God instructs Jeremiah to take the wine cup of his fury and to give it to the nations to drink ( Jeremiah 25:15). It is glorious to realize that the Lord is presenting me faultless before the Father. Whenever this is repeated, it denotes something peculiarly observable. The general strain of John is to dwell on Christ manifesting God here below. Is. (1) "And I heard a voice from heaven LIKE THE SOUND OF MANY WATERS". When Peter asked what was to happen to John, Jesus told him not to bother about what would happen to others but to concentrate on following him ( John 21:19-22). The judgment is announced (Revelation 14:7). The first is a certain numbered multitude separated to the Lamb on mount Zion. "Beware, ye that forget God, lest he tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver." "So also is Christ," says the apostle Paul, when speaking of the church; for we must naturally suppose the allusion is to the body rather than to the head. John calls the company of the Lamb three things: (i) They are a sacrifice to God and to the Lamb. In the millennium this will not be wholly out of sight as now under Christianity, but reappear only it will be in manifest subordination, as we may see in Ezekiel's prophecy. In point of fact, what the woman represents will be Israel on the earth. Here we are reminded of the unmistakableness of the voice of God. To report dead links, typos, or html errors or suggestions about making these resources more useful use the convenient, Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology, Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament, The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary, International Standard Bible Encyclopedia. By works he means character. There you will find "king of nations," with other words which are cited here. It is significant that this is the fiercest warning of all. "And it was given him to give life to the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed. While somewhat figurative, the allusion to the crucifixion of our Lord (11:8) compel us to think of the historical Jerusalem (Philip Schaff). The temple of God was opened in heaven, and there was seen in His temple the ark of His covenant. It is said of all these worshippers that they learned the song before they went there. The remnant of her seed are the witnessing portion. Let's hope it is not a fallen angel.I think that this is not a satellite launched from the space shuttle, made by RCA or Hughes, but I believe that this is an actual angelic being. And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him." The others are "every tribe, and people, and tongue, and nation," that have heard comparatively little about the gospel. Of all dooms, as the Revelation sees it, the doom of the apostate is worst. As the beast would take power, so should he suffer the consequence. "And after that I saw, and there was opened the temple of the tabernacle of the testimony in heaven: and the seven angels came out of the temple, that had the seven plagues, clothed in pure and white linen, and having their breasts girded with golden girdles. This is the one here described: "And I saw one of its heads as it were wounded to death; and its deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast." . It is a beast, and not merely a horn. First, then, singing how loud ! "She was with child, and crieth, travailing in birth, in pain to be delivered." B. And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, that keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus." There is put up over the door, "All persons who come shall be taken in:" at the same time it is known that there is a person inside the hospital, who is so wise that he knows all who will come, and has written down the names of all who will come in a book, so that, when they come, those who open the doors will only say, "How marvellously wise our Master was, to know the names of those who would come." Revelation - Free Bible Commentary in easy English It is, therefore, plain that the second beast is really the more energetic of the two, and the active instrument of evil. 12:22-24), or Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonor?" And I saw, and behold, the Lamb standing on the mount Zion, and with him a hundred and forty and four thousand, having his name, and the name of his Father, written on their foreheads. And what is that? There is a story told in the history of brave Oliver Cromwell, which I use here to illustrate this new song. Worship the God who made the heavens. 14:15 And another angel came out of the temple, crying out with a loud voice to Him who sat on the cloud, "Put in your sickle and reap, for the hour to reap has come, because the harvest of the earth is ripe.". Zion (note that Zachariah 14:4 says He will set foot on the Mt. Study Guide for Revelation 14 by David Guzik - Blue Letter Bible They were sealed and they were preserved during a portion of the great tribulation period. (3) "And LIKE THE SOUND OF HARPERS PLAYING ON THEIR HARPS". There is relatively very little difficulty in the interpretation of this chapter. "A few more rolling suns at most, Will land us on fair Canaan's coast;", and then we shall help to make the song, which now we can scarcely conceive, but which yet we desire to join. By their loyalty and stedfast adherence to Christ: They follow the Lamb withersoever he goes; they follow the conduct of his word, Spirit, and providence, leaving it to him to lead them into what duties and difficulties he pleases. But there is more than this: Satan sets himself against His connection with the poor and despised people of Israel. Only we must remember that we must read scripture with scripture. 1. It is evident that at this time persons are spoken of as dwelling in heaven who sympathise deeply with their suffering brethren on earth. Consequently it must precede the latter part of that chapter. Revelation 13 Commentary - Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible In principle this is true of every unrenewed man; but here it is the more tremendous, because an empire ought to be the reflection of the authority that God in His providence has conferred on it. The explanation why it is thus introduced here depends on the truth that Christ and the church are one, and have a common destiny. I grant that the measure of their faith is small. 