A seventh should follow; and what is more, the seventh was in one aspect to be an eighth. Revelation 19:1. But here there is none; a temple is for the earth. event, the new order comes and the marriage is consummated (see notes on John here was so awed by all of this that he fell at this angel's feet to 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. You can believe this. There are not enough adjectives in the dictionary It is not therefore a question of virtual idols suitable to ensnare the children of God, but of that which is adapted to the earth itself, thorough-going palpable idolatry. He that overcometh shall inherit these things; and I will be to him God, and he shall be son to me. (John 17:18). Afrikaans; Alemannisch; ; ; ; Azrbaycanca; ; Bn-lm-g; ; Bikol Central 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. Let us bear this in mind. "And he had a name written, that no man knew but he himself." Together they join this great chorus proclaiming "Alleluia!". 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js'; Stephen Armstrong. judgment. When its own season arrives, as it surely will, the divine hindrance is to be removed, and the devil then is allowed to do his worst. "The woman" is the more general symbol designating her as the great imperial city; "the harlot" is her corrupt religious character, embracing papal Rome, but not ending with Popery as it is. And here is John falling on his knees before the angel that is giving him all of this revelation and he is so overawed and thrilled with what is in store for him he falls at his feet to worship him. Yes, all my gold stars, but Friday you blow it and you didn't get your prayer time in. 13:9; Rom. But it conserves certain great truths. We. This is the kind of double meaning of which the Greek language is capable. That picture stands for the final union between Jesus Christ and his Church. 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. The woman the strange woman sets forth corruption, human nature indulging itself in its own evil desires, irrespective of God's will. Jeremiah hears God say and appeal: "Return, O faithless children, for I am your master" ( Jeremiah 3:14). Return to Home Page [Note: See David J. MacLeod, The Seven Last Things.] That is why Christianity is successful. This would have been altogether inappropriate for such a progress: when the King comes forth riding to victory in the judgment of wicked men of the world, it is not in the quality of bride, but of armies or hosts, that the saints follow Him; and these include no doubt the guests as well, i.e., all the glorified take their place in His train. 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). Ruling includes destroying as well as reigning over (Psalms 2:9). Verse 1. At this point the evil world system has been destroyed and God's kingdom has Revelation 20. Lord. And that is the question the prophet asks and Jesus answers, "I that speak in righteousness, mighty to save." come into its fullness. This is the second death." The marriage of the Lamb: The wife or bride of Christ is the church (Matt. shed by them. This would not be fitting for the church nor the Christian. and believers alive in earthly bodies in the kingdom. I am the root and the offspring of David, the bright the morning star. His Earthly Kingdom (see article Kingdom 19:6-8 And I heard a voice which sounded like the voice of a vast multitude, and like the sound of many waters, and like the sound of mighty crashes of thunder. The millennial nations, "the number of whom is as the sand of the sea," fall a prey to Satan. He will tread the winepress of the anger of the wrath of God. Here is one of the most dramatic moments in the Revelation, the emergence of the conquering Christ. THE TE DEUM OF NATURE AND THE CHURCH ( Revelation 19:3-5 ), 19:3-5 And a second time they said: "Hallelujah! But the attempt, again, to apply what is said here to a future city of Babylon in Chaldea seems to me no less vain. The whole Middle East area of Israel all the way through the land from the Valley of Megiddo clear on down to Edom will be crowded with the vast armies of the world. 4. 2 Everything that he decides is right and fair. _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); because of the number of people speaking. 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. Gods communion with His people (verse 7). It will be remembered that it was said to them that they must wait. avenged the blood of his servants at her hand.". There was no doubt at all of the character of the emperor; there never had been a worse than he; yet God took that very opportunity to lay this on the Christians as their duty to the worldly authority outside and over them. We can fairly trust God that He will not give a worse place to Paul; yet I do not think that this is his place. God. The thief said, "We are here because we deserve to be here, but this man has done nothing amiss"( Luke 23:41 ). The Jewish marriage consisted of three major elements: (3) The marriage feast (supper), as was discussed just before. The description of the warrior Christ is further filled in. In his mind are two things. To the same world in which He suffered, according to the scriptures, He will come back. But this is not to emerge from the bottomless pit. 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. See bibliographic information; Read aloud; Stop reading aloud Hide links to Bible word meanings We have one final little battle here to take place in chapter nineteen. Religions tell you that you have to do certain things in order to please God. It is the fault, however, of the bad Greek text of Erasmus, Stephens, etc. Marriage of the Lamb: Hebrew weddings consisted of 3 phrases: (1) They themselves were to judge. I like that, God speaking into existence the world in which we live. Called: Those who are invited to the marriage supper are Israel, who will turn Here we have described to us the visions of The Conquering Christ (19:11-16), the judgments of the beast and of the false prophet and of Satan (19:17-20:10), the judgment of the wicked (20:11-15), the visions of the New heaven, the New earth and the New Jerusalem (20:16-22;5). Second, he came from a world in which it was believed that God did not interest himself directly but made his contact through the demons (daimon, G1142) , by means of whom he controlled the natural forces and acted upon men. _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-10273872-1']); Then entire sorry results of human depravity will finally be vanquished. This is accordingly traced in our chapter with considerable detail, and with the sorrow and vexation of all the different classes who on the fall of Babylon groaned over her destruction, and the loss of their wealth and enjoyment. 