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Series Code: HCAU
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00:30 Hello and welcome to the 3ABN Australia Homecoming 2019 00:36 at Wahroonga Church in Sydney Australia. 00:40 We're so glad that you could all come 00:43 and listen to these programs, 00:45 they are a big blessing, I know, for me 00:49 because we live in a very uncertain world 00:51 and we need to know the truth for this hour 00:54 wouldn't you say that? Amen. 00:55 We had our homecoming at Avondale Memorial Church 01:00 last year at Cooranbong. 01:02 We didn't know we were going to have another one 01:03 so, welcome to the second one. 01:06 This is really exciting. 01:08 So, Rosemary, we have an item now from "Redeemed. " 01:13 It's a group of people who will be singing, 01:15 "Ye Shall Feed His Flock" 01:17 and straight after that will be Pastor Geoff Youlden 01:21 and he will be speaking: 01:22 "The Year that Changed the Modern World. " 01:24 You may have a question about that 01:26 but sit and listen to what he has to say. 01:29 He also has a key text and it's Revelation 14:6-7. 01:34 "And I saw another angel flying in the midst of heaven, 01:37 having the everlasting gospel 01:38 to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, 01:41 and to every nation, and kindred, 01:43 and tongue, and people, 01:44 saying with a loud voice, 'Fear God and give glory to Him 01:48 for the hour of His judgment is come: 01:51 and worship Him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, 01:54 and the fountains of waters. '" 01:55 And I am just going to say a short dedicatory prayer 01:59 for those who will be presenting to us today. 02:02 "Father in heaven, 02:03 I pray that you will bless 'Redeemed' 02:06 as they sing a song of praise to You. 02:08 Be with them and give them clarity of mind and of voice 02:12 and please be with Pastor Geoff, Father, 02:15 as he preaches your Word to us today. 02:18 May it have enlargement in our hearts. 02:21 May the Holy Spirit please inspire us 02:24 and those who listen to his voice with Your truth, 02:27 I pray in Jesus' name, amen. " 02:29 Audience: Amen. 02:31 Pause. 02:40 Music... 02:58 more music... 03:04 He shall feed His flock 03:09 like a shepherd; 03:15 and He shall gather 03:22 the lambs with His arm... 03:28 with His arm, 03:34 music... 03:40 He shall feed His flock 03:44 like a shepherd; 03:51 and He shall gather 03:57 the lambs with His arm... 04:03 with His arm, 04:10 music... 04:15 and carry them 04:21 in His bosom, 04:28 and gently lead those 04:33 that are with young... 04:40 and gently lead those 04:45 and gently lead 04:51 those that are with young. 05:00 Music... 05:10 Come unto Him, 05:15 all ye that labour, 05:21 come unto Him 05:26 ye that are heavy laden, 05:33 and He will give you rest. 05:40 Music... 05:45 Take His yoke upon you, 05:51 and learn of Him, 05:58 for He is meek 06:03 and lowly of heart, 06:09 and ye shall find rest... 06:15 and ye shall find rest 06:22 unto your souls... 06:27 come unto... 06:31 unto... 06:34 come unto... 06:40 come unto Him 06:44 and ye shall bring 06:47 you rest. 06:57 Audience: Amen. 07:02 Pause... 07:06 Well, thank you very much, Redeemed, 07:07 I'm sure you enjoyed that as much as I did. 07:10 The Year that Changed the Modern World... 07:13 that's got to be 1989 07:18 because that's the year, you'll remember, 07:23 the Tiananmen Square took place 07:24 where the Communist Government ordered their troops to go in 07:29 and with a million people demonstrating, 07:32 they mowed down 1,000s of young people 07:35 in Shanghai. 07:37 1989... 07:41 that's the year that the Catholic Solidarity in Poland 07:47 overthrew the Communistic Government 07:51 for the last 44 years 07:52 and then that spread through Eastern Europe 07:57 so that all the Communistic Governments were overthrown. 08:05 Mostly, peacefully but one was overthrown with great war 08:13 and so forth and that was in Romania 08:16 and you will remember that Romania... 08:18 the head of the Romanian Government 08:21 was finally executed on December 25, 1989. 08:27 1989 was when the Berlin Wall fell down. 08:32 1989 is when John Paul believed 08:37 that it was the Virgin Mary that gave the Catholic Church victory 08:42 over Communism in Europe 08:44 but 1989 is not the year that changed the modern world. 08:49 Even though significant events happened in that year. 08:54 Well, you say, what about September 11? 08:57 That changed the modern world. 09:00 Yes, it did to some extent 09:02 but the world before September 11 09:05 was not a lot different to what it was after September 11. 09:10 I'm going to suggest to you this morning 09:14 that the year that changed the modern world 09:18 is the year 1844. 09:20 Audience: Amen. 09:23 And I'm going to prove that to you in just a few moments 09:27 as we go through our discussion this morning 09:31 but would you take your Bibles 09:33 and we will get a Biblical perspective 09:35 of Daniel chapter 8 and verse 13, 09:39 Daniel, the 8th chapter, 09:41 and we'll pick it up in verse 12 and 13. 