Charlie loved the truth. He, like many, are not yet there, but he was on his way. He walked into the lion's den knowing the risk. He talked about keeping the commandments. He was on his way. It was not the intent of the killer to kill him because he kept the seventh day Sabbath. He killed him because Charlie spoke truth. It was Satan who had been working on the killer. Why was Satan intent in silencing Charlie? Because Charlie loved God and was teaching truth in many ways, most profoundly, the seventh day Sabbath. Charlie's teaching on the Sabbath is not going away.
There is a fire on which much fuel has been poured. It took a young man to start this fire, and another young man to pour fuel on it. Satan meant to pour water on the fire, to kill the message, but God used sin to exalt the Sabbath Day. As Charlie's wife spoke shortly after the death of her husband, we ought to understand what she does not. She said that they, the ones behind his death, do not know what they have done. "They have no idea what they just ignited within this wife. If they thought my husband's mission was big now … you have no idea." She was right. The fire is roaring and it will not stop until Jesus comes. The Sabbath controversy will be fought around the whole world.
Charlie's wife was vitally connected to Charley and Jesus. She faces a great battle she knows not. The vice president of America is their friend. He too loves the truth. But, he is not as far along as was Charlie and Erika. The release of Charlie's book Stop in the Name of God, Why Honoring the Sabbath Will Transform Your Life, has brought to the front the seventh day Sabbath. Before the release of his book, it is already a "best seller." "Now we seem to be unnoticed, but this will not always be. Movements are at work to bring us to the front." Yes, we will be brought to the front because the Sabbath has now been brought to the front. The seventh day Sabbath has been proclaimed more fully with the death of Charlie Kirk. Charlie and Erika did not understand how important is the book soon to be released. While much is not revealed in the book, it does enough to cause great injury to those who want a Sunday law. The vice president of the United States has a decision to make. Will he agree with Charlie and the Bible, or will he support his Roman Church that is pushing for a national sun day law? And it is not JD Vance only who has a decision to make. The president of the United States whose daughter keeps the seventh day Sabbath has the same decision to make. A fire has been lit and will not go out until we see Jesus coming in the clouds of glory!
At the commencement of the time of trouble, we were filled with the Holy Ghost as we went forth and proclaimed the Sabbath more fully.
“The commencement of that time of trouble,” here mentioned, does not refer to the time when the plagues shall begin to be poured out, but to a short period just before they are poured out, while Christ is in the sanctuary. At that time, while the work of salvation is closing, trouble will be coming on the earth, and the nations will be angry, yet held in check so as not to prevent the work of the third angel. At that time the “latter rain,” or refreshing from the presence of the Lord, will come, to give power to the loud voice of the third angel, and prepare the saints to stand in the period when the seven last plagues shall be poured out.
[The angel of Revelation 14] presents a message that is to be proclaimed to the world just before Christ comes in the clouds of heaven.... Just prior to this time, then, the attention of the people is to be called to the down-trodden law of God, which is contained in the ark of the testament....
They see that instead of observing the seventh day, the day that God sanctified, and commanded to be observed as the Sabbath, they are keeping the first day of the week. But they honestly desire to do God’s will, and they begin to search the Scriptures to find the reason for the change. Failing to find any scriptural authority for the custom, the question arises, Shall we accept a truth that has become unpopular, and obey the commandments of God, or shall we continue with the world, and obey the commandments of men? With open Bibles they weep, and pray, and compare scripture with scripture, until, convinced of the truth, they conscientiously take their stand as keepers of the commandments of God. Mar 170.
Soon persecution will come upon those who refuse to give up the Sabbath. Charlie is an example of what is coming upon the faithful. His people will see revival and reformation. There is a solution for our Laodicean condition, it is given in the Laodicean message. I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and [that] the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see. As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent." Rev. 3:18, 19. Many will indeed follow the counsel and will repent. But, many who were to "watchmen" on the wall are not. They will jump ship when persecution comes. There will be a purification of the ministry in His Church. Some of these have thought it wise to remove "Seventh-day" from their churches and their business cards. They are not Seventh-day Adventists, but are just plain Adventists. It was a joy to hear Elder Ted Wilson explain that we are to use the whole name, not part of it. Why? Because the name is a rebuke to those who are not keeping the Lord's Day.
Thank you, Charlie and Erika for proclaiming the seventh day Sabbath more fully!! God will continue to bless all who love the Lord our God and the day He blessed. "And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made." Gen. 2:2,3.
