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Knowledge Increased
A Revival
1. “In every part of the land, light was given upon the second angel’s message, and
the cry melted the hearts of thousands. It went from city to city, and from village to
village, until the waiting people of God were fully aroused. In many churches the mes-
sage was not permitted to be given, and a large company who had the living testimony
left these fallen churches. A mighty work was accomplished by the midnight cry. The
message was heart-searching, leading the believers to seek a living experience for them-
selves. They knew that they could not lean upon one another. . . .
“A spirit of solemn and earnest prayer was everywhere felt by the saints. A holy
solemnity was resting upon them. Angels were watching with the deepest interest the
effect of the message, and were elevating those who received it, and drawing them
from earthly things to obtain large supplies from salvation’s fountain. God’s people
were then accepted of Him. Jesus looked upon them with pleasure, for His image was
reflected in them. They had made a full sacrifice, an entire consecration, and expected
to be changed to immortality. But they were destined again to be sadly disappointed.”
Early Writings, 238–239.

2. “A revival of true godliness among us is the greatest and most urgent of all our
needs. To seek this should be our first work.” Selected Messages, book 1, 121.

3. “When we as a people understand what this book means to us, there will be seen
among us a great revival.” Testimonies to Ministers, 113.

4. “When the books of Daniel and Revelation are better understood, believ-
ers will have an entirely different religious experience. . . One thing will cer-
tainly be understood from the study of Revelation—that the connection be-
tween God and His people is close and decided.” The Faith I Live By, 345.

5. “A revival and a reformation must take place, under the ministration of the Holy
Spirit. Revival and reformation are two different things. Revival signifies a renewal
of spiritual life, a quickening of the powers of mind and heart, a resurrection from
spiritual death. Reformation signifies a reorganization, a change in ideas and theories,
habits and practices. Reformation will not bring forth the good fruit of righteousness
unless it is connected with the revival of the Spirit. Revival and reformation are to do
their appointed work, and in doing this work they must blend.” Selected Messages, book
1, 128.

Daniel 11 nearly completed

6. “We are living in the time of the end. The fast-fulfilling signs of the times declare
that the coming of Christ is near at hand. The days in which we live are solemn and
important. The Spirit of God is gradually but surely being withdrawn from the earth.
Plagues and judgments are already falling upon the despisers of the grace of God. The
calamities by land and sea, the unsettled state of society, the alarms of war, are porten-
tous. They forecast approaching events of the greatest magnitude.
“The agencies of evil are combining their forces and consolidating. They are strength-

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ening for the last great crisis. Great changes are soon to take place in our world, and the
final movements will be rapid ones.
“The condition of things in the world shows that troublous times are right upon
us. The daily papers are full of indications of a terrible conflict in the near future.
Bold robberies are of frequent occurrence. Strikes are common. Thefts and murders
are committed on every hand. Men possessed of demons are taking the lives of men,
women, and little children. Men have become infatuated with vice, and every species
of evil prevails. . . .
“There are not many, even among educators and statesmen, who comprehend the
causes that underlie the present state of society. Those who hold the reins of govern-
ment are not able to solve the problem of moral corruption, poverty, pauperism, and
increasing crime. They are struggling in vain to place business operations on a more
secure basis. If men would give more heed to the teaching of God’s Word, they would
find a solution of the problems that perplex them. . . .
“The world is stirred with the spirit of war. The prophecy of the eleventh chapter of
Daniel has nearly reached its complete fulfillment. Soon the scenes of trouble spoken
of in the prophecies will take place. . . .
“Satan is a diligent Bible student. He knows that his time is short, and he seeks at
every point to counterwork the work of the Lord upon this earth. It is impossible to
give any idea of the experience of the people of God who shall be alive on the earth
when celestial glory and a repetition of the persecutions of the past are blended. They
will walk in the light proceeding from the throne of God. By means of angels there will
be constant communication between heaven and earth. And Satan, surrounded by his
evil angels, and claiming to be God, will work miracles of all kinds, to deceive, if pos-
sible, the very elect.” Testimonies, vol. 9, 11–17.

Ulai and Hiddekel - (Dan 8:2; 10:4 - Revelation 16:12; 22:1)

7. “The light that Daniel received from God was given especially for these last days.
The visions he saw by the banks of the Ulai and Hiddekel, the great rivers of Shinar,
are now in process of fulfillment, and all the events foretold will soon come to pass.”
Testimonies to Ministers, 112–113.

Prophecy
8. “Historical events, showing the direct fulfillment of prophecy, were set before the
people, and prophecy was seen to be a figurative delineation of events leading down to
the close of this earth’s history. The scenes connected with the working of the man of
sin are the last features plainly revealed in this earth’s history.” Selected Messages, book
2, 102.

The Sealed Book

9. “In the Revelation all the books of the Bible meet and end. Here is the comple-
ment of the book of Daniel. One is a prophecy; the other a revelation. The book that
was sealed is not the Revelation, but that portion of the prophecy of Daniel relating to
the last days. The angel commanded, ‘But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal
the book, even to the time of the end.’ Daniel 12:4.” Acts of the Apostles, 585.

Complement: Fulness; completion; whence, perfection. American Dictionary of the

English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.

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Great and Solemn Events

10. “All that God has in prophetic history specified to be fulfilled in the past has
been, and all that is yet to come in its order will be. Daniel, God’s prophet, stands in
his place. John stands in his place. In the Revelation the Lion of the tribe of Judah has
opened to the students of prophecy the book of Daniel, and thus is Daniel standing in
his place. He bears his testimony, that which the Lord revealed to him in vision of the
great and solemn events which we must know as we stand on the very threshold of their
fulfillment.” Selected Messages, book 2, 109.

11. “The Bible has accumulated and bound up together its treasures for this last gen-
eration. All the great events and solemn transactions of Old Testament history have
been, and are, repeating themselves in the church in these last days. . . . There the whole
accumulated truths are presented in force to us that we may profit by their teachings.”
Selected Messages, book 3, 339.

History Repeated
12. “We are standing on the threshold of great and solemn events. Many of the proph-
ecies are about to be fulfilled in quick succession. Every element of power is about to
be set to work. Past history will be repeated; old controversies will arouse to new life,
and peril will beset God’s people on every side. Intensity is taking hold of the human
family. It is permeating everything upon the earth. . . .
“Study Revelation in connection with Daniel, for history will be repeated. ...
“As we near the close of this world’s history, the prophecies relating to the last days
especially demand our study [that portion of the prophecy of Daniel relating to the last
days. Acts of the Apostles, 585.]. The last book of the New Testament Scriptures is full
of truth that we need to understand. Satan has blinded the minds of many so that they
have been glad of any excuse for not making the Revelation their study.” Testimonies to
Ministers, 116–117.

Knowledge Increased
13. “The book that was sealed was not the book of Revelation, but that portion of
the prophecy of Daniel which related to the last days. The Scripture says, ‘But thou, O
Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall
run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased’ (Daniel 12:4). When the book was
opened, the proclamation was made, ‘Time shall be no longer.’ (See Revelation 10:6.)
The book of Daniel is now unsealed, and the revelation made by Christ to John is to
come to all the inhabitants of the earth. By the increase of knowledge a people is to be
prepared to stand in the latter days. . . .
“In the first angel’s message men are called upon to worship God, our Creator, who
made the world and all things that are therein. They have paid homage to an institution
of the Papacy, making of no effect the law of Jehovah, but there is to be an increase of
knowledge on this subject.” Selected Messages, book 2, 106–107.

Pioneer Experience Repeated

14. “I am often referred to the parable of the ten virgins, five of whom were wise,
and five foolish. This parable has been and will be fulfilled to the very letter, for it has
a special application to this time, and, like the third angel’s message, has been fulfilled
and will continue to be present truth till the close of time.” Review and Herald, August
19, 1890.

