Revelation Part 13 - Pastor Josiah Shipley

The Song of Moses and the Lamb in Revelation

They sing the song of Moses servant of God and the song of the Lamb saying listen to this Great and amazing are your deeds. Oh, Lord. God the Almighty.

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Good evening and welcome to Sunday night Bible study with Pastor Josiah Shipley of Witten Baptist Church. We are on what part 13 of the book of Revelation. Yes, revelation not revelations. God only needed one and we are finishing up chapter 14 today and Probably getting through chapter 15.

We'll see how far we can get. Excited to be with you guys without further ado. Let's dig into the Word of God. We left off in verse 14. So I'll read their Revelation 14. Verse 14. Then I looked him ahold a white cloud and seated on the cloud one like a son of man.

With a gold crown on his head and a sharp stick on his hand. And another angel came out of the temple calling out with a loud voice to him. He said I'm cloud put in your sickle and reap for your hour to reap has come for the harvest of Europe is fully ripe.

So he sat on the cloud and swung his sickle across the earth and the earth was reaped. And another angel came out of the temple in heaven. He too had a sharp sickle. And another angel came out from the altar.

The angel had authority over fire. And he called with the loud voice to the one who had a sharp sickle. Put in your sickle and gather the cluster from the vine of the earth for the grapes are right. Verse 19.

So the angel swung his sickle Across the earth and gathered the great harvest of the earth and threw it into the great winepress of the wrath of God. And the winepress was trodden out some city in the blood.

Flowed from the winepress as high as the horses bridle for 1600 stadia, which is roughly 180 miles. All right. There's the rest of chapter 14. This vision at the beginning is a clear reference to Daniel 7.

The Son of Man is Jesus and he's given authority to rule and his kingdom is an everlasting dominion that has no end. And remember this is why. You know God may call other human beings son of man. But son of man is also a messianic title title about the Messiah about Jesus and it's clear from Daniel 7.

In fact in the Gospels, I can't remember the exact number but I think the term son of man is used 80 times in 78 of those times it's Jesus referring to himself as the Son of Man. He clearly was wanting all of his listeners To see him as a fulfillment of Daniel 7.

So He will have an everlasting Dominion and will have no end. Now we kind of have to harvest here. One of the earth and one of the grapes. If you view them as different harvest this could very easily be a flashback to the rapture.

Where he gathers all his to his own or you could use it as the same harvest just in a different way. But either way this harvest ends in judgment. The second. So, you know you've heard the book of the grapes of wrath this where it comes from.

Notice that the grapes are put into the great winepress of the wrath of God. Guys this gets a little Visual here it gets a little on how much I'm saying this. Explicit if you will. But it's the Bible.

The great winepress was trodden outside the city and the blood flowed from the winepress as high as the horse's bridle for 180 miles. So there's a great winepress of God's wrath and He bore a throne in it and it is trodden and the blood flows for 180 miles as high as the horse's bridle.

This is a clear Look into the return of Jesus, I'll read the return of Jesus in Revelation 19. And I saw heaven opened and behold a white horse and one sitting on it is called faithful and true and in righteousness.

He judges and makes war. His eyes are like a flame of fire and on his head are many diadems. He has a name written that no one knows but himself. He's clothed in a robe dip in blood and the name by which he's called is the Word of God.

Sound like John chapter 1. Hmm. I wonder who wrote the book of Revelation. John 14 the armies of heaven arrayed in fine linen white and pure were following him on white horses. From his mouth comes a sharp sword, which is to strike down the nations and he will rule them with a rod of iron.

Interesting. 2nd Thessalonians says Jesus will kill The Antichrist a man of lawlessness with the breath of his mouth. Out of his mouth comes a sharp sword. He will here it is verse 15 of chapter 19. He will tread the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God God Almighty, excuse me.

So it says here that Jesus is the one who is going to tread The fury the winepress of fury of the wrath of God the Almighty. So Chapter 14 ends with a look into what's about to happen. That is Jesus coming back.

The Seven Bowls and the Wrath of God Finished

Okay. So Chapter 15 is gonna be a return to our judgments of seven. Remember, we have our seven seals or seven trumpets and our seven bowls. Well, the seventh bowl ends with the return of Jesus at the end of it.

So chapter 14 is a look forward to hey. This is what's about to happen at the end of these seven bowls and he's coming back. And just like at the end of chapter 14, the winepress is trodden. Jesus the one who treads on the winepress of God's wrath.

Jesus is the one who divvies out that wrath to those who refuse to obey. Okay. Chapter 15. Then I saw another sign in heaven great and amazing seven angels with seven plagues. Which are the last with them the wrath of God is finished again.

We can say after the bowls the wrath of God is finished because the last bowl ends with the return of Jesus. Okay. Verse two. And I saw what appeared to be a sea of glass mingled with fire. And also those who had conquered the beast and its image in the number of its name.

Standing beside the sea of glass with the harps of God in their hands and they sing the song of Moses the servant of God. In the song of the Lamb saying great and amazing are your deeds. Oh Lord God the Almighty just and true are your ways or kingdom of nations.

Who will not fear Oh Lord and glorify your name for you alone are holy. All nations will come and worship you for your righteous acts have been revealed. After this I looked in the sanctuary of a tent of witness in heaven was open and out of the sanctuary came seven angels seven plagues clothed in pure bright linen with gold sashes around their chest and one of the four living creatures gave to the seven angels.

