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J R grew up in a darkroom; an autodidact to image-making. Learning the craft alongside his father who is also a photographer, J R honed his style and technique. His work regularly pays tribute to some of his major influences: Richard Avedon, Annie Leibovitz, and filmmakers Stanley Kubrick and Eric Rohmer. His images evince a perfectionist approach to lighting. The play on chiaroscuro as visual trope is present in many of his most recent works. "I'm so intrigued by the lighting used in Renaissance painting because these works allude to the concurrent architecture," says J R, "a painting may show light in certain areas, in a particular manner, solely because the window in the painter's room was placed higher and is deeper than what's customary today ― I try to achieve the same contextual motivations in my photograph." Photography can be a lonely profession and J R was drawn to the collaborative spirit behind commercial and editorial shoots in the fashion world. Seeking the chance to work with a creative team, J R delved into the realm of fashion and his work has since been seen in a variety of Canadian fashion publications, including FLARE, ACF Magazine, and Trends. In 2012, Bernstein was chosen as one of Piccsy's "30 Photographers from Toronto You Should Know About." J R also sits on the executive board of the Fashion Group International, Toronto chapter, as artistic director. J R Bernstein's future looks something like that of a seasoned photographer with many accolades. He plans on expanding his reach and recognition within the industry through collaboration with fellow creatives. His love for travel photography is an interest he hopes to marry with his work in fashion. He is nostalgic and forward thinking in the same breath ― and I truly believe J R Bernstein will achieve great things in the medium of photography. I can only hope to further collaborate with him as his career blossoms. Justine Iaboni, fashion writer and entrepreneur.


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While the biggies were seen in New York City, Buffalo, Niagara Falls, even Lewiston, New Year's celebrations also included events in Wilson and Ransomville.
The Kid's New Year's Eve party at the Wilson Firehall was put on by the Wilson Lions Club, the Wilson Business Association, the Wilson Volunteer firemen and the Town of Wilson. The ball drop was done by Clark Rigging.
The firehall was filled with kids, big and small, laughing, dancing, singing and having a great time. The adults seemed to have more fun blowing bubbles than the kids did, but the kids chased balloons, blew noisemakers and finally got the grown-ups out on the dance floor with them.
At 9 p.m., everyone bundled up and went out to the parking lot for the first ball drop of the evening. The ball was dropped again at midnight for the adult crowd.
In nearby Ransomville a ball was dropped at 9 p.m. outside Johnston's Restaurant for the kids and again at midnight for a crowd of kids and adults. (photos by Wayne Peters)

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The Carmi City Council provided a rundown Monday evening at its regular meeting of the completed and yet to be completed projects for 2012-2013 that were paid for with Motor Fuel Tax (MFT) funds and it tabled an Illinois Department of Transportation request to designate Oak Street as a snow route, which would have limited parking on the street during times of snowfall.
The Carmi City Council provided a rundown Monday evening at its regular meeting of the completed and yet to be completed projects for 2012-2013 that were paid for with Motor Fuel Tax (MFT) funds and it tabled an Illinois Department of Transportation request to designate Oak Street as a snow route, which would have limited parking on the street during times of snowfall.
O'Daniel Trucking Co. of Carmi was the winning bidder for the MFT projects and the expenditures totaling $193,822.60. Here is a look at those projects:
Smith and Hillsdale intersection: The old asphalt surface was ground down and replaced with new asphalt with the correct elevation for proper drainage.
Gilpin at Burrell: Storm drains that had been covered over were reopened for proper drainage.
St. Louis at Main: Culvert was stopped up and the ditch was filled in. A new culvert was installed and the ditch was dug out to Hay Street.
Third and Shipley: Storm drains replaced. Culvert replaced. Asphalt and ditch work completed.
Seventh Street: A section of the 400 block was ground down and resurfaced because of asphalt buckling.
Epworth Road: A section had to be ground down and resurfaced.
Dain Drive: Gravel replaced with asphalt.
April Avenue: Ditch cleaned out, new culvert and riprap installed and a gravel road to the city's nearby lift station was elevated, all in an effort to alleviate drainage problems.
Elm Street: Phase one of resurfacing project completed. Old surface patched several times previously due to deterioration was removed and replaced.
Fairview Drive: Street resurfaced and drainage ditches repaired. New culvert may be installed and some additional dirt work planned.
Iris Lane: Ditch had filled with sediment over the years. Ditch was dug out, larger culvert installed and covered. The project is 90 percent complete, with a gas line that is to be relocated and the area is still to be tilled and seeded.
Saunders Avenue: Resurfacing. Ditch was eroding at the edge of the street and had sediment build up. Ditch cleaned, culvert built up, new riprap. This project is 95 percent completed, with additional dirt work to be done along with tilling and seeding.
In other council news, a resolution to approve a request from IDOT to declare Oak Street a snow route was tabled. The resolution as drafted by city attorney Greg Stewart would have required no parking on the street when more than two inches of snow fell in the area to allow proper plowing by IDOT.
However, a couple of the aldermen pointed out some of the residents on Oak do not have off-street parking and questioned if two inches was enough to require the vehicle to be moved.
Mayor David Port said Stewart had written the resolution to approve an ordinance with a two-inch requirement based on his own research into other surrounding towns and their snow route ordinances.
Ultimately and after some discussion, the aldermen tabled the resolution pending further study.
The mayor reported a house at 608 Second St. will be demolished and another nearby house will also soon be demolished.
Police Chief Randy Hamblin gave a brief report. He had to leave the last meeting early due to an emergency call. He encouraged the aldermen to look over his written report submitted at the last meeting.
He did report five domestic battery arrests and 12 arrests on warrants.
City supervisor Mike Buckman reported several ongoing projects to remove tree roots from sewer lines as well as a project to re-rock the roadways inside the White County Fairgrounds. He said the past practice has been for the city to provide the rock and the county grades it down.
Buckman said new lights west of Burrell along Stewart Street have been installed and, thanks to a donation from the Carmi Summer Recreational League, 10 new tulip poplar trees have been planted at Bradshaw Park.
New backboards have been installed at Bradshaw's basketball courts and he asked the council to begin considering installing new asphalt behind the newly constructed backstop at Eckerle Park.
Alderman Tim Pollard reported a project at the substation at Bradshaw Park off Sycamore Street was successful. He said that during the project, electrical supply to the city was supplied by the city's generators. Pollard said it cost more than $11,000 for the fuel to turn on the generators during the project and noted that is the reason the city does not normally supply its own power: The cost of the fuel is just too prohibitive.
Alderman Jeff Pollard said Burrell's Woods is ready for the season with more than 500 Boy Scouts expected to attend an upcoming camp jamboree Friday, April 19 through Sunday, April 21.


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An atheist billboard didn't last long on church property on the East Side.
An atheist billboard didn't last long on church property on the East Side.
The smiling image of Dylan Galos was accompanied by the words "I can be good without God."
It was one of seven billboards posted across Columbus last week by the Freedom From Religion Foundation to introduce central Ohio residents to their atheist neighbors.
The message didn't sit well with the pastor of Christ Cathedral Church, 3350 Allegheny Ave., which owns the land where one of the billboards went up on a Clear Channel Outdoor sign.
The Rev. Waymon Malone ordered it removed, said Carolyn Kelley, his mother-in-law. Malone and his wife, Kimberlee, were out of town today and could not be reached for comment.
