2. The Shaking
Preached by John Thiel   

The separating of the wheat and tares is part of the third angels messages. As we explore the third angels message, looking at Revelation 14 where it is given, note what the third angel is actually doing in his preaching.

 

Revelation 14:9 And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive [his] mark in his forehead, or in his hand,

14:10 The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb:

 

Here is the angel addressing a certain company of people. Those who worship the beast and his image and receive the mark in the forehead they will receive the wrath of God.

 

Revelation 14:12 Here is the patience of the saints: here [are] they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.

 14:13 And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed [are] the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours; and their works do follow them.

 

Here you see another class. A class that has the patience of the saints, that keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus.

 

The third angel is actually qualifying two companies, identifying opposite companies in his presentation. He is actually exercising a selective influence in this message. The inhabitants of the earth are being segregated by his preaching. The ones that are receiving the mark of the beast and the ones keeping the commandments of God.

 

Revelation 14:14 And I looked, and behold a white cloud, and upon the cloud [one] sat like unto the Son of man, having on his head a golden crown, and in his hand a sharp sickle.

 

Immediately before the second advent, this is the work that this third angel is doing. Segregating by his message a people. It is interesting when you hear people saying the people who keep the commandments of God verses the people who receive the mark of the beast. Straight away, there is a splitting of companies there. What is declared in this statement in that immediately before the coming of Jesus, there is this message just prior to the coming of Jesus, this what is announced;

 

Amos 9:8 Behold, the eyes of the Lord GOD [are] upon the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from off the face of the earth; saving that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob, saith the LORD.

 9:9 For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all nations, like as [corn] is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth.

 

At the time when the sinful kingdom is going to be destroyed of the face of the earth, there is a sifting taking place. A separating as corn is sifted in a sieve. Then there is the comforting statement that not the least grain will fall on the ground. God is going to make sure the grain is kept for the garner.

 

According to what we identify in the third angels messages, the third angel refers to this text. They are the very announcement of their messages.  It is to do with the shaking or the separating of Gods true people from those that are to be destroyed. As it said, he will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob, but destroy the sinful kingdom, he is going to have to separate the ones that should not be destroyed.

That is what the third angel is saying, anyone that is going to receive the mark of the beast and worship the beast and his image is going to be destroyed and here are the people that are not going to be destroyed.

 

That is evident there. Jesus gave us a parable that clearly leads us to understand this event. It is interesting that this message of the three angels has been preached for a while already but people don’t realise what it really involves. It is an interesting subject but to see it in action is what people don’t want to know. He had just given the parable of verse 24;

 

Matthew 13:24 Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field:

 

Then during the night the enemy came and sewed tares and now the two have to grow together and when he sent away the multitude in verse 36;

 

Matthew 13:36 Then Jesus sent the multitude away, and went into the house: and his disciples came unto him, saying, Declare unto us the parable of the tares of the field.

13:37 He answered and said unto them, He that soweth the good seed is the Son of man;

 13:38 The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked [one];

 13:39 The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels.

 13:40 As therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the fire; so shall it be in the end of this world.

 

People are being segregated. The company that is the tares, are going to be burnt. You notice what we read in the third angels message, they will be burnt these people that worship the beast and his image. Interesting comparison. Let us quality from the word of God how Matthew 13 is directly what the three angel’s messages is doing.

The harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels.

 

The shallow reader usually reads this to mean Jesus is coming with his angels and the angels do the separating at the coming of Jesus. That is usually how people read it. Let us find out what Jesus says about the segregation from the wicked and the righteous. It is at the time of the end. When Jesus said in the parable, the harvest is the end of the world, the people who understood Jesus speaking at that time, understood that the harvest wasn’t a one day event.

 

They understood what the harvest was according to their method of harvesting. It was a season in which the reapers went around with their sickles and the whole fields were cut and stooks were set up to dry in the summer heat and those stooks would sit there for some time and were then gathered in. Jesus used that parable to demonstrate the end of the world.

 

The time of the end.

 

At the time of the end, angels would be doing the same work in the time of the end. We read Revelation and identified an angel identifying the end. What we read in Daniel 12 is connected here in Revelation 10.  Remember the book of Daniel was closed till the time of the end. Revelation 10 discusses this;

 

Revelation 10:1 And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow [was] upon his head, and his face [was] as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire:

 10:2 And he had in his hand a little book open: and he set his right foot upon the sea, and [his] left [foot] on the earth,

 

For brevity we read;

 

Revelation 10:5 And the angel which I saw stand upon the sea and upon the earth lifted up his hand to heaven,

 10:6 And sware by him that liveth for ever and ever, who created heaven, and the things that therein are, and the earth, and the things that therein are, and the sea, and the things which are therein, that there should be time no longer:

 

This angel says as he has a book open, there is time no longer, it’s the end.

