Revelation 19, as we continue our series of the book of Revelation, a biblical prophecy actually, this afternoon we are, as I mentioned, going to press ahead into chapter 19. We could spend a lot more time in chapter 17 and chapter 18, that information interlude of those two chapters, and we may sometime in the future. There's much there to be gleaned, but basically What we must understand about what is revealed in those two chapters, chapter 17 and chapter 18, is that the Lord in His coming judgment will not only judge unregenerate, rebellious unbelievers, but He will also judge and also destroy, also pour out His wrath on all false religion and false religious systems, as well as the deceiving systems of this world. He's going to pour His wrath out upon the deceiving systems of this world. We might describe it as the deceptive riches of this world, but it's not just money. It's the whole commerce system. of this world and we know this and it's revealed to us that both have their roots in Babylon and both still exist. There are forms of Babylon that exist right now and they will until the day that the Lord destroys both the religious system of Babylon and the commerce system of Babylon. In essence, as the last verse of chapter 18, you don't want to miss this, the last verse of chapter 18, verse 24, She's talking about Babylon, the city, namely. In her was found the blood of prophets and of saints, and of all that were slain upon the earth. In essence, God will judge and God will utterly destroy all the enemies, all that have warred against His prophets and His saints, His people, as chapter 17 and chapter 18 so vividly reveals. But this we should know, some of the prophets and the saints' enemies, some of God's people's enemies are not merely people, but they are also Satan's religion and Satan's world system. These are just as much, and if we can know anything from chapter 17 and 18, maybe even in some instances, these are even greater than the physical enemies, people enemies of God's people. It may well be some of that destroying, as we sang that psalm. They will be destroyed in Yahweh's name. And true it is. They will be. And so, we step into chapter 19. We're just going to take a baby step today. And as we step into chapter 19, we are immediately brought back to the real time of the revelation, the real time of the Apostle John's Remember, 17 and 18 were kind of an information interlude to the timeline or the action of the vision. So now, in chapter 19, we come back to the vision and to the action of the vision, the ongoing timeline throughout the book. And in chapter 19, we begin in verse 1, and after these things, I heard a great voice of much people in heaven saying, salvation and glory and honor and power unto the Lord our God. I think we just heard that, didn't we? We just sang that. For true and righteous are His judgments, for He hath judged the great whore which did corrupt the earth with her fornication, and hath avenged the blood of His servants at her hand. And again they said, Alleluia, and her smoke rose up forever and ever. And the four and twenty elders and the four beasts fell down and worshipped God that sat on the throne saying, Amen, Alleluia. And a voice came out of the throne saying, Praise our God, all ye his servants and ye that fear him, both small and great. And I heard, as it were, the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, And as the voice of mighty thundering sang, Alleluia, for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth. So verse 1 begins with the words, After these things, after this present age has come to an end, after the rapture, of the Lord's church, after the Lord Jesus Christ Himself opened 6 and then the 7th seal of the 7th seal book, after the sealing of the 144,000 of the 12 tribes of Israel remaining upon the earth, after the pouring out of the seven trumpet judgments, and in the seventh trumpet, the three judgments of great woe, after Satan being cast out of heaven down into the earth, and then the revelation and the cruel rule of his imitation, his evil, his mockery of a trinity, the dragon, the beast, and the false prophet, the testimony in death and then the resurrection of the Lord's two faithful witnesses, after the seven vials, seven bowls of swift, severe, sweeping judgment, the unparalleled wrath of God, wrath without mixture, wrath without mercy, after the total annihilation of a great whore of false religion and wicked economic and political powers, after the kings and the kingdoms of this world have been brought to naught. And this world has been shaken and turned upside down at the end of the end. Then, then this. Then, what we have prophesied and declared before us today, as we've just read, will come to pass. Just as sure as all of those Old Testament prophecies were fulfilled to perfection, to the word, to the letter, We can expect so too