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15. “And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great
city, because she made all nations drink the wrath of her fornication.” Revelation 14:8.

16. “And After these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having
great power, and the earth was lightened with his glory. And he cried mightily with a
strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation
of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.
For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings
of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are
waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies. And I heard another voice from
heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and
that ye receive not of her plagues.” Revelation 18:1–4.

17. “‘While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept. And at midnight
there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him. Then
all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps.’ Matthew 25:5–7. In the summer of
1844, midway between the time when it had been first thought that the 2300 days
would end, and the autumn of the same year, to which it was afterward found that
they extended, the message was proclaimed in the very words of Scripture: ‘Behold, the
Bridegroom cometh!’
“That which led to this movement was the discovery that the decree of Artaxerxes
for the restoration of Jerusalem, which formed the starting point for the period of the
2300 days, went into effect in the autumn of the year 457 B.C., and not at the begin-
ning of the year, as had been formerly believed. Reckoning from the autumn of 457,
the 2300 years terminate in the autumn of 1844.” The Great Controversy, 398–390.
The Catalyst of Prophecy
18. “In the year 1840 another remarkable fulfillment of prophecy excited widespread
interest. two years before, Josiah Litch, one of the leading ministers preaching the
second advent, published an exposition of Revelation 9, predicting the fall of the Ot-
toman Empire. According to his calculations, this power was to be overthrown ‘in
A.D. 1840, sometime in the month of August;’ and only a few days previous to its
accomplishment he wrote: ‘Allowing the first period, 150 years, to have been exactly
fulfilled before Deacozes ascended the throne by permission of the Turks, and that the
391 years, fifteen days, commenced at the close of the first period, it will end on the
11th of August, 1840, when the Ottoman power in Constantinople may be expected
to be broken. And this, I believe, will be found to be the case.’
“At the very time specified, Turkey, through her ambassadors, accepted the protec-
tion of the allied powers of Europe, and thus placed herself under the control of Chris-
tian nations. The event exactly fulfilled the prediction. When it became known, mul-
titudes were convinced of the correctness of the principles of prophetic interpretation
adopted by Miller and his associates, and a wonderful impetus was given to the advent
movement. Men of learning and position united with Miller, both in preaching and
in publishing his views, and from 1840 to 1844 the work rapidly extended.” The Great
Controversy, 334–335.

The Wise
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demand our special attention, as they relate to the very time in which we are living.
With them should be linked the teachings of the last book of the New Testament
Scriptures. Satan has led many to believe that the prophetic portions of the writings of
Daniel and of John the revelator cannot be understood. But the promise is plain that
special blessing will accompany the study of these prophecies. ‘The wise shall under-
stand’ (verse 10), was spoken of the visions of Daniel that were to be unsealed in the
latter days; and of the revelation that Christ gave to His servant John for the guidance
of God’s people all through the centuries, the promise is, ‘Blessed is he that readeth,
and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written
therein.’ Revelation 1:3.” Prophets and Kings, 547–548.

Daniel 11:40
20. “The history of nations that one after another have occupied their allotted time
and place, unconsciously witnessing to the truth of which they themselves knew not
the meaning, speaks to us. To every nation and to every individual of today God has
assigned a place in His great plan. Today men and nations are being measured by the
plummet in the hand of Him who makes no mistake. All are by their own choice decid-
ing their destiny, and God is overruling all for the accomplishment of His purposes.
“The history which the great I AM has marked out in His word, uniting link after
link in the prophetic chain, from eternity in the past to eternity in the future, tells us
where we are today in the procession of the ages, and what may be expected in the time
to come. All that prophecy has foretold as coming to pass, until the present time, has
been traced on the pages of history, and we may be assured that all which is yet to come
will be fulfilled in its order.” Education, 178.

21. And at the time of the end shall the king of the south push at him: and the king of
the north shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen,
and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass
over. Daniel 11:40.

Time of the End

22. “But at the time of the end, says the prophet, “Many shall run to and fro, and
knowledge shall be increased.’ Daniel 12:4. . . . Since 1798 the book of Daniel has been
unsealed, knowledge of the prophecies has increased, and many have proclaimed the
solemn message of the judgment near.” The Great Controversy, 356.

King of the South - Revelation 11:9

23. south-5045. from an unused root mean. to be parched; the south (from its
drought); spec. the Negeb or southern district of Judah, occasionally, Egypt (as south
to Pal.):- south (country, side, -ward). Strong’s.

24. Woe to the rebellious children, saith the Lord, that take counsel, but not of me;
and that covereth with a covering, but not of my spirit, that they may add sin to sin:
That walk to go down into Egypt, and have not asked at my mouth; to strengthen
themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, and to trust in the shadow of Egypt! Therefore
shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame, and the trust of the shadow of Egypt be

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your confusion. For his princes were at Zoan, and his ambassadors came to Hanes.
They were all ashamed of a people that could not profit them, nor be an help or profit,
but a shame, and also a reproach. The burden of the beasts of the south: into the land
of trouble and anguish, from whence come the young and old lion, the viper and fiery
flying serpent, they will carry their burdens on the shoulders of young asses, and their
treasures upon the bunches of camels, to a people that shall not profit them. For the
Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I cried concerning this,
Their strength is to sit still. Isaiah 30:1–7.

25. “This is atheism, and the nation represented by Egypt would give voice to a simi-
lar denial of the claims of the living God and would manifest a like spirit of unbelief
and defiance.” The Great Controversy, 269.

26. “The speaking of the nation is the action of its legislative and judicial authorities.”
The Great Controversy, 443.

27. “The worldwide dissemination of the same teachings that led to the French Rev-
olution—all are tending to involve the whole world in a struggle similar to that which
convulsed France.” Education, 228.

28. Tending: Having a certain direction; Taking care of. American Dictionary of the
English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.

Push
29. push-5055. push; to butt with horns; fig. to war against: gore, push. Strong’s.

30. I saw the ram pushing westward, and northward, and southward; so that no beast
might stand against him, neither was there any that could deliver out of his hand; but
he did according to his will, and became great. Daniel 8:4.

The King of the North

31. Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith the Lord, and
Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land,
and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about, and will
utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and a hissing, and perpetual
desolations. Jeremiah 25:9.

32. For thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I will bring upon Tyrus Nebuchadrezzar
king of Babylon, a king of kings, from the north, with horses and chariots, and with
horsemen, and companies, and much people. Ezekiel 26:7. See Jeremiah 46:2, 20.

33. “The woman (Babylon) of Revelation 17 is described as ‘arrayed in purple and

scarlet color, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup
in her hand full of abominations and filthiness: . . . and upon her forehead was a name
written, Mystery, Babylon the Great, the mother of harlots.’ Says the prophet: ‘I saw
the woman drunk with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of
Jesus.’ Babylon is further declared to be ‘that great city, which reigneth over the kings
of the earth.’ Revelation 17:4–6, 18. The power that for so many centuries maintained
despotic sway over the monarchs of Christendom is Rome.” The Great Controversy,

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382.

Come against like a Whirlwind

34. come-8175:a prim. root; to storm; by impl. to shiver, i.e. fear-:be (horribly) afraid,
fear, hurl as a storm, be tempestuous, come like (take away as with) a whirlwind.
against-5921: same as 5920. 5920: from 5927. 5927: Prim. root to ascend, intrans.
(be high) or act. (mount); used in great variety of senses, primary and secondary, lit.
and fig. (as follows):- arise (up). (cause to) ascend up.
whirlwind-8175: same as ‘come’ above. Strong’s.

