6th Church, Seal & Trumpet and the beginning of the Investigative Judgment

A fiery stream issued and came forth from before Him: thousand thousands ministered unto Him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before Him: the judgment was set, and the books were opened. Daniel 7:10

"In the historical half of Revelation (Revelation 1-11), the sixth item in each series deals with the beginning of the investigative judgment in 1844. 

*The sixth church (the door to the most holy place opens before

Philadelphia) 

*The sixth seal (signs in the heavens announce the beginning of the judgment) 

*The sixth trumpet (the little book episode and the measuring of the temple). 

There is a very important link between Revelation 9:14, 16 (the sixth trumpet) and Revelation 7:1,2,3 (parenthesis in the sixth seal). 

In both, there is a binding and loosing relating to four angels and there is a numbering of people. 

Revelation 7:1-3 describes the numbering of God’s people while in Revelation 9:14, 16 describes the numbering of their evil counterparts. 

Revelation 9:16 and 7:4 are the only two places in Revelation where the expression ‘I heard their number’ appears. 

If the door of probation is open during the period of the sixth trumpet and closes when the seventh is about to sound, then the sixth trumpet is the exact historical counterpart of Revelation 7:1-8." 

Stephen Bohr

Creation Moment 10/24/2025 - Evidence for a Young Earth SERIES: Soft Tissue in Fossils

And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man: Genesis 7:21

"Ask the average layperson how he knows that the earth is millions or billions of years old, and that person will probably mention the dinosaurs, which nearly everybody “knows” died off 65 million years ago. 

--A recent discovery by Dr. Mary Schweitzer, however, has given reason for all but committed evolutionists to question this assumption.

Bone slices from the fossilized thigh bone (femur) of a Tyrannosaurus rex found in the Hell Creek formation of Montana were studied under the microscope by Schweitzer. To her amazement, the bone showed what appeared to be blood vessels of the type seen in bone and marrow, and these contained what appeared to be red blood cells with nuclei, typical of reptiles and birds (but not mammals). The vessels even appeared to be lined with specialized endothelial cells found in all blood vessels.
Amazingly, the bone marrow contained what appeared to be flexible tissue. Initially, some skeptical scientists suggested that bacterial biofilms (dead bacteria aggregated in a slime) formed what only appear to be blood vessels and bone cells. Recently Schweitzer and coworkers found biochemical evidence for intact fragments of the protein collagen, which is the building block of connective tissue. This is important because collagen is a highly distinctive protein not made by bacteria. (See Schweitzer’s review article in Scientific American [December 2010, pp. 62–69] titled “Blood from Stone.”)

*Some evolutionists have strongly criticized Schweitzer’s conclusions because they are understandably reluctant to concede the existence of blood vessels, cells with nuclei, tissue elasticity, and intact protein fragments in a dinosaur bone dated at 68 million years old. 

*Other evolutionists, who find Schweitzer’s evidence too compelling to ignore, simply conclude that there is some previously unrecognized form of fossilization that preserves cells and protein fragments over tens of millions of years. 

*Needless to say, no evolutionist has publically considered the possibility that dinosaur fossils are not millions of years old.

An obvious question arises from Schweitzer’s work: 

Q: is it even remotely plausible that blood vessels, cells, and protein fragments can exist largely intact over 68 million years? 

While many consider such long-term preservation of tissue and cells to be very unlikely, the problem is that no human or animal remains are known with certainty to be 68 million years old. 

But if creationists are right, dinosaurs died off only 3,000–4,000 years ago. 

Q: So would we expect the preservation of vessels, cells, and complex molecules of the type that Schweitzer reports for biological tissues historically known to be 3,000–4,000 years old?

The answer is yes. Many studies of Egyptian mummies and other humans of this old age (confirmed by historical evidence) show all the sorts of detail Schweitzer reported in her T. rex. In addition to Egyptian mummies, the Tyrolean iceman, found in the Alps in 1991 and believed to be about 5,000 years old, shows such incredible preservation of DNA and other microscopic detail.

We conclude that the preservation of vessels, cells, and complex molecules in dinosaurs is entirely consistent with a young-earth creationist perspective but is highly implausible with the evolutionist’s perspective about dinosaurs that died off millions of years ago." 

AIG

Two characteristics of the Grave

Two characteristics of the Grave:

"Psalms 115:17 “The dead do not praise the LORD nor any who
go down into silence.” 

