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0:07Today, I would like to share a message
0:09about the second angel's message among
0:11the three angels 'messages. When I
0:16preached about the first angel's
0:17message last time, I wasn't feeling
0:19very well. Later, when I listened back
0:24to it, I realized there was a mistake.
0:29I randomly said that the war William
0:31Miller participated in before his
0:33conversion was World War I. Yes. But in
0:40fact, it was the War of 1812. I would
0:44like to correct that. World War I
0:47happened in 1914, which was much later.
0:53Now, let's read the second angel's
0:55message together while looking at the
0:57screen. Begin. "And another angel
1:03followed, saying,' Babylon is fallen,
1:06is fallen, '""is fallen,""' that great
1:08city, because she has made all nations
1:10drink of the wine of the wrath of her
1:12fornication. '" The three angels'
1:24messages symbolically represent the
1:26work of our Seventh-day Adventist
1:28Church in proclaiming its core
1:30doctrines to the whole world. As I
1:37mentioned last time, the core of the
1:39first angel's message is that the hour
1:41of God's judgment has come. In other
1:45words, the time for Jesus 'second
1:47coming has arrived. It is a
1:50proclamation of the Advent. Then
1:54another angel appears, and that angel
1:56is the second angel. The phrase "
2:01followed" means following behind the
2:03first angel. The word for "followed" is
2:11"akoloutheō" in Greek, which means to
2:13accompany or to follow. So,
2:21chronologically, the second angel
2:23follows the first, but it doesn't mean
2:25the second message is preached only
2:27after the first one ends; they are
2:29preached together. This is what it
2:35means. It means they join in and follow
2:38along with the first angel. That is the
2:41meaning. To put it simply, William
2:48Miller’s Advent movement spread the
2:50first angel's message from 1840 to 1844
2:52, and during that period, while the
2:54core message of the Advent was still
2:57being preached, the message that
2:59Babylon had fallen was added later.
3:07Then, why did the Advent believers come
3:10to preach the message that Babylon had
3:12fallen? The reason is that they
3:17rejected the first angel's message.
3:20What was the first angel's message? It
3:23was the message of the Advent.
3:25Therefore, by rejecting the message of
3:27the second coming, the church had
3:29fallen. This is the core of the second
3:32angel's message. Then, why was the
3:36church that rejected the first angel's
3:38message at that time called Babylon?
3:42Also, Babylon appears as a very
3:44important element in the Book of
3:46Revelation. If God has His own city
3:49called Jerusalem, Satan has his own
3:51city called Babylon. Yes. So, these two
3:55cities are symbols of God and Satan.
4:00Then, what is the meaning of Babylon?
4:03And how can the church become Babylon?
4:07Let’s examine this issue. First, God
4:12created man and blessed him. And that
4:17blessing was: "Be fruitful and multiply
4:19and fill the earth." So, to be fruitful
4:25and multiply means for us to increase.
4:29Yes. That people would gradually
4:33increase and bear many children is the
4:35most fundamental blessing God gave. And
4:40"fill the earth" means to make the
4:42earth full. Implicit in this command is
4:47the instruction to spread out and live
4:49across the whole earth. Therefore, to
4:54fill the earth, you cannot all gather
4:56in one place. Live scattered across the
4:58world. So fill the entire earth. This
5:03is what the words imply. Urban areas
5:08where the population is densely packed,
5:11like the capital region we live in now,
5:13were not part of God's original plan.
5:18God planned for us to live scattered
5:20about. And even after the Great Flood,
5:24He said, "Be fruitful and multiply, and
5:26fill the earth and teem with life in it
5:28." He repeated the exact same blessing.
5:32Then, in verse 11, He says, "I
5:34establish my covenant with you: Never
5:37again will all life be destroyed by the
5:39waters of a flood." Now, no matter what
5:44situation this world faces, there will
5:47be no such massive judgment until the
5:49Second Coming. Furthermore, there will
5:53never again be a judgment by water.
5:56That is the covenant He made. After the
6:04flood, Noah and his descendants stayed
6:06for a while where the ark came to rest,
6:08Mount Ararat; it is here in the
6:10Armenian region. If you go there even
6:15now, Mount Ararat is there. But there
6:18are two peaks, so we don't know exactly
6:20which one. We don't know exactly where,
6:23but we do know it is in the vicinity of
6:25Armenia. Now, Noah's descendants began
6:31to multiply and prosper. However, human
6:37nature had been corrupted due to the
6:40fall. Humans are born with a sinful
6:44nature. Therefore, no matter if one is
6:49born into a faithful family as a
6:51descendant of Abraham, there will
6:53always be those among them who do not
6:55believe. Sin happens naturally without
7:00any effort, but believing in God
7:02requires effort; not believing happens
7:04automatically without any effort. So,
7:09faith is something that, if we don't
7:11consciously make an effort, humans will
7:14naturally fall into corruption. This is
7:21why we attend worship at church, listen
7:24to the Word, memorize memory verses,
7:26and recite goals every Sabbath; it is
7:28because if left alone, we inevitably
7:31grow distant from God and closer to the
7:33world, living a sinful life, so these
7:35are means to consciously lead us back
7:38to God. Those who disliked faith and
7:50God began to frequently clash with
7:51people of faith. So, these people left
7:59Mount Ararat and began to move toward
8:01the East. The word for "moved" here is
8:06"nasa" in Hebrew. "Nasa" means to pull
8:12up stakes or take down tents. That is
8:16its meaning. So, looking at that Hebrew
8:20verb, we can tell that the people at
8:22the time lived a nomadic life at first.
