Do we have a word of prayer? Heavenly Father, we ask for your Holy Spirit as we take up this study. We ask a blessing upon the technical part of keeping the Zoom communications connected. Ask a blessing upon the material that we consider. We ask for your Holy Spirit to guide and direct, thank you for the Sabbath and our ability to interact in these times that we live in Jesus' name, amen. Well, one of the things that I've personally come under conviction of in relation to this controversy over what is it that establishes the vision and fulfillment of Daniel 11, verse 14, is that I realized when I looked at the controversy over Rome throughout Advent history that the strength of the methodology of line upon line is something that the Lord wants us to really settle into, because when you look at those histories, those controversies, it's amazing how directly they speak to this very time period, and they fill out a complete picture of what the controversy was representing. And without looking at those various histories laid upon one another line upon line, you just wouldn't see with clarity that the things that the Lord was trying to teach from this final controversy, one of the things He's trying to teach is that probation is about to close, because this is the final controversy. But another thing is that we are in a prophetic testing process, and He's trying to emphasize for us that our safety in terms of mastering the prophetic word is based upon our ability to rightly apply line upon line methodology. So what I am understanding now is that until the Sunday Law in the United States, the history that's been unsealed by the light of the tribe of Judas is history from 1989 to the Sunday Law, as represented as the hidden history in verse 40 of Daniel 11. But more specifically, He's taken a portion of that history in 1989 to the Sunday Law. And He's taken from September 11th to the Sunday Law, and made that the real centerpiece of Bible prophecy, the Bible prophecy that He is unsealing at this time. And once you get focused in on the history, the line of history from September 11th, 2001, until the Sunday Law, then you find that there are many, many lines of prophetic history that get laid over the top, and they're all connected one way or another, but they have their own special contribution to the mix. I mean, there's a line that runs through that history that's dealing with Islam. There's a line that runs through that history that's dealing with the United Nations. There's a line that runs through that history that's dealing with the King of the South, the conclusion of the King of the South in Daniel 11. That's connected with the United Nations, but it has its own line. You have the line in there of the United States, and in the line of the United States, you have two other lines that run with it, with the two horns of Republicanism and Protestantism. And those can be looked at at their own level, on their own lines. And you find within those lines of Republican and Protestantism that there's a dualism that's placed in both of those, where the Republican horn has this historical controversy between the Democrats and the Republicans, and the Protestant horn has its struggle between apostate Protestants and genuine Protestants. And there's even some variables in that. So, the lines that are in this history from 9-11 to the Sunday laws, there's a multitude of them. You have a line of wrongs. All of these lines need to be familiar to us, and we need to understand their relation to one another. And we're waking up to the same prophetic test that is illustrated over and over again in the Scriptures, and whether we pass or fail is going to be based upon our prophetic aptitude. And that prophetic aptitude will cause us to consume a great deal of the prophetic word, and I'm saying consume in that regard because we're going to talk about Jesus as the bread of heaven. And as we consume the Word of God, we are consuming the power that transforms us into His image. So, there's a purpose in all of the emphasis of prophetic study and prophetic testing. So, I want to look at a turning point now, a turning point in terms of some way marks are turning points, and I'm going to contend that the turning point that we're in right now is the turning point of the Laodicean Third Angel Movement changing to the Philadelphian Third Angel Movement, and that that turning point from Laodicea to Philadelphia was typified by several other prophetic lines, and probably the most important was the turning point in Millerite history when the Philadelphian Millerite Movement turned to the Millerite Laodicean Movement in the 1856-1863 time period. So, what I'm saying is from October 22nd, 1844 to 1863, you have an illustration of Millerite Adventism changing from Philadelphians to Laodiceans, and that history of October 22nd to 1863 is illustrating the history of July 18th, 2020 to the Sunday Law. October 22nd, 1844 being the worst first way mark was a disappointment. July 18th, 2020 was a disappointment. In 1856, there was new light opened up on the seven times, but much couldn't be said about that, and then in 1863, Laodicean Adventism determined to wander in the wilderness of sin until they're spewed out of the mouth of the Lord. And that history, October 22nd, 1856-1863, was typified in July 18th, the first disappointment. In July 23, when there was new light opened up on the seven times of Leviticus 26, and that new light was amongst several pieces of light, it wasn't just exclusively the seven times. But it's from that point, the awakening in July, the Sunday Law, where the final separation and sifting process of the 144,000 is accomplished, and it's there where they turn from Laodicean, the third angel's movement of Philadelphia, I don't know how to say that in a nice, smooth way. But what I'm suggesting is that in Christ's life, and we've dealt with this very chapter in Desire of Ages before, in Christ's life, you can line up His sermon in Capernaum, like at Galilee, on the bread of heaven, with this very history, and it is clearly identified as a turning point. And if it lines up with the history that we're in from July 18th, 2020, to the Sunday Law, and therefore lines up with 1844 to 1863, then the turning point of the sermon at Capernaum, that was the turning point and the second way mark in the last, let's put it the way the last test for the disciples, illustrates our history from July 2023 to the Sunday Law. Let's first remind ourselves the primary quote that we've used through the years about a turning point. Science and history cannot of themselves make men wise unto salvation, but through the aid of the Holy Spirit, which in answer to prayer will be given to guide into all truth, science and history may be made use of as a clear, definite light blending with that of the written inspired word. There are lessons to be learned from history, the history of the past, and attention is called to these that all may understand that God works on the same lines now that He has ever done. His hand is seen in His work, and among the nations now, just the same as it's been ever since the gospel was first proclaimed to Adam and Eden. There are periods which are turning points in the history of nations and of the church, and we of course have used this statement here to identify September 11, 2001, which can clearly be seen as a turning point in the history of the nations of the world and of God's church. The passage goes on, it says, in the providence of God, when these different crises arrive, so these turning points are turning points that are also crises, and when these different crises arrive, the light for that time is given. So we knew that Sister White said when the great buildings of New York City come down from the touch of God, then Revelation 18, verses 1 through 3, will be fulfilled, and verses 1 through 3 are fulfilled when the mighty angel of Revelation 18 comes down and the earth is lightened with His glory. So was 9-11 a crisis? Yes. Was it a turning point in the history of the nations and the church? Yes. Was there light given at that crisis? Yes. So 9-11 was clearly recognized as being fulfilled in the agreement with this close. Continuing on, if it is received, the light, there is spiritual progress. If it's rejected, spiritual declension and shipwreck follow. The Lord in His word has opened up the aggressive work of the gospel as it has been carried on in the past and will be in the future, even to the closing conflict when satanic agencies will make their last wonderful movement. From that word, we understand that the forces are now at work that will usher in the last great conflict between good and evil, between Satan, the prince of darkness, and Christ, the prince of light. But the coming time for the men who love and fear God is as sure as that His throne is established in the heavens, Bible Echo, August 26, 1895. So we've demonstrated that on September 11th, when the mighty angel of Revelation 18 descended, that the light for that time was given, that it was the turning point, and it was a crisis. But we've also identified that Sister Weiss's, the work of the angel of Revelation 18 is the same work as the first angel of Revelation 14, for she's speaking of the first angel of Revelation 14. He says his work was to lighten the earth with his glory. So the first angel of Revelation 14 was to come down out of heaven and lighten the earth with his glory and typify the angel of Revelation 18 coming down out of heaven and lighten the earth with his glory. And the first angel arrived in 1798 at the time of the end, but he came down out of heaven on August 11th, 1840, with a little book open in his hand, and that's typified September 11th, 2001, when Christ came down and the earth was lightened with his glory, and there was a word. There was a book in his hand there, as well as there was on August 11th, 1840, that represented the prophetic message that was going to test that particular generation. It was the light for that time when the different crises arrived. So upon the testimony of two or three is the thing established, and Sister Weiss identifies in early writings that when the first angel came down, he had a writing in his hand, and when the second angel came down, he had a writing in his hand. When the third angel came down, he had a writing in his hand. Therefore, when the angel of Revelation 18 comes down... He's going to have a writing in his hand. Revelation 10 tells us through the illustration of John the Revelator, that when the angel comes down, if you're faithful, you're to go and take the little book from the angel and eat it. And it's going to be sweet in your mouth but bitter in your stomach. So every time an angel arrives in prophetic history, you have the same dynamics in play. The first message was empowered on August 11th, 1840 and the second angel arrived on April 19th, 1844. And there was a message that needed to be understood at that time. And the Millerites didn't initially, right on April 19th, 1844, understand the message but shortly thereafter they did. And they understood the message of the second angel was that Babylon was fallen. And thereafter in the midnight cry at the Exeter camp meeting, according to