This podcast explains the symbolism and imagery used by John to describe the second appearance of Jesus Christ during his Second Coming in Revelation 19:14-16, when Christ will step foot on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem. These verses say: “And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean. 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. And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.”

The multiple armies in these verses are different classes of exaltation-worthy people including (1) translated people from the Old Testament who were resurrected with Christ at his resurrection, ( ...