09:49 Daniel the 8th chapter... 09:52 Pastor is turning the pages of the Bible... 09:56 and this is what it says... 09:57 Verse 12... 10:01 "Because of transgression, 10:03 an army was given over to the horn 10:05 to oppose the daily sacrifices; 10:08 and he cast truth to the ground. 10:10 He did all this and prospered. " 10:13 So, here Daniel is being told 10:15 that truth is going to be cast down 10:18 and wonder of wonders that power is going to prosper. 10:22 Verse 13, "Then I heard a holy one speaking; 10:25 and another holy one said to that certain one 10:29 who was speaking, 10:30 'How long will the vision be, concerning the daily sacrifices 10:33 and the transgression of desolation, 10:36 the giving of both the sanctuary and the host 10:38 to be trodden underfoot?'" 10:40 So, here we have a picture of truth and the sanctuary 10:44 being trodden underfoot 10:46 and that would suggest to me that the sanctuary and truth 10:50 is in for a very, very hard time 10:53 as it's trodden down 10:55 and then the period is enunciated in verse 14 11:01 when it says, "And he said to me, 11:03 'For two thousand three hundred days; 11:06 then the sanctuary will be cleansed. '" 11:09 So, for this 2,300 prophetic-day period of years, 11:15 and this morning I haven't got time to prove all that, 11:19 that's a subject of another time, 11:21 but for 2,300 prophetic days or years, 11:26 the truth of God and the sanctuary 11:29 were going to be trodden underfoot 11:32 which means that for that long period of time, 11:35 people would not understand the truth of God 11:39 and furthermore, 11:40 they would not understand about the sanctuary. 11:42 You see, the way the devil has worked down through the years, 11:45 is by counterfeiting the truth of God. 11:49 He has done that as a masterful act. 11:52 Every period of time when God has a truth, 11:56 the devil has always counterfeited 11:59 what the... what God was about to do 12:02 and there is no exception here 12:04 and he has worked by diversion 12:06 as he has taken people's attention 12:10 when God had a message ready to go to the world, 12:13 the devil raised up all sorts of diversions 12:18 to take people's attention away from the truth of God 12:23 and we're going to go through that this morning. 12:27 You will remember that Christians 12:29 from many, many denominations like the Baptists... 12:34 and the Methodists... 12:36 and the Presbyterians... 12:38 and the Catholics... 12:41 and the Lutherans... 12:43 all believed that Christ was going to return 12:49 on October 22, 1844. 12:52 Pause... 12:54 Now, I'd like to remind you 12:55 there were no Seventh-day Adventists in existence 12:59 at that time. 13:00 Seventh-day Adventists have never set a date 13:04 for the coming of Jesus. 13:06 It was the Baptists and the Methodists... 13:08 and the Presbyterians... 13:10 and the Lutherans 13:11 and the Catholics... 13:13 they were the ones that set the date 13:14 for the coming of Jesus. 13:16 Pause... 13:18 They were sincere people... very good people... 13:21 and they sincerely believed that Jesus was going to return 13:25 on October 22, 1844 13:28 and when He didn't return, 13:29 you can understand the disappointment... 13:32 because many of these people sold their businesses... 13:36 they... they sold their farms 13:38 and they put all the money they got 13:40 into spreading the message about Jesus returning 13:43 and so, you can understand the bitter disappointment 13:46 in those people when October 22 went past, 13:53 and Jesus never returned 13:56 and so, as a result of that, 14:00 there was a tremendous falling away. 14:03 People felt that they had been disillusioned. 14:06 They had been deceived 14:08 and as a result of that, many left Christ and the Bible 14:15 and Christianity 14:17 never to embrace it again 14:19 but there was a groups of those people 14:22 who said, "No, the Bible is not wrong, 14:26 it must be our misunderstanding of some things 14:31 and so, in 1848, 14:35 they called together what has been known today now 14:39 as the Sabbath Conferences 14:41 in which they studied the Bible. 14:44 All these people came together... 14:47 these Baptists and these Methodists 14:50 and Catholics 14:51 and Lutherans... they came together 14:53 and they said, "We need to study God's Word 14:57 because something is amiss, 14:59 we have misunderstood some things 15:02 and as a result of the Sabbath Conferences, 15:06 that started in 1848, a theology was worked out. 15:12 It was not new but it was a resurrection of theology 15:18 that had been lost over the ensuing years... 15:22 during the Dark Ages. 15:23 Remember the Bible said... 15:25 the truth was going to be trodden down... 15:27 and during that long period of time, 15:29 these truths that they began to find as they studied the Bible 15:34 were being resurrected and restored 15:37 and as a result of that 15:42 they made some amazing discoveries. 