The Warning of the Third Angel

The most fearful threatening ever addressed to mortals is contained in the third angel's message. Men are not to be left in darkness concerning this important matter; the warning is to be given the world before the visitation of God's judgments, that all may have opportunity to escape them. The first angel makes his announcement to “every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people.” The warning of the third angel is to be no less widespread. It is proclaimed with a loud voice and will command the attention of the world.HF 278.4

All will be divided into two great classes—those who keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus, and those who worship the beast and his image and receive his mark. Church and state will unite to compel “all” to receive “the mark of the beast,” yet the people of God will not receive it. The prophet beholds “them that had gotten the victory over the beast, and over his image, and over his mark, and over the number of his name, stand on the sea of glass, having the harps of God.” Revelation 15:2.HF 279.1