Christ's Second Advent and the Conquest of the Earth

Rev 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.
Rev 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.
Rev 19:13 And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God.
Rev 19:14 And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean.
Rev 19:15 And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.
Rev 19:16 And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.
Rev 19:17 And I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven, Come and gather yourselves together unto the supper of the great God;
Rev 19:18 That ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, both small and great.
Rev 19:19 And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, and against his army.
Rev 19:20 And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.
Rev 19:21 And the remnant were slain with the sword of him that sat upon the horse, which sword proceeded out of his mouth: and all the fowls were filled with their flesh.

Christ's Second Coming.--With verse 11 a new scene is introduced. We are
here carried back to the second coming of Christ, this time under the
symbol of a warrior riding forth to battle. Why is He represented thus?--
Because He is going forth to war, to meet "the kings of the earth and their
armies," and this would be the only proper character in which to represent
Him on such a mission. His vesture is dipped in blood. (See a description
of the same scene in Isaiah 63: 1-4.) The armies of heaven, the angels of
God, follow Him. Verse 15 shows how He rules the nations with a rod of iron
when they are given Him for an inheritance, as recorded in the second
Psalm, which popular theology interprets to mean the conversion of the
world.
But would not such an expression as "treadeth the winepress of the
fierceness and wrath of Almighty God," be a very singular description of
a work of grace upon the hearts of the heathen for their conversion? The 
great and final display of the "winepress of God's wrath," and also of
"the lake of fire," occurs at the end of the thousand years, as described 
in Revelation 20; and to that it would seem that the full and formal 
description of Revelation 14: 18-20 must apply. But the destruction 
of the living wicked at the second coming of Christ, at the beginning 
of the thousand years, furnishes a scene on a smaller scale, similar in 
both these respects to what takes place at the close of that period. 
Hence in the verses before us we have this mention of both the winepress
 of wrath and the lake of fire.
Christ has at this time closed His mediatorial work, and laid off His
priestly robes for kingly attire; for He has on His vesture and on His
thigh a name written, King of kings, and Lord of lords. This is in harmony
with the character in which He here appears, for it was the custom of
warriors anciently to have some kind of title inscribed upon their vesture.
(Verse 16.)
What is to be understood by the angel standing in the sun? In Revelation
16: 17 we read of the seventh vial being poured out into the air, from
which it was inferred that as the air envelops the whole earth, that plague
would be universal. May not the same principle of interpretation apply
here, and show that the angel standing in the sun, and issuing his call
from there to the fowls of heaven to come to the supper of the great God,
denotes that this proclamation will go wherever the sun's rays fall upon
this earth? The fowls will be obedient to the call, and fill themselves
with the flesh of horses, kings, captains, and mighty men. Thus, while the
saints are partaking of the marriage supper of the Lamb, the wicked in
their persons furnish a great supper for the fowls of the heavens.
The beast and false prophet are taken. The false prophet is the one that
works miracles before the beast and is identical with the two-horned beast
of Revelation 13, to whom the same work, for the same purpose, is there
attributed. The fact that these are cast alive into the lake of fire, shows 
that these powers will not pass away and be succeeded by other, but will
be living powers at the second advent of Christ.
The papacy has long been in the field, and has come to the closing scenes
in its career. Its overthrow is emphatically predicted in other prophecies
than the one now before us, notably in Daniel 7: 11, in which the prophet
says that he beheld until the beast was slain, and his body destroyed and
given to the burning flame. This power must be very near the close of its
existence. But it dos not perish until Christ appears, for it then goes
alive into the lake of fire.
The other power associated with it, the two-horned beast, we see fast
approaching the climax of the work it has to do before it also goes alive
into the lake of fire. How impressive is the thought that we see before us
two great prophetic agencies which are by all the evidences near the close
of their history, which yet are not to cease until the Lord shall appear in
all His glory.
It appears from verse 21 that there is a remnant not numbered with the
beast or the false prophet. These are slain by the sword of Him that sits
upon the horse, which sword proceeds out of His mouth. This sword is
doubtless what is spoken of elsewhere as "the spirit of His mouth" and "the
breath of His lips," with which the Lord shall slay the wicked at His
appearing and kingdom (2 Thessalonians 2: 8; Isaiah 11: 4.)