A Vindication of the Seventh-Day Sabbath and the Commandments of God: With a Further History of God's Peculiar People from 1847-1848Bates, Joseph
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A Vindication of the Seventh-Day Sabbath and the Commandments of God: With a Further History of God's Peculiar People from 1847-1848
Bates, Joseph
Sabbath; Seventh-Day Adventists -- Doctrinal and controversial works
I perceive that I have made a mis-statement, on page 56, 13th line; also
page 59, sixth line from the top, in calling the 15th day of the first
month, a holy convocation day, instead of the 14th, which always commenced
at the beginning of the 14th day and ended where the 21st began.—Exo. xii:
18. The wafe sheaf also, was to be waved on Sunday morning, the morrow
after the Lord’s Sabbath—Lev. xxiii: 3, 11—all which makes the
resurrection on the third day as clear as light—two nights and three days.
SEVENTH & FOURTEENTH OF REVELATIONS.
A further History of the Second Advent Doctrine, from its commencement to
the treading of the Wine Press, &c.
With The One Hundred And Forty-Four Thousand Living Saints, Which
Are To Be Gathered At The Second Coming Of Jesus, From Every
Nation, Kindred, Tongue, And People; Especially Those That Are Now
Occupying The Position Referred To In The Twelfth And Thirteenth
Verses Of The Fourteenth Chapter.
Second Advent History.
In the fourteenth chapter of Revelations, John gives a most graphic
delineation of the Second Advent movement, from its rise in about 1840, to
a glorious state of immortality. He begins to describe from this
never-to-be-over-looked, wonderful picture of the last days, forming, and
changing in quick succession, under the deep impressions made on the
heart, by the heavenly flying messengers, saying with loud voices—the hour
of his judgment is come; and reminds one in some of its features, in the
changing of positions, of that last dreadful conflict of nations, on the
plains of Waterloo, which decided the fate of Europe. So here, in this
last great conflict of contending armies, John, in his vision, hears a
glorious voice, [see i: 15 and xix: 6.] and harpers harping with their
harps. His eye is turned to the point from whence came the heavenly music,
and he beholds a glorified company, with their INVINCIBLE Commander,
standing away up on the Mount Zion, that had followed him through his
fiery trying conflict, and he had brought them off victorious, and clothed
them with immortality and everlasting life; and the Father had stamped
“his name in their foreheads,” and they numbered 144,000, redeemed from
the earth; all the living saints that are saved out of the mighty host of
nations. Now read the first five verses of this chapter and methinks you
will agree with me, that John is here describing the character of the
144,000 as he had seen them sealed, as stated in the seventh chapter;
where he closes their history with the 8th verse, to describe the dead
saints, and seven angels with their trumpets, and the effect produced by
them, from the 7th chapter, 9th verse to the 12th chapter. Then in the
12th and 13th chapters, the dragon, the beast and his image, &c., &c. And
then he takes up the history of this same 144,000, from where he had seen
them sealed in the 7th chapter, 4-8 verses; and begins by describing them
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