will this one be fulfilled. J. Vernon McGee, most of you have probably heard some of his recordings. He wrote this. He says, and I quote, Chapter 19 marks a dramatic change in the tone of Revelation. The destruction of Babylon, the capital of the beast kingdom, marks the end of the great tribulation. The somber gives way to song. The transfer is from darkness to light, from black to white, from dreary days of judgment to bright days of blessing. This chapter makes a definite bifurcation in Revelation and ushers in the greatest event for this earth. the second coming of Christ. It, speaking of chapter 19, is the bridge between the great tribulation and the millennium. End quote. And all of this begins with one word. Did you catch it? Hallelujah. Hallelujah. It's there, and it's repeated, not to just be there, not for just good poetry, not just to stir our emotions, but it's there for emphasis. This word is found four times in all of the New Testament, and all four of them are right here in these first six verses of chapter 19. Alleluia. Alleluia is the Greek equivalent to the Hebrew word hallelujah. And it literally means praise Yahweh. Praise Yahweh. It's inferative though, it's not just praise Yahweh, it's praise ye Yahweh. Praise ye Yahweh. Now I want us to see a few things about this hallelujah course here that are very important. First, notice, number one, the place of the hallelujahs. John records in verse one, I heard a great voice of much people in heaven. After all these things are over, then the heavens will literally ring out in hallelujah. So heaven is the place of the alleluias. And as well, notice second, the people of the alleluias. Verse 1 says, there is a great voice of much people in heaven. And notice, they are praising God for His salvation and the fact that He has judged the great whore and hath avenged the blood of His servants upon her. So, this allows us to understand that the first group of people in heaven here ascribing hallelujah unto the Lord, shouting out, praise Yahweh, they are those who have been martyred by the systems and servants of the great whore, especially during the tribulation period. And then there is a second group of heavenly heralders in verse 4. Look at verse 4. And the four and twenty elders and the four beasts fell down and worshipped God that sat on the throne saying, Amen, Hallelujah. So, here in heaven we have the martyred tribulation saints, but also here in heaven we have the four and twenty elders. We know who this is from chapter 4. It's the Lord's church. It's us. Church and heaven. Alongside the four living creatures. The heavenly seraphim. And we all together declare praise Yahweh. We all together. That's not all we declare though. Look at verse 4. We declare Amen. Amen. Praise Yahweh. You know what the word Amen means. So be it. Truth. Truth. Truly, truly. Yes, that's true. So we here will be along with the seraphim, affirming what the martyred saints are heralding. What they are heralding, what they are declaring, we are saying, true, true, this is true. Praise Yahweh. But then there is the third group of heavenly heralds. Notice how this goes in verse 5. And the voice came out of the throne saying, praise our God. Let me give us a little extra here. And the voice came out of the throne. What's the throne? It's the throne of God. And the voice came out of the throne. And the voice that came out of the throne says, praise our God. Praise our God. That's not God saying that, is it? Yes and no. It's Jesus Christ. Praise our God. Our God. Wow. His God is our God. Our Father, the Lord in heaven. See the identity, see the connection He makes. And here He says, Praise our God, all ye His servants, and ye that fear Him, both small and great. And I heard, as it were, that's the command. The command there is to praise God. The command, I think it's the Lord Jesus Himself. That's the command. Then verse 6 is the reply. And I heard, as it were, the voice of a great multitude. and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thundering sang, Alleluia, for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth. You see, all of the rest of the servants of God in the heavens above, this great multitude, here in this time, they will join together in this hallelujah chorus, and it will sound like the sound of many waters, rushing waters, and the sound of mighty thunderings, and it will culminate together to declare praise Yahweh, for Yahweh God, He omnipotent reigneth. So what does this tell us? What is the revelation? What is this showing us? Why is this so important? Because there is a distinction in the people of heaven, that are in heaven. There is a distinction of the people in heaven. A lot of people just want to make heaven one melting pot and forbid God. Forbid God to make a distinction among people. That's what people are doing today. They forbid God to make a distinction