REVELATION CHAPTER 19 REVELATION 19:1 God is praised in heaven for judging the great whore, and avenging the blood of his saints. REVELATION 19:6 The triumph because of the marriage of the Lamb. REVELATION 19:10 The angel who showed John these things, refuseth to be worshipped. REVELATION 19:11 The... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR TRUE AND RIGHTEOUS ARE HIS JUDGMENTS: the Lord's _judgments, _ in holy writ, sometimes signify his precepts, sometimes his dispensations of providence, either more generally, or more specially; in which last sense it signifies (as here) his punishment of sinners: these are just and righteous, an... [ Continue Reading ]
As the church proceeded in her praises, so God proceeded in his judgments upon the great whore, until she was ruined past recovery.... [ Continue Reading ]
SEE POOLE ON "REVELATION 4:1", and following verses to REVELATION 4:11. All the heavenly choir praise God upon this account, desiring that the Lord would fulfil what he had begun.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND A VOICE CAME OUT OF THE THRONE, from Christ, declaring it the will of God, that all holy ones should praise him upon this account.... [ Continue Reading ]
By this MULTITUDE most understand the church. Some understand the Jews as well as the Gentiles, supposing that they shall be before this time converted and added to the church. Others think their conversion is the marriage spoken of in the next verse. The saints do not rejoice in the ruin of their a... [ Continue Reading ]
A late reverend author tells us: That as there is a three-fold resurrection mentioned in Scripture; 1. A rising to a newness of life, EPHESIANS 5:14; 2. The conversion of the Jews, called _life from the dead,_ ROMANS 11:15; 3. In the end of the world: so there is a threefold marriage of the Lamb;... [ Continue Reading ]
AND TO HER WAS GRANTED; that is, to the Lamb's wife, whether Jews or Gentiles, or both. THAT SHE SHOULD BE ARRAYED IN FINE LINEN, CLEAN AND WHITE; that she should be clothed with the righteousness of Christ, reckoned to her for righteousness. This IS THE RIGHTEOSNESS OF THE SAINTS; called _the right... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE SAITH UNTO ME, WRITE; write it, as a business of moment, of which a record is fit to be kept. BLESSED ARE THEY WHICH ARE CALLED TO THE MARRIAGE SUPPER OF THE LAMB; that is, (say those who understand by _the marriage of the Lamb_ the Jews conversion), who live in this happy period of time when... [ Continue Reading ]
OLBGrk; AND I FELL AT HIS FEET TO WORSHIP HIM: prostration, or falling at the feet of superiors, to pay them an homage in consideration of their superiority, was ordinarily used in those Eastern countries, GENESIS 44:14 1 SAMUEL 25:24 2 KINGS 4:37 ESTHER 8:3. To _worship him, _ therefore, here must... [ Continue Reading ]
The remaining part of this chapter is conceived more fully to open what shall come to pass under the sixth and seventh vials, mentioned REVELATION 16:12,17, more especially the battle in _Armageddon, _ mentioned there, REVELATION 16:16. There mention was made only of the armies being gathered togeth... [ Continue Reading ]
HIS EYES WERE AS A FLAME OF FIRE: see REVELATION 1:14, REVELATION 2:18. This denoted either his piercing knowledge, or his infinite wisdom and understanding. AND ON HIS HEAD WERE MANY CROWNS; and there needs must be so; for, REVELATION 19:16, he is said to be the _King of kings, and Lord of lords._... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE WAS CLOTHED WITH A VESTURE DIPPED IN BLOOD; either to denote that he was he who redeemed us by his blood; or rather, to signify that he was now coming forth to shed the blood of his enemies, both in vindication of his own honour and glory, or of his people; in which notion it also agrees with... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE ARMIES WHICH WERE IN HEAVEN FOLLOWED HIM; the glorious angels, 2 THESSALONIANS 1:7, and ten thousands of his saints, JUDGES 1:14, who follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. UPON WHITE HORSES; to prophesy success and victory. CLOTHED IN FINE LINEN, WHITE AND CLEAN; to denote their glory, pur... [ Continue Reading ]
AND OUT OF HIS MOUTH GOETH A SHARP SWORD: I can easily agree that this two-edged sword is the word of Christ coming out of his mouth, but not the gospel, (the time was past for that, it was the time of the sacrifice in Bozrah), but his word of command, calling out his people to take vengeance upon t... [ Continue Reading ]
The same name as in REVELATION 17:14 1 TIMOTHY 6:15; SEE POOLE ON "REVELATION 17:14", SEE POOLE ON "1 TIMOTHY 6:15"; denoting the sovereign power and authority which he had. This he always had, but he now comes forth openly to manifest it; therefore this name is said to be WRITTEN ON HIS VESTURE AND... [ Continue Reading ]
The best conjecture I can find at the sense of these words, is, that they signify the preachers of the gospel bold and clear foretelling the ruin of antichrist. There are divers kinds of fowls; amongst others, some that feed on flesh. These are those fowls here mentioned, such as feed upon dead carc... [ Continue Reading ]
In the former verse God invited all the ravenous fowls to a supper, he here showeth their cheer. The meaning is no more than this, that in the great battle of Armageddon, which was for the destruction of all the remainder of the enemies of the church, whether papists, or atheists, or Turks; men of a... [ Continue Reading ]
THE BEAST, whether by it be understood _the dragon, _ or _the beast_ with _seven heads and ten horns, _ or _the beast_ with two horns, or all of them, shall before this time be all destroyed, that is, as to their power and dominion; but there will be relics left, both of pagans, and Turks, and papis... [ Continue Reading ]
The issue of this great battle will be the total ruin of all enemies of the church, their bodies being made meat for the fowls of the heaven, their souls cast into the bottomless pit of hell. The secular part of antichrist is here meant by THE BEAST; the ecclesiastical antichrist, by THE FALSE PROPH... [ Continue Reading ]
In all armies there are are common soldiers as well as officers. What the issue of this battle shall be, as to the leaders in it, the former verse told us: this tells us how it shall fare with those under the command of them. It seems they shall not be excused because they followed their leaders, an... [ Continue Reading ]