Revelation 19:21 Commentary and Bible Study

With their leaders gone, the mass of the people are quickly overcome. Christ has now appeared personally and every eye has seen him. They know that he has come to punish them and earlier sections in the book tell us what will be their terrified response. This is the same scene described at the end of the vision of the seals, ‘And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains; ¹⁶ And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb: ¹⁷ For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?’ (Revelation 6:15-17).A sense of horror will grip the hearts of the lost. They will realise that they cannot escape and yet will make the most wild and desperate attempts to do so. None will successfully conceal themselves. He who sites on the white horse, whose eyes are as a flame of fire will seek them out. He who knows every word that each one has spoken and every deed they have done, will overpower them with his infinite majesty. At a word from the mouth of him who created the heavens and the earth, they will perish.Then will come to pass that ancient prophecy (Ezekiel 39:17-20) which predicted so long ago, this dreadful scene. Men will be utterly without excuse. The intransigence of their wickedness will have reached its permitted limit and their characters will be exposed as utterly incapable of self-improvement, but instead addicted to evil. The Lord will be perfectly just in now crushing his enemies without any further offer of mercy. This brings us to the end of the vision of the destruction of Babylon.