Rejoicing in heaven and on earth, the singing of alleluia by the inhabitants of heaven over the coming marriage of the Lamb with his bride (1–8). John's Adoration of the Angel Who Explained the Vision (9–10). Vision of the Faithful and True on a White Horse, His appearance, jewelry and clothing (11–16). God's judgment on the beast, the false prophet and their worshipers (17–21).
Rev. 19:1. After this I heard in heaven a loud voice as if of a large people, saying: Hallelujah! Salvation and glory and honor and strength be to our Lord!
Chapter 19 speaks of solemn joy over the destruction of Babylon, for this event foreshadowed the imminent and final triumph of goodness and truth. The holy seer hears a new, loud heavenly (in heaven in its opposite to earth) voice, i.e. the sounds of singing (cf. Rev. 10:3, 16:18) exclusively of the blessed Angels with four seraphim - animals at the head (Rev. 4:8). They cry: “Alleluia” (from the Hebrew language “praise God”) (cf. Ps. 106:48). They are glorified for salvation, which must be understood in the sense of the complete deliverance of Christian society from the wiles of the devil. By glory we must understand the glory of God, which has been characteristic of God from all eternity; and the power is like God. omnipotence is the basis of this victory, this triumph.
Rev. 19:2. For His judgments are true and righteous: because He condemned that great fornicator, who corrupted the earth with her fornication, and exacted the blood of His servants from her hand.
Rev. 19:3. And they said a second time: Hallelujah! And its smoke rose forever and ever.
Rev. 19:4. Then the twenty-four elders and the four living creatures fell down and worshiped God who sat on the throne, saying: Amen! Hallelujah!
The third verse contains a repetition of the song, but with the addition of a new basis for this praise of the Lord. This is that the death of Babylon from ten kings is an eternal and final death, constituting the transition to the eternal kingdom, for eternal smoke speaks of eternal fire hellish torment. That is why the elders and animal seraphim fall and say: “Amen, hallelujah.” (Ps. 105:48).
Rev. 19:5. As soon as the angelic singing ceased, a voice from God was heard. throne, from Jesus Christ Himself, who demanded that all servants of God give glory to God.
Rev. 19:7. Let us rejoice and be glad and give Him glory; For the marriage of the Lamb has come, and His wife has made herself ready.
In response to the call of God. John hears new singing from the voice of Jesus Christ. He compares the sounds of this singing with the noise of talking and singing of a large people. One might think that it was as much heavenly as earthly. It involves all the glorified people and martyrs of the last time who are in heaven, and all those who are appointed to glorification, but were still on earth. As a result, the sounds of singing were so strong and so solemn. The basis of praise is, first of all, that the kingdom of the Almighty God has come, that is, the kingdom of the next century. The second motivation for joyful praise is that the marriage of the Lamb has already arrived and His wife has prepared herself. Here we speak about the unity of Jesus Christ with His society, but not about the accomplished advent of this kingdom, but only about the moment closest to it. This is the same moment of eschatology, when the Lord, at the sound of the Angel’s trumpet, gathers all His chosen ones, separating them from the wicked, and places them in right side His throne (Matthew 25:33) to pronounce final verdict court. The community of faithful Christians who have lived to the end is this woman, this bride of the Lamb. It prepared itself to meet its bridegroom, Jesus Christ.
Rev. 19:8. And it was given to her to be clothed in fine linen, clean and bright; The fine linen is the righteousness of the saints.
The bride of Jesus Christ is dressed in linen clothing, which signifies her holiness and which was given to her by the Lord Himself. She is evidence that the bride is pleasing to the Lord and can enter His bridal chamber. The brightness of the Christian garment is called the righteousness of the saints. And this righteousness of a person, as his right to closeness to God, can and is achieved simultaneously in two ways: both by his own virtue, and by God. by the grace of justification. The pure and perfect bride of the Lamb, that is, the Christian society of the last time, is a society whose members have achieved the highest moral perfection possible for man with the assistance of God. grace; it is, so to speak, the fruit of the historical interaction of the grace of Christianity and man’s own efforts.
