A question in the minds of many is why are there so many denominations? There is one Bible and one true God, but why then are so many churches all claiming to have the truth and be the true church? God certainly did not intend for there to be the one thousand plus Christian denominations that exist in our world for He said, “There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called in one hope of your calling; one Lord, one faith, one baptism; one God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.” (Ephesians 4:4-6). God’s Word tells us that there is one true body and one true faith, but why then are there so many conflicting creeds? The four horsemen of the apocalypse reveal the answer to this very question.

Revelation 5:1-7 And I saw in the right hand of Him who sat on the throne a scroll written inside and on the back, sealed with seven seals. Then I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice, “Who is worthy to open the scroll and to loose its seals?” And no one in heaven or on the earth or under the earth was able to open the scroll, or to look at it. So I wept much, because no one was found worthy to open and read the scroll, or to look at it. But one of the elders said to me, “Do not weep. Behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has prevailed to open the scroll and to loose its seven seals.” And I looked, and behold in the midst of the throne and of the four living creatures, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as though it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent out into all the earth. Then He came and took the scroll out of the right hand of Him who sat on the throne.

Daniel was a statesman in the courts of Babylon and thus his prophecies deal specifically with the affairs of the nations and states of the world. While John was a churchman and therefore his revelations deal with how the events of the world affect God’s people. This can be readily seen all throughout the book of Revelation and although there are some details of the clash of arms and nations, the theme from the beginning to the end is the history of God’s true people. The seals most definitely fit into this category. In the hand of the Father was a scroll sealed with seven seals, each revealing the triumphs and dangers of His people here on this earth. What a comforting thought that the Father holds the fate of His people safely in His hand. None in heaven, in earth or under the earth are able to pry into the fates of His people. One and One alone can open to His people what the future holds.

Just as each subsequent vision of Daniel further elaborated and gave more details on the preceding one, so it is in Revelation. In Revelation 2 and 3 is seen a panoramic view of seven epochs in the history of the Christian church beginning at its inception and continuing through its ultimate triumph when Jesus comes again. So in the seven seals are described the progression of Christianity, what has happened, why it has happened and how we are to relate to it. Through the seals Christ is unrolling the prophetic scroll revealing to His people what is about to happen and how they can be prepared for the events to follow.

The White, Conquering Horse

Revelation 6:1, 2 Now I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals; and I heard one of the four living creatures saying with a voice like thunder, “Come and see.” And I looked, and behold, a white horse. He who sat on it had a bow; and a crown was given to him, and he went out conquering and to conquer.

Psalm 51:7 Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.

When the Lamb of God, our Savior, broke the first of the seals a white horse is seen gallantly galloping to the entire world. The rider holds a bow in his hand and wears a crown upon his head. What does this reveal to us about the history of Christianity? The seals depict the Christianity from the beginning to the final sealing of God’s faithful people. What an apt picture of the early apostolic church—a church that was white and pure galloping forth to conquer the world. Their doctrines remained pure, while they worked incessantly to bring the good news that they had found to all within their reach.

Colossians 1:23 If indeed you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and are not moved away from the hope of the gospel which you heard, which was preached to every creature under heaven, of which I, Paul, became a minister.

Revelation 2:3 And you have persevered and have patience, and have labored for My name’s sake and have not become weary.

Acts 1:8 But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.

While the apostles were alive, the church retained its purity as a spotless virgin to be presented to Christ. With true missionary zeal they encompassed the entire world with the gospel of a crucified and risen Savior. In no time since has the gospel met with such triumph as when the converts rode forth conquering paganism and planting the banner of Christianity in its midst. Paul said in about AD 62 that the gospel had gone to every creature. What a feat for a small band of uneducated Christians! With none of the technological advances that we have today, God gave them the power to conquer the world with the gospel. The scene was soon to change, though. The faithful witnesses stirred the ire of the enemy, and he did not long allow his kingdom to be invaded.

The Red, Persecuted Horse

Revelation 6:3, 4 When He opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature saying, “Come and see.” Another horse, fiery red, went out. And it was granted to the one who sat on it to take peace from the earth, and that people should kill one another; and there was given to him a great sword.

