ALL lost truths of the gospel are to be re-covered. All truths that have been perverted are to be restored. All hidden truths are to be brought to the light. The gospel in its primitive fullness and simplicity is to be preached to the world again. The deceptions, the delusions, the errors, that have gained an entrance into the body of Christian teaching are to be cast out. The truth of the Lord Jesus in all its glory and power is to be presented to the world in the final gospel message. GoPH 130.1
This message had its beginning in 1844, at the close of the 2300 years of Daniel 8:14. The very heart and center of it is Jesus, our great High Priest. He is in the message restored to His rightful place as “the way, the truth, and the life.” The attention of the world is to be directed to His expiatory, propitiatory, and mediatorial work. GoPH 130.2
The movement that God institutes to carry His final message to the world will emphasize the fundamental truths of the gospel. It will turn away from all the perversions of truth, from all the errors that men have brought in, and point alone to Jesus as the author and finisher of faith. It will maintain the historic faith, the apostolic faith of the Christian church, and make the person of our Lord the central feature of its teaching. GoPH 130.3
It will emphasize His pre-existence as the divine Creator. It will uphold the Scriptural record of His virgin birth. It will present the truth of His divine Sonship. It will insist on His authority as the Teacher sent from God. It will defend His miracle-working power. It will cherish His enduring words. It will maintain the essential truth of His substitutionary death. It will hold to the certainty of His miraculous resurrection and ascension. It will understand and teach His divine intercession and priesthood. And it will confidently look for His literal, bodily, imminent return. GoPH 131.1
This last church, which will be the full fruitage of the Reformation, will have revealed to it all the truths of the gospel, the truths that Satan has so successfully hidden under the great counterfeit system during the centuries of the Dark Ages. It will, therefore, preach not only the message that the Lord is soon to come, but it will also possess and teach the truth concerning the true God, the true Saviour, the true sanctuary, the true priesthood, the true law, the true Sabbath, and those other truths which have been per-verted. It is to this church, the remnant church, that the gift of prophecy will be restored. GoPH 131.2
The people, then, who will deliver the final message of the gospel to the world will believe in God the Father as the great King of the universe. They will believe in His infinite love for all His creatures, and in His great plan for the salvation of sinners. GoPH 132.1
They will believe in and preach Christ as the only Saviour from sin. They will present Him to the world as the great Sin-bearer for the human race, and will show that, whereas He was in the image of God, He emptied Himself and was made in the form of man, and then humbled Himself to die the death of the cross, being both human and divine. GoPH 132.2
They will believe and preach Christ as the only mediator between God and man, claiming that all blessings that have ever come from the hand of God to the human race have come through Him, and that through Him the whole creation was brought into existence. (John 1:1-3, 14; Colossians 1:13-17; Hebrews 1:1, 2.) GoPH 132.3
They will believe and preach Christ as the only true Advocate with the Father, offering His blood constantly in our behalf — our Intercessor, who presents for us the merits of His own sacrifice for sin. GoPH 132.4
They will believe and teach that the Bible is the only true, full, and complete revelation of God’s will to men—His authoritative word. GoPH 133.1
They will believe and teach that the Holy Spirit is the only true vicegerent of the Son of God on earth; and will accept no other. GoPH 133.2
They will believe and teach the truth regarding the sanctuary — the true sanctuary, which the Lord pitched and not man; the heavenly sanctuary, in which the Lord Jesus is our High Priest; the sanctuary which was to be cleansed (Heb., justified, Daniel 8:14, margin) in 1844, the end of the long prophetic period of 2300 years. GoPH 133.3
They will believe and teach the truth concerning the true Sacrifice once offered on Calvary for the sins of the human race; and they will show that this one sacrifice for sin was sufficient, without the idolatrous sacrifice of the mass. GoPH 133.4
They will believe and teach the truth concerning the true priesthood of Christ, who was made a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek, a priest who stands at the head of the new creation, who, by offering Himself— interceding through His own blood in the heavenly sanctuary—is able to save unto the uttermost all who come unto God by Him. GoPH 133.5
They will believe and teach the truth concerning the necessity of confessing their sins to the High Priest above, and not to any earthly priest. GoPH 134.1
They will believe and teach the truth concerning the fullnessof the forgiveness of the sins that are confessed to this High Priest, and the completeness of His cleansing of the sinner from all unrighteousness. GoPH 134.2
They will believe and teach the truth of true baptism; that it is a burial and a resurrection; that it typifies the complete death of the “old man” of sin,—“the body of sin,“— and its burial, and then a resurrection to “walk in newness of life.” GoPH 134.3
They will believe and teach the truth concerning the true Communion, the Lord’s Supper. GoPH 134.4
