Hey Bible readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble, and I'm your host for the Bible Recap.

Here we are. Can you believe it? Congratulations on crossing this milestone.

Whether this is your first trip through the whole Bible or the New

Testament, or if you've done this many times before, it's still worth celebrating. I hope you have

something planned. What have you learned this year? This was my 10th trip through the Bible,

and I've still learned something new every single day. Let's talk about what we saw in today's

reading of Book 27 of the New Testament and book 66

of the whole Bible. We're in the final chapters of John's vision of the revelation of Jesus. After God's

massive victory yesterday, heaven erupts in a party today. The multitudes in heaven praise God

for his justice and truth and salvation and glory and power, and suddenly, it's time for the

marriage of the lamb and his bride, Christ and the church, clothed in purity in fine white linen.

The angel who has been guiding John through these visions tells him to write down that those

who are invited to the marriage supper of the Lamb will be blessed. And guess why this is such

a blessing? Because those invited are the

bride. Then John falls down at the angel's feet, but the angel says, hey, hey, whoa, no of that. I'm a

servant of God. Worship him. John pulls this again in chapter 22 and gets shut down again because

God's angels refuse to be worshipped. So just a heads up, if you ever find an angel that receives worship,

run. Jesus comes out on a white horse and he's wearing a robe dipped in blood. He's followed by

the armies of heaven, which usually refers to angels, but here it's likely referring to the people

of God, because it clarifies that they're wearing the same outfits as before. A sword is coming out of Jesus' mouth,

and this has echoes of Ephesians 16 and the armor of God, where the Word of God is our sword.

His Word is his weapon. His word, which comes out of his mouth, brings justice and is victorious over

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