15:45 I want to share with you five of those amazing discoveries. 15:52 The first was, the sanctuary doctrine. 15:56 They... 15:59 as they began to study the truth of the sanctuary, 16:04 they began to understand the depth 16:06 of Jesus' death on the cross. 16:09 Up until that time, 16:11 they had a very wonderful understanding of the cross, 16:16 but not in its fullness 16:17 but as they studied the type that the sanctuary gave, 16:22 they began to understand the work in its entirely 16:26 that Jesus was doing 16:27 and the work that He was doing in the heavenly sanctuary today. 16:31 That was the first great discovery that they made. 16:37 The second came out of the disappointment. 16:40 As a result of them being misled... 16:44 being disappointed in 1844, 16:48 they developed a doctrine 16:52 regarding the 2nd Coming of Jesus. 16:54 The third great doctrine that they found 17:00 was the Sabbath 17:01 and they discovered the Sabbath because 17:04 all of these people were Sunday Keepers up until this stage 17:08 and then they discovered the state of the dead 17:12 they had never understood that before 17:14 and finally they discovered the Spirit of Prophecy 17:19 and it is these five great pillars 17:23 that are the foundation of Seventh-day Adventism. 17:29 Audience: Amen. 17:31 The sanctuary message... 17:34 The Second Coming of Christ... 17:36 The Sabbath... 17:38 The State of the Dead... 17:39 and the Spirit of Prophecy. 17:41 These are the pillars. 17:45 This is what makes Seventh-day Adventism unique. 17:50 Now, I have come across some of God's people 17:56 who are a little embarrassed by some of these doctrines. 18:02 Pause... 18:05 Some are embarrassed that we would have a prophet. 18:08 Pause... 18:10 Others are embarrassed by the sanctuary truths. 18:13 Pause... 18:16 On the other hand, I mix with young people today... 18:19 a growing number of young people, 18:22 who understand the messages of God in these last days, 18:27 these five pillars... 18:28 and today, they have taken hold of these five messages 18:33 and they are convicted that this is God's message. 18:37 Pause... 18:40 And today, God is doing an amazing work 18:42 among many of our youth 18:45 and this message has it's context in the sanctuary 18:50 and in the final judgment. 18:51 "The hour of God's judgment has come... " 18:56 the Bible says. 18:57 Those three messages that we often refer to 19:02 as the three angels' messages. 19:05 They are the foundation of this last message 19:11 that is to go to the world. 19:12 Now, truth is never allowed to surface 19:16 but there's always conflict with that message of truth 19:21 and the devil is a great student of Bible prophecy. 19:26 By-the-way, the devil is no modernist... 19:30 he is no liberal... 19:33 he is no revisionist... 19:36 when it comes to theology, 19:39 the devil is very, very conservative. 19:43 In fact, he is so conservative that the Bible says, 19:48 that when he reads it, he trembles 19:51 because he knows that it's true. 19:54 He doesn't try to re-interpret it 19:56 because he knows exactly what God is about. 20:00 That's why in 1844, 20:03 when God had a message that was to go to every nation, kindred, 20:07 tongue and people, 20:09 the devil got to work 20:12 and he's brought in every conceivable "ism" 20:16 at that very time 20:19 in that very year 20:21 and this morning, I'm going to go through it with you 20:24 and show you that 1844 is the year that has changed 20:31 the modern world 20:32 pause... 20:35 and the message is just so clear. 20:37 In fact, come over to Revelation chapter 12, if you don't mind, 20:41 Revelation the 12th chapter 20:43 and we'll read here how the devil feels about God's message. 20:47 Revelation 12 and verse 7, it says, 20:49 "And the dragon was wroth with the woman... " 20:54 that word "wroth" is not just angry... 20:58 he is livid... 21:00 his jugular veins sticks out of his neck 21:04 and his face is red. 21:06 He's so angry... 21:07 the devil is angry with the woman... 21:11 "went to make war with the rest of her offspring. " 21:16 That is... all of God's people who stand for the truth, 21:21 the devil is against. 21:23 Those particularly who are faithful to Jesus 21:27 and faithful to His commandments. 21:29 They're the two identifying marks in the last days 21:33 of God's people 21:35 whom the devil is particularly angry with 21:38 against Jesus, of course, 21:42 and because they're faithful to Jesus, he's angry 21:46 but also because they're faithful to His Commandments 21:49 which means that the devil is not very concerned 21:53 about the three angels' messages being taken to every nation, 21:57 kindred, tongue and people... is that true? 21:59 Absolutely not... 22:00 he's very, very concerned about it. 22:03 Pause... 22:06 If fact, he's so concerned that he called together 22:11 all his evil angels. 