We are not told yet, as we might expect, that "the second woe is past," nor does the seventh trumpet and the third woe immediately follow: but just as in ch. 7 the two descriptions of the sealed Israelites and the palm-bearing multitude came after the sixth seal, so here the vision of the mighty angel, and the prophecy (passing insensibly into a vision) of the Two Witnesses, follow the sixth trumpet.

another mighty angel "Another," probably, than the four mentioned in Revelation 9:15: cf. Revelation 7:1-2. Some suppose a reference back to Revelation 5:2, where we have heard of a "mighty angel" (the epithet is the same) before.

clothed with a cloud And therefore with something of the state with which Christ will come to judgement: cf. Revelation 1:7, &c.

a rainbow Lit. the rainbow: it is conceived as being the same bow of God that is seen every time that it appears.

his feet i.e. his legs are as thick as the pillars of a temple, and their substance of fiery brightness.

Continues after advertising
Continues after advertising