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ASI Southern Union

ASI Southern Union 2013 Seminars

Norman McNulty

Releasing the Four Winds and the Sealing of the 144,000

Chester Clark

The Certainty of 1844

The Final Controversy Between Christ and Satan

The Relevance of 1844

Agatha Thrash

Keys to Aging

Phil Mills

The Challenge of Child and Youth Evangelism

Mental Illness: Its Prevention and Treatment

The first presentation is entitled The Holding of the 4 Winds and the sealing of the 144, 000.

And I'm going to start with a familiar passage, probably a couple of familiar passages from the pen of Ellen White.

The first 1 is from Testimonies, Volume 9, page 11.

The fast-fulfilling signs of the times declare that the coming of Christ is near at hand.

The days in which we live are solemn and important.

The Spirit of God is gradually but surely being withdrawn from the earth.

Plagues and judgments are already falling upon the despisers of the grace of God.

The calamities by land and sea, the unsettled state of society, the alarms of war are portentous.

They forecast approaching events of the greatest magnitude.

Continuing, the agencies of evil are combining their forces and consolidating.

They are strengthening for the last great crisis.

Great changes are soon to take place in our world and the final movements will be rapid ones.

You know, sometimes we have this mentality that, oh, you know, I've heard my whole life that Jesus is coming and let's have a theme about for such a time as this and we say it with our lips that we believe that Jesus is coming soon.

But if you're honest with yourself in your heart, do you really think that the final movements which will be rapid are just around the corner.

And the reason I ask you that question is because sometimes you can tell if you're living your life that way or if you're thinking that way in your mind based on how you live your life, based on the choices that you're making, where do you invest your resources, where do you invest your time, what is the most important thing for you in your life, are you living your life with the thought in mind that great changes are soon to take place in our world and the final movements will be rapid ones.

Another familiar statement from Testimonies, Volume 8, page 28.

Transgression has almost reached its limit.

Confusion fills the world and a great terror is soon to come upon human beings.

We who know the truth should be preparing for what is soon to break upon the world as an overwhelming surprise.

Who should be preparing for what is to break upon the world?

Now, I dare say that if the final movements were to kick in sometime soon, it might just come as an overwhelming surprise for many Seventh-day Adventists.

And you know, that should not be the case.

But here's the thing, if we as Seventh-day Adventists are not preparing, if we're not studying, if we don't understand what the end time roadmap looks like, we're going to be shocked out of our minds when that time comes.

Oh, I heard it in Bible class when I was growing up, but I never really thought it would happen in my lifetime.

Listen, we who know the truth should be preparing for what is soon to break upon the world as an overwhelming surprise.

And Ellen White says basically the same thing in Prophets and Kings, page 626.

Christians should be preparing for what is soon to break upon the world as an overwhelming surprise, and this preparation they should make by diligently studying the Word of God and striving to conform their lives to its precepts.

So how do we prepare for this overwhelming surprise?

Listen, it's too late in earth's history to be wasting our time worrying about what Hollywood is doing or what's happening in the entertainment world or anything else.

We should know what the Word of God says for this time.

Now, with those introductory comments from Ellen and I, I want to point out what the Bible says about the time that we are living in.

And as I said, what we are going to do in this first presentation is we are going to look at where we are in Earth's history based on what the seals say in Revelation chapter 6 and a little bit of chapter 7.

Now I'm assuming that those of you who are sitting here in the audience today are seasoned students of prophecy as long time Seventh-day Adventists, so I'm not going to take a significant amount of time to go through each of the seals.

I'm assuming that you already know this, so I'm just going to give you a brief rundown.

Now, I will say this, if you've never studied the seals and if you don't know what they're talking about, it's time to get into the Word of God and study that, amen?

Alright, now look, when you come to the seals, you start off with 4 horses, you have the white horse, the red horse, the black horse, and the pale horse.

Those are synonymous with the first 4 seals.

And we understand that historically the white horse represents the pure church, the apostolic church, which was from the time of the ascension of Christ from 31 AD to 100 AD.

Then we shift to the red horse by verse 4 of chapter 6, And this red horse describes the persecuted Christian church from about the time period of 100 AD to 313 AD and that culminated with a final 10 years of persecution under the Roman Emperor Diocletian.

After the red horse you have the black horse.

This is when corruption enters into the church and historically we place that between 313 to 538 AD.

This correlates with the third church in Revelation where you see the doctrine of Balaam entering into the church, you see the doctrine of the Nicolaitans coming into the church, you see that Satan's seat dwells there.

And then finally the fourth horse or the pale horse, sickly or blighted in color is what pale means, is the apostate Christian church from 538 to about 1374.

And the reason why I place it till about 1374 is that around 1374, That is when John Wycliffe, the great reformer, the morning star of the Reformation, comes along and brings light to a darkened world.

And then you come to the fifth seal in Revelation chapter 6 verse 10, And here you see the souls crying under the altar figuratively speaking saying, how long Lord till you judge and avenge our blood?

And white robes are given to them, they're told that they should rest for a little season.

Okay, that's a brief rundown, that should be Pretty simple review.

This is where things become much more interesting for the time that we are living in once we get to the beginning of the sixth seal.

Because when you study the seals, you find that we are living at the end of the sixth seal.

And I'm going to point you to some clear historical events that have happened during the time of the sixth seal just to remind us that we really are living at the end of the world.

We're not living 500 years ago where in the 1500s or the 1600s you could say, yeah, Jesus probably isn't coming for a few hundred more years.

Now, let's look, starting in verse 12 of Revelation chapter 6.

And here we read, And I beheld, when he had opened the sixth seal, and lo, there was a great earthquake.

This was the great Lisbon earthquake of November 1, 1755 that was felt throughout all of Europe.

It destroyed the city of Lisbon with a tidal wave and with fire, and it was felt as far away as North America.

So the sixth seal begins in history in 1755, which is about 250 years ago now.

So there was a great earthquake, and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood.

Now this becomes interesting because there were people who were alive in 1780 who lived to see the falling of the stars, which is the next sign foretold, in 1833.

And so those who lived between the time period of 1780 to the time period of 1833 realized these are the signs that were foretold that showed that Jesus would be coming very soon.

And in fact you see the falling of the stars in verse 13, which happened on November 13, 1833.

The Lisbon earthquake, the dark day, the falling of the stars, they're mentioned here in Revelation chapter 6.

How relevant are they for signs of the times describing the coming of Jesus and the clouds of heaven?

Well they're so important that they are mentioned 3 times in the Gospels, spoken by Jesus Himself, and then a fourth time they show up here in the book of Revelation, and they are identified in Revelation as the opening of the sixth seal which proceeds, or precedes the second coming of Jesus Christ.

You see this in Matthew 24, 29, Mark 13, 24 and 25, and Luke chapter 21, verse 25.

Jesus mentioned these signs 1700 years before they even happened, 1700 to 1800 years before they happened.

And so they happen at the beginning of the sixth seal, and then you come to the end of verse 13, and then when you come to verse 14, after the falling of the stars is mentioned, notice what is mentioned next in verse 14.

And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together, and every mountain and island were moved out of their places.

And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains, and said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us in a hiatus from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb, for the great day of his wrath is come, and who shall be able to stand?" So the question is, what is the very next thing mentioned during the time of the sixth seal, but after the falling of the stars in 1833.

This is the coming of Jesus in the clouds of heaven.

So between the Lisbon earthquake and the dark day you have 25 years.

From the dark day to the falling of the stars, you have 53 years.

And then after 1833, then the second coming is mentioned.

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