Page 25 - 14 The Three Messages

DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 14 – The Three Messages
with verse 5 of this chapter, and a new one

begins with verse 6, the foregoing view cannot

be urged. To show that the message cannot

have its fulfillment in a future age, it will be

sufficient to remark: —

1. The apostolic commission extended only to

the “harvest,” which is the end of the world. If,

therefore, this angel with the “everlasting

gospel” comes after that event, he preaches

another gospel, and subjects himself to the

anathema of Paul in Galatians 1:8.

2. The second message cannot, of course, be

given before the first; but the second message

announces the fall of Babylon, and a voice is

heard from heaven after that, saying, “Come

out of her, my people.” How absurd to locate

this after the second advent of Christ, seeing

that all God’s people, both living and dead, are