Rev. 19:9. And the Angel said to me: Write: Blessed are those who are invited to the marriage supper of the Lamb. And he said to me: these are the true words of God.
Subsequently, John hears confirmation of the future blessed state of the depicted and perfect Christians. He is commanded by one of the Angels to write: “blessed are those who are called...” - These are the perfect Christians of the last anti-Christian time, those who remained alive until the coming of the Lord. It is they who are consoled by the revelation and told them that their sorrows and suffering serve as a condition for their blissful life in the future. They are blessed as those called, for for them, as the chosen and perfect, God has prepared bliss, which they will receive as a reward for their suffering, for their work in achieving piety and perfection. The wedding supper itself is an expression of the closest communion with the Lord, which can only be in future life, only after the final and perfect reign of Jesus Christ, after His second coming. The words about earthly bliss are worthy of full faith and acceptance, since they belong to God Himself, the most perfect Truth and the source of all revelation, which is why the Angel calls them true God. words.
Rev. 19:10. I fell at his feet to worship him; but he said to me: see that you do not do this; I am a fellow servant with you and with your brothers who have the testimony of Jesus; Worship God; for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.
John fell at the feet of the Angel. John's admiration was a natural, involuntary consequence of the extraordinary impression of the appearance of the Angel and his words. The content of the words was so amazing that John could not resist and fell at the feet of the speaking Angel, just as the prophet fell at the feet of the Angel. Daniel. The angel corrects this involuntary human error of the seer and explains that, no matter how majestic these or other phenomena on earth may be, because of them people should not forget God, Who is their root cause and the only one worthy of worship and service (Deuteronomy 6:13 ). – The testimony of Jesus is Jesus Christ Himself, everything that He taught and that He accomplished for the salvation of the human race. This testimony is the “spirit of prophecy,” which expression is used in the sense of the basis of prophecy, that which animates prophecy and constitutes its essence: in the testimony of Jesus Christ, that is, in His teaching and the revelation brought by Him, prophecy, it is revealed and explained that God alone is worthy of worship and reverence. The insertion of verses 9 and 10 disrupted the flow of the description of the upcoming wedding evening of the Lamb; from 11th century John again refers to this description. Now we are talking about those who not only will not be worthy of participating in the wedding supper, but will be subjected to severe punishment as retribution. These are the events of the last time, the time of the Last Judgment and the final retribution.
Rev. 19:11. And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse, and he who sat on it was called Faithful and True, Who judges righteously and makes war.
Rev. 19:12. His eyes are like a flame of fire, and on His head are many crowns. He had a written name that no one knew except Himself.
John sees heaven open; such a beginning of speech speaks of a new and completely separate vision. The sky itself opens to give passage to the earth for the appearing white horse with its rider. The rider is called Faithful and True. This name is undoubtedly the name of Jesus Christ; it indicates the permanent properties of His relationship to the community of believers. Possessing such properties, He is terrible for His enemies and an unshakable hope and consolation for His admirers. In order to be a righteous judge, He has eyes like a fiery flame, that is, He penetrates everything with His gaze, sees everything and destroys everything that is not pleasing to Him and is hostile to Him. The fact that He is not only a righteous Judge, but also an almighty executor of His sentences is evidenced by the many diadems adorning His head. This indicates that the whole world belongs to Him, must acknowledge His authority over itself and submit to the verdict of His judgment. According to the properties of this nature. He also bears a name that no one knows except Himself: the Divine nature of Jesus Christ in its essence and the fullness of Divine properties is incomprehensible to man. This mysterious name was on the tiaras. This assumption is confirmed by the fact that the tiaras themselves, as an accessory of royal dignity, speak of the incomprehensible properties of the Divine nature of Jesus Christ.
Rev. 19:13. He was dressed in clothes stained with blood. His name is: “The Word of God.”
