Sabbath Delight
03-18-2023
Proverbs 8
1 Doth not wisdom cry? and understanding put forth her voice?
2 She standeth in the top of high places, by the way in the places of the paths.
3 She crieth at the gates, at the entry of the city, at the coming in at the doors.
4 Unto you, O men, I call; and my voice is to the sons of man.
5 O ye simple, understand wisdom: and, ye fools, be ye of an understanding heart.
6 Hear; for I will speak of excellent things; and the opening of my lips shall be right things.
7 For my mouth shall speak truth; and wickedness is an abomination to my lips.
8 All the words of my mouth are in righteousness; there is nothing froward or perverse in them.
9 They are all plain to him that understandeth, and right to them that find knowledge.
10 Receive my instruction, and not silver; and knowledge rather than choice gold.
11 For wisdom is better than rubies; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it.
12 I wisdom dwell with prudence, and find out knowledge of witty inventions.
13 The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.
14 Counsel is mine, and sound wisdom: I am understanding; I have strength.
15 By me kings reign, and princes decree justice.
16 By me princes rule, and nobles, even all the judges of the earth.
17 I love them that love me; and those that seek me early shall find me.
18 Riches and honour are with me; yea, durable riches and righteousness.
19 My fruit is better than gold, yea, than fine gold; and my revenue than choice silver.
20 I lead in the way of righteousness, in the midst of the paths of judgment:
21 That I may cause those that love me to inherit substance; and I will fill their treasures.
22 The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old.
23 I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was.
24 When there were no depths, I was brought forth; when there were no fountains abounding with water.
25 Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth:
26 While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world.
27 When he prepared the heavens, I was there: when he set a compass upon the face of the depth:
28 When he established the clouds above: when he strengthened the fountains of the deep:
29 When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth:
30 Then I was by him, as one brought up with him: and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him;
31 Rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth; and my delights were with the sons of men.
32 Now therefore hearken unto me, O ye children: for blessed are they that keep my ways.
33 Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse it not.
34 Blessed is the man that heareth me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors.
35 For whoso findeth me findeth life, and shall obtain favour of the LORD.
36 But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death.
Faith and Works (FW)
from chapter 9 “The Brazen Serpent”
Here is another case Christ presented before Nicodemus—the serpent that was lifted up in the wilderness—and declared, “Even so must the Son of man be lifted up” (John 3:14). And if He is lifted up, He will draw all men unto Him, “that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish but have eternal life” (Verse 15). Now just look at that brazen serpent. The children of Israel had not realized that God had been keeping them by His angels sent to be their help and their protection. The people had not been destroyed by the serpents in their long travels through the wilderness. They had been an ungrateful people. {FW 69.1; FO.68.4}
We are just so. We do not realize the thousand dangers that our heavenly Father has kept us from. We do not realize the great blessing that He has bestowed upon us in giving us food and raiment, in preserving our lives by sending the guardian angels to watch over us. Every day we should be thankful for this. We ought to have gratitude stirring in our hearts and come to God with a gratitude offering every day. We ought to gather around the family altar every day and praise Him for His watchcare over us. The children of Israel had lost sight that God was protecting them from the venomous beasts. But when He withdrew His hand their sting was upon them. {FW 69.2; FO.69.1}
What then? Why, Christ Himself told Moses to set up a pole and make a brazen serpent and put it upon that pole and to raise it in the sight of the Israelites, that everyone who looked upon it might live. They had no great work to do. They were to look because God said it should be. {FW 69.3; FO.69.2}
Now, suppose that they had stopped to reason it out and said, “Why, it cannot be that by looking at that brazen serpent we will be healed! There is no life in it!” But the look of faith did heal them just as God had told them it would. Those who looked lived. Those who stopped to argue and explain it, died. {FW 69.4; FO.69.3}
What are we to do? Look and live. “And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up” (John 3:14). The reason? That those who behold Him “should not perish, but have everlasting life” (John 3:16). {FW 69.5; FO.70.1}
