try to understand it all. He has gone to Uchee Pines and places like that to learn the Health Message, to learn how to do the Health Message. He is very consistent in his health practices.

And he told me, he says, "Since I have become an Adventist, I haven't been sick once."

And, I am thinking, "Hmm, that is kind of a prophecy that you were sitting out there for the Lord that you might get challenged on."

FROM THE AUDIENCE: (Laughter.)

BROTHER PIPPENGER: Particularly when I see sicknesses in these kinds of things, sometimes not exclusively because of the breaking of the Health Message but because Satan is doing everything he can to disrupt things.

So, when Emiliano got sick, this brother lives—this brother could throw a baseball from his front door and hit the front door where Emiliano was staying, and the first night he is the one that gave a massage to Emiliano. He is the one that got the job assignment of taking care of Emiliano. And he is sick now. Okay?

Because Emiliano is staying in a travel trailer, it is nice enough; but, I counted up this morning in the shower and there were 16 people that were not in church yesterday, one way or another because of this sickness. This is not just Emiliano. This has been running through this camp.

Brother Leo is here. He may get to take it home with him, when he goes home, the way things work.

FROM THE AUDIENCE: (Laughter).

BROTHER PIPPENGER: All right?

That is kind of what Brother Mark said. All right?

FROM THE AUDIENCE: (Laughter.)

BROTHER PIPPENGER: At the end of last week when Emiliano saw that he was not going to be able to arouse himself and speak at all, he started asking for me to come over and see him; because, he was wanting to share some stuff.

Early on when he was speaking, he was letting us know, if you were reading between the lines, that he really had a nice little piece of information he wanted to share. So, he started asking me to come over because he wanted to share this information, and I was not really inclined to go into that little space with him. I mean, the people that are sick, they are sick! This is not just a mild cold. You are sick and down and hurting.

But, I came home early from—not early. I did not stay for fellowship dinner after church. I brought him some food, because he wanted to talk and I was going to go ahead and put in my time.

And when I got there, he was writing some emails, and he said, "Come back in a minute."

And, I gave him his lunch.

Before I got back there, people came and we spent the afternoon. And I thought, "Praise the Lord! The Lord has provided providentially a reason why I do not have to go sit in the miasma of the atmosphere of that little trailer with Emiliano."

But, he emailed, and he called. So, I went over last night.

My wife and I still had to go into town and get food for breakfast here today. So, before we went into town, I went over there and sat down with him.

He pleaded with me, "Give me five minutes!"

So, I kept Kathy in the car and I gave him his five minutes.

When I came back to the car, Kathy said, "That wasn't 5 minutes. That was 20 minutes."

But, I was in there making sure that it got done fast.

And this morning, it all came together why Emiliano got sick, for me. I could be wrong. I have been wrong lots of times before.

Early on in Habakkuk's Two Tables, for some reason it came into my head that the reason why I putting this together was an argument for those people in Adventism that are fighting it, where I was going to touch enough of the truths and put them in there so where I could look them in the eye and say, "Hey, you know, this isn't about me, a human being; this isn't about the messengers. If you think what we are teaching is error, then you sit down and you expose why the truths in this series are error."

And, I was viewing it early on like Martin Luther walking up with his 95 theses and nailing it on the door.

So, early on I could see that it was going to be a lot, and I had it in my head, "Well, maybe I will end it with 95 presentations." But, I was not thinking about any of that this week, because it was still a long ways off.

And then Emiliano got sick, and then I started realizing I knew the logic to bring it to an end, but also I realized that I could not go on much longer because it started to be redundant. You know, I might be making this point, but I would pull this point, and this point, and this point to prove it, and we had already gone over those three points several times in this series. It was starting to be more than just good teaching practices of repeating things. It was starting to be redundant, at least for me.

And, I realized, "Hey, this is really going to come in at 95 presentations," and it started really blowing my mind.

So, we are on #93. This is the last one; but, there are two of them in there that are two parts that come to 95.

So, I see the hand of the Lord in the fact that he sat Emiliano down and forced me, instead of doing one worship per morning, to go into crash mode to cover for Emiliano's time period while everyone was here. And it ends at 95.

But, the Lord did not want what we had on Friday to be the ending. The Lord wanted to give another argument about for Habakkuk's Tables; not a theological argument but kind of a capstone in the sense that those of us that are studying these foundational truths, we also know that not only do we return to the Foundations and accept, for instance, the 2300 days as we understand it but, if what we are saying is true, then the Lion of the Tribe of Judah is even going to expand the light on truths such as the 2300 days. Okay?

So, I like the idea that the Lord set Emiliano down because Emiliano is the type of person that could discover one of these gems; and, though he wanted to share it, that was secondary to the fact that he wanted it to be shared. So, he handed it off to me last night. And what it does is it puts a capstone on the study because it shows that we are not just talking about the foundational truths; we are talking about the Lion of the Tribe of Judah adding light to things that Adventism thinks are true, but Adventism thinks that that is all there is to it.

So, I do not know exactly how to explain it, but if you look at your notes now under Emiliano's discovery, this is from Gerard Damsteegt's Foundations of Seventh-day Adventist Message and Mission, page 92.

"Although the Karaite reckoning which indicated the end of the Jewish year at the new moon on April 17, 1844, was favored in the major Millerite periodicals, the majority of believers looked to March 21, 1844 as the time for Christ's return. Outside the Millerite movement March 21 was well known and there was 'a very general expectation of an entire overthrow of the whole system of Adventism' on that date. Immediately after it passed, Miller wrote that 'the time, as I have calculated it, is now filled up; and I expect every moment to see the Savior descend from heaven. I have now nothing to look for but this glorious hope.' The disappointment was very real and acknowledged by many (including Miller), who frankly confessed their error. Yet, many remained faithful to the imminent expectancy of Christ's return, and the leaders could state that 'our faith is unwavering respecting the reality of those events being already to burst upon us at any moment. And this we can never give up.' Not only Millerites, but also the English 'Millerites' experienced a disappointment when the Second Advent did not occur in the spring of 1844." Gerard Damsteegt, Foundations of Seventh-day Adventist Message and Mission, 92.

And what he says in here is that William Miller believed the Karaite year ended in March 21^st, 1844; so, the disappointment arrived on March 22^nd, 1844. This is how we teach it. This is true; but, Damsteegt is telling us here that most of the Millerite publications, and a good number of Millerites, did not agree with Miller. They believed that the year actually ended on April 17^th, 1844.

But, it does not matter. Everything that we have taught about March 22^nd, 1844, is correct; because, on March 22^nd, 1844, the disappointment settled in. And even though there were some in the Millerite Movement that were still holding out hope for April 17^th, it never came either. All right?

So, it is not so much of a —for me, when I look at March 22^nd, I knew about April 17^th; but, I use William Miller for a number of reasons, so I went with William Miller and I never really cared about who was right between March 22^nd and April 17^th.

Are you with me?

So, Damsteegt claims this in this chapter.

But, when we begin the 2300-year prophecy, we do so from the Third Decree in Ezra, chapter 7; and, if you look in your notes there we have Ezra, chapter 7, and I have 1 through 10; but, I am just going to pull out verse 9 there. I do not know why I have 1 through10, actually. It is just one verse that I want you to look at, and this is what Brother Emiliano discovered, and this is more than a gem in some regards.

As Ezra is coming back from Babylon to implement the Third Decree, where we start the 2300 days that leads us to the Fall of 1844, the 10^th day of the 7^th month—do you follow me?

FROM THE AUDIENCE: (Affirmations.)

BROTHER PIPPENGER: —it says in verse 9,

"⁹ For upon the first day of the first month began he to go up from Babylon, and on the first day of the fifth month came he to Jerusalem, according to the good hand of his God upon him." Ezra 7:9 (KJV).

So, those are only the two days that are referenced, and this is the beginning of the 2300-day prophecy—right?—the Third Decree.

But, we know that Samuel Snow comes to the conclusion that October 22, 1844, is the end of the 2300 days, based upon Daniel 8:14, the 2300 years; and, also, he comes to understand the Day of Atonement in Leviticus, that it was going to take place on the 10^th day of the 7^th month, in the Fall of the year that the Decree goes forth. So, that locks him in to October 22, 1844. Correct?

Are you with me?

FROM THE AUDIENCE: (Affirmations).

10^th Day of the Seventh Month

190 Days; 70 Days

April 17^th, 1844—The First Disappointment

August 14^th, 1844: The Midnight Cry.

FIRST DAY OF FIRST MONTH (1D1M), FIRST DAY OF FIFTH MONTH (1D5M),

AND TENTH DAY OF SEVENTH MONTH (10D7M)

April 17, 1844 August 14, 1844 October 22, 1844

1D1M 1D5M 10D7M

Midnight Cry

August 12-17, 1844

Exeter Camp Meeting

First Disappointment

Figure No. 185.

