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We come this evening to what most of us, I think, would agree on, and that is the climax

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of the book of Revelation as we come to chapter 19.

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It's a wonderful chapter.

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The first ten verses deal with events in heaven preceding the return of the Lord Jesus Christ.

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And then verses 11 to 21, the events on earth surrounding His return.

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Please open your Bible to Revelation chapter 19.

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Notice the exclamation of the Lord's victory in verses 1 through 6.

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After these things I heard a loud voice of a great multitude in heaven saying, Hallelujah,

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salvation and glory and power to the Lord our God.

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For true and righteous are His judgments, because He has judged the great harlot who

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corrupted the earth with her fornication.

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And He has avenged on her the blood of His servants shed by her.

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Then they said, Hallelujah, and her smoke rises up forever and ever.

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And the twenty-four elders and the four living creatures fell down and worshiped God who

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sat on the throne, saying, Amen, hallelujah.

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Then a voice came from the throne saying, Praise our God, all you, His servants, and

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those who fear Him, both small and great.

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And I heard, as it were, the voice of a great multitude as the sound of many waters and

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as the sound of mighty thunderings saying, Hallelujah, for the Lord God omnipotent reigns.

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The exclamation of the Lord's victory.

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There is a thunderous outburst of worship in heaven before our Lord returns to earth.

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It really is in response to the invitation in chapter eighteen and verse twenty.

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Just look back there and notice what it says.

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Rejoice over her, O heaven, and you saints, apostles, and prophets, for God has avenged

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you on her.

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Now in the context of our study we know that her refers to Babylon.

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Both religious Babylon, which was destroyed, described and destroyed in chapter seventeen,

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and then the socio-economic, political Babylon of chapter eighteen.

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This system of economics and government which will dominate at least the western world and

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be controlled by the antichrist.

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God destroys that whole system in chapter eighteen.

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Heaven is invited to rejoice and responds by saying, Hallelujah.

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Four times you notice that word used in the text we have read.

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As a matter of fact, these are the only four occasions when that word is found in the whole

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New Testament.

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It's found quite a bit in the Old Testament, especially the book of Psalms.

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But only four times in the whole New Testament and right here in these six verses.

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There's a meaning of course to Hallelujah.

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It's more than just an exclamation.

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Hallel is the Hebrew expression for praise.

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And Yah, Y-A, excuse me, J-A-H, is the abbreviated form of Yahweh or Jehovah.

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And so it simply means, praise the Lord or praise Jehovah.

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What we have here truly is the Hallelujah Chorus.

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And you can see some of the phrases in Handel's work coming out of this text.

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It is a special word.

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It seems to be reserved at least in the New Testament for this point when the kingdom

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of God is about to be established upon the earth.

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There are two groups that seem to be speaking.

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The first group is called a great multitude.

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It speaks in verse one and then seems to repeat itself in verse six.

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We would understand in the context of the book of Revelation this great multitude referring

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to the tribulation saints who had been martyred.

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They were seen earlier in chapter seven in verse nine.

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Some of them were under the altar of God.

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They were crying out to God for vengeance because of their martyrdom.

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They cried out to God for judgment on those who had persecuted them on the earth.

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And now it is this large multitude that praises God that judgment has indeed come.

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The second group is found in verse four.

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It's the 24 elders.

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And they are joined by the four living creatures.

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Now you will recall months ago in our study of the book that the four living creatures

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are four heavenly creatures.

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They are some high form of angelic beings, so it seems, who are around the throne of

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God and they sing praises to Him.

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The 24 elders, in our understanding of the book at least, symbolize the church of the

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Lord Jesus Christ, all of those who are saved in this period from Pentecost until the church

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is taken out of the world at the rapture.

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This is the last time in the book of Revelation that this group is called the 24 elders by

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that name.

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They are called after this the bride, if our assumption is right in their identity, that

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it's the church of Christ.

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And so we have the two groups in heaven sharing praise and worship of God preceding the coming

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of the Lord Jesus Christ.

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They praise God for His works, for His salvation, His glory, His power.

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They praise Him for His judgments, which they describe as true and righteous.

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And then they praise God for His authority, His control over the universe and over all

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of His enemies.

