Part 12 The Magician & The Messiah 2/20/26 (ZOOM BIBLE STUDY)

Last week, let's open the word of Yahweh to Exodus 20:8-10 and we're going to pick right up where we left off and Father Yahweh, I thank you tonight for this Sabbath that you have given us. Almighty creator without you we are just like grass, we wither away, we have no life in us beyond survival. But you said that the words I speak they are life. Not survival but they're life. And I'm asking you tonight for every person watching me that's gathered here from as far away as Scotland and Malaysia and Africa every nation here, every state, I'm asking you to feed them tonight. Feed them with truth. Thy word is truth. May the fresh show bread of the heavenly temple be laid out tonight. May every hungry soul, Father, because I don't have the strength to feed them tonight. My mind is tired, my body's tired. But your words are life even if they're whispered, they're life. So I just feed your people tonight with your words and Father, lead us on this journey of our identity revealing to us who we are ever more and ever more. I'm just asking you tonight to help your pitiful servant your unprofitable servant, the lips of clay only if you put a coal in my lips will the people receive life. I'm asking you to overlook me and just use me for your purposes, for your glory. Oh, that the people might leave here tonight saying, "Surely we have been in the presence of the Lord. Surely we have received the words of life." In the name of Yeshua, I pray. Amen. Amen. Hallelujah. I receive life. Hallelujah. I receive life tonight. Has anybody read my book Living Beyond Survival? Oh, yeah. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. >> Yes, sir. Yeah, and that was part of it you were talking about. Did y'all get past the hard part, the first five chapters? Yes, [laughter] sir. That's you got to get past that but after that it's it's good. Amen. After the after the was nothing left except Do what now? The first five chapters, my wife said, "Oh, hallelujah." The first five chapters, my wife said, "Let me just shoot myself." >> [laughter] >> Hallelujah. Oh, well, it is what it is but boy, the Passover message in it though is powerful because we're literally eating the life of Yahweh when we take Passover and when we receive his words into our life. So if you've not read Living Beyond Survival, hold your eyelids open during the first five chapters and and you'll get to the good stuff. But without the first five chapters, you don't really comprehend what life beyond survival truly is. Amen. Exodus >> That's like saying That's like saying ignore the first five books of the Bible. Well, you know, sadly that's what a lot of people do. >> [laughter] [gasps] >> They do think [clears throat] that's the boring part, don't they? And yet that you got to get that before you can get anything. Amen. >> But it doesn't make it right just to ignore it. That's right. That's exactly right, Elder Boggs. You're exactly right. Exodus 20:8-10, Elder Morgan. Amen. >> [clears throat] >> Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Amen, Apostle. I feel life in my spirit. Thank you, Father. [clears throat] Thank you, Father. Hallelujah. The word of Yahweh Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work. But the seventh day is the Sabbath of Yahweh, your heavenly Father. In it you shall do no work, you nor your wife, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your man servant, nor your maid servant, nor your cattle, nor the stranger who dwells within your gates. I want to take you on a journey tonight and I want to help you understand how the Sabbath day the Jewish people kept it alive. But it was not readily known throughout the world except among the Jewish people. However there was always a little group of Israelites, lost tribes that kept the Sabbath alive even outside of the Jewish community. And the Sabbath truth when we get to the Waldensian mountains or the Alps where the Waldensians held onto the Sabbath day after that, after we lose sight of the Waldensians, the Sabbath is very hard to find in history. It becomes almost untraceable. As if the light had gone completely out on Sabbath keeping. Now after the Waldensians, I brought you last week up to the German Baptist Church. Now, interestingly enough Oh, oh, I just felt Thank you, Holy Ghost. Interestingly enough I want you to think about something, would you, please? Oh, Holy Ghost, have your way tonight. Cuz see, I know where I'm going already in the spirit. I just realized where I'm going. Thank you, Lord. Out of all the people on planet Earth I'll never forget at the Feast of Tabernacles maybe three years ago four years ago, two people walked in the door. Woo. By the name of Lauren and Chris Nepper. And Lauren and Chris Nepper are German Baptist. Hallelujah. They Now, why were those two people sent to this ministry wearing her head covering totally looking different than us totally different disposition, her and her husband than us? Because Yahweh had descended two witnesses from the German Baptist Church where he he preserved Sabbath. I'm going to show you that tonight. I mean, think Why would God send these two? Brother and Sister Nepper, I bet you've looked around and wondered, "Why are we the only two?" I know why. You are representatives of who kept the Sabbath. Now, your particular branch didn't do it but your ancestors did and I I showed you that with with Glat and others and Yahweh sent these two people into this ministry to connect us to the German Baptist Church. It's really mind-blowing when I think about those two people. They left everything to follow these teachings. And now I know why. I did not know until I got to this part of the history. After the Waldensians the next place we find Sabbath keeping is among the German Baptist, specifically the Seventh Day German Baptist. Now, the other German Baptist went to Sunday worship. But there was always a remnant. Remember Glat? I talked you about Mr. Glat. Glat was Seventh Day German Baptist. And so we're picking up there tonight. I read about the Sabbath in Exodus to show you Yahweh has always had a Motel 6 somewhere in the