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October 28
THE SANCTUARY DOCTRINE EXPLAINS THE WAYg bookc OF SALVATION OF THE GOSPEL (Part 34)
The Prophesied Sufferings of Persecutions of the Lamb of God at the Antitypical Altar of Sacrifice by His Enemies: Who were they?
On the Thursday night just hours before His path to the cross began, Jesus prepared His first disciples with the prototypical counsels and warnings for all His faithful followers down through the generations after, particularly for our final one, who shall experience its antitype, as recorded in John 15: 17-23 (emphasis mine):
“These things I command you, that ye love one another. If the WORLD hate you, you know that IT HATED Me before IT hated you. If ye were of the WORLD, the world would LOVE his own: but because ye are NOT of the world, but I have CHOSEN you OUT of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
REMEMBER the word that I said unto you, the servant is not greater than his lord. If they had PERSECUTED Me, THEY will ALSO persecute you; if THEY have kept My sayings, they will keep yours also. But all these things THEY WILL DO UNTO YOU FOR MY NAME’S SAKE; because they know NOT Him that sent Me. If I had NOT COME AND SPOKEN unto them, they had NOT SIN: but NOW they had NO CLOAK FOR THEIR SIN. He that hateth Me hateth My Father also.” John 15: 17-23, KJV.
Based on the Scriptures’ account of the following, God’s messenger-servant wrote:
“The enemies of Jesus vented their rage upon Him as He hung upon the cross. PRIESTS, RULERS, AND SCRIBES, JOINED with the MOB in mocking the dying Savior.
“At the BAPTISM and at the TRANSFiGURATION the voice of God had been heard proclaiming Christ as His Son. Again, just before His betrayal, the Father had spoken, witnessing to His DIVINITY. But now the voice from heaven was silent. No testimony in Christ’s favor was heard [from heaven]. ALONE He suffered abuse and mockery from wicked men.
“‘IF Thou be the Son of God,’ they said, ‘COME DOWN FROM THE CROSS.’ ‘Let Him save Himself if He be the Christ, the Chosen of God.’ In the Wilderness of temptation Satan had declared, ‘IF Thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread.’ ‘IF Thou be the Son of God, cast Thyself down,’ from the pinnacle of the temple.’ Matt. 4: 3,6, KJV.
And Satan with his angels, IN HUMAN FORM, was present at the cross. The archfiend and his hosts [in comparison and contrast to Jesus the Archangel and His heavenly host of uncalled angels] were CO-OPERATING WITH PRIESTS AND RULERS. The [religious] teachers of the people had stimulated the IGNORANT MOB to pronounce judgment against One upon whom MANY of them had never looked, and urged to bear testimony against Him. PRIESTS, RULERS, PHARISEES, AND THE HARDENED RABBLE WERE CONFEDERATED TOGETHER IN A SATANIC FRENZY.” – Desire of Ages, pp. 748, 749.
The real enemies of the true people of God in these last days have already been revealed in the prototypical confederacy conspired against the Lamb of God! Do not be part of the antitypical “ignorant and deceived mob and rabble!l
(To be continued). Bless all, NMF.