During Advent this year we are looking at four different songs from the Bible. Today, we’re looking at song from Revelation. This song celebrates the fall of the great prostitute, and the beauty of the Bride of Christ. From the series, “The Sound of Hope” at Church of the Apostles.
Revelation 19:1-9
Matthew 24:29-35
To pick up the things of Jesus we sometimes have to put down the things of the world.
Who is the great prostitute end what has she done to bring about her condemnation?
The prostitute is dressed in fine clothing and sitting on a beast. We soon learn that the women isn’t a women and the beast is not a beast.
This city wraps itself in wealth. The city values possessions above all others.
The city corrupts the earth with its adultery. The city not only builds itself on wealth and possessions, but it partners with the rest of the world to spread this anti-gospel across the world.
The great city only has two weapons: deception and destruction. That which the city can’t deceive, it is forced to destroy.
This song looks forward toward the feature, and back toward the past.
Jesus sends us, not the fine linens of this world, but the fine linens of the righteousness of God’s people.
How job as the Bride of Christ, is to fall in love with the fine linens of God’s people, and fall out of love with the fine linens of the world.
The reward of our lives is not in the short term. It is the wedding we are invited to in the long term.