Gary Hampton Commentaries
Revelation 9:15
God controls events and precisely sets the time for his workings.
God controls events and precisely sets the time for his workings.
Verse Revelation 9:15. _FOR AN HOUR, AND A DAY, AND A MONTH, AND A YEAR_] We have in this place a year resolved into its component parts. Twenty-four _hours_ constitute a _day_, seven _days_ make a _...
AND THE FOUR ANGELS WERE LOOSED - Who had this mighty host under restraint. The loosening of the angels was, in fact, also a letting loose of all these hosts, that they might accomplish the work which...
CHAPTER 9 Revelation 9:1 . The remaining three trumpets have a “woe” attached to each. This is announced in the last verse of the preceding chapter, where the word angel should be “eagle.” An eagle,...
THE SIXTH TRUMPET OR THE SECOND WOE. The loosing of the four angels of death, and the slaughter of a third part of the human race. REVELATION 9:13. THE HORNS: the corners. THE GOLDEN ALTAR: _cf. Rev...
2 The term here used for year is not _Kairos,_ the prophetic year of twelve months, or 360 days, but _eniautos,_ the regular solar year of 365. days. Hence the period named in the text would be 365. p...
The sixth angel sounded a blast on his trumpet and I heard a voice from the four horns of the altar saying to the sixth angel who had the trumpet: "Release the four angels who are bound at the great r...
THE UNLOCKING OF THE ABYSS (Revelation 9:1-2) 9:1,2 The fifth angel sounded a blast on his trumpet, and I saw a star failing from heaven on the earth, and to him there was given the key of the shaft...
WERE. had been. FOR. Greek. _eis._ App-104. AN. the HOUR, DAY, MONTH, YEAR.. fixed point of time, not. period of duration. The four notes of time being under one article and one preposition show th...
_for an hour_ Should be "for THE hour." The article is not repeated, but plainly the one article belongs to all the nouns: they are "prepared for the hour, and day, and month, and year," when God has...
ΕἸΣ ΤῊΝ ὭΡΑΝ, “for the hour.” The article is not repeated, but plainly the one article belongs to all the nouns: they are “prepared for the hour, and day, and month, and year,” when God has decreed to...
Revelation 8:2; Revelation 8:6 to Revelation 11:19. THE SEVEN TRUMPETS...
THE SIXTH TRUMPET. THE SECOND WOE...
_THE SIXTH ANGEL SOUNDS HIS TRUMPET REVELATION 9:13-15:_ The sixth angel sounded and four angels were loosed. The purpose of the four horns of the golden altar was to prevent the coals from falling fr...
ΈΛΎΘΗΣΑΝ _aor. ind. pass. от_ ΛΎΩ (G3089) отпускать, ΉΤΟΙΜΑΣΜΈΝΟΙ _perf. pass. part. от_ ΕΤΟΙΜΆΖΩ (G2090) готовить (_см._ Revelation 9:7). ΜΗΝ (G3375) месяц, ΈΝΙΑΥΤΌΣ (G1763) год. άπο
THE SIXTH ANGEL SOUNDED,— At the sounding of this _sixth_ trumpet, a voice proceeded from _the four horns of the golden altar_ (for the scene was still in the temple), ordering the angel of the sixth...
Strauss-' Comments SECTION 31 Text Revelation 9:13-21 13 And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the horns of the golden altar which is before God, 14 one saying to the sixth angel that...
And the four angels were loosed which were prepared for an hour and a day and a month and a year And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year,...
__ Throne Section-The Locusts 8 The detailed description of these locusts forbids our taking them in any way but as literal creatures just as they are described, Their time limit is the same as natu...
WERE PREPARED] RV 'had been prepared.' AN HOUR, etc.] RV 'the hour and day and month and year.'...
THE FIFTH AND SIXTH TRUMPETS These herald woes upon the ungodly and idolatrous, inflicted both by demonic and by human agency. 1-12. The fifth trumpet initiates the first of the three woes. A star fa...
FROM NOW TO THE END OF TIME REVELATION _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 9 THE FIFTH (5TH) *TRUMPET - REVELATION 9:1-12 V1 The fifth (5th) *angel’s *trumpet sounded. And I saw a star that had fallen from...
AND THE FOUR ANGELS... — Better, _And there were loosed the four angels who had been made ready unto_ (or _for, i.e.,_ ready for) _the_ (not “an hour,” but _the) hour, and day, and month, and year, th...
_The sixth trumpet blast_....
This quartette of angels (= complete ruin, Zechariah 1:18 f.) has been kept in readiness, or reserved for this occasion, though they are not to be connected (as by Spitta) with the four moments of tim...
IMPENITENT IN SPITE OF ALL Revelation 9:12 _ The river Euphrates_ possibly stands for nations and hordes of men emanating from that region; and these verses are held by a large number of expositors t...
At the sounding of the fifth trumpet the procedure of judgment takes a new form, passing from the material to the spiritual. The loosing of Satan is suggestive of the manifestation of satanic agency u...
(13) And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men. (13) The execution of the commandment is in two parts: one...
And the four angels were loosed. This seems to indicate the moment in which Satan himself is loosed from the abyss or hell, where, as we shall see [in] Apocalypse xx. 2. he was chained up for a thousa...
(13) And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God, (14) Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are...
