The Three Angels’

Messages Of
Revelation 14:6-12
14. GOD’S CONSUMING FIRE
 GOD’S PUNISHMENT BY FIRE
REVELATION 14:9-11
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:
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.
 IS THIS FIRE EVERLASTING?
LUKE 17:28-30
Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank,
they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; But the same day
that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from
heaven, and destroyed [them] all. Even thus shall it be in the day
when the Son of man is revealed.

Same punishment: REVELATION 14:9-11?

GENESIS 13:13
But the men of Sodom [were] wicked and sinners before the LORD
exceedingly.
 WHAT WICKEDNESS WAS SODOM &
GOMORRAH GUILTY OF?
GENESIS 19:5 [Guilty: Sexual immorality]
And they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where [are]
the men which came in to thee this night? bring them out
unto us, that we may know them.
GENESIS 19:33-35 [Guilty: Incest]
And they made their father drink wine that night: and the
firstborn went in, and lay with her father; …Let us
make him drink wine this night also; and go thou in,
[and] lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our
father. And they made their father drink wine that night
also: and the younger arose, and lay with him; and he
perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.
 SODOM AND GOMORRAH: GUILTY OF
VIOLENCE
GENESIS 19:9
And they said, Stand back. And they said [again], This
one [fellow] came in to sojourn, and he will needs be a
judge: now will we deal worse with thee, than with them.
And they pressed sore upon the man, [even] Lot, and
came near to break the door.
EZEKIEL 16:49, 50 [Guilty: Covetousness & selfishness]
Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride,
…neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and
needy. And they were haughty, and committed
abomination before me: therefore I took them away as I
saw [good].
 WHERE DID THE FIRE COME FROM?
GENESIS 19:24, 25
Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon
Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out
of heaven; And he overthrew those cities, and all
the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and
that which grew upon the ground.
 Third angel’s message: Fire and brimestone

[REVELATION 14:10].
 Third angel’s message: Smoke ascends for ever and

ever [REVELATION 14:11].

 Third angel’s message: Wicked being tormented

[REVELATION 14:10]
SIMILARITIES: SODOM & THE THIRD
ANGEL’S MESSAGE?
 Angelic visitations: Messages of warnings prior to the
cities destruction

 Messages delivered: Precise order as those of

REVELATION 14:9-11?

Illustration: Sodom & Gomorrah probable or possible …

REVELATION 14:9-11?

 First: Fire and brimestone descends & destroys the wicked

 Second: Smokes ascend to heaven
DOES THE BIBLE EVER CONTRADICT
ITSELF?
JUDE 1:7
Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities about them in
like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going
after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the
vengeance of eternal fire.

2 PETER 2:6
And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes
condemned [them] with an overthrow, making [them] an
ensample unto those that after should live ungodly.
 HARMONIZATION: BURNING BY
ETERNAL FIRE AND REDUCING TO
ASHES?
 Are the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah still burning right now?

 Have the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah being reduced to ashes?

Fire: Eternal results

HAS THIS ETERNAL FIRE EVER GONE
OUT?
DEUTERONOMY 4:23, 24
Take heed unto yourselves, lest ye forget the covenant of the
LORD your God, which he made with you, and make you a
graven image, [or] the likeness of any [thing], which the
LORD thy God hath forbidden thee. For the LORD thy God
[is] a consuming fire, [even] a jealous God.

HEBREWS 12:28, 29
Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved,
let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably
with reverence and godly fear: For our God [is] a
consuming fire.
 DWELLERS: FIREPROOF!
EXODUS 24:15-17
And Moses went up into the mount, and a cloud covered
the mount. And the glory of the LORD abode upon
mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days: and the
seventh day he called unto Moses out of the midst of the
cloud. And the sight of the glory of the LORD [was]
like devouring fire on the top of the mount in the eyes
of the children of Israel.
REVELATION 15:2
And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire:…
 UNRIGHTEOUS/WICKED: GOD’S
CONSUMING FIRE?
MALACHI 4:1-3
For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and
all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be
stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith
the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor
branch. But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of
righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall
go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall. And ye shall
tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the
soles of your feet in the day that I shall do [this], saith the
LORD of hosts.
 GOD’S CONSUMING FIRE: ROOT
NOR BRANCH
MATTHEW 15:13
But he answered and said, Every plant, which my heavenly
Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up.
JOHN 8:44
Ye are of [your] father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye
will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not
in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh
a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of
it.
1 JOHN 3:8
He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from
the beginning.
 GOD’S CONSUMING FIRE: SUSTAINER

JOHN 15:1, 2
I am the true vine, and my Father is the
husbandman. Every branch in me that beareth
not fruit he taketh away: and every [branch] that
beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth
more fruit.
 GOD’S CONSUMING FIRE: NADAB &
ABIHU
LEVITICUS 10:2
And there went out fire from the LORD, and devoured them, and they
died before the LORD.

