Mike Bickle emphasizes the duality of Jesus as both the Bridegroom and the Warrior King in Revelation 19:11-21, illustrating the significance of His return as a military leader to liberate Jerusalem from oppression. He explains that this event is not merely symbolic but a literal and dramatic culmination of God's plan for justice and love, where Jesus will confront the nations that oppose Him. Bickle highlights the importance of understanding the violent imagery in this passage as a necessary part of God's love and justice, ultimately leading to the establishment of His kingdom on earth. He encourages believers to study Revelation 19 deeply, as it reveals the beauty and power of Jesus in the context of His final victory over evil. The sermon calls for a recognition of the urgency and reality of these prophetic events as they may unfold in our lifetime.

Before we start, I want to introduce my wife to you. She just looked up. I want the camera guy. She's the girl on the front row with the green. Wave, Diane. Wait. No, keep waving until they see her. Now, I want a full camera deal. Come on, little jib guy. Get her. OK, stand up, Diane. OK. I want a real close one. I want them to see how pretty she is. OK. Now, wait. Stay right there. Stay right there, camera. Now, we've been married 35 years. And I could say 100 things, but she is an usher every year here. And she gets here at 7 in the morning and leaves at 11 or 12 every night. Like, I'm not here that long. And I go, sweetheart, where are you going early in the morning? She's, I've got to get over there to usher. I go, well, can't you get some help? And she does this every single year. I mean, she runs a real estate company that takes a week off and ushers 16 hours a day. I mean, we're not 20 years old anymore. We're both 56. How do your legs feel walking on this cement? The carpet is good. Nick, she says, thank you for the carpet. Anyway, that's my way. Get off of me. Get that camera back on her. Yeah. Anyway, Diane Bickle, you're an amazing woman. We've got two amazing sons and two amazing daughter-in-laws and four little grandchildren that think they own this place, this place. I mean, they think, Grandpa, come on. Isn't this our place? No, no, sweetie. We're just renting it. I'm just letting you all get a seat. Page 29. Father, we thank you for your word. We ask you for your blessing on the speaking of your word. In the name of Jesus, even now, magnify your son. In Jesus' name, amen. Well, we're going to look at the second half of Revelation chapter 19. We looked kind of real brief at the first half, and there's so much more than meets the eye. I just wanted to more highlight the fact of the chapter. We're trying to break down all the details of it. And in this session, we're going to do the same. Just kind of give you a little commercial on the value of this chapter. It's a little too much on the high end. Just bring it down a little bit off the high end. Paragraph 8a, Revelation 19, gives us more details on the beauty of Jesus as the bridegroom king than any other passage of the Bible. I mean, this is God revealing God. Or specifically, it's Jesus revealing Jesus. It's the final revelation of Jesus by Jesus in the written word of God. And I believe it's the most detailed revelation of him, equal only to Revelation chapter 1. If I had to pick the two places in the Bible where Jesus reveals himself in the most detail, I would say Revelation 1 and Revelation 19. Now, John only recorded the briefest descriptions. I'm sure when he had this open vision that he saw much more than he wrote. But under the instruction of the Holy Spirit, he gave just a brief description here, a brief description there. So much more he saw, undoubtedly. Each one of these phrases, in Revelation 19, verse 11 to 21, there's these significant phrases about Jesus. They only give us a hint. It's like the Holy Spirit saying, take this hint, open the Bible, and I will show you the fullness of what this hint speaks of. Paragraph B, Jesus is connecting the revelation of himself as the bridegroom king to the final battle of natural history. And he's connecting this revelation of himself to the time when the bride will be involved in the wedding, and then the bride will take over the government of the earth together with Jesus. Now, the context of Revelation 19, verse 11 to 16, Jesus is making his royal procession into the city of Jerusalem. Now, let me say that again. Now, a lot of people think when Jesus returns, he goes from heaven straight to the Mount of Olives. You've heard people teach that. He comes out of the sky, lands at the Mount of Olives. But that's not what the Bible teaches. He ends up at the Mount of Olives, but that's not his first touch point. He actually touches down somewhere in the Middle East. We don't know. When he appears in the sky, and he raptures the saints, and he actually touches down, we don't know exactly where he lands on the earth. Somewhere in the Middle East, but it's close to the city of Jerusalem, but we don't know where. Still a mystery. Then the storyline of the Old Testament prophets picks up the Messiah marching into Jerusalem in his resurrected glory with all the saints of heaven, liberating the city of Jerusalem from a oppressive siege of the kings of the