Verse 11 . There are a lot of people today fighting against God. The angel implies nothing of the sort. But there never was the thought of giving Christ the only place He could take. And I saw the beast [that is the antichrist], and the kings of the earth [which have been drawn by the demonic forces], and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, and against his army ( Revelation 19:18-19 ). *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. The picture is of the warrior Christ trampling the grapes so as to produce the wine of the wrath of God, which his enemies must drink to their doom. We had Babylon with a spuriously ecclesiastical but a really murderous character, and at the same time guilty of corruption with the kings of the earth. The folly of Satan thinking that he would be able to fight against God. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone. According to the general scope of scripture, then, we may be quite sure that these saints, kept during this universal dissolution of the atmospheric heaven and the earth, will be translated to "the new heavens and new earth wherein dwelleth righteousness," in a condition new and meet for the eternal state into which they are ushered. The Spirit of God contrasts with the fall of Babylon the marriage. This scene It isn't that you have been faithful in your devotions, and you have witnessed to so many people, and read so many chapters of the Bible, and spent so many hours in prayer, and you have done all of the religious devotional things, not that at all. * Even the Complutensian editors give the right text here; and it would seem that Erasmus failed to use his MS. aright. We usually pronounce it JEHOVAH; but the vowels in Jehovah are really those of the Hebrew word 'Adonay ( H136) , which means Lord, the name by which the Jews called God in order to avoid pronouncing the sacred name. Leaving behind the subject of the power of evil in the world, the visions now move on to their climax. The word used here for crown is diadema ( G1238) , which is the royal crown, as opposed to stephanos ( G4735) which is the crown of victory. "And the dead were judged," but not out of the book of life, which has nothing to do with judgment. There are times when John sees the Lord himself. The outer court represents the control of Jerusalem and Israel by Gentiles during the last half of the Tribulation period. 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.". occasion and the downfall of Rome, is said to be "great" partly because of their There is nothing like the joy of loving and of being loved. ( Rev 19:1) - 19:1 After these things I heard as it were a great voice of a great multitude in heaven, saying, Hallelujah; Salvation, and glory, and power, belong to our God: This is obviously a great celebration in Heaven about a major event that took place on earth. The prevalence of all this in Judaism is underlined by the fact that certain Rabbis insisted that prayers must always be offered direct to God, and not to Michael or to Gabriel. Worship: Only God is to be worshiped (compare 22:8-9; It supposes the effect and the exercise of faith. THE ALMIGHTY AND HIS KINGDOM ( Revelation 19:6-8 continued). Now the scene totally changes to heaven. Religions tell you that you have to do certain things in order to please God. That is, there was first the literal Babylon, of course; but here it is symbolical. 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. The betrothal takes place on earth during the church age; (2) Let us rise up to serve The King of kings. And I fell at His feet to worship him. The Sinai MS. has both. When Further, after this Jesus introduces Himself, as well as sends His angel. We may have a special task in it, but this is not the work for us, as it seems to me. Worship God!". Finally they will destroy her. The redeemed Verse 5. They feel Revelation relates to the battle between God and evil and between the church and the world at all times in church history. 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." "The ten horns which thou sawest AND the beast" would give unquestionably the right form of the verse. 5:25-32). 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. "I Jesus sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. Here is a picture which is essentially Jewish. and so forth. 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? So, darkness covered the face of the deep and God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. There is no paradox in the message whatever. After so many sorrows, trials, difficulties, dangers, how sweet to have such a word, and to know that He who speaks is the holy and the true, and surely about to come in the faithfulness of His love! purified at the judgment seat of Christ (1 Cor. The elders do show us the heavenly heads of priesthood (embracing, as I believe, the Old Testament saints and those of the New); i.e., they are not limited to the church, Christ's body. 12:10; for the smoke from her rises for ever and ever. Zerubbabel displays a plan of Jerusalem to Cyrus the Great by Jacob van Loo. others may live (see article About So, he is one of our pastors here, but that is what religion does. Then we look at "reigneth". It is no longer a question either of celebrating the ways and counsels of God, or of the war with the beast and king. It is to Jesus. The millennial nations, "the number of whom is as the sand of the sea," fall a prey to Satan. "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." Some ancient authorities insert two-edged, from the parallel passage in Revelation 1:16. 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. The living creatures are, from Revelation 5:1-14 coupled with the elders, as we find them in the beginning of Revelation 19:1-21. Biblical references. The Jews had the idea that, when the Messiah came, God's people would, as it were, be entertained by God to a great Messianic Banquet. This, was no lack. (function() { 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. 