The Mystery of the Mark

Welcome, welcome back, it's good to see everyone here again today. Before we begin, I want to start out with a reminder that we are planning a Lord's Supper for May 24th in the evening after sunset, and that is the anniversary of the last supper that Jesus had with his disciples on May 24th of A.D. 31, as we've talked about recently. And we will be having a foot-washing service, and then following that, the regular breaking of the bread and the grape juice, unleavened bread and the grape juice representing Jesus's body and blood.

And the foot-washing is what Jesus did with his disciples, and he said, in the same way, do it also among yourselves, and it teaches that principle of forgiveness. And so, if anybody has any hard feelings or unforgiveness toward their brother or sister, then that's something that we should deal with. And the foot-washing service is just a symbolic ceremonial act that shows that we have done that already.

So, deal with those things if there is any dust on the feet, so to speak, in your relationships. So, today, we are going to be talking more about Jesus's blood, as we have been talking in the last couple of weeks, and it all connects also with that communion service and drinking the grape juice, which is symbolic of his blood. Today, we are going to see what it has to do with the mystery of the mark, referring to the mark of the beast.

And this comes from Revelation 13, and it says, and he, that is referring to the second beast of Revelation 13, causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free in 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 600, threescore and six.

So, many people have dwelt long on this theme, not excluding ourselves, and today, I'm going to share with you a new understanding that we received on this passage, and it's quite fascinating, I think, and very relevant to our times. And so, I'm excited to get to that today, but that'll come toward the end, because first, we have to lay a little bit more of the groundwork. We've been talking about the Sabbath and the High Sabbaths and how those work together, God's calendar, and we saw, just looking at it briefly again, how the weekly Sabbaths, when they line up with the annual Sabbaths, then we call those High Sabbaths, identified there in red.

And when we tabulate all of those High Sabbaths throughout the years, we get this long list that I've laid on its side of codes. We can express it in terms of codes. Every year, there's a code for what Sabbaths are High Sabbaths, possible High Sabbaths in that year.

So, I've laid it on its side just for convenience, but this list of codes from the High Sabbaths throughout this long period of time resembles the biological codes of our DNA, just like we talked about last time. And we have the spring and the autumn, all those things, and that points to the blood, because the blood is especially where that DNA is found in the white blood cells, and the white blood cells are relevant to what aspect of our physiology? The immune system, exactly. So, we're going to talk a little bit more about the immune system today, hopefully not in too much detail.

It's not my purpose to get too bogged down in the biological details, but there is a certain amount of depth that is relevant to the discussion, and so we'll explore a little bit of that in broad terms. So, like we talked about last time, we saw this relationship between the temple, the sanctuary, and the cell of the body, where we have the blood of the lamb that's taken into the sanctuary, and once a year was ministered on the Ark of the Covenant to cleanse the temple from sin, and we see that this is in contrast with what has been promoted on the earth in recent years, which also comes into the cell and has been shown to be incorporated even into our DNA. So, it's a direct contrast, and what we want is that the blood of the lamb comes in and cleanses us from the inside, his law being written in our hearts.

That is what the process is, and just looking again briefly, I just want to refresh our memory from last week, some of the things we talked about. We saw how in the genetic code, it's grouped into triplets. Each triplet is called a codon, and it encodes for a particular molecule that joins up like a chain to form the proteins, and interestingly, with each triplet, there are two parts of that triplet that are the biggest factors in determining what it encodes for, which part of the protein chain that it encodes, and you can change that third part, and it has less of an effect on the actual result in most cases.

And so, what we see is when we look, we talked about how we focused on this particular triplet from 1888 until 1890, and we looked at all of the times throughout this long history when the high Sabbaths were the same as they were in those years. There's only one other time when they're exactly the same, and that's right at the end, 2013 to 2015, but there are several other times when, just like with the genetic code, if you hold two of them the same and you allow the third one to be something different, but it still, we could say, points to the same encoding, then several other points show up in the high Sabbath list. We connected that with the seven thunders in Revelation 10 and how they were sealed up with the seal of the Sabbath.

All right, so now, with that refresher, we're going to look more first at why we highlight that one particular triplet, giving a little bit more foundation there, and then we'll look at some of the biological relationships with the immune system and see how that points to the time after 2015. In the book of Luke, right at the beginning, when Jesus is just beginning his ministry, in the chapter just verses before, he just came out of the wilderness. Remember, when he was baptized, he went into the wilderness and was tempted of the devil for 40 days, and then when he came back, he went into the temple, or the synagogue, and he started to read on a Sabbath from the book of Isaiah, and this is a quote from the book of Isaiah, and he was reading, and he said, the spirit of the Lord is upon me because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor, the good news.

He hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, to preach the acceptable year of the Lord. And he closed the book, and he gave it again to the minister, and sat down, and the eyes of all them that were in the synagogue were fastened on him. And he began to say unto them, this day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears.

So Jesus read this passage from Isaiah, and he said, today this is fulfilled. Now, that passage is very similar to something that we see in the Torah, in the books of Moses, and if we compare that with Leviticus, the third book of Moses, he says, and ye shall hallow the fiftieth year and proclaim liberty throughout all the land. Remember, he proclaimed liberty to the captives, and unto all the inhabitants thereof it shall be a jubilee unto you, and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family.

So, it was a time of rejoicing, going back to your homeland. If you were a stranger, you would return back to your home. Debts would be forgiven.

It was a wonderful year of release from bondage, release from debt, and this is what Jesus was referring to when he made that statement. So that gives us a very important clue, because right at the beginning of his ministry, which we know was in A.D. 27, in the autumn of A.D. 27, that was three and a half years before his crucifixion in the spring of A.D. 31. So, given that period of time, we talked about that before, how that comes from Daniel and the 70 weeks prophecy.

So, we know the beginning of his ministry, and then he said in that first year of A.D. 27 that it was a jubilee, that that jubilee year was being fulfilled in their ears, that he was proclaiming the year of jubilee. So, let's look a little bit more at what Moses said about that jubilee, so we can understand it a little bit better. Now shall number seven Sabbaths of years.

So, seven years, but in sevens. Seven times seven years, and the space of the seven Sabbaths of years shall be unto thee forty and nine years. Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubilee to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month.

In the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet to sound throughout all your land. So, in the 49th year they would sound the trumpet of the jubilee on the day of atonement, that was in the autumn. And that signaled that the next year, that 50th year like we read before, would be the jubilee.

So, every 49 years would be the signal for the 50th year of the jubilee. And ye shall hallow the 50th year and proclaim liberty throughout all the land and the inhabitants thereof, and et cetera, as I read before. So, just to see that visually, every seven years would be counted, and then the seventh set of seven years, bringing you to the 49th year, would be the proclamation of the jubilee for the following year.

And then counting seven sevens of years until the 49th year, and every 50th year, but in sequence of the 49 years, would be the jubilee. It's a lot like the spring feasts on a bigger scale, because in the spring feasts there was the Feast of Unleavened Bread, and then every week after, for seven weeks, it would be counted until the day after that seventh week would be the day of Pentecost. And incidentally, counting those seven Sabbaths like that, that shows that the Sabbath is indeed a weekly event.

It doesn't reset every month like some people teach that it's based on the moon. It is not. It just follows this regular weekly pattern, and we see a very similar thing with the jubilees on a larger scale.

All right, so in A.D. 27, Jesus proclaimed the jubilee for that following year, which means that the jubilee was in A.D. 28. That was that year. Now here's where it gets interesting.

Now we have an anchor for those jubilees, and we can then count every 49 years until we get until modern times, and what we find is that year 1890 was a jubilee year, and that is very significant because of what we see in this time. So that marks, it basically tells us that in 1890, that was to be a special year of release, a jubilee. It was an opportunity for, as I mentioned last week, for Jesus to come, to give that release to his people.

That's what the jubilee symbolizes is that release, when the land should rest, and we rest with the Lord in his land. So this could have been the acceptable year of the Lord, and that's because of that jubilee, and in the book of Moses, it's interesting because the Lord is speaking here, and he's considering what they might say because part of the jubilee was that they wouldn't harvest.

They wouldn't harvest the land. They wouldn't sow their fields or reap anything, and so he says, if you shall say, well, what shall we eat then in the seventh year when we don't harvest or plant anything? Behold, we shall not sow or gather in our increase. Here is in that seventh year, they wouldn't sow anything, so what are they going to eat? And then in addition, this is written in the context of the jubilee, and the jubilee was a year after that seventh year, and also, in that jubilee year, they were not to sow or reap.

That was part of the jubilee. They didn't sow the land, and so he says, if you're concerned about what you're going to eat for that time, then he says, I will command my blessing upon you in the sixth year, and it shall bring forth fruit for three years. So understand what this is saying, saying in the sixth year, that is before the seventh year, he would give his blessing for three years, so that would cover for the seventh and the eighth year, and so we see even right there in that jubilee description, this triplet of three years, and so it points to the sixth, the seventh, and the eighth years, just like we see in that triplet, 1888 to 1890.