nations that surround the city trying to destroy it. So Jesus doesn't enter Jerusalem from the sky, but he's on the earth marching into the city as the great warrior king to liberate the city that's under a siege. Now that's the context, though that's new to many people. It's in the Bible, very clear. That's the context of Revelation chapter 19. Jesus is marching into the city as a military king to liberate the city. That's what the second coming of Jesus to the earth is described in context two. The Jewish people, I'm in paragraph B, at that time, as the nations are surrounding the city trying to destroy it, they're hanging on for their life. The Jews in the city of Jerusalem going, Messiah, where are you? And they receive news. There's a king on the outside of the city marching with an army to liberate the city. And they can't hardly believe the good news. And it ends up it's Jesus, the Messiah, in a resurrected body with the armies of heaven on his way to the city of Jerusalem. Now the Jewish people receive him. The nation of Israel receives him at that time as their Messiah. He sets up his throne in Jerusalem. He throws the Antichrist into the lake of fire. He binds Satan into prison. He takes over the throne of Jerusalem. He kills all the kings of the earth in one day. We'll see that in a minute. He replaces all the world governments. All the kings of the earth are replaced in one day. And the saints take over the main leadership of the earth. Now, beloved, that's what the Bible teaches related to the second coming of Christ. It's a very dramatic story. It's not one of those things like any moment now, he appears, one second, everyone's gone. Well, what happened? OK, that was pretty intense. No, it's a massive battle that the whole world is aware of. The second coming is in context to a war, the final war of natural history. All the nations will see the great drama. Now be warned, verse 11 to 19, the second half of this chapter, viewer discretion advised. Graphic violence, seriously. It's disturbing. It's more disturbing than we can hardly imagine when you take it at face value. It's one of the most graphic, disturbing chapters in the whole Bible. Now we're used to the Jesus of Christmas. And the Jesus of Christmas is good. The Jesus of Christmas is the Jesus that says peace and goodwill to all men. Now the Jesus that brings peace and goodwill to all men, the Jesus of Christmas, is biblical. We love that part of Jesus. But there's another side of Jesus I call the Jesus of Armageddon. And we don't choose between the Jesus of Christmas and the Jesus of Armageddon. It's the same Jesus. Matter of fact, he wages the war of Armageddon in order to bring peace and goodwill to all the earth. Paragraph C, it's the greatest day of natural history when this happens. We should know Revelation 19 by heart. We should know this chapter well. We should talk of it often. We need to feel the power of the truths of this chapter, both halves of the chapter, the wedding and the war. All of these events will culminate in one day. It's called the day of the Lord. It literally happens. It comes to a head in one day. It will be the most memorable day in all of human history. Now this day has been on God's mind since Adam sinned in the garden 6,000 years ago. God has been planning this day for his son ever since Adam abdicated his leadership of the earth and gave it to Satan. The father says, I'm taking it back through a man. My son will become a man. He'll win it back. And in one day, I'll give him all the kingdoms of the world. And everybody will witness it in heaven and hell. My son, as a man, will be king over all the nations. On that day, the greatest changes will happen in the earth. More change will happen on one day than any other time in history. It will be the day of the greatest release of justice and the day of the greatest violence in human history all on the same day. Paragraph D, we lose much if we don't understand Revelation 19. Many believers kind of casually read it and kind of move on and say, you know, it's symbolic, a little bit cryptic. It's kind of strange. I'm sure it's important. I'll think about it some other day. No. This is the most dramatic revelation of Jesus revealing Jesus. It's the final revelation of Jesus in the written word of God. We want to know all about this day. Again, we should know it by heart, talk of it often, feel the power of it. It shows us how far Jesus is willing to go for the sake of love, how far he's willing to go for the sake of justice. Now, you might ask the question, as we get to the details, why is this day so violent? We haven't really fully described it yet, but we're going to get there in a minute. It's really a violent day. We might ask, why is it so violent? Is it absolutely necessary that it's this intense? I mean, is the Jesus of Armageddon really the exact same man as the Jesus of Christmas? Is there any contradiction? Why so intense? And here's the reason why it's so intense. In that hour of history, the nations will be blaspheming God like never before. Now, not all the nations. I mean, this will be happening in every nation, but also in every nation, there'll be a great revival, a great company of believers being raised up at the same time. People ask, well, is it