Gospel Motivation

Revelation 19:1-5 

1 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! 2 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.” 3 Again they said, “Alleluia! Her smoke rises up forever and ever!” 4 And the twenty-four elders and the four living creatures fell down and worshiped God who sat on the throne, saying, “Amen! Alleluia!” 5 Then a voice came from the throne, saying, “Praise our God, all you His servants and those who fear Him, both small and great!”

Babylon will be destroyed, thrown down from a position founded on pride and the rebellion of sin.  Then we see the great number of those in heaven raising their voices to glorify God in His judgement and justice.  His is the praise, salvation, glory, power, and honor - these belong to no other!  They all will exclaim this truth loudly in the true and righteous way He brings down Babylon and all aligned with her who deceive others from the gospel truth of God’s word.  He avenges His people who have been murdered by her for His name’s sake.  These then will praise God and His work, as the four creatures and twenty four elders fall prostate before the throne to worship and praise Him and His righteousness in judgement.  The call then echoes from the throne of God and the Lamb for all His servants to praise and lift Him high, those who each fear Him, from the lowest slave to the highest ruler.  We are all to praise and glorify God in His redemptive work of justifying righteousness to deliver from sin, as well as His final judgement on it.  Looking ahead to what we know to come should motivate us to bear witness of His gospel work in Christ on the cross as we consider well the outcome of those who are not written in His Book; we proclaim the good news in light of the bad news of the fallen human condition as we are sent to do (Romans 10:14-17).