Glory eternal in the heavenly fellowship of God

From :
The 1560 -1599 A.D.
Geneva Bible New Testament ;

The Revelation
Of Saint John The Apostle
& Evangelist With the Annotations
Of Francis Junius & Chapter 14 :

1 The Lamb standeth on mount Sinai;
4 with his chaste worshippers.

6 One Angel preacheth the Gospel.

8 Another foretelleth the fall of Babylon;
9 the third warneth that the beast be avoided.

13 A voice from heaven pronounceth
them happy who died in the Lord.

16 The Lord's sickle thrust into the harvest,
28 and into the vintage.

1 Then I looked,
and lo, a (*) Lamb
(1) stood on mount Sion, and with him
(2) a () hundred, forty and four thousand,
having his Father's (3) (()) Name written
in their foreheads.

(*) Jesus Christ ruleth
in his Church to defend
and comfort it, though the
beast rage never so much;
and seeing Christ is present
ever with his Church, there can
be no vicar, for where there is a
vicar, there is no Church.

(1) The history
of the Church of Christ
being finished for more than
a thirteen hundred years at which
time Boniface the eighth lived as better
hath been said, there remaineth the rest
of the history of the conflicting or militant
Church, from thence unto the time of the
last victory in three chapters.

For first of all,
as the foundation
of the whole history,
is described the standing
of the Lamb with his army
and retinue in five verses, after
his worthy acts which he hath done
and yet doth in most mighty manner,
whilest he overthroweth Antichrist
which the spirit of his mouth, in the
rest of this chapter, and in the two
following.

Unto the description
of the Lamb, are propounded
three things: his situation, place
and attendance; for the rest are
expounded in the former visions,
especially upon the fifth chapter.

(2) As ready gird
to do his office (see Acts 7:56) ,
in the midst of the Church which
aforetime mount Sion did prefigure.

() Meaning a great and ample Church.

(3) As before in Revelation 7:2 .

This retinue of the Lamb
is described first by divine mark
(as before in Revelation 7:2)
in this verse.

Then by divine occupation,
in that every one in his retinue
most vehemently and sweetly
(Revelation14:2) do glorify the
Lamb with a special song
before God and his elect
Angels.

Which song flesh and blood
cannot hear, nor understand,
Revelation 14:3 .

Lastly by their deeds
done before, and their
sanctification in that they
were virgins, pure from spiritual
and bodily fornication, that is, from
impiety and unrighteousness, that they
followed the Lamb as a guide unto all
goodness, and cleaved unto him that
they are holy unto him, as of grace
redeemed by him; that in truth and
simplicity of Christ, they have
exercised all these things, sanctimony
of life, the direction of the Lamb, a
thankful remembrance of redemption
by him, finally (to conclude in a word)
that they are blameless before the
Lord, Revelation 14:4-5 .

(()) Which was the mark
of their election, to wit, their faith.

2 And I heard a voice
from heaven, as the sound
of many (*) waters, and as
the sound of a great thunder,
and I heard the voice of
harpers harping with their
harps.

(*) Signifying that the number
of the Church should be great,
and that they should speak boldly,
and aloud, and so glorify the Lord.

3 And they sung
as it were a new song
before the throne, and
before the four beasts, and
the Elders; and no (*) man
could learn that song, but the
hundred, forty and four thousand,
which were bought from the earth.

(*) None can praise God,
but the elect whom he hath bought.

4 These are they
which are not (*) defiled
with women, for they are
virgins; these follow the Lamb
() whithersoever he goeth; these
are bought from men, being the
(()) firstfruits unto God, and unto
the Lamb.

(*) By whoredom;
and under this vice he
comprehendeth all other,
but this is chiefly meant of
idolatry which is the spiritual
whoredom.

() For their whole delight
is in the Lamb Jesus and
they love none but him.

(()) Which declareth
that the faithful ought to
live justly and holy, that they
may be the firstfruits and an
excellent offering of the Lord.

5 And in their mouths
was found no guile; for
they are without (*) spot
before the throne of God.

(*) For as much
as their sins are pardoned,
and they are clad with the
justice of Christ.

6 ¶ (4) Then I saw
(5) another (*) Angel
fly in the midst of heaven,
having an everlasting Gospel
to preach unto them that dwell
on the earth, and to every nation,
and kindred, and tongue, and
people,

(4) The other part
(as I said on the first verse)
see Revelation 14:1; is of the
acts of the Lamb, the manner
whereof is delivered in two sorts,
of his speech, and of his facts.

His speeches are set forth
unto Revelation 14:7-13, and his
facts unto the sixteenth chapter.

