Revelation 19:11- 16 “Then I saw heaven standing open, and there before me was a white horse. And its rider is called Faithful and True. With righteousness He judges and wages war. He has eyes like blazing fire, and many royal crowns on His head. He has a name written on Him that only He Himself knows. He is dressed in a robe dipped in blood, and His name is The Word of God.
The Gospel of John begins “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God…. In Him was life, and that life was the light of men. The Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.” The Lord Jesus, Christ, the only Son of His Heavenly Father, is the living Word of God. For thousands of years, people have read these words, but how many people have actually expected Jesus to return as the Living Word with infinite power? Now the time has come for Jesus to show Himself in all of His Majesty and His Glory.
Jesus is the Rider on the white horse, the One called Faithful and True. The Greek term for “faithful” means ”absolutely to be trusted.” Jesus brings truth, His nature is true, and He brings complete reality. Jesus is the One who is capable of judging and waging war righteously. Even though men have attempted to justify their wars throughout the ages, Jesus is the only One who truly wages just war.
Barclay explains: His eyes are a flame of fire…. It stands for the consuming power of the victorious Christ. On his head he has many crowns. The word used here for crown is diadema, which is the royal crown, as opposed to stephanos which is the crown of victory. To be crowned with more than one crown may seem strange, but in the time of John it was quite natural. It was not uncommon for a monarch to wear more than one crown in order to show that he was the king of more than one country. For instance, when Ptolemy entered Antioch he wore two crowns or diadems–one to show that he was lord of Asia and one to show that he was lord of Egypt. On the head of the victor Christ there are many crowns to show that he is lord of all the kingdoms of the earth.
He has a name known to no one but himself….What is this name?…. In Philippians 2:9-11 we read of the name above every name which God has given to Jesus Christ because of his complete obedience; and there the name is almost certainly Lord.
(ii) It is suggested that the name is Y-H-W-H. That was the Jewish name for God.
(iii) It may be that the name is one which can be revealed only at the final union of Christ and the Church.
(iv) It may be… the old idea that to know the name of a divine being was to have a certain power over him.
(v) It may be that we shall never know the symbolism of the unknown name… Only the Son of God can understand the mystery of his own being.” Should a Supreme God be totally knowable, or is it part of that supremacy that mystery should remain? If your god is totally knowable, is it really God or merely something on which you have decided to focus your attention?
v. 13 “He is dressed in a robe dipped in blood, and His name is The Word of God.” In the past, Jesus was the Lamb of God, slain for the sins of the world. But now the blood on the robe is the blood of Jesus’s enemies. The tables have turned; the Victim has become the Victor. The Gospel of John refers to Jesus as the Living Word. Barclay concludes: Here is the idea in Hebrews 4:12 : “The word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword.” When John here called the warrior Christ “The Word of God”, he means that here in action is all the power of God’s word; everything that God has said, and threatened, and promised is embodied in Christ.”
When I was a child, we had a saying “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me!” But that saying is a lie! In fact, words can kill or heal. Just ask the grieving parents of any teen who has been cyber – bullied until he or she commits suicide. How many adults have struggled to overcome hateful pronouncements made by parents or others. “You are stupid! You will never amount to anything! Why try? No matter what you do, you are bound to fail!”
Perhaps you are one of those people who has struggled to overcome horrible curses placed on you when you were young. Take heart, for Jesus, the Living Word of God, has come in His Strength and His Power to remove those curses. If you will only choose to accept the fact that Jesus died on that cross at Calvary to take away the sins of the world, if you will only believe that Jesus can deliver you from the bondage of those curses, you can be free now and forever!
PRAYER: Father God, thank you for sending Jesus, your Living Word! Thank you that Jesus has been, is now, and always will be victorious. Thank you that the Name of Jesus has power to free us from the curses of our sins and the curses spoken over us by others. Lord Jesus, we confess that we are sinners and that we cannot free ourselves. Please deliver us from our sins and free us from the curses placed on us. Thank you that you have promised to give us life and to give it abundantly. In your Name we pray. Amen.
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