Job 17:13, 14 “If I wait for the grave [Sheol] as my house, If I make my bed in the darkness, If I say to corruption, 'You are my father,' and to the worm, 'You are my mother and my sister,'” 

There is no place darker or more silent than to be six feet under!!

Revelation 1:17, 18: Once again, Hades is linked with the idea of death. Jesus died and went to the grave but He came to life again and came forth from the grave “And when I saw Him, I fell at His feet as dead. But He laid His right hand on me, saying to me, "Do not be afraid; I am the First and the Last. I am He who lives, and was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore. Amen. And I have the keys of Hades [hell in the KJV] and of Death.” 

* Satan as the jailer 

* The tomb as the jail 

*The dead as the prisoners 

*The jailer has the keys and dares Jesus to go in to get them. 

*Jesus goes into the tomb and takes away the keys
*He comes out on the third day and says: “I am the resurrection and the life, because I live, you will live also.” 

*This battle can be clearly seen in the story of the resurrection of Moses (Jude 9)." 

Stephen Bohr

"SDA's on" SERIES PAGE

The revelation of Jesus Christ, 

which God gave unto Him, 

to show unto His servants things 

which must shortly come to pass. Revelation 1:1

The Law

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The Sabbath

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The Sanctuary

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Conditional Immortality

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Prophecy

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IN the NEWS - Wikipedia Raises Fist to God

But his citizens hated him, and sent a message after him, 

saying, We will not have this man to reign over us. 

Luke 19:14

"A Polish Wikipedia editor earlier this year complained about religious discrimination to a committee that enforces the “code of conduct” imposed by the Wikimedia Foundation that owns Wikipedia. The editor expressed opposition to LGBT ideology, citing Bible verses condemning it in his profile on a Discord Wikipedia chat group, prompting mockery and insults from others. Members of the committee rejected his claims and suggested instead the Bible verses were a violation.

Committee members further initiated discussions to delete Wikipedia pages the editor created expressing his Biblical views and opposition to policies and practices prohibiting the voicing of opposition to same-sex marriage. Months after the pages were deleted and his complaint rejected, the editor was banned from Wikipedia partly citing his complaint to the Committee.

After someone pointed out his Discord profile included a Bible verse and other messages opposing homosexuality, another moderator banned him stating the Discord group was “an inclusive space and behavior that causes others to feel unwelcome will not be tolerated.” He was told that his comments and profile were “incompatible” with remaining in the group and he was banned. 

BZPN stated that others in the Discord group had “posted mocking comments and memes, including references to LGBT militias (TQILA, IRPGF), anti-Christian sarcasm, and laughing emojis.” One referenced a “No Queerphobia” essay on Wikipedia, which some admins have invoked when banning editors expressing conservative views." 

Breitbart

Creation Moment 10/23/2025 - Evidence for a Young Earth SERIES: Bent Rock Layers

And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered. Genesis 7:19

"In many mountainous areas, rock layers thousands of feet thick have been bent and folded without fracturing. 

Q: How can that happen if they were laid down separately over hundreds of millions of years and already hardened?

Hardened rock layers are brittle. Try bending a slab of concrete sometime to see what happens! But if concrete is still wet, it can easily be shaped and molded before the cement sets. 

The same principle applies to sedimentary rock layers. They can be bent and folded soon after the sediment is deposited, before the natural cements have a chance to bind the particles together into hard, brittle rocks.

The region around Grand Canyon is a great example, showing how most of the earth’s fossil-bearing layers were laid down quickly and many were folded while still wet. Exposed in the canyon’s walls are about 4,500 feet (1,370 meters) of fossil-bearing layers, conventionally labelled Cambrian to Permian. 

They were supposedly deposited over a period lasting from 520 to

250 million years ago. Then, amazingly, this whole sequence of layers rose over a mile, around 60 million years ago. The plateau through which Grand Canyon runs is now 7,000–8,000 feet (2,150–3,450 meters) above sea level.

Think about it. The time between the first deposits at Grand Canyon (520 million years ago) and their bending (60 million years ago) was 460 million years!
Look at the photos of some of these layers at the edge of the plateau,

just east of the Grand Canyon. The whole sequence of these hardened sedimentary rock layers has been bent and folded, but without fracturing. At the bottom of this sequence is the Tapeats Sandstone, which is 100–325 feet (30–100 meters) thick. It is bent and folded 90°. The Muav Limestone above it has similarly been bent.

