The inhabitants of the earth shall rejoice, &c. The persecutors rejoice and make merry for a while, when they seem to get the better of the Christians. Dioclesian caused pillars to be erected to him, as if he had destroyed the Christian religion; and when, by his cruelties he saw the faith of Christ, still increase more and more, he fell into a kind of madness, and laid down his empire. See Baron. ad an. Dni. 304, p. 771. (Witham)
Verse Revelation 11:10. _SHALL SEND GIFTS_] This was a custom in days of public rejoicing. They sent gifts to each other, and gave portions to the poor. See Esther 9:19; Esther 9:22....
AND THEY THAT DWELL UPON THE EARTH SHALL REJOICE OVER THEM - Those dwelling in the land would rejoice over their fall and ruin. This cannot, of course, mean all who inhabit the globe; but, according t...
CHAPTER 11:1-18 Revelation 11:1 . We see at once how Jewish things come now into view. To apply these verses to the Church and make the temple the Church is absolutely wrong. The temple and the altar...
THE INTERLUDE CONTINUED. THE SECOND EPISODE. The first two verses are introductory, and represent the survey or measuring of the holy city by the seer. Then comes the prophecy concerning the two witne...
I will. exposed in the broad street of the false Church, or somewhere in the dominions or presence of Rome. During the long period extending from A. D. 533 to 1792,. prophetic period of 1260 years, th...
ANTICHRIST (Revelation 11:1-19) In the passages of the Revelation which we are now about to approach we will on many occasions meet the figure of Antichrist. This figure has exercised a strange fasci...
UPON, ON. App-104. SHALL. Omit. OVER. Greek. _epi_. App-104. SEND. App-174. PROPHETS. App-189. TORMENTED. See Revelation 9:5....
ΠΈΜΨΟΥΣΙΝ. Tisch[377] reads πέμπουσιν with א* P. [377] Tischendorf: eighth edition; where the text aud notes differ the latter are cited....
Revelation 8:2; Revelation 8:6 to Revelation 11:19. THE SEVEN TRUMPETS...
Revelation 11:1-13. THE MEASURING ANGEL AND THE TWO WITNESSES...
_THE TWO WITNESSES ARE SLAIN AND ARISE AGAIN REVELATION 11:7-13:_ During the miraculous age of the church the gospel was preached with great success. (Acts 12:24) This time was followed by a period wh...
ΚΑΤΟΙΚΟΎΝΤΕΣ _praes. act. part. от_ ΚΑΤΟΙΚΈΩ (G2730) жить, обитать, ΧΑΊΡΟΥΣΙΝ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΧΑΊΡΩ (G5463) ликовать, ΕΎΦΡΑΊΝΟΝΤΑΙ _praes. ind. med. (dep.) от_ ΕΎΦΡΑΊΝΟΜΑΙ (G2165) быть счастли...
WHEN THEY SHALL HAVE FINISHED, &C.— Or, _When they shall be about to finish their testimony, the wild beast that ascendeth out of the abyss,_ &c. After the description of the _witnesses,_ their power...
Strauss-' Comments SECTION 33 Text Revelation 11:1-14 And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and one said, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar; and them that worship therein. A...
_TOMLINSON'S COMMENTS_ CHAPTER XI THE MEASUREMENT OF THE TEMPLE _Text (Revelation 11:1-18)_ 1 And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and one said, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and th...
And they that dwell upon the earth shall rejoice over them, and make merry, and shall send gifts one to another; because these two prophets tormented them that dwelt on the earth. THEY THAT DWELL U...
__ Throne Section-The Two Witnesses 4 The two olive trees remind us of Joshua the high priest and Zerubbabel (Zech. 3-4), who witnessed for Jehovah in a former apostasy. The ministry of the two witn...
THE TWO WITNESSES. THE SEVENTH TRUMPET 1-14. Second episode. There is much difference of opinion as to the meaning of this vision. Perhaps the key may be found in the parallelism of the book. There we...
THEY.. EARTH] i.e. the ungodly....