Sister Dwight, many angels came down. When the midnight cry, many angels descend, not strictly one, but they also brought a message. The message that identified that the same prophecies that they had previously used to identify 1843 proved that 1844, October 22nd was correct. So when these angels descend, there is a message that they bring with them. And the message is to test that particular generation. And we're going to consider that test in our generation from the perspective of Millerite history. August 11th, 1840 aligned with September 11th, 2001. April 19th, 1844 aligned with July 18th, 2020. And the message that was opened up after the descent of these angels at the midnight cry camp meeting at Exeter in August is typifying the opening up of the midnight cry message for us here at the end that began in July of 2023. That's from the context of the first, second and third angels message from 1798 to 1844 in Millerite history. From the context of the arrival of the third angel on October 22nd, 1844, there was still a message that had to be eaten. Those people that had followed Christ into the most holy place by faith. They were opened up to the law of God, the sanctuary, the work Christ was doing in the sanctuary. There was life that they needed to internalize and accept and get ready to proclaim because they had a work to do. And the empowerment, the final piece of the puzzle of that progressive development of truth of the third angel in 1844, it ended where it began. And it began on October 22nd, 1844 with the Sabbath truth being opened up. And Sister White confirmed that that when she went into the sanctuary, she saw that the Sabbath commandment glowed. It was highlighted above the other commandments, emphasizing that it was the truth, the primary truth that was opened up on October 22nd, 1844. And the Sabbath commandment for man has been, has a parallel to it with the Sabbath commandment of the land that is the seven times. So in this period of testing and whether they were gonna take the little book out of the third angel's hand and eat it, that was opened up on October 22nd, 1844, they reached a point to where they were at the final point of testing in 1856, which is when they have been identified as transitioning into Laodicea. But it's also when the new light of the seven times was opened up. And had they been faithful as they were not, that light would have grown and developed into the light that they could carry into the promised land. And they would have been in heaven before that, according to the testimony of Sister White, but they failed. They are an illustration of those who will not accept the light that is opened up when these various lines of prophetic history that are identifying our history are brought together. The light that was opened up in July of 2023 was not the same, but the same light that was opened up in 1856, it was a new light, a new revelation connected to the seven times that was to bring to perfection the message of the third angel that was going to be internalized by those Laodicean Millerites at that point in time. And they rejected it and ended up wandering in the wilderness, but they set a pattern for us here at the end that there would be new light on the seven times in July of 2023, and it would be marking the closing period of testing. So the next quote, I'm gonna go into what I believe is the parallel history in the time of Christ that's represented by Galilee, when Sister White says there are turning points that are a crisis that mark when the light is given, and it's a turning point in the histories of the nations and the church. The word Galilee means a hinge, which is a turning point. And Capernaum was his own city, is what it's called in this quote. At Capernaum, Jesus dwelt in the intervals of his journeys to and fro, and it came to be known as his own city. It was on the shores of the Sea of Galilee and near the borders of the beautiful plain of Ben-Hasaret, if not actually upon it, it's in Hyrule pages 252. Prophetically, when Capernaum is called Jesus' own city, the Old Testament has several references that the Lord chose Jerusalem to be the place where he placed his name. So the choosing of Jerusalem is identifying God's own city, and Capernaum, therefore, is a symbol of Jerusalem, where he came in between his various trips and took in some relaxation. And it's on the shores of the Sea of Galilee, it's a turning point where this particular story in the Desire of Ages in the Bible is set forth. The name Capernaum means village of Nahum, and Nahum means comfort or consolation. So Capernaum represents the city which the Lord did choose, the city he chooses to send the comforter to. The crisis in Galilee represented a turning point within God's church, which would produce two classes of worshipers based upon their reception or rejection of the prophetic message. The crisis typifies the purging and sifting of the messenger of the covenant of Malachi chapter three. So what I'm suggesting is Galilee is the turning point, Capernaum is the village of Nahum, which is the city the Lord chose to place his name there, but it's also the city that he poured the comforter out upon. It's the city that received the outpouring of the Holy Spirit because every prophetic illustration is speaking about the last days, and we have the responsibility as students of prophecy to take the crisis, the story of the crisis of Galilee and bring it to the last days and rightly align it, okay? And so the crisis of Galilee, which I'm saying aligns with the history since July, 2023, the crisis at Galilee was preceded by a disappointment. The chapter, I have a whole chapter in here from the desire of ages on the crisis of Galilee. And the chapter before that chapter talks about where Jesus turned, fed the 5,000 through the people the miracle of producing bread out of nothing, okay? So this is just a short passage because when Jesus left that scene, the people were disappointed that he had left and the disciples were disappointed that he didn't get on the boat with them. So a couple of paragraphs out of that previous chapter in desire of ages, unbelief was taking possession of their minds and hearts. Love of honor had blinded them. And he's talking about not only the people, but the disciples, they're being blinded because they had a prophetic private interpretation that was preventing them from understanding the truth. They thought the fact that Jesus could produce bread and raise the dead and do all the miracles that he did. Identified that as a Messiah, he was gonna set up a literal kingdom. And that's what they've been taught to expect. So they couldn't get that concept out of their head and understand that Jesus was simply giving an object lesson by producing the bread to feed the people and his unwillingness to carry on in this literal physical miracle making mode, just when the people and the disciples and they started questioning what they understood. They knew that Jesus was hated by the Pharisees and they were eager to see him exalted as they thought he should be. To be united with the teacher who could work mighty miracles and yet to be reviled as deceivers was the trial they could ill endure. Were they always to be accounted followers of a false prophet? Would Christ never assert his authority as King? Why did not he who possessed such power reveal himself in his true character and make their way less painful? Why had he not saved John the Baptist from a violent death? Thus the disciples reasoned until they brought upon themselves great spiritual darkness. They questioned, could Jesus be an imposter as the Pharisees asserted? The disciples had that day witnessed the wonderful works of Christ. It is seen that heaven had come down to the earth. The memory of that precious glorious day should have filled them with faith and hope. Had they out of the abundance of their hearts been conversing together in regard to these things, they would have not entered into temptation. But their disappointment had absorbed their thoughts. They went through a disappointment and this is before they get to Galilee. Their disappointment had absorbed their thoughts. The words of Christ gather up the fragments that nothing be lost were unheeded. They didn't do it. What fragments were they supposed to gather up? The wise virgins in the tarrying time did something different than the foolish virgins. The wise virgins continued to search the scriptures and the scriptures Jesus is gonna inform us in this next chapter is the word of God and it is the bread and the fragments that were still left lying there were to be gathered up. And had they been gathered up, their disappointment wouldn't have overtaken them the way that it did. Those were hours of large blessing to the disciples but they had forgotten it all. They were in the midst of troubled waters. Their thoughts were stormy and unreasonable and the Lord gave them something else to afflict their souls and occupy their minds. God often does this when men create burdens and troubles for themselves. The disciples had no need to make trouble already danger was fast approaching. So she says their disappointment begins them to doubt Christ and she says they're in the midst of troubled waters and sure enough, they're gonna be out in the water and assuming that they're gonna get thanked by the storm they get caught up in. He takes a storm to get them to quit thinking these pharisaical thoughts about whether he was genuinely the Messiah or not and he brings that storm to a conclusion by walking on the water and then he shows up at Galilee. Galilee means a hinge which is a turning point. Christ discourse in the synagogue concerning the bread of life was the turning point in the history of Judas. He heard the words except you eat the flesh of the son of man and drink his blood you have no life in you, John 6, 53. He saw that Christ was offering spiritual rather than worldly goods. He saw it, he regarded himself as farsighted and thought he could see that Jesus would have no life. honor and that he could bestow no high position upon his followers, he determined not to unite himself so closely with Christ, but that he could draw away. He would watch, and he did watch. So in this crisis at Galilee, which is a turning point, which I'm saying that we're in right now as of July 2023, there is one class of disciples that is represented by Judas that is a big guy. He understood that Jesus, when he said, accept ye the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, he knew that Jesus meant to spiritually feed upon his word. But he didn't believe that that was the way that Jesus was supposed to manage his ministry. And he thought he was wiser than God. And he represents a group of people in the last days that this particular crisis is typifying and more specifically applies to than even the time of Christ. He represents a group of disciples, and by disciples, I mean disciples of this movement. Even though they sell the message, they turn away because they have a better idea. Now, the lines of prophecy, before we take up this chapter of crisis in Galilee, the lines of prophecy that get laid in to the hidden history of Daniel 11, verse 40, particularly the lines of prophecy that