A Brief Introduction |
both the times of Israel and the times of the Gentiles
First, I would like to state that I believe this subject is very important, even vital in understanding what the book of Daniel (and Revelation) means to us as the last generation. It is paramount that we understand what the abomination is and its proper placement in the last-day events —events that take place both here on earth and in the Heavenly Sanctuary! So far as I know, very few are teaching that Daniel is to be 
The disciples asked Jesus three questions (
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In the state where I live, there are a number of Sunday Blue Laws on the books; some enforced, some not. Idaho Law number 17-2502 says, commonly called Sunday, is hereby set apart as a day of public rest.” Idaho Code, 1932; American State Papers on Freedom in Religion, 3rd Ed., page 459, compiled by William Addison Blakely |
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1961 The Supreme Court declares that Sunday laws are economical and not religious, and are therefore legally constitutional. |
Sunday laws are an establishment of religion for those who worship on Sunday, and they are against those who may or may not keep another day holy. Sunday laws are a restriction of the free exercise of freedom of religion and a denial of equal protection, and they are an infringement of personal religious or non-religious belief.
The National Sunday Law will be a dramatic event for many reasons to many people (both Christian and non-Christian), but it will not be the only event that starts the 2300 days. All the other times and their events have their fulfillment in the last great day of redemption, —within the framework of the 2300 evenings/mornings.
What is the Abomination of Desolation?—
The Fourth & Fifth Thunder— When Jesus warned the disciples of the destruction of the Temple He quoted the book of Daniel. He told the disciples, “When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand.)” Matthew 24:15. (Note Thunders 4 & 5 on the bottom half of the Mirror Chart.)
The two places we find the words abomination of desolation in Daniel says,
“For the ships of Chittim shall come against him: therefore he shall be grieved, and return, and have indignation against the holy covenant: so shall he do; he shall even return, and have intelligence with them that forsake the holy covenant. And arms shall stand on his part, and they shall pollute the sanctuary of strength, and shall take away the daily sacrifice, and they shall place the abomination that maketh desolate.” Dan 11:30, 31.
“And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, and the abomination that maketh desolate set up, there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days.” Dan 12:11.
The daily, the covenant, the sanctuary, and the host are associated with both the transgression in Dan 8:13 and the abomination of Dan 11:31 & 12:11. The prophetic picture we see concerning the issue of Sunday laws is that they become more severe, intense, and injurious toward the saints (the host) as the times and events of Daniel are fulfilled as last-day events. The Strong’s Hebrew number H8251 for abomination reflects this meaning.*** Whereas the transgression of Daniel 8 (the 1st Thunder) —is a U.S.A. National Sunday Law— and has the meaning of a revolt against God’s law;
*** The abomination of Daniel 11 & 12 (the 4th & 5th Thunders) is still the same issue —but is now standing before the whole world as a universal law— and talks boastfully of standing in the holy place of God (Matt 24:15), and is described as a disgustingly filthy idolatrous idol.
This is exactly what is described by John, “saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast,” “and he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak [make laws], and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed” (Rev 13:14, 15) The last great test is over who will worship the beast by bowing down to its Sunday image. The choice for many will be simple. Those who worship on Sunday will be allowed to buy and sell what they need to stay alive. Penalties will continue to become more demanding until homes and land are taken away. Finally, showing what hate can do, there will be a great deal of martyrdom during the second rule of the Papacy, so much so that the saints cry out (figuratively), “How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?” Rev 6:10 “Woe, woe, woe, to the inhabiters of the earth,” “For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?” Rev 8:13; 6:17. “Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads.” Rev 7:3.
The Hebrew word for abomination, shik-koots', shows the unyielding force used to secure worship from “all (“on the earth”), both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads” (Rev 13:16, 12, 13) We need make no mistake about this Sunday law controversy; it will become a test for the whole world. That is why the event that starts the 2300 days is a transgression, a U.S. National Law, and as time and events progress further into the great Day of Judgment (Rev 11:1, 2) for the church and the world, these laws will grow progressively into the abomination, a universal (New World Order) Sunday law, fulfilling prophecy by setting up the Papacy at the beginning of the 1290 and 1260 days for the second and final time.
