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The Third Angel’s Message!

Rev­e­la­tion 14:6 “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…”

Prophecy has been ful­fill­ing, line upon line. The more firmly we stand under the ban­ner of the third angel’s mes­sage, the more clearly shall we under­stand the prophecy of Daniel; for the Rev­e­la­tion is the sup­ple­ment of Daniel. The more fully we accept the light pre­sented by the Holy Spirit through the con­se­crated ser­vants of God, the deeper and surer, even as the eter­nal throne, will appear the truths of ancient prophecy; we shall be assured that men of God spake as they were moved upon by the Holy Ghost. Men must them­selves be under the influ­ence of the Holy Spirit in order to under­stand the Spirit’s utter­ances through the prophets. These mes­sages were given, not for those that uttered the prophe­cies, but for us who are liv­ing amid the scenes of their ful­fill­ment.  {2SM 114.2}

The Med­ical work is to accom­pany it where ever it is proclaimed!

1. Med­ical mis­sion­ary work is the right hand of the gospel. It is nec­es­sary to the advance­ment of the cause of God. As through it men and women are led to see the impor­tance of right habits of liv­ing, the sav­ing power of the truth will be made known. Every city is to be entered by work­ers trained to do med­ical mis­sion­ary work. As the right hand of the third angel’s mes­sage, God’s meth­ods of treat­ing dis­ease will open doors for the entrance of present truth.–Testimonies, Vol. 7, p. 59.

Com­bine med­ical mis­sion­ary work with the procla­ma­tion of the third angel’s mes­sage. Make reg­u­lar, orga­nized efforts to lift the church mem­bers out of the dead level in which they have been for years. Send out into the churches work­ers who will live the prin­ci­ples of health reform. Let those be sent who can see the neces­sity of self-​​denial in appetite, or they will be a snare to the church. See if the breath of life will not then come into your churches. A new ele­ment needs to be brought into the work. God’s peo­ple must real­ize their great need and peril and take up the work that lies near­est to them.–Testimonies, Vol. 6, p. 267.  {CME 17.3}

The right hand is used to open doors through which the body may find entrance. This is the part the med­ical mis­sion­ary work is to act. It is to largely pre­pare the way for the recep­tion of the truth for this time. A body with­out hands is use­less. In giv­ing honor to the body, honor must also be given to the help­ing hands, which are agen­cies of such impor­tance that with­out them the body can do noth­ing. There­fore the body which treats indif­fer­ently the right hand, refus­ing its aid, is able to accom­plish noth­ing. –Med­ical Min­istry, p. 238.  {CME 9.1}
In every place the sick may be found, and those who go forth as work­ers for Christ should be true health reform­ers, pre­pared to give those who are sick the sim­ple treat­ments that will relieve them, and then pray with them. Thus they will open the door for the entrance of the truth. The doing of this work will be fol­lowed by good results.–Medical Min­istry, p. 320.  {CME 9.2}

It is a mes­sage of Right­eous­ness (Jus­ti­fi­ca­tion) By Faith to those who truly under­stand it!

2. Sev­eral have writ­ten to me, inquir­ing if the mes­sage of jus­ti­fi­ca­tion by faith is the third angel’s mes­sage, and I have answered, “It is the third angel’s mes­sage in verity.”–1SM 372 (1890).  {LDE 199.4}
The Lord in His great mercy sent a most pre­cious mes­sage to His peo­ple through Elders [E.J.] Wag­goner and [A. T.] Jones. This mes­sage was to bring more promi­nently before the world the uplifted Sav­iour, the sac­ri­fice for the sins of the whole world. It pre­sented jus­ti­fi­ca­tion through faith in the Surety; it invited the peo­ple to receive the right­eous­ness of Christ, which is made man­i­fest in obe­di­ence to all the com­mand­ments of God.  {LDE 200.1}
Many had lost sight of Jesus. They needed to have their eyes directed to His divine per­son, His mer­its, and His change­less love for the human fam­ily. All power is given into His hands, that He may dis­pense rich gifts unto men, impart­ing the price­less gift of His own right­eous­ness to the help­less human agent. This is the mes­sage that God com­manded to be given to the world. It is the third angel’s mes­sage, which is to be pro­claimed with a loud voice, and attended with the out­pour­ing of His Spirit in a large measure.–TM 91, 92 (1895).  {LDE 200.2}
The mes­sage of Christ’s right­eous­ness is to sound from one end of the earth to the other to pre­pare the way of the Lord. This is the glory of God, which closes the work of the third angel.–6T 19 (1900).  {LDE 200.3}
The last mes­sage of mercy to be given to the world is a rev­e­la­tion of His char­ac­ter of love. The chil­dren of God are to man­i­fest His glory. In their own life and char­ac­ter they are to reveal what the grace of God has done for them.–COL 415, 416 (1900).

