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Rev 14:6-12 Part 1, The Patience and Faith of the Saints

[Study Aired February 14, 2025]

Rev 14:6  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,
Rev 14:7  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.
Rev 14:8  And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.
Rev 14:9  And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand,
Rev 14:10  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 brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb:
Rev 14:11  And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name.
Rev 14:12  Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.

Introduction

There are three angels in these seven verses, all speaking with one voice, bringing into our spiritual view the process which is ordained to reveal to us “the mystery which has been hidden from ages and from generations.” The first angel brings to us the first part of that process and sets the stage for the next two parts of the process which will finish the mystery of God. This first angel tells us that this whole process is part and parcel of the eonian gospel, and that ‘good news’ that ‘gospel’ includes “the hour of God’s judgment” within our lives. It is only through God’s fiery, thunderous judgment upon our sins that we are brought to “fear God and give Him glory”, as we are four times commanded to do under these very “fire and brimstone” circumstances of judgment in Psa 107:8, 15, 21, 31.

Psa 107:8  Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!

Psa 107:15  Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!

Psa 107:21  Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!

Psa 107:31  Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!

All the words in between those four admonitions to give God praise and glory for His judgments are some of the “fire and brimstone” of:

Rev 14:10  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 brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb:

There are three proclamations from three angels which ‘3’ signifies the process of judgment the Lord is working in our lives in “this present time” if we are so blessed as to be judged now rather than later. We are so blessed if we are being judged at this time, because it is only through the Lord’s judgments that we “learn righteousness”, and it is only if “judgment begins at [us as]” the house of God… in this present time that we can be declared to have “done good” in this present time (Rom 8:18) and “come forth … unto the resurrection of the righteous.

Joh 5:28  Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice,
Joh 5:29  And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life [at the beginning of the thousand-year reign]; and they that have done evil [A thousand years later], unto the resurrection of damnation [G2920: ‘krisis’ judgment, the “white throne judgment” after the thousand-year reign. (Rev 20:11)]

Rev 20:4  And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.
Rev 20:5  But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.
Rev 20:6  Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.

In verse six we read: “And I saw another angel flying in the middle of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach to them that dwell on the earth”. In verse eight we read: “And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.” Finally, in verse nine we read: “And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If 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 brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb.”

Hearing the gospel, the message of the first angel, realizing that Babylon has fallen, the gospel of the second angel, and understanding the necessity of being judged in this present time, the gospel of the third angel, are one and all the preaching of the gospel to the seven churches, and therefore these ‘angels’ are the  messengers of the churches because the angels of the heavenly hosts desire to look into the everlasting gospel, but are not granted to do so. These three angels are ‘three’ because they reveal the process of our judgment:

Numbers in Scripture: Three – The Process of Spiritual Completion Through Judgment/

So this is a three-step process, just as the festivals of God were a three-step process leading up to the judgment and salvation of all in the fall harvest “in the end of the year.”

Exo 23:14  Three times thou shalt keep a feast unto me in the year.
Exo 23:15  Thou shalt keep the feast of [1 – Passover and the days of] unleavened bread: (thou shalt eat unleavened bread seven days, as I commanded thee, in the time appointed of the month Abib; for in it thou camest out from Egypt: and none shall appear before me empty:)
Exo 23:16  And [2] the feast of harvest, the firstfruits of thy labours [the feast of Pentecost, called ‘the feast of “the firstfruits of thy labors”], which thou hast sown in the field: and [3] the feast of ingathering, which is in the end of the year, [The feast of Tabernacles] when thou hast gathered in thy labours out of the field.
Exo 23:17  Three times in the year all thy males shall appear before the Lord GOD.

Those three festival seasons typify God’s dealings with the whole of mankind and with each of us individually. First, we cry out to God, and He brings us out of the world, as Israel came up out of Egypt. We are still “in the wilderness” however, and are “yet carnal” (1Co 3:1-4), and we rebel against God ten times in the wilderness.

Num 14:22  Because all those men which have seen my glory, and my miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice;

The second part of our experience includes crossing the Jordan and fighting against and subduing the giants in the land. Those giants in the land are types of the passions and carnal lusts within us. We do not drive out all those giants, and for that very reason we end up being carried away captive into Babylon. At this point we are God’s called-out people, but the mystery of God is still not finished within us. This is why within us we are told:

Rev 14:8  And there followed another [second] angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.

The “fall of Babylon” has far more to do with our coming out of the lies of “the mother of harlots” in every generation of mankind than it has to do with the physical destruction of a physical city called Babylon. So all those who are looking for the physical city of Babylon to be rebuilt and the physical temple in Jerusalem to be rebuilt are assuming that these words are dispensational words, which apply only to the last generation who happen to be standing on this earth when Christ returns to set up his ‘thousand-year’ reign. For these people these words are all external and impersonal. They have completely forgotten the admonition of Revelation 1:3.