world. Hallelujah. He's always kept the light on for the remnant, the remnant. He's always kept the light on. And so tonight we're picking up after Mumford after Stephen Mumford came to the United States of America and they established the Seventh Day Baptist Church, if you'll remember they kept that and it broke out into three branches. We followed those branches last week. I'm not going to go back over those things but just to refresh your memory, those three branches went to Newport, Rhode Island and remember Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is one of the streams that came out of Stephen Mumford and then Pis- Pis- Piscataway, New Jersey. I hope I'm pronouncing that correctly. Those are the three streams that come from Stephen Mumford. Now, something that I did not mention to you before Stephen Mumford came to America, if he would have come to America at the wrong time, he would not have been able to preach and establish the Sabbath day message. If he would have come when the colonies were first created in New England, then he would have been hanged or beaten for preaching about the Sabbath day. You may not know this, but in the early colonies, Massachusetts Bay, the Baptist people were whipped, the Quakers were hanged right here in America. Anybody that dissented from the state church of Massachusetts. Now, many people don't realize that in the early colonies, every state had an established church. If you didn't belong, there was no freedom of religion in America. You had to belong to the Church of England or the state church of that particular state at that time. And so, there was no freedom of religion in America until Yahweh raised up a man by the name of Roger Williams. And Roger Williams, uh pardon me. Rhode Island, Newport, Rhode Island is where freedom of religion was conceived and created in the United States of America. He built a colony called, and here's what he called it, the garden of the church. He said that the garden of the church had to be fenced off from the wilderness of the world. So, Rhode Island was literally a a a com- a commune. It was literally a a what the world would call a cult. They literally got an island and they they allowed freedom of religion there, and it was there that Yahweh prepared the soil for Mumford. If Mumford would not have come to Rhode Island at that moment with the Sabbath message, it would never have advanced on our shores. And so, when he arrived in Newport, that is the only place. He just happened, by the way, go read his story. He just happened to arrive at at uh Newport. That was not his intended destination. And yet, Yahweh took his ship, put him in in in uh uh Newport, Rhode Island, because the ground was ready to keep the light burning. And of course, you understand that when Mumford got there, he went and joined the First Baptist Church of Newport. They kicked him out along with Samuel Hubbard, Tacy Hubbard, Rachel Langworthy, William Hiscox, Roger Baster, and they all kept the Sabbath within the Baptist Church until they got kicked out, and then they formed the Seventh Day Baptist Church, which is still in existence today, by the way. On December the 23rd, 1671, 100 years before the United States of America was ever created. And so, as we look at those three streams that comes from that, tonight, you are going to find yourself in one of those streams. That's why I keep pointing out the three streams. Primarily, you and I come from the Pennsylvania stream. Very important that you remember that. While the English Seventh Day Baptists were already establishing churches along the eastern seaboard, there was a far more dramatic Sabbath keeping movement taking shape among the German immigrants. Remember, you have two groups now. The English and the German. The English have a Seventh Day Baptist Church, Mumford. But the German immigrants, they are not part of the English Seventh Day Baptist Church. They are flooding into William Penn's colony. And there's a man among them by the name of John Conrad Beissel. And I want to take a moment tonight and uh uh thank uh Sister Neffers' mother, Sister Myers, Sister Brenda Myers, for the idea when we were there last time to bring me to where Johann Conrad Beissel uh built the work of God for the Sabbath day message. So, remember, over there in New uh Rhode Island, you have the English, but over here in Pennsylvania is the >> at that community just so you can get an idea of of your ancestors and what they did uh to preserve the Sabbath day message in this hour. No. Don't watch now. Yeah, bear with me. Watch it. No, no. Oh, well, well. Give me 1 second. I'm trying to see why it's not coming up. Um Oh, that's why. Copy. If you ever can go to this community, you should. It's uh it's your ancestors. It's the stream that we all came out of. It's uh really an interesting place to say the least, okay. So, some reason, it's not wanting to share my screen tonight. There we go. All right, this is Ephrata. Now, the house you see on the left, this, the men lived in one house, and the sisters lived, let's just try it this way. Let's see if Yeah, I'm going to put this way. There we go. So, you had a sisters' house and a brothers' house, and they lived in These houses are still there today. So, before America was even created, they were there keeping the Sabbath day shut off from the world, and they were keeping the Sabbath day. Now, let me go back and show you uh This won't move out of my way. This songbook, if you'll look to your right, they handwrote in beautiful handwriting. They were so famous for their writing and their printing press there. There's the two houses there. And um this is Conrad's house, I believe, on the left where he lived. And these buildings are still there. You can walk the grounds and go into the assembly hall where they had Sabbath service. Now, they prayed at midnight for 2 hours. They woke up at 5:00, everybody, and prayed 2 hours. And then they stopped in the middle of the day and prayed 2 hours. This is your ancestors. This is the line that comes from Mumford. This is the line that came here through Pennsylvania. Now, they all wore white robes, as you see in the