However, it supposedly took 270 million years to deposit these

particular layers. Surely in that time the Tapeats Sandstone at the bottom would have dried out and the sand grains cemented together, especially with 4,000 feet (1,220 m) of rock layers piled on top of it and pressing down on it. The only viable scientific explanation is that the whole sequence was deposited very quickly—the creation model indicates that it took less than a year, during the global Flood cataclysm. So the 520 million years never happened, and the earth is young.

Q: What solution do old-earth advocates suggest? 

--Heat and pressure can make hard rock layers pliable, so they claim this must be what happened in the eastern Grand Canyon, as the sequence of many layers above pressed down and heated up these rocks. Just one problem: the heat and pressure would have transformed these layers into quartzite, marble, and other metamorphic rocks. Yet Tapeats Sandstone is still sandstone, a sedimentary rock!

But this quandary is even worse for those who deny God’s recent creation and the Flood. The Tapeats Sandstone and its equivalents can be traced right across North America and beyond to right across northern Africa to southern Israel. Indeed, the whole Grand Canyon sedimentary sequence is an integral part of six megasequences that cover North America. Only a global Flood cataclysm could carry the sediments to deposit thick layers across several continents one after the other in rapid succession in one event." 

AIG

"SDA's on" SERIES: Prophecy

SDA's on Prophecy:
"It is in the books of Daniel and the Revelation, so frequently the basis of the sermons at our evangelistic meetings, that we find some of the most glorious passages describing Christ's power and coming kingdom. 

The opening words of the Revelation state, “The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto Him, to show unto His servants things which must shortly come to pass.” Rev. 1:1. 

We show Christ walking amid the seven candlesticks (Rev. 1:13) in the sanctuary in Heaven, to Christ "a Lamb as it had been slain" (Rev. 5:6), to Christ as "King of kings, and Lord of lords" (Rev.

19:16) coming to set up His everlasting kingdom.

When we preach from the prophetic book of Daniel, the 2,300 days prophecy opens to view Christ’s role, after the cross, of making intercession for Christ’s people. (Heb. 7:25; John 2:1), then, beginning in 1844, Christ’s central role in the judgment. (2 Tim. 4:1; John 5:22; Acts 10:42). 

Comprising the first part of the 2,300 days is the seventy-weeks prophecy of Daniel 9:24-27, which points unmistakably to the first advent of Jesus Christ. 

This prophecy proves that the Christ who was born in Bethlehem was indeed "Messiah the prince," whom "Moses and all the prophets" had foretold. 

*Christ is at the very center of Bible prophecy as understood by Seventh-day Adventists." 

F.D. Nichol

Roman Catholic theology & Moses

Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Take the rod; you and your brother Aaron gather the congregation together. Speak to the rock before their eyes, and it will yield its water; thus you

shall bring water for them out of the rock, and give drink to the congregation and their animals. 

So Moses took the rod from before the Lord as He commanded him, and Moses, and Aaron gathered the assembly together before the rock; and he said to them: Hear now, you rebels! Must we bring water for you out of this rock? 

Then Moses lifted his hand and struck the rock twice with his rod; and water came out abundantly, and the congregation and their animals drank. 

Numbers 20:7-11

“By his rash act Moses took away the force of the lesson that God purposed to teach. The rock, being a symbol of Christ, had been once smitten, as Christ was to be once offered. The second time it was needful only to speak to the rock, as we have only to ask for blessings in the name of Jesus. By the second smiting of the rock the significance of this beautiful figure of Christ was destroyed.” 

E.G.W.

"The book of Hebrews confirms that Jesus needed to fall under the rod of His Father’s judgment only once: Hebrews 7:26, 27: For such a High Priest was fitting for us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and has become higher than the heavens;

who does not need daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifices, first for His own sins and then for the people's, for this He did once for all when He offered up Himself.

The Roman Catholic papacy repeatedly commits the same sin, as did

Moses. 

--According to Roman Catholic theology, the priest offers Jesus on the altar anew at every mass. If God accepted this, He would have to apologize to Moses for excluding him from the Promised Land. 

Jesus does not need to die again in order for us to receive the blessing of the Holy Spirit." 

Stephen Bohr

Creation Moment 10/22/2025 - Evidence for a Young Earth SERIES: Very Little Sediment on the Seafloor

Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? 

or who hath stretched the line upon it?
Job 38:5

"If sediments have been accumulating on the seafloor for three billion years, the seafloor should be choked with sediments many miles deep.

