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Advent HOPE Sabbath School

Alistair Huong

Time No Longer Part 1

A couple of announcements before I get into the message today.

You notice that in the bulletin, this session at 10 o'clock or 10.20 now it is, is Time No Longer Part 1.

And what we are discussing today are time prophecies at the end times.

What does the Bible have to say about them?

It's actually a fairly involved study, and I won't give too much of it away right now, but I encourage you to come this afternoon.

This morning will be more of a sermon type Bible study message that is directly connected with what we're going to talk about this afternoon.

This afternoon is going to be much more of a spirit of prophecy study.

There'll be slides and there'll be more of a lecture style.

I always hesitate to use that word because it comes with negative connotation, but that's what it is.

And also, the audio guys, Ken, you're listening, last week we had a Revelation chapter 10 lesson study up in the balcony with Revelation class, and it was sort of a foundation for the 2 messages for today.

And for the sake of audio verse listeners, we're going to try to re-record that and after talking with the AV guys, maybe we can do it this afternoon, possibly.

So, come at 04:00, we'll have more details then, and if anything, we might have a, the redo of the Revelation 10 Bible study afterwards, okay?

Once in a while I get the feeling that everything is sort of lining up.

For example, today the opening song that we sang, Watch These Saints, was the best possible song we could have chosen for this message, because it's exactly what I'm talking about today.

So let's bow our heads and we'll get right into it.

Father in heaven, we are so thankful for life and freedom.

And we recognize that it is a gift from you.

And today as we contemplate our role in the end times now, may you inspire us, motivate us out of genuine love for you.

If you have your Bibles, please turn them with me to Revelation chapter 10.

If you're there, let me hear you say amen.

I think the few of you who found it just say amen really loud because everyone else is still turning their pages.

But I'll give you a few more seconds here.

Revelation chapter 10, we will read from verse 1 to verse 6.

And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire.

And he had in his hand a little book open, and he set his right foot upon the sea and his left foot upon the earth, and cried with a loud voice as when a lion roareth.

And when he had cried, 7 thunders uttered their voices.

And when the 7 thunders had uttered their voices, I was about to write, and I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Seal up those things which the 7 thunders uttered, and write them not.

And the angel which I saw stand upon the sea and upon the earth lifted up his hand to heaven, and swear by him that liveth forever and ever, who created heaven and the things that therein are, and the earth and the things that therein are, and the sea and the things which are therein, that there should be time no longer.

Revelation chapter 10 opens us with a picture of a very decked out, if I could use that common vernacular, angel.

He's clothed with all sorts of interesting garments.

And I'm not going to take the time to go through all of that, but if you study it out, or if you come to Revelation Bible study, we discover that that angel was indeed Jesus.

And Jesus comes down from heaven and he has a little book open in his hand.

And this little book, we discovered, was the book of Daniel.

And the book is open, which infers that at 1 point it was closed.

So how do we know that this is the book of Daniel?

Turn your Bibles now to Daniel chapter 12.

And keep your finger back in Revelation chapter 10.

Revelation chapter 10 and Daniel chapter 12 are 2 very intricately linked chapters in the Bible.

Daniel chapter 12, let's look in verse 8.

Daniel speaking here, he says, and I heard, but I understood not.

Then said I, oh my Lord, when shall be the end of these things?

Verse 9, And he said, go thy way Daniel, for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end.

So here God says to Daniel, the book that you have just written, it is sealed up until a certain time, the time of the end.

And once we come to the time of the end, that's when the book will be opened.

So logically speaking, when the angel comes down from heaven in Revelation chapter 10 and the little book is opened, we can conclude that that time is actually the time of the end.

Let's take a few steps back in Daniel chapter 12, verse 6.

Daniel 12, verse 6, "'And 1 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?' Verse 7, "'And I heard the man clothed in linen, "'which was upon the waters of the river how long shall it be to the end of these wonders verse 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 swear by him that liveth forever and ever by the way doesn't that description of the angel look familiar to something we just read in Revelation chapter 10?

He swears by him that liveth forever and ever that it shall be for a time, times and a half, when he shall have accomplished to scatter the power of the holy people.

So what we see here is an individual asks the angel or the man whose clothed in linen in the middle of the river, how long will these wonders be?

And his answer is, it will be for a time, times and a half.

I won't go into all the discussion, that's 1260 prophetic days or 1260 literal years.

And then Daniel in verse 8, that's what we read earlier.

Daniel pipes up, he says, I heard, but I understood not.

Then I said, then said I, oh my Lord, when shall the end of these things be?

So you see Daniel, he heard the prophecy, Time, times and a half, 1260 years, but he didn't understand, so he asked the question again.

The answer is going to be the same thing as time, times and a half, only in different words.

Verse 9 tells us it is until the time of the end.

So putting these 2 things together, what I'm simply saying is, the time of the end begins at the conclusion of the 1260 years of Bible prophecy.

So keep your finger in Daniel chapter 12 right at the moment.

We're going to come back to it 1 more time.

But let's go back to Revelation chapter 10.

So here we have a few pieces of information already.

The little book that was opened was the book of Daniel.

And the book of Daniel was opened at the conclusion of the 1260, which is the time of the end.

And so Revelation chapter 10, when the angel comes down and he opens the book, we can conclude that that took place in 1798.

And at that time, I'm skipping a few things, at that time the angel lifts his hand up to heaven, swears by him who lives forever and ever, the very same picture we see in Daniel chapter 12, and he says, there should be time no longer.

You can all nod your head real confidently, yes.

So it can't be literal time, that is no more.

Well, the fact that we're still alive and Christ hasn't come means that probation has not expired.

Okay, let's go back to Daniel chapter 12.

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