address September 11 to the Sunday log, they contain a line of prophecy that I would call covenant history. Okay, you have a line of prophecy that's about the President of the United States, you have a line of prophecy about the Republican horn, a line of prophecy about the Protestant horn. You have these various lines that all get plugged into the same history, but one of them that's important for us to see is that when Jesus is entering into covenant with a people, he is passing by a former covenant people. And there's plenty of witnesses to this. In the beginning of ancient Israel, the Lord had made a covenant with those people that came out of Egypt. But by the time they had rejected the message of Joshua and Caleb that they could go in and take the promised land, they had failed 10 tests. They had failed a testing process, and they were rejected as God's covenant people, and the Lord entered in to those represented by Joshua and Caleb. So, when he was entering into covenant with Joshua and Caleb, he was passing by those adults that had come out of Egypt. And at the end of ancient Israel, because Jesus illustrates the end with the beginning, when at Christ's baptism, we're told, at his birth, we're told in the Desire of Ages that the leaders of the Jewish church were already passed by at his birth. But at his baptism, we're told that he began selecting the disciples for his ministry, and we're told that those disciples were the foundation of the Christian church. He began to build the new temple at his baptism. And so, the people that he's entering into covenant with beginning at his baptism, this new ministry, is being selected as his covenant people at the same time that the ancient Jewish church is being passed by. If you fast forward to 1798, which was typified by the birth of Christ, and that teaches you that the leaders of the Protestant church, they were passed by in 1798. And when Miller's message was empowered on August 11, 1840, the Lord was then entering into covenant with those people that joined the Millerite movement, and he was passing by the Protestants. And the Protestant testing period began in earnest on August 11, 1840. And by the first disappointment, on April 19, 1844, the Protestants had their perfect excuse to separate fully from the Millerites, and they did so, and they became the daughters of Babylon. That's the second angel's message. Babylon has fallen. The point I'm hoping that we can see here is that when the Lord is entering into covenant with a people, he's passing by a former covenant people. And that's at the beginning of ancient Israel is one witness. The end of ancient Israel is another witness. The beginning of spiritual Israel and the Millerite movement, you have that witness. And that witness, those three witnesses speak to our history that in 1989, the leadership of the Seventh-day Adventist church was passed by. And on September 11, 2001, the testing of the Seventh-day Adventist church began in earnest. And by July 18, 2020, they have fully been removed from the covenant relationship in terms of the fact that the Lord has began choosing his new covenant people on September 11, 2001. And the covenant people that he chose on August 11, 1840 were those that were going to fulfill the prophetic line of the parable of the ten virgins. And those covenant people that he entered into covenant with on September 11, 2001 were also going to fulfill the parable of the ten virgins. And in Millerite history and in the parables, you have two witnesses that identify that there was going to be a disappointment in this final movement, and that was July 18, 2020. And at that disappointment that had been typified by April 19, 1844, an angel came down with a message. And April 19, 1844, the message that they were to take and eat was that, hey, the Protestant churches have now become daughters of Rome. They've rejected the message of the hour. They've become the daughters of Rome. That date, April 19, 1844, represents the arrival of an angel on July 18, 2020. And the message he's bringing is multifaceted, but it is that the Adventist church has passed by. Now the testing process that remains from the first disappointment of July 18, 2020 unto the Sunday Law, that testing process is being carried out not upon a former covenant people, which would be the Seventh-day Adventist church, but upon the covenant people that entered into covenant with Christ on September 11, 2001. And those covenant people are working through that covenant history in agreement with the parable of the ten virgins. And in the parable of the ten virgins, the Millerites woke up to the fact that they were in the tarrying time. They recognized that as being in the tarrying time, that they were the virgins of the parable of the ten virgins in Matthew 25. And they had explained to them their mistake of 1843 and realized that that mistake was what produced the tarrying time in the parable, and also was the mistake addressed in Habakkuk 2 where they were counseled to wait for the vision to speak because it would not tarry. They saw themselves in the prophetic role as the virgins of the parable and gave witness that the 144, the movement of the 144,000, those people that wake up in the last days to the tarrying time, must recognize that they are the people of this prophetic line that are being identified. As the Millerites understood that they were fulfilling the parable of the ten virgins, those people that wake up in July of 2023 must realize that they are fulfilling the parable of the ten virgins. And they also must realize that as the final fulfillment of the parable of the ten virgins, that the wise virgins are also illustrated as the 144,000. So, not only did the Millerites come to understand that they were in the tarrying time, but in that history, they also then recognized that the same evidence that had led them to predict 1843 actually proved 1844. And therefore, in July of 2023, when the tarrying time is identified, also the prophecies, the prophetic applications that were used to predict July 18th, 2020, that proved to be a failure, were still recognized to be valid, and they were making the same prediction about the Sunday Law that had formerly been a mistake about Islam on July 18th, 2020. So, what I'm saying is that the turning point that is the arrival of the second angel has to be a crisis in the history of the nations and the church to qualify as the turning point, the symbol of a turning point as we're using. And I'm saying that the year 2020 was the turning point in the church because the church now is the church that's fulfilling the parable of the ten virgins. And the nations can clearly be identified as being in crisis once Biden was elected in 2020, and Trump had been symbolically assassinated, prophetically assassinated. And the warfare of the globalists against the Constitution of the United States only hit high gear in 2020, and we're still in the aftermath of that. And what I'm saying is that the disappointment of the people and the disciples that Jesus wouldn't declare himself king, that preceded his arrival in Galilee to where he's going to preach the message about the bread of heaven, that disappointment was typifying July 18th, 2020. And the turning point of the crisis in Galilee, chapter 41 from the Desire of Ages, the turning point is a turning point that takes place just before the last test. So what I'm going to do now is I'm going to scroll down to the bottom of this chapter. I have the whole chapter in these notes, and I want to show you something in the very last paragraph of this chapter before we get into it. Almost there. Compassionate Redeemer, who in the full knowledge of the doom that awaited him, tenderly smoothed the way for the disciples, prepared them for their crowning trial, and strengthened them for the final test. Their crowning trial and the final test was the cross, and the cross typifies the Sunday long. So this crisis in Galilee, this test that Jesus allowed to take place over the bread of heaven that caused so many of his disciples to leave was the testing process that preceded the Sunday law. It was the testing process that preceded the Sunday law and settled the disciples into, or I should say, sealed the disciples into an experience where they could make it through the Sunday law test, in spite of it being a difficult test for them to get through during the cross. They had a great deal of pain until Jesus was resurrected and returned. So the great final test for us is the Sunday law, and I'm saying that this crisis of Galilee is typifying a testing process that precedes the test of the Sunday law. And we're about ready to look at some points in this chapter called The Crisis in Galilee. A crisis is a turning point, Galilee is a hinge, it's a turning point. But before we do, I want to remind you that when Jesus began his ministry, once he was anointed at his baptism, he went into, he was led into the wilderness by the Holy Spirit, and he was tempted of Satan, and that three-step testing process that was illustrated came at the end of 40 days, and 40 days is therefore a symbol of a testing process, and it's the testing process of every testing process, the three-step testing process that is the signature of truth, and at the end of his ministry, when he was interacting with people face-to-face, was after he was resurrected. He stayed 40 days. The 40 days that he was moving in and out among the disciples, teaching them after his resurrection, the 40 days that led to the 10 days that led to Pentecost, those 40 days were the last 40 days that he was interacting directly with people, and the first 40 days that he was interacting with people, he ceased to interact with people, he went into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil, but that first 40 days at the beginning of his ministry is illustrating that last 40 days, and the elements of the first have to be found in the last, so this 40 days that the disciples were with Christ is, among other things, it's a testing process, and that testing process is the testing process that begins at the disappointment of the cross, which is the great disappointment for the disciples, and then they have a 40-day testing process that leads to 10 days of coming into unity, of message, of faith, unity in Christ fully, and that 10 days is symbolic of the sealing of the 144,000, which takes place before the Sunday Law. At the Sunday Law, those that are sealed will be manifested for people to recognize, because they will be standing faithful in the crisis of Sunday enforcement, but they don't suddenly get that character at the Sunday Law, they perfect that character in advance of the Sunday Law, and the 10 days that led to Pentecost are 10 days that we're told that they were coming into unity. There was no disagreement happening at that point, and it was preceded by 40 days, which were the last 40 days of Christ, that were to provide by the first 40 days of Christ's ministry, and the first 40 days of Christ's ministry was a test, and therefore the last 40 days of Christ's ministry is a test, and what he was doing when he came down out of heaven after the resurrection is he began to open the understanding of the disciples to the prophetic