“After these things I heard something like the great and mighty shout of a vast multitude in heaven, exclaiming, “Hallelujah! Salvation and glory (splendor, majesty) and power (dominion, might) belong to our God; because His judgments are true and righteous. He has judged [convicted and pronounced sentence on] the great prostitute (idolatress) who was corrupting and ruining and poisoning the earth with her adultery (idolatry), and He has imposed the penalty for the blood of His bond-servants on her.” And a second time they said, “Hallelujah! Her smoke shall ascend forever and ever.” Then the twenty-four elders and the four living creatures also fell down and worshiped God who sits on the throne, saying, “Amen. Hallelujah (praise the Lord)!” Then from the throne there came a voice, saying, “Praise our God, all you bond-servants of His, you who fear Him, the small (common) and the great (distinguished).””
Revelation 19:1-5 AMP
We get very caught up in our day to day, don’t we? My goodness, we are human. I think of this when I’m walking my dog. I can find myself focusing on the steps, making sure not to trip on uneven concrete, slide on a patch of ice, etc. All of a sudden I will realize I haven’t looked up. I am so focused on one thing, I’ve lost the beauty that surrounds me.
I looked up.
When I was in the ER on Thursday, I had a nurse come in to draw blood and start an IV. i was so focused on remaining calm (not a bad idea), that I was missing out on the conversation was trying to be started. I looked up and saw she was wearing a pin that said, God is greater than my cancer. i realized she was humming an old hymn as she worked. So, we struck up a small conversation that took my fear away. She admitted that she prays every time she is about to draw blood. She got it for me on the first try.
I looked up.
I work at a doctor’s office and yesterday, our first appointment was a veteran, an older gentlemen. And i was busy doing all the things, when I looked up and saw him. We began chatting. It was a wonderful conversation.
I looked up.
“If I ascend to heaven, You are there; If I make my bed in Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead), behold, You are there. If I take the wings of the dawn, If I dwell in the remotest part of the sea, Even there Your hand will lead me, And Your right hand will take hold of me.”
Psalms 139:8-10 AMP
When I look up to the heavens, I am reminded of God’s presence. His comfort. His hand leading and taking hold of me. In Revelation 19, there is worship. Worship from the vast multitude, worship from the 24 elders, the 4 creatures. They fell down.
Hallelujah:
hal-e-loo’-ya (halela-yah, “praise ye Yah”; allelouia): The word is not a compound, like many of the Hebrew words which are composed of the abbreviated form of “Yahweh” and some other word, but has become a compound word in the Greek and other languages. Even if the Jews perhaps had become accustomed to use it as a compound, it is never written as such in the text. In some Psalms, Hallelujah is an integral part of the song (Ps 135:3), while in others it simply serves as a liturgical interjection found either at the beginning (Ps 111) or at the close (Ps 104) of the psalms or both (Ps 146). The Hallelujah Psalms are found in three groups: 104-106; 111-113; 146-150. In the first group, Hallelujah is found at the close of the psalm as a lit. interjection (106:1 is an integral part of the psalm). In the second group, Hallelujah is found at the beginning (113:9 is an integral part of the psalm depending on the adjective “joyful”). In the third group, Hallelujah is found both at the close and at the beginning of the psalms. In all other cases, (Pss 115; 116; 117) Hallelujah seems to be an integral part of the psalms. These three groups were probably taken from an older collection of psalms like the group Psalms 120-134. In the New Testament Hallelujah is found as part of the song of the heavenly host (Re 19:1 ). The word is preserved as a liturgical interjection by the Christian church generally. Written by Arthur L. Breslich
Blue Letter Bible
Notice, in the above quote, hallelujah is only found in one place in the New Testament. Revelation. That’s it. And it’s repeated three times! When I read this, I had one song on my mind.
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Broken hallelujah, friend. Highest praise.
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