The Harvest and Vintage.
Revelation 14:14-20.

"And I looked and behold a white cloud and upon the cloud one sat like unto the Son of Man, having on His head a Golden Crown and in His hand a sharp sickle.
And another angel came out of the Temple, crying with a loud voice to Him that sat on the cloud, Trust in thy sickle and reap: for the time is come for thee to reap: for the 'Harvest of the Earth' is ripe.
And He that sat on the cloud thrust in His sickle on the earth: and the earth was reaped.
And another angel came out of the Temple which is in Heaven, he also having a sharp sickle.
And another angel came out from the Altar, which had power over fire; and cried with a loud cry to him that had the sharp sickle, saying trust in thy sharp sickle and gather the clusters of the Vine of the Earth; for her grapes are fully ripe.
And the angel thrust in his sick;e into the earth and gathered the Vine of the Earth and cast it into the great Winepress of the Wrath of God.
And the Winepress was trodden without the city and blood came out of the Winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs."

The difference between the Blessed Dead and those who have the 'Mark of the Beast'.

   The Blessed Dead will rest from their labors.
   The Marked of the Beast will not rest day or 
   night.

The warning is given to those during that time who would be tempted to compromise with evil in order to save or keep their lives.

           This class of dead who 'die in the Lord' will be blessed because they will be delivered from the trials and sufferings of the Great Tribulation and will receive the 'Martyr's Crown'.

The Blessed Dead
Revelation 14:12-13

"Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the Commandments of God, and the Faith of Jesus.
And I heard a voice from Heaven saying unto me, Write, blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from hereforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labors: and their works do follow them."

          All saints are truly blessed but this refers to those who die after the False Prophet has commanded all who will not worship the Image of the Beast shall be killed.

Eternal Punishment is taught in the Bible.

           Just think of the remorse in the Lake of Fire, as the worshippers of the Beast think about the 'Mark of the Beast' as it was being placed on their forehead or right hand with their own consent because they didn't want to believe the truth of Jesus Christ and trusted the lies of the Antichrist.

Anyone who worships the Beast and receives his 'mark' in their forehead or their hand, is doomed forever and shall be tormented with fire and brimestone in the presence of the Holy Angels and of the Lamb and the smoke of their torment shall ascend forever and ever and they shall have no rest day or night.

        That means during the 3 and a half years of the Antichrist's reign, after they have received the 'mark' because there is no day or night in eternity.

Third Angel
The Doom of Antichrist's Followers
Revelation 14:9-11

"And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, It 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 brimestone 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 or night, who worship the Beast and his Image and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name."  This a an awful warning!

The angel's warning was that God's people would hear His voice saying: "Come out of her, My People, that ye be not partakers of her sins and that ye receive not of her plagues."

Second Angel
Fall of Babylon
Revelation 14:8.

"And there followed another angel, saying Babylon is Fallen that great City, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication."

         This tells us that the City of Babylon is to be rebuilt.

                 Chapter 18 records the fall and destruction of the literal city of  Babylon.

The angel's message is: "Fear God for the Hour of His Judgment is  come."

             Man rejected the human messenger and they will also reject the angel.  They will not believe even though Jesus rose from the dead.

Reason for the Season

The  Everlasting Gospel is what the angel preaches.  It is not the Gospel of the Kingdom, nor Grace, nor Salvation but of Judgment.
"Fear God, and give glory to Him: for the Hour of His Judgment is come."

           It is Good News to Israel and all who are going through the Fires of Judgment, because it declares that their troubles will soon end in the destruction of the Antichrist.

The word Gospel means Good News!

        Four forms of the Gospel are mentioned in the New Testament.

        The Gospel of the Kingdom - Matthew 24:14.
        The Gospel of the Grace of God - Acts 20:24.
        My Gospel - Romans 2:16,  Acts 26:16-18.
        The Everlasting Gospel - Revelation 14:6.

In John's vision, he see many angels at work.  He sees one flying in mid-heaven, that is, in the heaven or atmosphere that surrounds earth.

                The angel's mission is the preach the 'Everlasting Gospel' to every nation, kindred, tongue and people.

