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LESSON 11: THE LAST TRUE CHURCH
Dead silence had fallen upon the royal court that day at Jerusalem.
All eyes were upon king Solomon,
wondering how the young king would solve the impossible case before him.
There were two mothers living in the same room,
each bore a son only a few days apart.
During the night, one of the mothers
accidentally laid upon her child and suffocated him dead.
When she woke up in the morning, it was too late.
So heartbroken and confused in denial,
she stole the baby boy of her roommate,
and swapped her dead boy in.
Then the other mother woke up,
seeing the child in her arms dead, she started crying.
But after close examination,
she realized that this was not her son.
And looking across the room,
she could see the other mother holding the boy in her arms. Tightly.
And now, both of them were standing before the king, fighting over the living boy.
“The living one is my son!” One screamed.
“No! But the dead one is your son!” The other screamed back.
How was the king supposed to determine
which woman was the real mother of the living boy?
Solomon interrupted the screaming and crying,
and commanded the royal guard standing nearby to bring him a sword.
And then he commanded the sword be used
to just cut the living boy in half, then give each half to a woman.
The guard thought the king was joking. But no.
Solomon began to look at him very sternly.
And thus he took the sword
and started walking toward the woman who was holding the boy.
Seeing that, the real mother immediately threw herself down at the king’s feet and begged:
“Give her the living child, and in no wise slay it!”
While the other said: “Let it be neither mine nor yours, but divide it.” [11] I Kings 3:26.
Solomon could then identify on the spot
which one is the real mother.
In the prophetic language of the Bible,
a woman is a symbol for a church ([24] Jeremiah 6:2).
With so many churches in these last days (over 33.000 denominations),
how are we supposed to stop their screaming and crying,
to identify the One True Church that has the Living Son
from the ones that are misunderstanding the Bible
and thus are teaching the people to sin against God, knowingly and unknowingly?
Like Solomon, we will have to use a sword: the Word of God ([19] Hebrew 4:12)!
Let us spend a few minutes reading through [27] Revelation 12 before we dive in.
1. In the prophetic language of the Bible, what does a woman symbolize?
[24] Jeremiah 3:1 Thou hast played the harlot with many lovers;
yet return again to me.
[08] II Corinthians 11:2 I have espoused you to one husband,
that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.
Throughout the Bible, both in the Old Testament and the New Testament,
a “woman” is the often-used symbol for the church,
the congregation of believers.
An adulterous woman would be an apostate church,
rebel against the Lord and his teachings.
A chaste woman would be a decent church faithful to her “husband”.
2. In the book of [27] Revelation, is there any vision that describes a chaste woman,
so that we can identify the true church through it?
[27] Revelation 12:1 And there appeared a great wonder in heaven;
a woman clothed with the sun,
and the moon under her feet,
and upon her head a crown of twelve stars.
This woman is clothed not with the man-made jewelry and gaudy apparel
like Babylon the mother of harlots in [27] Revelation 17,
but with the sun, the moon and the stars,
the lights God had made.
The sun represents JESUS
(He is “the sun of righteousness” with healing in His wings in [39] Malachi 4:2).
The moon under the feet of the woman
represents the sacrificial system of the Old Testament,
for as the moon only reflects the light of the sun,
that system is only a reflection of Christ ([12] Colossians 2:16, 17; [19] Hebrews 10:1).
The twelve stars upon the head of the woman
represents the leadership of the church
– 12 tribes in the Old Testament, and 12 apostles in the New Testament.
3. Next, a dragon appeared in the vision. Who is this dragon?
[27] Revelation 12:3, 9 And there appeared another wonder in heaven;
and behold a great red dragon,
having seven heads and ten horns,
and seven crowns upon his heads…
And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent,
called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world.
It is as plain as it can get.
The dragon is Satan.
4. The chaste woman in the vision then gave birth to a man child. Who is he?
[27] Revelation 12:4, 5 The dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered,
for to devour her child as soon as it was born.