What kind of faith is that? Is it to believe simply, or is it a faith of admission? There are many here who have that kind of faith. You believe that Jesus was the Son of God; but do you have a personal faith in regard to your own salvation? Do you believe that Jesus is your Saviour? that He died on Calvary’s cross to redeem you? that He has offered you the gift of everlasting life if you believe on Him? {FW 70.1; FO.70.2}
Testimony: 02-24-2018
Beloved, at around 11:50 pm, this night that happened February 24, 2018, this voice woke me, it was a voice that when I heard it I was asleep and there it woke me up, and that voice told me: “be strong and do not hesitate, God speaks in parables so that only His true children understand Him, they will advance without hesitation, since they are the understood ones.” {Daisy Escalante: 02-24-2018 , en.p1}
At that moment when I heard that, then I got up, after this I could not sleep, I was receiving many instructions on things that I personally should do and help other people as well. Then this was spinning in my head, these words that “God speaks in parables so that only His children can understand.” So at that moment, when I was thinking about all this, as He referred me an example, He told me: “Isaiah 26.” He had already mentioned it to me before, then He told me: “that only the understood will understand.” {Daisy Escalante: 02-24-2018 , en.p2}
So I got up, prayed, asked God to help me reach more people so that they would not suffer and that they could prepare for the imminent coming of the Lord. So, at this moment, in my supplication, in my prayer, I was told that it was going to be like that and not to worry, I was told that our SDA church is taking the lives of its parishioners in its hands and taking them to the precipice. He referred to them as dumb dogs that see danger and enjoy falling, and causing others to fall, but whose retribution was already designated. So at that moment I saw like a movie, I saw a small handful of conscious people who are raising their voices so that many do not perish and can prepare for what we have on us. {Daisy Escalante: 02-24-2018 , en.p3}
At that time I was instructed not to hesitate and to follow the line of truth that is becoming more and more accentuated, because heaven has stipulated it. I saw a terrible war between the SDA organization and the true servants of God. It was a maximum fight of destruction, but the latter were freed by the divine hand. At that moment the scene ended and the voice returned again to say: “God speaks in parables so that His true children will understand them.” {Daisy Escalante: 02-24-2018 , en.p4}
So, beloved, after a while of meditating on this, praying,… I went back to bed meditating on this and thanking God for His infinite mercy towards His true people. I don’t know when, but as soon as I fell asleep deeply, I was taken to this place that was a room in the basement of a church, there I saw all kinds of activities, everyone was absorbed in them, from meals to movies. Then suddenly someone ran in and said: “the mob is coming.” At that time all kinds of uniformed men entered and they all began to run through the urbanizations, cities, leaving there outside that room through a back part that had these lower parts of the church, there was a door and they all ran out. But as much as they ran, it didn’t matter where they went, they always caught them. So I would yell at them with all my might to go to the fields, to run to the fields, but my petitions were in vain because there were barricades around that city and they couldn’t get out no matter how hard they tried. {Daisy Escalante: 02-24-2018 , en.p5}
Then my companion, at that moment He told me: “let’s go.” So I did not want to leave because there I saw pastors, elders, deacons, many well-known people, who were taken by discouragement or disbelief or delay and they did not make preparations for their escape. So now, then, I saw them as they were taken to large campuses, these campuses were surrounded by serpentines and they were being mistreated and they cried bitterly there without consolation. So I asked them to leave me there, that I could help them, that they allow me to help. So then I was not allowed, but we went to another place. {Daisy Escalante: 02-24-2018 , en.p6}
We went into a field where there were people, these people were plowing the land, others were sowing, others were harvesting, others were preparing furrows for planting and irrigation. Then I was shown some planting terraces, which also accumulated water, how this was prepared to work in this way. Then the most beautiful greens that I have ever seen were planted there. All the people who were there in that place were not affected by what was happening in the city, this group was calm, since they were absorbed in their tasks, and they were not looking at what was happening in the cities. {Daisy Escalante: 02-24-2018 , en.p7}
