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[XXXX] During the 2nd World War, radio broadcaster Paul Harvey - with his unmistakable voice and cadence - began including a segment in his daily newscast called “The Rest of the Story.”
Each installment centered around some culturally familiar event, fact or person.
Then, Harvey supplied unknown or surprising information that gave the listener an entirely new perspective on the person or event being discussed.
[XXXX] Example: Al, was utterly useless.
He wrote to his sister saying “I’m nothing but a burden on my family, really, it would have been better if I had never been born.”
At 22 he had hit bottom.
His parents had become impoverished and couldn’t support him any longer.
And he couldn’t get a job anywhere.
He was thrown out of high school at 15.
With no diploma, he couldn’t go to college, so he opted to apply at a technical school - but flunked the 1st entrance exam.
So he tried to go back to high school.
His old school wouldn’t accept him, but another one did.
Graduating there, he went back to technical school.
But with his record of chronically cutting classes, barely passing his tests and disrespecting his teachers - no one wanted to hire him.
He couldn’t get hired anywhere.
Finally, pushing an old school chum whose Dad had some connections, he got an interview with Fred Haller at the Federal patent office.
They needed a guy to take a first look at patent applications to see if they had any merit.
When Fred asked Al what he knew about patents, he answered truthfully - nothing.
But for some reason he took a chance on Al.
He thought Al was just a failure that needed some self-confidence, and so gave him a probationary job as “technical expert 3rd class.”
Al did OK at the job.
And the boost helped him a lot.
[XXXX] And thus began the career of one Albert Einstein.
And now you know - The Rest of the Story.
Well this portion of plays a similar revelatory role.
As Ch. 18 records the coming downfall of this present world system and the compromising church with it, together dubbed Babylon in the text - so it also recorded the response of fallen humanity to Babylon’s demise.
It mourned.
In contrast to that response, last week, we saw how Heaven erupted in its 3 transcendent hymns of Hallelujah!
But now, we’re about to get the rest of the story.
1- Jesus personally destroys Babylon
In today’s portion, we’ll see that this worldly system doesn’t just collapse due to its own corruption, or merely fade away.
Rather, it is personally judged and thrown down by Jesus Christ Himself.
2 - Satan bound for 1000 years
Then we’ll see that even Satan himself is to be dealt with - powerfully.
Even if temporarily at first.
He will be bound and a period of extraordinary and unprecedented blessing on this earth will be had before Satan’s final disposition.
3 - The glories of the Coming Kingdom
Then in the balance of the book we will begin to catch glimpses of the coming Kingdom of Christ Paul says the Believers are waiting for:
A Cosmos Shattering vision of Jesus
You will remember how in Ch. 1 we saw what we termed a soul shattering vision of the risen Christ?
Well hang onto your hats - because if that first vision was unbearably fabulous - what we are about to see absolutely defies imagination.
[XXXX] And the 12 aspects of this vision in themselves spell out so much of what we briefly mentioned last week - “Do you want to know the key to unlock all of Scripture and its prophecies?
The wonder, the fullness, the majesty, power and fullest revelation of God, His person, nature character and works is all found here - in the testimony of Jesus Christ.”
Let me briefly give you the overview, and then we’ll spend our time on this stupendous vision of Jesus.
1st
[XXXX] 11-16 The vision of Jesus.
2nd -
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[XXXX] 17-18 The angelic call to “the great supper of God.”
No interpreter takes this as literal - but rather as symbolic of how utter the devastation is.
In the ancient world, one showed the most disdain possible against their enemies by refusing to bury their dead bodies after a war - leaving them to be mere carrion.
Food for the animals.
That is the picture here.
God has no use or compassion for this corrupt world system in any way, shape or form.
It has to be completely and utterly destroyed.
It is not redeemable.
Jesus will not return to re-establish or rescue Western Civilization nor any other.
In the ancient world, one showed the most disdain possible against their enemies by refusing to bury their dead bodies after a war - leaving them to be mere carrion - food for the animals.
That is the picture here.
God has no use or compassion for this corrupt world system in any way, shape or form.
It has to be completely and utterly destroyed.
It is not redeemable.
Jesus will not return to re-establish or rescue Western Civilization nor any other.
17-18 The angelic call to “the great supper of God.”
No interpreter takes this as literal - but rather as symbolic of how utter the devastation is.
In the ancient world, one showed the most disdain possible against their enemies by refusing to bury their dead bodies after a war - leaving them to be mere carrion - food for the animals.
That is the picture here.
God has no use or compassion for this corrupt world system in any way, shape or form.
It has to be completely and utterly destroyed.
It is not redeemable.
Jesus will not return to re-establish or rescue Western Civilization nor any other.
[XXXX] 19-21 Reminds us that the world, the world system and mindset is utterly opposed to the rule of God in Christ and that they are irreconcilable.
Personal autonomy, self-styled spirituality, materialistic well-being and human constructs of morality are utterly opposed to God and must be eradicated.
One is either for God and the rule of Christ or opposed to God and His enemy.
There is no neutral stance as tells us.
20:1-3 Reveals to us that Satan himself, the one behind all human opposition to God will be absolutely disarmed for a season, but that he will be allowed one last assault before his final disposition.
That will get unpacked a bit in the weeks to come.
[XXXX] 20:1-3 Reveals to us that Satan himself, the one behind all human opposition to God will be absolutely disarmed for a season.
4. 20:1-3 Reveals to us that Satan himself, the one behind all human opposition to God will be absolutely disarmed for a season, but that he will be allowed one last assault before his final disposition.
That will get unpacked a bit in the weeks to come.
20:1-3 Reveals to us that Satan himself, the one behind all human opposition to God will be absolutely disarmed for a season.
But! that he will be allowed one last assault before his final disposition.
That will get unpacked a bit in the weeks to come.
20:1-3 Reveals to us that Satan himself, the one behind all human opposition to God will be absolutely disarmed for a season, but that he will be allowed one last assault before his final disposition.
That will get unpacked a bit in the weeks to come.
But!
He will be allowed one last assault before his final disposition.
That will get unpacked a bit more in the weeks to come.
So let’s go back to vs. 11 and begin to examine the vision of Jesus shown to John in more detail.
As we’ve seen before, one riding on a white horse would have been a familiar picture to the 1st readers in that this was typical of a conquering king in their day.
Once the battle had been won, the king would ride into his newly captured territory on a white horse to announce his victory.
And here Jesus is shown to be the ultimate conqueror over sin and rebellion and even death itself.
But what about this King Jesus?
1. FAITHFUL AND TRUE.
I love that the vision begins here.
think for a moment how this would have impacted John.
He is the last living Apostle.
All of his fellow apostles and many more have been martyred already.
He is an old man, exiled to a desolate island.
The state of the church is not the best as we saw in the chs. 2 & 3.
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