 

10:8 And the voice which I heard from heaven spake unto me again, and said, Go [and] take the little book which is open in the hand of the angel which standeth upon the sea and upon the earth.

 10:9 And I went unto the angel, and said unto him, Give me the little book. And he said unto me, Take [it], and eat it up; and it shall make thy belly bitter, but it shall be in thy mouth sweet as honey.

 10:10 And I took the little book out of the angel's hand, and ate it up; and it was in my mouth sweet as honey: and as soon as I had eaten it, my belly was bitter.

 10:11 And he said unto me, Thou must prophesy again before many peoples, and nations, and tongues, and kings.

 

This book was to be eaten. This is very symbolic because when you digest a book what do you do? You actually read it. The Readers Digest publication understand this very well which is why they call it the ‘Readers Digest’. They eat those things written in there, they digest them. It is the same simile that God is using. The book that is to be open at the time no longer period is to be eaten and studied and digested and it will give a sense to people oh sweet, the bliss of the end of the world, Jesus is coming. They expect Jesus to come but a bitterness strikes when they digest it because no, you must prophesy again. Your work isn’t over yet even though it is the time of the end.

 

This angel that says there is time no longer is also there;

 

Daniel 8:16 And I heard a man's voice between [the banks of] Ulai, which called, and said, Gabriel, make this [man] to understand the vision.

 8:17 So he came near where I stood: and when he came, I was afraid, and fell upon my face: but he said unto me, Understand, O son of man: for at the time of the end [shall be] the vision.

 8:18 Now as he was speaking with me, I was in a deep sleep on my face toward the ground: but he touched me, and set me upright.

 8:19 And he said, Behold, I will make thee know what shall be in the last end of the indignation: for at the time appointed the end [shall be].

 

We are trying to understand the parable of Christ. The harvest is the end of the world. There is a time appointed that the end shall be. The angel Gabriel in Daniel 8 is going to explain, I will make you know what shall be in the last end of the indignation.

 

Daniel 8:14 And he said unto me, Unto two thousand and three hundred days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed.

 

   The message of Revelation 14, proclaiming that the hour of God's judgment is come, is given in the time of the end; and the angel of Revelation 10 is represented as having one foot on the sea and one foot on the land, showing that the message will be carried to distant lands, the ocean will be crossed, and the islands of the sea will hear the proclamation of the last message of warning to our world. {2SM 107.3}

 

This message announces the end of the prophetic periods. The disappointment of those who expected to see our Lord in 1844 was indeed bitter to those who had so ardently looked for His appearing. It was in the Lord's order that this disappointment should come, and that hearts should be revealed. {2SM 108.1}

 

Not one cloud has fallen upon the church that God has not prepared for; not one opposing force has risen to counterwork the work of God but He has foreseen. All has taken place as He has predicted through His prophets. He has not left His church in darkness, forsaken, but has traced in prophetic declarations what would occur, and through His providence, acting in its appointed place in the world's history, He has brought about that which His Holy Spirit inspired the prophets to foretell. {2SM 108.2}

 

We can see that in prophecy as we just been reading so far, what we expected in 1844, men will be travelling all across the earth so that this book now closed, everyone can hear about it. How true this is, in those times travel was beginning to increase across the world and its increase from that time to this point in time and everyone can hear the message in one place.

 

The book declaring that there is time no longer is the book of Daniel that was closed unto 2300 days then there would be the time of the end. As the angel said, I’m going to explain to you the end of the time.

 

There in this time of the end, from 1844 onwards, we would then expect according to the harvest that Jesus told the in parable that the angels would be sent forth to gather the wicked from the good.

 

The three angels are reapers in the time of the end. How are they reaping? As the first angel was preaching, he was preaching the everlasting gospel and announced the hour of Gods judgment is come. What was he doing?

 

Hebrews 4:12 For the word of God [is] quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and [is] a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

 

As the first angel is preaching his message, it was cutting. Like a sickle which was cutting the harvest of the earth. The people were being cut to the core. As the message proceeds it identifies the pure truth and it identifies how the heart reacts to it. We have studied how a large number of people rejected this message and how some accepted it. That was the cutting.

