(This is a re-write of a much larger article I have on the subject)
Written by Jerry William Bowers Jr Thursday, December 14, 2017
Revelation 19:2 For true and righteous are his judgments: for he has judged the great whore, which did corrupt the earth with her fornication, and has avenged the blood of his servants at her hand.
Is the fulfillment of Deuteronomy 32:43 Rejoice, O you nations, with his people: for he will avenge the blood of his servants, and will render vengeance to his adversaries, and will be merciful unto his land, and to his people.
Deuteronomy 32:41 If I whet my glittering sword, and mine hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to mine enemies, and will reward them that hate me.
Deuteronomy 32:42 I will make mine arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh; and that with the blood of the slain and of the captives, from the beginning of revenges upon the enemy.
This "vengeance" is very specific in many areas of scripture.
So again;
Revelation 19:2 For true and righteous are his judgments: for he has judged the great whore, which did corrupt the earth with her fornication, and has avenged the blood of his servants at her hand.
Is the fulfillment of Deuteronomy 32:43 Rejoice, O you nations, with his people: for he will avenge the blood of his servants, and will render vengeance to his adversaries, and will be merciful unto his land, and to his people.
And where was this "blood of his servants" to be avenged?
Matthew 23:35 That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom you killed between the temple and the altar.
Whom is the subject (Audience Relevance)?
Only 2 verses later:
Matthew 23:37 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you that kill the prophets, and stones them which are sent unto you, how often would I have gathered your children together, even as a hen gathers her chickens under her wings, but you would not!
Also spoken to/of in Revelation 18:24 (Also shown in Revelation 6:10, 16:6, 17:6)
And in her was found the blood of prophets, and of saints, and of all that were slain upon the earth.
And when was this supposed to happen?
Back up 1 verse
Matthew 23:36 Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation. Just as he told Peter, James, John and Andrew, in the Olivet Discourse (In the very next 2 chapters) in
Matthew 24:34 Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.
And the "Latter Days" are about whom?
Mankind?
Deuteronomy 32:29 O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their
latter end!
Who is the "their" in that verse?
This entire chapter speaks to Israel's crossing over into the "Promised Land"; all the way up to "their latter end"; which is reemphasized in verse 20 And he said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end shall be: for they are a very froward generation, children in whom is no faith.
Remember this "froward generation" phrase:
Deuteronomy 32:5 They have corrupted themselves, their spot is not the spot of his children: they are a perverse and crooked generation.
Here also referred to as a "perverse and crooked generation"
Sounds a lot like
Philippians 2:15 That you may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom you shine as lights in the world;
And even Christ himself points to this, in speaking to those in the 1st century:
Matthew 17:17 Then Jesus answered and said, O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? how long shall I suffer you? bring him here to me.
And remember, we started this with
Revelation 19:2 For true and righteous are his judgments: for he has judged the great whore, which did corrupt the earth with her fornication, and has avenged the blood of his servants at her hand.
Is the fulfillment of Deuteronomy 32:43 Rejoice, O you nations, with his people: for he will avenge the blood of his servants, and will render vengeance to his adversaries, and will be merciful unto his land, and to his people.
Read Deuteronomy 32, read all of it, read it several times over; this is entirely about some "end" that would occur to/with "Israel" in her "Latter Days" and her "End" and "Latter End".
This is never more clear, than what we see in a parable that Jesus spoke on, inside that temple, before they went over to the Mount of Olives:
Matthew 21:33-45 "Hear another parable: There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and dug a wine-press in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country: And when the time of the fruit drew near, he sent his servants (Prophets) to the husbandmen, that they might receive the fruits of it. And the husbandmen took his servants (Prophets - Jeremiah, Isaiah, Ezekiel, etc...) and beat one, and killed another, and stoned another. Again, he sent other servants (Prophets) more than the first: and they did unto them likewise. But last of all he sent unto them his son (Jesus), saying, They will reverence my son (Jesus). But when the husbandmen saw the son (Jesus), they said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and let us seize on his inheritance. And they caught him, and cast him out of the vineyard (took him to Golgotha), and killed (Crucified) him. When the lord therefore of the vineyard comes (His Coming/Return), what will he do unto those husbandmen? They say unto him, He will miserably destroy those wicked men, and will let out his vineyard unto other husbandmen, which shall render him the fruits in their seasons. Jesus said unto them, Did you never read in the scriptures, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner: this is the Lord’s doing, and it is marvelous in our eyes?
Therefore say I unto you, The kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof. And whosoever shall fall on this stone shall be broken: but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder. And when the chief priests and Pharisees had heard his parables, they perceived (understood) that he was speaking of them"
They got it; why don't you?
Again I reason with you:
Read Deuteronomy 32, read all of it, read it several times over; this is entirely about some "end" that would occur to/with "Israel" in her "Latter Days" and her "End" and "Latter End".
This all bleeds into a much larger narrative that invites all mankind into covenant with God, but there's no good reason to take this historical surface story, and insist it must yet actually, literally and visibly, play out, upon a people, to whom it never speaks to.
One last thing to add:
Within the Luke account of the Olivet Discourse; in addition to his parallel (Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass away, till all be fulfilled - Luke 21:32) reference to the Matthew 24:24 (Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things are fulfilled) reference; in addition to this imminent admonition, only 9 verses earlier ( For these are the days of vengeance, that all things which are written will be fulfilled. - Luke 21:22)
Christ unequivocally states that they were in the days when this vengeance would be carried out.
