Scattering and Gathering

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Scattering and Gathering
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Scattering and Gathering 2520
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Scattering and Gathering

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When was the Covenant Established?

• PP 303 .1 Soon after the encampment at Sinai,
  Moses was called up into the mountain to meet
  with God. Alone he climbed the steep and rugged
  path, and drew near to the cloud that marked the
  place of Jehovah's presence. Israel was now to be
  taken into a close and peculiar relation to the
  Most High--to be incorporated as a church and a
  nation under the government of God.
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• PP 303.3 Moses returned to the camp, and having
  summoned the elders of Israel, he repeated to
  them the divine message. Their answer was, "All
  that the Lord hath spoken we will do." Thus they
  entered into a solemn covenant with God, pledging
  themselves to accept Him as their ruler, by which
  they became, in a special sense, the subjects of
  His authority.

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Why does God desire a denominated people?

• PK 15.2 Men had well-nigh lost the knowledge of
  the true God. Their minds were darkened by
  idolatry. For the divine statutes, which are
  "holy, and just, and good" (Romans 712), men
  were endeavouring to substitute laws in harmony
  with the purposes of their own cruel, selfish
  hearts. Yet God in His mercy did not blot them
  out of existence. He purposed to give them
  opportunity for becoming acquainted with Him
  through His church. He designed that the
  principles revealed through His people should be
  the means of restoring the moral image of God in
  man.
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• PK 16.1 God's law must be exalted, His authority
  maintained and to the house of Israel was given
  this great and noble work. God separated them
  from the world, that He might commit to them a
  sacred trust. He made them the depositaries of
  His law, and He purposed through them to preserve
  among men the knowledge of Himself. Thus the
  light of heaven was to shine out to a world
  enshrouded in darkness, and a voice was to be
  heard appealing to all peoples to turn from
  idolatry to serve the living God.

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What is the Seven Times Punishment ?

• Seven completion (Gen 22 God , Josh 615)
• Prophetically Time a prophetic year (Rev
  1214, Dan 127)
• Year 360 literal years (Num 1434 Ezek
  46)
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• Therefore ..
• 7 times 7 prophetic years (Day for a year)
• 7 x 360 literal years 2520
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• The completion of the curses
• 7 prophetic years or 2,520 literal years

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What was the view of the pioneers?

• William Miller Applied the seven times to the
  Southern Kingdom of Israel
• Hiram Edson Applied the seven times to the
  Northern Kingdom of Israel

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What were Millers thoughts ?

• William Miller, A TRILOGY pages 20-22 Seven
  prophetic years would be seven times 360, equal
  to 2520 years. This bondage must begin with the
  kingdom of Babylon, the first kingdom of Daniels
  four monarchies, which kingdoms which were to
  make war with the saints and prevail against them
  until the ancient of days came and these were to
  scatter the people of God into all kingdoms of
  the earth and have dominion over them and
  exercise authority upon them
• When, then, may we not ask, did the bondage of
  the children of God begin? I answer, when LITERAL
  BABYLON began to exercise authority over them. In
  the twenty-second year of Manassehs reign, in
  the year before Christ 677bc, the last of the 10
  tribes were carried away and Israel ceased to be
  a nation according to the prophecy...

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What were Millers thoughts ?

• 2520 starts in 677 bc Southern Kingdom
  captivity
•   677bc 2520 1844 ad (zero yr is
  counted)

677 bc
1844 ad
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What were Millers thoughts ?

• PK 382.3 Faithfully the prophets continued
  their warnings and their exhortations fearlessly
  they spoke to Manasseh and to his people but the
  messages were scorned backsliding Judah would
  not heed. As an earnest of what would befall the
  people should they continue impenitent, the Lord
  permitted their king to be captured by a band of
  Assyrian soldiers, who "bound him with fetters,
  and carried him to Babylon," their temporary
  capital.

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What were Hiram Edsons thoughts ?

