And He has a name written on His robe and on His thigh: KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS.He has on his garment and on his thigh a name written, “KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS.”And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.And he hath on his garment and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.
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… will rule them with a rod of iron he himself treads the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of almighty god and he has on his robe and on his thigh a name written king of kings and lord Lord of Lords. Are you looking forward to that day? A little bit of context here because we're jumping in, not to the middle of the book, we're jumping into the tail end of this book, the book of Revelation. Not only the tail end of the Bible, but the tail end of the book of Revelation as well. So John is the author of Revelation. He's authored five books total, for prior to this. He's authored the Gospel of John for a second and third John, and now we have Revelation. And he's living in exile right now because he's the only apostle, tradition tells us, that wasn't killed for his faith. However, he was boiled alive in a cauldron of oil. And after they did that to him and he didn't die, they said, we got to shut this guy up somehow. …
… He will rule the nations with an iron scepter. He treads the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God Almighty. On his robe and on his thigh he has this name written, King of Kings and Lord of Lords. How foolish of earthly rulers to forget! And how dreadful the implications of such forgetting! Nebuchadnezzar stands as a classic illustration of man bent to his own glory, when in Daniel chapter 4 we read of him walking in the grounds of his royal residence and getting up and standing on the roof of his palace in Babylon and saying to himself, Is not this the great Babylon I have built as the royal residence, by my mighty power and for the glory of my majesty? And the words were still on his lips when a voice came from heaven, This is what is decreed for you, King Nebuchadnezzar. Your royal authority has been taken from you. Pardon? Who said that? And whoever said it, maybe you need to pause for a moment and remember who you're talking to. …
… and he has on his robe and on his thigh a name written king of kings and Lord of Lords. Yes. Then I saw an angel standing in the sun and he cried with a loud voice saying to all the birds that fly in the midst of heaven, listen now, come and gather together for the supper of the great God that 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 peoples, free and slave, both small and great. church Matthew and Luke, the rotting flesh and the flesh-eating birds. And I saw the beast, verse 19, 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. Then the beast was captured. That's awesome. The beast, the Antichrist, the whole crew is going to get swept up. And with him, the false prophet who worked signs in his presence by which he deceived those who received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped his image. …