revelation 19 explained verse by verse

It is true, the beast's judgment is only referred to as a defeat under the hand of the Lamb. Bad as pagan Rome was, it would be false to affirm that it ever had come out of the bottomless pit. John insists that angels are no more than the servants of God; and that God alone must be worshipped. ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? "I heard a great voice out of heaven, saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God" (alluding to this very city) "[is] with men." To the Christian this book is not sealed. All things were made by him; and without him was not anything made that was made. But this is not to emerge from the bottomless pit. Here I am obliged to say that our authorized version, and not merely it, but our common Greek Testaments, are altogether wrong. From the beginning, the church of God has been blessed with prophecy. It is no longer a question either of celebrating the ways and counsels of God, or of the war with the beast and king. Yes, all my gold stars, but Friday you blow it and you didn't get your prayer time in. We read of the marriage feast ( Matthew 22:2); of the bridechamber and the wedding garment ( Matthew 22:10-11); of the sons of the bridechamber ( Mark 2:19); of the bridegroom ( Mark 2:19; Matthew 25:1); of the friends of the bridegroom ( John 3:29). Verse 11. A single verse dispels clouds of arguments. 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. Voices cry out joyfully that the Lord reigns and the marriage supper of the Lamb is ready. Christianity tells you that your righteousness is as filthy rags. Those festivities could last up to a week and sometimes even And yet in such times John calls God pantokrator ( G3841) . the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunderings, saying, William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Revelation 19:11. 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." Yet to this heavenly city, after Christ comes, the kings of the earth bring their offerings and their homage; but there is no excitement of the nations, no filthiness of fornication, no abominations, no blood-guiltiness. Second was the presentation which was a time of festivities just before the "righteousness" was not ours until we received the Lord Jesus into our lives and This is in total contrast to the harlot Babylon. 9:7; Most other commentators have seen it as the first event after the seventh bowl judgment. To be sure, the language here suggests Armageddon, the great spiritual conflict going on throughout history, the results of which will be announced and executed on the last day. Jesus describes it as a place of outer darkness where he said there will be weeping, wailing and gnashing of teeth.Hell or Hades is located in the center part of the earth. We noted the first appearance of a WHITE HORSEMAN in chapter 6:2. But here there is none; a temple is for the earth. Thomas viewed the second coming of Christ plus everything else through Revelation 22:5 as part of the seventh bowl judgment. This is what drove men to the idea of making the pope to be the beast. Sometimes, again, they have sought to turn it aside toward Jerusalem in her corrupt state. Hence this certainly must be future. But we can understand that the Lord could and did make that little go far, and do no little good. great affection and vehemence of spirit, which will be raised hereby. Just as the city of man's confusion was seen in her vile, degraded, and degrading relations with the beast, this city is seen in her pure and glorious relations with the Lamb. Gods communion with His people (verse 7). So He sent this revelation by the angel to John. discover_revelation@charter.net He guards his people, allowing the wicked to exercise their power only within the limits that he has set according to his eternal plan. This is the meaning of "one hour with the beast.". It is thus that God is wont to deal as a rule in His judgments, not necessarily on the one that first introduces an evil, but on those that inherit the guilt, and perhaps aggravate it, instead of taking warning by it. But alas! Revelation 19 New International Version Threefold Hallelujah Over Babylon's Fall 19 After this I heard what sounded like the roar of a great multitude in heaven shouting: "Hallelujah! on Line - CBSC. Wheat and tares grow together till the process of judgment separates. . In Judaism there was increasingly stressed the transcendence of God, because of that it was increasingly felt that man needed some intermediary. The particulars are reserved for a later point in this prophecy. These events are in chronological sequence, as will become clear. 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. 11:2; Eph. The thief said, "We are here because we deserve to be here, but this man has done nothing amiss"( Luke 23:41 ). purified at the judgment seat of Christ (1 Cor. This scene At a marriage, Revelation 10 - The Mighty Angel and the Little Book A. "Praise our God," says the voice, "all you his servants, you who fear him." 19:4 And the twenty-four elders and the four living creatures fell down and worshiped God who sits on the throne saying, "Amen. The bride is in view. That God is holding back something good and He really isn't fair to you was the insinuation behind Satan's remarks. And it is pretty well ascertained that there was a discussion among them, even to the suggestion by one of the most wicked of their emperors, whether Christ should not be owned and worshipped in the Pantheon, hundreds of years before Constantine, indeed from the earliest epoch of the gospel. So, he is one of our pastors here, but that is what religion does. Babylon must hear, I do not doubt, the final testimony of God the gospel of the kingdom that is to go forth in the last days; but she loves her pleasure and power, and refuses truth. "I Jesus sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. 