THE REMNANT OF REVELATION 12 PART 2

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THE REMNANT OF REVELATION 1217

• SECOND CHARACTERISTIC
• THEY HAVE THE TESTIMONY OF JESUS CHRIST
• PART TWO

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WHAT IS THE TESTIMONY OF JESUS CHRIST?

• REVELATION 1217
• And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and
  went to make war with the remnant of her seed,
  which keep the commandments of God, and have the
  testimony of Jesus Christ.
• REVELATION 1910
• And I fell at his feet to worship him. And he
  said unto me, See thou do it not I am thy
  fellowservant, and of thy brethren that have the
  testimony of Jesus worship God for the
  testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.

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REVELATION 229

• Then saith he unto me, See thou do it not for I
  am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren the
  prophets, and of them which keep the sayings of
  this book worship God.

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FELLOWSERVANT, BRETHREN, AND PROPHETS, ARE ONE

• 1 CORINTHIANS 1214, 18
• For the body is not one member, but many. But now
  hath God set the members every one of them in the
  body, as it hath pleased him.

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A PROPHET A SEER

• 1 SAMUEL 99
• (Beforetime in Israel, when a man went to
  enquire of God, thus spake, Come, and let us go
  to the seer for he that is now called a Prophet
  was beforetime called a Seer.)
• A SEER HAD/HAS SPIRITUAL EYES
• PROVERBS 2918
• Where there is no vision, the people perish but
  he that keepeth the law, happy is he.

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A PROPHET/SEER COUNTERFEITS

• REVELATION 318 MESSAGE TO LAODICEA
• I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the
  fire, hat thou mayest be rich and raiment, that
  thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy
  nakedness do not appear and anoint thine eyes
  with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.
• WHAT QUARREL DOES CHRIST HAVE WITH THE CHURCH OF
  LAODICEA?
• Righteous and Blessed
• Poor/miserable/naked/blind
• Lukewarm

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LAODECIA LOOSES INTEREST IN HEAVENLY THINGS, BUT
FINDS PLEASURE IN WORLDY THINGS.

• JOHN 539
• Search the scriptures for in them ye think that
  ye have eternal life and they are they which
  testify of me.
• REVELATION 12, 3
• Who bare record of the word of God, and the
  testimony of Jesus Christ, and of all things that
  he saw. Blessed is he that readeth, and they that
  hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those
  things which are written therein for the time is
  at hand.

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PROPHETS BIBLE STUDENTS?

• 1 PETER 110, 11
• Of which salvation the prophets have enquired
  and searched diligently, who prophesied of the
  grace that should come unto you Searching what,
  or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which
  was in them did signify, when it testified
  beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the
  glory that should follow.

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A PROPHET BEARS WITNESS TESTIMONY

• JOHN 16-8
• There was a man sent from God, whose name was
  John. The same came for a witness, to bear
  witness of the Light, that all men through him
  might believe. He was not that Light, but was
  sent to bear witness of that Light.
• 2 PETER 120, 21
• Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the
  scripture is of any private interpretation. For
  the prophecy came not in old time by the will of
  man but holy men of God spake as they were moved
  by the Holy Ghost.

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PROPHET(S) PRIESTS AND PEOPLE REJECTED HIS WORDS

• ZECHARIAH 711, 12
• But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the
  shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they
  should not hear. Yea, they made their hearts as
  an adamant stone, lest they should hear the law,
  and the words which the Lord of hosts.
• REVELATION 2216
• I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you
  these things in the churches. I am the root and
  the offspring of David, and the bright and
  morning star.

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REMNANT CHURCH OF REVELATION 1217 TESTIMONY OF
JESUS CHRIST?

• 1 CORINTHIANS 1422
• Wherefore tongues are for a sign, not to them
  that believe, but to them that that believe not
  but prophesying serveth not for them that believe
  not, but for them which believe.
• 2 CHRONICLES 3615, 16 JERUSALEMS FALL
• And the LORD God of their fathers sent them by
  his messengers, rising up betimes, and sending
  because he had compassion on his people, and on
  his dwelling place But they mocked the
  messengers of God, and despised his words, and
  misused his prophets, until the wrath of the Lord
  arose against his people, till there was no
  remedy.

