13 He performs great signs, so that he even makes fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men.
A. This beast that looks like a lamb, also tries to act like a religious power. He does great signs (miracles) to impress people and command obedience.
B. Men are caused to fear the great power that this beast demonstrates.
Verse Revelation 13:13. _AND HE DOETH GREAT WONDERS_] That we may have the greatest assurance possible that the two-horned beast is the spiritual Latin empire, it is called in Revelation 19:20, a pas...
AND HE DOETH GREAT WONDERS - “Signs” - σημεῖα sēmeia - the word commonly employed to denote “miracles” (compare the notes on Acts 2:19); and the representation here is, that the power referred to by...
THE SECOND BEAST. This represents the spirit of paganism, and more particularly the priestly system which was organised to enforce Cæ sar-worship. Revelation 13:11 f. The second beast is regarded as...
"And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men, and deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which be had power...
THE POWER OF THE BEAST (Revelation 13:1-18) I saw a beast coming up from the sea. It had ten horns and seven heads; and it had ten royal crowns on its horns; and on its heads I saw blasphemous names....
WONDERS. App-176. SO THAT. Greek. _hina._ FIRE. Add "also". FROM. Greek. _ek._ App-104. IN THE SIGHT OF. before, as Revelation 13:12....
_he doeth great wonders_ St Matthew 24:24; 2 Thessalonians 2:9. _maketh fire to come down_ The similarity to 2 Kings 1; 2 Kings 1, is best
ἽΝΑ ΚΑῚ ΠΥ͂Ρ ΠΟΙΗ͂Ι ΚΑΤΑΒΑΊΝΕΙΝ. B2 has καὶ πῦρ ἵνα ἐκ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ καταβαίνει. 13. ΚΑῚ ΠΟΙΕΙ͂ ΣΗΜΕΙ͂Α ΜΕΓΆΛΑ. St Matthew 24:24; 2 Thessalonians 2:9. ἽΝΑ ΚΑῚ ΠΥ͂Ρ.… The similarity to 1 Kings 18:1;...
THE BEAST FROM THE LAND...
_THE BEAST OUT OF THE EARTH REVELATION 13:11-14:_ The beast out of the earth was Emperor worship or false religion. This earth beast had two horns "like to the Lamb." The Lord Jesus Christ is the Lamb...
ΠΟΙΕΊ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΠΟΙΈΩ (G4160) делать, творить, ΠΟΙΉ _praes. conj. act. от_ ΠΟΙΈΩ (G4160) делать, причинять. _Conj._ с tva (G253) может быть придаточным цели или результата (RWP). ΚΑΤΑΒΑΊ...
I BEHELD ANOTHER BEAST, &C.— From the description of the _ten horned beast,_ or Roman state in general, the prophet passes to that of the _two horned beast,_ or Roman church in particular. _The beast...
_TOMLINSON'S COMMENTS_ CHAPTER XIII THE VISION OF THE TWO BEASTS _Text (Revelation 13:1-18)_ INTRODUCTION 1 and he stood upon the sand of the sea. And I saw a beast coming up out of the sea, having...
Strauss-' Comments SECTION 39 Text Revelation 13:11-18 11 And I saw another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like unto a lamb, and he spake as a dragon. 12 And he exerciseth all...
And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men, WONDERS - `signs.' SO THAT - so great that. MAKETH FIRE - `maketh even fire.' The very...
__ Temple Section-The Wild Beast 1 The _ dragon_, not John, was stationed so as to bring up the wild beast. 1 The beast from the sea (which is the equivalent of the abyss) has hitherto enacted the r...
THE TWO BEASTS Personification of the two powers inspired by the devil to persecute the Church. 1-10. The dragon stands by the sea (i.e. the Ægean Sea), from which there rises to meet him a 'beast,'...
WONDERS] RV 'signs': cp. Revelation 12:1. FIRE] The false prophet is a travesty of Elijah: cp. 1 Kings 18:38; 2 Kings 1:10....
FROM NOW TO THE END OF TIME REVELATION _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 13 THE *BEAST FROM THE SEA - REVELATION 13:1-10 V1 I saw a *beast. It came up from the sea. It had 10 *horns and 7 heads. There was...
AND CAUSETH THE EARTH... — Literally, _and he makes the earth and them that dwell in it that they shall worship the first wild beast, the stroke of whose death was healed; and he does signs great, so...
CHAPTER X. THE SECOND AND THIRD GREAT ENEMIES Of THE CHURCH. Revelation 13:1 WE have seen that the main purpose of chap. 12 was to introduce to our notice the dragon, or Satan, the first great enemy...
Revelation 13:11-18 : the Imperial _alter ego_ or the second beast, a monster from the land (identified afterwards with the traditional “false prophet,” Revelation 16:13; Revelation 19:20;...
THE BEAST AND HIS WORSHIPERS Revelation 13:1 The horns symbolize power; the heads, intelligence; and the beast, an earthly kingdom. The dragon must stand for Satan, who has wrought his greatest achie...
Still reviewing the process, a beast is seen as the agent of Satan. It is the Antichrist, who is counterfeit of Christ. He appears with the signs and symbols of kingship. He is characterized by attrac...
The two witnesses were given fire to devour those who would oppose them. (Revelation 11:5) The false prophet deceives the world with fire, making men believe he is equal to the witnesses. (Matthew 24:...
(19) And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men, (19) The second point of the things done by the beast, is the credit of great wonders or...
