REVELATION 11 : 15-19

^{REVELATION 11: 15-19}

¹⁵    Then the seventh angel sounded: And there were loud voices in heaven, saying, "The kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms of our Lord and of His Christ, and He shall reign forever and ever!"

¹⁶ And the twenty-four elders who sat before God on their thrones fell on their faces and worshiped God,

¹⁷ saying:  " We give You thanks, O Lord God Almighty, The One who is and who was and who is to come, Because You have taken Your great power and reigned.

18       The nations were angry, and Your wrath has come, And the time of the dead, that they should be judged, And that You should reward Your servants the prophets and the saints,

         And those who fear Your name, small and great, And should destroy those who destroy the earth."

¹⁹       Then the temple of God was opened in heaven, and the ark of His covenant was seen in His temple. And there were lightnings, noises, thunderings, an earthquake, and great hail.

Then the seventh angel sounded

Now last and final trumpet was blew by the seventh angel. Because the last 7 seal’s wrath, 7 thunder’s wrath and 6 trumpet’s wrath the people was not ready to repent themselves. They are enjoying the anti-christ ruling and they are very much satisfied under his government. So there is no other possibilities to our God, He allowed to blow the 7^th trumpet followed by the 7th trumpet there are many incidents were happened all those things we will see the following sessions.

 And there were loud voices in heaven

Here apostle John is writing “loud voices” that means John head many people’s, angle’s, 24 elder’s voice. What the voice is saying ?

"The kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms of our Lord and of His Christ,

This part of the verse only changing the whole world’s history. In the beginning when God created the world for good things but satan got the dominion over the world through deceiving Adam and Eve. From that time on words till the time the world is under the satan’s rule. There are many scripture references we can see from bible this world is under the satan’s ruling.

Most familiear verse Matthew 4:8-11 our Lord Yesuah tested by satan during His fasting time and Isaiah 14:12, Job 1:6…

2 Corinthians 4:4 whose minds the god of this age has blinded, who do not believe, lest the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine on them.(NKJV)

                  In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them. (KJV)

Satan got power of air

            Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience: (KJV)

Ephesians 2:2    in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience, (NKJV)

               Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated  us into the kingdom of his dear Son:

Colossians 1:13           He has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love, lie in the "power of the evil one" (1 John 5:19), and are in bondage to Satan (Ephesians 2:2).

All above references are stating that this world is rule by satan. When it is redeemed completely from satan’s hand after the seventh trumpet blew by the seventh angle our God almighty got back from his hand and He start to rule the world. That only we can see in this verse "The kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms of our Lord and of His Christ,

He shall reign forever and ever

God will reign forever is fore told many times in the bible Isaiah, Daniel and Zechariah still many people from the bible was told. Now we see some of the reference we will see now. Every time we are praying in our Lord’s Prayer “Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in the heaven”

Daniel 7:27 Then the kingdom and dominion, And the greatness of the kingdoms under the whole heaven, Shall be given to the people, the saints of the Most High. His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, And all dominions shall serve and obey Him.'

Zechariah 14:9 And the LORD shall be King over all the earth. In that day it shall be --- " The LORD is one," And His name one.

Isaiah 9:7 Of the increase of His government and peace There will be no end,…

Daniel 2:44   And in the days of these kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed; and the kingdom shall not be left to other people; it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand forever.

Daniel 4:3 How great are His signs, And how mighty His wonders! His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, And His dominion is from generation to generation.

Daniel 6:26 I make a decree that in every dominion of my kingdom men must tremble and fear before the God of Daniel. For He is the living God, And steadfast forever; His kingdom is the one which shall not be destroyed, And His dominion shall endure to the end.

Daniel 7:14 Then to Him was given dominion and glory and a kingdom, That all peoples, nations, and languages should serve Him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion, Which shall not pass away, And His kingdom the one Which shall not be destroyed.

¹⁶      And the twenty-four elders who sat before God on their thrones fell on their faces and worshiped God,

The 24 elders' (4:10; 5:8, 14; 7:13-14) response to this announcement was to fall prostrate before God. Worship in heaven contrasts with rebellion on earth.

¹⁷      saying: " We give You thanks, O Lord God Almighty, The One who is and who was and who is to come, Because You have taken Your great power and reigned.

" We give You thanks, O Lord God Almighty,

The elders start to praise Lord God Almighty because He is going to redeem the world from the satan and evil doers.

The One who is and who was and who is to come,

This porstion of the verse we already discussed in the Rev. 1:8. Is you want say in one word our Lord and savior is “everlasting” God for yesterday, today and tomorrow. He is the alpha and omega, first and last.

Because You have taken Your great power and reigned

Here the elders declaring that the everlasting our Lord Jesus taken His power and start to reigning the world.

 

^{18      a}The nations were angry, and Your wrath has come, ^bAnd the time of the dead, that they should be judged, And that You should reward Your servants the prophets and the saints, And those who fear Your name, small and great, ^cAnd should destroy those who destroy the earth."

The nations were angry, and Your wrath has come

Who rebelled against the Lord? And the Lord’s wrath going to pour up on them. This we already saw in 7 seals, 7 trumpets, 7 thunders and one 7 blows of wrath is pending we will going to see in the following sessions

This verse talking about the judgment. This verse contains three parts (a, b & c) first^a and last^c part of the verse talking about the judgment for the wicked people and the second^b part of the verse is talking about the reward for the dead and servants of God and saints of God and who are all fear the Lord and His commandments up to their end (Mat. 24:13 But he who endures to the end shall be saved.) of life they all revising the rewards form the God and will with Him forever and ever

¹⁹      Then the temple of God was opened in heaven, and the ark of His covenant was seen in His temple. And there were lightnings, noises, thunderings, an earthquake, and great hail.

The inmost part of it. Was opened in heaven - And hereby is opened a new scene of the most momentous things, that we may see how the contents of the seventh trumpet are executed; and, notwithstanding the greatest opposition, (particularly by the third woe,) brought to a glorious conclusion. And the ark of the covenant was seen in his temple - The ark of the covenant which was made by Moses was not in the second temple, being probably burnt with the first temple by the Chaldeans. But here is the heavenly ark of the everlasting covenant, the shadow of which was under the Old Testament, Hebrews 9:4. The inhabitants of heaven saw the ark before: St. John also saw it now; for a testimony, that what God had promised, should be fulfilled to the uttermost. And there were lightnings, and voices, and thunders, and an earthquake, and great hail - The very same there are, and in the same order, when the seventh angel has poured out his phial; Revelation 16:17- 21: one place answers the other. What the trumpethere denounces in heaven, is there executed by the phial upon earth. First it is shown what will be done; and afterwards it is done.