He is coming to reign and rule.
All the things the chapters record have been driving us to look forward to that; the woe, the anguish and the hell on earth have been pleading and crying out for a master to master and put an end to the cataclysms of catastrophic iniquity; the very nature of things has been testifying that He must come.
He is responding to the demand that lies in the nature of things.
He is coming to reign and rule as a king. He is not coming with an olive branch in one hand and a cooing dove on His shoulder.
Nay!
He is coming with a rod of iron. He is coming to trample all opposition beneath His feet, put down all rule and authority, break to pieces and shatter as a potter’s vessel the pride of nations and the self-exaltation of man.
He is coming to establish peace, but not by means of compromise, by gentle and persuasive ways, but by war and as a man of war, as the man who is very God and judge omnipotent.
The book closes with the thrice repeated announcement from the Lord Himself:
“Behold, I am coming quickly.”
This is the last utterance of the Lord from heaven.