THE proclamation of the first message of Rev. 14, brings out the light on the time of the end of the prophetic periods and the Judgment hour, showing the great Advent movement of 1844. Thus the way is prepared for the second angel to announce that Babylon has fallen, and there is good evidence that God cannot bless his people to any great extent while they remain in a fallen church. The third message is timely in bringing out the light on the mark of the beast and the commandments of God. This we believe will have an influence to gather all the honest out of Babylon. In this message there is a testing point—the commandments of God—by which we may know who the elect are. The work of God is connected and harmonious. No one is prepared to give the third angel’s message until he has the light on the first and second messages; and no one will be prepared to give the proclamation, “Babylon is fallen,” or to fulfill the first five verses of Rev. 18, until he understands the three previous messages. While they are themselves in error, how absurd for a people to cry, “Babylon is fallen!” A house divided against itself cannot stand. It would be impossible for a work to come in, outside this work, and yet be the work of God—the fulfillment of the message of Rev. 18:1-5. This proclamation will be fulfilled by an angel whose glory will lighten the whole earth, and will coincide with the message of the third angel. It will possess all the light which has been brought out by the three previous messages, and will also have the light which has been, and will be, received by the development of the character of Babylon. Thus the earth will be lighted with his glory, and it will be manifest to every true child of God that he must come out and be separate from her, or be partaker of her sins, and receive of her plagues. The fulfillment of the message contained in these verses will be a glorious work, exceeding the previous messages, full of light and truth. May we all have something to do in this great gathering work. Before the coming of the plagues upon the ungodly, the long-suffering of God, which is salvation, will send this message to gather out his elect, while the tares will be bound in bundles to be burned. Then the Son of man will come to call forth those that have fallen in death, whom the angel will gather, to join with the living in shouting victory over death and the grave. J. M. AVERY.