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. It is a time of strong delusion, be it remembered. On these I may say but a very few words. This is the Messiah of Jewish apocalyptic expectation far more than the Messiah whom Jesus claimed to be. 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. When Christ came personally to judge and govern the quick (Revelation 20:4), there were thrones; for the risen saints reign with Him. The iron rod is showing his ability to protect them. Chapter 19 of Revelation is the only place in the Bible that this name describing God is used. First, then, this is the praise of the prophets and the martyrs who have witnessed for God with their voices and with their lives. 5:25-32), and the Sometimes, again, they have sought to turn it aside toward Jerusalem in her corrupt state. But we as properly say, "Come." And when God does judge, it is not merely for the evil of those then judged, but of all from the first budding of it till that day. avenged the blood of his servants at her hand.". And the marriage is the eternal 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 marriage It is really differing imagery That is spiritually in chapter seventeen, that great religious system that corrupted the earth. No. Here accordingly is seen but one throne. I like that, God speaking into existence the world in which we live. It was the religious leaders that insisted that the Roman government put Him to death. On his head he has many crowns. *Most copies, it would seem, read , "of the earth;" the Alex. It does not hinder, of course, that in the judgment of the dead each man is judged for his own sin. First, there are his servants. It was important, just because it is the bride, the Lamb's wife, to show that angels are there, and further, that Israel is not forgotten. What would be the meaning, if so read? The horns and the beast join in hating the whore. Smoke rose: This is because of the fire (compare 17:16, 18; 18:8-9, 18; And that is the question the prophet asks and Jesus answers, "I that speak in righteousness, mighty to save." In any event, the name singles him out as the greatest of all rulers, the only true divine One and the universal King. 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. Isaiah sixty-three says, "Who is this that comes from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? "The Lord God is the temple of it, and the Lamb as far as we can speak of any. "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." It will be interesting to find out. What is the righteousness of the saints? 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. There is a reassuring tone here telling the Lord that He was justified in His "And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, and against his army. All the sufferers, either in the early persecutions of Revelation 6:1-17, or in the later persecutions (see Revelation 15:1-8) up to Babylon's extinction, were now raised from the dead. Especially they will be now, when the nation of the Jews shall be born at once, Gods sovereignty (verse 6); and. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and dine with him, and he with Me. 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. Thus the only use that seems made of the book is negative and exclusive. I am not raising any question about the ten. Called: Those who are invited to the marriage supper are Israel, who will turn Though they are not the bride, they still are glorified and He spoke it into existence. * Even the Complutensian editors give the right text here; and it would seem that Erasmus failed to use his MS. aright. judgment seat of Christ (compare 1 Cor. Betrothal (often when the couple were children); (2) The friendships of the evil are not lasting. marriage is the eternal union of the church with Christ following the Rapture Though the divine vengeance will chiefly fall upon the beast, and the false prophet, yet it will be no excuse to those who fight under their banner that they only followed their leaders and obeyed their command; since they would fight for them, they must fall and perish with them. 22:2-14; John 3:29; 2 Cor. The Lord is not so interested in telling you who you are going to marry or what is going to happen to you next week, the spirit of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy. He remains in that condition of readiness from the time when He sat at God's right hand till the present. First, "I saw thrones, and they sat upon them." She will despise everything really divine; she will only use whatever of God's word she can pervert for increasing her own importance, and gaining a greater ascendancy over the consciences of men, and enjoying herself more luxuriously in this world; for she will go far to obliterate all remembrance of heaven, and to make this world a kind of paradise which she embellishes, not with pure and undefiled religion, but with the arts of men and the idolatries of the world. "Five are fallen, one is, the other hath not yet come." It is suggested that it is actually written on his thigh, because it was sometimes the custom to engrave the titles of statues on the thigh. He is an American citizen and his base is in Sunland, California. 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. "And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse." It would be a constant fall. If not blessing it judges. Jesus replaced the filth with His righteousness. Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power; but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.". 