Restoring the Biblical Landmarks

Okay. Today, we're gonna go over kind of a different format sermon than what I normally do. I put this one together a long time ago as as part of an an evangelist in series at an at another church we were at in Illinois. And my my goal with this one today is things are getting crazy in the world. Are they not?

Deceptions abound, lot of different movements, lot of different things. And my goal is to encourage us in these end times to remain faithful because things are about to get a 100 times worse. So let's pray. Dear heavenly father, we thank you for being with us this morning. We ask for the presence of the holy spirit, the presence of Jesus that you will be with us.

Forgive us for our sins and, let us lead closer to you. Show us where we are in prophecy. Show us where we where you want us to be and encourage us In Jesus' name. Amen. When I sent Mildred the scripture reading the other day, I was at my day job, and I didn't have access to the to to open the the sermon file to get the scripture.

So I actually gave the wrong scripture reading. But I mean, it's still applicable, I suppose. But we're gonna start in Daniel eight verses nine through 12. And the Bible says, and out of one of them came forth a little horn. This is speaking of of the the beast one of the beasts.

And, it had 10 horns, and out of one of them came forth a little horn which waxed exceeding great toward the south, toward the east, and toward the pleasant land. And it waxed great even to the host of heaven, and it cast down some of the host and of the stars to the ground and stamped upon them. Does this sound like a very pleasant entity? No. Yay.

He magnified himself even to the prince of the host, and by him, the daily sacrifice was taken away. That word sacrifice there is not actually in the Hebrew. The daily referring to the intercession of Christ. And the place of the sanctuary was cast down. And an host was given him against the daily sacrifice by reason of the transgression, and it cast down the truth to the ground, and it practiced, and it prospered.

The bible here is letting us know of an of of a of an organization that for a period of about twelve hundred and sixty years would cast down the different truths represented by the sanctuary and hide them from the knowledge of the most of Christianity. Now if we look at the pattern of the sanctuary, it's very interesting. What we find is that it's actually in the shape of a cross. You can actually look at the encampment of ancient Israel in the wilderness. Their encampment was in the shape of a cross.

You can even go to a scientific level, and there's a protein in your body called laminin that is also in the shape of a cross. And so everything in the sanctuary points to Jesus. It points to what he would do for us, and we're gonna cover that for a minute. You see, we have the altar.

We have the altar of sacrifice representing the substitutionary death of Jesus. Now you also have the labor referring to baptism. You have the table of showbread referring to the fact that Jesus is the bread of life.

It also refers to the word of God. There is the altar of incense referring to the prayers of God's people. There's the seven branch candlestick referring to Jesus as the light of the world, referring to the Holy Spirit and to God's people as the light of the world. Now you also have the Ark of the Covenant, the throne of God, the the the foundation of his law and his government. Now this slide alone, we could spend weeks studying.

Now we're covering a little bit of how this power would cast down the truth. Now we have to identify who this power is. But the Bible lets us know that in Daniel seven verses twenty four and twenty five, the 10 horns would come out of the 10 kingdoms, and it lets us know very plainly those are 10 kings. We don't have to make any guesswork re referring to Bible prophecy.

It explains everything for us. It lets us know that he would subdue three kings, that it would be a little nation. It would be different, a different kind of nation, a religious political nation, that it would uproot three of those kings, that it would have a man at its head who would speak blasphemies, that it would persecute God's people. And estimates are between 50 and a 150,000,000 people by, based on how many people they they were responsible for martyring. And we won't know for sure until heaven.

It could be way more than that. This organization thought to change God's times and laws, and it was prophesied to reign for exactly twelve hundred and sixty years. Now who am I talking about? It's the papacy. It is the only organization in world history that can possibly fit all of these characteristics.

I've heard Obama. I've heard Trump. I've heard Elon Musk. I've heard AI as the image of the beast, but none of those fit Bible prophecy. So how did they cast the truth to the ground?

And by the way, whenever I'm speaking of this organization, a lot of people take offense, and that's understandable. They see the papacy as their spiritual leader. We're not talking about Catholics. We're talking about a system of deception. Now the Roman Catholic church, the papacy specifically, in casting down the truth of the sanctuary, they did these things.

