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Introduction
This is the response of the 24 elders on their thrones before God. as they hear the great host of heaven declaring that the kingdom of this world has become the kingdom of our Lord and His Christ and he shall reign for ever and ever.
They respond by falling on their faces and worship to God.
Remember that we noted when we were first introduced to the 24 Elders that they represent the believers in heaven.
We believe that because they have crowns and sit on thrones (angels do not) and they have white robes that we noted symbolizes the righteousness of the saints.
We also noted last time that this proclamation is the consummation of the coming of the Lord.
It is the answer to the Lord's prayer "thy kingdom come".
It is the answer to the prayer of the martyred saints for God to avenge their blood; it is the answer to the prayer 'come Lord Jesus'.
So these elders are responding with praise and worship to God for
I. Their Praise
Their worship is manifested by their falling on their faces.
lit.
they fell down on their faces, Rev. 7:11,12
the idea of course is that they fell down with their faces to the ground.
In other words they rose up off their thrones where they were seated and prostrated themselves on the ground with their faces in the dirt before God.
This is a sign of devotion or humility before one of high rank or in this case God.
I.
The voice of their worship is directed toward:
-Lord-κυριε
* the God
* the Almighty- παντωκρατορ
* the one who is and was,ie.
the eternal one, the one who always was and always is.
I reminded you before that the title Lord/kurie is the GK translation of the Hebrew YHWH.
It is often used of Jesus, as in Paul's often stated Lord Jesus Christ, or Jesus Christ our Lord.
Here it is a statement directed at God on the throne.
They are speaking to the God who spoke to Moses in the bush, who called Abraham out of Ur, Who made the covenant with Abraham, Who created the World.
He is the Kurie that is spoken to here.
Their praise is directed toward the One who sits on the Throne of the Universe.
The also identify Him as the Almighty
the word παντωκρατορis used several times in Revelation to describe God,
Rev 1:8; 4:8; 11:17; 15:3; 16:7, 14 ;19:15; 21:22.
It is only used of God as translation of the Hebrew word for hostsצבאות and shaddai.
He is the all-powerful, omnipotent one.
Paul refers to God in this manner to encourage the Corinthian believers to live lives separate from unbelievers, "come out from among them" he said quoting from Isaiah 52 and Ezekiel 20 I "will be a Father to you, and you will be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty." 2 Cor.
6:18.
The Elders have the Almighty in focus as they bow in praise to Him who is all powerful, easily defeating this world and bringing to the surface His kingdom.
I think the main point here is that the believers contemporary to John are to see this as a great encouragement to them who are being pressured on every side to yield allegiance to the Emporer as almighty God.
When the reality is the one they worship in the person of the Lord Jesus Christ IS the ALMIGHTY.
Just refer back to those many statements already addressed in this Revelation.
Choose you this day whom you will serve, is the question we all have to answer today.
God is also identified by the phrase
"Who is and Who was and who is to come" the last of the tripartite phrase is not found in the better mss.
You might notice if you are using the ESV/NASB that thee third clause "art to come" is absent from the text.
Just a word about that.
The textual evidence shows that it is absent in the better mss.
It is in a few and in the Textus Receptus, therefore in the KJV.
However, theologically it need not be there.
In fact, it is out of place there because The praise being invoked is because the Lord IS come.
His coming in this case is not future.
He IS here in John's vision.
So the need to say "are to come" is both unnecessary and odd.
Thus, due to the mss evidence and the exegetical evidence, and the theological evidence most think it was a scribal addition to keep consistent with the like statements earlier in Revelation.
II.
The voice of their worship is verbalized by:
-thanksgiving
* Because God reigns
The reason for the thanksgiving is because God has taken His great power and begun to reign.
That is, He has assumed power.
He has taken the reins, though He never really gave them up.
This means that the last part of the triadic name for God is not merely a general reference to his sovereignty over the future but specifically speaks of the end time, when God will break into world history and end it by overthrowing all opposition to his people and setting up his eternal kingdom.
Beale, G. K. (1999).
The book of Revelation: a commentary on the Greek text (p.
613).
Grand Rapids, MI; Carlisle, Cumbria: W.B. Eerdmans; Paternoster Press.
The Lord Reigns, that is why.
The background of that phrase is found repeatedly in the Psalms
Ps. 47:8; 93:1; 96:10-13; 99:1
When you think of why John is seeing this and writing about it is so that it might encourage the believers of his day to persevere and not give up to the pressures of the world in which they live and turn away from Christ.
Instead, this vision would give them courage.
Though the world is falling apart around them and there is devastation and danger on all sides of them; though it might appear that the enemy has the upper hand (though our preceding text shows us even though the two witnesses were killed they do rise and live) God is the One who truly reigns.
Even Jesus said to Pilate when he claimed power to crucify or release Him,
Let me give you an OT illustration of this.
2 Chronicles 10 records the separation of the Nation of Israel: two tribes go with Rehoboam, son of Solomon and ten tribes go with Jeroboam.
There is a national division that rips the nation apart.
But the text tells us in v.15 "the cause was of God, that the Lord might perform his word, . . .
." later on (2 Chronicles 13) there was a war between Abijah, son of Rehoboam who was king of Judah, and Jeroboam king of Northern Israel.
It was 400,000 of Judah against 800,000 of Jeroboam.
this is 2-1 odds in favor of Jeroboam.
But Abijah was standing for God calling people back to God.
Jeroboam had set up a parallel worship system, which was satanic really.
So here is the stage, Jeroboam has the odds overwhelmingly in his favor.
He even is able to strategically get the upper hand by totally surrounding Abijah's army.
He was in front and behind them.
They had ambushed Abijah's army.
I just gotta read this.
2 Chronicles 13: 13-18 This is a powerful example of the power of God as the ALMIGHTY God who reigns over the affairs of men.
We have many examples right here in Revelation too.
Now come back to Revelation: We see the enemies rule is merely a puppet regime that is temporary.
John speaks in the aorist tense which indicates the rule of God is now to Him.
It is not that God will rule some day, but for now power belongs to the enemy.
No! it is that God rules now and that any power the enemy has is a derived power that has a terminal date.
God rules now!
Paul alludes to this in 1 Cor.15:24-28.
Since He rules now, any power a nation, dictator or other leader has is a derived power given by God for a time.
It doesn't matter if it is a Hitler, Mussolini, Hussein, Kim Jong Un.
Romans 13:1 reminds us that "there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God."
And so it is here in our Text.
thus, the elders and the host of heaven praise God and give thanks because He Reigns!
We need to recognize that too.
Your boss doesn't rule, our president or governor, doesn't rule.
God does.
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