In the speech of the Lamb,
which is the word of the Gospel,
are taught in this place, these things:
The service of the godly consisting
inwardly of reverence towards God,
and outwardly of the glorifying of
him; the visible sign of which is
adoration, Revelation 14:7 .

The overthrowing
of wicked Babylon,
Revelation 14:8 and the fall
of every one of the ungodly
which worship the beast,
Revelation 14:9-11 .

Finally, the state
of the holy servants of God
both present, Revelation 14:12 and
to come, most blessed, according to
the promise of God in Revelation 14:13 .

(5) This Angel is a type
or figure of the good and
faithful servants of God, whom
God especially from that time of
Boniface the eighth, hath raised up
to the proclaiming of the Gospel of
Christ, both by preaching
and by writing.

So God first,
near unto the time
of the same Boniface,
used Peter Cassiodorus
an Italian after, Arnold de
villa nova, a Frenchman, then
Occam, dante, Petrarch, after
the Johannes de rupe casa, a
Franciscan; after again, John Wycliffe
an Englishman, and so continually one
or another unto the restoring of the
truth, and enlarging of his Church.

(*) By this Angel
are meant the true ministers
of Christ which preach the
Gospel faithfully.

7 (6) (*) Saying with a loud voice,
() Fear God, and give glory to him,
for the hour of his judgment is come;
and worship him that made (()) heaven
and earth, and the sea, and the fountains
of waters.

(6) That is, Babylon is destroyed
by the sentence and judgment of God;
the execution whereof John described
in chapter 18.

And this voice of the ministers
of Christ hath continued since the
time that Babylon (which is Rome)
hath by deliberate counsel and manifest
malice oppugned the light of the Gospel
offered from God.

(*) Psalm 14:5 .

() The Gospel teacheth us
to fear God and honor him
which is the beginning of
heavenly wisdom.

(()) Acts 14:20 .

8 And there followed
another Angel, saying,
(*) () Babylon that great
city is fallen, it is fallen, for
she made all nations to drink
of the wine of the (a) (()) wrath
of her fornication.

(*) Isaiah 21:9;
Jeremiah 51:8; Revelation 18:8 .

() Signifying Rome,
for as much as the
vices which were in
Babylon, are found in
Rome in greater abundance,
as persecution of the Church
of God, oppression and slavery
with destruction of the people
of God, confusion, superstition,
idolatry, impiety, and as Babylon
the first Monarchy was destroyed,
so shall this wicked kingdom of
Antichrist have a miserable ruin,
though it be great and seemeth to
extend throughout all Europa.

(a) Of her fornication,
whereby God was provoked to wrath.

(()) By the which fornication;
God is provoked to wrath, so that
he suffereth many to walk in the way
of the Romish doctrine to their destruction.

9 ¶ And the third Angel
followed them, saying with
a loud voice, (7) If any man
worship the beast and his
image, and receive his mark
in his forehead, or on his hand,

(7) That is, shall not worship
God alone, but shall transfer
his divine honor unto this beast,
whether he doth it with his heart,
or counterfeiting in shew.

For he (saith Christ)
that denieth me before
men, him will I deny before
my Father, and his Angels,
Matthew 10:32 .

And this is that voice
of the holy ministry, which at
this time is very much used of
the holy and faithful servants
of God.

For having now sufficiently
found out the public obstinacy
of Babylon, they labor not any
longer to thunder out against the
same; but to save some particular
members by terror (as Jude speaketh)
and to pluck them out of the public flame;
or else by a vehement commiseration of
their state, to lead them away, they set
before them eternal death, into which they
rush unawares, unless in good time they
return unto God, but the godly which are
of their own flock, they exhort unto patience
obedience, and faith in the Lord Jesus, and
charge them to give light by their good
example, of good life unto others.

10 The same shall drink
of the wine of the wrath of
God, yea, of the (*) pure wine,
which is poured into the cup of
his wrath, and he shall be tormented
in fire and brimstone before the holy
Angels, and before the Lamb.

(*) That is, of his terrible judgment.

11 And the smoke
of their torment shall
ascend evermore; and
they shall have no rest day
nor night, which worship the
beast and his image, and
whosoever receiveth the
print of his name.

12 (8) Here is the patience
of (*) Saints. Here are they that
keep the commandments of God,
and the faith of Jesus.

(8) The patience,
sanctification, and justification
by faith; the consequence whereof
are rest, felicity, and glory eternal,
in the heavenly fellowship of God
and his Angels.

(*) The faithful
are exhorted to patience.

13 Then I heard a voice
from heaven, saying unto
me, Write, (*) Blessed are
the dead which hereafter die
(b) () in the (()) Lord. Even so
saith the Spirit, for they rest from
their labors, and their (c) works
follow them.

