The Three Angels’ Message
First Angel’s Message
“Then I saw another angel flying high overhead with eternal
good news to proclaim to those who live on earth, and to every nation, tribe,
language, and people. He said in a loud voice, ‘Fear God and give him
glory, for the hour of his judgment has come. Worship the one who made heaven
and earth, the sea and springs of water’ ” (Revelation 14:6-7).
John
witnessed an angel flying in the air and spreading the gospel of Christ to
those throughout the earth. This is not a usual event because angels have not
normally been the ones to spread the gospel, but humans. Yet this angel was
sent to proclaim to the inhabitants of the earth that they should reverence God,
who is our Creator, for the judgment had come. Some biblical scholars believe
that the reason the angel spread the gospel was that the church had been taken
in the rapture. In their view, the church would not be here to do so, which
means that the angel was designated to do the job. Yet, would the earth’s
inhabitants listen? He would warn them to listen to the Lord instead of the
antichrist. The Gospel of Jesus tells of His saving power and of our being
sinners saved by His grace. Yet, because He died for our sins and rose on the
third day, we can spend eternity with Him.
Unfortunately, so many today lack respect for
the things of God. They do not reverence Him and totally disregard the holy
things. It is like what took place during Daniel’s time under the reign of King
Nebuchadnezzar’s son, Belshazzar. He had no regard for God and misused God’s
holy artifacts that had been taken from the temple during Israel’s captivity.
However, God pronounced judgment on him by giving him a personal message with
His hand. The Bible says: “Belshazzar the king [who was a descendant of
Nebuchadnezzar] gave a great feast for a thousand of his nobles, and he was
drinking his wine in the presence of the thousand guests. Belshazzar, as he tasted
the wine, gave a command to bring in the gold and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem, so that the
king and his nobles, his wives and his concubines might drink from them. Then
they brought in the gold and silver vessels that had been taken out of the temple, the house of God
which was in Jerusalem; and the king and his nobles, his wives and his
concubines drank from them. They
drank the wine and praised the gods of gold and silver, of bronze, iron, wood
and stone. Suddenly
the fingers of a man’s hand appeared and began writing opposite the lampstand
on the plaster of the wall of the king’s palace, and the king saw the part of
the hand that did the writing” (Daniel 5:1-5).
King Belshazzar had not paid attention to
his father’s humbling experience. Nebuchadnezzar had been made to humble
himself before God by becoming a beast of the field when pride entered his
heart. Only after he recognized God and gave Him glory, seven years later, was he
restored to his former position as King of Babylon. This is like the message that
the first angel delivered. The inhabitants of the world were created to give
God glory; yet, when we fail to do so, we are out of alignment with our Creator.
Many governments,
including the United States, think they are the sole reason for their wealth
and prosperity. However, nothing could be further from the truth. God is the
only reason the United States has been a great nation. Unfortunately, as the
United States is trying to usher God out of government, homes, schools, and
finances, the Lord is ushering in judgments upon the land. The protections, sovereignty,
wealth, and individual liberties we once enjoyed as a nation are quickly coming
to an end. The world is like a frog in a pot that does not realize the heat is
being turned up until the lid is put on and it’s too late to jump out.
Judgment is upon the
land, as the warning that had been given to Belshazzar, and the handwriting is
on the wall. Yet, few have spiritual discernment to understand the closeness of
the hour. The Bible says: “But you, Belshazzar, his son,
have not humbled yourself, though you knew all this. Instead, you have set
yourself up against the Lord of heaven. You had the goblets from his temple
brought to you, and you and your nobles, your wives and your concubines drank
wine from them. You praised the gods of silver and gold, of bronze, iron, wood
and stone, which cannot see or hear or understand. But you did not honor the
God who holds in his hand your life and all your ways. Therefore, he sent the
hand that wrote the inscription. ‘This is the inscription that was written:
mene, mene, tekel, parsin’ ‘Here is what these words mean: God has numbered the
days of your reign and brought it to an end. Tekel: You have been weighed on
the scales and found wanting. Peres: Your kingdom is divided and given to the
Medes and Persians’ ” (Daniel 5:22-28). Our days as a powerful nation
have been numbered and is coming to an end. God has weighed us in the balance,
and we have been found wanting. Our nation is no longer the United States of
America, but the divided states, and our enemies will one day use it to their
advantage.
