Revelation 11:18 Revelation 11:18 And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth. The effect of Christ’ s execution of his kingly power and government, as King of Nations, whom they should fear \ is as here followeth, The nations were angry. Or as David prophetically expounds it. \ The heathen rage, the kings of the earth (who from the rise to the ruin of the beast, give their kingdom, their power and strength unto him) \ set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together against the Lord, and against his anointed, saying, Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us. This opposition of the kings, rulers and counsellors, will provoke the Lord to be angry against them, as here followeth. And thy wrath is come. So David prophesied \ Then shall HE speak to them in his wrath, and vex them in his hot displeasure. Such a dispensation was very terrible to the kings, and princes, and captains, and people of the Roman pagan empire \ And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens, and in the rocks of the mountains. And said to the mountains and rocks, fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb;  for the great day of his wrath is come, and who shall be able to stand? And so will this day of Christ’ s great indignation be when his wrath shall come upon the kings, the rulers, the counsellors, the captains, and the people of the Roman papal empire, and anti-Christian kingdoms of this world \ And he saith unto me, the waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues. And. \ The effect of Christ’ s wrath will be their utter destruction, as here followeth; And to destroy them that destroy the earth, kai diafyeirai touv diafyeirontav thn ghn and the time of the dead that they should be judged. This is another effect that will follow upon Christ’ s coming to set up his kingdom on earth, when He shall take unto himself his kingly power, and hath reigned, till God hath put all his enemies under his feet, then the time will come, when the dead shall be judged, and all the saints shall be rewarded by the Lord Jesus Christ. The dead that are to be judged in contradistinction to the saints, that are to be rewarded, are all persons without Christ (when He comes to judgement;) whether they be then living in their sins (and yet dead in trespasses and sins) \ or dead for their sins, dying without Christ. For Christ shall judge the quick and the dead, at his appearing, and his kingdom. \ And that thou shouldest give the reward, etc. Revelation 22:12 And behold I come quickly, and my reward is with me; to give every man according to his work shall be. Read those scriptures, Romans 2:6-10; 1 Corinthians 3:8; Matthew 16:27. Unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great.