BROTHER PIPPENGER: So, what Emiliano has discovered is that if you go to October 22^nd, 1844, the end of the 2300 days, this is the 10^th day of the 7^th month; but, there are two other days referenced. There is one back here that is the 1^st day of the 1^st month, and one that is the 1^st day of the 5^th month. Right? We just read it.

Ooh, man! This just blows your mind.

So, if you—it is easy to do. The 10^th day of the 7^th month, all you have to do is do some subtraction.

And if you go back to the 1^st day of the 5^th month, it brings you to August 14, 1844, which is the Midnight Cry.

And if you go back to the 1^st day of the 1^st month, it brings you to April 17, 1844, which is the first disappointment, technically in that history, which means Ezra is confirming the Millerite History to the very letter and placing an emphasis upon the importance of this foundational history that has never been recognized before and is confirming the validity of going back and studying the history of the Millerites in this time period. All right?

This is a confirmation of Habakkuk's Tables that nobody expected; but, it is new light on NOT the 2520 but upon the 2300 days.

So, why is it, why is it that the Lord is providing this new light on the Foundational Pillar of Adventism here at the end of the world, and according to the leadership of the Adventist Church, He is giving this new light to the people that they are claim are in darkness?

Figure that one out for you.

Why is this not coming out of the General Conference?

Why is this not coming out of the Hartland Institute?

Why is not Vance Ferrell teaching this?

So, for me, I am praising the Lord that Emiliano got sick; but, I am not. I do not want him to be sick, but I have seen the Lord's hand in this.

FROM THE AUDIENCE: Amen.

BROTHER PIPPENGER: I see the Lord's hand in this. He was putting a capstone on this particular study on Habakkuk's Tables, to make sure that those people that do want to argue this have no reason not to see the Lord's hand in this. This is the Foundation of Adventism. This is the 2300 days; this is not the 2520.

Pretty cool, huh?

FROM THE AUDIENCE: Amen.

BROTHER PIPPENGER: Pretty cool.

Okay. Now, we are going to bring our conclusion. We are going to bring the 95 theses of Habakkuk's Two Tables in for a landing, and we are going to nail it on the wall of the Internet, that if anyone wants to read and challenge it can feel free to do so.

So, we are going to back over a little bit of what we did on Friday. But, I am sorry: That was the Lord's hand both in not recording the audio, bringing sickness into this camp, and making sure that the person that He gave this truth to had enough humility to be willing to share it; because, sometimes when you come across these truths, you are tempted, "I am not telling anybody until I have opportunity to put it in the public record." All right?

FROM THE AUDIENCE: (Laughter.)

BROTHER PIPPENGER: And I tell you, I have told this story many times. And if my wife was in her, she could give a second testimony to it.

There has been many times where I said, "Kathy, you won't believe what I just recognized. This is a mind blower! When it gets out there, it is just going to contribute to this," and I would explain it to her.

So, what I am saying is, you recognize these things when you come across them, and Emiliano recognized this.

That is why Emiliano was pleading with me, "Come over! I have got to share this with you. I have got to share this with you."

Anyway.

Also, in honor, so to speak, of Emiliano, I will tell you up front this will be a little bit long today because of this introduction. So, it is kind of honoring Emiliano, because he generally goes a little bit long. All right?

FROM THE AUDIENCE: (Laughter.)

Conclusion (Continued)

Daniel 12

Zechariah 1:1-6 – Joel

Zechariah 1:7-11 – Babylon Punished; Isaiah 14:1-7

Zechariah 1:12-17

BROTHER PIPPENGER: So, we are dealing with Daniel, chapter 12. We are dealing with the principle that when the prophets become part of the prophecy, they are representing God's people at the end of the world.

Now, we have spent a fair amount of time in Revelation, chapter 10; and, now we are going to through Zechariah. And the way I did Zechariah Friday, I am going to do a little bit quicker but a little more in detail. I am not going to spend time reading the verses. I am going to show you some things about the structure of the first six verses of Zechariah and combine it in with the argument about when the prophets become part of the prophecy.

Okay. In Zechariah 1, verses 1 through 6, if you read it, I would submit to you that this is a connection to Joel.

"¹ In the eighth month, in the second year of Darius, came the word of the Lord unto Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet, saying, ² The Lord hath been sore displeased with your fathers. ³ Therefore say thou unto them, Thus saith the Lord of hosts; Turn ye unto me, saith the Lord of hosts, and I will turn unto you, saith the Lord of hosts. ⁴ Be ye not as your fathers, unto whom the former prophets have cried, saying, Thus saith the Lord of hosts; Turn ye now from your evil ways, and from your evil doings: but they did not hear, nor hearken unto me, saith the Lord. ⁵ Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever? ⁶ But my words and my statutes, which I commanded my servants the prophets, did they not take hold of your fathers? and they returned and said, Like as the Lord of hosts thought to do unto us, according to our ways, and according to our doings, so hath he dealt with us." Zechariah 1:1-6 (KJV).

The beginning of the Book of Joel is talking about '. . . ye old men, have you seen this in your generation? Tell your children and their children, and their children':

"² Here this, ye old men, and give ear, all ye inhabitants of the land. Hath this been in your days, or even in the days of your fathers? ³Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation." Joel 1:2-3 (KJV).

It is raising up a question about four generations and about the responsibility of the fathers to remember things.

In verses 1 through 6 of Zechariah, I submit to you that this is a connection there.

Look at verse 4, just as an example. I do not intend to dissect all these verses. I intend to dissect the structure in the Book of Zechariah, just so you can see the structure. All right?

Verse 4 is an example:

"⁴ Be ye not as your fathers, unto whom the former prophets have cried, saying, Thus saith the Lord of hosts; Turn ye now from your evil ways, and from your evil doings: but they did not hear, nor hearken unto me, saith the Lord. ⁵ Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live for ever? " Zechariah 1:4 (KJV).

THE STRUCTURE OF ZECHARIAH, Chapter 1

1^st 4 Seals of Revelation Choose Zion 3:1 combination

JOEL Scattering

Zech 1:1-6 Zech 1: 7-11 Zech 1:12-17 Zech 1:18-21

Figure No. 186.

The beginning of Joel is about the fathers; it is also about a call to return.

So, all the prophets agree with one another; but, I am saying that in Zechariah 1:1-6 that this is a specific connection with the Book of Joel, and I am saying that because the Book of Joel was fulfilled in the time of Christ, but it was also fulfilled in the time of the Millerites, and it is also fulfilled at the end of the world. I am wanting you to see that Zechariah, chapter 1, verses 1 through 6, is an illustration of the Millerites and it is an illustration of us. So, I am saying that the starting point that ties that together, among other things, is its connection with the Book of Joel.

Are you with me?

And I am telling you out front that I do not intend to do a deep Bible study on this. I just want you to see the structure.

So you can see this structure, go to chapter 7 of Zechariah, verse 1. Verse 1 of Zechariah 7 says,

"¹ And it came to pass in the fourth year of king Darius, that the word of the Lord came unto Zechariah in the fourth day of the ninth month, even in Chisleu; . . ." Zechariah 7:1, in part (KJV).

The point being here, in verse 1 of chapter 7 you have a new revelation.

Chapters 1 through 6 is the same vision. It is the same vision, and it ends here with Zechariah now introducing us to the fourth year of king Darius.

So, I want you to see, if we are going to look at the structure, that chapters 1 through 6 of Zechariah is one vision. All right? And I am wanting you to see that God's prophetic word operates on repeat and enlarge; so, we are going to see some repeat and enlarge in here.

So, in Zechariah, chapter 1, verses 7 through 11—verses 1 through 6 [of Zechariah 1] connects with Joel—verses 7 through 11 are the Four Seals of Revelation. All right?

"⁷ Upon the four and twentieth day of the eleventh month, which is the month Sebat, in the second year of Darius, came the word of the Lord unto Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet, saying, ⁸ I saw by night, and behold a man riding upon a red horse, and he stood among the myrtle trees that were in the bottom, and behind him were there red horses, speckled, and white. ⁹ Then said I, O my lord, what are these? And he angel that talked with me said unto me, I will shew thee what these be. ¹⁰ And the man that stood among the myrtle trees answered and said, These are they whom the Lord hath sent to walk to and fro through the earth. ¹¹ And they answered the angel of the Lord that stood among the myrtle trees, and said, We have walked to and from through the earth, and, behold, all the earth sitteth still, and is at rest." Zechariah 1:7-11 (KJV).

This is in the public record. We have already explained this.

But, if you remember, in the Book of Revelation the Seven Churches are followed by Seven Seals that are then followed by Seven Trumpets; and, the Pioneers correctly understood that the [Seven] Churches were the history of the Christian church, in sequential order; but, there is a 4 / 3 division in the Churches, in the Seals, and in the Trumpets. Okay?

The last three Trumpets are Three Woes

The last three Seals are not represented by a horse, where the first four Seals are represented by a horse of a various color.

