In the Revelation two kinds of people are specially called the servants of God; the prophets ( Revelation 10:7; Revelation 11:18; Revelation 22:6), and the martyrs ( Revelation 7:3; Revelation 19:2). instead of one of the other names of Jesus, to show that we have been cleansed Even when God was judging providentially in the beginning of the Apocalyptic visions (Revelation 4:1-11), associated thrones were seen. Now, the time has come for the Lord Jesus Christ Himself to return in power and great glory and establish God's kingdom upon the earth. Revelation - Verse-by-Verse Bible Commentary - StudyLight.org The Book of Revelation: Verse by Verse Commentary ], "Those who believe in the reality of the resurrection of Jesus Christ must also look for his return." *The description here is simply character, not dates. But here there is neither; and this again is an evidence of gain, not of loss. 3. The principle is very clear. 19:14-16 The armies which are in heaven followed him, on white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and pure. He is coming to trample the wine vat. 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. We have already come upon two vast multitudes in heaven, the martyrs in Revelation 7:9 and the angels in Revelation 5:11. Most other commentators have seen it as the first event after the seventh bowl judgment. giving God glory for a fifth reason, the marriage of the Lamb has come. On His robe where it spreads out at His waist HIS TITLE is inscribed. 20 Behold, I stand at the door and knock. 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? Now there was nothing more repulsive and fatal to paganism in every form than the truth revealed in Christ, which exposed every thing that was not itself not the truth, definite and exclusive. With this agrees His coming out of heaven in judgment of the earth, described inRevelation 19:1-21; Revelation 19:1-21. It is no longer a question of sustaining His saints in grace, but of sovereign power for judging the earth. harlot. Revelation 19:1. 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- :. The church is the bride, are the ones who are praising. event in the biblical world. 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 may well be from that old Jewish idea that there came the idea of the marriage feast of the Lamb, for that indeed would be the true Messianic Banquet. There is no doubt that Rome in some form is the woman described in the chapter: the seven heads or hills clearly point to that city, which of all cities might best and indeed alone be known as ruling over the kings of the earth. is a myth. He remains in that condition of readiness from the time when He sat at God's right hand till the present. What about little babies?" THE SPIRIT OF PROPHECY ( Revelation 19:10 b). 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.". The word is pistos ( G4103) ; it means absolutely to be trusted. they said, "because the Lord our God, the Almighty, has entered into his kingdom. Christianity tells you that your righteousness is as filthy rags. So, God has judged the false religious system that corrupted the earth with her spiritual fornication. * Even the Complutensian editors give the right text here; and it would seem that Erasmus failed to use his MS. aright. continually reigns. It is entirely in His hand, and in none other's. And he shall rule them with a rod of iron - See the notes on Revelation 2:27; Revelation 12:5. And he treadeth the wine-press of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God - This language is probably derived from Isaiah 63:1-4. (verse 16--We know who He is "King of kings and Lord of lords"). The Old Testament points forward to Jesus, beginning in only place in the Bible where the word "omnipotent" occurs. "These have one mind, and give their own power and authority to the beast," or their imperial leader. "Notwithstanding the dogmatic helps which the Church offers, the mind fails to grasp the inmost significance of the Person of Christ, which eludes all efforts to bring it within the terms of human knowledge. The race was now in the resurrection state either for good or for evil; and thus it must be for ever. article Rapture). Bad as pagan Rome was, it would be false to affirm that it ever had come out of the bottomless pit. 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. Old Testament prophecy and New Testament preaching is the gospel of the Lord The book of life will confirm what is gathered from the books. The antichrist and the false prophet are thrown into the lake of fire, signifying punishment from which there is no escape. His grace be with all! The testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy: The central theme of both "They have one mind, and give their own power and authority to the beast." There was never a time in history in which such forces were drawn up against the Church as when the Revelation was written. The great city was either guilty Jerusalem or Babylon. When the beast dares to fight with the Lamb He shall overcome the beast; and they that are with Him, "called and chosen and faithful" terms, as a whole, entirely inapplicable to the angels. The church goes on according to the will of the Lord, who might according to His own purpose lengthen or abridge the space. (i) There is love. (chapter 20). The word of God, said Jeremiah, is like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces ( Jeremiah 23:29). "Your Maker is your husband; the Lord of hosts is his name," says Isaiah ( Isaiah 54:5). the 144,000 seen with the Lamb on Mount Zion (Revelation 14:1), and with those on Moral unfitness has its just censure; but sovereign grace must be asserted also. The thrones were already filled. Fell at his feet: Overwhelmed by the grandeur of the vision, John collapsed in You might get left. It is not only that the angel corrects the act by asserting that he is a fellow-servant of him and of his brethren who have the testimony of Jesus. There are not enough adjectives in the dictionary They would have a big dance and party, as they would crush all of the grapes, they would get the juice out of them. marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready.". The relationship of the Christian and Christ must be the closest in all life. Bhagavad Gita - Wikipedia Where Hallelujah occurs in the Old Testament it is translated by Praise God, but here in this chapter the original Hebrew form, transliterated into Greek, is retained. 