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45:2

@@@^@9NAHUM, CHAPTER 1, VERSES 1-9: “The burden of Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite. God is jealous, and the Lord revengeth; the Lord revengeth; and is furious @7[for His enemies have destroyed His vineyard]@9; the Lord will @7take vengeance on His adversaries, and He reserveth wrath for His enemies. The Lord is slow to anger, and great in power, and will not at all acquit the wicked: the Lord hath His way in the whirlwind and in the storm [whereas the aircraft of the nations do not], and the clouds are the dust of His feet. He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, and drieth up all the rivers [but men and their ships go down therein to rise no more] Bashan languisheth, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon languisheth. The mountains quake at Him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at His presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein. Who can stand before His indignation? and who can abide in the fierceness of His anger? His fury is poured out like fire and the rocks are thrown down by Him. The Lord is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble, and He knoweth them that trust in Him. But with an overrunning flood He will make an utter end of the place thereof [the place of the wicked], and darkness shall pursue His enemies. What do ye imagine against the Lord? He will make an utter end: affliction shall not rise up the second time [because the wicked are cut off, and His Kingdom now stands forever].”

48:2

@@@^“Say unto them, As I live, saith the Lord God, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel? Therefore, thou son of man, say unto the children of thy people, The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him in the day of his transgression: as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall thereby in the day that he turneth from his wickedness; neither shall the righteous be able to live for his righteousness in the day that he sinneth. When I shall say to the righteous that he shall surely live; if he trust to his own righteousness, and commit iniquity, all his righteousnesses shall not be remembered; but for his iniquity that he hath committed, he shall die for it. Again, when I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; if he turn from his sin, and do that which is lawful and right; if the wicked restore the pledge, give again that he had robbed, walk in the statutes of life, without committing iniquity; he shall surely live, he shall not die. None of his sins that he hath committed shall be mentioned unto him: he hath done that which is lawful and right; he shall surely live.” Ezek. 33:11-16.

1:3

@@@^Moreover, since our personal rights of investigating truths purported to be sent from God, without the interference of our former ministers, took us out of the churches which are mindful only of past truths, and brought us into the Advent present Truth some years ago, should we now surrender these rights and become spiritually dependent on others to tell us what is Truth and what is error? Why judge ourselves spiritual invalids rather than full grown Christians? And why take the ministers’ word now against advanced purported inspired present Truth, if such a step previously taken would have been disastrous, would have cheated us from accepting the Advent Truth? Is it not true that if we would let others think for us, we might be cheated as badly as were the Jewish common people cheated by the priests and rabbis in Christ’s day?

2:1

@@@^In view of the experiences of those who have gone before us, we feel confident that you will accept this booklet which is being sent to you, and which means so much to us and to thousands of other Seventh-day Adventists throughout the world. Will you examine it for yourself as did the noble Bereans (Acts 17:10, 11), independently of other people’s influence or prejudices? Only prayer and study will keep you from error and lead you into God’s marvelous light —

3:1

@@@^“ . . . beware of rejecting that which is truth. The great danger with our people has been that of depending upon men, and making flesh their arm. Those who have not been in the habit of searching the Bible for themselves, or weighing evidence, have confidence in the leading men, and accept the decisions they make; and thus many will reject the very messages God sends to His people, if these leading brethren do not accept them.” — @9Testimonies to Ministers@7, p. 106.

8:2

@@@^@9“And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders stood a Lamb as It had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth. @7

13:1

@@@^7. “The judgement was set, and the books were opened.” Dan. 7:10.@17. “The hour of His Judgment is come.” Rev. 14:7. “And I saw the dead, and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books according to their works.” Rev. 20:12@9 @7 verse TN15: 13.1}@}

14:3

@@@^The Judicial throng, Inspiration makes known, consists of a judge — the Ancient of Days; of witnesses — the angels; of an advocate — the Lamb; of a jury — the elders; of defendants — the beasts; and of their ruler — “the Lion of the tribe of Juda.” (That the four beasts are a symbolical representation of the saints, just as the beasts of Daniel 7 are symbolical of the nations, is made clear by the beast’s own statement: “ . . . for thou wast slain, and hast @9redeemed us@7 to God by Thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation.” Rev. 5:9.)

17:5

@@@^During the period of the six seals, while the first session of the Judgment is on, the four beasts rest not day and night, saying, “Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come.” Rev. 4:8. But when the seventh seal is opened, there is silence in heaven (the beasts hold their peace, also the “lightnings,” the “thunderings,” and the “voices” cease — Rev. 4:5) “about the space of half an hour.” Rev. 8:1. The silence clearly reveals that the first session of the Judicial proceedings comes to a close, and that the second session commences after the silence is over.