22:15 and they worked out a strategy 22:19 as to how they were going to oppose these three messages... 22:24 how they were going to oppose the message that arose in 1844 22:30 and the first thing they came up with 22:33 was an opposing theology 22:36 so, they developed two theologies... 22:39 but the devil soon realized that those who love the Lord 22:47 and those who are studying the Bible 22:50 will soon see the difference between the false and the true. 22:55 So, he said, "That's not going to deceive everybody, 22:58 we have to work on other strategies 23:01 so that we involve every person in the world 23:05 because one strategy is not going to appeal to everybody. 23:09 Pause... 23:13 So, he decided, "Well, we will pervert truth" 23:16 one of his angels said, "Let's pervert truth. " 23:19 Now, that had a very, very big effect upon many Christians 23:22 because they had been taught to follow the truth 23:27 and now the devil brought in a perversion of that truth. 23:31 But that wasn't enough 23:35 because that wouldn't appeal to everybody either 23:38 because he realized 23:40 that any person who had a relationship with God 23:43 was going to work the difference out 23:45 between that which was a perverted truth 23:48 and that which was the real truth. 23:49 Pause... 23:51 Then he brought in another strategy. 23:53 This strategy was to bring in a lukewarmness 23:57 among those who are giving the truth... 24:00 a lukewarmness among those who are preaching the truth. 24:04 Pause... 24:07 and that was extremely effective 24:09 and it continues to be extremely effective. 24:13 Now, I want to have a look at some of these strategies 24:17 that the devil used because 24:19 the first one was to set up a counter theology. 24:22 Pause... 24:25 Now, you will remember that in the Sabbath Conferences, 24:28 those sincere Christians of all denominations 24:31 when they came together... 24:32 pause... 24:34 they took the Bible and the Bible only 24:37 and they said, "This is where we stand... 24:40 nothing more... nothing less" 24:44 and that was the foundation. 24:47 Now, what was the significant year that we're talking about 24:51 that has changed the modern world... 24:52 what was the date? 24:54 1844. 24:55 Pause... 24:57 In that very year... in the month of August, 25:04 1844... just before God's message was to be announced, 25:12 two men met in a... in a Cafe in Paris. 25:16 Pause... 25:18 The first man's name was Karl Marx, 25:21 the second man's name was Engels. 25:25 and they then met a little bit later 25:29 on the 19th of November 1844, 25:31 and Engels wrote to Marx these words, listen, 25:35 "We are at present holding public meetings 25:39 all over the place, 25:41 to set up societies for the advancement of the workers. 25:45 By a large majority, everything 'Christian' has been bound 25:51 and banned from the rules... " 25:53 and then he continued on... 25:55 "the criticism of religion 25:57 is the pre-requisite of all criticism 26:00 and we are working for the abolition of religion 26:03 and for real happiness. " 26:05 Pause... 26:08 Now, that would suggest to me 26:09 that if you go into a Marxist Society today, 26:13 they are all happy people smiling... living in utopia 26:17 because that's what Engels was writing to Marx about 26:22 and we know, of course, that that's not true 26:25 but the devil brought this counterfeit in 26:30 and is it dead today? 26:31 Is Marxist philosophy... is that dead today? 26:35 No, we see it... the hammer and the sickle 26:38 in the Trade Unions. 26:39 Pause... 26:41 The very basis of Trade Unionism here in Australia 26:45 and around the world is largely Marxist's philosophy 26:50 and they carry the... 26:54 as I said, the hammer and the sickle 26:55 and it satisfies those who are downtrodden in our society 26:59 who are told that they can rise to the top of the pile 27:03 without any reference to God. 27:05 Pause... 27:07 And then, there was the intellectual. 27:09 The devil said, "Well, we haven't appealed yet 27:11 to the intellectual. " 27:12 Pause... 27:15 With appeal to the perversion of truth, 27:16 with appeal... by bringing in a false theology, 27:21 with appeal to the workers who feel downtrodden, 27:24 but we haven't attacked the intellectuals yet. 27:28 Pause... 27:31 What's the year? 1844... 27:34 in that very year, a man by the name of Charles Darwin... 27:38 you heard of him? 27:40 In that very year... 1844... 27:43 Charles Darwin begins to write 27:47 the first sketch of his "Origin of Species. " 27:51 The very year when God's message goes out 27:54 to worship God as the Creator... here Satan is inspiring this man 27:59 to write a philosophy 28:01 that is the very opposite to God's message... 28:05 in the very same year that God raised up that message 28:10 and I must admit, I find it difficult 28:13 to understand how intelligent human beings... 