The horseman appears dressed in clothes stained with blood - Jesus Christ in bloody clothes because He has already carried out part of His judgment on sinful humanity; the wicked were punished terrible executions, and Babylon has already perished. Jesus Christ appears into the world for the second time, and just as it was said about His first coming: “The Word became flesh,” so at the second coming He is called the Word of God, as the eternal son of God.
Rev. 19:14. And the armies of heaven followed Him on white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean.
Rev. 19:15. From His mouth comes a sharp sword, with which to smite the nations. He shepherds them with a rod of iron; He tramples the winepress of the wrath and wrath of God Almighty.
Jesus Christ, as the Judge and Rewarder, is accompanied by heavenly armies, consisting exclusively of disembodied Angels (Matthew 16:27, 25:31). The army rode on white horses to match their leader, and their clothing was of white linen. The weapon with which Christ defeated his enemies was the sword that came out of His mouth (Rev. 1:16, 2:12). This sword is His word, the word of His omnipotence and omnipotence. He shepherds the people with a rod of iron, for He completely subjects them to His authority and His decision. He tramples the winepress of the wrath and wrath of God (Rev. 14:19-20). The entire symbolic image is an image of the Last Judgment and bribery, when the wicked will be brought to the consciousness of their complete insignificance. Christ, as the almighty King, alone can bear the name of King and Lord.
Rev. 19:16. On His robe and on His thigh is written the name: “King of kings and Lord of lords.”
Rev. 19:17. And I saw one Angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the birds that fly in the midst of the sky: Fly, gather together for the great supper of God,
John, further, sees one Angel standing in the sun. This must be understood to mean that he stood surrounded by the rays of the sun. His mission is to call the birds to the upcoming supper of God. It will consist of birds destroying the corpses of killed enemies of the Kingdom of God. The enemies gathered in a whole army. This gathering of all the wicked must be understood in such a way that, according to the wise providence of God and His almighty action, all the wicked before the Last Judgment will be separated and experience what they deserve. According to the word of the Apostle, all those living who survive until the second coming of the Lord will experience a change in their bodies (1 Cor. 15:51-52). Sinners, followers of the Antichrist, must also undergo this change. And if his change for the righteous will be blissful, calm and joyful, then for the wicked it will be painful. Angelic call birds of prey feeding on the corpses of the enemies of the Kingdom of God is an indication of the horrors and suffering of these latter during the final revolution.
Rev. 19:18. to devour the corpses of kings, the corpses of the mighty, the corpses of captains, the corpses of horses and those sitting on them, the corpses of all free and slaves, both small and great.
Rev. 19:19. And I saw the beast and the kings of the earth and their armies gathered to fight against Him who sat on the horse and against His army.
Under the army of the 19th century. one must understand the extreme tension and intensification of wickedness and hostility to God before the coming of the Lord. The wicked will be like an army going out to battle and challenging God to fight with them. But the denouement of this long story of wickedness is short. Retribution began with those who were the perpetrators of human wickedness in the last times - with the Antichrist and the false prophet. And since their wickedness and their deserving of eternal torment will be undoubted for everyone, then there will not even be a trial for them - without judgment they will be thrown alive into the lake of fire, Gehenna, to eternal torment. The beast-Antichrist and his false prophet will be the first to receive retribution, they will be destroyed by the spirit of the mouth of God and removed from the eyes of the rest of the people gathered by the Lord for the final judgment. A terrible, painful change will occur by the verdict of God: the wicked (others) will be killed by the sword of him sitting on a horse, that is, by the action of the omnipotence of God and judgment. Their former bodies will become food for birds; in a painful process they will be reborn into new ones that would correspond to the upcoming eternal torment, the eternal feeling of uninterrupted pain.
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2 For His judgments are true and righteous: because He judged that great fornicator, who corrupted the earth with her fornication, and exacted the blood of His servants from her hand.
