Christ's final victory over His enemies Rev 19:11-21 (Preached in Gilford FPC, Lord's Day evening, August 28th, 2016) This summer has seen many sad commemorations of the tragic events of 100 years ago at the battle of the Somme in World War 1. Thousands of men were killed and many thousands more wounded and crippled by that terrible slaughter. We here in Ulster remember that there was hardly a village in our Province but was brought low in sorrow at that time. It was after the end of the war that the phrase, "The war to end all wars" was coined. Woodrow Wilson, the President of the United States at the time, was credited with the authorship of the phrase. I am inclined to think that it was meant as a sop to the grieving and heart-broken populace who were questioning the wholesale slaughter that took place on the battlefields of Europe with little to show for it. Perhaps it was thought that if the anguished mothers and wives and orphans could be convinced that out of the sacrifice would come lasting peace there could be a justifying of the mass killings. Sadly, the statement was a hollow sham! With twenty years the same nations were engaged in an even greater war! There is, however, a war which will end all wars. It is that in which the Son of God will engage at His second coming. "And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war," Revelation 19:11. That is our subject tonight.