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Revelation: A Complete Commentary

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* Commentary

* Revelation

Baker Book House

Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1987

Originally published by Grace Publications, Chicago, 1935, under the title,

The Book of the Revelation

The text generally used is that of the Revised Version.

* Introduction

* Part One: Judgment (chapters 1-2)





* Part Two: New Creation (chapters 20-22)

* Appendix I

* Appendix II

* Appendix III

* Appendix IV: Bullingerism



* Why The Church Will Not Be In The Great TribulationIntroduction

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* Revelation

Romans, Ephesians and Hebrews should be known before Revelation.

Romans, justified forever by faith; Ephesians, our calling, one with the Risen

Christ; Hebrews, our Great High Priest, Who makes continual intercession for

us, and leads our worship in heaven.

Remembering that the Father hath committed all judgment, and also the

authority to execute it, unto the Son, “because he is a son of man,” we shall

expect Christ to be seen as the Judge, in each judgment scene in The

Revelation; and also that He will have a special character towards each stage

of judgment.

I. The part concerning judgment will include:

First, judgment of the assemblies (churches) as God’s house on earth; for judgment must “begin at the house of God” (1 Peter 4:17). This judgment

Christ carries on as risen, glorified Son of God, in His priestly character, but

as a priest dealing judicially. Church testimony on earth is finally rejected.

Chapters 1 to 3.

Second, the scene is removed to heaven, where is seen the Throne of God as

holding the whole earth in responsibility. Christ, as the Lamb slain, takes the

sealed book of the divine counsels of earthly judgment. The seals, trumpets

and vials follow. Chapters 4 to 18.

Third, Christ Himself comes as King of kings and Lord of lords in the Great

Day of Wrath; sets up on earth His iron-rod judgment rule of 1000 years, at

the end of which, Satan being released and man rushing again to his banner,

the world’s affairs are closed up, and heaven and earth pass away. Chapter

19.



Fourth, all moral, responsible beings (except Christ’s own) are called to the

judgment of the Great White Throne, which has nothing to do with earth or

with dispensations, but with eternal destinies only. Chapter 20: verses 11-15.

II. Then we have the New Creation: a new heaven, a new earth,—“all things

new”; with the new Jerusalem the home of God and His saints; the Throne of

God being established therein.

It is for this new heaven and new earth wherein righteousness is at home,

that the Spirit, through Peter, declares the saints are looking.

The Various Judgments

1. Of the Church’s earthly history—chapters 2 and 3.

2. Of the rebellious nations—especially the Beast-worshippers—chapters 4 to

16.

3. Of the system of earth idolatry called “Babylon”— chapters 17 and 18.

4. Of the Beast, the False Prophet and the Kings and armies of earth at

Armageddon—chapter 19:19-21.

5. (This is the Great Day of Wrath.)

6. Of the devil’s permitted career on earth, for 1000 years—chapter 20:1-3.

7. Of the spared nations, in enforced righteousness, justice and peace, during

the Millennium—chapter 20:4-6.



8. Of the rebellious earth, upon Satan’s release—chapter 20:7-9.

9. Of Satan himself in the Lake of Fire forever—chapter 20:10.

10. Of the unsaved, at the Great White Throne—chapter 20:4-15.

We repeat over and over that our Lord is not seen in the book of The

Revelation as the Head of the Body, the Church. This description belongs

wholly to Paul, who unfolds in his epistles the character, calling and destiny of

the Church of God. in The Revelation we are not studying the calling of the

Church as the Body of Christ, as risen and heavenly.

But The Revelation does deal with outcomes: (1) of the earthly church

testimony, for as a witness for God the church is proved unfaithful and

removed from the scene: the real Church taken to heaven (4:1), and the

false, destroyed by the Wild Beast (chapter 17). (2) Then the nations, under

responsibility to occupy and govern the earth, are judged and desolated. (3)

Jerusalem, “the holy city,” is seen as “Sodom and Egypt” (except for a

remnant). The nation is handed over to the delusions of Antichrist. (4) Finally,

the rebellious of the race of Adam and the earth they chose and claimed,

following Satan’s captaincy in their final testing, are destroyed, and new

things are brought in.

Christ In The Revelation

We find our blessed Lord directly named in seven chief characters:

1. He is the risen, glorified Son of God among the churches as the

lightbearers of this present age, judging their state by His Spirit (chapters 2

and 3).

2. He is the Lamb in heaven (after the rapture of the Church) publicly

invested with authority to carry out the determined preliminary judgments



upon men before His personal arrival on earth as Judge and King (chapters 4

to 19:10).

3. He comes to earth as King of kings and Lord of lords in the Great Day of

Wrath (chapter 19:11-21).

4. He is Christ, reigning with His glorified saints on earth, during one

thousand years (chapter 20:1-6). He is then “King over all the earth”

(Zechariah 14:9).

5. He is the Judge upon the Great White Throne, with the holiness,

righteousness and truth of deity absolutely and finally unveiled in judgment(chapter 20: 11-15).

6. He is the Lamb, upon “the throne of God and of the Lamb”: through whom,

though subjected willingly to the Father (1 Corinthians 15:28), the glory and

love of the deity will be expressed forevermore (chapter 21: 22, 23; 22:3, 4).

7. He is “I Jesus … the root and offspring of David, the bright, the morning

star,” to His own, His beloved servants (chapter 22:16). He is the ComingOne, expected and longed for by His real saints, the Bride, the true Church,

who are under His grace continually. The Revelation’s last words are, “The

grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with the saints. Amen.” We must study this

book in the light of this verse, and of Revelation 1:5: “Unto him that loveth

us, and loosed us from our sins by his blood!”

Whatever judgments fall, they do not fall on the saints, the Body of Christ!

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