"It upset him because of what it said," Kelley said. "It said we don't need God, and we're at church, so we do need God."
The billboard was removed days after it was installed on June 21, said Jay Schmidt, account executive for Matrix Media Services.
It was reposted on E. Main Street, just west of Alum Creek Drive, visible to eastbound traffic, Schmidt said.
Schmidt helped the Freedom From Religion Foundation find the billboard locations but didn't realize that the Galos billboard was on church property. That billboard is visible from Stelzer Road north of Allegheny Avenue, just as Stelzer turns into James Road.
He called it "an unfortunate oversight" by Clear Channel, whose representatives did not return messages seeking comment.
The Freedom From Religion Foundation also did not know the billboard was on church land, said Ed Sweeney, a local atheist who worked with the Madison, Wis.-based group.
Galos, 25, who just earned his master's degree in public health at Ohio State University, said churches have a right to decide what goes on their property.
Still, "I was a little disappointed that was the reaction they had, that it was so offensive to the congregation they had it moved."


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"Atheism is about belief."Belief in what?-Nam
I still think it is a little strange (not considering the possibility that your definition could be wrong) ...
I always say what I mean. But sometimes I'm a sarcastic prick whose tone can't be properly communicated via text.
Quote from: Mrjason on August 20, 2013, 11:02:20 AMAs I said, it is legally a belief.And so what if it is? The point of defining it as a belief is to give it the same privileges as actual beliefs. It doesn't mean it actually is a belief.
As I said, it is legally a belief.
This universe works exactly as it would be expected if there were no god.
Quote from: Mrjason on August 20, 2013, 11:02:20 AMI believe that there are no gods and as such I will not act as if there are gods. Does that qualify as a belief?That's your belief (although I doubt that's what you actually believe), but it doesn't define atheism as a whole.
I believe that there are no gods and as such I will not act as if there are gods. Does that qualify as a belief?
[ Quote from: Mrjason on August 20, 2013, 11:02:20 AMedit; I'm not doing this to piss you off, I'm writing an employment law paper and am interested in the rational behind "belief" arguments.In that case I advise you to learn the difference between "rational" and "rationale".
edit; I'm not doing this to piss you off, I'm writing an employment law paper and am interested in the rational behind "belief" arguments.
Ok so atheism isn't a belief in nothing it is an implied belief in; Quote from: One Above All on August 20, 2013, 02:13:45 PMThis universe works exactly as it would be expected if there were no god.Making it "cogent, serious and worthy of respect in a democratic society"Therefore a protected charicteristic
Please clarify this.
This comes across as a tad petty.
Religions need books because they don't have gods.
For example, I don't believe that the supernatural exists. That's a statement about my beliefs, but it is not itself a belief, because it doesn't describe what I do believe in. You could say that it helps to establish the boundaries, but only in a very rough sense. You can't tell what an atheist believes merely because they are an atheist, in other words. You can only tell what they don't believe.I liken it to this math example - if you have a non-negative number, it doesn't tell you what the number actually is, it just tells you what the number isn't.Does that help to resolve this dispute?
But when someone proposes the idea that the supernatural exists, I still think it relegates your postion to a likely well informed belief.
You believe the person proposing supernatural powers is wrong. However you can not prove it. I still think that is a belief. Much like my catching a bullet I fired story. I can not prove it and you can not disprove it. Hence you believe I am lying.
Am I the only one who thinks that epidemic is lying about being an atheist? I wouldn't be surprised if he turned around and said something like... "You know what, christianity makes sense! I'm a born-again christian!"
You will have to take me at my word but I am not misrepresenting myself.
well I guess we are just on different pages here.
I say I have been teleported by an alien, you ask me to prove it, I say I can not.
You say teleportation is not possible.
I say prove I have not been teleportation is not possible.
In this imaginary scenario assume I actually was teleported. just because you can not prove a negative does not make it false.
Even though your convinced I have never been teleported you are wrong. is your postion a belief that is wrong or is it an errant fact?
I think most everything I have an opinion or think I know is probably more of a belief than hard core fact I have been told that lions are from africa and alligators live in some north carolina swamps. I believe these things to be true I have lots of things that are hear say but I have not personally verified either. there is no reason for someone to lie about these things so I have a very firm belief but....
Nope, not gonna happen. we are quibbling over the definition of a word. I believe you are an atheist I am an agnostic atheist and I believe that most claimed atheists are agnostic atheists or weak atheists. Like my friend i do find the strongest sense of the word atheist is a very rare person. Probably self absorbed and cock sure of himself. but even dawkins (spelling) admitts to be only 99.99999% atheist. that leaves a small amount of room for the existence of god. I myself am 99.99999% sure the bible is wrong, and 99.9% sure there are no gods or dieties or magic, or unicorns... I am not 100% sure because I am not so arrogant as to say I know for a fact that I know enough to answer with authority on the absolute absence of god.You will have to take me at my word but I am not misrepresenting myself.
I say I have been teleported by an alien, you ask me to prove it, I say I can not.
He's an atheist? Really? I never got that. -Nam
Quote from: Nam on August 27, 2013, 04:22:47 PMHe's an atheist? Really? I never got that. -NamIt's what he claims. I believe otherwise, though.
Well that just goes to prove your faith is misplaced:)<snip>
Quote from: epidemic on August 27, 2013, 12:36:39 PMwell I guess we are just on different pages here.The problem is that you're too focused on arguing with us, and not focused enough on the flaws in your own position.Quote from: epidemicI say I have been teleported by an alien, you ask me to prove it, I say I can not.Which means, barring actual evidence to support your claim, there's no reason to accept it.Quote from: epidemicYou say teleportation is not possible.No, I don't. I say that we don't know if teleportation is possible.Quote from: epidemicI say prove I have not been teleportatedThis sentence is an offense against the English language. I suggest you rephrase.Sorry correctedQuote from: epidemicIn this imaginary scenario assume I actually was teleported. just because you can not prove a negative does not make it false.But it doesn't make it true either, which is the point. That's why the person advancing a claim has to support it.
I say prove I have not been teleportated
Yes, all of those are beliefs, after a fashion. But the point is that they're about you believing in something (that exists or that happened, or even where it came from). If you didn't believe that lions were from Africa, then you would have to have someplace in mind where you thought they came from - which is a belief. But the lack of belief in something is not itself a belief.And that's what I'm trying to get at. Atheists do indeed believe in things. As Hatter said, he believes that when he sets his hat down and goes to sleep, it will stay where it is unless something (like another person, or an animal, or wind from his overhead fan that he left on) moves it. So atheists have things they believe in instead of gods - but that does not mean that atheism itself is one of those beliefs.Do you see what I'm trying to get at now?
Actually no it doesn't need to be supported to be true. It needs to be supported for you to believe it. Again I said assume the reality, I actually had been teleported under the conditions I explained. Now I come to a non believer and tell them the incredible story of being teleported and I can not prove it. I still have been teleported I just lack proof. it is still truth in the scenario I laid out. It is simply unverifiable.
Just as the story of me catching a bullet I fired from my gun at a target 50 feet away. it is slightly less unbelievable but I still don't expect you to believe me. I can not prove it so you would have to take me at my word and since you don't know me from adam, I guess it is up to you whether you believe it. But it is never the less absolutely true.
If you think it is false does that make it in actuallity false? Since you can not verify it you may believe it to be false. But it is only a belief.
