Adventistische Schriften über: "What does the fourth angel’s message tell us?"

In Adventist interpretation, the fourth angel’s message refers to the message of the additional angel in Revelation 18:1–4. It announces the fall of Babylon and calls God’s people: “Come out of her,” so that they do not share in her sins and judgment. Ellen White connects this call with the three angels’ messages of Revelation 14: It repeats the second angel’s message and gives special power to the third angel’s message as a final appeal. Babylon figuratively represents forms of false religion or religion that has fallen away from God.

A final warning and a call to come out

»The message of the fall of Babylon, as given by the second angel, is repeated, with the additional mention of the corruptions which have been entering the churches since 1844. The work of this angel comes in at the right time to join in the last great work of the third angel’s message as it swells to a loud cry. […] I heard voices which seemed to sound everywhere, “Come out of her, My people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues. For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.”«

1 - Ellen Gould White, The Story of Redemption (SR 399.2)

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What “Babylon” represents figuratively

»The term Babylon is derived from Babel, and signifies confusion. It is employed in Scripture to designate the various forms of false or apostate religion. […] A virtuous woman represents a pure church, a vile woman an apostate church.«

2 - Ellen Gould White, The Great Controversy (1888 ed.) (GC88 380.3)

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