going to get better in the years to come or worse? And the answer is both. The light will get lighter, and the darkness will get darker. The sin will become more intense, but the revival and the power of God among the saints will reach levels far beyond the book of Acts. It's coming to a great collision. There will be such unique dynamics. There will be more believers loving God with all their heart, moving in the power of God, and more people blaspheming God, hating Jesus, trying to kill the church, worshiping Satan all at the same time upon the earth. I mean, what an hour we're approaching. Now, I think it's possible. I don't know for a fact. I think it's possible this could happen in the lifetime of people that are alive on the earth right now. Nobody knows the day or the hour, but the biblical signs are pointing at an escalation. Things are speeding up. I mean, it might be the two-year-olds that see it, but it might be the 20-year-olds. I don't know. I don't know that I will see it in my life. I might. You might, but your children or grandchildren surely will, I believe, if you don't. But I believe that some of you in this room will actually see this in your lifetime. The unique dynamics are so intense, a power of good and power of evil. Well, why so violent? Well, the nations will be blaspheming God. The nations will be walking in unprecedented levels of wickedness. They will walk in wickedness far beyond any other time in history. The occult is going to explode. Immorality is going to go far beyond what it is now. What's happening in the internet realm of immorality is going to go so far beyond in the next 10, 20, 30 years than it is right now. We can't even imagine. I so appreciate what Corey Russell talked about, these kind of cute, kind of romance, new films or shows with demons, and beautiful women and beautiful men that are demons, or whatever, whatever, haven't watched any of them. But I've heard about them. And believers thinking, oh, it's cute. Video games, this stuff is really bad. It's not cute. It's calculated to desensitize an entire generation of the Earth so that they are not scandalized by demonic activity and what demons do. This vampire this, or whatever it is that, and the cute guy, but he's really this guy, or he's a demon, or whatever. Beloved, I want to say this, never watch that stuff. It's not cute. It's not innocent. It's desensitizing you. And it's a setup for the occult explosion that's about to happen. I mean, when Corey talked on that, I go, it's going to get far more intense. This little Harry Potter guy, cute little guy, whatever, no. He's not, it's a strategy of hell to desensitize the Earth. And it's going to be more intense in the next 10 years, and then more intense, and then the devil's going to pull his mask off, and they're not even going to mess with the cute guy and the romance of the vampire. It's going to be straight demon activity, straight on, face to face. And people think, well, we've always seen that. What's the big deal? Don't even play with, don't drink from that well right now. Read your Bible. Get to know Jesus. Study Revelation 19. Well, paragraph E, what's remarkable is on this day of the great battle, this is remarkable. This is what excites me about studying Revelation 19. That's the day when the beauty of Jesus will be most seen in the nation. Now, I would think the beauty of Jesus would just be seen. He would just appear, and that's good enough. But his beauty will be seen in context to the wedding, and the war, and the combination of the two. In Isaiah 4, in that day, it's one of the great prophecies of the Messiah, of Jesus. In that day, the branch of the Lord, that's a Old Testament term for the Messiah. It's used six times in the Old Testament. The branch of the Lord. It's Jesus they're talking about very clearly. In that day, what day? The day of Revelation 19, Jesus will be seen before all the nations as beautiful. Well, when you read Revelation 19, you say, how can we see his beauty in the midst of such carnage? We're going to see how zealous he is for love, and how far he will go for love. He will be seen as glorious. Instead of the word glorious, but powerful, mighty, glorious power, and awesome beauty combined. Isaiah 33, talking about the same day. Isaiah says it again about the Messiah. You will see the King in his beauty, not just his power, his beauty. But the context is Revelation 19. So you want to study Revelation 19 and say, Lord, I want to see some of it now. I don't want to just wait till that day. As we meditate on the things that he does on that day, we gain insight to the kind of man that he is. That's the way the Bible laid it out. We see what he will do in Revelation 19. Then we take the rest of the scripture to fill out the storyline. Because Revelation 19 is just the simple phrases. And the Holy Spirit's saying, take each of these phrase, go back to the larger testimony of scripture. I'll fill in the blanks if you want me to. And I love it. I've been studying Revelation 19 for 30 years. And I study it from Genesis to Revelation, every phrase. And I go in Isaiah, the prophet Micah, Obadiah, go back to Jeremiah, back to Psalms, trying to find more insights on every one of those phrases that we're going to look at just very briefly, in