3:12-15: 2 Cor. righteousness of the church, which has now been judged and purified at the 22:2-14; John 3:29; 2 Cor. universe. With a rod of iron he shall break in pieces all their substance, He shall destroy the godless nations with the word of his. 1. Even man himself when he was innocent in Eden was not called. "Speak to the birds of every sort and to all beasts of the field. You shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth--of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bulls. And you shall eat fat till you are filled, and drink blood till you are drunk at the sacrificial feast which I am preparing for you" ( Ezekiel 39:17-19). The chronological progression of events on earth resumes from Revelation 16:21. First, then, this is the praise of the prophets and the martyrs who have witnessed for God with their voices and with their lives. "And the nations shall walk in the light of it: and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honour unto it. rather than differing reality. Revelation 19:1. The church cannot hear of Him as the bright morning star without at once desiring that He should come. Revelation provided a message of hope: God is in sovereign control of all the events of human history, and though evil often seems pervasive and wicked men all powerful, their ultimate doom is certain. . Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Revelation 19:11-21. Those that do rise at the same time rise, no doubt, in a moment; but that there are to be various acts of resurrection is not only not contrary to scripture, but required by its own descriptions. Revelation 19:9 "And he saith unto me, Write, Blessed [are] they which are Therefore be zealous and repent. Afterwards we come to the description of itself, of its wall, its building, its foundations, and its gates. And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword - See the notes on Revelation 1:16. Verses 6-10: Omnipotent: God is all-powerful, and reigneth over His The ceremony (the exchanging of vows). Here occurs a remarkable change in the sequence of the visions, though easily understood; for it must be evident that there is nothing to follow this in point of time. It is necessary that we should all bear in mind, if we have not observed it before, thatRevelation 17:1-18; Revelation 17:1-18 does not pursue the chronological course of the prophecy. "And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast." church (Acts 2:1ff). Verse 10. It is altogether foreign to history. He is an American citizen and his base is in Sunland, California. Some ancient authorities insert two-edged, from the parallel passage in Revelation 1:16. As any dream or vision has to be interpreted, so does Revelation. You can believe this. After that Polyglot, and all editions of the least critical value. That is, there was first the literal Babylon, of course; but here it is symbolical. 1-3), and does not appear again until (Revelation 22:16), emphasizing the Instead of taking warning from the wickedness of those before her, who had seduced on the one hand, and persecuted. . Ruling includes destroying as well as reigning over (Psalms 2:9). We usually pronounce it JEHOVAH; but the vowels in Jehovah are really those of the Hebrew word 'Adonay ( H136) , which means Lord, the name by which the Jews called God in order to avoid pronouncing the sacred name. "And the dead were judged," but not out of the book of life, which has nothing to do with judgment. Then the angel quickly tells John not to worship him. Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Revelation 19:1-4. In Daniel's time it was not at hand. It is not complicated, just bare all to God. It can govern and bless but not convert man. Patience or endurance of hope is what becomes us. There is nothing in Jesus to harm him; there is every thing to bless there is Himself to be enjoyed, even if they have failed in the full knowledge of it here below. The person of Jesus Christ, the Son of God and the Redeemer, is in the centre of these future events. Afrikaans; Alemannisch; ; ; ; Azrbaycanca; ; Bn-lm-g; ; Bikol Central "These have one mind, and give their own power and authority to the beast," or their imperial leader. "Let us be glad and rejoice and give honor to him: for the ___________ of the _______ is come". God doesn't want you taking credit for the work that He does, receiving glory for His work. The Word that Christ spoke will judge men at the last day. But there is really no good work that you can offer to God that would be acceptable in His sight, but He will accept you just as you are if you will just cast yourself upon His mercy and just ask for His mercy and grace. . Hence a song of praise from the twenty-four elders and the four living creatures is a Te Deum from the whole of the Church and the whole of nature. They will probably number into the hundreds of millions. The word used here for crown is diadema ( G1238) , which is the royal crown, as opposed to stephanos ( G4735) which is the crown of victory. So, He is coming to bring an end of man's rebellion. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. that those who were meant under the figures of the elders and of the living creatures assume the name and figure of the bride? Revelation 19:5 "And a voice came out of the throne, saying, Praise our God, all (1) "Behold I come quickly: blessed is he that keepeth the words of the prophecy of this book." And it was so. If alive before the thousand years, he will live after the thousand years; in fact, literally he will never die, though I do not doubt, on general principles, that the saints of the millennial earth will be changed at the very time when the heavens and earth disappear. The two of them were cast alive into the lake of fire which burns with brimstone; and the rest were slain with the sword of him who rides the horse, with the sword which comes out of his mouth; and all the birds were glutted with their flesh. He is in charge of the Anastausus Ship, but he is facing a jail sentence of three and a half years in Greece because He gave a Bible to a sixteen-year old Greek boy and the boy accepted Jesus Christ as His Savior. The millennial nations, "the number of whom is as the sand of the sea," fall a prey to Satan. But "nations of them which are saved," is a most anomalous expression, and betrays man as the author of it. The fine linen, clean and I will give to him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely. We find that Jesus is called the faithful witness. This was an arrangement by both sets of parents, was legally binding harlot), and avenging the blood of the martyrs (7:9-17). (John 17:18). Revelation 19:1-3. So we are obliged to translate the single word, e.g. "And fire came down out of heaven from God, and devoured them. The thousand years of peace and plenty will have given occasion for an ever-growing population, spite of a world thinned by divine judgments which open that era. Yet religion, be it ever so corrupt, acts as a restraint on human will, as a government does, however evil. I agree one hundred percent. The answer: because it's the final book of the Bible. Beyond controversy, however, it is a most unusual and abnormal reappearance, which is altogether exceptional in the history of the world. There are probably but few, if any, here who do not understand it as the fore-shadow of a real resurrection. Jude 1. [issues, proceedeth, comes, came, goeth, comes out, ] . After a thousand years then they will be joined by Satan and the rest of the satanic beings or the angelic beings that joined with Satan in his rebellion against God. hromphaia) symbolized (cf. But in this is shown what it is of importance to see the true nature of the kingdom or millennial reign. they were saying. The final shout is the praise of the host of the redeemed. I think that it might be just, "hey, you've had it." God alone is perfect in judgment for three reasons. There is the basis for my righteousness. Scripture is positive in Isaiah 65:1-25 that death during the millennium only comes as a specific judgment because of open rebellion. The unrenewed of the nations are now compassing them with their countless hosts, as if to eat them up like grasshoppers. After these things I heard a loud voice of a great multitude in heaven, saying, "Alleluia! The glory of the kingdom does not preserve when men in their natural state are exposed to the adversary. Once again John finds his model in the words of the Old Testament, for that is a quotation from Psalms 135:1; Psalms 135:20. The blessing given could not be taken back. We must perforce therefore look for a still more complete development before the Lamb judges the beast after the ten horns along with it shall have destroyed Babylon. He had a great desire to bring his brothers, Egyptian brothers to the knowledge of Jesus Christ. All this description closes in verse 5. Who were they? 22:2-14; John 3:29; 2 Cor. "Let him that heareth," then, be encouraged to "say, Come." But the graphic account does not end until the Spirit of God shows us another view of Babylon altogether. that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treads the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God. This too must not be viewed as if it were a loss. No hint whatever is given that they constitute the city, but there is the inscription of their names outside. And who would defraud either the soul of salvation, or the Lord of showing it? email us at: 19:11 And I saw heaven opened, and, behold, a white horse, and he who is mounted on it is called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he judges and makes war. It is as if the multitude of the redeemed sent up their shout of praise because the promise of Christ to his persecuted ones had come abundantly true. It is to Jesus. The Church, the Bride of Christ, is clothed in fine linen, pure and shining. The guests also will include tribulation saints It is not what Christ puts on them, but a recognition even at this time of whatever has been of God the working I do not deny of the Spirit of Christ. Religion is threatened by life, by spiritual life.So, God has judged that religious system and has avenged the blood of His servants at her hands. Again the righteousness of His judgment attested to. In any event, the name singles him out as the greatest of all rulers, the only true divine One and the universal King. Such was her influence stretching out far beyond the beast. I have already touched on the double force of the symbol mountains. Revelation 6 Verse By Verse Bible Study Guide With Discussion Questions Revelation 6 Bible study guide with verse by verse teaching, applications, and discussion questions to supercharge your study of the Word. The race was now in the resurrection state either for good or for evil; and thus it must be for ever. "And when the thousand years are completed, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, and shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to war." After the destruction of Babylon religious and commercial, chapter seventeen and eighteen. Let us rejoice and let us exult, and let us give him the glory, for the marriage of the Lamb has come, and his Bride has prepared herself, and it has been granted to her to clothe herself with fine linen, shining and pure." He uses a "staff" to gently nudge or guide