The First Angel’s Message
Who gives the first angel’s message?
God’s people; the ones who accept the light and take it to the world. These three angels represent the people who accept the light of God’s messages, and go forth as His agents to sound the warning throughout the length and breadth of the earth. (ST, January 25, 1910 par. 5)
When was the first angel’s message first given?
I saw that God was in the proclamation of the time in 1843. It was His design to arouse the people and bring them to a testing point, where they should decide for or against the truth…even some professional men were compelled to leave their professions to engage in the unpopular work of giving the first angel’s message. {EW 232.2}
Where did the prophecy of the first angel’s message have its most direct fulfillment?
To William Miller and his co-laborers it was given to preach the warning in America. This country became the center of the great advent movement. It was here that the prophecy of the first angel’s message had its most direct fulfillment. {GC 368.1}
Why was the first angel’s message given?
The first angels message was there to show us what we are to do, so that we won’t be separated from God and because the principles of the churches had become corrupted and they had become worldly.
The first angel’s message of Revelation 14, announcing the hour of God’s judgment and calling upon men to fear and worship Him, was designed to separate the professed people of God from the corrupting influences of the world and to arouse them to see their true condition of worldliness and backsliding. In this message, God has sent to the church a warning, which, had it been accepted, would have corrected the evils that were shutting them away from Him. {GC 379.1}
How is the first angel’s message announcing “the hour of His judgment is come,” a part of the gospel?
While the investigative judgment is going forward in heaven, while the sins of penitent believers are being removed from the sanctuary, there is to be a special work of purification, of putting away of sin, among God’s people upon earth. This work is more clearly presented in the messages of Revelation 14. {GC 425.1}
What were the consequences to the churches when they rejected the first angel’s message?
All who saw the light of the first and second angels’ messages and rejected that light, were left in darkness. {1SM 63.9}
How does the first angel’s message influence the second angel’s message?
The second angel’s message of Revelation 14 was first preached in the summer of 1844, and it then had a more direct application to the churches of the United States, where the warning of the judgment had been most widely proclaimed and most generally rejected, and where the declension in the churches had been most rapid.{GC 389}
How is the first angel’s message still relevant today?
The first angel’s message of Revelation 14, announcing the hour of God’s judgment and calling upon men to fear and worship Him, was designed to separate the professed people of God from the corrupting influences of the world and to arouse them to see their true condition of worldliness and backsliding. In this message, God has sent to the church a warning, which, had it been accepted, would have corrected the evils that were shutting them away from Him. {GC 379.1}
We still have not finished what we were first told to do.
What is the “action step” for the first angel’s message?
That men may be prepared to stand in the judgment, the message commands them to “fear God, and give glory to Him,” “and worship Him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters.”The result of an acceptance of these messages is given in the word: “Here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.” In order to be prepared for the judgment, it is necessary that men should keep the law of God. That law will be the standard of character in the judgment. {GC 435.2}
How does the first angel’s message, as it was perceived during the advent movement of 1840-1844, fit together with the actual content of the first angel’s message?
The first message is to be repeated proclaiming the second advent of Christ to our world. {16MR 40.2}
WHILE WE UNDERSTAND CLEARLY THAT THE MESSAGES OF THE FIRST AND SECOND AND THIRD ANGELS ARE MESSAGES THAT HAVE THEIR APPLICATION TODAY, WE RECOGNIZE ALSO THAT IN THEIR INITIAL PROCLAMATION THE SOUNDING OF THE FIRST ANGEL’S MESSAGE WITH ITS DECLARATION THAT “THE HOUR OF GOD’S JUDGMENT IS COME” IS LINKED WITH THE PROCLAMATION OF THE EXPECTED ADVENT OF CHRIST IN THE 1830′S AND EARLY 1840′S. {EW 304.1}
How is the first angel’s message announcing “the hour of His judgment is come,” a part of the gospel?
How is the first angel’s message still relevant today?
How does the first angel’s message influence the second angel’s message?
Please give some more thought to the above questions.
What were the consequences to the churches when they rejected the first angel’s message? Besides being left in darkness, God rejected them, when they rejected the first angel’s message that He sent them.
How is the first angel’s message announcing “the hour of His judgment is come,” a part of the gospel?
The announcement, “The hour of His judgment is come,” points to the closing work of Christ’s ministration for the salvation of men. It heralds a truth which must be proclaimed until the Saviour’s intercession shall cease and He shall return to the earth to take His people to Himself. The work of judgment which began in 1844 must continue until the cases of all are decided, both of the living and the dead; hence it will extend to the close of human probation. {GC 435.2}
How is the first angel’s message still relevant today?
The announcement, “The hour of His judgment is come,” points to the closing work of Christ’s ministration for the salvation of men. It heralds a truth which must be proclaimed until the Saviour’s intercession shall cease and He shall return to the earth to take His people to Himself. The work of judgment which began in 1844 must continue until the cases of all are decided, both of the living and the dead; hence it will extend to the close of human probation. {GC 435.2}
Seeing as the judgment came and is still continuing, the relevance of the First Angel’s Message must continue as well.
How does the first angel’s message influence the second angel’s message?
The second angel’s message of Revelation 14 was first preached in the summer of 1844, and it then had a more direct application to the churches of the United States, where the warning of the judgment had been most widely proclaimed and most generally rejected, and where the declension in the churches had been most rapid.{GC 389}
Because The First Angel’s Message was rejected by the churches still in the world, which made way for The Second Angel’s Message: “Babylon is fallen”.
What were the consequences to the churches when they rejected the first angel’s message? Besides being left in darkness, God rejected them, when they rejected the first angel’s message that He sent them.
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