What about little babies?" Isaiah 63:3. (This takes you to our other website), News Links, Recommended Books, News Sites, and Bibles What does Revelation 19:3 mean? A further account of the triumphant song of angels and saints for the fall of Babylon, ver 1-4. marriage is the eternal union of the church with Christ following the Rapture I think that religion is a tremendous curse upon the earth. In the tabernacle in 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 ). He has condemned the great prostitute When the thousand years expire, Satan reappears on the scene to the sorrow and ruin of the Gentiles who were not born of God. That pagan Rome, therefore, should set itself against Christianity was to be expected, and so the fact proved. 11:2; Eph. We. Not only are they supposed to be coexistent, but united in their change of feeling against Babylon. 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." 1 Thessalonians 3:1-3 Commentary. Amen. It is by his word that God created the earth and the heavens and everything in them. Salvation and glory and power belong to our God, 2 for true and just are his judgments. "He that testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly. Thus the second beast is no longer seen as an earthly power, but as a prophet-of course a false prophet. 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. At the same time you will mark that these are not said to be executors of judgment as Christ is. Further, a negative point of great importance is presented by the seer, "And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God the Almighty is the temple of it, and the Lamb. at Revelation 14:19; while here we have the fuller phrase, the winepress of the wine of - CBSC, he will tread the wine press of the fury of the wrath of God the Almighty . The application to old pagan Rome is harsh and purposeless enough; but the attempt to refer it to Jerusalem is of all schemes the most absurd; for, far from being borne up by the imperial power, Jerusalem was trodden down by it. Once Jesus enters the battle, it is soon over. ", All things are thus made new; and, further, "these words are faithful." 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. VII. 23:5). It is not the magnitude of each voice. There are those who have set themselves deliberately and conscientiously to fight against God.The humanists in their Humanist Manifesto have declared their intention of destroying God out of the minds and conscientiousness of men. righteousness of the church, which has now been judged and purified at the . 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. The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, beholding the beast that he was, and is not, and shall be present." [shepherd] . Verse 2. Nor is there any real reason to wonder at their deriving help from partial light. God doesn't want you taking credit for the work that He does, receiving glory for His work. in the Bible, "her" does not mean just women, it is the bride. Everything that could attract the natural man was there; and all that which to him looks fair enough on the side of religion. Bad as pagan Rome was, it would be false to affirm that it ever had come out of the bottomless pit. 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. How does God tell us to worship Him? His secret name indicates his unique authority (11-12). I think that it might be just, "hey, you've had it." Accordingly it is another figure. 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 now, when those symbols disappear, because of a new action of God (namely, the consummation of the church's joy), the elders and the living creatures disappear, and we have not the bride alone, but another class of saints, who at once come forward. 1:4; Heb. 8:38, Paul often used some of the most extreme things such as life and death to make a point. Verse Revelation 19:15. So all the forces hostile to God assemble themselves; but the warrior Christ is to conquer. It is very evident, therefore, that the saints in a glorified state are here represented as following the Lord out of heaven. This appears to mean the word of the Gospel, by which his enemies are confounded, and his friends supported and comforted. When Jews came over into Christianity, sometimes they brought this special reverence for the angels with them, forgetting that with the coming of Jesus no other intermediary between God and man can be necessary. The wrath of God is fierce! Thus the name of Christ, not merely as the root and the offspring of David, but as the bright morning star, calls out responsively the heart of the church, and this too under the guiding activity of the Holy Ghost. Here we see the chaste virgin If some few have joined on one side, some are sure to help the other, because they are jealous of any one acquiring such a preponderant authority: and power as to govern the rest. bring the climax of the Book of Revelation: the return of Christ to establish 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. ", GOD'S WORD IN ACTION ( Revelation 19:13 ). 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. There stands the solemn brand graven, not on the blasphemous beast, but on the forehead of its rider, "Mystery, Babylon the great." The prophecy centers around the person of Jesus Christ. On His robe where it spreads out at His waist HIS TITLE is inscribed. instead of one of the other names of Jesus, to show that we have been cleansed stench and the potential for disease. That is He destroys them with His word.Now, we are told that He was in the beginning with God and that He created all things. All the dead are there who had not part in the first resurrection. (verses 1-10), and returns with Christ in His Triumphal Second Coming (verses But she has a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and the impurities of her fornication. And a voice came from the throne = is not explicitly identified. We do not mend matters by hasty conclusions, we only complicate the truth. The reason is manifest there is a hinderer "one that letteth." The pronoun he is emphaticHe Himself, by Himself, as is there expressed. His blood-soaked robe signifies that his triumph has come through his death on the cross. Verse 3. . He just said it, "Let there be light," and light existed.And in the Hebrew it is even more intensive. (Hebrews 4:13). John saw heaven opened and a RIDER UPON A WHITE HORSE verse 11. The angel implies nothing of the sort. 16:12-16). And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in them the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb." Here, on the other hand, is something which is valid for all time. Directly he had sinned, the word of God came, and he was called. 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. 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. Verse 19 Revelation 19:19 Study . He will not fail to take up the gage He has given our hearts. which will take place on earth following the return of Christ (20:4; Matt. And he treadeth the wine-press of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God - This language is probably derived from Isaiah 63:1-4. Many suggestions have been made. Those who are invited to the marriage supper are Israel (see article Marriage The surest way to have our deliverances continued and completed is to give God the glory of what he has done for us. The great city was either guilty Jerusalem or Babylon. "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." For the day of vengeance is in my heart, and the year of my redeemed is come"( Isaiah 63:3-4 ). I admit that there may be something more in the symbol than the literal hills of Rome, because they are said to be also seven kings. In short, Babylon, the disgusting counterpart of the holy city, in earthly ambition seeks the kings and the masses for her own present objects, while the other suffers now and will reign then. the Bible). Thus such as were in the separate state were reunited to their bodies, and lived and reigned like those who were already on the thrones. (ii) A Greek came into the Church from a world of thought which made angel worship a real danger. And there are times when the angel appears to John. A single verse dispels clouds of arguments. "I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled; and place was not found for them." . These are those saved before Pentecost, sounds like a massive crashing of waves. (ii) His name is Faithful and True. union of the church with Christ following the Rapture (see 1 Thess. "The Lord God is the temple of it, and the Lamb as far as we can speak of any. *It now appears that the Cod. Of course the application to the Roman empire would be immediately in the mind of any Christian at Rome. 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. We have been washed in His blood, and we have on our white There is no lack of precision, but the very reverse. This is accordingly traced in our chapter with considerable detail, and with the sorrow and vexation of all the different classes who on the fall of Babylon groaned over her destruction, and the loss of their wealth and enjoyment. Men are not regarded as composing this tabernacle; they co-exist. The betrothal takes place on earth during the church age; (2) Isaiah speaks of God preparing for his people "a feast of fat things, a feast of wine on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wine on the lees well refined" ( Isaiah 25:6).
Enduring Word Bible Commentary Revelation Chapter 10 symbolizes the permanence of Babylon's destruction (Isaiah 34:8-10).
Revelation 3:19 Meaning and Commentary - Bible Study Tools It is a question here of distinctive character, apart from that of time, for which we must search other scriptures. The betrothal takes place on earth during the church age; The presentation will take place in heaven following the Rapture (verse 7); and. But no; it was an absolute decree that went forth, and this indisputably, from a single head of the undivided empire. 14:1-3; 1 Thess. Rev. 4:17; see THE AVENGING WRATH ( Revelation 19:14-16 ). The armies of the church militant on earth, and the church triumphant in heaven are not engaged in physical battles of guns and bloodshed, but in spiritual struggles for control of the minds and spiritual forces of men and women. In his cross and resurrection, Christ won a great victory over the powers of evil; by his second coming, he will execute that victory. The word of God, said Jeremiah, is like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces ( Jeremiah 23:29). The salvation of God should awaken the gratitude of man; the glory of God should awaken the reverence of man; the power of God is always exercised in the love of God and should, therefore, awaken the trust of man. It is no longer a question either of celebrating the ways and counsels of God, or of the war with the beast and king. All things were made by him; and without him was not anything made that was made. "Let us be glad and rejoice and give honor to him: for the ___________ of the _______ is come". To a Jew a word was not merely a sound; it did things. John was forbidding angel worship; and that was a very necessary prohibition, for in the early church there was a well-nigh inevitable tendency to worship angels, a tendency which has never wholly disappeared. derives from a Hebrew word meaning "to be firm," and may be translated "truly" There are times when John sees the Lord himself. Verse 3. This symbolic meal will take place at the establishment of the Whereas for the Jew, there are necessary dates and momentous changes that must take place; and hence, as Daniel represents the Jew, we have the difference kept up. The description of the great Commander, 1. Another warlike expedition of the glorious head and husband of the church, with the success of it, ver 10, etc. Let us rise up to serve The King of kings. We know that sometimes there were nine, sometimes eleven or more; but supposing this all perfectly certain, I affirm that, according to history, they did not receive their power as kings for one and the same time with the beast. You just have to come on the basis of God's grace and love for you and cast yourself upon His mercy, but that God is merciful. Thus nothing can be simpler or more beautiful than the way in which this verse sums up the Revelation as a whole. 13:9; Rom. God said, "Light be," and light was. Christs Coming Kingdom).
Revelation - Matthew Henry's Commentary - Bible Gateway If that is so of human words, how much truer it is of the divine word. The significant thing about this great word is that it occurs ten times in the New Testament. Gods deliverance of His people from their enemies (verse 1); Gods permanent crushing of mans rebellion (verse 3); Gods communion with His people (verse 7). 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. So, He is coming to bring an end of man's rebellion. Revelation. 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. It will be interesting to find out. Without Jesus, there 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. These remain as yet in the condition of separate spirits. Revelation 19:1 "And after these things I heard a great voice of much people in We look at the vast universe in which we live, the material universe, and we realize that He created it. 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. As far as the display of government goes, it is according to God morally, and for His glory, though I deny not for a moment that there are elements of evil which are never allowed, but kept under if not expelled. The church is heavenly; and in heaven there are no times nor seasons. 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 there is really no good work that you can offer to God that would be acceptable in His sight, but He will accept you just as you are if you will just cast yourself upon His mercy and just ask for His mercy and grace. When Christ came personally to judge and govern the quick (Revelation 20:4), there were thrones; for the risen saints reign with Him. The army which he commands (Revelation 19:14; Revelation 19:14), a very large one, made up of many armies; angels and saints followed his conduct, and resembled him in their equipage, and in their armour of purity and righteousness--chosen, and called, and faithful. T. S. Kepler comments: "The moral law can no more be broken than the law of gravity; it can only be illustrated." The final verse in this chapter introduces a new thought. church. And I saw an angel standing in the sun ( Revelation 19:17 ); You can't do that unless you are an angel. Out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword Revelation 1:16; Revelation 1:16. I do not suppose that many words are required by the present audience to show that we are not to understand the scene as a mere figure of Christianity. I am a servant of God just like you are. "God is a spirit and they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth" ( John 4:24 ). * Let us be glad and exult, and give the glory to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready." 19:13 He is clothed in a robe dipped in blood, and the name by which he is called is the Word of God. They will probably number into the hundreds of millions. Now the Lord in the end here is really putting a lot of emphasis upon the fact that these are true sayings. So, the great religious system, spiritual fornication is that endeavor to worship God in an unprescribed way. 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. 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. 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. The eternal smoke 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. Then and thus is aggravated guilt in the case of this wicked son. In the beginning was the Word, the Word was with God, the Word was God. After the destruction of Babylon religious and commercial, chapter seventeen and eighteen. absence of the Church from the earth during the judgments of (Rev. and the fullness of the Gentiles will be brought in. This exclamation, meaning Praise the Lord, occurs frequently in the Old This is the first resurrection.". Man alone is to blame who has misapplied it. Read the verses thoughtfully.
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Revelation 11:15-19 | Bible Exposition Commentary - Verse-by-Verse Revelation 19:4 "And the four and twenty elders and the four beasts fell down But we can understand that the Lord could and did make that little go far, and do no little good. The marriage feast will take place on earth following Christ's return with the 252-53.
Revelation Commentary : Chapter Nineteen sound like "mighty thunderings". It is the divine judgment of man eternal judgment. Jesus Christ. ye his servants, and ye that fear him, both small and great.". "And here is the mind which hath wisdom. 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. This too must not be viewed as if it were a loss. 11:25-27). The reason is given at the close; not only "by thy sorcery were all the nations deceived," but above all "in her was found [the] blood of prophets and saints, and of all the slain upon the earth.". I like that, God speaking into existence the world in which we live. They are glorified saints, and not angels. 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 . Return to Home Page Choose a verse from 'Revelation 1' to begin your 'Verse-by-Verse' study of God's Word using the more than 100 commentaries available on StudyLight.org . The voice includes himself among those who claim God as our God. So, he is one of our pastors here, but that is what religion does. Jesus Christ was a threat to the religious leaders as He would be to all religious leaders. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth. It was John's instinct to worship the angelic messenger; but the angel forbids him to do that, because the angels are no more than men's fellow-servants. (Matthew 28:19-20, Mark 16:15-16; sharp . this great multitude begin to praise God, the volume would be so great as to The beloved city is Jerusalem; the camp of the saints, I presume, is a larger circle and embraces all of Israel and the Gentiles who, being converted, refuse Satan's deceit. He accepts us plain and simple. Those who are invited to the marriage supper are Israel (see article , ), who will turn to Christ in Verse 5.
Revelation 19:18 Commentaries: so that you may eat the flesh of kings avenged the blood of his servants at her hand.". He answers, "I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the people there was none with me: for I will tread them in my anger, and trample them in my fury; and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain all my raiment. Reuchlin. We have just seen that it is the eternal state. And the devil that deceiveth them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where both the beast and the false prophet [are], and they shall be tormented day and night unto the ages of the ages.". 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. Peculiar energy indeed attaches to symbolic language. 16:16. When Christ at God's right hand was announced, even from the very beginning, He was ready to judge the quick and the dead. III. In short, it is as we saw in Revelation 17:1-18, after Babylon had been brought before us in the course of the prophecy. 1 Thessalonians 2:17-20 Commentary. He had a great desire to bring his brothers, Egyptian brothers to the knowledge of Jesus Christ. for he hath judged the great whore, which did corrupt the earth with her fornication ( Revelation 19:2 ). Judas returned the money to the priests saying, "I betrayed innocent blood" ( Matthew 27:4 ). It is known as a divine feat in the theological term, which means the capacity of speaking things into existence. Scholz's note ("rec.
Revelation 19:19 KJV | King James Version | New Christian Bible Study Nothing has yet been said of the fate of Satan, but now we go on to see that fate. I sometimes make snap judgments. *Most copies, it would seem, read , "of the earth;" the Alex. "And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and encompassed the camp of the saints, and the beloved city." We may have a special task in it, but this is not the work for us, as it seems to me. But the graphic account does not end until the Spirit of God shows us another view of Babylon altogether. 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. Verse 6 commends these sayings afresh. Death and hades, which had so long been executioners in a world where sin reigned, and were still doing their occasional office where righteousness is to reign, themselves disappear where all traces of sin are consigned for ever. "And death and hades were cast into the lake of fire. Here is a picture which is essentially Jewish. The Book of Revelation: Verse by Verse Commentary By Robert Clifton Robinson on September 16, 2020 ( 2 ) The Book of Revelation is the most important book for this precise time in history. The heavenly praise continues, this time for a call for gladness, rejoicing and No marriage can last without fidelity, and the Christian must be as faithful to Jesus Christ as Jesus Christ is to him. Gods communion with His people (verse 7). In the . The redeemed in heaven are called God's "Bond Servants", and this is the group It is the place that Jesus said God prepared for Satan and his angels. In Christianity you have a God that is reaching out to man. In as many things as she glorified herself, and lived luxuriously, so much torment and sorrow give to her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am not a widow, and I shall in no wise see sorrow.". 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. And He Himself treads . Accordingly the resuscitated Roman empire will carry men away by a storm of wonder at its revival. "[48] No "battle" of any kind takes place here. 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 ).
Bhagavad Gita - Wikipedia The same was in the beginning with God. "WHITE" is a symbol throughout the book of Revelation for PURITY and VICTORY. Then, when the Lamb and His purchase by blood are celebrated in heaven, the four living creatures join the elders, though each is distinct. He was a divine person, whatever new position He assumes for the world. It was ruled in general that the worldly powers were ordained of God. Babylon had once heard the varied testimony of God; for what had she not heard of truth? The so-called Battle of Armageddon, as usually conceived, is nothing but man's imagination. There is the basis for my righteousness. And again they said, Alleluia. "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." What is it? judgment seat of Christ (compare 1 Cor. 12:10; 13:9; and Roman That age of visible glory is inefficacious to change the heart of man, though in the absence of the enemy and the controlling presence of the great King, they render feigned obedience for a long while. "And he that sat upon him called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war." 25:1-13; Luke 14:15-24). What makes it the more notable is this, that the rod of iron is promised to us not the sword. I say "righteousnesses," not "righteousness." The woman the strange woman sets forth corruption, human nature indulging itself in its own evil desires, irrespective of God's will. Finally they will destroy her. Stephen Armstrong. - WG, and He treads the wine press of the fierce wrath of God, the Almighty . In Asia Minor even the tribunal of the proconsul was subject to bribery and to maladministration. Here now is the rejoicing which was called for. The church was betrothed to Christ by His sovereign choice in eternity past 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. "And the woman whom thou sawest is the great city, that hath kingship over the kings of the earth." Verse-by-Verse Bible Commentary Revelation 19. This remains true. Again and again the prophets thought of Israel as the chosen bride of God.
Revelation 19 - Wikipedia The vials have all now been dispensed upon the earth of the judgment and the wrath of God. It begins with the shout of a vast multitude in heaven. And I think that this has been declared all the way through, because this is one of the areas that Satan constantly challenges concerning God, the fairness of God's judgments when he deals and meats out His judgments upon man.