8:26It wasn't easy to farm or establish a
8:28permanent settlement. Thus, we can see
8:31that they lived a nomadic life, raising
8:34animals to use as food. Since those
8:41living a nomadic life found that
8:42mountainous regions were not suitable
8:44for raising animals. They began to move
8:51further downward; although the Bible
8:53says "East," if you look at a map,
8:55Shinar is this way. The Euphrates and
9:01Tigris rivers flow here, and the land
9:03between them is the Plain of Shinar,
9:05which became fertile as floods carried
9:08various sediments. So, it provided an
9:13excellent environment for raising
9:15animals. They found the Plain of Shinar
9:20, built a city there, and began a
9:22settled life. This Plain of Shinar is
9:25almost entirely the region of
9:26modern-day Iraq. The person known for
9:30building the Tower of Babel on that
9:32plain is Nimrod. Nimrod was the
9:36great-grandson of Noah. Noah had three
9:41sons; among them, Ham's son was Cush,
9:43and Cush's son was Nimrod. Speaking of
9:51Nimrod, verse 10 says his kingdom began
9:53in Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh in
9:56the land of Shinar. A "kingdom" is
10:03mentioned here. A kingdom. So, Nimrod
10:08was the first person to establish a
10:10city-state on the Plain of Shinar. And
10:16judging by the various circumstances,
10:18it is highly likely that the
10:20civilization Nimrod established was the
10:22Mesopotamian civilization. Among the
10:27four great civilizations of humanity,
10:30the Mesopotamian civilization is the
10:32first. They used writing, yes. So,
10:37these people are the Sumerians. The
10:42fact that he established "his kingdom"
10:44shows that Nimrod began the first
10:46monarchical politics or monarchical
10:48rule. Before that, there were no kings,
10:53and villages were ruled and governed by
10:56the decisions of elders—that is, the
10:58older patriarchs in the town. But
11:04Nimrod became the first one to make
11:05himself a king. So, one could say that
11:11Nimrod was the founder of imperialism.
11:16He built an empire himself and became a
11:18king. And he originally named that
11:22place "Bab-ilu." Bab-ilu. Before the
11:29term "Babel" was used, "Bab-ilu" meant
11:32"gate of God." What this means is that
11:37the king of Babylon, or Babylonia,
11:39ruled the nation under divine command.
11:44In other words, this is the divine
11:46right of kings. Is that correct? Yes.
11:50This divine authority—excuse me, I
11:52misspoke; I meant the divine right of
11:55kings. To show that the royal authority
11:59is received from God, they named the
12:01country "Bab-ilu," meaning "gate of God
12:03." This is how they named the nation.
12:09And they made a plan like this. They
12:15said, "Come, let us build ourselves a
12:17city and a tower," and the reason for
12:19building the tower was "with its top in
12:21the heavens." Why did they want to
12:28build such a high tower? They were all
12:32aware of the Noahic flood. Even though
12:36God said He would never again destroy
12:38the world with water, they couldn't
12:40trust it. If such a flood were to
12:45happen again, they would build a tower
12:47higher than the areas that were
12:49submerged so they could save themselves
12:51and take refuge there. Therefore, this
12:55is a distrust of God's covenant. Second
12:59, "let us make a name for ourselves."
13:03Do you know what the first angel's
13:04message is? It is to fear God and give
13:08Him glory. So this is theocentric. It
13:13means to live with God at the center.
13:15But they said, "Let us make a name for
13:17ourselves." This is humanism. God's
13:21existence fades away, and they ask, "
13:23Why did the flood happen?" It wasn't
13:25God's judgment, but rather
13:26scientifically, it rained a lot and
13:28this and that happened, causing the
13:30flood. They interpret it in this way
13:31now. There are still many such things
13:34happening today. Next, "lest we be
13:37scattered abroad over the face of the
13:39whole earth." God wanted them to spread
13:41out and live on the whole earth, but
13:42they said, "Let us avoid being
13:44scattered.""Let us gather and live
13:46together." Yes. This is a defiance of
13:49God's command. This is the spirit of
13:52Babylon. Distrust of God's covenant,
13:56humanistic theology, and then rebellion
13:59against God's commands. God resolves
14:05this apostasy very easily. In Genesis
14:0811: 8-9, it says, "So the Lord
14:10scattered them abroad from there over
14:12the face of all the earth, and they
14:15left off building the city." Their
14:18plans were frustrated. But how did He
14:20frustrate them? "Therefore its name was
14:25called Babel, because there the Lord
14:26confused the language of all the earth.
14:28" Up until then, there was only one
14:34language, but God changed them into
14:36people speaking English, Chinese,
14:39French, Korean, and Japanese. To carry
14:43out this massive construction, people
14:45needed to understand each other, but
14:47since they couldn't, they would ask for
14:49bricks and get something else instead.
14:51So they got frustrated, stopped
14:53building the city, and started fighting
14:55. Yes. In this way, people who could
14:58understand each other gathered together
15:00and then scattered. God thwarted human
15:05plans by confusing their single
15:06language. And just as God had
15:11originally intended, people ended up
15:13scattering. As I mentioned earlier,
15:18humans possess a sinful nature due to
15:20the Fall, so we have no immunity
15:22against sin. Therefore, when the virus
15:28called sin enters, humans are bound to
15:30catch it. Since there is no immunity,
15:38the more people gather and live
15:40together, the faster sin inevitably
15:42spreads. That is why God had them live
15:48scattered, to be less influenced by sin
15:50. But today, humans have built not a
15:55vertical Tower of Babel, but a
15:57horizontal one; what is it? It is the
16:03internet. So now, whether it is the
16:07city or the countryside—though the
16:09countryside is still a bit better—
16:13there is not much difference. Even if I
16:17go to the countryside, like Jeju Island
16:19or somewhere deep in the mountains like
16:21Jeongseon or Yeongwol, people recognize
16:23me and are so happy to see me, even
16:25though I've never met them before. So
16:30when I ask, "Deacon, when did you meet
16:32me?" and ask like that, thinking
16:34perhaps I don't remember,
16:36they say, "Oh, Pastor, this is our
16:38first time meeting, too.""I’ve
16:40watched you on YouTube so much that you
16:42feel just like my own senior pastor."
