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THIRD ANGEL’S MESSAGE JUSTIFICATION BY FAITH RIGHTEOUSNESS BY FAITH By Nyron Medina

What is Justification by Faith? First , “Faith” is the revealed truths of the Gospel. (1 Tim. 4:6; Phil. 1:27).
Faith is the truths of the Spirit revealing unseen spiritual things, it is evidence of unseen spiritual things. (1 Cor. 2:4-7,10,12,13; Heb. 11:1).

Justification means to be made righteous by being counted or mentally esteemed righteous. (Rom. 5:19; Rom. 4:5,11).
It is God that justifies, for it is justification in God’s sight (or estimation). (Rom. 8:33; Rom. 3:20).
Faith contains the Righteousness of God. Rom. 1:16,17; Pro. 12:17.
Thus when God imputes of gives to the penitent the Faith of Jesus Christ, He gives him the Righteousness of God, thus the person is justified or made righteous through the instrument of Faith. Rom. 3:22,20.
So “Justification by Faith” can best be described as the experience of being made righteous by the gift of Faith in which Righteousness is acquired. (Rom. 5:19; Rom. 4:5; Rom. 3:22).
Thus it is also being made obedient to the Law of God through Faith. Rom. 3:30,31.
What is Righteousness by Faith? First; Righteousness is the Righteousness of God, God Himself. Jer. 23:5,6.
This Righteousness of God is in Faith. Rom. 3:22; Pro. 12:17.
Thus “Righteousness by Faith” is the Righteousness of God given through the imputation of Faith. (Rom. 4:5; Rom. 3:22).
How is this Justification by Faith the real third angel’s message? We must first review the summary of the content of the third angel’s message. They are:
a. Don’t worship the beast and his image.
b. Don’t receive the mark of the beast in heart or by works.
c. Or you will receive the merciless wrath of God (the plagues).
d. And you shall forever be destroyed in hell fires.
e. God’s people endures by keeping God’s Commandments through the Faith of Jesus Christ.
Justification by Faith/Righteousness by Faith is the real Third Angel’s Message because:
a. To turn from the worship of the beast and his image by rejecting the mark of the beast, is to repent of sin and be Justified by Faith of Jesus Christ. (Acts. 3:19; Gal. 2:16).
b. To keep from the worship of the beast and his image and from accepting the mark of the beast one must keep the Commandments of God by the Faith of Jesus Christ. Rom. 3:30,31.
c. Thus Justification and Obedience of faith is the real third angle’s message or the Gospel. (Rom. 4:25; Rom. 16:25, 26).
Now, concerning the Loud Cry of the fourth angel; we are told that he is the angel who unites with the third angel.
“The angel who unites in the proclamation of the third angel's message is to lighten the whole earth with his glory. A work of world-wide extent and unwonted power is here foretold.” Ellen G. White, The Great Controversy, pg. 611.
When the third angel’s message swells into a Loud Cry, this loud cry is the beginning of the light of the Loud Cry of the fourth angel’s message.
“As the third message swells to a loud cry, and as great power and glory attend the closing work, the faithful people of God will partake of that glory. It is the latter rain which revives and strengthens them to pass through the time of trouble. Their faces will shine with the glory of that light which attends the third angel.” Ellen G. White, Testimonies for the Church, Vol. 1, pg. 353.
“The time of test is just upon us, for the loud cry of the third angel has already begun in the revelation of the righteousness of Christ, the sin-pardoning Redeemer. This is the beginning of the light of the angel whose glory shall fill the whole earth.” Ellen G. White, Selected Messages Book One, pg. 363.

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