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When I was first studying Revelation and bracing myself for the unfamiliar, I was surprised to find so many familiar phrases and scenes of worship. So many hymns and worship songs have been inspired by verses in Revelation. I often find myself with a song stuck in my head all day after reading in Revelation.

They are roughly in the order of appearance in the book of Revelation. Someplace I have a document with Bible verses and then songs. I made this playlist when my sister in law was suffering from breast cancer and nearing death. It brought great comfort to her.

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The book of Revelation has inspired many hymns and songs over the years. The throne-room scene in Rev 4-5 has spawned a number of "Worthy" songs. Also the vision of the conquering King in Rev 19, the judgment in Rev 20, and the vision of heaven in Rev 21-22 have been particularly rich. "Crossing Jordan" and the "River of Life" are themes found in many songs. I haven't tried to be comprehensive here, just collect some of the songs that seem more popular. Enjoy. -- Pastor Ralph

And that joy stems from a confident expectation that God will accomplish everything he has promised. The final songs of Revelation describe God overcoming all evil, the nations bowing down in worship, and the bride of Christ finally beholding her groom, King Jesus, at a never-ending royal celebration of grace.

Will our earthly songs look and sound exactly like the songs of heaven? No. But can the songs of heaven motivate us to sing with greater passion, understanding, confidence, and anticipation now? Absolutely. G.K. Beale writes,

Last week we finished chapter 22 of Revelation. But I want to end this series with three bird's eye views of the book. And today's overview will be looking at it through the lens of the songs of Revelation. I'm only going to read one of those songs this morning. We will read all of chapter 15 and continue to the results of that song in chapter 16:1. But the sermon is not going to stick here; it is going to traipse all over the book.

Well, we see a similar thing in the book of Revelation. There are 28 songs in this book.1 Some are only tiny fragments of songs. But several of these songs result in God's immediate judgments being poured out. There seems to be a cause and effect relationship between at least some of those songs and the judgments that follow. We will be seeing that just as the prayer meeting of chapter 8 released regiment after regiment of angels bringing judgments and spiritual warfare, there is exactly the same kind of cause and effect relationship between the Songs of Zion and the retreat of the enemy. And I want to investigate why that is the case. Why is some worship music powerful in tearing down strongholds and making demons flee while other music has zero impact upon those demons? It doesn't seem to bother them at all.

I believe the first reason is that Jesus is present in the songs that send the enemy into retreat. Did you know that Jesus sings in the midst of the congregation? Hebrews 2:12 says of Jesus, "...in the midst of the assembly I will sing praise to You." Likewise Jesus prays in the midst of the assembly. Let me remind you of that. Turn to Revelation 8. This is not one of the songs, but it parallels the songs in its effect. Chapter 8, beginning at verse 1.

Well, the same is true of music. When Jesus is present, God listens, our worship is accepted, and our songs have spiritual power against demons. But without Christ's presence, our worship music is actually an abomination to God. In Amos 5 God told the church of that day,

21 I hate, I despise your feast days,And I do not savor your sacred assemblies.22 Though you offer Me burnt offerings and your grain offerings,I will not accept them,Nor will I regard your fattened peace offerings.23 Take away from Me the noise of your songs,For I will not hear the melody of your stringed instruments.

In the same way, you can almost guarantee that the worship music of the church of Laodicea in chapter 3 had zero impact upon the enemy because God was not pleased with their worship. In fact, Jesus was so disgusted with their lukewarmness that He was ready to vomit the church out of His mouth. Chapter 3:20 shows that He had already left the church and was standing outside knocking on the church door. And the text says that the church didn't realize that Jesus was absent. They went on with their preaching, their prayers, their songs, and their programs as if everything was fine. But it was not. There was no power in their worship because Jesus was absent.

So what makes for worship music that forces demons to flee, like the demon that afflicted King Saul was forced to flee when David played his psalms? What makes for worship songs that result in judgments upon human enemies as happened under Jehoshaphat when he marched against enormous odds confidently singing of God's victory. He didn't have to lift a sword in that battle. The enemy killed each other off. There was a direct cause and effect relationship between his army's singing and the victory that he experienced in history. That is what we are examining today. And the first answer we have given is that Jesus must be present.

