{"id":236,"date":"2019-06-24T19:12:23","date_gmt":"2019-06-24T19:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.local.net\/?page_id=236"},"modified":"2019-06-24T19:12:23","modified_gmt":"2019-06-24T19:12:23","slug":"revelation-19","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blog.gracewalk.net\/?page_id=236","title":{"rendered":"Revelation 19"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Verses 1-10<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Review what happened in chapter 18<\/li><li>Describe the attitude of heaven at the destruction of Babylon<\/li><li>What specific traits of God do they praise? What does this indicate about the character of God.<\/li><li>Compare the reaction of heaven to this suffering and torment of Babylon to the world&#8217;s reaction to a &#8220;God that allows bad things to happen&#8221;. What does this mean to you?<\/li><li>What would justify this heavenly reaction to this destruction?<\/li><li>In Verse 5 &#8211; who do you think is calling for praise?<\/li><li>What is the responsive praise?<\/li><li>Who is the bride?<\/li><li>Consider the difference between how Babylon is described and the description of the female in verses 7 and 8?<\/li><li>What does this say about the difference between the world and this bride?<\/li><li>Verse 9 &#8211; who is the &#8220;he&#8221; in &#8220;And he said to me&#8221;<\/li><li>What does it mean to be a guest at the marriage supper? What benefit do the guests receive and why? See also Revelation 3:20.<\/li><li>Who does John bow and worship to?<\/li><li>What does the subject of his worship say?<\/li><li>Why do you think he worshipped like this? What does this mean to you and your worship?<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Verses 11-16<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>What does it mean that he saw the heavens open up?<\/li><li>Who do you think is riding the horse &#8211; see Isaiah 11 1-5<\/li><li>How does He judge and make war? How does this affect your perception of judgement and war?<\/li><li>How is Jesus described in Verses 12 and 13 &#8211; what do these symbols point to in His character?<\/li><li>In verse 14 &#8211; who is leading and who is following. What does tell you about the character of Jesus?<\/li><li>Verse 15 &#8211; Revelations 1:16 gives more evidence for the rider of the horse.<\/li><li>What have we seen so far of the fierceness of the wrath of God?<\/li><li>What do you think it means to have His name written on his garment and on is leg?<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Verses 17-<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Describe the angel in verse 17.<\/li><li>What does the angel command the birds to do? Jer 7:30-33<\/li><li>Who will serve as dinner for the birds? Will there be any spared?<\/li><li>Who is lined up to fight against Jesus and His army?<\/li><li>Does it say that any nation of earth will fight alongside or with Jesus?<\/li><li>What happened to the beast and the prophet? Note that the destruction of Babylon is completely separate from the defeat of Satan and the armies of the earth.<\/li><li>What does it mean to you that Satan and the prophet are both thrown into a burning lake?<\/li><li>What happened to the rest? Who were the rest?<\/li><li>What does this defeat mean to you as a Christian?<\/li><li>How does it affect the way you live your life?<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Verses 1-10 Review what happened in chapter 18 Describe the attitude of heaven at the destruction of Babylon What specific traits of God do they praise? What does this indicate about the character of God. Compare the reaction of heaven to this suffering and torment of Babylon to the world&#8217;s reaction to a &#8220;God that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":173,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-236","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gracewalk.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gracewalk.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gracewalk.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gracewalk.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gracewalk.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gracewalk.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/236\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gracewalk.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gracewalk.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}