The garland with 12 stars may be symbolic of the 12 tribes of Israel ( Genesis 37:9-10 ). And I saw another angel - This must, of course, mean a different one from someone mentioned before; but no such angel is referred to in the previous chapters, unless we go back to Revelation 12:7. Lastly comes the seventh angel, who deals with the world still more decidedly and universally by pouring on the air. Now it is quite plain in the first part of the chapter that we have before us a mighty political power. Revelation 14:6-12 The Proclamations of Three Angels 6 Then I saw another angel m flying in the midst of heaven, n having the everlasting gospel to preach to those who dwell on the earth o to every nation, tribe, tongue, and people 7 saying with a loud voice, p "Fear God and give glory to Him, for the hour of His judgment has come; q . = angel (messenger) cf. "Apostacy" is not the number of a man; nor for similar reasons can "apostate" stand, nor, perhaps, "the Latin man" or kingdom, though certainly entitled to attention. That we are to understand it now is, I think, more than we ought to assume. This is strictly in order. Her being seen in heaven shows that it is not a mere history of what is taking place on earth, but that it is all viewed in God's mind. Let me say why such a difficulty is felt. The book of Revelation describes God as "the Alpha and the Omega" (1:8; 21:6). And there is that final rejection that identifying themselves against God, and thus the wrath of God is to be poured out, the cup of His indignation. Revelation 6:6. God, I am sure, always attaches a far higher value to the heed paid to the Lord Himself, and this too in those that He sends out. If you only mean that some saints are to pass through that tremendous time, it is unquestionable. War on the earth. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) It has been 313 days since the truly . And several groups have sought this identity, but very out of sorts to then follow through and make it possible for Herbert Armstrong.He then embraces the anglo-Israel, British-Israel concept that the supposed lost tribes are actually the European nations. And they are actually deceived into believing that they will be able to triumph. trumpets which follow one another conduct us from the time that the church is seen in heaven glorified till judgment closes, i.e. The explanation why it is thus introduced here depends on the truth that Christ and the church are one, and have a common destiny. And they sang a new song saying, "Worthy is the Lamb to take the scroll and loose the seals, for he was slain, and has redeemed us by his blood out of all the nations, tongues, tribes and people, and has made us unto our God kings and priests and we shall reign with him upon the earth"( Revelation 5:13 ). The Bible Explained: All the Verses of Revelation Are Connected to the Reality of Our Times. Revelation 14:6. why such tremendous doings of Satan here below for a short time, for three years and a half, before the close? Then the first sign was beheld above. having the everlasting gospel to preach unto every nation and people. Assuredly they are saints in the most real sense, but not standing in the relations which now subsist; they are not to have that sort of bond which is made good by the indwelling of the Holy Ghost in those who are now in association with Christ. Verse Revelation 14:6. At this most corrupt time, then, the message will be sent forth, and certain souls will receive it by God's grace. Jehovah witnesses have sought to identify themselves as the one hundred and forty-four thousand. Thus it is plain that God is not at all disposing these matters now as a question of time, but of connection with Christ their centre. angel having the everlasting gospel to preach unto every nation; Nor shall we be opposed, to it, if any one should affirm that the aid, in animating the Confessors of the Gospel, in the same sense in which an angel is said also to have stood beside Paul, throughout the whole chapter; and we admit that this explanation is, to confirm the harmony of the rest of the chronology of Scripture, the sainted. The pressure against His messengers will be enormous. . He was "another" probably like Michael (Revelation 12:7), the nearest specific angel in the context. This is of importance to show the structure of this portion of the book. Rev 14:6-12. CHAPTER 14. It is clearly connected with what we have had inRevelation 12:1-17; Revelation 12:1-17. The cry has gone throughout heaven and earth looking for the one who is worthy to open the scroll. 5. What is mentioned is the judgment, an essential and eternal part of that gospel, standing here as a synecdoche for all of it. The first reminds people of the good news of Gods salvation, adding a warning of judgment and urging sinners to repent (6-7). 7 E. W. Bullinger, Commentary On Revelation (Grand Rapids, MI: Kregel Publications, 1984, 1935), 110. 10, but see Revelation 14:17; Revelation 18:1, where such a reference is hardly possible. No, you are too. Man was made to own Him, and alone does, as taught of God. They are not gods. 6 Then I saw another angel kflying directly overhead, with an eternal gospel to proclaim to lthose who dwell on earth, to every nation and tribe and language and people. They are worshipping the earth. They all stand as a reminder of Christ's . There is, on the one hand, the material tendency of modern science and literature; there is, on the other, the condescending patronage of times that are past. But what lies between? And I looked, and behold a white cloud, and upon the cloud there was one sitting like the Son of man, having on his head a golden crown, and in his hand a sharp sickle. Then (Revelation 16:1-21) we have these seven bowls poured out. And another angel came out of the temple, crying with a loud voice to him that sat on the cloud, Send thy sickle, and reap; for the hour is come to reap; for the harvest of the earth is dried. Each page of