As I think about this I kinda look at almost everything I know but have not personally tested are beliefs. I believe to the maximum decimal place buttttt.
There is tons of proof that god exists I just don't lend it any credibility because those sources are old and defy logic and are from too few sources. People through out history have claimed it. I don't know if they lied or are dillusional for certain. Let me ask this, Isn't the claim of first hand knowledge a form of proof? Usually we verify it with other first hand accounts when evaluating history and if we are lucky we may find corroberating physical evidence.
In case you haven't realized it, there is nothing at all in this universe that can be proved with absolute certainty. Doesn't matter whether you've tested it or not, and it doesn't matter whether someone else has for that matter - you cannot be absolutely perfectly certain that it isn't wrong. But it's extremely ridiculous to then say, "well, I can't be absolutely sure, even though it's almost completely sure, so hey, it's a belief that I have faith in".
Simple fact is truth can not always be proven.
Just as I can not prove the bullet and it is true
Proof is not an absolute requirement of truth. It is a valid tool in achieving belief.


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Security through obscurity? What does that even mean? Security through obscurity is the reliance on the secrecy of the implementation of a system or components of a system to keep it secure. It's not truly analogous, but imagine it being like hiding your car instead of locking it, to try to keep it from being stolen. It might slow the thief that expects it to be in your driveway, but when some thief does happen upon it, it's easy pickings.
The reason that analogy is bad, is because it's rare that you find someone that uses security by obscurity as their only means of security. They don't usually hide the admin page of their site instead of having a username and password. However, it's quite common to see people use obscurity as a replacement for good security. Thinking that a weak password is okay because no one knows where to go to log in anyway is dangerous.
There are three basic types of security: security by design, security by openness, and security by obscurity . The first two have been proven over and over to be extremely effective, even on their own.security by design, security by openness, and security by obscurity
Security by design means pretty much what it sounds like. A system is designed from the beginning with security in mind. Malicious intent is assumed. User input and often even internals are not trusted. Instead rules are enforced and everything is checked and validated.
Security by openness relies on Linus's Law, which states that "given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow" (an obvious adaptation of the oft proven idiom "many hands make light work"). It puts the code in front of lots of people by opening it up, and relies on the efforts of the masses to find and close any security vulnerabilities. All of the most popular open source applications use this method, from WordPress to Linux, and it has been extremely successful.
By contrast, security through obscurity hasn't been proven to work on its own. A common mantra among digital security professionals is "security by obscurity is not security at all." Even the National Institute of Standards and Technology, in their Guide to General Server Security (PDF) teach against it:
Open Design — System security should not depend on the secrecy of the implementation or its components.Open Design
The question of whether secrecy of systems is beneficial for security is not new. Alfred Charles Hobbs , a locksmith, wrote a book in 1853 titled " Construction of Locks and Safes ". In it he said that "many well-meaning persons" assume that public exposure of a lock's insecure design will end up helping criminals. His response to this concern applies as directly to today's technical systems as it did to the locks of the nineteenth century:
Let's define continuous improvement. Continuous improvement is a dedication to making small changes and improvements every day, with the expectation that those small improvements will add up to something significant.
The typical approach to self-improvement is to set a large goal, then try to take big leaps in order to accomplish the goal in as little time as possible. While this may sound good in theory, it often ends in burnout, frustration, and failure. Instead, we should focus on continuous improvementby slowly and slightly adjusting our normal everyday habits and behaviors.
It is so easy to dismiss the value of making slightly better decisions on a daily basis.
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So often we convince ourselves that change is only meaningful if there is some large, visible outcome associated with it. Whether it is losing weight, building a business, traveling the world or any other goal, we often put pressure on ourselves to make some earth-shattering improvement that everyone will talk about.
Meanwhile, improving by just 1 percent isn't notable (and sometimes it isn't even ). But it can be just as meaningful, especially in the long run.
In the beginning, there is basically no difference between making a choice that is 1 percent better or 1 percent worse. (In other words, it won't impact you very much today.) But as time goes on, these small improvements or declines compound and you suddenly find a very big gap between people who make slightly better decisions on a daily basis and those who don't.
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This is why small choices don't make much of a difference at the time, but add up over the long-term.
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Now, let's talk about a few quick steps you can take right now to start focusing on continuous improvement.
We often waste the resources and ideas at our fingertips because they don't seem new and exciting.
There are many examples of behaviors, big and small, that have the opportunity to drive progress in our lives if we just did them with more consistency. Flossing every day. Never missing workouts. Performing fundamental business tasks each day, not just when you have time. Apologizing more often. Writing Thank You notes each week .
Progress often hides behind boring solutions and underused insights. You don't need more information. You don't need a better strategy. You just need to do more of what already works.
In many cases, improvement is not about doing more things right, but about doing fewer things wrong.
This is a concept called improvement by subtraction, which is focused on doing less of what doesn't work: eliminating mistakes, reducing complexity, and stripping away the inessential.
Here are some examples:
In the real world, it is often easier to improve your performance by cutting the downside rather than capturing the upside. Subtraction is more practical than addition.
One of the best ways to make big gains is to avoid tiny losses.
We often measure our progress by looking forward. We set goals. We plan milestones for our progress. Basically, we try to predict the future to some degree.
There is an opposite and, I think, more useful approach: measure backward, not forward.
Measuring backward means you make decisions based on what has already happened, not on what you want to happen.
Here are a few examples:
Measure backward and then get a little bit better. What did you do last week? How can you improve by just a little bit this week?
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If you get one percent better each day for one year, you'll end up thirty-seven times better by the time you're done.
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LG launches almost full HD 3D laptop
Nearly there, guys...
So near - and yet so far. LG today cheerfully announced the "world's first premium notebook" capable of "offering cinematic 3D experience at near Full HD quality".
Near full HD? So almost - but not quite - 1080p. Better than 720p, possibly, but not 1080p.
Talk about damning yourself with faint praise.
The A510 probably isn't a bad machine. It has an Intel Core i7 CPU and an Nvidia GeForce GT 425M GPU with 1GB of DDR 3 video memory. The computer has SRS TruSurround HD audio on board.
Bundled TriDef software will convert 2D video to 3D on the fly, and comes with a pair of passive 3D specs.
Indeed, it may well be a very good PC. Well, near very good PC...
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NEW YORK (AP) — To the uninitiated, the paraphernalia found at the scene of an animal abuse bust — candle wax, medical tape, syringes — sounded more like something from a drug case. But investigators said it was a telltale sign of an underground cockfighting ring that exploited roosters by doping and arming them for battles to the death.
The state attorney general's office and the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals on Monday were sorting through the evidence — including as many as 6,000 roosters and hens bred and kept at a farm in upstate Ulster County — in what they called the largest cockfighting takedown in state history. The birds were being secured and cared for while needed as criminal evidence, but they face an uncertain future after that.
Though the hens might get homes, fighting roosters "are extremely hard to rehabilitate and place, almost impossible, because they're bred for aggression," ASPCA chief officer Matthew Bershadker said.
Over the weekend, state investigators aided by the ASPCA arrested at least nine people in raids at the farm, a pet shop in Brooklyn and a secret cockfighting pit in a basement location in Queens. The people were arraigned Sunday on multiple counts of illegal animal fighting.