16:44That is what they say. Even people over
16:4770 or 80 years old say that. This means
16:52that we hear the same news in the
16:53provinces on the same day as we do in
16:55Seoul. We even hear it in the United
16:59States. Sometimes I even get calls from
17:01the U.S. Yes. I also get them from
17:03Canada and Australia. So now, the whole
17:08world is called a global village, right
17:11? That is how quickly sin spreads as
17:16well. But when Paul spread the gospel,
17:21Rome had built many roads to govern the
17:23countries they conquered, right? That
17:26is why they said all roads lead to Rome
17:28. Instead of saying he wouldn't use the
17:33roads made by Rome—a secular
17:35government—and climbing over
17:36mountains, he used the roads Rome paved
17:39to rule their empire to spread the
17:41gospel at high speed. So, we must also
17:45conquer the internet.
17:47Yes. Although the internet is filled
17:50with all kinds of bad material, we must
17:52constantly upload good content so that
17:54in the place where so many people
17:56gather, they can encounter our gospel.
18:02Ah, as I mentioned earlier, the
18:04Babylonians called it "Bab-ilu," the
18:07gate of God, but the Hebrews used
18:09wordplay. They apply words that sound
18:15similar; there is a word in Hebrew
18:17called "balal." This word "balal" means
18:23to confuse, and as it was said, God
18:26confused the language. He caused
18:29confusion, as it were. So they liked to
18:33call this place Babel. Yes. They called
18:37it Babel as another nickname. They said
18:40Babilu, but it is Babel. It is
18:42confusion. Calling it this way, we are
18:46now using the term Babylon. Then, what
18:50does this Babylon mean in Revelation?
18:56According to Bible commentaries, as
18:58used in Revelation, this name is a
19:00symbol for all apostate religious
19:02organizations or their leaders from
19:04ancient times to the end. Please keep
19:09this in mind. When Babylon appears in
19:13the Book of Revelation, it is a term
19:15that symbolizes an apostate religious
19:17organization or its leader. It is used
19:21this way. Now, let's go back to the
19:24second angel's message. The second
19:29angel here repeats twice that Babylon
19:31has fallen. Fallen, Fallen is Babylon
19:35the great. That is what it says. In the
19:39Bible, saying something twice or three
19:41times means to emphasize it. Babylon
19:44has completely fallen. Everyone, what
19:48should you do if a house is collapsing?
19:51You shouldn't stay there, but leave the
19:53building immediately. So, emphasizing
19:56the fall is an emphasis on coming out
19:58of there. Yes. Then why did the church
20:04become Babylon and fall? What did it
20:08say here? Because of her fornication.
20:11This "fornication" refers to a
20:16relationship that is not legitimate. In
20:22other words, the church should obey God
20:24, but the Book of Revelation describes
20:26joining hands with the world or the
20:28government instead of God as
20:29fornication. And she made them drink
20:36the wine of her wrath. That is what it
20:39said. Here, the "wine of her wrath"
20:43refers to the false doctrines and false
20:45policies of Babylon. "Making them drink
20:50" means forcing or imposing false
20:52doctrines. It has that meaning. I will
20:55talk about this in more detail when I
20:57cover the third angel's message. The
20:59time when the second angel's message is
21:01proclaimed is the point where this
21:03collapse begins. It is not that the
21:06collapse is complete, but because it is
21:08falling, such issues will be revealed
21:10more clearly in the third angel's
21:12message, and here it shows how the
21:14collapse begins. According to Bible
21:20commentaries, we should view this
21:22collapse as gradual and progressive. So
21:27it doesn't just collapse and end
21:29suddenly, but it continues to collapse
21:31more and more as time goes by. And the
21:36degree of its wickedness or corruption
21:38is progressive here. This means it
21:41becomes more severe. The apostasy at
21:43this time is nothing. As time goes on,
21:46it will get worse. That is what it
21:48means. This prophecy regarding the fall
21:51of Babylon finds its eschatological
21:53fulfillment in the fact that most
21:55Protestant churches are departing from
21:57the purity and simplicity of the gospel
21:59. This means that this will happen in
22:02the last days. However, the beginning
22:07of this movement dates back to the
22:091840s, when William Miller was sharing
22:11his message. Now, let's take a closer
22:17look at how these events actually
22:19unfolded at that time. The reason
22:23William Miller began the Advent
22:26movement was due to Daniel 8:14. He
22:30said to me, "It will take 2,300
22:32evenings and mornings; then the
22:34sanctuary will be cleansed." The 2,300
22:39evenings and mornings, by literal count
22:42, means 2,300 days and nights. So, it
22:45is 2,300 days. However, in biblical
22:50prophecy, one day should actually be
22:53interpreted as one year. This is called
22:56the year-day principle. Yes. Therefore,
22:592,300 evenings and mornings become
23:022,300 years; although Daniel spoke of
23:04these 2,300 days in Daniel chapter 8,
23:07he could not fully understand them. So,
23:10when Daniel was fasting and praying in
23:13chapter 9, the angel Gabriel appeared
23:15to him. He said, "I have come to give
23:17you insight into the prophecy regarding
23:19the days you did not understand." He
23:23then stated that for the sake of the
23:25people Daniel was so worried about—
23:28his people and the holy city—God had
23:30decreed seventy "sevens." That is,
23:34seventy weeks. It means seventy sets of
23:37seven. Then, how many days is that
23:39actually? 70 times 7 is 490 days. So,
23:44for the Jewish nation, God had decreed
23:47490 years. And the word "decreed" here
23:52means "cut off." Therefore, out of the
23:552,300 days, The first 490 years from
23:59the beginning were set aside
24:01specifically for the people of Israel.
