to say enough about what Jesus has purchased for us all. The woman was allowed to ride the beast to influence and govern the empire first, but at last to be the object of hatred to the ten horns and the beast, who expose, rob, and destroy her. With a rod of iron he shall break in pieces all their substance, He shall destroy the godless nations with the word of his. Now the scene totally changes to heaven. His secret name indicates his unique authority (11-12). "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." I do not, of course, complain of particular persons, but of the general vagueness in which the passage has been taken unless, indeed, the more common course be not to ignore it. He comes to execute vengeance, and with a sign of death for rebels. And her smoke rose up for ever They are not seen here as the bride. (19:6-9), are evidence of the Church being in heaven prior to the return of on Line, email us at: According to the general scope of scripture, then, we may be quite sure that these saints, kept during this universal dissolution of the atmospheric heaven and the earth, will be translated to "the new heavens and new earth wherein dwelleth righteousness," in a condition new and meet for the eternal state into which they are ushered. This very naturally filled him with intense wonder. Jude 1. Have we not all heard of the balance of power? If so, we can define the true prophet as the man who has received from Christ the message he brings to men, and whose words and works are at one and the same time an act of witness to Christ. And it is the various ways by which men are attempting to reach God. "And the city has no need of the sun, nor of the moon, that they should shine for it." And I have to apologize sometimes for my judgments. This may seem to us a strange metaphor. We take this phrase by itself, because it is both ambiguous and important. servant, and of thy brethren that have the testimony of Jesus: worship God: for Hitherto the reverse of this has been true in history. ages, which becomes clear in the remainder of the book. 5:10). distinctions. (1-5) Praise for the judgment of Babylon. But there is a time coming when power will cease to be ordained of God; and this is the point to which the last condition of the beast refers. This remains true also in its own place, as we shall find; and when it is a question of reward, this is precisely the grand point; but when it is a question of the bride above, that is the way in which it is presented here, as we may see clearly from verse 8. 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. Especially they will be now, when the nation of the Jews shall be born at once, It is not his own blood, but the blood of his enemies that he tramples as he tramples out the rebellious. And to her [that is the bride of Christ, the church] was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of the saints ( Revelation 19:8 ). Marriage of the Lamb: Hebrew weddings consisted of 3 phrases: (1) At the pouring of the seventh bowl, God's voice was heard from the Temple saying, "It is done!" (Rev. 4:17; see Sometimes, again, they have sought to turn it aside toward Jerusalem in her corrupt state. 227-28.] That city will be a constant remembrancer of those who went before restored Israel here below, as undoubtedly it will be used for their blessing during the millennium, but not for theirs only. Centuries after came in, not only the division into east and west, but the broken up state of the west, when there ceased to be an imperial chief. Click here to download Revelation 19 Keynote presentation: https://www.icloud.com/keynote/0QVjw78Q9AXs9vyAJw9plQoww#Revelation_19Click here to download Revel. It is a precisely similar case here. Verses 6-10: Omnipotent: God is all-powerful, and reigneth over His The marriage feast will take place on earth following Christ's return with the 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. But in the time really contemplated here all this political shuffling will be over. Verse 2. Second, he says: "Let us rejoice and exult." (1) The events that are described within its pages were written for us today. Supper), who will turn to Christ in And thus it was but a little glimpse they had of prophecy. When the second beast appeared, he even strove to put to death those who would not worship the beast, nor pay homage to his image, nor receive his mark. Gods deliverance of His people from their enemies (verse 1); (2) (verses 1-10), and returns with Christ in His Triumphal Second Coming (verses "I heard a great voice of much people in heaven": The people are the same with It is the way to all, if it be not the actual entrance into and enjoyment of it. It would be a constant fall. 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. Meanwhile the armies of the antichrist perish in battle (19-21).With the antichrist and the false prophet destroyed, only the first member of the evil trinity remains to be dealt with, Satan himself. But whatever subsisted then, that which the Spirit here presents as a whole cannot be found realized at any point of time in the past. Bhagavad Gita - Wikipedia Peculiar energy indeed attaches to symbolic language. Revelation 19:1-3. "These shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire." Book of Revelation Explained Scripture by Scripture - bible-studys.org He sees the glorious creation of God and he worships the creation, rather than the creator.And so John is making the same mistake and the angel corrects him and says don't do that. What does Revelation 19:3 mean? | BibleRef.com He will tread the winepress of the anger of the wrath of God the Almighty. If you preach on prophecy, you are bringing the testimony of Jesus. THE AVENGING WRATH ( Revelation 19:14-16 ). A further account of the triumphant song of angels and saints for the fall of Babylon, ver 1-4. As R. H. Charles puts it, it is essential to remember that the Heavenly Leader is this time, not the Slain One, but the Slayer. 