 

As it was written in Revelation 10, you must go and prophesy again to many nations, kindred’s and tongues. The first angel is actually doing the cutting. He is harvesting, he is cutting the people with the message. The second angel follows, Revelation 14:8, saying Babylon the great has fallen. Straight away the second reaper is identifying the babylonish people, they are rejecting the message. We have studied that. By rejecting the message, the denominational churches were falling in the direction of the tares through the cutting of the 1st angel’s message. The 2nd angel is putting the tares to one side, identifying them.

 

Then comes the third reaper. What does he do? He identifies those who worship the beast and receive his mark and he says, you are going to burn and then he says here are they that keep the commandments of God. That is the third angel. He is identifying the wheat and the tares. We come to this identifying and binding the bundles for the heavenly garner and the tares to burn.

 

Revelation 7:1 And after these things I saw four angels standing on the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow on the earth, nor on the sea, nor on any tree.

 7:2 And I saw another angel ascending from the east, having the seal of the living God: and he cried with a loud voice to the four angels, to whom it was given to hurt the earth and the sea,

 7:3 Saying, Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads.

 

The above verse ties in with Amos;

 

Amos 9:9 For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all nations, like as [corn] is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth.

 

Here are a people who have to be bound and sealed before the world is destroyed.

 

Revelation 7:4 And I heard the number of them which were sealed: [and there were] sealed an hundred [and] forty [and] four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel.

 

Here we see the 144,000 bound in bundles.

 

Revelation 14:1 And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion, and with him an hundred forty [and] four thousand, having his Father's name written in their foreheads.

14:5 And in their mouth was found no guile: for they are without fault before the throne of God.

 

Here is the wheat in the last days. The tares. Verse 8 is Babylon, Verse 9 is the third angel.

 

Revelation 14:8 And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.

 14:9 And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive [his] mark in his forehead, or in his hand,

 

The angel is going to separate from among Gods people the tares. Here you have a scenario of God speaking in reference to the wicked of Israel and these men with their slaughtering weapons in their hands, and as they are sent forth to slaughter, there is a man in verse 2 with a writers inkhorn in his hand;

 

Ezekiel 9:2 And, behold, six men came from the way of the higher gate, which lieth toward the north, and every man a slaughter weapon in his hand; and one man among them [was] clothed with linen, with a writer's inkhorn by his side: and they went in, and stood beside the brazen altar.

9:3 And the glory of the God of Israel was gone up from the cherub, whereupon he was, to the threshold of the house. And he called to the man clothed with linen, which [had] the writer's inkhorn by his side;

 9:4 And the LORD said unto him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof.

9:5 And to the others he said in mine hearing, Go ye after him through the city, and smite: let not your eye spare, neither have ye pity:

 9:6 Slay utterly old [and] young, both maids, and little children, and women: but come not near any man upon whom [is] the mark; and begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at the ancient men which [were] before the house.

 

Here you have another situation of the separating put in a different way. Gods people are being marked and bound in bundles so they won’t be destroyed but the wicked are being bound in bundles to be destroyed. The wicked are bound in bundles to be destroyed.

 

As we have been observing from the angels and the prophecies that this is the harvest time, and the sealing of the wheat and the tares, separating of them, the third angel is doing that. Is that correct what we are reading here? Let us check inspiration.

 

  I asked the angel if there were none left. He bade me look in an opposite direction, and I saw a little company travelling a narrow pathway. All seemed to be firmly united, bound together by the truth, in bundles, or companies. Said the angel, "The third angel is binding, or sealing, them in bundles for the heavenly garner." {EW 88.3}

 

Bundles are companies. What were the angels doing? Binding companies by the preaching of the truth. the third angel is the one that is binding them in bundles for the heavenly garner. What we have been concluding is written here.

 

Awful is his mission. He is the angel that is to select the wheat from the tares, and seal, or bind, the wheat for the heavenly garner. These things should engross the whole mind, the whole attention." {EW 118.1}

 

Here is the powerful reality of biblical truth that ever since 1844, the third angel, when he came into to do his work, we see he is doing this amazing work. Awful is his mission. He is selecting the wheat from the tares, he is binding the bundles.

 

The harvest commenced in 1844. The stooks are being erected to dry right out so they can be taken to the garner. This is the time we are living in. Because we see these seasons in those days it took a whole season because they were working by hand, this is a symbolic picture we see it takes a period of time which is why we have read some die in the message;

 

Revelation 14:13 And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed [are] the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours; and their works do follow them.

