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11-21). The bride is in view. Here we see the chaste virgin But now He is ready to return and establish His kingdom and take us unto Himself and the marriage of the Lamb is come, and His wife, or bride, has made herself ready. They are joined by the twenty-four elders (Revelation 4). (function() { This disposes of many a web of comments; for we find at once what is perfectly simple, what any child of God who believes this to be the word of God must own. The prophecy centers around the person of Jesus Christ. they said, "because the Lord our God, the Almighty, has entered into his kingdom. "Let him that is unrighteous be unrighteous still: and let the filthy be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still." You see, all of the fineries 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. It is as if the multitude of the redeemed sent up their shout of praise because the promise of Christ to his persecuted ones had come abundantly true. Apart from his return to purge his creation of evil, redemption remains forever incomplete." At the pouring of the seventh bowl, God's voice was heard from the Temple saying, "It is done!" (Rev. That religious system has an incomparably nearer connection with this mysterious harlot than anything we have yet spoken of. And he saith unto me, These are the [Note: Lilje, p. 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. When But all this will be a great reversal of man's history and political maxims. It is not now the temple opened there, and the ark of the covenant seen when Israel's security is seen, as the object of God's counsels; nor is it a door opened above, as we saw it when the prophet was giving his introduction to the prophecy of God's dealings with the world as a whole, though in both cases all manifestly clusters round the Lord Jesus. So, God has judged the false religious system that corrupted the earth with her spiritual fornication. Blessed are those who are invited to the feast of the marriage of the Lamb!" They had cried to the Sovereign ruler to avenge their blood on their foes, but they were told they must wait a little for some others, their fellow-servants and their brethren, to die as they had. 5. "And let him that is athirst come; and whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.". 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 . "And he that spoke with me had a golden reed as a measure, that he might measure the city, and the gates thereof, and the wall thereof. 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." The Spirit of God contrasts with the fall of Babylon the marriage. Revelation 19 Commentary | Precept Austin And the marriage is the eternal Gods sovereignty (verse 6); and. "Then the seventh angel sounded: And there were loud voices in heaven, saying, "The kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms of our Lord and of His Christ, and He shall reign forever and ever!". 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. These are the true sayings of God. Thus the divine testimony is not confined to the gospel or the church, but the prophetic Spirit which characterizes the Revelation as a whole, after the church is translated, is equally a testimony of Jesus. In his cross and resurrection, Christ won a great victory over the powers of evil; by his second coming, he will execute that victory. which will take place on earth following the return of Christ (20:4; Matt. Consequently they sat upon the thrones at once; while the two latter classes, described in the rest of the verse, were still in the separate state "and the souls." Here I am obliged to say that our authorized version, and not merely it, but our common Greek Testaments, are altogether wrong. Hitherto the reverse of this has been true in history. Worship: Only God is to be worshiped (compare 22:8-9; The marriage between Christ and the church proclaimed and perfected, ver 5-10. 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. The folly of Satan thinking that he would be able to fight against God. Revelation 19:2 "For true and righteous [are] his judgments: for he hath judged 31:31-34; Zech. Then follows a description of the wall, gates, foundations, and general position. Righteousness of saints: Not Christs imputed righteousness granted to Thank God. The true reading here is neither hard nor doubtful save to unbelief. This is of immense moment doctrinally, because it decisively proves that it is altogether unfounded to assume, as is popularly done, that the Lord only returns at this juncture. 5:25-32). Hallelujah!". The marriage (1-5) Praise for the judgment of Babylon. His Word is "a two-edged sword." You might get left. The glory of the kingdom does not preserve when men in their natural state are exposed to the adversary. This is in total contrast to the harlot Babylon. 