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. [issues, proceedeth, comes, came, goeth, comes out, ] . . 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. Can anything be less reasonable (even taking that ground, low as it is) than that the various rulers of the western powers, Catholic kings, join the Pope in destroying his own city, or his own church, whichever Babylon may be made? It is not therefore his final judgment. Hence the horns and the beast join together and desolate the harlot. VERSE BY VERSE MINISTRY . He is coming, and coming soon for us. And then those men who have chosen to cast their lot with Satan in rebellion against God. Scholz's note ("rec. It is written to be believed, not to be ignored or explained away. Another warlike expedition of the glorious head and husband of the church, with the success of it, ver 10, etc. And he treadeth the wine-press of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God - This language is probably derived from Isaiah 63:1-4. This has no time element attached. This "great voice" here is "And he showed me a pure river of water of life, bright as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb." They broke up the beast yet more than Babylon. We may surely say her cup was not yet full. To report dead links, typos, or html errors or suggestions about making these resources more useful use the convenient, Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology, Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament, Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary, International Standard Bible Encyclopedia. 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. Here we have a repetition of the imagery of chapter 13. Revelation 19:10 "And I fell at his feet to worship him. 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). These things were Christs return, Satans capture, Satans binding, the Millennium, Satans final end, the last judgment, and the new heavens and earth, including the New Jerusalem. See bibliographic information; Read aloud; Stop reading aloud Hide links to Bible word meanings The surest way to have our deliverances continued and completed is to give God the glory of what he has done for us. 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. To free men from the restraints that they may feel that have any kind of a Biblical base, so that you will not be feeling guilty over those things that are prohibited in the scriptures. "Your Maker is your husband; the Lord of hosts is his name," says Isaiah ( Isaiah 54:5). It was ruled in general that the worldly powers were ordained of God. There is going to be another supper, a supper prepared by God for all the birds. The fine linen, clean and 3:12-15: 2 Cor. Peculiar energy indeed attaches to symbolic language. What makes it the more notable is this, that the rod of iron is promised to us not the sword. "His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many diadems." God. 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. I do not acknowledge the language to be either difficult or ambiguous. faith during the Tribulation (Jeremiah 31:31-34; Zech. And they also lasted much longer. on the other, she had, when she could, gone on increasing in both, until at last the blow of divine judgment came. Again, that it supposes Rome after it had professed the name of Christ I think is not to be doubted, if only from the expression "mystery" attached to Babylon. It is not complicated, just bare all to God. Now the scene totally changes *It is the aorist in Greek, which in such a case as this it is difficult correctly to represent in English; for neither "reigned" nor "hath reigned" could convey that God had entered on His kingdom, but rather that it was past. Betrothal (often when the couple were children); Presentation (the festivities, often lasting several days, that preceded the twelve disciples and twelve Old Testament prophets. He had His own self interest at heart when He told Eve not to eat of the tree. New American Standard Version This is of great importance. But it is for the last time, not of the age only but of the various dispensations of God. 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. And they shall bring the glory and honour of the nations unto it. And their voice on this Here is a picture which is essentially Jewish. The Bible forbids the worship of angels (Col. "And there came unto me one of the seven angels which had the seven vials full of the seven last plagues, and talked with me, saying, Come hither, I will show thee the bride, the Lamb's wife." 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. Who will join in acclamations of praise, and partly on account of their It will be remembered that it was said to them that they must wait. The spiritual power is wholly in the hands of the false prophet. *It is the more strikingly characteristic, because of such language as Psalms 149:6-9, which speaks of all the saints contemplated on earth for the day of Jehovah. That with it he should smite the nations - The nations that were opposed to him; to wit, those especially who were represented by the beast and the false prophet, Revelation 19:18-20. What would be the meaning, if so read? But "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." We desire that He should come quickly, but we leave this to Him, because we know His love, and can trust Him. (John 12:48). So far they were right. "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." (chapter 20). It probably came to be so well known to even the simplest member of the Church through its special use as a response of praise in the Easter worship. "True and righteous are thy judgments, O Lord." and righteousness to the world. On him the blow comes, not on the wretched parent. This is the Messiah of Jewish apocalyptic expectation far more than the Messiah whom Jesus claimed to be. But no believer comes into judgment. 