The Second Angel’s Message
Comments (1)Second Angel’s Message
- 1. When was the second angel’s message given?
ANSWER:
The second angel’s message was given in the early summer of 1844.
QUOTE:
THE SECOND ANGEL’S MESSAGE HAD ITS INITIAL SOUNDING EARLY IN THE SUMMER OF 1844 IN THE CALL TO THE ADVENT BELIEVERS TO COME OUT OF THE NOMINAL CHURCHES THAT HAD REJECTED THE PROCLAMATION OF THE FIRST ANGEL’S MESSAGE. {EW 304.1}
2. Who did the second angel’s message have a more direct application to?
ANSWER:
This message directly applied to the people and churches in the United states during 1844, that had rejected the message of the first angel.
QUOTE:
The second angel’s message of Revelation 14 was first preached in the summer of 1844, and it then had a more direct application to the churches of the United States, where the warning of the judgment had been most widely proclaimed and most generally rejected, and where the declension in the churches had been most rapid. {GC 389.2}
TO THE ADVENT BELIEVERS TO COME OUT OF THE NOMINAL CHURCHES THAT HAD REJECTED THE PROCLAMATION OF THE FIRST ANGEL’S MESSAGE. {EW 304.1}
3. Why was the second angel’s message given?
ANSWER:
It was given because the church rejected the first angel’s message. If the churches had received the first angel’s message, then the second angel’s message might not have had to have been given. Yet those churches did reject the first message and so the proclamation came that “Babylon is fallen. This message was predicting the doom of those who had rejected the first message.
QUOTE:
The second angel’s message of Revelation 14 was first preached in the summer of 1844, and it then had a more direct application to the churches of the United States, where the warning of the judgment had been most widely proclaimed and most generally rejected, and where the declension in the churches had been most rapid. But the message of the second angel did not reach its complete fulfillment in 1844. The churches then experienced a moral fall, in consequence of their refusal of the light of the advent message; but that fall was not complete. As they have continued to reject the special truths for this time they have fallen lower and lower. Not yet, however, can it be said that “Babylon is fallen,… because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.” She has not yet made all nations do this. The spirit of world conforming and indifference to the testing truths for our time exists and has been gaining ground in churches of the Protestant faith in all the countries of Christendom; and these churches are included in the solemn and terrible denunciation of the second angel. But the work of apostasy has not yet reached its culmination. {GC 389.2}
Revelation 18 points to the time when, as the result of rejecting the threefold warning of Revelation 14:6-12, the church will have fully reached the condition foretold by the second angel, and the people of God still in Babylon will be called upon to separate from her communion. {GC 390.2}
4. What were the consequences to the churches when they rejected the first angel’s message?
ANSWER:
When the churches rejected God, He turned away from them and couldn’t lead and guide them anymore. They trusted in their own strength and because of this were not able to see the light of the second angel’s message because they had rejected the first and already purposed in their hearts that they didn’t need God anymore.
QUOTE:
When the churches spurned the counsel of God by rejecting the Advent message, the Lord rejected them. {4SP 232.1}
As the churches refused to receive the first angel’s message, they rejected the light from heaven and fell from the favor of God. They trusted to their own strength, and by opposing the first message placed themselves where they could not see the light of the second angel’s message. {EW 237.2}
5. What was/is the “action step” of the second angel’s message? [In other words, what is the message telling us to do?]
ANSWER:
We are to come out of Babylon and be apart of her no more.
QUOTE:
Furthermore, in the eighteenth chapter of the Revelation the people of God are called upon to come out of Babylon. According to this scripture, many of God’s people must still be in Babylon. And in what religious bodies are the greater part of the followers of Christ now to be found? Without doubt, in the various churches professing the Protestant faith. {GC 382.3}
6. When was the climactic closing up of the second angel’s message?
ANSWER:
The climatic closing up of the second angel’s message came immediately before October 22, 1844. This doesn’t mean that the second angel’s message should be ignored, it is still present truth and should be regarded as such.
