Revelation 29 Lessons. But he tells us further that the Spirit of prophecy, who prophesies in this book, is the testimony of Jesus. Our own righteousness had been as filthy rags, but You have to accomplish certain works in order to be accepted by God. The final supper will signify the end of the email us at: I think that religion is a tremendous curse upon the earth. Here you may see the reason for saying that the four and twenty elders and the four living creatures are not absolutely the church, because when that symbol applies, and the one of the bride comes forward, we have got others too. Have we not all heard of the balance of power? If you preach on prophecy, you are bringing the testimony of Jesus. The woman the strange woman sets forth corruption, human nature indulging itself in its own evil desires, irrespective of God's will. Return Revelation chapter 19 and 20 My righteousness is not on such a tenuous thing as my faithfulness to devotions or works or whatever. dispensations God hath also taken vengeance on them for the blood of his saints 1 Thessalonians 3:4-5 Commentary. Hitherto the reverse of this has been true in history. I will be a part of that army, as will you, because we are clothed in the fine linen white and clean, which is the righteousness of the saints. And I fell at His feet to worship him. But she has a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and the impurities of her fornication. Even the proclamation of the grace of God is powerless save it be brought home by the quickening energy of His own Spirit. "I will raise him up at the last day." Like Hosanna ( H3467 + H4994 and G5614) it is one of the few Hebrew words which have established themselves in ordinary religious language. 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. "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.". a. It was the destruction of the imperial unity of Rome that gave occasion for the well-known ten kingdoms which the barbarians set up afterwards. This is the Messiah of Jewish apocalyptic expectation far more than the Messiah whom Jesus claimed to be. With a rod of iron he shall break in pieces all their substance, He shall destroy the godless nations with the word of his. "And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood." ye his servants, and ye that fear him, both small and great.". He speaks and it is done. Then there was a time of preparation as the "Yet is" is a most unfortunate expression. Nothing more is to be done. What was easier than to turn the demons into angels and to worship them? union of the church with Christ following the Rapture (see 1 Thess. Isaiah 63:3. ( Revelation 18:20). That is, there was first the literal Babylon, of course; but here it is symbolical. The church goes on according to the will of the Lord, who might according to His own purpose lengthen or abridge the space. This being so, it adds immense clearness in the understanding of the book. * Idolatry is the awful stamp that she bears, and this too both in what she gives to man, and in what is written on her forehead before God. Revelation 19:10 "And I fell at his feet to worship him. 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. 12:10; "And the beast that was, and is not, even he is an eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth unto destruction." It is thus that God is wont to deal as a rule in His judgments, not necessarily on the one that first introduces an evil, but on those that inherit the guilt, and perhaps aggravate it, instead of taking warning by it. That is what history is about. The The "word" that comes from Gods mouth is to be used to conquor! understand the testimony of Jesus, then you must preach and prophesy so that [issues, proceedeth, comes, came, goeth, comes out, ] . The prevalence of all this in Judaism is underlined by the fact that certain Rabbis insisted that prayers must always be offered direct to God, and not to Michael or to Gabriel. There is another remark to make. 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. Thus eternal judgment was executed at once. Wars were matters of ambition and tyranny and oppression rather than of justice. That is why religions fail. And they also lasted much longer. Are we then to understand that the elders and the living creatures are together taken absolutely as the bride now? more depending on the economic or social status of the bride and groom. "The Lord God is the temple of it, and the Lamb as far as we can speak of any. 3. It is all centered around Him. 5:25-32), and the great affection and vehemence of spirit, which will be raised hereby. Ephesians 6:17; smite the nations . ceremony); (3) This, was no lack. stench and the potential for disease. Those who are invited to the marriage supper are Israel (see article , ), who will turn to Christ in Instead of judgment being executed on them, it was given to them. Christ, the glorious Head of the church, is described as on a white horse, the emblem of justice and holiness. The description of the warrior Christ is further filled