A criminal complaint suggested that cockfighting is well established in the region. It says a confidential informant told investigators that in the past 10 years he had bred, trained and fought roosters throughout New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. He also "attended hundreds of cockfighting events and observed over 1,000 individual cockfights," it adds.
The birds were subjected to cruelty that began with their owners removing the red, fleshy parts around their heads and necks, removing feathers from their chests to make it easier for them to strike and injecting them with steroids and vitamins to amp them up for fights, investigators said.
Next, the medical tape and wax were used to attach artificial spurs as sharp as razor blades. Stuffed roosters used for training were found at the Brooklyn pet store.
The cockfights in the Queens basement were all-night affairs, with organizers posting private security at the door, charging admission, selling booze and allowing open drug use, authorities said. After matching up roosters by weighing them on a scale, dozens of spectators would wager up to $10,000 on dozens of fights that ultimately left the basement littered with dead or dying roosters, they said.
"It's a really brutal activity," Bershadker said. "Some people might say, 'Oh it's just birds.' But they're sentient beings. They have the capacity to suffer."


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And now for our study of God's Word, we come to the book of Revelation again and gratefully to chapter 19...Revelation chapter 19. It's time for praise in chapter 19. It's time for the Hallelujah Chorus to be sung. Jesus Christ is about to return to set up His glorious and eternal Kingdom.
We have been able over the last months to do something prophetically that we will never do historically and that is to pass through all the fascinating furies of the judgments of God yet to come. We've gone through it all prophetically. We have been through now the day of the Lord, the judgment of God in a final explosion of fury on the world of sinners. We have seen when it all started the Lord Jesus Christ, the worthy Lamb, take from the hand of God in heaven the title deed to the universe. And being the rightful heir to the universe begin to take it back from the usurper Satan and out of the control of fallen angels and rebellious sinners. Seal by seal the worthy Lamb has broken the scroll and unrolled it for us to see the seven phases of judgment which then led to seven trumpets of doom that pealed forth their divine announcement of wrath, followed by seven angels in rapid succession pouring out seven bowls of wrath, deluging the world with the last plagues.
All through these seven years of seals and trumpets and bowls the gospel of grace and the gospel of redemption will be preached by men and angels. Many will believe and be saved. The nation of Israel will be converted. People from every tongue and tribe and people and nation will bow their knee to Christ. Many of them will be slaughtered as martyrs by Satan and the forces of Satan in the Antichrist kingdom.
So, through it all we have seen the judgment of God and the salvation of God. Following the last of the seven plagues, Christ is ready to take full possession and establish His sovereign rule over the devastated earth and sky, to take the earth and now restore it and renew it to the glorious standard of His Kingdom which He will establish and over which He will reign for a thousand years. His Kingdom will begin soon. His coming is presented in this chapter. In fact, He comes down in verse 11.
But before that greatest of all moments in history, the moment when redemptive history reaches its culmination, the moment Jesus Christ returns in all His glory to the earth, before that moment actually happens in verse 11, we are taken to heaven for the first ten verse. This is the last of the seven visions of heaven in the book of Revelation. And we are ushered into heaven to hear the hallelujahs of celestial joy. And what are they rejoicing about? They're rejoicing about the final destruction of the world's evil and the glorious victory of the returning Messiah. This, in fact, is the moment that all heaven was anticipating before this period of Tribulation even began. Remember the description of the Tribulation began in chapter 6.
Go back to chapter 4 for a moment. Before we ever got in to chapter 6 in chapter 4 in anticipation of what was going to come, verse 8 says, "Four living creatures day and night did not cease to say, `Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God, the Almighty who was, who is and who is to come.' And when the living creatures gave glory...give glory and honor and thanks to Him who sits on the throne, to Him who lives forever and ever, the twenty-four elders will fall down before Him who sits on the throne and will worship Him who lives forever and ever and will cast their crowns before the throne saying, `Worthy art Thou, our Lord and our God, to receive glory and honor and power, for Thou didst create all things and because of Thy will they existed and were created.'" They are glorifying and extolling and honoring and praising God in anticipation of His coming judgment and the return of Christ.
Down in chapter 5 that same anticipation begins in verse 6, When the Lamb stands up, takes the scroll, the book in verses 7 and 8 and then it says, "The four living creatures, who are angels, the twenty-four angels best seen as representatives of the church, fell down before the Lamb, each one having a harp and golden bowls full of incense which are the prayers of the saints. They sang a new song saying, `Worthy art Thou to take the book and break its seals, for Thou wast slain and did purchase for God with Thy blood men from every tribe and tongue and people and nation and Thou hast made them to be a Kingdom and priests to our God and they will reign upon the earth.'" And that's the anticipation of the Kingdom."A"And I looked and I heard the voice of many angels around the throne and the living creatures and the elders and the number of them was myriads of myriads and thousands of thousands saying with a loud voice, `Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power and riches and wisdom and might and honor and glory and blessing.' And every created thing which is in heaven and on the earth and under the earth and on the sea and all things in them I heard saying to Him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb, `Be blessing and honor and glory and dominion forever and ever.' And the four living creatures kept saying, `Amen.' And the elders fell down and worshiped."
That was what was going on in heaven before the seven seals were broken open and the judgments of the time of tribulation happened. Now when you come to chapter 19, after they've ended you go back to heaven and the same thing is going on again. Heaven is filled with praise. It is filled with hallelujahs. And we find here the word"hallelujah" used a number of times as we shall see in these verses...verse 1, verse 3, verse 6...one other time as well...verse 4. Four times the word "hallelujah" is used. And I might add quickly, it is the first time the word "hallelujah" is used in the whole New Testament. So it's almost as if there has been a pause in heaven to wait for the right moment to give the hallelujahs. All who belong to God on earth and in heaven, holy angels and men and women made holy in Christ have longed for this glorious moment when Jesus Christ returns to rule the world with justice, righteousness, holiness and peace. Heaven anticipated it seven years earlier and now as we come back to heaven seven years later, heaven is filled with rejoicing.
We can't help also but be struck by the fact that this rejoicing is in stark contrast to what we have just heard in chapter 8 which is lamenting and weeping and crying over the destruction of the system of the world. We find in verse 9 the leaders of the world weeping and lamenting. We find in verse 11 the merchants of the earth weeping and mourning because their system has been crushed. The destruction of the world brings this lament on earth but it brings joy to heaven. We've heard the wailings of royalty which gave themselves to the vile schemes of the policies of Antichrist and when Babylon falls, the city of Babylon which is the capital city, the brain center of the world system, the brain is dead. Or to look at it another way, the main artery of earth's glory is cut and its life blood is rushing out in the final throes of death. The world is gasping its last breaths. So these rulers so committed to and dependent on Antichrist and his system stand off in dread, terrified at the reality and the consequence of the ruin and they lament and they weep and they say, "Alas, Babylon...Alas, Babylon, the great strong city...woe, woe."
We've heard also the merchants, the business men who made their fortune in the materialistic madness and they're full of tears and grief over the collapse of the system of business, all commerce stops. The wheels are standing still. Everything fails. Alas, Babylon.
And then we heard those who distribute and transport the goods over the earth crying bitterly, casting dirt on their heads, "Alas, Babylon, that great city." And so, from every throne on earth, from every power behind that throne, from every leader, from every place of trade and business, from every place where people are employed to produce and distribute and sell the stuff, from every continent, from every island, every city, every sea, every ship as we have traversed the globe comes the voice of weeping over the destruction of Babylon and the fact that they all know that the death of the brain and the cutting of the main artery means the death of the rest. And so implied between chapter 18 and chapter 19 is the final judgment on all the rest of the world.