QUOTE:
Near the close of the second angel’s message, I saw a great light from heaven shining upon the people of God. The rays of this light seemed bright as the sun. And I heard the voices of angels crying, “Behold, the Bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet Him!” {EW 238.1}
“WHILE IT IS TRUE THAT THE SECOND ANGEL’S MESSAGE CONTINUES TO BE PRESENT TRUTH, THERE WAS A CLIMACTIC CLOSING UP OF THE SECOND ANGEL’S MESSAGE IMMEDIATELY PRECEDING OCTOBER 22, 1844. WHEN THE MESSAGES OF THE THREE ANGELS COME PROMINENTLY BEFORE THE WORLD AGAIN JUST BEFORE THE SECOND ADVENT OF CHRIST, THE ANGEL OF REVELATION 18:1 JOINS IN THE PROCLAMATION OF THE SECOND ANGEL IN THE MESSAGE THAT “BABYLON IS FALLEN.” “COME OUT OF HER, MY PEOPLE.” {EW 304.1}
7. What was the Midnight Cry?
ANSWER:
The angels crying, “Behold, the Bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet Him!” This was the Midnight Cry, which gave power to the second angel’s message.
QUOTE:
Near the close of the second angel’s message, I saw a great light from heaven shining upon the people of God. The rays of this light seemed bright as the sun. And I heard the voices of angels crying, “Behold, the Bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet Him!” {EW 238.1}
This was the midnight cry, which was to give power to the second angel’s message. Angels were sent from heaven to arouse the discouraged saints and prepare them for the great work before them. The most talented men were not the first to receive this message. Angels were sent to the humble, devoted ones, and constrained them to raise the cry, “Behold, the Bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet Him!” Those entrusted with the cry made haste, and in the power of the Holy Spirit sounded the message, and aroused their discouraged brethren. This work did not stand in the wisdom and learning of men, but in the power of God, and His saints who heard the cry could not resist it. The most spiritual received this message first, and those who had formerly led in the work were the last to receive and help swell the cry, “Behold, the Bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet Him!” {EW 238.2}
8. When was the Midnight Cry given?
ANSWER:
Near to the end of the second angel’s message.
QUOTE:
Near the close of the second angel’s message, I saw a great light from heaven shining upon the people of God. The rays of this light seemed bright as the sun. And I heard the voices of angels crying, “Behold, the Bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet Him!” {EW 238.1}
9. What was the purpose of the Midnight Cry?
ANSWER:
The purpose of the Midnight cry was to give power to the second angel’s message.
QUOTE:
This was the midnight cry, which was to give power to the second angel’s message. Angels were sent from heaven to arouse the discouraged saints and prepare them for the great work before them. The most talented men were not the first to receive this message. Angels were sent to the humble, devoted ones, and constrained them to raise the cry, “Behold, the Bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet Him!” Those entrusted with the cry made haste, and in the power of the Holy Spirit sounded the message, and aroused their discouraged brethren. This work did not stand in the wisdom and learning of men, but in the power of God, and His saints who heard the cry could not resist it. The most spiritual received this message first, and those who had formerly led in the work were the last to receive and help swell the cry, “Behold, the Bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet Him!” {EW 238.2}
10. For those who had received the first angel’s message, how did the Midnight Cry prepare them to enter with Jesus by faith into the most holy place of the heavenly sanctuary?
ANSWER:
The midnight cry told them to go out and meet the bridegroom. This was a soul searching message that lead the believers to seek a living experience with God for themselves without having to go through pastors and priests. Each individual had to see himself fully accountable to God alone. They couldn’t lean upon the teachings of other for their beliefs. They had to seek their own relationship with God. As they looked for themselves into the law of God, they discovered many truths that the churches were not teaching. (like the Sabbath Commandment) To be able to keep all of the commandments and obey God’s law fully, required a new group of believers to be formed. This group was made up of those who accepted the second angel’s message and the midnight cry. These people believed in Bible truths, whether popular doctrine went against it or not and came out of the churches to be wholly God’s.
