REM - The Time of Jacob's Trouble

The transcript is a discussion about a reading from the 1858 Great Controversy, focusing on the chapter entitled "The Time of Jacob's Trouble." The discussion highlights the belief that during this time, the saints will leave cities and villages and live in solitary places, relying on angels for food and water. The wicked will be suffering but will seek to persecute the saints. The conversation also touches on the importance of confessing sins and having faith in God during this time. The participants reference other passages and books that support the ideas presented. Welcome, Radio Family, to another reading with Restoring the Earlier Messages. Today, Sister Harris and I will continue our reading of the 1858 Great Controversy, also known as Spiritual Gifts, Volume 1. Our reading will begin in page 201, Chapter 36, entitled, The Time of Jacob's Trouble. This book and other early publications are made available at Silent Messengers Publications. They may be reached at 832-975-3786 or visit the website at www.silentmessengerspublications.com. Both words, Messengers and Publications, are plural. So we will go ahead and begin our reading after a word of prayer. Sister Harris, would you like to go ahead and open us up with prayer? Thank you. Okay, thank you. If we could kneel or bow our heads if possible. Thank you. Father in Heaven, we are again grateful for your presence, for your Holy Spirit to lead and guide us into all truth. Forgive our sins for Jesus' sake and bless each one. May we not only be hearers but also doers of your word. For Jesus' sake we thank and praise you. Amen. Amen. Okay, so we are in Chapter 36, we're on page 201, and it's called, entitled, The Time of Jacob's Trouble. The Time of Jacob's Trouble, page 201, kind of in the middle. I saw the saints leaving the cities and villages and associating in companies together and living in the most solitary places. Angels provided them food and water, but the wicked were suffering with hunger and thirst. Then I saw the leading men of earth consulting together, and Satan and his angels were busy around them. I saw a writing and copies of it scattered in different parts of the land, giving orders that unless the saints should yield their peculiar faith, give up the Sabbath, and observe the first day they were at liberty after such a time to put them to death. But in this time, praise God, listen to this, but in this time the saints were calm and composed, trusting in God and leaning upon his promise. That a way of escape would be made for them. In some places, before the time for the writing to be executed, the wicked rushed upon the saints to slay them. But angels in the form of men of war fought for them. Satan wished to have the privilege of destroying the saints of the Most High, but Jesus bade his angels watch over them, for God would be honored by making a covenant with those who had kept his law in the sight of the heathens round about them. And Jesus would be honored by translating the faithful, waiting ones who had so long expected him without their seeing death. Wow, that's 144,000, isn't it? Sister Elizabeth, you're the only ones that their bread and water will be sure. We know those beautiful in Isaiah. We've got Isaiah 33, 16. He shall dwell on high, his place of defense shall be the munitions of rocks. Bread shall be given him, his water shall be sure. That is a fact. And I always love to go also back to Isaiah 30, 20. Even though the bread and water, that's for the physical needs, it says, And through the Lord give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction. Yet shall not thy teachers be removed into a corner anymore, but thy eyes shall see thy teachers. But the bread of affliction and the water, bread of adversity, excuse me, and the water of affliction. So the mental, we've got the mental agony here. You know, even though we have the food, it's going to be, you know, not a large amount. Wasn't it in the children in the wilderness, they had like an omer, was it? Like a pint, a couple of pints maybe. A portion of food that they gathered on the preparation day. You know, the sixth day we know it. And then the seventh day, you know, they had that extra food they gathered. But it wasn't a lot. Do you remember? I think it was an omer. I remember if you put your fist together, I think that's about how big your stomach is. You know, is it like a pint or two? If we thought of that every time we ate. It's kind of interesting, isn't it? You emphasized when you read this, and I think it is just so beautiful. But in this time, the saints were calm and composed, trusting in God and leaning upon his promise that a way of escape would be made for them. The faith, the faith that they had. Why? Because they have the faith of Jesus, right? Just like Jesus went into the tomb trusting that his father would call him to come forth. So, the 144,000 are going through that death decree because that is the writing that you read of. I saw a writing and copies of it scattered to different. So, they knew what was going on. But at this time, she said they were calm and composed. That is completely trusting in God. Praise God. And how come, Sister Elizabeth? What brings that peace? What brings the peace? To be calm and composed. You know, all their sins were confessed. Because we've read, I don't know if it was the 84, if every sin is not confessed at this time, the angels will not be able to protect us. You know, so it's so important we want everything confessed and forsaken. But otherwise, you know, because they do go through that mental anxiety. So, that must have been before. Or I guess we'll read the rest of this chapter. And we know many people think we've got to get in the country. We've mentioned this before. But this says, at this time, I saw the saints leaving the cities and villages. So, for those that are, there will be many people in cities and villages. And this sounds like 144,000. I'm not saying we shouldn't get out, because it's the greatest blessing to be out, away from Babylon. And the sights and sounds and, yeah. But it's encouraging, isn't it, when we learn this? There's still hope for many people that are still in the cities and desperate to get out, because this is during the time of Jacob's trouble. So, when the death decree goes forth, that is when we are reading that they go into, in small companies, into desolate and solitary places. Like you said, you know, we should be out of the cities if we can, if the Lord has opened a way to be in the country or something like that. But these solitary places, this is right at the end. And many of the people will still be, like we just read, in villages and in cities. So, God will open a way for His faithful. And many times He has already opened a way. We just don't know it. By the people that have gone ahead that have properties, then the responsibility of these people is to open the doors to those people that will be coming out at that time and do not have a place to go. So, God has taken care of us. He does. If we are faithful, He is faithful as well. Yes. And I just wanted to bring up, we'll read on the very last paragraph of this chapter, page 204, that last paragraph again says, as the saints left the cities and villages, they were pursued by the wicked. And I won't read the rest because we'll be reading that. So, there's another, a second witness of leaving the cities and villages. And I did want to give the 84, Great Controversy, or Volume 4 of the Spirit of Prophecy, page 446, the first paragraph, 446, also talks about what, while God's judgments are visited upon the earth, and the wicked are dying from hunger and thirst, angels provide the righteous with food and water. So, what a blessing, you know. I hope people are used to, you know, simple food and water because we're not going to have all this food, you know. We need to be happy with simple food. That's right. And you know, the great work of these angels, Sister Harris, as I was reading, actually, the next, well, you already started, but even the next paragraph, I circled where all the angels are, God's angels, right? And the great work that they have, we are so blessed and should be really feel honored that these angels watch over us because, you know, they are instructed to care for His children, and that's what they do. I thought when you mentioned the 84, I thought you were going to 445 because that is a witness for the time of trouble, paragraph 1, where it talks about the people of God will then flee from the cities and villages and associate together in companies. So, it pretty much says the same there in the 84 great controversy. What is being taught from the 1911, and many people are confused about when they leave and where they're to go and who is to run, and, you know, especially the people of color. They, you know, the people of color are frightened about going into the south because they say that, you know, that they're going to be, that slavery is going to be revived. But here in this paragraph, it touches that many, but many of all nations and of all classes, high and low, rich and poor, black and white, will be passed into the most unjust and cruel bondage. So, it's not about race or ethnicity. It is definitely about your belief. It's right and wrong, God's children versus, you know, the enemy, and that's who will be targeted. I don't see where it's anything about color, at least we don't read that in the original writings at all. And we've actually labored at looking for it. There is so much confusion. I just wanted to mention to Sister Elizabeth, in our 1884 Great Controversy or Spirit of Prophecy number four, there's not a chapter on the time of Jacob's trouble, which we like to go back and forth with these books, but you can look at the time of trouble, that chapter. I believe it's 34 and starting on page 431. Yeah, just there's a couple little subtitles, and it says an illustration from the time of Jacob's trouble. So, they could read that. Could we say they could read that chapter to go along with this chapter? Yeah. And thank you, Sister Harris, for bringing out, you know, that it's a mental thing because, yeah, during that time when they will be fleeing, it is a mental thing because we know Psalms 91, the promise that has been given to God's children, the faithful, 144,000. At this point, and we'll read this, they cannot be touched. So, it is that agony that they're going through. It is all mental. And I'm not taking away from that that that's not a great suffering. It is. But as far as the slaughtering, I think we read this morning about Tertullia, if I'm saying it right. We were reading in our 1858 as well how he said, the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church. At this time, when this is