The head is cut. The main artery is cut. In chapter 18 Babylon the center is destroyed. And following Babylon comes the destruction of the rest of the world which has already been described for us at the end of chapter 16. It takes place at the Valley of Megiddo, the plain of Armageddon in the great and final battle, followed by flashes of lightning and sounds and peals of thunder and a great earthquake and the splitting of the great city in Babylon was remembered, before God, every island fled away, the mountains were not found. That is the leveling of the whole earth. I think it's restored back to a pre-Fall condition. Huge hailstones weighing a hundred pounds come plummeting down out of heaven. This is the severe final last plague. It is in that disastrous moment, of course, that the whole of the world is crushed in judgment. And then the final part of it is when Jesus Christ comes back to destroy what is left and to set up His Kingdom.
And so, at this moment heaven is rejoicing. Heaven bursts out in hallelujahs. And we might think it strange and somebody might think it loveless, insensitive and uncaring to rejoice over this unbelievable and eternal calamity. But it is not. The people on the earth have had the greatest opportunity of any people who have ever lived. They have had enough judgment to awaken anywhat...anyone, and they have had enough gospel preaching to cause anyone to understand who is willing to understand. People have had their opportunity to repent. They've had their opportunity to believe. But they are now hardened into absolute and irreversible unbelief. They are hardened into the hatred of God and the hatred of Jesus Christ.
And so heaven's joy is not because of their damnation but because of the righteous glory of Jesus Christ who will remove these obstinate hard-hearted sinners from the world and restore it to its lost glory. Heaven rejoices not because of damnation. God has no pleasure in the death of the wicked. But heaven rejoices over the coming righteous glory of the Lord Jesus Christ. Heaven rejoices because God will be properly honored and Christ will be exalted and the earth will be filled with righteousness and wisdom and truth.
For all the ages and certainly during this time of the Tribulation we've been studying since chapter 6, God's messengers and God's people have been faithfully preaching the truth, warning of judgment, condemning sin, extolling forgiveness in God's grace and the world has always ignored them and hated them. All along through the history of the world while it was listening out of one ear to the message from God's messengers, it was ready to find to speak to its other ear a Balaam, a prophet for hire, somebody ready to compromise for gold, somebody who would say to them what they wanted to hear and not what they didn't want to hear. They would pay any price for someone to speak God's blessing on their lust and God's blessing on their passion. They'll honor that kind of prophet. But the Elijahs and the Elishas and the Isaiahs and the Jeremiahs and the Stephens and the Peters and the Pauls, their fate has always been mocked and it's always been scorned and they have been stoned and scourged and sawn asunder and slain with a sword and nailed to a cross and thrown to wild animals and compelled to seek refuge. And they have been destitute and tormented and afflicted because they dared to face the godless sinners and condemn them in the offer of salvation.
And God says that's all, that's enough, no more. And at last the promised vindication of God's righteous servants comes. Even Jesus promised it. Back in Matthew 10 and verse 16 He said to His disciples, "I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves, therefore be shrewd as serpents and innocent as doves but beware of men for they will deliver you up to the courts and scourge you in their synagogues and you shall even be brought before governors and kings for My sake as a testimony to them and to the Gentiles. When they deliver you up do not become anxious about how or what you will speak, for it shall be given you in that hour what you are to speak for it is not you who speak but it is the Spirit of your Father who speaks in you. And brother will deliver up brother to death and a father his child and children will rise up against parents and cause them to be put to death. And you will be hated by all on account of My name. But it is the one who has endured to the end who will be saved. Whenever they persecute you in this city, flee to the next for truly I say to you, you will not finish going through the cities of Israel until the Son of Man comes. And remember, a disciple is not above his teacher nor a slave above his master, it is enough for the disciple that he become as his teacher and a slave as his master."
What does that mean? If they killed the teacher, they'll try to kill the student. If they killed the master, they'll try to kill his servant. That's how it's going to be. But when the Master comes, He is going to vindicate His servants. And now it's time in chapter 19 for the Master to come. The shouts of joy are to be expected. History is finally going to reach its culmination. History will fall into line with what the prophets and the saints and apostles and evangelists and pastors have always believed and always proclaimed and what heaven has always longed for. And heaven is rightly jubilant. They should be thrilled. They should be praising. They should be singing hallelujahs.
Back in chapter 4 we just read how they anticipated this event and were singing praise. In chapter 5 they were singing praise. And to continue that, chapter 7 verse 10, when they know that the Lamb is coming to set up His throne, when they understand that a full and final salvation is coming, the great saved multitude out of the Tribulation says, "Salvation to our God who sits on the throne and to the Lamb." And all the angels standing around the throne and around the elders and the four living creatures, they fell on their face before the throne and they worshiped God saying, "Amen, blessing and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving and honor and power and might be to our God forever and ever."
And in chapter 11 when it was announced as well that the judgment was going to fall and the kingdom of this world has become the Kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ and He will reign forever and ever, when that announcement was made there, the twenty-four elders who sit on their thrones before God fell on their faces, worshiped God saying, "We give Thee thanks, O Lord God, the almighty who art and who wast because Thou hast taken Thy great power and hast begun to reign."
In chapter 15 when the announcement came as well they sang the song of Moses, the bondservant of God and the song of the Lamb saying, "Great and marvelous are Thy works, O Lord God the Almighty, righteous and true are Thy ways, Thou King of the nations. Who will not fear, O Lord, and glorify Thy name for Thou alone art holy? For all the nations will come and worship before Thee for Thy righteous acts have been revealed."
And in chapter 16 the angels of the waters anticipating the judgment and the final coming of Christ says, "Righteous art Thou who art and who wast, O holy One, because Thou didst judge these things."
You see, heavenly beings have been rejoicing all along at every prospect of Christ's return, every anticipation of an established Kingdom, every announcement that the King is coming, that the Kingdom will arrive. And so here we come to chapter 19. John the beloved Apostle, the seer of revelation, for the seventh time is given a vision of heaven. And as he looks and listens, here it comes again, more praise. Sounds fall on his ears and sights on his eyes which stir him deeply. And primarily what we see is hallelujah...hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah. He hears the heavenly hallelujahs in the immediate anticipation of Christ coming for the final action of destroying the remaining ungodly and setting up His Kingdom.,
Now as we go through these ten verses I want to show you five reasons for heaven's joy...five reasons, five causes for the heavenly hallelujahs. I want to get through four of them tonight and leave one for next time because it's so complete in itself.
But before we look at those five reasons, would you look at just the first three words in chapter 19? "After these things." Now that's a little key, a time key. After the vision of the destruction of Babylon which comes at the end of the time of the Great Tribulation. Remember, the city is destroyed first and people stand back from the city and see its destruction so we know the rest of the world follows the destruction of the city. We don't know how much time is in there. The rest of the world has to gather all of its forces at Armageddon. That may be going on while Babylon is being destroyed. Then there is the devastating judgment described, as I showed you, in the seventh bowl. Then Jesus comes back, slaughters the remaining forces, as we'll see in later verses in this chapter, and sets up His Kingdom. But it is after these things, after the destruction of Babylon at the end of the Great Tribulation. And just before the Kingdom is established, just before the Lord returns in verse 11, in that little time between the Tribulation and the establishment of the Kingdom is the time we are taken to heaven to see this great rejoicing.
