of all has brought to the test that love for Jesus which they professed to fill. All heaven watched with deepest interest the reception of the first angel's message, but many who professed to love Jesus and who shed tears as they read the story of the cross, derided the good news of his coming. Instead of receiving the message with gladness, they declared it to be delusion. They hated those who loved his appearing and shut them out of the churches. Those who rejected the first message could not be benefited by the second, neither were they benefited by the midnight cry which was to prepare them to enter with Jesus by faith into the most holy place of the heavenly sanctuary. And by rejecting the two former messages, they have so darkened their understanding that they see no light in the third angel's message which show the way in the most holy place. I saw that as the Jews crucified Jesus, so the nominal churches had crucified these messages and therefore they have no knowledge of the way into the most holy and they cannot be benefited by the intercession of Jesus there. Like the Jews who offered their useless sacrifices, they offered up their useless prayers to an apartment which Jesus had left, and Satan, pleased with the deception, assumes a religious character and leads the minds of these professed Christians to himself, working with his powers, his signs, and lying wonders to fasten them in his snares. This threefold testing process, that's early writings page 259 through 261, this threefold testing process that took place in the Millerite movement paralleled a threefold testing process in the days of Christ. If you rejected John the Baptist, you're not benefited by the teachings of Jesus. If you reject the teachings of Jesus, you're not there at the day of Pentecost. If you rejected the message of William Miller, you're not around when the organized churches closed their doors against the Millerites at the second angel's message. If you didn't follow on when they did close their doors, then you weren't involved at the test of the great disappointment on October 22nd, 1844. The three angels' messages, as they arrived into history, were three tests which paralleled the three tests in the days of Christ. Progressive tests, don't pass the first one, not involved with the second, don't pass the second, not involved with the third. This history is repeated. It's clearly illustrated as being repeated, both in the Bible and the spirit of prophecy. And in our day and age, the third test, the final test for Seventh-day Advent, is the place where the door is closed, the same place where the door was closed in the Millerite time period. At the third test, at the October 22nd, 1844 great disappointment, the door was closed on the foolish virgins, and the door was open in the most holy place. In our day and age, the door is closed on Adventism at the Sunday law. That's where the door of probation closes. And prior to that test, which parallels the third test, brothers and sisters, are two other tests. And when you look at these tests, you'll find that they allow