09_02 The Angel with the Chain

There are two question documents: 09_01 and this one.

The second document of the two question documents, #09_02, The Angel with the Chain, settles the question about the millenium. Will we be here on earth during the 1000 years, as so many other denominations teach? IF Israel had received Jesus as its Saviour and Lord, yes that would have fulfilled prophecies about Israel in the Old Testament.
They did not!! Therefore, the millennium will be with the saints (Spiritual Israel) in heaven, as is taught in the Revelation! When Jesus comes, He will take His saints back with Him to the NEW Jerusalem in heaven for the 1000 years. John 14, verses 1 to 3 tell us so! Read it and notice that, NOW!

The Angel with the Chain (Revelation 20) is about the imprisonment of Satan and his fallen angels (demons) who have tempted and harmed us ever since the fall into sin by Eve and Adam. They will finally receive some recompense (a thousand years of fearful agony of soul, knowing that their just end is coming). Yes, they will be locked up on death row, unable to keep busy any longer, tempting and ruining mankind!
Do you want that angel with the chain to finally come?

Scripture: Revelation 20: 1-3.

Title: The Angel With the Chain

Why are we still here?

Over 170 years have passed into history since the beginning of “the hour of His Judgment” in 1844.
Why are we still here?

The 2300 day prophecy of Daniel is absolutely certain. It leads to October 22, 1844. The churches of Great Babylon, mother of harlots (which therefore includes the Protestant Churches which have drunk of the wine of her false doctrines) has been Judged by God at that date. The Bible message about her and her harlot daughters is: “Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen (first Catholicism and now her daughters, despite their being called “Protestant”) and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird. For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies. And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, ‘Come out of her, My people, that ye be notpartakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.'” Revelation 18: 2-4.

But when will the Judgment Hour end? What is Jesus waiting for?

The answer is in the work of the angel with the chain, that we read about in the introduction text, Revelation 20, verses 1 to 3.

How many of you are sure that Jesus is the angel with the chain? May I see your hands?

How many don’t know? May I see your hands? Are there any who believe it is someone else? Who else could it be? How about a real angel sent for that purpose? That might be reasonable.
Let’s dig into the Word, and find out, shall we?

In Revelation 14, the 3 Angel’s Messages, as we understand them, were brought to the people of the whole earth, not by visible angels, flying above us, but by heaven-sent human messengers.

In 1843, the first two of the three messages were carried by human messengers to the whole world in the Great Awakening foretold by the 1335 day prophecy of Daniel 12:12. Therefore, we believe that we can be the human messengers God will use. We have “…the Everlasting Gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people: saying with a loud voice [the Loud Cry Movement, proclaiming the Sabbath] ‘Fear God, and give glory to Him, for the hour of His Judgment is come; and worship Him that made heaven and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters.'” (and we will attach the other two messages to that, with the updated warning of Revelation 18, verses 1 to 5). Spirits of devils have joined with Great Babylon. Spiritualism; communicating with the dead, out-of-body experiences, apparitions of Mary and ghosts, have, since the earlier proclamation, back in 1843 – 1844 and on till our time, crept into the churches of Great Babylon and her daughters!

Revelation 18, verse one, says: “…I saw another angel come down from heaven…” The Scripture reading we are delving into the meaning of today (Rev. 20: 1 and 2 – “Who is the angel with the chain?”) opens with exactly the same words: “And I saw an angel come down from heaven.” As we compare “line upon [with] line, here a little, and there a little,” (Holy Spirit’s prescription for real Bible study) we see that it is very likely that both designate human messengers, heaven sent. Therefore, I suggest to you that in Revelation 20, the same human messengers
have another function, at the very end, that of binding Satan for the 1000 years. They will be “the angel with the chain!”

While you consider that, there is another point that must be part of our consideration in this matter. Back in Revelation 18, verse 4, is, “another voice from heaven,” which few of us would contest is the very voice of Jesus, saying: “Come out of her, My people, that you be not partakers of her sins, and that you receive
not of her plagues!” (pause)

Therein is another related question. What happened, historically, in 1844? The human messengers who took up the preaching of the Everlasting Gospel, attaching to it the 1st and 2nd angel’s messages, also proclaimed these words of Jesus, “Come out of her, My people!”
The Protestant churches of America were, in 1844, thrusting Advent believers out of their churches (nearly every denomination did this) thus rejecting the message of Jesus’ soon Coming, in that very year!

The Advent believers then proclaimed the 2nd Angel’s Message to those churches, realizing that the churches were revealing themselves to be the daughters of Great Babylon, who is designated in Rev. 17 as “the mother of harlots.”

The believers proclaimed “Babylon is fallen, is fallen,” and then, note this, in anticipation of the final call we will give, they added the words of Jesus – “Come out of her, My people!” Therefore, it is highly likely that in the final “Loud Cry,” again these words of Jesus will be proclaimed by human messengers rather than by the
voice of Jesus heard from heaven!

So, as far as the angel with the chain, who binds Satan, in Revelation 20 is concerned, can we reconcile the historic evidence we have considered with what I have proposed to you, that human messengers will bind Satan for the 1000 years?

I believe that the apostle Paul has given us that very principle. Turn to 2 Corinthians, chapter 5, for the key to our two questions. 2 Corinthians, chapter 5, verses 19 and 20:
“God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto Himself, not imputing their
trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation. Now, then, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you, in Christ’s stead, ‘Be ye reconciled to God!'”

