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Plenaries with Norman McNulty

Norman McNulty

Revelation’s Sanctuary Theme

The Third Angel for Our Time

The Straight Testimony from the Most Holy Place

Adventism and the Vindication of God

The Sealing of the 144,000

Abraham - Father of the Three Angels’ Messages

The Mystery of God Finished

The Song of Moses and the Song Of the Lamb

Jesus and the Third Angel’s Message

Sleeping At Midnight

Father in heaven, we thank you for waking us up this morning.

We thank you for the blessings we've received this week, and I pray that you would bless us again today as we have the last weekday of this camp meeting and continue to bless us through the remaining time that we have together.

I pray that you would speak through me now.

May the message be clear and may it lift up Jesus in a very powerful way.

So the title for the message this morning is Jesus and the Third Angel's Message.

Now in these morning meetings we have been going through the sanctuary message as seen in the book of Revelation.

And if you recall from our message on Monday, we saw that the 7 churches, the 7 seals and the 7 trumpets, are actually following Jesus through the holy place into the most holy place of the sanctuary in heaven.

And we see that the Laodicean message applies especially to God's people as it relates to the work of Jesus in the most holy place.

We see in the seals that the sealing of God's people clearly takes place from the most holy place in the heavenly sanctuary.

We see in the trumpets that as Jesus moves into the most holy place and as the seventh trumpet sounds and the temple of God is open in heaven and we see the most holy place, the Ark of the Testament, that during this time the mystery of God should be finished, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory." Now another way to look at this, if I haven't said this already, would be to say it like this.

The 7 churches, seals, and trumpets are just another way of showing how Jesus cleanses the sanctuary.

Jesus cleanses the sanctuary in Laodicea when After he knocks on the doors of the hearts of Laodicea, we let him come in and he cleanses us of sin.

Jesus accomplishes the work of cleansing the sanctuary in the seals when he seals the 144, 000 with the seal of the living God, and Jesus cleanses the sanctuary in the trumpets when the mystery of God is finished, Christ in you, the hope of glory.

Another way of looking at it, when you look at the churches, the seals and the trumpets, is that when you come to the end of the churches, you're almost left with a question, wow, this is God's last day church, what is going to happen?

But when you move from the churches to the seals, you find that from God's last day church, despite the fact that it was wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked, from that last day church comes the 144, 000, and the trumpets gives us the answer that it's from the rise of the Second Advent movement that the 144, 000 come.

Now when you look at the first 11 chapters, and I made mention of this on Monday, you're looking at those first 11 chapters and you're like, wow, look at God's plan.

God has a plan, He has a people, and they are going to stand with the Lamb on Mount Zion.

The 144, 000 are coming from the Second Advent movement.

God is going to win the great controversy, He's going to answer the charges of Satan through the demonstration of His people.

But then you get to Revelation 12, which is right after all of those events in the church of seals and trumpets, and the devil says, you want to bet?

And so the devil makes war with Michael and his angels, and the war starts in heaven, and the war comes to this earth, and you look at Revelation chapter 12, and when Christ is born, the devil was standing by trying to destroy him, but this was Christ, he was delivered, and he was caught up to God and to his throne, and then the persecution is directed instead of Christ to the woman who represents the church, and the woman flees into the wilderness for a thousand 260 years, and at the end of time, just before Jesus comes back, the dragon makes a special attack on God's last day church, who keep the commandments of God and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.

We see that attack especially when we study Revelation 13, where we have 2 beasts.

The first beast coming up out of the sea, that's out of the populated areas of the earth.

It comes up out of the territory of Western Europe, it has 7 heads and 10 horns.

And then we have the second beast coming up out of the earth, the unpopulated area of the United States of America, it has the 2 horns, it speaks like a lamb, or it looks like a lamb, speaks as a dragon, it has 2 horns like a lamb, speaks as a dragon, and those 2 horns represent Republicanism and Protestantism." And notice it's not the Republican Party.

I saw someone share a quote on Facebook the other day where Ellen White says that she uses the term of Republican government, and she's referring to Republicanism.

And someone took that to mean that the Republican Party would be in power when the Sunday law comes.

But we see that there's 2 horns, the republicanism and protestantism.

Republicanism means that the United States has a representative form of government that protects the minority from the majority.

So you can't just have a 51% vote to institute something that will take away constitutional civil liberties from a minority, that's republicanism.

Now yes, we go with majority vote for electing leaders of the country, but when it comes to the civil liberties contained in the Constitution, you can't just vote the minority off the map, so to speak.

So Revelation 13, you have these 2 beasts, The first beast, the second beast, who will unite at the end of the world, where the second beast makes an image to the first beast, and then you have the mark of the beast.

