Once we pry loose these prophecies from the cold dead
hands of those who misapplied them originally, we can this time "do
it right"!
The 5th SEAL began in the time of the Millerites (1844)
and extended to the Jewish Holocaust, a period of about a century.
Revelation 6:9-11 "And when he had opened
the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that
were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they
held..."
In the 1880s, midway in this period, Ellen White
wrote "Great Controversy" about the Christian martyrs of
all the ages, and many books of "Testimonies."
10 "And they (the Seventh-day Adventists) cried with a loud voice
(the "Loud Cry"), saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true,
dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the
earth?"
An Adventist doctrine that came to the forefront
between 1844 and 1888 was the idea of an "Investigative Judgement"
in which all the bad acts of history would be judged. ...Meanwhile Adventists were taught that Jesus, as a High
Priest, was protecting Adventists themselves from being judged harshly in
a "Heavenly Sanctuary".
11 "And white robes were given unto every one of them; (the Adventists became largely vegetarian, the "New
Essenes") and it was said unto them, that they should rest
(they were also taught by visions and study
to keep the Seventh-day Sabbath) yet for a little season, until
their fellowservants and brethren, (Jews all over
the world) should be killed as they (the
Christian martyrs mentioned in E.G. White's "Great Controversy")
were, should be fulfilled.
(Thus, the JEWISH HOLOCAUST marked the END of this, the FIFTH Seal.) |