• H. Edson article The Times Of The Gentiles. RH
  Jan 10, 1856 God had said by ALL his servants
  the prophets on this point of giving Israel over
  into captivity to be trodden down of the Gentiles
  like the mire of the streets." The validity of
  the above testimony cannot be invalidated or
  impeached hence there can be no room left for
  further doubt on this so clear a point. This,
  then, is the inspired historical event and its
  chronology, which is 723 B. C., is the point from
  which to reckon the 2520 years captivity. Instead
  of reckoning from the taking of Manasseh, the
  King of Judah to Babylon in the year 677 BC., we
  reckon from the shutting up and binding in prison
  Hoshea, the king of Israel, which was 723 BC The
  year 723 BC is the true beginning, and 1798 is
  the true terminus of the 2520 years captivity of
  the people of God. And we have a historical
  record of a corresponding event transpiring in
  the year 1798, which perfectly answer the
  fulfilment of the predictions of the prophets
  which have foretold the events which mark the end
  of the 2520 years indignation and captivity.

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What were Hiram Edsons thoughts ?

• 2520 starts in 723bc Northern Kingdom
  captivity
•   723bc 2520 1798ad (zero yr is counted)

723 bc
1798 ad
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Who was Right ?
723 bc
1798 ad
10 Tribes
2 Tribes
677 bc
1844 ad
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Does God gather His people again?

• PK 382.3 This affliction brought the king to his
  senses "he besought the Lord his God, and
  humbled himself greatly before the God of his
  fathers, and prayed unto Him and He was
  entreated of him, and heard his supplication, and
  brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom.
  Then Manasseh knew that the Lord He was God." 2
  Chronicles 3311-13. But this repentance,
  remarkable though it was, came too late to save
  the kingdom from the corrupting influence of
  years of idolatrous practices. Many had stumbled
  and fallen, never again to rise.
• PK 405.2 The time was rapidly approaching when
  Jerusalem was to be utterly destroyed and the
  inhabitants of the land carried captive to
  Babylon, there to learn the lessons they had
  refused to learn under circumstances more
  favorable.

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• Ancient Israel scattered,
• Modern Israel gathered (1798 1844)
• Millerite history is repeated today at the end of
  the world. Spiritual gathering of SDA (Ecc
  19-10 1Cor 1011).
• 2 Classes developed
• Israel Scattered (10) Majority Lost
• Judah Scattered Gathered (2) Minority saved

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• Publishing Ministry, 175. Again and again I have
  been shown that the past experiences of Gods
  people are not to be counted as dead facts. We
  are not to treat the record of these experiences
  as we would treat a last years almanac. The
  record is to be kept in mind, for history will
  repeat itself.
• GC.611.2 The angel who unites in the
  proclamation of the third angel's message is to
  lighten the whole earth with his glory. A work of
  world-wide extent and unwonted power is here
  foretold. The advent movement of 1840-44 was a
  glorious manifestation of the power of God the
  first angel's message was carried to every
  missionary station in the world, and in some
  countries there was the greatest religious
  interest which has been witnessed in any land
  since the Reformation of the sixteenth century
  but these are to be exceeded by the mighty
  movement under the last warning of the third
  angel.

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• RH.1890 Aug 19th .4 When the third angel's
  message is preached as it should be, power
  attends its proclamation, and it becomes an
  abiding influence. It must be attended with
  divine power, or it will accomplish nothing. I am
  often referred to the parable of the ten virgins,
  five of whom were wise, and five foolish. This
  parable has been and will be fulfilled to the
  very letter, for it has a special application to
  this time, and, like the third angel's message,
  has been fulfilled and will continue to be
  present truth till the close of time. In the
  parable, the ten virgins had lamps, but only five
  of them had the saving oil with which to keep
  their lamps burning. This represents the
  condition of the Church. The wise and the foolish
  have their Bibles, and are provided with all the
  means of grace but many do not appreciate the
  fact that they must have the heavenly unction.
  They do not heed the invitation, "Come unto me,
  all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will
  give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn
  of me for I am meek and lowly in heart and ye
  shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is
  easy, and my burden is light."

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Scattering and Gathering

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2520 illustrated in the book of Daniel

• Daniel 5 Parallel (Belshazzar Northern Kingdom)
• SCATTERED ONLY
• Daniel 4 Parallel (Nebuchadnezzar Southern
  Kingdom) SCATTERED GATHERED

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Daniel 5 What were the measurements?

