The Angels are Sent Out

26. The Lawless Are Removed

Rev 8:1-7, Rev 14:6-20, Rev 16:1-11, Rev 19:11-21

In A.D. 600, the prophet Muhammed rebuked the Arab Christians, saying, “People of the Book, go not beyond the bounds in your religion, and say not as to God but the truth. The Messiah, Jesus, son of Mary, was only the Messenger of God, and His Word that He committed to Mary, and a Spirit from Him. So, believe in God and His Messengers, and say not ‘Three.’”¹

At this time, the Catholic Church corrupted the image of God and enforced Sunday rest, despising the commandment that God had given to Moses.

Jesus said that at the end of the age, He “will send forth His angels, and they will gather out of His kingdom all stumbling blocks, and those who commit lawlessness.”^{Matt 13:41}

The Trinity doctrine — the image of the beast — and changing the day of rest to Sunday — the mark of the beast — are significant obstacles to man’s salvation. They are significant obstacles to all God-fearing Christians and to all Muslims and Jews, who represent three billion people who believe in the one God who created heaven and earth.

The Son of Man will send forth His angels, and they will gather out of His kingdom all stumbling blocks, and those who commit lawlessness.

Matthew 13:41

In Revelation 8, 14, 16, and 19, we find the angels that Jesus sent out to gather out of His kingdom “all stumbling blocks and those who commit lawlessness.”^{Matt 13:41}

• In Revelation 8, four angels sound four trumpets that remove the lawless from the Kingdom of Heaven and protect the righteous.
• In Revelation 14, four angels announce the cleansing of Babylon. The third angel says, “If anyone worships the beast and his image … he will also drink of the wine of the wrath of God.”^{Rev 14:9-10}
• In Revelation 16, five angels announce five bowls of wrath on the kingdom of the beast, the first of which is sores on those who receive the mark of the beast and worship his image.
• In Revelation 19, a rider on a white horse, followed by the armies of heaven, strikes down the Gentiles using the Word of God.

27. The Angels in Revelation 14

Matt 13:41, Luke 21:35, Rev 14:6-20

In Revelation 14, we find the angels whom Jesus will send at the end of the age to remove “all stumbling blocks and those who commit lawlessness.”^{Mat 13:41}

Jesus said that the day of the Lord would come as a snare for “all those who sit (καθημένους) on the face of the earth.”^{Luke 21:35} In Rev 14:6, John sees an “angel flying in midheaven having the everlasting gospel to preach to those who sit on earth, and to every tribe and tongue and nation and people.” The expression “every tribe and tongue and nation and people” comes from the Book of Daniel. King Nebuchadnezzar set up an image for everyone to worship, representing the image of the beast. After he repented, he told every tribe and tongue and nation and people to give God glory,^{Dan 3:29 Dan 4:1-3} and King Darius told all people to “fear God”^{Dan 6:25-26} after he was fooled by “the law that could not be changed,”^{Dan 6:1-27} the mark of the beast.^{Dan 7:25}

Fear God and give Him glory, worship Him who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and springs of water.

Revelation 14:7

The angel said, “Fear God and give Him glory, worship Him who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and springs of water.”^{Rev 14:7} The expression “who made the heaven and the earth and the sea” was first used to introduce the commandment of the Sabbath day.^{Exod 20:11} Here, the angel adds “springs of water” to signify the Holy Spirit received by those who keep the commandments of God, as described in verse 12.

A second angel says, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the Great, she who made all the nations drink of the wine of her immorality.”^{Rev 14:8}

Then a third angel called out, “If anyone worships the beast and his image and receives a mark on his forehead or on his hand, he also will drink of the wine of the wrath of God…. They have no rest day or night.” The words “no rest day or night”^{Rev 14:9-11} tell us which commandment was broken in the kingdom of the beast.

In the end of the Chapter, an angel with a sickle gathered the vines of the earth, and the Rider on the White Horse treads the winepress outside the city, “and blood came out from the wine press, up to the horses’ bridles.”^{Rev 14:20}

28. The Flying Scroll

Zech 5:1-11, Zech 6:1-8

The saints who fly in “mid-heaven” in Rev 8:13, Rev 14:6, and Rev 19:17 are of course the “eagles,” the last living creature, that Jesus will gather up when He returns. These were first described by Zechariah, who saw visions of a flying scroll, a flying basket, and flying chariots.

First, he saw a flying scroll that was “the curse that goes over the face of the whole earth,”^{Zech 5:3} by which every thief and perjurer is expelled. “It shall remain in the house and consume it.”^{Zech 5:4} It was twenty by ten cubits — the size of Solomon’s porch — measured “according to the width of the house.”^{1 Kgs 6:3} How does this scroll the size of a house fly all over the earth and enter each house but through Wi-Fi? Zechariah gave us an amazing description of the Internet 2,500 years before it was invented. The thieves who are expelled by the curse are those who steal the true Gospel. Jesus called those who enter the fold of His sheep by another door robbers and thieves.^{John 10:8} This flying scroll brings the hour of God’s judgment, as announced by the first angel in Rev 14:6.

“It shall enter the house of the thief and the house of the one who swears falsely by My Name.”

Zechariah 7:4

Then Zechariah saw a woman of sin who was thrust into a basket and carried into Babylon by two women with the wings of storks.^{Zech 5:6-9} The Hebrew word for “stork” (חֲסִידָה) is the feminine of the Hebrew word for “saint” (חָסִיד). The saints carry her into “Mystery Babylon.”^{Zech 6:10-11} This is described by the second angel in Rev 14:8: “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the Great.”

Finally, Zechariah sees four flying chariots carried by red, black, white, and dappled horses. They are called four spirits that go out through the earth. The white horses go after the black horses in the north country, the place of the Antichrist. God said, “Those … have quieted My spirit in the north country.”^{Zech 6:8} These are the white horses that follow the Rider on the White Horse in the Book of Revelation.^{Rev 19:14} He treads the great winepress of God’s wrath described by the third and final angels in Revelation 14.

---