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." or "so be it. The word that goes forth out of His mouth. Blessed are those that are called to be a part in this. faith during the Tribulation (Jeremiah 31:31-34; Zech. "Speak to the birds of every sort and to all beasts of the field. You shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth--of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bulls. And you shall eat fat till you are filled, and drink blood till you are drunk at the sacrificial feast which I am preparing for you" ( Ezekiel 39:17-19). For her sin., have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities." In fact, we may say, all nations will be desolated by judgments of one kind or another; but for all this the world proceeding for a thousand years with every outward blessing, and the most admirable government administered by the blessed Lord Himself, will issue in the teeming and prosperous races of mankind. There was never a time when the Christian was called upon to undergo such suffering and to accept so continually the prospect of a cruel death. "Hallelujah!" Although there is such a levelling of human distinctions, and men have to do directly with God that is men raised from the dead or in their changed condition we still see the holy Jerusalem "the holy city, new Jerusalem," separate from the rest of those that fill the new heaven and earth. (1) A mighty angel comes down from heaven. Gods deliverance of His people from their enemies (verse 1); (2) And God said, "Let the water bring forth and let the earth bring forth." This section bridges the Tribulation and the millennial kingdom. b. IV. And they shall bring the glory and honour of the nations unto it. There was never a time in history in which such forces were drawn up against the Church as when the Revelation was written. "And he saith to me, The waters which thou sawest, where the harlot sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues." It means true in the sense that Jesus Christ is the one who brings the truth and who never at any time has any falsehood in anything that he says. Every day-and we set up these rules for righteousness. "Let him that heareth say, Come." And God said, "Let the waters above the firmament be separated from the waters below the firmament." To the Christian this book is not sealed. It is the divine judgment of man eternal judgment. From Revelation 4 through 19 we have a section mainly concerned with God's judgment upon the world preceding Jesus' earthly reign, the period known as the "Messianic Woes" or the "Great Tribulation." a. God's judgments are announced by a seven-sealed scroll, seven trumpets, seven signs, and seven bowls that pour out God's wrath. Persecuted Christians have been encouraged to endure their trials by the assurance that God is still in control. Judgment is the inescapable consequence of sin. The answer: because it's the final book of the Bible. So we find the Lord has room for all that is the fruit of His own grace only, for the appeal of grace, even when there is not the answer to it. unrighteousness. And her smoke rose up for ever They themselves were to judge. . Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Revelation 19:11-21. 12:10; 13:9; and Roman They have the capacity to stand in the sun. God wants a loving relationship, not religion. God is making sure that you know that Jesus is innocent as He hangs there on the cross. 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. So, I will be clothed in linen, pure and white and clean. That a corrupt religion is better than none I will not say: at any rate it troubles men; it is a thorn in the side of those who want no religion at all. The Sinai MS. has both. 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). Further, after this Jesus introduces Himself, as well as sends His angel. I would like to say a few words about this "fine linen". There was judicial discernment with the distinct possession of all titles to sovereignty. 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. but it does not follow that various bodies are not raised at different times. The wine vat actually with your feet pressing down all of these grapes, you can imagine what your clothes would look like. And it was so. 8:38, Paul often used some of the most extreme things such as life and death to make a point. We have seen her connection with the beast; but there is a conflict coming. Matches the description of Christ in Revelation 1:16 . And he carried me away in [the] spirit to a mountain great and high, and showed me the holy city Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God." As long as Rome was pagan, there was neither the full bearing of the seven heads, nor did so much as one of the ten horns exist. Hence we have to own the divine source of government even when its holders abandon all such thoughts themselves, and maintain their rule in the world as a thing flowing from the people irrespective of God. Fell at his feet: Overwhelmed by the grandeur of the vision, John collapsed in 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." Believers long for a world of justice and it will But here there is neither; and this again is an evidence of gain, not of loss. The Sword--The Word of His mouth--is now wielded in judgment. heaven. But, further, we find that the saints who had suffered for Christ, during the time that the others were in heaven, are now reunited to their bodies and live, the Lord waiting for the last martyr that He might not leave out one of those who had died for His name. hromphaia) symbolized (cf. But you can go ahead and do these things without pangs of conscience trying to destroy God out of our society, out of our lives. The church cannot hear of Him as the bright morning star without at once desiring that He should come. Thus (without speaking of the resurrection of the wicked at the close) there were certainly more acts than one, not to speak of the two witnesses put to death and caused to rise after three days and a half, when the spirit of life entered them, and they not only arose, but went up to heaven, as we know. The picture is not of an "iron rod" he uses to "club" or beat his sheep! Christianity tells you that your righteousness is as filthy rags. It also means genuine, as opposed to that which is unreal. Such is the meaning of the verse "The rest of the dead lived not again till the thousand years were finished. 