Key to the 1843 Prophetic Chart
Fulfilled in the special proclamation of the everlasting gospel, based on the prophecies and termination of the prophetic periods between the years 1837 and 1844.
SECOND MESSAGE
"And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen." Verse 8. Fulfilled from the spring to the fall of 1844. Babylon - (mixture, confusion), a lifeless and divided Christianity. Its fall - a moral one, caused by the rejection of the first message or proclamation of the advent.
THIRD MESSAGE
"And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast, and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand, the same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb: and the smoke of their torment ascendeth up forever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name. Here is the patience of the saints: " here are they that keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus."
Verses 9 - 12. This message is now going forth. The proclamation is based upon the closing sanctuary work upon which our High Priest entered at the close of the 2300 days in 1844. "The temple of God was opened in Heaven," says the apostle, Rev.xi (11), 19, "and there was seen in his temple the ark of his testament." The ark was a depository of the tables of the testimony, or ten commandments. Ex. xxv (25),21; xxxi, 18. And hence the declaration, "Here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus." The faith of Jesus, of course, includes everything contained in the New Testament. The commandments of God must therefore be something separate and distinct from this, and can only refer to the ten which he spoke with an audible voice from the summit of Sinai.
The very next event in this line of prophecy is thus described by the apostle: "And I looked, and behold, a white cloud, and upon the cloud one sat like unto the Son of man, having on his head a golden crown, and in his hand a sharp sickle. And another angel came out of the temple, crying with a loud voice to him that sat on the cloud, Thrust, in thy sickle, and reap; for the time has come for thee to reap; for the harvest of the earth is ripe. And he that sat on the cloud thrust in his sickle on the earth; and the earth was reaped." Verses 14-16.