The transgression and abomination of Daniel —Sunday versus seventh-day Sabbath issue— answers our question, “Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?” Matt 24:3. Jesus explains in Matthew 24 that these laws will come with such speed that a person should not go back for the coat laid down in the heat of the day. Judgment will fall so fast, that people will not have time to move their belongings out of the cities! (Matt 24:16-18) Jesus goes on to say that those days will be so filled with judgments and persecution, that a mother will find it impossible to raise her child (outside of God’s direct protection and guidance)(Matt 24:19). Jesus says the Sabbath will be the issue and that even in our flight we are to keep His Sabbath holy! (Matt 24:20) It is also written that the abomination is the cause for the great tribulation (Matt 24:21) and that the abomination is set-up at the beginning of the great tribulation periods: the 1260, the 1290, and the 1335 days. (This would be a reference by Jesus to Daniel 12:6-7, 11-12 and the prophetic history type shows that this was the time of Papal supremacy during the Dark Ages.)
These times and events also include the repeated prophecies of Revelation 11; the burning in the streets “of the earth” the “two witnesses” (Rev 11:3), —the Old and New Testament, but more specifically the two witnesses are “two prophets” (Rev 11:10), —the books of Daniel and Revelation which “shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.” Rev 11:3 (Daniel and Revelation are the only two prophetic witnesses of the 1260 days.)
—All these events will be repeated specifically as last day events!—
The Times of Daniel 12 and the Abomination—
1260 days— “It shall be for a time, times, and an half; and when he shall have accomplished to scatter the power of the holy people, all these things shall be finished” Dan 12:7 (See also Dan 7:25; and in Rev 12:14; 12:6; 11:2, 3; 13:5.)
1290 days— “And arms shall stand on his part, and they shall pollute the sanctuary of strength, and shall take away the daily sacrifice, and they shall place the abomination that maketh desolate. And such as do wickedly against the [holy] covenant shall he corrupt by flatteries.” Dan 11:30-32. “And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, and the abomination that maketh desolate set up, there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days.” Dan 12:11.
1335 days— “Blessed is he that waiteth, and cometh to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days. But go thou thy way till the end be: for thou shalt rest, and stand in thy lot at the end of the days.” Dan 12:12, 13.
490 days— This section is on the times of Daniel 12, but there is one more commentary by Daniel on these abominations which is found in Daniel 9:24-27, and seriously concerns the last generation of saints. Yes, there is no doubt that these events are inclusive of the seventy weeks, the spotlight being on the event in the midst of the last week. But if we look closely at these verses we find that their events are part of the whole abomination issue. God’s side of the issue is shown in the seven-fold covenant made with His people. Dan 9:24. This covenant is directly and indirectly explained throughout the entire book of Daniel. Dan 9:3-21; 11:28, 30, 32. Daniel is very concerned about this covenant and we see him praying for his people that they will accept God’s covenant provisions. Daniel points out that the issues of the seventy weeks are an extension of the transgression/abomination issue mentioned in the other parts of “the vision and prophecy.” Dan 9:24. Daniel continues explaining this desolating problem stating that “for the overspreading of abominations he [the destroyer of the city and the sanctuary; vrs 26] shall make it desolate, even until the consummation [Strong’s H3617: a completion; complete destruction; utterly to consume], and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.” This prophecy extends further than the immediate judgment concerning the seventy weeks allotted to the church, and points out that this abomination issue will continue to spread and grow until the completion of the judgments [Judgment; Dan 7:9-10, 13], —to the desolation of the earth.
There was not a full and complete fulfillment of these prophecies (Matthew 24 and Daniel 7-12), either for the disciples or during the Dark Ages. (FS egw) The disciples’ fulfillment in 70 AD is completely removed from the abomination of Dan 11:31 and 12:11-13 which was fulfilled in the Dark Ages. BUT, these events are not removed from each other when the same events of Daniel are repeated within a short time period for the last generation. It is then that the antitype will have its “more complete fulfillment”. This is exactly why we see a progression from the transgression of Dan 8:13 to the full-blown abomination of Dan 11:31 (and its time, 1290 days, in Dan 12:11).
