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Inside today's Advent Message, we'll clear up the misunderstanding 

of the seven last plagues. This is the seven last plagues made simple.

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A 1000 Year Vacation

When Jesus appears in His glory there will be four groups to be dealt with: 

the righteous living, the righteous dead, the wicked living, and the wicked dead. 

The righteous living will go with Christ to heaven for a 1000 years. After which

they shall return to the earth made new. The wicked dead on the other hand

will stay in their graves during that thousand year period.

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Proof: Once and For Time

Strange as it seems, we have actually come to a time when religious leaders and 

institutions are openly condoning disobedience to the laws of the Bible.

The seventh-day Sabbath was given by God in the Ten Commandments, written 

on tables of stone with God's own Finger in the moral law that was to stand forever, 

the law which Jesus said will stand as long as heaven and earth shall last.

There's a very definite difference between the Ten Commandments which are 

moral commandments, and the commandments contained in ordinances which 

had to do with the ceremonies of the old Jewish dispensation.

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God Winks

When a sin of ignorance comes to a person, he or she must confess the past 

error and change his ways or else he will be held responsible and liable in the 

solemn day of judgment.

It is a very solemn thing to reject, or neglect one single part of what God has 

written in the Bible, His Holy Word.

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How Paganism Crept Into the Church

The beginning of Nimrod's sun worshiping plan had its origin at the city of Babel, which was later known as the kingdom of Babylon. 

This kingdom of Babylon with a tower “whose top may reach unto heaven” was built by Nimrod. See Genesis 10:8-10; 11:4.

They called the tower Babel, which they thought meant, the gate to heaven. But God called Babel what it was, a word which means confusion. From Babel you could easily see the word babble, as being the derivative.

Now Nimrod had a plan to strengthen his religious system, and so he married his own mother  who was named, Semiramis. She was the first deified queen of Babylon and Nimrod was the first deified king. 

Semiramis was as wicked as her son Nimrod, and participated as much in devil worship as he did. Incest was used here as a basis to unite this newly false religious system. 

The plan was to develop a counterfeit opposition system of religion to attract worship away from the true God of Heaven. 

But satan's pagan worship required the offering up of human beings as sacrifice to him, and children used in sacrificial offering were often the sons and daughters of the worshipers. 

After Nimrod's death, the followers of Nimrod and Semiramis were stunned with great grief when one part of the mother-son godhead died. Nimrod died. 

After Nimrod's death it should have been made obvious to everyone that he was not a true god after all. He was mortal like any ordinary man.

Semiramis, the widow of Nimrod, had a brilliant idea on how she could successfully revive her and Nimrod's pagan religion, and give it a new form. 

It was not long after the death of her husband that Semiramis became pregnant by someone else.  She knew this would be a problem among the worshipers because even among the immoral devotees, 

the line was drawn at Semiramis co-habitation with another man so soon after the god-man Nimrod's death.

So she concocted the plan to say that when Nimrod died he went up to the sun to live. This appeased the worshipers and the sun then became the symbol of Nimrod. 

Semiramis told the people the lie that a ray of the sun had come to her and impregnated her with a child and that it was actually Nimrod coming back in a reincarnation of the sun god. 

The child was named Tammuz and these three entities were then worshiped for centuries afterwards as various personification of the sun god.

So Semiramis proclaimed that her husband Nimrod was a god, and she as the wife of Nimrod was a now goddess. 

She then announced herself to be “The Queen of Heaven” and that she should be worshiped as such. 

She claimed that her spirit was the moon and when she died she would dwell in the moon, even as Nimrod was already in the sun. 

Semiramis was soon hailed as “The Queen of Heaven” or ashtarte. Her symbol became the moon 

and her husband Nimrod, was called “Baal” the “sun god” and his symbol became the sun. 

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I want to Go Home

The Bible narrative is a story of people trying to get home. You know in the very beginning when sin entered the world our first parents were evicted from their home. Their home was the Garden. And because of sin Adam and eve had to leave their home. 

The Bible is a story about how we get back to the garden, about how we get home. Indeed, you read in the Exodus experience, it tells about a people who were leaving their slavery trying to find a way to the Promised Land that for them would represent a home, and rest. A place of their own. 

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Filthiness of the Flesh

God requires His people to cleanse themselves from all filthiness of 

the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of the Lord. 

All those who are indifferent and excuse themselves from this 

work, waiting for the Lord to do for them that which He requires 

them to do for themselves, will be found wanting.

The Roman Emperor Constantine in effect married Christianity with paganism. in an effort to distant himself from the Jewish Sabbath, he introduced his own holy day, in honour of Christ's resurrection from the grave. That day of course, is Sunday.

For a while the church celebrated both Saturday and Sunday as holy days, because Christian Jews also attended the Roman church.

Eventually, Constantine retired from Rome, and left the caring and keeping of the church to the bishop of the church. This individual today, is known as the Roman Catholic Pope.

That is when God's seventh day Sabbath was set aside, and the first day of the week, Sunday, was instituted in its stead.  Visit: AdventMessage.com

We have taken on the sinful nature of Adam. We are swimming in sin. It is easy to go along with the tide of sin. The whole world is doing it, satan is whispering in our ears to do it, and it is our nature to do it because we are born in sin and shaped in iniquity. Yet still Christ expects us to swim against the tide. Jesus wants us to be like salmon swimming upstream. Imagine the water of the river flowing rapidly one way, and the salmon fish is blissfully swimming the other way. The thing to always remember, is that God does not ask you to do the impossible.

It's amazing how many Christians do not have a clue about the correct way to pray. Inside today's Advent Message, we will learn a little secret of what pleases God as we pray to Him.