I saw four Angels, &c. Though some understand here evil spirits, whom God may make use of as instruments to punish the wicked, yet we may rather, with other interpreters, understand good angels sent from God to guard and protect his faithful servants both from evil spirits and wicked men. (Witham)
CHAPTER VII. _The four angels holding the four winds of heaven_, 1. _The angel with the seal of the living God, and sealing the_ _servants of God out of the twelve tribes, whose number_ _amounted...
AND AFTER THESE THINGS - After the vision of the things referred to in the opening of the sixth seal. The natural interpretation would be, that what is here said of the angels and the winds occurred a...
CHAPTER 7 Revelation 7:1 . This is the first parenthesis. It must not be taken chronologically. The six seal judgments extend over the entire period of the ending age. The rider upon the white horse...
THE SEALING OF THE HUNDRED AND FORTY FOUR THOUSAND. Revelation 7:1. Four angels are here represented as holding the winds, which are to bring disaster upon the world, in leash, until the seal of prot...
THE FOUR WINDS WITHHELD. While the sixth seal may be styled the seal of _Revolution,_ the mighty changes of this period are not all violent. If the reader will turn to the seventh chapter he will fin...
RESCUE AND REWARD (Revelation 7:1-3)...
After this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, restraining the four winds of the earth so that the wind might not blow upon the earth, or upon the sea, or against any tree. An...
AND. Some texts omit. AFTER. App-104. THESE THINGS. The texts read "this". SAW. App-133. ON (first and fourth occurance) Greek. _epi_. App-104. EARTH. App-129. HOLDING. holding fast. Greek. _kra...
The Vision of the Four Angels of the Four Winds. Chap. 7 Revelation 7:1-3 1. _four angels_ Presumably the Angels of the four winds, as we have other elemental Angels in Revelation 14:18; Revelation 16...
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Revelation 7:1-3. THE VISION OF THE FOUR ANGELS OF THE FOUR WINDS...
_THE WINDS ARE RESTRAINED REVELATION 7:1-3:_ After the previous visions John saw four angels standing at the Four Corners of the earth. God's power restrained the destruction from the north, south, ea...
ΕΊΔΟΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΌΡΆΩ (G3708) видеть, ΜΕΤΆ ΤΟΎΤΟ ΕΊΔΟΝ "после этого я увидел". Это начало следующей части видения (_см._ Revelation 4:1). Видение, которое он описывает, между снятием шестой...
AND AFTER THESE THINGS— The former chapter concluded the _first grand period,_ and the sufferings of the church under the persecution of the Heathen Roman empire. The _second_ grand period of prophesy...
_TOMLINSON'S COMMENTS_ CHAPTER VII SEALING OF GOD'S SERVANTS _Text (Revelation 7:1-17)_ 1 After this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth,...
Strauss-' Comments SECTION 21 Text Revelation 7:1-8 After this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that no wind should blow on the earth,...
And after these things I saw four angels standing on the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow on the earth, nor on the sea, nor on any tree....
__ Throne section-The 144,000 12 Compare Mat_24:29. 12 This cataclysm affects heaven as well as earth. There will be many quakes at the time of the end (Rev_8:5; Rev_8:11-13; Rev_8:19; Rev_16:18)....
THE REDEEMED Two visions interposed between the sixth and seventh seals. There are similar episodes between the sixth and seventh trumpets and bowls. 1-3. Four angels are holding in check the four wi...
FROM NOW TO THE END OF TIME REVELATION _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 7 SECURITY AND *SALVATION - REVELATION 7:1-17 V1 After this, I saw four (4) *angels who stood at the four corners of the earth. The...
VII. (1) _AND AFTER THESE THINGS_.. Better, And after this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding fast the four winds of the earth, that there might not blow a wind upon...
CHAPTER V. CONSOLATORY VISIONS. Revelation 7:1. SIX of the seven Seals have been opened by the "Lamb," who is likewise the "Lion of the tribe of Judah." They have dealt, in brief but pregnant senten...
As on the synoptic scheme (Matthew 25:31), physical convulsions and human terrors are followed by a pause during which the saints are secured. It is impossible and irrelevant to determine whether the...
THE MULTITUDE BEFORE THE THRONE Revelation 7:1 Before times of unusual trial God prepares for the safety of His people. See Genesis 7:1; Genesis 19:16;...
Under the sixth seal we have seen and heard the portents of coming divine intervention. At the sounding of the seventh seal these will be resumed. Chapter seven describes a pause, and first deals with...
The answer to the closing question of chapter 6 is found in this chapter. God sends four of his messengers to restrain the destructive forces....
And (1) after these things I saw four angels standing on the (a) four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow on the earth, nor on the sea, (2) nor on...
CONTENTS This Chapter opens with an Account of the Sealing of the Servants of God. The Number sealed! John hath shown Him an innumerable Multitude, gathered out of all Nations, standing before the Th...
(1) And after these things I saw four angels standing on the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow on the earth, nor on the sea, nor on any tree...
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 Redeemed In Peru I remember well a conversation I once had with a little old man who lived on the outskirts of the village where I had my parish. He lived in a miserable hut, with his only possess...
First, the perfect number of the remnant of Israel is sealed, before the providential instruments of God's judgments are allowed to act; 144,000 = 12 x 12 x 1000. They are secured for blessing accordi...
