Revelation 14:1 And I looked,
and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion, and with him an
hundred forty and four thousand, having
his Father’s name written in their foreheads.
3 And they sung as it were a
new song before the throne, and before the four beasts,
and the elders: and no man could learn that song but the
hundred and forty and
four thousand, which were redeemed from the earth.
5 And in their mouth was found
no guile: for they are without fault before the throne
of God.
Isn't mount Sion, in line 1, in heaven, since
Jesus wouldn't be on earth before the second coming?
Then do not lines 3 & 5 show that they are
before the throne, which is in heaven?
I had
always been taught that the everlasting gospel, that the
angel preaches in line 6, must only be what line 7
mentions that he said:
Revelation
14:7 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.
Is
that really so?
Isn't it rather that line 7 is in "addition" to
the gospel he preaches?
Line 7 doesn't sound like good news, does it?
Then what about the following line of scripture,
given by inspiration of the Holy Ghost?
Galatians 1:8 But though
we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto
you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be
accursed.
If
Revelation 14:7 is the gospel preached by the angel, then
wouldn't he be in violation of Galatians 1:8 &
accursed?
Also, do not, in the tribulation, people wash
their robes in the blood of the Lamb, and overcome the
devil by the blood of the Lamb?
But doesn't Revelation
14:7 mention nothing about the blood of the Lamb?
So, is it possible that the angel still preaches
the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus, even in the
different dispensation of the tribulation?
Also,
is it possible that the great saved multitude mentioned in
Revelation 7:9, believed the gospel preached by the angel?
I had always been taught, and had always
believed, that the 144,000 were all like the apostle Paul,
and that's how those people got saved.
Do not both chapters 7 & 14 mention things
about the 144,000?
But it never mentions that they also preach the
gospel, do not we assume that they do?
Yet doesn't it say that the angel preaches the
gospel?
Also, are not the four words used to describe
those whom the angel preaches to,
the
same used to describe the great multitude that was saved:
people, nation, tongue, and kindred?
Revelation
14:6 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,
Revelation
7:9 After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which
no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and
people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before
the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their
hands;
So is
this even possible?