word. So that 40 days leading to the 10 days that lead to Pentecost was a testing, prophetic testing period that's illustrating a prophetic testing period in the last days that begins with a disappointment, the disappointment of the cross, and then a period where Christ is dead, and he's resurrected, ascends, and comes down, and that period where he's resurrected is typifying when the two witnesses of Revelation 11 are resurrected, and Christ comes down at that time with a message that is to be taken and eaten, and that message is the seven times, among other things, just as it was in Millerite history, and that message begins a 40-day testing process, if you're thinking in terms of Pentecost, 40 days of Christ in the wilderness, and it is the testing process that prepares the 144,000, prepares the wise virgins to stand during the testing process of the cross for the disciples, which is the testing process of Sunday enforcement for the 144,000. So I'm saying that the arguments to place this line of the crisis of Galilee from the desire of ages into the history of July 2023, there are several proof checks to prove this, so I want to read through a couple things in this chapter, and trust that the parts that I leave off, maybe you can look at this afternoon or this evening. When Christ forbade the people to declare him king, he knew that a turning point in his history was reached. Multitudes who desired to exalt him to this Roman day would turn from him tomorrow. The disappointment of their selfish ambition would turn their love to hatred and their praise to curses, yet knowing this, he took no measures to avert the crisis. From the first he had held out to his followers no hope of earthly reward. To one who came desiring to become his disciples, he had said, the foxes have holes and the birds of the air have nests, but the son of man hath not where to lay his head. Matthew 8 20. That disciple was Judas. If men could have had the world with Christ, multitudes would have proffered him their allegiance, but such service he could not accept. Of those now connected with him, there were many who had been attracted by the hope of a worldly kingdom. These must be undeceived. The deep spiritual teaching and the miracle of the loaf had not been comprehended. This was to be made plain, and this new revelation would bring with it a closer test. The miracle of the loaf was reported far and near, and very early the next morning the people flocked to Bethsaida to see Jesus. They came in great numbers on land and sea. Those had left him the preceding night returned, expecting to find him still there, for there had been no boat by which he could pass to the other side. But their search was fruitless, and many returned to Capernaum, still seeking him. Meanwhile, he had arrived at Genesaret after an absence of but one day. As soon as it was known that he had landed, the people ran through the whole region round about and began to carry about in bed those that were sick where they heard he was. After a time he went to the synagogue, and there those who had come from Bethsaida found him. They learned from his disciples how he had crossed the sea, the fury of the storm, and the many hours of fruitless rowing against adverse winds, the appearance of Christ walking upon the water, the fears that aroused his reassuring words, the adventure of Peter and its result, and with sudden stillness, stilling of the tempest and landing of the boat, were all faithfully recounted to the wandering crowd. Not content with this, however, many gathered about Jesus questioning, Rabbi, when camest thou hither? They hoped to receive from his own lips a further account of the miracle. Jesus did not gratify their curiosity. He sadly said, you seek me not because you saw the miracle, but because you did eat the loaves of bread and were filled. The test that preceded this presentation in Galilee was the test of seeing him produce this bread and then eating it. And the test was for them to recognize that it was an object lesson identifying that what man is to live upon is the Word of God, not the physical bread. And they had failed that test. Now they're coming to Galilee, and he's going to get, Jesus is going to get direct about what that object lesson represented, and he knows that this is going to cause a great crisis among the people, and he begins by just putting it to him straight, straight to their face. You didn't see the miracle. You didn't see the spiritual thing that happened the day before. All you did was eat the bread. All you're looking for is the literal, and you can't see the spiritual. They did not seek him for many worthy motive, but as they had been fed with the loaves, they hoped still to receive temporal benefit by attaching themselves to him. The Savior bade them labor not for the meat which perishes, but for that meat which endures unto everlasting life. Seek not merely for material benefit, let it not be the chief effort to provide for the life that now is, but seek for spiritual food, even that wisdom which will endure unto everlasting life. This is the son of God alone can give, for him hath God the Father sealed. For the moment, the interest of the hearers was awakened. In July 2023, there was a voice in the wilderness that cried and awakened the virgins. The awakening comes in the tearing time, and they have to wake up and realize that they're in the tearing time. They have to realize that they are the people, the covenant people that are the subject of prophecy. They have to realize that they are now in a prophetic testing process, and they have to realize that they're being confronted with a new light upon the seven times of Leviticus 26, the same way that the Millerites, the Lord attempted to awaken the Millerites in 1856, and how they respond to this, these circumstances, is going to be life or death. But here in this illustration, when Christ confronted them directly with, you failed the test on the literal bread, so now I'm going to give you a more direct test and explain to you that the literal bread was spiritual bread. What Christ said to them is, you're now in a prophetic test, and you need to understand that the literal things identify, illustrate, typify the spiritual things, and if you can't see that, you're going to be lost. And this is the truth that awakens them. Now they're going to have to determine what they're going to do once they're awakened. They exclaimed, what shall we do that we might work the works of God? They had been performing many and burdensome works in order to recommend themselves to God, and they were ready to hear of any new observance by which they could secure greater merit. Their question meant, what shall we do that we may deserve heaven? What is the price we are required to pay in order to obtain the life to come? The price that you have to pay for the seven times it's opened up in July of 2023 is to acknowledge, among other things, this is just part of the price, that you haven't been walking with God since July of 2020, and he hasn't been walking with you. And any claim that you make about that history is a denial of the prayer that Daniel prayed in Daniel 9 that's based upon the prayer of Leviticus 26 that must be accomplished when you awaken to the fact that you've been scattered and that you're in the enemy's land. And that's what was awakened to God's people in July of 2023. And their question was, well what can I do to keep—well, some of them had the question—what can I do to keep my status quo going, but where I do not have to do the work that you're calling me to do, which is to humble myself in terms of the seven times of Leviticus 26, and by refusing to humble themselves as the demand is set forth in the seven times of Leviticus 26, they're repeating the lack of humility of Laodicean Millerite Adventism in 1856. And just as Laodicean Adventism was sent into the wilderness in 1863, they're preparing themselves to be spewed out of the mouth of the Lord at the Sunday law. Jesus answered and said unto them, this is the work of God that you believe on him whom ye have sent. The price of heaven is Jesus. The way to heaven is through faith in the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sins of the world. The sin of the world, John 129. But the people did not choose to receive this statement of divine truth. Jesus had done the very works which prophecy had foretold that the Messiah would do, but they had not witnessed what their selfish hopes had pictured as his work. Now think about that for a minute. If this is a true commentary, and it is on this passage from John, then what it's saying is that John chapter 6 and this commentary are speaking... about the last days, just before the Sunday's off, when the Lord is raising up the 144,000. This commentary needs to be plugged into that history. And it says, the people did not choose to receive this truth that Jesus brings them in July, 2023, even though he had done the very work which prophecy had foretold that the Messiah would do. Even though Jesus had did exactly what these people had been told he would do, they still wouldn't believe him. And what I mean by that is, if you are conscientiously, correctly applying the truth of a covenant people, then the witnesses tell you that the Seventh-day Adventist leadership was passed by in 1989. And in September 11th, 2001, the testing process for the Seventh-day Adventist church was underway. And at the same time that that testing process was underway, the Lord was raising up a new covenant people as he did with the disciples immediately after his baptism, as he did with Joshua and Caleb, as he did in the time period of 1840, when the Millerites became God's chosen people. So, the chosen people that are the subject of the 144,000 final sealing just before the Sunday law, are those people that were chosen as his covenant people in September 11th, 2001. And those people were told exactly what was going to happen to them through prophecy. The Messiah had told them the very work that he was to do. And the very work that he was gonna do is he was gonna lead those covenant people, the people from 9-11 to the Sunday law, through the history of the parable of the 10 virgins, which meant that they had to have a disappointment, an unexpected disappointment in advance of the Sunday law. And that unexpected disappointment that was going to turn things upside down was to be recognized for what it was. It was a scattering. It was a death. It was taking on the attributes of dead, dry bones. It was being dead in the streets of Sodom and Egypt for three and a half days. And at the end of that three and a half days, one of the main requirements for those people were that they had to acknowledge that they'd been scattered in agreement with the seven times of Leviticus 26, and they needed to humble themselves in the dust and admit that they hadn't been walking with God. And some chose not to do that, even though that very experience is represented by the parable of the 10 virgins, and those very people profess that they are fulfilling the parable of the 10 virgins. But the people did not choose to receive this statement of divine truth. Jesus had done the very work which prophecy had foretold that the Messiah would