Warning! An End Time Message
Communication is always of vital importance when a kingdom is at war. It is critical to keep communication with one’s own soldiers secret. Just as important is the ability to decipher the secret codes of the enemy and learn their secrets. During World War II, two secret codes were so well-crafted that they were never cracked. The German Enigma machine was a mechanical device that was so complex the Allies were never able to decipher its messages.(1) Only after a series of events provided the Allies with both the machine and the current cipher code itself, were the Allies able to read secret German military communications.(2)
The other unbreakable code was devised by the Navajo
code talkers. These young American Indian Marines worked in pairs,
communicating via a complicated code-within-a-code. Since modern
military terms had no corresponding words in Navajo, the young men
worked out a secret code to refer to different ranks of officers,
various types of planes, locations, etc. The second code was Navajo
itself, which is a tonal language containing sounds that German, Italian
and Japanese do not have.
The Japanese, who were skilled code breakers,
remained baffled by the Navajo language . . . The Navajo code talkers
even stymied a Navajo soldier taken prisoner at Bataan . . . The Navajo
soldier, forced to listen to the jumbled words of talker transmissions,
said to a code talker after the war, “I never figured out what you guys
who got me into all that trouble were saying.” (3)
Heaven has a code as well. Many Bible students,
throughout time, have puzzled over the divine secret codes contained in
Daniel and Revelation. Like the secret codes used by governments to
protect sensitive information from the enemy, it has been impossible to
fully understand Heaven’s secret code. One vital piece of information
has been missing: the Creator’s calendar. Prophecy is Heaven’s way to
communicate vital information to the faithful soldiers of Christ.
However, only now as knowledge of the true calendar is understood, is it
possible to fully understand the messages carefully preserved for the
final generation.
Daniel’s prophecies provide sweeping views of the
calendar struggle through history. The various elements of calendation
that comprise the calendar of today are foreshadowed as well as when the
Creator’s calendar triumphs in the end. Daniel also foretells
the legislated calendar changes that effect God’s faithful people.(4) Like the Enigma Machine, the book of Daniel has been impossible to fully decipher without the cipher code of the calendar.
Revelation expands on Daniel. The prophecies of
Revelation are the code-within-a-code of the Navajo code talkers. Using
the symbols introduced in Daniel, Revelation takes them one step
further, providing detailed information of the final conflict: a battle
so horrendous that even Christ warned that, if it were possible, even
the very elect would be deceived.(5)
The conditions for eternal life are the same today as they have always been: obey and live; disobey and die. The grace of God [Yahuwah] through faith in the merits of His Son enable all who want to obey, to be able to do so. However, in order to obey,
justice demands that everyone have a chance to clearly understand the
requirements. The Creator, He Who stated, “I am the Lord; I change
not,”(6) has never changed His day of worship nor has He ever
given permission for anyone claiming to represent Him to do so,
either. In keeping with His kind and gracious character, the only
living God has encoded in Revelation, in painstaking detail, a merciful
warning. It is now possible to fully understand the message, using the
calendar to provide the key to decipher the code. This warning explains
everything one needs to know to be prepared for the final battle over
worship.(7)
The warning is contained in three parts.
First Angel’s Message
And I saw another angel fly in the
midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that
dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and
people, saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to Him; for
the hour of His judgment is come: and worship Him that made heaven and
earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters.(8)
This is an invitation to everyone on earth to honor
their Creator by worshipping Him on the day which His calendar,
established at Creation, dictates. The very wording of this angel’s
message is very similar to that of the fourth commandment: “Remember the
Sabbath day to keep it holy, six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy
work: but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou
shalt not do any work . . . for in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is . . . .”(9) Of
all Ten Commandments, this is the only one which contains the name,
title and dominion of the Lawgiver: He is YHWH Elohim, the Creator who
made and rules everything. This establishes His authority, His right to
dictate the requirement.
When one obeys the commandment to honor the Sabbath,
he is pledging his allegiance to the divine Government of Heaven. The
Sabbath, then, is the sign or mark of loyalty to the Creator. A continuous weekly cycle is not anchored to anything in creation. It cannot be a memorial of Creation. Only when the Sabbath is linked to creation via the moon can it truly be a memorial of Creation.
