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An Intertextuality Pair — one connection between two passages, shown as linked verse cards: the Later text and the Earlier text it quotes, alludes to or echoes. The Significance essay explains why the link matters and where it points in Christ.

Reference Type— how explicit the link is: Quotation, Allusion, or Echo
Connection Method(s)— how it carries meaning: e.g. Typology, Promise-Fulfillment, Analogy, Longitudinal Theme
Found via— where the connection was identified, e.g. the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge or an Anchor-Text Network

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Intertextuality Pair

Revelation 19:17-18 → Ezekiel 39:4, 17-20

Allusion

Later text

Revelation 19:17-18BSB

Then I saw an angel standing in the sun, and he cried out in a loud voice to all the birds flying overhead, “Come, gather together for the great supper of God, so that you may eat the flesh of kings and commanders and mighty men, of horses and riders, of everyone slave and free, small and great.”

Earlier text

Ezekiel 39:4, 17-20BSB

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Significance

Ezekiel 39:17-20 records YHWH's command: "Speak to every kind of bird and to all the wild animals: 'Assemble and come together ... to eat the flesh of mighty men and drink the blood of the princes of the earth.'" Revelation 19:17-18 directly echoes this: "Come, gather together for the great supper of God, so that you may eat the flesh of kings and commanders and mighty men." The verbal parallels are extensive: birds summoned, flesh of mighty men/kings consumed, and the scope including "horses and riders." John identifies this as "the great supper of God" (to deipnon to mega tou theou), deliberately contrasting it with "the marriage supper of the Lamb" (19:9). Ezekiel's Gog oracle becomes the template for the final battle, with the gruesome feast signaling the utter defeat of the beast's coalition.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Promise-Fulfillment + Longitudinal Theme