GOD’S CALL
Kelly Smith
Midland SDA Church
October 9, 2010
Scripture---Revelation 18:2,4
Song---287 Softly and Tenderly
Children’s story: “Three Years Old, Hearing, but Not Doing”
(Cornell St. apartment)
REVELATION 18:2,4……..God’s last call to a dying planet.
JOHN 3:16…………………God calls us because he loves us.
1 JOHN 4:8………………...God is love.
2nd PETER 3:10………….…The end is coming.
2nd PETER 3:9……………...God loves us and wants us to be saved, not lost. His final call to the world
began in 1755 and it will end when probation closes. He calls us in many different
ways, trying to break thru our stubborn blindness and our addiction to sin and
selfishness.
JOEL 2:31…………………..God’s last call begins: Earthquake, Sun and Moon Darkened, Stars Fall from
Heaven.
JOEL 3:15
MATTHEW 24:7,29
MARK 13:25
LUKE 21:25
ACTS 2:19-21
DANIEL 12:7……………….God’s last call would begin around the time that the 1260 years ends.
REVELATION 6:12-13…….Last call began with the “Great Lisbon Earthquake,” on November 1, 1755. It was
A Saturday at 9:40 am, when it struck.
Last call continued when the Sun was darkened and the moon became as blood on
May 19,1780.
Stars fall from heaven on November 13,1833.
God raises up a movement, later to become the “Remnant” church, to preach the
“Three Angels Message” of Revelation 14.
DANIEL 12:4………………..Knowledge to be increased at that time:
Book of Daniel unsealed.
Book of Revelation can now also be better understood.
God’s first book.
Also, Scientific knowledge is allowed to increase for the purpose of
helping mankind understand God’s second book: NATURE. A proper
comprehension of God’s creation tends to turn the heart to God.
God leaves no stone unturned, no avenue unused, no method untried, or no effort not attempted to call as many as possible, to come, to a true knowledge of Himself and be saved!
JOHN 3:16…………………..For God so loved the world, that……..
Darwin’s Theory of Evolution
Ship: BEAGLE
Islands: Galapagos
Turtles
Birds
Iguana lizards
We can have all the facts, but come to the wrong conclusion. Two satirical stories ( humor used to make a serious point).
The Grasshopper Experiment
Rabbits and Carrots Experiment
That’s what Darwin did, and that’s what science has been doing ever since. God’s call to mankind thru science and nature keep getting misunderstood. The empirical data of God’s second book is there for us to observe and measure, but we keep coming to the wrong conclusions.
Archeological discoveries always support the Bible
Sodom and Gomorrah
Goliath
Hezekiah’s Tunnel
King David
Stratification layers of the earth
NASA research reveals earths ecosystem
DNA discoveries ( irreducible complexity, serpents once had wings, etc…)
Soft tissue fossil found
Radar telescope survey of the universe completed
Hubble telescope photos
Coal and oil produced in laboratory
Organic material
Heat
Pressure
+
Water
Automobile production ( principle of irreducible complexity )
God is trying every possible way to call men to salvation:
Three Angels Message
Signs in the earth and heavens
Science and technology
Why?………Because God loves us!
Daniel 12:10…………………The wise understand, but the wicked do not.
2nd Thess2:10…………………People perish not because they don’t possess the truth, but because they
don’t LOVE the truth !
REV 19:9……………………..Blessed are they which are called to the marriage supper of the lamb..
Who will answer God’s last call to a dying planet ? Probation is soon to close, and then it is too
late. But, a loving God is still calling. Why? Because God is love !
AMEN !