Revelation 14:1-5
OF THE CHURCH OF THE REFORMATION AND THE FALL OF SPIRITUAL BABYLON. The Lamb and His followers:... [ Continue Reading ]
OF THE CHURCH OF THE REFORMATION AND THE FALL OF SPIRITUAL BABYLON. The Lamb and His followers:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND I LOOKED, AND, LO, A LAMB STOOD ON THE MOUNT SION AND WITH HIM AN HUNDRED AND FORTY AND FOUR THOUSAND, HAVING HIS FATHER'S NAME WRITTEN IN THEIR FOREHEADS.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND I HEARD A VOICE FROM HEAVEN AS THE VOICE OF MANY WATERS AND AS THE VOICE OF A GREAT THUNDER; AND I HEARD THE VOICE OF HARPERS HARPING WITH THEIR HARPS;... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THEY SUNG AS IT WERE A NEW SONG BEFORE THE THRONE AND BEFORE THE FOUR BEASTS AND THE ELDERS; AND NO MAN COULD LEARN THAT SONG BUT THE HUNDRED AND FORTY AND FOUR THOUSAND, WHICH WERE REDEEMED FROM THE EARTH.... [ Continue Reading ]
THEY ARE THEY WHICH WERE NOT DEFILED WITH WOMEN; FOR THEY ARE VIRGINS. THESE ARE THEY WHICH FOLLOW THE LAMB WHITHERSOEVER HE GOETH. THESE WERE REDEEMED FROM AMONG MEN, BEING THE FIRST-FRUITS UNTO GOD AND TO THE LAMB.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND IN THEIR MOUTH WAS FOUND NO GUILE; FOR THEY ARE WITHOUT FAULT BEFORE THE THRONE OF GOD. After the picture of abomination in the preceding chapter we have here visions full of comfort and strength and consolation for all believers. The Lamb now again becomes the center of interest: And I saw, and... [ Continue Reading ]
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,... [ Continue Reading ]
The angel in mid-heaven:... [ Continue Reading ]
SAYING WITH A LOUD VOICE, FEAR GOD AND GIVE GLORY TO HIM; FOR THE HOUR OF HIS JUDGMENT IS COME; AND WORSHIP HIM THAT MADE HEAVEN AND EARTH AND THE SEA AND THE FOUNTAINS OF WATERS. Here is a scene full of majesty and power: And I saw another angel flying in mid-heaven, having an eternal Gospel to pro... [ Continue Reading ]
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.... [ Continue Reading ]
Of this effect and result of the Reformation and of the fall of spiritual Babylon the next angels made announcement:... [ Continue Reading ]
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,... [ Continue Reading ]
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;... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE SMOKE OF THEIR TORMENT ASCENDETH UP FOREVER 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.... [ Continue Reading ]
HERE IS THE PATIENCE OF THE SAINTS; HERE ARE THEY THAT KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD AND THE FAITH OF JESUS. The voice of the second angel is like a resonance or echo of that of the first: And a second angel followed, saying, Fallen, fallen is great Babylon, who of the wine of the wrath of her fornic... [ Continue Reading ]
AND I HEARD A VOICE FROM HEAVEN SAYING UNTO ME, WRITE: BLESSED ARE THE DEAD WHICH DIE IN THE LORD FROM HENCEFORTH; YEA, SAITH THE SPIRIT, THAT THEY MAY REST FROM THEIR LABORS; AND THEIR WORKS DO FOLLOW THEM.... [ Continue Reading ]
The bliss of the saints and the reaping of the earth:... [ Continue Reading ]
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.... [ Continue Reading ]
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.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE THAT SAT ON THE CLOUD THRUST HIS SICKLE ON THE EARTH; AND THE EARTH WAS REAPED. The fate of Anti-Christ's servants, of all those that reject the salvation of Christ, has just been pictured. The prospect of the loyal Christians is all the more glorious by contrast: And I heard a voice out of h... [ Continue Reading ]
AND ANOTHER ANGEL CAME OUT OF THE TEMPLE WHICH IS IN HEAVEN, HE ALSO HAVING A SHARP SICKLE.... [ Continue Reading ]
The wine-press of God's wrath:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND ANOTHER ANGEL CAME OUT FROM THE ALTAR, WHICH HAD POWER OVER FIRE; AND CRIED WITH A LOUD CRY TO HIM THAT HAD THE SHARP SICKLE, SAYING, THRUST IN THY SHARP SICKLE, AND GATHER THE CLUSTERS OF THE VINE OF THE EARTH; FOR HER GRAPES ARE FULLY RIPE.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE ANGEL THRUST IN HIS SICKLE INTO THE EARTH, AND GATHERED THE VINE OF THE EARTH, AND CAST IT INTO THE GREAT WINE-PRESS OF THE WRATH OF GOD.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE WINE-PRESS WAS TRODDEN WITH OUT THE CITY, AND BLOOD CAME OUT OF THE WINE-PRESS, EVEN UNTO THE HORSE-BRIDLES, BY THE SPACE OF A THOUSAND AND SIX HUNDRED FURLONGS. See Isaiah 63:4. This picture carries the same idea as the previous one, but instead of the harvest of grain we have here the harv... [ Continue Reading ]