picture on the left. Everyone wore white robes. Uh and I find that interesting because the Lord told me on Passover to have everyone wear white. Sort of interesting. It's just really interesting the more you study these things. Now, this is uh the worship center or the worship hall. Let me get to it. There's their kitchen there on the left. And there is their cemetery. I walked through that cemetery. It's it's really a amazing place. Um and there is their worship hall. It's two-story. The sisters sit on the top. The brothers sit on the bottom. And so, just a few pictures there to show you uh that that is the Sabbath keepers that was keeping the Sabbath alive for us and staying faithful to the Sabbath before America was ever ever formed. So, in the 1750s, they had almost 300 people living there together. And they wrote a book called The Martyrs Mirror. Uh and they were they were just very well known all over the country for who they were. Now, 50 years later, 50 years later, there was a conference that I want to bring you up-to-date on. 1802, there was a conference of the first Seventh-day Baptist General Conference. Now, this is after the Ephratah community has dismantled and other things had opened up. But, many of the Ephratah members went to this Seventh-day Baptist General Conference. And it was here that they organized and this was held at First Hopkinton Church in Rhode Island. First Hopkinton Church in Rhode Island is where the first Baptist uh Seventh-day Baptist Conference was held. And that and 1818, they adopted the term Sabbatarian. And or the I'm sorry. They went from Sabbatarian to Seventh-day Baptist in 1818. In 1830, they put out the Protestant Sentinel. The first weekly Seventh-day periodical in the United States of America. And I'm going to now take you and show you those periodicals. Just to show you how Yahweh always had someone that would keep the light on, always, of truth, especially in the United States of America. All right. This is, brothers and sisters, feast your eyes upon this. You can read them from 1830. There they are. Volume 1, 1830, teaching the Sabbath day message faithfully. The Seventh-day Baptist Church. And I just enjoyed perusing through all of that. It was just mind-blowing to see what Yahweh has done to keep the light on in the world of the Sabbath message. Now, at the same time that this church, the Seventh-day Baptist, is growing, there's another movement happening parallel to it in the United States of America. And in those early 1800s, the spirit of Yahweh, while he was keeping the Sabbath over here, was moving on another man in another part of the country. This man was a farmer. I want to introduce you to him because this man is one of your spiritual forefathers. And I want you to know who he is. This was a spiritual forefather that is where we trace our lineage back to for the Sabbath day message and more than that even the kingdom message. Bear with me. The Try to pull these up. I wish this fathom thing would get off my screen. It's so aggravating. All right. There we go. All right. Open with photos. Okay. Here we go. This man's name is William Miller. William Miller. Now, the reason you need to know William Miller is because he is a spiritual ancestor to us all. Let me explain to you. The spirit of Yahweh was moving on a farmer by the name of William Miller. He did not claim to be a prophet. He was a farmer with a Bible. But, Yahweh used that farmer to awaken another group of people on the other side of the nation, not Sabbath keepers. They're not Sabbath keepers. They're Baptist. They're all Baptist. William Miller served in the War of 1812. But, after that war, he experienced a conversion and began an intensive study of the Bible, especially Daniel and Revelation. He became fixated on the second coming of Christ. All right? Therefore, his movement became known as Adventism because uh it comes from the Latin word adventus, which means arrival. So, the entire focus of William Miller's message was what no one in the Christian church was preaching at that time. Not even over it uh not even the Seventh-day Baptist or the German Baptist. No one was focused on the coming of the Lord. This became William Miller's passion, the second coming or the advent. Therefore, uh they all became known as Adventist. But, it's important to know Miller was not a Sabbath keeper. He worshipped on a Sunday like all other Protestants of his day. The Sabbath was not part of his message. His in his movement was entirely about when the return of Messiah would be, not how to obey Torah. That was not his thing. But, that would soon change, okay? The Sabbath would enter the Adventist movement. Remember, Seventh-day Baptist over here, Adventism over here. It's This is key to what you and I are part of today. The Sabbath would come to him from the Seventh-day Baptist Church. And then those two streams, the coming of the Lord and the Sabbath, would converge. The advent hope would commingle soon, very soon, with the Sabbath truth. And that convergence, brothers and sisters, this convergence would literally reshape American religion forever. Now, 1814. This is after America is a nation now. Miller and his followers, their movement exploded. He began preaching in 1831. In 1844, they were exploding. Miller published his first uh tract or pamphlet in 1843. It's called The History of the Second Coming of Christ. And then in 1839, Joshua [clears throat] Himes began to promote the message. Yahweh began to send him helpers to help him get the message out, sort of like our toilet ministry. These people came up beside Miller and begin to become co-workers with him in the message of the coming of Christ. In 1844, they had camp meetings that drew thousands of people across the northeast. By 1844, Miller had nearly 100,000 followers long before social media. And they were called who were these people called? You guessed it. Millerites. Because everybody said they were glorifying a man. Miller and his followers were known as Millerites. These people came from the Baptist Church, the Presbyterian, the Methodist and every other denomination. They all came out to follow the teachings of