My Sheep Hear My Voice- Rev. 19:10

My Sheep Hear My Voice- Rev. 19:10

Before Jesus was crucified He told the disciples to watch and pray, something so simple, but they let their physical bodies take over and they fell back asleep. In these last hours of time you need to hear His voice. When He tells you something, it is very important, but most ignore my voice or just discuss it and go on with what they were doing. You will see many things start to happen shortly and if you do not hear and obey His voice,... it will mean death for some of you....Jesus has only your best interest in mind. Christ knows you heart, and if you are truly His you will hear His voice. He awakes many of you at 3am on the dot, but most will roll over and go back to sleep. There are a few who will get up and pray. Your day is filled with so many things and Jesus is the last thing many of you give your time to. But Christ needs to talk to you,... to fellowship with you and only when you are still and quite (3am) can you hear Him,... the rest of your day is so busy you do not have time for Him,... but you need to make time, for time is short and the Lord has instructions for you.

The Marriage of the Lamb

(Parenthetical, Rev. 19:1-10)

The Marriage Supper of the Lamb

And I fell at his feet to worship him. And he said unto me, See thou do it not: I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren that have the testimony of Jesus: worship God: for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy” Rev. 19:10

fell at his... Overwhelmed by the grandeur of the vision, John collapsed in worship before the angel (compare 1:17; 22:8).

do it not... (compare 22:8-9). The Bible forbids the worship of angels (Col. 2:18-19).

John here was so awed by all of this that he fell at this angel's feet to worship him. Then the angel quickly tells John not to worship him. Only God is to be worshiped (22:8-9; Acts 10:25-26).

I am thy... This proves that the angel showing John these things was a redeemed man (Rev. 19:10; 22:8-9).

the testimony of... The remnant of Israel in Rev. 12:17 have the testimony of Jesus, which is the Holy Spirit, proving that He will not be taken from the world as some teach.

The central theme of both Old Testament prophecy and New Testament preaching is the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ.

The "testimony of Jesus" is what the whole Bible is about. Without Jesus, there would be no salvation. The Old Testament points forward to Jesus, beginning in Genesis. The New Testament is the "last will and testament" of Jesus, and to receive our inheritance, we must read the will.

If you preach on prophecy, you are bringing the testimony of Jesus. If you understand the testimony of Jesus, then you must preach and prophesy so that others may live. This testimony here is not Jesus giving it, but we believers who testify of the Lord. Whoever this angel is, he too had the testimony of Jesus.

The Command To Worship God (Rev. 19:10)

So impressive was the scene in heaven with the four great hallelujahs and the announcement of the coming wedding feast that John once again fell down to worship the redeemed individual, as he had done before (Rev. 1:17). Then, however, he was worshiping Christ, which was proper. But here the angel rebuked him, urging him to worship only God and not him since he was a fellow servant with John. The angel added, For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy, that is, the very nature or purpose of prophecy is to testify of Jesus Christ and to bring glory to Him. In the present Age one of the special functions of the Holy Spirit is to glorify Christ and to inform believers of “what is yet to come” (John 16:13). The tremendous revelation in the first 10 verses of Rev. 19:1-21 is a fitting introduction to what is about to be revealed, the second coming of Jesus Christ, the subject of the entire book (Rev. 1:1).

This parenthetical passage is given after the vial judgments, but will be fulfilled in heaven when all the tribulation saints and the two witnesses are all caught up to heaven at the end of the Week. The return of Christ will take place at the seventh vial or soon after, and the marriage supper will be before He comes, so the passage must be parenthetical, explaining what takes place in heaven just before Christ comes back to the earth with the saints. The passage says, “And after these things” (after chapter 18) It is clear that these multitudes in heaven will be giving glory to God because He has already judged the “great whore” and the smoke of the destruction of Literal Babylon is at that time ascending up, (after these things). Hence this rejoicing is to be in obedience to the command of Rev. 18:20, calling all of “heaven, and ye saints, and ye apostles, and ye prophets” to rejoice over her judgment. Her smoke is to ascend to God “for ever and ever,” which term is used fourteen times in this book.

Next we have mention of the elders and living creatures worshiping God. This is the last time they are seen in Revelation. Then a voice from the throne says, “Praise our God, all ye servants, and ye that fear him, both small and great.” After this is heard the a voice of a great multitude with a voice as of many waters and powerful thunderings saying, “Alleluia: for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth.” Then the angel shows John the marriage of the Lamb, while in Rev. 21:9 he shows him “the bride, the Lambs wife.”

“His wife hath made herself ready,” shows that there are certain preparations to make in order to be ready. This seems clear from her white robe which is the righteous works of the saints. It is impossible to describe the wedding supper, as we have no description given us of it. The Greek for “marriage” means “marriage feast” and shows that the marriage supper will be just as literal and real as any we know of on the earth. Cf. Mt. 22:2; 25:10. The magnitude of such a wedding supper need not disturb the reader for “with God all things are possible” and if we can conceive of thousands eating here at some banquet we can understand on the same basis how innumerable companies will do so in heaven.

When John saw these things, he fell down to worship the angel as he would worship God, but was immediately restrained from doing so, and was told that he (the angel) also was a redeemed person and was a fellow servant, and of the brethren and of those who have the testimony of Jesus, which is the spirit of prophecy.

No Supper in the Air

The often repeated theory that the marriage supper will be in the air where Christ meets the saints at the rapture (1 Thess. 4:16,17), and not in heaven, and that He will remain in the air having His supper for three and one-half to seven years, is unscriptural. In the first place, there is no ground in the air to land upon and have such a banquet. It is clear that the supper takes place in heaven (Rev. 19:1-11), and it is also clear that after Christ meets the saints in the air He will immediately go back to heaven, with them, to present them before the Father (Jhn. 14:1-3; 1 Thess. 3:13). The supper in heaven is further supported by the fact that, after the supper, Christ will start from heaven with His saints (Rev. 19:11), to carry out the second advent, as in Zech. 14:5; Jude 14-15; Rev. 19:11-21. As before the rapture, they will not tarry in the air, and will continue to the earth to deliver Israel and set up a kingdom in the earth to remain forever.