In Defending the Latter-day Saint Interpretation of Revelation 14:6-7, I discuss how Latter-day Saint Scripture teaches a multivalent approach to Rev 14:6-7, and how it is not only fulfilled in the visitations of the angel Moroni to the Prophet Joseph Smith.
In The Ensign of Liberty,
a publication from the late-1840s by William E. McLellin et al., Rev 14:6 was
interpreted as being fulfilled (at least partially) with the angelic visitations
of John the Baptist, Peter, James, and John and the restoration of the Aaron
and Melchizedek priesthoods:
The Angel of God, seen in vision by John, the Revelator, “flying
in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that
dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people,”
has made the earth his visit, and committed the keys of that Gospel—and the two
Priesthoods by which it may be understood, and preached, and ministered among
men—to man. And now again, man can cry to his fellow man, as in the days before
that flood,” Fera God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his Judgment is
COME.” (“Our Address,” The
Ensign of Liberty 1, no. 1 [March 1847]: 14)
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