At the opening of the second seal, the noble picture of the pure conquering horseman fades, and out bursts a fiery red horse, which takes away the peace from the earth. The period of the first apocalyptic horseman lasted from AD 31 to about AD 100, when the last of the apostles was laid in the grave. The new horseman opens a new and drastically different era for the church. The triumphs of the gospel had extended to the ends of the earth. From Galatia, where Paul had labored, missionaries were spread all throughout Europe—from the British Isles to Gaul. The apostles themselves had born witness for the truth in Rome itself. Thomas had pressed the message of a crucified and risen Savior to India and eastward into China. The Ethiopian eunuch had taken the gospel to his countrymen and from Ethiopia it spread throughout Africa. The gospel had gone to all the world, but the wrath of the dragon was stirred, and the result was what always accompanies pure Christianity.

Nahum 2:3 The shields of his mighty men are made red, the valiant men are in scarlet. The chariots come with flaming torches in the day of his preparation, and the spears are brandished.

Jeremiah 46:10 For this is the day of the Lord God of hosts, a day of vengeance, that He may avenge Himself on His adversaries. The sword shall devour; it shall be satiated and made drunk with their blood; for the Lord God of hosts has a sacrifice in the north country by the River Euphrates.

Matthew 10:34-35 Do not think that I came to bring peace on earth. I did not come to bring peace but a sword. For I have come to “set a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law”; and “a man’s enemies will be those of his own household.”

II Timothy 3:12 Yes, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution.

John 16:33 These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.

With the pure faith triumphing around the world, persecution broke out in full force. It was not easy to be a Christian during that time. It was a crime that could be punishable by death. There were no halfhearted professors when the sword of persecution was unsheathed. Those who loved the Lord Jesus more than life itself were the only ones willing to make a stand. Persecution is the predominant picture of the second seal. A time when the sword was unsheathed against God’s true people—a time when friends and relatives turned informants to the power of Rome. Thousands were delivered to the Romans to be torn apart by wild beasts and allowed to rot in the dungeons.

Revelation 12:11 And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives to the death.

Revelation 2:10 Do not fear any of those things which you are about to suffer. Indeed, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested, and you will have tribulation ten days. Be faithful until death, and I will give you the crown of life.

We need the faith of these faithful men and women today. Men, women and children were willing to give their lives for the gospel. They loved the Lord so much, that to lay down their life for their Lord was a light affliction to endure. There are many today that when mocked or ridiculed, are ready to give up their faith, but that is not the faith the Lord is looking for. He is looking for those who will stand firm during this time of terrible test. Some may say, “I cannot keep the Sabbath now because of my job, spouse, or children.” What would the Christians of that time period think of these whimsical excuses? Others may say, “I cannot follow the Lord because I am bound by the vice of tobacco or alcohol.” Imagine the martyrs refusing to follow the Lord just because of a habit that would seem like nothing in comparison with laying down their lives for the gospel. Do you want that faith? The Lord reveals history for us to learn from their triumphs and failures. Are we learning the lesson taught that no sacrifice should be counted too dear for our Lord who gave up everything for us?

The Black, Apostate Horse

Revelation 6:5, 6 When He opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, “Come and see.” So I looked, and behold, a black horse, and he who sat on it had a pair of scales in his hand. And I heard a voice in the midst of the four living creatures saying, “A quart of wheat for a denarius, and three quarts of barley for a denarius; and do not harm the oil and the wine.”

Acts 26:18 To open their eyes in order to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in Me.

Another scene more fearful and dreadful than the last is now unsealed. The colors had gone from white to red and now to black. During the terrible period of persecution that the church endured, something else even more dangerous happened. Seeing the persecution to which the believers were subjected, some of the leaders began to compromise their faith to be more like the pagans around them. They presented many pleasing theories as to why this was necessary. If they lowered the standard a little, then more pagans would be converted to Christianity. They argued that God was not so particular that he would condemn them for increased efficiency in soulwinning, but the terrible results began to be seen as the pure church lost is purity and inherited the black robes of apostasy.

