One of the most basic parts of life is the appreciation of good things. Everyone wants to enjoy life and experience happiness, and that comes from good gifts. Jesus knew that, too, when He spoke of our Father giving us gifts:
Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone? Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent? If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him? (Matthew 7:9-11)
Ask, and it shall be given you… (Matthew 7:7)
With a promise like that, why is happiness so hard to hold on to? Many have spent their whole lives in pursuit of happiness, but have never been satisfied with it! It seems that everyone wants it, but no one knows how to keep it!
The inheritance described in this article is the Father’s great gift that is for the enduring happiness of His children—both in this life, and in the life to come.
When Luke wrote his account, he included a different detail that sheds light on the nature of the gifts God delights to give us:
If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him? (Luke 11:13)
Jesus knew what was for our greatest happiness! We often think that our lack of money, possessions, or having our own way is the reason why we are not happy. Yet those kinds of things have but a short-lived effect on one’s happiness, but the things of the Holy Spirit are the best gifts!
So what kind of things are of the Holy Spirit, and how do we benefit from them? The Holy Spirit is a Person, and He is not found in non-living objects, but in people. So the best gifts are people—if they have the Holy Spirit in them! And how do we benefit from Holy-Spirit-filled people? We must communicate with them. This is when the Spirit is able to do His work, whether it be to give comfort (He is our Comforter), or whether it be for learning (He is our Teacher), or any other good thing. When we talk with someone who has the Holy Spirit in them, God gives us those good gifts. Remember what Jesus said about His words, as the One who the Holy Spirit is the Representative of:
It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life. (John 6:63)
The words spoken by one who has the Holy Spirit in them are God’s way of giving spiritual life and good things. One must have communion with the Holy Spirit every day, so his words will be good gifts of the Spirit to others as well.
Words are powerful. Many have suffered from hearing and believing negative and degrading words spoken to them. Many more don’t even know how deceived they are, because of smooth but lying words. Words from the Holy Spirit, however, have even greater power, and will cancel out the effect that harmful words cause, to bring healing and joy! The words of God are true, and are able to save a person from deception. Whatever one’s condition is, there is hope, if one has words from the Holy Spirit![1]
While spoken words might seem more powerful, written ones are more enduring and can give the good gifts of the Holy Spirit very well, too! That is why we write, and that is why the Bible was written—so that people can find those gifts when they need them, even if they are alone then. But we should always remember that it is better to give than to receive. Never waste an opportunity to share words from the Holy Spirit!
No sooner does one come to Christ, than there is born in his heart a desire to make known to others what a precious friend he has found in Jesus; the saving and sanctifying truth cannot be shut up in his heart. If we are clothed with the righteousness of Christ, and are filled with the joy of His indwelling Spirit, we shall not be able to hold our peace. If we have tasted and seen that the Lord is good, we shall have something to tell.... {AG 305.3}
The world is quickly becoming unfriendly to those who want to follow and serve God. The Holy Spirit is becoming a Stranger in the earth, because of the multitudes who have rejected Him for the last time. Yet even in a time when none will come to Christ anymore, it is still important to share with others. Those who cherish the Holy Spirit will long for the company of a sympathetic ear. Who should they talk to? The precious pearls they have been given are not for everyone! Remember Jesus’ words:
Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you. (Matthew 7:6)
Those who have no appreciation for the good gifts from above will not be any better off for talking with them. They will only be used by Satan to try to make the righteous fall. Like Jesus, we must find out who our family really is:
Then one said unto him, Behold, thy mother and thy brethren stand without, desiring to speak with thee. But he answered and said unto him that told him, Who is my mother? and who are my brethren? And he stretched forth his hand toward his disciples, and said, Behold my mother and my brethren! For whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother. (Matthew 12:47-50)
Family relationships are often some of the strongest bonds a person will have. When Jesus called His disciples His family above His own mother, He was showing them that they had another family even closer than their blood relatives. The family of heaven is bound by closer and stronger ties than even blood relatives! They have the bond of the Holy Spirit.
That is how Jesus could say one’s relationship with Himself is more important than any other relationship:
If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple. (Luke 14:26)
The word “hate” is a poor translation for a word that simply means to “love less.” So Jesus says we must love Him more than even the closest relationships of our immediate family. That is a strong statement, but we have seen it play out over and over again. Many would believe in this message, but they have family that doesn’t agree with it, and this puts them in a place where they must make that decision: they must choose to follow Jesus, or to follow their family members. Because the family ties are so strong, many turn away from Jesus and the truth rather than offend their family members. To join the spiritual family of faith will require sacrifice, but it is definitely worth it in the end!
Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword [division]. For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law. And a man's foes shall be they of his own household. He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. (Matthew 10:34-37)
Jesus Himself is our “exceeding great reward.”[2] His glory fills the inheritance described in this section of the testament. He is closer than anyone else could ever be, because His Holy Spirit dwells in us. The close bonds of our earthly families are just a type for the closeness of His Spirit that binds together the family of heaven.
Jesus’ disciples loved His words, because they loved truth, and Jesus is the Truth. And He called them His family because they chose to act on the truth that He taught them. Those who love Truth will take decided action, and not allow anything to come between them. All who will enter heaven must have a desire to stand for the truth. We must choose to do what is right, even if it doesn’t feel like it is possible, and God will provide the strength![3] As one acts on their desire to follow the truth more and more, they grow and strengthen the spiritual bond with their true family, who also share the same love for the truth.
One must always remember that their real family is not their earthly relatives, but those who share a similar experience of faith! The earthly family is together for decades, but the heavenly family will be together for all eternity! So much greater is that bond of unity. When we communicate with people about the truth that is so precious to us, it will become clear when we have found a true family member, and a fellow heir to the bountiful gifts of inheritance that this testament conveys.
As things get worse in the world, and the Holy Spirit leaves those who do not love Him, separation from unbelievers will become a necessity, even if they are relatives. It will be necessary to keep company instead with others of like faith, who have responded to the Holy Spirit. It is a difficult time that lies ahead, and God’s children will need the support of each other, with whom they can communicate freely about spiritual things, or they will be in grave danger of losing their faith.
The Fourth Angel’s message is the message of the Holy Spirit. He has led in all that the movement has done, and it is said that the works of those who die in the Lord will follow them:
And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours; and their works do follow them. (Revelation 14:13)
The works that have been done by the testators at the direction of the Holy Spirit were done for the benefit of those who would inherit them. It was God who planned ahead to meet the needs of those who would find themselves in the world’s greatest crisis situation. What are the righteous to do when Jesus is no longer interceding and the people of the world have become completely degraded? How will the righteous stand? In Section 1 of this testament, it is explained that many could be raised from the dead to fill the number who must stand through that time. They would be in great need of support in order to sing the new song that no one else could learn.
Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead. (Isaiah 26:19)
And they sung as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four beasts, and the elders: and no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand, which were redeemed from the earth. (Revelation 14:3)
Where will they find what they need in order to learn the new song? Many will have almost no time to prepare—this will be the time to perform! It has always been recognized that probation closes when one dies. In other words, there is no more grace to cover for any more sin. This doesn’t change when they are raised, for they come up when Jesus has finished His intercession for sin.
God alone knows the end from the beginning. He knew from the beginning, that there would be a year during which the righteous must stand without sin, and that many of them could come from previous generations of Adventism. He knew that they would not be expecting to be raised from the dead only to remain on a thoroughly wicked and rebellious planet for a whole year before Jesus comes! He knew they would have a lot to learn, and that the church organization that they believed would give them that understanding would itself fall into the world. God knew these things, and therefore He led this ministry to provide for those needs in advance. Those are the provisions that are described in this section of the testament.
For those of us who received this message earlier, it was our life-saver that kept us from drowning in the polluted waters of the church and world that surrounded us. Finally, here was a place where we could find pure water to drink, untainted with Jesuit corruption and doctrinal errors. It gave us hope to see our Lord, and showed us the paths of righteousness. This message was God’s rod and staff, which comforted us.