Rev 1:3  Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand.

“In the end of the year” is “the feast of ingathering.” This festival typifies our coming out of Babylon and returning to the land of promise victorious, to rebuild the temple, which temple will be more glorious than the temple of Solomon.

Hag 2:6  For thus saith the LORD of hosts; Yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land;
Hag 2:7  And I will shake all nations, and the desire of all nations shall come: and I will fill this house with glory, saith the LORD of hosts.
Hag 2:8  The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, saith the LORD of hosts.
Hag 2:9  The glory of this latter house shall be greater than of the former, saith the LORD of hosts: and in this place will I give peace, saith the LORD of hosts.

Let us keep in mind that everything we are reading is proceeding directly “out of the mouth of God” (Mat 4:4, Rev 1:1), and is therefore to be kept by those who are given by our heavenly Father to “read… hear… and keep the things written in this book” (Rev 1:3). Let us also remember that everything written from chapter 10 through chapter 16 happens “in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when the seventh angel shall begin to sound.” What we are reading here in these seven chapters, from chapter 10-16, prepares us for what is happening in “the days of the voice of the seventh angel”, and is preparing us for what will be revealed in us, in the events which are revealed at the sounding of the seventh angel.

It is the events of the seventh-trumpet judgment within us which prepares us and makes us fit for the “finishing of the mystery of God.” These are the things that we must endure before that mystery of “Christ in you the hope of glory” can be realized. That is why these five chapters are interjected between the sounding of the seventh trumpet and the revelation of what comprises this seventh trumpet. Let’s read it again.

Rev 10:7  But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets.

Put another way, this seventh trumpet and keeping and fulfilling the experience of this seventh trumpet, is what must begin to be fulfilled within us, before “the mystery of God, which He has declared to His servants the prophets” can be finished within us. Notice how similar are Rev 10:7 and Rev 15:8:

Rev 15:8  And the temple was filled [Aorist tense, being filled] with smoke from the glory of God, and from his power; and no man was able to enter into the temple [Aorist tense, begin to enter], till the seven plagues of the seven angels were fulfilled. [Aorist tense, being fulfilled]

As we will see below, “the mystery of God is Christ in us, the hope of glory.” It is not Christ in us the glory, but “the hope of glory”, and that hope cannot come into us until we have begun entering into the temple of God, and that temple is “Christ within us, and we in Him” (Joh 14:20), Christ increasing daily while we are dying daily with Him (1Co 15:31):

Joh 3:30  He [Christ] must increase [daily], but I [our old man] must decrease.

Joh 14:20  At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.

1Co 15:31  I protest by your rejoicing which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.

Now let’s look at the message of this first angel:

The first angel

Rev 14:6  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,
Rev 14:7  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.

“The everlasting gospel” this angel brings to us is “the gospel of the kingdom of God” which is within us (Luk 17:20-21) which the angels desire to look into but cannot do so.

Mar 1:14  Now after that John was put in prison, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God,
Mar 1:15  And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel.

Luk 17:20  And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation:
Luk 17:21  Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.

1Pe 1:12  Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto us they did minister the things, which are now reported unto you by them that have preached the gospel unto you [these three angels of this 14^th chapter] with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven; which things the angels desire to look into.

That gospel of the kingdom of God within us is the same as “the mystery which has been hidden from ages and from generations.” That mystery is the revelation that Christ Himself actually lives within us, is taking up residence where the beastly “man if sin” once lived, and that we are actually and truly part and parcel of “the Christ” who has been sent to save the entire world.

Col 1:25  Whereof I am made a minister, according to the dispensation of God which is given to me for you, to fulfil the word of God;
Col 1:26  Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints: [The three angels of this 14^th chapter]
Col 1:27  To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:

“The mystery of God should be finished, as he has declared to His servants the prophets… has been hid from ages and generations… whereof I am made a minister… is Christ in you the hope of glory”. This ministry “which is given to me for you” are words which have an application for the entire body of Christ, because the entire body ministers to “itself in love”, not just the apostle Paul.

Eph 4:15  But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ:
Eph 4:16  From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.

Rev 10:7 tells us “in the days when the seventh angel begins to sound, the mystery of God should be finished [Aorist tense, being finished], as He hath declared [Aorist tense, being declared] unto His servants the prophets”. Whatever else we can glean from that statement, the one truth we cannot deny is that that mystery of Christ living His life in us is not finished in ten seconds or even in a whole 24 hour day. Rather He “begins” to “finish” His work through the symbol of “three angels”, and He is declaring it by and to ‘His servants the prophets’ who are these three angels. The fact that this is all brought to us by three separate angels who are speaking with one voice, reveals to those with the spiritual “eyes to see” it that there is a process in motion, which is the process of Christ taking over His throne in His temple, “which temple we are”. What we are being told here is that the process of destroying and dethroning our beastly “man of sin” and gradually and daily replacing him with our “new man”, is initiated “in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound”.