The historians tell how the banner of the true faith was let down and compromise crept into the church. “We are told by Eusebius that Constantine, in order to recommend the new religion to the heathen, transferred into it the outward ornaments to which they had been accustomed in their own.” Development of Christian Doctrine, page 372. “His (Constantine’s) coins bore on the one side the letters of the name of Christ; on the other the figure of the sun-god… as if he could not dare to relinquish the patronage of the bright luminary.” History of the Eastern Church, page 184, Arthur P. Stanley.

Ezekiel 22:26 Her priests have violated My law and profaned My holy things; they have not distinguished between the holy and unholy, nor have they made known the difference between the unclean and the clean; and they have hidden their eyes from My Sabbaths, so that I am profaned among them.

With the supposed conversion of Constantine the church continued to decline as more and more pagans entered the church without changing their ways. What were some of the traces of paganism that entered the church during this dark period? One was the same thing that the devil had succeeding in getting ancient Israel to forget, God’s holy Sabbath day. When paganism crept into Israel of old, it always led to a despising of God’s Sabbath day and so it did during the era of the black horse. “The retention of the old Pagan name of ‘Dies Solis’ or Sunday… is, in great measure, owing to the union of Pagan and Christian sentiment with which the first day of the week was recommended by Constantine to his subjects, Pagan and Christians alike, as the ‘Venerable Day of the Sun.’” History of the Eastern Church, page 184, Arthur P. Stanley. God has said, “Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy” (Exodus 20:8), but in this dark period as the professed church descended deeper and deeper into apostasy it was to a large degree forgotten.

Amos 8:11, 12 “Behold, the days are coming,” says the Lord God, “That I will send a famine on the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the Lord. They shall wander from sea to sea, and from north to east; they shall run to and fro, seeking the word of the Lord, but shall not find it.

Revelation 22:17 And the Spirit and the bride say, “Come!” And let him who hears say, “Come!” And let him who thirsts come. Whoever desires, let him take the water of life freely.

The famine that this rider proclaimed was not an ordinary famine. This was a famine for hearing the Word of the Lord. It began to be harder and harder to find a place where the truth of God was proclaimed. As the enactments became more and more oppressive, the Word of God itself was outlawed. Like Sabbath-keeping, reading the Word of God slowly became a crime with the worst consequences. There were two things that were not to be hurt during this time, though—the oil and the wine. Oil, a representation of the Holy Spirit (Zechariah 4:6, 12), could not be withheld from the people. God’s Word could be put upon the index of forbidden books, but the Holy Spirit could never be outlawed. The wine, a symbol of Christ’s forgiving blood (Matthew 26:27-29), was still available to all. The sin pardoning blood of our Savior cannot be bought or sold.

The Pale, Deathlike Horse

Revelation 6:7, 8 When He opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature say, “Come and see.” So I looked, and behold, a pale horse. And the name of him who sat on it was Death, and Hades followed with him. And power was given to them over a fourth of the earth, to kill with sword, with hunger, with death, and by the beasts of the earth.

History becomes darker still, as Christianity descends from the black apostate horse, to the pale spiritual death of the next era. Gone were the days of apostolic purity. The bloodstained banner of the martyrs was no longer flying. The compromising apostasy of the fourth and fifth centuries had wrecked havoc upon the church until spirituality had died. During this time, paganism had inundated the church. No longer could it be called creeping compromise; it was now the stupor of death. Images were worshipped; the Sabbath was trampled upon; penances and indulgences were the norm; saints were called upon instead of the God of heaven; tradition took the place of God’s Word; the hierarchical organization required absolute obedience. The pale of death had settled down over Christianity, stemming from the “small” compromises of earlier centuries. We cannot begin to imagine the dangers and evils of compromise. One step may not seem to lead far from the narrow way today, but each step makes it easier for the next, until we are in absolute darkness. Let us remember how paganism was baptized in the early church eras, and not follow in the same path of death by compromise. “The new Christians were, as far as thinking and habits went, the same old pagans… Their surge into the churches did not wipe out paganism. On the contrary, hordes of baptized pagans, meant that paganism had diluted the moral energies of organized Christianity to the point of impotence.” Centuries of Christianity: A Concise History, page 58. Although the night looked black, a new day was about to dawn upon the waiting church.

