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Present Truth Lifestyle Conference

The Power of the 3 Angels Messages

Eric Walsh

In the Court of the Creator: 1st Angels Message

The Collapse of Confusion: 2nd Angels Message

Marked for Death or Sealed for Life: 3rd Angels Message

The Power of Letting Go

We have been going through the 3 angels messages at night and in the morning to some extent and so we're going to wrap up today with this 1.

Our scripture reading is taken from Revelation chapter 14 starting at verse 9.

Revelation 14 verse 9 says, And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image and receive his mark in his forehead or in his hand, the same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation.

And he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb." Our message this Sabbath morning is, this Sabbath afternoon is entitled, Marked for Death or Sealed for Life.

Father God, we thank you Lord for this opportunity to share your word.

1 last time here in Botswana, Lord, I ask that you make me just a nail upon the wall.

And upon that nail, Lord, I ask that you hang a portrait of Jesus Christ.

Instead, Father, let us hear a word from the throne room of grace.

This is our prayer in Jesus' precious and holy name.

All right we're gonna get right into this thing.

We're gonna go right back to Revelation 14 verse 6.

And I saw another angel flying in the midst of heaven.

This is the first angel's message we talked about 2 days ago.

Having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth and to every nation, kindred, tongue, and people.

Saying with a loud voice, fear God and give glory to him for the hour of his judgment is come and worship him that made heaven and earth and the sea and the fountains of water.

From this we said there are 4 great lessons from the first angel, 4 lessons, critical lessons.

Around the time of 1844 this message was proclaimed with great power.

It is the message that allows the separation and the collapse of Babylon in the sense that Babylon's lying, deceptive ways were revealed when in fact biblical truth was released into the world and men rejected it.

So the lessons, number 1, the gospel is everlasting.

We talked about the gospel, righteousness by faith.

The Bible says that the just shall live by faith.

But that faith without works is also what?

Christianity in the pure biblical form is different from every other religion in the world because you cannot work your way into salvation.

If you study some religions, I talked about how you can get to nirvana, you gotta work your way into nirvana, but if you fail, you get sent back to the beginning as a bug, like a slug or a roach or something, and then you got to work your way all the way back up.

And I don't want to be a roach, I'm gonna stay a Christian, amen.

All people are to receive it, and we talked a difficult subject around race and race relations.

I gave my testimony of how I myself became a black racist, and what God had to do to liberate me from hatred of other people, and the idea that based on my skin color, I was better than someone else.

The hour of his judgment has come, the unique Adventist doctrine, the pre-Advent judgment is the third lesson, and of course, worship him because he created all things and so we we talked this week a bit about the lie of evolution and that if man had kept the seven-day Sabbath Darwin's evolution would never have had been able to get a foothold on earth The consequences of evolution is we have stripped man, especially these younger generations, of all moral compasses, and now in America, for example, we have people walk into places and just shoot up everybody.

But the second angel comes in in verse 8 and says, and there followed another angel saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all the nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.

She corrupted the world with false doctrine.

And when we went to Revelation 18, we found that she was a political, religious, and economic power.

And part of her economic power, in fact, was the sale of slaves and the souls of men.

And I walked you through how it is that the Catholic Church and then followed in suit many of the Protestant denominations pretty much all except the Quakers and then actually went against slavery but uniquely according to the book Slavery and Catholicism uniquely the Adventist Church even before it was formally organized was always against slavery in the United States.

And that was 1 of the ways I show you the sign of who Babylon is.

But we're gonna jump to the third angels and to set up the third angel we got to go back to 4 other angels.

Yep, Revelation 7 and verse 1 says, and after these things I saw 4 angels standing on the 4 corners of the earth, holding the 4 winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow on the earth, nor on the sea, nor on any tree.

The Bible says that there are 4 angels, and they are holding back the winds of strife.

When I was at Oakwood, and some of the great preachers would preach on this, they spoke about these winds being a lot of different things, a lot of different ways, but 1 of the things that always stuck with me is that the winds are literally the consequences of sin entering the world.

God, as terrible as the world is, God has been holding back from allowing the full weight of the consequences of sin to destroy the planet.

These angels work tirelessly, as it is, to hold back destruction.

1 preacher said, but it seems like sometimes they open their hands up too wide and some of the wind slips through.

Because we have these things, and I showed you this earlier in the week.

This is the war that happened in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Some reports say as many as 5 million people died.

It was called Africa's Great World War with all of the factions that joined in.

And I want to tell you that in America, it didn't even make the news.

Here's a graph I showed earlier in the week of all of the shootings that happened in America.

And this is a little bit old now because we have so many that you can't even keep up anymore.

If you look at it, it is increasing in frequency.

In fact, I told a story of how I took care of 2 of the victims from the Las Vegas shooting.

1 was actually shot, 1 was running and broke her ankle and ran a mile on a broken ankle.

And she came to see us in our clinic in California.

And I could tell you that this thing is for real.

But I also quoted where Ellen White says, listen, when we see these things happening, we as Christians are not to panic.

Instead, we should hear Jesus' voice say, do not be afraid, it is I.

There are warnings telling us that Jesus is about to return, amen?

And I even showed this 1 from the US Geological Society of earthquakes between magnitude 6 and 8, and it shows that in fact, just as Jesus says in Matthew chapter 24, there will be an increase in earthquakes in diverse places.

I show these slides for the purpose of helping those who are still wondering if they can trust their Bible to know the Bible is exact.

Jesus says that 1 of the signs will be an increase in earthquakes and in fact, and they would be everywhere, a secular group would tell you that in fact that is true.

So the 4 angels are holding back the winds of strife and another angel, a fifth angel, jumps on the scene.

This angel, John says, I saw another angel ascending from the east, having the seal of the living God.

And he cried with a loud voice to the 4 angels to whom it was given to hurt the earth and the sea.

And this is what he said to those 4 angels.

He says, hurt not the earth, neither the sea nor the trees.

Until we have sealed the servants of our God, where?

Nothing is to happen until God's servants are sealed.

And I was in a place where Horrible hurricanes happen.

And they were very worried about a hurricane happen, 1 of the small islands off the coast of Florida.

And I was preaching at a church, and I said, man, how do you guys live here when all these hurricanes happen and this whole island could just be blown away?

And they said, listen, we're not worried when there's more than 10 of us.

What do you mean there's more than 10 of you?

They said, don't you remember when the pre-incarnate Jesus came to Abraham?

He said, if I could have just found 10 righteous, I'd save the city.

But I'm gonna tell you that as the cities get more wicked, as the saints move out, in the next 10 years, we are going to begin to see wholesale destruction in cities Till we have sealed the servants of God in their foreheads.

Because that is where you find the frontal lobe, right here.

Series

The Power of the 3 Angels Messages

Marked for Death or Sealed for Life: 3rd Angels Message

Transcript

Description

Parent Series

Parent Conference

Sponsor

Recorded

Wonderful Power

46m

Unlock Revelation

17. The 144,000

1h 5m

A President, the Pope and a Lectern

44m

2. She Must Increase

36m

Plenary

Sabbath School Q&A Panel

57m

Freedom From Fear Series

Bits and Pieces

1h 14m

God is Love?

10-The Return of the King

55m

Continuing the Reformation

Reformation and the Sabbath

1h

The Strength of Allegiance

The Strength of Allegiance Part 2

52m

GYC SE 2012 Seminar: Lessons in Warfare

Special Forces

51m

Beauty and the Beast

51m

Fulfilling Kim’s Dream

49m

Sound Doctrine