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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

So it's 1 of the high points of the book of Revelation.

Why don't we go ahead and get started so we can maximize our time.

So let's bow our heads for a word of prayer.

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

We thank you that we can come together and to study the Bible.

Please bless us Now as we open up your word, may we gain deeper insights into your truth.

Just as a reminder, if you have a comment, raise your hand.

Dave Thiel back there has the microphone with him.

And I may ask you to read a verse as well.

And we'd like you to read into the microphone.

So we're going to turn to Revelation chapter 14 and we are going to be looking especially at verses 9 through 12 today.

Now just as a background to remind us where we are in the book of Revelation, Revelation 14 has 3 sections.

Verses 6 through 12 is the 3 angels messages and then the rest of the chapter describes the harvest so you have 144, 000 who are prepared by the 3 angels messages and the 3 angels messages given by that special group of people enables the harvest to be ripe at the time when Jesus comes.

So that's the structure of Revelation 14.

Now What we talked about last week is that in order for the 144, 000 to be prepared, you look at their characteristics and you say, well, I'm not at that level yet, but yet that's the level that God wants us to be aiming for.

We wonder how we could get to that point.

Will the 3 angels' messages prepare us to get to that point?

And the first angel's message has the everlasting gospel, which is forgiveness and victory over sin through the power of Christ.

Then we see the second angel's message, Babylon is fallen.

Now we're going to get to the third angel's message.

But 1 of the key points is in order for the 144, 000 to be prepared, we need to get through all 3 messages.

So you have the first angel's message, then the second angel's message, and finally to the third angel's message.

And all 3 together will be what it takes to prepare the 144, 000 to be God's special group of people.

So we're gonna study the third angel's message today.

And we're gonna start now in Revelation 14, verse 9.

And I'd like a volunteer to read verses 9 through 12.

So Revelation chapter 14 verses 9 through 12.

And the third angel followed them saying, with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image and receives his mark in his forehead or in his hand, the same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation.

And he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb.

And the smoke of their torment ascended up forever and ever, and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whoever receiveth the mark of his name.

Here are they that keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus.

Okay, so verses 9 through 12 is the third angel's message of Revelation 14.

So as we studied last week, the first angel's message first began to be given by the Millerite movement.

They preached Revelation 14, 6 and 7, fear God, give glory to Him, the hour of His judgment is come.

They mistakenly thought that the hour of God's judgment was the second coming, and yet they preached that message.

And then they started to preach the second angel's message in the summer of 1844 when the other Protestant churches kicked the Millerites out of their churches for teaching the imminent second coming of Christ.

And if you, again, if you look back at the history of the churches of that time, many of the churches, not all, but a majority of them were post-millennialists who believed that there would be a thousand years of peace and prosperity before Jesus came back.

So the preaching of the imminent return of Christ was not a very popular message to them and they didn't want to hear it.

So that was 1 of the main reasons why the Millerites were pushed out of the churches at that time.

So the first and second angels' messages began to be given even before 1844, but the third angels' message could not rightfully be given in totality or in completion until after 1844 because this was the time period when Jesus goes from the holy place to the most holy place into the Ark of the Testament.

If you go back to Revelation 11, 19, you see the temple of God is open in heaven, and they're seeing the Ark of His Testament.

So when the temple of God is open in heaven at the sounding of the seventh trumpet you move into 1844, the final judgment, the ark of the Testament where the law of God is contained, and the third angel's message describes a group of people that keep the commandments of God, and that includes, of course, the fourth commandment, the seventh day Sabbath.

So the third angel's message, which includes the keeping of the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus, could not be fully understood by the Millerites until there was a rediscovery of the Sabbath message.

And historically after 1844 the Sabbath was rediscovered.

It eventually got into the hands of Joseph Bates.

He then shared it with James and Ellen White.

And then Hiram Edson who had discovered the sanctuary message got together with them.

And then you had the confluence of the Sabbath and sanctuary message in the early believers.

So historically the third angel's message began to be given shortly after 1844 when there was a discovery of the Sabbath message.

So going back then to looking at the big picture of the 3 angels' messages, there's this progression of the first angels' message, the everlasting gospel, the forgiveness of sin and the power of Christ to be like Jesus as well.

The fearing God giving glory to Him, the judgment hour message, the reminder that God is creator, He made earth in 6 days, rest of the seventh, and then the reminder that Babylon is fallen.

And as we talked about last week, a lot of times Adventists will focus on the first angel's message, but then we don't go to the second and the third, and if we don't have them in totality, then the 144, 000, the preparation of the 144, 000 will continue to be delayed.

And it is true that once you get past the first angel's message, Some people may find the second and the third angels' messages to be perhaps a little bit more objectionable, but they are here in Scripture.

God has given them to us for a reason, and so we need to study them out and to be familiar and understand with what these messages are so that we can be properly equipped for the time in which we live.

So the third angel's message we read verses 9 through 12.

Now notice in verse 9 It says, the third angel followed them, the first and second, saying with a loud voice.

So this is a message that gains, that should gain much attention because it's given with a loud voice, just as the first angel was given.

And in verse 9 we see, if any man worship the beast and his image and receive his mark in his forehead or in his hand, the same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God.

Now, this requires then some understanding of Revelation 13.

Now, how many of you were here when we went through Revelation 13?

Now, how many of you here are Seventh-day Adventists?

So, I'm assuming that you would understand Revelation 13 where it talks about the beast, his image, and the mark in his forehead or in his hand.

Just as a quick reminder though, because this is the beginning to the third angel's message, Revelation 13 has the 2 beasts.

You have the beast with 7 heads, 10 horns, coming up out of the sea, has the deadly wound.

Then you have the lamb-like beast that comes out of the earth, and he causes those on the earth to worship the first beast which had the deadly wound and was healed.

You study that out historically, it's clear that the first beast is the papal power.

And then we have, and here Revelation 14, 9, worshiping the beast, that would be worshiping papal Rome and his image and receiving his mark.

The image of the beast, If you study out the characteristics of the beast, an image would be the same as what the, or a very similar pattern or a description.

The image of something is a description of what you're describing.

The beast in Daniel and Revelation is a persecuting power that combines the power of the state to enforce religious power.

And so the image of the beast is union of church and state.

The mark of the beast is enforcement of Union of Church and State, specifically Sunday worship.

So here is then the crucial aspect of the third angel's message.

If you study Revelation 13, you get the idea that all the world wonders after the beast.

So whatever this beast is doing, or the 2 beasts in Revelation 13, is going to deceive nearly the whole world.

And so God needs something to counter that, to save as many people as He can save during the last days.

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