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The Lamb on Zion with His Redeemed
Introduction
Get Attention:
Illustration - standing on the beach sands when the tide rolls in, as the sand washes away from underneath the feet... contrast to standing on the top of Treasure Mountain, on a rock that doesn't budge.
Raise Need:
In postmodern times like these, we must know where to find firm footing in a world of daydreamers who'd rather build their lives on sandy and weak foundations.
Orient Theme:
That which the devil and this world's system offers is ever fluid, ready wash away at a moments notice; while that which is offered us in the Lord Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God, and the Redeemer, will never be moved.
It's part of God's eternal purposes.
State Purpose:
Having started out with Christ (if you are saved), I hope to help you consider your faith's foundations, and inspect it for any places that might need spiritual shoring up.
Consider briefly just how different the Christ is from the Devil's counterfeit:
Christ
Antichrist
Christ - From above-
AntiChrist - From the pit-
Christ - Came in His Father’s name-
AntiChrist - Came in his own name-
Christ - Humbled Himself-
AntiChrist - Will exalt himself-
Christ - Was despised- ;
AntiChrist - Will be admired-
Christ - Will be exalted-
AntiChrist - Will be cast down to hell- ;
Christ - Came to do His Father’s will-
AntiChrist - Will come to do his own will-
Christ - Came to save-
AntiChrist - Will come to destroy-
Christ - Is the Good Shepard-
AntiChrist - Is the “idol (evil) Shepard”-
Christ - Is the “True Vine”-
AntiChrist - Is the “vine of the earth”-
Christ - Is the “Truth”-
AntiChrist - Is the “lie”-
Christ - Is the “Holy One”-
AntiChrist - Is the “Lawless one”-
Christ - Is the “Man of Sorrows”-
AntiChrist - Is the “man of sin”-
Christ - Is the “Son of God”-
AntiChrist - Is the “son of perdition”-
Christ - Is the “Mystery of godliness:…God manifest in the flesh”-
AntiChrist - Will be the “mystery of iniquity” Satan manifest in the flesh-
Main Thought
I hope to encourage your confidence to be fully persuaded that "He which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day that the Lamb stands upon Zion's hill.
Sub-Introduction
What a refreshing sight after the horrors of !
John sees the Lamb and 144,000 redeemed, standing on Mount Sion, and there is much rejoicing and much music.
In chapter truth had fallen in the streets, and the saints’ blood ran like water; at the close of chapter good had been almost banished from the earth () and faith was almost unknown ().
The Beast proudly proclaimed himself to be God and dictated both political and religious policies.
The few faithful ones were going through such terrible persecution as was never known upon this earth, and except the Lord had shortened those days, “there should no flesh be saved.”
[Oliver B. Greene, Revelation, A Verse by Verse Study, Commentaries and Writings of Oliver B. Greene (The Gospel Hour, Inc., 1963), 275–276.]
This new chapter unfolded the next object of the Revelator’s apocalyptic vision.
Whereas he had seen the deception and destruction of the Antichrist, now the Apostle viewed the triumph of Christ, the Lamb.
Chapter Thirteen dealt with the Beast-Man and the destiny of his followers, while Chapter Fourteen dealt with the God-Man and the victory of His followers.
The First Beast will reign for the last three and a half years and come to an abrupt end; the Lord Jesus Christ will deliver the sealed 144,000 through the whole Tribulation and into the beginning of the Millennium.
Other parallels between these two chapters emerge, such as the two lambs (cf.
and the two locations (cf.
and the two statements of worship (cf.
and enslavement versus redemption (cf.
and deception versus no lie (cf.
and the mark of the Beast versus the name of the Father and Lamb (cf.
and and the two numbers, the number Beast and the number of the Jews (cf.
and
[Thomas M. Strouse, To the Seven Churches: A Commentary on the Apocalypse of Jesus Christ, Selected Works of Dr. Thomas M. Strouse (Bible Baptist Theological Press, 40 Country Squire Rd., Cromwell, CT 06461, 2013), 551.]
There are seven outstanding things to be noted in our present chapter:
1.
We see the 144,000 sealed ones on Mount Sion - verses
2. God’s closing testimony to earth: “the everlasting Gospel” - verses and
3.
The announcement that Babylon is fallen - verse
4. The terrible doom of the Beast-worshippers - verses
5.
The blessedness of those who die in the Lord - verse
6.
The harvest of earth is reaped - verses
7. The fullness of God’s wrath and vengeance is poured out - verses
[Greene, 275–276.]
I. John Beholds the Lamb & His Redeemed ().
A. The Lamb Standing on Zion ().
The contrast of the gentleness of the Lamb to the ferocity of the δράκων (drakōn, “dragon”) and the θήρια (thēria, “beasts”) is striking.
He is a direct opposite of the beast with two horns like those of a lamb in .145
The beasts arise from the sea or the earth (, ), but He has His feet firmly planted, as the perfect tense of ἑστός (hestos, “standing”) suggests (Ford).
He also contrasts with the dragon who “stood” (ἐστάθη [estathē]) on the sands of the sea in .
He is on the rock of Mount Zion instead of the unstable sand (Swete).
His pose is no longer that of a slain Lamb, but now that of a militant victor with His feet solidly fixed on the Mount of Olives (cf. ) (Moffatt).
[Robert L. Thomas, Revelation 8-22: An Exegetical Commentary (Chicago: Moody Publishers, 1995), 189.]
The English expression “mount Sion” occurs twice elsewhere, once referring to the literal location of the southwestern hill upon which Jerusalem was built (cf.
), and once figuratively (cf.
).
The Scripture teaches that the Lord Jesus Christ will come back at the end of the Tribulation and stand on the Mount of Olives to destroy the armies of the nations.
For instance, Zechariah predicted, saying, “And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south” ().
From his “holy hill of Zion” He will rule the nations for a thousand years, as David prophesied, saying, “Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.
I will declare the decree: the LORD hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee.
Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession.
Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel” ().
Moreover, the Lord Jesus predicted that He would judge the nations at this time, saying, “When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory: And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats” ().
These passages pre-figure the Lord’s victorious stand on Mount Zion at the outset of the Millennium with His sealed evangelists.2114
[Strouse, 553–554.]
B. The 144,000 With Him ().
Although He is in His person the Lamb, He is also the Shepherd.
Remember that He started out with 144,000 and that He came through the Great Tribulation with 144,000.
He didn’t lose one.
My friend, in our day when the pressures of Satan bear us down, the living, victorious Christ is available to us.
Oh, that you and I might come to know Him better and that He might occupy a greater place in our lives day by day.
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