6 Then I saw another angel flying directly overhead, with an eternal gospel to proclaim to those who dwell on earth, to every nation and tribe and language and people. 7 And he said with a loud voice, “Fear God and give him glory, because the hour of his judgment has come, and worship him who made heaven and earth, the sea and the springs of water.”
8 Another angel, a second, followed, saying, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, she who made all nations drink the wine of the passion of her sexual immorality.”
9 And another angel, a third, followed them, saying with a loud voice, “If anyone worships the beast and its image and receives a mark on his forehead or on his hand, 10 he also will drink the wine of God's wrath, poured full strength into the cup of his anger, and he will be tormented with fire and sulfur in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb. 11 And the smoke of their torment goes up forever and ever, and they have no rest, day or night, these worshipers of the beast and its image, and whoever receives the mark of its name.”
12 Here is a call for the endurance of the saints, those who keep the commandments of God and their faith in Jesus.
13 And I heard a voice from heaven saying, “Write this: Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.” “Blessed indeed,” says the Spirit, “that they may rest from their labors, for their deeds follow them!”
With reference to the different notes in the one 'everlasting gospel', someone has commented 'This final proclamation by the angel is universal, and stresses the unalterable destiny, for good and ill, which is governed by men's acceptance or rejection of it. As the first appeal to men may be love (although the law needs to be thundered out to convict men of their sin), the final appeal, to those who have refused its every gracious overture, must be fear. Many who have not been attracted by the love of God, so blind were they to the appeal of the cross, have been driven into the arms of everlasting love by fear'. The fact is, in these last days of God-forgetting, perhaps the only message men will finally listen to is one with warning and fear in it. When we think of the arrogance and vaunting pride of technological man, reaching for the stars, we begin to see how relevant this message of the angel is, and how needful for man to be reminded that he is but man. Why should it be thought strange or unusual, then, that God should in our day seek to re-interpret His everlasting gospel in terms that will be grasped and understood by the nation as a whole? It may well be that those who see a little beyond the glib shibboleths of accepted patterns in evangelicalism are those very people whom God is laying hold of, through whom to say something to the nation that will be listened to and heard, in a way that other more acceptable and 'orthodox' pronouncements, that identify the gospel with one stereotyped pattern, are not. The fall of Babylon is not accomplished by the preaching of sugary sentiment, but as here, by a gospel that warns men, 'Fear God, and give glory to Him'.