Revelation 19:15

And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God. OUT OF HIS MOUTH ... SWORD - (Revelation 1:16; Revelation 2:12; Revelation 2:16.) Here in avenging power; 2 Thessalonians 2:8, "consume with the Spirit of His mouth" (Isaiah 11:4, to which there is allusion); not in its converting efficacy ...

11-21 Christ, the glorious Head of the church, is described as on a white horse, the emblem of justice and holiness. He has many crowns, for he is King of kings, and Lord of lords. He is arrayed in a vesture dipped in his own blood, by which he purchased his power as Mediator; and in the blood of his enemies, over whom he always prevails. His name is "The Word of God;" a name none fully knows but himself; only this we know, that this Word was God manifest in the flesh; but his perfections cannot be fully understood by any creature. Angels and saints follow, and are like Christ in their armour of purity and righteousness. The threatenings of the written word he is going to execute on his enemies. The ensigns of his authority are his name; asserting his authority and power, warning the most powerful princes to submit, or they must fall before him. The powers of earth and hell make their u...

Verse Revelation 19:15. _OUT OF HIS MOUTH GOETH A SHARP SWORD_] Revelation 1:16, Revelation 1:16. This appears to mean the word of the Gospel, by which his enemies are confounded, and his friends supported and comforted. _WITH A ROD OF IRON_] He shall execute the severest judgment on the opposers of his truth. _HE TREADED THE WINEPRESS_] As the grapes are trodden to express the juice, so his enemies shall be bruised and beaten, so that their life's blood shall be poured out....

AND OUT OF HIS MOUTH GOETH A SHARP SWORD - See the notes on Revelation 1:16. In that place the sword seems to be an emblem of his words or doctrines, as penetrating the hearts of people; here it is the emblem of a work of destruction worked on his foes. THAT WITH IT HE SHOULD SMITE THE NATIONS - The nations that were opposed to him; to wit, those especially who were represented by the beast and the false prophet, Revelation 19:18. AND HE SHALL RULE THEM WITH A ROD OF IRON - See the notes on Revelation 2:27;...

EXPOSITION REVELATION 19:1 AND AFTER THESE THINGS I HEARD A GREAT VOICE OF MUCH PEOPLE IN HEAVEN, SAYING; _after these things I heard, as it were, a great voice of a great multitude, _etc. The usual introduction to a new phase of a vision (see Revelation 4:1, etc.). The "great voice," as usual, characteristic of the heavenly utterances (see Revelation 5:2, etc.). Again, we are not told whose the utterance is. It may well be that of all the heavenly inhabitants and saints in glory (cf Revelation 7:9). As usual in the Apocalypse, at the termination of a description o

AND OUT OF HIS MOUTH GOETH A SHARP SWORD,.... The Complutensian edition, and all the Oriental versions, with the Vulture Latin, read, "a sharp twoedged sword". The word of God, or the judiciary sentence of Christ according to it, and which he will fully execute, to the utter destruction of all his enemies; Revelation 1:16 that with it he should smite the nations; the Gentiles, the Papists, the antichristian states, those that have adhered to Babylon, and have drunk of the wine of her fornication. This is predicted in Numbers 24:17 and on account of this the nations will be angry under the sounding of the seventh trumpet, with which this vision is contemporary, Revelation 11:18. An

Revelation 19:1. _And after these things I heard a great voice of much people in heaven, saying, Alleluia; Salvation, and glory, and honour, and power, unto the Lord our God: for true and righteous are his judgments for he hath judged the great whore, which did corrupt thee earth with her fornication, and hath avenged the blood of his servants at her hand. And again they said, Alleluia. And her smoke rose up for ever and ever. And the four and twenty elders and the four beasts fell down and worshipped God that sat on the throne, saying, Amen; Alleluia._ Heaven and earth are equally glad, and they unite to adore the living God when the great apostasy, that has so long cursed the nations, is hurled into the sea. Revelation 19:5. And a voice came out of the throne, sayi

CHAPTER S 19-20:6 The Manifestation of the King and the Millennium _ 1. Heavenly hallelujahs and the marriage of the Lamb (Revelation 19:1)_ 2. Heaven opened and His visible manifestation (Revelation 19:11) 3. The battle of Armageddon (Revelation 19:17) 4. The binding of Satan (Revelation 20:1) 5. The thousand-year reign (Revelation 20:4) Revelation 19:1 . Once more w

THE VISION OF THE TRIUMPHANT CHRIST. This paragraph really forms an introduction to the closing section of the book, where at last, after many pauses and delays, we reach the real _dé nouement._ The last act of the drama falls into five scenes, of which this is the first. In this scene Christ is portrayed as a warrior riding on a white horse to the final conflict with Anti-christ. REVELATION 19:11. A WHITE HORSE: the same imagery is used in Revelation 6:2, but the white horse there does not represent Christ but the spirit of militarism. FAITHFUL AND TRUE: _ cf. Revelation 1:5_, Revelation 3:7;

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