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Who could rejoice after destruction?
Last week we were able to see the pronouncement of the destruction of the antichrist, the false prophet, and Babylon.
The false prophet had manipulated this world into thinking the antichrist could bring peace, which he did but only for a short period of time.
After the short lived peace, turmoil and calamities struck the earth causing leaders to look to the antichrist for deliverance.
Now, they too were seeing their hopes and dreams go up in smoke, literally.
Because of the grievous sin of Babylon, her fall and destruction will be swift.
Her plagues will come in a single day.
Literally, plagues of death will fall one minute, and fire will destroy it the next.
The destruction is swift, violent, and the city will be reduced to ashes.
Total, complete, and final destruction will come to Babylon, simply because they rejected God and their evil and sinful influence corrupted the whole world as a result.
During a time like this, who could rejoice?
Who could sing praises during destruction?
The righteous, and that’s exactly what we see done.
Rejoicing in Heaven
What has happened now that changes the judgments to rejoicing?
After this - we have been looking at the time of the Great Tribulation for the past 14 chapters.
Now we see a change - the Tribulation is coming to an end and now the focus is placed on heaven and Christ’s second coming.
It is a time of rejoicing and victory.
After Babylon was destroyed, a great roar from heaven could be heard.
This is the same phrase used in 7:9 where the “great multitude” refers to the martyred dead of the Great Tribulation.
To them, Babylon’s defeat would be a great victory!
Hallelujah - literally translated “Praise the Lord” is found four times in the New Testament, and all here in the next few verses.
This is literally a heavenly “hallelujah chorus”.
There is a statement of fact - salvation and glory and power belong to our God
Salvation - delivery, preservation
Glory - highest esteem, honor
Power - influence on earthly activities with supernatural ability
Judgments - a passing of decision upon a person or thing through a process of investigation and determination
God is the only one who possesses the traits and qualities to truly judge others based on their actions and deeds.
Though in a position of glory, having power and might, He still offers salvation so judgment of sin can be avoided.
How many years has God extended us grace and mercy?
How many years had God stood in disappointment over His creation?
How many years will it be until the world will return like the time of Noah and God will pass judgment that no one else will turn from their reprobate mind and accept salvation?
How many years, months, days, hours, minutes, or seconds are left before you face Jesus Christ face to face?
The 24 elders and 4 living creatures are mentioned again as they sing a hallelujah chorus, along with another voice (assuming this is an angel) saying Praise our God, all you his servants, you who fear him, small and great.
Wedding of the Lamb
Who is the bride of Christ?
The church (all saved)!
We see the fourth “Hallelujah” in verse 6, which sounded like a great roar of people - all those who were in heaven, crying out so loud it roared like a great waterfall or thunder.
There is a reverential acknowledgment that it is God who controls all of heaven and earth.
We hear a warning in the Gospels:
Matthew 25:1-13
But in Revelation, we see a great picture being painted before us - the marriage of the Lamb (groom) and his Bride (believers) has come.
All the excitement, the anticipation, the preparation - it is all really happening!
The bride is dressed in fine linen - believers are justified (made pure) by their faith - and stand before their groom based on their salvation.
Description of preparation for our wedding.
Nervousness, excitement, happiness.
Who is invited to this joyous union?
Notice the differentiation among the attendees.
Jewish believers (Messianic Jews), Gentile believers, martyred believers, all believers will be gathered together in the great banquet hall, for the very first time and for one purpose - to worship God.
Worship
What correction do we see repeated to John?
John was not yet in a glorified body, and this scene was so impressive, he fell down to worship at the angels feet.
Again, the angel urged him to get up and worship only God since he (the angel) was only a fellow servant with John.
In other words, he had not seen anything yet.
Second Coming
What is John witnessing?
As John saw heaven open, he saw prophetically Christ’s second coming and the events which will follow it.
The prophecy of the second coming is found all throughout scripture.
Where else in scripture do we see this prophecy?
I can with all certainty tell you, scripture confirms a second return of Christ.
As John gazed into heaven, he saw Christ on a white horse.
Though some have identified this rider with the rider in 6:2, the context is entirely different.
In 6:2 the rider is the world ruler of the Great Tribulation, while here the rider is a ruler who obviously comes from heaven itself.
The white horse is a sign of His coming triumph.
Who is described as returning on the white horse?
The white horse is a symbol of Christ’s triumph over the forces of wickedness in the world.
The horse’s rider is called Faithful and True for, as John declared, With justice He judges and makes war.
The rider obviously is Jesus Christ, returning to the earth in glory.
That He is coming as Judge is further supported by the fact that He is dressed in a robe dipped in blood.
The drama of the scene is further enhanced by the multitude of the armies of heaven described as riding on white horses and dressed in fine linen, white and clean.
In Christ’s mouth was a sharp sword which He would use to strike down the nations.
The scene on earth is the final stage of the great world war that will be under way for many weeks.
With armies battling up and down the Holy Land for victory, on the very day of the return of Christ there will be house-to-house fighting in Jerusalem itself.
The armies of earth are no match for the armies from heaven.The beast and his armies will gather to fight against Christ and His army.
The outcome of this battle—referred to in 16:14 as “the battle on the great day of God Almighty”—is summarized in 19:19–21.
The world rulers—the beast and the false prophet—will both be captured.
Their former miraculous demonic power will no longer be sufficient to save them.
Both of them will be thrown alive into the fiery lake of burning sulfur.
The Bible is clear that judgment awaits the wicked, and the second coming of Christ is the occasion for a worldwide judgment unparalleled in Scripture since the time of Noah’s flood.
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