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PHARISEE OXYMORON

• OXFORD DICTIONARY
• A figure of speech in which apparently
  contradictory terms appear in conjunction.
• Oxford example (Faith unfaithful kept him
  falsely true).
• MATTHEW 2329, 30
• Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!
  Because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and
  garnish the sepulchres of the righteous, And say,
  If we would have been in the days of our fathers,
  we would not have partakers with them in the
  blood of the prophets.

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GODS PROFESSED PEOPLE REJECTS THE PROPHETS
TESTIMONY

• ISAIAH 308-11
• Now go, write it before them in a table, and
  note it in a book, that it may be for the time to
  come for ever and ever That this s a rebellious
  people, lying children, children that will not
  hear the law of the LORD Which say to the seers,
  See not and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto
  us right things, speak unto us smooth things,
  prophesy deceits
• LUKE 626
• Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of
  you! For so did their fathers to the false
  prophets.

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PROPHETS HATED BY GODS PROFESSED PEOPLE

• JEREMIAH DUNGEON JEREMIAH 386
• ISAIAH SAWN ASUNDER HEBREWS 1137
• ELIJAH JEZEBEL 1 KINGS 191-4
• JOHN THE BAPTIST BEHEADED MATTHEW 144-10
• ELISHA SCORNED 2 KINGS 223, 24
• MOSES CRITICIZED NUMBERS 121, 2HOSEA 1213
• ISRAEL DEMANDS A KING 1 SAMUEL 85-22

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PROPHET JAHAZIEL KING PRIEST

• 2 CHRONICLES 2014-25
• CONVENTIONAL WARFARE
• SING PRAISES UNTO THE LORD

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ELLEN G. WHITE, SELECTED MESSAGES, VOL. 1,
pp.40, 48

• Chapter 3 - Attitudes Toward the Testimonies
• I saw the state of some who stood on present
  truth, but disregarded the visions--the way God
  had chosen to teach in some cases, those who
  erred from Bible truth. I saw that in striking
  against the visions they did not strike against
  the worm--the feeble instrument that God spake
  through--but against the Holy Ghost. I saw it was
  a small thing to speak against the instrument,
  but it was dangerous to slight the words of God.

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• .I saw if they were in error and God chose to
  show them their errors through visions, and they
  disregarded the teachings of God through visions,
  they would be left to take their own way, and run
  in the way of error, and think they were right,
  until they would find it out too late. Then in
  the time of trouble I heard them cry to God in
  agony, "Why didst Thou not show us our wrong,
  that we might have got right and been ready for
  this time?" Then an angel pointed to them and
  said, "My Father taught, but you would not be
  taught. He spoke through visions, but you
  disregarded His voice, and He gave you up to your
  own ways, to be filled with your own doings.

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SEARCHING THE TESTIMONIES FOR AN EXCUSE

• Some who are not willing to receive the light,
  but who prefer to walk in ways of their own
  choosing, will search the testimonies to find
  something in them to encourage the spirit of
  unbelief and disobedience. Thus a spirit of
  disunion will be brought in for the spirit which
  leads them to criticize the testimonies will also
  lead them to watch their brethren to find in them
  something to condemn.

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THE LAST DECEPTION OF SATAN

• Satan is . . . constantly pressing in the
  spurious--to lead away from the truth. The very
  last deception of Satan will be to make of none
  effect the testimony of the Spirit of God. "Where
  there is no vision, the people perish" (Proverbs
  2918). Satan will work ingeniously, in different
  ways and through different agencies, to unsettle
  the confidence of God's remnant people in the
  true testimony.-- Letter 12, 1890.
• There will be a hatred kindled against the
  testimonies which is satanic. The workings of
  Satan will be to unsettle the faith of the
  churches in them, for this reason Satan cannot
  have so clear a track to bring in his deceptions
  and bind up souls in his delusions if the
  warnings and reproofs and counsels of the Spirit
  of God are heeded.