scripture is from the King James Bible, and is immediately followed by the meaning of that scripture. John looks and sees the Lamb standing, as though it had been slain. It is because men conjecture and judge out of their own position and their own relationships. Worship the God who made the heavens. In the same token we the church have a special relationship and we have our own song that no one can sing, except the church. Nothing of the kind is ever found in the Apocalypse but "his Father's name on their foreheads." It is glorious to realize that the Lord is presenting me faultless before the Father. In Psalms two, God said, "Why do the heathen rage and the people imagine a vain thing. Scripture reveals that the great business of life is to glorify God by enjoying Him forever. In this paradigm-shattering work, John Piper reveals that the debate between duty and delight doesn't truly exist: Delightisour duty. A Commentary on the Book of Revelation Revelation 11:15-19, 14:6-16:21, 18:1-20:6 Light to the Gentiles | The Law & God's Witnesses Download Full PDF | Print Section Navigation (click to expand) Scripture is positive. In the latter day it will act as the setting aside of the lie of Satan, who puts and would fain keep man in a position of estrangement from God, who is morally forced to be the judge of man instead of being the blesser of all upon the earth, and consequently to cast him into hell. Just so is it in the Revelation. But never earl we understand anything aright as long as we reason and conclude thus. 12 And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood; 13 and the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind. And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people. The dragon represents the enemy of Christ in his political employment of the Roman empire, and this from first to last; so that the heads or successive forms of power are said to be crowned, not the horns, which were only as a fact to be developed before the close of its history at the earliest not before the Gothic barbarians broke up the empire of the west. No empire has avoided the moral sentence implied in the symbols, but this beast will go beyond all that have ever arisen. The next scene gives us an angel flying. Then there is another sign; namely, "a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven diadems upon his heads." In short, whether it be supreme, derivative, or subordinate authority, she is seen with all attached to her. The sound I heard was like that of harpists playing their harps. But any great calamity would be appropriately represented by this - as the change of the moon to such a color would be a natural emblem of distress. Revelation 14:6 Parallel Verses [ See commentary ] Revelation 14:6, NIV: "Then I saw another angel flying in midair, and he had the eternal gospel to proclaim to those who live on the earth--to every nation, tribe, language and people." Revelation 14:6, ESV: "Then I saw another angel flying directly overhead, with an eternal gospel to proclaim to those who dwell on earth, to every nation . "[36] "The announcement of the end is itself a piece of good news."[37]. In the speech of the Lamb, which is the word of the Gospel, are taught in this place these things: The service of the godly consisting inwardly of reverence towards God, and outwardly of the glorifying of him: the visible sign of which is adoration Re 14:7. To preach unto them that dwell on the earth - To all people - as is immediately specified. It is not now the ark of God's covenant seen in the opened temple. So the temple of God is now seen to be open. He is now coming for his bride. We might have thought that the more natural way would be first of all to state the rapture of the man-child; but not so, God always does and describes things in the wisest and best method. The throne is in the very center of this impressive, moving vision that dominates the sky. Introduction. "[41] See outline of the chapter, above. I. The warning against worship of the beast, Revelation 14:9-12 But then it may be asked, why should the birth of the man-child be introduced here, seeing that it was a patent fact that the Lord had been born, had lived, and died, and gone to heaven long before? Now, the three angels flying through the midst of heaven, but now this is another voice from heaven. Then, in the portion which begins with the last verse of Revelation 11:1-19, we return for a special prophecy. "And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should nourish her there a thousand two hundred [and] threescore days.". It is not yet the day for joyous and triumphant accomplishment of the divine purpose, when before Zion travails she is to bring forth, and before her pain come she is to be delivered of a man-child. It is a beast, and not merely a horn. The dragon has only ten horns. The first beast is a political body; the religious chief will not be in the west at all, but in Jerusalem, and a very special object of worship in the temple of God there at the close. He is cast down to earth, and never regains the heavens. "He worketh great signs that he should even make fire to come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men, and deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by reason of those signs which it was given him to work in the sight of the beast.". And the word "ish" in Hebrew is man. When idolatry creeps into the churches of God, it is by the preaching of the gospel, attended by the power of the Holy Spirit, that men are turned from idols to serve the living God, as the Creator of the heaven, and the earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters,Revelation 14:7; Revelation 14:7. Here is the great truth of all times: that God, the God who has now revealed Himself in Christ and by redemption, alone is the due object of worship. Now, in Revelation 14, we have the final answer: (Rev 14:18-20) "Take your sharp sickle and gather the clusters of grapes from the