He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. (Psalms 23:3-4)
The first part of the inheritance described in this section is that rod and staff! Jesus uses His staff to guide and correct His sheep and His rod for protection from wild animals and to point the way. The Fourth Angel’s message gives correction for wrong ideas by clearly pointing out where the church had gone astray and protection by revealing the truth about the heavenly reality and one’s own responsibilities, so that he is not defenseless against the enemy’s attacks. He uses His staff to draw the sheep toward Himself, and His rod is a symbol of His authority. In Orion and the Gene of Life, we not only see His authority in having written His message in Creation, where man cannot affect it, but they are also how He draws us to Himself. In Orion, Jesus is lifted up from the earth.
And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me. (John 12:32)
God’s rod and staff are not just dead sticks, but a living message, in which is the Holy Spirit. That makes it a good gift—one from which you will continually benefit in ways that even we who bequeath it cannot fully know, for it is an ever-present message, providing what you need in the moment when you need it. It is a message of Time, ever ready to meet the present need! It is the message of Jesus, and it is life:
The church—that is, the people of God, not an organization or denomination—is to be the fold where God’s sheep are gathered together. Jesus has one fold, but His sheep are not all there yet, so He must bring them into it. They come to this fold by hearing His voice in Orion, where Jesus will shepherd them.
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. (John 10:16)
God’s sheep have dwelt among those of other folds, who still follow false shepherds, but when they hear Jesus’ voice from Orion, then He will bring them to this fold. There is a process of separation that Jesus does, and it is a painful one, but needed and good. When Jesus is presented in Orion, the sword of division does its work.
When God sent this message to the world, He sent it first to the Adventist Church. That was prophesied in Revelation 11, where the work to be accomplished by the message is revealed, describing what should be prophesied again, after the preceding prophecy of Chapter 10 that pointed to the Judgment period.
And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein. (Revelation 11:1)
The one who should prophesy again must come with a measuring device. The article about the last Elijah explains how Brother John flew to the New World to begin his ministry with the study of the measuring reed already in hand. That study has to do with measuring the temple, just as Revelation 11:1 indicates. So we see that the rod of this message has more than one use! First, like we mentioned before, the rod is a tool for steering and correction of the sheep. God wanted to reform His church, and the Orion message showed them where they were in error and needed to repent. Second, the rod is a measuring tool. Using this measuring reed was a form of judgment; it is about “measuring up” to the standard. The next verse gives us an idea of how it is to be used:
But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months. (Revelation 11:1-2)
What he was told not to measure gives us a clue as to what he did measure! Here, John is told not to measure the outer court. It wasn’t because John shouldn’t know the measurement, but the standard of measuring doesn’t apply to the “Gentiles,” who were generally pagans—only to those who claim to be God’s people. This tells us that the measuring is about the people, and therefore, it’s about how they “measure up” to the standard of Jesus Christ. His character is put on display in this message—both through the Gene of Life, and through Orion, and if any desire it, they may have it as their own. That is the gift of God in the latter rain! It is His staff of comfort and rod of authority in His hand (in Creation) to clarify the nature of His character.
So this measuring rod is used to measure people by comparing them with Jesus, our Standard of righteousness. But at the same time, it also measures time! That is why John was given the time of the Gentiles—it was because that is what he would have also measured if they were to be counted. In the end, the measuring rod, which is this message, measures the character of the people represented by the temple, the altar, and the worshippers themselves, and for each of these, there is a specific time given. The experience of this ministry bears that out, although it was not planned that way! We see it now in retrospect that God led the ministry according to the pattern in these first two verses of Revelation 11. They give something of an overview of the work that was to be done.
The measuring of the temple, the altar, and the worshippers, was done so that it could be seen who were God’s sheep, and who were not. This is valuable knowledge, because one may spend all his time trying to bring in wolves, thinking they might convert, while the true sheep get scattered. We live in a decisive time. It is not like it was for past generations while the wheat and tares grew together. Now is the time of the judgment of the living, and through the way one responds to this message, it can be seen whether the Holy Spirit is still working with them.
The first phase was measuring the temple. That represents the Seventh-day Adventist Church, which was God’s house. The first part of the ministry was dedicated almost entirely to them. They had great opportunity to embrace the truth. Their background gave them the understanding that they needed to easily grasp the message.
Few received the truth and took the required action to join themselves to the message, but those who did, went on to be the priests for God that were to come from the Adventist church. The priests are the ones who minister at the altar. So the altar represents the next phase of our ministry, which began at the end of the trumpet cycle on our ascent up the mountain of Time, Mt. Chiasmus.[4] During that phase, not many joined the truth, and the ministry’s focus therefore was mainly directed toward those who had already accepted the responsibilities of being priests for God. It was a time when the priests were especially tested and tried, whether they would be willing to offer the sacrifice of Philadelphia. That was the culminating experience for that time, and it was necessary so that the worshippers would have an opportunity to be measured and have the standard they need in order to live up to the fullness of the stature of Christ by faith.[5]
That brings us to the present work, which began at the summit of Mt. Chiasmus, and will continue until the testators’ work on this earth is finished, and the legacy described in this section is conveyed to the heirs of this testament. The church was measured to find the priests, and the priests were measured so they could give an acceptable sacrifice as an example of true discipleship for the worshippers, and the worshippers are measured to fulfill the number of the faithful who are still outside of God’s house—outside this message of truth. In the end, this house, or family, which is built upon the Rock of Jesus in Orion, will be the only one to stand through the violent storm that erupts on the earth when the four winds are loosed. This is all encompassed in the gift of God!
Throughout this ministry, God has given a great abundance of light, which was published on the High Sabbath Adventist ministry websites as it was received. Section 2 explained how Jesus gave special authority to the two witnesses, which represent the old and new websites of the movement. The downpour of the latter rain has gathered together into these great waters, which served to revive the testators from the dry and barren world. These two websites, or books if you prefer, contain many gems and precious treasures that will be especially valuable to those living in a world even drier and more barren than when the testators assembled them!
The first website was their lifeline for seven years, and it houses the treasures that were collected in that period, grouped by their type.
First, there are those that relate to the function and operation of the clock of God. There is a series about how the throne lines work, about how history has been repeating itself, and articles about how the same clock mechanism works to tell time from Creation until the birth of Jesus, and leading up to eternity. It has a guard to protect against elements that would seek to destabilize the unchanging weekly Sabbath rhythm, shields to protect the time-indicating components, and a special cog in the style of 1843 that fits perfectly into its place to extend the clock’s sweet influences to reach the end of the world with its timely warnings.
At that point, one has only understood the clock to point to years. In this age, however, indications for specific days are needed. The “Shadows of the Future” section describes many carefully-designed components that give the clock that additional precision, along with special alarms. The structural framework, which supports the central shaft, is made from beautiful and durable wood of the highest quality, the design of which was an enigma for centuries. An indirect light like that of the full moon draws the eye toward the axle itself, from which the hands extend—dotted with rubies—to point out the times. Various gems are set throughout the clock for beauty and precision. Its everlasting springs are wound with care to ensure that the wheels of the clock never fail[6] to deliver their daily provision of the Bread and Water of Life. All who make it their study will be inspired to attain their high calling on behalf of the Maker, who has even included an illustrated guide to understanding the clock, including its function to indicate the end of an era and identify the culprits of the age. (In retrospect, we see just how magnificently the clock demarks the age!)
Do you know of another clock that is good for study and not just for reading the time? Some clocks may have a few extra bells and whistles, but this clock is an inexhaustible fountain of understanding! The third section of the website, aptly titled, “The Gift of Prophecy,” presents many prophetic insights that have come from studying the Father’s clock. Far from shallow date-setting, the clock of God in Orion is a gold mine of prophetic knowledge! It sheds light on dreams, through which He takes His children by the hand and encourages them day by day, and it gives meaning to every nuance of divine light that is contained in the innumerable treasures of God’s Word. It correlates real-life faith-building experiences of God’s protection, as an example for the greatest storm of life that many saw coming, but didn’t prepare for. We, the testators, however, heard the voice of God that was foretold, which prepared us to sound the loud cry.