 

Because the work is prolonged and goes on for more than a century, an envoy of reinforcement like in the days of the harvest when it took a bit longer and they needed more help, gleaners would come up. We read in Amos that not a single grain will fall on the ground. Is there scriptural evidence that the third angel will receive help?

 

Revelation 18:1 And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory.

 18:2 And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.

 

Here you can see a very powerful angel coming to vivify the work, to make it more intense. He cries with a strong mighty voice saying Babylon is fallen, he’s identifying again the tares and the evil of the tares very clearly. He cries with a loud voice and all the earth is lightened with his glory.

 

He gives strength and power and its written in Early Writings;

 

A compelling power moved the honest, while the manifestation of the power of God brought a fear and restraint upon their unbelieving relatives and friends so that they dared not, neither had they the power to, hinder those who felt the work of the Spirit of God upon them. The last call was carried even to the poor slaves, and the pious among them poured forth their songs of rapturous joy at the prospect of their happy deliverance. Their masters could not check them; fear and astonishment kept them silent. Mighty miracles were wrought, the sick were healed, and signs and wonders followed the believers. God was in the work, and every saint, fearless of consequences, followed the convictions of his own conscience and united with those who were keeping all the commandments of God; and with power they sounded abroad the third message. I saw that this message will close with power and strength far exceeding the midnight cry. {EW 278.1}

Servants of God, endowed with power from on high with their faces lighted up, and shining with holy consecration, went forth to proclaim the message from heaven. Souls that were scattered all through the religious bodies answered to the call, and the precious were hurried out of the doomed churches, as Lot was hurried out of Sodom before her destruction. God's people were strengthened by the excellent glory which rested upon them in rich abundance and prepared them to endure the hour of temptation. I heard everywhere a multitude of voices saying, "Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus." {EW 278.2}

 

This is the bundles. There they are. Very vividly Amos 9:9 is in process of taking shape more and more as time goes on. The call for separation is part of these messages. Not a message of stay together everybody, let’s all be together, let’s all be happy in our families. Nothing like that. These messages have no room for that.

 

These messages are the closing scenes – cry aloud, spare not, show my people their transgression. The people who want to hear smooth things, they are saying that the people who are doing this work are separating families, they are destroying relationships. But that is what the message is. We are in such a circumstance that there is no cushy situation of lets getting nicely along with our people who are not really doing what God is saying. No it says in the last days perilous times shall come;

 

2 Timothy 3:1 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.

 3:2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

 3:3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,

 3:4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;

 3:5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.

 

All the characteristics brought out, notice verse 5. In verse 4, they are lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God. What is the call? From such turn away.

 

Notice as we go on studying, that the third angels message together with Revelation 18 are dealing directly with what we are reading in 2 Timothy 3. These messages are brought into a climax where the following must take place.

 

2 Corinthians 6:14 Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?

 6:15 And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?

 6:16 And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in [them]; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

 6:17 Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean [thing]; and I will receive you,

6:18 And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.

 

When you read these scriptures you realise there is no playing around that those who will not submit to these three angels messages, we are to separate from. The call is come away from them. Bundle together truth that’s all.

 

The study of 2 Timothy and 2 Corinthians is very explicit and specific in regards to what we should do in regards to yoking together and dealing with these horrifying things of Timothy here. You know when you have horrendous scenes of people being like they are and yet claiming to be somewhat religious, get out from among them, from such turn away. All so vivid.

 

As God is behind the messages, the angels are being sent by him to separate. Those words are so important to sever the wicked from among the just. What is the word sever? Tear the relationship. As God is organising this, there comes a point in time where enough is enough, we have to move much faster. What will he do in this final work as it has been prolonged?  The Revelation 18 angel comes along and the other voice from heaven;

 

Romans 9:27 Esaias also crieth concerning Israel, Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved:

9:28 For he will finish the work, and cut [it] short in righteousness: because a short work will the Lord make upon the earth.

 

When he comes up with these last intense thrust of the Revelation 18 angel and the voice from heaven, he is going to cut it short and what people have had years learning, these other ones are going to have to work fast. When the angels have bundled everything, there will come a voice from heaven. This voice is expressed in Revelation 22.

 

Revelation 22:11 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.

When that has finally been expressed, the sorting out, the tying of the bundles have all been completed, then the people on earth will gradually awaken to the horrible conclusion in which they have no more choice. Her is the fearful expression.

 

Jeremiah 8:20 The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.

