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Revelation: Things Which Must Be Hereafter |
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Chapter 14 |
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This spreadsheet is meant to be used with the Revelation
Puzzle Pieces Series of Articles.
Please go to the Revelation Puzzle Pieces series at
http://usaprophet.com/propheticsuperpages.html |
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Rev 14:1 And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the
mount Sion, and with him an hundred forty and four thousand, having his Father's name written in their
foreheads. |
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14:1 Depicted to St. John as the subjects of
divine sovereign grace, electing them from out of the midst of mere
professing Christendom, and then illuminating, quickening, and stamping them
with the Father's appropriating mark as his own :—the perfectness of their
number, however comparatively small, indicated by the declared mystic number
144,000 ; their preservation, amidst the severest of God's providential
judgments on the world they mixed in, ensured by his charge to the
tempest-angels concerning them ; and other intimations added to the effect
that, even though oppressed, and apparently, at one time at least, conquered
by their enemies,4 they should remain in reality indestructible |
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Elliott, Horae, Vol
3, P 255 |
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Rev 14:2 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: |
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14:2 We seem bound to interpret the present
symbolic harpings of some similar ecclesiastical rejoicing, at some similar
purification, reconstruction, or re-dedication of the mystical temple, or
Church, during the Popedom. |
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Elliott, Horae, Vol
3, P 261 |
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Rev 14:3 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. |
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14:3 That none but the converted and
illuminated by the Spirit of God could rightly understand the Gospel, or
belong to the kingdom of the Lord Jesus. 5 |
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Elliott, Horae, Vol
3, P 268 |
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Rev 14:4 These 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 firstfruits unto God and
to the Lamb. |
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Rev 14:5 And in their mouth was found no guile: for
they are without fault before the throne of God. |
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Rev 14:6 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, |
EVENT 24-Angel Sent
With The Everlasting Gospel-Great Revival 1560-1790 |
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1560 AD to 1790 AD |
14:6 Isaac Newton said most correctly, “An
Angel must fly through the midst of heaven with the everlasting gospel to
preach to all nations BEFORE BABYLON FALLS,”
This was fulfilled in the time of the Great Revival of Zinzendorf,
Wesley, Whitfield, and Edwards, all of which followed the going forth of the
mass publication of the Geneva Bible, which, for the first time, put God's
word into the hands of the common man. |
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Guinness, “History
Unveiling Prophecy”, p263, Geneva Bible, 1560 Edition |
14:6 This must occur before the pouring of the
vials if we are to accept that Revelation lays events out in Chronological
order. I have dated the start of this
event with the initial publication of the Geneva Bible in 1560, which with
its' 1.5 million bibles published probably did as much to carry forth the
truth of the gospel as any human preacher.
http://www.angelfire.com/fl3/gammadim/tribvoice/today09152017.html Revelation Puzzle-Part 3 (2
Witnesses-Everlasting Gospel-4 Angels Bound) |
Rev 14:7 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. |
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14:7 A symbol this which (as before said, seems
only explicable of the fact of the Reformed Protestant Church opening wide
its gates, so as never before, in invitation to the multitudes without its
pale ; and with signs concomitant very striking and manifest of God's truth
and presence resting within it, at once its characteristic and its
defence.,,the statement made in it of " the hour of God's judgment
having come," fixed its chronology to the seventh Trumpet |
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Elliott, Horae, Vol
3, P 405 |
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Rev 14:8 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. |
Babylon Falls |
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14:8 Verses 6 through 20 provide a point by
point snapshot of events that begin at the Reformation, proceed through the
fall of the Papacy at Rome and then on through the eventual destruction of
all the remnants of the Papal Beast, the daughters of the harlot and the
Islamic Beast, concluding with the last judgement. |
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14:8 This clearly affixes the going forth of
the eternal gospel as just prior to the Fall of Babylon, which commenced in
earnest at the French Revolution. |
Rev 14:9 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, |
Mark of the Beast |
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14:9 A prefiguration which seems to me to
require, in order to its fulfilment, 1st, a sufficiently general agreement
among Christ's faithful Protestant servants, as to what is meant both by the
Beast and the Beast's Image, to give weight to the judgment hence denounced
against their worshippers : 2ndly, a general and strong impression among
them, as to the punishment of such as might worship or obey the one, and the
