Revelation 19 Footnotes

19:10 It is sinful to worship any being other than the one true God (Ex 20:4-7). Besides false religions, many cults and even “personality cults” (i.e., groups who elevate gifted human leaders to almost godlike status) are often guilty on this front.

19:11-16 This passage portrays the physical second coming prophesied in Ac 1:9-11. The full preterist view, claiming that Christ already came in spirit and power in the judgment of Jerusalem in AD 70 and that there is no future second advent, is false. The unrivaled power of God’s Word is pictured as a sharp sword coming out of the Lord’s mouth (Heb 4:12). Since the armies with the Lord are “wearing pure white linen,” it is likely that this is another image for the same group elsewhere called the “vast multitude” (Rv 7:9), the heaven dwellers and bride of the Lamb.