31 Day Daily Devotional SERIES for the Garden of the Heart: DAY 27

 DAY 27

  

And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people, 

 

Saying with a loud voice, 

Fear God, and give glory to him; 

for the hour of his judgment is come: 

and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters.

 

And there followed another angel, saying, 

Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city,

 because she made all nations drink 

of the wine of the wrath of her fornication. 

 

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 Lamb...

Revelation 14:6-10 

 

 1st Angel's Message:
Called to the True WORSHIP of God

2nd Angel's Message:
Called away from the False WORSHIP of God

3rd Angel's Message:
The showdown over the 2 forms of WORSHIP of God

 

Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and deliver every man his soul: be not cut off in her iniquity; 

for this is the time of the LORD'S vengeance; 

he will render unto her a recompence.

Jeremiah 51:6 

 

 DAILY REMINDER

Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, 

and have not LOVE, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. 

And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, 

and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, 

and have not LOVE, I am nothing. 

And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not LOVE, it profiteth me nothing.

LOVE suffereth long, and is kind; 

LOVE envieth not; 

LOVE vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, 

Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, 

is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; 

And now abideth faith, hope, LOVE, these three; 

but the greatest of these is LOVE.

 And from Jesus Christ, ....Unto him that loved us, 

and washed us from our sins in his own blood,...

1 Corinthians 13:1-5,13/Revelation 1:5

 

"These angels are evidently symbolic; for the work assigned them is that of preaching the everlasting gospel to the people. 

 

But the preaching of the gospel has not been intrusted to literal angels; it has been committed unto men, who are responsible for this sacred trust placed in their hands. 

Each of these three angels, therefore, symbolizes a body of religious teachers, who are commissioned to make known to their fellow men the special truths which constitute the burden of these messages respectively.

But we are to consider further that angels, literally, are intensely interested in the work of grace among men, being sent forth to minister to those who shall be heirs of salvation."
Uriah Smith

 

 Closing Thought for the Day

They were told that their messages were not for themselves, 

but for you. 

And now this Good News has been announced to you by those who preached in the power of the Holy Spirit sent from heaven. It is all so wonderful that even the angels are eagerly watching these things happen.

1 Peter 1:12 NLT