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It is He who sits upon the throne.

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He is in control.

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And in verse 6 it says, the Lord God omnipotent.

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That word omnipotent is an adjective describing the Lord God.

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And what does it mean?

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All-powerful.

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All-power belongs to Him.

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There are several omnis that theologians use to describe God.

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One of them is omnipotent.

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All-power belongs to God.

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And what is said here, the Lord God omnipotent reigns, anticipates the reign of the Lord

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Jesus Christ upon the earth.

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Now in verses 7 to 10 we have the declaration, or I would like to rename it on the outline

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of the celebration actually, of the Lord's wedding.

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Beginning in verse 7 we read about this marriage and the supper.

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Let us be glad and rejoice and give Him glory.

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For the marriage of the Lamb has come and His wife has made herself ready.

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And to her it was granted to be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white.

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For the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints.

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And He said to me, write, blessed are those who are called to the marriage supper of the

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Lamb.

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And He said to me, these are the true sayings of God.

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That is a way of underlining and underscoring the significance of what is written here.

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And I fell at His feet to worship Him, but He said to me, see that you do not do that.

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I am your fellow servant, says this angel, and of your brethren who have the testimony

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of Jesus, worship God.

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For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.

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Marriage is used often in the scriptures to describe the relationship between God and

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His people.

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In the Old Testament it was the relationship between Yahweh the Lord and Israel His people.

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Israel as we know sadly was an adulterous wife to the Lord, unfaithful to Him spiritually.

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And therefore God set Israel aside and is calling out a bride for His Son, the Lamb,

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the Lord Jesus Christ in this age.

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Of course, God is going to deal with His Old Testament people again.

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He is going to call them back to Himself.

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And they will be the focus of Christ's reign on the earth as He will restore Jerusalem

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and Israel to its Davidic promises from 2 Samuel chapter 7 and other places.

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But here in the context of Revelation 19, the bride refers not to Israel but to God's

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people, the church.

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As you understand the invitation to the married supper, it might be good for us just to review

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in our minds some of the traditions surrounding an oriental wedding, such as was the case

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here.

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In the first place there was the selection of the bride by the father of the bridegroom.

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That's the way it was done.

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We see little samples of this in oriental culture yet today.

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In Japan there was a very important wedding this last week.

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A young lady had been selected to be married to the crown prince of Japan.

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At least at first, according to the news reports, she was not very excited about that because

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she would lose her freedom.

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She would lose her own life fitting into the culture of the royal family of Japan.

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Her basic purpose would be to reproduce the next heir for the throne of this dynasty.

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What is it?

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The dynasty of the what?

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I can't hear you.

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You don't know.

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That's what you were saying.

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Neither do I.

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I heard it this last week.

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It was a rather intriguing name.

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As I recall, it's 1,800 years old, something like that.

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So imagine a dynasty, a reign of a family for that long.

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Well, that's her purpose.

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She was selected.

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Well, you see that's oriental.

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In the days of the New Testament, that was normal that the father of the bridegroom would

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select the bride for the son, and a dowry would be paid.

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We have an example of this that's even more ancient than the New Testament days in Abraham.

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When Abraham sent his servant, Eliezer, to look for a wife from his people, and Eliezer

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brought the wife back after selecting her.

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In this age, it is the work of God by His Spirit to be calling out from the world the

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bride of Jesus Christ.

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If you're a saved person tonight, if you have trusted Jesus Christ as your Savior,

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God, the Father, in His own wisdom and sovereignty as the one who rules and reigns, has selected

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you to be a part of this group of people who are called the bride.

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You have done nothing to deserve that.

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It's of no merit of our own that we have been called.

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It is simply the grace of God.

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And we have been called and set aside to be a part of this body.

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Well, then in the Oriental weddings, there was the period of betrothal often.

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This is stronger than our engagement.

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This was a legally binding period.

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There was a contract that was signed.

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This was the period that Mary and Joseph were in, in their relationship, when the Holy Spirit

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caused her to be with child.

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The period of betrothal.

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It was in between the selection and the actual consummation of the marriage.

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And today, that's the period that we are in.

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God has selected us.

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He has elected us to be a part of the church.

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Ephesians chapter 1.