We have already seen the bearing of the seven churches to which the Lord was pleased to send the letters contained in the second and third Chapter s. We have found, I trust, substantial reason and amp...
Hell on Earth Part 2 A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up...
The fifth angel sounds; and one who should have been by position the instrument of light and governmental order over the earth was seen as having lost his place; and the power to let loose the full da...
AND THE FOUR ANGELS WERE LOOSED,.... The time being come, fixed by the decrees of God, making use of the Turks for the destruction of the eastern empire, the restraints of divine Providence were taken...
And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men. Ver. 15. _And the four angels were loosed_] As fierce and fell...
_The sixth angel sounded_, &c. At the sounding of the sixth trumpet, _a voice_ proceeded _from the four horns of the golden altar_, (for the scene was still in the temple,) ordering _the angel_ of _th...
AN HOUR-A DAY-A MONTH-A YEAR; that is, 391 days, and the twelfth part of a day-interpreted by many of so many prophetic years during which they should extend their conquests, which ended with the fall...
The sounding of the sixth trumpet:...
AND THE FOUR ANGELS WERE LOOSED, WHICH WERE PREPARED FOR AN HOUR AND A DAY AND A MONTH AND A YEAR FOR TO SLAY THE THIRD ART OF MEN....
THE FIFTH TRUMPET: A DEMON INFESTATION (vv. 1-12) The sounding of the fifth trumpet discloses "a star _fallen_ from heaven:" it is _already_ fallen (v. 1). This is the same star that fell under the...
_ 15 So the four angels, who had been prepared for the hour and day and month and year, were released to kill a third of mankind._ A. The angels were released to kill a third of mankind. Here, again,...
FOR: Or, at...
13-21 The sixth angel sounded, and here the power of the Turks seems the subject. Their time is limited. They not only slew in war, but brought a poisonous and ruinous religion. The antichristian gen...
FOR AN HOUR, AND A DAY, AND A MONTH, AND A YEAR; that is, say some, for any time whatsoever God would have them move; or for that certain time which God had determined; but Mr. Mede hath here a peculi...
Revelation 9:15 So G2532 four G5064 angels G32 who G3588 prepared G2090 (G5772) for G1519 hour G5610 and...
‘And the four angels were loosed who had been prepared for the hour and day and month and year, that they should kill the third part of men.' God's timing is always exact. Here it is fixed with comput...
Revelation 9:15. A new circumstance connected with the four angels is added in this verse. They had not only been bound: they had been kept ready for an appointed moment. THEY HAD BEEN PREPARED UNTO T...
The verses before us contain an account of the sixth trumpet...
WERE LOOSED (ελυθησαν). First aorist (ingressive) passive indicative of λυω, "were let loose."WHICH HAD BEEN PREPARED (ο ητοιμασμενο). Perfect passive articular participle of ετοιμαζω, to make rea...
ANGELS (_ See Scofield) - (Hebrews 1:4). _...
Revelation 9:15 The Triumph of Christianity. This book of the Apocalypse is confessedly one of those Scriptures that Scripture itself speaks of as "hard to be understood." Yet it must not on that ac...
CONTENTS: Judgments of the fifth and sixth trumpets. CHARACTERS: God, angels, John, Abaddon. CONCLUSION: So fearful and unbearable will conditions be in the Great Tribulation days when Satanic powers...
Revelation 9:1. _The fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star,_ the vile impostor Mahomed, _fall from heaven unto the earth. And to him was given the key of the bottomless pit:_ it should read, the keys...
THE FOUR ANGELS WERE RELEASED. War is in God's decree (even though it is Satan who actually brings it); and the hour, day, month, and year are fixed. These angels are allowed to kill one third of all...
REVELATION—NOTE ON REVELATION 9:13 This is the last limited judgment and warning blast. When the seventh and last trumpet sound, “the mystery of God will be fulfilled” (Revelation 10:7; co
The sixth angel sounded the sixth trumpet, and when the trumpet sounded a voice commanded the sixth angel to loose the four angels that are bound in the great river Euphrates. The river Euphrates was...
_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ Revelation 9:13. SIXTH ANGEL SOUNDED.—This woe is an invasion of foreign nations coming out of the East, and causing everywhere ruin and disaster. Revelation 9:14. LOO...
EXPOSITION REVELATION 9:1 AND THE FIFTH ANGEL SOUNDED, AND I SAW A STAR FALL FROM HEAVEN UNTO THE EARTH; _a star from heaven fallen unto the earth _(Revised Version); not _saw a star fall. _(For the...
_12 ONE WOE IS PAST; AND, BEHOLD, THERE COME TWO WOES MORE HEREAFTER._ After the five months of torment by these hellish creatures, one woe is past but there are still two more left to come when the...
And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the eaRuth (Revelation 9:1): And it is interesting how that a great mountain of fire burning, a star falling, a star falling, these...
Revelation 8:11; Revelation 8:12; Revelation 8:7; Revelation 8:9;...
For an hour and a day and a month and a year. This rendering is wrong, since it conveys the idea that the four periods mentioned are to be combined as representing the length of the preparation or of...
And the four angels were loosed, who were prepared — By loosing them, as well as by their strength and rage. To kill the third part of men — That is, an immense number of them. For the hour, and day,...