Revelation 9:1
FALL FROM HEAVEN] RV 'from heaven fallen.' 1, 2. BOTTOMLESS PIT] RV 'pit of the abyss.'... [ Continue Reading ]
FALL FROM HEAVEN] RV 'from heaven fallen.' 1, 2. BOTTOMLESS PIT] RV 'pit of the abyss.'... [ Continue Reading ]
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 fallen to the earth, i.e. an angel who has descended from heaven (cp. Revelation 1:20), not necessaril... [ Continue Reading ]
RV inserts a comma after CHARIOTS.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THERE WERE STINGS, etc.] RV 'and stings; and in their tails is their power to hurt men five months.'... [ Continue Reading ]
RV 'They have over them as king the angel of the abyss,' etc. 13-21. The sixth trumpet sounds, and a voice from the altar answers the prayers of the martyrs crying for vengeance, cp. Revelation 6:9. (Revelation 9:13), by commanding the four angels, bound at the Euphrates, to be loosed (Revelation 9:... [ Continue Reading ]
IN] RV 'at.'... [ Continue Reading ]
WERE PREPARED] RV 'had been prepared.' AN HOUR, etc.] RV 'the hour and day and month and year.'... [ Continue Reading ]
JACINTH] RV 'hyacinth,' i.e. smoky blue.... [ Continue Reading ]
WORKS OF THEIR HANDS] i.e. idols: cp. Psalms 115:4; Isaiah 17:8; Daniel 5:3.... [ Continue Reading ]