"And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come."On it's own sounds like it's foretelling The Church spreading The Gospel. Completing the Great Commission finally in the End Times.
Both Chuck Missler (Pre-Trib) and Chris White (Pre-Wrath) see a correlation to Revelation 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".It's funny first because it actually doesn't fit either of their Rapture models to have a Pre-Rapture event in Revelation 14.
Going back to what I argued before, about the Resurrection and The Rapture actually possibly being separated by 10 days (Trumpets to Yom Kippur). I said there I was inclined to see Revelation 14 as during this period.
Remembering that "angel" simply means messenger. It could be the angels here are resurrected Church Believers.
I want to say something about Revelation 14:8 that Post-Tirbbers might use to back up their non-chronological view of Revelation.
"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."I could see someone trying to argue this proved Babylon already fell even though it's Fall is described latter. God (and his Prophets) often uses past tense language in reference to future events(commonly known as “prophetic perfect”; example, Isaiah 53; 21:1-10).
The full context and intent here is clearly that this "Angel" is giving a Prophecy of Babylon's coming Fall. Not simply telling everyone what they already know because they just saw it happen.
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