just a few moments. And we get the whole storyline. And it is remarkable. Because I don't want to wait till the resurrection, till the Lord returns, to see his beauty in light of these. I want to meditate on what he's going to do then to gain insight into what he's like now. When I study this, and I say, Holy Spirit, show me what this man's like by what the Bible says he's going to do, look at Psalm 45. Now, Psalm 45 is another one of those chapters that has to be top 10 list. Now, I have 100 Bible chapters that are on the top 10 list. So if you hear me say top 10, well, I'm, you know, just give me some liberty there. Psalm 45 is one of the main chapters that you, if you ever come to IHOP, they sing this, the worship leaders do, all the time. Psalm 45 is the most sang Psalm in the IHOP 12 years. It's describing Revelation 19. It's describing the day of the war. And it starts off, you are more beautiful, you are more fair than the sons of men. When you read it, fully understand it, we find out from Hebrews 1, it's the father who's actually saying this to Jesus. The father, we find out, is the one speaking behind the psalmist. Now, in Psalm 45, the psalmist is writing it, but he's catching what the father is saying to the son. He's privy to that conversation between the father and the son. And the father says to Jesus, Jesus, you are more fair. Or another, most translations say, you are more beautiful than all the men that ever walked on the earth. Grace is upon your lips. Now look at verse three. Here's the context. Gird your sword upon your thigh. To gird the sword means to prepare to draw it for battle. There is a day coming when the father will say to the son, draw your sword for battle, my beautiful, glorious son. And we say, what does that day look like? Well, John saw that day in Revelation 19. And then the father will say, in your majesty, or you can put the word power there, your splendor, ride prosperously or victoriously as you conquer all the nations of the earth. Wow, what an amazing snapshot of Revelation 19. Look at page 30. Now let's give an overview. And we're not gonna get much further than the overview because my real desire in this session is not to break it down. It would take literally 10 or 20 teachings to break this down, even in a beginning way. My goal is to make you aware of this chapter. My goal is to give you a commercial on it to where you leave this conference saying, you know what, I don't know anything about this stuff, but I'm not content with that. I'm gonna figure this stuff out. I got the same Holy Spirit that that Bickle guy has, and I got the same Bible, and I'm gonna get more insight than he has. Because I only got a minute just to point this out to you. But I tell you, there is a gold mine of truth in this chapter. Well, we find 12 different aspects of Jesus's glory related to the battle as he's marching in to the city of Jerusalem to liberate Jerusalem from the siege that is surrounding it because the nations are gonna gather, surround the city of Jerusalem with the intention of annihilating and exterminating the Jewish people. That's where history's going. Someone said it's anti-Semitism going to break out again. It is going to reach all time levels like never before. The devil wants to exterminate the Jewish race. He tried to do it through Adolf Hitler and he failed. He's gonna try again in a far more dramatic way through the Antichrist, and I have good news, he's going to fail again. But I have other news. The body of Christ is going to stand with Israel like no time in history and we're gonna be there as the first line of defense under Jesus's leadership. It really is personal to us, this storyline. Now, most Christians in the world, they don't even know about their relationship to Israel. They go, you know, people join IHOP all the time and they go, we love the prayer thing, we don't get the Israel thing. We go, we know you don't get it because it's not taught in the nation. It's taught in the Bible, but most Christians just ignore it. And so I want to leave you with the question. The Israel storyline related to Jesus's return and what the body of Christ is going to do with Israel is not a secondary point in the end time drama. It's a very, very important one. Now, I'm not going to cover it today, but I want to stir you up. That if you're one of those multitude of believers that say, I love Jesus, I don't get the Israel thing, that's okay, I get that, I was there for some years. I go, I don't get that Israel thing. But I begin to search it out and went, whoa, it's a very dramatic story that is deeply related to the return of Jesus and the body of Christ. I remember the first time I met Bob Jones, the prophetic man, 30 years ago. First time I met him, he told me, this is 30 years ago, mid, my mid 20s, just started a new church in Kansas City. He said, God's going to use you to be involved in a group of young people, a youth movement, worldwide youth movement of singers and musicians. So what? He goes, singers and musicians. He goes, you're going to be involved in mobilizing millions to pray for Israel. What? He said, are you a singer? I go, no. He goes, you a musician? I go, no. He goes, do you pray for Israel? I go, no, I don't do that Israel thing, I don't get it. He