Revelation

Revelation 19

Hallelujah in Heaven

1 After these things I heard something like a loud voice of a great crowd in heaven, saying:

“Hallelujah!

The rescue and the glory and the power of our God,

2 because true and righteous are his judgments;

because he judged the great prostitute

who ruined the earth with her whoring,

and he avenged the blood of his slaves out of her hand.”

3 And a second time they have said, “Hallelujah! And her smoke goes up forever and ever.” 4 And the twenty-four elders and the four living creatures fell and bowed down to God who is seated on the throne, saying, “Amen. Hallelujah.”

5 And a voice came out from the throne, saying, “Praise our God, all his slaves, and those who fear him, the small and the great.”

6 And I heard something like a voice of a great crowd and like a voice of many waters and like a voice of mighty thunders, saying:

“Hallelujah,

because the Lord God, the Almighty, reigned.

7 Let us rejoice and let us be glad,

and we will give the glory to him,

because the wedding of the Lamb has come,

and his wife prepared herself.”

8 And it was given to her that she should be clothed in fine linen, bright and clean — for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the holy ones.

9 And he says to me, “Write: Blessed are those called to the supper of the wedding of the Lamb.” And he says to me, “These are the true words of God.” 10 And I fell before his feet to bow down to him. And he says to me, “See that you do not! I am a fellow slave of yours and of your brothers who hold the testimony of Jesus. Bow down to God. For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of the prophecy.”

The Rider on the White Horse

11 And I saw heaven opened, and look — a white horse, and the one seated on it called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he judges and makes war. 12 And his eyes a flame of fire, and on his head many diadems, having a name written that no one knows except himself, 13 and clothed in a garment dipped in blood; and his name has been called the Word of God. 14 And the armies in heaven were following him on white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean.

15 And out of his mouth goes out a sharp sword, so that with it he might strike the nations; and he himself will shepherd them with an iron rod; and he himself treads the winepress of the wine of the fury of the wrath of God the Almighty. 16 And he has on his garment and on his thigh a name written: King of kings and Lord of lords.

The Supper of God

17 And I saw one messenger standing in the sun, and he cried out with a loud voice, saying to all the birds flying in mid-heaven, “Come, gather to the great supper of God, 18 so that you may eat flesh of kings and flesh of commanders of a thousand and flesh of strong ones and flesh of horses and of those seated on them, and flesh of all, both free and slaves and small and great.”

19 And I saw the beast and the kings of the earth and their armies gathered to make the war with the one seated on the horse and with his army. 20 And the beast was seized, and with it the false prophet who did the signs before it, by which he deceived those who received the mark of the beast and those who bow down to its image. The two were thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with sulfur. 21 And the rest were killed by the sword of the one seated on the horse, the sword that went out of his mouth; and all the birds were filled from their flesh.