The pronoun he is emphaticHe Himself, by Himself, as is there expressed. What a solemn and weighty fact in the government of God! faith during the Tribulation (Jeremiah 31:31-34; Zech. The speaker isn't identified but is probably an angel and refers to God as our Not because any of their names were written therein, but in proof that they were not. But it fails to account for the differences. Since then the world has not seen the imperial power to which all bow. (b) He is true. There is no scriptural reason to infer that any saint dies during the thousand years, but rather the contrary. * Let us be glad and exult, and give the glory to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready." And you could imagine the grapejuice stains all over your clothes after having spent a day treading the wine vat therein. "At the last day" does not mean merely an instant of time. But now He is ready to return and establish His kingdom and take us unto Himself and the marriage of the Lamb is come, and His wife, or bride, has made herself ready. The betrothal takes place on earth during the church age; The presentation will take place in heaven following the Rapture (verse 7); and. Revelation 19:2 "For true and righteous [are] his judgments: for he hath judged 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. But all this will be a great reversal of man's history and political maxims. That glorious prediction of breaking the serpent's head was the stay and support of the patriarchal age; and the many prophecies there were concerning the Messiah to come were the gospel of the Old Testament. When Christ at God's right hand was announced, even from the very beginning, He was ready to judge the quick and the dead. Reuchlin. The principle is very clear. From His mouth comes a sharp sword, so that with it He may strike down the nations, and He will rule them with a rod of iron; and He treads the wine press of the fierce wrath of God, the Almighty. Second, he alone has that purity which can judge without prejudice. It is a Hebrew word that has become universal, "Allel", "u", "yah", which means, "praise to Jehovah" or Yahweh. . That age of visible glory is inefficacious to change the heart of man, though in the absence of the enemy and the controlling presence of the great King, they render feigned obedience for a long while. To be sure, the language here suggests Armageddon, the great spiritual conflict going on throughout history, the results of which will be announced and executed on the last day. (John 17:18). "This is the first resurrection. And he said unto me, Once again we must remember that this picture is demonstrably painted in Jewish terms. No one really knows what the vowels in Y-H-W-H were. 11:2; Eph. yet are a large body of themselves. But here there is none; a temple is for the earth. The political side of this is described here with surprising brightness and brevity. This rider is called "FAITHFUL AND TRUE"--"faithful" because we can depend on His promises. For everything in this book begins and ends in Christ. Now, this vesture dipped in blood is probably a reference to Isaiah sixty-three. Verses 1-6: Alleluia: This Hebrew word appears 4 times in the New Testament. And the twenty-four elders who sat before God on their thrones fell on their faces and worshiped God, saying: And John heard it as the voice of many waters or rushing waters and the voice of mighty thunderings.Glory. 19:9-10a And he said to me: "Write! If you understand the testimony of Jesus, what must you do. And it was so. I say not on but over the earth. This is clearly of moral importance. First, "I saw thrones, and they sat upon them." In his mind are two things. "And he saith unto me, Seal not the sayings of the prophecy of this book: for the time is near." (iii) There is joy. Leaving behind the subject of the power of evil in the world, the visions now move on to their climax. Gods sovereignty (verse 6); and. So we are obliged to translate the single word, e.g. Moral unfitness has its just censure; but sovereign grace must be asserted also. This too must not be viewed as if it were a loss. here. Most other commentators have seen it as the first event after the seventh bowl judgment. You can be worried about the righteousness of my judgments. The wrath of God is fierce! While the term bride often refers to the church, and does so here (2 Cor. "His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many diadems." And I have to apologize sometimes for my judgments. worship before the angel (compare 1:17; 22:8). the Bride of Christ, is the guest of honor at the marriage of the Lamb in heaven "Why are you red in your apparel, and your garments like the ones that have been treading in the wine vat?" If not blessing it judges. Literally "fierceness of the wrath". In this way there never has been anything of the kind before. "I will betroth you to me for ever," Hosea hears God say, "I will betroth you to me in righteousness" ( Hosea 2:19-20). Such was her influence stretching out far beyond the beast. This testimony here is not Jesus giving it, but we believers who testify of the See note at Revelation 