(11) And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon. (12) And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth...
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...
The Beastly Trinity I. INTRODUCTION A.Last week we studied the war that will take place in Heaven as Michael the Archangel heads up an angelic army against "the prince of the power of the air" (Ephe...
In Chapter 13 we have the clear and full development of Satan's instruments of evil. They are two the ten-horned and the two-horned beasts. To the first the dragon, who swept with his tail a third par...
AND HE DOETH GREAT WONDERS,.... Or miracles; not real, but pretended ones, lying wonders, which the Popish legends are full of the accounts of, as done by the priests, or by this or the other saint:...
And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men, Ver. 13. _And he doth great wonders_] By his art of magic; for true miracles he can do none,...
_And he doeth great wonders_ We have seen the greatness of the power and authority of the beast, and we shall now see what course he pursues to establish it. He pretends, like other false prophets, to...
DOETH GREAT WONDERS-MAKETH FIRE COME DOWN; the probable meaning of these words is, that having, by his signs and lying wonders, deceived the multitude and gained control over them, he uses the power t...
The second beast:...
AND HE DOETH GREAT WONDERS, SO THAT HE MAKETH FIRE COME DOWN FROM HEAVEN ON THE EARTH IN THE SIGHT OF MEN...
A BEAST COMING OUT OF THE SEA In contrast to seeing a great sign in heaven in Revelation 12:1, John now stands on the shore and sees a Beast rise out of the _sea_ (out of the Gentile or Western nation...
11-18 Those who understand the first beast to denote a worldly power, take the second to be also a persecuting and assumed power, which acts under the disguise of religion, and of charity to the soul...
AND HE DOETH GREAT WONDERS; _lying wonders,_ 2 THESSALONIANS 2:9, such as, by God's permission, false prophets might do, DEUTERONOMY 13:1,2. Prophets were to be judged true or false, not from any sign...
Revelation 13:13 G2532 performs G4160 (G5719) great G3173 signs G4592 so G2532 that G2443 makes G4160 ...
‘And he performs great signs that he should even make fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men. And he deceives those who dwell on the earth by reason of the signs which it was give...
Revelation 13:13. AND HE DOETH GREAT SIGNS THAT HE SHOULD EVEN MAKE FIRE TO COME DOWN OUT OF HEAVEN INTO THE EARTH BEFORE MEN. The ‘great signs' are again a symbol of what is done _by false prophetica...
The passage upon which we now enter describes the third great enemy of God's people, and closes with the mysterious indication of the number of the beast....
THAT HE SHOULD EVEN MAKE FIRE COME DOWN OUT OF HEAVEN (ινα κα πυρ ποιη εκ του ουρανου καταβαινειν). Purpose clause again with ινα and the present active subjunctive of ποιεω and the object infinitiv...
CONTENTS: The beast out of the sea and the beast out of the earth. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, John, false prophet, anti-christ, Satan. CONCLUSION: In the midst of the Tribulation period there shall ris...
The conscious mind, enquiring after the truth and certainty of revelation, is worthy of all the aid that science can afford. In Daniel, as stated above, on chap. Revelation 10:5, we have before us thr...
IT MADE FIRE COME DOWN. Tricks and false-miracles to "sell" people the State Religion. Also, since "fire" can symbolize the Holy Spirit, this can refer to what seem to be "outpourings of the Spirit....
_A beast rise up out of the sea._ THE DOMAIN OF ANTICHRIST I. It has a manifold development. In the commerce of the world, in the government of the world, in the campaigns of the world, in the liter...
_Deceiveth … by the means of those miracles._ MIRACLES: A COUNTERFEIT SUPERNATURALISM Miracles have ever been the chief evidence of the presence of what is worshipful and Divine. It is by these espec...
REVELATION—NOTE ON REVELATION 13:13 MAKING FIRE COME DOWN FROM HEAVEN. The false prophet (the second beast) does a miracle similar to Elijah’s to make people believe the first beast is divine (see...
REVELATION—NOTE ON REVELATION 13:11 A second beast rises out of the earth to recruit worshipers for the first beast. He gathers people using lying words and miracles. In John’s day, the imperial cult...
John saw another beast coming up out of the earth having two horns like a lamb. He does not look fierce and terrible like the first beast; he is somewhat like a lamb. But he is not as innocent as he l...
THE FIRST BEAST _CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ IN this and the preceding chapter the three chief adversaries of the real kingdom of God in the world are described. The first is the dragon, or Satan....
EXPOSITION REVELATION 13:1 AND I STOOD UPON THE SAND OF THE SEA. The Revised Version, agreeing with א, A, C, Vulgate, Syriac, AEthiopic, Armenian, Victorinus, reads ἐστάθη, "he stood." The Authori...
_13 AND HE DOETH GREAT WONDERS, SO THAT HE MAKETH FIRE COME DOWN FROM HEAVEN ON THE EARTH IN THE SIGHT OF MEN,_ This False Prophet will do great wonders. Apparently, he will have the power to call do...
John said, I stood upon the sand of the sea (Revelation 13:1), Probably the Mediterranean Sea. and I saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads, ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns...
1 Kings 18:38; 2 Kings 1:10; 2 Thessalonians 2:10; 2 Thessalonians 2:9;...
THE WAR IN HEAVEN Revelation 12:1 _and Revelation 13:1_ INTRODUCTORY WORDS It almost seems folly to try to speak on two Chapter s in Revelation, at one time. We realize we cannot do either one justi...