In Revelation 19 we see Christ revealed as the Word of God – the King of kings and the Lord of lords; after His wedding feast, Christ will come as a fighting General with His bride (the overcoming believers as His army) to fight Antichrist and his armies, and He will sweep them all away as trash into the universal trash can, the lake of fire.
Hallelujah for our overcoming Christ, the One who is the Overcomer, who leads the way to overcoming, and who is gaining His overcomers to fight with Him and bring in God’s kingdom! Lord Jesus, we give ourselves to You today to grow in life unto maturity until we are produced as Your overcoming believers today! Amen, Lord, we love You, we love Your interest, and we stand with You for Your interest on earth! Come, Lord Jesus, our Bridegroom and our fighting General! Amen!
What the Lord is after today is a group of people who see what is on His heart and who cooperate with Him for this. He wants to bring in the kingdom of God on earth. He wants to gain a realm in which He can rule and reign.
So He is sowing Himself as the seed of the kingdom into the hearts of men to grow in them into a realm in which He can rule and reign in His divine life.
We want to be those who cooperate with Him for His kingdom today. We want to be qualified to reign with Christ in the next age, the age of the kingdom, so we open to Him today to allow Him to rule and reign in us.
The church as a whole is degraded, but the Lord is looking for His overcomers, those who have an ear to hear what the Spirit is speaking to the churches.
The overcomers will reign and rule with the Lord in the coming age, for they are given to sit on the throne with Him.
However, this will not be something surprising or new to them; they have been reigning and ruling with the Lord in their life on earth, and in the next age they simply continue to do the same.
Today we need to receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness so that we may reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ.
We need to enjoy the Lord as grace until grace reigns in us unto eternal life.
As we allow the Lord to rule and reign in us today, having a clear sky between us and Him and having Christ on the throne in the centre of our being, we will be qualified to rule and reign with Him in the coming age.
We are being Prepared to Co-reign with Christ by Growing in Life unto Maturity, sharing the Same Position with Christ, and by Having a Perfect and Uplifted Humanity
There is a process for us to be prepared to co-reign with Christ as kings, that is, to live to the kingly life and be qualified to reign with Christ both today and in the next age.
The first way we can cooperate to be prepared to co-reign with Christ is by growing in life unto maturity.
If we don’t have sufficient growth in life, how can we reign with Christ? If a prince is immature, he cannot reign in a proper way; he cannot exercise judgment or make decisions but would rather play ball or do something childish.
We need to have adequate growth in life unto maturity to participate in reigning with Christ. We need to grow and be ripened, even be the firstfruits. We have a kingly life within us; we have the life of a King in us and we have been joined to Him as one spirit.
If we were open and willing to cooperate with Him, He will prepare us and train us to co-reign with Him. We need to go through the stages of growth in life until we reach the stage of reigning in life.
We need to have deep roots and be saved from our shallowness and superficiality by seeking the Lord and pursuing Him personally and corporately. We need to deal with all the frustrations and hindrances to the Lord’s life in us so that He may grow in life (Heb. 6:1).
When we are young, we are so energetic and capable, and we may be able to speak quite well. But as we grow in life, there is some weight in our speaking, and the Lord is taking us to maturity.
The Lord assigns us a certain job, a particular place where we live, a specific church life, and a very particular spouse to help us grow in life.
We may think we want to serve Him full-time, but He assigns us to work full-time and learn to enjoy the Lord and live Christ full-time.
We may think we will find the best spouse for our satisfaction and for living a wonderful family life, but the Lord gives us the best spouse who is very different from us and many times opposite to us; this is to help us grow in life unto maturity.
We need to grow and mature in the divine life for us to be prepared to reign with Christ (Rom. 8:28-29).
Secondly, for us to reign in life we need to share in the same position with Christ. We need to set our mind on the things above where Christ is; Christ is on the throne, and we are where He is when we are in our spirit (Eph. 2:6; Col. 3:2).
We may have a lot of ups and downs, for we may be excited about one thing today and we may be down the next day.
But when we know our position, when we realise we are one with Christ in His position in ascension, on the throne, we will be steadfast, sharing the same position as Christ.