They cast down the sacrifice of Jesus, basically teaching that it's not enough to cover sins. You had to do works of penance, like climb Pilate's staircase or or or, well, a host of other things. They cast down the laver. Laver is representing baptism. I say, hey, you can get baptized as a baby, and you don't need immersion.

You can just you know, that's good enough. They cast down the table of showbread for the dark ages. They made it illegal to possess the word of God. If you recall with any portion of the word of God or sharing the word of God, you are playing with your life. You could get the death penalty, and many people did.

They cast down the altar of incense saying that you can't go to Jesus. You have to go to a priest despite the fact that the Bible says that Jesus is our only mediator, not Mary, not the saints, not a sinful priest. They cast down the seven branch candlestick. They almost extinguished the light of God's word by taking in so much deception, it was very difficult for anyone to find the truth. And they cast down the Ark of the Covenant, teaching that the that the Pope is God in human flesh, teaching that the Pope has authority to pretty much do whatever he wants to change God's laws.

And they also brag about the fact that the Roman Catholic church has never erred and cannot Now let's get to the heart of the message. John Gill, a Baptist scholar, said this regarding Daniel eight fourteen. He said, these twenty three hundred days may be considered so many years, which will bring it down to the end of the sixth millennium or thereabout when it may be hoped there will be a new face of things upon the sanctuary and church of God and the cleansing of it from all corruption in doctrine, discipline, worship, and conversation. So you see this concept of the twenty eight hundred days is not unique to us. So we have the Protestant reformation and the restoration of truth.

I wanna go through several of the reformers and kind of show how God used these men of mighty faith to restore the various aspects of the sanctuary truth to end time Christianity. Now we're not gonna go in chronological order, but we're gonna go in order of the furniture that we find in the sanctuary. The first one is Martin Luther. He lived from about 1483 to 1546. Now he was a devout Catholic monk.

In fact, if you study about him, his father wanted him to be, I believe it was a lawyer. And and he didn't want to be a lawyer. He decided, you know, I'm gonna go be a monk. And it actually caused such a rift between him and his father that they didn't speak for two years. He was naturally attracted to the moral high ground, but he was also plagued with thoughts of forgiveness and the wrath of God.

He would be found, punishing himself. He would whip himself, and he he would try and do works of penance, try and do these different things to try and quiet a troubled conscience, but none of it brought him peace until he found a Bible. And he started studying that bible. And through that, the seeds were planted that led him to the righteousness of Christ, showing that we are justified by faith in Christ alone. In the great controversy, I've been listening to this recently, and it talks about this experience.

It says, with mingled awe and wonder, he turned his sacred pages. With quickened pulse and throbbing heart, he read for himself the words of life. Pausing now and then to exclaim, oh, that God would give me such a book for myself. Angels of heaven were by his sight, and rays of light from the throne of God revealed the treasures of truth to his understanding. He had ever feared to offend God, but now the deep conviction of his condition as a sinner took hold upon him as never before.

And if you study the reformers, this was something that was common to all of them. You see, no matter what he tried, his works of penance, he couldn't find peace, but God brought a friend named Staupitz. I'm probably mispronouncing that, so I apologize to all the Germans out there. This quote describing him says, when it appeared to Luther that all was lost, God raised up a friend and helper for him. The pious outfits opened the word of God to Luther's mind and bade him look away from self.

Cease the contemplation of infinite punishment for the violation of God's law and look to Jesus, the sin pardoning savior. Instead of torturing yourself on account of your sins, throw yourself into your redeemer's arms. Trust in him in the righteousness of his life, in the atonement of his death. Listen to the son of God. He became man to give you the assurance of divine favor.

Love him who first loved you. Thus spoke this messenger of mercy. His words made a deep impression upon Luther's mind. And after many a struggle with long cherished errors, he was unable to grasp this truth and peace came to his troubled mind. Now eventually, Martin Luther was given a professorship at the University, of Wittenberg.

Upon visiting Rome, however, he beheld the sins in the church of the vilest sort such as Pilate's staircase. And it was actually I believe it was he was climbing Pilate's staircase doing the prayers and all whatever it is they have to do. And and he actually, the conviction came to his mind, Romans one, the just shall live by faith, and he ran from the scene in horror. And he began to wage war on the sins and the false doctrines in the church, and thus he was used by God to restore the truth symbolized by the altar of sacrifice.

When he turned his face away from Rome, he turned away in heart. And from that time, the separation grew wider until he severed all connection with the papal church and eventually led him to nail the '95 thesis to the Wittenberg church doors. And and and and it's so sad to see how far Protestants have fallen. You know, I remember so we didn't live in Denver, so it had to have been about twelve years ago. Anybody remember the name, Tony Palmer?

You remember what he said in that meeting with Kenneth Copeland, some other charismatic leaders, and Pope Francis? He said maybe the protest is over and we're all Catholic again. I don't think so. The Protestant Reformation is to continue until Jesus returns. But God used Martin Luther to restore the truth symbolized by the altar of sacrifice sacrifice.

Now God also used a man named John Smith, fifteen seventy to sixteen twelve. You can study the labor in Exodus thirty and thirty eight. Now he taught against infant baptism. He taught that one must be old enough to repent and choose Christ. The Bible says in Acts two thirty eight, repent and be baptized.

As adorable as the babies are in this church, do they have the ability yet to repent? Not yet. Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. And eventually, he broke away from the Anglican church and joined the separatists. And due to persecution, he fled to Amsterdam.

Now eventually, he baptized himself. I remember reading a story, Wyatt Allen. He's, connected to amazing facts. He's an evangelist. And he has a book called The Least of the Least.

And he actually says when he was growing in his faith with God, he didn't quite understand baptism, so he tried to baptize himself as well. So it's got we grow as with God as as everybody does. He joined them. He wanted to join the Mennonite church and was eventually convinced that baptizing himself was a mistake and that someone else should have baptized him by immersion. Still, he's remembered not as a Mennonite, but as the first Baptist.

And so God used him to restore the labor, the fact that baptism is by immersion. It symbolizes death to self. Now John Wycliffe from 1320 to 1384, he is considered to be the morning star of the reformation. He was the first one that God used to really bring a shake up to the Catholic church. He's known as the founder of the Lollard movement, and God used him to lay the foundation for the rest of the Protestant Reformation.

See, his passion was to have the word of God in the common language. The papacy taught that the Bible was to be kept in Latin. And, again, they taught that that that only the church was really the ones that only the priests were the only ones allowed to interpret the Bible, that that that that we as the common folk aren't really smart enough to do it on our own. And so he translated the Bible into English in 1382. Now it did contain translation errors, and so God brought others to translate it later on.

But his his his watchword was basically Matthew four verse four. He answered and said, it is written, man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God. Not from every word that proceeds from the preacher or the priest or or or the or the or the pope or whatever. Every word that proceeds from the mouth of God. The great controversy.

When Wycliffe's attention was directed to the scriptures, he entered upon their investigation with the same thoroughness which had enabled him to master the learning of the schools. Heretofore, he had felt a great want which neither his scholastic studies nor the teaching of the church could satisfy. In the word of God, he found that which he had before sought in vain. He he saw there or here he saw the plan of salvation revealed and Christ set forth as the only advocate for man. He gave himself to the service of of Christ and determined to proclaim the truths which he had discovered.

And, you know, the the the there has a bit there's come a term that has come to mean a a an announcement of profound truth, basically. It's called a mic drop. You know, one of my favorite mic drops of the Protestant reformation is right here. The reformer listened in silence, and then he bade his attendant raise him in bed because John Wycliffe was sick at this point. He gazed steadily upon them.

There there were priests that were sent the representatives of the pope that were sent to try and get him to recant. And he said in the firm strong voice, which had so often caused them to tremble, I shall not die, but I will live. And again declare the evil deeds of the friars related to that quote because god used William Tyndale to restore the table of showbread as well. He says, I defy the pope and all his laws. If god spare my life, ere many years, I will cause the boy that drives the plow to know more of the scriptures than you.

Now that took guts to say because William Tyndale is is is understood to have said this at at, like, a a gathering, a dinner gathering. So he wasn't, like, on trial. He didn't say this face to face with the pope. But this was still a mic drop, a bombshell that would have shook the papists to their core. And so God used these godly men to restore the table of showbread representing the word of God.

Another one that God used was John Calvin from fifteen o nine to 1564. Now his passion was for prayer. So he is representing the altar of incense. Now he is known as the founder of the reformed churches, the Presbyterian reformed churches. And he said this.

He says words fail to explain how necessary prayer is and in how many ways that the exercise of prayer is profitable. It is therefore by the benefit of prayer that we reach those riches which are laid up for us with the heavenly father. He's merely echoing the thought of first Timothy two. For there is one God and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself a ransom for all to be testified in due time. In other words, we don't have to go to a sinful priest or even a sinful pastor to reach God.

You reach him for yourself. Hebrews tells us some of the same thoughts. For we have not a high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin. Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need. Hebrews nine, but Christ being come an high priest of the good things to come by a greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building, neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood, he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.

John Calvin listed several things about this concept of prayer. He says the the benefits of prayer, basically. Says, first, that our hearts may be fired with zealous and burning desire ever to seek love and to serve him. And while we become accustomed in every need to flee to him as to a sacred anchor. Secondly, that there may enter our hearts with no desire and no wish at all that we should be ashamed to make him a witness while we learn to set all our wishes before his eyes and even to pour out our whole hearts.

Third, that we may be prepared to receive his benefits with true gratitude of heart and thanksgiving, benefits that our prayer reminds us come from his hand. Fourth, moreover, that having obtained what we are seeking and being convinced that that he has answered our prayers, we should be led to meditate upon his kindness more heartedly. Fifth, that at the same time, we embrace with greater delight those things which we acknowledge to be obtained by prayer. And last, that we use an that use and experience may, according to the measure of our feebleness, confirm his providence. While we understand not only that he prom his promises never fail us and of his own will, he opens the way to call upon him at the very point of necessity, but also that he ever extends his hand to help his own, no wet nursing them with words, but defending them with present help.

How many of you have experienced the power of prayer? I hope all of us. I I could tell you stories. My wife could tell you stories.

And so God used him to restore the truth that we can go directly to Jesus for ourselves. John Wesley is another one God used from seventeen o three to 1791. John and Charles Wesley, actually, representing the seven branch candlestick. The he was known as the founder of the Methodist movement. You see, he had a passion for open air evangelism.

Today, we might call that social media, or we could relate it to that. He he disregarded the comforts of life to win souls. Now if you studied his experience prior to becoming converted, he always practiced a form of self denial. But before he truly met Jesus, it was a way to try and earn salvation. But after he found Jesus in the word, he continued those same things now as the fruit of salvation and not trying to make them the root.

What did I do? Hit the wrong button. The this, this chapter on him in the great controversy describes, through long years of wearisome and comfortless striving, years of rigorous self denial, of reproach and humiliation, Wesley had steadfastly adhered to his one purpose of seeking God. Now he found him. Lost my place.

And he found that the grace which he had toiled to end by prayers and fasts, by alm deeds, by self abnegation, there we go, was a gift without money and without price. Once established in the faith of Christ, his whole soul burned with the desire to spread everywhere a knowledge of the glorious gospel of God's free grace. He says, I look upon all the world as my parish. You see, he said this, you have nothing to do but to save souls. Therefore, spend and be spent in this work.

Go not only to those that need you, but to those who need you most. It is not your business to preach so many times and to take care of this or that society, but to save as many souls as you can, to bring as many as you possibly can to repentance. He says, give me 100 preachers who fear nothing but sin and desire nothing but God. And I care not whether they be clergymen or laymen. They alone will shake the gates of hell and set up the kingdom of heaven upon the earth.

The most powerful movements in history, God has used laypeople to conduct. Not to say that he's left clergy out of it because these men were all involved in clergy at some point. But it doesn't matter whether you're the pastor or the elder or whether you have any office at all. You can witness for Jesus, and that was the burden of Wesley's heart. He calls all of us, just like God calls all of us, to be witnesses for him.

He says, it is no wonder that the devil does not love field preaching, neither do I. I love a comfortable room. A soft cushion. A handsome pulpit.

God is to be glorified. He says, but where is my zeal if I do not trample all these underfoot in order to save one more soul? There was a man. I don't remember his name, and I don't know if I even remember all the details of the story. But during World War two, he he saved as many of the Jewish people as he could.

But he's like, I just wanna save one more. Like, I could have saved one more with this. I just wanna save one more. And that should be our mindset when it comes to sharing the gospel. He says, I preached on the righteousness of the law and the righteousness of faith while I was speaking several drops down as dead.

And among the rest, such a cry was heard of sinners groaning for the righteousness of faith that had almost drowned my voice. But many of these soon lifted up their heads with joy and broke out into thanksgiving, being assured they now had the desire of their soul, the forgiveness of their sins. He says, my fear is not that our great movement known as the Methodist will eventually cease to exist or one day die from the earth. My fear is that our people will become content to live without the fire, the power, the excitement, the supernatural element that makes us great. We can preach all day long.

We can preach all the series that we want to. We can go do the wildflower, thingy. What thingy? Fancy terminology. What good is it gonna do if we don't do it with Jesus?

We have to make sure we represent him. And thus, God used the seven branch candlestick to sorry, Wesley, to restore the truth represented by the seven branch candlestick. And my friends, that brings us to us. God, through the Millerite movement, raised up a last day movement to restore the final piece of furniture in the sanctuary, and that is the ark of the covenant. You see, this church was born out of a great disappointment much like the early Christian church was as well.

And the burden of this church's message is the three angels' message that that that tells us the gospel in no uncertain terms. Fear God and give glory to him, for the hour of his judgment is come, and worship him that made heaven, earth, the sea, and the fountains of waters. And that second half of the verse is a quote from the Sabbath commandment. So God raised up this movement from the eighteen thirties. I had no official founding eighteen sixties, but we have our roots in the Millerite movement.

To the end of time. We also go preach the second angel's message that lets us know that Babylon is fallen is fallen because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication. You know, in the eighteen forties when the Millerite group was preaching that Jesus was coming soon, and, yeah, they misunderstood what was gonna happen that day. That's not the point. Most of American Christianity rejected the truth.

People were cast out of their churches because they latched on and accepted with joy the belief that Jesus was coming soon. Ellen White and her own family were were were kicked out of the Methodist church because they they they accepted the Millerite preaching that Jesus was coming soon. And so as a result, many of the groups within modern Christianity became part of fallen Babylon. And this isn't to speak disparagingly about anyone. It's just simply to speak the facts.

In The Great Controversy, page three eighty eight, Rome withheld the bible from the people and required all men to accept her teachings in its place. It was the work of the reformation to restore to men the word of God. But is it not too true that in the churches of our time, men are taught to rest their faith upon their creed and the teachings of their church rather than on the scriptures? How how many of us and not just us.

But how many of us all over the world, we go to church and not just in this denomination, but all of them, we go to church and and we accept what the preacher says and we go home and we don't bother checking to see if he's right. I I I love preaching. I love being here, being the being the the lay pastor here, but don't accept what I have to say just because we have a a friendly relationship. I like to think we have some trust between all of us, but but don't you dare accept what I have to say without going to the Bible to check it for yourself.

That's not what Christians do. Check everything against the word of God. We also, of course, preach the third angel's message, which is long, and we're already running short on time. So we'll summarize it. This message warns against the beast and its mark.

It warns against the consequences of hellfire and eternal death, and it's the death that's eternal, not the hellfire. It warns against receiving the wrath of God, which Revelation 15 defines not only as the lake of fire, but also the seven last plagues. It commands us to have the patience of the saints, to keep the commandments of God, and to have the faith of Jesus. And I know you have probably seen this too because I've seen it all the time, especially on social media, that when you preach the truth, the devil's gonna send out his servants to contest it. When faithful teachers expound the word of God, there arise men of learning, ministers even, professing to understand the scriptures, who denounce sound doctrine as heresy and thus turn away inquirers after the truth.

I cannot tell you the amount of times I've been called a heretic. It happens all the time. Were it not that the world is hopelessly intoxicated with the wine of Babylon, multitudes would be convicted and converted by the plain cutting truths of the word of God. But religious faith appears so confused and discordant that the people know not what to believe as truth. The sin of the world's impenitence lies at the door of the church.

The second angel's message of Revelation 14 was first preached in the 1844. And it then had a more direct application to the churches of The United States, where the warning of the judgment had been most widely proclaimed and most generally rejected and where the declension in the churches had been most rapid. But the message of the second angel did not reach its complete fulfillment in 1844. The churches then experienced a moral fall in consequence of their refusal of the light of the advent message, but the fall was not complete. As they have continued to reject the special truce for this time, they have fallen lower and lower.

But not yet, however, can it be said that Babylon is fallen because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication. She has not yet made all nations do this. The spirit of the world conforming and indifference to the testing truths for our time exists and has been gaining ground in churches of the Protestant faith in all the countries of Christendom, And these churches are included in the solemn and terrible denunciation of the second angel, but the work of apostasy has not yet reached its culmination. While Revelation fourteen eight was fulfilled to a measure, Revelation 18 that repeats the message has not yet been fulfilled. The the the most of Christianity, yes, is fallen.

But God still will send forth that final angel's message that Revelation 18 prophesies to say, come out of her, my people, that you be not partakers of her sins and that you receive not of her plagues. You see, I have seen for years now, and it has become almost a what's the word I'm looking for? A steamroll. Not a steamroll effect. The the speed with which it is happening has has has gotten almost exponential is what I'm trying to say.

And and and I see people who are so called protestants say, hey, Catholics, we're not so different. Hogwash. Yes. We are. And so but this this this this they're they're seeking union with Catholicism saying, hey.

We, you know, we both go to church on Sunday. We both believe in eternal torment. You know, these doctrines over here, they make us different. Let's just let's just pretend they don't exist, and let's unite because Jesus said we have to unite. Jesus did say we have to unite, but he did not say to unite on error.

We must unite on the word of God. And so God is using this last day church. I believe that we are a people of prophecy, that Revelation 10 specifically foretold the rise of this people, and that God would use this people to bring all of this together. You know, it's like, trying to make cake. You can have your dry ingredients, the the flour, the the baking soda, the sugar.

You can have your wet ingredients, the eggs, the milk, the the whatever else you wanna put in there, some other fillings. And and and that's good. You can put them all together, and you can kind of have this idea of what you're going to make. But is the cake complete if all you do is leave the ingredients? No.

You gotta mix them all together. You gotta put it in yellow, and you gotta bake. And that's what the Protestant Reformation has been God's way of doing. He's brought all these different ingredients together, restoring piece by piece of the truth. It it's it's like another example.

If you were kept in a a pitch black basement or a dungeon for, like, say, three weeks, You haven't seen any light at all. Not even a flashlight. Not even a candle. What's gonna happen if it's almost noon right now?

If I what's gonna happen if we took you outside, you haven't seen any light whatsoever for three weeks, and now all of a sudden you're in broad noon sunlight. That's not gonna be a very pleasant experience. But if you've been locked in way for three weeks, and and without seeing any light whatsoever, and and we bring you out at, say, 3AM. Well, now you're gonna have a gradual exposure. There's not a whole lot of light at dawn.

It comes slowly to where you are more, likely to be able to handle it and enjoy it. That's the Protestant Reformation. God has been restoring piece by piece of the truth for six, seven hundred years now, and it's culminated in this movement. This the the the finished cake, if you will, almost finished. And so you have the altar of sacrifice, which which, everything points to the ark of the covenant, the blood sprinkled in the most holy place.

Aaron's rod was also there. Baptism and rebirth, which is God's law, which is in the ark of the covenant written in your heart. The word of God, which is a table of showbread, you also had in the Ark of the Covenant, the pot of manna. You have prayer representing the represented by the altar of incense. Also, there, the mediation of Jesus in the most holy place before the Ark of the Covenant.

You have the fact that Jesus is the ultimate light of the world, the seven branch candlestick. He's there in the most holy place. And then, of course, within the ark, the covenant itself is God's law. You also have our doctrines, our core doctrines. Are there righteousness by faith, baptism by immersion at the appropriate age?

Study the word of God for yourself, praying directly to Jesus. Total member involvement. I know not everybody liked Albert Chad Wilson, but this is one of the things I appreciated about him was his his passion for total member involvement. You also have the binding force of God's law and everything in the ark of the covenant. And so God used this church to restore the ark of the covenant.

And one of the fascinating things that we find is that even the Orion constellation follows the pattern of the sanctuary. Did you know that? Really interesting. Not strictly not strictly shake, but you have the altar of sacrifice at one of the and I don't remember the names of all these stars. You have all the stars there, the altar sacrifice for the labor, the three stars in a row, the table of showbread, the seven branch candlestick, the altar of incense, and then you also have the ark of the covenant, Beetlejuice.

So my question for us today, and we close with this, is are you willing to continue growing in God's truth as the reformers did? Are you willing to remain and practice being a Protestant?