Fourth Angel's Message

Fourth Angel’s Message

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.”

John's message was an emphatic warning to the seven churches of Asia – yes to all the churches in time, for their hypocritical, dreary, enigmatic attitude. He proceeds to lambaste each individually. With Rev 14.8 we are reminded of the decline by stark narrative. Far from being judgmental, it is our being reflected, our interdependence compromised and fallen. After being blindly lead into captivity unknowingly, having disassociated from any divine moral sentiment, the finalé is near, as all collapses. The “chosen” are fragmented having abandoned the temple with self-imposed evil manifestations. Churches have foreclosed on life, wrapped-up exclusive truth in a bundle of insensate lies. Convinced they have sole proprietorship of the Bible their minds are bankrupt closed, with falsehoods proliferating year-in and year-out. The true divine God of being, Lord of hosts, reflected to us in all and past recollections, is not recognizable. The zeal of the soul has been quenched, rectitude foregone. If we create we can exist, ending the clatter of regulated diatribe, ending the famine of the uncourageous churches.

John’s glossary in this fourth angel’s message can be bulleted:
- Babylon - symbol of confusion and error
- Fallen - PIPTO alighted on
- That great city - Jerusalem, where the Lord was silenced Rev. 11.8
- Nations - ETHNOS races, tribes, nations
- Drink - POTIZO, make drink, feed
- Wine - OINOS, something that intoxicates
- Wrath - THUMOS, indignation
- Fornication – PORNEIA, harlotry, fig. idolatry

The third angel’s message is shown to be the manifestation of false, rigid judgment. This falsity comes from the decaying church prophesying historical inclinations and teachings that are not from the soul, obliterating the power of individual foresight. The high pulpits abnegate all reason, shun all light, and by verbatim espouse the sameness times over, indoctrination upon indoctrination. Creation is lost to he who can create. No new revelation is deemed necessary, our God’s divine law of nature is trodden underfoot by those espousing to have it all. The revelation of the heart is squandered, rejected and deemed heretical, blasphemous and seditious. Presence, the beneficiary’s sole right, our lasting freedom, is ram-shackled. To think, is worlds away. Don’t think, don’t ask a question. With divine nature misplaced declension fills its empty place. Fundamentalist trivialities are to the left, and to the right, up and down, inside and outside, far and near.

The fourth messenger hastily arrives to warn and alert the divine impulse, that distraction, cowardice laborious readings, and great lengthy days of prophecy are to be exposed as fake. Lukewarm mashes of piety, manifold encumbrances and, retrogrades made into brisk pass-me-downs, fail to convince.

The fourth messenger is saying, distraction and fallacy (represented as Babylon throughout Scripture) had alighted, PIPTO = fallen on what was to be an edifying communication. Gross indolence and blurred vision, enshrouded a very bright shining beacon.

Bringing a quick short caution to the Christian people and countries of the world the angel urges, baleful, baseless teachings have fallen, alighted on you. Jerusalem, “that great city,” where our Lord (justice) is rapaciously silenced, snuff-out. The satanic host hate every earnest voice of dissent.

Jerusalem, you were offered a bright ray of light. Deception came, and with magic and wonders blew out all light. The veracious haters of verity give heat that is cold. But the indwelling Supreme Spirit cannot be squenched, dismissed, or thrown out-of-class. The doctrine of innateness, heartfelt inspiration, will never be lost to barren wastelands of the materialist iconoclast, the nominalists. All the churches now inebriated with their own learnings are indignate to challenging a putrifying overturned bin. Their persuasions implanted, they wrathfully deny the title, “harlotry”, but defensively resist the Creator’s flame. This fourth angel later returns to further warn piety of very stormy encrustations.

For a clearer insight read Jer. 50 & 51, a depiction of this condition in our age. A more in depth coverage will follow later.

The Sixth Seal

Rev. 12-17 “And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood; And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind. And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places. And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains; And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb: For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?”

The sixth seal unveils mind-shaking news. All former believers, the pew-warmers of today, become afraid pleading, “hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb.” They question their former beliefs. Have they been belied? What was, is no longer. Cherished mantelpieces fall to the floor. No longer are adornments sacrosanct. “Vanity of vanity for all is vanity.” The mystery of God is set in motion. A few shock tremors quiver, the bow (covenant) is strung-out, the globe vibrates and shatters. Rocks fall. Citadels which were, are no longer, they are jolted, unplugged. Seismic convulsions erupt, gas clouds enfrighten. Light becomes black as sackcloth and ashes. No memory of the universal nature could be recognized, nor reflections of light. Blood could not produce illumination.

Small sparks fall from grace. Defect exposed upon defect. All inspiration gone, the great ought lost and, obliteration of hovel doctrine, once overstepping the voice of the soul. Divine impulse baffled and blunted, bruised and battered, as though rolled up and put out of sight. “For the day of the Lord of hosts (judgment) shall be upon everyone that is proud and lofty, and upon everyone that is lifted up…and upon all the high mountains. The haughtiness of men shall be made low.” Everything is questioned. Great pillars fall.

