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Revelation 17:12
And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet, but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.
And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet, but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.
Verse Revelation 17:12. _AND THE TEN HORNS WHICH THOU SAWEST ARE TEN KINGS,_ _WHICH HAVE RECEIVED NO KINGDOM AS YET; BUT RECEIVE POWER AS KINGS_ _ONE HOUR WITH THE BEAST._] The meaning of _horns_ has...
AND THE TEN HORNS WHICH THOU SAWEST - On the scarlet-colored beast, Revelation 17:3. ARE TEN KINGS - Represent or denote ten kings - that is, kingdoms or powers. See the notes on Daniel 7:24. Which h...
CHAPTER S 17-18 Babylon, the Harlot, and Her judgment _ 1. The description of the woman (Revelation 17:1)_ 2. The angel's interpretation (Revelation 17:7) 3. The desolation of the whore ...
REVELATION 17:9. SEVEN MOUNTAINS: Rome was described as the city of the seven hills. Revelation 17:10. seven kings: this is a second interpretation of the heads. The most probable explanation is: The...
THE GREAT HARLOT. The sixteenth chapter presents the series of historical events that lead to the overthrow of spiritual Babylon. Our interpretation of these has been for the most part determined by t...
THE FALL OF ROME (Revelation 17:1-18) One of the seven angels, who had the seven bowls, came and spoke with me. "Come here," he said, "and I will show you the judgment of the great harlot, who sits up...
NO... AS YET. As "not yet" above. POWER. App-172. ONE HOUR, i.e. at one and the same hour. Confusion results from substituting "kingdoms" for "kings" in the connection. The Holy Spirit says _kings_....
_the ten horns_&c. Comparing Daniel 7:8, we can hardly doubt that these horns represent kingdoms related to the Roman Empire as the kingdoms of the Diadochi to that of Alexander. Such are the principa...
ΤᾺ ΔΈΚΑ ΚΈΡΑΤΑ. If the traditional view now supported by Lagarde be right, that the Fourth Beast in Daniel 7 is the Roman Empire, the ten horns, Daniel 7:24, probably, though the Little Horn is their...
THE INTERPRETATION OF THE MYSTERY...
_BABYLON'S KINGS AND ALLIES HAVE ONE MIND REVELATION 17:11-13:_ The ten kings are Rome's allies that had been given power for a short time. They sided with Rome and were part of her evil so that Rome...
ΕΊΔΕΣ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΌΡΆΩ (G3708) видеть, ΈΛΑΒΟΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΛΑΜΒΆΝΩ (G2983) брать. Десять царей, которые еще не получили власти, могут обозначать европейские государства возрожденной ри...
AND THE ANGEL SAID UNTO ME, &C.— It was not thought sufficient to represent these things only in vision, and therefore the_angel_ undertakes to explain the _mystery,_ the mystic sense or secret meanin...
_TOMLINSON'S COMMENTS_ CHAPTER XVII MYSTERIOUS BABYLON SITTING UPON THE BEASTS _Text (Revelation 17:1-18)_ 1 And there came one of the seven angels that had the seven bowls, and spake with me, sayin...
Strauss-' Comments SECTION 58 Text Revelation 17:6-18 6 And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. And when I saw her, I wondered with a gre...
And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast. TEN KINGS ... RECEIVED NO KINGDOM AS YET; BUT RECEIVE P...
__ The Temple Section-The Scarlet Woman 1 The following Chapter s (17- Rev_19:5) are a detailed expansion of the announcement of Babylon's fall in both the first and second divisions of the Temple S...
BABYLON THE GREAT HARLOT The judgment on Rome, which had been announced before, is now shown in detail. The identification of 'Babylon' with Rome, here and elsewhere in Rev., is supported (HDB.) by th...
ONE HOUR] i.e. a very short time....
FROM NOW TO THE END OF TIME REVELATION _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 17 GOD DESTROYS BABYLON - REVELATION 17:1-19 THE *BEAST AND THE EVIL WOMAN - REVELATION 17:1-18...
AND THE TEN HORNS... — The explanation of the ten horns. They are the kings, not necessarily, as we have seen, personal kings, but rather kingdoms or nationalities, who received not a kingdom as yet;...
CHAPTER XIII THE BEAST AND BABYLOST. Revelation 17:1 AT the close of chap. 16, we reached the end of the three great series of judgments which constitute the chief contents of the Revelation of St....
Revelation 17:12-18 : the campaign of Nero and his vassal-kings against Rome, which is slain by an arrow feathered from her own wings....
This political application of the _ten horns_ probably means either the Parthian satraps of Revelation 16:12, reckoned in round numbers, who occupied a royal position in the estimation of the East (so...
An explanation of the vision, cautiously but clearly outlining the Nero-saga....
THE GREAT WORLD CITY OVERTHROWN Revelation 17:1 This scarlet-attired woman is that miserable attempt made in every age to counterfeit the true Church of the living God. Man does not like the religion...
We now come to the true unfolding of the nature of Babylon and the detailed account of the judgment to fall on her. The name on the forehead of Babylon commences with the word "Mystery." Babylon stand...
There are always those who ride to power on the wave created by another. They are without real power of their own but do rule for a time with the one they ascended to power with....
(26) And the ten horns which thou sawest are (27) ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings (28) one hour with the beast. (26) The third place of this description, a...
The ten horns, or ten kings, which thou sawest, as yet have received no kingdom, but shall receive power as kings one hour after the beast; or, as it is in the Greek, with the beast. According to the...
