Thou art beautiful, O my love, as Tirzah, comely as Jerusalem, terrible as an army with banners.
The phrase means that Israel becomes powerful, formidable and fear-inspiring like an army with banners when moving steadily along together according to Bible order, so that orderly unity under God's arrangement gives His people strength. Everyone who has the truth and can explain it from the Word of God must go quickly with it and not tarry.
God's people are mighty together as an army with banners when each one who professes Christ understands personal responsibility and does personal work in serving and preaching Christ and takes hold of the work. That faithfulness is accompanied by the heavenly Dove resting over them and the light of God's glory shining upon them. That light shines upon them as fully as it shone upon Enoch.
God's believing children are organized into working companies under Jesus as their constant leader and Captain of the Lord's host, and when He plans the work, arranges the battle, and leads them forward, they advance as a formidable bannered army for whom nothing is too great to undertake and every movement is a victory, so skillful generals are needed to organize believers for this advance. God's people Israel become mighty and terrible as an army with banners when they trust in God under His watchful eye and guarding angels while wicked angels try to annoy and destroy them, and He will protect and save them, so that when the enemy comes in like a flood the Spirit of the Lord lifts up a standard against him, and by buckling on the whole armor and taking the shield of faith they are enabled to stand so that none of Satan's fiery darts can move them.
The image of an army with banners describes the saints at the voice of God, when God speaks, as mighty and terrible and fearsome. At that time they do not carry out or inflict the written judgment upon the wicked, and its execution comes afterward at the close and end of the thousand years. That work of judgment comes after they are changed in an instant, united with the sleeping saints who are raised, given harps and crowns, and enter the city, when they sit together with Jesus to judge the wicked dead from the books during the 1000 years.
The phrase means that Israel becomes powerful, formidable and fear-inspiring like an army with banners when moving steadily along together according to Bible order, so that orderly unity under God's arrangement gives His people strength. Everyone who has the truth and can explain it from the Word of God must go quickly with it and not tarry.
God's people are mighty together as an army with banners when each one who professes Christ understands personal responsibility and does personal work in serving and preaching Christ and takes hold of the work. That faithfulness is accompanied by the heavenly Dove resting over them and the light of God's glory shining upon them. That light shines upon them as fully as it shone upon Enoch.
God's believing children are organized into working companies under Jesus as their constant leader and Captain of the Lord's host, and when He plans the work, arranges the battle, and leads them forward, they advance as a formidable bannered army for whom nothing is too great to undertake and every movement is a victory, so skillful generals are needed to organize believers for this advance. God's people Israel become mighty and terrible as an army with banners when they trust in God under His watchful eye and guarding angels while wicked angels try to annoy and destroy them, and He will protect and save them, so that when the enemy comes in like a flood the Spirit of the Lord lifts up a standard against him, and by buckling on the whole armor and taking the shield of faith they are enabled to stand so that none of Satan's fiery darts can move them.
The image of an army with banners describes the saints at the voice of God, when God speaks, as mighty and terrible and fearsome. At that time they do not carry out or inflict the written judgment upon the wicked, and its execution comes afterward at the close and end of the thousand years. That work of judgment comes after they are changed in an instant, united with the sleeping saints who are raised, given harps and crowns, and enter the city, when they sit together with Jesus to judge the wicked dead from the books during the 1000 years.