24:04That is the meaning. I don't have time
24:11to explain everything, but the angel
24:13Gabriel said that the starting point
24:15for these 2,300 days, or the 490 years,
24:18should be calculated from the decree to
24:20restore and rebuild Jerusalem. If you
24:28look into history, there were three
24:31such decrees, but the one that fully
24:33restored the administration of
24:36Jerusalem was issued in 457 B.C. So, if
24:38you subtract 457 years from the 2,300
24:41years of the 2,300-day prophecy, what
24:44year do you get? 1843. In 1843, The
24:53sanctuary will be cleansed. This is the
24:56meaning. Now, we have figured out the
25:00end of the 2,300 days. Then, what does
25:03it mean for the sanctuary to be
25:05cleansed? Martin Luther goes back to
25:09Daniel chapter 8, and looking from
25:11verse 9, it says "out of one of them
25:14came a horn," but this is a bit of an
25:16interpretive entanglement. It is a
25:19rather difficult part. After Alexander
25:24died, the kingdom split into four parts
25:26. Those are the four horns. However, in
25:33verse 9, it says "out of one of them,"
25:35and the word used here for "them" is in
25:38the masculine form. Whereas the word
25:42for "horn" is in the feminine form.
25:45Therefore, it does not refer to the
25:47horn in verse 8. It says "out of one of
25:52them," but it doesn't mean out of one
25:54horn; it means from one of the four
25:56directions of heaven or from one of the
25:58four winds of heaven. So, it does not
26:03mean it comes out of a horn. Because
26:06Rome did not come out of any horn of
26:08Greece. Also, it is translated here as
26:14"out of one horn," but in reality, it
26:17just means "one." There are four
26:20directions: east, west, north, and
26:23south. It says a little horn came out
26:27from one of those four directions.
26:31However, when looking for this little
26:33horn in history, it links pagan Rome
26:35and papal Rome together. First,
26:39imperial Rome appeared, and after the
26:42fall of Rome, papal Rome succeeded it.
26:48It is said that this Rome grew toward
26:50the south, the east, and the Beautiful
26:53Land; here, the south is Egypt, the
26:55east is the Seleucid Empire, and the
26:57Beautiful Land is Palestine. Therefore,
27:05taking this as a whole, because the
27:07little horn includes not only pagan
27:09Rome but also papal Rome, it is
27:11problematic to limit the sanctuary that
27:13will be cleansed only to the Jewish
27:15sanctuary in Jerusalem. If so, Miller
27:24concludes that the sanctuary to be
27:27cleansed in Daniel 8:14 refers to the
27:29Church. Then, how can the Church be
27:35cleansed? The Church can be cleansed
27:41when Jesus comes to burn up the wicked.
27:45Therefore, the cleansing of the
27:47sanctuary means that Jesus will return.
27:50This is how he interprets it. Thus, the
27:53Advent movement began. Originally,
27:59before 1840, William Miller held
28:01meetings alone, visiting small churches
28:04in New England and its northern regions
28:06. In private. Then, in 1839, in
28:18November, pastors of the Christian
28:19Connection held a conference in Exeter,
28:22New Hampshire. At that time, a pastor
28:28named Joshua Himes was the minister of
28:30the First Christian Church. He attended
28:35this meeting and met William Miller. At
28:38first, he did not really believe in the
28:41date of the Advent Miller was preaching
28:42. However, a few months later, after
28:46attending William Miller's meeting and
28:48hearing him in person, he was deeply
28:50moved, realizing that this was
28:52happening around 1839 or 1840. It was
28:56around 1840. So, how much time was left
28:59until '43? Only three years remained.
29:04Himes thought, "With only three years
29:06left, how are we going to preach this
29:09gospel to the whole world?" So he
29:16personally jumped into the Advent
29:18movement to plan and promote it, as
29:20Himes was a first-class organizer,
29:22manager, and financier. So, by
29:30organizing meetings in major cities
29:33like Boston, New York, Philadelphia,
29:35and Washington, the regional revival
29:37movement that began in New England
29:39started to develop into a nationwide
29:42advent movement. This Himes was a man
29:50who was also very skilled at modern
29:52public relations. So, in 1840, he
29:58created the first Millerite newspaper
30:01in Boston, "Signs of the Times"—the
30:03same magazine that is currently
30:05published in Korea under the name "Sijo
30:08." He was the first to create this
30:13magazine, "Signs of the Times." Back
30:17then, it was published bi-weekly, and
30:20while the first issue had 1,500 readers
30:23, in less than two years, it reached
30:255,000; selling 5,000 copies meant that
30:28the actual readership was around 50,000
30:31. After all, families would share it
30:33and pass it around. So, considering the
30:35U.S. population at the time, this was
30:37an immense influence in terms of
30:39publicity. Besides that, he created
30:41several other magazines as well. Yes.