among people, but they can forbid all they want to. God has always made a distinction among people. We know why from our Wednesday night study. He is Yahweh Mechadishkim. He is Yahweh the sanctifying God, the setting apart God, the electing God. He makes a distinction among people as His sovereign will pleases and the rest of this chapter and the rest of the book will certainly show us that. So here we see the place of the hallelujah chorus and here we see the people of the hallelujah chorus, but now third, let's look, let's consider the praise. of the hallelujah chorus, the praise. As a matter of fact, I want you to do a little exercise. It might actually help us to more directly see the praise of the passage as well as give us a little foretaste of the soon coming day as well as it might wake you up a little bit. So we'll see. What I'm going to do, I'm going to say the words that are here spoken without the narrative of the passage. The word that are here spoken by the peoples in heaven. And I'm going to point to you. When I point to you, I want you to say with a great voice, praise Yahweh. Okay? Praise Yahweh. I know you're bad, but you're going to feel all out of your comfort zone for praising the Lord. And ladies, there's no excuse for you. It's okay. This is not usurping authority. It's actually submitting to it, and it's actually just you proclaiming Scripture, just like singing the song that we just sang. I don't want to tell our ladies, y'all can't sing anymore. I don't want to tell them that. OK, we need you. OK, so here we go. You ready? I probably ought to get you to stand up and do this, but I won't, because you stood up for 20 verses of the last Psalm. All right, when I point to you, you say, praise Yahweh, OK? With a great voice. All right, you ready? Praise Yahweh. Well, that's a little weak. Let's try that again. All right. Salvation and glory and honor and power unto Yahweh our God, for true and righteous are His judgments. For He hath judged the great whore which did corrupt the earth with her fornication, and hath avenged the blood of His servants at her hand. And her smoke rose up forever and ever. Amen. Praise our God, all ye His servants, and ye that fear Him, both small and great. for Yahweh our God omnipotent reigneth." That's the wording of the passage. That's the wording of the praise here in heaven. So in this coming day, the heavens will literally break out in this very hallelujah chorus. And what is this praise of Yahweh all about? Well, if you look in verse 1, The first hallelujah of praise is ascribed because, notice, salvation, glory, honor, and power belongs to Yahweh our God. And this indeed is glorious praise, but really the language is stronger than it appears here. It is actually, there's a definite article before each article and it says, The salvation, the glory, the honor, the power belongeth unto Yahweh our God. So do you understand what these saints in heaven are saying? They are saying, Lord, You are to be praised because You are salvation. You are the glory. That's more than an adjective of glory. No, You are the glory. He is the person of glory and the person of honor. And He is not just powerful, but He is power itself. Like the act of cause that we've been, when we look at the person of the Trinity of Christ, He's power itself. And what this is revealing to us is that in this coming day, all doubt will be destroyed. Everything false will be destroyed. And all will know that Yahweh God, He alone, He is the very fountain, He is the very source of these things. He's the very fountain. He's the very source. He is these things. So, salvation. Yahweh is salvation. Do you need salvation? Do you need to be saved, delivered from your greatest of all enemies, sin and death, the wrath of God against our sin? Well, hallelujah, our God, God Yahweh, He's the God of salvation. He's the very foundation. He's the only fountain of it. But as well, What does that leave us with if we do not have Him? Salvation is not something. It is someone. It is someone. He's the fountain. He's the source. Praise Yahweh because salvation belongs to Him. The salvation belongs to Him. He is the source of it. Listen, the lawgiver is the only one that can save the lawbreaker. if he pleases to do so. Rightfully, the lawgiver rightfully, justly destroys the lawbreaker. Pours out his wrath upon the lawbreaker. We know that even in our judicial system. The lawgiver alone, the fellow in prison can't save himself from prison. The lawgiver has to do that. If he is to find pardon, if it would please the lawgiver to pardon the guilty, Only the lawgiver can do that. And so it is with our own salvation. God alone, He is the source of salvation. There is absolutely no salvation apart from Him, apart from the true God of this Bible, who has a name. His name is Yahweh. Salvation is not something, it's someone. Hallelujah. Salvation