1Co 3:16  Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
1Co 3:17  If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.

1Co 15:31  I protest by your rejoicing which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.

1Co 3:16-17 is “the mystery of God which has been hid from ages and from generations” because we are told this:

Rom 8:9  But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.

So “the spirit of God” and “the spirit of Christ” are one and the same spirit, which is exactly what Christ Himself tells us:

Joh 10:30  I and my Father are one.

The very same thing is said of us and Christ.

1Co 6:17  But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.

1Co 12:13  For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.

Since Christ and His Father are one, then “Christ in you, the hope of glory”, which is “the mystery of God which has been hid from ages and from generations”, is really Christ and His Father in us and we in them.

Joh 14:20  At that day ye shall know [future tense because Christ was not yet in anyone] that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.

“At that day”? What day is “that day”? “That day” is when “the mystery of God should be finished”, and that mystery of Christ dwelling in us begins to become a reality. But that day cannot become a reality until the seventh angel has sounded and all the events that comprise that seventh trumpet are being fulfilled. This is what we are told:

Rev 15:7  And one of the four beasts gave [Aorist tense, is giving] unto the seven angels seven golden vials full of the wrath of God, who liveth for ever and ever.
Rev 15:8  And the temple was filled [Aorist tense, is being filled] with smoke from the glory of God, and from his power; and no man was able to enter [Aorist tense, begin entering] into the temple, till the seven plagues of the seven angels were fulfilled [Aorist tense, were being fulfilled].

So Christ cannot truly abide in us “till the seven plagues of the seven angels begin to be fulfilled” within us. This is not a “smooth thing” to have to teach. The Truth of Rev 15:8, and 14:11-12 has been replaced throughout Babylon by various forms of a rapture doctrine. The entire Christian world denies that God’s elect live by and keep these words concerning the living and keeping or enduring of the wrath of God. These words in Rev 14:11-12, and 15:8, are the modern equivalent of Jeremiah telling Israel that it is God’s will that Israel is to be carried away into Babylon to serve the king of Babylon and to suffer the wrath of God upon their sins. So Rev 15:8, and 14:11-12 are simply reaffirming what the Old Testament scriptures have already told us many hundreds of years earlier in the book of Jeremiah.

Jer 25:15  For thus saith the LORD God of Israel unto me; Take the wine cup of this fury at my hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send thee, to drink it.
Jer 25:16  And they shall drink, and be moved, and be mad, because of the sword that I will send among them.
Jer 25:17  Then took I the cup at the LORD’S hand, and made all the nations to drink, unto whom the LORD had sent me:
Jer 25:18  To wit, Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and the kings thereof, and the princes thereof, to make them a desolation, an astonishment, an hissing, and a curse; as it is this day;

No one wants to hear that Rev 14:11 is something which has “proceeded out of the mouth of God, is written in the sayings of the prophecy of this book, and is to be kept by each and every one of us”. Nevertheless, those verses are part of what the scriptures call “the strong meat… for them that are of full age.”

Heb 5:12  For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which [ be] the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat.
Heb 5:13  For every one that useth milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe.
Heb 5:14  But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.

But what did God tell Jeremiah concerning anyone who subscribes to any form of a doctrine which excludes anyone from “living by every word which proceeds from the mouth of God”, or telling us that we can somehow avoid drinking of the cup of His wrath? Here are God’s own words to all who subscribe to any form of a rapture theory, which declares that there are parts of God’s Word which are only for those whose hearts God hardens, but are not for you and me if we will only repent:

Jer 25:28  And it shall be, if they refuse to take the cup at thine hand to drink, then shalt thou say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts;  Ye shall certainly drink.
Jer 25:29  For, lo, I begin to bring evil on the city which is called by my name, and should ye be utterly unpunished? Ye shall not be unpunished: for I will call for a sword upon all the inhabitants of the earth, saith the LORD of hosts.
Jer 25:30  Therefore prophesy thou against them all these words, and say unto them, The LORD shall roar from on high, and utter his voice from his holy habitation; he shall mightily roar upon his habitation; he shall give a shout, as they that tread the grapes, against all the inhabitants of the earth.

These verses in Hebrews five should begin to be make clear that the phrase, “in the days when the seventh angel shall begin to sound” is speaking of the days in which Christ is us, the hope of glory”, begins to become a spiritual reality, and all the seals and trumpets which lead up to this seventh trumpet, begin to be experienced within us while we are yet in Babylon. These are the days in which Christ begins to dethrone the beast that occupies the throne of our hearts and begins His fiery judgment which teaches us righteousness. “Christ in us, the hope of glory” is the very subject of “that day” spoken of in John 14:20 and Rev 15:8, where we are beginning to appreciate and to understand that we are in Christ, and He is in us and we are in the Father.