(7) And the angel said unto me, Wherefore didst thou marvel? I will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carrieth her, which hath the seven heads and ten horns. (8) The beast that...
It is necessary that we should all bear in mind, if we have not observed it before, that Revelation 17:1-18 does not pursue the chronological course of the prophecy. It is a description, and not one o...
The Bowl Judgments I. INTRODUCTION A. We have just finished with the final seven bowl judgments of the Lord upon the earth, and the seas, and the atmosphere! 1. The earth is in total chaos and the...
The characters of Babylon are first portrayed. Like the beast, she is only one thing in the judgment but morally she is more important than all the rest. The general character is the great active idol...
AND THE TEN HORNS WHICH THOU SAWEST ARE TEN KINGS,.... Not ten Christian emperors, which are reckoned up by Brightman from Constantine to Theodosius; for these did not reign with the beast, or give th...
And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast. Ver. 12. _Are ten kings_] Of ten different kingdoms, Napl...
_The beast that thou sawest_, &c. The mystery of the beast is first explained, and _the beast_ is considered first in general, (Revelation 17:8,) under a threefold state or succession, as existing, an...
TEN KINGS; ten governments, which should arise out of the ruins of the old Roman empire. ONE HOUR; through one period of time. WITH THE BEAST; their rise is coincident with that of the beast. At fir...
GREAT BABYLON EXPOSED IN VIEW OF JUDGMENT The next two Chapter s (17 and 18) deal with great Babylon, her character, her self-exaltation and her judgment. This emphasizes the solemnity of God's view o...
_12 “The ten horns which you saw are ten kings who have received no kingdom as yet, but they receive authority for one hour as kings with the beast._ A. Remember the number “ten” represents human com...
7-14 The beast on which the woman sat was, and is not, and yet is. It was a seat of idolatry and persecution, and is not; not in the ancient form, which was pagan: yet it is; it is truly the seat of...
AND THE TEN HORNS WHICH THOU SAWEST ARE TEN KINGS: possibly by _ten kings_ here are not meant monarchs, but governments. WHICH HAVE RECEIVED NO KINGDOM AS YET; which were not in being in John's time,...
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book V These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them, because He is the Lord of lords and the King of kings."[228]...
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‘And the ten horns which you saw are ten kings who have received no kingdom as yet, but they receive authority as kings with the beast for one hour.' The idea of the ten horns is taken from Daniel 7:7...
THE SCARLET WOMAN AND THE BEAST (REVELATION 17:1). This is a remarkable chapter for in it John rises above himself and foresees the inevitable consequences of history. As with all the great prophets h...
Revelation 17:12. The ‘heads' have been explained: we come next to the horns. These horns are all connected with the seventh head; they are gathered together upon it, and are a substitute for it (see...
WHICH HAVE RECEIVED NO KINGDOM AS YET (οιτινες βασιλειαν ουπω ελαβον). Second aorist (proleptic and prophetic) active indicative of λαμβανω. The heads are emperors and the horns are kings (both cal...
CONTENTS: The doom of Babylon, the last great ecclesiastical order. CHARACTERS: Christ, John, 7 angels, beast. CONCLUSION: There will be in the Tribulation period a great apostate ecclesiastical syst...
Revelation 17:1. _Come_ (up) _hither; I will shew thee the judgment of the great whore, that sitteth upon many waters,_ or nations, as in Revelation 17:15; and with whom the kings of the earth have co...
THE TEN HORNS. The ten "horn-kings" who "rule as kings for one hour with the beast" symbolize all the important and influential men of every activity [art, education, commerce', industry, government,...
REVELATION—NOTE ON REVELATION 17:12 The beast’s TEN HORNS, symbolizing TEN KINGS, probably represent all of the earth’s kings. They are deceived and gathered by the dragon and the beast for a final re...
These verses tell us about the horns of the beast. He had not only seven heads; but ten horns. These ten horns were ten kings, not kings sitting on the throne of Rome, as I understand, but those kings...
THE JUDGMENT ON BABYLON _CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ NOTICE that in the Old Testament, harlotry is the frequent representation of apostasy. Babylon stands for the Apostate Church, which is here f...
EXPOSITION REVELATION 17:1 AND THERE CAME ONE OF THE SEVEN ANGELS WHICH HAD THE SEVEN VIALS, AND TALKED WITH ME, SAYING UNTO ME; _and spake with me, saying. _Omit "unto me." This and the following c...
_12 AND THE TEN HORNS WHICH THOU SAWEST ARE TEN KINGS, WHICH HAVE RECEIVED NO KINGDOM AS YET; BUT RECEIVE POWER AS KINGS ONE HOUR WITH THE BEAST._ The ten horns are the ten world leaders that will re...
In chapter seventeen, we now have the specific judgment of God upon the false religious system that has damned the souls of so many men through deception. Jesus warned us to "beware of false prophets...
Daniel 2:40; Daniel 7:20; Daniel 7:24; Daniel 7:7; Daniel 7:8;...
Kings which [ο ι τ ι ν ε ς]. The compound relative classifying : "of the kind which....
MYSTIC AND COMMERCIAL BABYLON Revelation 17:1 _and Revelation 18:1_ INTRODUCTORY WORDS The seventeenth chapter of Revelation discusses what we call mystic Babylon; and the eighteenth presents commer...
Observe here, the angel farther explains to St. John this great mystery of the beast; declaring that the TEN HORNS of the beast do signify ten kings, which should employ their power with the beast, an...