LECTURE XV
THE MARRIAGE SUPPER OF THE LAMB AND THE RETURN OF THE KING IN GLORY 19:5-21 Before we begin the study of our new lesson for today, with its message of light and hope and victory, let us read again the first four verses of chapter nineteen. We considered them last time in concluding our study of the coming fall of apostate Christendom. But these verses also present a con necting link between "the judgment of the great whore" (chapters seventeen and eighteen) and the triumph of the bride of Christ (chapter nineteen). They announce the re joicing in heaven over the utter defeat of this Satan-inspired system: "Alleluia; Salvation, and glory, and honour, and power, unto the Lord our God: for true and righteous are his judgments: for he hath judged the great whore ... Alleluia ... And the four and twenty elders and the four living crea tures fell down and worshipped God that sat on the throne, saying, Amen; Alleluia." God is still on His throne. He reigns in power on high, and one of these days He will step forth and wipe the earth free of its sin and shame. His kingdom will spread from sea to sea.
"THE MARRIAGE SUPPER OF THE LAMB" 19:7-9
"And after these things," the marriage supper of the Lamb will take place in heaven. After the false bride has been judged and cast out, and just as the seventieth week of Daniel is about to come to a close, before the time when the Son of God, as the Sun of Righteousness, bursts forth in all His glory as King of Kings and Lord of Lords, the true church, the body of Christ, the bride of the Lamb, will be pre sented to Him, spotless, without blemish. All heaven will
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