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The Hallelujah Chorus
We get to worship God!
I think of the Hallelujah Chorus.
It is this majestic song in Handel’s Messiah.
The words, “Hallelujah” sung over and over again.
I know that the song has become a bit cliche.
It’s used in car commercials, when someone gets a good deal on a new car.
A spotlight opens up onto the buyer.
While a choir sings, “Hallelujah!”
But really, the song is an anthem to the praise of God.
The song gives a reason for the praise of God -
“For the Lord God omnipotent reigneth”
Only to go back to Hallelujah.
“Hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah”
Today we sing Hallelujah.
The word is a combination of Hebrew words.
Halal - which means praise.
Yah - which means God.
You think of God’s special name for Himself, Yahweh.
Those words, Halal Yah are found in the Psalms.
But in Psalms you won’t read it as the word, Hallelujah.
Instead you’ll see it as Praise the Lord, or Praise Yahweh.
But the word, Hallelujah, as it’s sung in Handel’s Messiah isn’t found in the Psalms.
In fact, that unique word, Hallelujah, is only found 4 times in the New Testament, and all 4 times, it’s found in the same chapter, Revelation 19.
Revelation is a book of prophecy describing the end.
It describes God’s judgment upon the earth, and the return of Christ.
Revelation 19 is near the end of it all.
By the time we get to Revelation 19, a lot has happened.
By the time you get to Revelation 19:
The 7 seals were opened.
The earth had been conquered.
The economy had collapsed.
A quarter of the earth died.
The sun went dark.
People wished to die, but couldn’t die.
1/3 of the earth was burned up.
1/3 of the seas became blood.
1/3 of of all water life died.
1/3 of all ships were destroyed.
1/3 of the water became poisonous causing even more people to die.
There was increased demonic oppression.
Then 1/3 of the people who were left died as well.
A great earthquake shook the earth, killing 7,000 people.
Eventually, all animal life in the sea dies.
The temperature of the sun heats up.
It becomes even hotter, scorching people.
Water dries up.
Then there is an even greater earthquake then the first one.
This one will be catastrophic, changing the face of the earth.
This final earthquake will cause islands to collapse into the ocean, and mountains to fall away.
100 pound hailstones will fall upon the earth.
Finally, Revelation describes Babylon, a future city, the capital of the antichrist, and evil on the earth, - Babylon collapses.
The global economy is ruined.
It is destroyed.
Revelation describes a coming day when God brings His judgment upon the earth.
And then we get to Revelation 19, after God has unleashed his judgement, what do we see?
A Hallelujah chorus.
4 times, the word is used.
4 times there is a call to praise God.
After a period of violence and tragedy upon the earth, what happens?
Praise to God.
Hallelujah.
Worship.
We will be in Revelation 19 today.
Why?
Because we have been through something.
We have been through something unique.
We certainly aren’t through it yet either.
There is still a virus.
There are still restrictions.
Governmental power has increased.
The precedent of shutting down churches has happened and I don’t know what the future will bring.
The economy has been crippled.
People’s jobs are on the line or gone.
And what is it we do?
We follow the pattern of Revelation 19.
We worship.
We have not suffered like those who suffer through the Tribulation will.
Revelation describes a time far greater than what we have gone through and are going through, but the same pattern is to be followed, we sing Hallelujah
Open your Bibles to Revelation 19.
Let’s read Revelation 19:1-10.
Read Revelation 19:1-10.
The 1st Hallelujah Chorus celebrates the Protection of God
We begin in heaven.
This first group of singers is probably angels.
It’s a loud voice, a multitude.
And their first word is “Hallelujah”.
They say that salvation, glory and power belong to God.
We celebrate and sing hallelujah to the beauty of God.
He is glorious and powerful.
I’ve seen some amazing things.
I’ve seen the Grand Canyon.
A view that stretches the horizon.
I’ve seen the most beautiful beaches, filled with the warmest water, with gentle islands in the distance.
I’ve admired the most beautiful sunsets.
I’ve looked through telescopes to see clusters of stars that painted the most unique colors, that give a hint of what the walls of the New Jerusalem will look like.
And yet, none of these things compare to the beauty of our God.
Even more beautiful than the creation is the mind that invented these things.
He created from nothing.
He provided for His creation.
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