Before the world was created. "God stands at the close of history and looks back on the future as though it had already happened!" He can know every choice which we will make, without interfering with our free will. Compare John 6:44-45; 2 Thessalonians 2:13-14.
Verse Revelation 13:8. _AND ALL THAT DWELL UPON THE EARTH SHALL WORSHIP HIM,_ _WHOSE NAMES ARE NOT WRITTEN IN THE BOOK OF LIFE OF THE LAMB_] The _earth_ here is the _Latin world_, as has been observe...
AND ALL THAT DWELL UPON THE EARTH SHALL WORSHIP HIM - That is, as immediately stated, all whose names are not in the book of life. On the word “worship,” see the notes on Revelation 13:4. WHOSE NAMES...
REVELATION 13:1. A BEAST COMING UP OUT OF THE SEA: _cf._ the vision of the four great beasts that come up out of the sea in Daniel 7:3. As the beasts in Daniel represent empires, we may suppose that t...
"And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations."--13:7. Another fact in the history of the beast is g...
THE POWER OF THE BEAST (Revelation 13:1-18) I saw a beast coming up from the sea. It had ten horns and seven heads; and it had ten royal crowns on its horns; and on its heads I saw blasphemous names....
EARTH. Same as "world", Revelation 13:3. HIM. The ellipsis follows, (every one). NAMES. All the texts read "name". ARE NOT. hath not (App-105) been. LIFE. the life. App-170. FOUNDATION, &C. See A...
_whose names_ Read, WHOSE NAME, the pronoun as well as the noun being singular. _the book of life of the Lamb_ Revelation 21:27: see note on Revelation 5:1. _from the foundation of the world_ Perhaps...
Revelation 12:17 to Revelation 13:10. THE BEAST FROM THE SEA...
ΟὟ … ΤῸ ὌΝΟΜΑ. Text. Rec[448] has ὧν … τὰ ὀνόματα with אP. [448] Rec. Textus Receptus as printed by Scrivener. 8. ΠΆΝΤΕΣ … ΟΥ̓͂. The singulars after the plural here are not more difficult than the p...
_THE POWER OF THE SEA BEAST REVELATION 13:6-10:_ The sea beast was so powerful that he had caused many to worship Rome._ _ However, the Christians would only worship the God of heaven._ _ The nation o...
ΠΡΟΣΚΥΝΉΣΟΥΣΙΝ _fut. ind. act. от_ ΠΡΟΣΚΥΝΈΩ (G4352) поклоняться, ΑΎΤΌΣ (G846) ему. Местоимение в форме _masc._ означает, что зверь рассматривается как личность, ΚΑΤΟΙΚΟΫ́ΝΤΕΣPRAES. _act. part. от_...
DISCOURSE: 2514 THE LAMB SLAIN FROM THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD Revelation 13:8. _Whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world_. THE persons here...
AND I STOOD UPON THE SAND, &C.— Here the beast is described at large, who was only mentioned before, ch. Revelation 11:7. And a _beast_ in the prophetic style, is a tyrannical, idolatrous person or em...
Strauss-' Comments SECTION 38 Text Revelation 13:1-10 1 and he stood upon the sand of the sea. And I saw a beast coming up out of the sea, having ten horns and seven heads, and on his horns ten diade...
_TOMLINSON'S COMMENTS_ CHAPTER XIII THE VISION OF THE TWO BEASTS _Text (Revelation 13:1-18)_ INTRODUCTION 1 and he stood upon the sand of the sea. And I saw a beast coming up out of the sea, having...
And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. ALL THAT DWELL UPON THE EARTH - of earth ea...
__ Temple Section-The Wild Beast 1 The _ dragon_, not John, was stationed so as to bring up the wild beast. 1 The beast from the sea (which is the equivalent of the abyss) has hitherto enacted the r...
13:8 homage, (c-11) See Note h, ch. 3.9. world (d-25) _ Kosmos_ . here and chs. 11.15; 17.8....