1:16 and note; Revelation 2:12, Revelation 2:16. goes . Never worry about the righteousness of God's judgments. She does not, it is true, say, "Come quickly." Here is one of the most dramatic moments in the Revelation, the emergence of the conquering Christ. The It "shall go into perdition," it is therefore added, "and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names are not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and shall be present." So here He is sitting upon a white horse. Revelation 14:19-20). If so, they are there in the quality not of the bride, but of those invited to the marriage of the Lamb; but I do not think them the Apocalyptic saints for the simple reason that, as shown in the next chapter, the Apocalyptic saints are not raised from the dead yet. Voices cry out joyfully that the Lord reigns and the marriage supper of the Lamb is ready. But no believer comes into judgment. And they shall bring the glory and honour of the nations unto it. Godly people love righteousness and hate sin, for righteousness Those who are invited to the marriage supper are Israel (see article , ), who will turn to Christ in Spirit of prophecy: The person and message of Jesus is the It is not his own blood, but the blood of his enemies that he tramples as he tramples out the rebellious. 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. on Line 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. The series of Psalms from Psalms 113:1-9; Psalms 114:1-8; Psalms 115:1-18; Psalms 116:1-19; Psalms 117:1-2; Psalms 118:1-29 were called the Hallel (compare H1984) , the Praise God, and were part of the essential education of every Jewish lad. ceremony); The marriage of the Lamb: The wife or bride of Christ is the church (Matt. At the moment of this vision, the conflict is already over; only the judgment remains to be executed; the issues which were long ago determined are here to be revealed and executed in the final judgment of all people. In the coming of the Lord all include His coming to the habitable earth. small and the great mean everyone which includes all human categories and Gratitude, reverence, trust--these are the constituent elements of real praise. The book is traditionally attributed to John the Apostle, [1] [2] but the precise identity of the author remains a point of academic debate. Verse 1 of the Revelation already shows God's intention: ".to show unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass". There is the basis for my righteousness. How this precisely fits in, let me say, with the state of feeling in these modern times; for "constitutionalism," as men call it, is the fruit of the Teutonic system supervening on that of the broken up Roman empire. "The nations shall walk in the light of it," Any one of spiritual judgment can see that it should not be "nations of them which are saved." A loveless marriage is a contradiction in terms. they said, "because the Lord our God, the Almighty, has entered into his kingdom. and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself. "These have one mind, and give their own power and authority to the beast," or their imperial leader. 31:31-34; Zech. What does Revelation 19:3 mean? You can believe this. To the same world in which He suffered, according to the scriptures, He will come back. He is coming forth in indisputable human glory, but the greatest care is taken to let us know that He had that which was above man above the creature; for "no man knoweth the Son but the Father." In short, it is as we saw in Revelation 17:1-18, after Babylon had been brought before us in the course of the prophecy. 19:13 He is clothed in a robe dipped in blood, and the name by which he is called is the Word of God. to heaven. And the Spirit and the bride say, Come: and let him that heareth say, Come: and let him that is athirst come: let him that will take the water of life freely." 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. If you are a believer, do not be afraid, even if you know but little; for the Lord neither forgets nor slights those who may be comparatively unintelligent. But, further, we find that the saints who had suffered for Christ, during the time that the others were in heaven, are now reunited to their bodies and live, the Lord waiting for the last martyr that He might not leave out one of those who had died for His name. To a Jew a word was not merely a sound; it did things. Not that any of those judged (and the scene described is solely a resurrection of judgment) are said to be written there: we are shown rather that they were not found in that book. the church. This chapter explains how it was that Babylon was so offensive to God, and wherefore He judged her thus sternly. I do not suppose that many words are required by the present audience to show that we are not to understand the scene as a mere figure of Christianity. John was forbidding angel worship; and that was a very necessary prohibition, for in the early church there was a well-nigh inevitable tendency to worship angels, a tendency which has never wholly disappeared. There will be here upon the earth millions of people who have gathered together to war against Him at His coming. "And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast." This city is seen now as the holy vessel of divine power for governing the earth during the millennium, "having the glory of God: and her brightness was like a stone most precious, even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal.". "He that testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly. It was a unit of energy charged with power. 