The Everlasting Gospel

Revelation 14:6, 7. New King James Version.

Then I saw another angel flying in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach to those who dwell on the earth—to every nation, tribe, tongue, and people—saying with a loud voice, “Fear God and give glory to Him, for the hour of His judgment has come; and worship Him who made heaven and earth, the sea and springs of water.”

Introduction

Mark 1:14-15. New King James Version.

Now after John was put in prison, Jesus came to Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God, and saying, “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand. Repent, and believe in the gospel.”

Four-part message

The Time Is Fulfilled

This part of the message is based on verifiable facts. Jesus spent a lot of time on it when people were ready to listen.

The Kingdom of God Is at Hand

This part of the message deals with God and His feelings towards us.

Repent

This part of the message deals with our feelings towards God.

Believe in the Gospel

This part of the message calls us to accept the evidence we are given. While some people think that faith is believing without evidence, Hebrews 11 tells us that faith is evidence.

The Time Is Fulfilled

Eden

The Prophecy

Genesis 2:16, 17. New King James Version.

And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, “Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.”

Pre-flood World

The Prophecy

Genesis 5:21. New King James Version.

Enoch lived sixty-five years, and begot Methuselah.

Jude 14, 15. New King James Version.

Now Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied about these men also, saying, “Behold, the Lord comes with ten thousands of His saints, to execute judgment on all, to convict all who are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have committed in an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things which ungodly sinners have spoken against Him.”

Another Prophecy

Genesis 6:3, 13. New King James Version.

“My Spirit shall not strive with man forever, for he is indeed flesh; yet his days shall be one hundred and twenty years.…” “The end of all flesh has come before Me, for the earth is filled with violence through them; and behold, I will destroy them with the earth.”

Amorites

The Prophecy

Genesis 15:13--16. New King James Version.

“Know certainly that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them, and they will afflict them four hundred years. And also the nation whom they serve I will judge; afterward they shall come out with great possessions. Now as for you, you shall go to your fathers in peace; you shall be buried at a good old age. But in the fourth generation they shall return here, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete.”