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Three angels (messengers) Revelation 14

6 Then I saw another angel flying in midair, and he had the eternal gospel to proclaim to those who live on the earth—to every nation, tribe, language and people. 7 He said in a loud voice, “Fear God and give him glory, because the hour of his judgment has come. Worship him who made the heavens, the earth, the sea and the springs of water.”

8 A second angel followed and said, “‘Fallen! Fallen is Babylon the Great,’[a] which made all the nations drink the maddening wine of her adulteries.”

9 A third angel followed them and said in a loud voice: “If anyone worships the beast and its image and receives its mark on their forehead or on their hand, 10 they, too, will drink the wine of God’s fury, which has been poured full strength into the cup of his wrath. They will be tormented with burning sulfur in the presence of the holy angels and of the Lamb. 11 And the smoke of their torment will rise for ever and ever. There will be no rest day or night for those who worship the beast and its image, or for anyone who receives the mark of its name.” 12 This calls for patient endurance on the part of the people of God who keep his commands and remain faithful to Jesus.

13 Then I heard a voice from heaven say, “Write this: Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.”

“Yes,” says the Spirit, “they will rest from their labor, for their deeds will follow them.”

Harvesting the Earth and Trampling the Winepress
14 I looked, and there before me was a white cloud, and seated on the cloud was one like a son of man with a crown of gold on his head and a sharp sickle in his hand. 15 Then another angel came out of the temple and called in a loud voice to him who was sitting on the cloud, “Take your sickle and reap, because the time to reap has come, for the harvest of the earth is ripe.” 16 So he who was seated on the cloud swung his sickle over the earth, and the earth was harvested.

17 Another angel came out of the temple in heaven, and he too had a sharp sickle. 18 Still another angel, who had charge of the fire, came from the altar and called in a loud voice to him who had the sharp sickle, “Take your sharp sickle and gather the clusters of grapes from the earth’s vine, because its grapes are ripe.” 19 The angel swung his sickle on the earth, gathered its grapes and threw them into the great winepress of God’s wrath. 20 They were trampled in the winepress outside the city, and blood flowed out of the press, rising as high as the horses’ bridles for a distance of 1,600 stadia.
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I have reservations in saying this, but surely the Catholic Church has been proved right in seeking to restrict the actual text of the Bible from the laity.

What that Church feared has come to pass. With the printing press and mass literacy we now have over 2000 variant sects, many claiming to be the "true" Christians.

The [i]Living Word[/i] has been put into the hands of the what some have called the triumphant herdmind.

Here is the nuanced approach to scripture of the Catholic Church:-

[i]To search out the intention of the sacred writers, attention should be given, among other things, to "literary forms." For truth is set forth and expressed differently in texts which are variously historical, prophetic, poetic, or of other forms of discourse. The interpreter must investigate what meaning the sacred writer intended to express and actually expressed in particular circumstances by using contemporary literary forms in accordance with the situation of his own time and culture. For the correct understanding of what the sacred author wanted to assert, due attention must be paid to the customary and characteristic styles of feeling, speaking and narrating which prevailed at the time of the sacred writer, and to the patterns men normally employed at that period in their everyday dealings with one another[/i]. (Dei Verbum, III, 12, 2)

Applying such to the text would have protected us from the sort of nonsense being proclaimed here by the self appointed guardians of Truth.
Carazaa · F
@SW-User

Dear, Instead of reading catholic priests writings read God's word.

[b]2 Timothy 3:16-17[/b]
[b]
"All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work."[/b]

Revelation 14 above is God's word. All I did was post it. You say it is nonsense? So you believe the Bible is nonsense, and you say you believe in Jesus? Jesus said in Matthew 24 that "many will come in my name deceiving many" So please be careful that you are believing in the Biblical Jesus and not the Jesus in your imagination. Jesus said "Before Abraham, I AM" Jesus is The Lord of all. And the creature of the universe John 1.
SW-User
@Carazaa Hi, instead of simply living in the presumption of being "of the truth" try to absorb what was quoted concerning the Catholic approach to scripture. Thus seeing that when Timothy wrote the words "all scripture" would not have meant what [i]you[/i] presume it to mean. The New Testament as such simply did not exist when Timothy was written (and, by the way, most authorative scholars think it was not written by Paul as is claimed within it)

But, nevermind. What is the point? Go back to sleep.
Carazaa · F
@SW-User Revelation 14 above is God's word. All I did was post it. You say it is nonsense? So you believe the Bible is nonsense, and you say you believe in Jesus? Jesus said in Matthew 24 that "many will come in my name deceiving many" So please be careful that you are believing in the Biblical Jesus and not the Jesus in your imagination. Jesus said "Before Abraham, I AM" Jesus is The Lord of all. And the creator of the universe John 1.