23:5). The thrones were already filled. We can easily understand that the overthrow of the ecclesiastical power is necessary to leave a full field unimpeded for the imperial power to develop itself in its final form of violence and rebellion and apostacy against the Lord. And as for the twelve tribes of Israel, they are merely written there, nothing more. Here were joined good and evil in godless union, for the worse, not for the better, this alliance, unholy in principle, irremediable therefore in practice, between God and the natural man, who substitutes rites for the grace and word of God, for the blood of Christ, and the power of the Spirit, and employs the name of the Lord as a cover for grosser covetousness and ambition, yet more aspiring than the vulgar world. Night and day it shall not be quenched; its smoke shall go up for ever and ever. They which are called: This is not the bride (the church), but the guests. This tells us something about our approach to So, He is coming to bring an end of man's rebellion. 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Revelation 19 Commentary - Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible 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. man's day. And yet in such times John calls God pantokrator ( G3841) . The horns have constantly opposed each other, and even sometimes the pope. And to her [that is the bride of Christ, the church] was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of the saints ( Revelation 19:8 ). there is rejoicing and giving of honor. "Praise our God," it said, "all you his servants, you who fear him, small and great.". The Word of God is alive and powerful, if we would only realize the power of the Word of God. 1-3), and does not appear again until (Revelation 22:16), emphasizing the 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. But no; it was an absolute decree that went forth, and this indisputably, from a single head of the undivided empire. Unhallowed love will end in hatred. 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. Of course they will be preserved through that crisis in some sort of way suitable to divine wisdom. Revelation 19:6 "And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as One of our pastors, Imad, spent some time in the Egyptian jail. All these things have their place in Babylon the great. It was, as H. B. Swete puts it, like "the din of a vast concourse, the roar of a cataract, the roll of thunder.". One of the most approved axioms is, that kingdoms are just like men in this respect, that they begin, rise, and fall. Not only are they supposed to be coexistent, but united in their change of feeling against Babylon. place on earth following the return of Christ (20:4; compare Matt. He has a name known to no one but himself. "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."
Revelation 19 - Verse-by-Verse Bible Commentary - StudyLight.org "All three of the figures in this verse are representations of the word of Christ, by which he executes with indisputable authority the judgment of God. It is derived from halal ( H1984) , which means to praise, and Jah ( H3050) , which is the name of God. 5:10). This symbolic meal will take place at the establishment of the God accounts my faith for righteousness. In Asia Minor even the tribunal of the proconsul was subject to bribery and to maladministration. And I fell down before his feet to worship him; and he said to me: "See that you do not do this. Therefore says the angel, "I will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carrieth her, that hath* the seven heads and the ten horns. bride doesnt get invited, she invites. It is simply said that the glorified are to follow the Lord in victorious power, and nothing more, "clothed in fine linen, white, pure." It was the barbarians who brought in the prevalent ideas of liberty as well as feudalism, and accordingly it is they that have firmly stood for freedom; so that all the efforts to reconstitute the empire which have been tried over and over again have hitherto issued in total failure. So vast is this group that they are without number. 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. It cannot be done till the moment comes. 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.
Revelation | Verse By Verse Ministry International Here is one of the most dramatic moments in the Revelation, the emergence of the conquering Christ. There we interpreted as "CHRIST EVANGELISING". . And it is the various ways by which men are attempting to reach God. It wouldn't have to be more than ten miles in diameter to hold all of the unrighteous from Adam until now. And this is entirely confirmed byRevelation 17:1-18; Revelation 17:1-18, where it was told us that they are with Him when He comes. For certain there are two great acts of resurrection, one when the Old Testament saints and the church are caught up to heaven, the other when Satan was bound after the beast and false prophet were thrown into the lake of fire, as well as Babylon judged. Every strange coded word and phrase is meant for this generation. The actual picture comes from Isaiah: "The streams of Edom shall be turned into pitch, and her soil into brimstone; her land shall become burning pitch. And then those men who have chosen to cast their lot with Satan in rebellion against God. "And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and encompassed the camp of the saints, and the beloved city." They will probably number into the hundreds of millions. When the thousand years expire, Satan reappears on the scene to the sorrow and ruin of the Gentiles who were not born of God. Then go into each of the twenty two chapters of the Book of Revelation one by one. And unquestionably God has been awakening the attention of His people in a remarkable manner to the value of His word, and not least of all to the portion we are now examining. 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! It is not for His crime or guilt. After so long a tarrying how blessed! It was ruled in general that the worldly powers were ordained of God. This is a metaphor of the power of the gospel or of Gods spoken word (cf. 