The Revelation of Jesus Christ - The Herald

Everlasting life Thou givest,
Everlasting love to see;
They shall live because Thou livest,
And their life is hid with Thee.
Safe Thy members shall be found,
When their glorious Head is crowned!
Chapter 33: Rev. 14:6-13
The Messages of the Three Angels
"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, 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."--Rev. 14:6,7.
In harmony with other visions where angels are represented as proclaiming a message
from God, we interpret this symbolic angel to represent a company of the Lord's
consecrated. It would therefore seem to point to an organized movement. The angel's
flying in the midst of heaven would represent a very conspicuous movement in the
religious world. That the message was a truthful one is indicated in its being called the
"everlasting Gospel." In other words it was the true Gospel. That this message of the true
Gospel was to be preached to all who dwelt upon the earth, is explained in the words that
follow to mean, "to every nation, kindred, tongue, and people"--signifying nothing less
than a world-wide message. A "voice" represents a human agency, either one or many; in
this case, it seemingly represents many.
One of the very significant features of this vision, and one which without other assistance
should enable us to discover the time when it will meet its fulfillment is that this
proclamation of the everlasting Gospel is made contemporaneous with the announcement
of the Judgment Day; thus indicating their close relation. We conclude therefore, that the
vision could not be fulfilled until a full knowledge of what is comprehended in the Glad
Tidings had been made known to those engaged in this movement. This full, clear
knowledge was not realized until very modern times. No expositor previous to the middle
of the nineteenth century ever thought of associating the great Judgment Day as the
Scriptures do with the proclamation of the Gospel, the Glad Tidings. The Glad Tidings of
great joy, which in God's due time is to be realized by all people, had been, because of
apostasy, utterly lost sight of until in the closing years of the nineteenth century, when it
was in a very special way restored to the true Church. Careful attention to this enables us
not only to locate the period when this vision had its fulfillment--beginning some time
toward the close of the nineteenth century, but also enables us to recognize the fulfillment
as being contemporaneous with that of the vision last considered--the Lamb standing on
Mount Zion.