do, but they had not witnessed what their selfish hope had pictured as his work. Christ had indeed once fed the multitude with barley and loaves but in the days of Moses, Israel had been fed with manna 40 years, and far greater blessings were expected from the Messiah. Their dissatisfied hearts queried why, if Jesus could perform so many wonderful works as they had witnessed, could he not give health, strength and riches to all his people, free them from their oppressors and exalt them to power and honor. The fact that he claimed to be the son of God yet refused to be Israel's king was a mystery they could not fathom. His refusal was misinterpreted. Many concluded that he dared not assert his claims because he himself doubted as to the divine character of his mission. Thus they opened their hearts to unbelief and deceived which Satan had sown toward fruit of its kind in misunderstanding the defection. Now, half-mockingly, a rabbi questioned, what sign showest thou then that we may see and believe thee? What does thou work? Our fathers did eat manna in the desert. As it is written, he gave them bread from heaven to eat. The Jews honored Moses as the giver of manna, ascribing praise to the instrument and losing sight of him by whom the work had been accomplished. Their fathers had murmured against Moses and had doubted and denied his divine mission. Now in the same spirit, the children rejected the one who bore the message of God to themselves. Then said Jesus unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Moses gave you not that bread from heaven. The giver of the manna was standing among them. It was Christ himself who had led the Hebrews to the wilderness and daily fed them with the bread from heaven. That food was the type of the real bread from heaven. The life-giving spirit flowing from the infinite fullness of God is the true manna. Jesus said, the bread of God is that which cometh down out of heaven and giveth life unto the world, John 6, 3, 3. And what I'm saying is that inspiration states directly that on April 19th, 1844, the second angel of that history descended with a writing in his hand. He descended with the bread from heaven that those people at that time were supposed to eat. They couldn't do it right away. They were greatly disappointed at that point in time. And they had to shake off their lethargy in order to be among those that followed by faith into the most holy place on October 22nd, 1844. Jeremiah represents those people when he says, thy word was found and I did eat them. Those that ate the second angel's message in 1844 began to proclaim the message of the second angel and were further empowered by the bread that came down out of heaven that was the midnight cry message, which led them to the closed door of October 22nd, 1844. That history tells us that on July 18th, 2020, an angel came down from heaven and he had manna in his hand, bread of heaven. And it was not until the Lord determined, Michael, the archangel determined that it was time to resurrect Elijah and Moses and the dead dry bones, that the message of that angel was presented. And that message began the testing process that's illustrated in this story in the synagogue in Galilee, the turning point, that is identifying the testing process of the 40 days that precedes the 10 days that precedes Pentecost. And that illustrates the time period that we've been in since July of 2020. Of 2023, still thinking that it was temporal food to which Jesus referred some of his heirs, he exclaimed, Lord, evermore give us this bread. Jesus then spoke plainly, I am the bread of heaven. The figure which Christ used was a familiar one to the Jews. Moses, by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, had said, man does not live by bread only, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of the Lord and the prophet Jeremiah had written, thy words are found and I did eat them and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart. And, you know, Sister White there, she leaves off the last part of verse 16. In verse 16, it goes on to say, it says, thy words are found and I did eat them and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart, for I am called by thy name, O Lord of hosts. See, when Jeremiah eats the little book, which is when John in Revelation 10 ate the little book, it was when the mighty angel came down on August 11, 1840 with the little book open in his hand, they took the little book, Jeremiah did, John did, and they ate it, and it was the joy and rejoicing of their heart, Ezekiel and John said it tastes like honey, but Jeremiah adds that he's called by his name because on August 11, 1840, those people that take that little book, they become called by God's name. That's when they are entering into covenant because the change of a name throughout sacred history is a symbol of a covenant relation. Abram, when he enters into covenant, his name is changed to Abraham, his wife Sarah is to Sarah. Jacob's changed to Israel to mark a covenant relationship. When you eat the message, you're entering into a covenant relationship. September 11, 2001, there was a group of people that entered into a covenant relationship that were understanding prophecy based upon the methodology of line upon line. They were fulfilling the parable of the 10 virgins to the very letter, just as the Millerites had done, and they suffered the disappointment. And their disappointment, as with the Millerites, produced a tearing time, which was also described prophetically as a scattering. It was described as three and a half days, which can also be three and a half years, which can be the 1260, it can be several symbolic periods of time that this tearing time carries on until July of 2023, when Michael determines he's going to resurrect Elijah and Moses, bring these people back to life. He's going to awaken them, and he's going to bring them into a testing process that they must have if they're gonna successfully navigate the Sunday Law crisis, which is coming at them faster than they could possibly understand. The rabbis themselves had a saying that the eating of bread and its spiritual significance was the study of the law and the practice of good works, and it was often said that at the Messiah's coming, all Israel would be fed. The teaching of the prophets had been made plain, the deep spiritual lessons in the miracle of the Lord. This lesson Christ was seeking to open to his heirs in the synagogue. Had they understood the scriptures, they would have understood his words when he said, I am the bread of life. Only the day before the great multitude when faint and weary had been fed by the bread which he had given. And from that bread, they had received physical strength and refreshment, so from Christ they might receive spiritual strength unto internal life. He that cometh unto me, he said, shall never hunger, and he that believeth on me shall never thirst. But he added, he also hath seen me and believed not. They had seen Christ by the witness of the Holy Spirit, by the revelation of God to their soul. The living evidences of his power had been before them day after day, yet they asked for still another sign. Had this been given, they would have remained as unbelieving as before. If they were not convinced by what they had seen and heard, it was useless to show them marvelous works. Unbelief will never find excuse for doubt and reason away the most positive proof. This testing process that we are now in is a prophetic testing process, and it requires an individual comprehension of the message that's being instilled. It has to be internalized by each of us, and those of us that, for whatever reason, choose not to do so, that our time isn't to be used to try to pull them out of that ditch. In this article here, in this chapter, it plainly says Christ didn't try to avert this disaster. He was point blank. He brought this crisis upon him, and he had a purpose to accomplish, to prepare the faithful for the coming crisis. He was gonna meet this head on, and he didn't soften anything down, and for that reason, he loses more disciples in this chapter than any other place in his ministry. This happens to be John 666, and speaking of this period of time that we're in is saying that those of us that will not do our responsibility as students of prophecy to make this message our own are not only seeing ourselves on the wrong side of the issue, but we're not to become the point of reference where I spend my time or someone else spends their time laboring with someone who has had all this abundant information. Those people that are involved with this movement right now, they profess to join this movement based upon September 11th. Thy words are found, and I did eat them. that called by thy name, O Lord of Hosts. They came through the first disappointment, which is the fulfillment of the parable of the 10 virgins, which the Messiah had said was gonna take place. 144,000 were gonna fulfill the parable of the 10 virgins to the very letter. When they wake up to the fact that they've been in this tearing time, now they're in a testing process, and it's no longer the burden of those around them to recount all the steps along the way that the Lord has, that they've been involved with, that the Lord has been leading this movement through. If they haven't seen these witnesses as represented by Christ feeding the people with bread, if they haven't seen these witnesses and understood what they mean spiritually, internally, then other nights of prophecy say that they will be receiving strong delusion at the same time that the faithful are receiving the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. And the heart that is being illustrated in this passage here in the crisis of Galilee is that those people that are gonna receive the strong delusion, they want more proof, they want to see another sign. And Jesus isn't gonna give them another sign. And that sign that they receive typifies the stronger delusion. It talks in the next couple of paragraphs about how they slandered Christ for his history, trying to put it in a bad light. This is worth understanding about all of this. The prejudice of the Pharisees lay deeper than their questions would indicate. It had its roots in the perversity of their hearts. Every word and act of Jesus aroused antagonism in them for the spirit which they cherished could find in him no answering course. No man come to me except the Father which has sent me, draw him, and I will raise him up in the last days. It is written in the prophets, and they shall all be all taught of God. Every man therefore that hath heard and hath learned of the Father cometh unto me. None will ever come to Christ save those who respond to the drawing of the Father's love, but God is drawing all hearts unto him, and only those who resist his drawing will refuse to come to Christ. In the words, they shall all be taught of God, Jesus referred to the prophecy of Isaiah. All thy children shall be taught of the Lord, and great shall be the peace of thy children. Isaiah 54, 13. This scripture is the Jews appropriated to themselves. It was their boast that God was their teacher, but Jesus showed how vain is this claim for he said, every man therefore that hath