18:3

@@@^Although the @9proceedings@7 of the first two sessions are somewhat different, they are in all other respects similar. The third, however, is entirely unlike the first two. The differences are seen in that before the half-hour silence occurs, there is at the throne “a sea of glass like unto crystal” (Rev. 4:6), and no one stands on it; but after the half-hour silence passes away, the scene changes: The “sea of glass” is “mingled with fire: and them that had gotten the victory over the beast, and over his image, and over his mark, and over the number of his name, stand on the sea of glass, having the harps of God.” Rev. 15:2.

20:2

@@@^Also, the truths that at length the Temple is opened, that the seven angels and the beasts come out of it, that it is then filled with smoke from the glory of God so that no man is able to enter into it “till the seven plagues of the seven angels were fulfilled” (Rev. 15:5-8), till the cities of the nations fall, till every island flees away, and the mountains disappear (Rev. 16:19, 20 — all these definitely point out that with the second sitting the Judicial throng adjourns, probation closes for all, the plagues fall, and the earth flees away. Then commences, at the Great White Throne, the executive Judgment of the dead, of those who do not come up in the first resurrection, and of those who, rather than being translated, are slain at the brightness of His coming.

22:1

@@@^“And I saw a Great White Throne, and Him that sat on it, from Whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them. And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.” Rev. 20:1-5, 11, 12.

24:3

@@@^Thuswise the wicked are raised from the dead when the thousand years are expired, and as a result Satan is loosed out of his prison, making it again possible for him to deceive those whose names were not found in the book of life, “Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea. And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them.

26:1

@@@^As previously pointed out, to John the time of the commencement of the Judgment was loosely stated to be “hereafter” from his time but to Daniel it was definitely shown to convene sometime after the beast’s “little horn” arose, and before the saints possess the Kingdom (Dan. 7:8-11). The exact date, though, is determined by Daniel 8:14 — “Unto two thousand and three hundred days then shall the sanctuary be cleansed,” the tares shall be taken out of it. At that time, while the cleansing is in progress, the church proclaims: “Fear God, and give glory to Him; for the hour of His judgment is come.” Rev. 14:7. (For a complete exposition of Daniel 8:14, read Tract No. 3, @9The Judgment And The Harvest@7.)

27:1

@@@^What the book contains, now becomes exceedingly clear: It contains the history of the world and the deeds of all mankind. And, of course, logic rules that with the opening of the book, the Judicial investigation of the deeds of the professed people of God should begin, as The Revelation itself discloses. Moreover, since both the wording and the symbolism of The Revelation refute any interpretation other than the one herein made, the truth of these things now stands fast and sure.

27:4

@@@^Prophetically, the Judgment was set and the books were opened, but no one in the whole vast universe of God was worthy to open the sealed book, or even to look therein, save the Lamb — the Saviour of the world, the King of kings, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, our King and Advocate, Creation’s Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the End. Thus it is that, as our only Defender, the One Who has lived among us, He is the only one who can through personal experience understandingly and sympathetically lay open the secrets of the past, of the present, and of the future — the only one worthy to open the book and to defend fallen humanity.

28:2

@@@^In the typical Atonement everyone’s destiny among the professed people of God, was forever fixed — those who complied with the demands of the law were left to live, and those who did not, were “cut off” from among the people. Thus it must also be in the antitypical Atonement.

29:1

@@@^As the books of record are opened in the Judgment, the lives of all whom the “net” (church) of salvation has ever caught, good and bad alike, come in review before God, there to be segregated. There the eligibility of each is examined and determined. Indeed, the Judgment is the harvest.Yes, any tares ever to be plucked out and set aside for destruction, and any wheat ever to be placed in the “barn” (kingdom) for the Master’s use, are segregated on the antitypical day of Atonement. Beginning with those who first lived upon the earth, our Advocate presents the cases of each successive generation, and closes the pre-millennial Judgment with the living members of the church.

31:1

@@@^Yes, the seven symbolical “horns,” “eyes,” and “lamps of fire,” are indeed “the seven Spirits of God,” the Spirit’s work in all phases, sent forth into all the earth, to give to the saints power against the forces of evil, also light on the Gospel of Christ, a vision of their present state of being and of their future glory, and so on. Hence the Saviour’s reassurance, “It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart I will send Him unto you.” John 16:7. “But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, Whom the Father will send in My name, He shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.” John 14:26. Plainly, then, whatever things Inspiration Itself does not teach and interpret, are not worth remembering, teaching, or even listening to.

32:1

@@@^The lamps of fire being seven in number, they, of course, can but represent the ever-living church (Rev. 1:20) clothed with the light of the whole Truth of God — her teaching present truth to each successive generation since the world began, the truth by which the works of each is searched and judged, each one’s righteousness measured.