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Three Cosmic Messages: Earth's Final Conflict

Mark Finley

01 Jesus vs Satan

02 The Decision that Decides Your Destiny

03 Only One Church Preaches this Message

04 Will You Pass God’s Judgment?

05 Mathematical Proof We are Living in the Last Days

06 The Obedience Dilemma

07 Revelation’s Creation Connection

08 This is Why Satan Hates the Sabbath So Much

09 Avoid this False Church System

10 Satan’s Final Deception Infecting the Church

11 Mark of the Beast | Everything You Need to Know Part 1

12 Mark Of the Beast 2 | Everything You Need to Know Part 2

13 End Time Events Before the Second Coming of Christ

Welcome back to our series titled 3 Cosmic Messages, Earth's Final Conflict.

In this series we're looking at the prophetic book of Revelation, unfolding the prophecies of Revelation, but specifically and distinctly, Revelation chapter 14.

In Revelation chapter 14, God unfolds His last day message.

He describes that message symbolically as being carried by 3 angels in midheaven.

And it's that message that we are unpacking, that message that we're studying.

Now, if you've been with us in previous presentations, you've noted that in our first presentation, we looked at the great controversy between good and evil.

We studied the fact that down through the ages, when Christ has been in conflict with Satan, Jesus has never lost a battle.

And that's the great theme of the book of Revelation, that Christ is predominant, that he will be victorious over Satan in the last days of Earth's history.

Because when you look at Revelation, it talks about a mark called the mark of the beast.

It talks about a time when no man can buy or sell.

It talks about persecution and a death decree.

And if you allow those images to grip your mind and strangle you, you'll lose your hope.

So the theme of the book of Revelation really is much more than the persecution that's coming.

It's the triumph of Jesus Christ in the last days of earth's history.

In our last presentation, we looked at the idea of harvest in the book of Revelation.

The harvest of golden grain and a harvest of glory grapes.

And we look there at the book of Revelation very, very carefully.

And we noted that in those 2 harvests there will be 2 eternal choices.

That every human being on a planet called Earth will make an eternal choice.

In this presentation, we are going to probe more deeply into Revelation 14, verse 6, the first of those 3 cosmic, or 3 angels' messages.

So as we launch right into our topic, let's pray.

Father in heaven, we thank you with all of our hearts for the great messages that you've given in the book of Revelation.

We sense that these messages come from Christ.

And so as we study them more deeply, help us to be able to understand them more fully.

And as we understand them more fully, may our lives more fully reflect you.

My topic in this presentation is Hope's Grace-filled End Time Message.

Have you ever noticed how corporations have slogans?

For example, MasterCard's slogan is, there are some things money can't buy.

Have you noticed Nike's slogan, just do it?

The Nike symbol, Nike, of course, meaning victory.

Then there is the slogan of Apple computers, think different.

Somebody certainly had to be thinking differently when they developed the Apple computer.

And then you go beyond that to the New York Times, all the news that's fit to print.

When you read that slogan, if you know anything about news media in America, you immediately think of the New York Times.

L'Oreal, the famous cosmetic group in Paris, because you're worth it.

Throughout these various corporations, there are slogans.

The slogan for these businesses is a catchphrase or a small group of words that are combined in a special way to identify a product or company.

So you may not even see the product or know the company, but when you hear the slogan or the catchphrase, immediately you identify.

When you see the little swoosh of Nike, immediately you identify with that product brand.

When you read MasterCard and you see their slogan, those simple circles with red and yellow or orange, you immediately identify with that slogan.

For some things money can't buy, but for everything else, there's MasterCard.

You know, you identify with those slogans.

Israel had a statement of faith that identified Israel.

It set it apart from all of the heathen nations.

Their statement of faith was found in Deuteronomy 6, verse 4, written in Hebrew, but translated into English, hear, oh, Israel, the Lord our God is 1 Lord.

Children from the earliest ages in the Jewish nation, we're taught by their mothers that expression.

Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God is 1 Lord.

Mothers rocking their Jewish babies at 3 months old, 6 months old, as mama was rocking the baby, mama sang to her this, what they called the Shema, hear O Israel, the Lord our God is 1.

Now there was an interesting experience that occurred during the Second World War.

Mothers continued during the war to teach their children Deuteronomy 6-4.

They did not want these Jewish children to lose their sense of identity.

And before the children were even learned to speak, they were taught this phrase.

During the war, many Jewish parents, knowing that the Holocaust was present, knowing they would be transported to prison camps and die, put their children in orphanages.

Some of these orphanages were run by Catholic priests and nuns.

The idea of the Jewish parents was this could save our children, and after the war, They will be reunited either with us if we get out of the prison camp alive or if we don't with relatives or other Jewish families.

When the war ended and thousands of Jews came back from these terrible, horrific prison camps, Many of course died, over 6000000 died in these prison camps, 1 of the greatest crimes against humanity in the history of the world.

When many of them came back, they looked for their children, couldn't find them.

On 1 occasion, 2 rabbis came to a Catholic orphanage and they said to the priest who was at the orphanage, we would like to look for Jewish children here.

He said there are no Jewish children here at all.

You're mistaken, there are no Jewish children here.

The rabbis left, the priest wouldn't let them come into the orphanage to inquire and discover whether there were Jewish children.

They came back in the evening and they said, could you just at least let us walk through the orphanage 1 time?

Can you just let us walk through the nursery, the sleeping room?

When the priest allowed them to do that, The rabbi began to sing the Shema.

He began to sing, the Lord our God is 1 Lord.

And the rabbi said to the priest, that's 1 of mine.

He had to give those Jewish children back to their rightful place in the Jewish community.

Is there a point of identity for God's people today?

The book of Revelation, the 3 angels' messages are our Shema.

They identify a community of believers that God has raised up in the divine drama of destiny to prepare a world for the second coming of Christ.

In the book of Evangelism, page 119, I read this statement, In a special sense, Seventh-day Adventists have been set in the world as watchmen and light-bearers.

To them has been entrusted the last warning for a perishing world.

On them is shining wonderful light from the Word of God." Now you may be a Seventh-day Adventist watching this broadcast, watching this DVD, and if you are, I want to undergird this reality that the message of the 3 angels is not simply something that is tacked on to Adventist faith, but it's the very foundation.

If you are not a Seventh-day Adventist, I invite you to journey with us.

I invite you to walk with me as we go through these messages.

And there's only 1 body in the world that's preaching the 3 angels' messages, and that's the Seventh Adventist Church.

God raised up the Adventist Church miraculously.

Seventh-day Adventists believe that there's Christians in every denomination.

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