With Chariots
35. Then Adonijah the son of Haggith exalted himself, saying, I will be king: and he
prepared him chariots and horsemen, and fifty men to run before him. 1 Kings 1:5.

36. And Ben-hadad the king of Syria gathered all his host together: and there were
twenty and two kings with him, and horses and chariots: and he went up and besieged
Samaria, and warred against it. 1 Kings 20:1.

37. “We are to be ready and waiting for the orders of God. Nations will be stirred
to their very center. Support will be withdrawn from those who proclaim God’s only
standard of righteousness as the only sure test of character. And all who will not bow
to the decree of national councils, and obey the national laws to exalt the sabbath
instituted by the man of sin to disregard God’s holy day, will feel, not the oppressive
power of popery alone, but of the Protestant world, the image of the beast.” Letter 55,
December 8, 1886.

Ships
38. They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters. Psalm
107:23.

39. She is like the merchant ships; she bringeth her food from afar. Proverbs 31:14.

40. For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and
all the company of ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off, And
cried when they saw the smoke of her burning, saying, What city is like unto this great
city! And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas,
alas that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her
coastlines! for in one hour she is made desolate. Revelation 18:17–19.

Overflow and pass through

41. overflow-7857: a prim. root; to gush; by impl. to inundate, cleanse; by anal. to
gallop, conquer;- drown, (over-) flow (-whelm), rinse. run. rush. (thoroughly) wash
(away).
pass-5674: a prim. root; to cross over. Strong’s.

Prophecy defined
42. “Historical events, showing the direct fulfillment of prophecy, were set before the
people, and prophecy was seen to be a figurative delineation of events leading down to
the close of this earth’s history. The scenes connected with the working of the man of

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sin are the last features plainly revealed in this earth’s history.” Selected Messages, book
2, 102.

The ongoing War

43. “When the Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV decided to seek pardon of Pope
Gregory VII in 1077, he stood barefoot for three days in the snow outside the papal
quarters in Canossa, Italy. Though Gorbachev’s concordat with the church was less
arduous, it was no less significant in its way.” Time, December 11, 1989.

44. “GORBY’S BOW TO THE ROMAN LEGIONS” Title in the US News & World
Report.

45. “The Soviet president’s session Friday with Pope John Paul II is the latest develop-
ment of a revolution in the Communist world that the pope helped spark and Gor-
bachev has allowed to happen.” USA Today, cover story.

46. “Until recently, the battalions of Marxism seemed to have the upper hand over
the soldiers of the Cross. In the wake of the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, Lenin
had pledged toleration but delivered terror. ‘Russia turned crimson with the blood of
martyrs,’ says Father Gleb Yakunin, Russian Orthodoxy’s bravest agitator for religious
freedom. In the Bolsheviks’ first five years in power, 28 bishops and 1,200 priests were
cut down by the red sickle. Stalin greatly accelerated the terror, and by the end of
Khrushchev’s rule, liquidation of the clergy reached an estimated 50,000. After World
War II, fierce but generally less bloody persecution spread into the Ukraine and the
new Soviet bloc, affecting millions of Roman Catholics and Protestants as well as Or-
thodox.” Time, December 4, 1989.

The Fatima miracle was also in 1917, Selah.

47. “The rush to freedom in Eastern Europe is a sweet victory for John Paul II.” Life,
December 1989.

“He shall overflow, (rush), and pass through.”

48. “In private meetings with heads of state, back room consultations with dissident
groups and persistent propagandizing for his crusade against tyranny, he [John Paul II]
has helped bring about the greatest policy change since the Russian Revolution.” Life,
December 1989.

49. “His [Pope John Paul II] triumphant tour of Poland in 1979, says Polish bishop,
altered the ‘mentality of fear, the fear of police and tanks, of losing your job, of not
getting promoted, of being thrown out of school, of failing to get a passport. People
learned that if they ceased to fear the system, the system was helpless.’ Thus was born
Solidarity, backed by the church and led by such friends of the pope as Lech Walesa and
Tadeusz Mazowieke, who subsequently became the Soviet bloc’s first Christian Prime
Minister.” Time, December 4, 1989.

50. “In 1935 Josef Stalin, absolute ruler of the Soviet Union, was given some unsolic-
ited advice. Make a propitiatory gesture to the Vatican, he was told. Pushed too far, his

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country’s Catholics might become counterrevolutionary. Stalin’s great mustache ampli-

fied his sneer. ‘The pope. And how many divisions has he?’ “The answer then was that
he has none. The answer now is that he needs none. The structures of Communism are
crumbling to the touch.” Life, December 1989.

“king of the south pushed against the king of the north.”

51. “While Gorbachev’s hands-off policy was the immediate cause of the chain reac-
tion of liberty that has swept through Eastern Europe in the past few months, John
Paul deserves much of the longer-range credit.” Time, December 4, 1989.

52. “Of all the events that have shaken the Soviet bloc in 1989, none is more fraught
with history—or more implausible—than the polite encounter to take place this week
in Vatican City. There, in the spacious ceremonial library of the 16th century Apostolic
Palace, the czar of world atheism, Mikhail Gorbachev, will visit the Vicar of Christ,
Pope John Paul II.
“The moment will be electric, not only because John Paul helped inflame the fervor
for freedom in his Polish homeland that swept like brush fire across Eastern Europe.
Beyond that, the meeting of the two men symbolizes the end of the 20th century’s
most dramatic spiritual war, a conflict in which the seemingly irresistible force of Com-
munism battered against the immovable object of Christianity.” Time, December 4,
1989.

“come against like a whirlwind”

53. “THE TRIUMPH OF JOHN PAUL II—The tide of freedom washing over
Eastern Europe answers his most fervent prayer.” Life, December, 1989.

“overflow”
54. “Days of the Whirlwind” Title in Newsweek, December 25, 1989.

“like a whirlwind.”
55. “In 1981, the Communist bloc got another shock. A new American President,
Ronald Reagan, began fulfilling his promise to challenge the Soviets, not to placate
them. Over the next few years, he accelerated the military buildup and announced the
Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), a space-based system for protecting against missile
attack. He backed anti-communist rebels in Nicaragua, Angola, Cambodia, and Af-
ghanistan. And with American troops, he liberated the island of Grenada from Com-
munist thugs.
“The Soviets’ confidence was shaken. . . .
“The Western Europeans also pressured the Soviets. NATO forged ahead with mili-
tary modernization. German voters spurned Soviet ‘peace overtures’ and elected a gov-
ernment that voted to deploy new intermediate-range missiles. . . .
“Military pressure from America and its Western allies had caused the Soviets to
flinch.” Reader’s Digest, March 1990.

“With chariots and horsemen.”

56. “Gorbachev has also grasped the fact that political and economic survival de-
pends upon the goodwill of the Soviet people, among whom Christians have always
outnumbered Communists. Gorbachev, moreover, needs the cooperation of the West,

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observes Father Mark, a reform-minded Orthodox priest in Moscow, who considers

Gorbachev’s program within the USSR ‘a result of foreign policy necessity.’ ” Time,
December 4, 1989.

“with many ships.”

57. “With the Pope’s support, Solidarity (Polish Labor Union) was formed, and John
Paul II sent word to Moscow that if Soviet forces crushed Solidarity, he would go to
Poland and stand with the people. The Soviets were so alarmed that they hatched a
plot to kill him. . . . The Pope cautioned Solidarity leaders, particularly his friend Lech
Walesa, to proceed slowly. They did. In 1988 General Wojciech Jaruzelski, the Polish
communist leader, went to them offering a deal. Solidarity insisted on an election,
which it carried with some 80 percent of the vote. When the Communist government
fell, the impact on Eastern Europe was electrifying.” Reader’s Digest, March 1990.