Joh 14:20  At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.

Rev 15:8  And the temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God, and from his power; and no man was able to enter into the temple, till the seven plagues of the seven angels were fulfilled.

Now let’s look at the verses preceding John 14:20, and while we are looking at these verses let’s remember that none of Christ’s unconverted disciples had yet denied Him. Let’s realize that all of them, at this point, considered themselves incapable of such a dastardly deed. Here is Christ speaking of that day when He would be dwelling within His disciples.

Joh 14:17  Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.
Joh 14:18  I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.
Joh 14:19  Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also.

It was Christ who was in His Father and had His Father in Him, and it was Christ who would soon be “dwelling withn” His disciples, and it was Christ who, at the day of Pentecost, began to take up His residence within His disciples. But for his disciples this was yet “the days of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound.” At this time, “the mystery of God [was not yet] finished” within His disciples, and “no man [no disciple] was able to enter into the temple of Christ till the seven plagues of the seven angels should begin to be fulfilled” within them.

You will say to me, “Wait a minute, we are the temple Christ dwells within according to 1Co 3:16-17. “

1Co 3:16  Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
1Co 3:17  If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are

And I will say to you that ‘Yes, you and I are indeed that temple, but we are not that temple of ourselves nor of anything we have done. We are the temple of God only if Christ first begins to dwell within us’.

Rom 8:1  There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk [present tense] not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

So we have to be in Him before He can be in us. Which takes us right back to Joh 14:20:

Joh 14:20  At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.

Now what does “the hour of His judgment is come” mean? This again is strong meat which simply cannot be accepted by those who use milk and are “unskillful in the word of righteousness” (Heb 5:13). Here is what “the hour of His judgment is come” means:

1Pe 4:17  For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?

“The hour of His judgment is come” is the same as “the time comes that judgment must begin at the house of God.” “The house of God” is “the temple of God,” However, this judgment doesn’t even begin until after “the seven plagues of the seven angels are [Aorist tense, begin to be] fulfilled” within us. Only then can we “enter [Aorist tense, begin to enter] into the temple of God” and we begin being judged and begin “learning righteousness”.

Isa 26:9  With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee early: for when thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.

Put another way, when God’s judgments “begin at the house of God, the inhabitants of the earth” within us will begin to learn righteousness.

The second angel

Rev 14:8  And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.

Four chapters later, after the seven plagues of the seven angels have been poured out upon the lying and false doctrines of Babylon within us, we read these words:

Rev 18:4  And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.
Rev 18:5  For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.
Rev 18:6  Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double according to her works: in the cup which she hath filled fill to her double.
Rev 18:7  How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow.

This seventh verse should make us remember the words we have kept in Rev 3:17-18:

Rev 3:17  Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:
Rev 3:18  I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and [ that] the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.

Rev 3:17-18 are words which we read, hear and keep. They describe each of us to a tee. God’s people all “come out of Babylon” where we all said in our hearts “I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow”. We have all thought that these curses were all placed upon the sins of some blasphemous sinner, and of that we were exactly right. That “chief… of… sinners” is each and every one of us. The only way to avoid partaking of her sins and receiving of her plagues in the future is to confess that we have already done so and we are even now fulfilling the seven plagues of the seven angels, and entering into the heavenly temple which is Christ. The very purpose of those plagues of the seven angels is to purify us so that Christ can enter into us and we into Him.

Rev 15:8  And the temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God, and from his power; and no man was able to enter into the temple, till the seven plagues of the seven angels were [Aorist tense, being] fulfilled.

Therefore we must keep the words of this third angel also, whose message to us is just as much a part of “the everlasting gospel” as are the first two angels:

The third angel

Rev 14:9  And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand, [We all do so, Rev 13:16]
Rev 14:10  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 [our old man] shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb:
Rev 14:11  And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name.

What is all of this? It is all part of the everlasting gospel which is being preached to them that dwell on the earth (vs 6). It is also described in this manner:

Rev 14:12  Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God [“The sayings of the prophecy of this book” Rev 1:3, 22:7], and the faith of Jesus.

Rev 1:3  Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand.

Rev 22:7  Behold, I come quickly: blessed is he that keepeth the sayings of the prophecy of this book.

We will pause at this point and we will consider what “the patience of the saints, keeping the commandments of God, and having the faith of Jesus” entails in our next study.

Is verse 9 insinuating with the word ‘if’ that there is a way for the saints to avoid the mark of the beast?

Rev 14:9  And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand,
Rev 14:10  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 brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb: