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Revelation 9:16-21

The army of horsemen Revelation 9:16-21: Sadly man would not listen to God so he sent froth fire and brimstone. This is reminiscent of Sodom and Gomorrah in Genesis 19:24-28. Fire and brimstone was a picture of the destruction of wicked nations.

The wicked Roman Empire had received warnings from God to repent. Sadly, the Bible says, "Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts." (Revelation 9:21) They continued in their ungodliness and false worship. Revelation was written to help Christians of John's day face the evil world in which they lived; and the same truth that helped them can help the Christians of all ages!

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Revelation 9:16. _TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND THOUSAND_] Δυο μυριαδες μυριαδων· _Two myriads of myriads_; that is, _two hundred millions_; an army that was never yet got together from the foundation o...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    AND THE NUMBER OF THE ARMY OF THE HORSEMEN - It is to be observed here that the strength of the army seemed to be cavalry. In the former plagues there is no distinct mention of horsemen; but here what...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 9 Revelation 9:1 . The remaining three trumpets have a “woe” attached to each. This is announced in the last verse of the preceding chapter, where the word angel should be “eagle.” An eagle,...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    THE SIXTH TRUMPET OR THE SECOND WOE. The loosing of the four angels of death, and the slaughter of a third part of the human race. REVELATION 9:13. THE HORNS: the corners. THE GOLDEN ALTAR: _cf. Rev...

  • B. W. Johnson's Bible Commentary

    2 The term here used for year is not _Kairos,_ the prophetic year of twelve months, or 360 days, but _eniautos,_ the regular solar year of 365. days. Hence the period named in the text would be 365. p...

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

    THE UNLOCKING OF THE ABYSS (Revelation 9:1-2) 9:1,2 The fifth angel sounded a blast on his trumpet, and I saw a star failing from heaven on the earth, and to him there was given the key of the shaft...

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

    The sixth angel sounded a blast on his trumpet and I heard a voice from the four horns of the altar saying to the sixth angel who had the trumpet: "Release the four angels who are bound at the great r...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    ARMY. armies. TWO... THOUSAND. Literally two myriads of myriads,. literal number which John heard and recorded. Compare Revelation 7:4. See App-197. AND. Omit....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _of the horsemen_ It is implied that the _way_the four angels will slay the third part of men will be by means of a vast invading army. The word rendered "horsemen" is not here plural but collective,...

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    ΤΩ͂Ν ΣΤΡΑΤΕΥΜΆΤΩΝ. Primas[332] reads _militantium_ = στρατευομένων. [332] Primasius, edited by Haussleiter. ΔΎΟ ΜΥΡΙΆΔΕΣ ΜΥΡΙΆΔΩΝ. With א. Lach[333] Tisch[334] W. H[335] and Weiss read δισμυριάδες μυ...

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    THE SIXTH TRUMPET. THE SECOND WOE...

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    Revelation 8:2; Revelation 8:6 to Revelation 11:19. THE SEVEN TRUMPETS...

  • Charles Rose Commentaries

    ΆΡΙΘΜΌΣ (G706) число, ΣΤΡΆΤΕΥΜΑ (G4753) армия, ΙΠΠΙΚΌΣ (G2461) принадлежащий лошади, всадник. Армия состоит из кавалерии (Swete). ΉΚΟΥΣΑ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΆΚΟΎΩ (G191) слышать....

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    THE NUMBER OF THE ARMY, &C.— A description is here given of the forces, and of the means and instruments bywhich the Othmans should effect the ruin of the Eastern empire. Their army is described as ve...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    Strauss-' Comments SECTION 31 Text Revelation 9:13-21 13 And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the horns of the golden altar which is before God, 14 one saying to the sixth angel that...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand: and I heard the number of them. Compare with these 200,000,000, ; . The hosts are evidently, from their numbers and ap...

  • Concordant Commentary on the New Testament by A. E. Knoch

    __ Throne Section-The Locusts 8 The detailed description of these locusts forbids our taking them in any way but as literal creatures just as they are described, Their time limit is the same as natu...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE FIFTH AND SIXTH TRUMPETS These herald woes upon the ungodly and idolatrous, inflicted both by demonic and by human agency. 1-12. The fifth trumpet initiates the first of the three woes. A star fa...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    FROM NOW TO THE END OF TIME REVELATION _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 9 THE FIFTH (5TH) *TRUMPET - REVELATION 9:1-12 V1 The fifth (5th) *angel’s *trumpet sounded. And I saw a star that had fallen from...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    AND THE NUMBER... — Translate, _And the number of the armies of the cavalry was two myriads of myriads. I heard the number of them._ The writer heard, perhaps from some herald angel, the number of thi...

  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

    The second woe is an irruption of fiendish cavalry....

  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

    _The sixth trumpet blast_....

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    IMPENITENT IN SPITE OF ALL Revelation 9:12 _ The river Euphrates_ possibly stands for nations and hordes of men emanating from that region; and these verses are held by a large number of expositors t...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    At the sounding of the fifth trumpet the procedure of judgment takes a new form, passing from the material to the spiritual. The loosing of Satan is suggestive of the manifestation of satanic agency u...

  • Gary Hampton Commentaries

    This army of 200,000,000, which must describe a complete number, would surely terrorize anyone. Its destructive work includes the killing of one-third of mankind and should serve as a powerful reminde...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Twenty thousand times ten thousand, or two hundred millions. Such an immense multitude cannot be accounted for, but by supposing a great part of it consist of the infernal beings in human form, as it...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (13) And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God, (14) Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    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...