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. And if you try to worship God in an unprescribed way, setting up little idols or whatever, which God has forbidden, that is spiritual fornication. We have just seen that it is the eternal state. Hence the horns and the beast join together and desolate the harlot. 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. A lot of the persecution against the Christian has come from religion, religious leaders. I do not acknowledge the language to be either difficult or ambiguous. At the end of the millennium the righteous and the wicked form two distinct arrays, though even then there would appear to be a line drawn between the surrounding camp, and the beloved city Jerusalem on earth, where the Jews were. the Bride of Christ, is the guest of honor at the marriage of the Lamb in heaven These angels are going to be interesting creatures to meet, aren't they? But here there is neither; and this again is an evidence of gain, not of loss. 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. There is therefore much to be said for the ]Protestant application of the chapter as compared with the Praetorist theory of pagan Rome. The so-called Battle of Armageddon, as usually conceived, is nothing but man's imagination. "God is a spirit and they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth" ( John 4:24 ). Here the vision was of thrones with sitters, and others caused to join them; and the inspired explanation is that it is the first resurrection the rising of the just from the dead. So here He is sitting upon a white horse. 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. 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. That is religion. - CBSC, a sharp sword . The answer: because it's the final book of the Bible. I take it, therefore, that God intended this analogy to be noted by us; that it is not a pursuance of the prophecy, but a description of the holy city previously named, just as the other was a description of the corrupt city, whose judgment had been announced. *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. Verse 3. Thus there is no question that some of the actors in the final scenes of the great drama were already there, as the reigning city, and the Roman empire. See bibliographic information; Read aloud; Stop reading aloud Hide links to Bible word meanings It is not into a wilderness the prophet is carried, but he is set on "a mountain great and high," and shown not the great, but. 16 And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS. THE KING rides at the head of His armies. This is just a statement telling us it will never be built We may illustrate it by the members of a family. It will prepare you for the rest of the material contained here. "And let him that is athirst come; and whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.". Verse Revelation 19:15. faith during the Tribulation (Jeremiah 31:31-34; Zech. He has punished that great prostitute. Man has always sinned in one or other of these two ways, looking now at sin in its broadest forms. ye his servants, and ye that fear him, both small and great.". honors God and sin mocks Him. 25:1-13; Luke This remains true. The "testimony of Jesus" is what the whole Bible is about. Centuries after came in, not only the division into east and west, but the broken up state of the west, when there ceased to be an imperial chief. Second Edition, Revised - 1871 - 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. 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. Revelation 19 In this chapter we have, I. What does this particular rendition of God mean? She followed and had inherited the spirit of all, from the days of Cain, who had lifted up their hands against their righteous brethren. Do it not (compare 22:8-9).
Verse by Verse Commentaries by Book | Precept Austin In the description of the total destruction of Babylon, come the words: "Rejoice over her, O heaven, O saints and apostles and prophets, for God has given judgment for you against her!" And the [antichrist] 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 those that worshipped his image. Paul, the apostle said as he was recounting to the Philippians his past credits as a Jew, "Hebrew of the Hebrews, circumcised the seventh day, the tribe of Benjamin, a Pharisee, concerning zeal persecuting the church", but he said, "Those things that were gain to me", those credits that I had, those brownie points, "I counted loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Jesus Christ, for whom I suffer the loss of all things and count them but refuse that I may know Him and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness which was of the Law", circumcised seventh, eighth day and so forth, not having that righteousness which was of the law, "but now having the righteousness which was of Christ through faith" ( Philippians 3:5-9 ). Of course the application to the Roman empire would be immediately in the mind of any Christian at Rome. That city will be a constant remembrancer of those who went before restored Israel here below, as undoubtedly it will be used for their blessing during the millennium, but not for theirs only. The thousand years of peace and plenty will have given occasion for an ever-growing population, spite of a world thinned by divine judgments which open that era. We do not have to pretend to be something we are 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. First, he is remembering Psalms 97:1: "The Lord reigns; let the earth rejoice." So it is imputed righteousness given to you by your faith in Christ. After the destruction of Babylon at - CBSC, the winepress . Now manifestly, if the Lord does not come before this, there is no world to come to; for the earth and heavens are fled. And the coming of the Lord is urged in connection with it. We have seen her connection with the beast; but there is a conflict coming. For according to unquestionable testimony the Reuchlinian copy has like some half-dozen cursives, which was probably a mistake for .