going on, it's no longer applicable as we'll be reading. So. Yeah. Okay. Amen. And one last thing. Oh, now I lost my thought. It probably didn't matter. Okay, that's fine. Yeah. This isn't it, but the angels, I'm always saying good morning to the whole, I've said that before, all heaven. I'm so appreciative to the angels if we knew, yeah, how much they've protected us and watched over us. Oh, thank you, Lord. He brought it back. When it says solitary places here, I know that we have people that will be, you know, in prison, exiled, enslaved, or in the mountains. That seems to be my preference. And this sounds like this would be this people, doesn't it? The most solitary places? We're talking about the people in the, I mean, we don't know. It doesn't say that. But you know what I'm saying? Because we know the 58 and I believe both, right? The 84. Or is it only the 84 talk about the four different places that God's, would we say the 144 would be in? And if you're in a solitary place, I mean, maybe we need to read the rest of the chapter and, yeah. Yeah. I'm not really understanding since there's what you're saying. But, yeah, the 84, it says dwelling in the most desolate and solitary places. So basically what this is, huh? Well, so I'm saying wouldn't this be the category of those that are in the mountains? Not the other categories, these people? Does that make sense? Because a solitary place, if they come together, they're not all congregating, right, in prison or as slaves or exiled. Right. Anyways, just a thought. Basically, yeah, what we are and what I understand what we've read is that those that are in desolate and solitary places are those that dwell together in these companies. But the people, those that have fled out of the cities and villages, she's saying, but then she says many will find refuge, okay, in the strongholds of the mountains like the Christians of Piedmont Valley. They will make the high places of the earth their sanctuary and will thank God for the munition of rock. So that's those people that escape. But then she goes on to say the other class. But many of all nations and all classes, high and low, and she goes on to say rich and poor, black and white, will be cast into the most unjust and cruel bondages. So I think these are the people that are left behind. You know, that's why, yes, we should, we should try to get out of the cities because just everything that's going on in the cities, you know, and just for character perfection, we should have been in the country a long time ago. But the reason why I like bringing this up is because I don't want to, God, we can find courage in this that God will still, He will still provide for those that are still in the cities and in the villages, even at that time, that will be cast because if you keep reading the 1884, page 445, paragraph 2, then you go on to see, read where He's saying, well, the Lord, He has not forgotten them. Will the Lord forget His people in this trying hour? And then the promises come. Did He forget Noah, Joseph, Lot, Elijah? You know, all this. So God will still take care of us no matter where we are if it is to glorify Him. And that's what it's all about. What will glorify and honor God. And for our best good, of course. Amen. One of the other thoughts, and I know we need to read, is it could be many are coming out of different denominations or whatever, even though we know others are moving in the country, they are understanding the Lord is leading, that maybe a lot of these people that, you know, many file out, and then these that see we have the truth inside with us, maybe many of them are in the cities and villages. So anyways, just a thought. Yeah. Thank you for that. Yeah. That's good. Okay. The next paragraph, we are in page 202, paragraph 1. Soon I saw the saints suffering great mental anguish. There we go. They seemed to be surrounded with the wicked inhabitants of earth. Every appearance was against them. Some began to fear that God had left them at last to perish by the hand of the wicked. But if their eyes could have been opened, they would have seen themselves surrounded by angels of God. Next came the multitude of the angry wicked. And next a mass of evil angels hurrying on the wicked to slay the saints. But as they would attempt to approach them, they would first have to pass this company of mighty holy angels, which was impossible. The angels of God were causing them to recede and also causing the evil angels who were pressing around them to fall back. It was an hour of terrible, fearful agony to the saints. They cried day and night unto God for deliverance. The outward appearance, there was no possibility of their escape. The wicked had already commenced their triumphing and were crying out, Why don't your God deliver you out of our hands? Why don't you go up and save your life? The saints heeded them not. They were wrestling with God like Jacob. The angels longed to deliver them, but they must wait a little longer and drink of the cup and be baptized with the baptism. The angels, faithful to their trust, kept their watch. The time had about come when God wished to manifest His mighty power and gloriously deliver them. God would not suffer His name to be reproached among the heathen. For His name's glory, for His name's glory, He would deliver every one of those who had patiently waited for Him and whose names were written in