3 And they said a second time: Hallelujah! And its smoke rose forever and ever.
4 Then the twenty-four elders and the four living creatures fell down and worshiped God who sat on the throne, saying: Amen! Hallelujah!
7 Let us rejoice and be glad and give glory to Him; For the marriage of the Lamb has come, and His wife has made herself ready.
8 And it was given to her to be clothed in fine linen, clean and bright; The fine linen is the righteousness of the saints.
9 And the angel said to me, Write: Blessed are those who are invited to the marriage supper of the Lamb. And he said to me: these are the true words of God.
10 I fell at his feet to worship him; but he said to me: see that you do not do this; I am a fellow servant with you and with your brothers who have the testimony of Jesus; Worship God; for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.
11 And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse, and he who sat on it was called Faithful and True, who judges righteously and makes war.
12 His eyes are like a flame of fire, and on His head are many crowns. He had a written name that no one knew except Himself.
13 He was clothed in a robe stained with blood. His name is: “The Word of God.”
14 And the armies of heaven followed Him on white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean.
15 Out of His mouth comes a sharp sword, to smite the nations. He shepherds them with a rod of iron; He tramples the winepress of the wrath and wrath of God Almighty.
16 His name is written on his robe and on his thigh: “King of kings and Lord of lords.”
17 And I saw one angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the birds that fly in the midst of the sky: Fly, gather together for the great supper of God,
18 To devour the carcases of kings, the carcases of mighty men, the carcases of captains of thousands, the carcases of horses and those who sat on them, the carcases of all freemen and slaves, both small and great.
19 And I saw the beast and the kings of the earth and their armies gathered together to fight against Him who sat on the horse and against His army.
20 And the beast was captured, and with him the false prophet, who performed miracles before him, with which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped his image: both were thrown alive into the lake of fire, burning with brimstone;
21 And the rest were killed by the sword of Him who sat on the horse, which proceeded from His mouth, and all the birds fed on their carcasses.
Rejoicing in heaven and on earth, the singing of alleluia by the inhabitants of heaven over the coming marriage of the Lamb with his bride (1–8). John's Adoration of the Angel Who Explained the Vision (9–10). Vision of the Faithful and True on a White Horse, His appearance, decorations and attire (11–16). God's judgment on the beast, the false prophet and their worshipers (17–21).
Rev. 19:1. After this I heard in heaven a loud voice as if of a large people, saying: Hallelujah! Salvation and glory and honor and strength be to our Lord!
Chapter 19 speaks of solemn joy over the destruction of Babylon, for this event foreshadowed the imminent and final triumph of goodness and truth. The holy seer hears a new, loud heavenly (in heaven in its opposite to earth) voice, i.e. the sounds of singing (cf. Rev. 10:3, 16:18) exclusively of the blessed Angels with four seraphim - animals at the head (Rev. 4:8). They cry: “Alleluia” (from the Hebrew language “praise God”) (cf. Ps. 106:48). They are glorified for salvation, which must be understood in the sense of the complete deliverance of Christian society from the wiles of the devil. By glory we must understand the glory of God, which has been characteristic of God from all eternity; and the power is like God. omnipotence is the basis of this victory, this triumph.
Rev. 19:2. For His judgments are true and righteous: because He condemned that great fornicator, who corrupted the earth with her fornication, and exacted the blood of His servants from her hand.
Rev. 19:3. And they said a second time: Hallelujah! And its smoke rose forever and ever.
Rev. 19:4. Then the twenty-four elders and the four living creatures fell down and worshiped God who sat on the throne, saying: Amen! Hallelujah!
The third verse contains a repetition of the song, but with the addition of a new basis for this praise of the Lord. This is that the death of Babylon from ten kings is an eternal and final death, constituting the transition to the eternal kingdom, for the eternal smoke speaks of the eternal fire of Gehenna torment. That is why the elders and animal seraphim fall and say: “Amen, hallelujah.” (Ps. 105:48).
Rev. 19:5. As soon as the angelic singing ceased, a voice from God was heard. throne, from Jesus Christ Himself, who demanded that all servants of God give glory to God.
