uture ews FVolume 13, Issue 9 n September 2009 The Unseen Watcher Prophets and Kings, 524 “Through the folly and weakness of Belshazzar, the grandson of Nebuchadnezzar, proud Babylon was soon to fall. Admitted in his youth to a share in kingly authority, Belshazzar gloried in his power and lifted up his heart against the God of heaven. Many had been his opportunities to know the divine will and to understand his responsibility of rendering obedience thereto. He had known of his grandfather‘s banishment, by the decree of God, from the society of men; and he was familiar with Nebuchadnezzar‘s conversion and miraculous restoration. But Belshazzar allowed the love of pleasure and self-glorification to efface the lessons that he should never have forgotten. He wasted the opportunities graciously granted him, and neglected to use the means within his reach for becoming more fully acquainted with truth. That which Nebuchadnezzar had finally gained at the cost of untold suffering and humiliation, Belshazzar passed by with indifference… “Little did Belshazzar think that there was a heavenly Witness to his idolatrous revelry; that a divine Watcher, unrecognized, looked upon the scene of profanation, heard the sacrilegious mirth, beheld the idolatry. But soon the uninvited Guest made His presence felt. When the revelry was at its height a bloodless hand came forth and traced upon the walls of the palace characters that gleamed like fire—words which, though unknown to the vast throng, were a portent of doom to the now conscience-stricken king and his guests. “Hushed was the boisterous mirth, while men and women, seized with nameless terror, watched the hand slowly tracing the mysterious characters. Before them passed, as in panoramic view, the deeds of their evil lives; they seemed to be arraigned before the judgment bar of the eternal God, whose power they had just defied. 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When value for our own time.” The Great Contro- the Millerites proclaimed the first angel’s versy, 343. message they were presenting the everlasting God’s dealing with King Nebuchadnezzar gospel, but they were also experiencing the is an illustration of the everlasting gospel, for everlasting gospel, for by October 22, 1844 two His “ ” dealing with men are ever the same. classes of worshippers had been developed The everlasting gospel is set forth in the first and demonstrated. One class followed Christ angel’s message of Revelation fourteen: into the Most Holy Place of the heavenly And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them sanctuary while the other class continued to that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and direct their prayers and worship to the Holy kindred, and tongue, and people, Saying with a Place. One class entered into an experience loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for with Christ and the other class entered into an the hour of his judgment is come: and worship experience with Satan, for Christ through the him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, Holy Spirit had accomplished His gospel and and the fountains of waters. Revelation 14:6, 7. The gospel in these two verses is the same had placed enmity between the seed of Satan gospel that was proclaimed to Adam, and is and the seed of Christ. therefore identified as the everlasting gospel. The Spirit of Prophecy clearly identifies that It is the same gospel from Genesis unto the everlasting gospel was opened up to the Revelation. Millerites at “the time of the end” - in 1798 - “The message proclaimed by the angel when the book of Daniel was unsealed: flying in the midst of heaven is the ever- “A Great religious awakening under the lasting gospel, the same gospel that was proclamation of Christ’s soon coming is declared in Eden when God said to the ser- foretold in the prophecy of the first angel’s pent, ‘I will put enmity between thee and message of Revelation 14.