Every
day, violence, riots, war, disease, animal deaths, and droughts are reported in
the news domestically and abroad. God is letting us know that He is displeased
with the world. Sadly, many choose to ignore the alarms, yet the angels
continue to deliver their message.
The Second Angel’s Message
“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” (Revelation 14:8).
John witnessed the proclamation of
the second angel that Babylon the Great had fallen. She had made other nations
drink from her adulterous cup. Who is this Babylon that John saw? This Babylon
is none other than the United States of America. According to the Jewish
Virtual Library and other sources, Christopher Columbus was a Jew who had set
sail to find land for other Jews who had been expelled from Spain for failing
to convert to Catholicism during the Spanish Inquisition. This part of history
is not told in most history books. As we understand God, we know that He has
always had a hedge around the Children of Israel, even in their darkest hour.
Therefore, it seems that God was leading this expedition for His own purpose.
The United States was not formed just to become a great nation. God designated
the nation as a home for His people and a way for the gospel to be preached
throughout the whole world. The Bible says: “You control human events— you give rulers
their power and take it away, and you are the source of wisdom and knowledge”
(Daniel 2:21).
Even
though the United States has an imperfect historical beginning, God has used
this country through missionaries, pastors, teachers, doctors, and others in
these professions to help many countries around the world with financial aid,
medical assistance, food, religious ministries, and much more. As a result, people
from every nation have come to the United States to live in the hopes of having
a brighter future.
Unfortunately,
the United States has also been a major leader in sin by way of pornography
imports and exports, drug trafficking, gambling, genetically modified crops and
animals, genocide, toppling governments, and much more. Approximately 60
million abortions have taken place since the Roe vs. Wade Supreme Court
decision and counting. Sexual immorality on TV, music, and video games, demonic
worship through Free Masonry, Illuminati, Skull and Bones, along with other
secret societies, banker greed, dishonest politicians, corrupt evangelicals, in
addition to a significant push being led by the government in redefining
marriage, are all part of the adultery against God. Not only is the United
States the leader of this, but it is also causing other nations to follow its
sins and put pressure on those who do not endorse its ungodliness by
threatening to deny needed assistance to these impoverished countries. There is
no other nation that mirrors Babylon as closely as the United States, given its
worldwide influence. In real-time, we are seeing the fall of the once-great
country—the United States of America. Some people think the Democrats can save
them. Others believe the Republicans can save them. No one other than the Lord
can save the United States, but that will only happen IF she turns back to God.
The Bible says: “If my
people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and
seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven,
and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land” (2 Chronicles 7:14). Unfortunately, the United States
is on a path of destruction, and as the prophecy in the Word says, Babylon the
Great will FALL.
The
Third Angel’s Message
“And the third angel followed them, saying
with a loud voice, 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, 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 ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night,
who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his
name. Here is
the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God,
and the faith of Jesus” (Revelation 14:9-12).
John
witnessed the third angel’s message to those who received the mark of the beast
on their forehead or in their hand. They
would drink of God’s wrath and be tormented with burning sulfur in the presence
of the Lamb and his holy angels. We are in the last days, when end-time events
are quickly unfolding into what will be a seemingly total takeover by the
devil. He is trying to have a world where he can eliminate the Saints of God at
all costs. One of these ways is causing people to take an ungodly mark that
will subject them to eternal damnation.
There
are many theories as to what this mark of the beast is. Some believe it will be
a mandated day of worship, and those who do not observe will be persecuted.
Others think that it will be a microchip that everyone will be required to take.