With His clock, God called the testators from where they were in regard to the church, and gave them His perspective on it, and on the issues it was dealing with. His clock points to how He sees women’s ordination, revealing its connection to the sodomy law, for which cause the wrath of God will be poured out upon the earth. The clock of God helped His people to prepare their armor for the last race to the battle of Armageddon. The battle was intense, but the Holy Spirit gave us the key to unlock a special door in time, which allowed us to pass through the end of the world. (That transfiguring experience is documented on the new website, covered a little later.)
The heirs of this legacy will have the same support as they go through their own darkest hour of intense struggling, grappling with the harsh reality around them that the signs of the end pointed to. They may take courage knowing that the Lord is an ever-present help, as faithful as the tick-tock of His eternal clock, which gives the trumpets their certain sound, and whose elaborate chimes bring melodious rejoicing at every victory. The clock has signaled call after call to be made, and warning upon warning to be given that Babylon is fallen. The clock indicates the time for the fires determined upon it, but safety belongs to the two camps of Jacob, now Israel.
The world-news section brings the significance of certain events to light, whether it was in the sign of a solar eclipse (which is interesting in light of the new eclipse covered at the end of the grand finale of the shaking of the heavens) or a not-so-subtle hint given in the papal travel schedule that brought our minds to the terrible persecution of the Waldensian Sabbath-keepers, which is repeating and is the reason for this testament. The clock shows that the Sabbath-keepers of today fell asleep at the wheel, and that the Sunday Law they have been waiting for has already come, through the killing of its twin! Yet all this drama has gone unnoticed by Adventists, who evidently do not really care about God’s law, but only about the Sunday law. Indeed, when their president, like those of every other church, was found smooching with world leaders to bring about their hidden agenda, we saw that the church was in deep trouble. Yes, God’s bride—not defined by organized boundaries, but His body, scattered throughout all denominations, which have all become corrupt—has been kidnapped by the pope, and only the four angels of Orion could foil the devil’s rape attempt, giving the people an opportunity to escape! Nevertheless, Babel has risen, and in this present time, those who were once respected as role models in the church will be seen for the traitors against God that they really are.
There is no better means of preparing for the terrible persecution that is coming against those who stand for marriage in the way that God designed it, than the message of the Father’s clock! But churched Adventists need not fear for their church, because it has long been working to come into complete agreement with the UN gender equality movement![7] The downtrodden faithful, however, may take comfort in the example of the two witnesses, whose death is followed by resurrection.
God has led His flock through many ups and downs, and has slowly revealed the extremely stark condition that prevails on the earth. But the earth will yet be lightened with the glory of God, even if it is only after mercy has ended. How heart-wrenching it is to see the tears of God flowing for a world that refused His help! They could have reformed their lives, even in the backtracking shadow of time, but instead they rejected the Holy Spirit who would have helped them avoid the day of the demon.
The clock of God represents the holy grail of all time. The secret to the fountain of youth is contained in this inheritance. Those who learn from it can be sealed for everlasting life by God in their forehead and in their hand, as good wheat in the time of harvest. But time is of the essence, and so few recognize the hour of truth! God’s people must be anchored in Time to recognize that it is the Lord who has given the last countdown at the end of the world!
In the clock of God, we gain a heavenly perspective on the great controversy, but it is also important to learn the strategies of the enemy in the light of God’s plans, so we are not caught off-guard with his schemes. Therefore, God sometimes shines the light of time on the secrets of the enemy, just as He told Elisha about the plans of the king of Syria.[8] These insights are kept in the last collection of articles on our old website, called “Behind Enemy Lines.” This has proven to be of great advantage from God to the testators, as it is sure to be for the beneficiaries as well.
It seems like it was an eternity ago when Pope Benedict XVI was the active pope, but during his term, the foundation was laid for the current Jesuit to take the throne. Benedict’s coat of arms gives a message about himself and his role. In the framework of the great controversy between Christ and Satan, and the understanding God has given through His clock, the symbols of St. Corbinian’s bear and the Moor of Freising could be deciphered. Although that was at the beginning of this ministry, the deciphered meaning of those symbols is still accurate and relevant today! God was leading in those studies, and it was not without a purpose! The papacy has ever been Satan’s instrument to prepare the throne, so he can receive the worship of the whole world. And That is why the missing tiara was an intriguing characteristic of Benedict’s coat of arms!
The resurrection of the beast is depicted in the symbolism of a special signet for the papal year of Paul (who represents Saul the persecutor in this context!). This is a direct attack against the faithful, and is now ushering in a sudden and very difficult time of trouble, as the beast from the bottomless pit binds the people with the chain of Satan. (God has a chain too—part of His grand finale.)
One of the most significant revelations on these lines was that this Jesuit pope is in reality Satan in the flesh! He even announced his coming in advance as Quetzalcoatl, that bloodthirsty feathered snake-god of the Mayans, who is eerily similar to the serpent of Eden! His imitation of God’s timekeepers as the angel of light reveals his purpose to usurp the position of Christ, if it were possible.
As you can see from just the cursory overview of the titles above, the entire gift of the “old testament” of the LastCountdown writings is much more than a book. It is a history—a story in time, about God’s wonderful dealings to bring His people home to Him. The words of this story are pregnant with meaning and rich in experience! One can see how Jesus meets men where they are—like the testators with all their pre-existing ideas about the fireballs or the Sunday law, for example—and walked with them step by step, always bringing them closer to Himself in the process. He not only corrected their false ideas, but refined their characters. It is this experience that they hereby convey to those who will inherit it—the experience having Jesus walking by the side of the struggling soul. The testators want their experience to serve for the encouragement of others, that despite what man may not be able to make sense of, God has a way to bring into harmony, just as He has done with them! Let this be for their comfort. In the end, the faithful prove that the Lord’s word is sure, indeed!
For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater: So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it. (Isaiah 55:9-11)
From the moment the testators first realized that they could ask for more time to reach more souls, they knew that it would be under terrible circumstances on the earth. That expectation is clearly coming to pass as the sounds of the trumpets are getting louder and more foreboding. Anyone who doesn’t have their head buried in the sand can testify that the world is not the same place that it was even just a few years ago. Human migration has changed the face of society everywhere. Fear of terrorism is broadcast on every side, while the innocent who seek to turn people back to God are labeled fear-mongers. We see the angry nations threatening nuclear retaliation on a regular basis. The world has never been on such a razor-edge between life and death. The picture of angels holding the four winds (of strife and war) well represents the condition of things today.
Entering a new phase of ministry meant a new website—not as a replacement, but to offer a new perspective of the same truths. This is the second witness that is included in this legacy, and it complements the first in a way that even the authors could never have imagined beforehand. It will be a close companion to the tried company who inherits it. It looks back on the experience of the testators during the first seven years and speaks with greater clarity and wisdom regarding the meaning of those experiences in the big-picture view of the plan of salvation. The authors opened this new website with an article expressing a tremendous revelation of God’s nature that helped them understand many mysteries: that God is not just Love… but also Time! Many people mindlessly repeat that “God is love” so much so that they forget that He also has other attributes. This revelation gave the testators a certain boldness to ask of God what might otherwise have seemed ridiculous, but they knew that He could fulfill their outrageous request for more time.
As they made their way up Mt. Chiasmus, the mountain of Time, to the summit where they offered the sacrifice of Philadelphia, there were many rich blessings, fulfilled prophecies, and painful trials. By standing in faith during the day of the witnesses, they experienced many things comparable to what their beneficiaries must endure as they stand as witnesses during the year of recompenses. Thus, the record of the experience of those who went before will serve for their encouragement and hope in their own hour of decision.
