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John 3:16
I want to thank the Lord for The Shepherd’s Rod Message, which connects the Angel of Revelation 18:1 with the Third Angel’s Message.“Early Writings,” p. 277. I am fully convinced it is “the message of the True Witness to the Laodiceans” (the S.D.A. church).
Your brother in the Message of Rev. 18:1 as brought to my attention by The Shepherd’s Rod, (Signed) W. A. E.
Regarding the angel of Revelation 18:1 and the angel of Revelation 7:2, the former is the Loud Cry angel spoken of in “Early Writings,” p. 277 where it says: “Then I saw another mighty angel commissioned to descend to the earth, to unite his voice with the third angel, and give power and force to his message . . . The work of this angel comes in at the right time to join in the last great work of the third angel’s message, as it swells to a loud cry. . . .
As time wore on, my eyes continued gradually to open more and more to the magnitude of the work—that of the ingathering of the 144,000 and the innumerable multitude—attached to the glorious truth brought by the angel of Revelation 18:1.
The light on this subject will spread as fire in stubble until it finally illuminates the whole earth (Rev. 18:1), and all who walk in its blaze will have their names placed in the Lamb’s Book of Life. They will find deliverance from the Enemy’s last determined effort to plunge the world into the bottomless pit of eternal ruin. For them, said the angel, “shall Michael stand up, the great Prince which standeth for the children of thy people . . . and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.” Dan. 12:1.
Finally, though, as prophecy discloses, the tables are turned, and the long controversy ends by the Lord’s casting out and destroying (Rev. 12:16) Satan’s agents, the “flood” (the tares, the bad fish), and then lighting the earth with the glory of His angel (Rev. 18:1)!
In the purification of the church, “the angels shall...sever the wicked from among the just ” (Matt. 13:49), but in the time of the “Loud Cry,” they shall gather the just from among the wicked . So it is written: “And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory.... And I heard another voice 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.” Rev. 18:1, 4.
(3) The only revelation pertaining to and coming “at a month” is “the latter rain in the first month ” (Joel 2:23) — the light of the angel who is to lighten the earth with his glory (Rev. 18:1; Early Writings , pp. 277, 278). Then “afterward,” says the Lord, “I will pour out My Spirit upon all flesh.” Joel 2:28. Glorious prophetic promise, it envisages the power that God is to bestow upon His messengers who are to proclaim the message that is revealed in the time “of the latter rain.” “At the right time” says the Spirit of Prophecy, “He sends His faithful messengers to do a work similar to that of Elijah.” — Testimonies , Vol. 5, p. 254. (For further study on the latter rain, see The Shepherd’s Rod , Vol. 2, pp. 256, 257.)
Here in pledged word, God foretells in clearest tenor that many of those whom He brings into the church after the purification, will join the 144,000 in proclaiming the message to the whole world, when the earth is lightened with the glory of the angel (Rev. 18:1).
THE ELEVENTH-HOUR MOVEMENT affects us today most immediately and intimately. Being the last gospel effort, it must “give power and force” to the Third Angel’s Message and “lighten the earth with his glory” (Rev. 18:1); it must triumph, though every movement before it has failed. It is destined, not to “prophesy again to many nations” (Rev. 10:11), but to “ all .” And as it is to go to those who have not heard of His fame, and to bring to the house of the Lord all the saints “out of all nations” (Isa. 66:19, 20), it is consequently foreordained to endure. To effect this predetermined purpose, God is now taking the reins in His own Hands ( Testimonies to Ministers , p.300), to purify the church by removing from it the tares, and to preserve it free from them henceforth, so that it may stand on Mount Zion with the Lamb (Rev. 14:1).
10. That with this sequence of events will ensure the Loud Cry of the angel that lightens the earth with his glory (Rev. 18: 1), as the other Voice cries, “Come out of her, My people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.” Rev. 18:4.