14:1 I saw, and behold the Lamb stood on Mount Sion, and there were with him one hundred and forty-four thousand who had his name, and the name of his Father written on their foreheads. The fifth angel poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast. You say, "When I go perhaps they will take me in, and perhaps they will not." The very last of the bowls, the seventh, is the fall of Babylon. It is a song of redemption belonging to the church.Now, these have their own songs. A power that can batter and shatter to fragments the strongest works of man. Here we are reminded of the power of the voice of God, for there is no power like the crash of the mountainous waves upon the beaches and the cliffs. Revelation Chapter 14 Explained - Discover Books of The Bible This is strictly in order. Unfortunately, it got lost in its orbit. But he will endeavour to deal with both; and more particularly "all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose name is not written in the book of life of the slain Lamb from the foundation of the world.". It is not the way to understand any part of the Bible, least of all perhaps prophecy. For what can go more practically to destroy the proper relationship of the saints of the Lord? Revelation | Verse By Verse Ministry International We have the same idea in the Book of Enoch: "I will give them over (the wicked) into the hands of mine elect: as straw in the fire, so shall they burn before the face of the holy: as lead in the water shall they sink before the face of the righteous, and no trace of them shall be found any more" (Enoch 48:9). Thus all the different departments of nature, whatever may be symbolized by them (and their meaning seems to me neither indeterminate 'nor obscure), were visited by the bowls of God's wrath. v. 14) calls special attention to the greatness of the sight that John saw here. And I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of a great thunder: and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps; And they sung as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four beasts, and the elders; and no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand, which were redeemed from the earth." (1) First, PURITY, verse 4. The second was understood as the false church which made an image of the beast (in the sense of becoming that image), the degenerate religion, being particularly manifested when John wrote as the pagan priesthood, but developing later into the full apostasy of the Middle Ages, and becoming an image of the first beast, itself the second, but particularly a religious beast originating in Christianity and developing out of it. Verse 1 Verse 2 Verse 3 Verse 4 Verse 5 Verse 6 Verse 7 Verse 8 Verse 9 Verse 10 Verse 11 Verse 12 Verse 13 Verse 14 Verse 15 Verse 16 Verse 17 Verse 18 Verse 19 Verse 20. The meaning of Revelation 14:4 is that "they are chaste"--"they have renounced all sin" (see also 2 Corinthians 11:2). This is a favourite thought in Scripture. Barclay believed that "'it might indicate ownership, loyalty, security, dependence and safety of the Christian. There is no power quite like the crash of mountainous waves on the beaches and cliffs. But a very peculiar scene is described in Revelation 15:1-8, and Revelation 16:1-21. This sermon looks at Revelation 14 and the first angel's message which say. "As often, with this author, we have first a general fact, or statement, then a detail or part."[1]. ", THE HARVEST OF JUDGMENT ( Revelation 14:14-20 ). That is to say, the gospel as it should be preached in and out of Christendom depends on the most stupendous facts ever accomplished here below, for which God waited more than four thousand years even of man's dwelling on the earth before He would or could righteously send it forth. At the very beginning the first chapter of Genesis proves that this is God's mind for man here below. 14 Revelation 14:14 What meaning of the revelation 14:14 in the Bible? Thus, when the angel goes through the skies warning them they're taking the mark, after that will be a deliberate willful act of rebellion against God.That is why at this final opportunity the gospel will be proclaimed. Here we are reminded of the melody of the voice of God. [2] However many angels are seen in these verses, there is only one sickle, only one judgment. 14:2-3 And I heard a voice from heaven like the sound of many waters and like the voice of great thunder, and the voice I heard was like the sound of harpers playing on their harps. The Christian body will be no more seen on earth. Would it not be a heaven to you, if it were carried out in your experience "Mine eye shall see him, and not another's?" The church is never represented as a mother in scripture: still less could it be the mother of Christ. To learn certain things a man must be a certain kind of person. "And the beast which I saw was like a leopardess, and its feet were as of a bear, and its mouth as a lion's." The background is the picture of a prostitute persuading a man into immorality by filling him full of wine, so that he could no longer resist her wiles. So, the people are called Danish or Dan-ish. Popery is much more antichurch than antichrist. But he begins by saying, "I looked, and, lo, a Lamb!" - CBSC, written on their foreheads . Such is the music of heaven. John does not mean that the Lamb was slain from the foundation of the world, but that the name was not written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb that was slain. But in heaven he is in the midst of his friends, and therefore he, Looks like a lamb that has been slain, And wears his priesthood still. Such revelations must have been shocking indeed to the first readers of this prophecy; and their most natural reaction would have been the question, "Is evil then destined to triumph?" "And the moon under her feet" is an allusion, I suppose, to her old condition of legal