Every year water and wind erode about 20 billion tons of dirt and rock debris from the continents and deposit them on the seafloor. Most of this material accumulates as loose sediments near the continents.

**Yet the average thickness of all these sediments globally over the whole seafloor is not even 1,300 feet (400 m).

Some sediments appear to be removed as tectonic plates slide slowly (an inch or two per year) beneath continents. An estimated 1 billion tons of sediments are removed this way each year. The net gain is thus 19 billion tons per year. At this rate, 1,300 feet of sediment would accumulate in less than 12 million years, not billions of years.

This evidence makes sense within the context of the Genesis Flood cataclysm, not the idea of slow and gradual geologic evolution. In the latter stages of the year-long global Flood, water swiftly drained off the emerging land, dumping its sediment-chocked loads offshore. Thus most seafloor sediments accumulated rapidly about 4,300 years ago.

Those who advocate an old earth insist that the seafloor sediments must have accumulated at a much slower rate in the past. But this rescuing device doesn’t “stack up”! 

Like the sediment layers on the continents, the sediments on the continental shelves and margins (the majority of the seafloor sediments) have features that unequivocally indicate they were deposited much faster than today’s rates. 

For example, the layering and patterns of various grain sizes in these sediments are the same as those produced by undersea landslides, when dense debris-laden currents (called turbidity currents) flow rapidly across the continental shelves and the sediments then settle in thick layers over vast areas. An additional problem for the old-earth view is that no evidence exists of much sediment being subducted and mixed into the mantle." 

AIG

"SDA's on" SERIES: Conditional Immortality

SDA's on Conditional Immortality:
"We take literally and truly believe that, "the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternally life through Jesus Christ our Lord.” We believe in death because the Bible has much to say about it (1 Cor. 15:21-22). 

*The first death, suffered by all (Heb. 9:27), has no ultimate significance, because of the resurrection of the dead.
*But the second death is the fate of all who reject the salvation

provided by Jesus Christ; that death means annihilation, because from it there is no resurrection. Hence, we are led most fully to exalt Christ as the only hope of life. We take literally His words: “I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.” John 10:10. We believe that 1ife and immortality were brought to light through the gospel of our Lord, and in no other way.
Since Christ is the ultimate judge of everyone—Scripture tells us that the Father has committed judgment to Christ (2 Tim. 4:1; John 5:22; Acts 10:42).

Q: what would we think of Christ as the judge of the whole world if every unsaved person regardless how they lived their lives, was condemned to be tortured eternally in Hell? 

--The doctrine that death is real, and the unsaved will really die and not be tortured forever, greatly glorifies Jesus Christ in His role as judge of the universe!" 

F.D. Nichol

The Foster-Fathers of this pernicious doctrine

 But they do not realize that the dead are there, 

that her guests are in the depths of the grave.

Proverbs 9:18 NET

"The doctrine of the natural immortality of the soul. 

This also was derived from the pagan world, and the “Fathers of the

church” became the foster-fathers of this pernicious doctrine as a part of divine truth. 

*This error nullifies the two great Scripture doctrines of the resurrection and the general judgment, and furnishes an open door to modern spiritism. 

*From it have sprung such other evil doctrines as the conscious state of the dead, saint worship, MARIOLOGY, purgatory, reward at death, prayers and baptisms for the dead, eternal torment, and universal salvation." 

Uriah Smith

Creation Moment 10/21/2025 - Peering into the Mysteries of the Creator's Building Blocks of SILVER

Imagine what the Creator can do with the molecular Geometry of His whole Creation: Just a taste from SILVER....

Q: Who wrote these Laws of Chemistry and Geometry?

A: Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding.

Job 38:4

"Photoluminescence (PL) in silver (Ag) nanoclusters (NCs) is intrinsically linked to their structural architecture, yet their low

quantum yield at room-temperature hinders practical applications.
Tokyo University of Science, and the Institute for Molecular Science has revealed that adding a single silver (Ag) atom can profoundly alter how high-nuclear Ag nanoclusters (NCs) emit light.

Their research demonstrated a 77-fold improvement in photoluminescence (PL) quantum yield (QY) at room temperature – a significant achievement that could accelerate the development of next-generation optoelectronic and sensing technologies.
Photoluminescence quantum yield measures how efficiently a material converts absorbed energy into visible light. Enhancing this efficiency directly benefits technologies such as OLED displays used in televisions.