At that moment I was taken to a large hut in that place, and there everyone with great supplications asked God to forgive them, to liberate them and to direct them. Then I was told to pay attention to those three acts: to ask for forgiveness, to ask for liberation and to ask for direction. At that moment I was absorbed in this and a tumult was heard in the distance, but it was intensifying more and more and more and more. So we were kind of alert. So the closer this tumult got the more the shouting and noise intensified. So those of us who were present were afraid, because we knew what that noise meant, or at least I knew it, because I already knew what had been happening in the cities because that’s where I came from. {Daisy Escalante: 02-24-2018 , en.p8}
Then we all fell on our knees to pray and start crying out for liberation, at that moment my companion told me: “come and see.” Then we were suspended in the air and I saw the mob coming. At that moment many angels came down to the aid of the faithful children of God. It was a wonderful moment where the mountains could hardly support that angelic host and with drawn swords they were fixed in the turbulent mob. Then at that moment my companion said to me: “what do you see?,” and I said to Him: “oh! I see the people of the living God protected by exalted angels!. That scene was wonderful!, I was absorbed seeing all this and at the same time very moved. Then when I told Him like this, that I saw the people of the living God protected by exalted angels, He answered me: “the sacrifice does not matter, it is worth being faithful.” So at that moment I said a big “amen!” and said: “blessed God!” And at that moment there I woke up. {Daisy Escalante: 02-24-2018 , en.p9}
Dear brothers, let’s not be slow, let’s not be lazy in not doing God’s will. Because it is going to cost us a lot and not just us, but our little ones, our teenagers, our young people, those who for some reason themselves may not be able to get out but rather depend on adults to get them out of these conflagrations so terrible that they are going to come to the cities. {Daisy Escalante: 02-24-2018 , en.p10}
Let’s get ready!, let’s prepare our hearts before the Lord, let’s kill self, let’s kill pride, let’s kill everything in the name of the Lord that prevents us from doing God’s will. Let’s go out quickly, in haste!, let’s go out joyful knowing that we are fulfilling the will of God!. It does not matter, no matter the pains we suffer, no matter what we leave behind, everything is worth for the kingdom of God! {Daisy Escalante: 02-24-2018 , en.p11}
It is my prayer and my request that we all prepare ourselves, and that those of us who are already in this continue to prepare for these things that we already have almost on top of us, and for future events, and especially in the spiritual life to meet our God. May the Lord bless you all. {Daisy Escalante: 02-24-2018 , en.p12}
Isaiah 26
1 In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah; We have a strong city; salvation will God appoint for walls and bulwarks.
2 Open ye the gates, that the righteous nation which keepeth the truth may enter in.
3 Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.
4 Trust ye in the LORD for ever: for in the LORD JEHOVAH is everlasting strength:
5 For he bringeth down them that dwell on high; the lofty city, he layeth it low; he layeth it low, even to the ground; he bringeth it even to the dust.
6 The foot shall tread it down, even the feet of the poor, and the steps of the needy.
7 The way of the just is uprightness: thou, most upright, dost weigh the path of the just.
8 Yea, in the way of thy judgments, O LORD, have we waited for thee; the desire of our soul is to thy name, and to the remembrance of thee.
9 With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee early: for when thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.
10 Let favour be shewed to the wicked, yet will he not learn righteousness: in the land of uprightness will he deal unjustly, and will not behold the majesty of the LORD.
11 LORD, when thy hand is lifted up, they will not see: but they shall see, and be ashamed for their envy at the people; yea, the fire of thine enemies shall devour them.
12 LORD, thou wilt ordain peace for us: for thou also hast wrought all our works in us.
13 O LORD our God, other lords beside thee have had dominion over us: but by thee only will we make mention of thy name.
14 They are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they shall not rise: therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them, and made all their memory to perish.
15 Thou hast increased the nation, O LORD, thou hast increased the nation: thou art glorified: thou hadst removed it far unto all the ends of the earth.
16 LORD, in trouble have they visited thee, they poured out a prayer when thy chastening was upon them.
17 Like as a woman with child, that draweth near the time of her delivery, is in pain, and crieth out in her pangs; so have we been in thy sight, O LORD.
18 We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it were brought forth wind; we have not wrought any deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.
19 Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.
20 Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast.
