Giving the Loud Cry

In the last post related to the Three Angels Messages… the guiding principles of Advent Venture Studio… there emerged a very simple analogy in the "steps to Christ".

Simple enough for a child to understand it. Clear enough that a scholar could still miss it. The simplicity revealed something profound:

The right leg receives God's love.
The left leg responds in faith and action.

One step leads naturally to the next.

Love awakens us.
Faith steps out of false systems.
Obedience blossoms from gratitude.

By the time we reach the Third Angel, one foot is firmly on the second step… out of Babylon and living in God's system… while the other rests on the third, keeping the commandments of God through the faith of Jesus.

And then comes the question every honest heart eventually asks:

Can we come closer to our Savior?
Can we come up higher?

The question arises not from pride or self‑righteousness, not from any desire for exaltation, but from a longing to draw nearer to the Love that is already drawing us upward…

Then our eyes focus more on the top step. A warning label stares back:

DANGER: Do not stand on top step!

But who put that label there?
Who tells us it is unsafe to come higher?
Is it heaven… or is it from the deceiver?

Is it truly impossible for our left leg to join the right on that top platform?

Would it be possible to stand?

Scripture asks the same question.

"But who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appeareth?" Malachi 3:2

Here's where the tension begins.

Exodus 33:20 says no man can see God's face and live. Paul says the same:

"And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord… shall destroy with the brightness of his coming" 2 Thessalonians 2:8

So if any remaining sin is consumed by Christ's glory… how will this living group stand in His presence and not be destroyed?

Who shall be able to stand?

Revelation 6 asks the same question as it describes hose who cannot bear His light who flee to the caves, begging for the mountains to hide them:

15 …the great men…hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains;
16 And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb:
17 For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?

This paints a terrifying picture… that any of our character flaws will be exposed at His second coming and this darkness will be consumed by His light:

This is not poetic exaggeration. It is spiritual physics.
Wickedness cannot survive the brightness of perfect love.

Where Revelation 6 ends with the question…
Revelation 7 opens with the answer:

"And I heard the number of them which were sealed… an hundred and forty and four thousand." (Revelation 7:4)

Later in the same chapter:

"These are they which came out of great tribulation… and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb." (Revelation 7:14)

Revelation 14 shows them again, this time in a clear response to "Who shall be able to stand?"

Here… here they are…

"Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus." (Revelation 14:12)

Revelation 15 adds one more piece, it shows the same group who had gained victory over sin:

"…them that had gotten the victory over the beast…" Revelation 15:2

Who are they?

John asked… who is this group? The response:

"…Sir, thou knowest… These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb." Revelation 7:14

They stand on the sea of glass... because they were the only ones who could stand when He appeared.

They sing the song of Moses (instruction and obedience)
and the song of the Lamb (deliverance through Christ).
Now they sing the song of Zion. (thanksgiving and praise for God)

Their song becomes the closing testimony of the great court case we know as the Great Controversy.

Those who took one more step

These are they who dared looking to Christ and taking took one more step…

Remember our legs from the previous post.

The First Angel is the right leg of love accepts God's love for us.
The Second Angel is the left leg of faith in action steps out of false systems.
The Third Angel is when the leg of love now responds with love for God…

Is there a 4th movement?
Is there a Fourth Angel?
Yes!

"And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory. And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen…" Revelation 18:1-2

This is a repeat of the 2nd Angels message but this time with greater power!

The left leg of action steps up to place itself next to the right leg of love.
Now Love and Action are joined.

We are completely at the mercy of God, cut off from all earthly support.

It would be impossible to stand on our own, but we look to Christ to sustain us. We no longer need Advent Ventures, but hopefully it served its purpose helping us up the ladder.

Is it really possible?

Living without sin is like walking on water.
It is impossible on our own and we should not try it.

But with Christ, all things are possible. Matthew 19:26

Just like Peter in Matthew 14:22-33 was able to do the impossible, we too, are able able to be kept from falling:

"Now unto Him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy" Jude 1:24

We simply need to awaken, this is the First Angels message, we must awaken to Christ's love for us.

"Awake to righteousness, and sin not..." 1 Corinthians 15:34

Believe in His promises that He will not let us be tempted more than our faith allows:

"There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it." 1 Corinthians 10:13

That is a big reason why Jesus came, so He could navigate the maze of self and then show us how we too can navigate it:

"The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations…" 2 Peter 2:9-10

We just need to believe…

"...Today if ye will hear His voice, harden not your hearts." Hebrews 4:7

This faith, in action, will bring about the Loud Cry.

The Loud Cry Is Not Volume… It Is Contrast

Remember, the loud cry is not merely the volume of the message.
It is the brightness of the demonstration. A clear contrast from what the world has to offer showing that God's ways were perfect from the start.

The world must see:

• Faces that carry peace instead of panic.
• A people eating simply and thinking clearly.
• A people whose homes are outposts, not entertainment centers.
• Enoch-like messengers who witness in the cities but do not live there.

This is where the vision becomes practical. If the Loud Cry is the brightness of a people prepared, then Advent Ventures exists to help build the structures and systems that make that brightness visible. Removing the barriers that keep God's people from living the message they must proclaim.

That is the role of Advent Ventures in the Fourth Angel's hour.