28:17 especially, educated human beings 28:22 can come to the conclusion 28:24 that everything that we have in the world came from nothing 28:27 and we have the Hawking's and the Dawkins 28:33 in our society 28:36 who were the heads of Oxford and Cambridge Universities 28:40 in England, 28:41 until Hawking's death 28:44 and they formed a group together called "The Bright's" 28:51 which meant that if you didn't accept the philosophy 28:57 of Hawking's and Dawkins, then you weren't bright. 29:03 If you believe in the supernatural, 29:05 you are not bright. 29:06 that's a very, very clear implication. 29:11 In fact, Dawkins wrote in his book, 29:16 the most absurd statement 29:18 I think I've read for a long, long time 29:20 and it's on the screen. 29:22 "God almost certainly does not exist. " 29:25 Have you... just imagine... just think about that. 29:30 "God almost certainly doesn't exist. " 29:34 That's an impossible statement... 29:36 so-called "intellectual" makes it. 29:39 Now, either God exists or He doesn't exist 29:44 but you can't say, 29:45 "He almost certainly doesn't exist. " 29:47 Pause... 29:51 That teaching appeals to those who want to reason 29:55 that God doesn't... doesn't need to be a part of my life. 30:01 That's why evolution appeals to people. 30:04 It's not because the Science is on their side... 30:07 pause... 30:10 it's simply because it gives people the opportunity 30:17 of not accepting God and still remaining 30:20 intellectually... 30:23 well they feel... intellectually acceptable. 30:29 Pause... 30:32 Now, the devil realized that this idea of evolution 30:39 is not going to appeal to everybody either. 30:41 There are other Christians... and he wanted to get them. 30:46 So, he worked on a man... 30:50 and what was the year are we saying? 30:52 Audience: 1844... 30:53 he worked on a man by the name of J.N. Darby. 30:58 Pause... 31:00 Now, J.N. Darby taught what is referred today 31:07 as "Dispensationalism. " 31:09 Now, Dispensationalism, 31:12 for those of you who perhaps don't understand this, 31:15 and that wouldn't surprise me, 31:17 but Dispensationalism... 31:20 Darby divided the world-period into seven sections 31:25 and God, he said, used a different method of salvation 31:29 for each one of those seven periods. 31:31 For example, 31:34 in the Old Testament it was Law 31:35 and people were saved by keeping the Law 31:37 in the Old Testament. 31:39 In the New Testament, we're saved by grace 31:42 which means, you don't have to keep the Law, 31:45 this is his argument. 31:46 Pause... 31:49 And that year was 1844. 31:51 "But now in these end times... " Darby said, 31:57 that there was a difference between Israel and the Church. 32:01 God is working presently with the Church 32:05 and then the church will be "raptured" away... 32:10 you've heard of the "Secret Rapture" 32:12 the church will be raptured away 32:14 before the "Tribulation" 32:15 and then, God is going to work on the Jews 32:19 and give them another chance. 32:20 This is basically the philosophy of "Dispensationalism" 32:25 and associated with "Dispensationalism" 32:28 was Antinomianism. 32:30 Now, that's a big word, 32:31 it simply means that they were teaching 32:33 that the Law has been done away with... 32:35 "Anti" meaning against... 32:38 the Law of God 32:40 and that surfaced with "Dispensationalism" 32:44 and just about every Evangelical Christian today, 32:49 has accepted J.N. Darby's theology. 32:53 That is... if you go to talk to your Baptist friends 32:57 and your Pentecostal friends, 32:59 they have been steeped in this theology 33:04 and you've heard of the "Secret Rapture" 33:08 that's where it all comes from 33:10 and it was another aim of the devil 33:13 to divert people away from the truth... 33:15 that they would get sucked in by a false theology. 33:20 Now, J.N. Darby, by the way, didn't invent this theory. 33:25 It was actually invented by the Catholic Church 33:30 as a result of the Reformation. 33:32 You may have heard in history... the Counter-Reformation 33:37 which means that they... that the Catholic Church 33:40 instituted a "counter" to what Luther and Knox 33:44 and all the Reformers were teaching. 33:47 Countered them... 33:48 and they came up with this theory 33:54 and a man over there in Chile 33:59 accepted this theory... 34:01 he was a Jesuit, by the way, 34:03 and his name was Manuel Lacunza and he lived in the late 1700s. 34:11 and he posed as a converted Jew under the synonym Ben-Ezra 34:20 and so he took this apocalyptic writing 34:26 and he composed a book 34:29 and the book was entitled: 34:32 "The Coming of Messiah in Glory and Majesty. " 34:37 Now, this was written in Spanish 34:39 and so, it wasn't making much in-road 34:43 into the English-speaking world 34:44 until a man by the name of Edward Irving in England 34:49 translated it into English 34:53 and he popularized this... this theory 35:02 in the English-speaking world 35:03 and by-the-way, it was in Edward Irving's church 35:06 that "speaking in tongues" 35:10 modern "speaking in tongues" began. 