Miller. Miller died in 1849. Now, after Miller died, the Sabbath and the Advent is about to collide. Miller never became a Sabbath keeper. But he created the Advent movement that would propel the Sabbath message all over the world. Very important. After he died in 1845, the Millerite leaders or elders of the Millerite movement gathered in Albany, New York to hold that movement together. While they were at that conference, a debate broke out. A crucial debate occurred. Should the Millerites observe the Sabbath day? Now, where did that come from? The Seventh-day Baptist had sent people to this meeting because they were possibly going to join them. And the Seventh-day argument came up. But listen to what happened. The Millerites rejected the Sabbath message and they said we won't no fellowship with Jewish fables and the commandments of men that turn us away from the truth. So, the So, the Millerite movement, the Adventist movement rejected the Sabbath day. But, the Sabbath message would not be silenced. >> [clears throat] >> Now, into the picture comes a woman that literally God used and you've never heard about her. You've never heard her name. And she may be the very reason that there is a Sabbath movement in America today. All because of one unknown woman. And I'm going to see if I can pull her up for you because [clears throat] she's interesting. Very, very interesting to say the least. When I studied about her life and what she did for this movement. There she is. Let me get her picture for you. Share. There we go. This lady, her name is Rachel Oakes Preston. Rachel Oakes, O A K E S Preston. She was a member of the Seventh-day Baptist Church. Now, remember, you have two movements happening in America at the same time. The Seventh-day Baptist, the Millerites Adventists. The Adventists have rejected the Sabbath under William Miller. But this woman comes over from the Seventh-day Baptist, which comes from Mumford. And she actually came through Ephratah. This woman is a widow of a Seventh-day Baptist minister. She is a widow of him. She was born in 1809, died in 1868. She was born in Vernon, Vermont, joined the Seventh-day Baptist Church of Vernon, New York in 1837, moved to Washington, New Hampshire in 1843 to be near her daughter. Now, watch this. Yahweh moves this woman and puts her in place for one of the greatest religious transformations in America. Because while she's in Washington, supposedly to be near her daughter, which is a single teacher, her daughter is, while she's there, she's walking by a church. This is interesting. And the name on the front of the church is Baptist. So, she thinks that she's going in a Baptist Church. But when she walked in the Baptist Church, there is another group of people that are renting the Baptist Church cuz they don't have a church of their own. And this was the Millerites. They're meeting in this Baptist Church and uh they borrowed these facilities. They did not have their own facilities. They were having church gathering wherever they could find space to preach about the coming of Christ. And this woman walked in to that church thinking it was Baptist, but there's another group of people that don't act like Baptist. They're not preaching like Baptist. The The sign on the front of Is anybody here a minute I The sign on the front of the church is totally different from the people that are inside. Amen. All right. That's all I want to say. All right. So, she walks into that church and when she gets in there, here's the Millerite followers, the Adventists. When Rachel gets there, she's so excited to meet them cuz they're preaching about the coming of the Lord. She's not heard that preached in her Sabbath day church. And so, she teaches them or tells them about the Sabbath day message. But they paid no attention to her. None whatsoever. She said she felt like she was talking to the wind. But the Lord told her to keep going back to that Millerite congregation that was meeting in a borrowed church. So, she went back one Sunday in 1844. Now, here's a Sabbath keeper going to this church on a Sunday because the Lord had work for her to do in this one congregation. She went in there in the winter of 1844 and there was a traveling minister there, a Methodist minister, but he was an Adventist minister as well. Methodist, but he had joined the Millerites because of the coming of the Lord. His name was Frederick Wheeler. And you need to know this because this is your ancestry. This is our movement. Here he is, Reverend Wheeler. Now, when she went to that church, this man is a preaching. And this man is about to serve communion. And something happened in that church that happened in my church 12 years ago. When I When I see this stuff, it just blows my mind. The similarities. He's about to give communion and he says these words. I'm quoting from her writing. Everyone that confesses communion with Christ Grab it again. He's a Millerite Adventist Methodist preacher giving communion on Sunday. They're looking for the coming of the Lord, know nothing about the Sabbath. Here's a Sabbath keeper that God has sent there and if she's sitting there watching him serve communion, and he says, "Anyone that confesses communion with Christ in such a service as this should be ready to obey God and keep His commandments in all things." And there was Rachel Oakes sitting there. And in her testimony, she said, "At that moment, I nearly rose to my feet in the middle of the service, but I restrained myself because I was a woman and I wanted to remain silent, but I didn't want to remain silent because she said, 'I just heard a minister say, "If you take this communion, you should be ready to obey God and His commandments in all things." A few days later, Rachel Oakes got an invitation to go to the home of the Farnsworth family. Remember the Farnsworth family. They sent Sister Oaks an invitation to lunch. When Sister Oaks got to that invitation for lunch, you will never guess who's sitting at the table. Oh, yes. Hallelujah. Frederick Wheeler. Yes, sir. He's sitting at the table. And there they are. And Sister Rachel Oaks looks him in the eyes and says, "We're not in church anymore. I