REVELATION CHAPTER 15 REVELATION 15:1 The seven angels with the seven last plagues. REVELATION 15:2 The song of them which overcome the beast. REVELATION 15:5 This seven angels receive the seven golden vials full of the wrath of God. AND I SAW ANOTHER SIGN IN HEAVEN, GREAT AND MARVELLOUS; that is, a... [ Continue Reading ]
This SEA OF GLASS (as our learned More thinks) hath either an allusion to the _sea of glass like unto crystal, _ reflected upon by the _lamps of fire burning before the throne, _ REVELATION 4:5,6, or to the waters of the Red Sea congealed (while the Israelites passed over) reflected upon by the pill... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THEY SING THE SONG OF MOSES THE SERVANT OF GOD; the song which Moses sang upon God's delivery of the Israelites from the danger of Pharaoh, which we have, EXODUS 15:1; not that they sang those words, but to the same sense. AND THE SONG OF THE LAMB; a song to the honour of Christ, to the same sen... [ Continue Reading ]
Acknowledging, that for this God deserved to be worshipped and served by all the world, because of his holiness, much seen in the justice and truth of his ways; declaring their faith and hope, that now all nations should own and acknowledge Christ, and be subject unto him, now that his judgments upo... [ Continue Reading ]
Here is a plain allusion to the Jewish tabernacle or temple, in which was the holy place, and the holy of holies; into the latter the high priest only entered. There were kept in the ark the two tables of God's law, often called _the testimonies of God._ From this TABERNACLE OF THE TESTIMONY proceed... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE SEVEN ANGELS; the seven ministers of God's vengeance on antichrist, to whom the vials were given. CAME OUT OF THE TEMPLE; that is, out of _the tabernacle of the testimony; _ for in Moses's tabernacle there was only this inward court for the priests, the people worshipped without. They came ... [ Continue Reading ]
AND ONE OF THE FOUR BEASTS; one of those four beasts _round about the throne,_ REVELATION 4:6. GAVE UNTO THE SEVEN ANGELS; the seven angels mentioned REVELATION 15:6. SEVEN GOLDEN VIALS: a vial is a plain pot or glass with a wide mouth, used to drink in: these were FULL OF THE WRATH OF GOD, WHO LIVE... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE TEMPLE; that is, the church, as _temple_ most ordinarily signifieth in this book. WAS FILLED WITH SMOKE: by _smoke, _ doubtless, is meant confusions and troubles. FROM THE GLORY OF GOD, AND FROM HIS POWER; caused by God's glorious manifestation of his power, in bringing antichrist to ruin, w... [ Continue Reading ]