Michigan Camp Meeting 2016: The Harvest is Great

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Michigan Conference of Seventh-day Adventists

Seven Trumpets and the Role of Islam

Jay Gallimore

Seven Trumpets and the Role of Islam- Part 1

Seven Trumpets and the Role of Islam- Part 2

Seven Trumpets and the Role of Islam- Part 3

Seven Trumpets and the Role of Islam- Part 4

Seven Trumpets and the Role of Islam- Part 5

Heavenly Father, we want to thank you for your Word and for the Bible and for the faith that we have and that we have not believed cunningly devised fables.

We pray the Spirit of God will be here today being our teacher and our helper.

Okay, I wanted to pick up, because we had some questions about the altar of incense, whether it was in the holy place or the most holy place.

And so I put together my reasons, and I don't want to spend a lot of time on this today because I need to get into the other, but here are my reasons for the trumpets covering all of Christian history from the cross, the second coming, actually covering all that time period.

The book of Revelation is historical or Protestant.

Some of the trumpets, people who are interpreting trumpets, even in the Adventist church, are taking the trumpets and putting them all the way down in the holy of holy place.

And that's why the question about the altar.

The 7 churches, the 7 seals, and the 7 trumpets are repeat in large principle of the same time period like Daniel 2, 7, and 8.

The sanctuary is prophetic with each of the 3 sections covering the ministry of Jesus.

And number 4, and that should be in consecutive order.

Number 4, the trumpets along with the 7 churches and 7 seals are started and initiated in the holy place or the first compartment of the sanctuary.

And the reason for that is they become, they're given from the altar of incense.

5, to pull the 7 trumpets out and put them in the holy of holies with the 7 last plagues is to take them out of their context.

And 6, all of Scripture puts the altar of incense in the holy place, not the most holy place, with the exception of Hebrews.

Hebrews 9, 4 is out of sync with the rest of Scripture on the placement of the altar of incense.

The reasons for this could be, and I looked it up, there's probably 7 reasons that I found.

I'll give you the 2 that I think are my reasonableness.

That's why Adventists believe in thought inspiration and not in...inerrancy.

In other words, the prophets were not God's pen, they were His...what's the word?

Paul is making a theological statement, not a location statement.

And I tend to favor this because on the day of atonement, the altar of incense had the blood placed on it as well as on the mercy seat.

So on that 1 day, it could be included in both compartments.

Okay, that's Jay Gallimore's reason why I lean to that.

The other thing is you always measure the obscure in the light of the clear.

And what you don't do is you take all the clear and try to make it in the light of the obscure.

So, and number 8 is the book of Revelation itself places it in the holy place.

In chapters 1 to 11, you are in the holy place of the heavenly sanctuary.

The most holy place is not opened until it's mentioned in Revelation 1119.

There is no appearance of the altar of incense in the most holy place in chapters 1119 through chapter 22.

So the context of Revelation itself places the altar of incense in the holy place.

And so I'm operating in that context and that's why I believe that's correct.

But if you have a different picture, that's okay.

The first 4 are God's judgments on Imperial Rome.

And then the last 3 are grouped together for the 3 woes, and they are God's judgments on apostate Christian Rome.

Not just papal Rome, per se, but apostate Christian Rome.

Yesterday we talked about the trumpets are the judgments of God that are already in the land.

The first trumpet sounded and there came hail and fire mixed with blood.

And they were thrown to the earth, and a third of the earth was burned up, and a third of the trees were burned up, and the green grass was burned up." Revelation 8, 7.

I used to wonder this, and I said, how do we...

So I used to wonder, what does this mean?

But again, I'd forgotten that the Bible is its own interpreter and that we need to search Scripture.

And I fell on this 1 day reading through here, and I was looking at my marginal, you know how you have those marginal references?

And I looked and I thought, oh here's some Old Testament marginal references.

If you want to come in, I got a couple, 3 more chairs I think left in here.

There's 1 there and there's 1 right here.

So I said to myself, I'm going to look those up.

And to my delight and surprise, I began to find something interesting.

I went back and I found God's judgments and the kinds of terminology that He used in that Old Testament.

Why does God say a third, a third, a third?

So let's just go and maybe take a look at some of these Old Testament symbols.

And these are God's judgments on apostate Israel.

Die a pestilence and be consumed with a famine in your midst.

1 third shall fall by the sword all around you.

And I will scatter another third to all the winds, and I will draw out the sword all around you, and I will scatter another third to all the winds, and I will draw out the sword after them.

So it shall be a reproach, a taunt, a lesson, an astonishment to the nations that are around you when I execute judgments among you in anger and furious fury and in furious rebuke.

I the Lord have spoken." Isaiah 5, 11-15.

Somebody's reminding me to make sure that my arm is okay.

So I said to myself, why is God using a third here?

And that may be of us the reason why He's using a third in the first 4 trumpets because that third follows all the way through those first 4 trumpets.

And as I got to looking at it and thinking about it, God's judgments on Israel and Jeremiah and Ezekiel were not judgments of finality.

They were judgments impartial, Meaning that Israel was not going to be totally obliterated.

It was going to be given an opportunity again.

So I said to myself, that word third then is trying to tell us that these judgments are not the final judgments.

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