ordinances, which, instead of governing her, are now subject to her under her feet. . All this, it is plain, is the fruit of Satan's wiles; but the everlasting gospel presents God as the blesser of man and creation, as it always was in His mind, and as He will certainly bring it to pass; not, of course, for every individual man, because those who despise His mercy in Christ, and those especially who having heard despise the gospel of His grace, must be lost for ever. He was a Satan worshiper, and he was declaring we are winning. Clearly, therefore, judgment from heaven becomes yet more unsparing in its blows on man here below. The Book of Revelation teaches us how to be obedient - especially in light of the last days. And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up unto ages of ages: and they. You may hate it, and gnash and grind your teeth against it; but, remember, we can trace the pedigree of this doctrine, even apart from Scripture, to the time of the apostles. Psalms 2:6; Psalms 48:2; Psalms 78:68; Psalms 87:2; Psalms 125:1; Isaiah 28:16; Isaiah 59:20; Obadiah 1:17; Obadiah 1:21; Micah 4:7). And they are actually deceived into believing that they will be able to triumph. and yet no music. I have no doubt the Roman empire is particularly in view; and, by the Roman empire we are to understand what was properly Roman the western portion, not what the Romans actually possessed, because they conquered a great deal that belonged to Greece for instance, and Babylon, and Medo-Persia. He is priest; but He is priest in heaven. See the notes on Revelation 7:3; Revelation 13:16. (2) "The 144,000 who had His name and His Fathers name written on their foreheads." And I heard a voice from heaven This is most seasonably heard when the beast is in his highest power and fury; saying unto me, Write He was at first commanded to write the whole book. The reason, I think, is just this, that it intimates to us, as in Old Testament prophecy, how the Lord and His people are wrapped up, as it were, in the very same symbol; even as, in a yet more intimate way, what is said about Christ applies to the Christian. Well, to give you another illustration; suppose there is a rule that there always must be a thousand persons, or a very large number in the hospital. This great judgment scene in Revelation 14 is squarely addressed to that question. No one has ever discovered a really satisfying explanation of this. Matthew 13:36-43 and 24:21-46 disclose Jesus' words about this future event. C. The first beast is destroyed (Revelation 14:8). But why so loud? "I saw as it were a sea of glass." They are not spoken of as conscious of any such relationship, as it is not a question of their Father, not of His Father and their Father. To that Revelation 16:1-21 now brings us up in point of time. 214.]. Now, I believe that we should seek to preach the gospel to every nation, but I do not believe that our failure to do so is hindering the return of Jesus Christ. Having thus brought us down to the close in a comprehensive manner, the Lord turns back, and specifies a particular part of that history in a confined sphere, namely, from the time that the abomination of desolation is set up in the holy place. And with him a hundred forty and four thousand] Representing those who were converted to Christianity from among the Jews. Verse by Verse Commentary. Now, the three angels flying through the midst of heaven, but now this is another voice from heaven. And several groups have sought this identity, but very out of sorts to then follow through and make it possible for Herbert Armstrong.He then embraces the anglo-Israel, British-Israel concept that the supposed lost tribes are actually the European nations. Does not this most strongly confirm the same view? Revelation 14. This shows us how remarkably mystical the statement is. It is not now "the third" as under the trumpets, with which the analogy is close; there is no restriction to the western empire of Rome. The fall of Babylon to Cyrus the Persian had been one of the shattering events of ancient history. The bride never knew exactly when he was coming during this period of time, so she had to always be ready. The Son of man is seen with the crown of gold, King of righteousness, not yet manifested as King of peace. "Follow Me" was the command always upon His lips.--To Philip, John 1:43. If you only mean that some saints are to pass through that tremendous time, it is unquestionable. Detailed verse-by-verse commentary preceded by general comments on each section and subsection of the text. And it is absolutely requisite to have, at any rate, a generally correct understanding of its outline; else we are in imminent risk of making confusion, the moment we venture to put the parts together, or to form anything like a connected view of that which it conveys to us. Rome has been like that, like some glittering prostitute seducing the world. Here Johns symbol reminds us of the UNMISTAKABLENESS of the voice of God. It will be a new song, because the saints were never in such a position before as they will be when they sing this new song. "The fifth angel poured out his bowl upon the seat of the beast; and his kingdom was full of darkness; and they gnawed their tongues for pain, and blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores, and repented not of their deeds. . They are all gone, death is vanquished, Satan is cast into the lake of fire, and here stands the King himself, crowned with many crowns, the victor of the victors. Jesus said to Philip ( John 1:43), and to Matthew ( Mark 2:14). Assuredly everything that can edify and refresh the soul, and that can be used by the Holy Ghost for real blessing in separating us from the world and attaching us to heaven, and, above all, to Christ, we may gather from the Revelation rightly understood now. Never since the gospel was preached were men more thoroughly settling down in the endeavour to improve the earth, and consequently to forget heaven day by day, only thinking of it as a dismal necessity when they die, and cannot avoid leaving the world.

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