THE THREE ANGELS’

MESSAGES

16. THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD

COMMANDMENTS: OUT-LIVE & OUT-LAST
REVELATION 12:17
And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and
went to make war with the remnant of her seed,
which keep the commandments of God, and have
the testimony of Jesus Christ.
 Dragon: Devil

 Woman: God’s [Pure/True] church

 Remnant of her seed: The remnant of Jesus

REVELATION 14:12
Here is the patience of the saints: here [are] they
that keep the commandments of God, and the
faith of Jesus.
CONTRAST: HER SEED & THE BEAST

Remnant of Her Seed The Beast

 Worship Christ the Worship the antichrist

LORD [Beast]
 Keep God’s
 Keep man’s
Commandments
 Honour God’s name
commandments
 Honour man’s name
 Have God’s Seal
 Have man’s Mark
 Hallow Sabbath Day
 Hallow Sunday
EXPRESSION: “KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS
OF GOD...”

EXODUS 20:1-6
And God spake all these words, saying, …Thou
shalt have no other gods before me. Thou shalt not
make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness
[of any thing] that [is] in heaven above, or that [is]
in the earth beneath, or that [is] in the water under
the earth: Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them,
nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God [am] a
jealous God,…And showing mercy unto thousands
of them that love me, and keep my commandments.
 WHICH OF THESE TABLETS…?

MATTHEW 19:17-20 [The Rich young ruler]

…But if thou wilt enter into life, keep the
commandments. He saith unto him, Which? Jesus
said, Thou shalt do no murder, Thou shalt not
commit adultery, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt
not bear false witness, Honour thy father and
[thy] mother: and, Thou shalt love thy neighbour
as thyself. The young man saith unto him, All these
things have I kept from my youth up: what lack I
yet?
 DID THE RICH YOUNG RULER KEEP THE
COMMANDMENTS OF GOD?
All these things have I kept from my youth up: what
lack I yet?

MARK 7:9, 10
And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the
commandment of God, that ye may keep your
own tradition. For Moses said, Honour thy father
and thy mother; and, Whoso curseth father or
mother, let him die the death...
 Which commandment is Moses referring to?

 Fifth
 WHEN WAS THE TEN
COMMANDMENTS GIVEN TO ISRAEL?
EXODUS 19:3, 4
And Moses went up unto God, and the LORD called
unto him out of the mountain, saying, Thus shalt
thou say to the house of Jacob, and tell the children
of Israel; Ye have seen what I did unto the
Egyptians, and [how] I bare you on eagles' wings,
and brought you unto myself.

 Would it be just for God to ask Israel to keep his

commandments while they were under another
master?
 EXODUS 19:5, 6
Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed,
and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar
treasure unto me above all people...

EXODUS 19:8
And all the people answered together, and said, All
that the LORD hath spoken we will do....
DEUTERONOMY 4:10, 13
The day that thou stoodest before the LORD thy
God in Horeb, when the LORD said unto me,
Gather me the people together, and I will make them
hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all
the days that they shall live upon the earth, and
[that] they may teach their children…
…And he declared unto you his covenant, which he
commanded you to perform, [even] ten
commandments; and he wrote them upon two
tables of stone.

-Did God give and instruct Israel to keep his

Commandments?
-Did God expect Israel to love and obey his
Commandments?

Israel said: “All that the Lord has said, we will do.”
EXODUS 32: Israel worships the golden calf
 LET’S REVISIT ISRAEL’S BONDAGE
IN EGYPT
EXODUS 20:1, 2
And God spake all these words, saying, I [am] the
LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the
land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
EXODUS 1:13, 14
And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to
serve with rigour: And they made their lives bitter
with hard bondage, in mortar, and in brick, and in all
manner of service in the field: …
EXODUS 2:23, 24
…And the children of Israel sighed by reason of the
bondage, and they cried, …and God remembered his
covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
 GOD IS GOOD!
 God delivers Israel from slavery
 God sustains them in the dessert

 God feeds Israel with heaven’s food

 God quenches Israel’s thirst

 God preserves Israel’s clothes and sandals

 God shades Israel with a cloud by day and warms

them with fire by night

Note: Israel saw God’s Ten Commandments…

JEREMIAH 31:31-33
Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will
make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and
with the house of Judah: Not according to the
covenant that I made with their fathers in the day
[that] I took them by the hand to bring them out of
the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake,
although I was an husband unto them, saith the
LORD: But this [shall be] the covenant that I will
make with the house of Israel; After those days,
saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward
parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their
God, and they shall be my people.
 A STUBBORN PEOPLE

 The Ten Commandments was given in 1400

B.C., and written on two tablets of stone

 A New Covenant: 600 B.C [By the Prophet

JEREMIAH]…written in their hearts

 Between God’s Law and JEREMIAH’S

writing: 800 years of rebellion.
 NEW COVENANT: WITHIN NOT
WITHOUT
OLD TESTAMENT NEW TESTAMENT

 Law: Tablets of stone  Law: Tablets of the

heart
 Ancient Israel’s
Problem: Behaviour  Modern Israel’s
Problem: Heart
 Israel’s problem: Sin  Israel’s problem: Sin
[open] [secret]
 Law: Intrinsic
 Law: Foreign
ALL HUMANITY: HEART CONDITION
GENESIS 6:5
And God saw that the wickedness of man [was]
great in the earth, and [that] every imagination of
the thoughts of his heart [was] only evil
continually.