The two years before was 1888. That was that year that was to be a great blessing, where he would multiply it threefold to cover and give fruit for the following two years, and that was when the great light came to the church in 1888, but it was refused, and that was a—it was no blessing, exactly. It was indeed a curse, because that was the gift of God through the Holy Spirit to his people, and they rejected that, and so therefore, that jubilee didn't materialize and fulfill the intended purpose that Jesus would come and deliver his people at that time, but it could have been that event, had his people appreciated the light that he gave and received it and changed their course as a result,

it would have borne fruit. There's one other thing about this 1890 jubilee that makes it especially special as well, and we can see that when we trace the jubilees backward in time. We looked at the ones going forward from AD 28 until the present, but if we look backward, we'll also see a fascinating relationship, and in fact, if we look at the Orion clock, this is now the great cycle.

I just want to show it here. This clock cycle goes from the creation all the way until the birth of Christ, so that's a long period, 4,032 years, and it marks the flood and some other key events in Jewish history. Quite remarkably, it points out those things, and one of those things is the crossing of the Jordan when the children of Israel came to go into the promised land, and that is exactly when God said, when he gave them and established this jubilee sequence.

So, it was from those throne lines when the jubilees then began. If you add up all the years as it's given in the Bible, it comes to what we understand is 1540 BC when they were at the crossing, when they crossed the Jordan. So now, starting at the same time, AD 28, we subtract 49 years, and we get to 22 BC, and then now going in BC years, back, back, back, all the way until we come right up to 1541 BC, and that's right at that time when they were at the threshold ready to cross the Jordan into the promised land.

That was when God gave them this commandment that when they would go, they should start counting for the jubilees, and so there was that command, and then they counted the first series, and the first jubilee, the second jubilee, so on and so forth, and when we start there and we count them all the way until 1890, we find that it's exactly the 70th jubilee since God established the jubilee count when the children of Israel crossed into the promised land. So that shows, again, how God intended for this jubilee to be a time for His return. It points to His return.

The promised land itself was symbolic for the heavenly promised land, so that was indeed the goal, if you will, of that triplet, was to bring the light in 1888 and then allow things, had the people received it, it would have changed the course of history so that things could have been wrapped up very quickly until Jesus could have come in 1890 and brought about the true promised land, bringing His people into the true promised land. So with that extra background on why we look particularly at those three years, of course, in the context of church history, let's look a little bit at what the significance of these things is in the biological aspect, because we mentioned how this is connected with the immune system. Now, in the immune system, we have the white blood cells in order to attack the invaders, they produce antibodies, and those antibodies attach, they connect with the foreign element, whether the bacteria or virus or whatever, and then once it can do that, then it multiplies and they attack all of the invasion.

So the way that it works is it has to find the antibody, it's just a protein molecule that has the right shape to fit whatever foreign thing is there. So if it's a virus, then it tries many different options until it finds something that fits in the right shape. It's just like a hand that can grab nicely onto the foreign entity.

So it has to be able to match that infection. Now, the interesting thing is that it uses our DNA to accomplish that. In fact, it takes the DNA and it takes a part from here and a part from there, recombines them, and then that makes a new code.

And so it processes that new code, and that's a new attempt to take hold of the foreign thing in the body. And it does that many times with many different possibilities, shuffling around the DNA, taking a part from here, a part from there, a different part, a different part, putting them back together, and until it finds a match. And finally, it has then the right recipe to create just the right protein that it can really grab a hold of the foreign objects, and then it attaches like it's shown there, and then the body can handle it and take it away and dispose of it.

So the DNA is a very instrumental part of that process, and that's what we see happening or illustrated by the sanctuary service. The blood, it has all of that shuffling of the DNA that's happening in those white blood cells when they are activated for cleansing our body for immunity. So what we have is this string of DNA, if you will, and then in the analogy, it's like taking those certain parts of that DNA, and then we're looking just at those parts.

Those are the key parts that make that recipe that's just right to handle the infection. And of course, in the analogy, the infection is sin. And so what we see is through the history of the church, by being acquainted with the problems, the sin, each of these times in the church history marks a turning event, a time when something was developing where the church had a decision, and it could either go in a godly way or a not good way.

And unfortunately, for the most part, they went in the wrong direction. So that was the infection that came into the church and brought about a sinful condition that needs to be turned around. And so we have this immune system that takes pieces and recombines them into what you might call a recipe for those antibodies against sin.

That's what is being illustrated in this sequence. All right. So when we look at this, we mentioned last time about that process of transcribing the DNA and how normally it goes from the inner part of the cell where the DNA is, and then it goes outward to do actions.

But we have this process that happens in the immune cells where it's called reverse transcription, and that goes back in the opposite direction. And that's exactly what process is used to recombine that DNA. And then when your body meets that same infection again later in life, it has to store the recipe.

And so it uses that reverse transcription to put the recipe back into your own DNA so that you have it there for the rest of your life. That's how God designed it, that it would be available. So let's look now at the history and see how it relates to our present time.