said, you will, I promise you. Well, anyway, it's a long story. It's 30 years later, I'm involved in a whole bunch of singers and musicians that are young people across the nations and we pray for Israel and a lot more besides. That's another story for another time. I'm still not a singer or musician. Hey, but you saw me dance last night. Brian Kim, I was just so enjoying myself, I got off the stage, he said, that was the funniest thing. He said, you really need to learn how to do that. Anyway, I said, no, I'm sticking with my style. Okay, I offered to teach him. He said, no. Well, we're going to look at 12 aspects ever so briefly. Again, my issue here is simply to advertise the chapter to you. And I have a bit more on the internet on this, where on Friday nights, I take our student body through this in more detail, like the session we just had on the wedding. I've covered it in far more detail on our Friday night teachings, where our whole Bible school gathers each Friday night. And you can tune in to the internet anytime that you want to do that. And we go through these subjects line by line. Well, there's 12 aspects, paragraph H. 12 aspects of Jesus's triumphal entry into the city of Jerusalem. Eight of them, eight of these aspects are in verse 11 to 16, describing Jesus as the King of kings. We see his mode of travel. He's on a horse, meaning it's a military context. The white horse clearly means it's a military context. Many people, when they think of Jesus's return, they don't think of it in context to a military battle and conflict. Read Genesis to Revelation. When the Messiah comes to the earth for his permanent reign, he comes in context to a worldwide war. The next thing we see, four points of his character. The next thing we see, five different actions that the Holy Spirit highlights at the time of his coming. He judges the nations. He makes war. He makes war. I thought he stopped wars. Well, he's going to make war to stop wars. He's going to make one war to end all wars. He's going to strike the nation with a sword. Ouch. He's going to rule the nations with a rod. And this very terrifying phrase here that I hope to spend a few moments on here tonight, I hope, or this afternoon, he treads the wine press of the wrath of God. That's the most violent act in human history when Jesus treads the wine press. It's actually a historical activity. And if I don't get time to it in the next few moments, and you're interested in it, just go back on our website and just watch it. It's a very dramatic teaching. In the Bible, where Jesus treads the wine press of the nations, all the nations watch him do it, where he spills blood like no time in history. It's terrifying, but it's glorious. It's in result. It talks about his eyes, his eyes burning with love. The reason his eyes are burning like fire is because his heart is burning with desire. The eyes of fire convey the heart of desire. These are eyes of love, not eyes of judgment. His judgment is in his sword and in his rod. His eyes are conveying the way he feels about what he's doing. He's doing everything for love because it's the context of his wedding. His wedding day has come. We see his crowns. We see three names. We see his robe. We see his armies. What's so glorious, when Jesus brings this great victory to pass, he doesn't want to do it alone. He wants us with him. We will have resurrected bodies, but nonetheless, he says, I want her with me on that day. He could have left us over on the side watching. He goes, no, I want her near me because I want her to be with me where I am. I say, Lord, don't we sort of get in the way on that day? I don't know what the answer is, but I know that in his heart, he would say something like, I would have it no other way. I want you on that day. Then number two, first eight activities of Jesus as king. Then four activities that are specific to the final battle itself that are very strategic. The first one seems a little strange, but it's not when you actually read the whole storyline from the book of Ezekiel, adding in the rest of the storyline. He gathers all the birds. Like what? He commands and the birds from the region. I mean, it must be billions of them. They gather over the city of Jerusalem. The birds to do what? Because he's about to slay all the armies of the earth that have gathered there. And the birds, this is not a joke. They're actually the cleanup strategy. They are going to eat the flesh, drink the blood, and then fly far away so the land is cleared up so he can rule in Jerusalem, literally. He leaves no detail left to chance. He thinks through every detail. His arsenal is so glorious. He's going to use the sun. He's going to turn it off and on a few times. He's going to use the stars. They're going to fall. He's going to use the moon. He's going to turn the blood. He's going to use the oceans. He's going to use the birds. All of creation is under his command on that day as the king of all kings. Then he's going to gather all the kings of the earth. Well, I thought the Antichrist gathered all the kings of the earth. He does. Well, I thought you said Jesus gathers all the kings of the earth. He does. Which is it? Both of them are true. The Bible makes it clear the devil gathers the kings for one reason, but it