But, it is not all gloom and doom. There will be many hundreds of thousands, even millions, who during the final events will make their decision to worship their Creator and Re-Creator. For the first time in their lives they will honor their Saviour by keeping holy His seventh-day Sabbath. They will also receive the promised covenant rainbow which is around their Master's head (Dan 9:24, 27; Rev 10:1) and some will give up their lives (Rev 6:9-11). It is only the 144,000 (Rev 7; 3:7-13; 14:1-4) that continue to live after Michael stands up (Dan 12:1), through the seven last plagues (Rev 16), when “the great river Euphrates” dries up announcing the coming of Jesus with the clouds of angels. Dan 10:4; 12:5; Rev 16:12; 1:7. (FS egw)
What is the Desolation?—
The world will be so deceived by the events of the anti-Christ that they won’t even see the end coming. The definition of the Strong’s Hebrew word [H8074] carries with it the meaning: To stun; grow numb; devastate; stupefy. Jesus, still teaching the disciples, taught that “as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark, And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.” Matt 24:37-39. (FS egw)
and the cities of the nations fell:
and great Babylon came in remembrance before God,
to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath.
And every island fled away, and the mountains were not found.
Revelation 16:19, 20
And [the merchants of the world] cast dust on their heads,
and cried, weeping and wailing, saying,
Alas, alas, that great city,
wherein were made rich all that had ships
in the sea by reason of her costliness!
for in one hour is she made desolate!
Revelation 18:19
Conclusion—
Knowledge is not wisdom, and in and of itself, —knowledge does not save! Some seek to know these prophecies that they might save themselves, and fail to understand the wisdom of the saving power of Christ who gave the prophecies. Knowing these prophecies alone, without having a personal relationship with their Author, will not save one’s soul. Belief in Jesus as the slain Lamb of God, —saves! Rev 5:6, 9. Yet, on the other hand, prophecy is given to reveal Jesus and His saving plan of redemption. Rev 1:3. Wisdom is the proper use of knowledge when guided by the Holy Spirit! Prov 9:10; James 3:17.
Yes! The book of Daniel foretells in detail the formation of image worship in the United States of America (the transgression; Dan 8:13; Rev 13:14), and how it progressively develops into a world-wide universal Sunday law (the abomination; Dan 11:31; 12:11). Daniel shows that it is a destructive sequence of events, which is directed against God’s people (the host) and the Truth they teach from the Plan of redemption in the Heavenly Sanctuary. THIS IS THE LAST GREAT TEST! This test is designed to make the last generation, saint or sinner, choose Who he will worship! Seven warning trumpet judgments will get everyone’s attention! Rev 8:7–11:17.All must make the decision, Who will the last generation worship?
The choice is simple. Will we pay homage to the god who set up the Sun–day as his worship day (the image and mark of the beast; Rev 13)? OR Will we worship the Creator who made the seventh-day Sabbath for us (Rev 4:11; 10:6; 14:7; 7:14)? God foresaw that after sin, we would need to receive His Sabbath’s sanctifying blessing (Gen 2:1-3; Ex 20:8-11; Lev 23), and thus receive the seal of His salvation. (Eze 20:12, 20; Rev 7:1-3; 9:4, 5.)
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 12:17
“Here is the patience of the saints:
here are they that keep the commandments of God,
and the faith of Jesus.”
Revelation 14:12
“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.”
Revelation 19:10
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Transgression— The following is from Strong’s/Hebrew Concordance.
H6588
pesha` (peh'-shah) n-m.1. a revolt (national, moral or religious)
[from H6586]
KJV: rebellion, sin, transgression, trespass.
Root(s): H6586
H6586 pasha` (paw-shah') v.
1. to break away (from just authority), i.e. trespass, apostatize, quarrel
[a primitive root (identical with H6585 through the idea of expansion)]
KJV: offend, rebel, revolt, transgress(-ion, -or).
Root(s): H6585
H6585 pasa` (paw-sah') v.
1. to stride (from spreading the legs), i.e. rush upon
[a primitive root]
KJV: go.
Abomination— The following is from Strong’s/Hebrew Concordance.
H8251
shiqquwts (shik-koots') (or shiqquts {shik-koots'}) n-m.1. disgusting, i.e. filthy
2. (especially) idolatrous
3. (concretely) an idol
[from H8262]
KJV: abominable filth (idol, -ation), detestable (thing).
Root(s): H8262
H8262 shaqats (shaw-kats') v.
1. to be filthy, i.e. (intensively) to loathe, pollute
[a primitive root]
KJV: abhor, make abominable, have in abomination, detest, X utterly.
Desolation(s); Desolate— The following is from Strong’s/Hebrew Concordance.
H8074 shamem (shaw-mame') v.
1. to stun (or intransitively, grow numb), i.e. devastate or (figuratively) stupefy (both usually in a passive sense)
[a primitive root]
KJV: make amazed, be astonished, (be an) astonish(-ment), (be, bring into, unto, lay, lie, make) desolate(-ion, places), be destitute, destroy (self), (lay, lie, make) waste, wonder.
