Originally published on Friday, July 15, 2011, 1:14 pm in Spanish at www.ultimoconteo.org
Ellen G. White wrote a prophecy in a book that no one discovered for a long time:
“These things saith He that holdeth the seven stars in His right hand.” Revelation 2:1. These words are spoken to the teachers in the church--those entrusted by God with weighty responsibilities. The sweet influences that are to be abundant in the church are bound up with God’s ministers, who are to reveal the love of Christ. The stars of heaven are under His control. He fills them with light. He guides and directs their movements. If He did not do this, they would become fallen stars. So with His ministers. They are but instruments in His hands, and all the good they accomplish is done through His power. Through them His light is to shine forth. The Saviour is to be their efficiency. If they will look to Him as He looked to the Father they will be enabled to do His work. As they make God their dependence, He will give them His brightness to reflect to the world. {The Acts of the Apostles, chap. 57, “The Revelation”, 586.3}
If you read this for the first time, it sounds like a nice sermon and very poetic. Read it three times! It has incredibly deep content...
Look out for all the Bible verses that are mentioned:
One is obviously Revelation 2:1:
Unto the angel of the church of Ephesus write; These things saith he that holdeth the seven stars in his right hand, who walketh in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks;
This brings us directly to the previous verse, the mystery of the seven stars:
The mystery of the seven stars which thou sawest in my right hand, and the seven golden candlesticks. The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches: and the seven candlesticks which thou sawest are the seven churches. (Revelation 1:20)
Who are these angels?
Ellen G. White tells us above that they are the teachers of the church:
These words are spoken to the teachers in the church--those entrusted by God with weighty responsibilities.
The question is... what are these “weighty responsibilities”?
Answer: The teachers must reflect His glory to the world. What Bible verse is this?
Ellen G. White on the teachers:
...and all the good they accomplish is done through His power. ... As they make God their dependence, He will give them His brightness to reflect to the world.
This is no doubt a reference to Revelation 18:1:
And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory [brightness].
Hence, these teachers, who are the angels of the churches in the mystery of the seven stars and are represented by the seven stars themselves, are those teachers who give the fourth angel’s message at the end of time.
And this brings us to another Bible verse:
And they that be wise [“teachers” in other translations] shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever. (Daniel 12:3)
What message do these teachers really have? What are these “weighty responsibilities” of the teachers?
It’s definitely the fourth angel’s message in these sentences. But what is the content of the message of the fourth angel?
Ellen G. White said it clearly, but for so many years since 1911 nobody found it. The phrase after “weighty responsibilities” explains the exact content of these responsibilities:
...those entrusted by God with weighty responsibilities. The sweet influences that are to be abundant in the church are bound up with God’s ministers...
We know that Ellen G. White used only the King James Version of the Bible, and if we look for the words “sweet influences” in the King James Version, we find only a single verse that has these words:
Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion? (Job 38:31)
Both parts of Ellen G. White’s sentence as reflected in this verse are talking not about the Pleiades, but the seven stars of Orion!
The word translated as “Pleiades” is:
3598
כּימה
kı̂ymâh
kee-maw'
From the same as H3558; a cluster of stars, that is, the Pleiades: - Pleiades, seven stars.
Ellen G. White connects...
- The mystery of the seven stars
- The last message for the church given by the teachers
- The message of the fourth angel
- And the loud cry
with…
The Seven Stars of the Orion Constellation!
The teachers of Daniel 12:3 are BOUND UP with this message of the “sweet influences” of the seven stars of Orion. To give this message is their “weighty responsibility.” Thus, they must reflect the light from the throne of God to the world, which will finally shine with the glory of the Lord and show HIS LOVE.
But what exactly are these “sweet influences”? From whom comes the message? Who is the Teacher of the teachers (of the 144,000)?
Ellen G. White tells us this, too:
It is not always the most learned presentation of God’s truth that convicts and converts the soul. Not by eloquence or logic are men’s hearts reached, but by the sweet influences of the Holy Spirit, which operate quietly yet surely in transforming and developing character. It is the still, small voice of the Spirit of God that has power to change the heart. {PK 169.1}
Let the prayer go up to God, “Create in me a clean heart;” for a pure, cleansed soul has Christ abiding therein, and out of the abundance of the heart are the issues of life. The human will is to be yielded to Christ. Instead of passing on, closing the heart in selfishness, there is need of opening the heart to the sweet influences of the Spirit of God. Practical religion breathes its fragrance everywhere. It is a savor of life unto life {Letter 31a, 1894}
It is the “still, small voice of the Spirit of God” who is the Teacher of teachers. It is the same Holy Spirit who led us to believe in the truth of the “Great Holy Clock in Orion” and will very soon speak for the last time:
And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues. For her sins have reached unto heaven [have been marked in Orion], and God hath remembered her iniquities. (Revelation 18:4-5)
And only the 144,000 wise teachers (Daniel 12:3) understand this “still, small voice” which comes from Orion:
Soon we heard the voice of God like many waters, which gave us the day and hour of Jesus’ coming. The living saints, 144,000 in number [the wise teachers], knew and understood the voice, while the wicked thought it was thunder and an earthquake. {EW 14.1}
To which group do you belong?