30:44So, he shook up the entire United
30:46States, but later, as more and more
30:48people joined, they couldn't find
30:50venues large enough as they toured the
30:52country. At first, they built a tent
30:58that could hold 4,000 people, but as
31:00even more came, they later built a tent
31:03for over 6,000 to hold meetings, making
31:05these adventist camp meetings a trend
31:07for quite some time. That is why we
31:13still call them "tent revival meetings"
31:15in the summer. But if you go, there are
31:17no tents; everyone gathers inside
31:19buildings. Because they used to hold
31:21actual camp meetings in the past, they
31:22just kept the name. Yes. People had
31:27never seen such large tents before. So,
31:33many people who came just to see the
31:35tents ended up following others inside,
31:37listening to Miller's sermons, and
31:39accepting the advent message. In this
31:45way, the advent movement began to
31:47spread like wildfire. Some people keep
31:52labeling William Miller's movement as a
31:54date-setting apocalyptic cult, but
31:56originally, it was not a movement that
31:58fixed a specific date for the second
32:00coming. While the time was important,
32:04what was more important was a spiritual
32:06revival movement that helped people
32:08prepare for the return of Jesus.
32:12That’s why Miller made this movement
32:14interdenominational. Although Miller
32:17himself was a Baptist pastor, he told
32:18people not to just stick to the Baptist
32:21church, but to wait for Jesus' return
32:22within their own respective churches.
32:27As a result of this advent movement,
32:29during the single year of 1844, the
32:32Methodist church grew by 40,000 members
32:34and the Baptist church by 45,000. But
32:43the problem was that most Protestant
32:45churches at the time believed in
32:47post-millennialism. Post-millennialism
32:52is the belief that after Pentecost, the
32:54gospel spreads worldwide, almost all of
32:57humanity converts, leading to a
32:59millennium, followed by the Second
33:01Coming. Because the Second Coming
33:06happens after the millennium, it is
33:08called post-millennialism—the
33:09millennium comes first, then the Second
33:12Coming. That is why it is called
33:15post-millennialism. The reason
33:18post-millennialism spread within
33:20Protestantism is because of the
33:21influence of the Enlightenment after
33:24the 17th century. The Enlightenment is
33:28characterized by an optimistic view of
33:30humanity. Because humans are rational
33:36beings, they can build a peaceful and
33:38good nation on their own. So, by
33:45spreading the gospel and having people
33:47accept it, a millennium without war,
33:49conflict, or heartache comes first.
33:55This is post-millennialism. And they
34:00claimed the Second Coming was not
34:02literal, but a myth. How could Jesus
34:06literally come to this earth riding on
34:08clouds? That was a myth; they claimed
34:13Jesus "returning" was a metaphor for
34:15humans becoming enlightened and
34:17developing civilization to create a
34:19better world. Most churches believed
34:24this at the time. It is surprising for
34:27us to hear this now. Yes. So when
34:33Miller preached that Jesus would
34:35actually return in 1843—which was
34:37later revised to 1844—and that the
34:39millennium would follow, that Jesus
34:41would return first and then the
34:43millennium of His reign would follow.
34:51This idea was extremely radical and
34:53shocking to the American people. While
35:00it certainly drew a lot of attention,
35:03some pastors became concerned as it
35:05became a major issue. So, within some
35:10churches, they would say, "Do not talk
35:12about the Second Coming.""If you talk
35:15about the Second Coming again, we will
35:17kick you out of the church." They began
35:19to impose sanctions like this. Then,
35:221843 started to draw closer and closer.
35:26Even non-believers probably felt a bit
35:28tense as the date approached. We had
35:31the rapture incident in Korea back in
35:341992, right? Perhaps this feeling
35:36exists. Within people. So, uh although
35:44the Adventists evangelized more
35:46diligently, the church's opposition and
35:48suppression grew even stronger. In 1841
35:53, mobs broke into assembly halls, and
35:57in 1842, those participating in the
36:02Adventist movement were sanctioned and
36:04prevented from preaching in churches.
36:09Then, as 1843 arrived, although Miller
36:12opposed setting a specific time, about
36:14five different views emerged. Saying He
36:17would come on a specific month and day.
36:19Yes. Uh. But Miller, too, did not set a
36:24date at first. But people kept asking
36:26him, "Please, just give us a rough
36:28estimate." So Miller set the time a bit
36:30broadly. He said it would happen
36:33between the spring equinox of March 21,
36:361843, and March 21, 1844. But later,
36:39this was revised to April 18th. That is
36:43because a Jewish rabbi named Karait
36:45created a calendar known to be much
36:47more accurate, so it was adjusted to
36:49April 18th. However, there was also a
36:55theory for April 3, 1843. It was
36:59believed that Jesus was crucified on
37:02April 3, 33 AD. So, if you subtract 33
37:05years from 2,300, 1,810 years remain,
37:09and an article appeared back then—you
37:12can see the newspaper here—suggesting
37:15Jesus might return on April 3, 1843,
37:18after those 1,810 years had passed. Uh.
37:25This article appeared in a newspaper
37:26called the New York Herald. Since it
37:29was even published in the newspaper, it
37:31turned all of America upside down.
37:36April 3rd passed by without anything
37:38happening. They waited for March 21st,
37:43which William Miller had originally
37:45mentioned, but that day also passed by.
