And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour. WAS - `began to be.' SILENCE IN HEAVEN ABOUT ... HALF AN HOUR. The last seal being opened, the book of God's plan of redemption is opened for the Lamb to read to the blessed ones. The half-hour... [ Continue Reading ]
And I saw the seven angels which stood before God; and to them were given seven trumpets. THE SEVEN ANGELS. Compare the apocryphal Tobit 12: 15 , 'I am Raphael, one of the seven holy angels which present the prayers of the saints, and go in and out before the glory of the Holy One.' Compare .... [ Continue Reading ]
And another angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer; and there was given unto him much incense, that he should offer it with the prayers of all saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne. ANOTHER ANGEL - not Christ; for He, in Revelation, is always designated by Hi... [ Continue Reading ]
And the smoke of the incense, which came with the prayers of the saints, ascended up before God out of the angel's hand. THE SMOKE ... WHICH CAME WITH THE PRAYERS ... ASCENDED UP - rather, 'the smoke of the incense FOR (or given TO: understood from ) the prayers of the saints ascended up, out of... [ Continue Reading ]
And the angel took the censer, and filled it with fire of the altar, and cast it into the earth: and there were voices, and thunderings, and lightnings, and an earthquake. CAST IT INTO (UNTO) THE EARTH. The hot coals off the altar cast on the earth, symbolize God's fiery judgments about to desce... [ Continue Reading ]
And the seven angels which had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound. SOUND - blow the trumpets.... [ Continue Reading ]
The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up. The common feature of the first four trumpets is, the judgments affect natural objects, accessories of life-... [ Continue Reading ]
And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea: and the third part of the sea became blood; AS IT WERE - not literally: a mountain-like burning mass: in allusion to Jeremiah 51:25; Amos 7:4. THIRD PART OF THE SEA BECAME BLOOD. In the parall... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE THIRD PART OF THE CREATURES WHICH WERE IN THE SEA, AND HAD LIFE, DIED; AND THE THIRD PART OF THE SHIPS WERE DESTROYED._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters; A LAMP - a torch.... [ Continue Reading ]
And the name of the star is called Wormwood: and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter. Symbolizers interpret the star fallen from heaven a chief minister (Arius, etc., or some future false teacher) falling from his high place... [ Continue Reading ]
And the fourth angel sounded, and the third part of the sun was smitten, and the third part of the moon, and the third part of the stars; so as the third part of them was darkened, and the day shone not for a third part of it, and the night likewise. THIRD PART - not total obscuration, as in the... [ Continue Reading ]
And I beheld, and heard an angel flying through the midst of heaven, saying with a loud voice, Woe, woe, woe, to the inhabiters of the earth by reason of the other voices of the trumpet of the three angels, which are yet to sound! AN ANGEL. 'Aleph (') A B, Vulgate, Syrian, Coptic, read, for "angel,... [ Continue Reading ]