Kretzmann's Popular Commentary
Revelation 14:11
and the smoke of their torment ascendeth up forever and ever; and they have no rest day nor night who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name.
and the smoke of their torment ascendeth up forever and ever; and they have no rest day nor night who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name.
Verse Revelation 14:11. _THE SMOKE OF THEIR TORMENT_] Still an allusion to the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrha....
AND THE SMOKE OF THEIR TORMENT - The smoke proceeding from their place of torment. This language is probably derived from the account of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Genesis 19:28; “And he ...
CHAPTER 14 Grace ancient _ 1. The Lamb and the 144,000 (Revelation 14:1)_ 2. The everlasting gospel (Revelation 14:6) 3. Fall of Babylon anticipated (Revelation 14:8) 4. Wrath fo
THE VISION OF THE THREE ANGELS. Revelation 14:6. an eternal gospel: it is doubtful whether gospel is here used in its technical sense. It probably means a proclamation of good news. The proclamation h...
THE FATHER'S OWN (Revelation 14:1) _ 14:1 I saw, and behold the Lamb stood on Mount Sion, and there were with him one hundred and forty-four thousand who had his name, and the name of his Father writ...
And another angel, a third angel, followed them saying with a great voice: "If anyone worships the beast and his image, and receives a mark upon his forehead or upon his hand, he too shall drink of th...
SMOKE... TORMENT. Compare Isaiah 34:10. TORMENT. See Revelation 9:5. FOR... EVER. unto ages of ages. Greek. _eis_ (App-104.) _aionas aionon._ No art, only occurs in this form. Compare App-151. a and...
ANGELS OF WARNING...
_THE ANGEL AND THEIR MESSAGES REVELATION 14:6-11:_ Three of God's headline statements are found in this section. We have already learned that God's people are victorious. Now we hear it in BOLD headli...
ΚΑΠΝΌΣ (G2586) дым. ΒΑΣΑΝΙΣΜΌΣ (G929) мучительная боль, страдание, ΆΝΑΒΑΊΝΕΙ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΆΝΑΒΑΊΝΩ (G305) приходить, подниматься. _Praes._ связан с обозначением времени ("навсегда") и выраж...
DISCOURSE: 2517 THE PUNISHMENT OF THE UNGODLY Revelation 14:9. And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his fore...
THE THIRD ANGEL, &C.— Not only the capital city, not only the principal agents and promoters of idolatry shall be destroyed; the commission of _the third angel_ proceeds farther, and extends to all th...
_TOMLINSON'S COMMENTS_ CHAPTER XIV PARENTHETICAL VISION OF THE TIME OF THE END _Text (Revelation 14:1-20)_ 1 And I saw, and behold, the Lamb standing on the mount Zion, and with him a hundred and fo...
Strauss-' Comments SECTION 43 Text Revelation 14:9-12 9 And another angel, a third followed them, saying with a great voice, If any man worshippeth the beast and his image, and receiveth a mark on hi...
And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name. FOREVER AND E...
__ Temple Section-The 144,000 18 All will be obliged to have one of three marks to indicate their worship of the wild beast: either its symbol, its name, or its number. The number, we are told, is t...
14:11 homage (b-23) See Note h, ch. 3.9....
THE LAMB AND HIS FOLLOWERS. JUDGMENT ON HIS ENEMIES In the last two Chapter s were seen the enemies of the Church, and their fierce power. Now, by way of contrast, and to encourage the Church to resi...
FROM NOW TO THE END OF TIME REVELATION _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 14 THE *LAMB ON THE HILL CALLED ZION - REVELATION 14:1-5 V1 Then I looked, and there was the *Lamb. He was standing on the hill cal...
FOR EVER AND EVER. — Or, _unto ages of ages._ The imagery of the smoke going up reminds us of the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah (Genesis 19:28; comp. Isaiah 34:10). _They have not rest by day and by...
CHAPTER XI THE LAMB ON THE MOUNT ZION AND THE HARVEST AND VINTAGE OF THE WORLD. Revelation 14:1. THE twelfth and thirteenth Chapter s of this book were designed to set before us a picture of the thr...
Revelation 14:6-20 : the fearful doom of the impenitent pagans is announced in a triple vision of angels (Revelation 14:6-13), whereupon a proleptic summary of the final judgment on the world follows...
The third angel proclaims that the deliberate adherents of the Imperial cultus are to be held responsible for their actions, and punished accordingly. The object is that these votaries may be “scared...
THE WINEPRESS OF GOD'S WRATH Revelation 14:9 We cannot understand the torment of those who are depicted in Revelation 14:9, except it be the remorse at having refused the love of the Lamb of God. Eve...
The attention of the seer was now turned again to the heavenly order. The redeemed are seen standing with the Lamb, a company of obedient souls who follow Him "whithersoever He goeth." In distinction...
(9) And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand, (10) The same shall drink of the wine...
We begin now what may be called the second volume of the Revelation. The prophetic part of the book divides into two portions at this point. This is another land-mark that cannot be despised, if we wo...
Heavenly Announcements I. INTRODUCTION A. Last week we took a little time to discuss the "name and number" of the beast! 1. We concluded that this system is already in place and some of it has been...
In Chapter 14 we have the dealings of God with the evil, only first owning and setting apart the remnant. The remnant belongs entirely to the renewed earth: they are seen on that which is the centre o...
AND THE SMOKE OF THEIR TORMENT ASCENDETH UP FOR EVER AND EVER,.... That is, the smoke of that fire which torments them will for ever arise; or, in other words, there will be no end of their torment; h...
And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name. Ver. 11. _And th...