• Shekel / Tekel typical Babylon measurement
• Mene 50 shekels,
• Tekel 1 shekel
• Uphasin ½ of Mene (25 Shekels)
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• Mene (50) Mene (50) Tekel (1) Upharsin (20)
  126 Shekels
• Shekel / Tekel smaller points of measurements
  1 shekel / tekel 20 gerahs (Ezel 4512
  Lev 2725)
•   126 shekel x 20 gerahs 2520 gerahs
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• God is telling Belshazzar his kingdom is numbered
  via 2520 principle
• Belshazzar Northern Kingdom 723bc 1798ad

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What represents the Southern Kingdom 677bc-1844?

• Millers Works, volume 2, 261. Seven times, in
  Nebuchadnezzars dream, was fulfilled in seven
  years. Nebuchadnezzar, for his pride and
  arrogancy against God, was driven among the
  beasts of the field, and was made to eat grass as
  oxen, until seven times passed over him, and
  until he learned that the Most High ruled in the
  kingdoms of men, and gave it to whomsoever he
  would. This being a matter of history, and as an
  allegory or sample to the people of God for their
  pride and arrogancy, in refusing to be reformed
  by God, and claiming the power and will to do
  these things themselves,they, too, like
  Nebuchadnezzar, must be driven among the beasts
  of the field, (meaning the kingdoms of the
  world,) until they learn the sovereignty of God,
  and that he dispenses his favors to whomsoever he
  will. That, being a matter of history, and a
  sample only, was fulfilled in seven years but
  this, being a prophecy, will only be fulfilled in
  seven prophetic times, which will be 7 times 360
  years, which will make 2520 years.

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Who did God use to scatter His people?

• PP 467.1 By the Spirit of Inspiration, looking
  far down the ages, Moses pictured the terrible
  scenes of Israel's final overthrow as a nation,
  and the destruction of Jerusalem by the armies of
  Rome "The Lord shall bring a nation against thee
  from far, from the end of the earth, as swift as
  the eagle flieth a nation whose tongue thou
  shalt not understand a nation of fierce
  countenance, which shall not regard the person of
  the old, nor show favor to the young."

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Who did God use to scatter His people?
723 bc
1798 ad
538 ad
Paganism
Papalism
1260
1260

• 2520 identifies two stages of Rome

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When is the Gathering time?

• Raising the temple 3 days / 46 years
• 1844 1798 46 years

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Did Israel humble themselves?

• RH Feb. 9, 1897 / Vol 4 BC 1172.5 Daniel's
  example of prayer and confession is given for our
  instruction and encouragement. For nearly seventy
  years, Israel had been in captivity. The land
  which God had chosen for His own possession was
  given into the hands of the heathen Faithful men
  who knew of the former glory were filled with
  anguish at the desolation of the holy house that
  had distinguished Israel as God's chosen people.
  These men had been witnesses to the denunciations
  of God because of the sins of His people. They
  had been witnesses to the fulfilment of this
  word. They had been witnesses also to the
  promises of His favor if Israel would return to
  God, and walk circumspectly before Him. Daniel
  knew that the appointed time for Israel's
  captivity was nearly ended but he did not feel
  that because God had promised to deliver them,
  they themselves had no part to act. With fasting
  and contrition he sought the Lord, confessing his
  own sins and the sins of the people.

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What does 2520 mean for us today?

• PP 301.1 Soon after the encampment at Sinai,
  Moses was called up into the mountain to meet
  with God. Alone he climbed the steep and rugged
  path, and drew near to the cloud that marked the
  place of Jehovah's presence. Israel was now to be
  taken into a close and peculiar relation to the
  Most High-to be incorporated as a church and a
  nation under the government of God.

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What does 2520 mean for us today?

• EW 74 September 23, the Lord showed me that He
  had stretched out His hand the second time to
  recover the remnant of His people, and that
  efforts must be redoubled in this gathering time.
  In the scattering, Israel was smitten and torn,
  but now in the gathering time God will heal and
  bind up His people. In the scattering, efforts
  made to spread the truth had but little effect,
  accomplished but little or nothing but in the
  gathering, when God has set His hand to gather
  His people, efforts to spread the truth will have
  their designed effect. All should be united and
  zealous in the work. I saw that it was wrong for
  any to refer to the scattering for examples to
  govern us now in the gathering for if God should
  do no more for us now than He did then, Israel
  would never be gathered. I have seen that the
  1843 chart was directed by the hand of the Lord,
  and that it should not be altered that the
  figures were as He wanted them that His hand was
  over and hid a mistake in some of the figures, so
  that none could see it, until His hand was
  removed.