heard and hath learned of the Father cometh unto me. Only through Christ could they receive the knowledge of the Father. Humanity could not endure the vision of his glory. Those who had learned of God had been listening to the voice of his Son, and in Jesus of Nazareth, they would recognize him, and through nature and revelation has declared the Father. If we bring this down to our day and age, one class is accepting the life of the second angel of July 18th, 2020, and the angels that came July, 2023, as the message of the midnight cry began to be opened up for this history. One class is receiving this oil, and the other class is not receiving the oil, and the other class that's not receiving the oil is still claiming that they're being taught of the Lord. The Jews that appropriated this promise to themselves, you said, it was their boast that God was their teacher, so the Jews here are an illustration of the foolish virgins in this history, and the foolish virgins are still going to be thinking that God is their teacher, but according to 2 Thessalonians, they're gonna be under strong delusion, and they got there because they resisted the real voice of the Lord, and the only way that we can hear the voice of the Lord is if we are students of prophecy, and consuming and feeding upon his word like we've never done before, so I'm saying that all these attributes from Galilee line up with our history. Verily, verily, I say unto you, he that believeth on me hath everlasting life. So through the beloved John who listened to these words, the Holy Spirit declared to the churches, this is the record that God has given to us in eternal life, and this life is in his son. He that hath a son hath life, and Jesus said, I will raise him up at the last day. Christ became one flesh with us in order that we might become one spirit with him. It is by virtue of this union that we are to come forth from the grave, not merely as a manifestation of the power of Christ, but because through faith his life has become ours. Those who see Christ in his true character and receive him into their heart have everlasting life. It is through the spirit that Christ dwells in us, and the spirit of God received into the heart by faith is the beginning of life eternal, and this is talking about the Lord raising him up in the last days, and the two persons that were slain in the streets in 2020, at one level it was the Protestant horn and the Republican horn, but if it's the Republican horn, the Republican horn has its own Elijah and its own Moses within that horn, and it represents God's faithful people in the last days. One who does not die, represented by Elijah, representing the 144,000, and one class that do die, represented as Moses, and represented as the great multitude in the same chapter that 144,000 are referenced, chapter seven of Revelation. So when Jesus is identifying that he will raise the faithful up in the last days, the faithful of the last days are two categories, and they're both gonna get resurrected and raised up. The dead in Christ are gonna get resurrected and then raised up into the air to be with Christ forever. That's the dead in Christ represented by Moses, by the great multitude, but the 144,000, they get resurrected in July of 2023. They get brought back to life, those that get brought back to life that are the 144,000 in July, 2023, they get raised up at the last day, not at the second coming of Christ, but at the Sunday law, they get raised up as the end time. So those that do not die, the 144,000, get raised up at the Sunday law, and those that do die, representing the great multitude, they get raised up at the second coming of Christ. And I think that needs to be noted in there because it's part of the testimony that is speaking to the very history that I'm saying that this history of Galilee is identified. It's the history of the resurrection of Elijah and Moses in July of 2023, in advance of them being raised up at the Sunday law, okay? So the people had referred Christ to the man in which their fathers ate in the wilderness, as if the furnishing of that food was a greater miracle than Jesus had performed. But he shows how meager that gift, when compared with the blessing he had come to bestow, the man who could sustain only this earthly existence. It did not prevent the approach of death nor ensuring mortality, but the bread of heaven would nourish the soul into everlasting life. The Savior said, I'm the bread of life. Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness and are dead. This is the bread which comes down from heaven that a man may eat thereof and not die. I'm the living bread which came down from heaven. If any man eat of this bread, he shall live forever. Through this figure, Christ now adds another. Only through dying could he impart life to men. And in the words that follow, he points to his death as the means of salvation. He says, the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world. Whether you are the 144,000 and have to die spiritually from the first disappointment until July of 2023, or you're the great multitude that has to die and get resurrected out of your literal grave, in either case, death is accomplished through the fact that Christ gave his flesh to accomplish that work in us. The Jews were about to celebrate the Passover at Jerusalem in commemoration of the night of Israel's deliverance when the destroying angel smoked the homes of Egypt. In the Paschal Lamb, God desired them to behold the Lamb of God and through the symbol, receive him who gave himself for the life of the world. But the Jews have come to make the symbol all-important while its significance was unnoticed. They discern not the Lord's body. The same truth that was symbolized in the Paschal service was taught in the words of Christ, but it was all undiscerned. The message that Christ brings on July, 2023 is the message that is preparing God's people to have the spiritual ability to stand in the Sunday law testing time. It's that message. And it's the same message of the, it's the message for the, in Christ's time, it was the message of the cross that had been typified repeatedly through the history of the Jews in their sanctuary service. And in that sense, the message that he brings to the 144,000 in July of 2023 is the truth of the 144,000 getting lifted up as an ensign at the Sunday law. And that that truth has been repeatedly illustrated line upon line throughout the sacred line of not simply the sanctuary service, but the entire record of God's word, which is the Bible and the spirit of prophecy. Now the rabbis exclaimed angrily, how can that this man give us his flesh to eat? They affected to understand in the same literal sense as did Nicodemus when he asked, how can a man be born when he is old? The argument here is once again being illustrated as a prophetic argument. They were refusing to take the earthly and allow it to define the heavenly, the literal to divine, the spiritual. Christ did not soften down his symbolic representation. He reiterated the truth yet in stronger language, verily, verily, I say unto you, except you eat the flesh of the son of man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. Who so eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood hath eternal life and I will raise him up in the last day from my flesh and eat indeed and my blood is drink indeed. Eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood, as well as in me and I in him. To eat the flesh and drink the blood of Christ is to receive him as a personal savior, believing that he forgives our sins and that we are complete in him. It is by beholding his love, by dwelling upon it, by drinking it in that we are to become partakers of his nature. What food is to the body, Christ must be to the soul. Food cannot benefit us unless we eat it, unless it becomes a part of our being. So Christ is of no value to us if we do not know him as a personal savior. A theoretical knowledge will do us no good. We must feed upon him, receive him into the heart so that his life becomes our life, his love, his grace must be assimilated. The statement there of the 144,000 is that the 144,000 are those that have been fed upon his word, his prophetic word, but they are in the parable of the 10 virgins, they are the wise virgins, and the foolish virgins, therefore, are also being described there as they are those that hold a theoretical knowledge of the truth, but one that will do them no good because they don't have the experiential knowledge. But even these figures fail to present the privilege of the believers' relation to Christ. Dropping down, the unbelieving Jews refuse to see any except the most literal meaning in the savior's word. The life of Christ that gives life to this world is in his word. It was by his word that Jesus healed the diseased and cast out demons. By his word, he filled the sea and raised the dead, and the people bore witness that his word was with power. He spoke the word of God as he had spoken through all the prophets and teachers of the Old Testament. The whole Bible is a manifestation of Christ. The savior desired to fix the faith of his followers on the word. When his visible presence should be withdrawn, the word must be their source of power. Like their master, they were to live by every word that proceeded out of the mouth of God, as he foretold. July, 2023. The Midnight Cry message arrived and was beginning to be developed, but it's fully developed. The virgin will, the virgins will identify whether they have oil or not. We're in the 40 days of, that precedes the 10 days that precedes Pentecost, we're in this prophetic testing period where the, those that perfectly reflect the image of Christ will be those that are eating upon his word. And in July of 2023, Jesus began to open up the revelation of Jesus Christ in chapter one of the book of Revelation. And as he did so, he began placing an emphasis upon himself as the word of God like has never been put forth before. Showing that as the Alpha and Omega, how he governs the prophetic lines, showing that as Palmoni, how he controls every element of the map, whether it be time or just numbers. As the controller of all things, he's also the wonderful linguist that controls not simply the words that were spoken into the Bible or the spirit of prophecy, but how they are developed to be placed in the King James Bible as they go through translation. He's opening up the elements of who he is that are the elements of what the Bible is and what the spirit of prophecy is. And showing that those same principles that make up his character as the son of God and the son of man are the same principles that guide the Bible and spirit of prophecy. And there hasn't ever been a message in sacred history that placed that emphasis upon Christ fulfilling that role. I say that without knowledge of every message that's been in history. I say that because I know that this was the element of the revelation of Jesus Christ that was opened up right there at the beginning. It was July 2023. It was about Christ taking humanity upon his divinity and that through the power that is provided through his prophetic word, men and women such as you and I can be transformed into a