earth's vine, because its grapes are ripe." (19) The angel swung his sickle on the earth, gathered its grapes and threw them into the great winepress of God's wrath. "Here is the patience and faith of the saints." Yes, that is what Jesus said, "With man it is impossible, but with God all things are possible" ( Matthew 19:26 ). See the notes on Revelation 7:9. And he that sat on the cloud thrust in his sickle on the earth; and the earth was reaped ( Revelation 14:14-16 ). Not but that he points out what connects itself with them, as for instance, inJohn 13:1-38; John 13:1-38, and again inJohn 14:1-31; John 14:1-31, as well as inJohn 17:1-26; John 17:1-26 and John 20:1-31. "Worship him that made heaven and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters." Next we come to Revelation 14:1-20, where we have neither the counsels of God as opposed by Satan, first in heaven and then in earth; nor the plan and instruments by which Satan gives battle to those counsels. Mankind has always been fascinated with the heavens: their beauties, their mysteries, their movements, and their surprises. 4. Their melody in praise of the Lord was none the worse for the sea of tribulation through which they had passed into His presence. Why is God going to give us a white stone with a new name (Revelation 2:17)? And what is that? (1-2) The white horse brings a man of conquest. The intent of the gospel message is that people should fear God and worship him. Revelation begins by locating John, the seer, in the realm of time and space. And because lawlessness will abound, the love of many will grow cold. The three angelic messengers, Revelation 14:6-12 i. 10 (Kansas City: Beacon Hill Press, 1967), p. 380. Their own satellite up there. Adam Clarke Commentary. And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a witness to all the nations, and then the end will come. The difference is that the former class is a larger term, embracing the world at large; whereas by the latter is meant a considerably narrower sphere, whose character of earthliness is the more decided, because it had known the heavenly testimony of Christ and the church. Fly in the midst of heaven - In the air; so as to appear to be moving along the face of the sky. He was flying in mid-heaven, so nothing hindered people on earth from hearing his words. It is not only wrath on earth but from heaven. This was far east; but the properly Roman part was western Europe. But scripture cannot be broken. Revelation 14 is the perfect answer to Revelation 13. Then many false prophets will rise up and deceive many. The stupidity of Satan and man thinking that they could actually overthrow God. We shall find, so far from this being the case, that the vision must go back, I do not say to the beginning ofRevelation 14:1-20; Revelation 14:1-20, but before the end of it. 8 And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication. The reason is here explained. Hence the bowls must not in any way be supposed to follow after chapter 14, but only after its earlier part at the utmost. "So also is Christ," says the apostle Paul, when speaking of the church; for we must naturally suppose the allusion is to the body rather than to the head. And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worships the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, 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 ( Revelation 14:9-10 ): Now, this means that God is going to give every man a chance. When that time will be the writer does not intimate further, than that it would be after the beast and his adherents had attempted to stay its progress; and for the fulfillment of this, therefore, we are to look to a period subsequent to the rise and fall of that great anti-Christian power symbolized by the beast and his image. 12 Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus. And to every nation, and kindred, - To all classes and conditions of people; to all human beings, without any distinction or exception. "144,000" This represents the whole Church, all the redeemed, which is true Israel. All must be active and good. All will be in due order when the Lord Jesus takes the government of the earth into His hands in the age to come. Hence Rev., an eternal Gospel. Only God, the one sitting on the throne, and the Lamb can give salvation (John 14:6; Acts 4:12). [36] William Hendriksen, op. The general strain of John is to dwell on Christ manifesting God here below. The Book of Revelation is a work of profound theology. It seems then that God comes down, as it were, to meet them on the lowest possible ground of His own truth. This volume brings together excerpts from a variety of well-respected evangelical thinkers, including John Stott, John Wenham, and E. Earl Ellis, as they articulate the biblical, theological, and philosophical arguments for conditionalism. Indignation is an Old Testament word for the "great tribulation". That is, he imitates the power not only of Christ but of God. Tex. Jesus is in chapter one, as He spoke, His voice was as many waters. Caird speaks of some "who assure us that the gospel mentioned cannot be the gospel, because there is no gospel (good news) in the grim sequel. She was "clothed with the sun." The fact is, they are, as often remarked with justice, the great counter-trinity the trinity of evil as opposed to the Trinity of the Godhead. As applied to the Gospel it marks its likeness to Him whose being is not bounded by time. Revelation 7:3, 4.They have the Father's name written in their minds and hearts showing that they are His people who reflect His . Unfortunately, it got lost in its orbit. Further, the beast is described afterwards in remarkable terms, which allude to the beasts so well known in Daniel 7:1-28. The power of the Spirit of God alone will give them this faith. This clearly is some time before the end. There are also saints here below. Compare Matthew 4:16; Luke 1:79.
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