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Mark Finley

The Adventist Movement and End Time Events by Mark Finley

In the book of Revelation, there are 3 distinct chapters that speak of God's people at end time.

Revelation chapter 10 speaks of the historic rise of the true church.

Revelation chapter 12 speaks of the identifying marks of the true church, and Revelation chapter 14 speaks of the message of the true church.

We're going to look at Revelation 10, Revelation 11, Revelation 12, Revelation 14, and Revelation 18 to 22.

Now as you look at Revelation chapter 10, the great theme is God cares for His people.

You look at Revelation 11 and the great theme is God cares for his word.

You look at chapter 12 and it's God cares for his church.

You look at chapter 14, it's God's cares for his message.

And you look at chapters 18 and onward, and that God cares for the purpose that he has created this world, and he's gonna bring an end to this world with glorious victory.

The theme of the book of Revelation is, Jesus wins and Satan loses.

That's the great theme of the book of Revelation.

Every phrase has, and every word has a distinct meaning.

Revelation, we're looking there at Revelation, the 10th chapter.

We're gonna go over this verse by verse, and let every verse speak to our hearts.

Revelation 10, verse 1, I saw still another mighty angel coming down from heaven.

Where does the angel come down from, everybody?

If God sends an angelic messenger from heaven, is it worth it for us to study the message that comes from heaven?

Is this a message that was constructed by some human genius, some theologian?

And I saw another Mighty angel coming down from heaven, clothed with a cloud.

And his face was like the sun, like pillars of fire.

Now, there are 4 essential symbols in that passage.

When you understand those symbols, you can understand more clearly the rest of the chapter.

Can you think of any other time in the Bible where it speaks about a cloud.

Keep your finger in Revelation chapter 10.

We're going to go back to the Old Testament.

There are 404 verses in the book of Revelation that refer us back to the Old Testament.

Every symbol of the Bible that is given to us in scripture is explained in other places.

So we're exploring this cloud idea, what it means.

We're going to go back to Exodus chapter 40.

The tabernacle has just been established and if you look at Exodus 40 and verse 34 to 37, then the cloud covered the tabernacle of meeting, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle.

So when it talks about the establishment of the earthly sanctuary, and a cloud fills the earthly sanctuary, Moses equates that in Exodus 40 verse 34 with the glory of what?

You find that same thing in the book of Numbers, for example.

You take your Bible and turn to the book of Numbers.

You're looking at Numbers chapter 9, and we're gonna look at verse 15.

On the day that the tabernacle was raised up, the cloud covered the tabernacle, the tent of the testimony from evening to morning.

It was above the tabernacle, like the appearance of fire, or like the appearance of glory.

Can you remember also that in ancient Israel, when the tabernacle was established, what covered them by day?

And they didn't move until the cloud moved.

It always represents the presence of God.

It always represents the glory of the Lord.

So when an angel comes from heaven and comes to earth clothed with the cloud.

He comes from the glory of God's presence, bringing the glory of heavenly wisdom to earth.

Now we go back to Revelation chapter 10, because there are 4 symbols in verse 1 that if you understand them fully, the rest of the chapter makes much more sense.

Revelation, the 10th chapter, and we're looking there again at verse 1.

And the scripture puts it this way in Revelation 10 verse 1.

It says, and I saw another angel coming down from heaven clothed with a cloud, and a rainbow was on his head.

Now in Revelation 10, it says the rainbow is on his head.

But if you go back to Revelation 4, verse 3, it says the rainbow surrounds God's throne.

When is the first time that a rainbow is mentioned in the Bible.

So the rainbow is first mentioned in the Bible after the judgments of God came upon the earth.

And the time of Noah, the earth was destroyed by a flood.

And if you break down God's covenant, it's God's justice and mercy revealed.

So when you see the rainbow symbol in the Bible, it's the symbol of the covenant of God.

It's the symbol of God's grace, the symbol of his love, the symbol of his justice.

We see that in the covenants in the rainbow symbol.

Now go back to Malachi chapter 4, verse 2, to get a little picture of the sun, then we'll summarize all of this together in verse 1.

Malachi 4, you're looking there, last book of the Old Testament, Malachi 4, verse 2.

This is the way the early advent pioneers studied.

They took a symbol and found other places in the Bible where that symbol was mentioned.

"'But to you who fear my name, "'the Son of Righteousness shall arise "'with healing in his wings, "'and you shall go out and grow fat like still stall-fed calves, you'll trample the wicked, etc.

So When you read the idea of the Son, what are you reading about?

You're reading about Jesus Christ, the Son of Righteousness.

So this angel coming from the presence of God descends from the very throne of God.

He comes revealing God's covenant to humanity of justice and mercy.

And just like there was judgment in Noah's day, there'd be judgment once again.

He comes to reveal to all humanity the righteousness of Jesus Christ, that Christ died on the cross for us, that he took our condemnation, that he died the death that we should have died so we could live the life he should have lived.

Now notice the next phrase, and his feet were like pillars of fire.

When you read about the pillar of fire, what do you read about?

What do you think about when you think about the pillar of fire?

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