combination of divinity and humanity, which Sister White identifies very clearly repeatedly, that a combination of divinity and humanity does not sin. And those that do not sin are the 144,000, and they are those who the mystery of godliness is perfected in during the sounding of the seventh trumpet, which began on October 22nd, 1844, but was put on hold by the rebellion of 1863 until it arrived again on September 11th, 2001. And the sounding of the seventh trumpet where the mystery of godliness is being fulfilled, is being accomplished among those that are candidates to be among the 144,000 that go through the experience of the parables of the ten virgins. And that experience leads them to a deep dive into God's word as has never been done, because as they wrap their mind upon what is being unsealed by the line of the tribe of Judah, they are internalizing the power that's within that word that is the divinity that is combined with their humanity that seals them in advance of this Sunday Law crisis. And in order for them to stand as an inside during the Sunday Law crisis, they had to be thrown into a crisis that was a prophetic test that was illustrated in the synagogue in Capernaum in Galilee. In his promises and warnings, Jesus means me. God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that I, believing in him, might not perish, but have everlasting life. The experiences related in God's word are to be my experiences. Prayers and promises, precepts and warnings are mine. I am crucified with Christ. Nevertheless, I live yet not I, but Christ lives in me. And the life which I now live in the flesh, I live by the faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me. Galatians 2.20, symbol of the combination of humanity with divinity. As faith thus receives and assimilates the principles of truth, they became part of the being and the motive of power, the motive power of the life. The word of God received into the soul molds the thoughts and enters into the development of character. By looking constantly to Jesus with the eye of faith, we shall be strengthened. God will make the most precious revelation to his hungry, thirsty people. They will find that Christ is a personal savior. As they feed upon his word, they find that in his spirit and life, they find that it is spirit and life. The word destroys the natural earthly nature and imparts new life in Christ Jesus. The Holy Spirit comes to the soul as the comforter. By the transforming agency of his grace, the image of God is reproduced in the disciple. He becomes a new creature. Love takes the place of hatred and the heart receives the divine similitude. This is what it means to live by every word that proceeds out of that mouth of God. This is eating the bread that comes down from heaven. Christ has spoken his sacred, eternal truth regarding the relation between himself and his followers. He knew the character of those who claimed to be his disciples and his word tested their faith. The test was too great. The enthusiasm of those who sought to take him by force and make him king grew cold. This discourse in the synagogue they declared had opened their eyes. Now, they were undeceived. In their minds, his words were a direct confession that he was not the Messiah and that no earthly rewards were to be realized from connection with him. The foolish virgins in this history profess to have opened eyes and to be undeceived. They're receiving strong delusion at that time. And they're going to suggest that the message, the true message of Christ actually proves that it isn't the message of Christ. And it goes on to talk about their selfish motivations. By the public rebuke of their unbelief, the disciples were still further alienated from Jesus. They were greatly displeased and wishing to wound the Savior and gratify the malice of the Pharisees. They turned their backs upon him and left him with disdain. They had made their choice. They had taken the form without the spirit, the husk without the kernel. Their decision was never afterwards reversed for they walked no more with Jesus, whose fan is in his hand. And he will thoroughly purge his floor and gather his wheat into his garner. And this is one of the points I want to get through. These people that part ways here in this crisis, they separate from this movement prior to the Sunday Law, and they never turn back. And she ties this in with John's prophecy of Christ, that he'd have a fan in his hand and he will thoroughly purge his floor. But that can be tied in with William Miller's dream when the dirtbrush man comes in and thoroughly purges his floor. And the purging of his floor is the purging of Malachi 3. And Malachi 3 is the purging that took place just in advance of October 22nd, 1844, and therefore represents the purging that takes place just in advance of the Sunday Law. Malachi 3 is the same purging that the crisis of Galilee is identifying. And lined upon that is Christ represented as the one whose fan is in his hand, who thoroughly purges his floor. And that connects to William Miller's dream. So these are the truths that I want to focus on as we move forward. Whose fan is in his hand and he will thoroughly purge his floor and gather his wheat into their garner. This was one of the times of purging. By the words of truth, the chaff was being separated from the wheat. This is a prophetic test. His prophetic word is separating the wheat from the tare. Because they were too vain and self-righteous to receive reproof, too world-loving to accept a life of humility, many turned away from Jesus. Many are still doing the same thing. Souls are tested today as were those of disciples in the synagogue at Capernaum. When truth is brought home to the heart, they see that their lives are not in accordance with the will of God. They see the need of an entire change in themselves, but they're not willing to take up the self-denying word. Therefore, they are angry when their sins are discovered. They go away offended. Even as the disciples left Jesus murmuring, this is a hard thing, who can take it? As those disaffected disciples turned away from Christ, a different spirit took control of them. There's Paul's strong delusion of 2 Thessalonians chapter 2. They're never going to walk with Jesus again. They've closed their probation. They could see nothing attractive in him whom they had once found so interesting. They sought out his enemies where they were in harmony with their spirit and work. They misinterpreted his words, falsified his statements, and impugned his motives. They sustained their course by gathering up every item that could be turned against him, and such indignation was stirred up by these false reports that his life was endangered. Without attempting to hinder those who were leaving him, Jesus turned to the 12 and said, will you also go away? When this is fulfilled in history, some may be tempted to think, well, this is going to get fulfilled, but it's not going to get fulfilled for another 50 years or another five years. I'm saying it's being fulfilled right now. But whenever it is being fulfilled, when this crisis and the synagogue at Capernaum in Galilee that Jesus in John chapter 6 illustrated that Sister White is commenting on finally reaches its perfect fulfillment in the last days in the history of the 144,000, those people that are on the wrong side of the issue, that are turning away, Jesus gave example that he made no attempt to hinder them from leaving. Peter replied by asking, Lord, to whom shall we go? Thou hast the words of eternal life, he added, and we believe and are sure that thou art the Christ, the son of the living God. Many of the words and acts of Jesus appear mysterious to finite minds, but every word and act had its definite purpose in the work for our redemption. Each was calculated to produce its own result. If we were capable of understanding his purposes, all would appear important, complete, and in harmony with his mission. While we cannot now comprehend the work and ways of God, we can discern his great love, which underlies all his doings. He who lives near to Jesus will understand much of the mystery of godliness. He will recognize the mercy that administrates reproof, that tests the character and brings to light the purpose of the heart. When Jesus presented the testing truth that caused so many of his disciples to turn back, he knew what would be the result of his words, but he had a purpose of mercy to fulfill. He foresaw that in the hour of temptation, the cross, the Sunday law, he foresaw that at the Sunday law, every one of his beloved disciples would be severely tested. His agony in Gethsemane, his betrayal and crucifixion would be to them a most trying ordeal. Had no previous tests been given, many who were actuated merely by selfish motives would have been connected with them. When their Lord was condemned in the judgment hall, when the multitude who held him as their king hissed at him and reviled him, when the jeering crowd cried, crucify him, when their worldly ambitions were disappointed, these self-seeking ones would, by renouncing their allegiance to Jesus, have brought upon the disciples a bitter heart, burdening sorrow, in addition to their grief and disappointment in the ruin of their fondest hopes. In that hour of darkness, the example of those who turned from him might have carried others with them, but Jesus brought about this crisis, while by his personal presence, he could still strengthen the faith of his true followers. Compassion and Redeemer, who is full knowledge of the doom that awaited him, tenderly smoothed the way for the disciples, prepared them for the crowning trial, and strengthened them for the final test. Here we have a passage from Malachi 3, and it's a purging that takes place just before this Sunday loss. I looked at the clock. It slowed me down on what I was going to say about these last few comments. But I'm going to start with this one here. No outward forms can make us clean. No ordinance administered by the saintliest of men can take the place of the baptism of the Holy Spirit. The spirit of God must do its work upon the heart. All who have not experienced this regenerating power are chastened. among the elite. Our Lord has a span in his hands and he will thoroughly purge his fault. In the coming day, he will discern between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not. Okay, so what I want you to see here is not so much on the topic of evangelism, but I want you to see a prophetic connection. The Lord, John the Baptist says that Christ will thoroughly have a span in his hand and thoroughly purge his fault. It's just your wife commenting on it here. She says, our Lord has his hand in his hand and he will thoroughly purge his fault. And she ties it in with this statement at the beginning. In the coming day, we will discern between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not. So what I'm saying is that all the prophets are speaking more about the last days than the days in which they live. So this passage here above in early writings from William Miller's dream, when he sees the dirt brush man coming in and thoroughly purging his floor, it's the same period of time as the Lord purging his floor here in