58. “In May, 1981, before a vast audience in St. Peter’s Square, Pope John Paul was
shot and severely wounded by Mehmet Ali Agea. There was immediate speculation that
the gunman had been sent by East bloc plotters from Bulgaria, sponsored by the Soviet
secret police. Their aim: to silence the one man capable of shaking the foundations of
international Communism.” Life, December 1989.

59. “In Poland the freedom movement was born almost three decades ago when the
bishop of Krakow sought approval to build a new church. When Communist authori-
ties denied his application, the bishop had a giant cross erected and celebrated open-air
masses. The Communist tore it down. The church members replaced it over and over
until finally the Communists gave up.” Jubilee, April 1990.

That bishop of Krakow is now Pope John Paul.

60. “When Tadeusz Mazowiecki took over in August 1989 as Poland’s first non-Com-
munist prime minister in 45 years, he was asked if he was a socialist. ‘I am a Catholic,’
he answered tersely.” US News and World Report, May 21, 1990.

61. “Last year Lithuania’s two leading bishops were returned to head dioceses after a
combined 53 years of internal exile, and the cathedral in Vilnius, previously used as an
art museum, was restored for worship. This year the Belorussian republic got its first
bishop in 63 years. That paved the way for Archbishop Angelo Sodano, who oversees
the Vatican’s foreign relations, to make the arraignments for Gorbachev’s historic visit
to the Holy See.
“These concessions to Catholicism are only part of Gorbachev’s religious liberaliza-
tion.” Time, December 4, 1989.

62. “Three new Catholic bishops have recently been named in Czechoslovakia. And
this month Gorbachev meets Pope John Paul II during a visit to Italy-the first face-to-
face encounter between leaders of the Kremlin and the Vatican. The sessions may lead
to legalization of the long-banned Ukrainian Catholic Church in the USSR.” Life,
December, 1989.

63. “The revival of religious freedom is expected to include lifting of an official ban on
the five-million-member Ukraine Catholic Church, which has survived underground
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ning legalization for the Ukrainian Church has been a primary aim of the pope’s.
Officials in the Soviet Union say they will clear the way for legalization by permitting
Ukrainian Catholics to register, as other religious groups are now required to do under
Soviet law.” US News and World Report, December 11, 1989.

“He shall enter into the countries and pass through.”

64. “In the 1980s, Communist economies, always inefficient, went belly up. Before,
they had lacked consumer and luxury goods. Now perennial shortages of staples wors-
ened as well. When Soviet miners went on strike in 1989, their demands included
soap, toilet paper, and sugar.” Reader’s Digest, March 1990.

65. “For Gorbachev, the ferment in the Baltics is shaking not just a small corner of
the empire built by Lenin and Stalin, but the foundations of the empire itself. The na-
tionalities question is a potent distillation of many other signs, from a crumbling econ-
omy to violent ethnic clashes, that the breathtaking disintegration of the Soviet empire
in Eastern Europe may not stop at the Soviet border. As the economy deteriorates and
shortages grow, public disillusionment with Communism and with Gorbachev himself
is rising, and hostile republics, nationalities and interests groups are competing more
fiercely for political power and for shares in the shrinking economy. Corruption and
crime are rampant; minors and railway workers threaten to cut off fuel supplies during
the bitter winter; Azerbaijanis cut the rail line to an Armenian enclave in their midst;
farmers hoard food, leaving city shelves bare.” US News and World Report, January 15,
1990.

66. Holy Alliance, Time magazine, February 24, 1992, Cover Title.

67. “A COMMON BRUSH WITH DEATH-At their first meeting, Reagan and
John Paul II discussed something else they had in common: both had survived assas-
sination attempts that occurred only six weeks apart in 1981, and both believed God
had saved them for a special mission. And both referred to the ‘miraculous fact that
they had survived.’ ” Time magazine, February 24, 1992.

“deadly wound that was healed”

68. “Only President Ronald Reagan and Pope John Paul II were present in the Vati-
can Library on Monday, June 7, 1982. It was the first time the two had met, and they
talked for 50 minutes. . . .
“In that meeting, Reagan and the pope agreed to undertake a clandestine campaign
to hasten the dissolution of the Communist empire. Declares Richard Allen, Reagan’s
first National Security Advisor: ‘This was one of the great secret alliances of all time.’.
...
“‘Reagan came with very simple and strongly held views,’ says Admiral Bobby In-
man, former deputy director of the CIA. ‘It is a valid point that he saw the collapse (of
Communism) coming and he pushed it hard.’ During the first part of 1982, a five-part
strategy emerged that was aimed at bringing about the collapse of the Soviet economy.
...
1. The U.S. defense buildup, already under way, aimed at making it too costly for the
Soviets to compete militarily with the U.S.. Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative-Star
Wars became a centerpiece of the strategy.

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“with horses” “not by his own power” Daniel 8:24.

2. Covert operations aimed at encouraging reform movements in Hungary, Czecho-

slovakia, and Poland.

“he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand” Daniel 8:25.

3. Financial aid to Warsaw-Pact nations calibrated to their willingness to protect hu-
man rights and undertake political and free-market reforms.
4. Economic isolation of the Soviet Union and the withholding of Western and Japa-
nese technology from Moscow. The administration focused on denying the USSR what
it had hoped would be its principal source of hard currency in the twenty-first century:
profits from a transcontinental pipeline to supply natural gas to Western Europe.

“with ships”
5. Increased use of Radio Liberty, Voice of America and Radio Free Europe to trans-
mit Administration’s messages to the people of Eastern Europe. . . .

“speak as a dragon” Revelation 13:11.

69. “‘Like all great and lucky leaders, the pope and President exploited the forces of
history to their own ends.’ ” Time, February 4, 1992, 29–30.

“through his policy”

The Impending Sunday Law

70. “Heretofore those who presented the third angel’s message have often been regard-
ed as mere alarmists. Their predictions that religious intolerance would gain control in
the United States, that church and state would unite to persecute those who keep the
commandments of God, have been pronounced groundless and absurd. . . . But as the
question of enforcing Sunday observance is widely agitated, the event so long doubted
and disbelieved is seen to be approaching, and the third message will produce an effect
which it could not have had before.” The Great Controversy, 605–606.

71. He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be over-
thrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of
the children of Ammon. Daniel 11:41.

72. glorious—6643: in the sense of prominence; splendor (as conspicuous), beauti-

ful, goodly. Strong’s.

73. But he that cometh against him shall do according to his own will, and none shall
stand before him: and he shall stand in the glorious land, which by his hand shall be
consumed. Daniel 11:16.

74. Uriah Smith describes the previous verse:

“After putting an end to the war, Pompey demolished the walls of Jerusalem, trans-
ferred several cities from the jurisdiction of Judea to that of Syria, and imposesd tribute
on the Jews. For the first time Jerusalem was by conquest placed in the hands of Rome,
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that power was to hold the ‘glorious land’ in its iron grasp till it had utterly consumed
it.” Daniel and the Revlation, 247.

75. I pray thee, let me go over, and see the good land that is beyond Jordan, that
goodly mountain, and Lebanon. Deuteronomy 3:25.

76. William Miller included his conviction of the United States having a divine pur-
pose in his statement which describes why he was led to his understanding which
sparked the Millerite movement:
“In 1813, I received a Captain’s commission in the U.S. service, and continued in
the army until peace was declared. While there, many occurences served to weaken my
confidence in the correctness of Deistical principles.
“I was led frequently to compare this country to the children of Israel, before whom
God drove out the inhabitants of their land. It seemed to me that the Supreme Being
must have watched over the interests of this country in an especial manner, and deliv-
ered us from the hands of our enemies.
“I was particularly impressed with this view when I was in battle of Platsburg, when
with 1500 regulars, and about 4000 volunteers, we defeated the British, who were
15,000 strong; we being also successful at the same time in an engagement with the
British fleet on the lake. At the commencement of the battle, we looked upon our
defeat as almost certain, and yet we were victorious. So surprising a result against such
odds, did seem to me like the work of a mightier power than man.” Mr. Miller’s Apology
and Defence, 1–2.