The Martyrs

Revelation 6:9-11 When He opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain for the word of God and for the testimony which they held. And they cried with a loud voice, saying, “How long, O Lord, holy and true, until You judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?” Then a white robe was given to each of them; and it was said to them that they should rest a little while longer, until both the number of their fellow servants and their brethren, who would be killed as they were, was completed.

When the fifth seal is opened no more horsemen are seen. New symbolism is now used—the four horsemen of the Apocalypse have come and gone. The great Protestant Reformation is liberating God’s people from the darkness of superstition into which they had sunken, but there were many martyrs during this time. Like Abel’s blood, the blood of the martyrs cries out for vengeance. (Genesis 4:10) This is obviously not a literal occurrence for it is grouped with the symbolic seven seals, but the testimony that the martyrs have born speaks in their behalf. The martyrs themselves are sleeping in the grave awaiting the trumpet call of their Lord.

An understanding of the four horsemen and the gross darkness of error that covered the world is the key to understanding why there are so many denominations. One error after another had been imbibed by the apostate church of the dark ages. As the apostle Paul had said, “Let no one deceive you by any means; for that Day will not come unless the falling away comes first,” (II Thessalonians 2:3) [1138]. The falling away from truth began after the last of the apostles were laid away in the grave. Even during the era of persecution wolves began to sneak into the flock, but during the time of compromising apostasy, one truth after another was given up until spiritual death reigned throughout the world. Because of the wine of Babylon of which all nations had drunk, God could not bring forth all of His truth at once. Since such deep blackness covered the world, only gradually could the light of truth begin to shine, and this light has shown brighter and brighter even to the light of full day. Our world has emerged from the Dark Ages and now the light of truth is shining to all who will hear.

Proverbs 4:18 But the path of the just is like the shining sun, that shines ever brighter unto the perfect day.

The light of truth began to shine when God used certain men to teach the ever advancing truth. There were the Waldenses who for centuries taught that we must follow the Word of God and not that of popes, bishops and other men. What a great work these Waldenses did traveling all over Europe and teaching people from the Word of God. We still owe a great debt to the Waldenses, for it was these great men that copied the Scriptures and kept them alive for us today. They believed in the Bible and the Bible alone.

Then there was John Huss. What a man of faith was he! He was burned at the stake because of the truths that he taught. How I wish that the faith of Huss was alive and well today. Huss taught that we must render obedience to God and not man made institutions. He believed that his duty was to God and not to the great hierarchy that claimed to be the only true church. Huss said, “Obedience to God is my motto.”

Then came the hammer sounds upon the door of the Wittenburg cathedral. God raised a simple man to confound the wise and put to shame the mighty. Martin Luther had no intentions of toppling the hierarchy of the Catholic Church, but God had called him to a mission. Luther taught the great truth of justification by faith alone. He knew that no amount of good works could expiate a man’s sin and proclaimed it loud and clear. God used Martin Luther to begin that path of ever increasing light for His people.

After Luther was John Calvin. Calvin emphasized the importance of Christian growth, the need to study our Bibles, to pray and to allow God to sanctify us. God had a work for Calvin to do, and he did it. God could not reveal all the truth to any one man for it may blind their spiritual eyes, or the people may be led to look to their leader instead of to God. God gradually allowed the light of truth to shine in different ways, through different people in different parts of the world. The falling away of the dense spiritual darkness did not happen overnight. It took four, five, six hundred years for the falling away from the truth of God’s Word, and it took several hundred years for God to restore the light of truth to His people, as well.

