6 For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets, And You have given them blood to drink. For it is their just due.”
A. Who are these under this plague? They are the ones who have shed the blood of the saints. God, in response to this violent bloodshed, gives them blood to drink.
B. The angel also explains that this is “their just due.” They get what they deserve.
Verse Revelation 16:6. _THOU HAST GIVEN THEM BLOOD TO DRINK_] They thirsted after blood and massacred the saints of God; and now they have got blood to drink! It is said that when _Tomyris_, queen of...
FOR THEY HAVE SHED THE BLOOD OF SAINTS - The nations here referred to. They have been engaged in scenes of bloody persecution, and this is a just recompense. AND PROPHETS - Teachers of religion; minis...
CHAPTER 16 Revelation 16:1 . The great voice commands the seven angels to go on their way and to empty the bowls upon the earth (Ps. 49:24). And these vials of judgments affect not only the Roman Emp...
REVELATION 16:2. The first bowl. The wrath of God is poured out on the worshippers of the beast, _i.e._ Antichrist, _i.e._ Nero. MARK OF THE BEAST: REVELATION 13:16 *. WORSHIPPED HIS IMAGE: _ i.e._ th...
THE THIRD VIAL. And the third angel poured out his vial upon the rivers and fountains of waters; and they became blood. And. heard the angel of the waters say, Thou art righteous,. Lord, which art, a...
THE SEVEN BOWLS OF THE WRATH OF GOD (Revelation 16:1-21) It will be better to read through the whole chapter before we study it in detail. And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying to the seven...
HAVE. Omit. SAINTS. See Acts 9:13. PROPHETS. App-189. FOR. The texts omit....
_of saints and prophets_ See Revelation 11:18; Revelation 18:20. _for they are worthy_ Omit "for:" but we may compare Revelation 3:4, where a very different judgement is grounded on the same weighty w...
ΑἿΜΑ. Tisch[541] reads αἵματα with א, a Hebraism. [541] Tischendorf: eighth edition; where the text aud notes differ the latter are cited. ἜΔΩΚΑΣ. So Text. Rec[542] and Tisch[543], Treg[544] and W....
THE THIRD VIAL...
_THE FIRST THREE VIALS OF GOD'S WRATH REVELATION 16:1-7:_ This voice that speaks has to be the voice of God because no one else could enter the Temple because of the smoke. The message to "the seven a...
ΈΞΈΧΕΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΈΚΧΈΩ (G1632) выливать. [δ]ΈΔΩΚΑΣ _perf. ind. act. от_ ΔΊΔΩΜΙ (G1325) давать, ΠΙΕΊΝ _aor. act. inf. от_ ΚΊΝΩ (G4095) пить. Эпэкз. _inf._ после гл. ΔΈΔΩΚΑΣ (RWP). ΆΞΙΟΊ ΕΊ...
THE SECOND ANGEL POURED OUT HIS VIAL, &C.— This vial _is poured out upon the sea,_ and the sea becomes as _the blood of a dead man,_ or as congealed blood; and, in like manner, under the second trumpe...
_TOMLINSON'S COMMENTS_ CHAPTER XVI _Text (Revelation 16:1-21)_ INTRODUCTION 1 And I heard a great voice out of the temple, saying to the seven angels, Go ye, and pour out the seven bowls of the wra...
Strauss-' Comments SECTION 52 Text Revelation 16:4-7 4 And the third poured out his bowl into the rivers and the fountains of the waters; and it became blood. 5 And I heard the angel of the waters sa...
For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink; for they are worthy. (; ; , end.) Anticipation of...
__ Temple Section-The Bowls 3 This corresponds very closely with the second trumpet (Rev_8:8). That was limited to a third and affected the ships. The blood here is ''as if of a dead man." 4 The th...
THE SEVEN BOWLS In the last chapter there was a pause of suspense, during which the angels of the 'plagues' were seen coming forth from the Presence of God to pour out His wrath. In this chapter the...
FROM NOW TO THE END OF TIME REVELATION _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 16 THE 7 BOWLS OF GOD’S ANGER - REVELATION 16:1-21 V1 Then I heard a loud voice from the *temple. It said to the 7 *angels, ‘Go. Po...
FOR THEY HAVE SHED... — Better, _Because they shed_ (not, “have shed,” but _did shed,_ or _pour out_)_, and blood didst Thou give them; they are worthy._ “For” is to be omitted; the sentence has a sta...
(5-7) But this state of things is declared to be a just retribution, and reasonably so; for the corruption arises because the true power of life has been rejected: it is the refusal of the good, the w...
Revelation 16:1 CHAPTER XII THE SEVEN BOWLS. Revelation 15:1; Revelation 16:1. NOTHING can more clearly prove that the Revelation of St John is not written upon chronological principl
The retribution once threatened on Jerusalem and the Jews (Matthew 23:35) is now transferred apparently to Rome, the later antagonist of the faith (_cf._ on Revelation 18:24). Once the Romans made Chr...
No more drinking water. The justice of this particular plague is acknowledged by (Revelation 16:5-6) the angel of the element in question and by (7) the altar (personified here, in line of Revelation...
RECOMPENSE FOR THE BLOOD OF SAINTS Revelation 16:1 It makes us pause to hear that angels, who rejoice over one sinner that repenteth, are employed in these terrible judgments. It is very startling to...
A condensed and graphic description of the processes of judgment on the rebellious and sinful race follows. Evil has wrought itself out to its most terrible expression, and now it is to be smitten wit...