And the last three Churches, they all occur simultaneously. In the Millerite History, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea were all contemporaries; and, here at the end of the world, once again, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea are all contemporaries in Adventism.

So, there is a 4 / 3 breakup in the Seven Churches, the Seven Seals, and the Seven Trumpets.

I am not trying to prove this to you. It has been proven in previous presentations.

But, the first church, Ephesus, is covering the same history of the First Seal; the second church, Smyrna, is covering the Second Seal; third Church, third Seal; fourth Church, fourth seal.

So, when you get to the Fifth Seal, you have the martyrs that have been killed during the history of the Fourth Seal, which is the history of Thyatira. You have the martyrs of the Dark Ages, from AD538 to 1798 in the Fifth Seal, that cry out, "How long, O Lord, until you punish the Papacy for murdering us during the Dark Ages?" That is their question in the Fifth Seal.

So, when we come to Zechariah, verses 7 through 11, we are going to see these horses; because, the First Seal, Second Seal, Third Seal, and Fourth Seal are symbolized by four horses. And Zechariah is symbolizing these same four horses.

And when you get to verse 12—after verse 11 [referring to the structure line of Zechariah in Figure No. 186)]—when you get to verse 12, it says,

"¹² Then the angel of the Lord answered and said, O Lord of hosts, how long wilt thou not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, against which thou hast had indignation these threescore and ten years? ¹³ And the Lord answered the angel that talked with me with good words and comfortable words. ¹⁴ So the angel that communed with me said unto me, Cry thou, saying, Thus saith the Lord of hosts; I am jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion with a great jealousy. ¹⁵ And I am very sore displeased with the heathen that are at ease: for I was but a little displeased, and they helped forward the affliction. ¹⁶ Therefore thus saith the Lord; I am returned to Jerusalem with mercies: my house shall be built in it, saith the Lord of hosts, and a line shall be stretched forth upon Jerusalem." Zechariah 12-17 (KJV).

Okay. This question here, "How long?" in verse 12 is the same question that is raised in the Fifth Seal. So, you can take the history of these horses here in Zechariah and identify that it is a parallel to the history that concludes in 1798.

Now, look at verse 11. I will give you one proof-text on this. In verse 11, at the end of these horses in Zechariah—are you with me?—[pause]—and it says,

"¹¹ And they answered the angel of the Lord that stood among the myrtle trees, and said, We have walked to and fro through the earth, and, behold, all the earth sitteth still, and is at rest." Zechariah 1:11 (KJV).

And what I am saying is, this is the end of the Fourth Seal; and, Zechariah is giving a parallel testimony to the Four Seals in the Book of Revelation.

And when you get to the end of the work of these horses in Revelation, the Earth is still and is at rest.

And if you will, keep your finger in Zechariah and go to Isaiah 14. Isaiah 14 tells us what it means that the Earth is made still.

Isaiah 14, beginning at verse 1 says,

"¹ For the Lord will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel,"—

And we are going to find in Zechariah, chapter 1, that it is about the Lord choosing Jerusalem once again; so, this is a parallel here.

—"and will yet choose Israel and set them in their own land: and the strangers shall be joined with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob."—

And verse 2 of Isaiah 14:

—"² And the people shall take them, and bring them to their place: and the house of Israel shall possess them in the land of the Lord for servants and handmaids: and they shall take them captives, whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors. ³ And it shall come to pass in the day that the Lord shall give them rest from thy sorrow, and from thy fear, and from the hard bondage wherein thou wast made to serve. ⁴ That thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased! The golden city ceased! ⁵ The Lord hath broken the staff of the wicked, and the scepter of the rulers. ⁶ He who smote the people in wrath with a continual [tamid] stroke, he that ruled the nations in anger, is persecuted, and none hindereth. ⁷ The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet: they break forth into singing." Isaiah 14:1-7 (KJV).

What I am saying is when the whole Earth is at rest, it means that Babylon has been brought to a conclusion; and, this passage in Isaiah is talking about the end of literal Babylon oppressing God's people, but spiritual Babylon ceases to oppress God's people in 1798 when the Church of Thyatira ends, when the Fourth Seal ends.

Now, when you go back to Zechariah, once you get to the end of these horses in Zechariah, in verse 11, it says, ". . . all the earth sitteth still, and is at rest." That means that the persecution of Babylon has ceased (that is the Fourth Seal). The Fifth Seal, those that have been persecuted in the 1260 years in the Fifth Seal of Revelation, they say, "How long, O Lord God, just and true, do you not avenge [our blood] on the Papacy for what they have done?"

But, here in Zechariah in verse 12, it says,

"¹² Then the angel of the Lord answered and said, O Lord of hosts, how long wilt thou not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, against which thou hast had indignation these threescore and ten years?" Zechariah 1:12 (KJV).

Now, we have dealt with this often here. What we have dealt with often is that these 70 years that Zachariah and other prophets reference are the 1260 years.

PARALLEL HISTORIES

Ancient Israel 1 2 3 4

SCATTERED How long?

70 years

Four Decrees

to rebuild

Jerusalem

1AM

AD538 1798 2AM 3AM 4AM

SCATTERED How long?

1260 years

Isa 6:9-11

1863 Adventism 1989 9/11 S/L

SCATTERED How long?

126

(William Miller's 2^nd Dream) Isa 6:3 1 2 3 4

Rev 18

( 9/11) Four Tests

Figure No. 187.

So, Zechariah, he is asking how long after the 70 years of Babylonian captivity; and, in the Fifth Seal, they are asking how long after the 1260 years captivity. They are parallel histories.

And then the quote that we have used several times is in your notes, from Prophets and Kings, page 714:

"God's church on earth was as verily in captivity during this long period of relentless persecution as were the children of Israel held captive in Babylon during the period of the exile." Prophets and Kings, 714.

So, what am I saying? I am saying the structure of Zechariah⁸ is talking about the Millerite History and it is talking about our history; because, this here [70 years], Ancient Israel was scattered to Babylon, was it not?

FROM THE AUDIENCE: (Affirmations.)

BROTHER PIPPENGER: And this 1260 years is simply the second half of the scattering of Leviticus 26 [from AD538 until 1798].

And, of course, from 1863 until 1989, William Miller's scattering took place in Adventism.

So, what I am saying is that Zechariah is dealing with the Millerite and our history. We have a scattering that we come out of as well.

Like I said, we are not going to do this in detail. We are just going to put it in the record.

Revelation 6:9-11

Zechariah 1:18-21

Zechariah 2:1-13

I like that in the Fifth Seal where the martyrs cry "How long?" that you find that in Revelation 6:9-11.

And here, this "How long?" has to do with these 70 years.

And here, "How long?" is expressed by Isaiah, chapter 6.

Go to Isaiah 6 just so you can see the "How long?" that connects with our generation.

Sister White we have read in this study. In Isaiah 6, verse 3, she applies verse 3 to Revelation 18, where it says,

"³ And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory." Isaiah 6:3 (KJV).

You do not need Sister White for that. That is Revelation 18 when the Earth was lightened with His glory.

And then Isaiah is prepared to give a message, and then he is told in verses 9 and 10 that the message he is going to give is to a Laodicean people that refuse to hear him; and, it so overwhelming to Isaiah in verse 11.

So, here in Isaiah 6, verses 9 – 11, you have a piece of information.

Okay? I like that, too.

For, in verse 11, Isaiah says,

"¹¹ Then said, I, Lord, how long?" And he answered, Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate, . . ." Isaiah 6:11, in part (KJV).

Okay. That is the question right here [referring to the scattering of Adventism in Figure No. 187], and this question takes place in Isaiah 6:9-11; but, we know it is Revelation 18, which is 9/11 [September 11, 2001].

So, you have got 9:11, 9-11, and 9/11 [with the Millerite History and the history of the 144,000].

But, we are not dealing with that right now. We are dealing with that at the end of these scattering time periods, we always see the question "How long?" raised.

Are you with me?

This is just in passing—go back to Zechariah—this is just in passing, because I want you to understand that the claims I am making here can be soundly defended; but, I am not going to try to defend them. I want you to see the structure in the first six chapters of Zechariah.

So, in chapter 1 of Zechariah again, from verses 18 to 21—still in chapter 1—we see,

"¹⁸ Then lifted I mine eyes, and saw, and behold four horns. ¹⁹ And I said unto the angel"—

Now, in these verses 11-17 [referring to Figure No. 186], He is going to choose Jerusalem again—I am going to put "Zion"—He is going to choose Zion.

Okay. This [verses 7-11 of Figure No. 186] is the Four Seals, the scattering. All right?

Here [verses 11-17 of Zechariah 1] He is going to choose Zion.

Did He choose Zion here [Ancient Israel, Figure No. 187] when they came out of Babylon?

FROM THE AUDIENCE: Yes.

BROTHER PIPPENGER: Was He choosing Zion in the Millerite History [see Figure No. 187, 1798 onward]?