belongeth unto Yahweh. You know, it doesn't have to, if I could say it like that. Let me say it another way. It is because it's his intrinsically. But he doesn't have to save anyone. He is not bound to save anyone. He could have destroyed us all and still receive this praise. Because we are not bound to us for praise. He's not bound to us for what He deserves to be worshipped for. He is that of Himself. We don't add anything to Him. We don't take away anything from Him. If He never created us, the way I see it in Scripture, He really created us. Romans 9 seems to bear this out. He really created us for one reason, and that's for His glory, but He declared His salvation to us for one reason. And that is so that we might know mercy. We would never know it any other way. Never know it. We might know grace, but we would never know mercy. There's a difference. There's a difference. All of us experience grace. The world experiences grace, common grace. But soon, they will get what they deserve. Because they won't know God's mercy. Now he's deferring that judgment right now. The wicked acts of... I can't remember the passage. I won't mess it up. It's because they're not judged speedily. They think that they're getting away with their wicked deeds. But that's not true. That's not true. Right now God is giving them grace. Common grace. Mercy they will not know because eventually they will get what they deserve. just because of God, not because of you. We're in the same boat as everybody else. We're sinners. We've broken the law of the lawgiver. We will not get what we deserve. God will save us from what we deserve. He will give us mercy and we will know mercy and there's no way that we can know mercy except for He declared His salvation to us. He's the fountain of salvation and without Him, There is no salvation. There is absolutely no salvation. But that's one of the things that makes this so wonderful. He didn't have to save anyone. He would be just as much God and just as glorious as He never saved a human being and just gave us what we deserve. But He chose to save. He chose to demonstrate His mercy to us. Hallelujah. Salvation belongs unto Yahweh. And hallelujah, He's the fountain and source of glory. As well, here's an interesting thought when you think about this. It's hard for us to even understand what glory is. It's renown, it's fame, but it's also God has an intrinsic glory. We talked about this morning, the Shekinah glory of God that actually shines, like the shining, even outshines the sun. I don't understand all of that. We'll know a little more about it in eternity. We're gonna see it. Imagine something being in the presence of something that is brighter than the sun. I mean, we can't even look at the sun. The sun heats our days. We're going to be in the very presence at the throne of he who outshines the sun in glory. A lot of people want glory, but they want it on their own. Scripture calls it vain glory. But the reality before us, again, when everything else is gone, there only remains truth. That's where we're at in this book, in this letter. Now, everything false has been put down. And now only truth stands. And the truth is there can be no glory apart from Yahweh our God, because He is glory. He's the fountain of it. You cannot have glory. You cannot be glorified apart from Yahweh our God. And you can have no true honor. No true honor. We can be honored by men, but that's not necessarily true honor. I know a lot of men that are honored by men that are not honorable. Don't you? We're honest with ourselves. We ourselves are honored by men for things that are not honorable. No, there can be no true honor apart from Right here, like I said, everything false is gone. Now the truth is exposed. And guess who owns honor? God. Yahweh God, He owns honor. Nor can there be any true power. Not true power. The Lord owns them all, you see. They are all His. Do you see why we must have Him? If we are to know salvation, if we are to know glory, If we are to know honor, if we are to know power, we must have Him. We must come to Him in the way that He has provided His Son. The one way that He has provided that constant message all throughout His book. There's one way to Him. One way to have salvation. One way to have glory. One way to have honor. One way to have power. It's in His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. It's simple, isn't it? It wasn't simple for Him. But as simple as He has declared it to us, we can have God. We can have Him ourselves, in and by and through His Son, the Lord Jesus. He's made a way for us to approach and to Him that we might have Him, if I can say it like this, that we might possess Him. And it is His Son, the Lord Jesus. And do you see on the other side of that why it is truly that we have nothing? Is that not what Christ declared while He was here? You can do nothing, you can