On this side of the mountain, there is more certainty. The trumpets are loud, and the signs in heaven are unmistakable. The first trumpet began to sound immediately upon this new website going live, even before its authors understood all the details of the time pertaining to the new clock cycle. God was leading them step by step, with each step bringing them into more glorious light than the previous, until they had a broad and solid foundation upon which to build. The second trumpet came as a clear confirmation of their studies, and they marveled at how the Father’s clock timed the trumpets with such precision, and yet so few would correlate their sound. Always keeping an eye on the trumpet clock, which for them was both a comfort and a goal, they said, “It will not be long until the next trumpet sounds! Let us finish our work for the Lord before the harvest begins!” The special new engraving of the clock, which is presented below as a gift to the heirs, will give that same hope and comfort to the beneficiaries who must endure after the testators are gone.
Now is a time of decision, and one should be prepared to make a wise choice. Elijah brought Israel to the decision between God and Baal, and the same decision is presented today. In fact, Jesus confirmed the promise of Elijah, when He said that “Elias truly shall first come, and restore all things.”[9] After saying this, He said that John the Baptist was Elijah. However, John had already died and Jesus said that Elijah was yet to come and restore all things! Thus, the quest for the last Elijah has been ongoing for centuries, as every generation looks among their popular spiritual leaders as potential candidates. But if the discovery is genuine, the biblical specifications for the last Elijah must be clearly satisfied. Besides restoring all things (which is fulfilled in this message!), he must also warn about the plagues:
Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord: (Malachi 4:5)
Elijah’s warnings of the coming plagues are described in Revelation as the trumpets, so this is fulfilled in the message God has given as well. God fulfills all His promises! But if that isn’t enough, God has testified by His own hand that this message is the message of Elijah, thereby confirming that John Scotram is the modern-day Elijah that fills this role. Only God, who created the heavens and the earth, could confirm the times of each of the seven trumpets on Elijah’s trumpet cycle with signs in heaven! It is God who speaks from heaven to confirm who the messenger really is, that He sent to this last generation. He who refuses to believe even in the face of this evidence from heaven shall not escape, but will die during the seven lean years.
The evidence has grown so much that it takes volumes just to present what is shaking in the heavens. A drama is playing out in vivid detail on the canopy of heaven, which shows every warning of the sounding trumpets. The bright immensities of the heavenly realms gracefully perform their ballet in perfect time with the trumpet ensemble—a stellar performance in every sense of the word, and an orchestration of astronomical proportions made possible only by the Almighty. Can one toss the numerous intricate parts of a wrist watch into a bowl and shake it around until an assembled watch comes out? No more could the heavenly bodies whirling in their endless circles tell the detailed and coherent story of Revelation, unless they were timed by God for this very hour.
See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven: (Hebrews 12:25)
For those who believe, the gift of Elijah’s message is not just a beautiful treasure, but a powerful testimony that God has indeed sent him and spoken through him. These are things that the faith of the believer may grasp in times of trial and temptation. God has provided them for those who are called to stand in the day of the Lord.
The next important asset to be given to the heirs is the new Orion clock cycle, specially engraved by the Father just for them and unveiled now for the first time! The testators might not be here to witness the events it foretells, but the engraving of it can already be described. In Section 2, it was mentioned how the reflection of the timelines around Jesus points to another date: May 6, 2019. That date, together with April 6 of the same year, is the seven-year anniversary of the dates when the testators first came together to witness for God as a group. One should have asked what God might be pointing to with the newly discovered date! Could it be the first glimpse of the new clock cycle?
We already know that the plagues will begin at the sound of the seventh trumpet on August 20, 2018, but there has never been a confirmed end-date for a new plague cycle. An initial idea might be to place the end of the cycle at the coming of Jesus, but it can be readily dismissed since there are events described in the seventh plague that must happen before Jesus comes. One might attempt to place the end of the new cycle at some date shortly before the second coming of Jesus, but there is still the problem of lacking confirmation. To know if a clock cycle is correct, one must have another point confirmed, just as it was with the trumpet cycle, as explained in The Seven Lean Years. We knew the starting point for sure, because of the fires in Israel, and we knew when the other trumpets should sound, based on the duration of the clock cycle and the proposed direction, but to finally confirm it (including the direction), we needed something to align with another point on the clock, namely the events of the second trumpet. We should always have at least one independent confirmation before we “commission” a new cycle!
For the new plague cycle, we still need that independent confirmation, even once an end date is proposed. With some initial candidates we had for the seventh plague date, we initially considered whether April 6, 2019 might confirm the cycle by aligning with the sixth plague. But is the meaning of the sixth plague also consistent with what might be expected on that date? We need to check the text of the sixth plague to verify that it corresponds to the end of the prophesying period of the second witness. Does the text support this?
And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared. (Revelation 16:12)
We can understand the symbolism of this text in a couple of ways. This plague is the preparation for the great battle of Armageddon, which is the final battle between God and Satan prior to the Second Coming. Jesus comes from the “east,” meaning from Orion.[10] The Kings of the east, or Kings of Orion are represented by the three belt stars, or throne stars: Jesus (Alnitak), God the Father (Alnilam), and the Holy Spirit (Mintaka).
In this context, the great river Euphrates, as one of the rivers from Eden, represents the river of life that flows from the throne of God. This river is another symbol for the supply of truth and light from God. Is it consistent to say that the light of God’s truth will be “dried up” at the end of the prophesied period of the two witnesses? Absolutely! No more refreshing water will flow from the river of truth when the allotted time of their prophecy is ended. Then the faithful must stand without the prophecy of the two witnesses, which has accompanied them until that time. It does not mean that they are all alone, though! There is a most important asset that they will yet retain, but we’ll talk about that later.
The drying of the Euphrates is symbolism that hearkens back to the fall of ancient Babylon, which is a type for the very circumstances of the last plagues. Babylon was conquered when the Euphrates was diverted away from the city, and so it was quite literally dried up, so the army of Cyrus could enter and overtake the city.
While Cyrus was making his conquest, King Belshazzar was feasting and defiling the vessels from the temple of God. That means Satan will act against the people of God at the sixth plague—perhaps with a death decree—to silence and eradicate all opposition to his reign. Like Belshazzar did, he will declare by his actions that nothing is too sacred for him to touch—even the living vessels of God, which are the apple of His eye. But at the same time, Satan’s great city will begin to fall. Those who have this clock will have hope in the midst of the storm, for they will be anchored in Time! The testators also put their faith in Time, and they hereby emphatically testify that He is an unfailing support!
Thus, there is good evidence that the plague cycle would be correctly placed if the sixth plague were to align with the date of April 6, 2019. But there is still more to be investigated with it. We understand that time is running backwards now, during the trumpets. Does that continue for the plagues as well? Intuitively, it must, because we must go all the way back to 1890 by spring 2019! Then begins the great 70th jubilee since God instituted the jubilee cycle for the children of Israel! Nevertheless, we would like to see some evidence in the cycle that it should be applied in reverse. That evidence comes when we compare which plagues the throne lines correspond to in the plague texts. If we would follow the cycle in the forward direction, the throne lines would align to different plagues than they would in the reverse direction.
A quick comparison of the relevant texts for the potential throne-line plagues reveals which plagues are the clearer fit for the throne lines.
There are several interesting things we can learn from this. Looking at the second plague, we recognize that blood could potentially be a fitting symbol corresponding to a throne line, since Jesus, the Wounded One, is at the center of the clock. In the second plague, though, it is not the life-giving blood of the living Christ, but the blood of a dead man.
The fifth plague does mention a throne, but it is not the right one. The throne of the beast is not the throne that is depicted in Orion! The other symbols from the throne-line plagues of the forward direction have no fitting symbols for the throne lines.
