Then the seventh angel sounded his trumpet, and loud voices called out in heaven: “The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ, and He will reign forever and ever.”The seventh angel sounded, and great voices in heaven followed, saying, “The kingdom of the world has become the Kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ. He will reign forever and ever!”And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever.And the seventh angel sounded; and there followed great voices in heaven, and they said, The kingdom of the world is become the kingdom of our Lord, and of his Christ: and he shall reign for ever and ever.
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… Look at the sounding of the seventh trumpet, the announcement of victory in verse 15. I love this. Then the seventh angel sounded, and there were loud voices in heaven saying, The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ, and he will reign forever and ever. Does that sound familiar to you? You can hear the refrains of the hallelujah chorus in your mind. This is where George Handel got those words, the kingdom of this world has become the kingdom of our God and of his Christ. What is interesting to me is this. This announcement is made. The kingdom of this world has become the kingdom of our God. But the fact is there's still more tribulation to come. There are seven more bold judgments to come. The victory is still future only to those of us who are caught in time and space, but to God who sees all things as past, present, and future, the victory has already happened. The kingdom of this world has already become the kingdom of our God. And notice the reaction to that announcement, the offering of praise beginning in verse 16, and the 24 elders who sit on the thrones before God fell on their faces and worship God. Remember the 24 elders represent all of God's redeemed, the church and redeemed Israel. And they will be saying, we give you thanks, O Lord God, the Almighty, who are and who were because you have taken your great …
Look at chapter 11 and verse 15, and we'll jump forward to that very sounding. And the seventh angel sounded, and there were loud voices in heaven saying, The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ, and He will reign forever and forever. So when the seventh angel sounds, the mystery of God is finished, the silence of God through all history is finished, and the kingdom of the world becomes the kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ, and He will reign forever and ever. So what happens at the seventh trumpet? The kingdom of Christ comes. The seventh angel will blow that trumpet. No more delay. That's how verse 6 ends, the end of the verse, no more delay, the mystery of God is finished. That's coming in chapter 11, verse 15. You say, well, why doesn't it come sooner? Why doesn't it come immediately after the sixth trumpet, which we saw in chapter 9? And the answer is because in each of these seven judgments, first the seven seals, then the seven trumpets, then the seven bowls, which happened in weeks and days at the very end. There is always an interlude between six and seven. There was an interlude between the sixth and the seventh seal, and that was chapter 7. And it talked about salvation of people from every tongue and tribe and nation. And there is an interlude between the sixth and seventh bowl. That's in chapter 16. …
… Revelation gives us in chapter 11 a glimpse of this. The seventh angel sounded, and there were loud voices in heaven saying, The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ, and He will reign forever and ever. And the twenty-four elders who sit on their thrones before God fell on their faces and worshiped God, saying, We give You thanks, O Lord God, the Almighty, who are and were, because You have taken Your great power and begun to reign. And the nations were enraged, and Your wrath came, and the time came for the dead to be judged and the time to reward Your slaves, the prophets and saints, and those who fear Your name, the small and the great, and destroy those who destroy the earth. And the temple of God which is in heaven was opened, and the ark of His covenant appeared in His temple, and there were flashes of lightning and sounds and peals of thunder and an earthquake and a great hailstorm." That's the moment when God takes over and Christ reigns. …