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Advent HOPE Sabbath School

Alistair Huong and Norman McNulty: The Book Of Revelation

Alistair Huong

An Overview on The Book of Revelation

Revelation Chapter 1

Ephesus

Smyrna and Pergamos

Thyatira

Norman McNulty

Sardis And Philadelphia

Laodicea

The Book With Seven Seals

The Seven Seals

The 144,000

The Seven Trumpets, Part 1

The Seven Trumpets, Part 2

Revelation 10: The Second Advent Movement

Revelation 11:1-14 The Two Witnesses and The French Revolution

The Seven Trumpets, The Woman And The Dragon

Revelation 12: The Accuser of The Brethren

Revelation 13: Big Picture of The Beast

Revelation 13: The Image To The Beast

Revelation 14:1-5: The Characteristics of the 144,000

Revelation 14:6-8: The 1st and 2nd Angels’ Messages

The Third Angel’s Message

Revelation 14 and 15: The Harvest

Revelation 15: The Close of Probation and the Fit Man

Revelation 16: 1-13: The Seven Last Plagues

Revelation 16: 16-21: Armageddon in Jacob’s Time of Trouble

Revelation 17:1-7: The Judgment of the Great Whore

Revelation 17: The Seven Heads

Revelation 17:8-18: The 7 Heads: 7 Popes or 7 Kingdoms?

Revelation 18:1-4: The Loud Cry

Revelation 18:4-24: The Fall Of Babylon

Revelation 19&20 - Marriage of the Lamb and the 1000 Years

Revelation Final Class: Our Prophetic Identity and Mission

Father in heaven, we thank you for the Sabbath day.

We thank you for the opportunity to study the Bible.

We pray that as we study the 3 angels' messages today that you would give us special understanding and insight into the things of God.

We Thank you for all these things in Jesus' name, amen.

Okay, well I haven't been here for a few weeks, so it's nice to be back.

And 2 weeks ago, Emmanuel Beck taught the first angel's message here in this class.

I listened to it on AudioVerse, and it was a very interesting class.

So where we are in Revelation right now, we're going to just tie up the first angel's message briefly and move on to the second angel's message and probably get into the third angel's message today.

But if you look at the structure of Revelation 14, there's 3 parts, and Immanuel Beck talked about this last time.

You have the 144, 000 in the first 5 verses, and then you have the 3 angels messages in verses 6 through 12.

You see the special resurrection in verse 13 and then verses 14 through 20 is the harvest.

Now as we learned last time, here you have the special group of people the 144, 000 and we see that the 144, 000 are produced by the 3 angels messages so 144, 000 special group of people produced by a special set of messages the 3 angels messages and then when you have the 3 angels messages being given by the special group of people the 144, 000 you have the harvest just before the Second Coming.

So that's the structure of Revelation 14.

Now, I want to show you 1 verse that shows how the concept of the 144, 000 and the 3 angels' messages tie in.

In verse 5 of Revelation 14, we see that, in the 140, describe the 144, 000.

In verse 5 it says, in their mouth was found no guile, for they are without fault before the throne of God." Then we get into the 3 angels' messages, and in verse 7 it says, the message is, the first angel, fear God, give glory to Him.

I want to turn to Psalms chapter 34, starting in verse 11.

There are volunteers that would be willing to read Psalms 34 verses 11 and 13.

So Psalms chapter 34 verse 11 and verse 13.

Keep your tongue from evil and your lips from speaking lies.

Okay, so in verse 13 it says, keep your tongue from evil and your lips from speaking guile.

Do you see that connection with the characteristics of the 144, 000, in their mouth was found no guile?

And in Psalms 34, part of the characteristics of what it means to fear God is to keep your your lips from speaking guile.

Therefore you can see that if you follow the admonition of the 3 angels' messages, starting in the first angel's message, the very first thing, learning about how to fear God, you're going to learn how to keep your lips from speaking guile.

And that's the characteristics of the 144, 000.

The other thing is, again, the first angel's message, which is the first message of the 3, is the message that contains the everlasting gospel.

And the everlasting gospel, Adventists like to talk about this and say, oh yes, we teach the everlasting gospel.

And yet, in reality, most Seventh-day Adventists probably don't have a complete or clear understanding of what the everlasting gospel is.