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. He is urged to take up the same cry. It was, as H. B. Swete puts it, like "the din of a vast concourse, the roar of a cataract, the roll of thunder.". event, the new order comes and the marriage is consummated (see notes on Thus there is no question that some of the actors in the final scenes of the great drama were already there, as the reigning city, and the Roman empire. almighty: having unlimited power. The vials have all now been dispensed upon the earth of the judgment and the wrath of God. With this agrees His coming out of heaven in judgment of the earth, described inRevelation 19:1-21; Revelation 19:1-21. "They have one mind, and give their own power and authority to the beast." Babylon is the parent of the "abominations of the earth." Again, death and hades are said to come to their end, personified as enemies. Let us rise up to serve The King of kings. There was the sad register of undeniable sin on the one side; there was no writing of the name on the other side. 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. Verse 9. For remark, the beast or Roman empire is described here as that which once existed, which then ceased to exist, and which assumes a final shape when it reappears from the bottomless pit. It is said that the judgments of God are true and just. Link with Johns vision of Revelation 19:11-16 a meditation on the Hymn "Crown Him with many crowns" and also the stirring Hymn "Onward Christian soldiers." "And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth." This testimony here is not Jesus giving it, but we believers who testify of the That is, the sixth head (reigning then in John's day) was the imperial form of government. Consequently Christianity, as being directly aggressive on the falsehood of heathenism, was of all things the most offensive to Rome. Then entire sorry results of human depravity will finally be vanquished. The marriage symbolism runs all through the Gospels. Any other intermediary than Jesus Christ between God and man must be utterly opposed. And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword ( Revelation 19:15 ). And he said unto me, God is praised because salvation, glory, and power belong to him. Bad as pagan Rome was, it would be false to affirm that it ever had come out of the bottomless pit. Verse 8. This is of great importance. A seventh should follow; and what is more, the seventh was in one aspect to be an eighth. Out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword Revelation 1:16; Revelation 1:16. My righteousness is not on such a tenuous thing as my faithfulness to devotions or works or whatever. Here the vision was of thrones with sitters, and others caused to join them; and the inspired explanation is that it is the first resurrection the rising of the just from the dead. And John heard it as the voice of many waters or rushing waters and the voice of mighty thunderings.Glory. 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. Here now is the rejoicing which was called for. Further, a negative point of great importance is presented by the seer, "And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God the Almighty is the temple of it, and the Lamb. but it does not follow that various bodies are not raised at different times. 25:1-13; Luke You must with the best authorities leave out this addition, if you would have the true force of the verse. The army which he commands (Revelation 19:14; Revelation 19:14), a very large one, made up of many armies; angels and saints followed his conduct, and resembled him in their equipage, and in their armour of purity and righteousness--chosen, and called, and faithful. "Upon her forehead was a name written, Mystery, Babylon the great, the mother of the harlots and of the abominations of the earth.". And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years." I would like to say a few words about this "fine linen". In our day men prophecy "the end of Christs church", but Christs Word is mightier than any word that men can utter. And I saw heaven open, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True ( Revelation 19:11 ). righteousness of the church, which has now been judged and purified at the THE CONQUERING CHRIST ( Revelation 19:11 ). 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. It furnishes material for a contrast between the earthly Jerusalem and the heavenly city, because if there be one thing more remarkable than another in Ezekiel's description, it is the temple. "At the last day" does not mean merely an instant of time. and could only be broken by divorce. . The picture is not of an "iron rod" he uses to "club" or beat his sheep! These compose the third class here spoken of. Even so, come, Lord Jesus." We can easily understand that the overthrow of the ecclesiastical power is necessary to leave a full field unimpeded for the imperial power to develop itself in its final form of violence and rebellion and apostacy against the Lord. There is, however, a great deal more than this on the subject, and given with great precision in scripture, because this is merely the principle of sin in one or other form from the beginning. "I heard a great voice out of heaven, saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God" (alluding to this very city) "[is] with men." See bibliographic information; Read aloud; Stop reading aloud Hide links to Bible word meanings to heaven. Who does not see that this is precisely analogous to the verse which opened the description of Babylon? It is not the enjoyment of all, but it is the hinge on which all depends. Now, this vesture dipped in blood is probably a