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The Opening of the Sixth Seal
12And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was
a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair,
and the moon became as  blood;
13And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree
casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind.
14And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together;
and every mountain and island were moved out of their places. 15And
the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the
chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every
free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the
mountains; 16And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and
hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from
the wrath of the Lamb: 17For the great day of his wrath is come; and
who shall be able to stand?
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Life Sketches of the Evening Light
Church of God
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Winebrennian "Church of God" Sect
The Church of God Sect that Brother D. S. Warner came out of
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Frances and Daniel Warner
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Church of God
The Oldest Church of God Meeting House
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The Evening Light Evangelistic Campaign
Evangelistic Company, 1886 – 1891
B.E. Warren Nannie Kigar Frankie Miller
D.S. Warner Sarah Smith
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Other Evangelistic Companies
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Evangelism
Unique methods of evangelism, such as; railroad cars and a floating Barge, called "The Floating Bethel", which is called the House of God. |
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The Floating Bethel
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The Flying Messengers
The went everywhere preaching the gospel. |
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Minster and Writer
He wrote the book "What the Bible Teaches" which is still in use today. |
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Home of F.G. Smith
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The Fishers - Minister and Song Writer
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E.E. Byrum - Minister and Writer
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African American Ministers
Ethnic Diversity in the Church of God
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Annual Camp Meeting
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Annual Camp Meeting
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Anderson Camp Meeting
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Anderson Camp Meeting
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Foriegn Mission
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Local Mission
St. Louis, MO - Chicago, IL - New York, NY |
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Song Writers of the Church of God
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The Music Office
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The Gospel Trumpet
The Gospel Trumpet Printing Office in Grand Junction, MI |
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The Gospel Trumpet
Mounds, WV |
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The Gospel Trumpet
Anderson, IN |
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The Gospel Trumpet
The Gospel Trumpet Home for the workers |
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One of Homes of the Gospel Trumpet
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Gospel Trumpet General Office 1
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Gospel Trumpet General Office 2
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Daniel Sidney Warner Grave Site
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D.S. Warner
D.S. Warner Headstone |
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The Doctrine of Christian unity, the “One Church”, and Holiness has
begun to be preached. This was great epoch in the history of the
New Testament Church. It was a period of more light and
understanding, other than what had previously been give in the
Protestant age. Light and truth began to shine as it did in the
morning age, and it continued to increase as the sixth and seventh
seal ages come to pass.
In Rev. 6:12-17, here we see the second earthquake mentioned in
Revelation, the first one was during the morning time church age,
when the first trumpet was blown. Rev. 8:5. The earthquake is a
symbol of a great spiritual awakening, and out-pouring of the spirit
of God when truth prevailed again.
In Acts 4th chapter, when the church was together in one
place and was praying, the place was shaken and they were all filled
with the Holy Ghost. It was a religious awakening and the downfall
of the Pagan Roman Empire. The sun and the moon are the symbols of
the New and Old Testament.
As the result of the unity of all Christians, the one church that
Jesus built, that was was being preached by D.S. Warner, and many
other reformers of the sixth seal age, the denominational world, or
the Protestants, refused to accept this message, and it brought
mourning, a sigh, and their blood was upon their own heads.
This was in 1880 and the work contined for a number of years in this
manner. jWhile denominations as a whole never accepted this truth,
individuals from the the many sects and creeds of the denominational
world did so and come out embracing the truth of the Church of God
and holiness.
Rev. 6:13, “And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a
fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty
wind.” Those who did not accept it fell as “stars” unto the earth,
as a fig tree shed it’s figs before they were ripe when shaken by
the wind or before the full truth is ripe, the ministers fell to
earthly organizations of man rule. This took place at this age, and
has continued from that time until today. There are still ministers
who have not and will not accept this glorious truth.
Rev. 6:14, And the heavens departed as a scroll when it is rolled
together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their
place.” (Groups and Movements of Men) The prophecy of this scroll
was given in Isa. 34:4. Mountain and islands moved out of their
places is a symbol of groups and movements also.
Rev. 6:15, “And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the
rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every
bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the
rocks of the mountain.”
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Kings of the
earth – leaders of man made churches, dictators, bosses in
churches, and ruled by men, and conferences instead of the Holy
Spirit.
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Hiding in the
dens and rocks of the mountains – is not literal. People do not
see to hid today, in the dens and rocks, unless they are cave
dwellers, or a fugitive from justice, instead this is a
spiritual condition.
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When more
truth began to be preached in 1880, unity, the one church of the
Bible, holiness and doctrines pertaining to the evening light
message, those who refused to accept this truth and light,
sought refuge in the rocks and mountains of Sectism,
(denominational churches).
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Prophecy of
the hiding in the mountains – See Jer. 16:16, behold I will send
for many fishers, saith the Lord, and they shall fish them: and
after will I send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them
from every mountain, and from every hill and out of the holes of
the rocks. Ezekiel also refers to the hunting of the souls of
his people.