21 For, behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.
Testimony: 12-08-2018 #01
Beloved, on December 8, 2018, while I was in my bed, the word of God came to me saying: Write and don’t stop, speak and don’t be quiet; This people honors me with their lips, but their way is continually evil, and I will no longer tolerate it. Their spoil soon will be at their doors, and their ruin will be seen by all; They were enriched by the innocent and the foolish, they made a feast and a banquet to the God Molech. Tammuz reigned among them because they venerated the fruit of Semiramis. O perverse nation and obstinate, who believe that by knowing my sayings you can sit as queen and judge as a judge to those who alert my sheep before your wickedness! You will no longer be recognized, neither in this age nor in the age to come, for the evidence of your wickedness has been evidence to many worlds; You were not jealous nor did you repent, you allowed iniquity and transgression in your bosom, you ate of it and became fat like a calf of the herd, and what then will become of you on the day of spoil? Within you the light shone, and pearl of great price was granted to you, but you rejected it and buried it. And seeing this, others, with great terror began to dig what you burry, but you lashed them and made fun of them, scorn and disgrace you gathered on their heads! but these impelled by my power and my love continued to dig in search of the pearl of great price; but you rejected it, and you threw wolves that dressed as sheep they grazed the flock and grew fat from it, you beat them and hurt them, but they continued with the intense love and zeal, love that I filled them, and they continued to dig in their search. So what did you do? When you saw that your arm could not stop them, you borrowed civil power, the power of earthly justice to be able to claim the land where they dug to find the pearl of great price, like yours; this land that was abandoned and despised by you, was suddenly, by you, subtly appreciated; not because of the pearl that was there, but because of your interest that it remain there, and you said: “no mortal will know, and only our word in consensus will be heard, and our honor will continue being ours.” {Daisy Escalante: 12-08-2018 #01, en.p1}
“Foolish, lacking in reason, indolents, and lacking in spirit! Can anything be hidden from Jehovah’s sight? Will my administrative angels not be witnesses? Isn’t the Holy Spirit working yet? How then do you say ‘This is the house of the Lord’ when the pearl is buried? But your plans have been discovered! and you want to kill the excavators!, you ask the evil one for consent, and you have entered into love with their women. You know that the pearl will shine in the truth and your blackness will be discovered! How could you have thought that this moment would not come? Foolish!, slow in doing good, wise in convenience and in bad behavior! Your honors inflated you and your profits corrupted you. You loved delights more than God, but today I tell you: today I have raised archaeologists in your midst who will not give up, and the pearl of great price will shine, and you will be terrified of its brightness, it will shine so bright that not only you will be terrified but the one you adopted as your sister, and made a pact with her to hide the pearl, will come upon you and you will not have anyone to help you because you rejected the Saint of Israel, but this pearl in her entrails she will have little help for the one who freed her, and although evil scourge on her, it will not prevail, because a thousand will fall by your side and ten thousand will fall at your right hand but they will not reach you. My true people will recognize the light of the great pearl and will come out of your darkness, in which you have fallen in the light, and they will see you from afar and cry for you, but their heart will overflow with gratitude and joy to see the light of the pearl of great price that you hid, and were able to come out of its darkness.” {Daisy Escalante: 12-08-2018 #01, en.p2}
“Woe to you Israel! Woe to you Samaria! Woe to you Jerusalem! I named you, I made you mine, but your lovers seduced you with an infernal loop and from their claws you will not escape. Come out of her my people!, do not touch the unclean, follow the pearl of great price, listen to the voice that cries in the desert, and straighten the road and repair gates, make sacrifices only to Jehovah and praise His Holy Name, and be joyful because pearl of great price has been found and its light shines among you. These archaeologists, the Holy Spirit mobilized them to look for the pieces, and these even at the cost of their own lives, moved by the supernatural, began the search, guarded and directed by the administrative angels; bruised despised, hated, and in great hardship they did not give up their search, and today the light shines, dispelling the dense darkness. You heard that it was said ‘oh Jerusalem that I shed my tears for her,’ today it will be the same way because you falsified the prophecy and hid the pearl, the guide of my people. But you, who taught many, will not give up before the pearl, and they will recognize your error, because your reputation is more prevalent in you than your humiliation.” {Daisy Escalante: 12-08-2018 #01, en.p3}
