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The Message from Patmos by David S Clark

Revelation 14 - Introduction

CHAPTER XIV.

The thirteenth chapter showed us the persecutions, by war and economic pressure, inflicted upon the earlyChristian church by the dragon, the beast, and the lambKke beast; which were symbols of the Devil, the Roman Empire, and the Pagan religion.

Any church history will tell of the dreadful persecutions inflicted on the church during the first three centuries or until the church had won the empire to Christianity.

The thirteenth chapter gave us a glimpse of the persecution. Now the fourteenth chapter opens with a different scene.

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See also Revelation 14 - Introduction in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    Analysis Of The Chapter In the previous chapters Rev. 12–13 there is a description of the woes and sorrows which, for a long period, would come upon the church, and which would threaten to destroy it....

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    REVELATION 14. THIRD INTERLUDE. THREE VISIONS: (_a)_ the Lamb on Mt. Zion (Revelation 14:1), (_b)_ the three angels (Revelation 14:6), (_c_) the harvest and vintage of the world (Revelation 14:14

  • Charles Box Commentaries

    DIE IN THE LORD REVELATION FOURTEEN Revelation Fourteen allows us to take another look at the Lamb of God and at the righteous judgment of God. These are two great forces for righteousness. Revelatio...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    _THE LAMB STANDETH ON MOUNT SION WITH HIS COMPANY. AN ANGEL PREACHETH THE GOSPEL. THE FALL OF BABYLON. THE HATRED OF THE WORLD, AND PUTTING IN OF THE SICKLE. THE VINTAGE AND WINE-PRESS OF THE WRATH OF...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    1:1 place; (b-19) Aorist, lit. 'have taken place,' perhaps 'be accomplished.' signified (c-22) * Lit. 'made known by signs.'...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    XIV. We have had before us the terrible foes which the cause of Christ and His righteousness must encounter in the world. We have seen the subtle spirit of the Evil One defeated, yet plotting new meth...

  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

    The prophet again breaks off to point his readers across the sombre vista opened up by this oracle of the θηρίον, not to the church as an oasis and asylum on earth but to the glad sure hope of the fai...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    INTRODUCTION TO REVALATION 14 This chapter contains three visions; one of the Lamb on Mount Zion, another of the three angels preaching against Babylon, and the third of the harvest and vintage. The...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    * Those faithful to Christ celebrate the praises of God. (1-5) Three angels; one proclaiming the everlasting gospel; another, the downfal of Babylon; and a third, the dreadful wrath of God on the wors...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE FIFTH VISION - THE FINAL DAY OF JUDGMENT (CHAPTER 14). We must see this vision as a whole. Revelation 14:6 are parenthetical. John says in quick succession ‘I saw the Lamb on Mount Zion' with the...

  • Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary on the NT (4 vols)

    The three great enemies of the people of God have been set before us, and we might expect the last struggle to begin. So terrible, however, are the judgments about to fall that we must be specially pr...

  • The Bible Study New Testament

    CHRIST AND THE DRAGON. CHAPTER S 12-14. (Genesis 3:15) _This is the fourth parallel section, and we again return to the First Coming of Christ._ "And I will place hostility between you and the woman a...

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