FROM NOW TO THE END OF TIME REVELATION _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 11 JOHN MEASURES THE *TEMPLE - REVELATION 11:1-2 V1 An *angel gave me a stick that was like a pole. He said, ‘Go. You must measure...
(3-14) THE TWO WITNESSES. — It is the opinion of one able and pre-eminently painstaking commentator that “no solution has ever been given of this portion of the prophecy.” I quote this that none may b...
(8-10) AND THEIR DEAD BODIES... — Better, _And their corpse_ (is) upon the street of the great city, which is called spiritually Sodom and Egypt, where their Lord also was crucified. And some from amo...
CHAPTER VIII. SECOND CONSOLATORY VISION AND THE SEVENTH TRUMPET. Revelation 11:1. FROM the first consolatory vision we proceed to the second: - "And there was given unto me a reed like unto a rod:...
So far from laying it to heart that the godly perish, men are hyperbolically represented as congratulating one another on getting rid of these obnoxious prophets with their vexatious words (3) and wor...
THE “TWO WITNESSES” Revelation 11:1 We cannot in this brief note indicate the various interpretations of this chapter, but certain great principles underlie it, which are true of every age. (1) Duri...
John is called on to measure the temple. In such measurements the court of the Gentiles is not to be recognized. It shows God dealing with the world through His chosen people. The account of the two w...
Real joy will be expressed by the world over the death of the two witnesses because they had tormented the world with their testimony. The worldly celebrate, even exchanging gifts. Leaving the bodies...
And they that dwell upon the earth (16) shall rejoice over them, and make merry, and shall send gifts one to another; because these two prophets (17) tormented them that dwelt on the earth. (16) So m...
(7) And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them. (8) And their dead bodies...
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...
The Interlude Part 2 A bum, obviously under the influence of alcohol, approached evangelist D.L. Moody. "Mr. Moody," he said, "you're the man who saved me." As the great evangelist observed the beard...
We are here at once in the centre of prophetic subjects Jerusalem, the temple, the altar, and worshipers. The worshipers and the altar are recognised and accepted of God those worshiping in the secret...
AND THEY THAT DWELL UPON THE EARTH,.... Out of which the beast arose, and over which he reigns, even the inhabitants of the Roman empire, often in this book called the earth, the followers of antichri...
And they that dwell upon the earth shall rejoice over them, and make merry, and shall send gifts one to another; because these two prophets tormented them that dwelt on the earth. Ver. 10. _Shall rej...
_When they shall have finished their testimony_, &c. After the description of the power and office of the witnesses, follows a prediction of those things which shall befall them at the latter end of t...
MAKE MERRY; in prospect of being in future freed from the influence of those whom they hated, and had slain....
AND THEY THAT DWELL UPON THE EARTH SHALL REJOICE OVER THEM, AND MAKE MERRY, AND SHALL SEND GIFTS ONE TO ANOTHER, BECAUSE THESE TWO PROPHETS TORMENTED THEM THAT DWELT ON THE EARTH. The first part of th...
The fate of the two witnesses:...
We have seen under the sixth trumpet the desolating invasion of Israel by the King of the North, which takes place because of Israel's idolatrous image of the Beast set up in the temple at the middle...
_ 10 And those who dwell on the earth will rejoice over them, make merry, and send gifts to one another, because these two prophets tormented those who dwell on the earth._ A. The world of evil and w...
3-13 In the time of treading down, God kept his faithful witnesses to attest the truth of his word and worship, and the excellence of his ways, The number of these witnesses is small, yet enough. The...
It is plain by the repeating of the same words in the close of the verse, that by those that DWELL UPON THE EARTH are meant earthly, carnal men, whether papists or atheists; men that are mad upon thei...
Revelation 11:10 And G2532 dwell G2730 (G5723) on G1909 earth G1093 rejoice G5463 (G5692) over G1909 them...
THE MEASURING OF THE SANCTUARY AND THE TWO WITNESSES (REVELATION 11:1). It is significant that these events take place within the second ‘woe' when wholesale death pervades the Middle East (Revelation...
