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Mark Finley - The Shaking and the Sifting: A Biblical Approach

Mark Finley

Shaking and Sifting, Part 1

Shaking and Sifting, Part 2

True and False Revivals, Part 1

True and False Revivals, Part 2

Christ and the Coming Crisis, Part 1

Christ and the Coming Crisis, Part 2

Every year I will hold evangelistic meetings in different parts of the world, and the Adventist message burns brighter and brighter in my soul every year.

I have more confidence in the integrity of the Adventist message today than I did 40 years ago when I started preaching it.

So it burns more brightly in my soul, in my heart, in my spirit every year.

Somebody said, well, do you ever get any doubts?

I had a person say to me once, you've got to keep an open mind.

What, do you get up every morning if you're married and say, well, I'm going to check out 15 others and see if I made the right decision or not?

I have a sermon I preach called the value of closed-mindedness.

I don't have to get up every morning and say, Is Jesus my Savior?

All this business about having an open mind, you apply it to marriage.

You get up in the morning, you say, Oh darling, I got to keep an open mind now.

I'm going to go out and investigate 7 others." Not at all.

There are some things that you weigh the evidence, you make your decision, and you move on.

I'm open to find out more about her charms and her love.

With Jesus, I'm open to find out more about his charms and his love.

If you wrote a book about my beloved church and all its faults, I wouldn't read it if you wrote a book about my beloved church and all its faults the church is the bride of Christ if you go write a book about the faults of Jesus' bride, you're accountable to Jesus you miss that If you go write a book in your smug complacency about all the faults of Jesus' bride, Jesus is going to deal with you.

Whatever we say or write, it must be in love.

There's places that the church needs improvement, but it does not need a lot of critics tearing it down and stabbing it in the back, because it indeed is the bride of Jesus.

And Jesus loves His bride, and according to Ephesians, 1 day the bride of Christ is going to rise, spotless, pure, without a wrinkle or any such thing.

We are getting ready for session number 2, and we're going to pray.

We never open the Word of God without praying.

Father in Heaven, We want to thank you again for your word.

Most of all, thank you for Jesus, who is the giver of the word and the living word.

Inspire our hearts as we study and lift our vision again.

HMS Richards was invited to a meeting of non-Seventh-day Adventist pastors.

And as he attended the meeting, he was sitting at supper that evening at the banquet with a pastor that didn't know that Pastor Richards was an Adventist.

And as they began talking, this pastor looked over at Pastor Richards and they were talking about different religious groups, different religious denominations.

And the 1 pastor looked at Pastor Richards and he said, you know those Adventists?

And he said, it's too bad that, it's just too bad, Pastor Richards, that we have those Adventists, because if we didn't have those Adventists, you know, we wouldn't be so confused about Revelation.

Pastor Richards kind of smiled and he looked at him and he said, you know something, it is too bad that we have those Adventists because if we didn't have those Adventists we wouldn't understand the truth about revelation and he kind of joked him for a little bit you know and It is true that just as God used the book of Romans in the Reformation period and used Martin Luther to generate and stimulate revival and that Romans was present truth for that hour, so in the last days, Revelation is especially present truth for our hour.

In Revelation chapter 1 verse 1 we read an introduction to the book of Revelation.

Many Bibles will say the Revelation of St.

John, this is really the revelation of Jesus Christ.

It's Jesus' final revelation to an end-time people.

The book of Revelation, in Revelation chapter 1 and verse 1, the revelation of Jesus Christ which God gave him to show his servants things which must shortly take place.

And he sent and signified it by his angel to his servant John.

So this is the revelation of Jesus, and it's a revelation that Jesus gave regarding things that must shortly take place.

The Father blesses you, the Son blesses you, and the Holy Spirit blesses you.

When you see the triple blessing, that's always the blessing of the Godhead, the Trinity, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

So as we read this end time material in Revelation, you will be blessed.

As you hear the words of this prophetic seminar, you will be blessed.

But the reason to read and to hear is to keep, and blessed are those who keep the things that are in it, for the time is near." The closer the time comes for the fulfillment of Revelation's prophecies, the more important it is to clearly understand them.