have nothing without Me. Not even life. We can have nothing without Him. Did you have God? Do you have the Lord Yahweh? Is He your God? Do you know Him to be your God? Do you possess Him? Does He possess you? There are many trying to make their own way in this world in their own way to heaven and what their idea of glory is. Many different thoughts on that, but all you have to do is look at the text, look at God's Word. In a day when everything false has been destroyed and the absolute truth is exposed, the heavens ring out the remaining truth. Praise Yahweh, for You are the salvation. You are the glory. You are the honor. You are the power. You are everything. You are everything. That's quite a revelation, isn't it? Not to a world that thinks he's just a sidebar, if that. Not really much of anything. I'll decide when and if I need him. But the truth is, he's everything. And all of us desperately need him. You see how this has unfolded? in God's Word, in the simple voice of praise from the heavens. If we do not have Him, if you do not have Him, what you will have in the end? What you will have in the end? You will not have all the things things that you propped up to be your salvation. You will not have all of the things that you propped up to be your glory and your honor and your power because they are Yahweh's. But here's what will happen. He will require them at your hand, personally, face to face. You will see the truth. You will see this God that the heavens ring out in praise for and you will know that instant that all the things that you thought were salvation and power and glory and honor were nothing without Him. And even that He will take from you because they're His. It all belongs to Him. So, this praise is given to the Lord Yahweh for things He alone owns, things that belong to Him. But also, this praise is given to Yahweh for things that come from Him. Things that come from Him. Let me ask you a personal question again, another one. When you think of the Lord owning You think of the Lord being the soul source, the fountain of salvation and glory and honor and power. What do you think of? Or I might ask it like this. Who do you think of? You may be thinking of you. When you think of salvation, when you think of glory and honor and power and the Lord owning them, you may be thinking of you. But do you know what righted minds think of? when they hear of salvation, and when they hear of glory, and when they hear of power, and when they hear of honor, you know what the right reaction, when everything else, when everything false is gone, when everything false is put down, you know what the right reaction to those things are? Well, just look at verse two, it's there. In verse one, hallelujah, salvation, glory, honor, power, or the salvation, the glory, the honor, the power, belong unto the Lord our God. For, that word we would say, because. Because true and righteous are His judgments. For He hath judged the great whore which did corrupt the earth with her fornication, and hath avenged the blood of His servants at her hands. In other words, praise you, Yahweh, because true and righteous are Your judgments. We know salvation and glory and honor and power belong to you because you are righteous. Because righteousness comes from you. That's what it's saying here. I mean, if we're honest with ourselves, we know that sometimes when we think of salvation, when we think of glory and honor and power, we do think of ourselves and what that means for us and what that means to us. But we should know that much of that kind of thinking is absolutely saturated in religious sentimentality. But when everything false has been taken away and only the truth remains, when we think upon God, when we think upon His salvation that belongs to Him, and His glory that belongs to Him, and His honor that belongs to Him, and power that belongs to Him, we will think with the right in mind, we will see then His righteousness. We will see His rightness. His rightness. I wonder if perhaps already we are at least beginning, as the children of God, as the saints of God, at least beginning to think that way. When we think about salvation, it's not about us. It's about Him. His righteousness. You are salvation at the core. It's God's righteousness. When we think about His power and His honor and His glory, When you really get down into the depths of it, it's His righteousness. It's His rightness. Do you have the trait of your Father? That trait? Who is righteousness Himself? Let me put it like this. Do you desire to be righteous? I mean, in the depths of your soul, when it's you and God, Do you desire to be righteous? Do you desire to know rightness? Do you desire that your sin, you have a yearning in your soul, that your sin and your waywardness be abolished? Can you see the way? Can you feel? I mean, I'm not talking necessarily about action. I'm talking