Revelation 19:11: And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war.

In Revelation 19:11, John saw heaven opened¹ to signal the start of a new vision.² This heavenly scene gave John a more complete view‒with added details and added perspective‒of Christ's Second Coming.³

In this latest vision, John saw a white horse that is typologically similar to the white horse of Enoch from John's vision of the first seal in Revelation 6:2.⁴ The horse is a symbol of war,⁵ and the white color represents royalty, purity, holiness, and triumph in a righteous cause.⁶ Christ sits on the white horse⁷ to symbolize that he will be a triumphant conqueror at his Second Coming.⁸ During Christ's first coming, by contrast, he entered Jerusalem at the start of Passion Week as a king,⁹ but sitting upon an ass, and a colt the foal of an ass.¹⁰ This iconic symbol of peace from the past foreshadows his antithetical coming on a white horse of war at his future Second Coming.¹¹

Jesus Christ is identified as the rider on the horse by four different names using the world number.¹² He is also identified by seven attributes couched within those four names.¹³ The first two names of Christ are also two of his attributes: Faithful and True.¹⁴ These two names and attributes¹⁵ convey the message that Christ keeps all his covenants and promises without exception.¹⁶ Therefore, in righteousness he doth judge and make war.¹⁷ When Christ destroys all remaining wicked telestial people of the earth during the Third Woe he will do so in complete righteousness.¹⁸

Revelation 19:12: His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself.

At the Second Coming, the eyes of Christ will be as a flame of fire. This is his third defining attribute.¹⁹ Flaming eyes symbolize the intensity of Christ's all-consuming gaze²⁰ and the light of his celestial glory.²¹ The same description of Christ can be found in Revelation 1 and 2:18, and in other scriptures.²²

The many crowns on Christ's head are his fourth attribute.²³ The crowns show that he is a conqueror and the king²⁴ of many dominions.²⁵ The crowns are not merely garlands of victory²⁶ but crowns of royalty that symbolize his status as King of kings.²⁷

Christ's third name and fifth attribute is a name written that no man knew, but he himself.²⁸ Some scholars say that this unknown name is YHWH,²⁹ which is the ineffable name of Jehovah.³⁰ That cannot be true, however, because YHWH was a name known among the ancient Israelites. It was just not lawful to say the name.³¹

New and secret names were common among a variety of people in antiquity.³² The use of new names is also patterned after the true order of heaven.³³ Based on this heavenly order, earthly kings and potentates receive a new name when they are enthroned.³⁴ Therefore, Christ may also receive his new and unknown name at his future coronation as King of kings at Adam-ondi-Ahman.³⁵ Exalted men and women will likewise become kings and queens,³⁶ and thus receive a new name during their symbolic marriage to Christ.³⁷ Their new name will be known only among their exalted class.³⁸

Christ's unknown name expresses his transcendent attributes³⁹ just as other new names given in antiquity express the attributes of those that receive them.⁴⁰

Revelation 19:13: And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God.

The sixth attribute of Christ is a vesture dipped in blood.⁴¹ This image graphically depicts the bloody scene of slaughter⁴² as Physical Armageddon ends with the deaths of all telestial-worthy people during the seventh Vial Plague of the Third Woe.⁴³ However, by the time Christ appears at the end of the Third Woe his vesture (robe)⁴⁴ will already be metaphorically stained red from the blood of past battles.⁴⁵ This includes most specifically the metaphorical blood stains from the destruction of all mortal sons of perdition at the end of the Second Woe in Revelation 14:19-20.⁴⁶ Christ's vesture will be metaphorically bloodstained again when he destroys the telestial-worthy people in the winepress of Armageddon at Jerusalem⁴⁷ during the Third Woe in Revelation 19:15.⁴⁸

Some have suggested that Christ's vesture dipped in blood may symbolize his own blood that literally stained his robes during the atonement in Gethsemane.⁴⁹ Others say the blood represents the sins of people that he took upon himself.⁵⁰ These possibilities need not be discounted entirely. However, the blood associated with Christ's atonement in Gethsemane is a symbol of life,⁵¹ while the image here is a vesture dipped in blood at the Second Coming as a symbol of death.⁵² The metaphors have opposite meanings based on their context.

Christ's seventh and final attribute is also his fourth name⁵³ which expresses his divinity.⁵⁴ He is called The Word of God.⁵⁵ This name and attribute describes his unique relationship to the Father.⁵⁶ Christ does not merely speak for the Father as a prophetic spokesman.⁵⁷ He has the full executory authority of the Father.⁵⁸ John used the same name to identify and describe Jesus Christ in John 1:1-3.⁵⁹ The common use of this same name in the Revelation and in the gospel of John provides evidence that John is the author of both the Book of Revelation and the fourth gospel that bears his name.⁶⁰

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