Kingship of Christ in Revelation 11:15-18

In this part of the sermon: Martin explains the interpretive key to Revelation's structure, arguing it's cyclical rather than linear, taking the reader to the end of time multiple times with different…

An analogy of a family taking a cross-country trip with four cameras, each assigned to capture different aspects (people, places, events, close-ups). The photos are then arranged cyclically by theme rather than chronologically. This illustrates how Revelation presents the history of the church's conflict from the New Testament era to the consummation, not linearly, but in recurring cycles with different dimensions of emphasis, taking the reader to the end of time multiple times.

Well, I want to begin this morning with illustration, for unless we grasp something of the motif of the book of the Revelation, we will not be able to put this part of the vision in its proper perspective. So we're concerned, first of all, with the setting of this vision. And the illustration that I lay before you derives from a fact of our own congregational history during this summer. One of our families made a cross-country trip in a converted fire wagon.

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Driving home: So you see what we have here in this proclamation of this great aggregate of voices is a proclamation of the arrival of the universal kingdom undisputed. The arrival of the universal kingdom unrivaled, holding absolute s…

A quotation from Hoeksema, who preached through Revelation, explaining that while God is absolutely sovereign, His rule is currently 'disputed' by the devil and wicked men. This helps clarify why Revelation 11:15 speaks of the kingdom 'becoming' God's and Christ's, signifying the end of this disputed reign.

It has been a disputed rule and reign. And Hoeksema, who dared to preach through the book of the Revelation and did an admirable job, when he was preaching on this very question that ought to arise, said this, In answer to this question, it must be said that God is indeed sovereign all through the history of the world. There is nothing, no creature, that can thwart his will. All are in subjection to him.

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The point: Bow to the Son and own Him as your Savior and Sovereign, lest God banish you to hell.

An analogy of a benevolent landowner who plans to turn a depressed area into a beautiful, useful lake. He allows squatters to live on his land temporarily but eventually sends an eviction notice, announcing the impending flood. This illustrates God's long-suffering with humanity's rebellion on His earth, but His ultimate determination to renovate it into His undisputed kingdom, warning unbelievers of the coming judgment.

because God is going to have a kingdom that will cause the aggregate of all intelligent beings in heaven to say, the kingdom is become the kingdom of our God and of His Christ. God is going to have it, my friend. You can spit and fume and kick and oppose, but the hour is coming when this call, this hearing this age going to be between you and me scattered into theudogenesis. He'll come back and he'll be stolen away by Satan and you will be killed. But this walk that God has made with us, it is the great work of the living God. And beef, that a certain area would make an excellent lake and they...

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