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What does 2520 mean for us today?

• RH.1897 Mar 2nd .5 / Testimonies to Ministers 507
• Many have in a great measure failed to receive
  the former rain. They have not obtained all the
  benefits that God has thus provided for them.
  They expect that the lack will be supplied by the
  latter rain. When the richest abundance of grace
  shall be bestowed, they intend to open their
  hearts to receive it. They are making a terrible
  mistake. The work that God has begun in the human
  heart in giving his light and knowledge, must be
  continually going forward. Every individual must
  realize his own necessity. The heart must be
  emptied of every defilement, and cleansed for the
  indwelling of the Spirit. It was by the
  confession and forsaking of sin, by earnest
  prayer and consecration of themselves to God,
  that the early disciples prepared for the
  outpouring of the Holy Spirit on the day of
  Pentecost. The same work, only in greater degree,
  must be done now. Then the human agent had only
  to ask for the blessing, and wait for the Lord to
  perfect the work concerning him. It is God who
  began the work, and he will finish his work,
  making man complete in Jesus Christ. But there
  must be no neglect of the grace represented by
  the former rain. Only those who are living up to
  the light they have, will receive greater light.
  Unless we are daily advancing in the
  exemplification of the active Christian virtues,
  we shall not recognize the manifestations of the
  Holy Spirit in the latter rain. It may be falling
  on hearts all around us, but we shall not discern
  or receive it.

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What does 2520 mean for us today?

• RH.1890 Aug 19th .5 Jesus desires to efface the
  image of the earthly from the minds of his
  followers, and to impress upon them the image of
  the heavenly, that they may become one with
  himself, reflecting his character, and showing
  forth the praises of him who hath called them out
  of darkness into his marvelous light. If you have
  been permitted to stand in the presence of the
  Sun of Righteousness, it is not that you may
  absorb and conceal the bright beams of Christ's
  righteousness, but that you may become a light to
  others. The enemy has men in our ranks through
  whom he works, that the light which God has
  permitted to shine upon the heart an illuminate
  the chambers of the mind may be darkened. There
  are persons who have received the precious light
  of the righteousness of Christ, but they do not
  act upon it they are foolish virgins. They
  prefer the sophistry of the enemy rather than the
  plain "Thus saith the Lord." When the blessing of
  God rested upon them in order that they might
  become channels of light, they did not go forward
  from light to a greater light they permitted
  doubt and unbelief to come in, so that the truth
  which they had seen, became an uncertainty to
  them.

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What does 2520 mean for us today?

• RH.1890 Aug 19th .6 Satan uses those who claim
  to believe the truth, but whose light has become
  darkness, as his mediums to utter his falsehoods
  and transmit his darkness. They are foolish
  virgins indeed, choosing darkness rather than
  light, and dishonoring God. The character we
  cultivate, the attitude we assume to-day, is
  fixing our future destiny. We are all making a
  choice, either to be with the blessed, inside the
  city of light, or to be with the wicked, outside
  the city. The principles which govern our actions
  on earth are known in heaven, and our deeds are
  faithfully chronicled in the books or record. It
  is there known whether our characters are after
  the order of Christ or the order of the
  arch-deceiver who caused rebellion in heaven. Are
  we wise virgins, or must we be classed among the
  foolish? This is the question which we are
  deciding to-day by our character and attitude.
  That which passes with many for the religion of
  Christ, is made up of ideas and theories, a
  mixture of truth and error.

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• Two stages of Rome identified
• Take heed to conditions of Gathering (work of
  Holy spirit John 168)
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• Accept new covenant
• 2520 leading Gods people back to the foundations
  (Jer 616 Isa 5812)
• (Rev 1011 History repeats must prophesy
  again)

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• Manuscript Releases, volume 8, 42. The reasons
  why we are denominated people of God are to be
  repeated and repeated. Deuteronomy 4113
  5133.
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• Counsels to Writers and Editors, 2829. Let the
  truths that are the foundation of our faith be
  kept before the people. . . . We are now to
  understand what the pillars of our faith are,the
  truths that have made us as a people what we are,
  leading us on step by step.