Let me give you an example of how far out some people go with the gospel.

And Desmond Ford happens to be in town this weekend and this is how he defined the everlasting gospel.

He said, okay, I know that Jesus lived here on this earth and the 4 Gospels describe Christ's teachings on the everlasting gospel.

He was a lawyer, therefore he gave a more accurate legal description of the gospel than Christ did.

And Paul's description of the everlasting gospel from a legal sense only is found in Romans 3, 4, and 5.

Therefore, really the only place to find the description of the gospel is found in Romans 3, 4, and 5.

And Romans 3, 4, and 5 therefore supersedes any other part of Scripture when it comes to the gospel, even the teachings of Christ.

And so Adventists will say, oh yes, we believe the everlasting gospel, but then they start latching on to this Ford-like gospel that says the only thing that saves you is the covering of Christ's righteousness, you can keep on sinning and you're fine.

So if we're gonna, and the reason why this is important is if you're gonna get from the first angel's message to the second angel's message and finally to the third angel's message and all 3 as a package produce the 144, 000, you have to understand the everlasting gospel and the first angel's message, or you'll never understand what it means to fear God, give glory to Him.

You're gonna throw out the judgment as Does For did because his gospel said there's, what's the purpose of the judgment?

So you wanna understand the first angel's message, then the concept of Babylon being fallen won't make any sense, and then the third angel's message with the mark of the beast is irrelevant.

So starts with a clear understanding of the gospel, and if you study Romans 1 through 8 in its totality, That's the everlasting gospel.

But I want to read Romans chapter 1, verses 1 through 3.

Let's get a volunteer to read Romans chapter 1, verses 1 through 3.

Paul, a servant of Jesus, called to be an apostle, separated under the gospel of God, which he had promised of 4 by his prophets in the Holy Scriptures, concerning his son Jesus Christ our Lord, which was made of the seed of David according to the flesh." And read verse 4 also.

"...and declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the Spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead.

Now, if you have an understanding of the book of Romans, Paul summarizes the gospel in these first few verses of Romans chapter 1.

Paul is separated unto the gospel of God.

Concerning Jesus Christ our Lord, which was made of the seed of David according to the flesh.

That he was made of the seed of David according to the flesh.

That He was made of the seed of David according to the flesh.

And when you get to Romans chapter 8 we see that He came in the likeness of sinful flesh, condemned sin in the flesh, that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us who walk not after the flesh but after the Spirit.

The gospel is that Jesus came in the likeness of sinful flesh so that we could live a righteous and holy life as he did.

So when you get to the first angel's message, the everlasting gospel is the good news that Jesus came at the seed of David in the likeness of sinful flesh, condemned sin in the flesh so that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled.

And thus you walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit." So that's the everlasting gospel.

Of course, the good news of Him dying for the cross, the forgiveness of sins, and the just living by faith, that's all part of it.

But especially the good news that we can live a righteous life by faith as Jesus did, so that we can stand in the judgment, which is part of the first angel's message.

So Emanuel Beck already covered a lot of this, I just wanted to hit a few of those points.

And 1 other thing, Okay, so when we see this concept of fearing God giving glory to him if you want to see a biblical example of someone who feared God and gave glory to God there's 1 Bible character that meets both descriptions.

Who's a biblical character who is described as fearing God and also as giving glory to God?

I'll let you study this on your own, but it's Abraham.

Genesis chapter 22 verse 12, when Abraham was about to put the knife into Isaac, the angel stopped him and said, now I know that you fear God.

And then in Romans chapter 4 verse 20, when he believed against hope that he and Sarah could have a child when they were past childbearing age, he believed in the creative power of God.

Romans 4.20 says, he was strong in faith giving glory to God.

So Abraham is an example of the first angels message.

He feared God by offering up Isaac, He gave glory to God by believing in the creative power of God to give him a new child.

That's why he's the father of the faithful.

It says in the first angel's message, the hour of his judgment is come.

Now, a lot of times, as Seventh-day Adventists, we'll study Revelation, and we'll jump straight to the 3 angels' messages, and that's okay.

Series

Alistair Huong and Norman McNulty: The Book Of Revelation

Revelation 14:6-8: The 1st and 2nd Angels’ Messages

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