 

Notice that when that declaration is made of the close of probation Revelation 22:11.  Jesus has not arrived yet as such, the bundling has been done, as in the harvest practise in the time of Christ, the stooks that were bound together and erected to dry out in the heat of the summer sun, they remain standing there to dry out fully in the heat.

 

Revelation 7:13 And one of the elders answered, saying unto me, What are these which are arrayed in white robes? and whence came they?

 7:14 And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

 

The people that come out of this final drying out of all earthliness, of all moisture, these people have come out of great tribulation. The tribulation that is spoken of is recorded in Jeremiah 30. During the heat of the summer harvest period there is still some more purging and drying out to take place and it is a tribulation called the time of Jacobs trouble.

 

Jeremiah 30:5 For thus saith the LORD; We have heard a voice of trembling, of fear, and not of peace.

 30:6 Ask ye now, and see whether a man doth travail with child? wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness?

 30:7 Alas! for that day [is] great, so that none [is] like it: it [is] even the time of Jacob's trouble; but he shall be saved out of it.

 

To go through that time of trouble as part of the wheat sheaves, is to dry out everything so they can be saved out of it. When that has been completed, the drying out of the sheaves of wheat from all moisture, then comes the statement of Jesus.

 

Matthew 13:30 Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn.

 

When the stooks have been dried out completely, when the tribulation has done its work, then will be the gathering of the sheaves into the barn. What is that?

 

In the closing scenes of the harvest, the people of God went through great tribulation which is concluded with Revelation 14. Here is the conclusion of the harvest.

 

Revelation 14:14 And I looked, and behold a white cloud, and upon the cloud [one] sat like unto the Son of man, having on his head a golden crown, and in his hand a sharp sickle.

 14:15 And another angel came out of the temple, crying with a loud voice to him that sat on the cloud, Thrust in thy sickle, and reap: for the time is come for thee to reap; for the harvest of the earth is ripe.

 

It says ripe but In the margin it says DRY. When in the harvest period of Christs time, the sheaves were gathered up to be put on the cart to go into the barn, the sickle is still used. It is a very good instrument to pick up each particular sheave and hoisted onto the shoulder and then on to the tray of the cart. Indeed Jesus is coming as a reaper not to actually do the work that the angels have already been doing but to gather the wheat into the barn because as Jesus comes, the people are taken off the planet, onto the cloud and he takes them back to his abode in heaven.

 

At the same time as the wheat is gathered into the barn, the other reaper of the same chapter;

 

Revelation 14:17 And another angel came out of the temple which is in heaven, he also having a sharp sickle.

 14:18 And another angel came out from the altar, which had power over fire; and cried with a loud cry to him that had the sharp sickle, saying, Thrust in thy sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth; for her grapes are fully ripe.

 14:19 And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast [it] into the great winepress of the wrath of God.

 14:20 And the winepress was trodden without the city, and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand [and] six hundred furlongs.

 

Here is a interesting interfacing of terminology. He had power over fire and at the same time it’s the winepress of Gods wrath. The wicked are going to burned, but there is another detail of this period of time where the winepress of Gods wrath is going to destroy the wicked by warfare as it says blood to the horses bridle.

 

Here is another reaper with his sickle he is gathering in the vine of the earth to destroy the tares as it were. Here is the full spectrum of the harvest activity. Many reapers and the one that gathers in after the other reapers have done their work, is Jesus Christ to gather the wheat into the barn.

 

As we conclude and surmise this whole picture, there is a statement made. Here is the summation of the third angel doing his work during the time of the judgment;

 

. The time of the judgment is a most solemn period, when the Lord gathers His own from among the tares. Those who have been members of the same family are separated. A mark is placed upon the righteous. "They shall be Mine, saith the Lord of hosts, in that day when I make up My jewels; and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him." Those who have been obedient to God's commandments will unite with the company of the saints in light; they shall enter in through the gates into the city, and have right to the tree of life. The one shall be taken. His name shall stand in the book of life, while those with whom he associated shall have the mark of eternal separation from God. {TM 234.2}

 

The time of the judgment is a period which we have just been studying under the third angels message and the first and second angels with them. The period of the judgment is a period of the harvesting of the earth of the wheat and the tares and the separating of the two. It is indeed a separation that cuts right through the ranks of social platforms including the family as we read that those who had been members of the same family are separated as every individual makes his own decision of what he is going to do with the beautiful gospel and the work of the everlasting gospel of Jesus Christ and how they will react to that. Here is the experience of the third angel, of the harvest or the shaking of the wheat and the tares.

 

Our study is concluded and in our next study we will look more at enlarging the third angel.

 

Amen.

 

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