Revelation 19:1-5 ESV
1 After this I heard what seemed to be the loud voice of a great multitude in heaven, crying out,
“Hallelujah!
Salvation and glory and power belong to our God,
2 for his judgments are true and just;
for he has judged the great prostitute
who corrupted the earth with her immorality,
and has avenged on her the blood of his servants.”
3 Once more they cried out,
“Hallelujah!
The smoke from her goes up forever and ever.”
4 And the twenty- four elders and the four living creatures fell down and worshiped God who was seated on the throne, saying, “Amen. Hallelujah!” 5 And from the throne came a voice saying,
“Praise our God,
all you his servants,
you who fear him,
small and great.”
Praise resounds around the throne in heaven. Jubilation from a great multitude. Judgement is complete and final.
The elders and the living creatures confirm the cry of the multitude by falling down to worship the living God, the great Amen.
There are those small and great in both camps, the believers and the dead. God is no respecter of person beyond the matter and truth of the heart.
This first vision of a multitude were are told are in heaven, and are with the living creatures and elders. The next vision seems to speak of another multitude.
Psa 150
1 Praise the Lord!
Praise God in his sanctuary;
praise him in his mighty heavens!
2 Praise him for his mighty deeds;
praise him according to his excellent greatness!
3 Praise him with trumpet sound;
praise him with lute and harp!
4 Praise him with tambourine and dance;
praise him with strings and pipe!
5 Praise him with sounding cymbals;
praise him with loud clashing cymbals!
6 Let everything that has breath praise the Lord!
Praise the Lord!
Psalms 149:1-2
1 Praise the Lord!
Sing to the Lord a new song,
his praise in the assembly of the godly!
2 Let Israel be glad in his Maker;
let the children of Zion rejoice in their King!
Jude 1:5-7
Now I want to remind you, although you once fully knew it, that Jesus, who saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe. 6 And the angels who did not stay within their own position of authority, but left their proper dwelling, he has kept in eternal chains under gloomy darkness until the judgment of the great day— 7 just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which likewise indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural desire, serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.
Jude tells us that Jesus is the Lamb, Jesus the King, the mighty hand of God, even God Himself. It is He Who saves and He Who judges. Many are unable to admit or conceive that there is one God and He is the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow. They maintain the God of the New Testament is different from the God of the Old Testament. Reading the whole Bible and believing God will resolve that misconception.
Revelation 15:7-8
And one of the four living creatures gave to the seven angels seven golden bowls full of the wrath of God who lives forever and ever, 8 and the sanctuary was filled with smoke from the glory of God and from his power, and no one could enter the sanctuary until the seven plagues of the seven angels were finished.
There will be a time during the plagues that the doors of the sanctuary will be closed. Could this be the time that is shortened, less no man be left?
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