Rejoice; all the good on earth and in heaven will exult when her power to injure ceases. Events which bring consternation to the wicked fill the righteous with joy; not because they delight in the misery of the wicked, but because God is holy, just, and good in all his judgments.
Verse Revelation 18:20. _REJOICE OVER HER_, THOU _HEAVEN_] This is grand and sublime; the fall of this bad city was cause of grief to bad men. But as this city was a _persecutor of the godly_, and an...
REJOICE OVER HER - Over her ruin. There is a strong contrast between this language and what precedes. Kings, merchants, and seamen, who had been countenanced and sustained by her in the indulgence of...
CHAPTER 18 Revelation 18:1 . Babylon is now seen under another aspect. In the former chapter we have the religious center of Rome and her wicked idolatries, in the present chapter it includes also th...
THE REJOICING IN HEAVEN OVER THE FALL OF ROME. Revelation 18:20. judged your judgement: vindicated the cause of the Christian Church against Rome. REVELATION 18:21. TOOK UP A STONE: a symbolical act...
THE DOOM OF ROME (Revelation 18:1-3)...
OVER. App-104., with texts. HOLY. saints (see Acts 9:13) and. APOSTLES, PROPHETS. App-189. HATH AVENGED. Literally judged your judgment (App-122 and App-177); i.e. hath folly avenged you. Figure of...
The Rejoicing over them in Heaven, Revelation 18:20-24 20. _Rejoice over her_ Revelation 12:12. There may be a reminiscence of Jeremiah 51:48. We cannot tell if the words are those of the ange
THE REJOICING OVER HER IN HEAVEN...
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_GREAT JOY AT THE SIGHT OF BABYLON'S RUIN -- REVELATION 18:20-24:_ The righteous were affected very differently by the fall of Rome. God's people were to celebrate the fact that He had executed vengea...
ΕΎΦΡΑΊΝΟΥ _praes. imper. med. от_ ΕΎΦΡΑΊΝΩ (G2165) ликовать, ΈΚΡΙΝΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΚΡΊΝΩ (G2919) судить, ΚΡΊΜΑ (G2917) суд....
AND THE KINGS OF THE EARTH, &C.— In the very solemn manner described in the verses before us, by an angel, and by a voice from heaven, is declared the fall of Rome, and her destruction by fire; and th...
_TOMLINSON'S COMMENTS_ CHAPTER XVIII BABYLON IS FALLEN _Text (Revelation 18:1-24)_ 1 After these things I saw another angel coming down out of heaven, having great authority; and the earth was light...
Strauss-' Comments SECTION 59 Text Revelation 18:1-20 After these things I saw another angel coming down out of heaven, having great authority; and the earth was lightened with his glory. 2 And he cr...
Rejoice over her, thou heaven, and ye holy apostles and prophets; for God hath avenged you on her. HOLY APOSTLES. So C; but 'Aleph (') A B, Vulgate, Syriac, Coptic, Andreas, 'ye saints and ye apos...
__ Temple Section-Babylon's Destruction 16 "Gilded" seems to be a figure for all mere outward show, for it is with gold, and precious stones and pearls. 21 In the East the millstone is used to grin...
THE FALL OF BABYLON In the last c., the fall of Rome, and the manner of its fall, were prophetically announced. In this c., the greatness of the tragedy is shown by songs of thanksgiving and of lamen...
FROM NOW TO THE END OF TIME REVELATION _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 18 THE FUNERAL OF BABYLON - REVELATION 18:1-24 V1 Then I saw another *angel come down from heaven. This *angel had great power. The...
(4-20) The voice out of heaven warns the faithful to leave her, and describes her fall....
THE CALL TO THE HOLY TO REJOICE. (20) REJOICE OVER HER.... — Better, _Rejoice over her, O heaven, and the saints, and the apostles, and the prophets, because God has judged your judgment on_ (or, _out...