FROM THE AUDIENCE: Yes.

BROTHER PIPPENGER: Yes.

And, He is choosing Zion here at the end of the world [1989 onward, Figure No. 187].

Notice how it is all connected.

But, in [verses] 18 through 11, Zechariah sees four horns; and, in verse 19, he says,

—"¹⁹ And I said unto the angel that talked with me, What be these? And he answered me, These are the horns which have scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem."—

So, now the Lord is telling us, confirming, that there was a scattering, a scattering, a scattering [Figure No. 187], and that it was these four horns that accomplished that.

And in verse 20 it says,

—"²⁰ And the Lord shewed me four carpenters."—

What is a carpenter? What is a carpenter?

FROM THE AUDIENCE: A builder.

BROTHER PIPPENGER: A builder; close.

FROM THE AUDIENCE: (No response.)

BROTHER PIPPENGER: I am saying "What" and it is throwing you off, and I am doing it on purpose.

Who is the carpenter?

FROM THE AUDIENCE: Christ.

BROTHER PIPPENGER: This is Christ. He is the one that is going to build the temple of the Lord, is He not?

Okay. So, now he is going to explain who the carpenter is.

Verse 21:

—"²¹ Then said I, What come these to do?—these carpenters—"And he spake, saying, These are the horns which have scattered Judah, so that no man did lift up his head: but these [four carpenters] are come to fray them, to cast out the horns of the Gentiles, which lifted up their horn over the land of Judah to scatter it." Zechariah 1:18-21 (KJV.)

There is a scattering in here [with Adventism, Figure No. 187]; and, in each of these histories there are going to be four carpenters that destroy the scattering: Cyrus [First Decree], Darius [Second Decree], Artaxerxes [Third Decree], and then the Fourth Decree in the time of Nehemiah. There are your four carpenters, the 3:1 combination.

In Millerite History, it is the First Angel's Message that begins here in 1798, the Second Angel's Message in 1842, the Third Angel's Message in 1844, and the Fourth Angel's Message on September 11, 2001. Those are the four carpenters, the 3:1 combination.

But, we know in our history, from 1989, that this history [the Millerite History beginning in 1798] is going to be repeated and we are going to repeat a 3:1 combination in our history. The first test is empowered on 9/11; thereafter, our second test, our third test (The Sunday Law), and then the Loud Cry when the Fourth Angel goes to the eleventh hour workers outside of Adventism.

So, in each of these scattering histories, there are four carpenters that come and end the scattering.

Okay. We are not going in depth here.

Now, chapter 2 [of Zechariah]:

STRUCTURE OF ZECHARIAH, Chapters, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6

Temple built Investigative Millerites Repetition of

Judgment 144,000 Scroll Deadly Wound Four Seals Millerite History

Zech 2 Zech 3 Zech 4 Zech 5:1-4 Zech 5:5-11 Zech 6:1-8 Zech 6:9-15

Figure No. 188.

I am just wanting you to see the flow of things: verses 1 through 13 [of Zechariah 2].

So, what was this? This is the 3:1 combination.

Okay? Is that a valid title for that history?

Verses 1 through 13, and that is the entire chapter 2; and, this is the measuring.

"¹ I lifted up mine eyes again, and looked, and behold a man with a measuring line in his hand. ² Then said I, Whither goest thou? And he said unto me, To measure Jerusalem, to see what is the breadth thereof, and what is the length thereof. ³ And, behold, the angel that talked with me went forth, and another angel went out to meet him, ⁴ And said unto him, Run, speak to this young man, saying, Jerusalem shall be inhabited as towns without walls for the multitude of men and cattle therein: ⁵ For I, saith the Lord, will be unto her a wall of fire round about, and will be the glory in the midst of her.

"⁶ Ho, ho, come forth, and flee from the land of the north, saith the Lord: for I have spread you abroad as the four winds of the heaven, saith the Lord. ⁷ Deliver thyself, O Zion, that dwellest with the daughter of Babylon. ⁸ For thus saith the Lord of hosts; After the glory hath he sent me unto the nations which spoiled you: for he that toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eye. ⁹ For, behold, I will shake mine hand upon them, and they shall be a spoil to their servants: and ye shall know that the Lord of hosts hath sent me.

"¹⁰ Sing and rejoice, O daughter of Zion: for, lo, I come, and I will dwell in the midst of thee, saith the Lord. ¹¹ And many nations shall be joined to the Lord in that day, and shall be my people: and I will dwell in the midst of thee, and thou shalt know that the Lord of hosts hath sent me unto thee. ¹² And the Lord shall inherit Judah his portion in the holy land, and shall choose Jerusalem again."—

And, we have been dealing with the measuring. Okay? This is the judgment. This is the building of the temple.

So, when was the temple of Adventism built?

FROM THE AUDIENCE: (No response.)

BROTHER PIPPENGER: From 1798 to 1844, in 46 years.

When was the temple of the Babylonian captivity built? Well, it was built from the time they came out, and the temple was built before the Third Decree, the same history.

Okay. The temple [of the Millerites] was built just before 1844. There was not anyone making decisions to move into the Most Holy Place. They just made that decision on October 21, 1844. They had already been established before October 22, 1844.

Do you follow me?

FROM THE AUDIENCE: (Affirmations.)

BROTHER PIPPENGER: That is why we were told that the temple was completed before the Third Decree. The Third Decree is the one that finishes the work that is the rebuilding of the streets and the walls during troublous times [Fourth Decree].

Are you with me?

FROM THE AUDIENCE: (Affirmations.)

BROTHER PIPPENGER: So, the building of the temple, which is chapter 2, where they are measuring it. The line over Jerusalem has to do with building the temple, from the Time of the End until the door closes. Right? And that is why the last verse of chapter 2 says,

—"¹³ Be silent, O all flesh, before the Lord: for he is raised up out of his holy habitation." Zechariah 2 (KJV).

In 1844 the Lord was raised up out of his holy habitation [October 22, 1844, with the arrival of the Third Angel's Message], and He moved into the Most Holy Place. Okay? It had been accomplished. From 1798 to 1844 Jerusalem had been built, and then the Lord moved into the Most Holy Place: the temple had been built.

Zechariah 3

Now, just to look at another structure here—please bear with me—chapter 3.

This [chapter 2 (working on Figure No. 188 on the whiteboard] is "Temple built."

Right after the temple is built, let all the Earth be silent because the Lord has risen up. He has moved into the Most Holy Place. Now, chapter 3 is going to emphasize the Investigative Judgment.

"¹ And he shewed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the Lord, and Satan standing at his right hand to resist him. ² And the Lord said unto Satan, The Lord rebuke thee, O Satan; even the Lord that hath chosen Jerusalem rebuke thee: is not this a brand plucked out of the fire? ³ Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments, and stood before the angel. ⁴ And he answered and spake unto those that stood before him, saying, Take away the filthy garments from him. And unto him he said, Behold, I have caused thine iniquity to pass from thee, and I will clothe thee with change of raiment. ⁵ And I said, Let them set a fair mitre upon his head. So they set a fair mitre upon his head, and clothed him with garments. And the angel of the Lord stood by. ⁶ And the angel of the Lord protested unto Joshua, saying, ⁷ Thus saith the Lord of hosts; If thou wilt walk in my ways, and if thou wilt keep my charge, then thou shalt also judge my house, and shalt also keep my courts, and I will give thee places to walk among these that stand by. ⁸ Hear now, O Joshua the high priest, thou, and thy fellows that sit before thee: for they are men wondered at: for, behold, I will bring forth my servant the Branch. ⁹ For behold the stone that I have laid before Joshua; upon one stone shall be seven eyes: behold, I will engrave the graving thereof, saith the Lord of hosts, and I will remove the iniquity of that land in one day. ¹⁰ In that day, saith the Lord of hosts, shall ye call every man his neighbour under the vine and under the fig tree." Zechariah 2 (KJV).

And, you have a quote here from Prophets and Kings, page 587, where Sister White says,

"Zechariah's vision of Joshua and the Angel applies with peculiar force to the experience of God's people in the closing scenes of the great day of atonement."—

So, she is applying Zechariah, chapter 3, to the Investigative Judgment; but, she is placing the main emphasis of it upon the closing work, which is the blotting out of sin.

—"The remnant church will then be brought into great trial and distress. Those who keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus will feel the ire of the dragon and his hosts. Satan numbers the world as his subjects; he has gained control even of many professing Christians. But here is a little company who are resisting his supremacy. If he could blot them from the earth, his triumph would be complete. As he influenced the heathen nations to destroy Israel, so in the near future he will stir up the wicked powers of earth to destroy the people of God. Men will be required to render obedience to human edicts in violation of the divine law." Prophets and Kings, 587.

All right. So, chapter 3 is the Investigative Judgment. Right?

FROM THE AUDIENCE: (Affirmations.)