in. The heavenly city, which is the full expression of blessedness on high, has no temple because it is all a temple. This Revelation 19:6 "And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as He destroys the assembled rebels who have gathered together against Him. He is arrayed in a vesture dipped in his own blood, by which he purchased his power as Mediator; and in the blood of his enemies, over . (ii) His name is Faithful and True. But all this will be a great reversal of man's history and political maxims. Such was her influence stretching out far beyond the beast. Hallelujah!". These are not references to the merciful and benign reign of Christ through his saints on earth in the present dispensation, but to the final wrath and judgment of God upon the ungodly. 3. In any event, the name singles him out as the greatest of all rulers, the only true divine One and the universal King. We have seen that these follow the Lord out of heaven, and are next seen enthroned. "The armies of heaven" wear the fine linen, white and pure" "which is the righteousness of the saints" (19:8). It means This has no time element attached. But according to His principle of government it is not merely personal guilt, but that which, from despising the testimony of God, is thus morally accumulating from age to age in the ratio of the testimony of God and the wickedness that has been indulged by men in spite of it. He will destroy His enemies with inflexible righteousness that the iron shepherds rod that will serve as His scepter pictures (cf. The redeemed He is, as H. B. Swete puts it, "a royal commander followed by a dazzling retinue." Revelation 19:7 "Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honor to him: for the And it appears to me that here we are bound to account for the presence of these others that are at the marriage-supper of the Lamb, but appear as guests, and not at all in the quality of the bride. Second, he alone has that purity which can judge without prejudice. It is one of those cases which every now and then appear where God checks and reproves our foolish curiosity, as He alone knows how to do perfectly. God has not told us how, nor is it our business. this great multitude begin to praise God, the volume would be so great as to THE TE DEUM OF NATURE AND THE CHURCH ( Revelation 19:3-5 ), 19:3-5 And a second time they said: "Hallelujah! Acts 10:25-26). He knows This verse declares it, and there is no other interpretation that can stand even a moment's fair discussion. I do not acknowledge the language to be either difficult or ambiguous. None but Rome corresponds. But the most ordinary knowledge suffices; for who does not know from the Bible that there was a Roman empire when Christ was born, one emperor, and no such state as that empire divided into ten kingdoms? The Church, the Bride of Christ, is clothed in fine linen, pure and shining. 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. What did the "avenging the blood" probably mean? ", This chapter is one of the most dramatic in all the Bible. *The description here is simply character, not dates. Instead of taking warning from the wickedness of those before her, who had seduced on the one hand, and persecuted. For there follows another company of martyrs who suffered when the beast set up his worst and final pretensions. And I think that this has been declared all the way through, because this is one of the areas that Satan constantly challenges concerning God, the fairness of God's judgments when he deals and meats out His judgments upon man. 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. They have the capacity to stand in the sun. Presentation (the festivities, often lasting several days, that preceded the It is the eternal state; and also, in fact, the fullest description of that state which is furnished in the Bible. Here accordingly is seen but one throne. "Why are you red in your apparel, and your garments like the ones that have been treading in the wine vat?" they were saying. This is a mistake. While the term bride often refers to the church, and does so here (2 Cor. 19:5 And a voice came from the throne, saying, "Give praise to our God, all you His bond-servants, you who fear Him, the small and the great.". It is by his word that God created the earth and the heavens and everything in them. Then another and immensely important act is described the binding of Satan. Therefore be zealous and repent. The Psalmist says of the Messianic king: "You shall break them with a rod of iron, and dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel" ( Psalms 2:9). There is a reassuring tone here telling the Lord that He was justified in His Verse 5. Then we have another glorious description. In that place the sword seems to be an emblem of his words or doctrines, as penetrating the hearts of people; here it is the emblem of a work of destruction worked on his foes. And then those men who have chosen to cast their lot with Satan in rebellion against God. 