don't have to be silent." AND SHE SAID, "I came near to getting up in your meeting at that point and saying something. I wanted to tell you, Reverend Wheeler, that you'd better set that communion table back and put a cloth over it until you begin to keep the commandments of Yahweh. Hallelujah. " [laughter] Hallelujah. Oh, yeah. She told She said, "Reverend Wheeler, I said I want to tell you put up the communion if you're not keeping the commandments." And according to Reverend Wheeler's testimony, those words, quote, "cut me deeper than anything that had ever been spoken to me." And that brought me back to a time in our congregation 12 years ago when I'm up teaching in the fellowship hall and that same question was thrown at me. I taught I skimmed over the Sabbath day when when the sister raised her hand and simply said that piercing question, "So, why do we not keep the Sabbath?" Amen. Same thing. There was It was It was Yahweh using people to progress his end-time work. So, what did Reverend Wheeler do? He went home. And what did he do? He made a mistake. He began to study sincerely on the Sabbath day. And in March of 18 44, Frederick Wheeler began observing the seventh-day Sabbath and he became the first Sabbatarian Adventist minister. In other words, he was already an Adventist. Right? He became the first Sabbatarian or seventh-day Adventist preacher in world history, in American history. Now, I I want you to keep this in mind because um At the moment that that's happening, for 200 years, the seventh-day Baptist, the descendants of Stephen Mumford, had faithfully kept the Sabbath in America for 200 years before Rachel Oaks and before Wheeler, there were Sabbath keepers for 200 years in America because of Mumford. But they, the Sabbath keepers, had no urgency of the coming of Yeshua. They were not Adventists. They were not focused on the Advent. They kept the commandments, but the Advent hope was not their fire. At the same time, the Adventists were on fire for the coming of the Lord, the followers of William Miller, but they kept Sunday. They had the Advent hope, not the commandments. So, what do you have about to run into each other? Here a little, come on now, and there a little is about to meet up to do what? Broaden the river. Hallelujah. The two streams are about to come together and broaden the understanding of truth as truth is marching on. Now, through Reverend Wheeler, a great movement began among the Millerites or the Adventists. Those two words are synonymous. Millerism, Adventism. They are the same. They all come from Miller. Now, through Reverend Wheeler's ministry, we find another man that he brought to the Sabbath message by the name of Thomas Preble. August of 1844, Reverend Pre- I'm not Preble, Preble. Reverend Preble is a Baptist minister. He accepts the Sabbath because of Reverend Wheeler and because of Sister Oaks. And then in February of 1845, Reverend Preble, I'll show you his picture just so you know who all these people are. You can see who Yahweh used to keep the light on. That's Reverend Preble. And Reverend Preble wrote the pamphlet that would change a generation. He printed little booklets. Now, some about them little booklets. And this is it. There is a copy of it to this day from 1845 showing that the seventh day should be observed as the Sabbath instead of the first day according to the commandment by T. M. Preble. Now, how did Preble come to this gospel? Through a woman by the name of Oaks. If she had not obeyed Yahweh, these men that would take over the work all came from that little woman. That little woman. Now, Preble, Reverend Preble was part of the Farnsworth family. Cyrus Farnsworth and Williams Farnsworth were the first Sabbath keepers in Washington. And then Cyrus Far- Farnsworth married Rachel Oaks' daughter that Rachel moved to Washington to be with. Farnsworth marries the single daughter and together her name was Rachel Delight Oaks. They created in Washington, New Hampshire, the first Sabbatarian Adventist congregation in America. They built the first Sabbath-keeping congregation in America. And if you'll bear with me, I will show you a picture of that church as it still stands today. All from Sister Oaks's daughter marrying Cyrus Farnsworth. And uh that church was the first one in Washington. Give me a second here. Sorry. Trying to find the picture of that church. Here it is. All right. This church still stands today and there it is. The first Sabbath Day Adventist Church in Washington, New Hampshire. That's it today. Right there. Right there is where truth was kept alive. Truth was kept alive here in the United States of America. Now, into that little church comes a man by the name of Captain Joseph Bates. He was a retired sea captain and a Millerite. But in 1845, when he came home, he saw a tract, a booklet, from Thomas Preble about the Sabbath day. So, he traveled to this church in Washington to investigate it for himself. And there, under a large maple tree, he met with Frederick Wheeler and Cyrus Farnsworth and began to study the Sabbath question. He became convinced. He returned home to Fairhaven, Massachusetts, and in August of 1846, he wrote a tract called The Seventh-day Sabbath, a perpetual sign, and he became the biggest promoter of the Sabbath in that day. Now, what I want to show you is a chain to tr- By the way, I forgot to show you uh this man who is responsible Keep this man's picture in your mind because this man is responsible for the next thing that's about to happen. That's the captain I'm just telling you about there. That's him. >> [clears throat] >> Now, he is part of a chain of custody of truth that all goes back to the Waldensians, all the way back to the Albigenses, all the way back. This This is the chain that continues in the United States of America. So, let's show you how this part of the chain continues on and and how it followed through just so you can have an idea. The Seventh-day Baptist, Mumford, 1664, produced Rachel Oakes Preston. She is a Seventh-day Baptist. She converts Frederick Wheeler. Frederick Wheeler converts Thomas Preble. Thomas Preble converts Joseph Bates. And Joseph Bates converts James and Ellen White. Now, everybody's heard of Ellen White. But Ellen White, before her, there was a Rachel Oakes. Amen. Now, uh Frederick Joseph Bates, rather, converted James and Ellen White, who were Millerites, to the Sabbath day message. And there is no one in the history of the world that has done more to promote the Seventh-day Sabbath than Ellen G. White. Ellen G. White is the head of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. So, this is how it all came to be. This is how everything is leading up, preserving the Sabbath. And it's really fascinating how it all happened in such the the timing that it happened in. Now, I want you to notice the Sabbath as a test commandment. The test in every age centers on obedience to what seems to be the least. I want to teach you a great lesson right now. The test commandment is always the one that seems to be the least. Why? Because Yeshua said, "Any man that teaches you to obey the least of the commandments, shall be great in my Father's kingdom." If you look at the Ten Commandments, the Sabbath looks like the least. I mean, after all, adultery, stealing, honoring your parents, loving God, that all seems like the major ones, right? The Sabbath, not so much. But you see, that's the test. In the Garden of Eden, it was just one tree among many. The least. In Daniel's day, it was simply choosing not to eat meat that the king served. The least. In John's day, it didn't change. In the last days, it will be the same way. Yahweh's true remnant will be obedient to the least of the commandment, of which the Sabbath is in the eyes of men. The Sabbath was written with Yahweh's own finger, and it becomes the visible sign of an invisible allegiance. You listen to me tonight. There are very few people in this world on a Zoom call tonight like this. Very few. Please. The sign is a visible allegiance. A visible allegiance. The visible sign to an invisible allegiance. It's I can see your sign. You're here. You're keeping Shabbat. But you have an invisible allegiance that's made visible by the sign. And this is the test commandment in every [clears throat] generation. For those of you that are not celebrating Shabbat with all of your heart, it's because you don't have that invisible allegiance. When you understand that this is the sign, this is the sign. In 1863, James and Ellen White. James White was a young Millerite preacher from Maine. Ellen Harmon White was a teenage girl from Portland, Maine. And Ellen had begun to experience many different visions. They both married in 1846. They accepted the Seventh-day Sabbath through the influence of Joseph Bates. And together with Joseph Bates, they became the three founding pillars of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. There's one in your neighborhood today because of this woman. Ellen White and her husband James and Rachel Oakes and James Mumford. Amen. Because of all of them, the Sabbath day church is in your neighborhood as a sign. Whether we agree with everything they teach or not is beside the point. They are upholding the sign of the Sabbath day. Now, let me show you what happened. Ellen White began to advance as the leader of that ministry. She began to write passionately. Ellen White wrote so much. I've got so many of her books here. But there's one Yeah, hold on one sec. You see how large this book is? There are nearly a thousand of these with her writings in them. Okay? And we're talking small print. There's nearly a thousand of these with that woman's writing. She never stopped writing night and day. One of the most prolific writers I've ever read. Uh now, I don't agree with everything Ellen writes. But I mean, folks, that's that's a lot of writing. I I mean, uh just anyway, [snorts] I and I I've got many of these. But when I die, someone's going to inherit a a wonderful library of books. You can believe that. I love books. So, Ellen began to climb, and everyone began to know who the leader was. Well, that always causes jealousy when God begins to visibly anoint one leader over a movement. And so, James Bates, the one that brought her to the message, began to become very jealous. And the same old story that's as old as time itself took place. Now, Ellen White got the revelation of the Sabbath day. But she also was very health-oriented and opened hospitals all over the nation. Some of the best hospitals in the world was under her care. She opened schools and colleges all over the nation. Her most famous book is The Great Controversy. And her writings would become authoritative for the Seventh-day Adventist Church. They called her writings a lesser light pointing to the greater light of scripture. Now, in October the 1st of 1860, they adopted the name Seventh-day Adventist. And the church grew rapidly, publishing houses, schools and colleges, hospitals, sanitariums, missionary network. And today, they have 21 million members in the Seventh-day Adventist Church. That's a lot of members. And that all came I want you to think about it from Rachel Oakes walking into a meeting and obeying Yahweh. Now, 21 million people keep Shabbat because of that woman and then because of Sister Ellen White. Now, as the Seventh-day Adventist ministry began to grow, this happens in every ministry. I pray you have spiritual ears tonight. Pray you're able to see the patterns. They never change ever. As her ministry began to grow, they begin to recognize Ellen White by a unique title that no one in America no denomination had dared use and it was the word prophet. They had had pastors, evangelists, and teachers. I need you to listen to this. But people begin to say Ellen was a prophet. And oh, that made people uncomfortable, that new title. And her ministry split down the middle because of her new title. Now, she never asked for that title. The people gave it to her. The people said, "You're a prophet of God. " And her ministry split down the middle and guess who left her? The man that brought her to the Sabbath day. They all split. However, she kept rising. Her writings became more prolific and more prolific and more prolific. Now, she believed that these visions that God gave her uh led her to the