35:13 and so, J.N. Darby took the doctrine 35:16 and he modernized it into Christianity today 35:21 and as I said, just about every Evangelical Christian today 35:25 that you meet and that you talk to 35:28 has been soaked in this theology 35:31 and today, you need to understand it 35:33 if you're going to be able to communicate with them 35:35 because, when they're talking about the coming of Jesus, 35:38 they're not talking about it as many of us understand it. 35:41 Pause... 35:44 Now, the devil realized then, of course, 35:46 that it needs to be vibrant. 35:51 If it's going to win people over, 35:54 this theology and idea needs to be vibrant... 35:58 it needs to be a vibrancy 36:00 and so, what year? 36:03 1844... 36:05 in Hydesville in New York, 36:10 pause... 36:14 a house was bought 36:16 and a few years later, 36:19 that house was occupied by the Fox Sisters 36:23 pause... 36:26 and you will remember that the Fox Sisters... 36:28 the rappings... 36:30 and modern spiritualism was born 36:32 in that decade. 36:35 You know, I meet some people 36:39 who tell me that 1844 is a non-event. 36:43 Pause... 36:46 I've heard some of these people 36:49 say that it's a non-event. 36:52 I like to remind them, 36:55 "You might think it's a non-event 36:57 but I tell you who doesn't think it's a non-event 37:00 and that's the devil himself... " 37:02 because the devil understands Daniel 8:14 37:06 and as I said, he's no revisionist. 37:09 He's no modern Christian. 37:13 He is fundamental... he's conservative... 37:18 and he understands exactly. 37:22 That's why he has brought all these delusions in. 37:27 In fact, in the early 1800s, 37:31 there was a man born by the name of Joseph Smith. 37:34 Pause... 37:38 Joseph Smith believed that we are divine 37:42 and that we are of the order of Melchizedek 37:46 and then on June 27, 1844 you remember, he was murdered 37:53 but the Mormon Church has gone on 37:57 and has grown over those years, 38:00 so, here we have another counterfeit 38:03 that the devil has raised up 38:06 once again to divert that person who that appeals to 38:10 to get into that area 38:11 because every one of these different strategies 38:15 that the devil is using 38:16 doesn't appeal to everybody 38:19 but what he's doing is, 38:21 he's got a hat for every-size head 38:25 and he knows human beings that's why all of these "isms" 38:32 all of these strategies that he developed 38:34 all began in 1844. 38:36 In that decade of the 1840s is the most significant decade 38:43 of modern time. 38:44 Pause... 38:47 Then you have the spiritualistic secret society... 38:50 the Delta, Kappa, Epsilon, 38:53 commonly known as the DKE 38:56 and there are about 58 chapters of the DKE 39:02 throughout North America and Canada. 39:07 It started in Yale College in 1844. 39:11 Now, he's into the universities. 39:14 Pause... 39:17 Then you have the Bá'haí faith. 39:20 Pause... 39:23 The Bá'haí Faith was begun by an Iranian in Iran... 39:28 a member of a section or a part of the Shiites 39:32 which are very strong, of course, in Iran 39:36 and this young man proclaimed... 39:41 and called himself the Báb 39:44 and his philosophy was that there was Moses as a prophet... 39:50 that there was Jesus Christ as a prophet... 39:52 there was Muhammad as a prophet... 39:54 and now there's going to be another prophet... 39:57 pause... 40:01 and that's the basis of the Bá'haí faith. 40:05 Once again, it began in the year 1844... 40:10 the very year that God's message was proclaimed 40:14 and in and around 1844, 40:18 we find the Feminist Movement began. 40:19 This is when the Ecumenical Movement began. 40:23 All began in that very year... 40:27 in that very period 40:29 and Satan brings in counterfeits in various forms 40:36 to appeal to different peoples 40:38 and different brains and different thought patterns 40:41 and the devil is not worried 40:45 whether a person accepts this strategy 40:47 or that strategy or the other strategy 40:50 as long as... they don't accept God's truth 40:54 and that's why... that's how the devil has worked 40:57 over the years 41:00 all around 1844. 41:03 Let me just go back now to the year 1844... 41:08 there was a Seventh-day Baptist lady by the name of Rachel Oaks. 41:15 She was a Sabbath keeper... 41:19 pause... 41:23 and she met a Millerite man by the name of Frederick Wheeler 41:28 and Frederick Wheeler was a Sunday keeper 41:32 and Rachel Oakes said to Frederick Wheeler. 41:37 "Do you believe in the Commandments?" 41:39 And he said, "Absolutely. " 41:40 "Well," she said, "what about number 4 41:43 about the Sabbath?" 41:45 And she gave him a Bible Study about the Sabbath. 41:48 And Wheeler went home and he studied it 41:52 and he re-studied it 41:53 and he became convinced that the Sabbath was correct... 