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Hey, Bible readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble, and I'm your host for the Bible Recap. Here we are. Can you believe it? Congratulations on crossing this milestone. Whether this is your first trip through the whole Bible or the New Testament, or if you've done this many times before, it's still worth celebrating. I hope you have something planned. What have you learned this year?
At the time I'm recording this, I've read through the Bible over 15 times, and I'm still learning something new pretty much every day. Let's talk about what we saw in today's reading of Book 27 of the New Testament and Book 66 of the whole Bible. We're in the final chapters of John's vision of the revelation of Jesus. After God's massive victory yesterday, heaven erupts in a party today.
The multitudes in heaven praise God for His justice and truth and salvation and glory and power. And suddenly, it's time for the marriage of the Lamb and His bride, Christ and the Church, clothed in purity, in fine white linen. The angel who has been guiding John through these visions tells him to write down that those who are invited to the marriage supper of the Lamb will be blessed.
And guess why this is such a blessing? Because those invited are the bride. Then John falls down at the angel's feet, but the angel says, John pulls this again in chapter 22 and gets shut down again because God's angels refuse to be worshipped. So just a heads up, if you ever find an angel that receives worship, run. Jesus comes out on a white horse and he's wearing a robe dipped in blood.
He's followed by the armies of heaven, which usually refers to angels, but here it's likely referring to the people of God because it clarifies that they're wearing the same outfits as before. A sword is coming out of Jesus' mouth. And this has echoes of Ephesians 6 and the armor of God, where the word of God is our sword. His word is his weapon.
His word, which comes out of his mouth, brings justice and is victorious over his enemies. And all those armies of heaven behind him, us, it appears we do nothing. He wins on his own and pretty quickly. In chapter 20, we hit a section referred to as the millennium or the millennial reign. There are lots of perspectives on whether this is a literal, precise number or if it's more symbolic.
There are also lots of opinions on when this is set, past, present, or future. In conjunction with the millennium, Satan is bound in the bottomless pit temporarily. Your view on the millennium also determines how you view Satan's binding and the resurrections that are described here.
In case you missed the resources we linked to when we started Revelation, we'll drop those in the show notes again today. There's a PDF, a quick guide, and a database with lots of info. Satan will eventually suffer defeat in eternal torment, along with the two other members of his counterfeit trinity, the beast and the false prophet.
And while it appears everyone will be judged by their works, those whose names are written in the Lamb's Book of Life will be pardoned because their sins are covered by Christ the Lamb. He has recorded our name in the pages of life. Jesus referenced this in Luke 10 20 when his disciples were thrilled that they had power over demons.
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