plays into Jesus' larger picture. He gathers the kings as well. The devil gathers the kings to exterminate the Jewish nation and to take the influence of Jesus and drive it off the earth once and for all. Of course, he fails miserably. Jesus gathers these evil kings of the earth because he wants all the kings at the same place at the same time. You know, never in history have all the kings gathered in one city at one time. It's never happened in history. But Jesus is going to gather all the kings of the earth into one place because they come to take over Jerusalem, but they're going to fail. He gathers them to exterminate all of them in one hour and one day in order to replace all the governments of the earth. It will be the shock of their life when they find out what happened when they get there on that day. Of course, the messengers, the forerunners will be saying it, but the kings of the earth will laugh. But when they show up on that day, they will find out it is true that they gathered under the inspiration of the devil, but they were also led by Jesus, but for very different reasons than the devil had. The Antichrist will be defeated at the city of Jerusalem before all the nations. And then the birds will clean up the map, for real, because the blood will flow four feet deep throughout the entire land. This is literal, this is not figurative. The blood will flow four feet deep or up to a horse's bridle, it says. We'll look at it in a minute. The blood will flow throughout the land and Jesus says, I'm going to ruin this land. So he calls the birds and says, eat the flesh, drink the blood, go far away. Help me get this thing in order. Now that's not a joke, that's not poetry, that's real. This battle is graphic and real because Jesus, when he comes back, yes, he will have a resurrected body, as will you. But remember, his resurrected body will be a physical human body. It will have, like it has now, flesh and bones. Now it will be supernatural flesh, resurrected flesh, but in Luke 24, he told the disciples, when he rose from the dead, touch me. Don't I have flesh and bones? And they touched him and they go, you do. How can this be, raised from the dead? Jesus will be the same height, he will look the same. He will still be five foot eight then, like he is now. That was a joke. And so, whatever size he was when he walked the earth, he will be the same man as the idea. My point is this battle is real, it's physical, it's on the earth, it's not figurative, it's not poetic, it's not spiritual symbolic, it's real. And when we begin to see the real storyline, it's terrifying, it's glorious, it's exciting, it's fascinating, it silences our heart and makes us hungry to want to understand it in detail. Roman number two, let's look at the scene around Jerusalem. We're not gonna get very far in these notes, but again, I'm just kind of giving you the overview. Let's look at the scene around the city of Jerusalem, when Jesus is marching into the city with the armies of God. Again, I know this is a new idea to some of you, that Jesus, I just thought he came from heaven, landed in the city of Jerusalem and that was that. No, no, he lands somewhere close, we don't know where, and he marches in on the earth. Why does he march in? He's killing all the armies that are surrounding the city, as a military conquering king. He is the greater David. What David did in part, Jesus will do in fullness. David was just a little snapshot of King Jesus, the warrior king. Paragraph A, John describes Jesus entering the battle just outside of Jerusalem. Now, if you read Revelation 19, you don't know he's just outside of Jerusalem. If you only read Revelation 19, you go, how do you get to Jerusalem part? You've got to read the prophets. The Old Testament prophets make it clear, he's marching into the city of Jerusalem. But when you take Revelation and put it with the rest of the Bible, clearly, he's outside Jerusalem marching in. Now, here's one of my favorite passages describing Jesus' re-entry to the city of Jerusalem. Isaiah 63, Isaiah the prophet sees the vision of it. We're talking 700 years BC. He sees the Messiah enter Jerusalem. And he's a little perplexed. He's looking, he's going, I don't get what I'm looking at. I'm looking at the Messiah who's glorious and powerful. But what is he doing? Let's read it. He asked two questions because he's so perplexed by what he sees. First, he says in verse one, Isaiah seeing the open vision of the Messiah entering the city of Jerusalem. He goes, who is this man? He goes, what's going on here? He's coming from Edom. Now, Edom is the ancient name of the nation that today is Jordan. So if Isaiah was saying it today, who is this man marching up from Jordan, the nation next door to Israel, to enter Jerusalem? Who is he? Jesus is gonna march through the nation of Jordan into the city of Jerusalem. Now, I don't know where he touches down. We know he goes through Edom, that's for sure, or Jordan with a vast army. You're gonna be a part of it. And again, you're not gonna have a, just a spirit. You're gonna have a, not just that, but you'll have a physical body and you'll be on a horse. You go, what? It's in the Bible. I never heard that before. That doesn't matter. You don't wanna judge truth by your Sunday