BROTHER PIPPENGER: You have a quizzical look on your face. Are you following me?

FROM THE AUDIENCE: Oh, yeah.

BROTHER PIPPENGER: Okay.

Repeat and Enlarge

Zechariah 4

Haggai 2:20-23

Manuscript Releases, volume 7, page 202:

"Please consider the words of Zechariah, 'And he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the Lord, and Satan standing at his right hand to resist him.' The very same adversary is here presented as standing between Christ and Peter. 'And the Lord said unto Satan, The Lord rebuke thee, O Satan; even the Lord that hath chosen Jerusalem rebuke thee; is not this a brand plucked out of the fire? Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments, and stood before the angel.'

"Satan was charging the people of God with all his attributes, and presenting before them the sins he had instigated them to commit. Satan clothed their characters with his own filthy garments of sin, and nothing was lost in his reckoning of their misdeeds. But these souls who were represented as wearing the black robes of Satan's weaving in his hellish loom, were not an appropriate representation; for they had repented of their transgressions. The Lord who searcheth the heart and understandeth the imagination of the thoughts, had set their sins before them, and had given them the promise: 'If thou seek him, he will be found of thee; but if thou forsake him he will cast thee off forever.' The Lord, the everlasting God, is ever present to observe, inspect, and examine all things. The hearts of all are read as an open book. 'The eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth.' Manuscript Releases, volume 7, 202.

Zechariah, chapter 4, has to do with Zerubbabel; but, it has to do with Millerite History; it has to do with our history.

The point that we are trying to glean out of here is when the prophet becomes part of the prophecy, he represents God's people at the end of the world.

So, in verse 1, for some reason, we need to know that Zechariah was asleep; because, it isn't Zechariah. This is the Millerites, the parable of the Ten Virgins. They are all sleeping. This is us at the end of the world: the parable of the Ten Virgins. We are all sleeping.

"¹ And the angel that talked with me came again, and waked me, as a man that is wakened out of his sleep."—

And, then an angel comes and awakens us out of our sleep. What angel is that?

FROM THE AUDIENCE: It is Christ, the Fourth Angel.

BROTHER PIPPENGER: It is the Second Angel, because it is the Second Angel that other angels come and join with him that is the Midnight Cry; and, it is at the Midnight Cry that they are awakened. The Midnight Cry is simply the empowerment of the Second Angel. That is what Sister White says repeatedly. When the Second Angel's Message is empowered at the Midnight Cry, that is when the virgins wake up, both in the Millerite History and in our history. Right? There was a cry at Midnight.

So, Zechariah is waking up here.

—"² And said unto me, What seest thou? And I said, I have looked, and behold a candlestick all of gold, with a bowl upon the top of it, and his seven lamps thereon and seven pipes to the seven lamps, which are upon the top there: ³ And two olive trees by it, one upon the right side of the bowl, and the other upon the left side thereof. ⁴ So I answered and spake to the angel that talked with me, saying, What are these, my lord? ⁵ Then the angel that talked with me answered and said unto me, Knowest thou not what these be? And I said, No, my lord."—

And in verses 2, 3, and 4 he sees a golden candlestick and he does not know what it is, which is crazy because Zechariah would know what a seven golden candlestick is in the sanctuary; because, he was a prophet functioning in the time that they were rebuilding the temple, but he does not what it is because he is not Zechariah. He is the Millerites, who woke up at the Midnight Cry in 1844 and carried the message into the Great Disappointment, only to realize that they did not know what the sanctuary was. They did not know what the seven-branch candlestick was. Zechariah is representing the Millerites in this history.

But, Zechariah is representing us, today, who do not understand that the seven-branch candlestick also represents the outpouring of the Holy Spirit.

And in Adventism today, we do not understand the Latter Rain. We think it is a super natural empowering that overrules our sinful nature in The Sunday Law crisis and takes us to Heaven. And, that is such a great deception. It is the same deception that the Jews fell into and allowed them to participate in the crucifixion of their Messiah.

Only those that are receiving the Early Rain will partake of the Latter Rain.

So, Zechariah here is representing both the Millerites and us. That is why in verse 6 of Zechariah 4, when Zechariah is still saying, "I don't understand what the seven-branch candlestick is," in verse 6 the angel Gabriel says,

—"⁶ Then he answered and spake unto me, saying, This is the word of the Lord."—

The seven-branch candlestick is the Word of the Lord. The oil that comes from the Most Holy Place is the Word of the Lord.

And, what is the Word of the Lord?

—"This is the word of the Lord unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the Lord of hosts."—

The Word of the Lord is His Spirit, the outpouring of His Spirit, and we do not understand that.

And ZERUBBABEL is the name of the governor that laid the foundation of the temple and the capstone on the temple. Sister White says so. And his name is offspring, ZERUB; of Babylon, BABEL. ZERUBBABEL.

The offspring of Babylon, meaning, "Come out of Babylon!"

And, in the Millerite History, when the Holy Spirit was poured out in the Midnight Cry, that is the Second Angel's Message, which is, "Come out of Babylon!" The Holy Spirit was poured out for the Millerites with the Message, "Zerubbabel": "Come out of Babylon!"

And, the Holy Spirit is poured out in Revelation 18 in this history [of the 144,000] with the Message, "Zerubbabel": "Come out of Babylon!"

And this [the Millerite History] is the foundation of our work; and, this [the history of the 144,000] is the capstone of our work; because, Zerubbabel is going to lay the foundation and the capstone.

Verse 7.

—"⁷ Who art thou, O great mountain? Before Zerubbabel thou shalt become a plain: and he shall bring forth the headstone thereof with shoutings, crying, Grace, grace unto it."—

Verse 8.

—"⁸ Moreover the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, ⁹ The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house; his hands shall also finish it; and thou shalt know that the Lord of hosts hath sent me unto you."—

Pastor Emiliano points out that the hands that laid the foundation are the same hands that are going to lay the capstone. And the hands that laid the foundation was William Miller. William Miller's Rules of Prophetic Interpretation laid the foundation. William Miller's Rules of Prophetic Interpretation are going to put the capstone on this work. So, if Zerubbabel represents the Second Angel's Message, it represents proof-texting here at the end of the world.

Verse 10 says—and in this history here, in this history here [the 70 years in Figure No. 187], they are in captivity for 70 years. When they come out of Babylon—in this history here, if you are looking—when they come out of Babylon and they begin in the time period of First Decree—

And, by the way, it is in the history of the First Decree when the foundation [of the temple] is laid. The temple is built in the history of the Second [Decree]; but, the foundation is laid in the First Decree, as was the Foundation of Adventism was laid in the time of the First Angel's Message. It is always in the first waymark that the foundation is laid.

So, they come out of Babylon. They had been in Babylon for 70 years. When they were carried to Babylon, there were some young men that had seen the temple before it was destroyed. They come out of Babylon old men in their eighties or nineties, and they see the work that is going on as they start to build the temple, and they are weeping and moaning because they remember what the temple used to look like and they can tell this is going to be a cheap facsimile in their minds. So, they are represented as those—when this history comes to pass, whether it is this history [of the Babylonian captivity], or this history [of the Millerites, beginning in 1798], or this history [of the 144,000]—they are representing those that are despising the day of small things. They are despising this beginning work, which is represented here at the end of the world, those men in Adventism that despise the day of small things, when the foundations were laid [referencing the 1843 and 1850 Charts as the "small things"].

But, who are they? Who are they?

You know, if you want to bring another line into this, who are these old guys here, with an emphasis upon old?

How does the Bible call an old guy sometimes?

FROM THE AUDIENCE: Ancient.

BROTHER PIPPENGER: Oh, these are the ancient men.

Well, that brings the testimony of Ezekiel 8 and 9, the ancient men that were to be the guardians of the trust given to God's people are the first to feel the stroke of God's wrath. It is the leadership, the ancient men, that are despising the day of small things here.

—"¹⁰ For who hath despised the day of small things? For they shall rejoice, and shall see the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel with those seven; they are the eyes of the Lord, which run to and fro through the whole earth."—

We have spent a great deal of time showing that the plummet is the 2520. And sure enough, the Millerites recognized the 2520. It was the first time prophecy that William Miller discovered. And it is simple logic: We are told that he began at the beginning of the Bible and went towards the end. He is going to come to the 2520 long before he comes to the 2300 years in Daniel. Leviticus comes way before that.

And when the Lord leads His people back to the Old Paths at 9/11, the first covered up jewel of the foundations that He reveals to them is the plummet, a measurement of judgment; because, this is what He is going to judge us by is by the Old Paths.

And, we looked at that in our last presentation about the judgment coming upon those that have made a covenant with death, and that judgment has to do with the plummet, with the 2520. And they have rejected the 2520.

Of course, this history here, the 70 years [Figure No. 187], Ezra ties it in with the 2520. He says plainly that Jeremiah's 70 years are connected with the land resting in Leviticus 26. So, this scattering is the 2520. That is what they dealing with here, when they are measuring Jerusalem.