41:58 that Rachel Oakes was correct in her teaching 41:59 on the Seventh-day Sabbath 42:02 and as a result of that he began to preach it 42:08 and to teach it and on March 1844, 42:13 he preached his first sermon on the Sabbath 42:18 and so the Sabbath was rediscovered in 1844 42:24 pause... 42:26 and re-established. 42:29 In 1844, a man by the name of Joseph Fitch 42:34 Charles Fitch... I'm sorry... Charles Fitch. 42:39 He discovered the Biblical truth on soul sleep 42:44 and so we find that soul sleep... 42:47 that is... when you die, you sleep 42:51 until Jesus comes back, 42:53 that was re-discovered in 1844. 42:58 Then we find that in 1844, 43:02 the Spirit of Prophecy was re-discovered... 43:06 and amazing that God's church in the last days 43:10 has to have the Spirit of Prophecy 43:12 because Revelation says that God's message in the last days 43:17 will have the Commandments and the testimony of Jesus 43:21 of Revelation 19:10 says very clearly 43:24 that the testimony of Jesus is the Spirit of Prophecy. 43:27 So, if a church doesn't have the Spirit of Prophecy, 43:30 it is not God's last true church. 43:33 It's got to have it 43:35 and this was rediscovered in 1844 43:40 and what a wonderful gift that has been. 43:42 You know, sometimes people say to me, 43:44 "Well, do you think that God is going to raise up 43:48 another prophet, now that the prophet's been dead 43:51 for over a 100 years. 43:55 Pause... 43:59 Do you think that God might raise up another?" 44:01 Well, I like to answer that question 44:05 by going back to the type, 44:06 you know, in the Bible, 44:08 there are some wonderful lessons to be learned 44:10 by following the type and anti-type 44:13 and one of the greatest types in the Bible 44:17 or illustrations that the Bible uses of last-day truth 44:21 is the experience of the children of Israel 44:24 going through the wilderness... 44:26 leaving Egypt through the wilderness 44:28 to the Land of Canaan, 44:29 because 1st Corinthians chapter 10 says, 44:33 that all these things happened unto Israel 44:38 as an example or an illustration 44:41 for those of us who are living in the end of the world 44:45 and so, if we want to find out what God's truth is 44:48 in the last days, 44:50 simply go back to the type 44:51 and let's have a look at the type. 44:53 The type was led by a prophet. 44:56 His name was Moses 44:58 pause... 45:01 and Moses wrote down all the instructions 45:04 that God gave to him. 45:05 Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy 45:09 pause... 45:12 and that was designed to guide God's people 45:17 in their wilderness wanderings 45:19 pause... 45:21 and you will remember 45:22 that Moses took the children of Israel 45:24 into the Promised Land, true or false? 45:27 False... 45:29 Because he died just before going into the Land of Canaan. 45:36 Pause... 45:39 And so, we look at the type 45:41 then we look at the anti-type... 45:43 the church in the last days 45:46 that is based on the type 45:48 and by-the-way, every single truth 45:52 that is part of this message today 45:56 is found in that "type. " 45:59 Doesn't matter what you talk about, 46:01 the Sabbath... the State of the Dead... 46:04 our stand on health reform... 46:08 because Moses wrote down in the instruction 46:11 that he gave before he died, all about health reform. 46:15 Isn't that right? 46:16 And the anti-type is exactly the same. 46:20 and he died just before the children of Israel went in 46:24 and then was resurrected 46:25 and I believe exactly the same with the anti-type. 46:31 Ellen White died just before the people would go 46:37 into the true land of Canaan. 46:38 But before she died, she wrote all the instructions down 46:44 for us to follow. 46:46 We don't need any other prophet... 46:48 we're not even following all that she gave us, is that true? 46:50 Audience: Yes. 46:52 Why would God give us more when we haven't even followed 46:56 that which He has already given? 46:58 Audience: Agreeing. 47:00 And it's wonderful to see and to study that... that type 47:05 and she talked about a special resurrection... 47:08 remember in Daniel chapter 12, 47:10 one of the people that's going to be raised 47:12 will be some of those in the early Advent message... 47:16 they're going to be raised to see Jesus return 47:19 in the clouds of heaven. 47:22 What year was the sanctuary re-discovered? 47:26 1844... 47:28 the very year when God raised up His message 47:34 and then in the Sabbath Conferences in 1848, 47:39 those messages were formalized 47:42 and today, our understanding is really based 47:48 on those Sabbath Conferences that were developed in 1848. 47:53 But the devil has come along with all his counterfeits 47:56 to try to divert... to try to confuse people 48:03 and that's his strategy 48:06 and today we are not immune to being confused 48:11 and being diverted ourselves 48:13 pause... 48:16 when we understand the importance of this 48:18 and so, those people, 48:20 as they began to study Revelation chapter 14, 48:23 the message was to go to every nation, kindred, 48:27 tongue and people, 48:28 suddenly they realized, we have to be missionaries. 