his sheep. Just as the city of man's confusion was seen in her vile, degraded, and degrading relations with the beast, this city is seen in her pure and glorious relations with the Lamb. (iv) There is fidelity. Hence the horns and the beast join together and desolate the harlot. And that is the question the prophet asks and Jesus answers, "I that speak in righteousness, mighty to save." We know the Holy Spirit rather as a spirit of communion with Christ. He with the glorified saints will have their home on high, but none the less shall they reign over this very world for the allotted time. It is not meant that he who was more honoured in service than any of the twelve, he whom the Lord used for bringing out the church of the heavenly places, will not have his own most singular dignity in this glorious scene. How can it be said that this vile, corrupt, idolatrous system of the last days was guilty of the blood of all martyrs? Scripture records no name whatever among those judged written there. Of course the application to the Roman empire would be immediately in the mind of any Christian at Rome. and so forth. But a voice issues from the throne, saying, "Praise our God, all ye his servants, and ye that fear him, both small and great. In the first eight verses of Revelation 21:1-27 we have the new heaven and the new earth, but besides, awful to say, the lake of fire. ", GOD'S WORD IN ACTION ( Revelation 19:13 ). Revelation 18. He came to the world, and avenged His people on the beast and the false prophet with the kings and their armies; and after that the risen saints reign with Him over it a thousand years. That kings had dallied with her, that the beast had once borne her up, will only turn to gall the more bitter to her, who, faithless to God, had staked the usurped and abused name of Christ to win what was now lost for ever. Gods deliverance of His people from their enemies (verse 1); (2) "And the remnant were slain with the sword of him that sat upon the horse, which [sword] proceedeth out of his mouth: and all the birds were filled with their flesh." Again this is a picture taken directly from the Old Testament, from Ezekiel's picture of the slaughter of the forces of Gog and Magog. On his head he has many crowns. "And the beast that was, and is not, even he is an eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth unto destruction." And he shall rule them with a rod of iron; use them with the utmost severity; the phrase is taken out of Psalms 2:9 a prophecy of Christ, and mentioned twice before in this book, Psalms 2:9- :. Then the word is, "Award her even as she awarded you, and double unto her double according to her works: in the cup which she mixed, mix to her double. the Lord Jesus Christ are the bride of Christ, whether they are male or female. Lord our God:". Revelation 19:1 "And after these things I heard a great voice of much people in (ii) His name is Faithful and True. I believe that religion is vastly different from Christianity. II. (i) It can mean the witness which the Christian bears to Jesus Christ. "Why did the heathen rage and the people imagine a vain thing, for they have gathered together against the Lord and against His anointed, saying, Let us break His bands asunder, let us cast off His law from us; but He who sits in the heavens will laugh for He will have the nations in derision. The angel implies nothing of the sort. There. Omnipotent means In Judaism there was increasingly stressed the transcendence of God, because of that it was increasingly felt that man needed some intermediary. 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js'; corrupted and destroyed them in soul, body, and estate. As Dr. John Paterson puts it in The Book that is Alive: "The spoken word in Hebrew was fearfully alive. ages, which becomes clear in the remainder of the book. All the energy to mislead men in the presence of the first beast was long in his hands, and now nothing more is spoken of. And yet in such times John calls God pantokrator ( G3841) . In other words, this is the characteristic title for God in the Revelation. It had two horns like a lamb, but it spoke like a dragon. There is no scriptural reason to infer that any saint dies during the thousand years, but rather the contrary. Christs Coming Kingdom). "These shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire." "Salvation and glory and power belong to our God, because his judgments are true and just, for he judged the great harlot who corrupted the earth with her fornication, and has avenged upon her the blood of his servants.". Clearly, therefore, it is future. In the midst of the broadway of it, and of the river, on this side and on that, [the] tree of life," bearing not merely as the original one did, but now according to the fulness of the provision of God's grace for man, for man in glory first, but for man on the earth also, but for man in glory "producing twelve fruits, in each month yielding its fruit: and the leaves of the tree for the healing of the nations." Our own righteousness had been as filthy rags, but to Top The color of crushed grapes reminded the ancients of blood, death, and battle! This is in total contrast to the harlot Babylon. (ii) A Greek came into the Church from a world of thought which made angel worship a real danger. It is a description, and not one of the visions that carry us onward. It was ruled in general that the worldly powers were ordained of God. So, vultures are invited from all over the earth to come and feast on the supper that God prepares. When its own season arrives, as it surely will, the divine hindrance is to be removed, and the devil then is allowed to do his worst. Study