Lesson 16

October 20, 1888.

THE FINAL CONTEST AND THE VICTORY.

  1. WHO will be the National Reform king?
  2. Who alone will refuse to acknowledge him as Christ?
  3. What do the National Reformers say will be done with all such? Ans. — “The day is coming when all professed Christians who deny the kingship of Christ over the nations, together with their infidel confederates, will, at Christ’s command, be slain before his face, because they will not have him to reign over them.” — Secretary. M. A. Gault, in Christian Statesman, January 14, 1886.
  4. What did the prophecy say they would do? Rev. 13:15.
  5. What then will those be doing? Rev. 14:12.
  6. What then will be the work of the great false christ? Mark 13:22.
  7. What have we found to be the one part of the commandments of God, above all others, that distinguishes those who obey the Third Angel’s Message? Ans. — The keeping of the Sabbath of the Lord.
  8. What will be done by the great false christ to seduce them from this? Ans. —”In his assumed character of Christ, he claims to have changed the Sabbath to Sunday, and commands all to hallow the day which he has blessed.” — Great Controversy, Vol. 4, P. 442.
  9. What crowning wonder will be wrought to confirm this? Rev. 13:13.
  10. What answer may be made by all? Ans. — The seventh day is the Sabbath, even though heaven itself comes down. Matt. 24:35; Luke 16:17.
  11. When they yet refuse to receive the mark of the beast and to worship his image, what then will be done? Ans. — “A decree will finally be issued denouncing them as deserving of the severest punishment, and giving the people liberty, after a certain time, to put them to death.”—Id., p. 445.*
  12. Are any put to death when the time expires? Ans. — No. See note.
  13. Where are they next seen? Rev. 15:2.
  14. What song do they sing? Verse 3.
  15. Can anybody else learn that song? Rev. 14:3.
  16. What was the song of Moses? Ans. — The song of victory that they sang when God gave deliverance from Pharaoh’s oppression.
  17. What then will be the song of these? Ans. — The song of their deliverance.
  18. Deliverance from what? Ans. — From Satan’s oppression through the power of the beast and his image.
  19. What was one main cause of Pharaoh’s oppressing Israel? Ans. — The keeping of the Sabbath. Ex. 5:5.
  20. What will be the cause of the wrath of Satan and the tyranny of the beast and his image, upon those who obey the Third Angel’s Message? Ans. — The keeping of the Sabbath.
  21. Then why is it that only these will be able to sing the song of Moses? Ans. — Because only these, of all the world, will have been delivered from such bitter oppression.
  22. What will these have received that they might be saved? Ans. — “The love of the truth.”
  23. What will be their shield in the time of the seven last plagues? Ps. 91:4.
  24. When they approach the glittering gates of the glorious city of God, what will be said? Isa. 26:2.
  25. What else is a part of their song? Rev. 15:3, last part.
  26. As none others can learn this song, what would this show? Ans. — That these are counted worthy to receive such views of the works and the justice of God, as none others can.
  27. How do they obtain these views? Rev. 14:4, last part.
  28. Where and with whom shall they dwell? Rev. 7:15-17.

NOTE

QUESTION 11. - “As the time appointed in the decree against God’s people comes, the inhabitants of the earth unite to destroy the disturbers of their peace. In one night they determine to strike the decisive blow that shall forever silence the voice of the reprover. The waiting ones, in their solitary retreats, are still pleading for divine protection. In every quarter, companies of armed men, urged on by hosts of evil angels, are preparing for the work of death. With shouts of triumph, with jeers and imprecations, they are about to rush upon their prey. “But lo, a dense blackness, deeper than the darkness of the night, falls upon the earth. Then a rainbow, shining with the glory from the throne of God, spans the heavens, and seems to encircle each praying company. The angry multitudes are suddenly arrested. Their mocking cries die away. The objects of their murderous rage are forgotten. With fearful forebodings they gaze upon the symbol of God’s covenant, and long to be shielded from its overpowering brightness. …

” The wicked look with terror,and amazement upon the scene, while the righteous behold with solemn joy the tokens of their deliverance. Everything in nature seems turned out of its course. The streams cease to flow. Dark, heavy clouds come up, and clash against each other. In the midst of the angry heavens is one clear space of indescribable glory, whence comes the voice of God like the sound of many waters, saying, ‘It is done.’

“That voice shakes the heavens and the earth. There is a mighty earthquake. The firmament appears to open and shut. ‘The glory from the throne of God seems flashing through. The mountains shake like a reed in the wind, and ragged rocks are scattered on every side. There is a roar as of a coming tempest. The sea is lashed into fury. There is heard the shriek of the hurricane, like the voice of demons upon a mission of destruction. The whole earth heaves and swells like the waves of the sea. Its surface is breaking up. Its very foundations seem to be giving way. Mountain chains are sinking. Inhabited islands disappear with their living freight. The seaports that have become like Sodom for wickedness are swallowed up by the angry waters. Great hailstones, every one ‘about the weight of a talent,’ are doing their work of destruction. The proudest cities of the earth are laid low. The costly palaces, upon which the world’s great men have lavished their wealth in order to glorify themselves, are crumbling to ruin before their eyes. Prison walls are rent asunder, and God’s people, who have been held in bondage for their faith, are set free.” — Great Controversy, Vol. 4, chap. 35.

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