After these things I heard something like a loud voice of a great multitude in heaven, saying,
“Praise YAH!1 Salvation, power, and glory belong to our God: 2for true and righteous are his judgments. For he has judged the great prostitute, who corrupted the earth with her sexual immorality, and he has avenged the blood of his servants at her hand.”
3A second said,
“Praise YAH! Her smoke goes up forever and ever.”
4The twenty-four elders and the four living creatures fell down and worshiped God2 who sits on the throne, saying,
“Amen! Praise YAH!” 3
5A voice came forth from the throne, saying,
“Give praise to our God, all you his servants, you who fear him, the small and the great!”
6I heard something like the voice of a great multitude, and like the voice of many waters, and like the voice of mighty thunders, saying,
“Praise YAH! For the LORD God All-Powerful4 reigns! 7Let us rejoice and be very glad, and let us give the glory to him. For the marriage of the Lamb has come, and his wife has made herself ready.”
8It was given to her that she would array herself in bright, pure, fine linen: for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints.
9He said to me,
“Write, ‘Blessed are those who are invited to the marriage supper of the Lamb.'”
He said to me,
“These are true words of God.”
10I fell down before his feet to worship him. He said to me,
“Look! Do not do it! I am a fellow slave with you and with your brothers who hold the testimony of ‘ISA5. Worship God, for the testimony of ‘ISA is the Spirit of Prophecy.”
11I saw the heaven opened, and behold, a white horse, and he who sat on it is called Faithful and True. In righteousness he judges and makes war. 12His eyes are a flame of fire, and on his head are many crowns. He has a Name written which no one knows but he himself. 13He is clothed in a garment sprinkled with blood. His Name is called,
“THE WORD OF GOD6.”
14The armies which are in heaven followed him on white horses, clothed in white, pure, fine linen. 15Out of his mouth proceeds a sharp, double-edged sword, that with it he should strike the nations. He will rule them with a rod of iron. He treads the winepress of the fierceness of the wrath of God Almighty. 16He has on his garment and on his thigh a Name written,
“KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.”
17I saw an angel standing in the sun. He cried with a loud voice, saying to all the birds that fly in the sky,
“Come! Be gathered together to the great supper of God, 18that you may eat the flesh of kings, the flesh of captains, the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses and of those who sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and slave, and small and great.”
19I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him who sat on the horse, and against his army. 20The beast was taken, and with him the false prophet who worked the signs in his sight, with which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped his image. These two were thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with sulfur. 21The rest were killed with the sword of him who sat on the horse, the sword which came forth out of his mouth. All the birds were filled with their flesh.
- 19:1 Praise YAH! the Greek text says alleluia, which is a transliteration of the Hebrew hallelujah, which literally means praise YAH, often said praise the Lord in English. YAH is an abbreviated form of YAHWEH, the name God revealed to Prophet Musa in the Taurat, Exodus 3:15 – God said moreover to Musa, “You shall tell Bani-Israel this, ‘YAHWEH, the God of your fathers, the God of Ibrahim, the God of Ishaq, and the God of Yaqub, has sent me to you.’ This is my Name forever, and this is how I am to be remembered to all generations.” ↩︎
- 19:4 God, English translation of theos. It is the Greek equivalent of elohim and eloah (Hebrew) which are related to allah (Arabic) and alaha (Syriac), all of which translate as “God,” and refer to the one true God. ↩︎
- 19:4 Amen! Praise YAH! Echoing the Zabur 106:48 which says: Praise be to YAHWEH, the God of Israel, from everlasting even to everlasting! Let all the people say, Amen! Praise YAH! ↩︎
- 19:6 LORD God All-Powerful, this combination mirrors the Septuagint’s* way of translating the Hebrew word combination, YAHWEH elohim sabaoth, into Greek. LORD in all caps represents God’s personal name YAHWEH in the Hebrew scriptures. An example of this combination is Hosea 12:5, which says: “Even YAHWEH God All-Powerful; YAHWEH is the Name by which he is to be remembered!”
*Septuagint is the name of an ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew scriptures used by early Christians. ↩︎ - 19:10 ‘ISA – The names ‘ISA (Arabic), ISHO (Syriac) and JESUS (Greek, IESOUS) are all derived from the Hebrew name YEHOSHUA, which means “YAHWEH saves.” (YAHWEH is God’s personal name revealed to Prophet Musa in the Taurat, Exodus 3:15 – God said moreover to Musa, “You shall tell Bani-Israel this, ‘YAHWEH, the God of your fathers, the God of Ibrahim, the God of Ishaq, and the God of Yaqub, has sent me to you.’ This is my Name forever, and this is how I am to be remembered to all generations.”) ↩︎
- 19:13 The Word of God, compare the Injil, John 1:1 which says: “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” ↩︎ ↩︎