Sermon Tone Analysis

Pain is not good in itself.

What is good in any painful experience is, for the sufferer, his submission to the will of God, and, for the spectators, the compassion aroused and the acts of mercy to which it leads.

In this life is pain.

Pain was not God’s original plan.

Sin has made pain necessary.

God want to bring it all to an end.

But, in the mean time, pain will happen until the very end.

One of the last chapter of the Ellen Whites book the Great Controversy is called: “The Time of Trouble”.

She starts the chapter with these amazing words.

When the third angel’s message closes, mercy no longer pleads for the guilty inhabitants of the earth.

The people of God have accomplished their work.

They have received “the latter rain,” “the refreshing from the presence of the Lord,” and they are prepared for the trying hour before them.

Angels are hastening to and fro in heaven.

An angel returning from the earth announces that his work is done; the final test has been brought upon the world, and all who have proved themselves loyal to the divine precepts have received “the seal of the living God.”

Then Jesus ceases His intercession in the sanctuary above.

He lifts His hands and with a loud voice says, “It is done;” and all the angelic host lay off their crowns as He makes the solemn announcement: “He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still.”

Revelation 22:11.

Every case has been decided for life or death.

Christ has made the atonement for His people and blotted out their sins.

The number of His subjects is made up; “the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven,” is about to be given to the heirs of salvation, and Jesus is to reign as King of kings and Lord of lords.

Notice

What initiates the beginning of the Time of Trouble is this series of events.

3 Angels Message Closes

Every receives or rejects last warning message

Believers receive latter rain

the saved are sealed

Jesus stops His intercession in the sanctuary

People are pronounced just or unjust

The the next paragraph

When He leaves the sanctuary, darkness covers the inhabitants of the earth.

In that fearful time the righteous must live in the sight of a holy God without an intercessor.

The restraint which has been upon the wicked is removed, and Satan has entire control of the finally impenitent.

God’s long-suffering has ended.

The world has rejected His mercy, despised His love, and trampled upon His law.

The wicked have passed the boundary of their probation; the Spirit of God, persistently resisted, has been at last withdrawn.

Unsheltered by divine grace, they have no protection from the wicked one.

Satan will then plunge the inhabitants of the earth into one great, final trouble.

As the angels of God cease to hold in check the fierce winds of human passion, all the elements of strife will be let loose.

The whole world will be involved in ruin more terrible than that which came upon Jerusalem of old.

Summary

God leaves sanctuary

spiritual darkness covers the earth

righteous live without intercessor

Satan has entire control of the finally impenitent

Satan has entire control of the finally impenitent

Earth plunged into great, final trouble

Angel’s of God stop holding back the winds of strife

There is far more than I can cover in this sermon.

This is the last installment in a series on the sanctuary.

The part I’m going to focus on is the part connected with the sanctuary

Namely this:

At the end of time,

Jesus stops intercession

before the Time of Trouble.

Where?

What?

Why?

How?

How?

When I was a child, passages like this terrified me because I didn’t understand the context of God’s love in the midst of the storm.

I hope that I will be able to portray that correctly in this sermon while remaining true to the concept so what will actually happen.

This last sermon in the series is about the end of the sanctuary.

Where?

The bible teaches two things that might seem contradictory at first.

There is a sanctuary in heaven made by God, of which the earthly sanctuary was a model!

There is a temple in heaven.

It has the ark

Most Holy Place

5 They serve za copy and ashadow of the heavenly things.

For when Moses was about to erect the tent, he was instructed by God, saying, b“See that you make everything according to the pattern that was shown you on the mountain.”

Thus it was necessary for gthe copies of the heavenly things to be purified with these rites, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.

24 For Christ has entered, not into holy places hmade with hands, which are copies of the true things, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God ion our behalf

it was necessary for gthe copies of the heavenly things to be purified with these rites, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.

24 For Christ has entered, not into holy

The seventh angel poured out his bowl into hthe air, and a loud voice came out of the temple

There is no sanctuary in heaven!

How can we understand this?

Isaiah says there is no lion.

He says lion is there!

lion

Isaiah 11:6

Which one is it?

There are lions.

Just not,

same kinds as now.

There are lions

but they don’t kill.

Same with temple.

Before final atonement

Temple is where

Jesus intercedes.

When sin is gone.

No more need to intercede.

Therefore no more

Sanctuary as we know it.

But there is still a sanctuary.

So we learned the where.

There really is a sanctuary

in heave.

Jesus is the High Priest.