Daily Devotional, Year 3: November 4 (Noble Bereans, Part 28: “The Messages of the 3 Angels” CONTINUED)
By admin On February 17th, 2021.
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Daily Devotional, Year 3: November 4
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Noble Bereans,
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Part 28:
“The Messages of the 3 Angels”
To read part 1, click here…”September 2nd (Noble Bereans?)”
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AN OPEN-MINDED SPIRIT IN BEREA
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Okay, so those in Berea, according to Acts 17:10, 11, were more noble, because they:
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1. “Received the Word with all readiness of mind.”
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2. “And searched the Scriptures daily, whether those things were so.”
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And so, the Bereans were ready to receive new teachings, which no doubt, conflicted with the supposed, “orthodox” teachings of that day.
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Thus, there was an open-mindedness which permeated their hearts, and a willingness to search the Scriptures daily, in hopes that these seemingly new teachings were indeed true!
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La Bible, Notre-Dame – cropped image – Wikimedia – Share-Alike License
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THE 3 MESSAGES OF REVELATION 14
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A great part of the test which is coming upon the Church in these last moments of time is to be able to accept these three messages, which seemingly appear to have discrepancies between each other.
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In other words, none of these three messages are infallible. Each of them has various errors. In some cases, there are seeming errors which are not actually errors at all, just “two sides of the same coin”, spiritually speaking.
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Yes, the Bible is a complicated Book, written by a complex God. And thus, there are…
“…some things hard to be understood,
which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest,
as they do also the other scriptures,
unto their own destruction”.
2nd Peter 3:16
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1ST ANGELS MESSAGE & THE 7TH-DAY SABBATH
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Well, because the 1st Angel’s message proclaimed the everlasting Gospel, the 7th-Day Sabbath was given in terms of the letter of the Law.
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And of course, the 7th Day Sabbath, according to the letter of the Law is indeed a “one day per week event”!
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Yes, from Friday at sundown to Saturday at sundown was the day which God ordained as the 7th-Day Sabbath.
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2ND ANGEL’S MESSAGE CONCERNED THE SPIRITUAL NATURE OF THE LAW
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But then, in the 2nd Angel’s message, the 7th-Day Sabbath was more fully proclaimed, now being revealed to be a spiritual rest in which a soul obtains Salvation totally by God’s grace, without performing any human works.
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“ye shall find rest unto your souls”
(read Matthew 11:28-30)
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And so, both messages were correct.
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But while the 1st message presented the 7th day Sabbath according to the letter of the Law, the 2nd message revealed the spiritual nature of the 7th Day Sabbath.
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THE SUNDAY SABBATH: A GENUINE ERROR
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But as already proclaimed in today’s devotional, these 3 messages were not infallible.
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For one example, while the 2nd Angel’s message rightly proclaimed the spiritual nature of the 7th Day Sabbath, the 2nd message wrongly proclaimed the “Sunday Sabbath”, or “The Lord’s Day”.
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Of course, this new, spurious Sunday Sabbath, originally, was the brainchild of the Roman Catholic Church and has no foundation in the Bible.
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3RD ANGEL’S MESSAGE RESOLVES THE SABBATH QUESTION
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But later, God then corrected this error with the 3rd Angel’s message.
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Yes, the 3rd Angel’s message proclaimed an even more all-encompassing Sabbath Rest, an ever-growing trust in the “exceeding great and precious promises” found throughout the infallible Word of God. (see 2nd Peter 1:4)
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THE 3RD MESSAGE CORRECTS PRIOR ERRORS
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As a matter of fact, there are other similar errors and seeming discrepancies in the 1st Angel’s and 2nd Angel’s messages.
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And so, God raised up the 3rd Angel’s message to clear up any confusion about these discrepancies as well as the seeming discrepancies.
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Now, of course, by no means is the 3rd Angel’s message to be regarded as infallible. Only the Bible is the infallible Word of Truth!
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“And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie…”
2nd Thessalonians 2:11:
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Now one reason why God permitted errors to appear in these three messages is to allow enough pegs for all skeptics to hang their doubts and criticisms upon.
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Thus, by their own erroneous way, they will be separated from the true wheat…
“Let both (the wheat & tares) grow together until the harvest…
to burn them (the tares):
but gather the wheat into my barn.”
Matthew 13:30
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NOT TO WORSHIP MERE HUMANS
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And because God alone is infallible, each messenger had “feet of clay”.
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And as a result, the truth-loving Bible student must place his or her implicit trust in the Bible only.
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“GOOD NEWS FROM A FAR COUNTRY!”
Proverbs 25:25
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And so, each and every truth-loving, “Noble Berean” will study, day-by-day, week-by-week, and even month-by-month in hopes that these three messages are indeed heaven-sent messages!
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And to put a giant exclamation mark on these three messages, God has written His divine signature upon these messages via the “signs in the Sun…Moon…and…stars” Luke 21:25.
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ABOVE PICTURE: Orion the Soldier and the Revelation 12 Dragon (Hyades & Pleiades, etc. – winter constellations – www.signsofheaven.org – not for commercial use
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TO READ PART 29, CLICK HERE…
November 10 (Noble Bereans, Part 29: “Re-Thinking Ellen White Concerning Jesting”)
Ellen G. White – Wikimedia – Public Domain
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TODAY’S PRAYER…
“Dear Lord, Help me to be an open-minded seeker of truth, even if it means giving up a very highly regarded Church opinion! Let me be willing to investigate any seemingly new teaching if it appears to have some biblical validity…
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READ MORE…
To explore deeper into this subject, please read… ” FEBRUARY 10 (The Deserted Island Theologian!)”, or you can also read…JUNE 13 (Why The World Didn’t End on May 21, 2011)
Question book magnify svg – Wikimedia – GNU license
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THE END
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TODAY’S FEATURED HEAVENLY SIGN
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FINALLY WALKING UPWARD INTO THE HIGHWAYS OF ETERNITY
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Day by day, you will find yourself walking, like the Disciples, spreading the precious Gospel seed wherever the Spirit leads.
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Taking the lovely name of Jesus, with every word spoken. Walking through this sin-darkened world, witnessing to those who take notice that of a truth, Jesus is present within you. Even like faithful Enoch, walking through the highways and byways of life in this world, spreading the Gospel-seed of unpretentious love.
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Day by day, you will become more and more closed in with God. Moment by moment, your heart will become intertwined with God’s heart, eventually two hearts beating as one heart.
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And just like Enoch, when the appointed time of sojourning on earth is finally done…you will walk onward…and upward…and into the highways and byways of eternity. (“And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.” Genesis 5:24).
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Thomas Cole – Pilgrim of the Cross at the End of His Journey – wikimedia – US public domain
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READ MORE…
To explore deeper into this subject, please read… “Castor and Pollux & The Mystery Ship of Scripture”
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TOMORROW…
November 5 (Revelation 16:17-21: “The Seventh Plague”)
The Great Day of His Wrath – John Martin – 1853 – Wikipedia – US Public Domain
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The Open Forum Talk Show with Harold Camping
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CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO THIS 90-MINUTE TALK SHOW – – The Open Forum Harold Camping January 27, 2003
Harold-Camping – courtesy Family Radio
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