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And now we are in this betrothal period.

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It's a legally binding period.

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And we have received the Holy Spirit who is the first fruits of our redemption.

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He is the seal.

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He is the guarantor that what God has called us to be, we will become.

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And nothing can stop us.

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Nothing can hinder us from one day arriving at that point where we will be married to

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the Lord Jesus Christ.

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It's a legally binding period.

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And the Holy Spirit is superintending this and preparing us and bringing us toward that

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day.

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Well, the third step in the oriental wedding was the coming of the bridegroom to the bride's

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home in order to take her to his home for the wedding.

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Now, that obviously has a parallel.

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Jesus said, and if I go away, I will come again and receive you to myself.

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That where I am, the Father's house, there you may be also.

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And so in the rapture of the church when he comes, according to 1 Corinthians 15 and 1

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Thessalonians chapter 4, when he comes for his church, he is going to take us from where

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we live now back to his Father's home.

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And there we will enter into this wonderful ceremony of our marriage to the Lord Jesus.

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This was followed then by a marriage feast.

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The feast was for all of the friends and the guests, of course, to attend.

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It was a celebration that the Father gave on behalf of his son and his bride.

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Now it is that marriage feast or supper that is specifically in view here in these verses

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in Revelation chapter 19.

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We have here the assumption that the marriage has taken place and now the marriage feast

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is about to occur.

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The marriage itself takes place, it would seem, in heaven, in the Father's house.

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It will take place sometime after the judgment seat of Christ.

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When we are caught away to be with our Lord, the very first thing that takes place will

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be our personal examination before the Bema seat of Christ when we will be called to give

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account for our lives.

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And though that is terrifying in one sense, and Paul saw it that way, it is a thing that

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we fear and should have respect for and plan for as we live in this world.

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There is another side to it though, and it is that little phrase, I think it is in 2

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Corinthians chapter 4, where Paul says, then shall every person have his praise of God.

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And so in that examination period, God is going to find an appropriate place to praise

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each of his children for their life in this world.

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And after that examination, we come to this place where we are married to our Lord.

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Following that comes the supper.

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And it seems as though this supper takes place upon the earth, which we will get to in a

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moment.

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What is it that we wear to the wedding?

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We have just been through a wedding a few weeks ago, and believe me, that is a big deal,

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a lot bigger than I ever thought.

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What do you wear to a wedding?

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Well God tells us exactly what we are going to wear.

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It is fine linen, verse 8, clean and bright.

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And it explains to us symbolically what this white clothing will stand for.

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He says it is the righteous acts of the saints.

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Some translations put it the righteousness says of the saints.

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Therefore there are some who believe it is the justification righteousness that we have

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in Christ.

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I don't think that is to be the case.

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We are declared legally righteous in the sight of God, thank God, and that is our salvation.

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But he is talking here rather about our works, our righteous acts, our deeds in the world,

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which will now have been judged and examined.

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We have been through the marriage, or through the judgment seat of Christ.

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And so now as it were our clothing is all prepared, it is all sewn together, and we

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are prepared now to enter into the marriage itself.

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The marriage feast seems to be in connection with the return of the Lord Jesus Christ and

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the beginning of the millennium.

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Bible teachers vary as to where this will occur, but it seems to me that the weight

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rests upon the argument that the marriage feast will occur on the earth.

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And there are some who even understand the millennium, the whole thousand year reign

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of Christ, as being the marriage feast.

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That it will not be merely an event, but it will be a thousand year celebration.

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How appropriate that would be for the Son of the Eternal God to have that kind of a

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celebration.

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But it does seem at least to be initiated by an event that is called the marriage supper.

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Have you seen that delightful painting?

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I think it is entitled the marriage supper of the Lamb, something like that, where a

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table is beautifully and royally set, and it stretches on and on and on in the painting

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as far as the horizon.

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The sun is coming up.

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And the whole idea in this glorious painting is the table is set.

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Everything is ready for the marriage feast to occur.

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And the bride is the honored guest along with the bridegroom.

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Certainly the bridegroom is the center of it.

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But he shares his glory with his bride.

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J. Vernon McGee says there is this marriage supper and then, quote, the honeymoon lasts

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for a thousand years, close quote.

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So that's the mother of all honeymoons, isn't it?

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Now it indicates here that there are guests at this occasion.

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Blessed are those who are called to the marriage supper of the Lamb.

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So it seems that not only is there the wife and the Lamb, but there are guests who come

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and who are also a part of this.

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Who are these guests?

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Well, it seems the best understanding of this is the guests are all of the redeemed of the

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ages apart from the church, the church being the bride.

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We have here the redeemed of the ages coming together, the saints out of Old Testament

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Israel, the saved Gentiles from the past, those saved in the tribulation period will

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all be a part of the millennial reign of Jesus Christ and will share in this event that will

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kick off His glorious reign.

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John Walvard puts it this way in one of his writings.

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I'm going to broaden my reading just a bit.

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He says, one of the false interpretations that has plagued the church is the concept

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that God treats all saints exactly alike.

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Instead, a literal interpretation of the Bible distinguishes different groups of saints.

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And here the bride is distinguished from those who are invited to the wedding supper.

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Instead of treating all alike, God indeed has a program for Israel as a nation and also

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for those in Israel who are saved.

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He also has a program for Gentiles in the Old Testament who come by faith, come to faith

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in God, and in the New Testament He has a program for the church as still a different

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group of saints.

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Again in the book of Revelation, the tribulation saints are distinguished from the other previous

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groups.

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It is not so much a question of difference in blessings as it is that God has a program

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designed for each group of saints which corresponds to their particular relationship to His overall

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program.

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Here the church described as a bride will be attended by angels and by saints who are

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distinct from the bride.

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John's response to this whole explosion of revelation and praise from heaven is one of

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awe.

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He makes the mistake of bowing before the angel for which he is rebuked.

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The angel tells him to worship God and then says that essentially the study of prophecy

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should witness to Jesus.

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Again Walvard says the very nature or purpose of prophecy is to testify of Jesus Christ

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and to bring glory to Him.

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Thus the statement, the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.

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Now we come to the second part of this chapter which deals with events on earth surrounding

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the return of the Lord Jesus Christ.

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We have the appearance of heaven's armies and their leader.

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We have the angelic invitation to another supper, quite different than the one we just

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talked about.

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And finally the arrest of the beast and the false prophet.

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It says in verse 11, I saw heaven opened and behold a white horse and he who sat on him

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was called faithful and true and in righteousness he judges and makes war.

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His eyes were like a flame of fire and on his head were many crowns.

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He had a name written that no one knew except himself.

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He was clothed with a robe dipped in blood and his name is called the word of God.

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And the armies in heaven clothed in fine linen, white and clean, followed him on white horses.

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Now out of his mouth goes a sharp sword that with it he should strike the nations and he

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himself will rule them with a rod of iron.

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He himself treads the wine press of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God and he has a name,

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he has on his robe and on his thigh a name written, King of Kings and Lord of Lords.

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So John sees heaven opened and there is this white charger that is there, reminds us of

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chapter 6 and verse 2 where another white charger is seen with a rider but quite a different

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figure.

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There it is his opposite.

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It is Antichrist who is going out to conquer the earth.

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It is clear from the whole context that the white charger here is the one that carries

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the Lord Jesus Christ.

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He is described as faithful and true as the executor of all of God's program.

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He is faithful.

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He will bring all of it to pass.

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Every promise, every warning will all be fulfilled.

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All is true and all will be faithfully fulfilled.

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He says that he judges and he makes war with righteousness.

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This certainly is in contrast to his first coming when he came to save.

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In his second coming he will come to judge.

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His first coming was a coming of grace and truth, kissing together.

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His second coming is justice being fulfilled.

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His person is described.

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His eyes are like a flame of fire.

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This corresponds to what John saw in chapter 1.

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It refers to his holiness and to his absolute knowledge of all things.

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There is a penetrating quality in the eyes of the Son of God as he comes now to bring

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judgment to the earth and its citizens.

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He is crowned with many crowns, many diadems.

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He has authority to rule.

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It is absolute.

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He is the monarch.

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He is the king.

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He is the majesty of the ages.

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He has names which are unknown yet, referring perhaps to his infinite glory that finite

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man can never fully know.