Contempt is narrated, another expression of reproof comes from the pen, “Israel is an empty vine…the sin of Israel shall be destroyed: the thorn and the thistle shall come up on their altars; and they shall say to the mountains, Cover us; and to the hills, Fall on us.”

“A sword is upon the Chaldeans, (the magic men) saith the Lord, and upon the inhabitants of Babylon, and upon her princes, and upon her wise men. A sword is upon the liars…a sword is upon her mighty men…A sword is upon all the mingled people that are in the midst.” Jer. 50:35-37. The evils of the church are now made manifest.

The Sixth Trumpet

Rev. 9:12-21 “One woe is past; [and], behold, there come two woes more hereafter. And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God, Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.” And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men.”

The third part of men referring to Jerusalem of old for her apostasy, as a type. Eze. 5:1,2,5-17. John of Patmos is writing to the Christian church now in servitude to enchantment with a false god, an idolish behaviour. The narrated must be correlative to within each individual to be credible.

As the four angels, four depicting world-wide scope, were loosed they unbound the flow of waters of Euphrates. These people, waters represent peoples, attaining self by unencumbered perception, became a large army of two hundred thousand thousand. Their renewed application was turned against the Hebrew captives who had choosen death to life – preferring not to be. These blindly-lead captives unwittingly changed God’s (Jehovah’s) judgments into wickedness. “They have not walked in them. Therefore saith the Lord, I am against thee, and I will execute judgments in the midst of thee in the sight of the nations.” In Babylon the Hebrews had Bel the sun god, and Merodach god of war so they were oblivious to the call, “Babylon has alighted on you.” The large liberated army’s love spontaneously attacked. Old Testament stories are only narrated type. It is realization today, everyday, always. All types become an individual private experience, fables our eternity, in the creative principle of each and every moment.

Rev. 9:17-21 covers the awesome scene that followed. In apocalyptic language there were men on horses. These men had breastplates of fire, jacinth and brimstone. Note the colours there, red, blue, yellow; the colours of a ferocious fire. The heads of the horses were as the heads of lions. They were strong. Their mouths issued fire, smoke and brimstone. Quite a formidable army you could say. By this consuming fire, these emancipating words, the abominations of sanctimonious sectarianism were annihilated.

The power of the horses was in their mouths and their tales, for their tales were like serpents. Fortified armour from front to rear. Jeremiah writes, “saith the Lord of hosts, I will make my words in thy mouth fire, and this people wood, and it shall devour them.” Very frightening.

“And the rest of the men which were not killed by those plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk: Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.

The Sixth Plague

Rev. 12:16 “And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared. And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs [come] out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet. For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, [which] go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty. Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed [is] he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame. And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.”

With the waters of the great river Euphrates dried up, Babylon lost the support of the peoples who made of her a great empire. John writes as he follows the phenomenal figuration in the Book of Jeremiah. Babylon with no buttress has provided a way for the kings of the east to be prepared. Here the Patmos fugitive is visualizing the kings of Media and Persia as they conquered Babylon so long ago. But this story is about Jerusalem, city of peace, through indolence refusing to believe, she is taken captive by persistent lies. The application is today, not yesterday. Today becomes our biography, our battle. Fraudulence and subservience, too long controlling lethargic minds, are aiming to conquer purity. Happy is the person that finds wisdom and understanding, today. She is a tree of life now and always.

John, the fugitive, sees unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouths of the dragon, the beast and the false prophet. The Revelator is writing in advance, understanding, recalling epochs of insidious indoctrination. These spirit-devils work deceptive wonders and miracles today. They go to the whole world inciting them to battle. Satanically inspired they egg on nation against nation to the great day of SHADDAY. The Patmos fugitive sees the truth of evil fallacy become obvious.

An enlightening prediction of sectarian meddling in international affairs is offered in the story of Josiah king of Judah. Jerusalem, its king and people are a symbolic miniature of humanity in O.T. days, the narrative even sublimely pointing forward. 2 Chron. 35:22 uses the word Meggido for Armageddon, where Josiah interfered in the battle between Egypt and Assyria at Carchemesh. It was none of his business. Josiah was killed. See 2 Chron. 35:20-22. Rev. 19 & 20 in its metaphorical language tells us, the three unclean spirits are finally cast into the lake of fire.

The great Creator-God through messengers, warns the saints to be vigilant. An unexpected revelation appears. As a thief steals, lies are stolen away, replaced with unprecedented light, coming out of the east and shining unto the west.

Seeing no hope for the impenitent, the kings of the whole world, already provoked, are allowed to gather at the great valley of deception where they are about to destroy each other.