John's own song of praise on the earth in chapter 1 is of the same character as the heavenly songs. And we see actual commands for earth to join heaven in these worship songs. For example, in chapter 5 we have some magnificent songs and the text goes on to say that "every creature which is in the heaven and upon the earth" is supposed to sing that song - not just in heaven, but upon the earth. The songs of chapter 14 are called gospel songs in verse 6, indicating that they are sung in the region that the gospel is needed - the earth. And the command in the next verse is to proclaim that message to every ethnic nation and tribe and language and people (v. 7).

But the point is that if you measure the kind of music that Revelation sings against the music that many churches sing, the churches on earth come up short. These 28 songs are songs of Zion that require faith and stir up more faith. For the saints in heaven, this whole book is a book of the victorious advancement of Christ's kingdom. There is never a shadow of a doubt in their minds that of the increase of Christ kingdom there is no end. They end chapter 5 by affirming that Jesus is already on His throne. They do the same in chapter 7, chapter 11, and really all through this book. They are modeling for us the kind of faith-content that we ought to have in our songs. In chapter 12:10-12 after the ascension of Jesus to His throne has resulted in a war between Satan's demons and God's angels, a glorious song bursts forth of victory, despite the fact that saints are dying:

Ooooh. That's the kind of song that will raise up soldiers for Christ that are willing to lay down their lives if Christ is glorified and if it will advance His kingdom. Despite the best efforts of Satan to keep the church from converting the world, the growing church is singing songs about a growing and unstoppable church. The martyrs sing in chapter 15,

I love the confidence of their missions: "all nations shall come and worship before You." How can Christians have that kind of faith when they are undergoing the kind of intense persecution that this book outlines? By seeing themselves as seated with Christ in the heavenlies, and having great authority because of Christ's presence. Nero saw John as imprisoned on the prison-island of Patmos, yet John saw himself as part of a church that was an army, and a kingdom, and priests advancing Christ's kingdom. It is a triumphant song of praise to God and a total belief that God is reigning. It was praise to a God who has already seated us with Christ in the heavenlies. Ephesians 2:6 says that God "raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus." If you examine the songs in this book, you will realize that they exhibit a faith that comes from being seated with Christ.

But singing good songs not only showcases faith; it stirs up more faith. It's like a circular reinforcing rhythm as week after week we realign our thinking by our worship. Not all songs are capable of doing that. What a church sings can either kill faith or stir it up. Some of the sentimentalism that is sung might elicit nice feelings if the lights are right and the air-conditioning is right, but will do nothing for the soul during times of loss or persecution. So that's the second thing that these songs show us - incredible faith in the face of disaster. It is faith that rises above the disaster. When you sing songs without faith, you won't have this power.

And I won't go through more of the songs, but it is impossible to read those songs and to miss how God-centered they are. I wanted to walk out of a church one time when they sang butterfly kisses on mother's day at the heart of their worship service. I don't have a problem with singing such a song to your daughter, but this is the worship of Almighty God! The songs are not about how God thinks I'm important, or what I feel like, or my self-esteem. No. These songs are sung by people who look beyond themselves and a driven by a vision that is greater themselves. God is so great that they are lost in His greatness. These songs are sung by a people with a passion for God's glory that says,

And as you go through song after song you realize that the songs aren't about warm fuzzies (even though they do stir my emotions); they are about exalting God on our praises. They paint man as small and they paint God as large on the canvas of our minds. They are songs worthy of the Lamb. They are true worship.

For most of my life contemporary music has often been weak in theology, feelings oriented, man-centered, and pietistic. I was pleased to see that some of the top worship songs of 2017 and 2018 were God-centered and did have some outstanding theology. Others failed miserably, if these songs of Revelation are the gold standard. But over the past two decades I have seen some improvement on the lyrics of at least a portion of the songs that are top 50 songs in the church, and for that I praise God. You can evaluate the health of a church by its songs. And based upon song usage I would say that there is a militant, victorious faith that is beginning to emerge in at least a remnant of the church. That's encouraging. 17dc91bb1f