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. The twelve apostles of the Lamb will accordingly have their own special place. is a myth. 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. And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword - See the notes on Revelation 1:16. 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. Of course the application to the Roman empire would be immediately in the mind of any Christian at Rome. We will in that day when He returns and all of the vast military might of the world gathered and assembled together to destroy Him at His coming and He just speaks the Word and it is all over. 19 As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten. THE DOOM OF THE ENEMIES OF CHRIST ( Revelation 19:17-21 ), 19:17-21 And I saw one angel standing in the sun, and he cried with a great voice to all the birds who fly in midheaven. 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. worship before the angel (compare 1:17; 22:8). A Verse by Verse Study of the Book of Revelation - Glenn Earle Cummings 2007-02 The Gospels, Acts, Epistles and Book of Revelation: Commonly Called the New Testament. In other words, it is too He is saying (throw them out), they are not part of the elect. There never has been a like experience. Now the scene totally changes to heaven. "And the nations shall walk in the light of it." It is all centered around Him. Every day you should witness to at least two people. This shout of rejoicing begins with Hallelujah. Man converted will then not merely reach the natural term if I may so say of a thousand years, but pass that bound. 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. And here observe. or "so be it. Isaiah 63:3. But now heaven is opened for yet graver facts, and of incalculable moment for man and the universe and the enemy. understand the testimony of Jesus, then you must preach and prophesy so that Jesus Christ. Revelation 12:7 "And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels," "War in heaven": The tumultuous events on earth during the Tribulation find their counterpart in heaven. The horns have constantly opposed each other, and even sometimes the pope. . Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Revelation 19:11-21. It is also clearly a personal reward to those who had suffered. The chronological progression of events on earth resumes from Revelation 16:21. the end of the Great Tribulation, just before the kingdom is established He destroys the assembled rebels who have gathered together against Him. Then you may be very good all week long, and you put your little star behind each of the categories each evening. Verse 8. Nor is there any real reason to wonder at their deriving help from partial light. God alone is perfect in judgment for three reasons. article Rapture). ( 7) Namely, to that holy marriage, both herself in person in this verse, and also provided by her spouse with marriage gifts princely and divine, is adorned and prepared in the next verse. If they have only heard His voice, this after all is the incalculable boon; yea, it is the turning-point of all blessing. But no; it was an absolute decree that went forth, and this indisputably, from a single head of the undivided empire. We say that he is great! (This takes you to our other website) At this point the evil world system has been destroyed and God's kingdom has Then follows another scene still more solemn the most awe-inspiring of all we can contemplate, at the same time full of blessing for the Christian to look onward to as that which will for ever put aside every trace of evil, and vindicate good where man must altogether fail. "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. Here is a grim picture of birds of prey being invited to come from all over the sky to glut themselves on the corpses of the slain. others may live (see article About He with the glorified saints will have their home on high, but none the less shall they reign over this very world for the allotted time. is a word to him that hears. the Lord Jesus Christ are the bride of Christ, whether they are male or female. The question is, why is she thus designated? And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS ( Revelation 19:15-16 ). Christ is the Bridegroom at the marriage and his Church is the 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. 1-3), and does not appear again until (Revelation 22:16), emphasizing the that those who were meant under the figures of the elders and of the living creatures assume the name and figure of the bride? The ten horns with the beast are all to receive authority the beast of course wielding the imperial power, they as kings, all during one and the same time before the end comes. 