We will not live by our emotion nor will we be directed by the environment; we will be seated with Christ.
As we encounter difficulties and challenges, we will not give up nor backslide; rather, we will remain in the same position with Christ, for we’re joined to Him as one spirit (1 Cor. 6:17).
The third matter that helps us be prepared to co-reign with Christ is that we need to have an uplifted and balanced humanity, even the humanity of Jesus.
The One who rules and reigns is Jesus Christ, the Son of Man. If we are to co-reign with Christ, we need to be proper human beings.
This doesn’t mean that we should be a common man, an ethical man, or a man according to the teaching and concept of man today. We need to be a heavenly man, a resurrected man, having the resurrected humanity of Christ.
In this dark age today full of immorality, unrighteousness, and lawlessness, how should we as future kings conduct ourselves?
As seen in portions such as 1 Corinthians 6:9-11, Galatians 5:19-21, and Ephesians 5:24, there are many negative things that we may be involved with, and if we are habitually in these things, we will not inherit the kingdom of God.
Not just immorality but even things like envying, jealousy, strife, divisions, anger, and bouts of drunkenness, if we are habitually in this realm, they are serious sins, and we cannot inherit the kingdom.
May we be those who eat Christ as the meal offering to partake of His humanity. His humanity is strong and uplifted in resurrection.
As we read the Gospels prayerfully, we see the wonderful, uplifted, resurrected humanity of Jesus, and He is being infused into us to live in us the same kind of life today.
May we exercise our spirit and contact the Lord throughout the day to allow Him to live in us a perfect and uplifted humanity for the kingdom of God.
Lord Jesus, we want to cooperate with You to be prepared to reign with You both today and in the next age! Amen, Lord, grow in us unto maturity. May we grow in life day by day. We open to You as we go through the things in our daily life. We open to You as we pass through sufferings and dealings. May we continually grow in life until we reach maturity so that we may co-reign with Christ. Amen, Lord, may we see that we share the same position with Christ! Hallelujah, we are one with Christ in the heavenlies, seated with the Lord on the throne! Amen, Lord, may we remain in this position, one spirit with You, being steadfast in everything we do. Oh Lord Jesus, we want to eat You as the meal offering so that we may have the humanity of Jesus. May we live not in our natural being to express ourselves but in our spirit to express You! Amen, may Christ live in us. May we express the uplifted and resurrected humanity of Christ in our daily living! Yes, Lord, we want to cooperate with You to be prepared to co-reign with You in the next age!
Christ will Come as a Fighting General with His Bride, the Overcoming Believers, to Fight Antichrist and his armies and Sweep them into the Lake of Fire
In Revelation 19:11-16 and 19-21 we see a revelation of Christ as the Word of God – King of kings and Lord of lords. Hallelujah for our wonderful, glorious Christ!
After His wedding feast (v. 7), Christ will come as a fighting General with His bride to fight Antichrist. Who is the bride of Christ, or who are the ones who compose the bride of Christ?
The bride of Christ is composed of the overcoming believers who are His army. Christ as a fighting General will return to fight Antichrist, the kings under him, and their armies at Armageddon.
Wow, at one point man’s audacity and lawlessness will reach such a high point that man will declare and wage war against the Lord of lords and the King of kings!
Under the instigation of Antichrist, man will wage war against God. Antichrist will lead the charge together with the false prophet, and the ten kings under him with their armies will come to make war against the Lamb.
The earth will fight against the heavens; man will fight against God. It is astounding to even think that man can actually declare war on God.
But this will happen, and Christ as the Bridegroom will come with His bride to fight with them. The Bridegroom is the Commander-in-Chief, and the bride is the army.
In the divine and spiritual realm, the wedding feast is taking place after the great tribulation, and the Bridegroom with the bride are having a great time of feasting and enjoyment.
In the outward human realm, Antichrist leads the fallen and rebellious humanity against God in war. So the Bridegroom with the bride come as the Fighting General with His armies to fight the Antichrist and his armies.
What a scene that would be at Armageddon! For Christ to have a proper honeymoon, He needs to clear up the whole universe. He will cast Antichrist and the false prophet into the lake of fire (v. 20), and Satan will be bound and cast into the abyss (20:1-3).