The Saints of God must know that whenever there is a system put into place by
none other than the antichrist, where you cannot buy or sell unless you have
this mark, you know that it is of the devil. Suppose the text is to be taken
literally. In that case, this means that should the government mandate any
system for the whole world to comply with as a means of survival or acceptance
into its One World Government, then we as Christians will know it is of the
enemy. The Bible says: “He will speak
against the Most High and oppress his holy people and try to change the set
times and the laws. The holy people will be delivered into his hands for a
time, times and half a time” (Daniel 7:25).
The
Prophet Daniel, just like John had seen a vision about the time of the
antichrist. The mark that the beast will require all to have will be part of
this antichrist system. This will involve one world religion, one-world
government, and one world currency. This may remind you of the Tower of Babel
that the people were building. A system of government to defy God. However, God
did not want it then, and he does not want it now. This is why their language
was confused, and Jesus will return to destroy all the wicked nations of the
world. The
Bible says: “At one
time, all the people of the world spoke the same language and used the same
words. As the people migrated to the east, they found a plain in
the land of Babylonia and settled there. They began saying to each other, ‘Let’s
make bricks and harden them with fire.” (In this region bricks were used
instead of stone, and tar was used for mortar.) Then they said, ‘Come, let’s build a great
city for ourselves with a tower that reaches into the sky. This will make us
famous and keep us from being scattered all over the world.’ But the Lord came down to look at the city and the tower
the people were building. ‘Look!’ he said. ‘The people are united, and they all
speak the same language. After this, nothing they set out to do will be
impossible for them! Come, let’s go down and confuse the people with different
languages. Then they won’t be able to understand each other.’ In that way, the Lord scattered them all over the world, and they
stopped building the city. That
is why the city was called Babel, because that is where the Lord confused the people with different languages.
In this way he scattered them all over the world” (Genesis 11:1-9).
God told man to be fruitful
and multiply, but He never told them to build a one-world government where they
were not to scatter about the earth. Man has always tried to invent ways to
defy God’s order of things. However, as we just read in the text above, God makes
it clear that He remains in control and that man cannot outwit Him. He sets up
kingdoms and tears them down. Everything is in God’s power, and nothing happens
unless He allows it.
There are many beliefs about who the
antichrist will be. This person has not yet been revealed. However, God will all
those who are His to be deceived by this man of sin regardless of the many signs
and wonders he does. All we have to do is watch, prepare and be on guard for
what the Bible has told us to look out for. Regardless of what type of person or
system it falls under, we know that anything that requires you to take it to
buy or sell, you are not to accept, whether it comes as a microchip, a medical
injection, the enforcement of religion, or otherwise. God will not allow you to
be deceived.
“Now we request you, brethren, with regard to the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him, that you not be quickly shaken from your composure or be disturbed either by a spirit or a message or a letter as if from us, to the effect that the day of the Lord has come. Let no one in any way deceive you, for it
will not come unless the apostasy comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction, who opposes and exalts himself above ]every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes
his seat in the temple of God, displaying himself as being God. Do you not remember that while I was still with you, I was telling you
these things? And you know what restrains him now, so that in his time he
will be revealed. For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only he who now restrains will
do so until he is taken out of the way. Then that lawless one will be revealed whom the Lord will slay with the breath of His mouth and bring to an end
by the appearance of His coming; that
is, the one whose coming is in accord with the activity of Satan, with all power and signs and false wonders, and with all the deception of wickedness for those who perish, because they did not receive
the love of the truth so as to be saved. For this reason God will send upon them a deluding influence so that they will believe what is false, in order that they all may be judged who did not believe the truth, but took pleasure in wickedness” (2 Thessalonians
2:1-12).
God does not want
anyone to be deceived. If anyone is fooled, it is because they willingly closed
their eyes to the truth. Therefore, God will turn them over to their deception
for those who choose to believe the lie. However, He will reveal all secret
things to those who are saved and follow God’s lead.