the book. Praise God. We have many promises there. We want our name written in that book, don't we? I think there's a song, Is My Name Written There? Yeah. Yeah, it's a nice. I used to hear someone sing it and I was trying to learn it. Yeah. I think of Jesus Christ. I think in Matthew 27 where when He was on the cross and what they were telling Him, to deliver yourself, come down. And also I think about Elisha, and I think that we'll read that on the next paragraph as well, but the taunting of Elisha, go up, thou bald head, and so on and so forth. And we saw how God dealt with those youth that were doing that. Yeah, Spirit of Prophecy says what they... Yeah, and wasn't it because of the parents? Spirit of Prophecy, yeah. Taught them that or something. Isn't that what the Spirit of Prophecy says? It does. They were irreverent to the preacher because of what they heard the parents say or something. Wow. Yeah, I have Sister Harris Psalms 91, 5 through 10. And let me see what... I think it's the Jewels, Malachi 3, 17. And they shall be mine, saith the Lord of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels, and I will spare them as a man spareth his own son that serveth him. Praise God. I was thinking of Jesus. Didn't the angels, they longed to deliver Jesus at different times, and they had to wait as well. I thought of that. And then for, I thought of Gideon. I don't have in the Bible where that's at, but remember, he said, open my servant's eyes. There's more with us than against us. Yeah. You know, and the armies, the chariots of Israel. I'm in a valley, so we have, yeah, there's some homes up on the hill. Well, one home I can see, but I think of that, the chariots of Israel, you know. The angels around us. What is it? The angels around about them that love him. Yeah. Yeah. Psalm 34 or something. And something you said with the last paragraph when you were reading all, you know, rich or poor, black or white, I think that would give encouragement for any race not to be fearful because we're all, you know, going to be, you know, God talks about all of us, right? Not just what you were talking about where the colored folks are, you know, fearful of moving to the south. But I think God includes all nations, you know. He doesn't say like some people like to hear, you know, people of color or different colors. He just says, you know, black or white, rich or poor. Yeah. We're all treated the same. Yeah. Amen. We're all equal. Yeah. We're all one nation, really. And that word is there. But many of all nations and all classes, those are the words that are found there. All nations and all classes. That covers us all. Yeah. I like that. I like that. Yeah. Okay. So we're on 203, the first paragraph below the middle. It says, I was pointed back to faithful Noah. The rain descended, the floods came, and Noah and his family had entered the ark and God shut them in. Noah had faithfully warned the inhabitants of the old world while they had mocked and derided him. As the waters descended upon the earth and as one after another were being drowned, this is so sad, they beheld that ark that they had made so much sport of, riding safely upon the waters, preserving the faithful Noah and his family. So I saw that the people of God who had warned the world of his coming wrath would be delivered. They had faithfully warned the inhabitants of the earth, and God would not suffer the wicked to destroy those who were expecting translation and who would not bow to the decree of the beast or receive his mark. I saw that if the wicked were permitted to slay the saint, Satan and all his evil hosts and all who hate God would be gratified. And oh, what a time of triumph it would be for his satanic majesty to have power and the last closing struggle over those who had so long waited to behold him whom they loved. Those who have mocked at the idea of the saints going up will witness the care of God for his people and their glorious deliverance. Praise God. Amen. I just think this is after the loud cry, right? The time of Jacob's trouble. The chapter before was that, well, the third message closes. Yeah, so the loud cry has been given. We're in this time of Jacob's trouble. Yeah. So then the next thing is, yeah, the deliverance of the saints. Thank you. We can see there in the 1884, well, what Sister Nurse just read, we can see there that, what does it say? I saw that the wicked, I saw that if the wicked were permitted to slay the saint, Satan and all his evil hosts and all who hate God would be glorified. So we see there that they are no longer what it was, susceptible to death and in the 1884 Great Controversy, page 451, paragraph 1, let me see if I can find it. It says, if the blood of Christ's faithful witnesses were shed at this time, and this is under the time of trouble as well, were shed at this time, it would not, like the blood of the martyrs, be as the seed sown to yield a harvest for God. Their fidelity would not be a testimony to convince others of the truth, for the abdurant heart has beaten back the waves of mercy until they return no more. If the righteous were now left to fall a prey to their enemies, it would be a triumph for the prince of darkness. But Christ has spoken, come, my people, enter thou into the chambers, and shut thy doors about thee, hide thyself, as it were, for a little moment, until the indignation be overpassed. That is so beautiful, but we see, the reason why I bring this out here, is because we see clearly there that there is no slaughter of God's people there at that time anymore. The people, God's people have been sealed. And I had, what is it, 2 Kings 2, 23 and 24. 