Note: An 1892 edition of this document, marked "Fifth Edition," with an
1877 preface by the author prior to his death in 1883, and with the title of The
Three Messages of Revelation xiv, 6-12, is also in this collection.]
TABLE OF CONTENTS
THE THREE ANGELS OF REV. 14:6-12 3 ......................
THE FIRST ANGEL 19 ......................................
THE SECOND ANGEL 38 .....................................
THE THIRD ANGEL 69 ......................................
THE TWO-HORNED BEAST 77 .................................
ERRATA 144 ..............................................
BABYLON 144 .............................................
THE THREE ANGELS OF REV. 14:6-12
At the present time, no portion of the Holy Scriptures more deeply concerns
the church of Christ than Rev. xiv. At whatever period in the history of the church,
the proclamations contained in this chapter are made, they must from their very
nature constitute the grand, absorbing theme of that generation. Whenever the
angels of this chapter are commissioned by God to announce to the nations of
the earth that the hour of his judgment is come, or to proclaim the fall of Babylon,
or to utter against the worshipers of the beast the most dreadful threatening
which the Bible contains, no man can disregard their work, or treat their warnings
as nonessential, except at the peril of his soul. If it were merely possible that
these warnings were addressed to ourselves, it would become us to examine this
subject with serious attention. But if this point can be proved by decisive
testimony, it is certain that we cannot too carefully attend to the warnings here
uttered.
It was but a few years since all Advent believers wer
