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Any comments may be sent to www.Firestarterpublications.com Kingdom Bible Study website is http://www.kingdombiblestudies.org 2 Table of Contents Chapter Title, Scripture Reference Page 159 The 144,000 On Mount Zion, Rev 14:1,2-3 ...............................................................................4 160 The 144,000 On Mount Zion (continued), Rev 14:1..................................................................14 161 The 144,000 On Mount Zion (continued), Rev 14:2-3 ..............................................................24 162 The 144,000 On Mount Zion (continued), Rev 14:1,4...............................................................35 163 The 144,000 On Mount Zion (continued), Rev 14:1,4...............................................................45 164 The Three Angels’ Messages, Rev 14:6...................................................................................57 165 The Three Angels’ Messages (continued) , Rev 14:6-7............................................................67 166 The Three Angels’ Messages (continued), Rev 14:6-7.............................................................78 167 The Three Angels’ Messages (continued), Rev 14:6-7.............................................................90 168 The Three Angels’ Messages (continued), Rev 14:9-10.........................................................101 169 The Three Angels’ Messages (continued), Rev 14:9-10.........................................................112 170 The Three Angels’ Messages (continued), Rev 14:13............................................................121 171 The Firstfruits, The Harvest, And The Vintage, Rev 14:14-19................................................131 172 The Firstfruits, The Harvest, And The Vintage (continued), Rev 14:14-16.............................143 173 The Firstfruits, The Harvest, And The Vintage (continued), Rev 14:15-16.............................155 174 The Seven Angels With The Seven Last Plagues, Rev 15:1..................................................167 175 The Seven Angels With The Seven Last Plagues (continued), Rev 15:2...............................177 176 The Seven Angels With The Seven Last Plagues (continued), Rev 15:3...............................187 177 The Seven Angels With The Seven Last Plagues (continued), Rev 15:3-4............................198 178 The Seven Angels With The Seven Last Plagues (continued), Rev 15:1,6-7.........................209 179 The Seven Angels With The Seven Last Plagues (continued), Rev 16: 1..............................218 180 The Seven Angels With The Seven Last Plagues (continued), Rev 16:2...............................228 181 The Seven Angels With The Seven Last Plagues (continued), Rev 16:3...............................241 182 The Seven Angels With The Seven Last Plagues (continued), Rev 16:4-7............................252 183 The Seven Angels With The Seven Last Plagues (continued), Rev 16:10-11........................261 About The Author...........................................................................................................................273 3 Chapter 159 The 144,000 On Mount Zion There is no part of the Revelation that is more bountiful in rewards for those who pursue the high calling of God in Christ Jesus than the opening scenes of chapter fourteen. It is a garden of fruits and nuts and flowers, a display case of wondrous jewelry. It is a vast and imposing landscape, filled with beauty and grandeur, the horizon of which is fringed with the bright dawning glories of God’s kingdom Day. Here, in a manner surpassing all others, we can see the real scope and magnificence of the purpose of sonship to God. Here we can trace God’s plans for His called and chosen elect to their ultimate consummation, and learn the real majesty of our destiny as sons of our Father. At every step there is something to encourage and challenge us under the trials and testings of our journey; something to confirm our faith and to fill us with glorious anticipations! The twelfth and thirteenth chapters of the Revelation were designed to set before us the three great adversaries of God’s apprehended ones. We have been told of the dragon, the principle and root of all evil, whether inward or outward — the carnal mind and the flesh nature — which persistently dogs all of our steps. We have been further told of the first beast, rising out of the sea of humanity, that bestial world system to whom the dragon has committed his authority and power. He is the second adversary. Lastly, we have been told of the second beast, rising out of the earth of the soulical nature, that false spirit of religion which unites itself to the world system, and which, even more cunningly opposed than the world itself to the life of the spirit, brings multitudes of the Lord’s people into an even greater bondage than they might otherwise have been. The picture thus presented, were it to stand alone, would in a most powerful way be discouraging and depressing! How we praise God with joy unspeakable and full of glory that the Revelation does not end with chapter thirteen! We have only to read carefully and prayerfully the thirteenth and fourteenth chapters of the Revelation to see the close and inspired connection between them. They are constructed on the same lines. They run parallel in their emphasis. Consider some of the similarities and contrasts. “I saw a beast coming up out of the sea.” “I saw a Lamb standing on mount Zion.” The worshippers of the beast celebrated his greatness in a hymn of praise: “Who is like unto the beast? and who is able to make war with him?” And over against this earthly song there is an heavenly: “And I heard a voice from heaven as the voice of many waters…and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps: and they sung as it were a new song…and no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand, which were redeemed from the earth” (Rev. 14:2-3). It is clear that in the fourteenth chapter the Holy Spirit is drawing a companion, yet contrasting, picture to the events of the thirteenth. He sets the two companies — the followers of the beast and the followers of the Lamb — in strong and vivid contrast. The book of Revelation is full of wonderful and striking contrasts which cannot but excite the spirit of all who have ears to hear and eyes to see! The Revelation deals with the mightiest contrast that ever existed — the contrast between Christ and Adam, between spirit and flesh, between truth and error, between spirituality and carnality, between the kingdom of light and the kingdom of darkness, and between God and the devil. We meet, furthermore, with the contrast between the company of the overcomers and the carnal church systems of man, between the two witnesses and the beast, between the manchild and the dragon, between the Lamb and the beastly system, between God’s Christ and the kings of the earth, 4 between the saints and the world, and between Mystery Babylon and the holy city, New Jerusalem. Again and again this mighty contrast is painted for us in brilliant hues and vivid scenes of divine revelation! It was a dark day that John painted for the church in chapter thirteen. But follow him into the fourteenth chapter. With true dramatic inspiration he quickly shifts the scene. The shadows flee, the light of a new day rims the sky, and the glory of a new order breaks upon the horizon. Let us note that in chapter fourteen we have a continuation of the symbolism begun in chapter thirteen. The fact that this has been generally overlooked has led to many dreadful errors in the interpretation of the scenes