That all changes when we look at the throne-line plagues in the reverse direction. The first symbols are rivers and fountains of waters. Rivers and fountains, or springs are definitely related to God’s throne:
And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb. (Revelation 22:1)
And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely. (Revelation 21:6)
The angel pours his vial onto the earthly reflection of these heavenly realities associated with Jesus and the throne. When drawn on the clock, the lines even resemble a river flowing from the throne, widening as it flows away! This reminds us of the river that Ezekiel describes, that got deeper, the further it flowed from the temple.[11]
Similarly, the sixth plague also mentions a river—an Edenic one—that is especially connected to the throne, for it represents the truths flowing from God through the Fourth Angel’s message. This, in addition to the Kings of the east, which is a reference to the three throne stars of Orion and the Kings they represent, presents a clear fit for the reversed-time clock.
Now that we have a good basis for saying that the plague cycle should run in the reversed direction, and that the meaning of the sixth plague corresponds very well with the end of the 1260 days on April 6, 2019, we are ready to leverage our prior discovery.
The new date of May 6, 2019 is defined by the end of the 1290 days, and lies 30 days beyond the sixth plague candidate of April 6, 2019. Could this new date be the anchor for the seventh plague? If this new date of May 6, 2019 marks the seventh plague at the end of the cycle, then we can establish the whole cycle for all the plagues.
The question is: will a plague clock cycle from August 20, 2018 to May 6, 2019 have a sixth plague marker on April 6? That’s a stringent criterion! When we do the calculations, we find that it does indeed fit. The sixth plague is marked by throne lines which would be April 4-7, 2019—and April 6 falls perfectly within the throne lines. The clock cycle fits!
But that’s not all. We should also confirm that putting the seventh plague at May 6, 2019 is harmonious with the end of the 1290 days. First, however, let’s look at one more thing relating to the sixth plague on April 6, 2019.
Babylon begins to fall at the sixth plague. It is the end of the treading of the holy city that was mentioned in Revelation 11!
But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months. (Revelation 11:2)
For forty-two months, “the gentiles” will have been doing the evil work of treading the holy city under foot. The Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary gives a helpful analysis about this verse:
Given unto the Gentiles. As was true of the Court of the Gentiles in the earthly Temple. Here “Gentiles” may be understood as those who are not worshippers, who have not confessed themselves as belonging to the Israel of God.
The holy city. That is, Jerusalem (Dan. 9:24; cf. Luke 21:20). The giving over of the outer court to the Gentiles involves the downtreading of the Holy City. For the symbolic significance of Jerusalem see below under “tread under foot.”
Tread under foot. The present passage is parallel with the description in Dan. 7:7, 23, which delineates a treading down by the fourth beast (see on Dan. 7:7, 8, 25). Inasmuch as this beast’s activities are directed particularly against the “saints of the most High” (Dan. 7:25), it is not illogical to understand that “the holy city” here represents the people of God.
The connection of gentiles with the fourth beast (the Pagan Roman Empire, as brother John explained in Opening the Bottomless Pit), out of which came the little horn (the Roman papacy[12]), is revealing. The papacy is also connected with the time-period of 42 months in Revelation 13.
And there was given unto him [the beast: the papacy[13]] a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months. (Revelation 13:5)
In Revelation 11, however, the 42 months is for a different, but related group. They are the modern means of “treading under foot” that the papacy uses in order to accomplish its evil purposes without staining its image.
Satan is transformed into an angel of light,[14] and carefully conceals any connection to the wicked and the destructive works of his right arm. We know who Satan is—we have a series of articles dedicated to unmasking him, if his characteristic style of listening to crowds chant to him as if he were Jesus isn’t enough![15] But who serves as the pope’s vengeful arm? The Bible tears away the veil of deception and points straight to them with the 42-month timeline!
April 6, 2019 is the last day of a Hebrew month (as is May 6). This tells us that the 42 months must refer to lunar months, with the 42nd month concluding on April 6. Counting back to the beginning of the 42 months is a simple exercise that points to a major world event that speaks volumes as to who the pope’s hitmen are! It happened on the Hebrew—and Muslim—first crescent new moon of Friday evening, November 13, 2015. Just hours after the new moon day began at sunset, a coordinated plot of terror was executed “on the French (or Western) way of life and its values”[16] and became known as the “Paris attacks.” The Bible points to this event as the beginning of the period of the treading down of “the holy city” or God’s faithful people.
It is not insignificant that the attacks were in Paris, for the classical fulfillment of Revelation 11 also takes us back to Paris at the time of the French Revolution![17] There we learn something about the values that this timeframe points to! They are not Western Christian values, but French values—the UN human rights that have become the standard of “tolerance” for the world (and most so-called Christians). The attack, however, rather than destroying the godless Western values, only served to stir the hornet’s nest, increasing the resolve and energy of those who hold them.
This is the nature of violent terror attacks. They are ineffective at accomplishing their ascribed purpose, because such methods have no better moral foundation than that which they attack. Together, the attacked and the attackers serve to tread underfoot God’s law, which is the foundation of genuine love, contrary to the counterfeit tolerance promoted by the UN human rights. The latter are founded on the same godless principles as dominated the minds of the French Revolutionists, and were adopted by the United Nations in Paris, at the end of 1948—nearly 70 years ago.
Thus, the biblical picture is that the Islamic attackers and the godless human rights activists are the pope’s chosen agents, and whether wittingly or not, they do his dirty work for him. But the fight of God’s people is a moral battle, not a physical one. The weapons of their warfare are their moral example and words of God alone, and the ninety-fourth psalm is their prayer as they recall that it is God who will repay:[18]
O Lord God, to whom vengeance belongeth; O God, to whom vengeance belongeth, shew thyself. Lift up thyself, thou judge of the earth: render a reward to the proud. Lord, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked triumph? (Psalm 94:1-3)
Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, which frameth mischief by a law? They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood. But the Lord is my defence; and my God is the rock of my refuge. And he shall bring upon them their own iniquity, and shall cut them off in their own wickedness; yea, the Lord our God shall cut them off. (Psalm 94:20-23)
At the conclusion of the forty-two months, the wicked gather themselves together in the sixth plague against the righteous. Yet God’s faithful shall not be overcome, because for their sakes and His own, God will destroy Babylon, along with the children of Israel who dealt treacherously against Him and joined her. It will be a fearful time for those who have embraced the false love of tolerance for sin. God’s people who love the truth more than life itself, however, will be preserved all the way through the seventh plague that falls upon the wicked.
Now let’s see whether the seventh plague harmonizes with the meaning of the prophetic period of 1290 days ending on May 6, 2019.
The seventh plague speaks of Babylon receiving the cup of the wine of the fierceness of God’s wrath, while the end of the 1290 days (coming from the time, times and a half) is “the end of these wonders.” There is no conflict between these descriptions; “these wonders” can certainly refer to Babylon’s “lying wonders”[19] against the righteous. But there is a much stronger connection between the seventh plague and the end of the 1290 days on May 6, 2019.
Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days. (Ecclesiastes 11:1)
When one’s actions are guided by the Holy Spirit, you can be sure a blessing will follow them. From the beginning, the members of this ministry acted in faith, to the best of their understanding. The Holy Spirit did not give them all truth at once, but led them step by step. Yet even those things that they did not understand well, and what seemed to be mistakes, were part of His direction. They were casting their spiritual bread upon the waters, and like a gift that keeps on giving, it should return with a blessing.
Consider, for example, the “Final Warning” series they wrote in 2012. Looking back, it seems like an ironic title. Really? The final warning? At that time, they believed that it would be! They expected fireballs imminently and the final rapid movements to follow in quick succession. But after enduring much mocking and derision from those who had no faith, they went on to give many more warnings as their understanding developed. They had cast their bread on the waters of the Internet, and God’s word says they should find it again later.
In that series, the Daniel timelines are given that terminated in October of 2015—the yellow lines that we have seen again in this testament. They began on April 6 and May 6 of 2012 (for the 1290 and 1260 days, respectively). Now it is understood that Jesus was standing in time at the end of those timelines, and another set began, continuing until April 6 and May 6, 2019! Is it just a matter of coincidence that the very same days are repeated, or is God giving a reminder!?
