Revelation 19:3; Alleluia, Amen

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Revelation 19:3 (KJV)  And again they said, Alleluia. And her smoke rose up for ever and ever. 

Two men were on a ship, and there was a lot of worldliness aboard that ship. And both of these men were believers, and they just wanted to get away from the crowd and get out on the deck and meditate a little bit. So each man took his Bible and was walking on the deck, one from one country, another from another country, but both of them loving the Lord Jesus with all of their heart. And they saw each other on the deck on that ship, walking, musing, thinking, meditating. Both of them had a Bible. They looked at one another. When they saw the Word of God in the hand of the other, they knew that they were comrades in Christ. But they were of different languages; they didn’t know how to communicate, until one brother said, “Hallelujah.” The other brother said, “Amen.” And they embraced and they knew that in the Lord Jesus Christ they were brethren.

This side, you say, “Hallelujah.” And this side, you say, “Amen.” That’s the wedding of the Lamb. That is the music of the Lamb. And it comes in four stanzas.

The Hallelujah for the Redemption of the Saints

Let’s look in stanza one. It is the hallelujah for the redemption of the saints. Look in verse 1: “And after these things I heard a great voice of much people in heaven, saying, Alleluia; Salvation, and glory, and honour, and power, unto the Lord our God.” Why are they saying “Hallelujah”?

Because that which was begun at Calvary has now come to full consummation. As Philippians 1:6 says, “He who hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ.” Now this is the day of Jesus Christ. Now that’s stanza one: the hallelujah for the redemption of the saints.

The Hallelujah for the Retribution of the Sinner

Stanza two is the hallelujah for the retribution of the sinner. Look in verses 2 and 3: “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 for ever and ever.”

Now they praised the Lord God that He has made things right, that His justice has prevailed, that He has avenged those who have persecuted the church through the ages.

[Adrian Rogers, The Marriage of the Lamb]