“After these things I heard a great voice of much people in the heaven”
The things here referred to are the events set forth in the eighteenth chapter. After these things, therefore, is a phrase indicating that what is about to be narrated in this nineteenth chapter was transacted after the
Great Harlot’s capital and government had been destroyed by Yah, the Seven-Horned Lamb, and those who were with him, the called, and chosen, and faithful.
The scene with which this chapter opens transfers our attention from Rome to Jerusalem, the place of Yahweh’s throne. The news of Rome’s catastrophe having arrived there, the much people in the new heaven gave utterance to a great voice, saying, “Hallelu Yah! The salvation, and the glory, and the honor, and the power” be ascribed, not to the called, and chosen, and faithful Elohim, but “unto Yahweh” their strength, and to the Lamb with seven horns and seven eyes, their Elohim. These are the destroying and avenging power by which the saints obtain the victory over all their foes. To Yah, therefore, all the praise is due. The salvation of the nations from the continued corrupting influence of the great harlot, is solely due to Him; the glory of the deliverance, the honor of it, and the power to do it, are His alone; therefore, “the great voice of the much people in the heaven,” by whom the salvation, glory, honor, and power will be duly appreciated, will shout Hallelu Yah with an intensity of earnestness as never before gave utterance to the words.
This is the first place in the Apocalypse where these words are introduced. They are used four times in so much of the chapter as is now before the reader. They appear as one word in the Greek, Allelouia, which gives the unaspirated pronounciation of the Hebrew words, hallelu Yah, Praise ye Yah! They occur nowhere else in the Apocalypse than in ch. 19:1,3,4,6. Let the reader turn to Psalms 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, and 100, and he will there read predictions which find their accomplishment after the destruction of “the Throne of Iniquity”, and in the time of this great Hallelu Yah celebration of the Apocalypse.