There is a problem, though. Although God used these great men of faith and we are indebted to each of them for some aspect of the truth that we now know, many of their followers went no further. Those who knew that God had led Huss, said if it was good enough for Huss, it is good enough for me. When advanced light came across their path they refused to follow further. So it was with the Lutherans. Because God had revealed precious light of truth through Luther, they went no further than where God had led Luther. When Calvin’s followers were faced with advanced light, they stayed firmly by what Calvin taught and became Presbyterians, and so on it goes down the list. The Baptists uncovered the important truth that Biblical baptism is by immersion, but God still had more light to come. He was not finished leading them out of the era of the pale, death-like horse. God used John and Charles Wesley in a mighty way to teach the importance of holy living, but when God led further and did not want the Methodists to stop where Wesley had stood. God raised up another reformer by the name of Miller. Miller taught that Jesus was coming again very soon. Again the message went to the world, but the majority of Christians refused to go further than their favorite leader had gone, or than what their parents and grandparents believed. A few people from all denominations joined in heralding that Jesus was soon to return. Young and old, learned and ignorant proclaimed the glad message. God even gave great signs in the sun, moon and stars when this great message was going forward.

The Great Signs

Revelation 6:12, 13 I looked when He opened the sixth seal, and behold, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became like blood. And the stars of heaven fell to the earth, as a fig tree drops its late figs when it is shaken by a mighty wind.

As the light of truth was nearly coming to the knowledge of a perfect day, an impetus was given to this judgment hour message. With the opening of the sixth seal, signs began to foretell, that Jesus’ coming was near. The last days were hastening on and the light of truth was increasing to a brighter luminance than it had shone for centuries.

The Sun was to become black, the Moon was to turn to blood, and the stars were to fall from heaven. May 19, 1780 began as any normal day, but about noon a mysterious darkness swept over the land that none could explain even to this day. The birds sang their evening songs and roosted. The cattle lowed and returned for the nightly routine, but it was still mid-day. Later that night when the moon should have come out shining in its full strength, it was pitch black. One witness said, “I could not help conceiving at the time, that if every luminous body in the universe had been shrouded in impenetrable shades, or struck out of existence, the darkness could not have been more complete.”—Letter by Dr. Samuel Tenney, of Exeter, New Hampshire, December, 1785 (in Massachusetts Historical Society Collections, 1792, 1st series, vol. 1, p. 97.) Then, about midnight the moon appeared, but not in its normal color, it was as blood. The inhabitants thought that judgment day had come, but it was simply God’s revelation that the last days were upon them and the light of perfect day was about to dawn. On November 13, 1833 a meteor shower of such magnitude lit the sky that it has never yet been equaled. “The whole firmament, over all the United States, being then, for hours, in fiery commotion!… Never did rain fall much thicker than the meteors fell toward the earth; east, west, north, and south, it was the same. In a word, the whole heavens seemed in motion.” R.M. Devens, American Progress; of The Great Events of the Greatest Century, ch. 28, pars. 1-5. Those who knew the prophecy saw that the Word of God was being fulfilled and that the final generation was soon to take the scene. Although the light of truth had been growing brighter and stronger through each year, even the Advent band had more light to receive, for the crowning act of the seven seals was about to take place.

The Seal of the Living God

Revelation 7:1-3 After these things I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow on the earth, on the sea, or on any tree. Then 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 granted to harm the earth and the sea, saying, “Do not harm the earth, the sea, or the trees till we have sealed the servants of our God on their foreheads.”

John 3:33, 34, KJV He that hath received his testimony hath set to his seal that God is true. For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him.

Acts 5:32 And we are His witnesses to these things, and so also is the Holy Spirit whom God has given to those who obey Him.

John 14:15-17 If you love Me, keep My commandments. And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever—the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you know Him, for He dwells with you and will be in you.

In the midst of the seals is seen the sealing of God’s people. Those who receive the seal of the Living God are those who like Jesus have received fully of His Spirit. Those who are sealed must not receive the Holy Spirit by measure. They must receive fully of God’s Spirit. If they are going to receive fully of God’s Spirit, they must have all of the light of increasing day. Although Martin Luther was a great man, he did not believe in religious liberty nor baptism by immersion. Although Calvin did a good work, there were many aspects of his theology that do not bear the Biblical test, and so it was with all the reformers. God used them mightily, but there was more light that He longed to reveal. To the final generation that witnesses the signs of the sixth seal was to emerge a movement that would receive the seal of the Living God. In order to receive the seal of the Living God, it was necessary for them to receive fully of God’s Spirit and be walking in the light of the perfect day. What does the Bible predict would be the cause of reformation in the last days, that would be the final sealing of God’s people in the light of present truth?

