The Critical Importance of This Message to the Seventh Day Adventist Church and the Closing Work of...
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THE CRITICAL IMPORTANCE OF THIS MESSAGE TO THE SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH AND THE C LOSING WORK OF TH E THIRD ANGEL’S MESSAGE(The message of the literal blood, shed by Jesus in Heaven) The mission of the Seventh Day Adventist church is co-labour with God in the closing work ofthe Third Angel’s message“ Upon every believer in present truth rests the responsibility of working for sinners. **God points them to their special work--the proclamation of the third angel's message**. They are to show their appreciation of God's great gift by consecrating themselves to the work for which Christ gave His life. They are to be stewards of the grace of God, dispensing to others the blessings bestowed on them. ”{UL 379.7} What exactly and simply is our wor k... The work of the Third Angel’s Message? What is it’s fruit? We are called to work with God in making ready a people to meet God “The third angel is represented as flying through heaven, proclaiming the commandments ofGod and the faith of Jesus. **This message is to prepare a people for the coming of Christ.** Ifmen should refrain from proclaiming it, the very stones would cry out. The people must be warned. ”{HS 234.1} “ As a prophe t, John w as "to turn the hearts of the fathe rs to th e children, and the disobe dient to the wisdom of the just; to make ready a people prepared for the Lord." *In preparing the way for Christ's first advent, he was a representative of those who are to prepare a people for our Lord's second coming.*”{DA 101.2} What does it mean to prepare a people for the coming of the Lord? Quite simply we understand that when Jesus finishes His work in the heavenly sanctuary, then those believers who are still alive and shall preserved unto the coming of the Lord, must be prepared to live in the sight of a holy God with no heavenly Mediator in between! “I saw that many were neglecting the preparation so needful and were looking to the time of"refreshing" and the "latter rain" to fit them to **stand in the day of the Lord and to live in His sight.** Oh, how many I saw in the time of trouble without a shelter! They had neglected the needful preparation; therefore they could not receive **the refreshing that all must have to fit them to live in the sight of a holy God**. Those who refuse to be hewed by the prophets and fail to purify their souls in obeying the whole truth, and who are willing to believe that their condition is far better than it really is, will come up to the time of the falling of the plagues, and then see that they needed to be hewed and squared for the building. But there will be no time
The Critical Importance of This Message to the Seventh Day Adventist Church and the Closing Work of the Third Angel