And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron.
“To rule all nations with a rod of iron”
is a direct quote from [19] Psalm 2:7-9,
a prophecy pointing towards the One whom God had thus spoken to:
“Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee.”
He came through the chaste woman
– the faithful people of God –
and was attempted murdered by the dragon Satan
when he was still a helpless babe,
by manipulating Herod, a client king of Rome ([01] Matthew 2:16).
These many identifications are more than enough
to conclude with absolute certainty that this man child
is none other than our Lord JESUS Christ, the Only Begotten Son of God.
5. Where did JESUS go after He defeated Satan?
[27] Revelation 12:5 And her child was caught up unto God, and to his throne.
After He rose from the dead,
Lord JESUS could only spend a few dozen days
gathering and assembling His flock and apostles,
shattered after witnessing His death on the cross.
Then He had to depart to return to Heaven ([05] Acts 1:9-11) to be glorified,
and continue His work in Heaven as the High Priest of the New Covenant ([19] Hebrews 4:14-16).
From that point on forth,
Lord JESUS would only continue to be with the disciples in His spirit form ([01] Matthew 28:20),
and Satan can no longer tempt or do anything to Him.
6. With JESUS then being beyond his reach, what did Satan turn to do?
[27] Revelation 12:13 And when the dragon saw that he was cast unto the earth,
he persecuted the woman which brought forth the man child.
When he can no longer assault JESUS directly,
Satan, being the sore loser that he is,
turned his persecutions to the church
those whom JESUS loves the most
to continue hurting the Lord.
7. To where did the woman run to hide from this withering persecution?
How long did she hide?
[27] Revelation 12:6 And the woman fled into the wilderness,
where she hath a place prepared of God,
that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days.
[27] Revelation 12:14 And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle,
that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place,
where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent.
The woman (the church of God)
had escaped into the wilderness (the unpopulated places on the face of the earth – mountains, forests…)
to hide from the enemy.
This is another well-known historical fact:
during the Dark Age, the people of God
had to flee to the caves, the mountains and the uninhabited lands,
including the modern-day US,
to seek religious liberty and sanctuary
from the persecution of the First Beast Vatican.
Review lesson “the First Beast” for more information about this persecution.
The period of “a time, and times, and half a time”
is “a year, two years, and half a year”,
which is three and a half years.
According to the Jewish calendar,
which has 30 days a month, and 12 months a year,
this time period is exactly 42 months, or 1,260 days,
and it is mentioned again and again in the Bible in these three forms,
because in history, it really was the most horrifying time period
that the people of God ever had to face ([01] Matthew 24:21).
In prophetic language, a day in visions is a year in real life ([26] Ezekiel 4:6; [04] Numbers 14:34).
Understanding this point thoroughly,
we can exchange the 1.260 days into 1.260 years in real life.
Starting from 538 AD, when the church of Rome
was declared to be the supreme Christian church
by the order of emperor Justinian,
acknowledging the bishop of Rome to be the head of all churches,
this period of persecution ended in 1798
when the Pope was captured alive
by general Louis-Alexandre Berthier of Napoleon,
exactly 1260 years later.
By the time this bloodbath ended,
approximately 100 MILLION PEOPLE had been murdered for their faith.
Throughout this period of utter darkness,
the church of God still survived,
but it did not have any official name to itself,
and it can only be recognized as an official organization
after this period, which is after the year 1798.
8. What are the two most remarkable identifications of the true church of God?
[27] Revelation 12:17 And 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.
[27] Revelation 19:10 …I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren that have the testimony of JESUS: worship God: for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.
[27] Revelation 22:9 …I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren the prophets.
The war between the dragon and the remnant of the woman’s seed
is the upcoming war of “666 and the Mark of the Beast”,
which will take place right before Lord JESUS’s second coming.
The “remnant” church of God
will have two most outstanding identifications:
(1) It keeps all Ten Commandments of God,
including the first commandment about not having other gods,
and the fourth commandment of keeping the seventh-day sabbath holy.