O.T. EXAMPLES: DISOBEDIENCE/PUNISHMENT

 Is the experience of Nadab and Abihu going to be similar to the end-time
destruction by fire?
 Were they drunk with wine prior to their destruction?

N.T. EXAMPLES: DISOBEDIENCE/PUNISHMENT

 Are the inhabitants of earth going to be drunk with wine prior to their
destruction?
 Will this allow them to distinguish between the HOLY and UNHOLY?
 GOD’S CONSUMING FIRE:
VENGEANCE ON THE DISOBEDIENT

2 THESSALONIANS 1:7-9
And to you who are troubled rest with us, when
the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven
with his mighty angels, In flaming fire taking
vengeance on them that know not God, and that
obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:
Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction
from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory
of his power;
REVELATION 20:9, 10
And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and
compassed the camp of the saints about, and the
beloved city: and fire came down from God out of
heaven, and devoured them. And the devil that
deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and
brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet [are],
and shall be tormented day and night for ever and
ever.
MATTHEW 25:41
Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand,
Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire,
prepared for the devil and his angels....
PARABLE: SOWER AND THE
SEED
•Sower

•Birds
 THIRD ANGEL’S MESSAGE: CHOOSE
GOD’S SIDE

REVELATION 6:15-17
And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and
the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty
men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid
themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the
mountains; And said to the mountains and rocks,
Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that
sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the
Lamb: For the great day of his wrath is come; and
who shall be able to stand?
REVELATION 7:3
Saying, Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor
the trees, till we have sealed the servants of
our God in their foreheads.
 WHO WILL LIVE IN THE PRESENCE
OF GOD’S CONSUMING FIRE?
ISAIAH 33:14-16
...Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? who among
us shall dwell with everlasting burnings? He that walketh
righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth the
gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from holding of
bribes, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and
shutteth his eyes from seeing evil; He shall dwell on high: his
place of defence [shall be] the munitions of rocks: bread
shall be given him; his waters [shall be] sure.
 2 PETER 3:10-14
But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the
night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with
a great noise, and the elements shall melt with
fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are
therein shall be burned up. Seeing then [that] all
these things shall be dissolved, what manner [of
persons] ought ye to be in [all] holy conversation
and godliness, Looking for and hasting unto the
coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens
being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements
shall melt with fervent heat? Nevertheless we,
according to his promise, look for new heavens and
a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.
Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such
things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in
peace, without spot, and blameless.
 MATTHEW 5:8

Blessed [are] the pure in heart: for they shall see God.

ISAIAH 33:14
The sinners in Zion are afraid; fearfulness hath
surprised the hypocrites. Who among us shall dwell
with the devouring fire? who among us shall dwell with
everlasting burnings?
 1 JOHN 3:2, 3
Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not
yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when
he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see
him as he is. And every man that hath this hope in
him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.

HEBREWS 12:28, 29
Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be
moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God
acceptably with reverence and godly fear: for our God
[is] a consuming fire.
 THREE HEBREW BOYS: FIREPROOF
CHARACTER

PSALMS 119:9, 11
Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by
taking heed [thereto] according to thy word. Thy word
have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against
thee.
 A FIREPROOF CHARACTER: FIREPROOF
ENVIRON
EPHESIANS 5:25-27
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church,
and gave himself for it; That he might sanctify and cleanse it with
the washing of water by the word, That he might present it to
himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such
thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.
2 CORINTHIANS 3:18
But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the
Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, [even]
as by the Spirit of the Lord.
METAMORPHOSIS:
CREATURES

1. Caterpillar: Butterfly…?
2. Tad pole: Frog…?
3. Chameleon…?
4. Cow…?