23 and 24. And so the decree here that you read of, Sister Harris, and who would not bow to the decree of the beast and receive his mark. What do you think the decree and the mark? You know, would not bow to the decree of the beast. Is that speaking of the death decree? And then receive his mark? We know that the mark of the beast is the Sunday. You know, that is the mark. So, you know, I looked at him and I said, well, you know, the decree, is that what you understand? What do you understand that she is speaking of here? I think what you were just saying, the decree is we have to bow down, we have to not keep Sabbath, and we have to keep Sunday, and then to receive the mark is definitely Sunday worship is the mark of the beast. I think, you know, when we give in to Sunday worship. So the decree to worship or otherwise the death decree, you know, they're threatening us with the death decree. Yeah, because in the very first paragraph that you read, it talks about the writings as well. I saw a writing and copies of it scattered in different parts of the land, giving orders that unless the saints should yield their peculiar faith, give up the Sabbath and observe the first day, they were at liberty after such a time to put them to death. You know, we do know that the Sunday law as well, that could very well be what that is speaking of and not yet. You know, so we've got the decree of the Sunday law, we've got the decree of the death decree, and then we've got the mark there, Sunday observing. So anyway, I had not thought about that when you were reading there, but that's when I said I wonder what that one is speaking of. But I think, you know, the decree is like the writing, like you said. Yeah, and the mark is Sunday worship. You know, what do they want us to do? Defile the Sabbath and keep the Sunday. So yeah, the writing, that's good, what you brought out in 201, paragraph 1. Yeah, the writing. Okay. So our last paragraph is 204, paragraph 1. It says, as the saints left the cities and villages, they were pursued by the wicked. They raised their swords to kill the saints, but they broke and fell as powerless as a straw. Angels of God shielded the saints, and they cried day and night for deliverance. Their cry came up before God. Again, we see the promise of chapter 91 of Psalms, Psalms 91, how God has promised to protect his faithful. I like where it says shield. I like that word shield. This is shielded. Angels of God shielded the saints. But I used to have it memorized more. I think it's in the 84 about the shield. God's word is our shield. But also I think it says something like God will be our sun and shield. Yeah. But isn't that beautiful? If you think of a big shield, the armor, I think you were reading the armor today in our group. Yeah, a big, you know, shield in front of you. Yeah, how wonderful. If we can just give up self and sin and, you know, we can, you know, even though we won't know, we'll still go through Jacob's trouble searching our hearts. You know, Satan will try to bring everything back. It says if we have not confessed and forsaken, it will crush us, you know, the guilt or what we have not confessed. So we need to get everything right with God and we will not have the shield, the angel shielding us. Yeah. Yeah, we have a great work to do. Those are a special 144,000 people. You know, some people might, you know, fall asleep before that. But, yeah, it's not an easy thing to go, you know, to be these special people at the end. Well, I mean, it's easy when self is dead, right? I always used to say it's easy living when self is dead. Yeah. That's right. Yeah, we need to die to self first so that we can live for God. Amen. Amen. So, okay, Sister Harris, so I guess we will continue our next chapter, Deliverance of the Saints. Deliverance of the Saints. And this is chapter 37. I was trying to see. I'm sorry, Sister Harris, were you saying something? No, no, go ahead. No, Deliverance of the Saints. So we see God's people delivered here in our 84th-grade controversy. So, like Sister Harris mentioned earlier, we like to go back, back and forth with our 58 and our 84. So, okay, Sister Harris, if there is nothing else, let's go ahead. Do you want to go ahead and continue our reading? Yes, thank you. I was just going to say the 84th-grade controversy, God's people delivered, is chapter 35 and it starts on 452. 