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In the first fourteen verses we have given to us part of the glowing description of the glories of the ascended Christ, and here it is completed.
Rev_1:15. And his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters.
Seas lashed to tempests, cataracts leaping from their stupendous heights —such was the voice of Christ.
Rev_1:16. And he had in his right hand seven stars: And out of his mouth went a sharp two edged sword:
For his word is a killing thing.
Rev_1:16. And his countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength.
What magnificent figures put together! We are well prepared to find that John could not long endure this majestic representation of the Lord.
Rev_1:17. And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead.
He was not only brought to the posture of reverence, but he was so overawed that he became unconscious. It is the same person upon whose breast John had leaned his head, yet now he is represented as John had never seen him before. He was not so at the last supper; he was not so upon the cross; he was not so on the Mount of Transfiguration; he was not so even when he had risen from the dead, and, perhaps, he will not be so when we see him in his glory. This was a specially instructive representation of Christ, and it was too much even for the trained and educated spirit of John the Divine.
Rev_1:17-18. And he laid his right hand upon me. saying unto me, Fear not; I am the first and the last: I am he that liveth, and was dead; and behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.
This is the great consolation of the people of God when they are brought very low — that Jesus lives, that Jesus reigns, that Jesus still comforts us and draws near to us in all the majesty of his power.
Rev_1:19-20. Write the things which thou hast seen, and the things which are, and the things which shall be hereafter; The mystery of the seven stars which thou sawest in my right hand, and the seven golden candlesticks.
The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches: and the seven candlesticks which thou sawest are the seven churches.
This exposition consisted of readings from Psalms 77; Rev_1:15-20.