77. “God brought His chosen people out of the land of Egypt. . . . that He might
bring them to a good land, a land which in His providence He had prepared for them
as a refuge from their enemies. He would bring them to Himself and encircle them in
His everlasting arms; and in return for His goodness and mercy they were to exalt His
name and make it glorious in the earth.” Prophets and Kings, 16.

78. “Is it in vain that the declaration of eternal truth has been given to this nation
to be carried to all the nations of the world? God has chosen a people and made them
the repositories of truth weighty with eternal results. To them has been given the light
that must illuminate the world. Has God made a mistake? Are we indeed His chosen
instrumentalities? Are we the men and women who are to bear to the world the mes-
sages of Revelation fourteen, to proclaim the message of salvation to those who are
standing on the brink of ruin? Do we act as if we were?” Selected Messages, book 1, 92.

79. “‘In those days the house of Judah shall walk with the house of Israel, and they
shall come together out of the land of the north to the land that I have given for an
inheritance unto your fathers. But I said, How shall I put thee among the children, and
give thee a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the hosts of the nations? and I said, Thou
shalt call me, My father; and shalt not turn away from me.’ Jeremiah 3:18–19.

80. “When the land which the Lord provided as an asylum for His people, that they
might worship Him according to the dictates of their own consciences, the land over
which for long years the shield of Omnipotence has been spread, the land which God
has favored by making it the depository of the pure religion of Christ,—when that land
shall, through its legislators, abjure the principles of Protestantism, and give counte-

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nance to Romish apostasy in tampering with God’s law,—it is then that the final work
of the man of sin will be revealed.” Signs of the Times, June 12, 1893.

81. “The Lord has done more for the United States than any other country upon
which the sun shines. Here He provided an asylum for His people, where they could
worship Him according to the dictates of conscience. Here Christianity has progressed
in its purity. The life-giving doctrine of the one Mediator between God and man has
been freely taught. God designed that this country should ever remain free for all
people to worship Him in accordance with the dictates of conscience. He designed that
its civil institutions, in their expansive productions, should represent the freedom of
gospel privileges.” Maranatha, 193.

82. “The unrivaled mercies and blessings of God have been showered upon our na-
tion, it has been a land of liberty, and the glory of the whole earth.” Review and Herald,
May 2, 1893.

83. “America, . . . where the greatest light from heaven has been shining upon the
people, can become the place of greatest peril and darkness because the people do not
continue to practice the truth and walk in the light.” Selected Messages, book 3, 387.

84. “The people of the United States have been a favored people; but when they
restrict religious liberty, surrender Protestantism, and give countenance to popery, the
measure of their guilt will be full, and ‘national apostasy’ will be registered in the books
of heaven. The result of this apostasy will be national ruin.” Review and Herald, May
2, 1893.

85. “Our land is in jeopardy. The time is drawing on when its legislators shall so
abjure the principles of Protestantism as to give countenance to Romish apostasy. The
people for whom God has so marvelously wrought, strengthening them to throw off
the galling yoke of popery, will by a national act give vigor to the corrupt faith of
Rome, and thus arouse the tyranny which only waits for a touch to start again into
cruelty and despotism. With rapid steps are we already approaching this period.” The
Spirit of Prophecy, vol. 4, 410.

Overthrown
86. “When the law of God is made void the church will be sifted by fiery trials, and a
larger portion than we now anticipate, will give heed to seducing spirits and doctrines
of devils.” Selected Messages, book 2, 368.

87. “The great issue near at hand will weed out those whom God has not appointed
and He will have a pure, true, sanctified ministry prepared for the latter rain.” Selected
Messages, book 3, 385.

88. “As the storm approaches, a large class who have professed faith in the third an-
gel’s message, but have not been sanctified through obedience to the truth, abandon
their position and join the ranks of the opposition.” The Great Controversy, 608.

89. “In the absence of the persecution there have drifted into our ranks men who ap-
pear sound and their Christianity unquestionable, but who, if persecution should arise,

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would go out from us.” Evangelism, 360.

90. “The work which the church has failed to do in a time of peace and prosperity she
will have to do in a terrible crisis under most discouraging, forbidding circumstances.
The warnings that worldly conformity has silenced or withheld must be given under
the fiercest opposition from enemies of the faith. And at that time the superficial,
conservative class, whose influence has steadily retarded the progress of the work, will
renounce the faith and take their stand with its avowed enemies, toward whom their
sympathies have long been tending.” Testimonies, vol. 5, 463.

Unrighteous Decrees
91. Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness
which they have prescribed. Isaiah 10:1.

When and Then

92. “When the law of God is being made void, when His name is dishonored, when
it is considered disloyal to the laws of the land to keep the seventh day as the Sabbath,
when wolves in sheep’s clothing, through blindness of mind and hardness of heart, are
seeking to compel the conscience, shall we give up our loyalty to God? No, no. The
wrongdoer is filled with a Satanic hatred against those who are loyal to the command-
ments of God, but the value of God’s law as a rule of conduct must be made manifest.
The zeal of those who obey the Lord will be increased as the world and the church unite
in making void the law. They will say with the Psalmist, ‘I love thy commandments
above gold; yea above fine gold’ [Psalm 119:127]. This is what will be sure to occur
when the law of God is made void by a national act. When Sunday is exalted and sus-
tained by law, then the principle that actuates the people of God will be made manifest,
as the principle of the three Hebrews was made manifest when Nebuchadnezzar com-
manded them to worship the golden image in the plain of Dura. We can see what our
duty is when the truth is overborne by falsehood.” Manuscript Releases, vol. 13, 71.

93. “There are thousands upon thousands who bear aloft the standard of the world’s
sabbath, exalting the image of the papacy created by the man of sin. The church wor-
ship the image of the beast, and receive his mark, even as the inhabitants of Babylon
worshiped the golden image which Nebuchadnezzar set up in the Plain of Dura.” Gen-
eral Conference Daily Bulletin, 178–179.
Hands - Out of; Stretch Forth
94. “When our nation shall so abjure the principles of its government as to enact a
Sunday law, Protestantism will in this act join hands with popery.” Testimonies, vol. 5,
712.

95. “How the Roman Church can clear herself from the charge of idolatry we can-
not see. . . . And this is the religion which Protestants are beginning to look upon with
so much favor, and will eventually be united with Protestantism. This union will not,
however, be effected by a change in Catholicism; for Rome never changes. She claims
infallibility. It is Protestantism that will change. The adoption of liberal ideas on its
part will bring it where it can clasp the hand of Catholicism.” Review and Herald, June
1, 1886.

96. “By the decree enforcing the institution of the Papacy in violation of the law of

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God, our nation will disconnect herself fully from righteousness. When Protestantism
shall stretch her hand across the gulf to grasp the hand of the Roman power, when she
shall reach over the abyss to clasp hands with Spiritualism, when, under the influence
of this threefold union, our country shall repudiate every principle of its Constitution
as a Protestant and republican government, and shall make provision for the propaga-
tion of papal falsehoods and delusions, then we may know that the time has come for
the marvelous working of Satan and that the end is near.” Testimonies, vol. 5, 451.

