He is urged to take up the same cry. Verses 6-10: Omnipotent: God is all-powerful, and reigneth over His The testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy, the witness of Jesus. Are we to infer from 1 Chronicles 21:12 what this sword will be? The true reading here is neither hard nor doubtful save to unbelief. 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. "[48] No "battle" of any kind takes place here. purified at the judgment seat of Christ (1 Cor. 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. 19:3 And again they said, Alleluia And her smoke rose up for ever and ever. Therefore be zealous and repent. _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-10273872-1']); It was ruled in general that the worldly powers were ordained of God. The decem-regal division of the broken empire in the West, as all know, was long after Rome had ceased to be heathen. They begin to worship, in a sense, the instrument that God has used. The marriage between Christ and the church proclaimed and perfected, ver 5-10. 3. Since then the world has not seen the imperial power to which all bow. 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. dispensations God hath also taken vengeance on them for the blood of his saints And out of His mouth goes a sharp sword by which these rebellious armies are destroyed. There. And there are times when the angel appears to John. You can't start with a finite base and reach to infinity. We know the Holy Spirit rather as a spirit of communion with Christ.
Verse by Verse Commentaries by Book | Precept Austin 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). 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. This is the It is also clearly a personal reward to those who had suffered. And the marriage is the eternal 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. ", And the twenty-four elders, and the four living creatures fell down and worshipped the God who is seated upon the throne. 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 word that goes forth out of His mouth. It is said that the judgments of God are true and just. Revelation 18:1-24 need not delay us long. III. He has with him the armies of heaven. Every day you should witness to at least two people. 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. Here I am obliged to say that our authorized version, and not merely it, but our common Greek Testaments, are altogether wrong. 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. 19:13 He is clothed in a robe dipped in blood, and the name by which he is called is the Word of God. The twenty-four elders were prominent in the early visions ( Revelation 4:4; Revelation 4:10; Revelation 5:6; Revelation 5:11; Revelation 5:14; Revelation 7:11; Revelation 11:16; Revelation 14:3) as were the four living creatures ( Revelation 4:6-9; Revelation 5:6-14; Revelation 6:1-7; Revelation 7:11; Revelation 14:3; Revelation 15:7). And he said to me: "These are the true words of God." Once Jesus enters the battle, it is soon over. Echoing an earlier rabbinic comment found in the commentary of Rashi to the Songs of Songs (4:5) Ginzberg explainedthere is also a great bond of union between the first five commandments and the last five. First, there are his servants. [3] In this chapter, heaven exults over the fall of Babylon the Great. When any wrong is done, it will be dealt with. wedding garment ready for the wedding. We know that the change of all those caught up takes place in the twinkling of an eye.
Enduring Word Bible Commentary Revelation Chapter 22 What would be the meaning, if so read? It is a time of strong delusion, be it remembered. Who were they? Verse 6. We see the Lord Jesus as righteous judge in chapter 1 and as the one who will soon be coming in the last chapter. . Lit. supper of the Lamb represents the millennial kingdom of Christ, which will take At this point the evil world system has been destroyed and God's kingdom has This is most important, because it might be (as it has been) forgotten by some who make the gospel and the corresponding presence of the Spirit to be the same at all times; as others have thought, because Revelation 4:1-11 and sequel treat of Jew and Gentile, and the state of the world under God's judgments, that this cannot be a testimony of Jesus at all. Go to Next Section Like when this guy was breaking up with his girl, he said, "Can I have one final kiss?" We have already met this description in Revelation 1:14 and Revelation 2:18. Help us purchase electrical generators for churches. These would appear to be (save Judas Iscariot, of course) the twelve apostles that were peculiarly associated with Christ in His suffering path on the earth. We must perforce therefore look for a still more complete development before the Lamb judges the beast after the ten horns along with it shall have destroyed Babylon. This verse reports that the heavenly multitude shouted another "hallelujah," which translates to "praise the Lord!" The residents of heaven declare that Babylon's smoke ascends "forever and ever." We should not interpret this declaration to mean the physical smoke from God's judgment on Babylon is eternal. And then we come to a most cheering disclosure: "And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and [I saw] the souls of those beheaded on account of the witness of Jesus, and on account of the word of God: and those who had not worshipped the beast, nor his image, and had not received his mark upon their forehead, and on their hand; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years." he will rule them with a rod of iron . bride doesnt get invited, she invites. A fourth century A.D. It is not his own blood, but the blood of his enemies that he tramples as he tramples out the rebellious. It would be a constant fall. And her smoke rose up for ever and ever ( Revelation 19:3 ). 12:10; 13:9; and Roman So, darkness covered the face of the deep and God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. As for the earthly land and city, the moon will have her light increased to that of the sun, and the sun shall be sevenfold. We shall find that the scripture affords much light to decide the true bearing of the prophecy, and that no application to the past can possibly satisfy the conditions satisfactorily. the holy city Jerusalem. and righteousness to the world. come (verse 15; 2:27; 12:5). They were in three distinct stages which first involved the betrothal or 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. And I fell at His feet to worship him. 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. continually reigns. At the same time the attempt to apply Babylon to ancient Rome is almost as unhappy; and for a plain reason. He had His own self interest at heart when He told Eve not to eat of the tree. 8:38, Paul often used some of the most extreme things such as life and death to make a point. Revelation 19:1 "And after these things I heard a great voice of much people in heaven, saying, Alleluia; Salvation, and glory, and honor, and power, unto the Lord our God:" In the last chapter, we saw the terrible destruction of commercial and political Babylon symbolized by its capital city of Babylon. Figuratively, with reference to the church. 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. But the graphic account does not end until the Spirit of God shows us another view of Babylon altogether. And out of his mouth proceeded 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 of the wrath of God, the Almighty. Beyond controversy, however, it is a most unusual and abnormal reappearance, which is altogether exceptional in the history of the world. Various suggestions have been made.