Rev. 19:7. Let us rejoice and be glad and give Him glory; For the marriage of the Lamb has come, and His wife has made herself ready.
In response to the call of God. John hears new singing from the voice of Jesus Christ. He compares the sounds of this singing with the noise of talking and singing of a large people. One might think that it was as much heavenly as earthly. It involves all the glorified people and martyrs of the last time who are in heaven, and all those who are appointed to glorification, but were still on earth. As a result, the sounds of singing were so strong and so solemn. The basis of praise is, first of all, that the kingdom of the Almighty God has come, that is, the kingdom of the next century. The second motivation for joyful praise is that the marriage of the Lamb has already arrived and His wife has prepared herself. Here we speak about the unity of Jesus Christ with His society, but not about the accomplished advent of this kingdom, but only about the moment closest to it. This is the same moment of eschatology when the Lord, at the sound of the Angel’s trumpet, gathers all His chosen ones, separating them from the wicked, and places them on the right side of His throne (Matthew 25:33) to pronounce the final judgment. The community of faithful Christians who have lived to the end is this woman, this bride of the Lamb. It prepared itself to meet its bridegroom, Jesus Christ.
Rev. 19:8. And it was given to her to be clothed in fine linen, clean and bright; The fine linen is the righteousness of the saints.
The bride of Jesus Christ is dressed in linen clothing, which signifies her holiness and which was given to her by the Lord Himself. She is evidence that the bride is pleasing to the Lord and can enter His bridal chamber. The brightness of the Christian garment is called the righteousness of the saints. And this righteousness of a person, as his right to closeness to God, can and is achieved simultaneously in two ways: both by his own virtue, and by God. by the grace of justification. The pure and perfect bride of the Lamb, that is, the Christian society of the last time, is a society whose members have achieved the highest moral perfection possible for man with the assistance of God. grace; it is, so to speak, the fruit of the historical interaction of the grace of Christianity and man’s own efforts.
Rev. 19:9. And the Angel said to me: Write: Blessed are those who are invited to the marriage supper of the Lamb. And he said to me: these are the true words of God.
Subsequently, John hears confirmation of the future blessed state of the depicted and perfect Christians. He is commanded by one of the Angels to write: “blessed are those who are called...” - These are the perfect Christians of the last anti-Christian time, those who remained alive until the coming of the Lord. It is they who are consoled by the revelation and told them that their sorrows and suffering serve as a condition for their blissful life in the future. They are blessed as those called, for for them, as the chosen and perfect, God has prepared bliss, which they will receive as a reward for their suffering, for their work in achieving piety and perfection. The wedding supper itself is an expression of the closest communion with the Lord, which can only happen in the future life, only after the final and perfect reign of Jesus Christ, after His second coming. The words about earthly bliss are worthy of full faith and acceptance, since they belong to God Himself, the most perfect Truth and the source of all revelation, which is why the Angel calls them true God. words.
Rev. 19:10. I fell at his feet to worship him; but he said to me: see that you do not do this; I am a fellow servant with you and with your brothers who have the testimony of Jesus; Worship God; for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.
John fell at the feet of the Angel. John's admiration was a natural, involuntary consequence of the extraordinary impression of the appearance of the Angel and his words. The content of the words was so amazing that John could not resist and fell at the feet of the speaking Angel, just as the prophet fell at the feet of the Angel. Daniel. The angel corrects this involuntary human error of the seer and explains that, no matter how majestic these or other phenomena on earth may be, because of them people should not forget God, Who is their root cause and the only one worthy of worship and service (Deuteronomy 6:13 ). – The testimony of Jesus is Jesus Christ Himself, everything that He taught and that He accomplished for the salvation of the human race. This testimony is the “spirit of prophecy,” which expression is used in the sense of the basis of prophecy, that which animates prophecy and constitutes its essence: in the testimony of Jesus Christ, that is, in His teaching and the revelation brought by Him, prophecy, it is revealed and explained that God alone is worthy of worship and reverence. The insertion of verses 9 and 10 disrupted the flow of the description of the upcoming wedding evening of the Lamb; from 11th century John again refers to this description. Now we are talking about those who not only will not be worthy of participating in the wedding supper, but will be subjected to severe punishment as retribution. These are the events of the last time, the time of the Last Judgment and the final retribution.