No man can buy or sell, and that is all directed especially towards God's people, and this Is Satan doing everything that he can to stop God from accomplishing what he says he would accomplish in the first 11 chapters?

So then we come to Revelation 14, and God has a response to the attacks of Satan.

And when you look at the first 5 verses of Revelation 14, this gives us the picture of the final victory of God in the great controversy.

Finally, we see God victorious, And all of the efforts of Satan to undo God's plan of being victorious in the end come to a crashing halt, because God has the 144, 000 who stand on Mount Zion with a lamb having his father's name written in their foreheads.

They sing a new song which we talked about last night.

They follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth.

They have no guile in their mouth or without fault before the throne of God.

And the question is where did these people come from?

And the answer is they were produced by the 3 angels' messages.

The 3 angels' messages have not lost their relevance.

As a Seventh-day Adventist, I will proudly say that I believe with all of my heart in the 3 angels' messages, and those messages will have force and authority, because they are ordained of God, and are designed by God to prepare His people to go through the last crisis of Earth's history, and they will never lose their force or relevance.

God has given to us the 3 angels' messages to prepare us for the coming of Jesus.

In them is contained the everlasting gospel with a command to fear God, to give glory to Him, a reminder of the judgment hour, a reminder to worship Him who created the Sabbath, a reminder that Babylon is fallen and that her wine or her theology will make you drunk.

And if you drink her wine and become intoxicated with her drink, you will receive the mark of the beast, as the third angel's message says, and if you receive the mark of the beast, you will receive the wrath of God.

And the wrath of God is described in Revelation 16 as the 7 last plagues.

And some people stop in verse 11 where it says, "...the smoke of their torment ascendeth up forever and ever." And that's where people end the third angel's message.

But the third angel's message finishes in verse 12.

And Ellen White says in Early Writings page 254, the third angel closes his message thus, Here is the patience of the saints.

Here are they that keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus.

As he repeated these words he pointed to the heavenly sanctuary.

The minds of all who embrace this message are directed to the most holy place, where Jesus stands before the ark, making his final intercession for all those for whom mercy still lingers and for those who have ignorantly broken the law of God." So the third angel's message concludes in verse 12.

LMY also says in 2nd Selected Messages, page 384, the banner of the third angel has inscribed upon it the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus.

Yes, the mark of the beast is part of the third angel's message, but that is not the totality of the third angel's message.

We talked about on Monday night how justification by faith is the third angel's message in verity.

And what is it that gives the third angel's message so much power?

What is it about the third angel's message that will produce the 144, 000 who will be God's answer, God's final answer after what Jesus did on the cross, they will be God's answer to Satan's charges against the character of God.

What is it about the third angel's message that will produce such a people?

And as I've studied, I think there's probably more than 1 answer, but an answer that I have come up with that is very convicting to me is this.

And that is that the third angel's message has power because Jesus personifies the third angel's message.

Revelation 14, 12, here is the patience of the saints.

As we talked about last night, Jesus is our example.

He left us an example that we should follow in his steps.

And if we look at Revelation 14, 12, we see that this is going to be the experience of the 144, 000.

When God looks to the onlooking universe and he says, here they are.

Here are they that keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus and who have the patience of the saints.

Wouldn't it be helpful, because we know that's our goal.

Wouldn't it be helpful to have an example of how to have this experience?

Wouldn't it be helpful to see an example of patience, obedience, and faith that would lead us to the same experience?

This is a famous verse, and if you didn't know it already, Hebrews 12 verses 1 and 2 is really another way of saying the 3 angels' messages, especially the third angel.

Hebrews 12 verses 1 and 2, wherefore saying we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight in the sin which does so easily beset us, and let us run with patience.

That word patience is the same word in the Greek as the patience of the Saints in Revelation 14 12.

So Paul is saying we can have this patience, but the question is how can we have this patience as we run the race that is set before us?

Verse 2 tells us, looking unto Jesus, so that's good.

We look unto Jesus and that's going to help us have patience.

Looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him, notice, endured the cross, despising the shaman, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.

Now in the Greek it doesn't say he patienced the cross, but the word in the Greek is the same word as patience.

That's why some versions say let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, or here is the endurance of the saints, here are they that keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus.

It's the same word, to endure, to have patience.

Jesus endured the cross, So you're looking for an example of patience or how to endure.

Ellen White says in Great Controversy that as we face the time of trouble, we need a faith that will endure weariness, hunger, and delay.

He was kept up all night through a mock trial, and he was hungry.

If anybody had an excuse to demonstrate impatience, Jesus could have had an excuse, but he would not have been able to be our example.

How is it that it can be said, here is the patience of the saints?

Here are a group of people who have learned to look unto Jesus, the author and finisher of their faith.

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