What does Revelation 11:13 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"And the same hour was there a great earthquake, and the tenth part of the city fell, and in the earthquake were slain of menc seven thousand: and the remnant were affrighted, and gave glory to the God of heaven."
Verse Revelation 11:13. _A GREAT EARTHQUAKE_] Violent commotions among the persecutors, and revolutions of states. _SLAIN OF MEN SEVEN THOUSAND_] Many perished in these popular commotions. _THE REMN...
AND THE SAME HOUR - In immediate connection with their triumph. WAS THERE A GREAT EARTHQUAKE - “An earthquake is a symbol of commotion, agitation, change; of great political revolutions, etc. See the...
CHAPTER 11:1-18 Revelation 11:1 . We see at once how Jewish things come now into view. To apply these verses to the Church and make the temple the Church is absolutely wrong. The temple and the altar...
THE INTERLUDE CONTINUED. THE SECOND EPISODE. The first two verses are introductory, and represent the survey or measuring of the holy city by the seer. Then comes the prophecy concerning the two witne...
"And the same hour was there. great earthquake, and the tenth part of the city fell, and in the earthquake were slain of men seven thousand: and the remnant were affrighted, and gave glory to the God...
ANTICHRIST (Revelation 11:1-19) In the passages of the Revelation which we are now about to approach we will on many occasions meet the figure of Antichrist. This figure has exercised a strange fasci...
THE SAME. in (Greek. _en)_ that. WAS THERE. there came to be. TENTH PART. tenth. (App-10 and App-197). OF MEN. Literally names of men (App-123.) SEVEN THOUSAND. See App-197. REMNANT. App-124. WE...
_of men_ Lit., NAMES OF MEN, as the margin: cf. Revelation 3:4, and Acts 1:15 there quoted. _seven thousand_ Possibly this number is taken as approximately a tenth part of the population of Jerusalem...
Revelation 11:1-13. THE MEASURING ANGEL AND THE TWO WITNESSES...
_THE TWO WITNESSES ARE SLAIN AND ARISE AGAIN REVELATION 11:7-13:_ During the miraculous age of the church the gospel was preached with great success. (Acts 12:24) This time was followed by a period wh...
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Strauss-' Comments SECTION 33 Text Revelation 11:1-14 And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and one said, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar; and them that worship therein. A...
And the same hour was there a great earthquake, and the tenth part of the city fell, and in the earthquake And the same hour was there a great earthquake, and the tenth part of the city fell, and in...
__ Throne Section-The Two Witnesses 4 The two olive trees remind us of Joshua the high priest and Zerubbabel (Zech. 3-4), who witnessed for Jehovah in a former apostasy. The ministry of the two witn...
11:13 were (b-31) _ Ginomai_ . aorist. It then took place. 'they became;' but this has too much the sense of continuance. 'Were' gives the sense....
THE TWO WITNESSES. THE SEVENTH TRUMPET 1-14. Second episode. There is much difference of opinion as to the meaning of this vision. Perhaps the key may be found in the parallelism of the book. There w...
FROM NOW TO THE END OF TIME REVELATION _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 11 JOHN MEASURES THE *TEMPLE - REVELATION 11:1-2 V1 An *angel gave me a stick that was like a pole. He said, ‘Go. You must measure t...
(3-14) THE TWO WITNESSES. — It is the opinion of one able and pre-eminently painstaking commentator that “no solution has ever been given of this portion of the prophecy.” I quote this that none may b...
CHAPTER VIII. SECOND CONSOLATORY VISION AND THE SEVENTH TRUMPET. Revelation 11:1. FROM the first consolatory vision we proceed to the second: - "And there was given unto me a reed like unto a rod:...
On earthquakes as a punishment for sin, _cf._ Jos. _Ant._ ix. 10, 4 = Zechariah 14:5, and (for Sodom) Amos 4:11. The beast, as in 2 Thessalonians 2:9-12, gets off scatheless in the meantime, though hi...
THE “TWO WITNESSES” Revelation 11:1 We cannot in this brief note indicate the various interpretations of this chapter, but certain great principles underlie it, which are true of every age. (1) Duri...
John is called on to measure the temple. In such measurements the court of the Gentiles is not to be recognized. It shows God dealing with the world through His chosen people. The account of the two...
God now begins his judgment against the worldly city, as is symbolized by the earthquake. One-tenth, or a part, collapses and 7,000 men are killed. This cannot be the destruction of Jerusalem since 1,...
(24) And the same hour was there a great earthquake, and the tenth part of the city fell, and in the earthquake were slain of men seven thousand: and the remnant were affrighted, (25) and (e) gave glo...
_A great earthquake. By which may be signified the consternation that fell upon the persecutors of Christians, when by God's visible chastisements, seven thousand (i.e. many of them) perished miserabl...
(7) And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them. (8) And their dead bodies...
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...
The Interlude Part 2 A bum, obviously under the influence of alcohol, approached evangelist D.L. Moody. "Mr. Moody," he said, "you're the man who saved me." As the great evangelist observed the beard...
We are here at once in the centre of prophetic subjects Jerusalem, the temple, the altar, and worshipers. The worshipers and the altar are recognised and accepted of God those worshiping in the secret...
AND THE SAME HOUR WAS THERE A GREAT EARTHQUAKE,.... Or the same day, as the Complutensian edition, and some copies, read; that is, at the time of the resurrection and ascension of the witnesses, as th...