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He has clothing which appears to be dipped in blood.

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This seems to be drawn from the language of Isaiah 63 in verse 3 where Isaiah sees this

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one who is coming, this figure who is coming, his clothing stained with blood.

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Where are you coming from?

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He says he is coming from judgment.

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Here the Son of God is coming and he is coming to bring judgment to the earth.

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This of course is not the first time that we have seen this kind of language in the

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book of the Revelation.

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He is called the Word of God.

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This obviously refers to that first bit of the Gospel of John where the same apostle

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writes about in the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was

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God.

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He is talking about the Lord Jesus Christ who came as the Creator, who came to redeem

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the world and now who comes to execute judgment.

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He is the King of Kings and Lord of Lords that is written on his vestment.

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His is the place of supreme authority.

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Over all kings and lords of the earth he reigns.

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Notice that he leads the armies of heaven who are said to be clothed in pure white.

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Notice how it is put, fine linen, white and clean.

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Language very similar to what we saw in the previous paragraph.

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This leads me to conclude that the armies that are seen here must be us.

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It must be the body of people who have been united in marriage to the Son of God and who

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are now coming with him to the earth in this tremendous movement that will bring judgment.

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He speaks words, the sword that comes out of his mouth refers to a long sword.

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It is even used of a spear sometimes, it is symbolic and it means that his word, what

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he speaks will destroy his enemy.

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Here is a war that will be won instantly.

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Here is a war that at the word of him who sits on the charger, the armies, the thousands

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of soldiers gathered for battle there in Israel will fall dead.

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They will be slain by the very word of his mouth and he is seen as one who will reign

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with a rod of iron.

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In Jesus coming for the church, it seems that his coming will be invisible to the citizens

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of the world.

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There surely will be fallout from it, but they will not observe it.

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Not the case here.

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Every eye will see him as he returns on this occasion.

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The people of the earth will witness this scene.

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Let's go back to one text just quickly, to the words of Jesus himself in Matthew chapter

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24 where he talks about his coming.

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Verse 29 of Matthew 24, immediately after the tribulation of those days, the sun will

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be darkened and the moon will not give its light.

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The stars will fall from heaven and the powers of the heavens will be shaken.

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All of this is further elaborated upon in the book of Revelation as we've seen.

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Down to verse 30, then the sign of the son of man will appear in heaven and then all

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the tribes of the earth will mourn and they will see the son of man coming on the cloud

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of heaven with power and great glory.

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So make no mistake about it, the coming that we see described in Revelation chapter 19

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will be a very public coming and all the peoples of the earth will observe this along with

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that sign in heaven.

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Well there are those who believe that television is that which makes all of this possible and

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that is a possibility but I think a remote one.

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I think God is quite capable of making all of this visible without the help of television.

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His return to the earth will conclude a great world war.

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It will already have been in progress for several weeks so it seems.

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With the armies of the world now in Israel battling back and forth up and down the length

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of the land, this will be a time of great trouble for the people of Israel.

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It is called the time of Jacob's trouble in the Old Testament.

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This war will culminate their suffering.

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This war will take place in the land that they today are so adamant about defending.

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And it seems that on the very day when Jesus Christ will return to the earth and every

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eye will see him, there will be house to house fighting in the city of Jerusalem according

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to Zechariah chapter 14 and verse 2.

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And as these armies united together for this world war culminating in Israel, as these

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armies fight with one another, having been gathered together, may I remind you by the

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demons that were unleashed earlier in our study of this book, they will be deceived,

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the armies of the world are brought together for a world war against each other but now

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they will be congealed, they will turn their attention toward this heavenly army that will

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be coming at them and of course they will be utterly slain.

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The result of that is a great deal of carnage.

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We have seen before the description of the blood flowing in the land of Israel.

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When we come to the angelic invitation to the supper of God, it says, then I saw an

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angel standing in the sun and he cried with a loud voice saying to all the birds that

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fly in the midst of heaven, come and gather together for the supper of the great God,

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that you may eat the flesh of kings, the flesh of captains, the flesh of mighty men, the

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flesh of horses and of those who sit on them and the flesh of all people, free and slave

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both small and great.

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In conjunction with the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ, there will be a judgment for

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all the peoples of the earth.

