constantly made reference to the judgment, as the motive to holiness.
Beginning in the days of the apostles, the same gospel has been continued
by a succession of men to the present time; and those who are now
preaching, or who support those who so preach the everlasting gospel, in
connection with the warning of approaching judgment, must be regarded as
belonging to the same body of men symbolized by the angel flying in the
midst of heaven.

Commencing in the apostolic age, sections of the globe were evangelized--in
Asia and Africa, that have never received the gospel since, either under
the reformers or by modern missionaries. But beginning with the
dispensation of the gospel to the Gentiles, its fulfilment is found in
China, in Tartary, in Japan, in Egypt, and Ethiopia, and in lands so
remote that no one can say it has not been almost universally promulgated.

The Angel announcing the Fall of Babylon.

"And another angel, a second, followed, saying, She is fallen!
Babylon the great is fallen! She made all nations drink of the
wine of the wrath of her fornication!"--Rev. 14:8.

This angel, like the former, must symbolize a body of religious teachers.
The former resulted in the spread of Christianity. This announces the fall
of a corrupt hierarchy.

Babylon being regarded as a symbol of the Roman church, her fall must be
understood to be her loss of power, as mistress of the kings of the earth;
and synchronizes with her displacement from her position on the beast, as
symbolized in the 17th chapter. The epoch of her fall, and consequently of
the flight of this angel, is that of the Reformation, when the corruptions
of the Papal See were first exposed, and it was denounced as the
Apocalyptic harlot. The argument for this application is given in the
exposition of Rev. 18:1, which is a repetition of the symbol here given,
p. 300.

The Wrath-denouncing Angel.

"And another angel, a third, followed them, saying with a loud
voice, If any one worship the wild beast and his image, and
receive his mark on his forehead, or on his hand, even he will
drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out
unmingled into the cup of his wrath; and he will 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 for
ever and ever: and they have no rest day or night, who worsh