Because this process of reverse transcription is illustrated literally by following in reverse. And that's where the time then continues with each of these bands counting as just one year now. And so after 2015, we follow that now with the recipe for the antibody against sin.

2016, 2017, each one representing another year, and we come all the way to 2024. Now, of course, these are Hebrew years, so they go from spring to spring. So when it says 2024, it's really spring of 2024 to the spring of 2025, exactly that year that we have been talking about in recent weeks.

Okay, so now we look at the history a little bit more in detail than we have until now. Because in each of these triplets of years that are marked, we'll see how they correspond with these years in our antibody against the sin. And let's just start here with this first, or this 1861 to 1863 triplet.

That was the time when in the Seventh-day Adventist Church, they were deciding to organize as a body, as an official church. And indeed, it was in 1863, on May 23rd, I believe, when they officially established the Seventh-day Adventist Church and had received that name. And that was necessary for carrying on the work, because they were growing and needed that organization.

So that wasn't a wrong move in doing that, because it was necessary. However, you'll notice how I have certain ones colored in the same way. The reason for that is because they are the exact codes.

They're slightly different from the main example, but in their difference, they're the same. And likewise, with this one in yellow, so that corresponds with this triplet just before the end of the series. It has the exact same code.

And so, if we look at those, we should see some kind of a similarity. And this was when the church was founded, and then in 2010 to 2012, this was a time when the apostasy in the church had overtaken its usefulness. And so now, the organization was becoming detrimental, or had become detrimental.

And it was no longer useful as an organization, but the organization was being preserved at the expense of the mission that God gave it. And so, that's when things are not in the right order. And so, we see there we have the beginning, here we have the end, the death, if you will, of the church.

Now, in these same years, this was 2010 when the Orion Message was first given publicly to the world, and especially to the Seventh-day Adventist Church. And so, the church, once again, had the opportunity to receive that same light. The Holy Spirit, who had given light in 1888 to prepare the church for His coming, now came again to prepare His people.

Yet again, they rejected that light. They refused to hear the words in 2010 of this message from Orion. And therefore, that corresponds with the spiritual death of the church, much like it was in 1888 when they refused the Holy Spirit.

Now, on the other side of the coin, or of the series, we see that this yellow band corresponds with 2017. And in this series here, this is when we are looking at the time of our ministry. That was when our White Cloud Farm website opened, and this is especially relevant to that time.

And in 2017, just like we received the Orion Message and a lot of great light associated with that in 2017, then we began to see more than just Orion in the heavens, and God directed us to the entire Mazzaroth, all of the constellations of the Mazzaroth. And that opened to us much understanding of the trumpets, especially how the trumpets were being fulfilled on the clock of the Mazzaroth. I'm sorry? The woman sign, especially, was in 2017, and that was also connected with the trumpets, the fourth trumpet in particular.

So, we see that relationship also in this direction, where we have the great light given from Orion, and then God broadens that even to turn our attention to the Mazzaroth. And similarly, in 2023, from that opposite the foundation of the church, when the church settled on its name, the Seventh-day Adventist Church, in 2023, what has been our main feature of study? The sign of the Son of Man. And that's where we see the name of God, His seal being put on His people, the Alpha and Omega, Alnitak of Orion.

That's why we often conclude our prayers in that name, Alnitak of Orion, because that is His name, just like He gave name to the church through inspiration, that they understood the principles of the Sabbath and the Second Advent of Jesus, and so they came up with that name, the Seventh-day Adventist Church. And so, God puts His name, and we'll see a little bit more about His name as we go on today. So, we see this relationship, both from one triplet to the other, and from one pair to the other in this sequence of time, as God has been leading His people.

Next, if we look at this special triplet, the main message of the 1888 message, as it's even known, is righteousness by faith. It seems pretty mundane, but yet it wasn't really brought into the heart, because there was a lot of pride of position, the people were lifted up in their position as elders and pastors and leaders of the church, and they had that sense of self-importance. And that's quite the contrary of the spirit that God wants to put into His people by faith.

He wants to give them that righteousness, but He does it through faith in what? In the blood of Jesus, that blood that represents His sacrifice. So, God wanted to develop in His people that spirit of sacrifice. That was the key aspect that comes out of righteousness by faith, bringing His people to sacrifice.

In 2013 to 2015, that's exactly what He did, not in the Seventh-day Adventist church, unfortunately, but it happens that in our ministry at that time, privately, there were a lot of challenges that we had to surmount. And the leadership, He chose sacrifice rather than the pride of position. And so, He taught by example that spirit of sacrifice.

And it was at that time, through that process, that God led us to understand the essence of what it means to sacrifice and what sacrifice really God is talking about. Because when Jesus gave His life on the cross, it wasn't just a temporary thing. It was a permanent and eternal change that came to Jesus.

He is not the same today as He was before He became a human. He gave up a part of who He was for all eternity. And that's an eternal sacrifice.

And that's what God was teaching us at that time, is that our sacrifice is even to include our eternal life. That's what God has given us, and that's something that we can also lay at the altar, is our eternal life. It's not that important, so to speak.

It's not about us. That's the point. Sacrifice.

He taught us that sacrifice. That was privately within our community in this time of that triplet. But then, in 2016, that was expressed publicly through the prayer of More Time.

Because through the Orion clock, we understood that this year, 2016, was the end. That was what the clock pointed to. That was when Jesus was to come.

You'll notice also, it's that exact triplet, like it was in 1888 to 1890, signifying that it was representing that 70th jubilee. So, it was an opportunity for Jesus to come in that year. But the condition of the church, God's people, and Christianity in general, was such that there were very few, very few who understood, very few who were really ready in their heart, very few who would be ready for any kind of rapture at that time.

And so, the Holy Spirit led; He put it in the heart of our leader, once again, to make a sacrifice. And just days before we were ready for Jesus to come, we were led to make that sacrifice and pray that Jesus would not come, but that He would give more time, namely seven years, for His people to get ready, to have an opportunity to make themselves ready, given the circumstances that would develop in that time. And of course, you can understand that that's really sacrificing, it's laying the whole ministry on the altar.

Here, for years, in the Orion time, since 2010, we have been pointing to that time. And finally, that time came, and then, what does it look like when we say, we make a big announcement, and we say, we prayed that the Lord won't come now, but will come later? So, you can understand why many people turned away, they left, because they didn't believe that that was really sincere and genuine, as indeed it was. Now, we see things much more clearly.

That sacrifice was made public. What was privately practiced was then made public through that prayer in 2016. And that was a very challenging time for us when we lost many of those who had been following with us at that time.

Looking at 2022, we should see also a correlation there. Now, what happened in 2022? Of course, the main event that was developing through this time, since late 2019, 2020, 2021, was this theme of everybody getting the government's mandated injections. And this was like a preparation, because it was building up, and building up, and building up.

And then in 2022, there was a lot of talking in the World Health Organization, working out what's known as the Pandemic Treaty. And that treaty, which was largely developed in 2022, would give the World Health Organization special powers over other nations, even the United States. The World Health Organization would have power to demand certain things of the population.

It was the beginning of the digital health initiative, essentially. So you can see how the pandemic fed into that year of 2022, when all of that escalation, getting everybody jabbed. And then in 2022, they were ready to develop this Pandemic Treaty, when they would then take control, and have power over the nations of the world.

Also, you'll notice that from 2016, we have 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 years. So that also marks the end of that time of delay that we had prayed for. And immediately after that delay, then comes that very important year, when they began to implement all of these things that the pandemic was preparing for.

Does that make sense? It's a time when God's people would have a special test. And to need to stand that test, because when the World Health Organization takes on that power over the lives of people in various nations, and they not even being elected leaders, that will create a lot of challenges for God's people. And so God's people need to be ready and able to stand.

And this is also a time when we see in the heavenly situation that Michael is standing up. We've talked about that before, I won't show it again now, but it points to that standing up of Michael as the comets cross the feet in the sign of the Son of Man. It's a time when this promise applies that Jesus gave or that was given of Jesus.

Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy. So it's a time that brings joy to the Lord to keep us from falling. To the only wise God, our Savior, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever.

Amen. So he gets the glory for his people, for sustaining his people in that time. That's that righteousness by faith.

That's what's symbolized in that triplet. Okay. So moving on, we have one more pair in green to look at. And in 1915, the Seventh-day Adventist Church is known for the spirit of prophecy that God had manifested in the church, especially through Ellen White. And in 1915, that was the year when she died. So after a long ministry in the church through that whole time, being a force of steadying the church, keeping them on the right way, but the leadership was not always inclined toward her and toward the counsel that she gave.

And so when she died in 1915, it was not long before the leadership in the church started deviating from the principles that had been faithfully delivered until that time. And in 1917, they even signed agreements of cooperation with other churches that led one step after another to greater and greater apostasy. And in fact, that's what we see, the corresponding triplet in 1986, especially.

This is when Pope John Paul II at that time, he had the world's day of prayer for peace for the world in Assisi in 1986. And guess who had people there attending? The Seventh-day Adventist Church. Very contrary to the understanding and the principles that were laid in that foundation, exactly contrary to those principles that were given by means of the spirit of prophecy to the church. So they sought out the spirit that had effectively been lost.

They sought for it in the world, the spirit of peace, not peace with God, but peace with the world, ecumenism. Let's all just be brothers and not talk about any differences. And of course, you can't do that without compromising truth.

But God wants us to worship him in spirit and in truth. Truth is very important. It's important to have correct doctrine.

And so this represented the fruit that was born from that deviation from the course in 1917, in that time. Looking in our history, corresponding to those triplets, in 2018 until 2021, it was in a sense also a dark time for us. In fact, in part of that time, our websites were not publicly available.

We had put them under password and even a paywall for a time. And it was a time when we were doing a lot of researching, trying different ideas, seeking the Lord's direction. But it was mostly not especially public in that time.

And therefore, it corresponds also in a different way to the absence of the spirit from the Adventist church, when they departed from the way and sought the from the world and the churches of the world. Whereas we held to the Holy Spirit, but it was still a dark time, because that light wasn't being publicly displayed for a large part of that time. So we were in a sense, separated from the world, whereas the Adventist church was joining themselves with the world.

Until 2021, and that was the year when the comet BB, Bernardinelli-Bernstein, became newsworthy, because it was discovered that it was in fact a comet. It was previously thought to be just an asteroid, but not an actual comet. But in that year, in June, they saw that this was actually a comet.

And it was then the biggest comet that was ever discovered. And it was in the Horologium, the clock constellation in heaven. And so that directed our attention there.

And that was the beginning of a great light that came, and that is still shining on our path to this day. So we see once again, this relationship in both directions with the triplets that have the same codes in orange and yellow or in green, like I've labeled them here. Looking at the beginning in 1841 to 43, in this time of history, this was when they were proclaiming that Jesus was going to come.

They were giving the midnight cry, as it were. But it didn't turn out that way. And in fact, in Revelation 10, as we've talked about before, it was prophesied in this prophecy.

He says, I took the little book out of the angel's hand. That was that little book of Daniel, from which they prophesied of that time in 1843 and 1844. They took that little book out of the angel's hand and ate it up.

They proclaimed the message. And it was in my mouth, sweet as honey. It was a beautiful message.

But as soon as I had eaten it, my belly was bitter. That bitter experience was the disappointment that they experienced when all that understanding seemed to come to nothing, because Jesus didn't actually come as they had believed. And he said unto me, Thou must prophesy again.

So it's prophesying that this would be repeated. William Miller, who initiated that first prophecy of the midnight cry in 1843 or 1844, then there would be a second Miller, if you will, who would then prophesy a second midnight cry, a true midnight cry. Thou must prophesy again before many peoples and nations and tongues and kings.

And that corresponds then to this last year that we see, the year of the Lord, the year of his visitation, the year of his coming. That is the midnight, the true midnight cry that is pointing to that very year. So we see there also a strong relationship. The first Miller giving the disappointment. The second Miller, the leader of our movement, giving this prophesying again of the return of Jesus, giving that time message once more. So there's this need to come back to that same triplet or that same 70th jubilee that we saw in 1890.

It was in the same code that we had that opportunity in 2015 or 2016. And then in 2022, we have this reflection. Now keep in mind, of course, that this is just one year, and so it still is a three-year process.

So this would be the beginning of the three years of that jubilee where the sixth year gives fruit for the two following years. And so that is what we see there in those last three years. That's coming back through this process to that 70th jubilee because that was the grand, great jubilee that the Lord designed would be representing his return.

And so in fact, what we see is that as we are coming back, we're coming indeed back to that 70th jubilee, and that is the one that ends with the return of the Lord. And then we can understand why the Bible in several places says, like here in Ezekiel, moreover, also the Lord speaking, I gave them my Sabbaths to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am the Lord that sanctified them. Now, for many years, I read that and I kind of questioned, how is the Sabbath a sign that it's the Lord that sanctifies us? You know, there's some general relationships there, but now with this understanding, this is all based on the Sabbath, this is the high Sabbath list.

It's that combination of the weekly Sabbath with the annual Sabbath. That's where this list comes from. And then we have, in addition, the jubilee, which is itself a combination of Sabbaths, if you will, the seven sabbaticals coming to that jubilee year.

And so, in a sort of way, that's all the Sabbaths coming together, forming that triplet of the return of the Lord. And the whole process is describing this process of overcoming sin, getting rid of that infection of sin through that reverse transcription of the blood of Jesus into our own DNA so that we can stand in the end by faith, having that righteousness of Christ written in us, in our hearts, by faith, then we can also stand and be ready to meet the Lord. So, we see that there are very strong connections between the forward direction of the high Sabbath list and that return path of the reverse transcription, bringing the law in the blood of Christ into our own hearts.