CHAPTER XIV. THE FALL OF BABYLON. Revelation 18:1. BABYLON has fallen. We have now the Divine proclamation of her fate, and the lamentation of the world over the doom to which she has been consigne...
Revelation 18:9-20 : the wailing on earth, by kings (Revelation 18:9-10), merchants (at length, 11 16), and seafaring men (Revelation 18:17-20), imitated from the finer and more elaborate passag
This verse interrupts the sequence of 19 and 21 in which the ruin of Rome is illustrated by the dramatic action of the angel. The awkward shift from description to an apostrophe, and the evidently Chr...
FALLEN LIKE A STONE INTO THE SEA Revelation 18:14 This section delineates the utter desolation which will ensue when the judgments of God have finished their mission against professing but unfaithful...
The vision of the destruction of Babylon as directly resulting from the government of God is now given. It is announced, "Fallen is Babylon." Her condition is described as that of a habitation of demo...
God's people, in contrast to the worldly minded, are told to rejoice over the punishment of sin. Just so, the readers of the book could rejoice because the ultimate victory of good and righteousness h...
Rejoice over her, (12) [thou] heaven, and [ye] holy apostles and prophets; for God hath avenged you on her. (12) The other consequence on the ruin of Babylon, is the exultation or rejoicing of the go...
Rejoice....heaven, the holy apostles and prophets, and all the holy ministers of the gospel: and holy men are invited here to rejoice, because the divine justice is accomplished in the ruin of that gu...
Rejoice over her, thou heaven, and ye holy apostles and prophets; for God hath avenged you on her. I admire this verse. It comes in with a delightful tide of joy, in the midst of the troubled waters....
It is necessary that we should all bear in mind, if we have not observed it before, that Revelation 17:1-18 does not pursue the chronological course of the prophecy. It is a description, and not one o...
Babylon Has Fallen Psalms 13:2...How long will my enemy be exalted over me? (NKJV) Psalms 35:17 Lord, how long will You look on?... (NKJV) Psalms 74:10 O God, how long will the adversary reproach? Wil...
Chapter 18 announces the judgment. The one difficulty here is Verse 4 (Revelation 18:4), coming where it is; but, as every difficulty in scripture, it leads into further light. The destruction of Baby...
REJOICE OVER HER, THOU HEAVEN,.... This is said by the voice from heaven, Revelation 18:4 which having called upon the saints to come out of Babylon, and to take vengeance on her, now calls upon all g...
Rejoice over her, _thou_ heaven, and _ye_ holy apostles and prophets; for God hath avenged you on her. Ver. 20. _Thou heaven_] _i.e._ The Church on earth. _ And ye holy apostles, &c._] _i.e._ Ye pas...
_The merchants, ship-masters, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, weep and wail_ For they can no longer import or export commodities for her, or convey strangers to and fro, for there is an end...
REJOICE OVER HER, THOU HEAVEN AND YE HOLY APOSTLES AND PROPHETS; FOR GOD HATH AVENGED YOU ON HER. Just as the kings and rulers before them, so here the merchants bewail the fall of the anti-Christian...
These features are so prominent that they are treated in another paragraph:...
GOD'S JUDGMENT OF GREAT BABYLON In Revelation 17:1 we have seen that the destruction of Great Babylon is by the hand of the Beast and his ten horns. Now, in Revelation 18:1, the judgment is seen to be...
_ 20 “Rejoice over her, O heaven, and you holy apostles and prophets, for God has avenged you on her!”_ A. God promises that vengeance belongs to Him. Our God will repay the evil that we suffer. B....
20-24 That which is matter of rejoicing to the servants of God on earth, is matter of rejoicing to the angels in heaven. The apostles, who are honoured and daily worshipped at Rome in an idolatrous m...
REJOICE OVER HER, THOU HEAVEN; that is, over her ruin, which is not a more proper object for the sorrow and mourning of all her adherents and dependants, than of the joy of all spiritual, heavenly per...
