h

With the blast of His lips.

g

Shall he slay the lawless one.

Who is this `oppressor' or `lawless one'? Is there any other reference that

would link Isaiah 11 with Revelation 19?

First we note that 2 Thessalonians 2:2 should read `the day of the

Lord' according to the Revised Text, and this brings the passage into the

same period that spans the Apocalypse (Rev. 1:10, `I became in spirit in the

Lord's Day', i.e. the future Day of the Lord).  That day will be prefaced by

the rise of the Man of Sin and in verse 8 we read:

`And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume

with the spirit of His mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of

His coming: even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with

all power and signs and lying wonders' (2 Thess. 2:8,9).

In Revelation 19:17 the application of the `rod of iron' is seen in the

`supper of the great God', and then we read of the Beast and with him the

False Prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them

that had received the mark of the Beast.  Mark the words, `he deceived them

that had received the mark of the beast' and compare them with `with all

deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received

not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.  And for this cause God

shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: that they

all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in

unrighteousness' (2 Thess. 2:10 -12).  The Lord `in flaming fire' will take

vengeance upon such is revealed in 2 Thessalonians 1:8.

Another of the items that constitute the `context of the Millennium' is

the reference in Revelation 20:4 to the martyrs of the period who sit upon

thrones and live and reign with Christ a thousand years.  The references to

these `overcomers' constitute an unbroken chain, linking the record of the

book as one.

Nikao `to overcome'

`To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which

is in the midst of the paradise of God' (Rev. 2:7).

Here we have a distinct link with Revelation 22:2.

`He that overcometh shall not be hurt of the second death' (Rev. 2:11).

Here is a definite link with the close of Revelation 20.

`To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and

will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which

no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it' (Rev. 2:17).

This links us with Revelation 19:12, `He had a name written, that no man

knew, but He Himself'.