13 And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God. Over and over we will find this repeated as we approach the end of the book, these are the true sayings of God. [Note: See David J. MacLeod, The Seven Last Things.] They begin to admire the instrument. 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. In the last chapter, we saw the terrible destruction of commercial and political And he saith unto me, Write, Blessed are they which are called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb. A fourth century A.D. It is not the enjoyment of all, but it is the hinge on which all depends. "And I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the birds that fly in the midst of heaven, Come, gather yourselves together unto the great supper of God; that ye may eat flesh of kings, and flesh of chiliarchs, and flesh of strong [men], and flesh of horses, and of those that sit on them, and flesh of all, both free and bond, both small and great." 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 . Verse 4. On the contrary, it proved the immediateness of communion. It is really differing imagery From generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it for ever and ever" ( Isaiah 34:9-10). })(); Return to Revelation Menu | The iron rod is showing his ability to protect them. 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." 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." It was ruled in general that the worldly powers were ordained of God. Babylon had once heard the varied testimony of God; for what had she not heard of truth? This is the last main section of the Book of Revelation. This passage calls God by a certain name; and says that he has entered into his kingdom. "righteousness" was not ours until we received the Lord Jesus into our lives and Thank God. Revelation 19 Commentary - Geneva Study Bible Worship God!". 11:25-27). God will judge Israel, namely, Jews living when He returns (Ezekiel 20:33-38), and the Gentiles living then (Matthew 25:31-46). Revelation Chapter 12 Explained - bible-studys.org So for the most part in the book of Revelation, there will be the angel speaking to John and revealing to him the things that were being revealed to him by Jesus Christ. Babylon is the parent of the "abominations of the earth." 5:25-32). Hence. The same was in the beginning with God. but it does not follow that various bodies are not raised at different times. Yet one allows freely a partial application already. Here it is the positive worship of the creature besides the Creator, yea, and notoriously more than He. So here is the praise being given to God and now the encouragement for that praise coming from the throne of God. 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. ", All things are thus made new; and, further, "these words are faithful." But the day is coming when Satan will be allowed to have things his own way. 22:2-14; John 3:29; 2 Cor. Moral elements too were not wanting: the mystery of lawlessness had long been at work, though the enemy had not yet brought in the apostacy, and still less the manifestation of the lawless one. This explains, it seems to me, the wounded head that was afterwards healed. God has not told us how, nor is it our business. I expect to be there in that heavenly scene declaring, "Alleluia, salvation and glory and honor and power unto the Lord our God.". 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. . His instructions are to praise God. It is a simple picture, not to be taken with crude literalness, but simply saying very beautifully that in his kingdom all men will enjoy the bounty of God. It was the religious leaders that prompted the persecution against the church in its beginning and throughout history.There is even at the present time, one of the leaders of the YWAM program who has been charged in Greece with a charge of proselytizing, because he gave a Bible to a Greek sixteen-year old boy, and he has been charged in the Greek courts with proselytizing. Second, there are the small and the great. as the Complut. That is He destroys them with His word.Now, we are told that He was in the beginning with God and that He created all things. I sometimes make snap judgments. We do know some of His names "Jesus, the Christ, The Son of God, Shepherd, Redeemer, Saviour, Prince of Peace, King of Kings and Lord of lords"----but the fullness of His love and power none of us has yet realized. Enduring Word Bible Commentary Revelation Chapter 4 Isa_1.20; Isaiah 49:2; Isaiah 66:16; This is the weapon God uses to conquor the nations! We have one final little battle here to take place in chapter nineteen. . 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. Hallelujah literally means "Praise God". 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). Every day you should witness to at least two people. This is of great importance. 10:13; Jude 9). Verse 11 . "Having a wall great and high, having twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names inscribed, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the sons of Israel." In that it "continues" to come forth, indicates this is not literal, but symbolic. At the same time we are not at liberty to eliminate such a feature out of the description. Here we find the term "Alleluia" used really for the first in the New Testament and it is used four times here. You have to accomplish certain works in order to be accepted by God. The word "rule" is "to shepherd" them, and the rod of iron is the club the shepherd used to fend off the wolves, bears, lions, etc. This is what nations have been constantly occupied with, lest any one power should become the beast. Have we not all heard of the balance of power? They received their power as kings when the beast ceased to exist. "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." again. 