Key Thought: The three angels’ messages are the mission to the world, our identifying statement of faith, and our unique prophetic identity. This is our passion to proclaim the gospel.
April 15, 2023

1. Have a volunteer read Revelation 5:6-8, I Corinthians 15:1-4, Romans 3:24-26.

1. Ask class members to share a short thought on what the most important point is in this passage.
2. What does the seven eyes and seven horns represent on the Lamb?
   (Note: Christ has perfect power and perfect wisdom. Eyes are a symbol of wisdom. Horns are a symbol of power. Seven is the number of completeness or perfection. The seven spirits represent the one perfect Holy Spirit throughout the seven eras of Christian history.)
3. Personal Application: If the odors of incense are the prayers of the saints, how important is it for us to pray earnestly in every situation? Share your thoughts.
4. Case Study: One of your relatives states, “Who is the Lamb and what book did He take from the right hand of God? What were the seven seals He opened from the book? How would you respond to your relative?
   (Note: The seven seals correspond to the seven churches – seven eras of church history from the early church to the end of the Christian era when Jesus comes.)

2. Have a volunteer read Revelation 13:8, I Peter 1:18-20.

1. Ask class members to share a thought on what the most important point in this text is.
2. Jesus was the Lamb that takes away the sins of the world. Why does it say He was foreordained before the foundation of the world?
   (Note: The plan of salvation had been put in place before mankind was created in case they fell into sin and rebellion)
3. Personal Application: How do people’s choices influence their relationship with Christ and ultimately, their salvation? Share your thoughts.
4. Case Study: One of your friends states, “So we are called the chosen and we are preordained to be saved. Does that mean God chooses who’s saved and who’s lost? Or does it mean Christ died on the cross for everyone, so everyone will be saved? Or is it only those who accept Christ will be saved and everyone else will be lost?” How would you respond to your friend?
   (Note: Can one give the three angels’ messages clearly if they can’t answer this question correctly?)

3. Have a volunteer read Revelation 14:6, Matthew 28:19,20.

1. Ask class members to share a short thought on what the most important point in this text is.
2. What is the extent of these messages? Why is it vital to be missionary minded globally?
3. Personal Application: What does your experience with being a part of something bigger or greater than yourself mean to you? Do you feel the urgency of your part in sharing this gospel with others? Share your thoughts.
4. Case Study: One of your neighbors states: “How is the everlasting gospel going to be preached when many of the countries of the world are anti-Christian – either Buddhist, Muslim, Hindu, Shintu, Communist, or Atheist? How cam God’s people share this gospel in antagonistic areas?” How would you respond to your relative?

4. Have a volunteer read Revelation 14:6, Acts 1:8, Matthew 24:14..

1. Ask class members to share a thought on what the most important point in this text is.
2. Do you believe that if we are willing to go into all the world, that signs and wonders will follow and God will bless their efforts?
3. Personal Application: What role can you play in bringing the three angels’ messages to the entire world? Share your thoughts.
4. Case Study: Think of one person who needs to hear a message from this week’s lesson. Tell the class what you plan to do this week to share with them.

(Truth that is not lived, that is not imparted, loses its life-giving power, its healing virtue. Its blessings can be retained only as it is shared.”Ministry of Healing, p. 148).

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Notice what Revelation 14:6, the beginning of the three angels’ messages, begins with: the “eternal” or “everlasting” gospel. If we fail to understand the depth of the gospel, we will miss the entire point of the three angels’ messages. We can never fully understand the issues in God’s judgment-hour message or the fall of Babylon or the mark of the beast if we fail to understand the gospel.

Read 1 Corinthians 15:1-4, Romans 3:24-26, and Romans 5:6-8. How is the “everlasting gospel” presented in these texts? What great hope is presented here for us?

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The gospel is the incredibly good news of Christ’s death for our sins, His glorious resurrection, and His ever-present love and concern for us. By faith in His shed blood and His resurrection power, we are delivered from both sin’s penalty and power. Christ absorbed the apostle Paul’s thoughts and was at the center of his teaching and preaching. The crucified Christ redeemed him from the condemnation and guilt of his past. The resurrected Christ gave him power for the present, and the returning Christ gave him hope for the future.

Notice four points in these passages in Romans:

   1. We are justified freely by grace.
   2. Grace is a declaration of God’s righteousness.
   3. Grace justifies those who by faith accept Jesus.
   4. God’s love was demonstrated for us while we were yet sinners.

Christ’s grace is unmerited, undeserved, and unearned. Jesus died the agonizing, painful death that lost sinners will die. He experienced the fullness of the Father’s wrath, or judgment, against sin. He was rejected so that we could be accepted. He died the death that was ours, so we could live the life that was His.

Any wonder, then, that salvation must be by faith, and without the deeds of the law? What could we possibly add, what could our works, even the best-intentioned, Holy Spirit-filled works, add to what Christ had done for us at the cross?

And this plan, the plan of salvation, had been put in place even before the beginning of time (2 Timothy 1:9, Titus 1:2, Ephesians 1:4), which helps explain why it is called “the everlasting” gospel. Before the world was created, God knew what would happen, and so He instituted the plan of salvation to meet the crisis when it, eventually, would come.

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When most people think about the Bible’s last book, Revelation, they do not think about God’s grace. When they consider God’s last-day message, their thoughts often turn immediately to frightening beasts, mystic symbols, and strange images. The book of Revelation scares as many people as it reassures, which is unfortunate because it is, indeed, saturated with grace and filled with hope. That is, even amid the scary beasts and warnings of persecution and the hard times ahead, God still gives us reasons to rejoice in His salvation.

Read Revelation 1:1-3 and Revelation 14:6. How do these verses together tell us about not just the book of Revelation but about the “everlasting gospel,” as well?

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Revelation is all about Jesus. It is His message to His people and is especially applicable to His church in the last days. It is a grace-filled message of our end-time hope. Throughout the book, Christ is described as the slain Lamb, and a blessing is promised to those who read, under-stand, and act on the truths revealed.

According to Revelation 1:5-6, Jesus is the one who “loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood, and has made us kings and priests to His God and Father” (NKJV). In Christ we are forgiven. Grace pardons our past, empowers our present, and provides hope for our future. That is, in Christ we are delivered from sin’s penalty and power, and one day soon we will be delivered from sin’s presence. This is the message of the Bible’s last book, Revelation.

And it is also an urgent message, first pictured as an angel flying swiftly in midheaven having the “everlasting gospel.”

The gospel? Salvation by faith in Christ? Christ’s atoning death for us? The promise of eternal life, not because of what we can do but because of what Christ has done for us? All this is at the beginning of the three angels’ messages? Exactly!

No wonder, then, that they are grace-filled messages full of hope and promise for us as broken and suffering beings.

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