BOOK OF LIFE] see on Revelation 3:5. FROM THE FOUNDATION, etc.] i.e. in God's eternal counsel: cp. 1 Peter 1:19....
THE TWO BEASTS Personification of the two powers inspired by the devil to persecute the Church. 1-10. The dragon stands by the sea (i.e. the Ægean Sea), from which there rises to meet him a 'beast,'...
FROM NOW TO THE END OF TIME REVELATION _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 13 THE *BEAST FROM THE SEA - REVELATION 13:1-10 V1 I saw a *beast. It came up from the sea. It had 10 *horns and 7 heads. There was...
AND ALL THAT DWELL... — Better, _And all they that dwell on the earth shall worship him_ (_every one_)_ whose name has not been written in the book of life of the Lamb that has been slain from the fou...
CHAPTER X. THE SECOND AND THIRD GREAT ENEMIES Of THE CHURCH. Revelation 13:1 WE have seen that the main purpose of chap. 12 was to introduce to our notice the dragon, or Satan, the first great enemy...
Standing on the verge of this crisis (note the change to the future tense), the prophet anticipates the almost universal success of the Cæsar-cult (_cf._ Revelation 3:10). Only the elect will be able...
THE BEAST AND HIS WORSHIPERS Revelation 13:1 The horns symbolize power; the heads, intelligence; and the beast, an earthly kingdom. The dragon must stand for Satan, who has wrought his greatest achie...
Still reviewing the process, a beast is seen as the agent of Satan. It is the Antichrist, who is counterfeit of Christ. He appears with the signs and symbols of kingship. He is characterized by attrac...
Everyone, but Christians, worships the beast. God planned form the very beginning to send Jesus to die and redeem lost mankind. (Ephesians 1:4-11; 1 Peter 1:20; Acts 2:23;...
And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, (13) whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. (13) That is, such as are not from everlas...
_Slain from the beginning. In the foreknowledge of God; and in as much as all mercy and grace, from the beginning, were given in view of his death and passion. (Challoner)_...
(1) And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy. (2) And the...
We begin now what may be called the second volume of the Revelation. The prophetic part of the book divides into two portions at this point. This is another land-mark that cannot be despised, if we wo...
The Beastly Trinity I. INTRODUCTION A.Last week we studied the war that will take place in Heaven as Michael the Archangel heads up an angelic army against "the prince of the power of the air" (Ephe...
In Chapter 13 we have the clear and full development of Satan's instruments of evil. They are two the ten-horned and the two-horned beasts. To the first the dragon, who swept with his tail a third par...
AND ALL THAT DWELL UPON THE EARTH SHALL WORSHIP HIM,.... The inhabitants of the Roman empire, the idolatrous part of it, the men of the world, earthly minded men; who are as they came into the world,...
And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. Ver. 8. _Whose names are not written_] He then...
_And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things_ This expression seems to be taken from the description of the little horn in Daniel's vision, (Daniel 7:8,) and is explained, Revelation 13...
ALL; the wicked, who inhabit the countries subject to his power, and who have no true religion. There is no security against embracing the most dangerous errors, and joining in the most abominable pra...
The power of the first beast:...
AND ALL THAT DWELL UPON THE EARTH SHALL WORSHIP HIM, WHOSE NAMES ARE NOT WRITTEN IN THE BOOK OF LIFE OF THE LAMB SLAIN FROM THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD....
A BEAST COMING OUT OF THE SEA In contrast to seeing a great sign in heaven in Revelation 12:1, John now stands on the shore and sees a Beast rise out of the _sea_ (out of the Gentile or Western nation...
_ 7 It was granted to him to make war with the saints and to overcome them. And authority was given him over every tribe, tongue, and nation. 8 All who dwell on the earth will worship him, whose names...
1-10 The apostle, standing on the shore, saw a savage beast rise out of the sea; a tyrannical, idolatrous, persecuting power, springing up out of the troubles which took place. It was a frightful mon...