“O my God, incline thine ear, and hear; open thine eyes, and behold our desolations, and the city which is called by thy name: for we do not present our supplications before thee for our righteousnesses, but for thy great mercies.” Dan 9:18.
“And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.” Dan 9:26
Further Study 3
H4150— Time Appointed
H4150
mow`ed (mo-ade') (or moled {mo-ade'} or (feminine) moweadah (2Chronicles 8:13–solemn feasts) n-m.1. (properly) an appointment, i.e. a fixed time or season
2. (specifically) a festival
3. (conventionally) a year
4. (by implication) an assembly (as convened for a definite purpose)
5. (technically) the congregation
6. (by extension) the place of meeting
7. (also) a signal (as appointed beforehand)
[from H3259]
KJV: appointed (sign, time), (place of, solemn) assembly, congregation, (set, solemn) feast, (appointed, due) season, solemn(-ity), synagogue, (set) time (appointed).
Root(s): H3259
H3259 ya`ad (yaw-ad') v.
1. to fix upon (by agreement or appointment)
2. (by implication) to meet (at a stated time)
3. (of court) to summon
4. to direct (in a certain quarter or position)
5. (of marriage) to engage, betroth
[a primitive root]
KJV: agree, (make an) appoint(-ment,a time), assemble (selves), betroth, gather (selves, together), meet (together), set (a time).
Further Study 4
The Prophecies of Daniel and Revelation are to be Repeated—
There must be hundreds (even thousands) of prophecy teachers on the WWW who take the books of Daniel and Revelation and apply them to the near future as last-day events. With a lack of hermeneutic rules, and not drawing from the Master’s prophetic design, their interpretations are all different from one another. It cannot be any other way! It is the height of confusion, and its result discourages people from the study of the prophecies. “How can there be so many different views and interpretations” they say, and consequently they avoid the heart preparation needed for the last days. This is a very sad time in which we live; we have so much Light, but very little willingness to study and apply it to our lives. It is said, “Oh no, here’s another person pushing his interpretation,” and the words go in one ear and out the other.
That is why I hold the word repeated, to a very specific meaning: To experience, reproduce, duplicate, or copy specifically from the original. When I use the sentence: Daniel and Revelation will be repeated, I am stating that prophetic history (the fulfilled prophecies of the past, i.e. the 2300 years) is to be used, as far as possible, in every possible detail, to explain the last-day repeating of the same prophecies. For this reason I, neither personally, nor on this website use the phrase “dual application” in referring to repeated prophecies. In my understanding of these words, dual application allows for the re-occurrence of a prophecy to take on the interpretation of the presenter. I believe this to be a disregard for prophetic hermeneutics. In other words: If God has truly designed that Daniel and Revelation (and other prophecies as well) are to be repeated (and I have NO doubt that they will), then He must be the interpreter of the repeated prophecy and not man. The few that I have seen who are teaching that prophecy is to be repeated have no template (God’s template) from which they are teaching, and in applying their own interpretations they go this way and that, assuredly different from their fellow teachers. Another thing which is lacking is the stability of a non-changing presentation (interpretation). Is this what God wants? Does not God provide a template which all may use in their understanding and teaching, and thus presenting a unified front to the enemy in these last days? YES!!! He provides a historical type from which we can safely and unitedly teach these prophecies!So, when I say repeat, I mean in the strictest meaning of the word;
If prophetic history is going to be repeated;
then by all means, let it repeat!
“In reviewing our past history, having traveled over every step of advance to our present standing, I can say, Praise God! As I see what the Lord has wrought, I am filled with astonishment, and with confidence in Christ as leader. We have nothing to fear for the future, except as we shall forget the way the Lord has led us, and His teaching in our past history.” —LS 196 (1902). {LDE 72.1}
Further Study 5
What Does Ellen White say about the Abomination of Desolation?—
(Emphsis supplied.)
The Last Generation!
