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- Chapter 19 -

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After these things I heard what sounded like a huge crowd in heaven. They were shouting things like, “Hallelujah! He has saved us! He is glorious and mighty!
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Praise him because he judges truly and justly! He has punished the very evil city that was like a prostitute because their people persuaded the other people of earth to act immorally as they did. Praise him because he has punished them for murdering his servants!”
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The crowd shouted a second time, saying, “Hallelujah! The smoke of the fire that is burning that city will rise forever!”
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The twenty-four elders and the four living creatures prostrated themselves and worshiped God, who sits on the throne. They said: “It is true! Hallelujah!”
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Someone spoke from the throne and said, “All you who are his servants, praise God! All you who honor him, whether you are important or not, everyone praise him!”

The Marriage of the Lamb

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Then I heard something like the noise of a huge crowd of people, like the sound of a huge waterfall, and like the sound of loud claps of thunder. They were shouting: “Hallelujah! Lord God, who rules over everything, reigns!
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We should rejoice, we should be extremely glad, and we should honor him because it is now time for the Lamb to be united with the woman he is marrying. She has made herself ready.
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God has permitted her to dress herself in fine linen, bright and clean.” Fine, bright, and clean linen represents the righteous actions of God’s people.
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Then the angel said to me, “Write this: how fortunate are the people whom God invites to the feast when the Lamb marries his wife!” He also said to me: “These words that God declares are true!”
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I immediately prostrated myself at his feet in order to worship him. But he said to me, “Do not worship me! I am just your fellow servant and the fellow servant of your fellow believers, those who speak the truth about Jesus. God is the one you should worship because it is the Spirit of God who gives people the power to speak the truth about Jesus!”

The Rider on the White Horse

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Then I saw the heavens open up, and I was surprised to see a white horse. Jesus, the one who was riding on the horse, is called “Trustworthy and Genuine.” He judges all people according to what is right; he fights in justice against his enemies.
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His eyes shone like a flame of fire. There were many royal crowns on his head. A name had been written on him. Only he knows the meaning of that name.
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The cloak he was wearing was drenched with blood. His name is also “The Message of God.”
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The armies of heaven were following him. They were riding on white horses. They were wearing clothes made of clean white linen.
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A sharp sword extends from his mouth; with it he will strike the rebellious people groups. He himself will rule them powerfully as though he had an iron rod. He will crush his enemies as a person crushes grapes in a winepress. He will do this for God, who rules over everything and who is furiously angry with them because of their sins.
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On his cloak over his thigh a name had been written: “King who rules over all other kings and Lord who rules over all other lords.”

Defeat of the Beast and False Prophet

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Then I saw an angel standing in the light of the sun. He called loudly to all the flesh-eating birds flying high in the sky, “Come and gather for the large feast that God is providing for you!
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Come and eat the flesh of all God’s enemies who are dead, the flesh of kings, of army commanders, of people who fought powerfully, of horses and of the soldiers who rode them, and the flesh of all other kinds of people, whether they were free or slave, important or not. All kinds!”
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Then I saw the beast and the kings of earth with their armies; they had gathered together to fight against the rider on the horse and his army.
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The rider on the white horse captured the beast and the false prophet. The false prophet is the one who had performed miracles in the beast’s presence. By doing that he had deceived the people who had accepted the beast’s mark on their foreheads and who had worshiped its image. Then God threw the beast and the false prophet alive into the lake of fire that burns with sulfur.
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The rider on the horse killed the rest of their armies with his sword, the one that extended from his mouth. All the birds gorged themselves on the flesh of the people and horses that he had killed.
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After these things I heard something like a loud voice of a great multitude in heaven, saying, “Hallelujah! Salvation, power, and glory belong to our God;
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for his judgments are true and righteous. For he has judged the great prostitute who corrupted the earth with her sexual immorality, and he has avenged the blood of his servants at her hand.”
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A second said, “Hallelujah! Her smoke goes up forever and ever.”
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The twenty-four elders and the four living creatures fell down and worshiped God who sits on the throne, saying, “Amen! Hallelujah!”
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A voice came from the throne, saying, “Give praise to our God, all you his servants, you who fear him, the small and the great!”

The Marriage of the Lamb

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I heard something like the voice of a great multitude, and like the voice of many waters, and like the voice of mighty thunders, saying, “Hallelujah! For the Lord our God, the Almighty, reigns!
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Let’s rejoice and be exceedingly glad, and let’s give the glory to him. For the wedding of the Lamb has come, and his wife has made herself ready.”
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It was given to her that she would array herself in bright, pure, fine linen, for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints.
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He said to me, “Write, ‘Blessed are those who are invited to the wedding supper of the Lamb.’” He said to me, “These are true words of God.”
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I fell down before his feet to worship him. He said to me, “Look! Don’t do it! I am a fellow bondservant with you and with your brothers who hold the testimony of Jesus. Worship God, for the testimony of Jesus is the Spirit of Prophecy.”

The Rider on the White Horse

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I saw the heaven opened, and behold, a white horse, and he who sat on it is called Faithful and True. In righteousness he judges and makes war.
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His eyes are a flame of fire, and on his head are many crowns. He has names written and a name written which no one knows but he himself.
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He is clothed in a garment sprinkled with blood. His name is called “The Word of God.”
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The armies which are in heaven, clothed in white, pure, fine linen, followed him on white horses.
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Out of his mouth proceeds a sharp, double-edged sword that with it he should strike the nations. He will rule them with an iron rod.(a) He treads the wine press of the fierceness of the wrath of God, the Almighty.
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He has on his garment and on his thigh a name written, “KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS.”

Defeat of the Beast and False Prophet

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I saw an angel standing in the sun. He cried with a loud voice, saying to all the birds that fly in the sky, “Come! Be gathered together to the great supper of God,(b)
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that you may eat the flesh of kings, the flesh of captains, the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses and of those who sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and slave, small and great.”
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I saw the beast, the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him who sat on the horse and against his army.
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The beast was taken, and with him the false prophet who worked the signs in his sight, with which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped his image. These two were thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with sulfur.
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The rest were killed with the sword of him who sat on the horse, the sword which came out of his mouth. So all the birds were filled with their flesh.

Footnotes

(a)19:15 ℘ Psalms 2:9
(b)19:17 TR reads “supper of the great God” instead of “great supper of God”
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