Second Angel’s Message

• Hebrews 10:32-34. Many rejected the first angel’s message and persecuted those who accepted it. The Great Controversy, 380.BHB 55.6

• Revelation 14:8. The second angel followed, announcing the fall of Babylon.BHB 56.1

• Revelation 17:5, 6. Babylon is the power that put to death the martyrs of Jesus.BHB 56.2

• Revelation 17:5, 18. Babylon represents an apostate church.BHB 56.3

• Revelation 17:5. The term Babylon includes mother and daughters. The Great Controversy, 382, 383.BHB 56.4

• Genesis 11:7, 9, margin. Babylon means confusion. The Great Controversy, 381.BHB 56.5

• Revelation 14:8. Lest any should doubt that Babylon is fallen, it is repeated twice.BHB 56.6

• Genesis 41:32. The daughters as well as the mother are fallen.BHB 56.7

• Revelation 18:1-5. The message repeated with greater force. The Great Controversy, 603, 604.BHB 56.8

• Revelation 18:1. Great power attends the giving of the message.BHB 56.9

• Revelation 18:2. It is given when the “daughter churches” have become wholly corrupt.BHB 56.10

• Revelation 18:3. Unlawful connection with the nations the crowning sin.BHB 56.11

• 2 Corinthians 11:2; Ephesians 5:23. Christ is the head of the church. When the churches appeal to the earthly governments to make religious laws, earthly governments to make religious laws, they are committing fornication and are unfaithful to their true husband, Christ. The Great Controversy, 381.BHB 56.12

• Revelation 17:3, 6. The mother church is represented as guiding the civil power, and being drunk with the blood of martyrs. The Great Controversy, 382.BHB 56.13

• Revelation 18:3. This union of church and state to be world-wide. The Great Controversy, 389, 390.BHB 56.14

• Revelation 18:4. God calls His people out of Babylon; all who refuse receive of her plagues. The Great Controversy, 390, 604.BHB 56.15