4:17; see Our most difficult task here is to discover the picture behind the statement that the warrior Christ has the name King of kings and Lord of lords written on his robe and on his thigh. Yet grace despised necessarily ends in judgment. "Let us be glad and rejoice and give honor to him: for the ___________ of the _______ is come". Too bad, your unrighteousness Friday night. This also is a no less important element for understanding the chapter. The picture is not of an "iron rod" he uses to "club" or beat his sheep! It is not the gospel, nor the Holy Spirit, but the lawless revived Latin empire with its vassal kingdoms of the west, that combine and destroy Babylon. Here is the idea in Hebrews 4:12: "The word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword.". "At the last day" does not mean merely an instant of time. I am the root and the offspring of David, the bright the morning star. 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. Such is God's account of Babylon the great. The The principle upon which this verse-by-verse study of Revelation proceeds, is that the contents of the book are, in the main, yet future and that the fulfillment of the greater part of Revelation cannot take place as long as the Church remains here on earth. They will then treat her with contempt and shameful exposure. This is the Revelation 3:19 Meaning and Commentary - Bible Study Tools 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). Revelation 19:18 Commentaries: so that you may eat the flesh of kings and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself. We see the Lord Jesus as righteous judge in chapter 1 and as the one who will soon be coming in the last chapter. The fall of Babylon being fixed, finished, and declared to be irrecoverable in the foregoing chapter, this begins with a holy triumph over her, in pursuance of the order given forth: Rejoice over her, thou heaven, and you holy apostles and prophets,Rev. Salvation is simple. The color of crushed grapes reminded the ancients of blood, death, and battle! Then the book concludes after a solemn warning against either adding to or taking from its contents. I. That is to say, never again will she rise from her ruins. Man has always sinned in one or other of these two ways, looking now at sin in its broadest forms. 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. In Jesus Christ we meet reality. The voice that comes from the throne is most likely to be understood as the voice of one of the cherubim. It had two horns like a lamb, but it spoke like a dragon. 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. Isaiah sixty-three says, "Who is this that comes from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? 4-18). God is praised because he has exercised his just and true judgment on the great harlot. - CBSC, The psalm prophecy is quoted by the apostle Peter in Acts 4:25-26 with this application of the effect of preaching Christ to the heathen world. So, vultures are invited from all over the earth to come and feast on the supper that God prepares. Here it would seem we have just what answers to that: this name none knew but He Himself. Revelation 19 Commentary | Precept Austin In the tabernacle in 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 . The simple fact of conquering far and wide, and of exercising vast political power in the earth, does not constitute any title to such a name. You can be worried about the righteousness of my judgments. Lord. God is making sure that you know that Jesus is innocent as He hangs there on the cross. The Sinai MS. has both. Salvation and glory and power belong to our God, 2 for true and just are his judgments. There is a distinct contrast between the city John describes and the ancient Babylon, in that the latter was built on the plain of Shinar, while the former is expressly said to have seven heads, and these explained to mean seven mountains. At the same time the attempt to apply Babylon to ancient Rome is almost as unhappy; and for a plain reason. (John 17:18). Verse-by-Verse Bible Commentary Revelation 19:15 Revelation 19:14 Revelation 19 Revelation 19:16 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. purified at the judgment seat of Christ (1 Cor. Directly he had sinned, the word of God came, and he was called. Revelation 18. But that the heart of man even so is not renewed becomes manifest, when Satan at the close deceives all that are not converted; and these, as we are told, are countless "as the sand of the sea.". 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. "And no curse shall be any more: and the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it; and his servants shall serve him." Those festivities could last up to a week and sometimes even 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. Second was the presentation which was a time of festivities just before the These compose the third class here spoken of. Gods sovereignty (verse 6); and. Revelation Chapter 11 Explained - bible-studys.org The tree of life: The Bible begins with a tree of life ( Genesis 3:22-24) which man was not allowed to eat from after the sin at the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. 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. But now there is but one throne: Christ judges the dead. This being so, it adds immense clearness in the understanding of the book. "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." Bible Studies | Verse By Verse Ministry International God in His providence did sanction the great empires of old; and the principle continues as long as the church is here below. In Daniel's time it was not at hand. 5:10). Revelation Commentaries | Precept Austin There may be lights of the heaven to mark times and seasons for the earth, and again on the earth. Be wise now therefore, O you kings, be instructed, you rulers of the earth; kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and you perish from the way,Psalms 2:10; Psalms 2:12. and righteousness to the world.
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