This scattering is the 2520 [the 1260 years being the second half of the 2520] against the Northern Kingdom; Miller discovers the 2520 against the Southern Kingdom.

And here we are at the end of the world. The plummet has been discovered, and some of us are going to rejoice over this plummet, which is in the hand of Zerubbabel with those seven.

What is in the hand of Zerubbabel? Those seven. And that word seven is the same word that is translated as seven times in Leviticus 26.

But, all the prophets agree with one another. So, some of God's people are going to rejoice when they see the 2520 in the hand of Zerubbabel. Right?

But, the prophets agree with one another. So, if you remember, using repeat and enlarge, in Ezekiel 37 there are two messages, one that brings the bone and flesh together (that is Daniel 11:40-45), and then a message that brings the breath into the bones and raises them up as a living army, and that breath is the breath that is associated with the Four Winds. And Sister White says those Four Winds are represented as an angry horse seeking to break loose and bring death and destruction in its path. So, that second message in our history is Islam being restrained on 9/11.

And then in verse 14 of Ezekiel 37, Ezekiel is going to repeat and enlarge. And what does he say? He says, "Ezekiel, stand before God's people and take a stick for the Northern Kingdom and a stick for the Southern Kingdom and join them before God's people. And they are going to ask you what that means, and what this means is that you are to rejoice when you seen this stick in the hand of Zerubbabel; because, it is the understanding that there are 2520s.

But, in 1844, these two 2520s, ending in 1798 and 1844, are the prophecies that the Lord gathers together a host to come into the Most Holy Place with Christ so that the sanctuary can be made right, it can be cleansed.

And, there is a group of people that when they see plummet (the 2520) in the hand of Zerubbabel, in the hand of Ezekiel, in the hand of God's preachers at the end of the world, they are going to rejoice, and they are contrasted with those ancient men that stood before the temple and said, "We will not walk therein."

So, Zechariah, chapter 4 is about Millerite History and our history. And it continues on in verse 11 by talking about the two olive branches, olive trees.

—"¹¹ Then answered I, and said unto him, What are these two olive trees upon the right side of the candlestick and upon the left side thereof? ¹² And I answered again, and said unto him, What be these two olive branches which through the two golden pipes empty the golden oil out of themselves? ¹³ And he answered me and said, Knowest thou not what these be? And I said, No, my lord. ¹⁴ Then said he, These are the two anointed ones, that stand by the Lord of the whole earth." Zechariah 4 (KJV).

For Zechariah it was the Law and the Prophets; for the Millerites it was the Old and New Testaments; and, for us here at the end of the world, it is the Bible and the Spirit of Prophecy.

And these men, these ancient men that stand before the temple and despise the day of small things, they have set aside the Spirit of Prophecy. They do not see these two pipes. All they see . . .

I remember dealing with these leaders in a special meeting in Germany one time. And this may sound unkind or un-Christlike, but it is really the best adjective that comes into my mind to give you an understanding of what they were. These pompous men that were throwing questions about this message, leaders of the Adventist university over there, leaders of the Conference, pastors, do you know what their argument was continuously?

"Sola scriptura, Brother! Sola scriptura! Show it to me from the Bible. I don't want to hear the Spirit of Prophecy!"

Okay. All right. So, I stopped about a couple of presentations in and said, "Okay, fine. We will do it right from the Bible."

That did not change a thing. It did not change a thing.

But, that is what this is saying here. At the end of the world, if you are going to walk this narrow Path, you have to understand what the two pipes are for you at the end of the world, and it is not simply sola scriptura. It is the Bible AND the Spirit of Prophecy at the end of the world.

So, Zechariah 4 is Millerite History and our history.

I want to add one thing to Zechariah 4. Go to Haggai, the book right before Zechariah. The last verse in Haggai.

What I am saying is Zerubbabel represents the beginning of Adventism and the end of Adventism; the Second Angel's Message and the Fourth Angel's Message. His hands represent the proof-texting message of William Miller. He is the one that lays the foundational work. He is the one that lays the capstone to the work.

And what I am going to show you is that this is a sealing. The Millerites were sealed when they moved into the Most Holy Place in 1844; because, you do not move into the Most Holy Place unless you have overcome known sin. These are sins that have been revealed to you.

I am aware that many of them did not understand the Sabbath at that time period, but a sealing process is illustrated there, prefiguring the sealing of the 144,000.

And sure enough, Zerubbabel, the foundation and the capstone is a signet in the hand of the Lord, and a signet is a seal.

Notice, beginning at verse 20 of Haggai 2:

"²⁰ And again the word of the Lord came into Haggai in the four and twentieth day of the month, saying, ²¹ Speak to Zerubbabel, governor of Judah, saying, I will shake the heavens and the earth;"—

And, of course, what is one of the passages in the Spirit of Prophecy that brings this message into clarity? How does it go? "Some people said a tidal wave was going to hit New York. This I have never said. I have said that what terrible scenes would take place when the Lord shall arise and shake terribly the earth"—this is a bad paraphrase. It is not popping into my mind—"when the great buildings of New York City are thrown down. Then Revelation 18, verses 1 through 3, will be fulfilled."

"Now comes the word that I have declared that New York is to be swept away by a tidal wave. This I have never said. I have said, as I looked at the great buildings going up there, story after story: 'What terrible scenes will take place when the Lord shall arise to shake terribly the earth! Then the words of Revelation 18:1-3 will be fulfilled.'" . . . {LS 411.5}

And what I wanted you to see there in that passage, Sister White says that is when He shakes terribly these nations.

And, that is what it is saying here in verse 21.

—"²¹ Speak to Zerubbabel, governor of Judah, saying, I will shake the heavens and the earth;"—that is 9/11—"²² And I will overthrow the throne of kingdoms, and I will destroy the strength of the kingdoms of the heathen;"—

Was the strength of the kingdoms of the heathen—was the beginning of bringing their strength down at 9/11? Oh, yeah. The think the stock markets are high right now, and some of them think, "Oh, everything is fine."

Yeah, everything is fine; but, why are those animals getting on the ark. All right?

FROM THE AUDIENCE: (Laughter.)

BROTHER PIPPENGER: Sister White says they are struggling in vain to put business operations on a more secure basis.

—"²² And I will overthrow the throne of kingdoms, and I will destroy the strength of the kingdoms of the heathen; and I will overthrow the chariots, and those that ride in them; and the horses and their riders shall come down, every one by the sword of his brother. ²³ In that day,"—9/11—"saith the Lord of hosts, will I take thee, O Zerubbabel, my servant, the son of Shealtiel, saith the Lord, and will make thee as a signet [make thee as a seal]: for I have chosen thee, saith the Lord of hosts." Haggai 2:20-23 (KJV).

The sealing process begins as He arises to shake terribly the Earth, when the great buildings of New York City are thrown down.

This here, Zechariah 4, is about the work of Zerubbabel in Millerite History and in our history.

Zechariah 5

And then in chapter 5, there is a flying scroll.

"¹ Then I turned, and lifted up mine eyes, and looked and behold a flying roll. ² And he said unto me, What seest thou? And I answered, I see a flying roll; the length thereof is twenty cubits, and the breadth thereof ten cubits. ³ Then said he unto me, This is the curse that goeth forth over the face of the whole earth: for every one that stealeth shall be cut off as on this side according to it; and every one that sweareth shall be cut off as on that side according to it. ⁴ I will bring it forth, saith the Lord of hosts, and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him that sweareth falsely by my name: and it shall remain in the midst of his house, and shall consume it with the timber thereof and the stones thereof." Zechariah 5:1-4 (KJV).

You can look at two quotes from the Spirit of Prophecy.

The New York Indicator, February 7, 1906:

"The Spirit who asked Zechariah, 'What seest thou?' to which he answered, 'I see a flying roll,' also caused an angel to fly in the midst of heaven, 'having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people, saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him [let no glory be given to erring, sinful men]; for the hour of his judgment is come.' Many indeed will not understand, but will stumble at the words contained in the roll." The New York Indicator, February 7, 1906.

Signs of the Times, June 2, 1890:

"'Then I turned, and lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and behold a flying roll. And he said unto me, What seest thou? And I answered, I see a flying roll; the length thereof is twenty cubits, and the breadth thereof ten cubits. Then said he unto me, This is the curse that goeth forth over the face of the whole earth; for everyone that stealeth shall be cut off as on this side according to it; and everyone that sweareth shall be cut off as on that side according to it. I will bring it forth, saith the Lord of hosts, and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him that sweareth falsely by my name; and it shall remain in the midst of his house, and shall consume it with the timber thereof and the stones thereof.'

