Jesus, the Lamb, will stand on Mount Sion with 144,000 saints who have His Father’s name written in their foreheads. They sing about redemption. They kept themselves pure from following the Beast and were blameless in their actions before others. Verses 1, 4 and 5 are the few faithful Jews who survived the great tribulation. Verses 2-3 include both the martyrs who died in the tribulation and all persons of faith of other times. The everlasting gospel is the message that men should worship the Creator. Many people hate the truth of intelligent design. They prefer the lies of the Big Bang and evolution.
In the middle of the tribulation, an angel announces that Babylon is fallen. Religious Babylon, which includes the Catholic Church and Christian denominations that denied truth, had controlled politics. This leaves the Beast in charge, who demands worship for himself. Everybody who despised God and received the mark of the Beast and worshipped his image will suffer frightening judgments before they go into the fire.
A few saints will have patience to keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus. The saints who die in the tribulation will be raised to be guests at the marriage of the Lamb. Then they will reign with Christ in the Millennium.
The Son of Man will begin to harvest or punish the Western nations and cast the wicked out of the earth into the lake of fire. The righteous will be left on the earth to reign with Christ in the Millennium. This final judgment is the worst because it is punishing the religious people that rejected Christ and His work.
1. Whose name was written in the foreheads of the 144,000? __________ Revelation 14:___
2. What was the name of the gospel that says that men should worship the Creator? __________ Revelation 14:___
3. What is the name of the city that is fallen, which represents religious power? __________ Revelation 14:___
4. What do the saints have that keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus? __________ Revelation 14:___
5. The Son of Man sits on a white cloud. What does He have on His head and in His hand? __________ Revelation 14:___