The words of this angel’s message are full of import.
Fear God – The word “fear” comes from the Greek phobeo
which means to reverence the Heavenly Father and hold Him in awe. The
idea is one of complete loyalty and surrender to His will. As
previously shown, when worship is offered on days calculated by a pagan
calendar, the worship is offered to pagan deities, ultimately, Satan.
Complete surrender of the will is necessary before one is willing to
step out and be different from the rest of the world, worshipping by the
genuine calendar established for that purpose.
Give Glory to God
– Only those who fully surrender their will are able to truly give
glory: honor, praise and homage, to their Maker because He is truly
glorified only when His people are living in obedience to His will.
When a person in sincerity of heart, offers love and worship to the
Creator on Sunday or Saturday in ignorance believing that is the true
day of worship, the loving heart of the Eternal God accepts this as
their best efforts. However, with greater light come greater privileges
and responsibilities. When a person knows that the luni-solar calendar
is the only genuine time-measurement, all others are counterfeits
designed to divert worship to the hidden god, that person is responsible
for acting on that knowledge. His obedience (or lack thereof) then
gives (or withholds) glory to his Maker.
The Hour of His judgment is Come
– One of Lucifer’s charges against the government of God is that the
law, which is holy and perfect, cannot be kept. Before the great
controversy between Christ and Satan can be finished, this charge must
be answered. Thus, the eternal God Himself is judged in the lives of
His saints. If a person tries to side-step the obligations of the
divine law, he lends support to Satan’s charges. The final generation
will acknowledge the supremacy of the holy law of God and will, through
faith in the merits of their Saviour, be enabled to keep that law, even
at the cost of life itself. The Father is thus vindicated when those
who claim to be His people lay all earthly interests aside, surrender
their will, and obey His law.
Worship the Creator
– As has been demonstrated, the day on which a person worships directs
that worship to the God/god who claims that day. By creating a Saturday
versus Sunday conflict, Saturn/Sheitan/Satan has remained hidden,
receiving the worship of both days. To truly worship one’s
Creator, all false, pagan calendars must be laid aside. The seventh-day
Sabbath, calculated on the genuine luni-solar calendar of Creation, is
the only true day of worship claimed by the Creator. All others are
counterfeits which give worship, glory and honor to Lucifer whose stated
goal was to sit on the Mount of the Congregation and receive worship
due the Creator alone.
Thus, the first angel’s message is a complete call to
lay aside all counterfeit calendation and give honor to the Creator by
worshipping Him on the day He has specified, dictated by His calendar.
It is given with a loud voice, signifying that it is an important
message that all will hear.
Second Angel’s Message
And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.(10)
It should be noted that this message is not given
with a loud voice. The reason is simple: only those who have accepted
the first angel’s message will accept the second angel’s message and be
benefitted by it.
babylon is fallen, is fallen –
Babylon falls when her foundation is destroyed. The assumption that
Christ was resurrected on Sunday has formed the basis for worship on
that day. When it is proven that the First Day on which Christ was
resurrected was the first day of the Biblical week, and not Sunday,
Babylon falls. From the first, Lucifer boasted that he would change
times and laws. Babylon falls a second time, and still further, when
his identity is revealed to be the hidden god, Saturn/Satan usurping all worship offered on the pagan worship days of any counterfeit calendar.
That Great City – As early as Irenaeus (c. 130-c. 202) Bible students were linking the Roman Empire to the prophetic symbols employed in Daniel and Revelation.(11) Michael of Cesena and Johannes De Rupescissa,(12) both friars in the 14(th)
century, were among the first to outspokenly link the paganism flowing
from the Church of Rome to the “whore of Babylon, drunk with the blood
of saints.”(13) John Milicz (d. 1374), an influential
priest, highly placed in both politics and the Church, posted on the
doors of the original St. Peter’s in Rome, a placard which stated “The
Anti-christ is come; he has his seat in the church.”(14)
Only in recent years has it become politically incorrect to link the
paganism of the Roman Catholic Church to the Apocalyptic symbolism in
Revelation. This symbol should not be limited to the papacy, however.
All who embrace Babylonian Christianity or worship by Babylonian
calendars fall under the umbrella of paganism.