15 And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God. are the ones who are praising. On the head of the victor Christ there are many crowns to show that he is lord of all the kingdoms of the earth. I agree one hundred percent. The judgment on Rome is the guarantee that God never in the end abandons his own. It is not complicated, just bare all to God. Supper), who will turn to Christ in We look at the vast universe in which we live, the material universe, and we realize that He created it. A mighty angel takes a stone and says, when he cast it into the sea, "Thus with violence shall be thrown down Babylon the great city, and shall be found no more at all." 13:9; Rom. 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. All is opened, and this because we have the Holy Ghost dwelling in us; "for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God." 20 And 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 them that worshipped his image. Now the scene totally changes This is of great importance, because if the new Jerusalem be, as I have no doubt it is, the bride the Lamb's wife, then we have her separate condition asserted in eternity. There will be no time for seeking mercy, as it were: whatever the state in which the Lord at His coming will find us, all is closed up and fixed. 2. In it, the Church, This is what drove men to the idea of making the pope to be the beast. 11:25-27). 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 . 244.]. place on earth following the return of Christ (20:4; compare Matt. The first were such as came out of heaven after Christ, being already raised from the dead and glorified. "The tabernacle of God [is] with men, and he shall dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, their God. The vials have all now been dispensed upon the earth of the judgment and the wrath of God. (John 5:24 compared with Romans 14:1-23 and 2 Corinthians 5:1-21.). Revelation 19 begins with a multitude in heaven singing a doxology to God. . into the Holy of Holies, he wore pure white linen. It will be interesting to find out. It is energised for weal or for woe." He is "true," for He is the answer to all our hopes. The thrones were already filled. But, in point of fact, in giving the description of Babylon, the Holy Ghost enters even more into an account of her relations with the beast, the imperial power of which we saw not a little last night. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth. It is simply said that the glorified are to follow the Lord in victorious power, and nothing more, "clothed in fine linen, white, pure." There is more that we still have to learn of Him. 17 And I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven, Come and gather yourselves together unto the supper of the great God; 18 That ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, both small and great. 11:2; Eph. 3. article Rapture). Here it is the city described in itself, on which we need not now enlarge. On His robe where it spreads out at His waist HIS TITLE is inscribed. It does not hinder, of course, that in the judgment of the dead each man is judged for his own sin. And so this is the hang-up of man as Paul said in Romans one, "They worshipped and served the creature more than the creator." It is certain that we ought to read (not "upon" but) "and* the beast." He destroys the assembled rebels who have gathered together against Him. We know the Holy Spirit rather as a spirit of communion with Christ. The angels are never "called," although they may be "chosen;" and though termed holy, I do not recollect that they are ever spoken of as "faithful." William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Revelation 19:11. It begins with the shout of a vast multitude in heaven. R. H. Charles finely says that the marriage symbolism "denotes the intimate and indissoluble communion of Christ with the community which he has purchased with his own blood" a communion which is "first reached in fulness by the host of the martyrs.". The bride is in view. Then there is the reigning power, but not the execution of judgment in this awful fashion which is attributed to the Lord Himself. and believers alive in earthly bodies in the kingdom. - CBSC, the winepress . The name was in fact so holy that it was never pronounced. a. Out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword Revelation 1:16; Revelation 1:16. I sometimes judge without having all the facts in hand, and so my judgments are often wrong. For a short time (what a mercy that it must be only for a short time!) IV. It is no problem for the infinite God to reach to finite man. *Most