“What will happen then when you see and understand that grace and mercy was done for you, as in Jerusalem while they proclaimed ‘this is the house of Jehovah’? Many will come upon you and will kill you, because they will see your great darkness in which by your own will you fell because you rejected the Holy One of Israel. What then will you say that day? What then will you do? Will those who see the pearl of great price and receive its light remain begging the darkness to change this, its nature? Can the leopard change its spots and the zebra remove its stripes? Don’t you see what happened in alpha and omega was predicted to be worse? As I live that the impudence of the omega surpassed the alpha, because they call bad things good and good things bad. Where is my truth? It is carried by those who love and have and execute the truth of the pearl of great price, there will be no excuse for any because this pearl is exposed before all, but some follow renowned men that I did not call, these are many, vast in their own wisdom, conceited by the people and fattened by them, but their supporters and followers will fall if they do not give up on them because the time is almost fulfilled. Slanderers of what is good, experts in wrongdoing!, with vain justice and dead law sit judging those who love and defend the truth and struggle for others to see it; Oh! How can you fail to realize your destiny of perdition, that like an impetuous stream of water, on the shore you show yourself as calm and gentle water, but your depths are currents to certain death?” {Daisy Escalante: 12-08-2018 #01, en.p4}
“Sitting as queen, as Jerusalem you are, and just as her, her grief will soon come to you, and whoever is within your gates like Jerusalem will suffer the same fate, because you did not know that the Holy One of Israel gather you, raised you, sustained you, he clothed you, and crowned you, and you were filled with perversities even more than the women of the night; They saw you and were scared of you when they found out who supported you and clothed you and see now on what you have become, for you there is no escape, your destiny is traced, my eyes are bathed with tears for you, because not even with the anguish from Jerusalem you learned and became even more abominable than her. Jerusalem, you who reject and kill your prophets, you who rejected and killed the Holy of Holies!, now you modern Jerusalem have rejected and killed the Holy of Holies again.” {Daisy Escalante: 12-08-2018 #01, en.p5}
“You deceive, steal, adulterate, and your followers will be guilty of your same abominations because they loved men rather than the God of Israel; but my people shine by the brilliance of the pearl of great price, and this light guides them to the dungeons where you have hidden the truth, and to the labyrinths where you keep the flock occupied and trapped so that these are not illuminated with its glory and this light will prevent them from enlightening others. These will be attacked by many, but the pearl of great price will continue to light the way; many died waiting to see what this adulterous and perverse generation is seeing today, but the understood will understand. What excuse will you put before this testimony? Because from new moon to new moon and from Saturday to Saturday all flesh will come to worship before me, says the Lord, or what then will you say about this? The same sign that I gave to Jerusalem will not be given to them, or what will you do about this? Dumb dogs and blind guides lead the flock. Is not the ear for hearing and the eyes not for seeing? Isn’t the understanding to understand and the feet to walk? But this people suffer of mind and heart, and their mind was ecstatic in perverse excitement, and their heart in the pleasures of the world.” {Daisy Escalante: 12-08-2018 #01, en.p6}
“They sit, eat and drink, sleep in spacious beds and surrounded by comforts, refuse to walk the narrow and arduous path of salvation; for this reason both their king and their princes, in one will fall, and their subjects with them, because they venerated the lust and passions of this world, and they loved the words of peace when I have not spoken to them of peace; Will the ant give up its work for the indolent cicada? Will the bee stop giving honey so that others do not benefit? Could it be that the light will stop shining so that the darkness can take its course? As I live that each one has its place, but this the latter will soon pass away and will never prevail again. Oh! A perverse generation that rejoices in darkness and despises the light!, despises my laws, my statutes, my prophets. To what is revealed they called own opinion and to the own opinion they called revealed. Don’t you know that without prophecy the people will unrestrained? Slow to do good and quick to do bad. Those who gather with you, very soon, everything, all this that they gather will be scattered. My plan is almost fulfilled, and my people strive and advance because they are understood, the work of evil moves in darkness, and many will soon see it, but their expectations will not be satisfied and they will deny its effectiveness, because their minds suffer of understanding, because their heart rejoices in the work of their own hands, they hate what is true and love what is false, whitewashed tombs that are terrified of the truth and rejoice in the lie, Woe to you because your hour has come! And who can help you, if the only help comes from above?” {Daisy Escalante: 12-08-2018 #01, en.p7}
At that time beloved Malachi 3: 9 was given to me. I leave these words with you and may the Lord direct your minds and direct your lives. It is my request and prayer. May the lord bless you. {Daisy Escalante: 12-08-2018 #01, en.p8}
Malachi 3:9
9 Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation.
Hymn 81: Lord, I know you! *
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Hymn 92: No one can ever separate us *
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