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. Choose a verse from 'Revelation 19' to begin your 'Verse-by-Verse' study of God's Word using the more than 100 commentaries available on StudyLight.org. There may be lights of the heaven to mark times and seasons for the earth, and again on the earth. It is impossible to refer it to the past with any show even of reasonable probability, I will not say of reality or truth. STUDY NOTES--Revelation 19:11-16 --THE CONQUERING CHRIST. And he shall rule them with a rod of iron - See the notes on Revelation 2:27; Revelation 12:5. understand the testimony of Jesus, then you must preach and prophesy so that If ancient times failed fully to meet the requirements of the chapter, it is evident that the middle ages are passed without its fulfilment as a whole. The word of God, Hebrews 4:12, Ephesians 6:17 Indicates the power of Gods words, cf. 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. Revelation 19 - EasyEnglish Bible (EASY) Had it been simply a persecution from pagans, what was there to wonder at in their deadly hatred of the truth and of those who confess it? 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." Verse By Verse Acts Through Revelation can be taken as capably as picked to act. This is a mistake. I am not raising any question about the ten. reign with Christ in the millennial kingdom. var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s); Thus nothing can be simpler or more beautiful than the way in which this verse sums up the Revelation as a whole. It is reigning. "Praise our God," it said, "all you his servants, you who fear him, small and great.". linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints.". Hallelujah literally means "Praise God". There was not yet fairly out before men what God foresaw as that which must finally provoke His judgment. This also is a no less important element for understanding the chapter. VII. That righteousness that God puts on my account because I believe in Jesus Christ. That is prophecy centers around the person of Jesus Christ. Betrothal (often when the couple were children); Presentation (the festivities, often lasting several days, that preceded the None but Rome corresponds. Revelation 19:19 KJV | King James Version | New Christian Bible Study They were caught in flagrant treason and rebellion: what further need of any process of judgment whatsoever? The verse numbering in . That is, the tabernacle of God is regarded as a separate object, no doubt associated with men, but not confounded with them. Lord God: Used many times in Revelation as a title for God (compare verse 15, For instance, when Ptolemy entered Antioch he wore two crowns or diadems--one to show that he was lord of Asia and one to show that he was lord of Egypt ( 1Ma_11:13 ). If Christianity does not bring joy, it does not bring anything. The voice includes himself among those who claim God as our God. derives from a Hebrew word meaning "to be firm," and may be translated "truly" And He is called the True witness. Although the words are the same as in the first chapter of the Fourth Gospel, the meaning is quite different and much simpler. He has reserved the matter, though not without enough to guide our thoughts, as we have seen. Revelation 19:1-3. Man gets hung up and he stops short. The relationship of the Christian and Christ must be the closest in all life. In Php_2:9-11 we read of the name above every name which God has given to Jesus Christ because of his complete obedience; and there the name is almost certainly Lord. 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 they also lasted much longer. I think, therefore, that the elders and the living creatures comprehend both the Old Testament saints and the church, the bride of Christ, that consequently, when the bride is mentioned, there were these others who had been included in the elders and the living creatures, but who are now seen as a separate body. "The dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works." of the bride, the Lamb's wife. 1 Thessalonians 2:10-12 Commentary. the sea of glass, who had got the victory over the beast (Revelation 15:2), and Indeed it must be so, because, as we read in the end of the last chapter, there the lost were cast. There is nothing like the joy of loving and of being loved. 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. Many suggestions have been made. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone. He remains in that condition of readiness from the time when He sat at God's right hand till the present. It is a question here of distinctive character, apart from that of time, for which we must search other scriptures. And the Spirit and the bride say, Come: and let him that heareth say, Come: and let him that is athirst come: let him that will take the water of life freely." It "shall go into perdition," it is therefore added, "and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names are not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and shall be present." It is partly because of this that many excellent men have endeavoured to apply the vision to Romanism; and I admit that there is found a measure of analogy. It is written to be believed, not to be ignored or explained away. millennial kingdom and last throughout that 1000 year period (compare 21:2). "Let us be glad and rejoice and give honor to him: for the ___________ of the _______ is come". They were judged every man according to their works. 