Which means, while the majority of the Christian world
will keep the first day of the week – sunday –
and/or worship the trinity god,
it worships the Only True God through His Only Begotten Son,
and conducts its holy convocations
precisely on the sanctified time of the week that He appointed,
from sundown friday to sundown saturday.
(2) It has the testimony of JESUS,
meaning, at least one prophet,
sent by the Lord as a testimony
that this is the “remnant” church that He appointed.
9. Will the end-time church of God be a local church confined in a certain location,
or a global church that operates worldwide?
[27] Revelation 14:6 And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven,
having the Everlasting Gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth,
and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people.
Of course the Last Church cannot be a local church confined in a holy land,
but has to be a church that is sent by God to preach
and call all mankind to repentance and faith in the Lord on a global scale,
and is accompanied by His angels throughout the entire campaign.
10. Besides the Everlasting Gospel, what other God-given messages would this church preach to the world?
[27] Revelation 14:7 Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to Him;
for the hour of His judgment is come:
and worship Him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters.
[27] 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.
[27] Revelation 14:9, 10 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 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.
They will preach the three angels’ messages in [27] Revelation 14,
exposing the sinister plan of Satan
to deceive and destroy even the chosen ones,
with the following messages:
1) Calling the people of God
to return to the worship of the time of JESUS and the Apostles
according to the fourth of the Ten Commandments
– the one that the whole world nowadays seems to have forgotten.
Pay attention and see that the part
“Him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters”
is a direct quotation from this fourth commandment.
2) Identify clearly the identity of Babylon,
of the two Beasts in [27] Revelation 13
and their fallen, apostate state.
3) Identify clearly what the Mark of the Beast is,
and prepare the people of God
for the final fearful conflict with the power of darkness.
11. To summarize, what is the complete description of the End-time final Church then?
1) It would only emerge again and function as an officially recognizable organization
after the period of 1,260 years being nurtured in the wilderness of obscurity,
which is after 1798 ([27] Revelation 12:6, 13-17).
2) It would teach the people to keep the entire Ten Commandments of God, including:
+) The first commandment: it worships the Only True God through His Son,
while the majority of the remaining Christian community
worships the trinity god.
+) The fourth commandment: it keeps the seventh-day sabbath holy,
the weekly period of time from sundown friday to sundown saturday,
and conducts its holy convocations and worships on this day
while the majority of the remaining Christian community
keeps the first day of the week,
and worship on this day of the sun.
3) It would receive from the Lord at least one prophet
as a testimony from Him.
4) It would teach the same truths that the Apostles taught:
all of its doctrines will harmonize with the Bible.
5) It would preach the Everlasting Gospel,
the salvation by grace through faith in JESUS Christ ([27] Revelation 14:6).
6) It would preach the messages of the three angels in [27] Revelation 14:6-14.
7) It would function as a global campaign.
There is only one church
that satisfies all of the above 7 identifications.
On an organizational level,
it was the Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) church,
which was given a prophet from 1844 to 1915.
After that prophet died, those who inherited the writings of that prophet
and held fast to the truths of the pillars of faith
given by the Lord to its Pioneers
are their true spiritual descendants,
members of the Last True Church.
12. Is the Modern SDA church the Last True Church, the true spiritual descendants of the original, Pioneeric SDA church?
From the 28 fundamental beliefs of the Modern SDA church:
Belief number 2: The Trinity.
“There is one God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, a unity of three coeternal Persons.”
https://www.adventist.org/en/beliefs/god/trinity/
The Modern branch of the SDA church, on an organizational level,
has officially abandoned one of the most important Pillars of Faith
that the Lord has given to the Pioneers of the church,
to receive from the Roman Catholic Church the doctrine of the trinity,
changing the God it worships,
changing JESUS the Only Begotten Son of God
into another Jesus, God the Son,
changing the Holy Spirit, which is God and His Son dwelling in us in their spirit form,
into a third being that is neither the Father, neither the Son.
