Is This The End?: Back To The Present

IS THIS THE END? – 3

BACK TO THE PRESENT

• Apocalyptic Language
• Revelation was Written to Seven Churches
• Message to Warn and Comfort

“But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father alone.”  Matthew 24:36 (NASB)

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I. God Is Victorious Over All of His Enemies (Revelation 6-18)

“For then there will be a great tribulation, such as has not occurred since the beginning of the world until now, nor ever shall.  And unless those days had been cut short, no life would have been saved; but for the sake of the elect those days shall be cut short.”  Matthew 24:21 (NASB)

16 “Fall on us and hide us from the presence of Him who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb; 17 for the great day of their wrath has come; and who is able to stand.”  Revelation 6:16-17 (11:18; 15:1; 16:1) (NASB)

19 “And the angel swung his sickle on the earth and gathered the clusters from the vine of the earth, and threw them into the great wine press of the wrath of God.  20 And the wine press was trodden outside of the city, and blood came out from the wine press, up to the horse’s bridles for a distance of two hundred miles.”  Revelation 14:19-20 (NASB)

“Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, she who has made all the nations drink of the wine of the passion of her immorality.” Revelation 14:8; 16:9; 17—18

II. God Is Victorious through Messiah King Jesus (Revelation 19)

1 “Hallelujah!  Salvation and glory and power belong to our God, 2 for true and just are his judgments.  He has condemned the great prostitute who corrupted the earth by her adulteries.  He has avenged on her the blood of his servants.”  Revelation 19:1-2 (NIV)

11 I saw heaven standing open and there before me was a white horse, whose rider is called Faithful and True. With justice he judges and wages war. 12 His eyes are like blazing fire, and on his head are many crowns. He has a name written on him that no one knows but he himself. 13 He is dressed in a robe dipped in blood, and his name is the Word of God. 14 The armies of heaven were following him, riding on white horses and dressed in fine linen, white and clean. 15 Coming out of his mouth is a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations. “He will rule them with an iron scepter.” He treads the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God Almighty. 16 On his robe and on his thigh he has this name written: “King of Kings and Lord of Lords.”

17 And I saw an angel standing in the sun, who cried in a loud voice to all the birds flying in midair, “Come, gather together for the great supper of God, 18 so that you may eat the flesh of kings, generals, and the mighty, of horses and their riders, and the flesh of all people, free and slave, great and small.”

19 Then I saw the beast and the kings of the earth and their armies gathered together to wage war against the rider on the horse and his army. 20 But the beast was captured, and with it the false prophet who had performed the signs on its behalf. With these signs he had deluded those who had received the mark of the beast and worshiped its image. The two of them were thrown alive into the fiery lake of burning sulfur. 21 The rest were killed with the sword coming out of the mouth of the rider on the horse, and all the birds gorged themselves on their flesh.  Revelation 19:11-21 (NIV)

III. The Future Victory of Jesus and Why It Matters

• Certainty of Jesus’ Return
• Control of God
• Comfort in Distress
• Conformity to Jesus
• Consistent Expectation
• Calling to Go and Tell
• Consecration Our Lives to God

13 And every created thing which is in heaven and on the earth and under the earth and on the sea, and all things in them, I heard saying, “To Him who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb, be blessing and honor and glory and dominion forever and ever.”  14 And the four living creatures kept saying, “Amen.” And the elders fell down and worshiped. Revelation 5:13-14 (NASB)