Revelation 19:7

WIFE The "Lamb's wife" here is the "bride", (Revelation 21:9), the Church, identified with the "heavenly Jerusalem", (Hebrews 12:22); (Hebrews 12:23), and to be distinguished from Israel, the adulterous and repudiated "wife" of Jehovah, yet to be restored; (Isaiah 54:1); (Hosea 2:1); who is identif... [ Continue Reading ]

Revelation 19:8

RIGHTEOUSNESS The garment is Scripture is a symbol of righteousness. In the bad ethical sense, it symbolizes self-righteousness (for example, (Isaiah 64:6); (Philippians 3:6) the best that a moral and religious man under law could do). In the good ethical sense, the garment symbolizes "the righteou... [ Continue Reading ]

Revelation 19:11

SAW HEAVEN OPENED The vision is of the departure from heaven of Christ and the saints and angels preparatory to the catastrophe in which Gentile world-power, headed up in the Beast, is smitten by the "stone cut out without hands". (Daniel 2:34); (Daniel 2:35). WHITE HORSE Contrast (Revelation 6:2... [ Continue Reading ]

Revelation 19:17

COME Armageddon (the ancient hill and valley of Megiddo, west of Jordan in the plain of Jezreel) is the appointed place for the beginning of the great battle in which the Lord, at His coming in glory, will deliver the Jewish remnant besieged by the Gentile world-powers under the Beast and False Pro... [ Continue Reading ]

Revelation 19:19

MAKE WAR The day of Jehovah (called, also, "that day," and "the great day") is that lengthened period of time beginning with the return of the Lord in glory, and ending with the purgation of the heavens and the earth by fire preparatory to the new heavens and the new earth. (Isaiah 65:17); (Isaiah... [ Continue Reading ]

Revelation 19:20

BEAST The Beast, Summary: This "Beast" is the "little horn" of (Daniel 7:24), and "desolator" of (Daniel 9:27), the "abomination of desolation" of (Matthew 24:15), the "man of sin" of (2 Thessalonians 2:4), earth's last and most awful tyrant, Satan's fell instrument of wrath and hatred against God... [ Continue Reading ]

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