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White Horse Media

Steve Wohlberg

As the Storm Approaches

Good morning again It's a blessing to be here I want to thank those who have invited me and what a privilege it is To be here in this church and to have a chance to share God's Word.

I'd like to welcome those who are watching online as well It's amazing what technology can do these days.

People can be watching right now from different parts of the world.

If you have a Bible, I invite you to open up your Bible or to click your app or whatever you have.

I've got my title on the screen here behind me, as the storm approaches.

I'd like to read this verse and then we'll have prayer.

Bible says, with my soul have I desired you in the night.

Yea, with my spirit within me I will seek you early.

For when your, and what's that next word?

When your judgments are in the earth, the Inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.

Dear Father, Heavenly Father, What an awesome time to be alive.

There are things happening around us that are just making people's heads spin.

We look at current events, and we look at the Bible, and Lord, I just really sense that time is running out and we pray for the Holy Spirit together to be here with us this morning as we look at at your Word.

As the storm approaches, Let me put a picture here on the screen.

And we're all, at least most of us, are aware of what happened 2 days ago.

We're talking about 2 days ago in Northern California.

How many of you are aware of this terrible fire that just broke out?

Somebody sent me the message on Thursday and said, Steve, you know what just happened in California?

This town has pretty much been destroyed.

And that includes an Adventist church, and an Adventist hospital, and an Adventist school.

Here's a news report called Hell in Paradise.

Huge wildfires sweep through paradise in Northern California as thousands flee raging inferno and hundreds more are trapped.

I was reading a news report where a woman named Sherry Burnessett, who was right there in the middle of all this, she said her husband started knocking on doors desperately trying to tell people, we got to get out of here right away.

And then she said, quote, the whole hill is on fire, may God help us.

Wow, can you imagine being in the middle of something like that?

You know, and here's this news report here, talks about strong winds, And that's part of the problem in Northern California, strong winds and dry conditions.

When you combine dry conditions, there hasn't been a lot of rain in California for quite a while.

I grew up in Los Angeles, I went to school in North Hollywood and in the San Fernando Valley.

My dad, I just, and I'll talk about this more this afternoon, just died less than a month ago and we had his memorial service in Hollywood, California.

And I'm just very familiar with living in California, and I tell you the state is just being devastated by all these fires, 1 after another, strong winds and dry conditions.

And as I look at the world and as even I look at the church, I see strong winds blowing.

Winds of doctrine are blowing among us and may God help us to get out of a dry condition.

We need to be in a spiritual condition with the Lord right now.

Now here's another, Here's a quotation from Volume 9 of the Testimonies.

It says, more and more as the days go by, it is becoming apparent that God's judgments are in the world, which is what Isaiah 26, verse 9 says, that when God's judgments are in the earth, people are hopefully gonna learn righteousness.

He is, it says, in fire and flood and earthquake, he is warning the inhabitants of this earth of his near approach.

As these things are happening around us, God is trying to warn us of the return of Jesus, that we are getting closer.

The time is nearing when the great crisis in the history of the world will have come when every movement in the government of God will be watched with intense interest and inexpressible apprehension.

In quick succession, the judgments of God will fall, will follow 1 another, fire and flood and earthquake with war and bloodshed.

Now I want to tell you just, you know, I'm going to be right up front that I believe in what this says.

I've been a Christian for almost 40 years, and I've learned through ups and downs and ins and outs and all kinds of different battles and struggles and difficulties, I've learned to trust this book, to trust the Bible.

1 word from God is more valuable than 10, 000 words from men.

I trust the Bible, and the Bible also says, believe His prophets.

Second Chronicles 20 says, believe in the Lord your God, and also says believe in his prophets.

And I believe that the lady that wrote this statement on the screen, Ellen White, was 1 of the messengers of God.

And her writings are speaking right now to what's happening in our world right in front of our eyes.

You should have a little book in your packet that we passed out, just a little free book, 1 of many books from White Horse Media.

That's, I don't know if we have enough for everybody here, but that's 1 of our little pocket books that is good to give away that gives a Bible study on this whole subject.

And we can see, I tell you, we can see these things happening right in front of our eyes.

Now, here's a statement from the book, The Great Controversy.

How many of you have read The Great Controversy?

That book is probably Ellen White's most important book dealing with church history and dealing with Bible prophecy and with end time events and what's going to be happening before Jesus comes.

And here's a quote from the Great Controversy, page 590, and it says that, 1 of these days it will be declared that men are offending God by the violation of the Sunday Sabbath, and that this sin has brought calamities which will not cease until Sunday observance shall be strictly enforced.

And what this statement does, which was written a long time ago, this statement basically connects calamities, disasters, like fires, floods, hurricanes, and storms, connects these things to an eventual movement in this world to enforce Sunday.

There's a clear connection right there And what I see happening in the days ahead is that these calamities are going to increase.

We're gonna see more fires, more earthquakes, more floods, more storms, more hurricanes.

They're gonna be increasing in severity, in intensity, and in frequency.

And what's gonna happen is as these things continue to rattle and rock and shake and devastate this planet, what's gonna happen is that people are going to look at these things and they're gonna interpret these as judgments from God, which they're right, but then they're gonna say that the only way for these things to stop is for Sunday to be enforced by law.

That we all need to come together and go back to church, come back to God, go back to church on Sunday, and that that will help solve the problem.

That's the reasoning that is going to be put forth.

Now, Seventh-day Adventists believe, and I'm assuming most of you here are Seventh-day Adventists, but maybe not all, and I'll just tell you straight up front that Seventh-day Adventists have believed for a long, long time that 1 of these days, Sunday, is going to be enforced by law.

And that that will become the biblical mark of the beast.

And we believe this for a variety of reasons, but primarily we believe this because of Revelation chapter 14 verses 6 to 12.

If you have your Bibles, open up to Revelation 14, 6 to 12.

Revelation 14 verses 6 to 12 describes messages that are being given to the world represented by 3 holy angels.

And I've been teaching about these messages for a long time.

I've been studying them for over 40 years.

I have another little pocket book that I wrote called God's Final Warning, the 3 Angels' Messages.

It's like the little book in your packet on the coming judgments of God.

And that book, we're all out of them because they've just been selling like hotcakes.

They're very inexpensive, easy to get, easy to share.

I gave 1 of them away on the plane to a lady named Lois flying from Spokane to Seattle and then Seattle to Omaha yesterday Handed this book to a lady.

I sat right next to and she was very interested in reading it.

It's a little book that Explains the 3 angels messages And I don't have time right now to go into all the details of these 3 angels, but the 3 angels' messages are very, very powerful.

This is the last book of the Bible, the book of Revelation.

And Revelation 14 describes these 3 angels giving messages to the whole world.

Seventh-day Adventists did not make these messages up.

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