Michigan Camp Meeting 2025: He Must Increase

Christ and the Heavenly Sanctuary

Kameron DeVasher

Michigan Conference of Seventh-day Adventists

04 The Day the Devil Dies

You're about to enjoy a presentation recorded at the 2025 Michigan Conference Camp, held at Cedar Lake, Michigan.

We pray that the Lord will bless you as you listen.

Dear Heavenly Father, thank you so much for another day of life.

Thank you for this incredible gift of this life.

The Lord, as we study what you've offered for our eternal life, help us to be even more grateful.

Help us to find in you our Savior, our friend, and our soon-coming King.

Bless us now as we study your word and help it to be clear for we pray it in Jesus' name, amen.

Okay, today our message is entitled, The Day the Devil Dies.

I don't know about you, but I'm looking forward to the day when sin and its instigator is done forever, amen?

But we're gonna look at this process and how can God- let's start with what I believe is 1 of the biggest prophecies in the Bible, which comes from 1 of the smallest books, a rather obscure passage in scripture, Nahum chapter 1, verse 9.

We read this incredible prophecy, this incredible statement.

It asks rhetorically, what do you conspire against the Lord?

Friends, when the great controversy is ended, there will not be a greater controversy to follow.

Affliction, according to Scripture, will not rise up a second time.

The burden of our study today is how is it possible that God can make such a promise?

Well you're like, well God can make any promise he wants.

How can he promise what I'm gonna do and you're gonna do, what we're gonna do?

How can God allow freedom of choice for all eternity, yet get the same time guarantee that no 1 will ever choose to rebel again.

Now, let me give you some bad answers to that question.

The typical answer might be something like, well Satan won't be there anymore, so there's problem solved.

But that runs you into a logical challenge of, well, wait a minute.

Apparently that didn't work out too well either.

So just removing Satan himself wouldn't solve the problem.

Apparently there's a deeper problem than sin than just the person of Satan.

Well, he could remove our freedom of choice.

Well, then that would not be the same postulate, right?

If he takes away the freedom of choice, we're no longer choosing anymore.

He could force us to love, well then that's not love.

So those are paradoxical, they don't work.

Somehow he's going to have freedom to choose, yet know that we're not going to choose to sin again.

Well, as we're going to see, this all comes down to how God deals with the eradication of evil at the end of the Great Controversy.

Many times in Scripture, there are promises about the Second Coming.

Many of them are very hopeful from the perspective of the redeemed.

When Christ returns again, we'll say, oh, this is our God, we've waited for him and he will save us.

But will everyone have that response at the second coming?

The book of Revelation in particular gives us multiple glimpses of the second coming, some from the perspective of the lost, right?

Here's 1, Revelation chapter 19 verse 11 says, now I saw heaven open, behold a white horse.

And he who sat on him was called faithful and true, and in righteousness he judges and makes war.

By the way, all through scripture you see this two-step process.

He judges, he determines, and then he executes judgment, right?

There's the investigative phase, then there's the execution phase.

This is the same judge who's now coming as king in this image.

And as the passage goes on, it talks about the destruction of the wicked at the return of Jesus and how it is complete.

It closes, verse 21 of the same chapter, saying, and the rest were killed with the sword which proceeded from the mouth of him who sat on the horse, and all the birds were filled with their flesh.

It's quite a graphic image of the complete destruction of the wicked at the return of Jesus.

But sometimes we can read that and say, oh, that's terrible.

But at least we can control ourselves and say, sad as it is for the wicked, at least when Jesus returns, the whole matter is finished.

Because immediately after Revelation 19.21 closes with that complete eradication of the wicked at the return of Jesus.

Then, it says, I saw an angel coming down from heaven, having the key to the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand.

And he laid hold of that dragon, that serpent of old, who is the devil and Satan." By the way, that's the exact same language from Revelation 12, verses 7 through 9.

When war broke out in heaven, Michael and his angels fought with the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought, and there was a place found for them in his hand but no longer.

And it goes on to talk about how he's called the dragon.

The same casting out in Revelation 12, verses 7 through 9 and onward is here referred to again.