Revelation 19 Commentary - Geneva Study Bible That is to say, never again will she rise from her ruins. Salvation and glory and power belong to our God, He was filled with astonishment that this mysterious form of evil, this counter-testimony of the enemy (not antichrist, but antichurch), should seem and be largely accepted as the holy catholic church of God, that Christendom, if not Christianity, should at the same time become the bitterest of persecutors, more murderously incensed against the witnesses of Jesus and the saints of God than ever paganism had been in any country or all ages. Thus the attempt to apply it during the pagan period is altogether futile on the face of the matter. There was judicial discernment with the distinct possession of all titles to sovereignty. And God shall wipe away every tear from their eyes; and death shall be no more, nor sorrow, nor crying nor shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away. I do not, of course, complain of particular persons, but of the general vagueness in which the passage has been taken unless, indeed, the more common course be not to ignore it. If Christianity does not bring joy, it does not bring anything. Five reasons for their praise emerge: (1) Now we see the tree of life again. The thief said, "We are here because we deserve to be here, but this man has done nothing amiss"( Luke 23:41 ). First, he alone can see the inmost thoughts and desires of any man. Stephen Armstrong. heaven, saying, Alleluia; Salvation, and glory, and honor, and power, unto the 19 As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten. Here you may see the reason for saying that the four and twenty elders and the four living creatures are not absolutely the church, because when that symbol applies, and the one of the bride comes forward, we have got others too. (b) He is true. They are not seen here as the bride. But "nations of them which are saved," is a most anomalous expression, and betrays man as the author of it. VERSE BY VERSE MINISTRY . There is no doubt that THE RIDER ON THE WHITE HORSE In 19:11 IS CHRIST. Ephesians 6:17; smite the nations . Here we see the chaste virgin (i) In certain circles of Judaism the angels had a very large place. Smoke rose: This is because of the fire (compare 17:16, 18; 18:8-9, 18; 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.
[email protected] 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. and the fullness of the Gentiles will be brought in. 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." Called: Those who are invited to the marriage supper are Israel, who will turn 5:25-32). 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. Then come others in the condition of separate spirits or souls, whom the prophet saw two different classes of them those beheaded for the witness of Jesus and the word of God, and those who refused the beast in every form, The proof of the third class should have been given a little more distinctly than in our version. This is of great importance. Amen. The battle joined. After these things: This is a time key. In Wisdom there is a description of the plagues in Egypt, and in particular of the slaying of the first-born sons of the Egyptians: "Thine Almighty Word leaped down from heaven out of thy royal throne, as a fierce man of war, into the midst of a land of destruction, and brought thine unfeigned commandment as a sharp sword, and standing up filled all things with death; and it touched the heaven, but it stood upon the earth" ( Wis_18:15-16 ). On that interpretation the phrase will mean that no man can speak to men until he has listened to Jesus Christ. The unrenewed of the nations are now compassing them with their countless hosts, as if to eat them up like grasshoppers. Alleluia: for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth.". Godly people love righteousness and hate sin, for righteousness
Revelation 19:15 - Verse-by-Verse Bible Commentary - StudyLight.org This is predicted in Numbers 24:17 and on account of this the nations will be angry under the sounding of the seventh trumpet, with which this vision is contemporary, Revelation 11:18. (i) He is clothed in a robe dipped in blood, not his own but that of his enemies. Here it is the city described in itself, on which we need not now enlarge. He is arrayed in a vesture dipped in his own blood, by which he purchased his power as Mediator; and in the blood of his enemies, over . They would have a big dance and party, as they would crush all of the grapes, they would get the juice out of them. And he shall rule them with a rod of iron - See the notes on Revelation 2:27; Revelation 12:5. For the fine linen is the righteous deeds of God's dedicated people. elaborate than those of today. We have been washed in His blood, and we have on our white
Revelation 19:18 Commentaries: so that you may eat the flesh of kings Indeed it must be so, because, as we read in the end of the last chapter, there the lost were cast. worship before the angel (compare 1:17; 22:8). It will never happen. all the faithful believers saved by grace through faith up to the birth of the Now the scene totally changes Again the righteousness of His judgment attested to. - Hebrews 4:12; a sharp sword . This has no time element attached. Who was it; Marx, that said, "Religion is the opium of the people?" Jesus descends majestically to judge in righteousness and rule in power. He has avenged the blood of his servants at her hand ( Revelation 19:2 ). 4:17). We say that he is great! Verse-by-Verse Bible Commentary Revelation 1. In Revelation 16+, John was shown the pouring forth of the final seven bowls which contained God's wrath. - Wallace. 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. Here, on the other hand, is something which is valid for all time. Verse 19 Revelation 19:19 Study . It is the judgment of the dead as such, who now rise and give account of their deeds. 19:10b The testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy. I think that religion is a tremendous curse upon the earth. which sword proceeds out of his mouth: and all the fowls were filled with their flesh ( Revelation 19:21 ).