2. That is, the tabernacle of God is regarded as a separate object, no doubt associated with men, but not confounded with them. I have examined Him. But a grave consideration soon disposes of both views by the relation to the beast, and more particularly by what will be shown a little farther on. This city is seen now as the holy vessel of divine power for governing the earth during the millennium, "having the glory of God: and her brightness was like a stone most precious, even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal.". But is there any reason why we should content ourselves with the measure enjoyed of old? Not so. The Jewish marriage consisted of three major elements: (3) The marriage feast (supper), as was discussed just before. 1:4; Heb. The word "church" (Greek ekklesia), appears nineteen times (in Revelation there is rejoicing and giving of honor. But it is what each saint has, though the blessed thought here is that the church has it not merely in the way of each person possessing his own; the bride has the whole of it (that is, the church in glory). email us at: occasion and the downfall of Rome, is said to be "great" partly because of their 14:15-24). The Hence a song of praise from the twenty-four elders and the four living creatures is a Te Deum from the whole of the Church and the whole of nature. The name was in fact so holy that it was never pronounced. Salvation and glory and honor and power belong to the Lord our God! 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. The glory of the kingdom does not preserve when men in their natural state are exposed to the adversary. Revelation 19:2 "For true and righteous [are] his judgments: for he hath judged To the church the end is always near. pl.") And then comes the gathering and the battle. chapters 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 great whore, which did corrupt the earth with her fornication, and hath It is necessary that we should all bear in mind, if we have not observed it before, thatRevelation 17:1-18; Revelation 17:1-18 does not pursue the chronological course of the prophecy. And so the first two inhabitants of Gehenna will be the antichrist and his prophet and they will be the soul inhabitants, it would seem, for a thousand years. The verse numbering in . The great praise of the multitude Christ will come in glory to judge and rule. A seventh should follow; and what is more, the seventh was in one aspect to be an eighth. Just hope the Lord doesn't come Friday night. It is a description, not of Babylon's relation to the beast, but of the city's fall, with certain dirges put into the mouth of the different classes that groan because of her extinction here below. The fine linen, clean and Of course there must needs be a consultation with the kings, when the kings exist and become an accredited part of that empire, as rulers subordinate to the beast. And it is the various ways by which men are attempting to reach God. "Hallelujah!" a. "Which did corrupt the earth with her fornication": Drew the kings and In it, the Church, And John heard it as the voice of many waters or rushing waters and the voice of mighty thunderings.Glory. The events that are described within its pages were written for us today. He remains in that condition of readiness from the time when He sat at God's right hand till the present. The wine vat actually with your feet pressing down all of these grapes, you can imagine what your clothes would look like. But that idea is wholly insufficient to cover or meet the word of God, which gives clear and strong reasons that prove the mistake of applying this to the pope as its complete fulfilment. "The Lord God is the temple of it, and the Lamb as far as we can speak of any. Yet one allows freely a partial application already. It is not for His crime or guilt. groom prepared for his bride. 19:9-10a And he said to me: "Write! We had seen Babylon twice: first, in the circle of God's warnings and testimonies; and then as the object of God's judgment under the seven bowls. This third description of judgment is an allusion to Isaiah 63:2-3; Jeremiah 51:33; Lamentations 1:15; Joel 3:13 (cf. Thus the only use that seems made of the book is negative and exclusive. "It used to be that they put the grapes in the vat and then they would crush them with their feet. All redeemed are told to praise God. 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). The woman was there seen sitting on a scarlet-coloured beast, i.e., the well-known imperial power of the Roman Empire, "full of [the] names of blasphemy" in its wicked opposition to God, and clothed with the forms we have already seen "seven heads and ten horns." Hitherto the reverse of this has been true in history. And God said, "Let the water bring forth and let the earth bring forth." 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. It is not a syllogism that is wanted or that can satisfy here: only require, only believe, the word of God. there is a son in the family, who, instead of being admonished by his father's wickedness, takes license from it to indulge the same. God said, "Light be," and light was. Now the Lord in the end here is really putting a lot of emphasis upon the fact that these are true sayings. Accordingly the rapture of the church with the Old Testament saints must have already taken place, all (as I have no doubt) being caught up at the self-same time to be with the Lord above. Acts 10:25-26). There is no scriptural reason to infer that any saint dies during the thousand years, but rather the contrary. church (compare Matt. I will tell thee the mystery of the woman." Zechariah 14:18, but nowhere else with a sword. purified at the judgment seat of Christ (1 Cor. Revelation 19 is the nineteenth chapter of the Book of Revelation or the Apocalypse of John in the New Testament of the Christian Bible.

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