Rev. 19:1-16: The Marriage Supper of the Lamb

The Marriage of the Lamb Verse 7, Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honor to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife has made herself ready. Verse 8, And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints. Verse 9, And he said to me, Write, Blessed are they which are called to the marriage supper of the Lamb. And he said to me, These are the true sayings of God. The voices of the great mass choir begun in verse 6 continues here in verse 7, “let us therefore be glad, and rejoice, as we give Him glory, because the marriage of the Lamb has come, His woman (Grk., guna=specifically, a wife) having made herself ready. This she has done through faith—a “resting” of herself in Him, and Him alone, with all her trust and confidence—for her salvation and righteousness needful to stand before God the Father, up close and personal, sin-free. And it was given that she should be dressed in fine linen, clean and white; because the fine linen is symbolic of the righteousness of the saints”. At this point, John was instructed to write, “Blessed (fortunate, well-off) are all of those having been called (summoned) to the marriage supper of the Lamb. These words of truth are from God”, John was told, moreover. Verse 10, And I fell at his feet to worship him. And he said to me, See you do it not: I am your fellow servant, and of your brethren that have the testimony of Jesus: worship God: for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy. At this juncture, John attempted to pay homage to the angel guiding him through the Apocalypse. “Do not do that”, he was told. “I am as you are, a fellow-servant, of both you and your brothers in the faith, who hold to the testimony of Jesus. Rather, worship God: because the spirit (focus, or chief purpose) of all prophecy is the testimony of Jesus.” The Messiah The Second Coming of Jesus the Christ Throughout the Apocalypse, right up to the very last moment, God will have done everything possible to coax, cajole, and coerce man to his knees in recognition of His Sovereignty, in the interest of saving as many as possible. Angels will have preached the everlasting gospel, the 144,000 Jewish evangelists will have preached that same message, both of which, coupled with the seal and trumpet judgments will have produced two major harvests of precious souls which, coming dangerously close, might otherwise have been lost. The bowl judgments, in all their horror, will have produced nothing in the way of a harvest. Salvation will not have been the objective. Anguished, agonizing, severely beaten and battered, unrepentant men led by the devil in the beast will choose still to blaspheme the Hand they know now controls all their miseries (and their destinies!). That, as far as God is concerned, will be the surest and best indicator that ‘enough, is enough’!