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`He treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of
Almighty God' (Rev. 19:15).
`And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb
are the temple of it' (Rev. 21:22).
There is only one true King in the Revelation, namely He Whose name is
The Word (Rev. 19:13) and Who is called both King of kings and Lord of lords
(verse 16). The time for the assumption of Crown and Sceptre is given in
Revelation 11:15 as the days of the sounding of the seventh trumpet when
`The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of
His Christ; and He shall reign for ever and ever'.
At this same time, the time of the dead has come that they should be
judged, and reward given to the servants of the Lord, and to His saints; the
time when they that destroy the earth should be destroyed. Babylon is
addressed in Jeremiah 51:25 as the `destroying mountain, which destroyeth all
the earth', which brings this passage into line with the judgment pronounced
in Revelation 11:18 when the Lord will `destroy them which destroy the earth'
and as the desolation of Babylon here predicted is to be `for ever' (Jer.
51:26), this must line up with the destruction of Babylon revealed in
Revelation 19:1 -6. Basileo `to reign' occurs seven times in the Revelation.
`They reign upon the earth' (Rev. 5:10 R.V.).
`The seventh angel sounded ... He shall reign for ever and ever' (Rev.
11:15).
`Thou hast taken to Thee Thy great power, and hast reigned' (Rev.
11:17).
`The Lord God Omnipotent reigneth' (Rev. 19:6).
`And they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years' (Rev. 20:4).
`And shall reign with Him a thousand years' (Rev. 20:6).
`They shall reign for ever and ever' (Rev. 22:5).
The association of those who overcome and reign with Christ in the
Millennial kingdom, His Own reign and the ending of the kingdoms of the earth
at the same moment, with no interval for any other kingdom good or evil to
intervene, is here displayed by the disposition of the word `reign'.
Reigning in the Revelation
A
5:10. The Throne (6 and 7). They (R.V.) reign upon the earth.
B
11:15,17.
The seventh angel sounds.
Kingdoms of this world end.
Power taken and reigning.
C
19:6.
The Lord God Omnipotent reigneth.
Proclamation at the Second Advent immediately
before setting up of Millennial kingdom.
B
20:4,6.
Overcomers live and reign with Christ, as priests for
a thousand years.
A
22:5. The servants of the Lamb, reign for ever and ever.
The Throne (22:1,3).
Two Kingdoms are met with in the Revelation
(1). A kingdom that precedes the Millennium and is followed by it
immediately.