Revelation 19:17 And I saw an
angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the
fowls that fly in the midst of heaven, Come and gather yourselves together unto
the supper of the great God; 18 That ye
may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty
men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, and the flesh of
all men, both free and bond, both small and great. 19 And I saw the beast, and the kings of the
earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on
the horse, and against his army. 20 And
the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles
before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the
beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a
lake of fire burning with brimstone. 21
And the remnant were slain with the sword of him that sat upon the
horse, which sword proceeded out of his mouth: and all the fowls were filled
with their flesh.
Isaiah 34:1 ¶ Come near, ye
nations, to hear; and hearken, ye people: let the earth hear, and all that is
therein; the world, and all things that come forth of it. 2 For the indignation of the LORD is upon all
nations, and his fury upon all their armies: he hath utterly destroyed them, he
hath delivered them to the slaughter. 3
Their slain also shall be cast out, and their stink shall come up out of
their carcases, and the mountains shall be melted with their blood. 4 And all the host of heaven shall be
dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll: and all their
host shall fall down, as the leaf falleth off from the vine, and as a falling
fig from the fig tree. 5 For my sword
shall be bathed in heaven: behold, it shall come down upon Idumea, and upon the
people of my curse, to judgment. 6 The
sword of the LORD is filled with blood, it is made fat with fatness, and with
the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams: for the LORD
hath a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Idumea. 7 And the unicorns shall come down with them,
and the bullocks with the bulls; and their land shall be soaked with blood, and
their dust made fat with fatness. 8 For
it is the day of the LORD’S vengeance, and the year of recompences for the
controversy of Zion.
Verse 17 and 18 have a similarity
to the verses in Ezekiel referencing the destruction of Gog and Magog at the
end of the Millennial reign of Christ. First, for the reference in Revelation
to events at the end of the Millennial reign of Christ.
Revelation 20:7 And when the
thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, 8 And shall go out to deceive the nations which
are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together
to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea. 9 And they went up on the breadth of the earth,
and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came
down from God out of heaven, and devoured them.
You can start reading in Ezekiel
38 about this and here are some important cross-references.
Ezekiel 39:17 And, thou son of
man, thus saith the Lord GOD; Speak unto every feathered fowl, and to every
beast of the field, Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every
side to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice upon
the mountains of Israel, that ye may eat flesh, and drink blood. 18 Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and
drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats,
of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan. 19
And ye shall eat fat till ye be full, and drink blood till ye be
drunken, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you. 20 Thus ye shall be filled at my table with
horses and chariots, with mighty men, and with all men of war, saith the Lord
GOD.
But, these passages in Revelation
19 that we are looking at happen before the Millennial reign of Christ begins.
This is Armageddon referenced in chapter 16. The beast and his false prophet
are thrown into the Lake of Fire bodily and alive. The rest of the Beast’s army
is killed.
2Thessalonians 2:8 And then
shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of
his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: 9 Even him, whose coming is after the working
of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, 10 And with all deceivableness of
unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the
truth, that they might be saved. 11 And
for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a
lie: 12 That they all might be damned
who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
So, the Great Tribulation is a
period of 3 ½ years. In it and before it, there are seven seals and seven
trumpets. After the seventh trumpet the church is removed and there are seven
vials of unimaginable judgment. During this period the Jews flee to the
wilderness, the Beast reigns, millions are martyred, and then, upon the
sounding of the seventh trumpet the Jewish and Gentile church is raptured to
prevent it from having to endure the final wrath to come. Then, there is a
marriage supper in heaven and Christ returns to rule the earth with the
believers after one final battle on earth.
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