about motive, mind, thoughts, wickedness. that flows through your being. Do you desire that that part of you, that wicked part of you, be abolished and be exchanged by a rightness, a godliness, a godlikeness? I mean, do we really desire to be, I know we all say we want to be Christians, but do we want to be like Christ, who knew righteousness intimately, He knew the difference between wrong and right. I mean at the depths of it. He knew the difference between a right motive and a wrong motive. In our study in Matthew, we're coming up on the Sermon on the Mountain. Man, it's going to hit us in the face. And the reason he taught that is because he wanted us to know the difference. Do we have a desire for rightness? Do you desire to be righteous? Do you desire to live in a world of righteousness? Are you growing sick and tired of the wrongness, both within and without? I mean, really? Or do you kind of treasure the wrongness? We need to ask these probing questions to ourselves and search ourselves. Pray that the Lord would search us. Because soon, As chapter 19 reveals soon, this longing, if we indeed long for righteousness, it will be the satisfaction of our souls. We're going to receive something, we're going to see something that will absolutely cause our souls to overflow with praise because of righteousness. Here, our words are ascribed on God's page, our future words. Praise Yahweh. Praise you, Yahweh, because you are right. You are righteous. You have righteousness. See why it's impossible for us to know salvation without Him? He has righteousness. We must have righteousness. Not one of us owns it as we come into this world. Not even a thread of it. There is this Word. There is none righteous. Not even one. But Him. We must have Him. As a matter of fact, church, soon evidently, we will have no regard for religious sentimentality at all, but rightness. Righteousness, including righteous justice, will be our praise. Look at verse 3 and 4. And again, they said, Alleluia! And her smoke rose up forever and ever, and the four and twenty elders and the four beasts fell down and worshipped God that sat on the throne, saying, Amen! Alleluia! Now, look at the bookends here. the Alleluia bookends and what's in the middle. Take out the narrative and just look at the words. Heavens declare Alleluia! And these words are declared, Her smoke, Babylon's smoke, rose up forever and ever, and then These words are declared, amen. So be it. These words are declared by us, church. So be it. So be it to her smoke rose up forever and ever. That's what we're so being it to. That's what we're saying, yes, Lord. Yes, this is true. Amen. Praise Jehovah. Praise Yahweh. Think about that. Because I know today we don't like the thought. We don't especially like the thought of hell. We don't especially like the thought of fire and eternal torment, do we? We don't especially like to talk and to converse over a place where torturous skin worms eat and eat and eat, but are never filled up with the flesh they are eating. We don't like to necessarily talk about the fire, a fire that burns and burns and is never quenched, is never satisfied by the flesh that it is burning. I mean, today we live in a time when it is taboo to preach of hell and judgment. Caboo to preach about anything that will make people uncomfortable. You know why it makes us uncomfortable, right? Because it burns too close to home. But you notice, in this day, and this is one of the stark revelations of the latter part especially of the book of Revelation, much of the praise that the Lord will receive in these latter days is guessed from what? Just judgment. It's justice. It's justice. It's fierce justice. The severest. We can't imagine what it is to be judged with wrath without mixture. We cannot even imagine it. When the total fury of God is unleashed on sin. The only way we can even see it is at the cross. See his son there beat to where you can't even recognize it's a person. See his son there whipped to the point where you can see his eternal organs. See him hanging there naked, exposed for all the world to see that way. And then see God turn off the lights. And the part that he most dreaded, the part he sweat blood over, the part that scripture says he feared, God turned the lights of heaven off and his own wrath broke out upon his own son to the point that Christ cried out, my God, my God, why have you forsaken me? That's the closest we can get to halfway understanding what wrath without mixture is. But all through this book, God's praise is declared with a right in mind, we will praise the Lord with hallelujahs and amens. Hallelujahs and amens. Yes, so be it. This is true. This is right. Praise you, Yahweh. And for what is just, severe, eternal judgment of sin and falsehood. So this hallelujah praise is for what belongs to God, salvation, the salvation, the glory, the honor, the power. This