The Beauty of the Special Resurrection
God is so kind and so merciful as to raise in a special resurrection the faithful who have died in the third angel’s message. When was the third angel’s message given to God’s people?
“Unto two thousand and three hundred days, then shall the sanctuary be cleansed.” (Daniel 8:14)
The 2300 day prophecy started in 457 B.C. when the decree was given to restore and build Jerusalem by king Artaxerxes. If we jump into the future 2300 years from 457, that will take us to 1844. This is when Christ went into the Most Holy Place of the heavenly sanctuary to cleanse it.
This is also when He gave His faithful people the third angel’s message. Therefore if anyone accepts the third angel’s message and they die, these people will come up in the special resurrection of Daniel 12:2.
“And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.” (Daniel 12:2)
“Graves are opened, and “many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth” “awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.” [Daniel 12:2.] All who have died in the faith of the third angel’s message come forth from the tomb glorified, to hear God’s covenant of peace with those who have kept his law. “They also which pierced Him,” [Revelation 1:7.] those that mocked and derided Christ’s dying agonies, and the most violent opposers of his truth and his people, are raised to behold him in his glory, and to see the honor placed upon the loyal and obedient.” {Great Controversy page 637}
“It is urged, further, that the 144,000 must all be those who have never died, because they are “redeemed from the earth” and are “redeemed from among men.” But this is no objection; for these very expressions will apply to those who have died in the Lord under this message (third angel’s message), as well as to those who never die. It will be asked how this can be; and the answer is that they come up in the special resurrection, embracing a limited number of both righteous and wicked, as mentioned in Dan.12:2 and Rev.1:7. Those who, in this resurrection, come up to everlasting life (though not then made immortal) are those who belong to the 144,000 because they have died in the message…” (A study of the 144,000 By Uriah Smith p. 7)
According to the Bible, Spirit of Prophecy, and Pioneer writings, The special resurrection is for a limited number of people embracing both the righteous and the wicked. The pioneer said that the righteous who come up in the special resurrection belongs to the 144,000!
Therefore, the special resurrection is the resurrection of the 144,000 who have died in the third angel’s message keeping the Sabbath. This shows you that every faithful Seventh-Day Adventist who FULLY accepts the third angel’s message, which includes the Sabbath, will be counted among the 144,000!
Here are the closing words of the third angel’s message. “Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus.” (Revelation 14:12)
The Sabbath is the fourth commandment, so to fully accept the third angel’s message and keep the commandments of God, YOU MUST KEEP THE SABBATH!
So the special resurrection are for those who died keeping the Sabbath. Also the sixth commandment of the second table of the Decalogue says, “Thou shalt not kill.” And to kill the body by destroying our health is violation of the sixth commandment.
To keep the commandments of God like the third angel points to, WE MUST NOT KILL OURSELVES THOUGH VIOLATION OF THE LAWS OF HEALTH. So there are two major things that the third angel points to:
1. Sabbath reform and Sabbath keeping (Commandment four)
2. Health reform and staying healthy (Commandment six)
“Here are they that KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD…” (Rev. 14:12)
Therefore, God will resurrect in a special resurrection anyone who have died after 1844, keeping the Sabbath and obeying health reform!
Are you willing to truly keep the Sabbath? Are you willing to truly obey the laws of health reform? If so you will be among the 144,000 and never die! And should you die, you will come up in the special resurrection and be among the 144,000!