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. God is praised because salvation, glory, and power belong to him. small and the great mean everyone which includes all human categories and Verse 7. So, I sometimes judge without having all the facts in hand, and so my judgments are often wrong. there is rejoicing and giving of honor. God will judge Israel, namely, Jews living when He returns (Ezekiel 20:33-38), and the Gentiles living then (Matthew 25:31-46). Verse 3. here. "Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues. 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. And the LAST WORDS (22:6-21). It is an added digression for the purpose of describing an object already named passingly in the foregoing series, which closes at Revelation 21:8. There is therefore much to be said for the ]Protestant application of the chapter as compared with the Praetorist theory of pagan Rome. It means According to the biblical narrative, Zerubbabel [a] was a governor of the Achaemenid Empire 's province of Yehud [3] and the grandson of Jeconiah, [4] penultimate king of Judah. Salvation and glory and power belong to our God, We have already met this description in Revelation 1:14 and Revelation 2:18. But "nations of them which are saved," is a most anomalous expression, and betrays man as the author of it. 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.". Marriage of the Lamb: Hebrew weddings consisted of 3 phrases: (1) Most other commentators have seen it as the first event after the seventh bowl judgment. Christ to earth. 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. 14:8-11). I find no fault in Him" ( Luke 23:14 ). 19:10b The testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy. Supper), who will turn to Christ in and the fullness of the Gentiles will be brought in. Now, as the Lord closes out His revelation to man, and as He begins to talk to us about the glories of this coming age, the marriage supper of the lamb. 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. 22:2-14; John 3:29; 2 Cor. This is a metaphor of the power of the gospel or of Gods spoken word (cf. In any real marriage there must be four things which must also be in the relationship between the Christian and Christ. John goes out of his way to heap up similes to describe its sound. At the end of this time he will be released for a short while (20:1-3). 3:12-15: 2 Cor. That is, Satan will be the spring of its final rise and power; he, and not God in any way whatever, will give it its character. The horns have constantly opposed each other, and even sometimes the pope. I speak not of anything that might be deemed exceptional or peculiar, but of two acts of raising saints. Every strange coded word and phrase is meant for this generation. We can see that, for instance, in the old story in which Jacob filched Esau's blessing from Isaac ( Genesis 27:1-46). John saw heaven opened and a RIDER UPON A WHITE HORSE verse 11. 16:16. By and by, after our translation to heaven, He will work, and as vitally in those who bow to God, when it will be the reception of the prophetic testimony which is here owned to be none the less the testimony of Jesus. Revelation 29 Lessons. supper of the Lamb represents the millennial kingdom of Christ, which will take Jeremiah hears God say and appeal: "Return, O faithless children, for I am your master" ( Jeremiah 3:14). 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. If that is so of human words, how much truer it is of the divine word. The weapons of this warfare are described in Ephesians 6:12. You can't start with a finite base and reach to infinity. Verse 8. The Gothic hordes were not yet incorporated with the empire, still less were they horns of the beast, nor did they give their power to it, but destroyed it rather. Whoever this angel is, he too had the testimony of Jesus. 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. Too bad, your unrighteousness Friday night. What was easier than to turn the demons into angels and to worship them? And of course, this proselytizing law was prompted by the Greek Orthodox Church, and he has been sentenced to spend three and a half years in jail in Greece. It had two horns like a lamb, but it spoke like a dragon. But he ought to have withstood it I do not mean in vengeance (for that belongs to the Lord), but as holily hating the sin itself, yet withal in the deepest compassion for his parent. It is altogether foreign to history. 21 And the remnant were slain with the sword of him that sat upon the horse, which sword proceeded out of his mouth: and all the fowls were filled with their flesh. In his mind are two things. He will tread the winepress of the anger of the wrath of God. On that interpretation the phrase will mean that no man can speak to men until he has listened to Jesus Christ. Finally they will destroy her. For the day of vengeance is in my heart, and the year of my redeemed is come"( Isaiah 63:3-4 ). And the fine linen is the righteousness of the saints. giving God glory for a fifth reason, the marriage of the Lamb has come.

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