할렐루야!(HALLELUJAH)

💙 할렐루야!

 ✝  요한계시록 11:15 - 11:18 

“그가 세세토록 왕 노릇 하시리로다”[요한계시록 11:15]

놀랍게도 작곡가 헨델이 ‘메시아’ 오라토리오를 관현악곡으로 작곡하는데 불과 24일 밖에 걸리지 않았습니다. 오늘날 전 세계에서 해마다 수천 번씩 연주되는 가장 유명한 음악 작품입니다. 이 웅장한 음악은 곡을 시작해서 거의 두 시간이 지나서야 이 오라토리오의 가장 유명한 부분 “할렐루야 합창”이 나오면서 클라이맥스를 이룹니다.
트럼펫과 팀파니가 합창의 시작을 알리면 합창단이 “세세토록 왕 노릇하시리로다”라는 요한계시록 11장 15절의 가사를 교대로 각 파트가 노래하며 합창이 진행됩니다. 이것은 예수님과 함께 할 영원한 천국을 소망하는 승리의 선언입니다.

‘메시아’에 나오는 대부분의 가사는 요한 사도가 삶의 끝자락에서 보았던 그리스도의 재림으로 절정에 달하는 환상을 묘사한 요한계시록에서 나온 것입니다. 요한계시록에서 요한은 부활하신 예수님께서 합창단의 노래와 함께 커다란 기쁨 가운데 이 땅에 재림하신다는 주제를 거듭 언급했습니다(19:1-8). 

예수님이 흑암과 사망의 권세를 이기고 평강의 나라를 세우시면 온 세상은 기뻐할 것입니다.
언젠가 천국의 모든 백성들이 웅장한 성가대가 되어 함께 노래하며 예수님의 위엄과 그의 영원한 통치의 축복을 선포하게 될 것입니다(7:9). 그날까지 우리는 살면서 일하고 기도하며 소망을 가지고 기다립니다.

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예수님께서 이 땅을 다스리기 위해 다시 오신다는 사실은 지금 당신에게 어떻게 소망이되고 있습니까?어떤 노래가 예수님의 위엄을 생각나게 하며 용기를 줍니까?

<예수님, 속히 오셔서 이 땅에 당신의 통치를 이루소서.>

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[요한계시록 11:15 - 11:18]
15. ○일곱째 천사가 나팔을 불매 하늘에 큰 음성들이 나서 이르되 세상 나라가 우리 주와 그의 그리스도의 나라가 되어 그가 세세토록 왕 노릇 하시리로다 하니
16. 하나님 앞에서 자기 보좌에 앉아 있던 이십사 장로가 엎드려 얼굴을 땅에 대고 하나님께 경배하여
17. 이르되 감사하옵나니 옛적에도 계셨고 지금도 계신 주 하나님 곧 전능하신 이여 친히 큰 권능을 잡으시고 왕 노릇 하시도다
18. 이방들이 분노하매 주의 진노가 내려 죽은 자를 심판하시며 종 선지자들과 성도들과 또 작은 자든지 큰 자든지 주의 이름을 경외하는 자들에게 상 주시며 또 땅을 망하게 하는 자들을 멸망시키실 때로소이다 하더라

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💙 HALLELUJAH

 ✝  Revelation 11:15 - 11:18

“He will reign for ever and ever.”[ REVELATION 11:15 ]

Astonishingly, it took Handel only twenty-four days to write the orchestral music for the Messiah oratorio—today perhaps the world’s most famous musical composition, one performed thousands of times every year around the world. The magnificent work reaches its climax nearly two hours after it begins with the most famous part of the oratorio, the “Hallelujah Chorus.” As the trumpets and timpani announce the beginning of the chorus, voices layer on top of each other as the choir sings the words of Revelation 11:15: “And he shall reign for ever and ever.” It’s a triumphant declaration of the hope of eternity in heaven with Jesus. 

Many of the words in Messiah come from the book of Revelation, the apostle John’s account of a vision he had near the end of his life describing events culminating with the return of Christ. In Revelation, John returned again and again to the theme of the return of the resurrected Jesus to earth—when there would be great rejoicing with the sound of choirs (19:1–8). 
The world will rejoice because Jesus will have defeated the powers of darkness and death and established a kingdom of peace.
One day, all the people of heaven will sing together in a magnificent choir proclaiming the majesty of Jesus and the blessing of His forever reign (7:9). Until then, we live, work, pray, and wait in hope. 
-LISA M. SAMRA

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How does the return of Jesus to reign over the earth provide you with hope now? 
What songs encourage you with reminders of the majesty of Jesus?

<Come quickly, Jesus, to establish Your reign over the earth.>

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[Revelation 11:15 - 11:18]
15. And the seventh angel sounded; and there arose loud voices in heaven, saying, "The kingdom of the world has become [the kingdom] of our Lord, and of His Christ; and He will reign forever and ever."
16. And the twenty-four elders, who sit on their thrones before God, fell on their faces and worshiped God,
17. saying, "We give Thee thanks, O Lord God, the Almighty, who art and who wast, because Thou hast taken Thy great power and hast begun to reign.
18. "And the nations were enraged, and Thy wrath came, and the time [came] for the dead to be judged, and [the time] to give their reward to Thy bond-servants the prophets and to the saints and to those who fear Thy name, the small and the great, and to destroy those who destroy the earth."