other, being a punishment by fire, and that as imminent as terrible : 3rdly,
a public and notorious outcry of warning to this effect throughout European
Christendom, with its vast colonial dependencies.—And thus we are forced to
regard the symbol as hitherto unfulfilled.^ |
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Elliott, Horae, Vol
4, P 4 |
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Rev 14:10 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: |
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Rev 14:11 And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up
for ever 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. |
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14:11 On this verse the learned bishop Newton
observes: “The influence of the two-horned beast, or corrupted clergy, is
farther seen in persuading and inducing mankind to make an image to the beast
which had the wound by a sword, and did live. This image and representative
of the beast is the pope. He is properly the idol of the Church. He
represents in himself the whole power of the beast, and is the head of all
authority, temporal as well as spiritual. He is nothing more than a private
person, without power and without authority, till the two-horned beast or
corrupted clergy, by choosing him pope, give life unto him, and enable him to
speak and utter his decrees, and to persecute even to death as many as refuse
to submit to him and to worship him. As soon as he is chosen pope he is
clothed with the pontifical robes, and crowned and placed upon the altar, and
the cardinals come and kiss his feet, which ceremony is called adoration.
They first elect and then they worship him, as in the medals of Martin V.,
where two are represented crowning the pope, and two kneeling before him,
with this inscription, Quem creant adorant; ‘Whom they create they adore.’ He
is The Principle of Unity to the Ten Kingdoms of the Beast, and causeth, as
far as he is able, all who will not acknowledge his supremacy to be put to
death.” |
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Adam Clark quoting
Bishop Newton in his commentary on Revelation 14:11 |
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Rev 14:12 Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments
of God, and the faith of Jesus. |
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14:12 The papists have in their various
superstitions professed to worship God. But they are said, in the unerring
words of prophecy, to worship the dragon, beast, and image of the beast, and
to blaspheme God; for they received as holy those commandments of men that
stand in direct opposition to the sacred Scriptures, and which have been
imposed on them by the Romish bishops, aided by the secular powers. “God is a
Spirit, and they who worship him must worship him in Spirit and in Truth.” |
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Rev 14:13 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 labours; and their works do follow them. |
Re-surrection |
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14:13 I incline to think, and indicated, the
near approach of the grand epoch of blessedness predicated in Scripture of
departed saints : I mean the blessedness of their reward and joy at Christ's
coming, lor it is the imminent nearness of a judgment according to works, in
this case of reward. |
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Elliott, Horae, Vol
4, P 6 |
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Rev 14:14 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. |
Reaping of the Wicked |
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Rev 14:15 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. |
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Mat. 13:38-43 |
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14:15 I find myself forced to view the harvest
as one of judgment. 1st, the circumstance of its being called the harvest of
the earth ^ strikingly points to this conclusion : the term earth being
always, as Jerome observes, used in the Apocalypse in a had sense ; and the saints noted in it as not of an
earthly citizenship, but heavenly. |
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Elliott, Horae, Vol
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14:15 The word “ripe”, as the KJV renders it, is
probably better rendered “dried up”.
Hence, this is probably not a living harvest but a harvest of dried up
branches that have been cut off. " rather dried up in preparation for burning^ than white
in preparation for harvest." Elliott, Horae, Vol 4, p 11 |
Rev 14:16 And he that sat on the cloud thrust in his
sickle on the earth; and the earth was reaped. |
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Rev 14:17 And another angel came out of the temple
which is in heaven, he also having a sharp sickle. |
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Rev 14:18 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. |
Reaping of the false
church of antichrist |
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14:18 The vine to be gathered was called "
the vine of the earth: and designated, I imagine, first and chiefly, the
ecclesiastical body and church of Antichristendom ; inclusive, however, of
its chief secular supporters also. |
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Elliott, Horae, Vol
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Rev 14:19 And the angel thrust in his sickle into the
earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of God. |
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Rev 14:20 And the winepress was trodden without the
city, and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by
the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs. |
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