reference to Isaiah sixty-three. Isaiah says of the heavenly king: "He shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked" ( Isaiah 11:4). "And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood." The meaning is no more than this, that in the great battle of Armageddon, which was for the destruction of all the remainder of the enemies of the church, whether papists, or atheists, or Turks; men of all sorts and orders should be slain, and their dead bodies made meat for the fowls of heaven . What is there to hinder it? God is said to smite men with plagues, e.g. [Note: See David J. MacLeod, The Seven Last Things.] With a rod of iron he shall break in pieces all their substance, He shall destroy the godless nations with the word of his. This was an arrangement by both sets of parents, was legally binding But the attempt, again, to apply what is said here to a future city of Babylon in Chaldea seems to me no less vain. Accordingly the resuscitated Roman empire will carry men away by a storm of wonder at its revival. 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. Various suggestions have been made. But in the time really contemplated here all this political shuffling will be over. 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. (John 5:24 compared with Romans 14:1-23 and 2 Corinthians 5:1-21.). 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." Satan will bring forth an empire suited to his purposes, as it springs from Satanic principles which deny God; and this is part of what appears to be meant by the beast ascending out of the bottomless pit. Zerubbabel displays a plan of Jerusalem to Cyrus the Great by Jacob van Loo. Click here to download Revelation 19 Keynote presentation: https://www.icloud.com/keynote/0QVjw78Q9AXs9vyAJw9plQoww#Revelation_19Click here to download Revel. They picture the final triumph of God over all enemies and his complete conquest of evil. Biblical references. There never has been a like experience. Revelation 19:1 "And after these things I heard a great voice of much people in 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 seven Spirits of God (Greek: , ta hepta pneumata tou theou) are mentioned four times in the Book of Revelation, and in the Book of Isaiah it names each Spirit.Revelation 1:4: John to the seven churches which are in Asia: Grace be unto you, and peace, from him which is, and which was, and which is to come; and from the seven . But what is also of consequence to observe is, that John saw souls the souls of those beheaded on account of the witness of Jesus, and on account of the word of God. 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. purified at the judgment seat of Christ (1 Cor. "And let him that is athirst come; and whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.". Scholz's note ("rec. It is not his own blood, but the blood of his enemies that he tramples as he tramples out the rebellious. discover_revelation@charter.net Revelation 19:7 "Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honor to him: for the [Note: E.g., M. Eugene Boring, Revelation, p. 195; and Wall, pp. What does this particular rendition of God mean? 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 Rev. The son is doubly guilty, because he saw his father's nakedness and felt it enough to hide. In Asia Minor even the tribunal of the proconsul was subject to bribery and to maladministration. . var _gaq = _gaq || []; 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. Like a novel, the storyline builds from front to back, with the characters, themes and plot elements introduced early and developed across many chapters. It is a description, and not one of the visions that carry us onward. He will tread the winepress of the anger of the wrath of God the Almighty. Jude 1. 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. The voice of this great multitude was as the voice of __________ ______________. Every strange coded word and phrase is meant for this generation. At the same time you will mark that these are not said to be executors of judgment as Christ is. Here we see the chaste virgin 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 is clearly of moral importance. So we are obliged to translate the single word, e.g. Then another and immensely important act is described the binding of Satan. You can believe this. The glorified saints are to administer power in a way far beyond angels. Thus everything implies their simultaneous presence for the same time and common action with the beast, in plundering and then destroying Babylon. "And the dead were judged," but not out of the book of life, which has nothing to do with judgment. Oh, the power of the word of Jesus, the sword that goes forth out of His mouth. He destroys the assembled rebels who have gathered together against Him. That is good. Afrikaans; Alemannisch; ; ; ; Azrbaycanca; ; Bn-lm-g; ; Bikol Central II. It appears that those who were redeemed were looking on from heaven and - Wallace. 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. Then and thus is aggravated guilt in the case of this wicked son. I say "righteousnesses," not "righteousness." Return I do not acknowledge the language to be either difficult or ambiguous. The seventh bowl contained under it the fall of Babylon, which "was remembered before God, to give to her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath.". 5:25-32). 10 million Ukrainians without power because of Russia. Stephen Armstrong. "Seal not the sayings of the prophecy of this book." (Hebrews 4:13). As any dream or vision has to be interpreted, so does Revelation.