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. "His eyes are like a flame of fire" seeing all the secrets of our lives. 16:17+).Even though judgment is said to be complete at the pouring of the final bowl, we saw that several more chapters were still ahead before the kingdom of God . Present tense. But that idea is wholly insufficient to cover or meet the word of God, which gives clear and strong reasons that prove the mistake of applying this to the pope as its complete fulfilment. On the other, it is the first of seven final things that John saw and recorded. That is to say, never again will she rise from her ruins. 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. They "lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.". A Verse by Verse Study of the Book of Revelation - Glenn Earle Cummings 2007-02 The Gospels, Acts, Epistles and Book of Revelation: Commonly Called the New Testament. to say enough about what Jesus has purchased for us all. 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. Here it is the city described in itself, on which we need not now enlarge. for the smoke from her rises for ever and ever. Gates of hell can never Gainst that Church prevail. 5:25-32). We find that Jesus is called the faithful witness. This is what drove men to the idea of making the pope to be the beast. into the Holy of Holies, he wore pure white linen. "Let him that heareth," then, "say, Come." The fine linen the bride is clothed in represents the righteous acts of the The presentation will take place in heaven following the Rapture (verse 7); and. A fourth century A.D. He comes to execute vengeance, and with a sign of death for rebels. The principle is very clear. At first reading, to some this sounds harsh, but it is referring to His ability to proect his sheep. News Links, Recommended Books, News Sites, and Bibles Return to Home Page Christ will come in glory to judge and rule. The Word that Christ spoke will judge men at the last day. - Hebrews 4:12; a sharp sword . What is it, seven hundred and fifty million degrees Fahrenheit or something like that? From the beginning, the church of God has been blessed with prophecy. "And his name is called The Word of God." . Here we have the purely Jewish idea of the Word of God. When John here called the warrior Christ "The Word of God", he means that here in action is all the power of God's word; everything that God has said, and threatened, and promised is embodied in Christ. If there was any Gentile power since John's day, which did not sustain but persecute and suppress Jerusalem, it was Rome, instead of being a gaudy harlot mounted on that vast empire. "And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heavens fled away." Fell at his feet: Overwhelmed by the grandeur of the vision, John collapsed in For the day of vengeance is in my heart, and the year of my redeemed is come"( Isaiah 63:3-4 ). Zerubbabel displays a plan of Jerusalem to Cyrus the Great by Jacob van Loo. 8:38, Paul often used some of the most extreme things such as life and death to make a point. Worship God!". Click here to download Revelation 19 Keynote presentation: https://www.icloud.com/keynote/0QVjw78Q9AXs9vyAJw9plQoww#Revelation_19Click here to download Revel. There is no lack of precision, but the very reverse. This appears to mean the word of the Gospel, by which his enemies are confounded, and his friends supported and comforted. Take this quite simply and literally. And I have to apologize sometimes for my judgments. At the pouring of the seventh bowl, God's voice was heard from the Temple saying, "It is done!" (Rev. Christianity teaches that God is reaching down to man; exactly the opposite of religious thoughts, man trying to reach God. faith during the Tribulation (Jeremiah 31:31-34; Zech. 19:14-16 The armies which are in heaven followed him, on white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and pure. Otherwise, it is called in the scriptures, Gehenna, which is the final abode for the unrighteous dead. As any dream or vision has to be interpreted, so does Revelation. If they have only heard His voice, this after all is the incalculable boon; yea, it is the turning-point of all blessing. white, represents the righteousness of the church, which has now been judged and Both small and great: All distinctions and ranks are to be transcended. They begin to worship, in a sense, the instrument that God has used. Thomas viewed the second coming of Christ plus everything else through Revelation 22:5 as part of the seventh bowl judgment. The blessing given could not be taken back. Not only are they supposed to be coexistent, but united in their change of feeling against Babylon. Revelation 19:4 "And the four and twenty elders and the four beasts fell down Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready ( Revelation 19:7 ). All this description closes in verse 5. The Sinai MS. has both. Return Accordingly the resuscitated Roman empire will carry men away by a storm of wonder at its revival. It supposes the effect and the exercise of faith. An allusion to Psalms 2:9 ; shall rule