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. John 1:1-5; Revelation 2:16; Revelation 19:15, Revelation 19:21. cf. . The unrenewed of the nations are now compassing them with their countless hosts, as if to eat them up like grasshoppers. There follows praise from the twenty-four elders and the four living creatures. Here it would seem we have just what answers to that: this name none knew but He Himself. Imagine the millions upon millions of Christians that will be gathered in that glorious assembly and when the voice of the Lord comes exhorting us to praise God and give glory to Him, and in our response to it that tremendous praise, crescendo of praise that will arise. "And he saith unto me, Seal not the sayings of the prophecy of this book: for the time is near." And a voice came from the throne = is not explicitly identified. New American Standard Version And the devil that deceiveth them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where both the beast and the false prophet [are], and they shall be tormented day and night unto the ages of the ages.". Consequently there will be an increase in population such as never has been approached since the world was made, yet it afterwards appears, that Satan will not fail to turn the masses of the nations into one vast rebellion against the objects of God's special favour on the earth the saints wherever they may be, and the beloved city of Israel, as we have seen. God is praised because salvation, glory, and power belong to him. worship him. Worship is for God alone. And Paul speaks of himself as betrothing the Church like a pure virgin to Christ ( 2 Corinthians 11:2), and for him the relationship of Christ to his Church is the great model of the relationship of husband and wife ( Ephesians 5:21-33). 4-18). I can hardly wait. 11:2; Eph. "The dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works." His eyes are a flame of fire. Thus such as were in the separate state were reunited to their bodies, and lived and reigned like those who were already on the thrones. (iii) He judges and makes war in righteousness. It is simply said that the glorified are to follow the Lord in victorious power, and nothing more, "clothed in fine linen, white, pure." God said, "Light be," and light was. And he treadeth the wine-press of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God - This language is probably derived from Isaiah 63:1-4. | The battle is through. As any dream or vision has to be interpreted, so does Revelation. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. In Daniel's time it was not at hand. 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. Salvation and glory and power belong to our God, 2 for true and just are his judgments. If some few have joined on one side, some are sure to help the other, because they are jealous of any one acquiring such a preponderant authority: and power as to govern the rest. Hallelujah is a very common word in religious vocabulary but the only time it actually appears in Scripture is on the four occasions in this chapter. Instead of judgment being executed on them, it was given to them. You can trust in this that these are the true sayings of God. He had a great desire to bring his brothers, Egyptian brothers to the knowledge of Jesus Christ. He wrote several tracts and was instrumental in leading several Muslims from their religion to a real relationship with God in Jesus Christ. And here observe. There are thrones filled with certain persons, who reign along with Him. 14 The angel implies nothing of the sort. So He sent this revelation by the angel to John. 31:31-34; Zech. "Seal not the sayings of the prophecy of this book." On the head of the victor Christ there are many crowns to show that he is lord of all the kingdoms of the earth. For true and righteous are his judgments ( Revelation 19:2 ): All the way through we have had this affirmation that the judgments of God are true and righteous. ( Revelation 18:20). "Your Maker is your husband; the Lord of hosts is his name," says Isaiah ( Isaiah 54:5). What I judge, then, is that the guests, or those that were called to the marriage-supper of the Lamb, refer clearly to the Old Testament saints. [shepherd] . This shout of rejoicing begins with Hallelujah. God uses them for this object,-the setting aside of her, the great religious corruptress, whose centre is found at Rome. With a rod of iron He shall execute the severest judgment on the opposers of his truth. It will be understood when one says "spiritual" that none is meant save of a wicked kind. On that account it was altogether out of place to pay homage to him instead of to the God who had sent him to serve. . Thus there is a completeness and perfection about it suited to its present character. If a person drew from this, for instance, that the boast was to carry the woman, Babylon, when it had as a fact all that is meant by the seven heads and the ten horns, it would be an error. and in righteousness he doth judge and make war ( Revelation 19:11 ). There are those who have set themselves deliberately and conscientiously to fight against God.The humanists in their Humanist Manifesto have declared their intention of destroying God out of the minds and conscientiousness of men. What about little babies?" At the same time you will mark that these are not said to be executors of judgment as Christ is. understand the testimony of Jesus, then you must preach and prophesy so that And I saw heaven open, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True ( Revelation 19:11 ). The judgment on Rome is the guarantee that God never in the end abandons his own. Then He is called the "True and faithful witness" in the third chapter of Revelation. There was never a time in history in which such forces were drawn up against the Church as when the Revelation was written. Holding on to what others knew before them, or little more, they reduce themselves to a minimum of the truth. Verse 9. We can quite understand that God would comfort His people in the dark ages by this book; and a very imperfect glimpse at its real meaning might in His grace serve to cheer them on in their trials as far as it went. We have not to learn what the other mystery means; we know well that it is according to God and godliness.
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