He laid hold of the dragon, that serpent of old, who is the devil and Satan, and did what with him?

So first of all, are all sinners destroyed at the second coming?

All the human ones are, but the great archdeceiver himself, the leader, and apparently his angel associates, they survived the second coming.

And instead of being destroyed, they're simply bound for a thousand years.

And he cast him, here's another casting, cast him into the bottomless pit, which of course is the earth itself in its desolate form.

Now all righteous have been removed to be with Jesus.

All the wicked have been gathered in the grave So there's no human life left and it's just a bottomless pit where Satan and his angels are bound for a thousand years.

Cast him into the bottomless pit and shut him up and set a seal on him so that he should deceive the nations no more till the thousand years were finished.

Which implies what we're about to see explicitly, that at the end of the thousand years there will be nations again on the earth to deceive once more.

But notice what the scripture says, But after these things, that is after this thousand year period, he, and what's the next word, must be released for a little while.

It doesn't say he will be, or he could be, or he might be, it says he must be released.

Somehow, this thousand-year period after Christ's return and then his release from that prison for a little while at the end is essential, it's vital, it's a must in the great controversy.

Why do Satan and his evil angels survive the Second Coming?

I'm not opening the floor, I just want us to be thinking.

These are rhetorical questions now, but be thinking about them.

Why do Satan and his evil angels survive the second coming?

Babylon, America, and Bible Prophecy

Carlos Muñoz

Sacramento Central SDA Church

16 Revelation’s Lake of Eternal Fire: The Good News on Hell

Tonight's topic is Revelation's Lake of Eternal Fire, the good news on hell.

Father, thank you again for the blessing and the privilege of being here together.

To come and study your word, Father, we thank you, Father, for Those that are also watching online, Father, we had some technical issues yesterday.

We know the enemy is not happy with these presentations as we are unmasking his end-time deception, but we thank you because we are here.

We thank you that we are back live so that those that are watching around the world can continue to watch with us.

Father, we ask for a blessing on this topic.

It can be a challenging and difficult topic, but we know that there is a blessing when we open your word and we let your word speak.

Thank you for guiding us, and we ask this in Jesus' name.

Open your Bibles to Revelation chapter 17.

We've been studying off of Revelation chapter 17 because Revelation chapter 17 and 18 are a continuation or a breakdown of Revelation chapter 14 verse 8 when it talks about the second angel and the second angel in Revelation 14 says Babylon is fallen is fallen that great city because she has made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication right and so Revelation 14 8 does not explain in detail what that means.

We have to go to Revelation chapter 17, and Revelation chapter 17 does break down that explanation.

And so, as we go there, here we go, pulling this up, it says here in verse number, let's go to verse number 3.

So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness and I saw a woman sitting on what?

Sitting on a scarlet beast which was full of names of, bless me, having 7 heads and 10 horns.

The woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls, having in her hand a golden cup full of the abominations and the filthiness of her fornication.

And on her forehead a name was written, Mystery Babylon the Great, the Mama of Harlots and of the abominations of the earth." Notice verse 6, and I saw the woman drunk with the blood of the saints.

Persecuting God's people and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus and when I saw her I would felt with great amazement.

I would say because, you know, sometimes some of these things you may be like, what in the world are these people studying?

But if you've been here, you know what we're going at.

Verse number 2 says, And he cried mightily with a loud voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and has become a dwelling place of demons, a prison for every foul spirit, and a cage for every unclean and hated bird.

For all the nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth have become rich through the abundance of her luxury.

Verse 4, And I heard another voice from heaven saying, Come out of her, who?

Does God have faithful people in Babylon?

Now the question is get out and where do I go?

Come Friday because Revelation reveals the bride of Christ.

Come out of her my people lest you share in her sins and lest you receive of her plagues." Right?

And so, it says here that the sins of Babylon have what?

Have reached heaven and God is like, get out of her.

We've broken all of this down, the colors, the golden cup lifted up.

If you were not here in last night or the previous night, email me.

I will send you the recordings or the the previous presentations where we break all of this down in great detail.