37:49They waited for April 18th as well, but
37:52Jesus did not return. Then the
37:59Protestant churches completely changed
38:01their attitude, and from this point on,
38:03they didn't just stop people from
38:05preaching the advent message or prevent
38:07them from standing in the pulpit; they
38:09began to discipline and excommunicate
38:11anyone who believed in the advent
38:13message or attended the meetings. So,
38:20William Miller had no intention of
38:22starting a denomination. He wanted to
38:26prepare the people for Jesus 'return
38:28within their existing churches. But as
38:32the churches kept excommunicating
38:34people, the people at that time began
38:36to wonder, "Is it right for the church
38:38to go this far?""It's not like I'm
38:42preaching something not in the Bible,
38:44and the promise of His return is in the
38:46Bible, so isn't it problematic that
38:47they won't even let the advent message
38:49be shared?" This caused the trust in
38:53the church to gradually begin to
38:55collapse. Can this even be called a
38:58church? Then in 1843, a pastor named
39:08Charles Fitch preached a sermon titled
39:10"Come Out of Her, My People," based on
39:13Revelation 18: 1-5. In this sermon,
39:20Pastor Fitch declared that Babylon is
39:22the Antichrist. Then what is this
39:26Antichrist? The Antichrist refers to
39:33those who deny the personal reign of
39:35Christ or His literal appearance,
39:37instead asserting a spiritual reign and
39:39a spiritual second coming of Jesus. So,
39:49the Protestant churches at the time
39:51already considered Catholicism to be
39:53Babylon. Most did, but starting from
39:59Charles Fitch's time, the idea began to
40:01slowly spread that Protestant churches
40:03which rejected the first angel's
40:05message and the advent message should
40:08also be included as Babylon. Yes. Back
40:12then, they just thought of the
40:14Protestant church as being like the
40:16Laodicean church. Then, starting with
40:18this sermon, the concept of considering
40:21the mainstream Protestant churches—
40:23which opposed the Second Advent message
40:25, forbade its preaching, and
40:27excommunicated believers—as "Babylon"
40:29took hold. So, Fitch said, "If you wish
40:35to be found in Christ when He appears,
40:37come out of Babylon.""Come out
40:42immediately." That was his sermon. Back
40:45then, it wasn’t an era where you
40:46could rewatch things on YouTube like
40:48today. So, people who hadn't heard the
40:51sermon wanted to hear it, and it was
40:53published as a book and distributed
40:55extensively. In The Great Controversy,
40:59page 376, it states, "As they saw the
41:01testimony of God's Word suppressed and
41:04their right to study the prophecies
41:06denied, they felt that it was no longer
41:09their duty to submit, but to be
41:11faithful to God.""They could not regard
41:13as constituting the church of Christ,
41:15which is the pillar and ground of the
41:17truth, those who were seeking to
41:19silence the testimony of God's Word."
41:22Thus, they felt it was justifiable to
41:24leave the churches to which they had
41:26originally belonged. In the summer of
41:291844, 50,000 members left their various
41:32churches. If just five people left the
41:37church you attend, how would that be?
41:39The church would be turned upside down.
41:4150,000 people leaving is an enormous
41:43event. So, what on earth happened in
41:46the summer of 1844 that caused so many
41:49people to suddenly start leaving? Well,
41:53this was due to a pastor named Samuel
41:56Snow. He was someone who originally did
41:58not believe in the Christian faith. But
42:02one day in 1839, his brother bought one
42:04of Miller’s books from a colporteur
42:06selling books on the street and brought
42:08it home. After reading that book, he
42:11thought, "Ah, the Second Advent must be
42:14true." With that thought, he registered
42:17at a Congregational church and began
42:18attending. He kept talking to people at
42:22the church about the Second Advent and
42:24asking questions, so they told him to
42:26stop. "Don't talk about the Second
42:28Advent." That’s what they told him.
42:29So, he left that Congregational church.
42:32He felt that if they wouldn't let him
42:33preach the Second Advent, there was no
42:34need for him to attend that church. So,
42:37after attending the Millerite tent
42:39meeting held in East Kingston, New
42:41Hampshire, in 1842, he decided he must
42:44preach this message of the Second
42:46Advent. He was ordained in December
42:511843 and became a Millerite preacher.
42:58Through his study of the Bible, he
42:59discovered the typological significance
43:02of the feasts. He published this in a
43:10newspaper called "The Midnight Cry,"
43:12explaining that Israel had spring and
43:14autumn feasts, and the spring feasts
43:16were types of the first advent of Jesus
43:18. So, Jesus was crucified on the day of
43:23Passover, which is when He died as the
43:26Passover Lamb. Then, on the 15th of the
43:28first month, the day of Unleavened
43:30Bread, He was in the tomb; on the 16th,
43:33the day of Firstfruits, He rose as the
43:35first fruits; and 50 days later, on the
43:376th of the third month, the Holy Spirit
43:39descended. Therefore, all the spring
43:41feasts are related to Jesus' first
43:43coming. If so, the autumn feasts are
43:46related to Jesus 'second coming. Just
43:50as the Feast of Trumpets on the 1st day
43:52of the 7th month announced the Day of
43:54Atonement on the 10th day, we are
43:56announcing Jesus' second coming through
43:58our Advent movement. Then, Jesus will
44:01return on the 10th day of the 7th month
44:02according to the Jewish calendar, and
44:04the subsequent Feast of Tabernacles is
44:06a feast to commemorate our salvation.
44:08We will keep that in heaven. Thus, in
44:12the history of the Adventist Church, a
44:14movement called the "Seventh Month
44:16Movement" arose on a large scale in the
44:19summer of 1844. Why the "Seventh Month
44:23Movement"? Because Jesus would return
44:25on the 10th day of the 7th month
44:27according to the Jewish calendar. That
44:30was October 22nd in the Gregorian
44:32calendar. Initially, it didn't get much
44:39attention, but from August 12th to 17th
44:42, 1844, at the Exeter camp meeting,
44:44this claim gained widespread support
44:46among Adventists, and the Seventh Month
44:49Movement began. Now, let's draw this on
44:55a chart. The first angel's message was
44:58fulfilled from 1840 to the autumn of
45:001844 through William Miller's Advent
45:02movement, and as mentioned earlier, the
45:05second angel follows it. However, "
45:07following" here means joining together.
