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         As stated previously, for the most part I have referenced the traditional Protestant eschatology in relation to this study of the Book of Revelation. This was the generally accepted eschatology of the Protestant church and virtually all evangelical Christians before the 1844 Advent Movement.

         An eschatology that emerged in this movement taught that the Book of Revelation was all about the end of the age and therefore, all futuristic. This conflicts with what is written at the beginning of Revelation. There John wrote that these things would “shortly come to pass.” They did begin to come to pass...

         This week we will cover Revelation 14:1-5, and the antithesis to the beast and his mark, which also reveals how we keep from worshiping the beast or taking its mark.

Then I looked, and behold, the Lamb was standing on Mount Zion, and with Him one hundred and forty-four thousand, having His name and the name of His Father written on their foreheads. 

And I heard a voice from heaven, like the sound of many waters and like the sound of loud thunder, and the voice which I heard was like the sound of harpists playing...