She Made All Nations Drink of the Wine of the Wrath of Her Fornication –
Fornication is the joining of that which is unlawful. By using civil
legislation to impose a pagan calendar for religious observances, the
hidden god has directed all worship to himself, stealing it from the
Creator. Christian missionaries in ignorance have taken first the
Julian and later the Gregorian calendars to all parts of the world.
They have taught this counterfeit system of time-measurement to people
who, frequently, were closer to true calendation than the missionaries,
but sunken in paganism in other areas.
Wine is intoxicating. It beclouds the mind, making
it difficult to reason. The wine of Babylon has been the pagan system
of calendation which makes it so difficult for people today to grasp a
calendar that does not have a continuous weekly cycle. Ever since 1949
when the world united in using the Gregorian calendar,(16)
the whole world has drunk of the wine of this intoxicating deception.
The Seventh-day Adventist Church has long taught that “the wine of
Babylon is the exalting of the false and spurious sabbath above the
Sabbath which the Lord Jehovah hath blessed and sanctified . . . .”(17)
God denounces Babylon “because she
made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.”
This means that she has disregarded the only commandment which points
out the true God, and has torn down the Sabbath, God’s memorial of
creation.(18)
Roman Catholics and Sunday-keeping Protestants are
used to hearing Jews and Saturday-observing Protestants say that they
are worshipping on the wrong day. The truth is, all who
worship by pagan calendation, worship pagan deities (devils) on pagan
holy days. This is the wine of which all the world has drunk. The
second angel’s message is not given with a loud voice because only those
who accept and obey the first angel’s message will recognize the truth
of the second angel’s message.
Third Angel’s Message
And the third angel followed them,
saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image,
and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand, the same shall
drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without
mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with
fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the
presence of the Lamb: and the smoke of their torment ascendeth up
forever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the
beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name.(19)
The most fearful threatening is contained in this
message. For such a judgment to be pronounced, some heinous wrong must
have been committed. In order to understand this message, it is
necessary to first decode the symbols used. In prophecy, beasts are
symbols of world political powers that war against God’s people.(20) The beast and his image referred to in the third angel’s message are first described in Revelation 13.
The beast from the sea
And I stood upon the sand of the
sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten
horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of
blasphemy. And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his
feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion:
and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.
And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly
wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast. And they
worshiped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: saying, Who is
like unto the beast? Who is able to make war with him? And there was
given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies . . . And
he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name . . .
.(21)
The repeated use of the word blasphemy reveals that
this, like every other issue in the conflict, is over worship. Like the
image of Daniel 2, the various creatures which make up this amalgamated
beast represent the different principles of calendation which form the
calendar of today. The seven heads represent the seven planetary gods,
three of which have double horns. Horns are ancient symbols of power,
originating with Nimrod.(22) The heads with double horns
represent Friday, Saturday and Sunday. These are the days of the
world’s three main religions: Islam, Judaism and Christianity. Every
head having a horn traces this counterfeit system back to its origins:
Nimrod.
Babylonian Christianity has two worship days: Sunday
for the uninitiated masses, and Saturday, for the ignorant and the
initiated alike. It is worship on Sunday, based on the assumption that
Christ was resurrected then, that has supported Babylon. Sunday has
provided a “front” to allow Saturn, the hidden god, to remain hidden.
Therefore, it is reasonable that the head/day which received the deadly
wound was Sunday. This occurred in a series of events, culminating in
1798 with laws which enforced a calendar that had a 10-day week.(23) Babylon’s support for Sunday worship fell when the weekly configuration was changed removing Sunday from the week.
The beast from the earth
The beast from the sea is followed by another from the earth.
And I beheld another beast coming
up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a
dragon. And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him,
and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first
beast, whose deadly wound was healed . . . And he deceiveth them that
dwell on the earth . . . saying to them that dwell on the earth, that
they should make an image to the beast which had the wound by a sword,
and did live. And he had power to give life unto the image of the
beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as
many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed. And
he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to
receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no
man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the
beast, or the number of his name. Here is wisdom. Let him that hath
understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a
man; and his number is Six hundred three score and six [666].(24)
A lot of money has been made in Hollywood and with books speculating about the “mark of the beast.”
