We left off with the three Angel’s Messages in Chapter 14.  We recall that the third Angel’s message was the close of God’s Mercy.  Any of Earth’s inhabitants that are not followers of Jesus by this time will be facing the seven bowls of God’s wrath next.

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Throughout the seven trumpets of terror and plagues there was still time to repent and turn to Christ and be assured to walking on streets paved with gold for eternity.  But it will be very surprising how many people there will be that will not give these a second thought.  Once a person’s heart is hardened, not responding to the urgings of the Holy Spirit, it is difficult to just turn it around and decide to change.  In fact the Bible says that we cannot change on our own, we have to respond to that small voice within that is calling us to repent and follow Jesus.   

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Anyway, the Three Angel Messages will be the end of those urgings to repent, all efforts to save as many people as possible will have come to an end.  The next to happen will be the harvest of the earth as told by Jesus in Matthew Chapter 13.  The weeds that are growing up with the wheat, 30 Let both grow together until the harvest. Then I will tell the harvesters to sort out the weeds, tie them into bundles, and burn them, and to put the wheat in the barn.  It is by the Grace of God that we still have an option to be wheat instead of weeds!  But God only knows when those three Angels will sound out their messages. 

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So throughout Revelation, (history), this book is revealing God’s love for mankind.  The seven church letters were meant to correct some things that had drifted from the truth.  As well as the seven trumpets that was an effort to bring sinners to repentance.  All of the letters ended with the warning, he who has an ear let him hear what the spirit is saying.   Throughout the Bible you will see many pleas from a loving God who doesn’t want any to perish but that all would come to the knowledge of the truth.  For “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”

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And why is God so insistent on perfection?  Because He is Holy and Perfect.  He will not allow any of the slightest wrong-doing through those Pearly gates.  Even though many people might repent late in life and have some of that old corrupt nature within them, the Bible says that we will all change in the twinkling of an eye.  The Bible says that sanctification is an ongoing process and once we arrive in Heaven, it will be complete.  But it at least has to be started before those three Angel’s Messages

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