AND AFTER THESE THINGS,.... After the opening of six of the seals of the sealed book, and after the demolition of Heathen deities, and of Heathen worship, and of Heathen magistrates, in the Roman empi...
And after these things I saw four angels standing on the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow on the earth, nor on the sea, nor on any tree. V...
_After these things_ After the former discoveries made to me, which represented the providence of God toward his church and the world, till the downfall of the heathen Roman empire, the state of the c...
AFTER THESE THINGS; after the events of the sixth seal. THE FOUR CORNERS; east, west, north, and south. HOLDING THE FOUR WINDS; restraining the fury of human passions, and producing a period of calm...
THE COMFORT OF THE CHURCH IN SPIRITUAL AFFLICTIONS. The sealing of God's servants:...
AND AFTER THESE THINGS I SAW FOUR ANGELS STANDING ON THE FOUR CORNERS OF THE EARTH, HOLDING THE FOUR WINDS OF THE EARTH, THAT THE WIND SHOULD NOT BLOW ON THE EARTH, NOR ON THE SEA, NOR ON ANY TREE....
TWO INTERVENING VISIONS This entire chapter intervenes between the sixth and seventh seals. Similarly, between the sixth and seventh trumpets, we shall see an even longer intervention (Revelation 10:1...
_ 1 After these things I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow on the earth, on the sea, or on any tree._ A. Af...
1-8 In the figurative language of Scripture, the blowing of the four winds together, means a dreadful and general destruction. But the destruction is delayed. Seals were used to mark for each person...
REVELATION CHAPTER 7 REVELATION 7:1 John seeth four angels holding the four winds, REVELATION 7:2,3 and another angel coming to seal the servants of God in their foreheads. REVELATION 7:4 The number o...
Revelation 7:1 G2532 After G3326 things G5023 saw G1492 (G5627) four G5064 angels G32 standing G2476 ...
THE THIRD VISION. Chapter Revelation 7:1 An Interlude. The Sealing of God's People. ‘After this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, in o...
Revelation 7:1. The words AFTER THIS denote succession of visions rather than of time. The Seer beholds four ANGELS STANDING AT THE FOUR CORNERS OF THE EARTH. The number four is that of the world; and...
AFTER THIS (μετα τουτο). Instead of the seventh seal (Revelation 8:1) being opened, two other episodes or preliminary visions occupy chapter 7 (the sealing of the servants of God Revelation 7:1-8 an...
ANGELS (_ See Scofield) - (Hebrews 1:4). _...
Revelation 7:1. _And after these things I saw four angels standing on the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow on the earth, nor on the sea, no...
Revelation 7:1. _And after these things I saw four angels standing on the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow on the earth, nor on the sea, no...
CONTENTS: A parenthetical chapter on the saved of the tribulation period. The remnant of Israel sealed. CHARACTERS: God, John, four angels. CONCLUSION: In the great time of unexampled trouble which i...
This whole chapter seems to be an episode, thrown in between the opening of the sixth and the seventh seal. Revelation 7:1. _And after these things I saw four angels standing on the four corners of th...
AFTER THIS I SAW FOUR ANGELS. Two events are presented in this chapter: the sealing of God's people [symbolic of ownership; protection; genuineness]; and the gathering of God's people in the Eternal W...
REVELATION—NOTE ON REVELATION 7:1 There are three “interludes” in Revelation 1:1 (vv. Revelation 7:1;...
Four angels were standing on the four corners of the earth holding the four winds. This shows that all the agencies of nature, all the instruments of judgment, are in God's hand. Not a wind can blow,...
SEALING OF THE SERVANTS OF GOD _CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ THIS chapter is in the nature of an _episode_. Before the enemies of the gospel are finally destroyed, St. John sees the admission of be...
EXPOSITION REVELATION 7:1 AND AFTER THESE THINGS. Μετὰ τοῦτο, or, as some cursives read, μετὰ ταῦτα_, _is generally regarded as denoting the close of the sixth seal and the commencement of a new...
CHAPTER 7 - THE SEALING OF THE 144,000 JEWS In the last chapter, we saw that everyone was hiding in the rocks and caves because they correctly saw that wrath or judgment was coming upon the earth from...
In chapter four of the book of Revelation, we were taken into the heavenly scene where John beholds the throne of God, the cherubim about the throne as they worship God and the twenty-four elders as t...
Daniel 7:2; Daniel 8:8; Ezekiel 37:9; Ezekiel 7:2; Isaiah 27:3;...
These things [τ α υ τ α]. Read touto this. Holding [κ ρ α τ ο υ ν τ α ς]. Holding fast or firmly. See on Mark 7:3; Acts 3:11....
JEWISH OUTCOMERS FROM THE GREAT TRIBULATION Revelation 7:1; _Revelation 14:1_ INTRODUCTORY WORDS There are some people who see but one Rapture. For our part we see several. 1. THERE IS THE RAPTURE...
And after these things — What follows is a preparation for the seventh seal, which is the weightiest of all. It is connected with the sixth by the particle and; whereas what is added, Revelation 6:9,...
Does the Bible teach that the world is square? PROBLEM: John speaks here of the “four corners of the earth,” which implies that the earth is square. But modern science teaches that it is round. Isn’t...
Observe here, 1. That if. temporal judgment on the Jews be here intended, then this vision represented to St. John, God's decree and purpose for suspending the dreadful execution of the threatened and...