But what we've been focusing on over the last couple of days is what?

Is that she is the mother of harlots, right?

So not only are the kings of the earth that means the political powers of the earth the the economical powers of the earth all the powers of the earth not only are they coming together but it says that the daughters are also have come back home to mama right And so the mother harlot talking about that her daughters are also in the same thing.

And so we talked about this in regards to this ecumenical movement, right?

The plan of the papacy since 1964 is to bring back all the Protestant churches that they say, oh, you all left us, but you just rebelled against your mama.

And we saw that that was the plan since 1964.

Have they been successful, my brothers and my sisters?

60 years ago on this plan, and it has been working to perfection.

The anniversary of the Reformation, but I told you also about this place called the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity.

This is a Vatican website, and this is the page where it's broken down everybody that has been included.

Now, I was teasing you for the last couple of nights, but tonight I'm going to show you the list that comes off of this website of the churches that have already officially signed in to the agreements to come together and join.

Now, the first list you probably might not recognize many of them.

They're more of the Eastern churches, the Orthodox Church, the Oriental Orthodox Churches, the Syrian Orthodox Church, the Assyrian Church of the East, Old Catholic Bishops Conference Union of Ucretch, right?

So you're like, never heard of that before.

Those are more eastern, those are the eastern side of the world.

The Anglican Communion, the Lutheran World Federation, the World Communion of Reformed Churches, the World Methodist Council, the Baptist World Alliance, the Christian Church Disciples of Christ, the Mennonite World Alliance, the World Evangelical Alliance, and some Pentecostal groups.

These are all of the main denominations in the United States.

They have all already began the process of joining together.

That's why they're on this website because they have already signed on to be for the process of reconciliation.

Now, this is, this website, if you notice here, I highlighted this part here, the last time it was updated was in 2005.

So, we're in 224, so it's rained a lot since.

Has there been any progress in regards to this?

Notice I underline some Pentecostal groups.

Well, has the Pentecostal movement also decided to join up?

Here's a picture with Pope Francis, and who do you see there?

The main, the most prominent Pentecostal leaders of the world, right?

And all of these are evangelical Pentecostal leaders, as they have all decided to what?

Sabbath School 3rd Quarter 2025: Exodus

Mark Finley

HopeLives365

07 The Bread and Water of Life

We're journeying through the book of Exodus.

This is an incredibly exciting lesson, a lesson with deep meaning and great spiritual lessons.

The title of our lesson this week is The Bread and Water of Life.

God is teaching Israel deeper lessons of trust.

Throughout this lesson this week, we find that God desires to help his people grow, but they have to learn discipline, they have to learn self-control, they have to learn sacrifice, unselfishness, and especially trust in the Lord and obedience.

After Israel is led out of Egypt and through the Red Sea, Miriam, of course, leads them in that great song of victory, that great song of rejoicing.

Then, shortly thereafter, in their wilderness journey, they are anxious to find water.

If you're in the desert, you're certainly anxious to find water.

And so they come upon these wells, this particular well, but the water is bitter.

Sunday's lesson is titled, Bitter Waters.

We read about it in Exodus, the 15th chapter, verse 22.

Moses brought Israel from the Red Sea, then they went out into the wilderness of Shur, and they went 3 days in the wilderness and found no water.

Now, if I go a few hours without water, I'm thirsty, but here they go 3 days in the desert, no water.

Their throats are parched, their tongues are swollen, their lips are cracked.

The desert sun is beating down upon them.

The Bible says, now, verse 23, they came to Marah, and they could not drink the waters of Marah, for they were bitter.

Can you imagine their excitement when they saw the wells?

Can you imagine their excitement when they saw the water, but yet the water is bitter.

So the scripture says, the people murmured against Moses saying, what shall we drink?

Rather than looking back at the miracles that God worked, the plagues that were poured out on the Egyptians, the ability to go through the Red Sea and have that open miraculously by God, that experience, the singing of the song of victory with Miriam on the other side of the sea, they forgot about all that.

You know, it is written, we have nothing to fear for the future lest we do what?