Do you see what God did with that series? The authors might have thought that the title was made obsolete, but God knew better! He knew that one day, the same dates would come back, making the “Final Warning” just that… a seven-year warning of the end of the judgment at the sixth and seventh plagues of April 6 and May 6, 2019! We see the fulfillment of the proverb approaching after seven years, for the bread is to return! That is a sample of the bread that sustains the righteous; what they cast upon the waters from the beginning will return with a blessing for those who inherit it!
What were they really warning about in that series? It was about the great and impressive fireball event that Ellen G. White saw and briefly described.
So the warning still stands! God’s word will accomplish the purpose for which He sent it! The fireball event was not immediately easy to locate in the Bible. Ellen G. White’s two brief dreams[20] do not give much explanation or context for the event, and she leaves the door open to interpret them as an act of God or as a result of human activity (or both, since God’s punishments are frequently wrought via human elements). That ambiguity is what allowed for the event to be expected as the trigger in 2012 to start the rest of the final events. But with the symmetry in God’s design, we can see that He was showing that it would come on May 6, 2019 as the last plague.
The great fireball event is reserved for the end of the 1290 days, and that is the very event that is most prominently symbolized in the seventh plague:
And there fell upon men a great hail out of heaven, every stone about the weight of a talent: and men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail; for the plague thereof was exceeding great. (Revelation 16:21)
So the meaning of the events harmonizes, and we already confirmed the direction and the dates of the clock cycle. In the end, we can be sure that the new cycle is correctly placed and operating in the right direction.
Let me reiterate that this clock is not just a time-telling device! Just review the experience of the preparatory plague cycle! What God taught from His clock during that time was nothing short of astonishing! One may wonder what more there may be to learn about during the plagues, but when the time comes, the Holy Spirit will guide. It is God’s clock, and He has tucked away what His people will need to learn from it, to sustain them in their time of trial. God has lovingly engraved the dates of this last plague cycle on His clock to anchor the faith of His children through the seven last plagues.
For the arms of the wicked shall be broken: but the Lord upholdeth the righteous. (Psalm 37:17)
Let us take our thoughts to the period of the sixth and seventh plagues, and see that it is an eventful time. As the faithful have withstood long months of anxious trial, the great battle of Armageddon looms just ahead. The birth pangs are being felt, and yet, there is hope amidst the pain. They have been strengthened as they held tightly to the cords[21] of faith as the path became too narrow to rely on sight.[22] The 144,000 must stand by faith until the very end as witnesses for God. The cords of time that God let down for us are still there for them to grasp.
Yet these are not the only ones who participate in a special resurrection!
And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt. (Daniel 12:2)
Not all who rise from the dust awake for the same purposes! There have been several resurrections throughout the ages—some were individual people, like Moses or Lazarus, and others were groups, like the elders who were raised at Christ’s death. Jesus told Caiaphas—the high priest who declared Him to be worthy of death—that he would see Him coming in the clouds of heaven:
Jesus saith unto him, Thou hast said: nevertheless I say unto you, Hereafter shall ye see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven. (Matthew 26:64)
Men of this class saw the wonderful works of Jesus in person, but for their pride yet refused to acknowledge Him as the Son of God. They will be raised, not to give a testimony, but to feel the shame of their defeat. This is the shame that Daniel refers to in the verse above. Would they be raised with the 144,000 in connection with the sixth trumpet? When would their purpose be fulfilled? Jesus gives a possible answer when He speaks in the sixth plague:
Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame. (Revelation 16:15)
The time for these to receive their shame is during the sixth and especially the seventh plague. Therefore, just as we explained in The Seven Lean Years, they could be raised on April 27, 2019. This is the anniversary of the sign of Jonah, given to an evil and adulterous generation.[23] Just days before the judgment of the seventh seal comes to an end and the seventh plague begins, they would be summoned to see and hear the verdict pronounced against them![24] The haunting memory of their last encounter with Jesus will return with force, as they stand in shame before Him whom they condemned.
But to the righteous, Jesus does not come as a thief, for they know the time of their visitation. The prophecies of the two witnesses give their testimony during the seven years of the final warning. Therefore, they are all included in that warning! Those who heed the warning will be watching and will keep their garments, for it is their inheritance.
The Lord knoweth the days of the upright: and their inheritance shall be for ever. They shall not be ashamed in the evil time: and in the days of famine they shall be satisfied. (Psalm 37:18-19)
Behold, the days come, saith the Lord God, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the Lord: (Amos 8:11)
When the sixth plague comes, the Euphrates river will be dried up. We have long associated the Fourth Angel’s message with the Euphrates—that fourth river of pure doctrine flowing from Eden.[25] As we saw earlier, this fits the prophecy timeframe of the two witnesses, who are given power to prophesy of 1260 days until April 6, 2019. When the two witnesses are no longer permitted to give the word of God, then the famine will be felt.
It is just, that those who spurned the message in times of plenty will be the ones who suffer the most, when they see that it was true. They will search, but they will not find. They will knock, but it will not be opened unto them.
And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the Lord, and shall not find it. (Amos 8:12)
The Lord called earnestly when He could still be found, but they had no love for Him:
Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you [in the Orion Message], I will make known my words unto you. Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded; But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof: I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh; When your fear cometh as desolation [in the sixth plague], and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind [in the seventh plague]; when distress and anguish cometh upon you. Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me: For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the Lord: They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof. Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices. (Proverbs 1:23-31)
Now, while there is yet a little time before God’s wrath is poured out without mercy, the counsel is given:
Seek ye the Lord while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near: Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the Lord, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon. (Isaiah 55:6-7)
It is not the will of God that any should perish, but when the Lord stretches out His arm and it is refused, there remains no further means of rescue. His arm is stretched out now, and the sickle is in His hand, but when Jesus throws down the censer at the sixth trumpet, there will be no more opportunity to repent.
There is one special provision remaining to be described, which is included in this inheritance. It will support the faithful through their greatest need, providing them a supply of bread in time of famine.
The last generation is to be a generation of priests for God. That is what the covenant was about;
Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine: And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel. (Exodus 19:5-6)
This holy nation of priests—the 144,000—serve in the spiritual temple that Ezekiel saw represented in vision. In the construction plans and specifications, laws were given concerning the sacrifices that were to be offered during the year, and especially during the feasts.[26] These laws of Ezekiel’s temple made amendments to the existing Mosaic laws that had been practiced for generations. Thus, there were different numbers of animals that were offered, and each required their own amount of flour and oil to go with them.
From this information, we determined how much flour and oil were offered in total during the feast season, and based on the daily ration for the priest, how many days were provided for. This has all been detailed and tabulated in the third part of the Shadows of the Sacrifices series. The result is a provision for the priests that lasts for 1260 days: 636 days of provision from the spring sacrifices and 624 days of provision from the autumn sacrifices.
We saw how this was a special provision for what we understand now as the 1260 days of the two witnesses. This is why we had a 636-day segment followed by a 624-day segment when the angels were given their trumpets.
In Section 2, we saw how the oath, being spoken to two witnesses, accounted for a second timeframe. Since the two 1260-day timeframes are applicable to the 144,000,[27] we should also apply the daily portions to both timelines. It is important to understand, however, that even though the first segment of 636 days was “moved” to the second timeline, the portions themselves did not move, but only the designated purpose of those days. The portions are needed, or “consumed,” throughout the judgment of the living, except during those 7 days in the middle, since Jesus Himself was standing there.
These daily rations of flour and oil given to the priests for the duration of the seventh seal represent daily portions of God’s word and the Holy Spirit that are provided to sustain His people in a time of emergency. In the first studies of the sacrifices, we saw how the sacrifices of the spring feasts pointed to the time of emergency between the death of Jesus, which ended the sacrificial system, and the outpouring of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost. The disciples needed special sustenance for their special situation that those who did not believe could not appreciate. This was supplied by those 51 daily portions.