452 to 469. So they could read that as well. Okay. Yeah, 205, the Deliverance of the Saints. It was at midnight that God chose to deliver His people. As the wicked were mocking around them, suddenly the sun appeared, shining in its strength, and the moon stood still. The wicked beheld the scene with amazement, and signs and wonders followed in quick succession. Everything seemed turned out of its natural course, and the saints beheld the token of their deliverance with solemn joy. Wow, what a happy time that's going to be for them at this point, for us if we're still living. I can't help to think of this song my husband really likes to sing, and I kind of have trouble with it, because it says, it may be at morn, when the day is a-breaking, breaking, yet when Jesus may come and it goes through, it may be at morn, it may be at noon, and it may be at night. Well, we know, I guess, because we know this truth, we know it's at midnight. Yeah, and maybe whoever wrote the song didn't know it is a beautiful song, and I have to love singing that one, but we can change the words, right, Sister Lisbeth? We do a lot. Yeah, to get it to have the correct doctrine, yeah. And, you know, we just had a full moon, I know you were on a, yeah, the moon is just so glorious. Lately, I don't know from the fires in Canada, but won't it be something to have the sun appear at midnight, and the moon standing still? We know you can, like in the morning I can see the moon, you know, but this will be the opposite. You can see it faintly sometimes, to see the moon and the sun at the same time, and the sun is shining full strength, like at noonday. Won't that be something, yeah, to see? Yeah. Beautiful. A sight to see. Amen, by God's grace. Yes. Okay, it says, the streams ceased to flow, dark heavy clouds came up and clashed against each other, but there was one clear place of subtle glory. From whence came the voice of God, like many waters which shook the heavens and the earth, there was a mighty earthquake, the graves were shaken open, and those who had died in faith under the third angel's message, keeping the Sabbath, came forth from their dusty beds, glorified to hear the covenant of peace that God was to make with those who had kept his law. Praise God. Amen. So he would, the voice of God, and as we continue the next paragraph, we see that the voice of God causes a mighty earthquake, and the heating, all the commotion that is going on, is what causes these graves to open. Those that went to sleep keeping the third angel's message, they are resurrected. We know it as the partial resurrection. The partial resurrection. Yeah. Blessing for those we know. I was just saying amen. What a blessing for those we know that might come through at that time. God honors them, doesn't he? That earlier resurrection and the rest. Yeah, that's beautiful. I have a little note here, Sister Liz, that there's a good little track. I don't know if Silent Messengers probably does publish that. It's Noah's time and ours. I believe James White wrote that, and I've got page four. I'm sorry I didn't check that, but it's not a very big little track. If people would want that, it might be a blessing. Yeah, Noah's time and ours. Page four. Yeah, I have page four on there. Okay. Okay. So 205, we're on paragraph three. The sky opened and shut and was in commotion. The mountains shook like a reed in the wind and cast out ragged rocks all around. The seed boiled like a pot and cast out stones upon the land. And as God spake the day and hour of Jesus' coming. Isn't that something he's going to give us? We know I think it takes seven days to get here to heaven and back and forth. But the day and the hour, as God spake the day and hour of Jesus' coming and delivered the everlasting covenant to his people, he spake one sentence and then paused while the words were rolling through the earth. The Israel of God stood. Can you imagine this? They stood with their eyes fixed upwards, listening to the words as they came from the mouth of Jehovah and rolled through the earth like peals of loudest thunder. It was awfully solemn. At the end of every sentence, the saints shouted glory, hallelujah. The continents were lighted up with the glory of God and they shone with the glory as did Moses' face when he came down from Sinai. The wicked could not look on them for the glory. And when the never-ending blessing was pronounced on those who had honored God in keeping his Sabbath holy, there was a mighty shout of victory over the beast and over his image. Wow, what rejoicing that will be. I believe it will be all over and that we will see there. Yeah, not soon enough, Sister Harris, but we still have a work to do. I know we do. I know he's waiting on the remnants. What did Jesus say? My blood, my blood. The remnant is not all steel. A lot of people think we're waiting for all the other people out there and the gospel hasn't went to the world, which could be, but we know it's his people. God is waiting on us to reflect his image. It's perfectly reproduced. Yeah, that will come. Okay, it says, 206, paragraph 1, Ben commenced the jubilee when the land shook rest. I saw the pious slave rise in triumph and victory and shake off the chain that bound him while his wicked master was in confusion and knew not what to do for the wicked could not understand the words of the voice of God. Soon appeared a great white cloud. On it sat the Son of Man. You know, Brother Al, Sister Harris, he does amazingly well with the jubilee. I mean, we know, I mean, I know what the jubilee is just on the surface, but he does an amazing study, kind of like what Brother Bates used to give us on the jubilee, which I never really heard him out, but Brother Al was sharing with me, and I'm like, wow, that is so, that's so interesting. Very important, really, the jubilee. So this is what it talks about here. And so we talked about the pious, the pious slaves as well, and they understood, but their masters did not. As we know that when God has spoken before, his people hear it, the others, the wicked will hear a sound, but they make no, they cannot understand what is being said. Kind of like I think of Paul, right? When