Chapter Twenty-Nine -Singing the Triumphal New Song

Declaring the Everlasting Good News

John next writes:  "And I saw another angel flying in midheaven, and he had  everlasting good news to declare as glad tidings to those who dwell on the earth, and to every nations and tribe and tongue and people, saying in a loud voice:  "Fear God and give him glory, because the hour of the judgment b y him has arrived and so worship the One who made the heavens and the earth and sea and fountains of waters.' "  (Revelation 14:6, 7)   The angel is flying "in midheaven,"  where the birds fly. (Compare Revelation 19:17)  Hence, his voice can be heard around the globe. Of how much greater range than any television news flash is this angel's worldwide proclamation!

Everyone is urged to fear, not the wild beast and its image, but Jehovah, who is incomparably more powerful than any symbolic beast controlled by Satan.  Why, Jehovah created heaven and earth, and now the time has come for him to judge the earth!  (Compare Genesis 1:1; Revelation 11:18)  When on earth, Jesus prophesied concerning our day: "And this good news  of the kingdom will be preached in all the inhabited earth for a witness to all nations, and then the end will come."  (Matthew 24:14) The congregation of anointed Christians is fulfilling this commission.  (1 Corinthians 9:16; Ephesians 6:15)  Revelation here reveals that invisible angels are also involved in this preaching work. How often angelic guidance has been apparent in bringing one of Jehovah's Witnesses to a home where some distressed soul was yearning, even praying, for spiritual help!  

As the angel flying in midheaven has declared, the hour for judgment has arrived. What judgment  will God now render?  Ears will tingle at the announcements now to be made by a second, a third, a fourth, and a fifth angel.  _Jeremiah 19:3.

Next time: Chapter Thirty -"Babylon the Great Has Fallen!"

From the book of Revelation