(*) For they are delivered
from horrible troubles which are
in the Church, and rest with God.

(b) That is, for the Lord.

() Or, for the Lord's cause.

(()) Which are engrafted
in Christ by faith, which rest
and stay only on him and rejoice
to be with him; for immediately after
their death they are received into joy.

(c) By works,
is meant the reward
which followeth good works.

14 ¶ (9) And I looked,
and behold, (10) a white
(*) cloud, and upon the cloud
one sitting like unto the Son of
man, (11) having on his head a
golden crown, and in his hand a
(12) sharp sickle.

(9) The second part
of this Chapter, as I said
see Revelation 14:1 .

Of the acts and doings
of Christ in overthrowing
of Antichrist and his Church
by the Spirit of his divine mouth;
seeing that having been called back
by word both publicly and privately
unto his duty, and admonished of his
most certain ruin, he yet ceaseth not
to maintain and protect his own
adherents, that they may do him
service; and to afflict the godly
with most barbarous
persecutions.

Of those things
which Christ doeth,
there are two kinds; one
common or general in the
rest of this chapter, another
particular against that savage
and rebellious beast and his
worshippers in the fifteen and
sixteen chapters.

That common kind,
is the calamity of wars,
spread abroad through the
whole earth, and filling all things
with blood and that without
respect of any person.

This is figured
or shadowed out in two types,
of the harvest and vintage.

Since the time
that the light of the Gospel
began to shine out, and since
prophecy or preaching by the
grace of God was raised up again,
horrible wars have been kindled
in the world?

How much human flesh hath
been thrown to the earth
by this divine reaping?

How much blood
(alas for woe) hath overflown
for these hundred years almost?

All histories do cry out,
and our age (if ever before)
is now in horror, by reason of
the rage of the sickle which
Antichrist calleth for.

In this place is the first type,
that is of the harvest.

(10) Declaring his fierceness
by his color, like unto that which is
in the white or milk circle of heaven.

(*) Signifying that Christ
shall come to judgment in
a cloud, even as he was
seen to go up.

(11) As one that shall reign
from God, and occupy the place
of Christ in this miserable execution.

(12) That is, a most fit
and commodious instrument
of Execution, destroyed all by
shewing and thrusting through;
for who may stand against God?

15 (13) And another Angel
came out of the Temple, crying
with a loud voice to him that sat
on the cloud, (*) () Thrust in thy
sickle and reap, for the time is
come to reap, for the (()) harvest
of the earth is ripe.

(13) Christ giveth a commandment
in this verse, and the Angel executeth
it in Revelation 14:16 .

(*) Joel 3:13 .

() The overthrow of the people
is compared to a harvest, Isaiah 19:5;
also to a vintage, Isaiah 6:3 . 57

(()) Matthew 13:39 .

16 And he that sat on the cloud,
(*) thrust in his sickle on the earth,
and the earth was reaped.

(*) This is spoken familiarly
for our capacity, alluding unto
a husband man who suffereth
himself to be advertised by his
servants when his harvest is ripe,
and not that Christ hath need to
be told when he should come to
judgment for the comfort of his
Church and destruction of his
enemies.

17 (14) Then another Angel
came out of the Temple, which
is in heaven, having also
a sharp sickle.

(14) The other type
(as I said in Revelation 14:14)
is the vintage; the manner whereof
is one with that which went before,
if thou except this, that the grape
gathering is more exact in seeking
out everything, then is the
harvest labor.

This is therefore
a more grievous judgment,
both because it succeedeth
the other, and because it is
understood to be executed
with great diligence.

18 And another Angel
came out from the altar,
which had power over fire,
and cried with a loud cry to
him that had the sharp sickle,
and said, Thrust in thy sharp
sickle, and gather the clusters
of the vineyard of the earth, for
her grapes are ripe.

19 And the Angel
thrust in his sharp sickle
on the earth, and cut down
the vines of the vineyard of
the earth, and cast them into
the great winepress of the
wrath of God.

20 And the (*) winepress
was trodden without the city,
(15) and blood came out of the
winepress, unto the () horse bridles,
by the space of a thousand and six
hundred furlongs.

(*) This is, a certain place
appointed and not in the heaven.

(15) That is, it overflowed
very deep, and very far and
wide; the speech is hyperbolical or
excessive, to signify the greatness
of the slaughter.

These are those pleasant fruits
truly, of the contempt of Christ,
and desiring of Antichrist rather
than him, which the miserable,
mad and blind world doeth
at this time reap.

() By this similitude
he declareth the horrible
confusion of the tyrants and
infidels, which delight in nothing
but wars, slaughters, persecutions
and effusion of blood.

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