In this week’s study, I continue in Chapter 14 beginning with verse 7.
The Fifth Vision "On Earth"
14:6-20
The Six Angels and the Son of Man
The Fifth Vision in heaven is very brief. It is another Episode, telling us of those who will have come through the great Tribulation, and have been caught up to Heaven.
It is part of the larger Episode, and is parenthetical. The previous vision on Earth has told us of those who were slain because they refused to worship the Beast or receive his mark. Those who were for death, had been killed; and those who were to be kept alive, have been kept alive (13:10). The worshippers of the Beast received his mark; and those who refused to take the mark of the beast, BUT received the mark of the Lamb (Yahshua Messiah) and of His Father in their foreheads. This seems to point to the 144,000 sealed ones, of whose sealing we read in chapter 7. They had passed unharmed through the judgments of Yahweh, and through the persecutions of the Beast.
Remember as we start this Chapter that as Christians, we have that Seal of Yahweh within us (Rev. 9:4). So keep your utmost faith in Yahweh and know His Word. Don’t listen to man’s tradition, but Yahweh’s true Word! “Know His Word personally on the earth”
Beginning with verse 6, we read about Yahweh’s messengers
In the chapter there are 6 messengers, or agents (and a voice from heaven verse 13), employed, who prepare for or complete the harvest: the angel of good news (6-7); the angel proclaiming the doom of the great world city (8); the angel who warns men against the mark of the wild beast (9-12); the voice of comfort (13); the angel of the wheat harvest (14-16); the angel of the vintage (17-20); the angel of fire (18). But before these we are shown a vision of the servants of the Lamb.
7. Fear Yahweh = fob-eh'-o From ‘fob-os’; to frighten, that is, (passively) to be alarmed; by analogy to be in awe of, that is, revere
give glory to him = and not to the beast
the hour of his judgment = “The hour” implies the definite time. “Judgment,” not the general judgment, but that up on Babylon, the beast, and his worshippers (verses 8-12).
worship him that made heaven = not Antichrist (compare Acts 14:15). But The true Yahweh, the Creator of all things.
sea ... fountains = This would be the people, distinguished also in Rev. 8:8, 8:10.
The proclamation of the second angel announces the fall of Babylon, described later in great detail
Babylon = here first mentioned; identical with the harlot, the apostate Church; distinct from the beast, and judged separately. Why do I say the apostate church? Because Babylon means ‘confusion’, has taken place on this earth at this time. Many so-called Christians have sold their soul to these two beast systems.
the wine of the wrath of her fornication = the wine of the wrath of Yahweh, the consequence of her fornication
The third angel proclaims the terrible judgment and eternal torment to
befall those who worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark
9. And the third angel followed them = This was a new vision designed to represent the removal of all the obstructions to the final prevalence of the gospel.
Worship the beast and his image = worshiping the ideas of the New World Order. Other words, worship the religious beast and work for the one world system.
Mark = By saying, "on his forehead, or on his hand," he shows that the devil marks some by an unholy profession, but others by practice alone.
But, be like those in 2Timothy 2:15 ‘Study to shew thyself approved unto Yahweh, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.’
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