D6.
The Three Angels’ Messages
God’s Plan of Salvation for Humans includes a final call to the world to return to Him in love and loyalty. Through the three angels messages, God unmasks the plan of Satan, the dragon, to confuse truth and error and announces its defeat. It is God’s purposes to gather His remnant out of spiritual Babylon before it’s too late.
Second Angelic Message: Babylon is Fallen (read Rev 14:8)
The origin of the name, “Babylon”, indicates confusion. What is the problem with a world around us that is routinely presenting us with a mixture of truth and error?
- When we cannot tell the truth we might believe a lie.
- We could be self-destructing and not knowing it.
The forces that are behind these deceptions have always gained control via religious-political (ie church-state) alliances, where they can legislate morality and thus “truth” is cast to the ground.
- When those in authority proclaim doctrines we tend to believe them.
- People are being sent a mixture of truth and error routinely in our world (eg via the media).
- Matt 24:24 (see also Matt 24: 20-27) indicates that deception in the End Times is severe.
This message, is a warning to beware of confusing times
that obscure the truth.
Third Angelic Message: the Beast and its Image will be
totally defeated (read Rev 14:9-11)
How are they totally defeated?
- God does not intervene in our free-willed choices or they would not be our choices.
Instead, He allows us to reap the consequences of the choices we make. Consider that “sin” is the set of all those things that are self-destructive to any degree. The wages of “sin” is eventual self-destruction from the consequences of bad choices. This applies to individuals and to mankind. In God’s plan, mankind will eventually (ie on the Last Day) self-destruct.
- I see the last plagues as God allowing humanity to reap the natural consequences of a history of bad choices. This then demonstrates in great detail to all creation why sin does not work.
- Nevertheless, in God’s plan individuals can be saved, ie even though they die from sin, yet on the Last Day He will recreate them as angelic beings to live forever after with Him (ie Michael the archangel = the glorified Christ) in the kingdom of heaven with the good angels.
This message predicts that our bad choices will lead us
to self-destruction.
What does the First Angel’s message, to spread the eternal gospel, mean? (read Rev 14: 6-8)
1) The Eternal Gospel:
- Indicates that this gospel was around before humans, ie it pertains to the angels as well.
- Rev 13:8 supports this because the Lamb had been slain before the foundation of this world.
- Also indicates that this gospel will be pertinent even after this human universe passes away, so all created beings are affected by it throughout their existence. (Mat 24:35)
2) The Gospel Message:
- What is this universal gospel message? Is it that God loves us, 1Cor 15:3-5
- Is it that We need to trust in Christ, Jn 3:16?
- Is it the commission Christ gave to teach all to obey everything He said (Mat 28:19, 20)
- What is the “gospel of the kingdom” to be preached to all before the end comes (Mat 24:14)
- Presumably the angels already know of it.
3) Preach to all nations:
- Preceding texts in Rev 12 & 13 have been chronologically portraying the Story of Mankind
- Chapter 13 seems to go beyond today
- An angel is taking this message to all remaining humans. Is this symbolic?
- It must first be heard by all nations prior to the End Time events. Has that happened yet?
- Have some humans already died without hearing it? Is it possible that each person has had some opportunity to hear this eternal message in their own way?
4) The Hour of His Judgment has Come:
- There seems to be a dual message: for the individual and then for all Mankind
- This is a call to revisit our priorities: Worship Him, Who made the Heavens and the Earth
- It applies to each individual during their lives. Their personal End Time occurs at their death.
- It also applies to all Mankind. The human Sin Drama, which the angels are watching, is nearing completion. This human universe has all but completed its purpose and will soon be rolled up like a scroll. The Wheat and Chaff will be separated (Rev 14:14- 20)
The “Eternal Message” is
that the Creator God loves all His created, free-willed beings and He wants to
live with them happily ever after, in the perfect kingdom of heaven.
- There is a critical need for all to recognize God for His efforts to secure a situation whereby all His created beings can live happily ever after. (Rev 7: 9-12) (Rev 7: 12-17)
- Many will miss the fact that there even is a personal Creator God who loves us and has a Plan for us to live happily ever after with Him, because they never saw the logic of this Big Picture. They found other models to believe in (eg Evolution over time, New Age wisdoms, etc), which they found to be more believable. Their false gods will soon abandon them, but while they live there is still time for them to switch allegiance to the One True Creator God.
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Epilogue: These messages although clearly written in the Bible
verses, are a mixture of symbolic and literal information. If there is indeed an overall truth in these
messages then it would apply to some consistent “Big Picture Explanation” of
what we read and what we observe.
Paraphrasing the texts to fit incomplete explanations will lead us to
believe incomplete truths and lies, as we have witnessed through our
history. We have presented a logical
interpolation of the biblical texts, which consistently fits both the literal
and the intuitive interpretation of these texts. It shows that the gospel does apply to all of God's created,
free-willed beings (humans and angelic beings) for all time. All of them were created by a loving God,
Who wants to relate with them happily ever after in the place we call the
Kingdom of heaven. It further shows why
He could not merely do this upfront, because of the nature of free-will. The knowledge of good and evil happens to be
an essential ingredient if these created beings are to know that they are
morally free. If as the Bible says, the
wages of sin are death (eventually) and not merely a less than perfect, unhappy
heaven, then we can see why God does not want to leave it at this. In order to arrive at a perfect heaven with
intelligent beings, who know they are morally free, God must devise this
temporary human stage, for the angels to learn about evil without doing it
themselves. Yes it puts humans in an undesirable
position, so He institutes from the beginning His plan of salvation for
them. Even though they must die to
prove the points, yet He can give them everlasting life in a perfect heaven, if
they decide they want it. For them it
all hinges on our wanting a deep relationship with their Creator. Then to show
the humans that He indeed wants that as well, He must become human and die for
them - no greater love than this,,,
That kingdom of heaven is where the angelic Christ (Michael with the
holes in His hands) is now, so we too must be re-created as angelic beings to
inherit it with the good angels. I say it is all there and that it fits the big
picture presented in the Bible.
June 15, 2002