Sincere people have suggested that the mark of the beast is everything
from national ID cards, to Social Security numbers in the United States,(25)
to nano-techonology which can implant computer chips under the skin.
All of these speculations are wrong because they lack the basic
understanding that the final war is, as it has always been, over worship.
The image to the beast (Revelation 13:14) is also an image of the
beast (verse 15). Therefore, to understand what the image is, one must
understand what the original beast is which comes out of the sea. This
beast, as demonstrated in this article,
is the world-power which first imposed pagan calendation for religious
purposes upon the world. The first beast-power, (the amalgamated
pagan/papal Rome) did this at the Council of Nicæa under Constantine, when Biblical calendation was outlawed.
It is reasonable to conclude that the action of the
first beast, imposing a counterfeit calendar, will be repeated by the
image of the beast. Currently, there is a revived movement to reform
the Gregorian calendar.(26) This was first agitated with wide support in the 1930s-1940s,(27) before dying out in the 1950s.(28)
On December 31, 2009, the Wall Street Journal published a
well-researched article on calendar reform, presenting several possible
calendar options.(29) The World Calendar Organization(30) and the Benedictine Perpetual Calendar(31)
are only two of several proposed calendar reforms, each of which begins
the year on Sunday. The goal is to implement a new calendar in 2012,
because that year begins on Sunday. Calendar reform would also “fix” Easter – a long-held desire of the papacy.(32)
The third angel’s message is a dire warning against
worshipping the beast via use of his calendar. “If any man worship the
beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his
hand, the same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God.”(33)
The fact that there is a distinction made between the “beast” and his
“image” would indicate that there are two distinct entities which bear a
surface similarity. The seal of the true God, the mark of allegiance
to Him, is in keeping holy His Sabbath, calculated by His calendar. The
mark of the beast is the same thing: a pledge of allegiance to the
hidden god by keeping his worship day(s), calculated by his calendar. An image, then, indicates yet another calendar.
The third angel warns all against either calendar:
the Gregorian or its successor. The fact that the mark of the beast can
be received in either the forehead or the hand reveals another
distinction. Those who receive the mark of the beast in the forehead,
like those who receive the seal of God in the forehead, are truly
convinced of the legitimacy of the calendar. Those who receive the mark
in the hand are people who go along with the calendar for temporal
security. An example of the last class is a Seventh-day Adventist
pastor who said, “You’re right. When the Sabbath is calculated by the Biblical calendar,
it will fall differently. However, all God requires is that we worship
on the seventh day of whatever calendar society is using.”(34)
This is a fearful deception to believe. The third
angel explicitly states what will be the punishment of receiving the
mark of the beast by worshipping him:
If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand, the same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation;
and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of
the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb: and the smoke of their
torment ascendeth up forever and ever:(35) and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name.(36)
The very next chapter, Revelation 15, tells exactly
what that “wrath of God” is, and it is the most dreadful threatening
ever presented to man. By contrast, those who worship the Creator on
His calendar are described: “Here is the patience of the saints: here
are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.”(37)
All who desire to honor their Creator, shunning the punishment of the
wicked, will choose to worship Him on the day which He has never
changed: the seventh-day Sabbath, calculated by His calendar, established from the beginning.
Prophecy is always understood at the time of its fulfillment. The genuine calendar of Creation
provides the key to unlock the prophecies of Daniel and Revelation.
Every student of scripture should reexamine the prophetic books because
great light is now available. The fact that these prophecies are
finally being decoded and opened for the understanding of all reveals
that the time for their complete fulfillment has come.
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Related Articles, eCourses, & Videos:
See also: The Battle Over Worship (eCourse) and Armageddon (Video)
(1) David Kahn, Seizing the Enigma, (Barnes & Noble, 2009).
(2) See Charles Cooper, “The Enigma Machine,” U.S. Naval Academy, April 16, 2002, for a brief overview.
(3) “Navajo Code Talkers,” United States Navy, www.history.navy.mil.
(4) See “The Prophet Warns of the Counterfeit Calendar.”
(5) Matthew 24:24
(6) Malachi 3:6
(7) Space constraints demand a limited
perusal of these deep subjects. The WLC team urge every reader to make a
thorough study of these prophecies for himself.