45:10To be with. So, the second angel's
45:13message joins the first angel's message
45:15, and this is what we call the Seventh
45:17Month Movement. And the Adventist
45:22believers applied this typological
45:24beginning of the Seventh Month Movement
45:26, revealed by Snow in the summer of
45:281844, to the midnight cry in the
45:30parable of the ten virgins. The ten
45:33virgins all slumbered and slept because
45:35the bridegroom did not come at the
45:37expected hour. Then, at midnight, the
45:39cry was made: "Behold, the bridegroom
45:41is coming; go out to meet him!" So,
45:42those who were slumbering woke up and
45:44went out. Just as we experienced a
45:47small disappointment in the spring,
45:49when everyone was asleep, this call to
45:51go out and meet Him again gave the
45:53Advent movement new strength and
45:55vitality. However, this second angel's
46:01message does not end here; as noted
46:03earlier, it is progressive and
46:05cumulative. When we go to Revelation
46:10chapter 18, Pastor Haim Ju preached on
46:12this text earlier, crying mightily with
46:15a strong voice, "Babylon the great is
46:17fallen, is fallen!""Babylon the great"
46:19—it's the same as the second angel's
46:21message. But there is something more
46:23attached to it. What happened to
46:26Babylon is that it became a dwelling
46:28place for demons, a haunt for every
46:30foul spirit, and a cage for every
46:32unclean and detestable bird. This
46:38indicates that the apostate church—
46:40the dwelling place for demons, the
46:43various foul spirits, and the
46:44detestable birds—all point to
46:46spiritualism. Yes. It is metaphorically
46:51repeating and emphasizing spiritualism.
46:54It means that the church will
46:56eventually be dominated by spiritualism
46:58. So, in verse 4, when it says "My
47:01people," who does it say is in that
47:03Babylonian church? God's people are
47:05there. It means the message to "come
47:08out of her" will be proclaimed. Modern
47:15spiritualism first began on March 8,
47:171848, in Hydesville, upstate New York,
47:20by the Fox sisters. These people moved
47:25into a new house, and one day they
47:27noticed a knocking sound. They went to
47:30look, but there was no one there.
47:32However, the sound kept repeating. So,
47:38wondering if it might be a ghost, they
47:41said, "If you are truly a living spirit
47:43, knock once," and it knocked just once
47:45. Then they said, "If not, knock twice,
47:52" and it knocked twice. Just like how
47:56people used to communicate via Morse
47:58code, they started communicating with
48:00the spirits of the dead in that house
48:01through knocking. This was the
48:06beginning of modern spiritualism. Then,
48:11from 1914 to 1918, 20 million people
48:14died in World War I. And right after
48:17World War I ended, from 1919 to 1920,
48:20the Spanish Flu became a global
48:22pandemic, just like the COVID-19 we
48:25experienced, killing 50 million people.
48:30Most of the people who died in World
48:32War I and during this pandemic were in
48:35their 20s to 40s. Young people went to
48:38war, and since people didn't live as
48:40long back then during the flu, the ones
48:42who died were mostly the youth. You see
48:48, when so many people die like this,
48:50even COVID-19 changed our society and
48:53our way of thinking. Also, when events
48:58like the Sewol ferry sinking some years
49:00ago or the Itaewon crowd crush happen,
49:02they have such a deep impact that they
49:04even lead to national investigations.
49:10So, with 20 million dead from the war
49:12and 50 million dead from the Spanish
49:14Flu, there were those left behind.
49:18Lovers, wives, parents, and children
49:20left behind by their young fathers who
49:23passed away. Naturally, these people
49:27felt a deep longing for the dead. Satan
49:31used this to introduce spiritualism.
49:34That is why spiritualism became rampant
49:36in the United States. Do you know
49:39Arthur Conan Doyle? He is a very famous
49:43British author who wrote the Sherlock
49:45Holmes series. His son, Kingsley,
49:51participated in World War I in 1916 and
49:54was wounded in France. Then, in 1918,
49:59he died from the Spanish flu. In 1919,
50:03his younger brother died of the Spanish
50:06flu, and his brother-in-law also passed
50:09away. As people around him kept dying,
50:14Sir Doyle became so desperate to see
50:16his son again that he fell into
50:18Spiritualism. In a 1919 lecture, he
50:25described the scene of meeting his son
50:27through a séance. A large, strong hand
50:33was placed on my head, and it was
50:35gently bent forward. I heard the sound
50:40of a kiss right above my lips and I
50:41could feel it. So, I asked while
50:44weeping. "My son, tell me.""Are you
50:48happy?" There was silence, and I
50:51worried if my son had disappeared. I
50:54was anxious. Then, I heard a sigh and
50:59the words, "Yes, I am so happy."
51:05Everyone, if you communicate with a
51:07dead son you miss through Spiritualism,
51:09you cannot escape its influence. Later,
51:13this moved over to England. There is a
51:19museum in England called the Old
51:21Operating Theatre, which is in the
51:23attic of a church built in 1703. It was
51:29originally a place for treating
51:31patients, but now it is a place where
51:33Spiritualism is taught and experienced.