school classes. Does it matter if you haven't heard it before? What matters is, is it in the Bible or not? Heard that for years. I never heard that before. I go, what difference does that make? What matters is, is it in the Word? Well, I guess it is. Well, start getting with it then. No one ever taught me that. I go, you just got taught. Consider yourself taught. You get it. It's right, Isaiah 63. You are now taught. Oh, but this is mentioned a number of times, not just once. I got lots on the notes here. So he says, who is this man marching up from Edom or from Jordan? He's got a vast army. We find that from other verses, not necessarily for this one. He goes, this man, he's glorious. I mean, he's powerful. He's more than a man. He's a man, but there's something glorious about him. I mean, wow, power is in him. He's seeing Jesus, the resurrected King of the Jews, the King of the nations. Now, here's what he sees. He's traveling. He's on the earth. He's marching in. Well, he's on a white horse actually, but the army is traveling. They're progressively getting closer to Jerusalem and he's in great strength, power. Now, beloved, that's a understatement. He's traveling in great strength. Like what? Isaiah, you could have said that a little stronger. Habakkuk chapter three, write that down. I don't think I have it in the notes. Habakkuk three describes Jesus marching towards Jerusalem. It is awesome. It says he raises his hand up in verse four, Habakkuk three, verse four. I don't know if I have it on the notes. He raises his hand up in Habakkuk three as he's marching in. Lightning is coming out of his hands. Power is striking the nations. I mean, this is gonna be quite an amazing march to Jerusalem. Well, that's the first question Isaiah asked. Who is this guy? But the second question is even more intense. He goes, why is your clothing red? He goes, it seems out of place. You look like a king, but you got splashes of grape on your clothing and that's not, it's out of place. Why would a king so glorious have grape juice all over him? You should have maybe cleaned up before you entered the city. What happened? It looks like you've been treading in the wine press. Now, treading in the wine press, a very significant concept. Treading in the wine press was a very familiar idea to the nation of Israel in Isaiah's day. Most of you understand treading in the wine press, but I'll give you a quick description just in case. In the time of the harvest of the grapes, they would harvest all the grapes. They would bring them in. Let's just say, it wouldn't quite be this big, but a wine press would be something like, a big one would be like the size of this platform. They're not quite this big, but just for the analogy, they would put all the grapes from the whole area. They would just put them in about three or four feet deep, two and three feet deep. And all the grapes are brought into the big wine vat or to the wine press. So there's the grapes, two and three feet deep. Then the workers would step into the big area about like this stage, say half the size of the stage, and they would stomp on the grapes. They would smash them. Now, when this technology got sophisticated, they used big stones and they rolled over them to smash the grapes. Then the grape juice would be squeezed out, and then they would drain the grape juice over in the corner somewhere, and they would get the wine, and then they would go through the fermentation process. But it was very common sight in Israel at the time of the harvest, they brought all the grapes in, and when the people got in there to stomp the grapes, the grape juice would get all over them. So Isaiah said, you're so powerful, you're so glorious, but why is grape juice all over you? This is weird. It's out of place. Why would a king or a president visit the city of Jerusalem with grape juice instead of changing his clothes before he came? Jesus answers, because I'll tell you why the grape juice is on me. It's not grape juice. It looks grape juice because it's red. It's blood. I myself have trodden the wine press. I myself have entered the city of Jerusalem, and all the armies that have surrounded, I've trampled them in my fury, for they are trying to exterminate my people. They have killed the saints through the last decades leading up to the coming of Christ. He goes, and I am angry, and I am going to remove every one of them, and it's not grape juice, but their blood is on my garments. And Isaiah goes, their blood, what? Again, this is 700 years before Jesus, before his incarnation, before he becomes a man. Isaiah can't imagine what he's looking at. This is the same vision that John sees in Revelation 19. Matter of fact, John quotes Isaiah 63 twice in Revelation 19, I have it in the notes. Two times, John goes back to this passage, and he says, I'm talking about what Isaiah saw. And then Jesus answers, look at the end of verse three. I have stained all of my garments with the blood of my enemies. Okay, so that's the scene. Jesus is marching into Jerusalem about, he's gathered all the kings of the earth and all of their armies. He's got it in one small geographic area, about 200 miles in distance. It tells us that in Revelation 14, verse 20, he gathers all the leaders of the earth that are evil