We see this in the sign of the Son of Man also, and this is where now we come back to the mystery of the mark, because this is God's seal. The sign of the Son of Man shows His seal on His people. And when we look at those particular times highlighted by the Jubilee, first, in 1888 to 1890, in that time frame, there was a lot of development in the world about the Sabbath.

There was a movement in the United States to this bill, it's called the Blair Bill, Senator Blair at that time had proposed a Sunday rest bill in Congress and they were deliberating about this bill. And the Adventist church who produced this magazine about it was strongly opposing this bill because it would advocate closing businesses and enforcing a religious institution of Sunday rest, which would of contrary to the Seventh-day Sabbath rest and would present many problems for the Seventh-day Adventist people or any Sabbath keepers. There were also Seventh-day Baptists who were opposed to the bill, but to a lesser extent.

And so it was a big issue, and in fact when they voted on it, there was one Adventist minister who spoke to the Congress and gave his opinion and reportedly turned one opinion over so that it didn't actually pass. As the story is told, it just didn't pass by that one vote that the Adventist pastor had managed to convert. But this was a big deal at that time.

And of course, the Sabbath being, as we see, God's seal, the Sunday then is on the opposite side of that reflection, the enemy's mark, the mark of the beast, Sunday. Then looking in 2013 to 2015, this is when the gay marriage was passed in June of 2015 when the Supreme Court in the United States ruled that gay marriage was a constitutional right for all American citizens. This points to a different test now that was developing, and one that continued in this time of that triplet.

Then in 2022, we see ongoing, but beginning in that time, this issue with the World Health Organization taking undue authority over the nations and enforcing laws, at least that's where we can see this is headed, with the vaccination issue, enforcing people to get up to date on all of their needed vaccines and enforcing that by means of the digital health agenda. So what we see, looking back now at the verses that we opened with, and he, the second beast of Revelation 13, causes 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 hath the mark, or the name, that is the character, which is contrary to God's character. We can see that in the image in Genesis, says man was made after God's image, and it says immediately male and female.

That's the character that God designed for his people, our identity, but with gay marriage, that's all turned on its head. So it has a different name or character associated with it. The name of the beast, or the number of his name.

And 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 600 threescore and 6. So the number, of course, as we have talked about before, is pointing directly to that genetic code. It's a code. It's represented by letters, but they could just as well be numbers as well.

The point is that it's a code, and that code is the number. Is it the number of the beast, or is it the number that God gave us all from birth, our innate immune system, through the DNA that he designed for us. So when we read this, let him count the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man.

Now that can sound like it's the same number. The number of the beast is the number of the man. And then it says what his number is.

His number is 600 threescore and 6. But clearly this isn't talking about that same number, because it says let him that have understanding count that number, and then it tells you what the number is. So you have to have wisdom and understanding, the wisdom and knowledge of sciences, to discern that true number that identifies every individual. That's our ID number, if you will, in the biological sense.

And of course, that man is surely connected with the World Health Organization. And in fact, the Director General of the World Health Organization, you could even take, as one of our members pointed out to us, his middle name. And in the Hebrew counting system, you can find that it adds up exactly to 666, in the way that they use the letters to represent numbers.

So that's relating to the number. Now, we see these three tests in time. The Sabbath test in the 1888 to 1890 time and around then.

Then we have the LGBT test. And then now we have this number of the beast test. They're in different time periods.

And in the verse, it says that no man might buy or sell, let me show it here, and that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, but that mark was in 1888 or 1890 in that time frame. Or the name of the beast, that applies in 2013 to 2016 time frame. Or the number of his name.

So we see that it's pointing to three separate times. It doesn't necessarily, by the way that it's written, it doesn't show that all of these things are enforced all at once. Everybody's looking for the mark of the beast, the mark of the beast.

Well, we understand what the mark of the beast is. That was the big issue in Congress even back in the 1890s. There's no way in the world that that's going to be an issue today, in a day of everybody being treated equally and with equity and all of that.

And then we have the LGBT issue that has come up. And in each of these issues, there's a mechanism by which no one is allowed to buy or sell. For example, with the Sabbath, if you close down the businesses and you tell everybody you have to rest on the Sabbath, which they called the Sabbath, but it was really Sunday, then you can't buy or sell because you're under lockdown.

With LGBT, there's the environmental social governance rules where there is a policy where they score the businesses according to how tolerant they are of the LGBT and how equitable they are and all of this. That's how this would be enforced, so that they can't buy or sell if they don't have that ESG score at the right level. And with the number of the beast, we see that being enforced.

No buying or selling, we see it being enforced by means of the digital health initiative. Because when your health record is made digital, then they can immediately see, "oh, you're not up to date." You have to comply before we can release your funds.