48:32 Give me a date... 48:34 what date... 48:36 1844... 48:38 a man by the name of Samuel Morse... 48:42 ever heard of him? 48:44 What did he discover? 48:45 You will remember that Samuel Morse 48:51 was the first man who discovered the telegraph... 48:56 and in... in Washington, D.C. 49:00 he had his friend, Vail, go down to Baltimore 49:04 and he typed out those words... four words... 49:09 "What hath GOD wrought" 49:15 and Vail, in Baltimore, typed back the message, 49:19 "What hath GOD wrought" 49:21 that was discovered... telegraph was discovered in 1844 49:26 the very year that God's message now needs to go to every nation, 49:31 kindred, tongue and people. 49:32 And by-the-way, 49:36 Samuel Morse was a very, very good Bible student. 49:39 He studied Daniel and Revelation... 49:43 he was an expert... 49:45 in fact, he wrote more on Daniel and Revelation 49:48 than he ever did on telegraph. 49:49 Pause... 49:52 God has given to us a message which is absolutely water-tight 49:56 pause... 49:58 and the trouble is and the tragedy is 50:01 that today, we are trying to water down the message 50:05 that God has given to us 50:07 pause... 50:09 and it's interesting that Columbus Xenia Railroad... 50:12 the railway was first built in 1844 50:15 so that the message could be taken 50:18 on land and sea. 50:21 In fact, let me just read you some of the discoveries 50:24 that took place in the decade of the 1840s. 50:28 Railroads were discovered in the 1840s. 50:32 Oceangoing steam ships were discovered in... in the 1840s. 50:39 The electric telegraph as we have noticed. 50:42 They discovered the Penny Post. 50:44 Up until this stage, 50:47 the only persons that ever had a post... a letter delivered 50:50 were the very wealthy. 50:52 Then they developed the Penny Post 50:54 and if you look up the Penny Post, 50:56 you will find that this is the development of... 50:58 of the Post as we know it today 51:00 when letters could be delivered. 51:02 Up until 1840s, that wasn't the case. 51:04 Pause... 51:06 This was when photography with negatives was discovered 51:12 and in 1844, the first news to provide sanitation 51:18 in English cities, was legislated. 51:22 If you want to read something that will turn you... 51:25 don't do it before you have a meal 51:27 but if you want to read something 51:30 that will turn your stomach, 51:32 just read how they were living before the 1840s in Briton 51:36 and the filth and the sanitation 51:40 was absolutely nil in existence 51:44 and Daniel chapter 12 and verse 4... 51:47 that wonderful verse that we have always understood 51:50 says, "Many shall run to and fro and... " what? 51:53 "knowledge shall increase. " 51:56 In that very year, the knowledge of God... 52:00 God allowed knowledge to increase 52:02 and all these amazing discoveries took place 52:06 so that His message could be taken 52:08 to every nation, kindred, tongue and people 52:11 and today, the devil is attacking the remnant 52:15 because how it is attacking the remnant is to make us unsure 52:19 of what we believe 52:21 because once you're unsure... 52:24 once question marks come into your mind, 52:26 I tell you, you're not going to share the truth 52:29 because your always thinking, "Maybe it's not right... " 52:33 and so, the worst thing that can ever happen 52:37 is uncertainty that will come into our hearts 52:40 and that's why the devil is trying to disseminate 52:42 uncertainty among us 52:44 pause... 52:48 and today there's a stupor... 52:50 a sleepiness among many of us, 52:53 in fact, let me read you a statement, 52:56 "As the Lord's people show 52:57 their determination to follow the light that has been given, 53:01 the enemy brings all his powers to bear to discourage them. 53:05 But they are not to give up because of the difficulties 53:09 that arise when they try to follow the counsels of the Lord. 53:13 Every wind of doctrine is going to blow before Jesus returns 53:18 and today, God is appealing to us... 53:23 He has given us evidence upon evidence upon evidence 53:26 that this message is water tight. 53:30 There is nothing in this message 53:32 that we need to be apologetic for. 53:35 This message is God's message 53:37 and God is calling for us to be faithful 53:41 in the giving of that message. 53:43 May God help us to do that. 53:45 Let's just bow our heads in prayer. 53:47 "Our Father in heaven, 53:49 I just want to thank You today, Lord, 53:51 for the wonderful message. 53:52 Those three messages of Revelation 14 53:55 that ought to be taken to every nation, kindred, 53:57 tongue and people. 53:59 Please Lord, help us to be faithful. 54:01 Help us to spend time not only getting to know you 54:04 but in sharing this wonderful truth with others... 54:08 I pray for Christ's sake, amen. 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