Openbaring 19:7

7 Laat ons blijde zijn, en vreugde bedrijven, en Hem de heerlijkheid geven; want de bruiloft des Lams is gekomen, en Zijn vrouw heeft zichzelve bereid.

Openbaring 19:7 Meaning and Commentary

Revelation 19:7

Let us be glad, and rejoice, and give honour to him
The saints particularly; the converted Jews will call upon one another to express their gladness at the glorious display of Christ's kingly power and authority, and at the destruction of his enemies, and the happy and comfortable state of his church and people; and to rejoice in him as the Lord their righteousness and strength, and to give him the honour and glory of salvation, and to return him thanks for all the benefits they shall have received from him, particularly on account of what follows:

for the marriage of the Lamb is come;
that is, of Christ, the Son of God, with the Jewish church more especially; there was a secret betrothing of all the elect to Christ before the world began; and there is an open espousal of every individual of them at conversion; but the public and general solemnization of the nuptials will not be until the new Jerusalem church state takes place in the personal reign of Christ, hereafter mentioned, ( Revelation 21:1 Revelation 21:2 Revelation 21:9 ) but here, and as previous to that, there will be a very general and open marriage of Christ with the people of the Jews, who have long rejected and forsaken him; for if the conversion of a single person may be called a marriage with Christ, much more the conversion of such members; and which is often prophesied of under this metaphor of a marriage, as in ( Isaiah 62:4 Isaiah 62:5 ) ( Hosea 2:19 ) . And now the time will be come for the accomplishment of it, the evidence of which follows:

and his wife hath made herself ready,
or "dressed herself"; by decking herself with jewels, and putting on her wedding garment provided for her, and given to her by her husband, the Lamb, as appears from the next verse: this preparation will lie partly in the number of converts that will be brought into the Jewish church, which she will receive and clothe herself with, as with the ornament of a bride, ( Isaiah 49:18 ) and partly by the exercise of the several graces of the Spirit upon Christ, comparable to the jewels of a bride, with which she will be adorned for her husband; and also by putting on the robe of his righteousness, hereafter mentioned, which the old Jewish synagogue rejected, and therefore was cast off, ( Romans 10:3 ) ( Matthew 22:12 Matthew 22:13 ) . The Arabic version reads, "the marriage of the Lamb is now come with his spouse, prepared for him"; and the Ethiopic version, "the marriage of his Lamb is come, and the wife is prepared"; and that her preparation is not by her own merits and works of righteousness, but by the grace of her husband, is clear from the following verse. Mr. Daubuz, by "the marriage of the Lamb", understands the first resurrection, and the state of the church at that time; and by "the fine linen", the dress of the church, next mentioned, the incorruptible body of the saints compared to a garment, ( 1 Corinthians 15:53 ) ( 2 Corinthians 5:2-4 ) and by those who are afterwards said to be "called to the marriage", the converted nations in a mortal state: but all the saints will share in the first resurrection; besides, as yet the beast and false prophet are not destroyed, which must be before the first resurrection, as the following vision shows.

Openbaring 19:7 In-Context

5 En een stem kwam uit den troon, zeggende: Looft onzen God, gij al Zijn dienstknechten, en gij, die Hem vreest, beiden klein en groot!

6 En ik hoorde als een stem ener grote schare, en als een stem veler wateren, en als een stem van sterke donderslagen, zeggende: Halleluja, want de Heere, de almachtige God, heeft als Koning geheerst.

7 Laat ons blijde zijn, en vreugde bedrijven, en Hem de heerlijkheid geven; want de bruiloft des Lams is gekomen, en Zijn vrouw heeft zichzelve bereid.

8 En haar is gegeven, dat zij bekleed worde met rein en blinkend fijn lijnwaad; want dit fijn lijnwaad zijn de rechtvaardigmakingen der heiligen.

9 En hij zeide tot mij: Schrijf, zalig zijn zij, die geroepen zijn tot het avondmaal van de bruiloft des Lams. En hij zeide tot mij: Deze zijn de waarachtige woorden Gods.