Steps - At His Steps

97. “The Protestants of the United States will be foremost in stretching their hands
across the gulf to grasp the hand of Spiritualism; they will reach over the abyss to clasp
hands with the Roman power; and under the influence of this threefold union, this
country will follow in the steps of Rome in trampling on the rights of conscience.” The
Great Controversy, 588.

98. “In the movements now in progress in the United States to secure for the insti-
tutions and usages of the church the support of the state, Protestants are following in
the steps of papists. Nay, more, they are opening the door for the Papacy to regain in
Protestant America the supremacy which she has lost in the Old World.” The Great
Controversy, 573.

99. Can two walk together, except they be agreed? Amos 3:3.

Escape
100. escape—4422: a prim. root; prop. to be smooth, i.e. (by impl.) to escape (as if
by slipperiness); causat. to release or rescue; to bring forth young, emit sparks: –deliver
(self ), escape, lay, leap out, let alone, let go, preserve, save. Strong’s.

101. “The law of God cannot be made void by the law of a nation. When the law is
trampled in the dust, the sacredness of the commandments of God will be vindicated
by those who are loyal to Him. We are to make no railing accusation against the na-
tions, for this would close our way so that we could not set the light before the people.
Every objection raised against the commandments of God will make a way for the
advancement of truth and enable its advocates to present its value before men. There is
a beauty and force in the truth that nothing can make so apparent as opposition and
persecution. When this is revealed, many will be converted to the truth.” Manuscript
Releases, vol. 12, 141–142.

The Closed Door

102. “Many who have known the truth have corrupted their way before God and have
departed from the faith. The broken ranks will be filled up by those represented by
Christ as coming in at the eleventh hour. There are many with whom the Spirit of God
is striving. The time of God’s destructive judgments is the time of mercy for those who
have no opportunity to learn what is truth. Tenderly will the Lord look upon them.
His heart of mercy is touched; His hand is still stretched out to save, while the door is
closed to those who would not enter. Large numbers will be admitted who in these last
days hear the truth for the first time.” This Day With God, 163.

103. “There are diligent students of the word of prophecy in all parts of the world, who

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are obtaining light and still greater light from searching the Scriptures. This is true of
all nations, of all tribes, and all peoples. These will come from the grossest error, and
will take the places of those who have had opportunities and privileges and have not
prized them. These have worked out their own salvation with fear and trembling lest
they become deficient in doing the ways and will of God, while those who have great
light, have, through perversity of their own natural hearts, turned away from Christ
because displeased with the require-ments.
“But God will not be left without witness. The one-hour labourers will be brought
in at the eleventh hour, and will consecrate ability and all their entrusted means to
advance the work. These will receive the reward for their faithfulness, because they are
true to principle and shun not their duty to declare the whole counsel of God. When
those who have had abundance of light throw off the restraint which the Word of God
imposes, and make void His law, others will come in to fill their place, and take their
crown. . . .
“Great is the work of the Lord. Men are choosing sides. Even those supposed to be
heathen will choose the side of Christ, while those who become offended, as did the
disciples, will go away and walk no more with Him. And others will come in and oc-
cupy the place they have left vacant. The time is very near when man shall have reached
the prescribed limits. . . The record of their works in the books of heaven is ‘Weighed
in the balances, and found wanting.’ Testimonies to Southern Africa, 50–51.

The Christian Theatre
104. “In the great conflict between faith and unbelief, the whole Christian world will
be involved.” Review and Herald, February 7, 1893.

105. “Before the final visitation of God’s judgments upon the earth there will be among
the people of the Lord such a revival of primitive godliness as has not been witnessed
since apostolic times. The Spirit and power of God will be poured out upon His chil-
dren. At that time many will separate themselves from those churches in which the love
of the world has supplanted love for God and His Word. Many, both ministers and
people, will gladly accept those great truths which God has caused to be proclaimed at
this time to prepare a people for the Lord’s second coming. . . . Under a religious guise,
Satan will seek to extend his influence over the Christian world.” The Great Controversy,
464.

106. “The so-called Christian world is to be the theater of great and decisive actions.”
Selected Messages, book 3, 392.

107. “All Christendom will be divided into two great classes.” The Great Controversy,
450.

108. “As the Sabbath has become the special point of controversy throughout Chris-
tendom, and religious and secular authorities have combined to enforce the observance
of the Sunday, the persistent refusal of a small minority to yield to the popular demand
will make them objects of universal execration.” The Great Controversy, 615.

109. And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and
they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd.

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110. “When those that ‘believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness’ 2
Thessalonians 2:12, shall be left to receive strong delusion and to believe a lie, then the
light of truth will shine upon all whose hearts are open to receive it, and all the children
of the Lord that remain in Babylon will heed the call: ‘Come out of her, my people.’
Revelation 18:4. Maranatha, 173.

Lots Descendants In Symbol

111. But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from
heaven, and destroyed them all. Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man
is revealed. Luke 17:29–30.

112. “Servants of God, endowed with power from on high, with their faces lighted up,
and shining with holy consecration, went forth to proclaim the message from heaven.
Souls that were scattered all through the religious bodies answered to the call, and the
precious were hurried out of the doomed churches, as Lot was hurried out of Sodom
before her destruction.” Early Writings, 278–279.

Edom, Moab, And Ammon

113. Daniel 11:41
Edom: red. Descendant of Esau.
Moab: from father. Descendant of Lot.
The chief of the children of Ammon: paternal uncle. Descendants of Lot, (plural).

Isaiah 11:14—
Edom, Moab, children of Ammon, (plural).

Nehemiah 2:19—
Sanballat the Horonite: the moon-god; sin has given life. A Moabite.
Tobiah the Ammonite: Yahweh is good.
Geshem the Arabian: born in the rainy season. Descen-
dant of Ishmael. Arabians are a family of tribes, (plural).

Judges 6:3; 7:12

Midian: strife. Descendant of Abraham from Keturah.
Amal: trouble. Descendant of Esau.
The children of the east, (plural). Associated with Balaam.

Numbers 22:4–5
Moab, Midian, Balaam of Pethor which is in the land of the children of his people,
(plural).

Revelation 16:12–13
Dragon: Spiritualism.
Beast: Catholicism.
False prophet: Apostate Protestantism, (multiple churches, plural).

John 19:19–20
Hebrew: one from the other side, Abraham, Shem.
Greek: sons of the Ionians, Japheth (plural).

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Latin: Roman: I have exalted, Babylon was founded by Nimrod, a descendant of

Ham.

The Banner
114. “In vision I saw two armies in terrible conflict. One army was led by banners
bearing the world’s insignia; the other was led by the bloodstained banner of Prince Im-
manuel. Standard after standard was left to trail in the dust as company after company
from the Lord’s army joined the foe and tribe after tribe from the ranks of the enemy
united with the commandment-keeping people of God. . . . The army following the
banner with the inscription, ‘The commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus,’ was
gloriously triumphant.” Testimonies, vol. 8, 41.

115. “September 23, the Lord showed me that He had stretched out His hand
the second time to recover the remnant of His people, and that efforts must
be redoubled in this gathering time. . . . In the gathering, when God has set
His hand to gather His people, efforts to spread the truth will have their de-
signed effect. All should be united and zealous in the work.” Early Writings, 74.

116. In that day there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand for an ensign of the
people; to it shall the Gentiles seek: and his rest shall be glorious. And it shall come to
pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the
remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, from Pathros,
and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the
islands of the sea. And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the
outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of
the earth.
The envy also of Ephraim shall depart, and the adversaries of Judah shall be cut off:
Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah shall not vex Ephraim. But they shall fly
upon the shoulders of the Philistines toward the west; they shall spoil them of the east
together: they shall lay their hand upon Edom and Moab; and the children of Ammon
shall obey them. And the Lord shall utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and
with his mighty wind shall he shake his hand over the river, and shall smite it in the
seven streams, and make men go over dryshod. And there shall be a highway for the
remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria; like as it was to Israel in the
day that he came up out of the land of Egypt. Isaiah 11:10–16.