“Jesus, looking down to the last generation, saw the world involved in a deception similar to that which caused the destruction of Jerusalem. The great sin of the Jews was their rejection of Christ; the great sin of the Christian world would be their rejection of the law of God, the foundation of His government in heaven and earth.” {GC 22.2}
“Jesus did not answer His disciples by taking up separately the destruction of Jerusalem and the great day of his coming. He mingled the description of these two events. Had He opened to His disciples future events as He beheld them, they would have been unable to endure the sight. In mercy to them He blended the description of the two great crises, leaving the disciples to study out the meaning for themselves [and leaving the last generation to study out the meaning for ourselves]. When He referred to the destruction of Jerusalem, His prophetic words reached beyond that event to the final conflagration in that day when the Lord shall rise out of His place to punish the world for their iniquity, when the earth shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain. This entire discourse was given, not for the disciples only, but for those who should live in the last scenes of this earth’s history.” {DA 628.1}
A More Direct Application to the Last Days!
“We need to stay our faith upon God, for there is just before us a time that will try men’s souls. Christ, upon the Mount of Olives, rehearsed the fearful judgments that were to precede His second coming: (Matt. 24:6-8 quoted) While these prophecies received a partial fulfillment at the destruction of Jerusalem, they have a more direct application to the last days.” {5T 753.1}
“The Saviour’s prophecy concerning the visitation of judgments upon Jerusalem is to have another fulfillment, of which that terrible desolation was but a faint shadow. In the fate of the chosen city we may behold the doom of a world that has rejected God’s mercy and trampled upon His law.” {GC 36.2}
“The ruin of Jerusalem was a symbol of the final ruin that shall overwhelm the world. The prophecies that received a partial fulfillment in the overthrow of Jerusalem have a more direct application to the last days. We are now standing on the threshold of great and solemn events. A crisis is before us, such as the world has never witnessed. And sweetly to us, as to the first disciples, comes the assurance that God’s kingdom ruleth over all. The program of coming events is in the hands of our Maker. The Majesty of heaven has the destiny of nations, as well as the concerns of His church, in His own charge.” {MB 120.2-122t}
“The future was mercifully veiled from the disciples. Had they at that time fully comprehended the two awful facts— the Redeemer’s sufferings and death, and the destruction of their city and temple— they would have been overwhelmed with horror. Christ presented before them an outline of the prominent events to take place before the close of time. His words were not then fully understood; but their meaning was to be unfolded as His people should need the instruction therein given. The prophecy which He uttered was twofold in its meaning; while foreshadowing the destruction of Jerusalem, it prefigured also the terrors of the last great day.” {GC 25.2, 3} [Type—Antitype]
“His word will bring as serious consequences upon God’s people today as did the same sin upon ancient Israel. There is a limit beyond which He will no longer delay His judgments. The desolation of Jerusalem stands as a solemn warning before the eyes of modern Israel, that the corrections given through His chosen instruments cannot be disregarded with impunity.” {4T 167.1}
What is there in Matthew 24 that decides the destiny of souls?
“The twenty-fourth chapter of Matthew is presented to me again and again as something that is to be brought to the attention of all. We are today living in the time when the predictions of this chapter are fulfilling. Let our ministers and teachers explain these prophecies to those whom they instruct. Let them leave out of their discourses matters of minor consequence, and present the truths that will decide the destiny of souls.” {GW 148.2} (What test in Matthew 24 “will decide the destiny of souls?”)
The Abomination of Desolation is—
“It is not time now for God’s people to be fixing their affections or laying up their treasure in the world. The time is not far distant, when, like the early disciples, we shall be forced to seek a refuge in desolate and solitary places. As the siege of Jerusalem by the Roman armies [the abomination of desolation: Matt 24:15] was the signal for flight to the Judean Christians, so the assumption of power on the part of our nation in the decree enforcing the papal sabbath [the abomination of desolation: Matt 24:15] will be a warning to us. It will then be time to leave the large cities, preparatory to leaving the smaller ones for retired homes in secluded places among the mountains . . . Every talent lent of God should be used to His glory in giving the warning to the world.” {5T 464.3-465t} (1885)
“By the decree enforcing the institution of the papacy in violation of the law of God, our nation [the U.S.] will disconnect herself fully from righteousness. When Protestantism shall stretch her hand across the gulf to grasp the hand of the Roman power, when she shall reach over the abyss to clasp hands with spiritualism, when, under the influence of this threefold union, our country shall repudiate every principle of its Constitution as a Protestant and republican government, and shall make provision for the propagation of papal falsehoods and delusions, then we may know that the time has come for the marvelous working of Satan and that the end is near.
