Then one of the seven angels with the seven bowls full of the seven final plagues came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb.”One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls which were loaded with the seven last plagues came, and he spoke with me, saying, “Come here. I will show you the bride, the Lamb’s wife.”And there came unto me one of the seven angels which had the seven vials full of the seven last plagues, and talked with me, saying, Come hither, I will shew thee the bride, the Lamb’s wife.And there came one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls, who were laden with the seven last plagues; and he spake with me, saying, Come hither, I will show thee the bride, the wife of the Lamb.
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… We've looked at the inhabitants of the city. Let's look at the description of the city. Verse 9, then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues came and spoke with me saying, come up here and I will show you the bride, the wife of the lamb. And John says, the angel carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain and showed me the holy city, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God. Look at verse 11. Having the glory of God, her brilliance was like a very costly stone, as a stone of crystal clear jasper. The word translated jasper could be any number of stones. Most people think it's a diamond. And what John is communicating here, and we'll see it over and over again in this chapter, is this city is going to be flooded with light. It's going to be absolutely filled with light. That is the chief characteristic of this new city, the new Jerusalem. Now look at verse 12. And it had a great and high wall. The new Jerusalem is going to have a great and high wall with 12 gates. And at the gates, 12 angels and names were written on them, which are the names of the 12 tribes of the son of Israel. And not only that, look at verse 14. And the wall of the city had 12 foundation stones. …
… come, but you can't have a marriage supper of the lamb without a bride. And that's the church. Yeah. And listen to this. Revelation chapter 21, verse nine. This is awesome. Revelation 21, nine says, and this is John, by the way, speaking. John says, then one of the seven angels, watch this, please, who had the seven bowls filled with the seven last plagues. Question, when will the seven last plagues be delivered onto the earth? When will that be? Anybody? Tribulation period. Bible says exactly that. Oh, you got that? This is important for the one person in here, but they got it messed up. Now they're going to have to think. John says, the seventh angel who's got the bowls of judgment, to be poured out, came to me and talked with me saying, John, where's John? In the revelation, he's looking at everything from heaven, from heaven. Watch what happens. So he says that the angel came and talked to me saying, come, I will show you the bride, the lamb's wife. Where is she? She's found in heaven, guys. How'd she get there? …
… these fellows have worked hand in hand. But look at chapter, verse 1 of chapter 17. Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and said to me, come, I will show you the judgment of the great prostitute. That's the false prophet who is seated on many waters with whom the kings of the earth have committed sexual immorality. Jump down to verse 16, it picks it up. Then the 10 horns, that is the kings that are in alliance with the Antichrist that you saw, they and the beast, the Antichrist, will hate the prostitute. They will make her desolate and naked and devour her flesh and burn her up with fire. At some point, the Antichrist, who heads the political and economic side of the regime, turns on the false prophet. Turns out the Antichrist was not all that interested in religion after all. What a shocker. He and the other kings used her like a prostitute to gain control. It's like Karl Marx said, religion is the opiate of the people, and you can use it to control people. …
… And Scripture is faithful, Titus 1, 9, holding fast the faithful word. Revelation 21.5 and 22.6, these words are faithful and true. God is faithful. Christ is faithful. And Scripture, therefore, is faithful. And then the ministers of that Scripture and the servants of God and Christ must be defined by faithfulness. Faithfulness in what sense? to Christ in their relationship with Him, and faithful to Scripture in their handling of divine revelation. The commendation of faithfulness is given to a number of people in the New Testament. Timothy in 1 Corinthians 4, 17, you're in that chapter. Go down to the bottom, sort of the bottom of the chapter, verse 17. For this reason, Paul says, I have sent to you Timothy, who is my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, and he will remind you of my ways which are in Christ. I walk with Christ and in Christ. Timothy follows me in doing the same, therefore he is faithful. He will remind you of my ways which are in Christ, and he will remind you of what I teach. …
… give to drink without cost from the spring of the water of life. Then the vision continues of the seven angels who had the seven bowls and so on, came and said to me, Come and I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb, and He carried me away in the spirit to a mountain great and high and showed me the holy city, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, and it shone with the glory of God, and its brilliance was like that of a precious jewel like jasper, clear as crystal. It had a great high wall with twelve gates and twelve angels. And then he goes and gives us this vivid description of this heavenly city that measures as a cube and it's fifteen hundred miles across the city. It's only a thousand miles across Texas. Can you imagine a city that measures four square fifteen hundred miles by fifteen hundred miles by fifteen hundred miles? the mileage and the math here is symbolic. It's the furlong times twelve is what it is in the New Testament. That is that this city is enormous in its scope. Have you ever been to Palestine? Have you ever been to Israel? How many people here have ever been to Jerusalem? …
… The church is the bride of Christ. If you'll turn to Revelation chapter 21 and verse 9 and notice here what he says. And one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues came and spoke with me saying, Come here, I shall show you the bride, the wife of the lamb. All right, Ephesians chapter 5, the most beautiful one that describes it all. Here's where Paul describes the church as the bride. Look, if you will, in verse 22. Wives be subject to your own husbands as to the Lord For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church He himself being the savior of the body But as the church is subject to Christ So also the wives ought to be subject to their own husbands Husbands love your wives like Christ loved the church Gave himself for her Now watch That he might sanctify her Having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word that he may present to himself the church in all of her glory, having no spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she should be holy and blameless. …