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Revelation 8:7
The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth; and the third part of trees was burned up, and all green grass was burned up.
The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth; and the third part of trees was burned up, and all green grass was burned up.
Verse Revelation 8:7. _HAIL AND FIRE MINGLED WITH BLOOD_] This was something like the _ninth_ plague of Egypt. See Exodus 9:18-2: "The Lord sent thunder and hail-and fire mingled with the hail-and th...
THE FIRST ANGEL SOUNDED - The first in order, and indicating the first in the series of events that were to follow. AND THERE FOLLOWED HAIL - Hail is usually a symbol of the divine vengeance, as it ha...
CHAPTER S 8:6-11:18 The Sounding of the Seven Trumpets _ 1. The first trumpet (Revelation 8:6)_ 2. The second trumpet (Revelation 8:8) 3. The third trumpet (Revelation 8:10) 4. The
THE FIRST FOUR TRUMPETS. The first four trumpets, like the first four seals, form a connected group, and differ in character from the last three. They affect chiefly the natural world, which they over...
THE FIRST TRUMPET. The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was b...
The first angel sounded a blast on his trumpet, and there came hail and fire mixed with blood and launched themselves on the dry land; and a third part of the dry land was burned up, and a third part...
THE SILENCE AND THE THUNDER OF PRAYER (Revelation 8:1-5)...
ANGEL. Omit. FOLLOWED. came to be, as Revelation 8:1. EARTH. Add,. _i_ th all texts, "and the third part of the earth was burnt up". THIRD PART. See App-197. TREES. As in Revelation 7:1;...
The First Trumpet, Revelation 8:7 7. _The first angel_ Read, AND THE FIRST. _hail and fire mingled with blood_ Cf. Exodus 9:24: but here the _blood_marks the plague as more terrible, and more distinc...
Revelation 8:2; Revelation 8:6 to Revelation 11:19. THE SEVEN TRUMPETS...
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_THE FIRST TWO ANGELS SOUND REVELATION 8:7-9:_ This is not final judgment as only a third of everything is touched. These are warnings to call the wicked to repentance. The sounding of the first trump...
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THERE FOLLOWED HAIL, &C.— See the note on Revelation 8:2. Here is probably an allusion also to one of the plagues of Egypt, which was a destroying storm and tempest. See Exodus 9:23. It is a just obse...
_TOMLINSON'S COMMENTS_ CHAPTER VIII THE SEVENTH SEAL OPENED _Text (Revelation 8:1-13)_ 1 And when he opened the seventh seal, there followed a silence in heaven about the space of half an hour. 2 An...
Strauss-' Comments SECTION 25 Text Revelation 8:7 7 And the first sounded, and there followed hail and fire, mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of the earth wa...
The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up. The comm...
__ Throne Section-The Trumpets 15 The fact that they perform priestly functions shows that they are of the priest nation. No other nation will have access to the temple (Exo_19:6; 1Pe_2:9; Rev_1:6)....
8:7 upon (c-20) Or 'to,' _ eis_ , Matthew 12:20 . were (d-18) Or 'it was.'...
THE SEVENTH SEAL. THE FOUR TRUMPETS 1. The seventh seal is opened. Heaven waits in hushed awe for a brief period. REVELATION 8:2 TO REVELATION 11:19. The Seven Trumpets....
HAIL AND FIRE MINGLED, etc.] RV 'hail and fire, mingled,' etc. UPON THE EARTH] RV adds, 'and the third part of the earth was burnt up.'...
FROM NOW TO THE END OF TIME REVELATION _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 8 THE SEVENTH (7TH) *SEAL - REVELATION 8:1 V1 When the *Lamb opened the seventh (7th) *seal, there was silence in heaven for about h...
THE FIRST ANGEL... — Better, _And the first sounded, and there took place hail, and fire mingled in blood, and it was cast upon the earth; and the third part of the earth was burnt up, and the third p...
CHAPTER VI. THE FIRST SIX TRUMPETS. Revelation 8:1; Revelation 9:1. THE two consolatory visions of chap. 7 have closed, and the Seer returns to that opening of the seven Seals which had been interr...
Hail and fire, as in the fourth Egyptian plague, but with the added O.T. horror (see reff.) of a shower of blood instead of rain (see Chag. 12 _b_, where the sixth heaven is the storehouse of hail, st...
_The first four trumpets_....
The seventh seal includes the seven trumpets. What a contrast that pause must have been to the jubilant songs of the great multitude! In the Jewish temple, we are told, the musical instruments and cha...
The seventh and last seal on the scroll is broken. On earth uproar and strife follow as at Babel, but in heaven silence for half an hour. Then follows the sounding of trumpets initiating activities le...
God used hail and fire against his enemies and in judgment often in the Old Testament. (Job 38:22-23; Isaiah 28:1-2; Isaiah 30:30-31) The blood may be representative of the blood of the innocent marty...
(5) The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up. (5) The...
The first Angel sounded, &c. From this place to the eleventh verse of chapter xx. the visions are differently expounded. Some interpret them, without applying them to any particular events, as general...
The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up. The first t...
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 Seventh Seal I. INTRODUCTION A. During our study of chapter 6, (during the 5th seal), we caught a glimpse "of those who had been slain for the word of God and for the testimony which they held....
