Who Is On The Lord’s Side?

“After these things I heard a loud voice of a great multitude in heaven, saying, ‘Alleluia! Salvation and glory and honor and power belong to the Lord our God! For true and righteous are His judgments, because He has judged the great harlot who corrupted the earth with her fornication; and He has avenged on her the blood of His servants shed by her.’” [1]

Yes, praise the Lord! It seemed that the whole world was against Christ, and His servants, yet, in one day, that way of life ended.

“Again they said, “Alleluia! Her smoke rises up forever and ever!” [2]

“And I heard, as it were, the voice of a great multitude... saying, ‘Alleluia! For the Lord God Omnipotent reigns! Let us be glad and rejoice and give Him glory, for the marriage of the Lamb has come, and His wife has made herself ready.’ ‘Blessed are those who are called to the marriage supper of the Lamb!’” [3]

The great multitude who worshiped and followed the Lamb, and are now with Him, rejoicing and glorifying God! “His wife has made herself ready.” This wife is a metaphor for saints of God. They remained faithful to their covenant with Christ. They were of a different culture. They had been in the world, but not of it. They were reborn by a work of conversion done in them via the Holy Spirit and the Word of God. While those who followed the devil experience demise, these experience joy at the marriage supper of the Lamb.

Next, the heaven, is opened and the King of kings and the Lord of lords leads the armies of heaven against the nations who oppose Him. He treads the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God. [4]

The beast (the antichrist), the kings of the earth, and their armies, gather to make war against Christ, but lose. The antichrist and his false prophet are cast alive into the lake of fire burning with brimstone, and those who followed them are slain by the words of Christ’s mouth. [5]

“Who is on the Lord’s side? Who will serve the King?
Who will be His helpers, other lives to bring?
Who will leave the world’s side? Who will face the foe?
Who is on the Lord’s side? Who for Him will go?
By Thy call of mercy, by Thy grace divine,
We are on the Lord’s side—Savior, we are Thine!” [6]

[1] Revelation 19:1-2
[2] Revelation 19:3
[3] Revelation 19:6-7, 9
[4] Revelation 19:11-16
[5] Revelation 19:19-21
[6] Hymn: “Who is on the Lord’s Side? By Frances R. Havergal