them . This it is precisely which will bring out the indignant judgment of God upon the last phase of Babylon, so that the guilt of all the blood shed on the earth shall be imputed to her, and she may be judged accordingly. Then there is the reigning power, but not the execution of judgment in this awful fashion which is attributed to the Lord Himself. And her smoke rose up for ever This is just a statement telling us it will never be built The "things to come" are synonymous with death. There is therefore much to be said for the ]Protestant application of the chapter as compared with the Praetorist theory of pagan Rome. and could only be broken by divorce. Rabbi, Jehudah, actually gave the odd instruction that men ought not to pray in Aramaic because the angels did not understand Aramaic! The same imagery of a wedding picture's the Lord's relationship with His Church. *It is the more strikingly characteristic, because of such language as Psalms 149:6-9, which speaks of all the saints contemplated on earth for the day of Jehovah. So here a description is given of the bride, the Lamb's wife, and we learn how it is that God will use her for unmeasured goodness and blessing and glory in the millennium, as the devil during this age has used Babylon to accomplish his wicked plans here below. I have examined Him. bring the climax of the Book of Revelation: the return of Christ to establish ages, which becomes clear in the remainder of the book. Verses 1-6: Alleluia: This Hebrew word appears 4 times in the New Testament. Supper), who will turn to Christ in His Word is "a two-edged sword." "This is the first resurrection. And so it is with this very Babylon that comes before us here. After the destruction of Babylon religious and commercial, chapter seventeen and eighteen. It was the religious leaders that insisted that the Roman government put Him to death. The great harlot is judged because she corrupted the world. "And he that sat upon him called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war." Revelation 19:2 "For true and righteous [are] his judgments: for he hath judged It seems clear that the name is visible to all, and, therefore, probably the likeliest solution is that it was written on the skirt of the warrior Christ's robe, lying over his thigh, as he rode upon the white horse. small and the great mean everyone which includes all human categories and Gods sovereignty (verse 6); and. Christ will strike down His enemies with a word that His long, tongue-shaped sword (Gr. It is a description, not of Babylon's relation to the beast, but of the city's fall, with certain dirges put into the mouth of the different classes that groan because of her extinction here below. In short, it is not tropical language, as when it is said of the prodigal son "This my son was dead, and is alive again;" or of the restoration of Israel, which is compared to a resurrection from the dead for the rest of the world. derives from a Hebrew word meaning "to be firm," and may be translated "truly" Every strange coded word and phrase is meant for this generation. But it really is. The picture is not of an "iron rod" he uses to "club" or beat his sheep! In the Ascension of Isaiah ( Isaiah 9:5) there is a saying: "Thou canst not bear his name until thou shalt have ascended out of the body." VI. 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. Revelation 19 - Jesus Returns as Conquering Lord A. Only the Son of God can understand the mystery of his own being. ). This is the I like that, God speaking into existence the world in which we live. Scripture records no name whatever among those judged written there. The verse numbering in . I will give to him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely. All the dispensational names of God disappear. Hallelujah literally means "Praise God". Everything that belongs to the body of Christ is unearthly and unworldly. First, "I saw thrones, and they sat upon them." Their doom was awful, but by no means after the same sort as their two leaders. Babylon symbolized by its capital city of Babylon. THE TE DEUM OF THE REDEEMED ( Revelation 19:6-8 ). And a voice came from the throne = is not explicitly identified. And I heard as it were a voice of a great multitude, and as a voice of many waters, and as a voice of mighty thunders, saying, Alleluia, for the Lord God the Almighty reigneth. For certain there are two great acts of resurrection, one when the Old Testament saints and the church are caught up to heaven, the other when Satan was bound after the beast and false prophet were thrown into the lake of fire, as well as Babylon judged. At the same time the attempt to apply Babylon to ancient Rome is almost as unhappy; and for a plain reason. IV. Let us rise up to serve The King of kings. 