“As the approach of the Roman armies [the abomination of desolation: Matt 24:15] was a sign to the disciples of the impending destruction of Jerusalem, so may this apostasy [the abomination of desolation: Matt 24:15] be a sign to us that the limit of God’s forbearance is reached, that the measure of our nation’s iniquity is full, and that the angel of mercy is about to take her flight, never to return. The people of God will then be plunged into those scenes of affliction and distress which prophets have described as the time of Jacob’s trouble. The cries of the faithful, persecuted ones ascend to heaven. And as the blood of Abel cried from the ground, there are voices also crying to God from martyrs’ graves, from the sepulchers of the sea, from mountain caverns, from convent vaults: “How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost Thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?” [Rev 6:10, the fifth seal, is here placed in the future.] {5T 451.1,2}
“With rapid steps we are approaching this period. When Protestant churches shall unite with the secular power to sustain a false religion, for opposing which their ancestors endured the fiercest persecution, then will the papal sabbath be enforced by the combined authority of church and state [the abomination of desolation: Matt 24:15]. There will be a national apostasy, which will end only in national ruin.” —Manuscript 51, 1899. {Ev 235.1}
Who will be blamed for the judgments?
“As men depart further and further from God, Satan is permitted to have power over the children of disobedience. He hurls destruction among men. There is calamity by land and sea. Property and life are destroyed by fire and flood. Satan resolves to charge this upon those who refuse to bow to the idol which he has set up [the abomination of desolation: Matt 24:15; Dan 12:11]. His agents point to Seventh-day Adventists as the cause of the trouble. “These people stand out in defiance of law,” they say. “They desecrate Sunday. Were they compelled to obey the law for Sunday observance, there would be a cessation of these terrible judgments.” {Mar 176.1} (1901)
How wide-spread will this abomination be?
“. . . Foreign nations will follow the example of the United States. Though she leads out, yet the same crisis will come upon our people in all parts of the world.” {6T 395.1}
“. . . As America, the land of religious liberty, shall unite with the papacy in forcing the conscience and compelling men to honor the false sabbath, the people of every country on the globe will be led to follow her example.” {6T 18.2}
“The faith of individual members of the church will be tested as though there were not another person in the world.” (MS 1a, 1890) {7BC 983.1}
The Earth Desolated!
“The Earth Desolated” is the title of this section in Early Writings.
“My attention was again directed to the earth. The wicked had been destroyed, and their dead bodies were lying upon its surface. The wrath of God in the seven last plagues had been visited upon the inhabitants of the earth... After the saints had been delivered by the voice of God, the wicked multitude turned their rage upon one another. The earth seemed to be deluged with blood, and dead bodies were from one end of it to the other.
“The earth looked like a desolate wilderness. . . Here is to be the home of Satan with his evil angels for a thousand years. Here he will be confined, to wander up and down over the broken surface of the earth and see the effects of his rebellion against God’s law. For a thousand years he can enjoy the fruit of the curse which he has caused.” {EW 289.3-290.1}
“After speaking of the end of the world, Jesus comes back to Jerusalem, the city then sitting in pride and arrogance, and saying, “I sit a queen, . . . and shall see no sorrow.” As His prophetic eye rested upon Jerusalem, He sees that as she was given up to destruction, [so] the world will be given up to its doom. The scenes that transpired at the destruction of Jerusalem will be repeated at the great and terrible day of the Lord, but in a more fearful manner.” (MS 40, 1897) {5BC 1123.1}
“Men will continue to erect expensive buildings, costing millions of money: special attention will be called to their architectural beauty, and the firmness and solidity with which they are constructed, but the Lord has instructed me that despite the unusual firmness and expensive display, these buildings will share the fate of the temple in Jerusalem. That magnificent structure fell. Angels of God were sent to do the work of destruction, so that one stone was not left one upon another that was not thrown down.” (MS 35, 1906) {5BC 1098.7}
The time has come for Daniel to stand!
“[Dan. 12:9, 4, 10, 13 quoted.] The time has come for Daniel to stand in his lot. The time has come for the light given him to go to the world as never before. If those for whom the Lord has done so much will walk in the light, their knowledge of Christ and the prophecies relating to Him will be greatly increased as they near the close of this earth’s history.” (MS 176, 1899) {4BC 1174.4}
“The seven thunders . . . relate to future events which will be disclosed in their order. Daniel shall stand in his lot at the end of the days. John sees the little book [of Daniel] unsealed. Then [all of] Daniel’s prophecies have their proper place in the first, second, and third angels’ messages to be given to the world. The unsealing of the little book [of Daniel] was [and still is] the message in relation to time.” {7BC 971.4} (Emphsis supplied.)