They will believe and teach the truth regarding the true law of God, which existed in the very beginning, was given in thunder tones on Mount Sinai, and is the perpetual standard of righteousness, the very foundation of the government of God. GoPH 134.5
They will believe and teach the truth regarding the true Sabbath, which was made by the Creator, and given, in Eden, to the human race as a perpetual memorial of the exercise of the creative power of God. They will discard the false and counterfeit Sabbath, as they will also all the counterfeits of the false system; and they will observe only the true Sabbath of Jehovah, the seventh day. This they will present as the sign between Jehovah and His people. (Ezekiel 20:12, 20.) GoPH 135.1
They will teach also the truth of the nature of man, the state of the dead, the reward of the righteous, and the fate of the wicked, all of which have been perverted in the false system. Instead of preaching a purgatory, or a conscious state of existence in death, they will teach the truth of the Bible, — that the dead are unconscious (Psalms 140:3, 4); that “they know not anything” (Ecclesiastes 9:5, 6); that man is mortal (1 Timothy 6:13-16; 1 Corinthians 15: 5154); and that the time of rewards and punishments will take place, not at death or in death, but at the resurrection from the dead (2 Timothy 4:8). GoPH 135.2
Thus this people, through whom God chooses to deliver His final message of truth, will believe and teach every truth that has been perverted in apostate Christianity. They will be guided in their work by the gift of prophecy. The message they will present to the world will obviously be opposed to the papacy, and therefore, when it is preached, it will constitute a great warning against “the beast and his image” and against the reception of his mark. GoPH 135.3
In as much as this last church of Christ is the exact opposite of the system that Satan has designed shall take the place of the gospel, it is not to be wondered at that “the dragon” makes special war against this remnant, which “keep the commandments of God” and deliver the last message of God to the world. (Revelation 12:17.) GoPH 136.1
That this church which stirs the wrath of the dragon is the same as that which gives the warning message against the beast and his image is evident from the fact that it is de-scribed in almost identical terms. (Revelation 14:12; 12:17.) Those who give God’s final message will be commandment keepers, and therefore will observe the seventh-day Sabbath. GoPH 136.2
This last message of the gospel, containing the full truth of God, will not be preached in a corner to just a few persons; it will be taken to all the earth, “preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations.” When it has been taken to all the earth, Jesus will come the second time, and the great controversy between Christ and Satan will come to a final end. GoPH 136.3
Just such a people as are here described as the remnant church have been raised up, and they are now engaged in the very work called for in the prophecy — that of taking the final and complete message of truth to all the world. They are called Seventh-day Adventists. GoPH 137.1
A thoughtful study of this movement and its message, with the time of its arising, discloses the following facts: GoPH 137.2
It followed the churches of the Reformation, and has gone beyond them into advanced light. GoPH 137.3
It is in very truth delivering to the world the message of the coming of Christ. GoPH 137.4
It meets all the specifications of various prophecies regarding the last movement of the gospel. GoPH 137.5
It teaches the observance of the Ten Commandments, in fulfillment of these same prophecies. GoPH 137.6
It teaches Sabbath keeping. GoPH 137.7
It has had restored to it the gift of prophecy. GoPH 137.8
It is the very opposite of the papacy in fundamental principles. GoPH 137.9
It is preaching the warning message against the beast and his image. GoPH 137.10
All the fundamental truths of the gospel of Christ are contained in its message. GoPH 138.1
This movement is in very deed and truth what it purports to be — the final work of the gospel among men. GoPH 138.2
Satan has swept all the world into one deception or another. He has turned the truth of God into a lie, and has succeeded in getting men to believe that lie. His last attempt against the church of Christ will be made with the intention of destroying from among men this remnant, which is carrying the banner of truth to the world. He will bend all the energies of his master mind to the work of bringing these servants of God to destruction, and with them the truth they bear to the world. GoPH 138.3
He knows that he has but a short time in which to work. The controversy between him-self and God, which began in heaven, is fast closing, and he realizes that what he does he must do quickly. He is determined to destroy the truth of God from the earth, and also the people of God. Therefore, “the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.” Revelation 12:17. GoPH 138.4
But God himself is leading this people. He is their Head. He has given them counsel through the ancient gift of prophecy. Led by Him they will triumph, and finally stand on the sea of glass in His presence, singing the song of deliverance. GoPH 138.5
“ Here is the patience of the saints:
here are they that keep the
commandments of God, and the faith
of Jesus.” Revelation 14:12.
“ And 1 saw as it were a sea of
glass mingled with fire: and them
that had gotten the victory over the
over the beast, and over his image,
and over his mark, and over the
number of his name, stand on the
sea of glass, having the harps of
God.” Revelation 15:2.