Revelation 19:19 KJV | King James Version | New Christian Bible Study Then follows the proclamation of the angel, and the invitation to the supper of the great God, to eat the flesh of all the great ones of the earth. 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." I have a hard time stomaching religious people. here. Every strange coded word and phrase is meant for this generation. Ezekiel works out the whole picture most fully in Ezekiel 16:1-63. Religions tell you that you have to do certain things in order to please God. 19:2 For true and righteous are his judgments: for he hath judged the great whore, which did corrupt the earth with her fornication, and hath avenged the blood of his servants at her hand. Yet grace despised necessarily ends in judgment. Verse 6 commends these sayings afresh. And He Himself treads . I can hardly wait. is a word to him that hears. They feel Revelation relates to the battle between God and evil and between the church and the world at all times in church history. Then we look at "reigneth". (faithful to Jesus). Babylon symbolized by its capital city of Babylon. It is not the enjoyment of all, but it is the hinge on which all depends. But a very different point of interest is to be observed. symbolizes the permanence of Babylon's destruction (Isaiah 34:8-10). "This is the first resurrection. 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." 5:22-24), it ultimately expands to include all the redeemed of all . white, represents the righteousness of the church, which has now been judged and Then there is the reigning power, but not the execution of judgment in this awful fashion which is attributed to the Lord Himself. worship him. 14:15-24). Let it be carefully observed here that the first resurrection does not mean all rising exactly at the same moment. It is well to remember that the whole background of this picture lies in Jewish expectations of the future and has little to do with the Christ of the Gospels who was meek and lowly in heart. and so forth. The "word" that comes from Gods mouth is to be used to conquor! He wrote several tracts and was instrumental in leading several Muslims from their religion to a real relationship with God in Jesus Christ. God is sovereign. And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God ( Revelation 19:12-13 ). (iii) It may be that the name is one which can be revealed only at the final union of Christ and the Church. Verse 9. (i) There is love. Scholz's note ("rec. [shepherd] . As Revelation 17:1-18 was a descriptive digression, so is the portion from Revelation 21:9. Verse Revelation 19:15. That is spiritually in chapter seventeen, that great religious system that corrupted the earth. The unrenewed of the nations are now compassing them with their countless hosts, as if to eat them up like grasshoppers. The return of Christ to earth 19:11-16. I will tell thee the mystery of the woman." For the fine linen is the righteous deeds of God's dedicated people. Verse by Verse Ministry International is a non-profit, non-denominational, unaffiliated Christian ministry that is dedicated to promoting the preaching and teaching of God's Word clearly and boldly. It is the way to all, if it be not the actual entrance into and enjoyment of it. And on his robe, and on his thigh, he has a name written--King of kings and Lord of lords. "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. Now the scene totally changes - Hebrews 4:12; a sharp sword . It is not complicated, just bare all to God. They will then treat her with contempt and shameful exposure. In the midst of the broadway of it, and of the river, on this side and on that, [the] tree of life," bearing not merely as the original one did, but now according to the fulness of the provision of God's grace for man, for man in glory first, but for man on the earth also, but for man in glory "producing twelve fruits, in each month yielding its fruit: and the leaves of the tree for the healing of the nations." If my righteousness were dependent upon my keeping the Law, or keeping rules or regulations-Let's say that we said that every day you should be reading five chapters out of the Bible. And of course all of our finest scientific equipment could not locate such a thing there in the heart of the earth. 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). 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. So, it is the righteousness of Jesus Christ that is imparted to me through my faith in Jesus Christ. 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).