JEREMIAH 17:9
The heart [is] deceitful above all [things], and
desperately wicked: who can know it?

MATTHEW 15:19
For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders,
adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness,
blasphemies:
 ROMANS 7:18-22
For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,)
dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with
me; but [how] to perform that which is good I find
not. For the good that I would I do not: but the evil
which I would not, that I do. Now if I do that I
would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that
dwelleth in me. For I delight in the law of God after
the inward man:

MATTHEW 6:21
For where your treasure is, there will your heart
be also.
MATTHEW 12:34
O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil,
speak good things? for out of the abundance of the
heart the mouth speaketh.
MATTHEW 5:27, 28
Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time,
Thou shalt not commit adultery: But I say unto you,
That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her
hath committed adultery with her already in his
heart.
MATTHEW 15:18,19
But those things which proceed out of the mouth
come forth from the heart; and they defile the man.
For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts,
murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false
witness, blasphemies:
PHARISEES: DASHING YET DEVILISH
MARK 7:6
He answered and said unto them, Well hath Esaias
prophesied of you hypocrites, as it is written, This
people honoureth me with [their] lips, but their
heart is far from me.
MATTHEW 23:25, 26
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!
for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of
the platter, but within they are full of extortion
and excess. [Thou] blind Pharisee, cleanse first that
[which is] within the cup and platter, that the
outside of them may be clean also.
 WHY AREN’T SOME CHRISTIANS ABLE TO
KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD?
 Because they have been already drunk with
Babylon’s wine

2 SAMUEL 11:13, 15 [David’s affair with Uriah]

And when David had called him, he did eat and
drink before him; and he made him drunk: and at
even he went out to lie on his bed with the servants
of his lord, but went not down to his house. And he
wrote in the letter, saying, Set ye Uriah in the
forefront of the hottest battle, and retire ye from
him, that he may be smitten, and die.
PSALMS 51:10
Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew
a right spirit within me.
 LOVE PRECIPITATES ACTION
JOHN 14:15
If ye love me, keep my commandments.
EXODUS 20:6
And showing mercy unto thousands of them that
love me, and keep my commandments.
JOHN 8:58
Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you,
Before Abraham was, I am.

 Will the end-time remnant of her seed keep the

Commandments of God?
 TWO SURGICAL OPERATIONS WITHOUT
VISIBLE SCARS
EZEKIEL 36:26, 27
A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit
will I put within you: and I will take away the stony
heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart
of flesh. And I will put my spirit within you, and
cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall
keep my judgments, and do [them].
PHILIPPIANS 2:13
For it is God which worketh in you both to will
and to do of [his] good pleasure.
 GOD’S IMMUNE/ANTIVIRAL
BOOSTER AND INNOCULATOR
HEBREWS 13:20, 21
Now the God of peace, that brought again
from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great
shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the
everlasting covenant, Make you perfect in
every good work to do his will, working in
you that which is wellpleasing in his sight,
through Jesus Christ; to whom [be] glory
for ever and ever. Amen.
ALL WE NEED IS LOVE : REALLY…?
ROMANS 13:8, 10
Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for
he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law. Love
worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love [is]
the fulfilling of the law.
1 JOHN 2:4
He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his
commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in
him.
1 JOHN 5:3
For this is the love of God, that we keep his
commandments: and his commandments are not
grievous.
 WOULD YOU LIKE TO BECOME A PART OF
GOD’S REMNANT PEOPLE?

REVELATION 14:12
Here is the patience of the saints: here [are] they
that keep the commandments of God, and the
faith of Jesus.
PSALMS 119:11
Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not
sin against thee.
2 CORINTHIANS 3:18
But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass
the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same
image from glory to glory, [even] as by the Spirit of
the Lord.
 CHARACTERISTICS: GOD’S
REMNANT
JOHN 4:24
God [is] a Spirit: and they that worship him must
worship [him] in spirit and in truth.
PSALMS 119:105
Thy word [is] a lamp unto my feet, and a light
unto my path.
 If his word is the lamp, why don’t you walk in its
path?
 If his word is the light, why don’t you search its
pages for hidden truth?
 THE ICING ON THE CAKE..
REVELATION 12:17
And the dragon was wroth with the woman,
and went to make war with the remnant of her
seed, which keep the commandments of
God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.
NEW HEART

NEW SPIRIT

BIBLE TRUTH

PART OF THE REMNANT [KEEP THE

COMMANDMENTS OF GOD]
TESTIMONY OF JESUS