Revelation 19:19-19 - 'King James Version' translation alongside Secrets of Heaven (New Century Edition, Cooper) #2694 and Secrets of Heaven (New Century Edition, Cooper) #3880 . When the Lord takes His own throne, they take theirs by grace. "And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues, and talked with me, saying, Come hither, I will show thee the bride, the wife of the Lamb. They broke up the beast yet more than Babylon. of the world mean nothing to God. The fallen angels are not called, and the holy angels never need to be they are kept. Man on the earth has his portion in the goodness of a God who is manifesting His kingdom. Revelation 19 New International Version Threefold Hallelujah Over Babylon's Fall 19 After this I heard what sounded like the roar of a great multitude in heaven shouting: "Hallelujah! Revelation 19 ( Rev 19:1) - 1 After these things I heard as it were a great voice of a great multitude in heaven, saying, Hallelujah; Salvation, and glory, and power, belong to our God: This heavenly celebration (verses 1-6), which connects the events of chapter 18, reveal more than the celebration of the defeat of a certain city or belief system. In short, it would seem that God has hedged round His own draft of Babylon so as to make it quite plain that Rome, city and system, figures in the scene; and this too necessarily involving a medieval description, though the full result will not be till the end of the age; for she rides the beast or empire characterized so as naturally to involve the past barbarian irruption and the resulting ten-kingdomed state. It is really differing imagery And if you are wise and involved in any kind of ministry at all when attention and adulation and these kinds of things come your way, you will be wise as the angel and say, "Don't worship me. Hence He must have come back previously to both. In the description of the total destruction of Babylon, come the words: "Rejoice over her, O heaven, O saints and apostles and prophets, for God has given judgment for you against her!" ye his servants, and ye that fear him, both small and great.". It is the divine judgment of man eternal judgment. Gods sovereignty (verse 6); and. Little do they know, because they believe not what is here written, that it is about to come out of the abyss or bottomless pit. But you can go ahead and do these things without pangs of conscience trying to destroy God out of our society, out of our lives. It is actually the first phrase in Psalms 106:1-48; Psalms 111:1-10; Psalms 112:1-10; Psalms 113:1-9; Psalms 117:1-2; Psalms 135:1-21; Psalms 146:1-10; Psalms 147:1-20; Psalms 148:1-14; Psalms 149:1-9; Psalms 150:1-6. I would like to say a few words about this "fine linen". worship him. There is no expression in the word of God which binds all to rise at the same instant. "That day" does not mean a time when everybody will be converted, but when the Lord Jesus will govern righteously when overt evil will be judged, and good be sustained perfectly for a thousand years. The armies of the church militant on earth, and the church triumphant in heaven are not engaged in physical battles of guns and bloodshed, but in spiritual struggles for control of the minds and spiritual forces of men and women. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone. 19:11 And I saw heaven opened, and, behold, a white horse, and he who is mounted on it is called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he judges and makes war. The glorified saints are to administer power in a way far beyond angels. This is of immense moment doctrinally, because it decisively proves that it is altogether unfounded to assume, as is popularly done, that the Lord only returns at this juncture. Like a novel, the storyline builds from front to back, with the characters, themes and plot elements introduced early and developed across many chapters. "And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse." One of the most approved axioms is, that kingdoms are just like men in this respect, that they begin, rise, and fall. There were two particular effects of her evil: the one, illicit commerce with the kings of the earth; the other, intoxicating the inhabitants of the earth with the wine of her fornication. And the fine linen is the righteousness of the saints. Begin by reading the Introduction first. Death and hades, which had so long been executioners in a world where sin reigned, and were still doing their occasional office where righteousness is to reign, themselves disappear where all traces of sin are consigned for ever. We shall find that the scripture affords much light to decide the true bearing of the prophecy, and that no application to the past can possibly satisfy the conditions satisfactorily. I am the, Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. would be no salvation. This is the Messiah of Jewish apocalyptic expectation far more than the Messiah whom Jesus claimed to be. The fine linen the bride is clothed in represents the righteous acts of the Verse 1. It is hard to see how Roman city, or anything civil connected with it, could be called "mystery." This is in total contrast to the harlot Babylon. 13 And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God. A seventh should follow; and what is more, the seventh was in one aspect to be an eighth. ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? (b) He is true. "Hallelujah!" She said, "You've had it. Thus, whether the books or the book be examined, all conspire to declare the justice, the solemn but most affecting righteousness, of God's final irrevocable sentence. And the [antichrist] the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and those that worshipped his image. Still God acts in a wisdom far above man, and holds to His principles even there. There is a reassuring tone here telling the Lord that He was justified in His Then follows another scene still more solemn the most awe-inspiring of all we can contemplate, at the same time full of blessing for the Christian to look onward to as that which will for ever put aside every trace of evil, and vindicate good where man must altogether fail. And here is John falling on his knees before the angel that is giving him all of this revelation and he is so overawed and thrilled with what is in store for him he falls at his feet to worship him. This testimony here is not Jesus giving it, but we believers who testify of the 1 Thessalonians 3:1-3 Commentary. In fact, we may say, all nations will be desolated by judgments of one kind or another; but for all this the world proceeding for a thousand years with every outward blessing, and the most admirable government administered by the blessed Lord Himself, will issue in the teeming and prosperous races of mankind. That a corrupt religion is better than none I will not say: at any rate it troubles men; it is a thorn in the side of those who want no religion at all. And he saith unto me, Write, Blessed are they which are called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb. "The dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works." This would not be fitting for the church nor the Christian. They have the capacity to stand in the sun. ", And the twenty-four elders, and the four living creatures fell down and worshipped the God who is seated upon the throne. When My righteousness is not on such a tenuous thing as my faithfulness to devotions or works or whatever. How does God tell us to worship Him? It is a precisely similar case here. I believe the word "Lamb" is used here, This is the last main section of the Book of Revelation. His eyes were as a flame of fire ( Revelation 19:12 ). Smoke rose: This is because of the fire (compare 17:16, 18; 18:8-9, 18; It is "His story". Nobody can dispute that this remarkable cluster of kingdoms in Europe was the fruit providentially of the destroyed unity of the Roman empire when the barbarians invaded it. One of the great dangers of being in any kind of ministry where God is using you, one of the great dangers of exercising any spiritual gift, is that people so often look at the instrument that God uses. Revelation 19:4 "And the four and twenty elders and the four beasts fell down It is Christ Himself about to be displayed in His rights as King of kings, and Lord of lords; and this in the face of the world. That is to say, never again will she rise from her ruins. For it is clear that, though principles might reign, to be priests is quite inconsistent with a mere figure. Verse 1. used (in Gen. 19:28). What does the linen garment tell us about salvation? The one therefore throws much light upon the other. overwhelming understanding of Who this is. Who does not see that this is precisely analogous to the verse which opened the description of Babylon? In the tabernacle in The victory gained by the great and glorious head of the church: The beast and the false prophet, the leaders of the army, are taken prisoners, both he who led them by power and he who led them by policy and falsehood; these are taken and cast into the burning lake, made incapable of molesting the church of God any more; and their followers, whether officers or common soldiers, are given up to military execution, and made a feast for the fowls of heaven. Let others speculate, if they will: I am persuaded that he who essays to conceive the details is merely striving to draw a bow beyond the power of man. This is most important, because it might be (as it has been) forgotten by some who make the gospel and the corresponding presence of the Spirit to be the same at all times; as others have thought, because Revelation 4:1-11 and sequel treat of Jew and Gentile, and the state of the world under God's judgments, that this cannot be a testimony of Jesus at all. And then we come to a most cheering disclosure: "And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and [I saw] the souls of those beheaded on account of the witness of Jesus, and on account of the word of God: and those who had not worshipped the beast, nor his image, and had not received his mark upon their forehead, and on their hand; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years." First, there are his servants. bring the climax of the Book of Revelation: the return of Christ to establish II. It is all plain and simple "the beast that was, and is not, and shall be present.". And He is called the True witness. This is the second death." So here is the praise being given to God and now the encouragement for that praise coming from the throne of God. There are times when John sees the Lord himself. This appears to mean the word of the Gospel, by which his enemies are confounded, and his friends supported and comforted. That righteousness that God puts on my account because I believe in Jesus Christ. "These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them (for he is Lord of lords and King of kings), and they that are with him, called, and chosen, and faithful.". "Surely I come quickly." In the last chapter, we saw the terrible destruction of commercial and political of the bride, the Lamb's wife. The Sinai MS. has both. In Php_2:9-11 we read of the name above every name which God has given to Jesus Christ because of his complete obedience; and there the name is almost certainly Lord.
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