The sacrifices of the autumn feasts point to a time of emergency when intercession ends before Jesus returns. It was seen on the ascent of Mt. Chiasmus, how these 372 portions were exactly what would have been needed to supply the gap from the end of the trumpet cycle when probation would have closed, to the return of Jesus.
With the portions for the second witness beginning with the preparatory plague cycle, the 372 portions that were originally to be used there, were left unused. We will come back to these unused portions later, but first, we need to better understand God’s meal distribution system.
One lesson that Jesus taught His disciples when He multiplied the meals to feed the multitudes, was that leftovers shouldn’t be wasted!
When they were filled, he said unto his disciples, Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be lost. (John 6:12)
The more valuable the food is, the more important it is to make sure that nothing is lost! God is very precise and neither wastes nor skimps. Furthermore, His provision is divine and therefore of the utmost value! Care should be taken that nothing is wasted. It was not a positive thing that there were baskets of bread left over after the multitudes ate. Each received their portion, but some did not want the divine provision! They did not recognize their need.
The portions of the Holy Spirit work in a similar way, only it is a faith-based distribution system. We received the special portions of the Holy Spirit, because we believed His word. The Holy Spirit is like the child’s meal. It was a single meal, but that single portion served thousands. Likewise, a single portion of the Holy Spirit is sufficient to provide for all who desire it, because the Holy Spirit is omnipresent.
However, if the four authors, who are the first point in the distribution chain, give their lives as testators, they will no longer be consuming their portions or be available to assist in distribution to others. This means that there will be unused portions for the remainder of the 1260 days of the testimony of the two witnesses. What will become of these unused portions? Will they simply be wasted? No! Certainly not! They are too precious to waste, and therefore, they are included in the provisions of this testament for the beneficiaries to inherit!
Let nothing be lost. The first day that the testators are not alive to need their daily portion anymore would be the first day that the eligible heirs would receive it, like the multitude being satisfied from the child’s meal.
We must not waste the 372 unused portions either, even though there are not that many days left to cover before Jesus comes, beyond what remains of the 1260 days! What should we do with the 372 portions? Do you have any ideas?
And it came to pass, when they were gone over, that Elijah said unto Elisha, Ask what I shall do for thee, before I be taken away from thee. And Elisha said, I pray thee, let a double portion of thy spirit be upon me. (2 Kings 2:9)
The ministry of ancient Elijah represents the ministry of the Fourth Angel. When the testators finish their work, then the work of the figurative Elisha starts as the successor. Thus, the 144,000 who follow in the footsteps of the modern-day Elijah, are the Elishas who ask for a double portion of Elijah’s Spirit! And Elijah’s answer applies to them as well:
And he said, Thou hast asked a hard thing: nevertheless, if thou see me when I am taken from thee, it shall be so unto thee; but if not, it shall not be so. (2 Kings 2:10)
Those who, believing, see the two witnesses in the sign of the sixth trumpet,[28] will receive the double portion! Remember, the sixth trumpet has a double meaning, confirmed by a twofold sign in heaven. Jesus throws down the censer on the one hand, and resurrects His witnesses on the other. This is vividly depicted in the heavenly sign. Being a double sign, it signals the beginning of a double portion of the Spirit for those who believe: 372 portions for the emergency conditions, and what remains of the 1260 portions for the work of the second witness.
However, the emergency conditions for which the 372 portions are given, do not necessarily begin simply with the death of the testators! This is where the Lord has apparently permitted them to go through a very similar experience to what He went through Himself, but understanding the difference between His sin-bearing role and their offense-forgiving role. They are simply recipients of Christ’s atonement themselves, and cannot go through the identical experience of bearing sin like He did.
When we, the testators, made the sacrifice on Mt. Chiasmus, to endure a time of trouble for the sake of those who had no opportunity to receive the message, it was risking our lives. It was a commitment to submit to even the experience of Smyrna in martyrdom. As far as it is possible to follow in Jesus’ footsteps, so far we may be called to walk. God showed us this close relationship when, on the anniversary of His resurrection, during our Sabbath service on May 27, 2017, we saw the true application of the two witnesses of Revelation 11 to this ministry. We recognized that by our sacrifice, instead of Philadelphia, we had submitted to fill the role of Smyrna, if need be. We saw that at the sixth trumpet, we could be called to give our lives as a willing sacrifice, and that we would be raised again in three and a half days. With that sacrifice, the tribulation of Smyrna would also be ours:
Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life. (Revelation 2:10)
As we explained in Section 1, those ten days are the last 10 days of the fifth trumpet before what could be our death at the beginning of the sixth. They point to the anniversary of Jesus’ last supper with His disciples—the night when He submitted to be taken at the hand of His enemies. Likewise for us, a possible scenario is that on that night of May 24, 2018, we would have a Last Supper in remembrance of our Lord, and then be taken at the hand of our enemies to experience ten days of tribulation.
Exactly what that tribulation would entail is not important. Jesus bids Smyrna not to fear what they shall suffer. But why ten days? If we look at the context, we get a clue from the previous verse:
I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan. (Revelation 2:9)
Why does Jesus mention the synagogue of Satan? There is a close relationship between this class and the faithful, for the only other place they are mentioned is in Jesus’ encouragement to the church of Philadelphia:
Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee. (Revelation 3:9)
This class of people claim to be faithful “Jews,” but they are not. In a modern context, Jews represent those who had the full covenant, to whom Jesus was sent in Orion: Seventh-day Adventists. They claim to have a pure religion, but the sure testimony of Jesus is that they do not! Jesus will make these unfaithful Adventists finally acknowledge that God has loved the 144,000, while themselves He vomited out of His mouth.
Smyrna’s brush with these proud Adventists, however, is before their humiliation, and they are the reason given for their suffering, just as it was the unfaithful and proud Jews, who took Jesus. This is our time of trial. Especially during that time, the Lord’s Prayer will be on our lips:
After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen. (Matthew 6:9-13)
In our ministry, we have sought to show the holiness of God’s character, and we have welcomed the coming of His kingdom. In our Gethsemane experience, after the Lord’s Supper, we would be brought to a decision point, to yield to His will as Jesus did:
And he went a little further, and fell on his face, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt. (Matthew 26:39)
This is to be done in earthen vessels who were defiled with sin, but are made clean. As Christ is doing the will of God in heaven, so must we do the will of God on earth. We will need our daily bread! As long as we are alive, we consume the portions that God has provided for the ministry of the two witnesses. Jesus was left alone on the cross to suffer the burden of sin without any support, but not so with us. We could not bear the burden alone, but we rely on His daily portion of bread until the very end. He will be with us to the end.
So will it be for our heirs. They will depend on their provision of bread until the very end!
Especially during those ten days, the need to forgive would be on our hearts. But would we be able to forgive those who have spitefully mistreated us? Through each of those days of tribulation, our daily portion would be our strength to endure suffering because our failing brethren did not follow through and receive the covenant in their heart. We have been forgiven great debt by God, and shall we not also forgive our debtors?
For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you: But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses. (Matthew 6:14-15)
Jesus had no sin of His own, yet He suffered one day for the sin of others from Thursday night until His crucifixion on Friday near the evening. We did have sin, we fulfilled the requirements of the new covenant to be cleansed from it, and received the law written in our heart. We found the holy grail. Then, as the firstfruits of victorious Philadelphia, we would suffer ten days until our death on behalf of all who didn’t receive the covenant, but who are repentant, now that they understand. Ten days for ten commandments.
Those who are raised from their graves to sing the song of victory did not reach that state when they died. When raised, their love of the truth will move their faith to take hold of Jesus in Orion, where they will learn all that they need. We stand as examples of the power of Jesus in this message to bring that victory to reality, and our beneficiaries will need powerful evidence to testify to this. Upon what will they hang their hopes that Jesus in Orion is able to uphold them, as they are suddenly called to sing a song they had not previously known!? Our blood would seal the evidence that Jesus has written His law in our hearts; by faith in this work of Jesus, the 144,000 would be fully equipped to stand without fault, while the earth is subjected to a time of trouble and temptation such as was never before.