Follow my point carefully; from v. 19: God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto Himself. He (Jesus) has committed unto us that word of reconciliation. Christ in us, is how we become His ambassadors, and we exhort others, in Christ’s stead, “Be ye
reconciled to God!”
People, this is a Biblical principle. Christ, in His people, and through their activity, fulfils His will in the salvation of mankind. Without His Spirit in you, (according to Jesus Himself) you can do nothing.

With His Spirit in you, you can do all of His will. You can keep His Commandments, by His Spirit in you: (“Overcome as I overcame.” – Revelation 3:21). You can carry
the 3 Angel’s Messages to the world, by His Spirit in you. You can proclaim the 4th Angel’s Message to the world, today, by His Spirit in you! You can proclaim the loud cry of Jesus, “Come out of her, My people,” by His Spirit in you! You can lay hold of the dragon, Satan, and bind him for 1000 years, by the spirit of Jesus in you!
Herein is the good news. Herein is the Everlasting Gospel: Christ in you, the hope of heaven! (Colossians 1:27)

So. Who is the angel with the chain? It is the work of His saints – those with His Spirit in them. These, at the time designated by the prophecy of Revelation 20, are the 144,000. It is the 144,000 who will be “the fit man” who will bind the scapegoat.
These can only be those who have experienced all that which was typified in the Sanctuary Service – repentance and redemption in the outer court, – forgiveness and victory over sins in the first apartment, – and finally, sanctification and cleansing – the blotting out of sins and reception of the fullness of the Spirit of Jesus, in the Most Holy place, as Jesus, our High Priest, blots out the very record of our past sins and places them on the head of the scapegoat, Satan, the originator of sin.
The High Priest, in the earthly example Sanctuary, came out of the Sanctuary, to take the scapegoat and confess all of the sins (the record of them, that he was removing from the Sanctuary, after the Day of Atonement – Judgment day) of the true believers, onto the head of the scapegoat. The scapegoat is the symbol of Satan himself. Then, a “fit man,” took the scapegoat into the wilderness, where it would eventually perish, likely killed by some predator. See Leviticus 16.

That “fit man,” chosen by the High Priest, was one of the congregation of the saved: one who had obviously participated in the solemn service of the Day of Atonement, and had received its benefits. That “fit man” (the 144,000) was made responsible for making sure that the scapegoat did not get away from him, and must take the scapegoat out into the wilderness, loaded with the sins of the true believers. This represented that Satan would have the sins of the true believers, that he had caused them to commit, be put upon his head, and he would be banished into destroyed, empty wilderness, (the whole world destroyed at the Advent of Jesus) there to finally perish (at the end of the 1000 years, when Jesus, the saints, and the holy city come down from heaven for the Great White Throne Judgment!)
The dictionary defines a scapegoat, not as a goat that “gets away,” but rather as a means of escape, from the penalty of sin, for the saved. The “wages of sin is death” [eternal death] Romans 6:23. Jesus will cause Satan to bear that penalty for the sins of the saints, who have stopped sinning, by the power of the Spirit of Jesus in them!
Jesus is waiting for His people, you and me, to become the 144,000; exhibit “A” in the Judgment. We must prove to the Universe, that although having been sinners, we will never, eternally never, sin again, having chosen the kingdom of Jesus over any thing Satan could offer, or over any force he could apply, to try to cause us to return to sin!
First we must overcome the “mark of the beast,” refuse to worship the beast, or his image, and be sealed. Then, like Jesus, we must drink of the cup and be baptized with the baptism. Satan must be allowed to try us to the uttermost, in the special test called “the time of Jacob’s trouble,” which will be similar to the Gethsemane experience of Jesus. Who will we serve? That is the question! Will
it be self, Satan, or Jesus?

Are you afraid you would fail? It is that fear that will cause you to refuse to trust to self, and fully look to Jesus. He says, “Be not afraid, I have overcome the world.” (John 16:33) “and lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world!” (Mt. 28:20).

Jesus has promised that the 144,000 will not fail to choose to serve Christ Jesus, their Lord and Saviour, no matter what Satan tries!

Thus Satan, the scapegoat, will not get away, but will be taken hold of, bound with a great chain, and be led into the place of his final destruction, bearing the sins for which he will suffer, the sins of the very same “fit man” chosen to banish Satan into that place by the High Priest of the heavenly Sanctuary, Jesus.

“The hour of His Judgment,” yes, the Judgment of God and Christ, in their work of salvation of the repentant sinners of earth, is far spent! Where are the 144,000 who have fully received the benefits of the atonement of Jesus, those who can show the Universe of those who have never fallen, that mankind of earth can be fully saved? – that they will never sin again? If not you, then who? If you don’t aspire to be among the 144,000, you may instead lose eternal life in the last days of the Day of Atonement!
“…in the last days perilous times shall come!” 2 Timothy 3, v. 1. Don’t look for how little you can do in exchange for heaven and eternal life. Instead, look for anything you can do for God and Christ, that will reveal that you have chosen Christ’s kingdom over the kingdom of Satan.
Christ-likeness is the only goal that every Christian must seek, through His Spirit in you. “Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and His righteousness” (as your own) and heaven is yours!

Oh our Great God, and Jesus, our Saviour, we are here to be numbered! We are here to be counted as warriors for You! By Your GRACE, and Your power, we will overcome! Encourage every one of us to seek to be among Your 144,000 victors over sin and Satan.
Help each one of us to do anything for You that will reveal that we have chosen Christ’s kingdom over the kingdom of Satan.
We pray it in the name of our High Priest, Jesus! Amen.