Review lesson “the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.”
For that reason, it has lost its purity of doctrine,
and on an organizational level
has directly transgressed the first commandment
“Thou shalt have no other gods before Me”
of the Ten Commandments of God,
and obviously can no longer be the True Church,
the spiritual descendants of the Pioneeric SDAs,
those who “keep the commandments of God
and have the testimonies of JESUS” ([27] Revelation 12:17).
Some Modern SDAs who believe in the trinity often reasoned
that their trinity is different from the Roman Catholic Church’s trinity.
But here is the proof that the trinity doctrine of both sides
are EXACTLY THE SAME:
On the upper left corner is the illustration of the trinity doctrine
from “My Catholic Faith” by bishop Louis LaRavoire Morrow.
On the lower right corner is the illustration of the trinity doctrine
from “The New Pictorial Aid” by Frank Breaden, page 75,
sold at the Adventist Book Center – ABC.
It can be clearly seen that these 2 illustrations
are exactly the same in content,
only the colors and the decorations differ:
Father ≠ Son, Son ≠ Holy Spirit, Holy Spirit ≠ Father,
but Father = God, Son = God, Holy Spirit = God.
Some reasoned that the trinity doctrine of the Modern SDA church
is different from the trinity doctrine of the First Beast,
but if that is true, why not choose another name?
Call it “trinitut”, “trinitas”, whatever, don’t call it “trinity”,
because the term was already taken and defined by the organization that took it.
You cannot take a term that is already defined,
and then use it with the meaning that you believe to be different,
for doing so is deliberately causing misunderstandings to people (a.k.a deceiving).
Let “apple” be called “apple”,
and “banana” be called “banana”, shall we?
But of course! The reason why the Modern SDA church
calls its god “the trinity” just like the Catholic church,
is because it is the exact same god!
If there are any differences during the process of explaining,
it is because the very people who believe it
have no idea what it is that they are believing in.
This is precisely the trinity god
that is “wondrous beyond comprehension” of the First Beast in [27] Revelation 13,
which is not at all a wondrous truth,
but a glaring heresy deliberately designed to be confusing,
to give off the false feeling of sacredness
to scare off people from examining it
and uncover its heretical nature.
13. Nowadays is there any remnant left of the SDA church from 1844-1915,
who still hold fast to the Pillars of Faith that the Lord had re-established in the time of its Pioneers?
Yes. These true spiritual descendants are the minority
who inherited and held fast to the Bible truths
that the Lord has given the SDA church in the time of its Pioneers,
accurately keeping the Ten Commandments of God (both the first and the fourth),
and inherited also the writings of the prophet
that the Lord gave to the church.
This group is still called the SDA, but the Pioneeric branch
(to differentiate from the Modern branch that shifted into believing in the trinity).
In the lesson “who are the 144,000?“, we will identify
the role they will be playing in the last fearful conflict.
14. What would the Lord do with the sincere Christians who are still scattered across different churches?
[04] John 10:16 And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold:
them also I must bring,
and they shall hear my voice;
and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd.
[27] Revelation 18:2, 4 Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen…
Come out of her, my people,
that ye be not partakers of her sins,
and that ye receive not of her plagues.
He will send them the light of Truth,
and those who really are His sheeps
will recognize the voice of Him who declared “I AM the Truth”,
receive the Truth and be cleansed from all heresies.
And they will leave the system of apostate churches,
– Babylon and her daughters –
to united under the banner of the Truth, JESUS Christ.
Here is a word from the prophet of the Pioneeric SDA church:
{Testimonies to Ministers and Gospel Workers, page 61.2}
‘God has A CHURCH upon the earth
who are His chosen people,
who keep His commandments.
He is leading, not stray offshoots,
not one here and one there, but A PEOPLE.’
The Pioneeric SDA, in essence,
is pretty much a non-denominational church in this sense:
it has only one creed, the Bible,
and it respects the liberty of conscience of all Christians.