Yet, achieving high PLQY is not as simple as selecting materials with strong luminescence. Silver nanoclusters, for instance, naturally exhibit low PL efficiency, which has limited their practical use despite the extraordinary optical potential they possess.

Both NCs share a common structural framework, with the key

distinction being a single additional Ag atom in the outermost shell ....This addition was achieved through subtle modifications of the surface-protecting ligands, particularly the in-situ generated iPrSO3– group, which created a void within the NC framework that enabled the extra atom’s incorporation. While the core structures remained largely unchanged, the shell modification had profound effects.

In Ag79 NC, the added silver atom enhanced radiative decay rates and a more rigid cluster. The rigidity effectively suppressed non-radiative decay pathways that typically diminish luminescence efficiency. The combination of these factors – enhanced radiative decay from symmetry reduction and reduced non-radiative losses from structural rigidity – enabled the Ag79 NC to exhibit a remarkable 77-fold improvement in PL quantum yield over Ag78 NC at room temperature.
Despite the distinct pathways involved in the formation of templating oxoanions, both Ag78 and Ag79 NCs exhibit a strikingly similar core geometrical arrangement, consisting of 18 Ag(I) atoms. 

--In both cases, the Ag(I) atoms are arranged in an elongated triangular orthobicupola geometry, where their connections form eight triangles and 12 rectangles. 

--More simply, the structure consists of two triangular cupolas at opposite ends, interconnected by six equatorial rectangular units that act as bridges. 

--These equatorial rectangular units play a crucial role in maintaining the overall rigidity of the NCs, ensuring structural integrity under various conditions. 

A detailed comparison of the Ag–Ag bond lengths reveals subtle structural differences in the average argentophilic interaction between the two Ag18 cores. 

In Ag78 NC, the average Ag–Ag bond length within the Ag18 is 3.192 ± 0.051 Å, while in Ag79 NC, it is slightly shorter at 3.051 ± 0.013 Å. 

--This slight contraction in the Ag18 core arrangement indicates subtle structural adjustments, resulting in a minor distortion, likely driven by variations in the coordination of the templating anion with the Ag atoms. In Ag79 NC, the templating anion adopts a μ5 coordination mode with adjacent Ag(I) atoms, resulting in an average Ag–O bond length of 2.611 ± 0.026 Å. In contrast, in Ag78 NC, the anion is coordinated in a μ3 mode, with an Ag–O bond length of 2.635 Å.

Further evaluation reveals that these Ag(I)-based cationic cores are

intricately encapsulated by a sulfide [S]2– anionic shell, which consists of 15 [S]2– ligands. 

--This type of encapsulation plays a crucial role in stabilizing the overall structure of Ag NCs by providing a well-defined coordination environment that mitigates electronic repulsions and enhances structural integrity. 

Although these [S]2– anions are not intentionally introduced during synthesis in either case, they are generated in situ through the dissociation of respective thiols. However, the spatial distribution of the 15 [S]2– ligands follows a well-defined pattern where 12 [S]2– ligands are positioned on each facet of the triangular cupolas, effectively capping and stabilizing the terminal sections of the cluster core. The remaining three [S]2– ligands are strategically located on alternating rectangular facets in the equatorial region of the core .

“This is the first clear evidence that the incorporation of just one extra silver atom, guided by ligand design, can drastically boost performance,” Professor Negishi explained. “Our findings open a pathway to rationally engineer efficient light-emitting nanoclusters through atomic-level structural modifications.” 

SciTechDaily

"SDA's on" SERIES: The Sanctuary

SDA's on The Sanctuary:
"We keep before our adherents the earthly sanctuary service, given to the Israelites by God through Moses, teaching that it was a type of the heavenly service that is conducted for man's salvation. 

The system of animal sacrifices makes vivid to men the reality that the shedding of Christ’s blood was necessary for the remission of sins (Heb. 9:22), a truth de-emphasized in today’s Christian world, especially in mainline Protestantism, which has abandoned Biblical Christianity in favor of chamber-of-commerce-style civic boosterism and self-improvement.

We see in the earthly lambs slain a type of the Lamb of God who was slain from the foundation of the earth (Rev. 13:8); in the earthly Passover, a type of "Christ our Passover,” who is-sacrificed for us; in the earthly priests, a type of Christ our high priest who ministers in heaven above for us. (See 1 Cor. 5:7; Heb. 8:1)." 

