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THE MOST IMPORTANT MESSAGE FOR THE WORLD TODAY - THE THIRD ANGEL'S MESSAGE - THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD AND THE FAITH OF JESUS CHRIST
"Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus" (Revelation 14:12).
The most important present truth message for the world today is found
in the 14th chapter of Revelation. It is a life or death message and yet this message is ignored by most of the churches in the world today. Why? There are two
reasons. One reason is that many believe they just cannot understand the book of Revelation and therefore leave it alone, but this is a deception from Satan
to stop people from receiving the precious blessing that comes with it as Revelation 1
says:
Revelation 1:3 ...'Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand.'
Why would God pronounce a blessing upon those who study, understand and keep the words of Revelation and then lock it up in mysteries that cannot be understood? No, this book is open and can be understood by those who diligently and prayerfully study it. The second reason that many don't study it is because they believe that it is mostly for the Jewish nation alone. This is another false theory brought in by the Jesuits to stop people coming to the truth about the Papal Church of Rome (the first beast of Revelation 13). So let me show you why this is an untterly false theory. Look at what we are told in Revelation 13 and Revelation 14:
Revelation 13:3-17 ...'And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast ... And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations. And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world ... And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth ... And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast ... And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles ... And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.'
Revelation 14:6,9,10 ...'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 ... 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.'
Now read those verses with an honest heart and tell me they are for the Jewish nation only! No, this is NOT just for the Jews, this is instruction and warning for the WHOLE world, 'every nation, kindred, tongue and people.' And why is this for the whole world? Because the end time final deception is going to involve the whole world and everyone who 'dwells on the earth.' Revelation 13 tells us that the whole world is going to 'wonder after the first beast', which is Papal Rome, and the second beast (America) is going to be the nation which will 'cause the world and them that dwell therin' to worship Papal Rome. How? By deceiving the world into following the dictates and commandments of Rome (mark of the beast), rather than the commandments of God. And this is where Revelation 14 and the third angel's message comes in.
Revelation 14:9-12 ...'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: And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever 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.'
This is the most serious warning we all need to understand and heed in these end times. As you can see, the warning is connected with Revelation 13 and the mark of the beast which is going to be enforced around the world upon all people. Now there are many varied and wild speculations as to what the mark of the beast is. But without a proper understanding of who the beast is whose mark is going to be enforced, you will never come to the truth about the mark. The first beast of Revelation 13 whose mark is going to be enforced, is none other than the Papal Church of Rome, which you can see from our page WHO IS THE 7 HEADED BEAST OF REVELATION. And the second beast who makes an image to the Papacy (church-state union) is none other than the United States of America, which you can see from our page AMERICA IN PROPHECY.
The central issue concerning the mark of the beast is to do with WORSHIP. This word is repeated time and time again throughout Revelation 13 and 14. So the mark of the beast is NOT a material, physical item, like a microchip, vaccine, money, barcode, or any other technology item. Yes, technology will be used to help enforce the mark. But in of itself, it is not the mark. Revelation 14:12 gives us a strong indicator of what the mark will be to do with. Right after warning about receiving the mark and worshipping the beast and it's image, God tells us the following:
Revelation 14:12 ...'Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.'
In other words, here is the endurance of the true people of God. Here is the patient continuance of God's people. Here are they who are NOT deceived by the beast, it's image and it's mark. Here are they who do NOT receive the mark or worship the beast and it's image. WHY? Because they are keeping the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus Christ. THIS IS THE ANSWER to the mark of the beast deception! The keeping of the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus. This is what the world needs to know. Look at the following verses together:
Isaiah 8:20 ...'To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.'
Revelation 12:17 ...'And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.'
Revelation 14:12 ...'Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.'
Do you see? To the law and to the testimony is how God's true people live, and this is why Satan is wroth with God's true people, because we keep the commandments of God (to the law) and have the testimony of Jesus Christ (to the testimony). What did the apostle John see in vision in Revelation 11 during the blowing of the seventh trumpet?
Revelation 11:19 ...'And the temple of God was opened in heaven, and there was seen in his temple the ark of his testament: and there were lightnings, and voices, and thunderings, and an earthquake, and great hail.'
Why did God show John the ark of the testament? What is inside the ark of God's testament? The ten commandments. Remember, this isn't on earth, the verse says that this is in the temple of God IN HEAVEN. And this was shown John about 50-60 years AFTER Jesus' resurrection. So what is God showing the world through John? That the ten commandments of God are still active and binding upon everyone. The whole scene, if you read verse 18 of Revelation 11 also, is a scene of JUDGMENT. And what is God showing we are judged according to? God's holy moral law contained in the ten commandments.
Ecclesiastes 12:13-14 ...'Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man. For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.'
The apostle John already knew this, which is why in his epistle, he said the following:
1 John 5:2-3 ...'By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments. For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.'
This is the 'beloved disciple' of Jesus who was closest to Christ and yet many years after Jesus had gone back to heaven, the beloved disciple says that we should be keeping the commandments of God. Look at what the apostle Peter said to the people while preaching to them:
Acts 3:19 ...'Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord.'