Forget God's leading in our past history.

So there is the tendency to forget when we're in trials, when we're in difficulties or in challenges.

There's the tendency to forget how God has led us in the past.

But they cry out in verse to the Lord, and the Lord showed him Moses a tree.

And when he cast it into the waters, the waters were made sweet.

There he made a statue in an ordinance for them, and there he tested them." God says to Moses, go over there, get those branches, cut down that tree, throw it into the pool, and it will become sweet.

What a lesson for the story of redemption, the story of the cross.

All of us live in bitter waters, the bitter water of rebellion against God, the bitter water of sin.

We live in those troubled pools with the bitter waters.

But Jesus, the divine Son of God, hung on a tree, died the death we should have died, after living the life we should have lived, bore the sin and guilt of humanity, and Christ, the 1 who hung on the tree, makes the bitter waters of life sweet." Romans 8, verse 1 says, there is no condemnation to those that are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

Here they're grumbling, but God promises still that he would be faithful.

In the last paragraph of Sunday's lesson I read, and yet even after their grumbling God promised that he would not bring upon the Israelites any of the diseases that came upon the Egyptians.

He had made the water sweet, he made provision for them, and he promised in verse 26 to protect them.

Look, Exodus 15 verse 26 he says, if you diligently heed the voice of the Lord your God and do what's right in his sight and give ear to his commandments and I'll keep all his statutes I will put none of the diseases on you which I brought on the Egyptians for I am the Lord who heals you the Christ of the cross is the God is the Christ of healing And he says that as we come to him, he heals us of the bitterness of sin.

And 1 day he will heal us through all eternity of every physical ailment, because Revelation 21 verse 4 says, God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.

There will be no more sickness or suffering or heartache or death.

Here, last paragraph under Sunday's lesson, and yet even after their grumbling, God promised that he would not bring upon the Israelites any of the diseases that had plagued the Egyptians.

They could experience this promise only on the condition that they stayed faithful to him.

God's appeal in Sunday's lesson is an appeal for faithfulness, and it's appeal for obedience, and it's appeal to you and me to be faithful to God.

We come to Monday's lesson, quail and manna.

You choose the quail, the flesh pots of Egypt, or you choose the manna that God can provide.

We find this in Exodus 16, verse 1 to 36.

They come to the wilderness of sin, which is between Elam and Sinai.

The whole congregation's murmuring against Moses.

They don't learn the lesson of trust, the lesson of faithfulness.

Often when we go through trials and difficulties and challenges, we say, God, where are you?

They want to go back, according to verse 3, to the pots of meat and the flesh pots of Egypt.

But God says, I'll rain bread down from heaven upon you, and the people shall go out and gather a quota, a certain quota every day, that I may test them whether they'll walk in my law or not.

Now you remember there were 3 miracles that were performed with the falling of the manna.

Second miracle is twice as much fell on Friday.

If they would keep any over for many of the other days, it would spoil and stink.

Third miracle, that if they kept it over, it wouldn't stink for the Sabbath, and none fell on Sabbath.

So the people would go out and gather twice as much on Friday, and they would preserve it for the next day.

Incidentally, there are those who believe that the Sabbath was given for the Jew.

God set the Sabbath aside where Genesis 2, verse 1 to 3 says that he rested upon the Sabbath, he sanctified the Sabbath, and he hallowed the Sabbath.

God set the Sabbath aside as a very special, special day.

And That was at least Hundreds of years centuries before the existence the Jewish race the Jewish race didn't exist till Abraham Isaac Jacob 12 sons of Jacob become the 12 tribes of Israel much much after creation So Sabbath is given at creation But then you come to Exodus chapter 16, the Sabbath is certainly in existence, and you don't get the 10 Commandments until Exodus chapter 20.

So the Sabbath is that golden chain from Eden at the time of creation to Eden again when God creates the new heaven and the new earth.

But this show, the following of manna shows how much God cares for his people.

God says, verse 4, "'Behold, I'll rain bread from heaven for you, "'and the people shall go out and gather a certain quota.'" Go down to verse 6.

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