F.D. Nichol

IN the NEWS - Book Publishers Re-write Scripture

Book Publishers Re-write Scripture....to bend to world that is at enmity with God.

"A crop of new children’s storybook Bibles aims to reach progressive Christians who are turned off by traditional presentations of Scripture, offering messages focused on diversity, inclusion and social justice.

Publishers say the projects are meant to reflect the faith values of a changing audience — and to fill what they describe as a gap in faith resources for progressive believers.
"The Just Love Story Bible," a "justice-oriented" storybook for readers ages four to 10, was released last month.
The authors said they also hope to prompt children to ask questions and challenge traditional beliefs about God, Jesus and the Biblical narrative.
"Did that happen?" Lewis said, describing how the storybook presents Jesus' resurrection. "For me, it matters more that children know that love never dies, so that’s where I landed."
"It’s OK to actually tell kids from the get-go: Some of these stories are about true people and things that really happened, and some of them are made-up stories, but they’re in there because they can still teach us true things about God," Daley-Harris said, referencing the story of Jonah.
Lewis said the book also highlights women in Jesus’ ministry and portrays Him as a "feminist."
"When Shannon and I say we don’t want children to learn something they have to unlearn, we don’t want them to learn patriarchy from this story Bible," she told RNS.
The book’s publisher, Beaming Books, says it hopes to reach progressive Christians seeking an "open-minded Bible." FOX

---The "Christ" they give lip service to believed in Jonah was a real person: For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. Matthew 12:40

"Another devotional, "Growing in God’s Love: A Family Devotional," is out from Westminster John Knox Press. The book

offers daily readings that bring "substantive, progressive lessons in faith for all generations," and is aimed at adults and children ages five to 17.
Author Jessica Miller Kelley, an editor at Westminster John Knox, said she intentionally avoided using gendered language such as "mother" or "father" in the devotionals, except when directly quoting Scripture, to make the stories more inclusive of gender diversity and different kinds of families, she told Publishers Weekly." FOX

---The "Christ" they give lip service to believed in 2 Genders: 

And He answered and said unto them, 

Have ye not read, that He which made them at the beginning made them male and female.... Matthew 19:4

Creation Moment 10/20/2025 - Exodus 20:11 an insurmountable stone wall to Long Age Chronology

For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy. Exodus 20:11

"Exodus 20:11.-- this verse is critical to the question of the age of the creation. It stands as an insurmountable stone wall to block every attempt to add millions of years anywhere into the Bible. Therefore, to be faithful to Scripture, Christians must reject the “big bang” theory and the billions of years of cosmological and geological history as myths.

Exodus 20:11 is very important because it is God’s Word in a special

way: it was not written through Moses but rather directly on tablets of stone by God Himself.

In Exodus 20:11, God used the same Hebrew word for “days”  (yamim, the plural form of yom [day]) that He used in verse nine, showing that God’s days of creation in Genesis 1 were the same kind of days (the same length) as the days of the week for the Israelites. It is doubtful if any faithful Jew ever interpreted it any other way until the idea of millions of years started to take control of people’s minds about two centuries ago.

We should note that if God really created over the course of millions of years (as most Christians around the world today believe), He could have clearly indicated that in the Hebrew. He could have used the Hebrew word dor (דּוֹר), which is translated in English Bibles as time, period, or generation. 

Or He could have borrowed an Aramaic word, as He did in the books of Nehemiah and Daniel, such as zeman (זְמָ֑ן) or iddan (עִדָּן), which are translated as season, time, or period. 

Or He could have used some phrase such as “after many days,” “after some years,” “after thousands of ten thousand years,” or “after years of many generations.” 

But instead, God used the only Hebrew word, yom (יוֹם), that means a literal, 24-hour day, and it means that (or the light portion of a literal, 24-hour day, in contrast to night) in the majority of the 2,320 times it is used in the Old Testament." 

AIG

"SDA's on" SERIES: The Sabbath

SDA's on The Sabbath:
"The seventh day Sabbath focuses the worshiper's mind on the great truth that Christ created the world in six literals days, and rested on the seventh day, the truth denied by evolutionists today. 

God the Father “created all things by Jesus Christ.” Ephesians 3:9. "For by Him [Christ] were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by Him, and for Him." Colossians 1:16. So Christ is just as much the Creator God as God the Father.

Q: Now what would we think of Christ if He created, as the

evolutionists allege, through a slow process, requiring millions of years of predation, animal suffering, and death? 

A: We would think that Christ is a cruel creator indeed. 

--But the Adventist doctrine, which keeps in memory that Christ created a good world, free of death, disease, and predation, in six literal days, and rested upon the seventh day, protects Christ from this charge of being a cruel creator.

*The Sabbath doctrine also emphasizes Christ’s role as redeemer from the Fall. Because our minds are weekly focused upon the original perfect world of the seventh day of that first creation week, we realize how terrible was the fall of our first parents, and how necessary and important is Christ’s role as redeemer from the Fall.

It is only by contemplating each week the fact that we were created in innocent perfection and fell into sin that we see the necessity for our redemption both as a race and as individuals. 

Hence, the Sabbath doctrine greatly glorifies Christ in His role as the Second Adam, the redeemer of the race that the first Adam caused to fall into sin." 

F.D. Nichol 

Relationship between the Trumpets and the Plagues

And I beheld, and heard an angel flying through the midst of heaven, saying with a loud voice, Woe, woe, woe, to the inhabiters of the earth by reason of the other voices of the trumpet of the three angels, which are yet to sound! Revelation 8:13

"The trumpets and the plagues afflict the same things, in the same order: 

First trumpet and plague: Afflict the earth 

Second trumpet and plague: Afflict the sea 

Third trumpet and plague: Afflict rivers and fountains of waters  

Fourth trumpet and plague: Afflict heavenly bodies

Fifth trumpet and plague: Heavenly bodies darkened 

Sixth trumpet and plague: Mention of the Euphrates 

Seventh trumpet and plague: Possessing the Kingdom

The evidence seems to indicate that the trumpets represent preliminary and partial judgments that fell upon the oppressors of

God’s people beginning with the destruction of Jerusalem and ending with the setting up of Christ’s everlasting kingdom. 

--The fact that the trumpets only fall on thirds and not on the totality indicates that the trumpet judgments are preliminary and partial. 

The trumpets series indicates that repentance during the blowing of the trumpets is possible. 

The plagues, on the other hand, describe final and total judgments of God upon end time Babylon after the close of probation. 

We can see the irrevocable nature of the plagues by the use of the expression ‘in them the wrath of God is complete’. 

--Each plague is God’s judgment upon some particular sin that Babylon has committed. 

The plagues are retributive in character and not remedial. 

--Repentance is not possible once the plagues begin to fall. 

A careful study of the trumpets and the plagues reveals that the trumpet judgments foreshadow the plague judgments. 

That is to say, the trumpets are the type and the plagues are the antitype." 

Stephen Bohr

“The battle of Armageddon will be fought and that day must find none of us sleeping. Wide-awake we must be, as wise virgins having oil in our vessels with our lamps. 

The power of the Holy Ghost must be upon us and the Captain of the Lord's host will stand at the head of the angels of heaven to direct the battle. Solemn events before us are yet to transpire. 

Trumpet after trumpet is to be sounded; 

vial after vial poured out one after another upon 

the inhabitants of the earth.” 

E.G.W.

Jezebel of our unbelief

And David said in his heart, I shall now perish one day by the hand of Saul. 1 Samuel 27:1

"THE thought of David's heart at this time was a false thought, because he certainly had no ground for thinking that God's anointing him by Samuel was intended to be left as an empty unmeaning act.

On no one occasion had the Lord deserted His servant; he had been placed in perilous positions very often, but not one instance had occurred in which divine interposition had not delivered him. 

The trials to which he had been exposed had been varied; they had

not assumed one form only, but many—yet in every case He who sent the trial had also graciously ordained a way of escape. 

*David could not put his finger upon any entry in his diary, and say of it, "Here is evidence that the Lord will forsake me," for the entire tenor of his past life proved the very reverse. 

He should have argued from what God had done for him, that God would be his defender still. 

Q: But is it not just in the same way that we doubt God's help?

We have had dark nights, but the star of love has shone forth amid the blackness; we have been in stern conflicts, but over our head He has held aloft the shield of our defense. 

Q: How can we ever be so ungenerous as to doubt our God? 

Lord, 

throw down the Jezebel of our unbelief, 

and let the dogs devour it." 

Charles Spurgeon