Some time around the destruction of Babylon, demons are leading the armies of the remaining lamenting world to the final battle of Armageddon. It is to that battle that Christ returns with devastating power and reconfigures the whole world. That battle is about to start and then Christ comes and then the Kingdom. It is in that interval between the destruction of Babylon and the final coming of Jesus Christ that we're taken to heaven...after these things. And here is the holy of holiest reactions to the coming of Christ.
Now as we look at the hallelujahs, let me give you reason number one. Reason number one that heaven rejoices is because full salvation is come. Reason number one, because full salvation is come. "After these things I heard, as it were, a loud voice of a great multitude in heaven saying, `Hallelujah.'" Why were they saying hallelujah? "Salvation and glory and power belong to our God." They were saying Hallelujah because it was salvation time. Salvation hour had arrived. Here is the anthem that celebrates the full and final deliverance from sin.
John says, "I heard, as it were, a loud voice." Now it's not really a loud voice, it's like a loud voice. It is the composite voices of a great multitude. Who is it? It doesn't specifically tell us but I think the best understanding of it is that it's an angelic host. The reason I say that is because the saints are enjoined to join this praise and do so down in verses 5, 6, 7 and 8. And so it seems as if the saints are sort of called in to this later on, this is most likely angelic. And you remember, don't you, that angels have already participated in those great series of praise that we have seen throughout the book.
So this great multitude in heaven is millions and millions of holy angels. This is a great...this is a mega group, massive multitude. And people will always ask the question, "How many holy angels are there?" Well we don't know because the Lord doesn't tell us specifically. But there are ten thousand times ten thousand and thousands of thousands. They must number in the millions because there are 200 million demons in chapter 9 verse 16 who were bound at the River Euphrates. Those 200 million demons are released to join the rest of the demons. It's most likely that the 200 million bound demons aren't as many in number as the loose demons that have been running all over the world throughout all of human history. So just a portion of those demons that is bound numbers 200 million. So the total number of demons...who knows? Hundreds of millions. And chapter 12 and verse 4 of Revelation says the demons all together are only one third of the angels. So whatever the number of demons, hundreds of millions, you multiply by two to get the number of holy angels. So that at least catapults you into some mathematical concept. Millions and millions and millions of them.
Now you notice, as I told you on other occasions, they're not singing, they're saying. It may actually be heavenly rap because we don't find anything in the Bible, we don't find anything in the Bible about angels singing. We do find them saying.
And what are they saying? "Hallelujah." Hallelujah only appears in this chapter in the New Testament...here and no where else...four times and only here. But it is first used in the Old Testament not until Psalm 104. Psalm 104 verse 35 is the first Old Testament use of the word "hallelujah." It's a transliterated Hebrew term. And Psalm 104:35 says this, and I'll help you to understand what the word is used for, "Let sinners be consumed from the earth." Hmmm, "And let the wicked be no more, hallelujah." Wow! What are they saying "hallelujah" about? Judgment...judgment. And that Psalm also says in 104:35, "Bless the Lord, O my soul, hallelujah." It's a hallelujah...the first time it's ever used in the Old Testament it's a hallelujah for judgment. And the first time it's ever used in the New Testament it's a hallelujah for judgment. It's almost like the word got reserved for that.
The word actually means, if you translate it, "Praise the Lord." That's what it means. But it is a transliteration of the Hebrew word used from Psalm 104:35 on through the Psalms about 24 times. It begins, the word "hallelujah," it begins and ends fifteen Psalms, particularly the two sections of the Psalms that we call the "Hallel." We call them the Hallel because of Hallelujah. Psalm 104 to 109 and Psalm 113 to 118...Psalm 113 to 118 and Psalm 104 to 109 are hallelujahs, listen carefully, primarily celebrating Israel's deliverance out of Egypt.
So "hallelujah" is a word reserved for praising the Lord notably because of His devastating and complete judgment on wicked oppressors of His people. Interesting, isn't it? Hallelujah is a special word reserved for the joy of those who are delivered from their enemies by God's saving might.
It is reserved then in the Old Testament to be used primarily to celebrate God's salvation and destruction of the enemies of Israel. It is reserved in the New Testament and until it is...until it is used to express God's saving deliverance of His people and the destruction of the ungodly across the face of the world. It is a word connected to judgment on the ungodly and the salvation of God's people. And so, when you say "hallelujah," it has some rich and very specific meaning.
Hallelujah. What's the next word? Salvation, deliverance...complete, final deliverance is here.
And believers have always anticipated it. Paul said, "Now is your salvation nearer than when you believed." What did he mean by that? He didn't mean your present soul salvation, he meant your ultimate deliverance from sin and a fallen world and oppressing wicked people. Here it is, salvation has come and with it glory and power. God's glory is put on display. God's power is manifest. God's majestic glory is now seen revealed in judgment. The world will see God on display in unveiled judgment. Remember when Christ comes they cry for the rocks and the mountains to fall on them and hide them from His face. The blazing glory of Jesus Christ comes out of a sky that is pitch dark because the universe has gone black. The whole world sees the display of glory and God's mighty power conquering energy comes to destroy the wicked and rescue the godly and establish the Kingdom.
You will see in this verse salvation and glory and power belong to our God. There's really no verb there. Salvation and glory and power to our God. It could be "belong to our God," or it could be"have come," obviously "from God."
God displays His might and His glory in a saving deliverance and destruction of the ungodly. And that's the specific expression of the word "hallelujah." It reminds me of 1 Chronicles 29:11, "Thine, O Lord, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the victory and the majesty. Indeed, everything that is in the heavens and the earth, Thine is the dominion, O Lord, and Thou dost exalt Thyself as head over all. Both riches and honor come from Thee and Thou dost rule over all. And in Thy hand is power and might. It lies in Thy hand to make great and to strengthen. Now therefore, our God, we thank Thee and praise Thy glorious name." And here the glory and the strength of God is put on display as He comes to save.
So the first cause of rejoicing and praise is because God has fully and gloriously and powerfully delivered His people from Satan, demons, Antichrist, sinners and the cursed world. The silence then of the ruined realm of Babylon is replaced with loud rejoicing in heaven. In place of the laments come the hallelujahs because God has saved His people.
Then a second reason for praise, because justice is meted out...because justice is meted out. Verse 2, again, "Hallelujah because His judgments are true and righteous for He has judged the great harlot who was corrupting the earth with her immorality and He has avenged the blood of His bondservants on her." Justice is meted out because His judgments are true and righteous. Here is the joy of justice. Here is the joy of righteousness. All who pray for, all who work for, all who fight for righteousness and justice in the world can appreciate this. We live in a society where we're constantly disturbed and distressed about its injustice, inequity, unrighteousness. Saints throughout all of history have been so distressed and so disturbed and pleaded with God for a righteous world, a righteous society. It finally comes. No wonder heaven is exuberant over the reality of justice reigning in the earth, righteousness. Many righteous have died in battles with unrighteousness. Now all the unrighteous will die in the triumph of the righteous One.
Saints have always hoped for this day that is announced here in this chapter. I think about Isaiah long ago who in anticipating the Messiah said, "His name will be Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Eternal Father, Prince of Peace and there will be no end to the increase of His government or of peace on the throne of David and over His Kingdom to establish it and uphold it with justice and righteousness from then on and forever more the zeal of the Lord of hosts will accomplish this." The prophet Isaiah anticipating a righteous Kingdom, the Kingdom of Messiah.