Like the third trumpet (Revelation 8:11), this bowl affects the fresh water. Its result is similar to that of the first plague against Egypt except they could dig for fresh water, and this extends to...
(4) And the third angel poured out his vial upon the rivers and fountains of waters; and they became blood. (5) And I heard the angel of the waters say, Thou art righteous, O Lord, which art, and wast...
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 Bowl Judgments At a children's missions conference I asked, "Where is the safest place in the world?" Matthew age 7, answered in all seriousness, "I think it's where God wants you to be!" I. INT...
The first vial of wrath brought the utmost distress and shameful misery on all who had taken the mark of the beast. The second brought the power of moral death on the mass of peoples; all who were amo...
FOR THEY HAVE SHED THE BLOOD OF SAINTS AND PROPHETS,.... Which shows that rivers and fountains cannot be literally understood, but men are designed, wicked and bloody men; and it is notorious to all,...
For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink; for they are worthy. Ver. 6. _For they have shed_] As Minerius that monster, the cruel Duke of Alva, bloo...
_And the third angel poured out his vial upon the rivers a fountains of waters_, &c. Or those territories of the Papacy which were as necessary to it as rivers and fountains are to a country: the kind...
THEY ARE WORTHY; deserve their awful doom. Men often suffer calamities greater than those they have wickedly inflicted, and may read their sins in their punishment....
THE SEVEN VIALS OF WRATH ARE POURED OUT. The emptying of the first three vials:...
FOR THEY HAVE SHED THE BLOOD OF SAINTS AND PROPHETS, AND THOU HAST GIVEN THEM BLOOD TO DRINK; FOR THEY ARE WORTHY....
THE FIRST BOWL POURED OUT (vv. 1-2) A great voice from the temple now commands the execution of judgment. Grace has been patient; justice has not been hasty, but is to be apportioned out precisely...
1-7 We are to pray that the will of God may be done on earth as it is done in heaven. Here is a succession of terrible judgments of Providence; and there seems to be an allusion to several of the pla...
Because of their persecutions of, and cruelty towards, God's faithful ministers and people, which rendered the spilling of their blood but a condign punishment suited to their sin....
Revelation 16:6 For G3754 shed G1632 (G5656) blood G129 saints G40 and G2532 prophets G4396 And G2532 given...
‘And I heard the angel of the waters saying, “You are righteous, you who are and were, you holy one, because you did thus judge. For they poured out the blood of God's people (saints) and prophets, an...
Revelation 16:5-6. AND I HEARD THE ANGEL OF THE WATERS SAYING, THOU ART RIGHTEOUS, WHICH ART, AND WHICH WAST, THE HOLY ONE. No episode of this kind had intervened at the close of the third trumpet. Bu...
FOR (οτ). Second causal conjunction (οτ) explanatory of the first οτ, like the two cases of οτ in Revelation 15:4.THEY POURED OUT (εξεχεαν). Second aorist active indicative of εκχεω with -αν inst...
CONTENTS: Vials of God's wrath poured out. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, John, 7 angels, beast, 3 demons. CONCLUSION: There shall, in the great Tribulation period, be poured out such manifestations of the...
Revelation 16:1. _Pour out the vials of the wrath of God upon the earth._ The catastrophes of nations have their origin in heaven. “Oh Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff of my indignation....
I HEARD THE ANGEL. He declares the justice of what God is doing! God's people have cried out for vengeance (Revelation 6:9-11); and God heard them and promised to answer these prayers (Revelation 8:1-...
REVELATION—NOTE ON REVELATION 16:1 The first four bowls inflict plagues on the earth, sea, rivers and springs, and sun (compare Revelation 8:7). The destruction poured out from the bowls is t
REVELATION—NOTE ON REVELATION 16:4 With the THIRD bowl, RIVERS and SPRINGS (sources of drinking water) will be turned to BLOOD. “
Chapter sixteen relates the pouring out of the vials. And they bear a close resemblance to the opening of the seals and the sounding of the trumpets in the preceding section of the Book. As previously...
THE SEVEN VIALS, OR BOWLS _CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ “THIS chapter describes the pouring out of the seven vials—that is to say, the extremest punishments of God—upon the throne and empire of the...
EXPOSITION In the judgments of the _vials, _or _bowls, _we have undoubtedly a recapitulation of what has been already foretold in the trumpet and seal visions. This recapitulation is not a mere repeti...
_4 AND THE THIRD ANGEL POURED OUT HIS VIAL UPON THE RIVERS AND FOUNTAINS OF WATERS; AND THEY BECAME BLOOD._ _ 5 AND I HEARD THE ANGEL OF THE WATERS SAY, THOU ART RIGHTEOUS, O LORD, WHICH ART, AND W...
In the fifteenth chapter of the book of Revelation, we had sort of the introduction to chapter sixteen, as we saw the seven angels in heaven who are given the seven final plagues which complete the ju...
2 Kings 24:4; Deuteronomy 32:42; Deuteronomy 32:43; Hebrews 10:29;...
For they are worthy. Omit for....
MERCY AND PUNISHMENT Revelation 14:1, _Revelation 15:1; Revelation 16:1_ INTRODUCTORY WORDS As we open our study on three Chapter s in Revelation, we find various scenes in chapte
Thou host given then, blood to drink — Men do not drink out of the sea, but out of fountains and rivers. Therefore this is fitly added here. They are worthy — Is subjoined with a beautiful abruptness....