scriptures and they did. Ellen White influence on the Sabbath day message can never be underestimated and you are false if you do not give her the credit that she deserves for establishing that sign in 21 million lives. No matter what else she did not have, she had the Sabbath day message and the message of the coming kingdom of Yahweh. That come from her Millerite background. Now, one doctrine this is where it gets interesting that they all had wrong Ellen White the Seventh-day Baptist there was one doctrine that they were all still holding on to. Both camps. The Sabbath-keeping Adventist divided over Ellen White. One doctrine remained unchallenged in both camps. Now, remember this, the reason the first people fell away was because she had too much power and too much authority and her writings, people read her writings almost as much as they read the Bible. And many people didn't understand that all her writings were doing was leading people to understand the Bible and to read the Bible, but it it caused a great division. And so anyway, uh even though she was a prophet of God and she was, I believe that. William Branham was a prophet. Many people that Yahweh used were prophets. However, she still held on as the Seventh-day Baptist did to the Trinity. Now, the first question that comes to mind is how could she be a prophet and still believe the Trinity? Because the time was not yet. How could the prophets of old they did not have full understanding and full revelation, but they were still prophets. Because they were speaking what God was giving for their day. And that's what makes a prophet a prophet. They are speaking a word in season. When you read your Bible, the prophet speaks the word, not the total word, but the word in season and they're faithful to it. Ellen White was faithful to her word in season. All of them were. And so just like Sister Ruth Heflin, she was a prophet. But she only had the word for her season, which was what? The glory. That was the word that the church needed in her day. William Branham's word was come out of her my people. If you're true to the word of your day, that's what a prophet does. It was not time for the finishing message. And therefore, if you didn't have the message, then you were true to what you had. Now, as we continue, the mainstream Protestants from which they all came, Baptist, Methodist, Presbyterian, everyone confessed the Nicene Creed. Everybody in America. There was a time in America everybody confessed the Nicene Creed, the Athanasian formula, the orthodox dogma that had dominated Christianity since the 4th century. And when the Millerites became the Adventist, they brought that Trinitarian baggage with them. Neither the Seventh-day Adventist nor their critics ever questioned the Trinity. The Sabbath had been restored. The coming of Christ had been restored. That message was burning bright. But the nature of the Godhead still chained to the councils of Rome. But that was about to change. A man was coming. A man was coming into the Seventh-day Adventist Church after uh after this great move of God, it was time for the next move of God, the next word in season. A man was coming who had already left the Methodist Church over the issue of the Trinity. He joined the Seventh-day Adventist because he believed in the Sabbath day and he believed in the coming of Christ, but he still didn't believe in the Trinity even though they did. Very soon he would reject the Seventh-day Sabbath Adventist Church because of the Trinity. And he would be used by God. Listen to me. He would be the first man in America that would plant the truth against the Trinity. Up until this time, there's not one record in America before this man of any anti-Trinity church anywhere. Even though God had just moved in the Seventh-day Adventist and he had moved in the Millerites, he had moved in the Seventh-day Baptist, he moved at Ephratah, he moved in the German Baptist, he moved in Mumford, he moved all the way back, but somewhere after the Waldensians and and the Trinity after Glat with the German Baptist, somewhere the truth was dark. God always finds a man. Hallelujah. And this man would reject Ellen White and the entire Trinitarian framework. He would plant a seed that would grow into movements that could not be stopped. "Yahweh alone," he said, "is the great God of heaven and Yeshua is his son." And I'll show you that man now, him and his wife that left the Seventh-day Adventist Church for the same reason I won't go to one, the same reason none of you need to go to one, because of the Trinity. This man took a stand. And his name is Gilbert Cranmer. Gil- Gilbert Cranmer is the first recorded man, if there was anyone else, it's not recorded. He was the first recorded man that after that move of God in the Sabbath day church, left the Seventh-day Sabbath Adventist Church over the Trinity. This is the first man to do it. Now, he left and started a church. The name of that church was the Church of God Seventh Day. The story of the Church of God Seventh Day is so tied to Cranmer, one man that was stubborn, fearless, and an itinerant preacher named Gilbert Cranmer, who would rather lose everything than accept the teaching of the Seventh-day Adventist Church concerning the Trinity. He was born in 1814 in Newfield, New York. The first child of Mary Ogden. At 17, he joined the Methodist Church and was immediately asked to preach at 17 years old. Sounds a lot like me. Hallelujah. He started off young. And they said when he took the pulpit, there was a sign of a natural gift to preach on his life. But within 2 years, he left the Methodist Church over the Trinity. He studied the scriptures. He could not find the Trinity. Here's what he found, and I'm quoting, and this made me want to shout, "Hallelujah." Here's what he wrote. The Father is Yahweh. The Son is not co-equal or co-eternal second person of a triune Godhead, but the begotten Son of the living God. That conviction led Cranmer to what's called the Christian Connection. It was a loose fellowship of congregations that had begun rejecting the Trinity in favor of the Bible alone. And this Christian Connection is where the doctrine