Jeremiah, among others, had the same anticipation. Jeremiah chapter 23 right early in the chapter in verse 5, "Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will raise up for David a righteous branch and He will reign as King and act wisely and do justice and righteousness in the land."
Wouldn't it be wonderful to have a leader, a president, a king who did only what was righteous? We will have such a King, the Lord Jesus Christ. Back in Revelation chapter 6 we're very familiar with this, the martyrs under the altar who have been killed during the Tribulation are praying, "How long, O Lord, holy and true, will You refrain from judging and avenging our blood on those who dwell on the earth? Lord, how long? How long? How long do we have to wait before there is justice, before there is equity, before there is righteousness?" And then in chapter 16 verse 7, again from the altar comes, "Yes, O Lord God, the Almighty, true and righteous are Thy judgment."
I don't know about you but I'm sick of an unrighteous world. We battle it all the time. And godly people love righteousness that metes out justice as justice should be meted out. We who are God's people hate sin because it mocks God. And we love justice because it exalts God. We hate unrighteousness and we love righteousness. Godly long for a world of justice and a world of righteousness. And that world, beloved, is coming.
Go down to verse 15 in this chapter. "When Christ comes He will rule with a rod of iron...He will rule with a rod of iron." What does that mean? Well, it's already been stated back in chapter 2 verse 27, back in chapter 12 verse 5, it means immediate and painful and unrelenting justice. Immediate and painful and unrelenting justice will fall.
So, the godless foolishness and pride of men who struggle to survive the seven years of holocaust are left to sort of work themselves to the full, but when the harvest is ripe, the sweep of the sharp sickle of justice comes and chops them all down. And the initiator, the initiating event that really is the final trigger to the last full judgment of God and the coming of justice is the desolation of Babylon. And he describes it again as if we haven't heard it enough. "For He has judged the great harlot who was corrupting the earth with her immorality."
He comes first to judge Babylon, who is identified as a harlot because she seduced the world into the false system of Satan. The one corrupting the earth with her immorality. The satanic Antichrist system will be permitted to lure, delude, deceive and debauch the world with its abominations which people will prefer, of course, to the gospel, as they do today. But the judgment will come, be all the more conspicuous and the destruction will be absolutely complete.
Then when justice comes there's not only a negative side, there's a positive side. It says, "And He has avenged the blood of His bondservants on her." He has avenged the blood of His bondservants on her. God promised He would do that. God promised there would be vengeance. Go back to chapter 18 verse 24, in Babylon, in that whole system of Babylon was found the blood of prophets and saints and all who have been slain on the earth. And God is going to bring vengeance on the system that killed His people.
This also takes us back to Deuteronomy chapter 32. And there are a number of other Old Testament passages that speak of God's vengeance in the end. Listen to Deuteronomy 32:42 and 43, "I will make My arrows drunk with blood and My sword shall devour flesh with the blood of the slain and the captives from the long-haired leaders of the enemy. Rejoice, O nations, with His people for He will avenge the blood of His servants and will render vengeance on His adversaries and will atone for His land and His people." That one line, "For He will avenge the blood of His servants." That almost seems to be the line that is used here in heaven, "He has avenged the blood of His bondservants on her."
It is only just, isn't it? That the ones who caused the moral ruin of the world should themselves be destroyed, that the ones who killed the saints should themselves be killed. It's no wonder heaven rejoices. Heaven rejoices because of full salvation for the redeemed and full justice and righteousness for the Christ rejecters. Thus does heaven lift its hallelujahs.
Thirdly, there are heavenly hallelujahs because rebellion is ended...because rebellion is ended. And just drawing this out of verse 3 we read, "And a second time they said," this same heavenly multitude, "Hallelujah." Why? "Her smoke rises up forever and ever." This is most interesting. The first hallelujah was in response to the judgment on Babylon. And the second one is in response to it as well. Again they said hallelujah but this time it's not simply because of the judgment itself which brought salvation, but secondly, because the judgment is permanent as indicated by the fact that the smoke rises forever and ever.
Remember now, Babylon is going to go up in flames. We saw that in chapter 18, did we not? Burned up with fire, it says in verse 8. Verse 9, "See the smoke of her burning." Verse 18, "They saw the smoke of her burning and said, `What city is like this great city?'" There was even a burning of the harlot in chapter 17 when the Antichrist system burned her up with fire, according to verse 16. Back in chapter 14 verse 8, "Fall and fallen is Babylon," there we see the fury of the wrath of God and down in verse 11 "the smoke of her torment goes up forever and ever." So this idea of permanent smoke is repeated. Why? To show us that the destruction is permanent...permanent.
It's like some ancient places. Genesis 19 verse 28, the permanent destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. Isaiah 34:10, the permanent destruction of Edom. You say, "Well what do you mean the smoke goes up forever and ever? You mean that there will be eternal smoke just billowing out of there?" That's not the idea. The fire will burn out. The embers will cool. And the ashes will blow away. And when the earth is completely cleaned and swept and reshaped and flattened out and the islands all flee away, obviously the renewed earth isn't going to have a smoldering place. But the point is this, the result is permanent. The result is forever. Rebellion is ended. And there will come one small and brief effort at rebellion at the end of the thousand years, and we'll see that a little later, that is immediately squashed, and that's the final act. But it's over. Man will never again rule the world. He will never again control.
There's even another implication here. In a secondary sense all those people who perished in the destruction of Babylon, all those people who were burned in the conflagration of that city, all those people will burn in hell forever and ever and ever and ever where the smoke will go on eternally. "The word dieth not," says Matthew 9, "and the fire is never quenched."
So, it's all over. It's all over. Persecution is over. False religion is over. They'll never again be false religion in the world. Materialism is over. It will never exist again. Evolutionary science is over. Philosophy, psychology, it's over. It's all gone. Injustice, unrighteousness in leadership gone, over, finished, never again. A global disaster ends it all. Man has rebelled since Eden. He's concocted his wild and outlandish sinful schemes, his false religions. He's persecuted the saints since Cain killed Abel and now it is over. It's over. All rebellion burned up. And the one last little attempt at a coup at the end of the Kingdom, squashed instantly. All rebellion over.
This is that for which the saints have waited and waited and waited. How many times have we read the Psalms and heard the cry of the psalmist to destroy the wicked and not let them get away with their wickedness? Joel chapter 2, the prophet also quoted, of course, in Peter's sermon in Pentecost in Acts 2 says, "I will grant wonders in the sky above, signs on the earth beneath, blood and fire vapor of smoke, the sun shall be turned into darkness, the moon into blood before the great and glorious day of the Lord shall come." God's just going to send a devastating horrifying judgment and that's going to be the end of rebellion. It's no wonder heaven is singing hallelujah, or saying hallelujah. Full salvation, complete justice and righteousness and rebellion is over.
And one last point for tonight. Fourth reason for hallelujah, because God is in control...because God is in control at last. Verse 4, "And the twenty-four elders and the four living creatures fell down and worshiped God who sits on the throne saying,`Amen, hallelujah.' And a voice came from the throne saying, `Give praise to our God, all you His bondservants, you who fear Him, the small and great. And I heard, as it were, the voice of a great multitude and as the sound of many waters and as the sound of mighty peals of thunder saying, `Hallelujah.'" Why? "For the Lord our God the Almighty...what's the word?...reigns." God's in charge. God's in charge at last. Praises always belong to God even when most people denied it to Him.
