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Steve Wohlberg

Three Angels Before the End

Let's open our Bibles to the book of Revelation chapter 1.

I'd like to start with Revelation chapter 1 and just look at the very first sentence.

Revelation chapter 1, the very first line of the book.

The book starts out by saying that this is the revelation of who?

The book of Revelation is the last book of the Bible.

It is the greatest book on prophecy that's ever been written ever in the history of this world.

It's the bookend of the Bible, the last book.

Some people think, well, let's just talk about Jesus.

But the first sentence of the book of Revelation tells us that it is the revelation of Jesus Christ.

And I understand that to mean that revelation comes from Jesus.

And so it is a false dichotomy to say, let's just focus on Jesus and let's not focus on the book of Revelation.

Jesus has given us this book to help us to understand the issues that we need to understand, especially as we are right before his return.

Now when you look at the book, and there's a lot in this book, there's a whole host of things.

There's churches and trumpets and seals and a final conflict, Armageddon, the second coming, the new earth.

There's a whole host of things inside this book that are very, very powerful.

But as I've studied this, I've been reading Revelation for 36 years, I've concluded that the heart of the book is Revelation chapter 14.

Revelation chapter 14, because the themes and the truths that are described in Revelation 14 are the final themes that the world is dealing with and that swirl around the people of God at the very end of time.

Revelation 14 verses 6 to 12 describes 3 angels.

In my Bible, and I've got a New King James Bible, it says above verse 6, there's a headline there, this is the proclamation of the 3 angels.

So the idea of 3 angels is not just something that we made up, It's right here in the revelation of Jesus Christ.

Now, it's significant that right after the 3 angels' messages are given in verses 6 and 7, 8, and then 9 through 12, when they're done, something big happens.

That something big is Jesus Christ's return.

You can see that in chapter 14, verse 14.

14.14 says, Then I looked, and behold, a white cloud.

And upon the cloud 1 sat like the Son of Man, having on his head a golden crown and in his hand a sharp sickle." And in verse...at the end of verse 15, it says he's told to reap because the harvest of the earth is ripe.

The ripening of the earth, the ripening of the harvest.

And then Jesus puts in His sickle and He reaps the harvest of the earth.

This is the final division of the 2 groups.

Those that are ready and those that are not, the wheat and the tares.

So, I just want you to get this, that in your Bible and in my Bible and in everybody's Bible, Whatever translation you have, all Bibles have 3 angels in Revelation 14, 6 to 12, and then verses 14 to 16, followed by the return of Christ.

And this tells us that the 3 angels' messages go to the whole world right before Jesus comes.

And to me, that is extremely significant.

This information comes from Jesus himself.

Now look at these quotations, couple quotes here on the screen.

This is a statement that Ellen White made approximately 100 years ago.

She said this, in a special sense, Seventh-day Adventists have been set in the world as watchmen and light bearers.

To them has been entrusted the last warning for a perishing world.

On them is shining wonderful light from where?

And we have wonderful light shining from the Word of God.

They have been given a work of the most solemn import, the proclamation of the first, second, and third angels' messages.

There is no other work of so great importance.

They are allowed nothing else to absorb their attention." Now, that is a very powerful statement.

My conviction is that God raised up Ellen White to point us to the Bible and to show us what we should be doing because it's in the Bible.

Now, this may sound like a narrow-minded statement to some, but it is a fact.

It may not be politically correct, but it's a fact.

There is no other church, there is no other movement on planet Earth, anywhere, that is a worldwide movement that is focusing on and communicating the 3 angels' messages as described in Revelation chapter 14, verses 6 to 12.

Now that doesn't mean there's not a lot of good Christians in the world, in lots of churches.

Seventh-day Adventists believe there's lots of Christians in lots of churches that are going to heaven.

We don't believe we're the only Christians, that's for sure.

But just as God raised up Noah and gave him a message, just as God raised up John the Baptist and gave him a message, just as God raised up Martin Luther and gave him a message.

Raised up William Miller and gave him a message.

God has raised up Seventh-day Adventists in a special sense and given them a message that he has that he is not has not given as a people to any other church on this planet.

Doesn't make us any better than anybody else, it just means we are a called people.

We are called like Israel was called to give this message.

And we need to be faithful to the calling that God has given to us as a church.

Now here's another quotation, 1 more, and then we're going to actually go right into the Bible and read those messages.

She said that these messages, referring to the 3 angels, these messages were represented to me as an anchor to the people of God.

Those who understand, we need to understand them, and receive them.

It's 1 thing to just know about them in your head, and it's another thing to actually receive them into your soul.

And receive them, they will be kept from being swept away by the many delusions of Satan.

She says that she was shown that it was represented to her that the 3 angels' messages are our anchor.

That if we are rooted and grounded, if we receive them, if we understand them, then we will be protected from being swept away by the many delusions of Satan.

It's not just the emerging church, that's 1 delusion, which I talked about last night.

The religion of Islam, although there's lots of good Muslim people, that religion is a delusion.

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