God here showed his prophet the general subjection that would be of all people to the papacy, except some few, whom he had chosen to eternal life and salvation, whom Christ had redeemed with his blood...
Revelation 13:8 G2532 All G3956 dwell G2730 (G5723) on G1909 earth G1093 worship G4352 (G5692) him...
‘And he opened his mouth for blasphemies against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, even those who tabernacle in Heaven (those who meet with Him there). And it was given to him to make wa...
The twelfth chapter has set before us the first great enemy of the Church. This chapter introduces us to other two by means of whom the devil or Satan carries on his warfare against the truth. The fir...
Revelation 13:8. AND ALL THAT DWELL UPON THE EARTH SHALL WORSHIP HIM. These dwellers upon the earth are in contrast with those who ‘tabernacle in heaven.' They are the ungodly as distinguished from th...
SHALL WORSHIP HIM (προσκυνησουσιν αυτον). Future active of προσκυνεω with the accusative here as some MSS. in Revelation 13:4 (το θηριον), both constructions in this book.WHOSE (ου--αυτου). Redund...
WORLD Kosmos, Summary: In the sense of the present world-system, the ethically bad sense of the word, refers to the "order," "arrangement," under which Satan has organized the world of unbelieving m...
CONTENTS: The beast out of the sea and the beast out of the earth. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, John, false prophet, anti-christ, Satan. CONCLUSION: In the midst of the Tribulation period there shall ris...
The conscious mind, enquiring after the truth and certainty of revelation, is worthy of all the aid that science can afford. In Daniel, as stated above, on chap. Revelation 10:5, we have before us thr...
_A beast rise up out of the sea._ THE DOMAIN OF ANTICHRIST I. It has a manifold development. In the commerce of the world, in the government of the world, in the campaigns of the world, in the liter...
_To make war with the saints._ WAR WITH THE SAINTS Observe-- 1. A war proclaimed; the beast makes war upon the saints, by bloodshed and persecution, and by the force of those weapons overcomes them...
REVELATION—NOTE ON REVELATION 13:8 WRITTEN BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD IN THE BOOK OF LIFE OF THE LAMB WHO WAS SLAIN. Before creation and by grace alone, God chose individuals to be redeemed by...
REVELATION—NOTE ON REVELATION 13:1 As the dragon stands on the seashore (Revelation 12:17), a beast emerges from the sea. This beast is sometimes identified with the Antichrist (see...
The beast made war with the saints to overcome them, and all shall worship him whose names are not written in the book of life. All the wiles of the Devil and the power of the persecutor will not caus...
THE FIRST BEAST _CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ IN this and the preceding chapter the three chief adversaries of the real kingdom of God in the world are described. The first is the dragon, or Satan....
EXPOSITION REVELATION 13:1 AND I STOOD UPON THE SAND OF THE SEA. The Revised Version, agreeing with א, A, C, Vulgate, Syriac, AEthiopic, Armenian, Victorinus, reads ἐστάθη, "he stood." The Authori...
_8 AND ALL THAT DWELL UPON THE EARTH SHALL WORSHIP HIM, WHOSE NAMES ARE NOT WRITTEN IN THE BOOK OF LIFE OF THE LAMB SLAIN FROM THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD._ The entire world will worship the Beast a...
John said, I stood upon the sand of the sea (Revelation 13:1), Probably the Mediterranean Sea. and I saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads, ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns...
1 Peter 1:19; 1 Peter 1:20; Daniel 12:1; Ephesians 1:4; Exodus 32:32;...
From the foundation of the world. These words may be construed with slain or with written. In favor of the latter is ch. 18 8; of the former, 1 Peter 1:19; 1 Peter 1:20. Alford, pertinently as I think...
THE WAR IN HEAVEN Revelation 12:1 _and Revelation 13:1_ INTRODUCTORY WORDS It almost seems folly to try to speak on two Chapter s in Revelation, at one time. We realize we cannot do either one justi...