Now in agreement with the angelic crowd, hallelujahs come from other heavenly residents. You notice in verse 4 the twenty-four elders who were best understood to represent the church. Some would take it that they represent angels. I certainly wouldn't want to say that that's a serious error, it's a difficult interpretation. They could well be angels, I lean toward to the fact, as I've taught you, that they could represent the church. But nonetheless, they are added to the angelic chorus. Then the four living creatures who are additional special angelic beings and both the twenty-four elders and the four living creatures described to us in detail back in chapter 4, they in joining the rest of the multitude fall down, it says, and worship God who sits on the throne. They are the same group we met back in chapter 7 and verse 11. We're not going to go back through all of that. This group of elders, this group of living beings, four living beings, four angelic beings are associated with praise all through the book...chapter 4, chapter 5, chapter 11. And they add their praise by saying, "Amen, hallelujah." And that combination comes from Psalm 106:48, another Psalm in the Hallel. In fact, it's at the close of the doxology at the end of book 4 in the psalter, there are five books in the Psalms, this is the close of the doxology at the end of book four.
"Amen, hallelujah," what does it mean? "Amen" means to agree, so be it, let it happen, I mean it, Lord...affirmation, agreement. And so the volume of praise swells, "I mean it, Lord, let it be, hallelujah." They join in the praise.
In verse 5, "A voice came from the throne saying," you can read pages and pages on speculating who that voice is, we don't know. Some angel, most likely. "And he says, `Give praise to our God, all you His bondservants, you who fear Him, the small and the great.'"
"Give praise to God" is a present imperative, keep on praising, keep on praising, all you His bondservants. It refers to believers. All the believers who are in heaven which would mean the church and those saved during the time of the Tribulation. All of you who reverence and worship, all of you worshiping saints, small and great, from all intellectual abilities, all social strata, all levels of spiritual progress, all distinctions and ranks of all kinds are completely transcended right here, everybody, all of you, no matter who you are, praise the Lord. That same phrase "small and great" is used in chapter 11:13, here and also, I believe, in chapter 20. Now he says it's time for all you, no matter who you are to join in praise.
So now you have the angels, and added to the angels the twenty-four elders, then those unique four living creatures and now he calls upon the great multitude of saints that are in the presence of the Lord, give praise to our God, all you His bondservants...you who fear Him, the small and great. And they do because John says in verse 6, "And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude." Here comes the multitude of redeemed saints who are in the presence of God adding their praise to the angels with a power borne of the experience the angels never had, the experience of being saved from sin. And now the already deafening praise becomes even more deafening and John describes it as the sound of many waters and as the sound of mighty peals of thunder. It's like a million Niagaras...the sound deafens him.
Meant to illustrate here, by the way, the loudness of praise, as millions of holy angels and redeemed souls praise God. And why?"Hallelujah, for the Lord our God, the Almighty reigns." What does it mean? He's become King, He's taken over, He's in charge, He's risen to the fullness of sovereign control. And by the way, that phrase "Hallelujah for the Lord our God, the Almighty reigns," is another clear reference to the Hallel. It takes us right back to Psalm 113 to 118 again. And also, do you know the book of Psalms ends with five great Hallel Psalms? So you have 104 to 109, 113 to 118, and 146 to 150. And if you look at Psalms 146 to 150, they all begin the same way..."Praise the Lord...Praise the Lord...Praise the Lord...Praise the Lord...Praise the Lord," which is a translation of the term "Hallelujah."
And what are those last five Psalms about? They're about God's sovereignty, they're about God's control, about God as the eternal sovereign ruler and His eternal fellowship with all the redeemed. The Kingdom is here. The Kingdom has come. And heaven rejoices because of salvation, because of righteousness, because rebellion is ended and because God is in control.
Cause for hallelujahs...and there's one more, but I'm going to save that till next time. But I'll give you a hint. Verse 7, "Let's rejoice and be glad and give glory to Him because the marriage of the Lamb has come." And we're going to talk about that tremendous event and concept.
Let me conclude by having you look over at 2 Thessalonians and remind yourself of a passage there that is so important. I'm just going to read it to you...2 Thessalonians chapter 1 verse 3, "We always ought to give thanks to God for you, brethren, as is only fitting because your faith is greatly enlarged and the love of each one of you toward one another grows ever greater. Therefore we ourselves speak proudly of you among the churches of God for your perseverance and faith in the midst of all your persecutions and afflictions which you endure."
In other words, Paul says I'm so thankful to God for your endurance, your perseverance. And I speak proudly of you, what you've gone through and how faithful you've been. This is a plain indication of God's righteous judgment so that you may be considered worthy of the Kingdom of God for which indeed you are suffering. For after all, it is only just for God to repay with affliction those who afflict you. And He will, we've seen it. And to give relief to you who are afflicted, and to us as well.
There's coming a day when He's going to afflict the afflicters and comfort the afflicted. There's coming a day when God is going to repay the ungodly and give relief to His people. When is it? It's when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with His mighty angels in flaming fire. It's in that day when He deals out retribution to those who do not know God and to those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus, in that day when those will pay the penalty of eternal destruction away from the presence of the Lord and the glory of His power, in that day when He comes to be glorified in His saints and to be marveled at among all who have believed for our testimony to you was believed. To this end also we pray for you always that our God may count you worthy of your calling and fulfill every desire for goodness and the work of faith with power, in order that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you and you in Him according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.
What he's saying is hang in there, be faithful. If you suffer, know this, there's a day coming when the people who make you suffer will pay and those who have hated God, hated Christ and hated His people will receive His vengeance and it's the day when He will be glorified in His saints and set up His Kingdom. Be faithful. Be worthy. Lift up the name of Christ and bring Him glory until He comes.
And that's the injunction to us. That's the admonition, that's the application. Most believers won't be around when Jesus returns. Most believers who live through human history won't be on the earth at the Rapture. They've died. We may be here when the Lord comes to take His church. We may be dead and gone. But we all have to live in the light of His coming. We have to live with hope no matter how difficult it gets, no matter how unrighteous the society is, no matter how ungodly, no matter how it persecutes, no matter how misunderstood and misrepresented we are, as we heard the testimony of that young man tonight. It doesn't matter. The day of vengeance comes, the day comes when we will be delivered from sin and all its power, the day comes when justice and righteousness will prevail on the earth, the day comes when all the rebels will be destroyed and rebellion will end, the day for heavenly, glorious hallelujahs, the day when God takes control and sets up His Kingdom. And so, until that day we remain faithful. And pray that God will use us to lead others to His Son.
Father, we thank You tonight for the way in which You have opened the future to us, just laid it out so that we know the end from the beginning. We live in a world where people don't understand how it started. They think it all happened in a pool of slime somewhere in a non-existent universe. They don't know how it started and they have no idea how it will end. You've told us the beginning and the end and everything in the middle from Genesis to Revelation. How rich we are and how responsible to live Your truth and proclaim it, to be faithful till Jesus comes for His own. May it be true that we bring honor and glory to His name who shall someday come in full glory and reign over the universe and with His people. Till that day keep us faithful, we pray for our Savior's sake. Amen.
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