QUOTE:
In every part of the land, light was given upon the second angel’s message, and the cry melted the hearts of thousands. It went from city to city, and from village to village, until the waiting people of God were fully aroused. In many churches the message was not permitted to be given, and a large company who had the living testimony left these fallen churches. A mighty work was accomplished by the midnight cry. The message was heart-searching, leading the believers to seek a living experience for themselves. They knew that they could not lean upon one another. {EW 238.3}
They had by faith followed their High Priest from the holy to the most holy, and they saw him pleading his blood before the ark of God. Within that sacred ark is the Father’s law, the same that was spoken by God himself amid the thunders of Sinai, and written with his own finger on the tables of stone. Not one command has been annulled; not a jot or tittle has been changed. While God gave to Moses a copy of his law, he preserved the great original in the sanctuary above. Tracing down its holy precepts, the seekers for truth found, in the very bosom of the decalogue, the fourth commandment, as it was first proclaimed: “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work; but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy man-servant, nor thy maid-servant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: for in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day; wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day, and hallowed it.” [EX. 20:8-11.] {4SP 273.3}
11. Just as Jesus cleansed the temple both at the beginning and at the end of His public ministry, so in the last work for the warning of the world, two distinct calls are made to the churches. What are the two distinct calls to the churches, and when are these two calls made?
ANSWER:
The first distinct call was “Babylon is fallen, is fallen” from the second angel’s message along with “Behold the bridegroom cometh, go ye out to meet Him.” from the midnight cry. The second distinct call was from the loud cry saying “Come out of her my people.”. These calls were both given in 1844.
QUOTE:
When Jesus began His public ministry, He cleansed the temple from its sacrilegious profanation. Among the last acts of His ministry was the second cleansing of the temple. So in the last work for the warning of the world, two distinct calls are made to the churches. The second angel’s message is, “Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.” And in the loud cry of the third angel’s message a voice is heard from heaven saying, “Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues. For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities” (RH Dec. 6, 1892). {7BC 985.5}
12. Why are there only two distinct calls made to the churches?
ANSWER:
QUOTE:
So in the last work for the warning of the world, two distinct calls are made to the churches. The second angel’s message is, “Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.” And in the loud cry of the third angel’s message a voice is heard from heaven saying, “Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues. For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities” (RH Dec,. 6 1892). {7BC 985.5}
The First Angel’s Message
Comments (4)Who does the first angel symbolize (who gives the first message)?
ANSWER:
William Miller and his associates were the ones who were given the first angel’s message to spread throughout the world.
SUPPORT:
To William Miller and his co laborers it was given to preach the warning in America. This country became the center of the great advent movement. It was here that the prophecy of the first angel’s message had its most direct fulfillment. The writings of Miller and his associates were carried to distant lands. Wherever missionaries had penetrated in all the world, were sent the glad tidings of Christ’s speedy return. Far and wide spread the message of the everlasting gospel: “Fear God, and give glory to Him; for the hour of His judgment is come.” {GC 368.1}
When was the first angel’s message first given?
ANSWER: (in own words)
The first angel’s message was given in 1843-44.
SUPPORT: (quote)
The first and second messages were given in 1843 and 1844, and we are now under the proclamation of the third ; but all three of the messages are still to be proclaimed. It is just as essential now as ever before that they shall be repeated to those who are seeking for the truth. By pen and voice we are to sound the proclamation, showing their order, and the application of the prophecies that bring us to the third angel’s message. There cannot be a third without the first and second. These messages we are to give to the world in publications, in discourses, showing in the line of prophetic history the things that have been, and the things that will be.–Manuscript 32, 1896. {CW 26.2}
Where did the prophecy of the first angel’s message have its most direct fulfillment?
ANSWER:
The prophecy had its most direct fulfillment in America.
SUPPORT:
To William Miller and his co laborers it was given to preach the warning in America. This country became the center of the great advent movement. It was here that the prophecy of the first angel’s message had its most direct fulfillment. The writings of Miller and his associates were carried to distant lands. Wherever missionaries had penetrated in all the world, were sent the glad tidings of Christ’s speedy return. Far and wide spread the message of the everlasting gospel: “Fear God, and give glory to Him; for the hour of His judgment is come.” {GC 368.1}
Why was the first angel’s message given?
ANSWER:
It was given to warn the churches because they had slipped and fallen into worldly ways. It was a calling to wake up and realize that the hour of judgment had come and they weren’t ready.
QUOTE:
The first angel’s message of Revelation 14, announcing the hour of God’s judgment and calling upon men to fear and worship Him, was designed to separate the professed people of God from the corrupting influences of the world and to arouse them to see their true condition of worldliness and backsliding. {GC 379.1}
How is the first angel’s message announcing “the hour of His judgment is come,” a part of the gospel?
