In this week’s study, I continue in Chapter 14 beginning with verse 10.
The Fifth Vision "On Earth"
14:6-20
The Six Angels and the Son of Man
Remember as we start this Chapter that as Christians, we have that Seal of Yahweh within us (Rev. 9:4). So keep your utmost faith in Yahweh and know His Word. Don’t listen to man’s tradition, but Yahweh’s true Word! “Know His Word personally on the earth”
In our last study we covered in verse 8 about Babylon the great city is fallen. But did you know some history on this city or the area surrounding it?
In verse 9 we discovered John revealing to us a 3rd angel giving us a warning about those that worship the beast and his image or receive his mark in their forehead or hand.
Now in verse 10 we read of the consequences of those that the 3rd angel warns us about!
Drink = In that he says, "he also shall drink," he shows that there is another also who has drunk, so as not to exclude him who, although he is not visibly mingled with the nations, yet worships the beast under the name of Yahshua Messiah.
10. the same = now this is said with emphasizes. “He also shall drink’
wine of ... wrath of God = Read Psa. 75:8). ‘For in the hand of Yahweh there is a cup, and the wine is red; it is full of mixture; and he poureth out of the same: but the dregs thereof, all the wicked of the earth shall wring them out, and drink them.”
without mixture = whereas wine was so commonly mixed with water that to mix wine is used in Greek for to pour out wine; this wine of Yahweh’s wrath is undiluted; there is no drop of water to cool its heat. There is no grace or hope is blended with it.
Shall be tormented with fire and brimstone = An allusion to the punishment of Sodom and Gomorrha for their unnatural crimes.
11. smoke = always used symbolic for judgment. Read Isa. 34:8-10. ‘For it is the day of Yahweh's vengeance, and the year of recompences for the controversy of Zion. And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch. It shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke thereof shall go up for ever: from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it for ever and ever.’
And whosoever receiveth the mark of his name - See Rev. 13:17. The meaning here is, that such worshippers will receive the punishment which other idolaters and sinners do. No exception will be made in favor of an idolater, though he worships idols under the forms of an abused Christianity; none will be made in favor of a sinner because he practiced iniquity under the garb of religion.
12. Here, etc. = resumed from Rev. 13:10. In the fiery ordeal of persecution which awaits all who will not worship the beast, the faith and patience of the followers of Yahweh and Yahshua Messiah shall be put to the test, and proved.
patience of the saints = Greek, “hupomene,” “patient, persevering endurance.”
Patience = Although the beast has vented his rage, yet the saints are not made sad by the earthly suffering, which is to be rewarded by eternal bliss. For they see, on the other hand, that their persecutors, who for a time act proudly, suffer eternal punishments with the beast.
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