(8) Revelation 14:6-7
(9) Exodus 20:8-11
(10) Revelation 14:8
(11) L. E. Froom, Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, (Washington, D.C.: Review & Herald Publ. Assoc., 1950), Vol. I, pp. 243-245.
(12) He is sometimes called Jean Roquetaillardes.
(13) John Foxe, Acts and Monuments, (1684 ed.), Vol. 1, p. 445.
(14) Ezra H. Gillett, The Life and Times of John Huss, (Boston: Gould and Lincoln, 1863), Vol. 1, p. 23.
(15) Not surprisingly, Milicz was
arrested. “Before a large assembly of prelates and learned men, in the
church of St. Peter, he delivered a discourse in Latin, which produced a
great impression.” (Augustus Neander, General History of the Christian Religion and Church,
trans. Joseph Torrey, [Boston: Crocker & Brewster, 1856] Vol. 5, p.
181.) He was finally released from prison by Cardinal Albano, but his
works continued after him, influencing Matthias of Janow (d. 1394) and
through him, John Huss, John Wycliff and later Martin Luther.
(16) Greece was the last European country
to adopt the Gregorian calendar in 1923. Although China adopted it in
1912, the wars that followed so disrupted the country that it was not
until the communists united China that the use of Gregorian calendation
was enforced, joining China with the rest of the world in the same
method of time-keeping.
(17) E. G. White, Selected Messages, (Washington D.C.: Review and Herald Publ. Assoc.), Vol. 2, p. 68.
(18) E. G. White, Letter 98, 1900; Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary, Vol. 7, p. 979.
(19) Revelation 14: 9-11
(20) See Daniel 7:17, 19, 23; 8:20-22.
(21) Revelation 13:1-6
(22) “Kronos signifies ‘The Horned One.’
As a horn is a well-known Oriental emblem for power or might, Kronos,
‘The Horned one,’ was, according to the mystic system, just a synonym
for . . . Nimrod . . . The name Kronos, as the classical reader is well
aware, is applied to Saturn as the ‘Father of the gods.’ . . . The
meaning of this name Kronos, ‘The Horned one,’ as applied to Nimrod,
fully explains the origin of the remarkable symbol” Alexander Hislop, The Two Babylons, (New Jersey: Loizeaux Brothers, Inc., 1959), pp. 32-33.
(23) See “French Republican Calendar.”
(24) Revelation 13:11-18
(25) This has been speculated ever since Social Security cards were first introduced in 1936.
(26) See “One World, One Calendar.”
(27) Between August 26, 1929 and June 26,
1940, the Soviet Union actually did reform the Gregorian calendar,
changing the length of the weeks in a blatant attack on
Muslim/Judeo-Christian religions. See Appendix F.
(28) See “The World Calendar.”
(29) Charles Forelle, “Time and Again, the Calendar Comes Up Short,” Wall Street Journal, December 31, 2009.
(30) While not all suggested calendar
replacements disrupt the continuous weekly cycle, the World Calendar
does. See www.theworldcalendar.org.
(31) See www.ipswich.qld.gov.au/about_council/mayor_and_councillors/division_2/perpetual_calendar/.
(32) In 1937, Dr. Jean Nussbaum conducted a
series of interviews with leading Catholic prelates and scholars in
Paris and Rome. After interviewing the Rector of the Biblical Institute
in Rome, Nussbaum recalled that he “sees no difficulty in accepting the
calendar reform . . . He feels that the [Roman Catholic] Church has the
necessary power to make this change.” To read Nussbaum’s interview
notes, visit www.4angelspublications.com/mcrm.php.
(33) Revelation 14:9-10
(34) Personal interview, August 16, 2007, Spokane, Washington.
(35) This is not teaching the immortality
of lost souls, burning forever in hell. Scripture makes it clear that
the wages of sin is not eternal life in torment. Rather, “the wages of
sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus
Christ our Lord” (Romans 6:23). The third angel’s message makes it
clear that the length of the sentence of death is forever, not
that any are actually burning alive forever. See also Ecclesiastes 9:5:
“For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any
thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is
forgotten.”
(36) Revelation 14: 9-11.
(37) Revelation 14:12
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