into one geographic area. And it's kind of like he locks the doors, figuratively speaking. He says, I've got you all in one area, and he executes all of them. What? Now remember, don't get confused because they didn't teach it to you in your Sunday school or your church. If it's in the Bible, go for it. The Jesus of Armageddon is the one that makes the Jesus of Christmas possible. Let's talk, look at page 31. I'm gonna do this like really fast. Top of page 31, we describe these eight things. Number three, he comes and he judges. Number four, he makes war. Each of these phrases are in Revelation 19. Each of them have lots of detail. Again, I give a lot more of it on the class that's on the internet, if this grabs your heart. Number five, he's faithful and true. D, John sees his eyes like fire burning with love. Number two, he has crowns. He has many victories from the past and many victories from the future that are yet to be seen. Number three, John sees three different facets of Jesus's name. Again, I'm not gonna take time to go into it. He sees that, John sees now this, his robe is dipped with blood. That's what Isaiah saw. John says, I saw what Isaiah saw. That's the blood of his enemies is on his, he goes, this is real, this is literal. Let's go to the top of page 33. Go down to paragraph I. Look, it says, verse 21, the rest of all the kings, after Jesus kills the Antichrist or throws him in the lake of fire, all the kings of 200 plus nations, he kills them all with the sword. Every one of them he kills. You say, surely that's figurative. Well, look at Psalm 110, King David, the great warrior king, he prophesied about this. He's talking about the day of Revelation 19. King David said, he, the Messiah, he will execute the kings of the earth in the day of his wrath, this final day. He will judge among the nations. This is so strange. Jesus will fill the places with dead bodies. Like what? David, did you write that, David? This is like the sweet psalmist of Israel, King David. Yes, he is gonna remove all the enemies of God. He says it again. Yes, he will execute the heads of many countries. Wait, my sweet Jesus could not do that. Your sweet Jesus is so committed to love, he's gonna cleanse the planet of evil once and for all. Look at number two, under paragraph I, Revelation 14, verse 20. The wine press will be trampled outside the city of Jerusalem. These armies are surrounding the city of Jerusalem and Jesus says, they came to destroy Israel. I gathered them there to lock the door, so to speak, to trap them in. They're in my wine press and I'm going to trample them and get rid of them once and for all and cleanse the earth of evil leadership in one day, the most dramatic day of history. It's called the, I call it the eschatological wine press, the end time wine press of God. Look what John saw, Revelation 14, verse 20. He said the wine press was trampled by Jesus, clearly by Jesus and his armies. Blood came out of the wine press. Remember, the analogy is you put all the grapes in the wine press, you trample them and then the juice, they gather the juice and they drain it over to the side somewhere to get the wine. In the same analogy, the blood is gonna come out up to a horse's bridle, that's about four feet deep, for 1,600 furlongs, that's 200 miles. 1,600 furlongs, this is not poetry. This is a big wine press, it's not a 20 foot wine press, it's a 200 mile wide press, it's on a global level. Say, now that's not possible, I've read the commentators. They go, no way, you can't have 200 miles of blood, that's not physically possible. Well, I think it is, this is not poetry here. Because the topography of Israel is valleys and hills and ravines, I mean, the whole land is up, down, up, down, up, down, up, down. It's not like Kansas, I mean, here in Kansas, right, you know, a mile or two down the road, the plains of Kansas is like 200 miles or whatever it is, just straight, you know, even. It's not 200 miles or four foot of blood, you're just kinda like, wow, that's intense. No, the whole topography of Israel's up, down, and valleys, but here's the key point, Ezekiel 38. On the day when this happens, Jesus is gonna cause torrential rainstorms, a flooding rain to come. So there will be this flooding rains, the land will be flooded with rains, so when the blood and the rain mix together, it will really be four feet in all the valleys throughout the land up to a horse's bridle, this is literal. And then in that day, all the evil governments of the earth will be replaced. Jesus will put new leaders into government, it's called the Millennial Kingdom. This is how far he will go for love, this is the way he ends the revelation of himself. He's saying to his people, you have to know, in my love, I will not stop short of anything, I am committed to cleanse the earth and fill it with love, and I want you on my side, and I don't want you offended at me in my necessary activities. Well, we didn't get very far in all this, but that's okay. It was just a big advertisement for Revelation 19. There's a wedding, the first 10 verses, and there's a war, the next 11 verses, and the wedding and the war are understood best when understood together. Amen, let's stand. Now I know I a little overwhelmed some of you. Overwhelmed's not bad.