copies, it would seem, read , "of the earth;" the Alex. The Word of God is alive and powerful, sharper than any two-edged sword. Second, he says: "Let us rejoice and exult." Only the Son of God can understand the mystery of his own being. This is the declaration that is made all through the period of judgment, "true and righteous are thy judgments, O Lord".The concept that Satan brought to Eve in the Garden of Eden was that God was not fair, that God was trying to hold her back from something that was beneficial, that God was somehow trying to protect Himself. I don't know exactly what He will say. That is to say, never again will she rise from her ruins. You might get left. 5:25-32). This tells us something about our approach to Here are two further pictures of the warrior Christ. From Rome saints had suffered; and it was easy to see that the revealed persecutress is called Babylon, and identified with the governing city of Rome. Yet grace despised necessarily ends in judgment. come (verse 15; 2:27; 12:5). What was easier than to turn the demons into angels and to worship them? That is to say, the heavenly saints are viewed still as the heads of the glorified priesthood, and also the executive in the administration of God's judgments. It is all plain and simple "the beast that was, and is not, and shall be present.". 19:7 Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath 7 made herself ready. The person of Jesus Christ, the Son of God and the Redeemer, is in the centre of these future events. It is remarkable, that all along this book, idolatry and Calling is the, fruit of active grace on God's part towards man, and only towards him when fallen. Here we see the chaste virgin understood literally. "And hath avenged the blood of his servants at her hand": And by these judicial "These shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire." The return of Christ to earth 19:11-16. ( Rev 19:1) - 19:1 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 is obviously a great celebration in Heaven about a major event that took place on earth. The The word that goes forth out of His mouth. Revelation 1:16; Isaiah 11:4; Isaiah 49:2). (ii) A Greek came into the Church from a world of thought which made angel worship a real danger. It is plain that what the verse contemplates is neither the Roman power when there was one head of the empire, nor the eastern or Byzantine part of it after that partition, nor the western state of division under the kings who succeeded the deposition of Augustulus; for in the medieval state there may have been ten kings (in contrast with the ancient state of the beast without them but no beast or imperial system with its chiefs. The elders do show us the heavenly heads of priesthood (embracing, as I believe, the Old Testament saints and those of the New); i.e., they are not limited to the church, Christ's body. So, Jesus was at odds with the religious leaders of His day and they are the ones that prompted His crucifixion. So, darkness covered the face of the deep and God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. Justly does she gather her title from the old fountain of idols and of combined power without God: confusion being here the characteristic element, the designation is taken from the renowned city of the Chaldeans, the first spot notorious in both respects. but it does not follow that various bodies are not raised at different times. 1:4; Heb. We can see that, for instance, in the old story in which Jacob filched Esau's blessing from Isaac ( Genesis 27:1-46). Once it is in an Old Testament quotation in 2 Corinthians 6:18; the other nine times are all in the Revelation ( Revelation 1:8; Revelation 4:8; Revelation 11:17; Revelation 15:3; Revelation 16:7; Revelation 16:14; Revelation 19:6; Revelation 19:15; Revelation 21:22). But this passage confronts us with something which became of very great importance in the worship of the Church. Third, he alone has the wisdom to find the right judgment and the power to apply it. They lived, and were put therefore into a place and condition suitable for reigning with Christ, no less than the Old Testament saints and the church itself. And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS ( Revelation 19:15-16 ). ", And the twenty-four elders, and the four living creatures fell down and worshipped the God who is seated upon the throne. They begin to admire the instrument. It isn't that you have been faithful in your devotions, and you have witnessed to so many people, and read so many chapters of the Bible, and spent so many hours in prayer, and you have done all of the religious devotional things, not that at all. The enemy falls on with great fury, headed by the beast, and the kings of the earth; the powers of earth and hell gathered, to make their utmost effort, Revelation 19:19. Let us bear this in mind. Pilate said, "I find no fault in Him. They were shouting, ' Praise the Lord our God! Here we find the term "Alleluia" used really for the first in the New Testament and it is used four times here. It calls God the Almighty.

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