Believers must look to King Jesus through their tribulation since He comes to conquer old Jerusalem and bring in new Jerusalem. Old Jerusalem stands for both that ancient city and the nation of Israel to which she belonged, being plagued with all her hypocrisy and spiritual adultery. New Jerusalem represents the church, the true Israel of God with the same faith as Abraham, who is clothed in the perfect, seamless obedience of her Husband, Saviour and Lord.

Thus, the Apocalypse unveils the Lord Jesus in all His Messianic glory, having been raised from the grave to sit on David’s throne at His Father’s right hand. It is from heaven that He presently rules over all the nations on earth, progressively putting all His enemies under His feet until He subjugates His last enemy, death, on the Last Day.

The Revelation presents Messiah successfully conquering His first enemy since His exaltation, namely, apostate Israel, through desolating her prized capital city and temple by way of Rome’s military force in AD 70. This provides believers both the assurance that He will not stop reigning until all of His enemies are firmly beneath His feet, just as He’s promised, and the motivation to persevere in conquering through the trials they face in faithfully following Him. Indeed, this provides the modern church with a robust, historic, Biblical world-and-life-view that may be summarised as, “All of Christ for all of life for all the world!”