That's how that goes. Therefore, it's likely that this will be in tandem with digital currencies that they can also control as well. So we see the three tests described in Revelation are at different times.

That's the key point. Right now, in this time of history, it's about the number. It's about that genetic code, holding to the number that God assigned to us, not allowing man to give us that number of the beast.

Yes, thank you for pointing that out. In each time, Jesus could have come. In 1890, he could have come.

And then there was this test that was leading up to that time when they would have to stand and be faithful to the Sabbath. And there were even people imprisoned in the United States because they refused to work on the Sabbath or rest on Sunday. And similarly, Jesus could have come in 2016, just as the Orion clock showed.

It wasn't false. It was indeed validated by this relationship. He could have come there.

And at that time, it would have been the LGBT issue, all the environmental social governance policies that would have been used to put that test on God's people. And it was also a test for some in that time. And now, we see the same thing developing, and it's in this triplet, if you will, these three last years, when we see this number of the beast being enforced.

And what we saw up until now was just the buildup to bring about that health, digital health initiative, the pandemic treaty, all part of that same package of the World Health Organization, giving that authority to them over the nations in that time frame. And so, as we go through 2024, we will see these things being implemented in a greater degree. We saw also before how the Horologium points to that global health initiative as well at those times when the comet crosses the pendulum.

They were times when the global health initiative was put into place, the major milestones on its development. So, concluding, we remember what Paul mentioned about the sabbaths, the ceremonial sabbaths, and he said how the body is of Christ. And we see that reflected in the sign of the Son of Man, in that high sabbath list, that's in the body of Christ, that's what it's talking about, pointing to this heavenly scene.

And the seal of the sabbath being shown there, even the high sabbath with the Holy Spirit sealing his people. So, the sabbath has always carried this blessing with it. It's that blessing of the return of Jesus and the timing of his return.

I want to close with a quote from the prophetess to the Seventh-day Adventist church. It's a well-known quote. She says, "I saw that God had children who do not see and keep the sabbath.

They have not rejected the light upon it. And at the commencement of the time of trouble, we were filled with the Holy Ghost as we went forth and proclaimed the sabbath more fully." I think we've seen that proclamation of sabbath more fully.

It doesn't mean more extensively, talking about when the sabbath begins and when it ends and what you can do on the sabbath and what you can't do on the sabbath, and just preaching that message all throughout the world. It's not about proclaiming the sabbath more extensively, but more fully, with more weight, with more importance, with more meaning. That's what we see in the sign of the Son of Man, in the high sabbath list, in all of the jubilees and everything pointing together, showing the time when Jesus will come.

Just to finish the quote, "This enraged the churches and nominal Adventists as they could not refute the sabbath truth," This sabbath truth. "And at this time, God's chosen all saw clearly that we had the truth, and they came out and endured the persecution with us. I saw the sword, famine, pestilence, confusion in the land."

I think those things, certainly the sword and pestilence and the food shortages, are already visible if they're not felt by everybody yet. And by the way, confusion, that is a term used to represent the sexual confusion, identity confusion that is ubiquitous in the world today. "The wicked thought that we had brought the judgments upon them, and they rose up and took counsel to rid the earth of us, thinking that then the evil would be stayed."

So the persecution comes against God's people because of standing faithful in that time, when it seems like they're being the intolerant ones, standing against the principles of the world and incurring the wrath of man for standing for the truth of God. So with that, remember the sabbath day to keep it holy. That's the essence of it.

That's the message that God is teaching with the sabbath truth. Let's stand for a word of prayer. Dear Heavenly Father, we thank you that from the beginning of creation, you put these mysteries in your word, which was written first in the heavens, in the timing of the celestial events, in the timing that you specified every seventh day.

And you put a blessing on that sabbath day, a blessing that we couldn't ever fathom how deep and meaningful it is, but you are a revealer of secrets. And in this time when knowledge is increasing, you have exposed the mystery of the sabbath. You've revealed the mystery and how it reveals the true issues of the end of time and how they play out in their sequence, all exactly how it's written in your word.

Truly your ways are higher than our ways, and they are marvelous in our sight. And so we praise you for how you work in all of your creation, whether on the grand scale of the celestial bodies or on the earthly scale of the harvests or on the micro scale of the cells and the internal processes of the body. You are the creator of all things, and you have sworn that time would be no longer.

And that's what we see written in this word of your sabbath. So we praise you for that, and we thank you for the wonders that you have put in your word and in your creation. And we pray these things in the name of Jesus Christ, Alnitak, the wounded one of Orion, whose name is in the seal that you put on our foreheads.

Amen. Thank you, and we look forward once again to seeing you next week.