ANSWER:
The gospel is the story of God’s gift to us, Jesus dying on the cross to save us from our sins. He did this that we might have the privilege of spending eternity with Him. Not all however, will be able to spend that glorious time with Christ forever. Many are not willing to accept what He has done for them and still go about their own ways of evil. These people would not be happy in heaven. Therefore there must be a way of separating those who would be happy in God’s kingdom and those who would not. This is where the judgment comes in. It is the deciding of who is willing to follow Christ and be happy in Him and who will follow the enemy and stay with him. There are two parts of the judgment that happens in the Most Holy Place, the judgment, and the marriage. It is the marriage that is part of the gospel. The judgment is the seperation of those who would be happy and who wouldn’t. The second part of the judgment is the marriage. This is the reward of those who are willing to be with Christ and obey him. It is the third stage of the gospel. It is also called the final atonement.
QUOTE:
Christ came to our world to reveal God. The gospel is his instrument of redemption. {RH, July 3, 1900 par. 13}
The announcement, “The hour of His judgment is come,” points to the closing work of Christ’s ministration for the salvation of men. It heralds a truth which must be proclaimed until the Saviour’s intercession shall cease and He shall return to the earth to take His people to Himself. The work of judgment which began in 1844 must continue until the cases of all are decided, both of the living and the dead; hence it will extend to the close of human probation. {GC 435.2}
While the investigative judgment is going forward in heaven, while the sins of penitent believers are being removed from the sanctuary, there is to be a special work of purification, of putting away of sin, among God’s people upon earth. This work is more clearly presented in the messages of Revelation 14. {GC 425.1}
What were the consequences to the churches when they rejected the first angel’s message?
ANSWER:
When the church rejected the first angel’s message, God rejected them. He had given them a warning and a message that was to help them. They rejected the things that would have drawn them closer to Christ so since they rejected the very thing that would make them grow closer to God, He rejected them because they were rejecting Him.
QUOTE:
All who saw the light of the first and second angels’ messages and rejected that light, were left in darkness. {1SM 63.9}
When the churches spurned the counsel of God by rejecting the Advent message, the Lord rejected them. The first angel was followed by a second, proclaiming, “Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.” [REV. 14:8] This message was understood by Adventists to be an announcement of the moral fall of the churches in consequence of their rejection of the first message. The proclamation, “Babylon is fallen,” was given in the summer of 1844, and as the result, about fifty thousand withdrew from these churches. {4SP 232.1}
In this message, God has sent to the church a warning, which, had it been accepted, would have corrected the evils that were shutting them away from Him. Had they received the message from heaven, humbling their hearts before the Lord and seeking in sincerity a preparation to stand in His presence, the Spirit and power of God would have been manifested among them. The church would again have reached that blessed state of unity, faith, and love which existed in apostolic days, when the believers “were of one heart and of one soul,” and “spake the word of God with boldness,” when “the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved.” Acts 4:32, 31; 2:47. {GC 379.1}
How does the first angel’s message influence the second angel’s message?
ANSWER:
It is a cause and effect. If the people had accepted the first angel’s message, the second might not have had to been given.
QUOTE:
The first and second messages were given in 1843 and 1844, and we are now under the proclamation of the third; but all three of the messages are still to be proclaimed. It is just as essential now as ever before that they shall be repeated to those who are seeking for the truth. By pen and voice we are to sound the proclamation, showing their order, and the application of the prophecies that bring us to the third angel’s message. There cannot be a third without the first and second. These messages we are to give to the world in publications, in discourses, showing in the line of prophetic history the things that have been, and the things that will be.–Manuscript 32, 1896. {CW 26.2}
When the churches spurned the counsel of God by rejecting the Advent message, the Lord rejected them. The first angel was followed by a second, proclaiming, “Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.” [REV. 14:8] This message was understood by Adventists to be an announcement of the moral fall of the churches in consequence of their rejection of the first message. The proclamation, “Babylon is fallen,” was given in the summer of 1844, and as the result, about fifty thousand withdrew from these churches. {4SP 232.1}
How is the first angel’s message still relevant today?