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In Matthew chapter 24 again, the angels are sent throughout the earth and they gather

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together the people of God, they also gather together those who are not the people of God.

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There is a difference made between them and those who are God's people and are still

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alive will enter into the millennial reign of Jesus Christ and they will repopulate the

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earth in that thousand year reign so that by the end of the thousand years, it's hard

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to imagine what the population of the world will be because death will be restricted,

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there will be disease will be restricted and so on, the population will mushroom in the

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millennial reign of Christ.

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But those who are the lost, those who have rejected Christ and are not a part of this

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army that's destroyed will themselves be slain by the sword as an act of judgment in

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their rebellion against God so that only the righteous will enter into the millennial reign

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of Jesus Christ.

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The result of all of this is tremendous carnage and the birds of the air are called to what

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is called the great supper of God.

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This is God's way I suppose of cleaning up the carnage around the earth and the fowls

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of the air will be responsible for that.

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It's a gruesome scene isn't it?

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Some people have a hard time identifying this kind of language with God but we had best

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remember that God is a God of justice and righteousness and judgment as well as a God

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of salvation and mercy and grace and here we see his judgment fiercely carried out upon

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those who reject him.

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Well that brings us to the conclusion of the chapter which deals with the arrest of the

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beast and the false prophet.

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I saw the beast, that's the end of Christ, the kings of the earth and their armies gathered

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together to make war against him who sat on the horse and against his army.

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Then the beast was captured and with him the false prophet who worked signs in his presence

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by which he deceived those who received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped

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his image.

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If you've been with us in our study you understand what is being said here.

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We have a religious leader who is going to deceive the nations of the world into thinking

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that this person called the beast here is Christ when he is anti-Christ.

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He is still alive at this point.

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He was not destroyed with the religious system that we saw in chapter 17.

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He survives that, he's above that apparently.

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He too has used that religious system now to establish for the last part of the tribulation

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this worship of the beast and his image.

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These two individuals, it says, are cast alive into the lake of fire burning with brimstone.

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Now we see a terrible place described here that is new to us.

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This is not the fiery hell that the man in Luke chapter 16 went to.

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There is a Gehenna that Jesus warned about.

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There is a hell that lost people go to today, but it is a place, a temporary place of terrible

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and awful suffering.

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But hell will give forth all of those people who are there, and they will be brought back

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for their final accounting before God.

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We'll see that in the next chapter.

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And all of the lost will spend forever in this place that is called the lake of fire.

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The first two residents of the lake of fire are the beast, Antichrist, and his cohort,

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the false prophet.

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It says, the rest were killed with the sword which proceeded from the mouth of him who

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sat on the horse, and all the birds were filled with their flesh.

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And so we have a picture here that is a terrible picture.

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It is a picture that describes to us the end of the world as we now know it.

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Mankind that boasts in his pride and rebellion against God now will in this day be fully

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dealt with.

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It is interesting, as we shall see in our study next time, that this is not the end

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of human rebellion.

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But it is the end of the rebellion that is in process today and tonight.

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It is a time when God is going to be vindicated in the world.

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When man has said no to God, he leaves himself no destiny but hell and ultimately the lake

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of fire.

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Certainly, the picture that is here is a warning to every person who is outside of Jesus Christ

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to turn immediately to the Savior who still today has his arms open and on his lips the

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invitation of grace to come to me.

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But there will come a day when his arms will be folded as a judge and the words from his

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lips will not be words of invitation, but words like these, depart from me into everlasting

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fire.

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Depart from me.

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I never knew you.

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They will be cast into their place of judgment.

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Well, it is an ominous way to end the service and to end this chapter.

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For the child of God, this chapter has tremendous glory and hope and expectation for those who

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are not children of God, a warning that is written in red letters and underscored, a

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warning about continuing rejection of Jesus Christ.

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If you be here tonight without Jesus Christ as your Savior, surely this chapter alone

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from the Word of God should be enough to warn you of your destiny, should you persist in

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your unbelief.

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Oh, that tonight you would trust the Lord Jesus Christ and receiving him be saved from

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this awful judgment that is coming upon all of those who reject Christ.

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I would like for us to close tonight on a happier note than that.