_THE TWO WITNESSES PROPHESY: THEY HAVE POWER TO SHUT HEAVEN, THAT IT RAIN NOT: THE BEAST SHALL FIGHT AGAINST THEM; AND KILL THEM: THEY LIE UNBURIED, AND, AFTER THREE DAYS AND AN HALF, RISE AGAIN. THE SECOND WOE IS PAST. THE SEVENTH TRUMPET SOUNDETH._ _Anno Domini 96._... [ Continue Reading ]
_REVELATION 11:1_.— From this to the nineteenth chapter, we have the _third_ and longest _period_ of this prophesy, distinguished by the _seven vials,_ as the former periods were by _seven trumpets,_ and _seven seals._ As this is a period much more extensive than either of the foregoing, it seems to... [ Continue Reading ]
I WILL GIVE POWER UNTO MY TWO WITNESSES, &C.— The sacred writer assures us that God would raise up some true and faithful _witnesses,_ to preach and protest against the innovations mentioned in the preceding verse: and there were Protestants long before ever the name came into use. Of these witnesse... [ Continue Reading ]
WHEN THEY SHALL HAVE FINISHED, &C.— Or, _When they shall be about to finish their testimony, the wild beast that ascendeth out of the abyss,_ &c. After the description of the _witnesses,_ their power and offices, follows a prediction of those things that shall befal them at the latter end of their m... [ Continue Reading ]
THE SEVENTH ANGEL SOUNDED, &C.— At the sounding of the seventh trumpet, the _third woe_ commences; which is rather implied than expressed, as it will be described more fully hereafter. The third woe brought _on the inhabitants of the earth,_ is the ruin and downfal ofthe antichristian kingdom; and t... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE TEMPLE OF GOD, &C.— Bishop Newton, with Grotius, is of opinion, that this verse should introduce the twelfth chapter, as it appears to begin a new subject: it is much in the same spirit with the vision of Isaiah, (ch. Revelation 6:1.) and of our divine prophet, ch. Revelation 4:1. The _templ... [ Continue Reading ]