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Studying Three Cosmic Messages in the SSnet.org series Lesson 7, may the Holy Spirit be the speaker to your heart.

The Topic today is: "Gospel, Judgment and Creation and also Thomas Brightman of 1615 for Morning Manna of the Sabbath School Lesson Three Cosmic Messages”.

The Opening Hymn will be 229 "Spirit of the Living God"

The Sabbath School Quarterly, downloadable from SSnet.org in the Teacher's Edition is on page 60.

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--- https://absg.adventist.org/pdf.php?file=2023:2Q:SE:PDFs:EAQ223_07.pdf

---What Revelation 14 teaches us are three words to remember: Gospel, Judgment, Creation.

---We need to know about two men that were in opposition to each other. Almost fifty years or a century apart.

---Born in 1562 Thomas Brightman can almost be called a Reformer. Right? In 1607 he died and in 1615 they published his commentary on Revelation.

---Below is the source for verification link.

---Brightman thought the way William Miller thought and the way Adventists are thinking. That is how he read his Bible.

---Problem? He lived two hundred years before the end of the 2300 years so he missed some great historical events.

---But his recipe was correct. The ingredients were all correct.

---The one who rejected him should be mentioned now. It is Henry Hammond, the handsome young good preacher from Oxford in 1652. Also wrote Paraphrases and Annotations on Revelation. But, he rejected the ideas of Thomas Brightman.

---Why is he rejecting Brightman? Because Brightman found the papacy to be the Antichrist of Revelation 13 and elsewhere in Revelation.

---He did not like it. Hugo Grotius of Amsterdam also were reaching out to the papacy and was called by the conservative Calvinists in Holland a papist. So Hammond liked Grotius and defended him and also became a so-called papist that suppressed the ID of the papacy in Revelation 13.

---Does it ring a bell at Loma Linda University recently?

---They called it the Eirene-syndrome. “Peace with the enemy- syndrome”. Even if the enemy is the devil or the Antichrist.

---Welcome to Hammond, Grotius and ….some at Loma Linda University. Or Adventist Today. Right?

---They felt that the Reformers were too outspoken about differences with the papacy and that maybe, for the sake of peace and tranquility, one should tone down the rhetoric. “It can be dangerous” a Loma Linda University professor wrote to me in an e-mail two years ago.

---So there was Brightman in the 1615 Revelation commentary.

---He came to Revelation 14. He made a long list of the church fathers like Basil and Augustine and others and said that although they wrote many books for the church they are not pure.

---Pure is the Waldensis and Albigensis for him.

---Pure is John Wycliffe and John Huss. Brightman thinks very similar to Great Controversy by Ellen White.

---Was Wycliffe not called the “Morning Star” of the Reformation in Great Controversy?

---What about Thomas Aquinas and Augustine or Basil? Not important says Brightman in 1615 and Ellen White in 1898. Very important says John Calvin, Henry Hammond and Hugo Grotius. And of course the Synod of Dortrecht in 1618 with the Heidelberg Catechism of Calvinism.

---Brightman thought that the first angel of Revelation 14 is John Wycliff. The Second Angel was John Huss and the third one was Martin Luther.

It is not a bad guess for someone who lived two hundred years away from the full truth in 1844. Right? If he lived in the days of William Miller…he was William Miller II. I think. He has his fundamentals correct.

---So Ecumenism has the Eirene-syndrome as ingredient in its recipe.

---Is anyone in your church playing overtures of erasing vicarius filii dei from Revelation 13 like A. Rodriquez and his friends? It is a big problem. Right?

---Brightman felt that the gospel was salvation by Christ only and that this must be preached at the end time to the whole world and to the whore or papacy who’s eyes is supposed to open and listen to the heavenly truth (Brightman, 1615 page 396).