Truth Matters 12 22 21: The Visions of John

This is Truth Matters! Daily devotion with Dr. Cheryl Davis. Truth Matters is a ministry of The Truth Project whose mission is to empower men and women in the Christian faith to teach biblical truth in the culture and the marketplace of ideas, using the Bible as a sacred trust of truth in sharing the message of Jesus.

Learn more about the ministry of The Truth Project at www.projecttruthmatters.com. Let's continue with the visions of John. Here's Dr. Davis the judgment seat of Christ and our life in eternity. Again, we are still in the prelude. We're still in the Paul's before the bowl judgments which happened in chapter 16. So we're going to finish chapter 14 and move on to verses 6-20. But if you remember I said earlier that chapter 14 has five visions that John records.

They are not necessarily in chronological order. They are a series of announcements by angels of dramatic events which are about to take place during the tribulation. We have angels appearing in verses 6, 8, 9, 15, 17, and 18 of chapter 14. Each of these angels announce a coming event in prophetic history that will affect the lives of the people of God who are on earth during the tribulation days.

Again, we covered the 144,000 in verses 1-5. But let's begin with the next vision in verses 6-7. There are keywords in these verses. The keywords in verse 6 are everlasting gospel.

The main message of this angel is to fear God and to worship him. The emphasis of God is the creator of heaven and earth and the sea and the springs of water. Really it mentions nothing of the blood of Christ, forgiveness, or repentance.

Dr. Henry Morris calls out our attention to this fact. It says if Christ is not the creator, he can hardly be the savior or the coming king. This is interesting as this has a different vantage point than how we minister in the gospel today. The men of the last days, those that are living in the last days that need to be converted or that need to be saved, they must be called back to believe in a true creation and therefore a real creator, God, before they can be constrained to come to him as a savior.

When you talk to the intellectuals of modern day evolution is the predominant belief, undercutting the evidence of God. But verse 6 is the only place in scripture where the gospel is called the everlasting gospel. This is the original gospel from God. The original gospel is to worship and fear God. Let's move on to the next vision and the next vision is in verse 8. Revelation chapter 4 verse 8.

And another angel followed saying Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city because she has made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication. You've been listening to Truth Matters with Dr. Cheryl Davis. Truth Matters is a ministry of the Truth Project, a North Carolina based ministry dedicated to teaching biblical truth and sound theology to those inside and outside of the church. If you'd like to listen to these messages on demand, go to projecttruthmatters.com and click on the podcast link. Dr. Davis is also available to speak to your ministry group or church function. She can be reached by email at CherylDavis at projecttruthmatters.com. Or if you'd like to send a letter, the address is Project Truth Matters, Post Office Box 159, St. Paul's, North Carolina 28384. You can hear Truth Matters weekdays on this radio station at 8 20 a.m. and 5 20 p.m. with a full length teaching program on Saturday afternoon at 12 30. Until next time, let's all work together to teach a biblical truth to assist, equip, edify and encourage one another and bring the gospel to the world because truth matters.