It is the Ever­last­ing Gospel for our time and All must have a right under­stand­ing of it. None are to be igno­rant to it for we are all to share in it’s proclamation.

3. The Lord has sig­ni­fied that His work should be car­ried for­ward in the same spirit in which it was begun. The world is to be warned. Field after field is to be entered. The com­mand given us is, “Add new ter­ri­tory.” Shall we not as a peo­ple, by our busi­ness arrange­ments, by our atti­tude toward a world unsaved, bear a tes­ti­mony even more clear and deci­sive than that borne by us twenty or thirty years ago?  {CH 217.3}
Upon us has shone great light in regard to the last days of this earth’s his­tory. Let not our lack of wis­dom and energy give evi­dence of spir­i­tual blind­ness. God’s mes­sen­gers must be clothed with power. They must have for the truth an ele­vat­ing rev­er­ence that they do not now pos­sess. The Lord’s solemn, sacred mes­sage of warn­ing must be pro­claimed in the most dif­fi­cult fields and in the most sin­ful cities–in every place where the light of the third angel’s mes­sage has not yet dawned. To every­one is to be given the last call to the mar­riage sup­per of the Lamb.  {CH 218.1}
In pro­claim­ing the mes­sage, God’s ser­vants will be called upon to wres­tle with numer­ous per­plex­i­ties and to sur­mount many obsta­cles. Some­times the work will go hard, as it did when the pio­neers were estab­lish­ing the insti­tu­tions in Bat­tle Creek, in Oak­land, and in other places. But let all do their best, mak­ing the Lord their strength, avoid­ing all self­ish­ness, and bless­ing oth­ers by their good works.…  {CH 218.2}

Let every­one pro­fess­ing the name of Christ act a part in send­ing forth the mes­sage, “The end of all things is at hand”; “pre­pare to meet thy God.” Our pub­li­ca­tions should go every­where. The cir­cu­la­tion of our peri­od­i­cals should be greatly increased. The third angel’s mes­sage is to be given through gospel lit­er­a­ture, and through the liv­ing teacher. You who believe the truth for this time, wake up. It is our duty now to employ every pos­si­ble means to help in the procla­ma­tion of the truth. When you are rid­ing on the cars, vis­it­ing, con­vers­ing with your neighbors–wherever you are, let your light shine forth. Hand out the papers and tracts to those with whom you asso­ciate, and speak a word in sea­son, pray­ing that the Holy Ghost will make the seed pro­duc­tive in some hearts. This work will be blessed of God.–SpTPW 231, 232.

I have no fears of work­ers who are engaged in the work rep­re­sented in the fifty-​​eighth chap­ter of Isa­iah. This chap­ter is explicit, and is enough to enlighten any­one who wishes to do the will of God. There is plenty of oppor­tu­nity for every­one to be a bless­ing to human­ity. The third angel’s mes­sage is not to be given a sec­ond place in this work, but is to be one with it. There may be, and there is, a dan­ger of bury­ing up the great prin­ci­ples of truth when doing the work that is right to do. This work is to be to the mes­sage what the hand is to the body. The spir­i­tual neces­si­ties of the soul are to be kept prominent.–Letter 24, 1898.

I can­not too strongly urge all our church mem­bers, all who are true mis­sion­ar­ies, all who believe the third angel’s mes­sage, all who turn away their feet from the Sab­bath, to con­sider the mes­sage of the fifty-​​eighth chap­ter of Isa­iah. The work of benef­i­cence enjoined in this chap­ter is the work that God requires His peo­ple to do at this time. It is a work of His own appoint­ment. We are not left in doubt as to where the mes­sage applies, and the time of its marked ful­fill­ment, for we read: “They that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foun­da­tions of many gen­er­a­tions; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.” Verse 12. God’s memo­r­ial, the seventh-​​day Sab­bath, the sign of His work in cre­at­ing the world, has been dis­placed by the man of sin. God’s peo­ple have a spe­cial work to do in repair­ing the breach that has been made in His law; and the nearer we approach the end, the more urgent this work becomes. All who love God will show that they bear His sign by keep­ing His com­mand­ments.…  {WM 33.2}
When the church accepts its God-​​given work, the promise is: “Then shall thy light break forth as the morn­ing, and thine health shall spring forth speed­ily: and thy right­eous­ness shall go before thee; the glory of the Lord shall be thy rereward.”–Testimonies, vol. 6, pp. 265–267.  {WM 34.1}