When this happens, Christ will be happy and we as His bride will also be happy; we will enjoy a wonderful honeymoon with our beloved Bridegroom.
The war at Armageddon will remove all the obstacles to the coming millennial kingdom so that the overcomers with Christ will rule and reign, and feast together for one thousand years, celebrating the wedding day.
In the millennial kingdom, the entire universe will be the feasting room, and Christ and His bride will work together to clear up the universe and sweep away the dirt, putting it into the “trash can” of the lake of fire.
God began to clear up the universe and sweep the dirt beginning in Genesis 1; first, He swept the dirt into the sea (v. 2), and at the end, He will sweep away the dirt (His enemies and their followers) into the ultimate trash can, the lake of fire.
All people have a choice to know God and believe into Him, or at least help the people of God, but many people choose to follow Satan.
The Lord said in Matthew 25:41, Go away from Me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. The “goats” follow the devil, so they will share his destiny; they will be cast into the lake of fire prepared for Satan and his angels.
God has prepared a universal “rubbish bin” to dispose of all the rubbish in the universe. Antichrist, the false prophet, and their armies will be swept into the “dust pan” and then dumped into the lake of fire.
Then, after the millennium, Satan will join them there. After the millennium, after Satan is cast into the lake of fire, there will be no more dust, no more enemies of God, and no more problems; there will be only gold, pearls, and precious stones.
The fighting at Armageddon will be a “sweeping of the dirt” into the universal trash can.
Antichrist thinks he can defeat God, but by declaring war against Christ, he gives Christ the opportunity to sweep him and his armies away.
And the bride of Christ, the overcoming believers, will cooperate with the Lord to do this! They follow Christ as the Faithful and True (Rev. 19:11).
Christ is faithful to God and to us, those who believe into Him. He is faithful to defeat and destroy those who oppose God and persecute the believers.
He is true in carrying out God’s economy and in caring for those who believe into Him. Christ is trustworthy, and with Him there’s no falsehood.
And we are one with Him as the Faithful and True, following Him and fighting the battle with Him!
Lord Jesus, we praise You for being the Faithful and True One! Praise the Lord, Christ is faithful both to God and to us, the believers in Christ. We thank You for Your faithfulness to us day by day. You are faithful to defeat and destroy those who oppose You and persecute us. You are real, faithful, and true. We believe into You. You are true in carrying out God’s economy and in caring for us, those who believe into You. Amen, Lord, we love You and we want to be produced to be Your bride. Make us those who are overcoming today to join You as Your bride in the wedding feast in the next age. Lord Jesus, overcome in us. Produce us and may saints to be Your overcomers who will return as Your bride, even as the armies dressed in white linen to fight the battle and apply the victory of Christ! Amen, Lord, You are the fighting General returning with Your bride to defeat Antichrist and his armies and cast them into the lake of fire! We want to be there with You, one with You to destroy Your enemy!
References and Hymns on this Topic
- Inspiration for this article/sharing comes from the Word of God, the enjoyment in the ministry, a sharing by brother James Lee on this topic, and portions from, The Conclusion of the New Testament, msg. 425 (by Witness Lee), as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, Experiencing, Enjoying, and Expressing Christ (4) (2025 December Training), week 46 (msg. 10), Christ—the Establisher of the Kingdom and the Word of God—King of Kings and Lord of Lords – day 3.
- Hymns on this topic:
– Charge, soldiers, charge in battle! / The conflict has begun; / Thy battle song triumphant— / “The victory is won!” / Hell’s power must be vanquished / And Satan’s forces strewn; / The Captain of the Army / Will come and triumph soon. (Hymns #873 stanza 1)
– Soon our Lord will come and in His kingdom reign; / Satan will be bound, the world subdued. / We must fight the battle, overcome the foe, / On His throne He then will us include. (Hymns #956 stanza 4)
– I dare not be defeated / Since Christ, my conquering King / Has called me to the battle / Which He did surely win. / Come, Lord, and give me courage, / Thy conquering Spirit give, / Make me an overcomer, / In power within me live. (Hymns #877 stanza 2)
