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Dunlap SDA Church

P. Gerard Damsteegt

Capturing the Spirit of the Great Advent Movement

Precious Heavenly Father, we thank you so much for what you mean to us.

And now Lord, may the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be fully acceptable in your sight.

You know, there is a lot of talk about revival and reformation in the light of the soon coming of Christ.

And people say, yo, I wish that we had something like the great revivals in the past.

And I said to myself, it would be good if we in some way could try to capture the spirit of revival in the past.

And I thought it would be good to have a fresh look at our beginnings.

Once upon a time, there was a promise in Joel 2, verse 28, to...

And that was an experience that is supposed to be for the remnant.

In Joel verse 2, verse 28 it says, and it shall come to pass afterwards that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy an old man shall dream dreams a young man shall see visions And also I pour my servants upon their handmaids in those days, and I will pour out my Spirit." It's a beautiful promise.

Verse 16 here, And this is a sermon by Peter.

And it says, this was which was spoken by the prophet Joel, and shall come to pass in the last days.

Says God, I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh, all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall read dreams.

It's a fantastic picture, and so Peter says, this what you see now is a fulfillment.

If you read through the Prophet Joel, you see then something more.

You see something in dark day, dark sun, bloody sun, dark sun, all of those things, and not only this but earthquake and all those kind of things you see in the book of Joel.

And did those things take place in Peter's time?

So it seemed to indicate that there is something more in the future to be expected.

And really, that is what is taking place.

If you read the book of Revelation, chapters 10 and 18, you see there all those dark days, falling of the stars, earthquakes, so here you see a complete fulfillment what Joel predicted.

And what not was the case in Peter Stein.

So you can see here that the fulfillment, the great fulfillment was in the future.

How can we be a part of that promised revival in Joel, which was repeated by Peter and also by Indeth?

If you turn here to 1 John, chapter 1, you see something very interesting in the experience of the prophets and in the experience of the early Apostles.

First John chapter 1 and let us read that a few verses.

This was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled of the word of life.

Now the word of life here is Jesus Christ.

So for the life was made manifest, and we have seen it and bear witness and show unto you that eternal life, which was with the Father and which was manifest to us.

That which we have seen and heard we declare to you that you also may have fellowship with us and truly our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son And these things we write unto you, that your joy may be full." So what does John talk about?

And he says, this is what I share with you, so what, for what purpose?

So, as Christians, it is important to experience our experience, our beginnings.

And So how can we now protect it against the last day delusions?

Because with what John saw, there were also all the time delusions.

John 2, verse 18 to 24, And then John 2, verse 25 to 48, it talks about the delusions.

And how can we be sure that those delusions are not, not, not delusions, no, we have seen it, we have tasted it.

So John is speaking of a personal experience he had with Jesus.

And that is what he says is also what should be for us.

So how important it is to Experience our beginnings.

And so here we get now a picture of Satan's war with the remnant.

You see the woman, the church in all its glory, and Satan doesn't like it, so he goes after the woman and know that she's pregnant.

A great event is going to take place and he wanted to prevent it.

And so he goes afterwards and that says here that for 1260 days or 42 months this persecution will continue.

Now if you have your Bibles with you, and I'm sure you have, talk to the book of Revelation, see the book of Revelation, verse 12, chapter 12, verse 17.

And the dragon was wrought with a woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.

So what are the characteristics now of the remnant?

Keep the commandments of God and have the testimony of Jesus.

And the testimony of Jesus according to Revelation 19, verse 10, What is that?

So, if you want to become a member of God's church, you have at least to have 2 characteristics.

They keep all God's commandments and then they have the testimony of Jesus, which is the spirit of prophecy.

If it is not present, you have to shop further.

Supermarket after supermarket for the right church.

Commandments of God, testimony of Jesus, Spirit of Prophecy, and then what is the third characteristic?

It comes after the persecution, after the 1260 years.

So God's true church appears after the Great Tribulation, after the 1260 years.

So, in other words, the Satan is wrath, wrath on what?

God's people who were faithful no matter what, who stayed faithful after the Great Tribulation during the Middle Ages and whatever, if God's people were faithful, that is the true church.

They survived, they were faithful till the very end, they keep the commandments of God and the testimony of Jesus, which is the spirit of prophecy.

So if you want to be a member of God's true church, you have to be a church that survived the great tribulation.

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