"The angel is represented as flying through the midst of heaven with a roll in his hand, on which are written the deeds of our daily life. God bears long with the children of men, but there is a time coming when he will cease to bear with them. God wants them to get under the cover of his wings. Jesus is pleading his blood in our behalf, but Satan is standing at his right hand, resisting every effort in our behalf. May God help us to humble our hearts, before it shall be forever too late to make wrongs right." Signs of the Times, June 2, 1890.

This scroll goes out over the whole Earth. It is the Three Angels' Messages. According to Sister White, it is the Law of God; but, it is going to test the eleventh hour workers, and it is going to test Adventism.

And, have you ever seen a flying carpet in some old-time movie, you know, there is a flying carpet?

FROM THE AUDIENCE: No.

BROTHER PIPPENGER: No?

Well, let us just turn it so we can understand the visual part of it.

Have you ever seen an airplane?

FROM THE AUDIENCE: (Affirmations.)

BROTHER PIPPENGER: Okay. So, Zechariah here sees a flying scroll in the heavens.

Does he hear it? No, he does not hear it.

JUDGMENT BEGINS WITH THE HOUSE OF GOD

Ensign

ADVENTISM 11^TH HOUR WORKERS

GOD'S SHEEP GOD'S OTHER SHEEP

Figure No. 189.

See, judgment begins with the House of God.

This is the House of God [Adventism], and then it goes to the 11^th Hour Workers. And one of the components of the testing process for both these houses (God's sheep, and God's other sheep) is a visual test. Okay? It is a visual test.

And this scroll is representing a visual test.

The visual test for Adventism are these two Charts [the 1843 and 1850 Charts]. The visual test for the eleventh hour workers is the ensign that is lifted up at The Sunday Law.

So, this scroll, this scroll for Adventism that goes around the whole world, are these two Charts.

The scroll that goes to the eleventh hour workers are those people at The Sunday Law that are lifted up as an ensign because they are perfectly reflecting the character of Christ.

FROM THE AUDIENCE: They are the jewels.

BROTHER PIPPENGER: They are the jewels of the temple.

All we are doing is—

FROM THE AUDIENCE: You were in chapter 5.

BROTHER PIPPENGER: What did I say 5 was [filling in Figure No.188 on the whiteboard]?

FROM THE AUDIENCE: Chapter 5 was the flying scroll.

BROTHER PIPPENGER: Verses 1-4, the scroll [in chapter 5 of Zechariah].

And Zechariah 5, verses 5 through 11.

Verses 5 through 11 of Zechariah 5:

"⁵ Then the angel that talked with me went forth, and said unto me, Lift up now thine eyes, and see what is this that goeth forth. ⁶ And I said, What is it? And he said, This is an ephah"—this is a basket—"that goeth forth. He said moreover, This is their resemblance"—

So, initially, it is a basket, but then he tells us it is many baskets; because, this is their resemblance. Of course, this basket: the Catholic Church. It is all over the world, many Catholic Churches, many baskets. This is easy to see, by the way.

—"This is their resemblance through all the earth."—they all look the same—"⁷ And, behold, there was lifted up a talent of lead: and this is a woman that sitteth in the midst of the ephah. ⁸ And he said, This is wickedness."—

Wickedness, according to William Miller, on 2 Thessalonians, chapter 2, represents the Papacy. This is wicked. Okay?

—"This is wickedness. And he cast it into the midst of the ephah;"—

Now, the Papacy is cast into the basket.

—"and he cast the weight of lead upon the mouth thereof."—

The Papacy receives a deadly wound here in 1798. It is locked as a church only, not as a political power.

And then it says,

—"⁹ Then lifted I up mine eyes, and looked, and, behold, there came out two women,"—

Spiritualism and Apostate Protestantism (the Dragon and the False Prophet), two churches, two women, and they are going to do something.

—"and the wind was in their wings;"—

The reason they are making this move that is going to lift the Papacy up between Heaven and Earth and put her on their place in Babylon, the reason that they are going to do is that the wind is carrying them, and the wind that is carrying them is the East Wind of Islam of Bible prophecy.

—"⁹ Then lifted I up mine eyes, and looked, and, behold, there came out two women, and the wind"—9/11—"was in their wings, for they had wings like the wings of a stork: and they lifted up the ephah between the earth and the heaven."—

Between Heaven and Earth, between Heaven and Earth. Heaven is where Christ is, and Christ is giving the Final Warning Message;; and, this ephah of the Catholic Church that is being lifted up by the Dragon power of the United Nations and the False Prophet (the United States); Apostate Protestantism and Spiritualism. And this ephah is standing between Heaven and Earth. Earth is the intended receiver of the Final Warning Message, and the Catholic Church is trying to block that Message. It is lifted up between Heaven and Earth just as the Catholic Church is trying to block the Final Warning Message in Daniel 11:40-45, when a message from the East and the North comes out of the glorious holy mountain, intended for the people of the world to see, and the Papacy places itself in the middle of it to block the message. Once again we see the Papacy doing the same thing.

Verse 10:

—"¹⁰ Then said I to the angel that talked with me, Whither do these bear the ephah? ¹¹ And he said unto me, To build it an house in the land of Shinar [Babylon]: and it shall be established, and set there upon her own base." Zechariah 5:5-11 (KJV).

So, this is the story of the deadly wound.

Are you with me?

FROM THE AUDIENCE: Amen.

Zechariah 6

Zechariah 6:1-8

Zechariah 6:9-15

BROTHER PIPPENGER: Then in chapter 6, verses 1 through 8, is a repeat of the first four Seals.

"¹ And I turned, and lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and, behold, there came four chariots out from between two mountains; and the mountains were mountains of brass. ² In the first chariot were red horses; and in the second chariot black horses; ³ And in the third chariot white horses; and in the fourth chariot grisled and bay horses. ⁴ Then I answered and said unto the angel that talked with me, What are these, my lord? ⁵ And the angel answered and said unto me, These are the four spirits of the heavens, which go forth from standing before the Lord of all the earth. ⁶ The black horses which are therein go forth into the north country; and the white go forth after them; and the grisled go forth toward the south country. ⁷ And the bay went forth, and sought to go that they might walk to and fro through the earth: and he said, Get you hence, walk to and fro through the earth. So they walked to and fro through the earth."—

Notice verse 8, after he once again sees these horses representing the first four Seals. In verse 8, it says about these horses,

—"⁸ Then cried he upon me, and spake unto me, saying, Behold, these that go toward the north country have quieted my spirit in the north country." Zechariah 6:1-8 (KJV).

Okay. When the Spirit has quieted the north country, the trampling down time is finished. The scattering is finished.

And this here [the 1260 from AD538 to 1798] is dealing with this scattering here; but, more importantly, it is dealing with this scattering here [Adventism]. It gets finished in 1989. The Dirt Brush Man now moves into history and begins to sweep away the traditions and customs that have been covered up the truths.

And in verses 9 through 15 [of Zechariah 6], is a repeat of all of this.

This [verses 1-8 of Zechariah, chapter 6] is the "Four Seals."

And this [verses 9-15 of Zechariah, chapter 6] is the "Repetition of Millerite History," and then it ends. And then it ends.

Notice this passage in verse 9.

"⁹ And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, ¹⁰ Take of them of the captivity,"—

What is the captivity? It is Babylon. Take some people out of Babylon.

The Millerites came out of Babylon. They came out after 1798.

After what? After the Fourth Seal; so, it is right in context.

—"even of Heldai, of Tobijah, and of Jedaiah, which are come from Babylon,"—

Who are the three messengers that come from Babylon? This is the Three Angels' Messages coming out of Babylon.

—"and come thou the same day, and go into the house of Josiah the son of Zephaniah;"—

What house are they going into? Josiah's. They are going into the Most Holy Place in 1844.

—"¹¹ Then take silver and gold, and make crowns, and set them upon the head of Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest;"—

Okay. They come out of Babylon, these three people come out of Babylon. In 1844 they go into the Most Holy Place with the High Priest. Is that Millerite History or is it not?

Verse 12:

—"¹² And speak unto him, saying, Thus speaketh the Lord of hosts, saying, Behold the man whose name is The Branch;"—

You go into the Most Holy Place to see the High Priest: "Behold the man whose name is The Branch."

Who is that?

FROM THE AUDIENCE: Christ.

BROTHER PIPPENGER: That is Christ. Okay?

So, all this is in agreement with correct Adventist understanding.

—"and he shall grow up out of his place, and he shall"—do what?—"build the temple of the Lord:"—

And He built the temple of the Lord from 1798 to 1844, in agreement with this history that is right here being set forth that follows the four Seals.

—"¹³ Even he shall build the temple of the Lord; and he shall bear the glory, and shall sit and rule upon his throne; and he shall be a priest upon his throne: and the counsel of peace shall be between them both."—

Now, notice this. There is going to be a little curve ball here; and, if you do not look for the curve ball, you are going to swing and miss.

—"¹⁴ And the crowns shall be to Helem, and to Tobijah, and to Jedaiah,"—

What happened there?

There are still three guys here, but they have some different names.