Testimonies 227. It's the same period of time where you will be able to discern between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not. So if you go up here in the notes, this here is the purging of the messenger of the covenant. And Ellen White says this was fulfilled on October 22nd, 1844. And it's gonna get fulfilled again, it's a Sunday though. And it begins by saying, behold, I will send my messenger and he shall prepare the way before me and the Lord whom you seek shall suddenly come to his temple. Even the messenger of the covenant whom you delight in, behold, he shall come, sayeth the Lord. Oh, this is a quote we often use, it says in the last days of this earth's history, the Lord will re-enter into covenant with this commandment, keeping people. That's a fair phrase, but that's what it says. So when the messenger of the covenant comes at the Sunday law, he's entering into covenant not with the Millerite Adventism that followed him by faith into the most holy place on that day, but he's entering into the covenant with the 144,000. So bringing the history of the Millerites and this passage of Malachi down into our history, I'm seeing that there is a purging process that is represented by the 40 days that lead to the 10 days that lead to Pentecost. The 10 days is where the unity is accomplished, where they see eye to eye. The 10 days is the time period from the conclusion of the Exeter camp meeting until October 22nd, 1844, where everyone went out in unity and proclaimed the message of the midnight cry. And those 10 days in the Exeter camp meeting through October 22nd, 1844, were preceded by 40 days of prophetic testing from the resurrection and return of Christ, 40 days of interacting with them on the prophetic message. And that illustrated a purging time, a testing time that is illustrating our history. But who may abide the day of his coming and who shall stand when he appears, where he's like a refiner's fire, like fuller's soap. He shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, and he shall purify the sons of Levi and purge them of gold and silver that they may offer unto the Lord an offering in righteousness. Then shall the offering of Judah and Jerusalem be pleasant unto the Lord, as in the days of old, as in former years. And I will come near to you in judgment. In judgment now, this is where the wheat and tares are gonna be manifested. And the passage in Malachi, if you have your Bible and you go to Malachi chapter three, from verse six onward in chapter three, he's just, he's laying out the judgment of the wicked. And I will come near you in judgment and be swift witness against the sorcerers. And it goes on, laying out condemnation against the foolish virgins of this history, and that's what it would represent. And then it gets to verse 18, which is the last verse in this passage. It says, then shall you return to discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth not. At the judgment, which was October 22nd, 1844 in the Millerite history, and which is the Sunday law in our history, you're going to return and judge between the wheat and tares. And so when you scroll down here, and you see that Sister White is using the illustration of the Lord, using his fan in his hand to thoroughly purge his floor. She says, our Lord has his fan in his hand and he will thoroughly purge his floor. In the coming day, he will discern between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not. She just placed the fan cleansing of the floor in the context of the purging of Malachi chapter three. They're the same line. And those lines are talking about a purging that is also represented in William Miller's dream. While I was just weeping and mourning for my great loss and accountability, I remembered God and earnestly prayed that he would send me out. Immediately the door opened and a man entered when the people all left it and he having a dirt brush in his hand, opened the windows and began to brush the dirt and rubbish from the room. Miller here in this first sentence, he's weeping and mourning. Okay, he's weeping and mourning and he still illustrates God's people at the end of the world because all the prophets are speaking about God's people at the end of the world. And the illustration of God's people weeping and mourning at the end of the world, there's at least two places. One is in Ezekiel nine and one is in Daniel nine. And those that are sighing and crying for the abominations that are done in the land in Ezekiel nine are the ones that received the seal of God. So William Miller is weeping and mourning, representing those people that are gonna receive the seal of God. But Daniel is mourning in chapter 10, in chapter 10 for three whole weeks. And those three whole weeks align with the three and a half days that Elijah and Moses are in the grave, that the dead dry bones of Ezekiel 37 are in the valley of death. Okay, but at the end of the time period of weeping and mourning for Daniel would be day 22 and for Elijah and Ezekiel it'd be when they're resurrected. When they're resurrected. And they have to pray in each of those, in each of those illustrations and Miller is representing the 144,000. We reached the point in this experience where they fulfill the call to prayer that's represented by the seven times. And the Lord immediately sends him help and there's a door open. And a man enters the room when the people all left it and he had a dirt brush in his hand, opened the windows and began to brush the rubbish from the room. The dirt brush man is the Lord who's going to thoroughly purge his floor with a fan. And he's the messenger of the covenant in Malachi three that accomplishes a judgment that produces two classes of worshipers that allows you to discern between those who are righteous and those who are unrighteous. So immediately the door opened and a man entered the room and the people all left it and he had a dirt brush in his hand, opened the windows and began to brush the dirt rubbish from the room. I cried for him to forbear where there was some precious jewels scattered among the rubbish. She told me to fear not for you take care of them. Then while he brushed the dirt rubbish, false jewels and counterfeit coin all rose and went out of the window like a cloud and the wind carried them away. In the bustle I closed my eyes for a moment and when I opened them, the rubbish was all gone. The precious jewels, the diamonds, the gold and silver lay scattered and perfusion all over the room. He then placed on the table a casket much larger and more beautiful than the former and gathered up the jewels, the diamonds, the coins by the handful that cast them into the casket. So not one was left, although some of the diamonds were not bigger than the point of a pin. He then called upon me to come and see and the expression come and see is what is associated with the seals of revelation that the line of the tribe of Judah unsealed and the seal that is unsealed in this very history of the purging of the 144,000 is the seventh seal and he calls upon Miller to come and see this revelation of truth that has been organized into the final midnight crime message and is represented by the unsealing of the seventh seal. And I looked into the casket but my eyes were dazzled with the sight. They shone with 10 times their former glory. I thought they had been scoured in the sand by the feet of those wicked persons who had scattered and drawn them in the dust. They were arranged in beautiful order and the casket everyone in its own place without any visible pains of the man who cast them in. I shone with very joy and that shone awoke me. Of course, there's much that you can say about these things but let me close with this one. This quote's good too but I'm gonna close with this one. Already the judgments of God are abroad in the land and seen in the storms and the floods and the tempests and earthquakes and perils by land and by sea. The great I am is speaking to those who make void of law. When God's wrath is poured out upon the earth who will then be able to stand? Now is the time for God's people to show themselves true to principle. When the religion of Christ is most held in contempt when his laws most despised, then should our zeal be the warmest and our courage the most unflinching. To stand in defense of truth and righteousness when the majority forsaken. To fight the battles of the Lord when the champions are few. This will be our test. At this time we must gather warmth from the coldness of others, courage from their cowardice and loyalty from their treason. The nation will be on the side of the great rebel leader. The days of purification of the church are hastening on in space. God will have the people pure and true. In the mighty sifting soon to take place, we shall be better able to measure the strength of Israel. The signs reveal that the time is near when the Lord will manifest that his hand is in his hand. And that he will thoroughly purge his floor. And here you can see another place where she ties that again with that purging of the floor as a manifestation between those that serve God and those that serve him not. So what I am saying is that in the hidden history of verse 40 of Daniel 11, one of the lines of truth that runs through that history has to do with the awakening and the testing process of the 144,000 that's been repeatedly illustrated on several different lines. And the fact that we have already passed the waymark of the first controversy of Daniel 11, 14 being repeated at the end provides evidence that we are at the very ending of the 40 days of testing and prophetic unsealing that was accomplished by Christ for the disciples in the 40 days that led to the 10 days that led to Pentecost. We're on the edge of entering into the time where the unity of message, purpose, faith is to be accomplished. And that's accomplished through his word. And what his word is, is him. But what his word is instructing us is that it's this hidden history of verse 40 that is being unsealed as the seventh seal and that our responsibility at this time is to familiarize ourselves with the various lines that are specifically addressed in that history, their relation to one another. And what that means for the time period that we're living in, you know, how that changes our priority individually in our own spiritual experience has to be part of the question. If we're not changing in agreement with the coming crisis, we're not studying deep enough. Can we close with a word of prayer? Heavenly Father, we thank you that line upon line there isn't any aspect of what's happening in the hidden history of verse 40 that you're not wishing to reveal to your people at this time. I ask that you give us the courage and the strength to fulfill our responsibility as students of prophecy and come to understand these lines in a way that will allow us to stand individually in the coming test and glorify your names by a message. that is consistent among all those that are brought together as an end sign. We know that this is the witness that you're going to provide and a unified witness seen eye-to-eye and we expect you to accomplish that in us and at this very time we thank you for these things in Jesus name, Amen.