                            This is the first and only place in the Bible where an angel is commissioned to preach the Gospel.  In this Gospel Age only men who are redeemed can preach, but at the End Time, just before Jesus returns, an angel will preach the Everlasting Gospel.

The Three Angel Messengers
First Angel - The Everlasting Gospel
Revelation 14:6-7

"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.'"

These Sealed Ones are the "First-Fruits" on the restored nation of Israel, not the first-fruits of the Church.

          These 144,000 sealed ones are called virgins.   The fact that they are spoken of as not having been 'defiled with women' shows that they are either all men of the character of Paul the Apostle, who didn't marry, or most likely persons of either sex, who kept themselves from fornication which was the sin of the Great Tribulation.

The New Song that the Harpers sing is a double song, the "Song of Moses" and the "Song of the Lamb" and no man can learn the Song except the 144,000 who were redeemed from the earth.

         This tells us that the 144,000 Sealed Ones are in Heaven.  They were either raptured or died martyr's deaths.

The Elders represent the Church.  These Harpers are not the Church because the sing before (in front of) the Elders.

         These Harpers are those who stand on the "Sea of Glass" before the Throne.

Following the voice that John heard was the singing of "Harpers" and their harps.

         These Harpers sing a "New Song" before the Throne and the Four Living Creatures and the Elders.

When John looked at the Lamb and the 144,000 Sealed Ones who stood with him, he heard a voice from Heaven, as the "voice of many waters", and as the voice of a "great thunder", which sounds like the one who spoke from the midst of the Lampstands or the Lambs Himself.

The 144,000 standing with the Lamb on Mount Zion are the 144,000 "Sealed Ones", 12,000 from each of the 12 Tribes of Israel.

        They were sealed in the foreheads.  That sealing was the writing on their foreheads of the name of the Lamb and of the Lamb's Father.

The Lamb, of course, is Jesus Christ and the Mount Zion isn't Mount Zion of the earthly Jerusalem but of the Heavenly which Paul spoke of, "But ye are come unto Mount Zion and unto the city of the living God, 'the Heavenly Jerusalem' and to an innumerable company of angels, to the General Assembly and Church of the First Born, which are written in Heaven and to God the Judge of all and to the spirits of the just men made perfect."

The Seven Vials
The Lamb on Mount Zion.

"And I looked and lo, a Lamb stood on Mount Zion and with Him a hundred forty and four thousand, having His Father's name written in their foreheads.
And I heard a voice from Heaven, as the voice of many waters and as the voice of a great thunder: and I heard the voice of Harpers harping with their harps: 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. These are they which were not defiled with women: for they are virgins.  These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever He goeth.
These were redeemed from among men, being the first fruits unto God and to the Lamb.
And in their mouth was found no guile: for they are without fault before the Throne of God."

At the end of the Great Tribulation, the Lord Jesus Christ will come back and the Dragon, the Anti-God (satan) will be cast into the bottomless pit for 1,000 years.

           The Beast, the Anti-Christ and the False Prophet, the Anti-Spirit will be cast alive into the Lake of Fire.

Times will be awful for those who will not worship the Beast.

          If they can't buy or sell without the Mark, they will have to beg, starve or be killed.

                  Death will be by guillotine.  The daily papers will have a list of the names of the ones beheaded the day before so they will try frighten the people into obedience to the law.

Nebuchadnezzar's Image which is a type of the image of the Beast, was 60 cubits high, 6 cubits wide and 6 instruments of music was used to summon the worshippers.

The Antichrist with his tentacles will cause the people to be powerless and no man can buy or sell who has not taken the Mark of the Beast on their right hand or their forehead.

         The mark may be the number of the Beast or 666 is the number of man.  Man was created on the sixth day.

The False Prophet will cause all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand or in their forehead; and that no man might buy or sell, save he that has the mark or the name of the beast or the number of his name.

          This is what the world is coming to, today.  The time is not far off.

There will be many who will not bow down to the Antichrist and worship the Image of the Beast and will not escape, yet God will in some miraculous way deliver some.

The False Prophet will bring down fire from heaven as one of his miracles.

            He will then command the people to make an image of the Beast.  Mankind has a strange weakness that they must have some visible God to worship.

                      One thing about the image is that the False Prophet will have power to give life to it and cause it to speak and to demand that all who will not worship it shall be put to death.