But not only so, it has also been cleansed from all heresies,
understands all Biblical truths accurately
and is certified by the Lord as the Last True Church
by directly giving it a prophet.
I myself am an evangelist, and this ministry is an online church
of this Pioneeric SDA group,
those who “keep the commandments of God
and have the testimonies of JESUS” ([27] Revelation 12:17).
Our contact details are listed at the bottom of the website,
and here are our standard operational protocols:
1) The Bible – 39 books of the Old Testament and 27 books of the New Testament –
is the only CREED for Christians.
All other doctrines have to submit to the Bible
and are under its scrutiny.
2) The liberty of conscience is strictly maintained here:
you have the right to believe and preach what you believe (freedom to believe and preach doctrines),
others have the right to attack any doctrine you present (freedom to attack doctrines),
and you have the right to defend what you believe from the attacks (freedom to defend doctrines).
We believe a transparent environment in exchanging doctrines
is the optimum environment to expose all heresies and make clear all truths before the people,
and will force everyone to be careful to believe and preach the Truth rightly,
for this is the environment where all refusal to adhere to the Truth,
being wrong yet unwilling to acknowledge it,
will be exposed publicly for everyone to see,
especially nowadays that we have had cameras
to record and publish all debates publicly.
3) We inherited all the truths of the Pillars of Faith
that the Pioneers of the SDA church were given,
clearly stated in the church’s “statements of belief” in 1872 and “yearbook” in 1889,
but like the Pioneers, we do not lift them up
to the same level of Creed as the Bible,
but are willing to place them under public examination of the Bible;
and although we do not seek debates,
we are willing to answer any challenge to a public debate,
to defend these truths by the Bible from any attack.
We have been presenting and preaching these truths
in this very Prophecy Encyclopedia.
Appendix
I. The poem of the Pioneers of the SDA church, mocking the trinity doctrine.
Perhaps one of the strongest evidence
proving that the Pioneers of the SDA church
did not believe the trinity doctrine
is the poem mocking this heresy,
that was posted on the official paper of the church, the Review & Herald, 12/3/1857:
“That three are one, and one are three,
Is an idea that puzzles me;
By many a learned sage ’tis said
That three are one in the Godhead.
“The Father then may be the Son,
For both together make but one;
The Son may likewise be the Father,
Without the smallest change of either.
“Yea, and the blessed Spirit be
The Father, Son and trinity;
This is the creed of Christian folks,
Who style themselves true orthodox,
All which against plain common sense,
We must believe or give offense.”
And as church historian George Knight of the Modern SDA church has plainly acknowledged:
“Most of the founders of Seventh-day Adventism
would not be able to join the church today
if they had to subscribe to the denomination’s Fundamental Beliefs.
More specifically, most would not be able to agree
to belief number 2, which deals with the doctrine of the Trinity.”
{Ministry, October, 1993, page 10}
II. Documentary video “Established by Force”
The darkest pages of history reveal patterns of persecution
that shed much light on the pages of Bible prophecy
and the last war over worship.
How few recognize
the two most prominent doctrines in Christianity today
as relics of the dark ages!
They do not realize these doctrines
are not the result of pious men
as they studied the teachings of Christ and the Apostles,
but rather, were established by force
– through centuries of inquisition, torture and death decrees.
The only question is, will we recognize the snare
that Satan has laid for our feet
and return to the worship of the True God before it’s too late?
Click on CC (captions) at the “setting” gear symbol by the corner of the video to turn on subtitles.
The next lesson will discuss
the identification of a true prophet.
Lord JESUS had told us beforehand
about sending us a prophet for a testimony
to the Last True Church that He would appoint,
so we must learn how to differentiate
between a false prophet and a true one
to make the right choice.
That is not to mention: believing a false prophet
or denying a true prophet of God,
are both catastrophic in their results,
and thus both must be avoided.
The Lord Himself will lead us through His Word.
