Revelation 18
& 19
The
Fourth Angel’s Message
and the Second coming
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Revelation
19:8 Fine linen, bright
and clean, was given her to
wear.” (Fine linen stands for
the righteous acts [dikaioma] of
the saints.)
KJV:
“…For the fine linen is the
righteousness of saints.”
LW:
“…For the fine linen is the
justification [dikaioma] of
her saints.”
Revelation
19:8 Fine linen, bright
and clean, was given her to
wear.” (Fine linen stands for
the [dikaioma] justification
of the saints.)
Profound
Statement:
There is only
one ticket to Heaven. In the Bible,
this ticket is called “the
righteousness of God.”
It is the
righteousness, which Christ achieved
in our place.
Romans 1:17
For in the gospel a righteousness
from God is revealed, a
righteousness that is by faith
from first to last, just as it is
written: “The righteous will
live by faith.”
The only way
a sinner can enter Heaven is through
faith.
When a sinner
puts his faith in God, that sinner is
willing to go, to be and to do all
that God asks of Him without regard
for the consequences.
GoBeDo.
This is the Biblical meaning of
faith.
Everyone
living the GoBeDo life is
given Christ’s robe of
perfect righteousness. A sinner is
only justified in God’s sight
through Jesus’ righteousness.
Remember the
story?
Matthew 22:2
“The kingdom of heaven is like a
king who prepared a wedding banquet
for his son.
Matthew 22:3
He sent his servants to those who had
been invited to the banquet to tell
them to come, but they refused to
come.
Matthew 22:4
“Then he sent some more servants
and said, ‘Tell those who had
been invited that I have prepared my
dinner: My oxen and fattened cattle
have been butchered, and everything
is ready. Come to the wedding
banquet.’
Matthew 22:5
“But they paid no attention and
went off—one to his field,
another to his business.
Matthew 22:6
The rest seized his servants,
mistreated them and killed them.
Matthew 22:7
The king was enraged. He sent his
army and destroyed those murderers
and burned their city.
Matthew 22:8
“Then he said to his servants,
“The wedding banquet is ready,
but those I invited did not deserve
to come.
Matthew 22:9
Go to the street corners and invite
to the banquet anyone you find.’
Matthew 22:10
So the servants went out into the
streets and gathered all the people
they could find, both good and bad,
and the wedding hall was filled with
guests.
Matthew 22:11
“But when the king came in to
see the guests, he noticed a man
there who was not wearing [the
provided] wedding clothes.
Matthew 22:12
‘Friend,’ he asked,
‘how did you get in here without
[putting on the] wedding
clothes?’ The man was
speechless.
Matthew 22:13
“Then the king told the
attendants, ‘Tie him hand and
foot, and throw him outside, into the
darkness, where there will be weeping
and gnashing of teeth.”
Matthew 22:14
“for many are invited [to the
wedding banquet], but few [people
give the invitation full attention,
consequently, few] are chosen [become
– the elect –
ekiektos].”
The wedding
robe represents the righteousness of
Christ which God Himself provides
to every submissive sinner.
This is the
heart of the gospel of Christ.
Romans 1:17
For in the gospel a righteousness
from God is revealed, a
righteousness that is by faith from
first to last, just as it is written:
“The righteous will live by
faith.”
Back to
Revelation 19 …verse
9 transitions from wedding plans to
real time on Earth in A.D. 95….
Revelation
19:9 Then the angel said
to me, ‘Write: ‘blessed
are those who are invited to the
wedding supper of the
Lamb!’” And he added, ‘There
are the true words of God.”
Revelation
19:10 At this I feel at
his feet to worship him. But he said
to me, “Do not do it! I am a
fellow servant with
you and with your brothers who hold to
[uphold and honor] the
testimony of Jesus. Worship
God! For the testimony of Jesus
is the spirit of prophecy.”
A few words
are necessary to explain how the
testimony of Jesus” is “the
spirit of prophecy.”
Revelation
1:9 I, John, your brother
and companion in the suffering and
kingdom and patient endurance that
are ours in Jesus, was on the isle of
Patmos [A.D. 95] because of
the word of God the testimony
of Jesus.
The Romans
exiled John to Patmos because He obeyed
the Word of God and upheld the
testimony of Jesus.
The Word of
God is a phrase that refers to the
Scriptures, the written Word of God
– the Bible.
The testimony
of Jesus is a phrase that refers to a
present truth which Jesus speaks
from Heaven from time to time and the
Holy Spirit enables people on Earth
to discover and understand this
truth.
The process
of bringing present truth to
the forefront is conveyed through the
gift of prophecy.
John 16:13
“But when he, the Spirit of
truth, comes, he will guide you into
all truth. He
will not speak on his own; he will
speak only what he hears, and he
will tell you what is yet to come.
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