Now Revelation's prophecies are divided into 2 parts, And really you can divide the book of Revelation into 2 sections, chapters 1 to 11 and chapters 12 to 22.

Chapter 1 in the book of Revelation is an introduction.

Then you have 3 immediate sequences of 7 that take you to chapter 11 the 7 churches the 7 seals and the 7 trumpets they take you from chapter 2 to chapter 11 and cover most of that territory with an interjection of revelation 4 and 5 which you really see the lamb at the throne of God those 7 sequences take you from John's day down to the end of time just as daniel has a major sequence prophecy in daniel chapter 2 that is amplified in daniel chapter 7 that is further amplified in daniel 8 and further amplified in daniel 11 you will never interpret prophecy wrongly if you understand the principle of repetition and enlargement.

The reason so many misapply prophecy is because they do not understand that principle.

In repetition and enlargement says that in Daniel 2 you have a basic outline of history that takes you from the days of Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece, Rome, and then the breakup of the Roman Empire, then the coming of Christ.

Then you go to Daniel 7, you cover the same ground and it adds the judgment and the little horn.

You go to Daniel 8, it covers the same ground, Babylon through Rome, the breakup of the Roman Empire, then the little horn, the papacy, then the judgment, and then the cleansing of the sanctuary in Daniel 8.

You go to Daniel 11, and in the conflict of the king of the north, it does essentially the same thing, leaving out Babylon because his vision is in the days of Medo-Persia.

The earlier prophecies give you a basis that they repeat any large secondly the profit time sequence prophecies always begin with the profit is time sequence prophecies always begin with the profit is so in the days of daniel the prophecies would begin in the nation of Babylon.

When Babylon is fading away, like in Daniel chapter 8, he starts in Medo-Persia, which is the second empire, because that empire is gone.

If that is true, and you take the same principle and apply it to Revelation, where should Revelation's prophecies begin?

In the days of John or in the days of Rome, precisely the case.

If you don't deal with the 7 churches, the 7 seals and the 7 trumpets that way, you'll get all confused in prophetic interpretation.

You'll try to apply the trumpets to the end time, you'll try to put them into time sequence prophecy, it'll really confuse you but if you understand John 1 gives you the introduction, all time sequence prophecies begin in the in the place where the prophet lives and then what do you have then?

You have the 7 churches which are your basic outline then you have your 7 seals which will amplify the 7 churches even more then you have the 7 trumpets that come on that then when you come to revelation 12 you have a hinge in the chapter just like in Daniel Daniel you have your first 6 chapters that are historical.

The first 6 chapters in Daniel describe how to be ready at end time.

The last 7 chapters in Daniel describe when end time events will occur.

Revelation chapters 1 to 11 are the practical chapters of a church facing end time and how to prepare for end time.

That's what you learn in the 7 churches, the different kinds of Christians in every age and how to prepare.

That's what you learn in the 7 seals, what the church would face and how to prepare.

That's what you learn in the 7 seals what the church would face and how to prepare that's what you learn in the 7 trumpets that's the whole purpose of the first 11 so you have the how at first in revelation and you have the when second starting with revelation 12 to revelation 22 you have the unfolding in very careful detail of end time events.

1 of the things that is unique about Revelation is it counteracts the activity of Satan that's described in Ephesians 6.

So if you have your Bible, turn please to Ephesians 6 and verse 12.

In Ephesians 6 verse 12, Paul speaks about his day, and this principle will amplify at the end of time.

For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in heavenly places.

Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand." So there is a battle between Christ and Satan.

And if the devil deceived a third of the angels in heaven, can we not expect for him to pull out all his wiles on the last day church?

So we're entering into a battle and we need to know the enemy's battle plan.

Thank God we're not going into this battle in the dark.

Thank God we are not left like others without adequate information.

We have the enemy's battle plan in advance.

Isn't that what many war generals want in the Second World War?

Series

Mark Finley - The Shaking and the Sifting: A Biblical Approach

Shaking and Sifting, Part 2

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Mark Finley - The Shaking and the Sifting: A Biblical Approach

Shaking and Sifting, Part 1

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2. When Church and State Unite

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