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# Revelation 19 General Notes
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### Structure and formatting
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The beginning of chapter 19 concludes the topic of Babylon falling.
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Some translations set poetry farther to the right than the rest of the text to show that it is poetry. The ULB does this with the poetry in verses 1-8.
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### Special concepts in this chapter
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#### Songs
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The Book of Revelation often describes heaven as a place where people sing. They worship God with songs. This illustrates that heaven is a place where God is always worshiped. (See: [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/heaven]])
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#### Wedding celebration
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The wedding celebration or feast is an important image in Scripture. Jewish culture often pictured paradise, or life with God after death, as a feast. Here, the wedding feast is for the Lamb, who is Jesus, and his bride, who is all his people.
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## Links:
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* __[Revelation 19:1 Notes](./01.md)__
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