The Three Angel’s Messages
First Angel
And I saw another angel flying
in midheaven, having an eternal gospel to preach to those who live on the
earth, and to every nation and tribe and tongue and people; and he said with a
loud voice, “Fear God, and give Him glory, because the hour of His judgment has
come; worship Him who made the heaven and the earth and sea and springs of
water.”
Rev. 14:6, 7
This first angel also warns the world to worship God,
the creator. Notice once again that God
is referred to as the Creator. This is
significant in that it points out one of the things the earth needs to be
reminded of one last time: Times and
laws were changed by man, not by God, and the law having to do with time and
that also contains God’s title as our creator is the law regarding the Sabbath
(see chapter five of this book).
Therefore, one way in which we worship God is by honoring his authorship
of everything when we keep his Sabbath day -- Saturday.
Second Angel
And another
angel, a second one, followed, saying, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the Great,
she who has made all the nations drink of the wine of the passion of her
immorality.”
Rev. 14:8
What does it mean that she is the mother of
harlots? Well, if harlots are impure
women, and women in prophecy refer to churches, the harlot daughters of Babylon
the great would be false churches joined with the mother of all false
churches. Protestantism united with
Catholicism.
The second Angel’s message is
repeated in more detail in Revelation 18.
Third Angel
Then another
angel, a third one, followed them, saying with a loud voice, “If anyone
worships the beast and his image, and receives a mark on his forehead or on his
hand, he also will drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is mixed in
full strength in the cup of His anger…” Here is the perseverance of the saints
who keep the commandments of God and their faith in Jesus. And I heard a voice from heaven, saying,
“Write, ‘Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on!’” “Yes,” says
the Spirit, “so that they may rest from their labors, for their deeds follow
them.”
Rev. 14:9, 10, 13
I heard another voice from
heaven, saying, “Come out of her, my people, so that you will not participate
in her sins and receive of her plagues; for her sins have piled up as high as
heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities. Rev.
18:4, 5
Probation is almost closed and the choice must be
made by every person left alive on the earth: will they join God or will they
join Satan, will they be saved or will they participate in the judgment plagues
God is about to send on the earth?
But after the
three and a half days, the breath of life from God came into them (the two witnesses, the two olive trees, the Holy
Spirit and Jesus), and they stood on their feet; and great fear fell
upon those who were watching them. And
they heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them, “Come up here.” Then they went up into heaven in the cloud,
and their enemies watched them. And in
that hour there was a great earthquake, and a tenth of the city fell; seven
thousand people were killed in the earthquake, and the rest were terrified and
gave glory to the God of heaven. The
second woe is past; behold, the third woe is coming quickly. Rev. 11:11-14
The three and one half years have passed. Those who received the mark of the beast, whether his name or his number, are locked in with their choice and tremble with great fear. The Holy Spirit and Jesus stop working and leave the earth on its own.
In Chapter 12 of the book of John a voice came out of heaven and spoke to Jesus. In verse 29 it says, So the crowd of people who stood by and heard it were saying that it had thundered; others were saying, “An angel has spoken to Him.” Just as some who were standing around Jesus knew they had heard a voice while others thought it was simply thunder, so too when probation closes at the end of time on this earth. Some will know that the Holy Spirit has left this earth and that Jesus has stopped interceding for us, while others will not have a clue.
Will you know when probation closes? Will you be sealed by God or will you have
received the mark of the beast?
Probation is going to close and we must make a choice as to what side we
will be on.
Addendum
The Antichrist
The prefix “anti” is used to describe a person or
organization that is against, or opposes, or counterfeits something. So an “anti” Christ would be a person or
organization that is against, opposes, or counterfeits Christ. In the Bible,
the term antichrist is not found in the book of Revelation. Here are some verses where you will find this
term.
…just as you
heard that antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have appeared… (1 John
2:18) John, the same John who wrote
Revelation, says there were antichrists in his time so this term is not limited
to one person at the end of time, as many seem to believe.
Who is the
liar but the one who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, the one who denies
the Father and the Son. (1 John 2:22)
Here we see that an antichrist is one who denies that Jesus is the
Christ, the Messiah, and therefore an antichrist is one who denies God the
Father and Son.
…every spirit
that does not confess Jesus is not from God; this is the spirit of the
antichrist, of which you have heard that it is coming, and now it is already in
the world.
(1 John 4:3) Even in John’s day
there were people who said Jesus was just a man, or just a good man, or just a
prophet. They denied then, and millions
deny today, that Jesus is from God.
As you can see, there have been antichrists for 2000
years. There is no reason to use the
term in any special way or as referring to any special person in our study of
end time events.