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. It would have been incongruous to bring in that long description before, because this must have interrupted the flow of the prophetic stream. No sooner was the marriage solemnized between Christ and his church by the conversion of the Jews than the glorious head and husband of the church is called out to a new expedition, which seems to be the great battle that was to be fought at Armageddon, foretold Revelation 16:16; Revelation 16:16. Blessed are those who are invited to the feast of the marriage of the Lamb!" Of course the other is true. are the ones who are praising. The question is, why is she thus designated? The final shout is the praise of the host of the redeemed. earth for the celebration of the final meal (during the Millennium). the sea of glass, who had got the victory over the beast (Revelation 15:2), and The cosmic drama is drawing to a close. That is the way in which H. B. Swete takes it. The visions of this prophetic book open, not with the rapture of saints to heaven, but the sight of saints already raptured, often before the seer in the visions, but seen always in a complete condition without addition to their number. The church goes on according to the will of the Lord, who might according to His own purpose lengthen or abridge the space. believers at salvation, but the practical results of that righteousness in "So he carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness" a thorough waste as to the knowledge or enjoyment of God. I take it, therefore, that God intended this analogy to be noted by us; that it is not a pursuance of the prophecy, but a description of the holy city previously named, just as the other was a description of the corrupt city, whose judgment had been announced. and worshipped God that sat on the throne, saying, Amen; Alleluia.". He just said it, "Let there be light," and light existed.And in the Hebrew it is even more intensive. The Word of God is alive and powerful, if we would only realize the power of the Word of God. Revelation 19:4 "And the four and twenty elders and the four beasts fell down Christ will strike down His enemies with a word that His long, tongue-shaped sword (Gr. Chapter 19 of Revelation is the only place in the Bible that this name describing God is used. church (compare Matt. ceremony); (3) None but Rome corresponds. The eternal smoke (ii) There is intimate communion, so intimate that man and wife become one flesh. church. white, represents the righteousness of the church, which has now been judged and Unhallowed love will end in hatred. No one can soberly deny that Babylon in some sort had a place then; but that the special, and above all, the full character of Babylon was manifested as here portrayed is another matter. And the fine linen is the righteousness of the saints. He was filled with astonishment that this mysterious form of evil, this counter-testimony of the enemy (not antichrist, but antichurch), should seem and be largely accepted as the holy catholic church of God, that Christendom, if not Christianity, should at the same time become the bitterest of persecutors, more murderously incensed against the witnesses of Jesus and the saints of God than ever paganism had been in any country or all ages. The wrath of God is fierce! WATCH ON YOUTUBE Book of Revelation Explained 2: The Last Days (Revelation 1:1-5) Who will join in acclamations of praise, and partly on account of their Now the Lord in the end here is really putting a lot of emphasis upon the fact that these are true sayings. Next comes the marriage of the Lamb to his bride. 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. shed by them. stench and the potential for disease. There is therefore much to be said for the ]Protestant application of the chapter as compared with the Praetorist theory of pagan Rome. faith during the Tribulation (Jeremiah 31:31-34; Zech. H. B. Swete says that this comprehensive phrase embraces "Christians of all intellectual capacities and social grades, and of all stages of progress in the life of Christ." John 1:1-5; Revelation 2:16; Revelation 19:15, Revelation 19:21. cf. Too bad, your unrighteousness Friday night. And he says to him not to do that because he is a fellowservant, but to worship God.You see it is a apart of man to need and want to worship something, and man seems to find it easier to worship an object that he can see rather than an object that he cannot see. But the church consists of souls called out from the earth, and is not of the world: consequently to the church the time is always at hand. The white horse is the symbol of the conqueror, because it was on a white horse that a Roman general rode when he celebrated a triumph.