Three Angels and the Other Angel
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This message, if heeded, will call the attention of every nation and
kindred and tongue and people to a close examination of the Word, and
to the true light in regard to the power that has changed the seventh-day
Sabbath to a spurious sabbath. The only true God has been forsaken,
His law has been discarded, His sacred Sabbath institution has been
trampled in the dust by the man of sin. The fourth commandment, so
plain and explicit, has been ignored. The Sabbath memorial, declaring
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who the living God is, the Creator of the heavens and the earth, has
been torn down, and a spurious sabbath has been given to the world
in its place. Thus a breach has been made in the law of God. A false
sabbath could not be a true standard.
In the first angel’s message men are called upon to worship God,
our Creator, who made the world and all things that are therein. They
have paid homage to an institution of the Papacy, making of no effect
the law of Jehovah, but there is to be an increase of knowledge on this
subject.
The message proclaimed by the angel flying in the midst of heaven
is the everlasting gospel, the same gospel that was declared in Eden
when God said to the serpent, “I will put enmity between thee and
the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy
head, and thou shalt bruise his heel” (
Genesis 3:15
). Here was the
first promise of a Saviour who would stand on the field of battle to
contest the power of Satan and prevail against him. Christ came to our
world to represent the character of God as it is represented in His holy
law; for His law is a transcript of His character. Christ was both the
law and the gospel. The angel that proclaims the everlasting gospel
proclaims the law of God; for the gospel of salvation brings men to
obedience of the law, whereby their characters are formed after the
divine similitude.
In the fifty-eighth chapter of Isaiah, the work of those who worship
God, the Maker of the heavens and the earth, is specified: “They that
shall be of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up
the foundations of many generations” (
Isaiah 58:12
). God’s memorial,
His seventh-day Sabbath, will be uplifted. “Thou shalt be called, The
repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in. If thou turn
away thy foot from the Sabbath [no longer trample it under your feet],
from doing thy pleasure on My holy day; and call the Sabbath a delight,
the holy of the Lord, honourable; and shalt honour Him, I will cause