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God is busy in
these last days, hunting, fishing, the hones souls from the dens
of the sectarian hills, and the caves of human rule, and with
the help of the truth under the Holy Spirit, He seeks to bring
them home to Zion where he can feed them in their own fold.
How God’s people were scattered.
Rev. 6:16, “And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and
hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from
the wrath of the lamb.” They are seeking refuge in their own cave,
or den of their own doing. Many are running back into their own
denominational dug-out, before they will come out and accept the
full truth. Isa. 28:16-20.
Rev. 6:17, “For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be
able to stand. This verse refers to the one hundred years of
preliminary judgment of truth. I Peter 4:17, “The time is come that
judgment (truth) must began (or start) at the house of God.”—and the
house of God is God’s church. 1 Tim. 3:15
The Gathering of God’s People
During this seal age, the strenuous effort of gathering God’s people
into the true fold of God in Christian unity was begun. Isa.
27:12,13:
Jer. 3:14; Ezek. 34:11-16, The cloudy and dark day referred to here
by the prophet has reference to the cloudy days of Protestantism and
the Dark Ages of Papal Romanism. Jer 3:15, Matt. 4:4, Acts 20:28;
John 11:52; 1Cor. 1:10; John 17:21; Eph. 2:14;19.
Unity is one of the Biblical doctrines of the New Testament Church
of God. Zion, or the church was lost sight of during the divided
conditions of Protestantism, because of the varied opinions of men
and their creeds.
At that time the two Witnesses (the word and the spirit) were dead,
not able to function in the church and you could not expect a
divinely organized church as ordered of the Lord, when men
disregarded and disobeyed the Word and ignored the Spirit. As you
have learned we speak of the Protestant age from 1530 to 1880, a
period of 350 years, known also as the “cloudy day” of
denominationalism.
John 10:16, says, “Other sheep I have (Jesus said) which are not of
this fold, them I must bring, and there shall be one shepherd and
one fold.” He could have had reference to bringing the Jews into
the one fold with the Gentiles and if so, it strengthens the fact
that he still wants all his children together in peace in one fold,
which is his church Isa 35:10; Isa. 51:11.
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Where have the
ransomed been?
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How did they
get there?
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They have been
scattered in the hills of spiritual Babylon by false shepherds.
They were saved with what light they had, now more light comes
and they are being gathered out from all “the places where they
have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day. (Ezek. 34:12).
Assembling the Church
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Webster says,
the word “assemble” means: to bring together; to collect the
parts into one place or one body, in proper relationship one
with other.
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This very
thing, the Lord is doing gathering his saints into one body,
“assembling” them from their divided condition in the various
denominations of man.
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Ezek. 11:17,
“Thus saith the Lord God, I will gather you from the people, and
ASSEMBLE you out of the countries where ye have been scattered.”
This is a direct promise in prophecy and is taking place in the
sixth and seventh age. Isa. 11:12; Exek 36:24.
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We have
the word of two of the major prophets, Ezekiel, and Isaiah
and both state God is assembling his people.
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This is
the message, not only of the sixth seal, but of the seventh
seal also.
The Sealing of the Saints
Revelation 7
Art used by
permission by Pat Marvenko Smith, copyright 1992.
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"Revelation Illustrated" site.
1And after these things I saw
four angels standing on the four corners of the earth, holding
the four winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow on
the earth, nor on the sea, nor on any tree. 2And I saw another
angel ascending from the east, having the seal of the living
God: and he cried with a loud voice to the four angels, to whom
it was given to hurt the earth and the sea, 3Saying, Hurt not
the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed
the servants of our God in their foreheads. 4And I heard the
number of them which were sealed: and there were sealed an
hundred and forty and four thousand of all the tribes of the
children of Israel. 5Of the tribe of Judah were sealed twelve
thousand. Of the tribe of Reuben were sealed twelve thousand. Of
the tribe of Gad were sealed twelve thousand. 6Of the tribe of
Aser were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Nepthalim were
sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Manasses were sealed
twelve thousand. 7Of the tribe of Simeon were sealed twelve
thousand. Of the tribe of Levi were sealed twelve thousand. Of
the tribe of Issachar were sealed twelve thousand. 8Of the tribe
of Zabulon were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Joseph
were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Benjamin were
sealed twelve thousand. 9After this I beheld, and, lo, a great
multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and
kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and
before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their
hands; 10And cried with a loud voice, saying, Salvation to our
God which sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb. 11And all
the angels stood round about the throne, and about the elders
and the four beasts, and fell before the throne on their faces,
and worshipped God, 12Saying, Amen: Blessing, and glory, and
wisdom, and thanksgiving, and honour, and power, and might, be
unto our God for ever and ever. Amen.
13And one of the elders
answered, saying unto me, What are these which are arrayed in
white robes? and whence came they? 14And I said unto him, Sir,
thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they which came out
of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them
white in the blood of the Lamb. 15Therefore are they before the
throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple: and he
that sitteth on the throne shall dwell among them. 16They shall
hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun
light on them, nor any heat. 17For the Lamb which is in the
midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto
living fountains of waters: and God shall wipe away all tears
from their eyes.
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