of Unitarianism was found first in America. Men and women that believed that traditional Christianity had corrupted the faith of the apostles. Cranmer found kindred spirits among Unitarians. And they gave him a license to preach. And for the next 3 years, he walked the roads of New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Kentucky, Southern Indiana, and Canada as an evangelist on foot. Preaching in farmhouses and schoolhouses, winning converts everywhere he went. 1840, he moved to St. Joseph, Michigan where the Christian Connection promised him a salary of $150 a year. When the year ended, he had received $1,300. He said, "I then resolved I would never engage again to preach for a salary, and I never have for more than 60 years." And then, he heard the Millerite Adventist message, and he began to follow William Miller. And then he began to follow Ellen White, even though he knew the Trinity was wrong, he knew the Sabbath was right, and therefore he wanted to keep the Sabbath. The only place he could keep it was in the Seventh-day Adventist Church. So, for the next several years, he began to attend those churches, even though he disagreed with the Trinity. Now, he got into an argument with Ellen White over the Trinity, and they separated at that point, and he formed the Church of God. Now, where did he go to do that? He went to Marion, Iowa. When he got to Marion, Iowa, he found a group of Sabbath-keeping Adventists that had independently reached the same conclusion that he had. Watch this. He goes to Iowa, Cranmer does. When he gets there, he finds Seventh-day Adventist Ellen White people that also There's a light shining on them now. Suddenly, a light is shining. Suddenly. About the Trinity. And these Iowa brethren had been Millerites just like him. They kept the Sabbath. They expected the Second Coming, but they rejected Ellen White's Trinity. And they moved away, and then they started understanding the doctrine of the millennial reign more than Ellen White did. And they began to keep the feast days. These brethren in Iowa, Marion, Iowa, is where you find the first Church of God that is Seventh-day, anti-Trinity, and starting to keep the feast and preaching the millennial kingdom. Cranmer finds these people supernaturally. In 1860, these Iowa Sabbatarians formally organized. And in 1863, the same year the Seventh-day Adventist Church was founded in Battle Creek, Michigan, the Iowa group united. And on August the 10th, the first issue of their magazine called Now, listen to this. I want you to listen what I'm about to tell you. How many of you remember when I told you that we were going to go on the air, which we are all over the nation now on satellite. What did I tell you that the Father spoke to me supernaturally while I was preaching? I said, "Wait a minute." The Father said, "Call it." Does anybody remember what the Father said call it? The telecast? I'm going to see if anybody remembers. Cuz this is fixed to blow your mind. >> Hope of Israel. What did you say? Hope for Israel. The Hope of Israel. Brothers and sisters, this Iowa congregation, their magazine that they started in 1863. The name of the magazine, The Hope OF ISRAEL. OH, HALLELUJAH. BLEW MY MIND. IT BLEW MY MIND. When I saw this today, I came out of my chair. You can go look it up. The Hope of Israel, 1863. The The Church of God in Iowa. Now, now watch that. The Church of God in Iowa. What is the name of our ministry now? The Assembly Apostolic Assembly. The Church of the Apostles of the House of Israel. And the name of our telecast is The Hope of Israel. It is just amazing when I put these things together, how the Father is aligning this thing. That magazine was published in Hartford, Michigan. And Enos Easton was the resident editor, and Gilbert Cranmer was the corresponding editor. And here was their founding statement in 1863. That the Bible the Bible alone contains the law and all the precepts to govern God's people in every age without the addition of human creed or articles of faith. That sin is the transgression of the law. And that the law, by which sin is known, is the law of the Torah. This was the birth certificate. This was the birth certificate, what I just read, that would become the Church of God Seventh-day. The Hope of Israel. Now, now I want to know I want to know how they're thinking about Israel back in 1863. Where How do they even know? Cuz that revelation hadn't come yet, but it's coming to them by the spirit. They don't even know why they're calling it The Hope of Israel yet. You My Do you understand? You see? Yahweh was already bringing us to the revelation of Israel in 1863. And through the pages of The Hope of Israel, believers from Missouri to Nebraska learned that they were not alone as this paper began to go out. The Hope of Israel. Why did I tell you I wanted to go on the telecast that's that airs every week all over the satellites of the world? Why did I tell you? Because to find to find the lost sheep. The purpose of their Hope of Israel was to find out if there was anybody else out there like them. That was the purpose of it. And it started connecting them together. There were others that kept the Sabbath and rejected the Trinity. They all began to come together, and finally, they began to announce conferences to begin to formulate their doctrine, and slowly a movement began to take shape. And next Friday night, I'm going to bring you to the next stage. That's mind-blowing. It's just when you see what Yahweh has been building and what he has been doing, all your fears can be erased because it's all been building up to a finishing message. And you listen to me tonight. If you are under the sound of my voice, everything that Cranmer preached, I preach. Everything that Ellen White preached except Trinity, I preach. Everything Seventh Day Baptist, I preach. I preach everything all the way back to John the Apostle. All the way back to Yeshua. And all the way back to the prophets. And all the way back to the Torah. The message has never changed. And Yahweh has preserved it through faithful men that were not afraid and faithful women that were not afraid to stand up for truth. And