Rev. 19:11. And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse, and he who sat on it was called Faithful and True, Who judges righteously and makes war.
Rev. 19:12. His eyes are like a flame of fire, and on His head are many crowns. He had a written name that no one knew except Himself.
John sees heaven open; such a beginning of speech speaks of a new and completely separate vision. The sky itself opens to give passage to the earth for the appearing white horse with its rider. The rider is called Faithful and True. This name is undoubtedly the name of Jesus Christ; it indicates the permanent properties of His relationship to the community of believers. Possessing such properties, He is terrible for His enemies and an unshakable hope and consolation for His admirers. In order to be a righteous judge, He has eyes like a fiery flame, that is, He penetrates everything with His gaze, sees everything and destroys everything that is not pleasing to Him and is hostile to Him. The fact that He is not only a righteous Judge, but also an almighty executor of His sentences is evidenced by the many diadems adorning His head. This indicates that the whole world belongs to Him, must acknowledge His authority over itself and submit to the verdict of His judgment. According to the properties of this nature. He also bears a name that no one knows except Himself: the Divine nature of Jesus Christ in its essence and the fullness of Divine properties is incomprehensible to man. This mysterious name was on the tiaras. This assumption is confirmed by the fact that the tiaras themselves, as an accessory of royal dignity, speak of the incomprehensible properties of the Divine nature of Jesus Christ.
Rev. 19:13. He was dressed in clothes stained with blood. His name is: “The Word of God.”
The horseman appears dressed in clothes stained with blood - Jesus Christ in bloody clothes because He has already carried out part of His judgment on sinful humanity; the wicked were punished with terrible executions, and Babylon was already destroyed. Jesus Christ appears into the world for the second time, and just as it was said about His first coming: “The Word became flesh,” so at the second coming He is called the Word of God, as the eternal son of God.
Rev. 19:14. And the armies of heaven followed Him on white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean.
Rev. 19:15. From His mouth comes a sharp sword, with which to smite the nations. He shepherds them with a rod of iron; He tramples the winepress of the wrath and wrath of God Almighty.
Jesus Christ, as the Judge and Rewarder, is accompanied by heavenly armies, consisting exclusively of disembodied Angels (Matthew 16:27, 25:31). The army rode on white horses to match their leader, and their clothing was of white linen. The weapon with which Christ defeated his enemies was the sword that came out of His mouth (Rev. 1:16, 2:12). This sword is His word, the word of His omnipotence and omnipotence. He shepherds the people with a rod of iron, for He completely subjects them to His authority and His decision. He tramples the winepress of the wrath and wrath of God (Rev. 14:19-20). The entire symbolic image is an image of the Last Judgment and bribery, when the wicked will be brought to the consciousness of their complete insignificance. Christ, as the almighty King, alone can bear the name of King and Lord.
Rev. 19:16. On His robe and on His thigh is written the name: “King of kings and Lord of lords.”
Rev. 19:17. And I saw one Angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the birds that fly in the midst of the sky: Fly, gather together for the great supper of God,
John, further, sees one Angel standing in the sun. This must be understood to mean that he stood surrounded by the rays of the sun. His mission is to call the birds to the upcoming supper of God. It will consist of birds destroying the corpses of killed enemies of the Kingdom of God. The enemies gathered in a whole army. This gathering of all the wicked must be understood in such a way that, according to the wise providence of God and His almighty action, all the wicked before the Last Judgment will be separated and experience what they deserve. According to the word of the Apostle, all those living who survive until the second coming of the Lord will experience a change in their bodies (1 Cor. 15:51-52). Sinners, followers of the Antichrist, must also undergo this change. And if his change for the righteous will be blissful, calm and joyful, then for the wicked it will be painful. The angelic call of birds of prey to feed on the corpses of the enemies of the Kingdom of God is an indication of the horrors and suffering of these latter during the final revolution.