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 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. The strange thing to me, is that Jesus Here is seen the holy city coming down out of heaven from God, which is declared to be the bride, the Lamb's wife, in the plainest contrast with the great harlot. He spoke these things into existence; the power of the Word of God.If we would only realize the power of the Word of God. He has, I think, exactly that class in view when He sanctions the calling him who hears to say "Come." It is only God and man now. "And the angel said unto him, Wherefore didst thou wonder? (i) There is love. Nothing has yet been said of the fate of Satan, but now we go on to see that fate. the 144,000 seen with the Lamb on Mount Zion (Revelation 14:1), and with those on It will be remembered that it was said to them that they must wait. "And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have not yet received a kingdom; but they receive authority as kings (not at but for) one hour with the beast." Now we see the tree of life again. We read of the marriage feast ( Matthew 22:2); of the bridechamber and the wedding garment ( Matthew 22:10-11); of the sons of the bridechamber ( Mark 2:19); of the bridegroom ( Mark 2:19; Matthew 25:1); of the friends of the bridegroom ( John 3:29). But here is a mystery altogether different: "Mystery, Babylon the great, the mother of the harlots and of the abominations of the earth.". The so-called Battle of Armageddon, as usually conceived, is nothing but man's imagination. The bride breathes out this word to the bridegroom; and the Holy Ghost it is that gives strength to her desire that He should come. "Surely I come quickly." And out of his mouth proceeded a sharp sword Again, all voices agree as one in seeing this as a symbol of the word of God (Hebrews 4:12,13; Ephesians 6:17f). article . So here He is sitting upon a white horse. The twelve apostles of the Lamb will accordingly have their own special place. How can it be said that this vile, corrupt, idolatrous system of the last days was guilty of the blood of all martyrs? 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. In Revelation 16+, John was shown the pouring forth of the final seven bowls which contained God's wrath. "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. His secret name indicates his unique authority (11-12). On his head he has many crowns. Whoever this angel is, he too had the testimony of Jesus. And again they said, Alleluia. It should not be "and which had not," but rather, "and those who had not worshipped the beast, nor his image, neither had received his mark upon their forehead, and on their hand; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years." It means here that his enemies would be certainly crushed before him - as grapes are crushed under the feet of him that treads in the winevat. Revelation 19 begins with a multitude in heaven singing a doxology to God. The gospel had been preached there, as she of Chaldea was not without law and prophet. Nothing is hidden from Him. And you could imagine the grapejuice stains all over your clothes after having spent a day treading the wine vat therein. New American Standard Version Not because any of their names were written therein, but in proof that they were not. _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); Any other intermediary than Jesus Christ between God and man must be utterly opposed. It is due to the exigency of a notion which fears and is irreconcilable with the truth in this place. 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." The fact is, in the very best authorities it does not exist at all. They were in three distinct stages which first involved the betrothal or Verse 8. "And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white, pure.". 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. 1 Thessalonians 2:14-16 Commentary. 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. 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." Babylon was the spurious church as long as it was a question of the church, and the final corrupter when it could be no question of this longer, and there went forth the closing testimony of God. In it, the Church, God doesn't want you taking credit for the work that He does, receiving glory for His work. 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. So, You see, all of the fineries Revelation 19:1 "And after these things I heard a great voice of much people in heaven, saying, Alleluia; Salvation, and glory, and honor, and power, unto the Lord our God:" In the last chapter, we saw the terrible destruction of commercial and political Babylon symbolized by its capital city of Babylon. Gods victory over a rebellious humanity and its satanic leaders is now pictured in a terrifying war (cf. There never has been a like experience. So, darkness covered the face of the deep and God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. ", GOD'S WORD IN ACTION ( Revelation 19:13 ). Everything that could attract the natural man was there; and all that which to him looks fair enough on the side of religion. (John 17:18). Verse 7. Yet it will be found imperfect, for reasons which, I think, will be clear to any unbiassed mind.
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