What Is the “Everlasting Gospel” in Revelation 14?

Robert E. Gentet

© 2026

In the often mysterious Book of Revelation, Scripture speaks of an angel flying in mid-air, proclaiming to all peoples “the eternal gospel” (Rev. 14:6-7). This is the angel’s gospel message:

“Fear God and give him glory, because the hour of his judgment has come. Worship him who made the heavens, the earth, the sea and the springs of water.”

If you asked most Christians the question “What is the gospel?” it is doubtful that the recorded angel’s message is the answer they would give. This article will explain why the angel’s message seems different.

How do Christians usually answer the question of “What is the gospel”?

The gospel (meaning “good news”) is all about Jesus Christ. So most answers would automatically tell of what Jesus did to save us from damnation. It is due to the merits of Christ that Paradise is once again open to all believers.

So, it seems strange that the angel’s message of “the eternal gospel” (V. 6) fails to mention Christ’s involvement in what He did to save us. Instead, it points back to fearing and worshiping the God of creation.

Well put. Yet what the angel said is true. We must only seek to understand why it is not only true, but basic to the meaning of the gospel message.

So are you saying that the term “gospel” can have a much broader meaning than Christ’s death and resurrection?

Exactly. The gospel as often presented has lost all meaning to many people. We live in a world much like the beginning New Testament Church. Billions of people have never even heard of Christ, or, they have heard it so often that it has lost all meaning. This is particularly true in those parts of the world heavily influenced by the idea that everything has come about through natural causes (evolution). It is reported that the number of people becoming atheists is rapidly increasing. What need is there of a Savior, if there is no God?

This would imply that the knowledge of God as Creator is a vital part of the gospel.

Very true. In God’s revelation of mankind, the Bible, the first book (Genesis) begins with the statement: “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.” That’s the first thing God wanted us to understand – He is behind all the creation. Nothing would be here unless He exists and created all things.

The atheist has lost the most fundamental of all knowledge about God. The ultimate deception is that God doesn’t even exist. We have finally arrived at that point in human history where more and more people have been that mislead and deceived. It’s no surprise that the angel’s message begins with the most fundamental building block of the gospel message: we exist because God created us and therefore we owe him respectful fear and worship.

So the angel’s gospel message gets back to basics.

When we look at the Bible as a whole, both what is called the Old Testament (written before Christ’s birth), and the New Testament (written after His Ascension back into Heaven), we witness a progressive revealing of how God acted to reconcile himself to sinful mankind. It is only after Christ’s birth and later return to Heaven that the full scope of the gospel message was revealed through Christ’s apostles.

The Scriptures begin with the basic knowledge that God exists and is the Creator of all things. God did not hide Himself from His creation. He freely walked and talked with Adam and Eve. Once sin entered through their disregard of His direct command not to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, man’s relationship with God became broken. One of the first consequences of that broken relationship was their hiding themselves from God.

All have followed the sinful path of Adam and Eve. Man’s fallen nature is now at odds with the Creator. The Bible describes it as being “spiritually dead.” We need new life that can only come from God to restore our broken relationship. This new life comes about through faith in Christ. The New Testament reveals Christ is also the One through whom God the Father created all things. (John 1:1-5).

Second, we must notice the reason for the angel’s proclamation. It is because “...the hour of his judgment has come.” As the Creator, he has the right to judge his creation. The enormity of rebellion against God’s ways brings on his final judgment against humanity at the closing of this age. The angel’s message is a plea to repent and thereby escape the woes to be executed upon the earth and its unrepentant inhabitants.

This directly connects Jesus Christ to the angel’s message. When you worship the God who made the heavens and the earth, you worship the Person of Christ as well as the Father and Holy Spirit. In contrast to his first coming, Christ returns as Judge as well as Savior.

The glorious message of Christmas is that the Creator became a part of His own creation in the birth of Jesus. As a man he could be subject to death. As also God in the flesh, His death would be acceptable payment for the sins of all mankind. So great was God’s love for his creation that He willingly suffered death in our place, so we could be reconciled again with God.

All this seems to have great ramifications on the purpose of this website, does it not?

Most certainly. Because of the rise of scientism in the last two hundred years, it is necessary for Christians to be able to give an answer to evolutionism. A search for origins and purpose of life without acknowledging the Creator’s revelation will forever be fruitless. Scientism’s omission of the supernatural removes the knowledge of God. And this automatically eliminates the need for Christ being the Redeemer of all people. It is Satan’s final, great deception.

Many of the churches have failed to include Creation as a vital and necessary part of the gospel. Thankfully, some have published fine articles, books and provide other means to explain Scripture’s teaching on Creation. It is the main purpose of this website. But it is the creation itself that has from the beginning given the greatest witness to God’s existence and His everlasting power and glory. And, as a result, God says through the apostle Paul that those who deny God’s creative powers “...are without excuse.” (Rom. 1:20b)