Isaiah 58:12, 13 Those from among you shall build the old waste places; you shall raise up the foundations of many generations; and you shall be called the Repairer of the Breach, the Restorer of Streets to Dwell In. If you turn away your foot from the Sabbath, from doing your pleasure on My holy day, and call the Sabbath a delight, the holy day of the Lord honorable, and shall honor Him, not doing your own ways, nor finding your own pleasure, nor speaking your own words,

Ezekiel 20:12, 20 Moreover I also gave them My Sabbaths, to be a sign between them and Me, that they might know that I am the Lord who sanctifies them… Hallow My Sabbaths, and they will be a sign between Me and you, that you may know that I am the Lord your God.

The reformation, that God’s Word had predicted would be the repairer of the breach, was a reformation in Sabbathkeeping. As Sabbathkeeping was one of the first truths to be discarded by the compromising leaders of the early centuries, so it was to be one of the last reformations to take place before Jesus comes. Not only was it the predicted reformation that would lead into the ever-increasing light of a perfect day, it is also the seal of the Living God. It is the symbolic sign that marks them as God’s people. It is the seal that His people receive that prepares them to stand in the last great day. As those who receive the seal of the Living God will receive fully of God’s Spirit, God’s Spirit is only given in the fullest sense to those who “obey Him.” The light of truth as it shines brighter and brighter is shining upon the forgotten fourth commandment. This is the final step to be made in the ever-increasing light of perfect day. It is the sealing message that will prepare God’s people for the trying times ahead.

Why are there so many denominations? Because people refuse to follow the light of truth as it shines brighter and brighter. They stand where their great-grandparents stood, but our great-grandparents and predecessors were not living in the time when God’s sealing message was going forward. They were not living in the time when the light of perfect day was shining. God knows their hearts and will judge them accordingly, but He will also judge us accordingly. He is giving us great light and asking us to take our stand upon present truth. Will you heed His call? God used the great men of faith such as Luther, Huss, Calvin, Wesley, Miller and others, but they were not living on borrowed time. We are. God wants to seal His people for time and eternity, but He can only do it if you are willing to walk in the light that God allows to shine on your pathway. Will you walk in that light?

Who Shall be Able to Stand?

Revelation 6:14-17 Then the sky receded as a scroll when it is rolled up, and every mountain and island was moved out of its place. And the kings of the earth, the great men, the rich men, the commanders, the mighty men, every slave and every free man, hid themselves in the caves and in the rocks of the mountains, and said to the mountains and rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of Him who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb! For the great day of His wrath has come, and who is able to stand?”

I John 3:2, 3 Beloved, now we are children of God; and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when He is revealed, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is. And everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself, just as He is pure.

As an interjection in the sixth seal is shown the great day when the Lord Jesus will be revealed from heaven with flaming fire. John saw the terror of the wicked as they realized that they were without a shelter because they had refused to follow the light that God allowed to shine on their pathway. They cry in terror, “Who shall be able to stand?” It will only be those who, as John wrote in his epistle, “purifies himself”. If we are going to stand before a pure God, we must likewise be pure. We can only be pure as we accept the merits of our Savior and choose to follow Him wherever He leads us. We can only be pure as we forsake all sin and choose to live for Jesus. Have you made that choice? Are you walking in the light as He is in the light? Will you be among those who are walking as Jesus walked so that when He comes, you can meet Him with joy? Are you obeying all of God’s Law including His holy Sabbath day that you may be sealed with the seal of the Living God? We are living in the time when the four angels are holding back the winds of the earth while other angels are sealing the servants of God. (Revelation 7:1, 3) History is soon to cease, are you sealed for time and eternity?