117. ensign—5251: from 5264; a flag; also a sail; by impl. a flagstaff; gen. a signal;
fig. a token: –banner, pole, sail, (en-)sign, standard. 5264: to gleam from afar, i.e. to
be conspicuous as a signal; to raise a beacon:–lift up as an ensign, standard bearer.
Strong’s.

118. “It is at this time that the true Sabbath must be brought before the people both
by pen and by voice. As the fourth commandment of the Decalogue and those that
observe it are ignored and despised, the faithful few know that it is the time not to hide
their face but exalt the law of Jehovah by unfurling the banner on which is inscribed
the message of the third angel, ‘Here are they that keep the commandments of God,
and the faith of Jesus.’” Revelation 14:12. Evangelism, 281.

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119. “For about forty years, students of prophecy in the United States have presented
this testimony to the world. In the events now taking place is seen a rapid advance to-
ward the fulfillment of the prediction. With Protestant teachers there is the same claim
of divine authority for Sunday-keeping, and the same lack of scriptural evidence, as
with the papist leaders who fabricated miracles to supply the place of a command from
God. The assertion that God’s judgments are visited upon men for their violation of the
Sunday-sabbath, will be repeated; already it is beginning to be urged. And a movement
to enforce Sunday observance is fast gaining ground.” The Great Controversy, 579.

Taking The World

120. He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt
shall not escape. Daniel 11:42.

Egypt
121. “Why is it so hard to lead a self-denying, humble life? Because professed Chris-
tians are not dead to the world. It is easy living after we are dead. But many are longing
for the leeks and onions of Egypt. They have a disposition to act and dress as much like
the world as possible and yet go to heaven. Such climb up some other way. They do not
enter through the strait gate and narrow way.” Testimonies, vol. 1, 131.

122. “I am filled with sadness when I think of our condition as a people. The Lord has
not closed heaven to us, but our own course of continual backsliding has separated us
from God. Pride, covetousness, and love of the world have lived in the heart without
fear of banishment or condemnation. . . . The church has turned back from following
Christ her leader and is steadily retreating toward Egypt. . . . Have we not been seek-
ing the friendship and applause of the world rather than the presence of Christ and a
deeper knowledge of His will?” Ibid., vol. 5, 217–218.

123. “The plagues of Egypt when God was about to deliver Israel were similar in char-
acter to those more terrible and extensive judgments which are to fall upon the world
just before the final deliverance of God’s people.” The Great Controversy, 627–628.

124. “Many are not growing strong, because they do not take God at his Word. They
are conforming to the world. Every day they pitch their tents nearer to Egypt, when
they should encamp a day’s march nearer the heavenly Canaan.” Signs of The Times,
March 6, 1884.

125. “The Lord God of Israel is to execute judgment upon the gods of this world, as
upon the gods of Egypt.” Manuscript Releases, vol. 10, 240.

Escape
126. escape—6413: fem. of 6412; deliverance; concr. an escaped portion: –deliver-
ance, (that is) escape (-d), remnant. 6412: a refugee: –(that have) escape (-d, -th), fugi-
tive. Strong’s.

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the conscience and compelling men to honor the false sabbath, the people of every
country on the globe will be led to follow her example.” Testimonies, vol. 6, 18.

128. “Foreign nations will follow the example of the United States. Though she leads
out, yet the same crisis will come upon our people in all parts of the world.” Testimo-
nies, vol. 6, 395.

129. “Ever since the Fall, Satan has been at work to establish himself as ruler of this
earth.” Review and Herald, March 9, 1886.

130. And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they
worshipped the beast, saying, who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with
him? . . . And power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations. And all
that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book
of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. Revelation 13:4, 7–8.

131. How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou
cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! For thou hast said in thine
heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit
also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will ascend above
the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High. Isaiah 14:12–14.

132. Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is wor-
shipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is
God. 2 Thessalonians 2:4.

133. These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast . . . .
And he said to me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples,
and multitudes, and nations, and tongues. . . . For God hath put in their hearts to fulfill
his will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God
shall be fulfilled. And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth
over the kings of the earth. Revelation 17:13, 15, 17–18.

134. “‘These have one mind.’ There will be a universal bond of union, one great har-
mony, a confederacy of Satan’s forces. ‘And shall give their power and strength to the
beast.’ Thus is manifested the same arbitrary, oppressive power against religious liberty,
freedom to worship God according to the dictates of conscience, as was manifested by
the Papacy, when in the past it persecuted those who dared to refuse to conform with
the religious rites and ceremonies of Romanism.” Maranatha, 187.

135. “The spirits of devils will go forth to the kings of the earth and to the whole
world, to fasten them in deception, and urge them on to unite with Satan in his last
struggle against the government of heaven. By these agencies, rulers and subjects will
be alike deceived.” The Great Controversy, 624.

136. But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the
precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.
Daniel 11:43.

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137. And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the
beast, or the number of his name. Revelation 13:17.

138. steps—4703: from 6805; a step; fig. companionship:- going, step. 6805: a prim.
root; to pace, i.e. step regularly; (upward) to mount; (along) to march; (down and
caus.) to hurl: –bring, go, march (through), run over. Strong’s.

139. “With the ungodly there will be a deceptive harmony that but partially conceals a
perpetual discord. In their opposition to the will and the truth of God they are united,
while on every other point they are rent with hatred, emulation, jealousy, and deadly
strife.” Testimonies, vol. 5, 101.

140. “As we approach the last crisis, it is of vital moment that harmony and unity exist
among the Lord’s instrumentalities. The world is filled with storm and war and vari-
ance. Yet under one head—the papal power—the people will unite to oppose God in
the person of His witnesses. This union is cemented by the great apostate. While he
seeks to unite his agents in warring against the truth he will work to divide and scatter
its advocates. Jealousy, evil surmising, evilspeaking, are instigated by him to produce
discord and dissension.” Testimonies, vol. 7, 182.

141. “In this time of prevailing iniquity, the Protestant churches that have rejected a
‘Thus saith the Lord,’ will reach a strange pass. They will be converted to the world. In
their separation from God, they will seek to make falsehood and apostasy from God
the law of the nation. They will work upon the rulers of the land to make laws to restore
the lost ascendency of the man of sin, who sits in the temple of God, showing himself
that he is God. The Roman Catholic principles will be taken under the protection of
the state. The protest of Bible truth will no longer be tolerated by those who have not
made the law of God their rule of life.” Review and Herald, December 21, 1897.

Egypt, Lybia, Ethiopia

142. “In short, that contemporary map of shame would be the graphic expression of
the atrocity we have come to describe so blandly as the division of the world into North
and South, which is to say, in plainer terms, the division of nations, and of populations
within nations, into rich and poor. . . .
“It is just such a map of shame that Pope John Paul does hold up to the world in his
moral assessment of the geopolitical arrangements that are setting up our future for us.
...
“On the modern map of world shame that is the subject of so much of John Paul’s
attention, North and South do not figure as precise geographical terms. Instead, they
are global frontiers where wealth and poverty divide not only nations, but societies
within nations. ...
“Whether it is applied in the confines of the United States, or in the world at large,
John Paul’s moral assessment of North and South is simple and clear. In a morally ad-
justed economy, he insists, the rich should not get richer if the poor get poorer.” Keys of
This Blood, Malachi Martin, 163–164, 171.