Rev. 19:18. to devour the corpses of kings, the corpses of the mighty, the corpses of captains, the corpses of horses and those sitting on them, the corpses of all free and slaves, both small and great.
Rev. 19:19. And I saw the beast and the kings of the earth and their armies gathered to fight against Him who sat on the horse and against His army.
Under the army of the 19th century. one must understand the extreme tension and intensification of wickedness and hostility to God before the coming of the Lord. The wicked will be like an army going out to battle and challenging God to fight with them. But the denouement of this long story of wickedness is short. Retribution began with those who were the perpetrators of human wickedness in the last times - with the Antichrist and the false prophet. And since their wickedness and their deserving of eternal torment will be undoubted for everyone, then there will not even be a trial for them - without judgment they will be thrown alive into the lake of fire, Gehenna, to eternal torment. The beast-Antichrist and his false prophet will be the first to receive retribution, they will be destroyed by the spirit of the mouth of God and removed from the eyes of the rest of the people gathered by the Lord for the final judgment. A terrible, painful change will occur by the verdict of God: the wicked (others) will be killed by the sword of him sitting on a horse, that is, by the action of the omnipotence of God and judgment. Their former bodies will become food for birds; in a painful process they will be reborn into new ones that would correspond to the upcoming eternal torment, the eternal feeling of uninterrupted pain.
After this I heard in heaven a loud voice as if of a large people, saying: Hallelujah! Salvation, and glory, and honor, and strength to our Lord!For His judgments are true and righteous: because He condemned that great fornicator, who corrupted the earth with her fornication, and exacted the blood of His servants from her hand.And they said a second time: Hallelujah! And its smoke rose forever and ever.
Then the twenty-four elders and the four living creatures fell down and worshiped God who sat on the throne, saying: Amen! Hallelujah!And a voice came out from the throne, saying: Praise our God, all you His servants and those who fear Him, small and great.And I heard as it were the voice of a great people, as the sound of many waters, as the voice of mighty thunder, saying: Hallelujah! for the Lord God Almighty reigns.Let us rejoice and be glad and give Him glory; For the marriage of the Lamb has come, and His wife has made herself ready.And it was given to her to be clothed in fine linen, clean and bright; The fine linen is the righteousness of the saints.
And he told me Angel: write: blessed are those who are invited to the marriage supper of the Lamb. And he said to me: these are the true words of God.I fell at his feet to worship him; but he said to me: see that you do not do this; I am a fellow servant with you and with your brothers who have the testimony of Jesus; Worship God, for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.
And I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse, and he who sat on it was called Faithful and True, Who judges righteously and makes war.His eyes are like a flame of fire, and on His head are many crowns. He had a name written, which no one knew except Himself.He was dressed in clothes stained with blood. His name is: “The Word of God.”And the armies of heaven followed Him on white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean.From His mouth comes a sharp sword, with which to smite the nations. He shepherds them with a rod of iron; He tramples the winepress of the wrath and wrath of God Almighty.On His robe and on His thigh is written the name: “King of kings and Lord of lords.”
And I saw one Angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the birds that fly in the midst of the sky: Fly, gather together for the great supper of God,to devour the corpses of kings, the corpses of the mighty, the corpses of captains, the corpses of horses and those sitting on them, the corpses of all free and slaves, both small and great.
And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to fight against Him who sat on the horse and against His army.And the beast was captured, and with him the false prophet, who performed miracles before him, with which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped his image: both were thrown alive into the lake of fire, burning with brimstone;and the rest were killed by the sword of Him who sat on the horse, which proceeded from His mouth, and all the birds fed on their carcasses.
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