he saw and he heard the voice, the men that were with him, they heard something, but they didn't hear, how was it, Sister Harris, correct me? But I know that they did not partake of what Paul did when he was struck with the light in the voice when he was going on his way to Damascus, remember? Yeah, I kind of forget that. My mind was going to the baptism, remember, at Jesus' baptism. I believe some of them understood, this is my father's son in whom I am well, but please, others did not hear. So I forget about Paul, but I think you're right. I think he heard Jesus say, why are you picking me in the prick or whatever he said. Yeah, or Saul, Saul, why art thou persecuted me or something like that. Yeah, we read it in this little book, but anyway, yeah, that's... So when God speaks, his faithful ones will hear, that's basically what we're saying, and the wicked will not understand it. I was going to say, Sister Elizabeth, on the Jubilee, you know, the Catholic faith, I don't know if others have used that, you know, hasn't the Pope, this Pope and maybe the last, has called a Jubilee. Have you heard of anything like that? No. Yeah, and so they, you know, there's always a counterfeit, and I wish I could remember the details, but, you know, so it's a false, you know, calling a Jubilee of peace or, you know, everything is restored or back, and I don't even know if it came to fruition, what he did, but it was very interesting. Yeah, some years ago or maybe more recent, because I don't hear and keep up with all this, but I thought, oh, isn't that interesting. Yeah, the Pope called the year of the Jubilee or something. Oh, that's interesting. Yeah, you'll have to look it up. Yeah, maybe it's on the Internet or something. Yeah, I think this Pope Francis, yeah, and if not the other one as well before. Yeah, so I kind of forget, but, yeah, I mean, that's a wonderful time when all the land was given back to the original owners. Wouldn't that be wonderful? Your family, wherever it was, I mean, it could go back to, for me, even Norway or Switzerland, where my grandparents come from, you know, and all debts were paid, and what a wonderful thing, God's economy, you know, the Hebrew, yeah, His system was such a beautiful system for no poverty, no rich people over the poor people. Yeah, that's what that Jubilee, every 50 years, I think, yeah, the original, they got to go back. So, yeah, I think that's, isn't that Leviticus 25, possibly, if I remember correctly? Yes. People could read that. Yeah, it talks about the Jubilee. So, well, Sister Harris, we have a few more minutes. We're almost at the top of the hour. So I guess let us go ahead, and did you have any other comments, Sister Harris? I didn't mean to cut you off. I'm sorry. No, you didn't cut me off. No, I think I'm good. Thank you. Okay. Did you say we had a few minutes or no? Yeah, well, we have like a minute or two. So, yeah, did you have something? Go ahead. Well, I was going to say I had a marking in my other book on the voice of God from the first page when we heard the second paragraph on 205. I don't know if you want me to give those references real quick. Otherwise, I could next time, or I don't have to. Yeah, no, go ahead. I don't know where I got, well, page 205, the second paragraph, talks about when came the voice of God. Yeah. And, actually, I think Sister Cox gave me these. But it says Joel 3.16. I'm not going to read them. I'll just give you the references for the voice of God. Joel 3.16. Revelation 16.7. Revelation 16.7. Oh, I'm sorry, 17. 16.17. Revelation. Okay. Isaiah 13.13. Isaiah 13.13. Hebrews 12.26. Hebrews 12.26. Matthew 17.5 and 6. Matthew 17.5 and 6. I've got two left. 2 Peter 1.18. 2 Peter 1.18. Last one is Haggai 2.6 and 21. Haggai 2.6 and 21. Yeah, thank you. Sister Cox gave you all those? Wow. Well, I've got her name there, so maybe she did. Yeah, blessed sister of ours. Yeah, praise God. Wow. So, okay, let us go ahead and mark our books, and I'm trying to see where we left off. Okay, we left off in page 206. The very last paragraph is where we will pick up again. So we have reached the top of the hour, and we want to thank our radio family for joining Sister Harris and I once again in restoring the earlier messages, and we want to invite and encourage those that would like a book, need a book. We all need these books. We really do. You could call Silent Messengers Publications at 832-975-3786 or visit the website at silentmessengerspublications.com, and both words, again, are plural. So let us go ahead and kneel and close with prayer. If you cannot, let us go ahead and bow our heads. Father in Heaven, we are so grateful, Lord, for the opportunity that we have to be able to come together and continue the reading of this precious book. 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We need the faith of Jesus to prepare us and to keep us through the times that are coming upon Thy children. So help us be faithful, Lord. Help us cling to Thee. Help us see our great need of Thee. Help us walk in the light that Thou has graciously given to us, and help us proclaim these messages that are of utmost importance to a lost world out there and to these fallen churches, Lord. So once again, we thank Thee for being with us and for giving us this great opportunity to share what Thou has given to us. So we ask and we pray these things in Jesus' name and for His sake. Amen. ♪♪