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143. “Fearful is the issue to which the world is to be brought. The powers of earth,
uniting to war against the commandments of God, will decree that, “all, both small
and great, rich and poor, free and bond” (Revelation 13:16), shall conform to the cus-
toms of the church by observance of the false sabbath. All who refuse compliance will
be visited with civil penalties, and it will finally be declared that they are deserving of
death.” The Great Controversy, 604.

144. And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive
a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads. Revelation 13:16.

145. But tidings out of the east and out of the north shall trouble him: therefore
he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many. Daniel
11:44.

East And North

146. And I saw another angel ascending from the east, having the seal of the living
God: and he cried with a loud voice to the four angels, to whom it was given to hurt
the earth and the sea, saying, Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we
have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads. Revelation 7:2–3.

147. “Soon there appears in the east a small black cloud, about half the size of a man’s
hand. It is the cloud which surrounds the Saviour and which seems in the distance to
be shrouded in darkness. The people of God know this to be the sign of the Son of
man.” The Great Controversy, 640.

148. Who raised up the righteous man from the east, called him to his foot, gave
the nations before him, and made him rule over kings? he gave them as the dust to
his sword, and as driven stubble to his bow. . . . I have raised up one from the north,
and he shall come: from the rising of the sun shall he call upon my name: and he
shall come upon princes as upon morter, as the potter treadeth clay. Who hath de-
clared from the beginning, that we may know? and beforetime, that we may say, He
is righteous? yea, there is none that sheweth, yea, there is none that declareth, yea,
there is none that heareth your words. The first shall say to Zion, Behold, behold
them: and I will give to Jerusalem one that bringeth good tidings. Isaiah 41:2, 25–27.

Tidings
149. “What was the result of the outpouring of the Spirit on the Day of Pentecost?
The glad tidings of a risen Saviour were carried to the uttermost parts of the inhabited
world.” The Acts of the Apostles, 48.

150. “Before the work is closed up and the sealing of God’s people is finished, we shall
receive the outpouring of the Spirit of God.” Selected Messages, book 1, 111.

Destroy
151. “The whole world is to be stirred with enmity against Seventh-day Adventists,
because they will not yield homage to the Papacy, by honoring Sunday, the institution
of this anti-Christian power. It is the purpose of Satan to cause them to be blotted from
the earth, in order that his supremacy of the world may not be disputed.” Review and
Herald, August 22, 1893.

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152. “When this grand work is to take place in the battle, prior to the last closing con-
flict, many will be imprisoned, many will flee for their lives from cities and towns, and
many will be martyrs for Christ’s sake in standing in defense of the truth.” Maranatha,
199.

153. “I was pointed down to the time when the third angel’s message was closing. The
power of God had rested upon His people; they had accomplished their work and were
prepared for the trying hour before them. They had received the latter rain, or refresh-
ing from the presence of the Lord, and the living testimony had been revived. The last
great warning had sounded everywhere, and it had stirred up and enraged the inhabit-
ants of the earth who would not receive the message.” Early Writings, 279.

154. “The season of distress and anguish before us will require a faith that can endure
weariness, delay, and hunger—a faith that will not faint though severely tried. . . . The
“time of trouble, such as never was,” is soon to open upon us; and we shall need an
experience which we do not now possess and which many are too indolent to obtain.
It is often the case that trouble is greater in anticipation than in reality; but this is not
true of the crisis before us. The most vivid presentations cannot reach the magnitude of
the ordeal.” The Great Controversy, 621–622.

155. And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious
holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him. Daniel 11:45.

156. plant—5193: a prim. root; prop. to strike in, i.e. fix; spec. to plant (lit. or fig.):
–fasten, plant (-er).
tabernacles—168: from 166; a tent (as clearly; conspicuous from a distance): –cov-
ering, (dwelling) (place), home, tabernacle, tent 166: a prim. root; to be clear: –shine.
palace—643: appar. of for. der; a pavilion or palace-tent:- palace. Strong’s.

Seas
157. And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are
peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues. Revelation 17:15.

Mountain
158. And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the Lord’s
house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above
the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it. And many people shall go and say,
Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God
of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of
Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. Isaiah 2:2–3.

Between
159. And he shall plant his palatial tents between the seas and the glorious holy mount
(Zion); yet he shall come to his end with none to help him. Daniel 11:45, Amplified
Version.

160. And he shall plant the tents of his palace between the seas and the glorious holy

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mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and no one will help him. Daniel 11:45, New
King James Version.

Blocking The Message

161. “Though being unable to expel God from His throne, Satan has charged God
with satanic attributes and has claimed the attributes of God as his own. He is a deceiv-
er, and through his serpentine sharpness, through his crooked practices he has drawn to
himself the homage which man should have given to God, and has planted his satanic
throne between the human worshiper and the divine Father.” Manuscript Releases, vol.
7, 215.

162. “Stand out of the way, Brethren. Do not interpose yourselves between God and
His work.” Selected Messages, book 3, 386.

163. “Formality, worldly wisdom, worldly caution, worldly policy, will appear to many
to be the very power of God, but when accepted, it stands as an obstacle to prevent
God’s light in warnings, reproof, and counsel from coming to the world.” Ibid., book
2, 19.

164. “Just prior to the coming of the Son of man, there is—and has been for years—a
determination on the part of the enemy to cast his hellish shadow right between man
and his Saviour.” Manuscript Releases, vol. 6, 7.

165. “Satan will try to interpose himself and discourage the workers, so as to prevent
them from giving the message of light and warning.” Testimonies, vol. 7, 35.

166. “The things of the world are their idols. These interpose between the soul and
Christ, and the solemn and awful realities that are crowding upon us are but dimly seen
and faintly realized.” Ibid., vol. 5, 456.

167. “He, the great Teacher, was in the world; He was the light of the world; but Satan
interposed his hellish shadow between Him and the souls whom Christ came to save.”
The Signs of the Times, March 20, 1901.

168. “We entreat of you who oppose the light of truth, to stand out of the way of
God’s people. Let Heaven-sent light shine forth upon them in clear and steady rays.”
Review and Herald, May 27, 1890.

169. “Let no one run the risk of interposing himself between the people and the mes-
sage of heaven. The message of God will come to the people; and if there were no voice
among men to give it, the very stones would cry out.” Counsels to Writers and Editors,
38.

170. “The Sabbath is the Lord’s test, and no man, be he king, priest, or ruler, is autho-
rized to come between God and man.” Testimonies, vol. 9, 234.

171. “But when one man allows another to step in between him and the duty that God
has pointed out to him, . . . such a man, instead of growing and developing, will lose

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his spirituality.” Testimonies, vol. 9, 280.

172. “God means just what He says. Man has interposed between God and the people,
and the Lord has sent forth the third angel with the message.” Testimonies, vol. 8, 94.

He Shall Come To His End

173. Then was that part of the hand sent from him; and this writing was written. And
this is the writing that was written, MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN. This is the
interpretation of the thing: MENE; God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finish it.
TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting. PERES; Thy king-
dom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians . . . . In that night was Belshazzar
the king of the Chaldeans slain. Daniel 5:24–28, 30.

174. But the judgment shall sit, and they shall take away his dominion, to consume
and to destroy it unto the end. Daniel 7:26.

175. For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first
begin with us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God? 1 Peter
4:17.

176. Forasmuch as thou sawest that the stone was cut out of the mountain without
hands, and that it brake in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold;
the great God hath made known to the king what shall come to pass hereafter: and the
dream is certain, and the interpretation thereof sure. Daniel 2:45.

177. And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors have come to the
full, a king of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences, shall stand up.
And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power: and he shall destroy wonder-
fully, and shall prosper, and practise, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people.
And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall
magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up
against the Prince of princes; but he shall be broken without hand. Daniel 8:23–25.

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