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Revelation 14 is about what we should preach and teach. Another key message for us can be found in Isaiah 58. This message is about what we should do, and can be summarized as follows: Warn Gods people of their condition Show the love of God through active health ministry to others Show the love of God through active care of the sick, hungry, naked and oppressed Restore the knowledge of all the elements of the gospel truth to the world Keep the Sabbath holy
This is blueprint of what we have been called to say and to do. For us to argue that there are better, more effective ways for us to conduct evangelism is to blatantly suggest that God doesnt know what He is doing, as it is He that has entrusted us with this great commission.
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We need not be ashamed of what we have been called to do, for it has been divinely appointed to us. The combined message of the three angels of Revelation 14 is one of both love and of judgment. We should be happy to proclaim that message, not because we are better than anyone else, or are trying to condemn anyone else, but because that is the work that God has seen fit to give to us. If I am aware that a building is on fire, and I refuse to urgently run to that building and call out the occupants from that building, then I am not showing them love. The people in that situation don't need soft, kind words they need a direct, urgent message.
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Hosea 4:6
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to Me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.
Colossians 2:8
Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.
2 Peter 3:17
Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own stedfastness.
We often remember that ancient Israel got too full of itself and believed that it understood and possessed the only way to salvation but that is only a part of their problem. Another issue that they had, was that they spent a great deal of time trying to be just like all of their neighbors instead of being holy and set apart as God had established them to be. We are making the same two mistakes today either believing that we are already fine, OR believing that we need not be distinctive or have a distinctive message. Both extremes are deadly.
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The Key Principles of Effective Bible Study Addressing Biblical Challenges Properly
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