51:37Looking here, Spiritualism has been
51:41recognized as a new religion that came
51:43to England in the mid-19th century. The
51:46most important tenet of the
51:48Spiritualist movement, look closely. It
51:52can be characterized by the belief in
51:54the continuity of life after death,
51:55along with the conviction that the dead
51:57can communicate with the living through
51:59a medium. People remain alive after
52:03death and can communicate with the
52:05living through a medium. This is
52:08Spiritualism. However, look here. The
52:12principles of Spiritualism do not
52:14destroy the Christian faith but require
52:16an understanding of higher metaphysical
52:19principles. But Ellen White says: In*
52:23The Great Controversy*, Satan will
52:25bring people under his deception
52:27through two great errors: the
52:29immortality of the soul and Sunday
52:31sacredness. The immortality of the soul
52:36is the foundation of Spiritualism,
52:38right? Then, Sunday sacredness creates
52:42a sympathy for the Roman Church. So,
52:45they say the Protestant churches keep
52:48Sunday holy through the doctrine of
52:50Sunday sacredness. Through that, they
52:52are bound to grow closer to the
52:53Catholic Church. And later, if this
53:00gets worse, faith in the miracles of
53:02Spiritualism will open the door for
53:04deceiving spirits and doctrines of
53:06devils to enter, and people will feel
53:09the influence of evil angels within the
53:11church. While much of the Protestant
53:19church has not yet gone this far, even
53:21within Protestantism, things like
53:23healing the sick under the name of
53:25various gifts and communicating with
53:27the dead are now entering the church.
53:35This is from page 603 of The Great
53:37Controversy. This Bible verse points to
53:40a time when the message proclaimed by
53:42the second angel in Revelation 14, that
53:44Babylon has fallen, will be repeated.
53:46And it describes, in addition, the
53:48state of corruption that has permeated
53:51all the bodies that make up Babylon
53:53since this message was first proclaimed
53:55in the summer of 1844. Here, the
53:58fearful condition of the religious
54:00world is depicted. Now, everyone,
54:04please look at this chart. When the
54:06third angel's message is proclaimed,
54:07the first angel's message is still
54:09being proclaimed as well. It is still
54:11being proclaimed today. That Jesus is
54:13coming again. But regarding the second
54:17angel's message, the degree of
54:18corruption becomes progressively and
54:20cumulatively worse. So, spiritualism
54:24becomes completely rampant within the
54:26church. Then, it is prophesied here
54:31that the time will come for the message
54:33to be delivered to come out of Babylon.
54:38Every time they reject the truth,
54:40people's hearts become darker and more
54:42stubborn, and they are finally armed
54:44with great unbelief. They will continue
54:49to trample on one of the Ten
54:50Commandments until they ignore the
54:52warnings given by God and persecute
54:54those who faithfully keep His
54:55commandments. I will talk about this in
54:58detail when we cover the three angels '
55:00messages. Now, as we conclude the
55:02second angel's message today, what is
55:05the second angel's message? Fallen is.
55:08Fallen is. Babylon the great. This is
55:11proclaiming that Protestantism has
55:13fallen. So when we share the gospel,
55:17some people say, "Oh, I go to church.""
55:20Go and preach to people who don't
55:22believe." Have you ever heard something
55:23like that? Yes. But let's think. If
55:27someone buys very delicious fruit from
55:30an orchard in a certain region, and it
55:32tastes good and the fruit is very good.
55:36But I know a secret. I know that the
55:40farm owner is using a tremendous amount
55:42of pesticide to produce such perfect,
55:44blemish-free fruit. Then what should we
55:47do? No matter how delicious the fruit
55:50is and even if that person believes in
55:52it, if I am a person of conscience, I
55:54should say, "I heard they use a lot of
55:56pesticide.""You should tell them it is
55:59harmful to eat." There is no doubt that
56:03the Protestant church is a church that
56:05believes in Jesus today. However, as
56:09the prophecy shows, by rejecting the
56:11message once, the degree of corruption
56:13has continued to worsen, and it said
56:15that it finally becomes a dwelling
56:17place for demons. Those two factors are
56:22the immortality of the soul and the
56:24doctrine of Sunday sacredness. Yes.
56:30Therefore, since we Seventh-day
56:32Adventists have a duty to preach the
56:34gospel to those trapped in such
56:36misguided theology, we must tirelessly
56:38share the gospel, books, and our
56:40message not only with non-believers but
56:42also with God's people who are still
56:44within Babylon. Now, on page 214 of
56:53Last Day Events, there are several
56:55points about the people who will carry
56:57out this work. I would like to
57:01introduce just two points today: first,
57:03this work is not done by people with
57:06immense theological knowledge, but just
57:08as He called fishermen in ancient times
57:10to be His disciples, He will raise up
57:12men and women from among ordinary
57:14people to do His work. That is exactly
57:19you. You must do this work. And
57:23secondly, the work of the other angel
57:25who comes down from heaven with great
57:27power and lightens the earth with his
57:28glory will be largely accomplished
57:30through our publishing houses. That is
57:32why we keep producing printed materials
57:34. Creating books, Pastor Kim Dae-sung
57:37constantly producing books and
57:38magazines, sending them to people,
57:40collecting addresses, and sending those
57:43books to people we know—this is our
57:45work of spreading the second angel's
57:47message. And while Sister White spoke a
57:51lot about publishing houses in her day,
57:53today, what has more influence than
57:55books is YouTube. That is why we have
57:58this Channel 7 and various other
58:00channels here. Sharing and spreading
58:05these things to others is also sharing
58:07the second angel's message, and that is
58:09the reason we became Seventh-day
58:10Adventists and what our mission is.
58:15I will conclude my message hoping that
58:17the second angel's message will be
58:19spread more powerfully through you and
58:20through me.
58:21Amen.

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