Repent from what? From sin. What is sin? Again, the beloved disciple John said that "Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law" (1 John 3:4). The apostle Paul said ... "by the law is the knowledge of sin" (Romans 3:20). Paul also said ... "What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet" (Romans 7:7). Paul is clearly talking of the ten commandments. And all this was written decades after Christ went back to heaven! So clearly, the ten commandments STILL show us what is sin. So what are we doing by not keeping the 4th commandment? Sinning. Thus according to Peter we are to REPENT from breaking the 4th commandment, or any other commandment and be converted to the true ways of God by faith.
So clearly, if the ANSWER to the mark of the beast deception is the keeping of the commandments of God and faith of Jesus, then the mark is NOT going to be simply some sort of technology. It is going to be a law which goes AGAINST God's commandments and the faith of Christ.
Now what has the Roman Catholic Church deceived the world with regarding the ten commandments? That the 4th commandment, the very one that points back to creation and reveals WHO we worship and WHO God is - JEHOVAH, the creator of heaven and earth - has been "CHANGED"! Rome has deceived the world and most churches into rejecting the specific commandment of God to keep the 7th day Sabbath holy (our Saturday) and to instead keep Sunday, the day that was honoured by Pagans as the day of their sun god! And Sunday is the day of the Catholic Church's god, the trinity! Another false god.
You will see from our following two study pages that the disciples did NOT change the Sabbath, it was the Roman Catholic Pope who changed it - DID THE APOSTLES CHANGE SABBATH TO SUNDAY? - also - HISTORICAL EVIDENCE SHOWING THE POPE CHANGED SABBATH TO SUNDAY
Obviously the pope has no authority from God to change any of God's commandments. But as prophecy told us in Daniel 7, the 'little horn' power, which is the Papal Church of Rome, would "THINK to change times and law" (Daniel 7:25). And so the world and the churches, by keeping Sunday instead of God's 7th day (Saturday) as the Sabbath, are following the beast (the papacy), rather than Jehovah. And the final test is coming very soon whereby Rome's Sunday law will be enforced around the world, through the churches of America directing the state powers and THEN those who go along with this decree will be "worshipping the beast and it's image and receive the mark of the beast."
This is the reason for the three angel's messages in Revelation 14. To warn us and direct us to God, to heed and keep His law and His ways, NOT the traditions and ways of man. And this is where the 'faith of Jesus Christ' comes in.
Many will say, "no one can keep the commandments of God, we are all sinners and will continue to sin." Yes, we have all fallen short of the glory of God and have all sinned. But part of the patience of the saints of God, as Revelation 14:12 confirms, is that they keep, or HAVE the faith OF Jesus. Notice it doesn't say they just 'believe IN Jesus.' They have the faith OF Christ. Did Christ keep the commandments of God? Yes! And so can we when we HAVE the faith OF Jesus just like the end time saints are said to have in Revelation 14:12. In Ezekiel 36:26-27 and Jeremiah 31:33, God told us that He would 'CAUSE US' to walk in His ways and KEEP His commands. What does this take on our part? FAITH! The faith OF Jesus Christ.
Romans 8:3-4 ...'For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.'
Do you see what Paul is saying? God has provided a way through His Son, so that the 'righteousness' or FULNESS of the law of God can be fulfilled or LIVED OUT in us. And it takes the 'patient endurance of the saints,' abiding in Christ (John 15:5) to happen. Paul set out the way in Galatians 2:20. Read it, take it in and LIVE it. This is what we must do to attain this. To be dead to our old self and allow Christ to live HIS LIFE in us. It WILL happen for all those who truly believe and trust in God's promises, seeking to follow His ways and commands, and not the ways and traditions of man.
And what is also part of the faith of Jesus Christ? Look at what Jesus believed and taught:
John 17:1-3 ...'Father ... this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.'
John 4:23-24 ...'But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.'
No '3 in 1 trinity god' in the faith of Jesus Christ. So if we are to have the faith of Jesus, we are also to worship the one true God, which is God the Father, and believe in Jesus Christ as the true, only begotten Son of God the Father, not a confused '3 in 1 triune god', which was made up by man. And if you are now thinking of Matthew 28:19, then please see our page showing the truth on this - MATTHEW 28:19 EXPLAINED.
There is one law and one law giver, JEHOVAH (Isaiah 33:22). But that 'man of sin', that 'antichrist' power, the Papal Church, has come in and usurped the authority of God, and is deceiving the world into looking to him instead of God. Sadly, most churches are following the Roman Catholic Church instead of God, and through the church-state union in America (image of the beast), Rome's Sunday rest law will be enforced around the world as an answer to the world's troubles. So what is the answer to this deadly deception that is soon to break upon the whole world?
Revelation 14:12 ...'Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.'
Ecclesiastes 12:13-14 ...'Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man. For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.'
For more studies in connection with this page, please see the following pages:
THE FIRST ANGEL'S MESSAGE - THE FEAR OF GOD
THE SECOND ANGEL'S MESSAGE - BABYLON IS FALLEN
THE MARK OF THE BEAST IS ALL TO DO WITH WORSHIP