Write These Words
“I heard a voice
out of Heaven, ‘Write this: Blessed are those who die in the Master from now
on; how blessed to die that way!’ ‘Yes,’ says the Spirit, “and blessed rest
from their hard, hard work. None of what they’ve done is wasted; God blesses
them for it all in the end ” (Revelation 14:13).
John
was told to write down words of comfort. God said that those who die in Christ
are blessed, for they will no longer have to labor. Whatever deeds they did
will follow them. Once a saved person dies, they will have a reward in Heaven
once Jesus returns because of their faithfulness. God rewards all who endure to
the end with Eternal Life. There will be no more sickness, death, pain, tears,
stress, worry, and/or anxiety. It will all cease! The Bible says: “Whatever you do, work at it with all your
heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters,)since you know that you will receive an
inheritance from the Lord as a reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving”
(Colossians 3:23-24). God rewards those who are faithful.
Harvesting the Earth and Trampling the
Winepress
“And I looked, and behold a white cloud, and upon the cloud
one sat like unto the Son of man, having on his head a golden crown, and in his
hand a sharp sickle. And
another angel came out of the temple, crying with a loud voice to him that sat
on the cloud, Thrust in thy sickle, and reap: for the time is come for thee to
reap; for the harvest of the earth is ripe. And he that sat on the cloud thrust
in his sickle on the earth; and the earth was reaped. And another angel came
out of the temple which is in heaven, he also having a sharp sickle”
(Revelation 14:14-17).
John
witnessed the Son of Man sitting on a white cloud with a crown of gold on His
head and a sharp sickle in His hand. Another angel came out of the temple and
told the Son of Man to take His sickle and reap the harvest, so He swung His
sickle over the earth and took the harvest. Another angel came out of the
temple and had a sickle too. Jesus is going to separate the righteous from the
wicked. There will be a separation because sin cannot enter God's kingdom. This
is why Jesus must be the one to do the separating because He reads men’s hearts
and minds and will judge them according to what they have done. The wicked will
be judged and go to the Abyss, but the righteous will be harvested and go to
Heaven.“Another
parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a
man which sowed good seed in his field: But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares
among the wheat, and went his way. But when the blade was sprung up, and
brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares also. So the servants of the
householder came and said unto him, Sir, didst not thou sow good seed in thy
field? from whence then hath it tares? He said unto them, An enemy hath done
this. The servants said unto him, Wilt thou then that we go and gather them up? But he said, Nay; lest
while ye gather up the tares, ye root up also the wheat with them. Let both grow together
until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather
ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather
the wheat into my barn” (Matthew 13:24-30). This gathering will be
the glorious day when Jesus comes to get His children to take them back home
with Him. The wicked, however, will run in fear and try to hide from the
brightness of His coming.
The Winepress
“And another angel came out from the altar, who
had power over fire, and he cried with a loud cry to him who had the sharp
sickle, saying, ‘Thrust in your sharp sickle and gather the clusters of the
vine of the earth, for her grapes are fully ripe.’ So the angel thrust his sickle into the earth
and gathered the vine of the earth, and threw it into the great winepress of the wrath of God. And the winepress was trampled outside the city, and blood came
out of the winepress, up to the horses’ bridles, for one thousand six hundred
furlongs” (Revelation 14:18-20).
John
saw another angel come who was in charge of the fire. He came from the altar in
Heaven and told the angel who had the sickle to gather the ripe grapes and
threw them into the winepress of God’s wrath. They were trampled over, and
blood flowed out where it reached up to a horse’s reins. This is letting us
know that God is going to utterly destroy the wicked. Not one will get away
from the wrath of God. Many people want to focus only on God's love, but there
is also another side to God. It is God’s wrath that He wishes for no one to
experience. However, due to the sin of the wicked who refused to turn back to
Him, they will experience this wrath without mercy. The Bible says: “Swing the sickle, for the harvest is ripe. Come, trample
the grapes, for the winepress is full and the vats overflow—so great is their
wickedness!” (Joel 3:13).