The type also shows that God will undertake this “clean work . . . among His professed people,” just before He entrusts them with His very last message to the world — the message of “the great and dreadful day of the Lord” (Mal. 4:5). The power of this dreadful day is to lighten the earth with its glory (Rev. 18:1), and enable His people to re-possess the anti-typical promised land — the earth. So when the worthless material is consumed, the church, “clad in complete armor of light and righteousness, . . . enters upon her final conflict . . . and the influence of the truth testifies to the world of its sanctifying, ennobling character . . . ” — Testimonies to Ministers , pp. 17, 18.
Most of the Christians at the present time, by despising the gift of prophecy in the Christian era, and by applying the Old Testament Scriptures to God’s ancient people only, have rejected all the prophets! The Seventh-day Adventist denomination, however, has long professed to believe in the Spirit of Prophecy, particularly in that special message which in the latter part of the last century make clear that the angel of Revelation 18:1, who is to lighten the earth with his glory, was still in the future ( Early Writings , p. 277), and that the prophet Elijah’s message was yet to come ( Testimonies to Ministers, p. 475). In her Laodicean attitude, however, that she is “rich, and increased with goods,” and has “need of nothing,” neither truth nor prophets, she manifests the spirit which led the Jewish leaders to kill God’s messengers, and which has caused nearly all Christendom to set aside the prophets, thus teaching that they ceased with the preaching of John the Baptist.
The Eleventh-hour Movement, being the very last, is consequently in the greatest danger of all. What urgency, then, that we keep our eyes wide open lest we, too, fall! This Movement, however, being the last gospel effort, must “give power and force” to the Third Angel’s Message and “lighten the earth with his glory” (Rev. 18:1); it must triumph, though every Movement before it has failed. It is destined, not to “prophesy again” to “ many nations” (Rev. 10:11), but to “ all. ” And as it is to go to those who have not heard of His fame, and to bring to the house of the Lord all the saints “out of all nations” (Isa. 66:19, 20), it is consequently foreordained to endure. To effect this predetermined purpose, God is now taking the reins in His own hands ( Testimonies to Ministers , p. 300), to purify the church by removing from it the tares, and to preserve it free from them henceforth, so that it may stand on Mount Zion with the Lamb (Rev. 14:1).
Finally, though, as prophecy discloses, the tables are turned, and the long controversy ends with the Lord’s casting out and destroying (Rev. 12:16) Satan’s agents, the “flood” (the tares, the bad fish), and then lighting the earth with the glory of His angel (Rev. 18:1)!
When something of high velocity such as a bullet or a bolt of lightning is coming on, its high rate of travel does not give an observer time to view the continuity of its onward progress—its “coming”; he is able to behold it only when it is finally arrived—”come.” Thus the fact that the angel of Revelation 18:1 is seen, not “coming” (as is the angel of Revelation 7:2), but “come,” signifies that he comes suddenly—like the angel of Daniel 9:21.
By contrast, in beholding the approach of an object such as the sun, an observer is well able to keep steadily in view the continuity of its “ascending.” Accordingly, the Rod observes that the angel of Revelation 7:2 was seen while yet afar off, “ascending from the east,” because he was coming slowly like the sun; whereas the angel of Revelation 18:1 was seen suddenly “come,” because the terrific momentum of his downward flight did not allow enough time for the human eye to see him “coming.”
10. That with this sequence of events will ensue the Loud Cry of the angel that lightens the earth with his glory (Rev. 18:1), as that other Voice cries, “Come out of her, My people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.” Rev. 18:4.
Rev. 18:1-4 — “And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory. And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird. For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies. And I heard another voice 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.” These verses illustrate the separation that takes place in the so-called Christian world. But mark that the angel proclaims the fall of Babylon in the time of the angel’s Loud Cry, in the time the earth is lightened with the glory of the angel. Then it is that God’s people are actually called to come out of Babylon.
Since the records of both the dead and the living must be reviewed by the Judicial Tribunal, the First Angel’s Message (Rev. 14:6), must be proclaimed in both periods, in the period of the judgment of the dead, and by a loud cry in the period of the judgment of the living. The direct application of the First Angel’s Message, therefore, also the call to come out of Babylon, are actually made in the day the earth is lightened with the glory of the angel. (See Rev. 18:1-4). The Revelation, therefore, is to be more fully understood during the judgment of the living.
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