And the same hour was there a great earthquake, and the tenth part of the city fell, and in the earthquake were slain of men seven thousand: and the remnant were affrighted, and gave glory to the God...
_When they shall have finished their testimony_, &c. After the description of the power and office of the witnesses, follows a prediction of those things which shall befall them at the latter end of t...
THE SAME HOUR; with the resurrection of these witnesses. A GREAT EARTHQUAKE; see note to chap Revelation 6:12-14. SLAIN OF MEN SEVEN THOUSAND; literally, seven thousand names of men, representing a...
The passing of the second woe:...
We have seen under the sixth trumpet the desolating invasion of Israel by the King of the North, which takes place because of Israel's idolatrous image of the Beast set up in the temple at the middle...
_ 13 In the same hour there was a great earthquake, and a tenth of the city fell. In the earthquake seven thousand people were killed, and the rest were afraid and gave glory to the God of heaven._ A...
OF MEN: _ Gr._ names of men...
3-13 In the time of treading down, God kept his faithful witnesses to attest the truth of his word and worship, and the excellence of his ways, The number of these witnesses is small, yet enough. The...
AND THE SAME HOUR; that is, about the same time, when the Spirit of life from God entered into the witnesses, and they were again restored. WAS THERE A GREAT EARTHQUAKE; by _earthquake_ doubtless is h...
Revelation 11:13 G2532 same G1722 G1565 hour G5610 there G1096 (G5633) great G3173 earthquake G4578 and G2532 tenth G1182 city G4172 fell G4098 (G5627) G2532 In G1722 earthquake G4578 seven G2033 thou...
THE MEASURING OF THE SANCTUARY AND THE TWO WITNESSES (REVELATION 11:1). It is significant that these events take place within the second ‘woe' when wholesale death pervades the Middle East (Revelatio...
Revelation 11:13. AND IN THAT HOUR, that is, at the very moment when the witnesses ascended, judgment fell upon the guilty world. There was A GREAT EARTHQUAKE, the constant symbol of judgment. THE T...
THERE WAS (εγενετο). "There came to pass" (second aorist middle indicative of γινομα). Earthquakes are often given as a symbol of great upheavals in social and spiritual order (Swete) as in Ezekiel...
CONTENTS: Times of the Gentiles to end in a period of forty-two months. Two heavenly witnesses will prophecy on the earth. The seventh trumpet judgment. CHARACTERS: God, Holy Spirit, Christ, John, tw...
Revelation 11:1. _There was given me a reed like unto a rod to measure the temple of God,_ the new-testament church. The prophet of old had a similar vision, and all the prophets spake of the enlargem...
AFTER THREE AND A HALF DAYS. The two witnesses [the Church Militant] is "dead" only a short time. The world is happy too soon! God sends a life-giving breath, and they stand up! The wicked are terribl...
_Rise, and measure the temple of God._ THE LIVING TEMPLE OF CHRIST’S CHURCH AND THE TWO WITNESSES OF THE WORD WRITTEN AND THE SACRAMENTS The temple and altar, and them that worshipped therein, were...
REVELATION—NOTE ON REVELATION 11:1 The visions of the temple and the witnesses reassure believers of God’s protection. However, spiritual protection still allows physical suffering. ⇐ ⇔ ⇒ var images...
Here is mention of a great earthquake. One tenth of the city fell and many were killed and some were affrighted and gave glory to God. This continues the terrors in the city's destruction. The second...
THE FATE OF JERUSALEM AND ITS TEMPLE _CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ THE paragraph, Revelation 11:1, gives the contents of the “little book,” which are in part joyful and in part bitter. The marking...
EXPOSITION REVELATION 11:1 AND THERE WAS GIVEN ME A REED LIKE UNTO A ROD. We are not told by whom the _reed _is given, but in Revelation 21:1. the angel has the reed, and so also in Ezekiel 40:1., u...
_13 AND THE SAME HOUR WAS THERE A GREAT EARTHQUAKE, AND THE TENTH PART OF THE CITY FELL, AND IN THE EARTHQUAKE WERE SLAIN OF MEN SEVEN THOUSAND: AND THE REMNANT WERE AFFRIGHTED, AND GAVE GLORY TO THE...
So there was given unto me a reed like unto a rod (Revelation 10:11; Revelation 11:1): That is a measuring stick about the length of a rod. and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple...
1 Samuel 6:5; Acts 1:15; Genesis 6:4; Isaiah 26:15; Isaiah 26:16; Jeremiah 13:16; Joshua 7:19; Malachi 2:2; Revelation 13:1; Revelation 14:7;...
Earthquake. See on ch. Revelation 6:12. Of men [ο ν ο μ α τ α α ν θ ρ ω π ω ν]. Lit., names of men See on ch. Revelation 3:4. Gave glory to the God of heaven. The phrase signifies not conversion, nor...
THE TWO WITNESSES Revelation 10:1 _and Revelation 11:1_ INTRODUCTORY WORDS By way of introduction to the study of the eleventh chapter of Revelation we wish to say a word about the tenth chapter....
And there was a great earthquake and the tenth part of the city fell — We have here an unanswerable proof that this city is not Babylon or Rome, but Jerusalem. For Babylon shall be wholly burned befor...
These words are conceived by interpreters to set forth the great success of the witnesses' ministry after their resurrection; it was accompanied with. mighty earthquake, or. great shaking of the kingd...