_And the third angel followed_ At no great distance of time; _saying_ As the two former had done; _with a loud voice_ With authority and earnestness; _If any man worship the beast_, &c. The commission...
Now follow three visions, representing the rapid and wide spread of the gospel through the whole earth, the fall of the mystic Babylon, and the punishment of her adherents. With the dawn of the Reform...
Union with opposers of God and his cause, for the sake of avoiding present evil, or obtaining fancied good, is aggravated sin, and will be followed with awful punishment....
THE LAMB AND 144,000 ON MOUNT ZION In the first five verses of this chapter we find another striking preview of the blessing of the godly remnant in Israel. This preview is given at the time when the...
_ 11 And the smoke of their torment ascends forever and ever; and they have no rest day or night, who worship the beast and his image, and whoever receives the mark of his name.”_ A. God will punish...
6-13 The progress of the Reformation appears to be here set forth. The four proclamations are plain in their meaning; that all Christians may be encouraged, in the time of trial, to be faithful to th...
AND THE SMOKE OF THEIR TORMENT ASCENDETH UP FOR EVER AND EVER; that is, their torments shall be everlasting, as well as most exquisite, and causing the most acute pain. AND THEY HAVE NO REST DAY NOR N...
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‘And another angel, a third, followed them, saying with a great voice, “If anyone worships the beast and his image, and receives a mark on his forehead or on his hand, he will also drink of the wine o...
THE THREE ANGELS DECLARE THAT THE TIME OF JUDGMENT HAS ARRIVED (REVELATION 14:6). This section is paranthetical to bring out that those who are to be reaped have brought their own judgment on themsel...
Revelation 14:11. AND THE SMOKE OF THEIR TORMENT GOETH UP FOR EVER AND EVER. The third of the four particulars of their miserable doom, which is unto ages of ages, that is, ‘for ever.' AND THEY HAVE...
The visions contained in these verses are of the same preparatory character as the preceding vision. The structure of the passage is remarkable. It will be observed that it consists of seven parts, ea...
THE SMOKE OF THEIR TORMENT (ο καπνος του βασανισμου αυτων). See Revelation 9:5 for βασανισμος, only there it was a limited penalty, here it is "for ever and ever" (εις αιωνας αιωνων, unto ages of ag...
NO REST Contrast (Revelation 4:8)....
Revelation 14:1. _And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Zion, and with him an hundred forty and four thousand, having his Father's name written on their foreheads._ The great question for...
Revelation 14:1. _And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb_ John always writes of Jesus as the «Lamb.» His Lord is to him in his sacrificial character always «the Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the wo...
The Church of God had undergone a very great trial; there had arisen a cruel and wicked persecuting system, described by John in his vision as a beast, a terrible dragon, of which we read that «it was...
CONTENTS: Vision of the Lamb and the 144,000 sealed Israelites. The angel with the everlasting gospel. Fall of Babylon. The doom of the beast worshippers. Blessedness of the holy dead. Vision of Armag...
Revelation 14:1. _Lo, a Lamb,_ the Lord Christ, _stood on mount Zion, and with him a hundred and forty four thousand,_ whom he had redeemed to God by his blood. Here is the church of the firstborn, bo...
WHOEVER WORSHIPS THE BEAST AND ITS IMAGE. _"If your choice is to worship Satan, you must expect to share his doom."_ Since hell is a place of spirits, symbolic language is used to _describe_ the TORME...
_A Lamb … and with Him an hundred forty and four thousand._ THE 144,000 I. Who are these 144,000? They are the identical 144,000 sealed ones spoken of in chapter 7., with only this difference, that...
_And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image._ SOUL PROSTITUTION AND SOUL LOYALTY I. Soul prostitution. 1. The prostitution of the soul t...
REVELATION—NOTE ON REVELATION 14:9 THE SMOKE OF THEIR TORMENT GOES UP FOREVER AND EVER. Hell is eternal. The wicked do not cease to exist when they die....
This passage gives us the messages of three angels. The first angel was seen flying and having (the) everlasting gospel to preach to them that dwell on the earth. Is this the gospel of salvation to th...
THE VISION OF THE FAITHFUL SERVANTS OF GOD _CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ THAT we may be assured of the safety of God’s faithful ones, even during the time of the triumph of the beast and false prop...
EXPOSITION REVELATION 14:1 AND I LOOKED; _and I saw, _indicating a fresh phase of the vision (cf. Revelation 4:1, etc.). Having described (Revelation 12:1
_10 HE ALSO SHALL DRINK OF THE WINE OF THE WRATH OF GOD, WHICH IS PREPARED UNMIXED IN THE CUP OF HIS ANGER; AND HE SHALL BE TORMENTED WITH FIRE AND BRIMSTONE IN THE PRESENCE OF THE HOLY ANGELS, AND I...
And I looked, and, lo, there was a Lamb standing on the mount Zion, and with him an hundred forty and four thousand, having his Father's name written in their foreheads (Revelation 14:1). Now back in...
Deuteronomy 28:65; Exodus 15:18; Genesis 19:28; Hebrews 1:8; Isaia
Torment [β α σ α ν ι σ μ ο υ]. See on Matthew 4:23; Matthew 4:24; see vexed, 2 Peter 2:8. Goeth up. See Isaiah 34:9;...
MERCY AND PUNISHMENT Revelation 14:1, _Revelation 15:1; Revelation 16:1_ INTRODUCTORY WORDS As we open our study on three Chapter s in Revelation, we find various scenes in chapte
And the smoke — From the fire and brimstone wherein they are tormented. Ascendeth for ever and ever — God grant thou and I may never try the strict, literal eternity of this torment!...