Revelation 18:20 Rejoice G2165 (G5744) over G1909 her G846 heaven G3772 and G2532 holy G40 apostles G652 and...
THE VERDICT OF HEAVEN (REVELATION 18:20). ‘Rejoice over her, you Heaven, and you people of God (saints) and you Apostles and you prophets, for God has judged your judgment on her.' The judgment is no...
Revelation 18:20. The judgment of God upon the guilty city is supposed to have taken place. While it is a source of lamentation to the wicked, it is a joy to the righteous, and they are now summoned t...
REJOICE OVER HER (Ευφραινου επ' αυτη). Present middle imperative of ευφραινω, for which verb see Revelation 11:10, used there of the joy of the wicked over the death of the two witnesses, just the...
May the Spirit of God take away the veil from our eyes while we read what was revealed to the beloved apostle John! Here we have the prophecy of the destruction of the great anti-Christian system of B...
CONTENTS: Last form of apostate Christendom and the warning to God's people. The human and the angelic views of Babylon. CONCLUSION: As there is to be an ecclesiastical Babylon («confusion») heading u...
Revelation 18:1. _Another angel came down from heaven and the earth was lightened with his glory._ This was an angel of the highest order, _having great power._ It may be the Lord himself, the mission...
BE GLAD! The world makes God's people suffer (_see note on_ Revelation 2:20). God will judge the world in vengeance! He does this again and again by making Babylon fall....
REVELATION—NOTE ON REVELATION 18:20 Everyone in HEAVEN (SAINTS AND APOSTLES AND PROPHETS) REJOICE in God’s JUDGMENT of Babylon (compare...
REVELATION—NOTE ON REVELATION 18:9 Laments come from kings, merchants, and sailors who profited from Babylon’s power and wealth. ⇐...
Another voice from heaven bids the people of God to come out of her, for her sins have reached unto heaven. God's people must ever be a separate people, not conformed to the world, but transformed. Th...
FOR the reasons given at the foot of page 553, no suggestions for exegetical or homiletical treatment are given in connection with chap. 18...
EXPOSITION REVELATION 18:1 AND AFTER THESE THINGS I SAW ANOTHER ANGEL COME DOWN FROM HEAVEN; _after _[omitting "and"]… _coming down, _etc. The usual form of introduction to a new vision (cf. Revelat...
CHAPTER 18 - BABYLON THE GREAT EXPLAINED The focus of the previous chapter was about the judgment of the harlot religious system that rode the Beast. The main focus of this chapter will be about the j...
_20 REJOICE OVER HER, THOU HEAVEN, AND YE HOLY APOSTLES AND PROPHETS; FOR GOD HATH AVENGED YOU ON HER._ Heaven and the apostles and prophets rejoice over her destruction, because the world religious...
Now after these things I saw another angel (Revelation 18:1) It may be one of the seven. It doesn't really declare or it could be outside of the seven. It is just another angel as far as we know. com...
2 Peter 3:2; Deuteronomy 32:42; Ephesians 2:20; Ephesians 3:5;...
Hath avenged you on her [ε κ ρ ι ν ε ν τ ο κ ρ ι μ α υ μ ω ν ε ξ α υ τ η ς]. Rev., more literally, hath judged your judgment on her or from her. The idea is that of exacting judgment from [ε ξ]. Compa...
MYSTIC AND COMMERCIAL BABYLON Revelation 17:1 _and Revelation 18:1_ INTRODUCTORY WORDS The seventeenth chapter of Revelation discusses what we call mystic Babylon; and the eighteenth presents commer...
Rejoice over her, thou heaven — That is, all the inhabitants of it; and more especially, ye saints; and among the saints still more eminently, ye apostles and prophets....
Note here, 1. That as BABYLON'S ruin was matter of great grief and sorrow to the fore-mentioned mourners who merchandised and traded with her; so it is matter of great joy and rejoicing to all spiritu...