The Great Controversy - Righteousness is Love

547"YOUR RESULTS IN THIS FIELD OF INQUIRY DO NOT STRIKE MESO FAR OUT OF THE WAY AS TO AFFECT ANY OF THE GREATINTERESTS OF TRUTH OR DUTY." "YOUR ERROR, AS IAPPREHEND, LIES IN ANOTHER DIRECTION THAN YOURCHRONOLOGY." "YOU HAVE ENTIRELY MISTAKEN THE NATUREOF THE EVENTS WHICH ARE TO OCCUR WHEN THOSE PERIODSHAVE EXPIRED. THIS IS THE HEAD AND FRONT OF YOUREXPOSITORY OFFENDING." SEE ALSO LEROY EDWIN FROOM,PROPHETIC FAITH OF OUR FATHERS (WASHINGTON, D.C.:REVIEW AND HERALD PUBLISHING ASSN., 1950), VOL. 1, CHS. 1,2.ORIGINAL TEXT PAGE 435. A THREEFOLD MESSAGE.--REVELATION 14:6, 7 FORETELLS THE PROCLAMATION OF THEFIRST ANGEL'S MESSAGE. THEN THE PROPHET CONTINUES:"THERE FOLLOWED ANOTHER ANGEL, SAYING, BABYLON ISFALLEN, IS FALLEN. . . . AND THE THIRD ANGEL FOLLOWEDTHEM." THE WORD HERE RENDERED "FOLLOWED" MEANS "TOGO ALONG WITH," "TO FOLLOW ONE," "GO WITH HIM." SEEHENRY GEORGE LIDDELL AND ROBERT SCOTT, GREEK ENGLISHLEXICON (OXFORD: CLARENDON PRESS, 1940), VOL. 1, P. 52. ITALSO MEANS "TO ACCOMPANY." SEE GEORGE ABBOTT-SMITH,A MANUAL GREEK LEXICON OF THE NEW TESTAMENT(EDINBURGH: T. AND T. CLARK, 1950), PAGE 17. IT IS THE SAMEWORD THAT IS USED IN MARK 5:24, "JESUS WENT WITH HIM;AND MUCH PEOPLE FOLLOWED HIM, AND THRONGED HIM." ITIS ALSO USED OF THE REDEEMED ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY-FOUR THOUSAND, REVELATION 14:4, WHERE IT IS SAID, "THESEARE THEY WHICH FOLLOW THE LAMB WHITHERSOEVER HEGOETH." IN BOTH THESE PLACES IT IS EVIDENT THAT THE IDEAINTENDED TO BE CONVEYED IS THAT OF "GOING TOGETHER,""IN COMPANY WITH." SO IN 1 CORINTHIANS 10:4, WHERE WEREAD OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL THAT "THEY DRANK OFTHAT SPIRITUAL ROCK THAT FOLLOWED THEM," THE WORD"FOLLOWED" IS TRANSLATED FROM THE SAME GREEK WORD,AND THE MARGIN HAS IT, "WENT WITH THEM." FROM THIS WELEARN THAT THE IDEA IN REVELATION 14:8, 9 IS NOT SIMPLYTHAT THE SECOND AND THIRD ANGELS FOLLOWED THE FIRSTIN POINT OF TIME, BUT THAT THEY WENT WITH HIM. THETHREE MESSAGES ARE BUT ONE THREEFOLD MESSAGE. THEY