‘And those who dwell on the earth rejoice over them and make merry, and they will send gifts to one another because these two prophets tormented those who dwell on earth.' Those whose hearts are on ea...
Revelation 11:10. Even this is not all. THEY THAT DWELL UPON THE EARTH, that is, the ungodly everywhere rejoice and hold high festival over their destruction. In the words used it is impossible to mis...
THEY THAT DWELL UPON THE EARTH (ο κατοικουντες επ της γης). Present active articular participle of κατοικεω, "an Apocalyptic formula" (Swete) for the non-Christian world (Revelation 3:10; Revelation...
CONTENTS: Times of the Gentiles to end in a period of forty-two months. Two heavenly witnesses will prophecy on the earth. The seventh trumpet judgment. CHARACTERS: God, Holy Spirit, Christ, John, tw...
Revelation 11:1. _There was given me a reed like unto a rod to measure the temple of God,_ the new-testament church. The prophet of old had a similar vision, and all the prophets spake of the enlargem...
THE BEAST. WILL FIGHT AGAINST THEM. _In the vision,_ a beast comes up out of the _abyss_ [_hell_ before the Judgment], fights against the two witnesses, defeats them and kills them. This is Satan, wor...
_I will give power unto My two witnesses._ THE PREACHER A WITNESS AND A PROPHET 1. The prophecy under consideration gives us an undeniable evidence of the Divinity and truth of the gospel. 2. The p...
_Rise, and measure the temple of God._ THE LIVING TEMPLE OF CHRIST’S CHURCH AND THE TWO WITNESSES OF THE WORD WRITTEN AND THE SACRAMENTS The temple and altar, and them that worshipped therein, were c...
REVELATION—NOTE ON REVELATION 11:7 The GREAT CITY that SYMBOLICALLY IS CALLED SODOM AND EGYPT is the site of the martyrs’ death and their Lord’s crucifixion. See also references to “the great city” in...
REVELATION—NOTE ON REVELATION 11:3 Scripture requires two witnesses to confirm testimony (Deuteronomy 19:15;...
REVELATION—NOTE ON REVELATION 11:1 The visions of the temple and the witnesses reassure believers of God’s protection. However, spiritual protection still allows physical suffering....
This is a passage that has puzzled many. Two witnesses prophesy 1260 days, the same forty-two months or three and a half years. They have great power to stay the rain, and turn water to blood, and smi...
THE FATE OF JERUSALEM AND ITS TEMPLE _CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ THE paragraph, Revelation 11:1, gives the contents of the “little book,” which are in part joyful and in part bitter. The marking...
EXPOSITION REVELATION 11:1 AND THERE WAS GIVEN ME A REED LIKE UNTO A ROD. We are not told by whom the _reed _is given, but in Revelation 21:1. the angel has the reed, and so also in...
_10 AND THEY THAT DWELL UPON THE EARTH SHALL REJOICE OVER THEM, AND MAKE MERRY, AND SHALL SEND GIFTS ONE TO ANOTHER; BECAUSE THESE TWO PROPHETS TORMENTED THEM THAT DWELT ON THE EARTH__._ The people w...
So there was given unto me a reed like unto a rod (Revelation 10:11; Revelation 11:1): That is a measuring stick about the length of a rod. and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple o...
1 Corinthians 13:6; 1 Kings 18:17; 1 Kings 21:20; 1 Kings 22:18;...
Shall rejoice (carousin). Read cairousin, present tense, rejoice. Shall make merry [ε υ φ ρ α ν θ η σ ο ν τ α ι]. Read eujfrainontai, present tense, make merry; and for the word see note on fared sump...
THE TWO WITNESSES Revelation 10:1 _and Revelation 11:1_ INTRODUCTORY WORDS By way of introduction to the study of the eleventh chapter of Revelation we wish to say a word about the tenth chapter. 1...
And they that dwell upon the earth — Perhaps this expression may peculiarly denote earthly — minded men. Shall make merry — As did the Philistines over Samson. And send gifts to one another — Both Tur...