This at once distinguishes them from the heavenly worshipers; there is no temple there; the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple. He that sits on the throne tabernacles over these, as once ov...
THE FIRST ANGEL SOUNDED,.... Or blew his trumpet: AND THERE FOLLOWED HAIL AND FIRE, MINGLED WITH BLOOD; somewhat like one of the plagues of Egypt, Exodus 9:23; in which was hail mingled with fire, on...
The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up. Ver. 7. _H...
_The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood_ A proper representation of great commotions and disorders, attended with much bloodshed, and the destruction of many of t...
HAIL-FIRE-BLOOD; symbols of slaughter and ruin. THE THIRD PART; a definite part to denote a large part. Compare Ezekiel 5:2; Ezekiel 5:12....
THE SEVENTH SEAL OPENED: Introduction to the Trumpets The last of the seven seals is now opened (v. 1) and there is silence in heaven for about half an hour before John sees seven trumpets given to...
_ 7 The first angel sounded: And hail and fire followed, mingled with blood, and they were thrown to the earth. And a third of the trees were burned up, and all green grass was burned up._ A. The fir...
7-13 The first angel sounded the first trumpet, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood. A storm of heresies, a mixture of dreadful errors falling on the church, or a tempest of destructi...
THE FIRST ANGEL SOUNDED; the first of the seven angels to whom the seven trumpets were given, REVELATION 8:2, began to execute his commission; the consequents of which were HAIL AND FIRE MINGLED WITH...
Revelation 8:7 G2532 first G4413 angel G32 sounded G4537 (G5656) And G2532 hail G5464 and G2532 fire...
‘And the first sounded and there followed hail and fire, mingled with blood, and they were cast on the land (or earth), and the third part of the land (or earth) was burnt up, and the third part of th...
The first four Trumpets are evidently separated from the three which follow them , both by the words of Revelation 8:13 and by the fact that they refer to things of earth, while in the latter we are b...
Revelation 8:7. AND THE FIRST SOUNDED, AND THERE CAME HAIL AND FIRE MINGLED IN BLOOD, AND IT WAS CAST UPON THE EARTH. The language used both in this and the following judgments takes us back to the Ol...
SOUNDED (εσαλπισεν). First aorist active indicative of σαλπιζω, repeated with each angel in turn (Revelation 8:8; Revelation 8:10; Revelation 8:12;...
ANGEL (_ See Scofield) - (Hebrews 1:4). _...
CONTENTS: Opening of the seventh seal from which seven trumpets come. Four of the trumpet judgments announced. CHARACTERS: John, seven angels, angel with censor. CONCLUSION: Woe to those who, by thei...
Revelation 8:1. _When he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour._ The holy prophets in receiving revelations sought to be silent, calm, and abstracted...
HALL AND FIRE, MIXED WITH BLOOD. These _came pouring down._ Symbolic of destructive land disasters, which our Lord sends against those who persecute his church. _All_ land disasters should be viewed i...
REVELATION—NOTE ON REVELATION 8:6 Revelation’s third vision series (with a second interlude in Revelation 10:1) pictures judgments sent from heaven in response to the saints’ prayers. The fir
REVELATION—NOTE ON REVELATION 8:2 A brief vision of God’s heavenly temple, focusing on a golden incense altar, opens a new cycle of seven visions, each of which is introduced by an angelic trumpet bla...
These verses give us the sounding of four trumpets. As the four seals had a similarity in the four horses, so the four trumpets have a similarity, and may be considered together. At the sounding of th...
FOUR TRUMPET VOICES _CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ Revelation 8:1. SEVENTH SEAL.—“The main visions give us more external aspects; the interposed visions show the inner and more spiritual aspects. Th...
EXPOSITION REVELATION 8:1 AND WHEN. Καὶ ὅταν, instead of καὶ ὅτε (as in the other seals), is read in A, C, and gives a certain indefiniteness which does not belong to any of the rest (Alford)....
_7 THE FIRST ANGEL SOUNDED, AND THERE FOLLOWED HAIL AND FIRE MINGLED WITH BLOOD, AND THEY WERE CAST UPON THE EARTH: AND THE THIRD PART OF TREES WAS BURNT UP, AND ALL GREEN GRASS WAS BURNT UP._ This is...
And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour (Revelation 8:1). Silence can sometimes be an awesome thing, especially in a tremendous crowd of pe...
1 Peter 1:24; Exodus 9:23; Exodus 9:33; Ezekiel 13:10; Ezekiel 38:22
The first angel. Omit angel. Hail and fire mingled with blood [χ α λ α ζ α κ α ι π υ ρ μ ε μ ι γ μ ε ν α α ι μ α τ ι]. Insert ejn in before aimati blood. Instead of "with blood" as A. V., and Rev., we...
THE SEVEN TRUMPETS Revelation 8:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. The seventh seal. The sixth seal was opened in the closing statements of Revelation 6:1. The seventh chapter, which was studied in our last tw...
And the first sounded — And every angel continued to sound, till all which his trumpet brought was fulfilled and till the next began. There are intervals between the three woes, but not between the fo...