Seven golden bowls for the wrath of God who lives forever and ever. And Sanctuary was filled with the smoke of the glory of God and from his power and no one could ever sanctuary to the seven plagues of seven angels were finished.

The Song of Moses, the Song of the Lamb, and the Worship of the Nations

Okay, I Want to focus in on verse three and four? I want to focus in on those two verses and when we get done with those two verses will be done. Let's read that again. Chapter 15 verse 3 and 4 and they sing the song of Moses the servant of God as a reference to Exodus 15 and the people of Israel and it's mentioned in Deuteronomy at the end, I believe when the people leave Egypt people of God leave Egypt.

After he delivered them from all those plagues. They sing a song of redemption a song of deliverance. Okay. Here kind of the same thing. After making it out of all these plagues the people of God who have lived during the tribulation who Or saved after the rapture if you will, they're singing a song of redemption.

This is the remnant. But this is also the people who were killed. It says these are the ones who conquered the beast in its image. When you go back to Revelation 12. How does that conquer them? By the blood of the Lamb and the word of their testimony because they love not the lives even unto death.

These are the believers who were martyred. They sing the song of Moses servant of God and the song of the Lamb saying listen to this. Great and amazing are your deeds. Oh Lord God the Almighty. Just ensure your ways.

Oh king of the nations or king of the ages your Bible may say king of the Saints. But it's fine because it's about to make clear. It means everybody Who will not fear our Lord and glorify your name for you alone are holy.

All nations will come worship you for your righteous acts. Have been revealed. Great and amazing are your deeds. Oh Lord God the Almighty. Jorge a whole thing asshole Pantocrator's. I'm gonna read it to make sure I said it, right.

Or a whole thing asshole Pantocrator in Greek. The Lord God the Pantocrator your Bible is probably gonna say the Almighty a Reference to the Old Testament El Shaddai. However. The word here literally means pawn means all.

Krator means ruling or force. So it means the the all-ruling the all-force the all-dominion. I think a good translation would be the universal sovereign the universal song. So great and amazing are your deeds.

Oh Lord God the the all-ruler the ruler of all the universal song. Just ensure your ways. Oh King of the ethnos king of the nations verse 4 who will not fear Oh Lord and glorify your name. For you alone are holy now.

The regular word for holy is haggy us. It means set apart on a different level here. We have a different word for holy. It's not the regular word for holy. I believe this is host. Yes, and my point in saying that is that normally I'll see us normally.

Haggis is the word for holy but here the word ha see us means undefiled. Now, why would John use that word here? Or Why would these Christians who have been martyred use that word here? Let me show you why so you alone are undefiled.

He's the only one who is undefiled in all his ways. Just ensure his deeds. Are his ways all nations will come in worship by the way. Brother hunter a few weeks ago. I told you guys about this. Gave a great definition of worship.

Worship is whatever you do in obedience to God. See praise is with the mouth. Worship is with the heart. The word for worship literally means. Who lay down as a dog before its master? That's what worship is and he is our master.

Now why is he alone undefiled? Why will all nations come and worship him? Because The end of verse 4 all your righteous acts have been revealed. Manifested main known shine light on yes. I'm gonna be honest with you.

Sometimes I read the Bible like Flood or here at the end of Genesis at the end of Revelation 14 with the winepress and all the blood. I'm like God. You know, that's. That's a lot of death. And not even in a disrespect for blasphemous day way, but if I'm being honest, sometimes I'm like God couldn't you have done that a different way?

Don't you have God, why did you allow this to happen? God? Why did you allow this to happen? Now? I know the theological answer to that. I How I would answer that a person. I know how to answer that but sometimes I still like and Lord.

Couldn't you have done in another way? Look at verse 4 again, and this brings me so much. Peace. Who will not fear our Lord and glorify your name for you alone are holy undefiled all nations will come in.

Worship you for your righteous acts have been revealed manifested main known. One day guys, I will be able to see the tapestry that God has been making all along one day. I Will be able to see the symphony he has been conducting the whole time.

That when you just get an individual piece, it doesn't sound very beautiful. But when you see it as a whole it sounds gorgeous. One day his righteous acts gonna be revealed and you and I will be able to look back at time.

Which won't exist for us anymore. We'll be able to look back at time and say oh Yep. That right. There was the good righteous loving and merciful thing to do. Now if that sounds crazy to you just stay in the tension with me for a minute and live here.

I Don't have to understand how Every single act God has ever done or permitted was the good righteous perfect and merciful thing to do. But I have to believe right here that one day I will know that it will be revealed.

See, I don't have to know all the answers at that. I just have to trust and believe God one day. We will all be able to look back and say yep. That was the right call God. That was the good righteous perfect merciful thing to do and we will all agree that that was the righteous thing to do.

Right now I'm not going to understand everything he does or permits but one day I will be able to see it all. And see that it was the good perfect righteous and merciful thing to do even if it doesn't look like that from my vantage point I've got to trust God and that his ways are higher than mine.

Even now with the paradigm that I see the world through I've got to trust that it's fault that he is God and I am not. Okay, very good. Well, that is the highlight for me of chapter 15. Beautiful his undefiled his righteous acts are going to be revealed to us one day.

Next week we will pick up on chapter 16. We're getting there guys. We're getting there chapter 16. The seven bowls of God's wrath. It's a doozy. So be ready for that. I love you guys very much. I hope this was a blessing to you somehow some way.

As always make sure to tune in the Tuesday Bible study. I believe that's our next one. Love you all very much. God bless.