  • John Brown Commentaries Selected Books of the Bible

    Hell on Earth Part 2 A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    The fifth angel sounds; and one who should have been by position the instrument of light and governmental order over the earth was seen as having lost his place; and the power to let loose the full da...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND THE NUMBER OF THE ARMY OF THE HORSEMEN,.... This shows that the four angels before mentioned were men, and design generals of armies, or armies of men, even of horsemen; and manifestly point at th...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And the number of the army of the horsemen _were_ two hundred thousand thousand: and I heard the number of them. Ver. 16. _Two hundred thousand thousand_] Not so many at any one time, but in several...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _The number of the army of horsemen were two hundred thousand_ A description is here given of the forces, and of the means and instruments by which the Othmans should effect the ruin of the eastern em...

  • Justin Edwards' Family Bible New Testament (1851)

    TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND; a definite, for a very large indefinite number....

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    The sounding of the sixth trumpet:...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    AND THE NUMBER OF THE ARMY OF THE HORSEMEN WERE TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND THOUSAND; AND I HEARD THE NUMBER OF THEM. The apostle here inserts a remark which has a deep significance: The first woe has passed...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    THE FIFTH TRUMPET: A DEMON INFESTATION (vv. 1-12) The sounding of the fifth trumpet discloses "a star _fallen_ from heaven:" it is _already_ fallen (v. 1). This is the same star that fell under the...

  • Manly Luscombe Commentary on New Testament

    _ 16 Now the number of the army of the horsemen was two hundred million; I heard the number of them._ A. The army is numbered at 200 million. Remember “2” is the number of strength and courage. B. H...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    13-21 The sixth angel sounded, and here the power of the Turks seems the subject. Their time is limited. They not only slew in war, but brought a poisonous and ruinous religion. The antichristian gen...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    He saith nothing of the infantry, but leaves us to conjecture how great that must be, from the number of the horse; we must not think there was precisely this number, but the meaning is, that the armi...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Revelation 9:16 Now G2532 number G706 army G4753 horsemen G2461 hundred G1417 million G3461 G3461 G2532 heard...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘And the numbers of the armies of the horsemen was two hundred million, I heard the number of them. And this is how I saw the horse in the vision, and those who sat on them, they have breastplates as...

  • Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary on the NT (4 vols)

    Revelation 9:16-17. A further part of the vision is unfolded, in which we are introduced to HORSEMEN, as if we were already familiar with them, although nothing had been said of them before. The numbe...

  • Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary on the NT (4 vols)

    The verses before us contain an account of the sixth trumpet...

  • Robertson's Word Pictures of the New Testament

    OF THE HORSEMEN (του ιππικου). Old adjective ιππικος from ιππος (horse), equestrian. The neuter articular singular το ιππικον, the horse or the cavalry in contrast with το πεζικον (the infantry), h...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Judgments of the fifth and sixth trumpets. CHARACTERS: God, angels, John, Abaddon. CONCLUSION: So fearful and unbearable will conditions be in the Great Tribulation days when Satanic powers...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Revelation 9:1. _The fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star,_ the vile impostor Mahomed, _fall from heaven unto the earth. And to him was given the key of the bottomless pit:_ it should read, the keys...

  • The Bible Study New Testament

    THE FOUR ANGELS WERE RELEASED. War is in God's decree (even though it is Satan who actually brings it); and the hour, day, month, and year are fixed. These angels are allowed to kill one third of all...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    REVELATION—NOTE ON REVELATION 9:16 TWICE TEN THOUSAND TIMES TEN THOUSAND. Two hundred million is an incredibly large army. But it is not as large as the number of those who worship the Lamb ...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    REVELATION—NOTE ON REVELATION 9:13 This is the last limited judgment and warning blast. When the seventh and last trumpet sound, “the mystery of God will be fulfilled” (Revelation 10:7; co

  • The Message from Patmos by David Scott Clark

    The sixth angel sounded the sixth trumpet, and when the trumpet sounded a voice commanded the sixth angel to loose the four angels that are bound in the great river Euphrates. The river Euphrates was...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ Revelation 9:13. SIXTH ANGEL SOUNDED.—This woe is an invasion of foreign nations coming out of the East, and causing everywhere ruin and disaster. Revelation 9:14. LOO...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION REVELATION 9:1 AND THE FIFTH ANGEL SOUNDED, AND I SAW A STAR FALL FROM HEAVEN UNTO THE EARTH; _a star from heaven fallen unto the earth _(Revised Version); not _saw a star fall. _(For the...

  • The Revelation of Jesus Christ Through the Ages by Donald A. Koenig

    _12 ONE WOE IS PAST; AND, BEHOLD, THERE COME TWO WOES MORE HEREAFTER._ After the five months of torment by these hellish creatures, one woe is past but there are still two more left to come when the...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the eaRuth (Revelation 9:1): And it is interesting how that a great mountain of fire burning, a star falling, a star falling, these...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Daniel 11:40; Daniel 7:10; Ezekiel 23:6; Ezekiel 38:4; Psalms 68:17;...

  • Vincent's Word Studies in the New Testament (4 Volume Set)

    Of the horsemen [τ ο υ ι π π ι κ ο υ]. Singular number, like the English the horse or the cavalry. Two hundred thousand thousand [δ υ ο μ υ ρ ι α δ ε ς μ υ ρ ι α δ ω ν]. Lit., two ten - thousands of t...

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