ANSWER:
The cry “the hour of His judgement is come” has been given. It began in 1844 and is still going on today. Because the judement is still going on, the first angel’s message, which proclaims the beginning of that judgement, is still in effect.
QUOTE:
The announcement, “The hour of His judgment is come,” points to the closing work of Christ’s ministration for the salvation of men. It heralds a truth which must be proclaimed until the Saviour’s intercession shall cease and He shall return to the earth to take His people to Himself. The work of judgment which began in 1844 must continue until the cases of all are decided, both of the living and the dead; hence it will extend to the close of human probation. {GC 435.2}
The first and second messages were given in 1843 and 1844, and we are now under the proclamation of the third ; but all three of the messages are still to be proclaimed. It is just as essential now as ever before that they shall be repeated to those who are seeking for the truth. By pen and voice we are to sound the proclamation, showing their order, and the application of the prophecies that bring us to the third angel’s message. There cannot be a third without the first and second. These messages we are to give to the world in publications, in discourses, showing in the line of prophetic history the things that have been, and the things that will be.–Manuscript 32, 1896. {CW 26.2}
What is the “action step” for the first angel’s message?
ANSWER:
Originally the first message was addressed to the protestant churches in 1843-44. The application of the message was to “fear God and give glory to Him”. But following the reformation churches slowly started to fall away from God and focus on themselves and their “greatness” instead of the God. So they needed a reminder to redirect them to where their focus should really be. Today we need to also follow this advice and instead of focusing on what we are doing and what we can do, we need to give all the glory to God.
QUOTE:
The announcement, “The hour of His judgment is come,” points to the closing work of Christ’s ministration for the salvation of men. It heralds a truth which must be proclaimed until the Saviour’s intercession shall cease and He shall return to the earth to take His people to Himself. The work of judgment which began in 1844 must continue until the cases of all are decided, both of the living and the dead; hence it will extend to the close of human probation. {GC 435.2}
While the investigative judgment is going forward in heaven, while the sins of penitent believers are being removed from the sanctuary, there is to be a special work of purification, of putting away of sin, among God’s people upon earth. {GC 425.1}
How does the first angel’s message, as it was perceived during the advent movement of 1840-1844, fit together with the actual content of the first angel’s message?
ANSWER:
The advent believers thought that the part of the first angel’s message “the hour of his judgment is come:” (Rev. 14:7) pointed forward to the 2nd coming of Christ in 1843-44. Actually it was referring to Christ entering the Most Holy Place of the heavenly Sanctuary to start the investigative judgment of the people who profess to be Christians.
QUOTE:
WHILE WE UNDERSTAND CLEARLY THAT THE MESSAGES OF THE FIRST AND SECOND AND THIRD ANGELS ARE MESSAGES THAT HAVE THEIR APPLICATION TODAY, WE RECOGNIZE ALSO THAT IN THEIR INITIAL PROCLAMATION THE SOUNDING OF THE FIRST ANGEL’S MESSAGE WITH ITS DECLARATION THAT “THE HOUR OF GOD’S JUDGMENT IS COME” IS LINKED WITH THE PROCLAMATION OF THE EXPECTED ADVENT OF CHRIST IN THE 1830′S AND EARLY 1840′S. {EW 304.1} The first message is to be repeated proclaiming the second advent of Christ to our world. {16MR 40.2}
Revelation 14 & 18
Comments (3)Chapter: Revelation 14 & 18
Entry Mode 1: Get the Story Straight.
REVELATION 14
Revelation 14:1-5 —> The 144,000
Revelation 14:6-12,13 —-> The Three Angels’ Message (Preparation of Harvest Message)
Revelation 14:13,14-20 —> Harvest of Righeous and Wicked at the Second Coming
REVELATION 18
Revelation 18:1-8 —> The Loud Cry
-sub-division: Rev. 18:4-8 Come out of Her My People
Revelation 18:9-24 —> Reactions of Wicked and Kings and God’s people to Babylon’s Judgement
-sub-division: Revelation 18: 20-24 Heaven and Saints rejoicing
Bible Class
This is going to be my blog for Bible Class. We are studying about Daniel and Revelation. It is very interesting. I will be posting assignments on here often…..I think….lol
Well, I need to listen to the teacher now!
BYE