As Jesus entered upon His hour of trial, He asked His disciples to watch with Him. When He found them sleeping, He clarified that it was as much for their own sakes:
Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak. (Matthew 26:41)
This refers to the temptation, or test, that Philadelphia is to be spared from and which He will lead us away from as we pray the Lord’s Prayer!
Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth. (Revelation 3:10)
Let the disciples of Christ today not fail to watch and pray during that time, both that we will remain faithful unto death, and that they will remain faithful in life! The understanding that the early disciples lacked, making their hearts heavy with sorrow, is now fully available.
We see, then, that the time of emergency could begin with our arrest in the night before dawn of May 25, 2018. This is when the 372 portions would begin to supply the need! These portions will keep the disciples watchful and faithful. The faithful, watching ones will be on the earth when the world is going through its hour of temptation, but they will be spared from it by their portions of the Holy Spirit, which will even be doubled when our testimony is sealed with our blood.
The double portion will be with the righteous at least until the sixth plague, when the Euphrates will be figuratively dried up. The work of the Fourth Angel brings that water of life to the world, but when its work has been done for the people of God, all that remains is the gathering together in the sixth plague for Armageddon in the seventh, and in this scenario, the double portion would no longer be necessary.
The time of the prophecy clothed in sackcloth comes to an end as the sixth plague opens. Then, only what remains from the 372 portions will be available. There is an interesting property of these portions that carries an important message. They begin when the two witnesses are taken away.
These portions are special portions that begin with loss. They are for those who will stand through the time of plagues. This is a very important work, and provision must be made for it. It is a time when the righteous are cut off from their earthly support. These portions of the Holy Spirit are especially designed to comfort.
The Old Testament contains several lamentations where one was going through a time of special affliction from the enemy, yet had no comforter.
So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter. (Ecclesiastes 4:1)
For these things I weep; mine eye, mine eye runneth down with water, because the comforter that should relieve my soul is far from me: my children are desolate, because the enemy prevailed. (Lamentations 1:16)
The comfort of the Holy Spirit in time of affliction is a special gift, and the wicked, who spurned the One who would be their Comforter, will feel His absence keenly. Like no other time in history, His comfort will be needed and cherished then, for in being rejected by the world, He will depart, and the world will feel His absence. He will abide only in the heart of those who in faith believe that the Holy Spirit is given for their comfort for these 372 days.
With the consecrated worker for God, in whatever place he may be, the Holy Spirit abides. The words spoken to the disciples are spoken also to us. The Comforter is ours as well as theirs. The Spirit furnishes the strength that sustains striving, wrestling souls in every emergency, amidst the hatred of the world, and the realization of their own failures and mistakes. In sorrow and affliction, when the outlook seems dark and the future perplexing, and we feel helpless and alone—these are the times when, in answer to the prayer of faith, the Holy Spirit brings comfort to the heart. {AA 51.1}
The special comforting role of the Holy Spirit during this time was foreshadowed even in Genesis, for it was Noah who provided a safe place for his family in the ark through the year of the flood, as a type of the year of recompenses. When Noah was born, this is what his father said:
And he called his name Noah, saying, This same shall comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands, because of the ground which the Lord hath cursed. (Genesis 5:29)
The curse of God is felt when His support is withdrawn. When Adam and Eve sinned, God confined His perfect support to the garden sanctuary in Eden. The rest of the world began to age and deteriorate. His Spirit was still striving with the people, however, until the flood.
And the Lord said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh... (Genesis 6:3)
Do you remember when Jesus spoke most about the “Comforter?” Yes, it was at the Last Supper with His disciples! In addition to the momentous events of that year, perhaps He was looking forward to our day, when, on the anniversary of that very supper, we would be taken away from our loved ones in the faith. In those days of trial, we would not be able to communicate anymore. But Jesus would send the Comforter to personally supply our place. Then they will be the only representatives of the Holy Spirit in the world. These special portions are therefore the most valuable of the treasures of our legacy.
And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you. (John 14:16-17)
But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you. (John 14:26)
When the help is needed most, the Comforter will be there to teach and bring those things He has already taught through this message to remembrance. As He abides in each of the 144,000 alive at that time, they will communicate with each other in their small companies and each one will help the other as they study the word of God from Orion.
The message of the Fourth Angel will be for them a message of comfort, reminding them how soon their pilgrimage in this wicked world will be ended, and exactly when their care-worn eyes will finally see the Lord coming in the clouds. The last countdown to His actual arrival will be the all-consuming theme of the redeemed.
The Second Coming, though unimaginably wonderful it will be, is yet not the end of the story that is told with these comforting portions! When we apply the 372 portions from the death of the two witnesses, we discover that they end after the Second Coming!
How can that be? Why would the 144,000 need portions even after leaving the earth? The great depth of meaning behind this timeframe can only be seen when we consider the special mission of the 144,000.
When Jesus was raised from the dead, He first made Himself known to Mary Magdalene before He had ascended to His Father.
Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God. (John 20:17)
Jesus lived a perfect life and gave a perfect sacrifice, rising again from the dead, yet He still needed the confirmation from His Father in heaven that His sacrifice was accepted. So it will be with the 144,000 who will be the living representatives of Jesus on earth. They will be raised up with the cloud, but there will remain a certain sense of unrest like Jesus experienced, telling Mary not to detain Him, because He needed to have that refreshing satisfaction of knowing that the Father considered it a job well done.
It is something like what God felt at Creation. As each day of Creation came to its end, He saw that the work was good, but He did not have the satisfaction of seeing a completed work until the end of the sixth day, at the beginning of the Sabbath, when He saw that it was very good! So also, the 144,000, as they unite with the redeemed and enter through the four corners of the “door” to God’s kingdom as represented in Orion, will not feel that satisfaction of a completed work until they have their special meeting in the temple. They will crave the final verdict of the Father:
His lord said unto him, Well done, thou good and faithful servant: thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord. (Matthew 25:21)
In vision, Ellen G. White saw the scene of the temple and this “extra meeting for those who have the seal of the living God”:[29]
There were all kinds of trees around the temple to beautify the place: the box, the pine, the fir, the oil, the myrtle, the pomegranate, and the fig tree bowed down with the weight of its timely figs—these made the place all over glorious. And as we were about to enter the holy temple, Jesus raised His lovely voice and said, “Only the 144,000 enter this place,” and we shouted, “Alleluia.” {EW 18.2}
This is when they receive the long-desired blessing of assurance of a job well done. How great is the work that they will do, only eternity will tell! Jesus said in very certain terms that greater works than what He did Himself, would be done by those who believe in Him.
Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father. (John 14:12)
This is the high calling of the 144,000, and they will do their work in the Spirit and power of Elijah. Their testimony of faith demonstrates in a whole generation of people—a holy nation—that deliverance of man from his sin is possible through the covenant that God delivered to Jesus, who delivered it to us, who deliver it to the 144,000 in our death. It is this work that gives the final and conclusive evidence to settle the great controversy forever.
That work ends with the 1260 portions for the two witnesses, but the 372 portions carry them through until the meeting with the Father. After this meeting, Jesus will call the redeemed to supper. The period that began with separation from the messengers of Orion, will end with a joyous reunion with them! At our last Lord’s supper on earth, we will partake of the grape juice, never to drink it again until we are together with Jesus at the table.
Then, all the faithful parties to the covenant will gather in peace: The Father, Jesus, the messengers of Orion, and the 144,000 will be together, united in the Spirit with the redeemed of all the ages as we partake of the First Supper of Eternity. While at a planet of the Mintaka star system, representing the Holy Spirit, the gathered redeemed will finally know the full meaning of why He is called the Comforter. This is the reward of those who receive the inheritance of this testament.
For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters... (Revelation 7:17)
And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away. (Revelation 21:4)
Now the Heavenly Notary is ready to certify the testament. Please proceed to Section 4.
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