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Welcome to A Year in the Bible With Daily Grace. My name is Kristen and my name.
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Is Katie and we want to spend a few minutes a day with you walking through the New Testament one chapter at a time. This year we will fix our gaze upon Christ so that we may know him not only with our minds but with our hearts.
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Together we will learn that who Jesus is changes everything. Hey welcome back to A Year in the Bible Daily Grace. My name is Katie and and together we are walking through Revelation in our year long study of the New Testament. Today we are studying Revelation 19. As always you can follow along with the behold studies in the Daily Grace Co shop or with the reading plan linked in the show Notes Babylon has fallen. This is the joyful noise we heard from yesterday's chapter One of Satan's tools against God is conquered. The systems and kingdoms of the world in opposition to God have experienced his wrath. So today the scene turns to heaven and to a victorious defeat of Satan's armies. If I had to pick one word to summarize this chapter, I would say triumph. As we study this chapter together, my prayer is that our time solidifies your own trust in God's triumph. That no matter what you face today, you will rest with real confidence that God will finish what he became. Yes, Yesterday we read the three woes of people mourning Babylon's defeat. Today we read a three fold hallelujah from those in heaven worshiping God for his triumph over Babylon's evil. Heaven erupts in victory. First John hears a loud voice of vast multitude in heaven. This is likely the same saints from every nation, tribe, people and language standing before God's throne that we read in Revelation 7:9. These believers praise God for their salvation, God's true and righteous judgment of Babylon, and for the fulfillment of God's promise to avenge the blood of his servants. The worship of the saints puts the rest of revelation into perspective, describing the events of the end times with God's unchanging character. Salvation belongs to God. Glory and power belong to God. In fact, no power can contest with Him. His judgments are true and righteous, for God has been generous and patient in waiting so that the full number of his own will come into his walk. God has avenged the blood of the saints just as he promised. Next, the 24 elders and the four living creatures also fall down and say Amen. Hallelujah. This exclamation of praise is the last we will read of the elders and the four living creatures in Revelation. How cool is that that their last mention is them worshiping their glorious God. And finally the final hallelujah returns again to the vast multitude. But this vast multitude is revealed as Christ's bride, who prepared herself for the marriage of the Lamb. She was given fine linen to wear, bright and pure. This is Christ's church. We find this language in Ephesians 5, 25, 27, when Paul describes Christ as the husband who has washed his wife clean and prepared her to present to himself in splendor. This bride has been made splendorous by the grace and sacrificial love of her groom. Jesus paid it all. Jesus laid his life down for his bride, and finally she is ready to meet him. The church and its long awaited groom will finally be together. An angel instructs John to write, Blessed are those invited to the marriage feast of the Lamb. John falls in worship at this angel's good news. But the angel corrects John's worship, for this worship belongs to God. Speaking of Jesus, do you ever think of Jesus as a warrior? Sometimes we like to think of him as compassionate, gentle, forgiving or obedient, and these are true. But he is just as much a warrior as he is gentle. In the latter half of this chapter we read about a war waged by Jesus, a war waged with justice. The beast or the Antichrist and its false prophet gather armies and wage war against God's army. We read about the gathering of this army at Armageddon in Revelation 16. The battle that unfolds is not competitive. It's not even handed the warrior, the rider on the white horse. The rider named faithful and True, the King of Kings and Lord of Lords, throws both beast and the false prophet into the lake of fire that burns with sulfur. They suffer eternal torment and the armies are slain with their sword from the rider's mouth. Take a moment to take that in. The Antichrist and the false prophet are now destroyed, and Babylon has also fallen. Time as we know it is coming to an end and eternity will begin soon. Worship is in order. As we worship, let's behold Jesus. I want to dig into Jesus description as the writer in today's chapter. Our Jesus, faithful and true, with a name written that no one knows except himself. His robe is dipped in blood and the blood he shed to establish his kingdom and rescue the lost. Jesus is the word of God, as John began his gospel with Jesus is our faithful friend and our good shepherd, who also holds the authority to strike the nations and carry out God's fierce anger against evil. King of kings, Lord of lords, that is our Savior. Justice against evil rest for those in Christ. The Lamb of God will reign forever. Who could have imagined such a Savior? Who could sum up the greatness of his words? I don't know about you, but I end today's chapter grateful. Grateful for a God who was and is and is to come. Grateful for a God who always keeps his promises. We'll see you tomorrow for chapter 20.
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Thank you so much for listening to today's episode of A Year in the Bible with Daily Grace. Don't forget to check out the show notes for helpful links and resources related to today's episode. And make sure you are following a dailygracepodcast on Instagram for more A Year in the Bible content and hedaily Grace Co for all things Bible Study resources. We can't wait to study again with you tomorrow.
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Bye friends.