hallelujah praise is what comes from God, righteousness and justice. And then lastly, verse 5 and 6. And a voice came out of the throne, saying, Praise our God, all ye His servants, and ye that fear Him, both small and great. And I heard, as it were, the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunderings." What a descriptive description that is. To let us know the thunderous roar of this praise. And here's what they said. Alleluia for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth. This alleluia praise is for what is under God. What belongs to Him, what comes forth from Him, but also what is under Him. And what would that be? Everything. Everything is under Him. The saints and the angels and the church of heaven with a three-fold great voice, as chapter 6 describes there. They declare, we declare praise Yahweh, for He is the sovereign, almighty God. When everything gone, everything false is gone, and truth and righteousness and justice are all that's left. Look, saints, look who will stand as King Supreme. Look at him. One single, solitary figure, Yahweh God. Him alone. And this we have to know. We are definitely about to see it in the coming verses of this chapter and the coming chapters of this book. We have to see this because this is truth. There is one God who is God. That's what these voices, that's what the church, that's what the servants, that's what the martyred saints are declaring here. You, God. You, Yahweh. You reign in omnipotence. You are the Almighty God. There's none that can conquer you. There's none that comes beside you. There's none that can contend with you. You own power. You are power. There's nothing I can fight against that. You are the sovereign, almighty God. And understand, if this will be true here in this day, and it will be, then it has already been truth, which means it is truth today. It is truth right now. It is truth right here. Right here, if we know true reality, if we desire true righteousness and justice and the truth today, right now, we know it. We know it. Look, here's the truth today too. The Lord God, Yahweh God, omnipotent reigneth. Praise Yahweh for Yahweh God, omnipotent reigneth. We know it. You know what? God has breathed it for us. He's breathed it for us already. He's given us a preview of the day when everything false has been put down. when He has conquered every falsehood, every lie, every deception of men, and religion, and commerce, and world systems, and world powers, and powers and principalities in heavenly places, and in hell beneath, and in the sky above. He's conquered it all. He's put it all. That's what the whole book has led us to. We've seen Him conquer it all. We've seen His hand. His power, His thumb over all of it, even using evil to sustain His purposes and to keep His purposes. We've seen Him rule it all. And He will bring it all to pass. We know. We know who is God. Don't suppress it. Don't hold it down any longer. But lift your hearts to God who is God now, this moment, and declare, Alleluia! Praise Yahweh, for you reign. You reign. You reign over me. He reigns over us. He reigns over this world. He is God omnipotent right now. We don't have to wait. We shouldn't wait for this day to know that truth. We have the preview. He's already revealed that truth. We have the benefit and blessing of being able to see it today as we hold His Word in our hands and to know that everything around us, we can see Him working in everything around us. We can see our lives. We can look back in the past and see how He has operated and moved and maneuvered our lives in ways that in the moment we would have never guessed. We would have never thought that that would end up in this, but that was the only way to this, and He brought us through that to bring us to this. And He's done it, and that's just the government of us. Let alone the world, the earth, and the animals, and all the other things that He rules over, and who knows what else that He rules over in all of the universes. He rules over all of it. Who knows what else He's doing? in all of the universes. Only Him. We don't have to wait to declare this hallelujah chorus. It's just as true now as it will be then. Praise Yahweh. Salvation, glory, honor, and power belong to Him. Praise Yahweh. He is right. He is righteous. He is just. Praise Yahweh. He is the Almighty reigning God. In other words, He is God alone. He is your God. He is my God. Are we giving Him the praise to do His name today? I'm sure you have before, but now you've read it, you've seen, you've seen the prophecy of the coming day. We have no excuse. We know we should be giving Him praise today for the God that He is. We should bow our lives, our world to Him, our ways to Him, everything to Him, because He is our God. Let's do this one more time. He deserves it. Now that you know, though, I want a little bit of something behind it.