In other words, at the beginning of Adventism, you have three guys; but, at the end of Adventism, when this history is being repeated, we are to understand that it is being repeated because these guys have different names.

Of course, if you get into the names, which of course we are not going to do, they all contribute to this story. This is a repetition of the Millerite History here; and, the same thing is going to happen to us at the end of the four Seals scattering that comes to a conclusion in 1989, the same process. And, we are going to have to move into the Most Holy Place with Christ, only we are not going to move into the Judgment of the Dead; we are going to move into the Judgment of the Living. It is the same history.

—"¹⁴ And the crowns shall be to Helem,"—

Who at the beginning of Adventism was Heldai (in verse 10).

—"and to Tobijah,"—

Which was the same; because, the Second and Fourth Angels' Messages are the same.

—"and to Jedaiah, and to Hen the son of Zephaniah,"—

Which was formerly Jedaiah in verse 10.

—"for a memorial in the temple of the Lord. ¹⁵ And they that are far off shall come and build in the temple of the Lord,"—

Who is going to build the temple of the Lord?

Who is going to build the final perfect temple of the Lord?

FROM THE AUDIENCE: The Outcasts.

BROTHER PIPPENGER: The Outcasts, yes, that is a correct answer.

FROM THE AUDIENCE: (Indiscernible).

BROTHER PIPPENGER: Based upon the verse, who is going to do it? "They that are far off."

FROM THE AUDIENCE: The eleventh hour workers.

BROTHER PIPPENGER: No, no, no, no.

In Zechariah's day, who was the farthest off from Zechariah? The 144,000, they that are far off.

This is not Millerite History. These are those that were used to build the temple of the Lord that are the farthest off in history. This is the 144,000. "They that are far off." That is you and me, Brothers and Sisters.

—"shall come and build in the temple of the Lord, and ye shall know that the Lord of hosts hath sent me unto you. And this shall come to pass, if ye will diligently obey the voice of the Lord your God." Zechariah 6:9-15 (KJV).

Period. End of vision.

Chapters 1 through 6, it is all the same testimony about the repetition of the Millerite History in our day, based upon this history in this day [of the Babylonian captivity].

And when Zechariah became part of the prophecy, he represented God's people at the end of the world.

So, now I want to go to Daniel 12 and bring this to a close and nail it upon the wall of the Internet.

We know that in Daniel 10:1 we are told that Daniel has the understanding of the dâbâr and the mareh vision.

We have demonstrated that the dâbâr is simply another way that Daniel is identifying the châzôn vision.

So, in Daniel 10:1, when Daniel becomes part of the vision, he is representing God's people at the end of the world that understand both the mareh and the châzôn vision. And we know that he is illustrating God's people at the end of the world because he immediately, in verse 2 and onward, goes into a fast, which we are to do in the Day of Atonement, and then ultimately he sees a vision of Jesus Christ and he is humbled into the dust; but, he is the only one that sees the marah vision. The men that were with him fled; thus, identifying the separation of Adventism, the shaking out of those who refused to walk in the Old Paths.

But, when we get to the end of this vision in chapter 12, we see something very curious, perhaps a contradiction in verse 5 [of chapter 12 of Daniel]. It says,

"⁵ Then I Daniel looked, and, behold, there stood other two, the one on this side of the bank of the river, and the other on that side of the bank of the river. ⁶ And one said to the man clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of the river, How long shall it be to the end of these wonders? ⁷ And I heard the man clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand unto heaven, and sware by him that liveth for ever that it shall be for a time, times, and an half; and when he shall have accomplished to scatter the power of the holy people, all these things shall be finished. "⁸And I heard, but I understood not: . . ." Daniel 12:5-8, in part (KJV).

This cannot be Daniel. The very first thing that we are told about this vision is he understands. This cannot be Daniel. This has to be the Millerites; it has to be us.

And, we have already shown that verse 7, the "time, times, and an half" is referencing the 2520. This is not just the 1260 years of Papal rule; because, we are told this is the end of the scattering of the holy people, and the holy people—Ancient Israel is the holy people. We looked at it in Deuteronomy. They are the holy people that get scattered.

And their power we looked at. The pride of their power, according to Leviticus 26, that was to be broken was their desiring a king. And the power is broken when the national sovereignty is removed and the scattering begins. And for the Northern Kingdom it was 723BC and for the Southern Kingdom it was 677BC.

The terms here in verse 7 allow you to see that the scattering that is being discussed is in connection with breaking the power of the holy people, and that is referencing Leviticus 26 when the pride of their power is swept away.

And William Miller is here illustrated. He begins studying the Bible in the Millerite History, and the first thing that he comes to is the scattering of the holy people, Leviticus 26.

And when he first sees it, "I saw, but I understood not."

But, the same angel that is instructing Daniel, we are told, is instructing William Miller; so, this angel opens up the 2520 to William Miller.

But, here at the end of the world, it also represents God's people who come to 9/11, and the 2520 is opened up and we understood not, and then we have the choice of returning to the Old Paths and understanding, or refusing to walk therein and not understanding.

So, what you can bring on this argument, Brothers and Sisters, if you can follow this here, is in Isaiah 6, when Isaiah is illustrating God's people who are going to carry the Final Warning Message, once he has been prepared, humbled into the dust, purified with the coal, warned about the mentality of Adventism, and then instructed that he has to do this work until The Sunday Law, then in chapter 7 of Isaiah, the message of the waters of Siloam, which is the Latter Rain Message, the message that Isaiah is given to carry to Ahaz, is the message that marks the beginning of both 2520s.

So, the first message that Isaiah is given in his history is the 2520, in that illustration in Isaiah 7.

And in Ezekiel 37, we see the two-step message of the First and Second Angels' Messages, that brings the bones together (the First Angel's Message), that brings them to life (the Second Angel's Message).

Then, Ezekiel repeats and enlarges, and he is going to tell us what his first message is. He says, "Go stand before God's people and show them the two 2520s, and let them know that in 1844 spiritual Israel is one nation.

So, with Isaiah, the message he is given first off is the 2520.

With Ezekiel, the message he is given first off is the 2520.

And here in Daniel 12, the message that William Miller is given first off is the 2520.

And at 9/11, the first message that confronts those that are going to be tested by these things is the 2520.

But, in Daniel 12, Miller also (Daniel, representing Miller and us) has to come to understand the Daily, the truth that has been turned upside down, the truth that the Daily represents Paganism, which we [Adventism] now believe is Christ's Sanctuary ministry.

And Miller comes to understand it correctly through the guidance of the angel Gabriel. And in so doing, he not only has a confirmation about 1798 and the Papacy and how the Papacy is set up over the 30-year period but he has a revelation about 1843, "Blessed is he who cometh to the first disappointment," because there you are getting prepared to participate in the Midnight Cry which will lead you into the Most Holy Place.

And in our day and age, we have to come to understand the 2520 just like William Miller did, and then we have to get our head straight on about the Daily because it has been turned upside down in the history of Adventism.

And then we have got to realize that the bright light behind us that cast light all the way along the road is the 1335, which marks the dynamics associated with the Midnight Cry.

It is the same history. Daniel is here representing both the Millerites and us at the end of the world.

Powerful stuff!

I wish I had the ability to convey it the way it needs to be conveyed; but, it does not matter. It is still powerful stuff.

And what Brother Emiliano came across, powerful stuff! For the first time in Advent History, we can see connected with the 2300-day prophecy point blank the first disappointment and the Midnight Cry. Wow!

FROM THE AUDIENCE: Amen.

BROTHER PIPPENGER: That is confirming the emphasis of the Millerite History. It is shining light on the very doctrine that Adventism says it understands and does not!

The Lion of the Tribe of Judah is not just recovering jewels that have been covered up with customs and traditions, He is taking some of them that were still there and polishing them, polishing them like they have never been polished before; thus showing, if you are willing to see, where the light is coming from here at the end of the world. It is not coming from the ancient men that despises the day of small things. It is coming from people that are being the Outcasts of Israel.

Shall we pray?

Benediction: Heavenly Father, we thank you that you have brought this series to a conclusion. I thank you for that; but, we thank you for the fact that you are continuing to open light before us. You are raising your glorious right hand, and the light on the Path in front of us is bright and profound, and the light that is behind us, the Midnight Cry, grows brighter and brighter. We ask that you give us the willingness, the consecration, the dedication to stay on that Path; because, we know that in the near future that Path is going to get very narrow, very difficult. But, if we will only stay on that Path, we are going to come to that cord and swing over to the Earth made new. We want that to happen with each and every one of us. We want these truths to be the truths that are recognized by the students of prophecy at the end of the world that allow them to take into themselves that the Incarnation can be accomplished in their experience. We continue to ask for traveling mercies for those that are heading home from these meetings, and we continue to ask for healing for those that have been confronted with the sickness that has been pushed into this work here. And we thank you for all these things in Jesus's name. Amen.