Revelation 19:15 - Exposition

And out of his month goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a red of iron. The description is still similar to that given in Revelation 1:1-20 . (see Revelation 1:16 ; Revelation 2:12 , Revelation 2:16 ). (For the last clause, see Revelation 2:27 ; Revelation 12:5 ; and cf. Isaiah 63:3 .) The symbolism is descriptive of warfare, victory, and judgment. "He" is emphatic: "he shall rule "— no longer the kings of the earth. The nations; in the sense of the ungodly (cf. Revelation 16:19 , etc.). And he treadeth the wine press of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God; the wine press of the wine of the fierceness of the wrath, etc. In Revelation 14:10 we have the figure of "the wine of the wrath" of God, and in Revelation 14:19 that of the "wine press of the wrath;" here the two are combined (cf. also Isaiah 63:3 , quoted on Isaiah 63:13 ).