Revelation 11:14

The second woe is past; and, behold, the third woe cometh quickly. THE SECOND WOE - under the sixth trumpet, Revelation 9:12; including also Revelation 11:1: Woe to the world, joy to the faithful, as their redemption draweth nigh. THE THIRD WOE COMETH QUICKLY - not mentioned in detail, until there is given a sketch of the origination, suffering, and faithfulness of the Church in apostasy and persecution. Instead of the third woe, the grand consummation is summarily noticed-the thanksgiving of the 24 elders in heaven for the establishment of Christ's kingdom on earth, attended with the destruction of the destroyers of the earth....

14-19 Before the sounding of the seventh and last trumpet, there is the usual demand of attention. The saints and angels in heaven know the right of our God and Saviour to rule over all the world. But the nations met God's wrath with their own anger. It was a time in which he was beginning to reward his people's faithful services, and sufferings; and their enemies fretted against God, and so increased their guilt, and hastened their destruction. By the opening the temple of God in heaven, may be meant, that there was a more free communication between heaven and earth; prayer and praises more freely and frequently going up, graces and blessings plentifully coming down. But it rather seems to refer to the church of God on earth. In the reign of antichrist, God's law was laid aside, and made void by traditions and decrees; the Scriptures were locked up from the people, but now they are bro...

Verse Revelation 11:14. _THE SECONDS WO IS PAST_] That which took place under the _sixth trumpet_, and has been already described. _THE THIRD WO COMETH_] Is about to be described under the _seventh_ _trumpet_, which the angel is now prepared to sound. Of the _three woes_ which were denounced, Revelation 8:13, the first is described, Revelation 9:1; the second, Revelation 9:13. These woes are supposed by many learned men to refer to the destruction of Jerusalem. _The first wo_-the seditions among the Jews themselves. _The second wo_-

THE SECOND WOE IS PAST - That is, the second of the three that were announced as yet to come, Revelation 8:13; compare Revelation 9:12. AND, BEHOLD, THE THIRD WOE COMETH QUICKLY - The last of the series. The meaning is, that what was signified by the third “woe” would be the next, and final event, in order. On the meaning of the word “quickly,” see the notes on Revelation 1:1; compare Revelation 2:5, Revelation 2:16;...

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., upon which the incident seems founded (see Ezekiel 40:1.; and cf. the reference to the outer court in Ezekiel 40:17). The reed is "like a rod;" that is, like to a _staff. _It is for a measuring line, as in...

THE SECOND WOE IS PAST,.... Not in John's time, only in a visionary way; the meaning is, that the second woe trumpet, which is the sixth, will now have done sounding, when the four angels, bound in the river Euphrates, shall have been loosed, and they, with their horsemen, shall have done what they were designed to do; when the two witnesses shall have been slain, and are raised again, and ascended to heaven; and the things attending, or following thereon, as the earthquake, and slaughter, and the conversions of men, are accomplished. [AND] BEHOLD THE THIRD WOE COMETH QUICKLY; immediately, upon the passing of the other; namely, the sounding of the seventh trumpet, as follows....

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 are Jewish; the holy city is Jerusalem. After the Church has left the earth the Jewish people will be fully restored to their own land, and their land restored to them. They will possess Jerusalem once more. When the Jews are once more masters in their own promised land they will erect another temple and then restore the Levitical worship as far as it is possible. Such a temple must be in Jerusalem. (See Isaiah 66:1 .) In that temple the personal Antichrist, the beast out of the land of whom we shall read in chapter 13, will appear and claim divine worship. (See...

THE SEVENTH TRUMPET AND THE THIRD WOE. The story which was broken off at Revelation 9:21 is now resumed. The seventh trumpet heralds the approach of the Kingdom of Christ. Revelation 11:15. great voice: in contrast to the silence which followed the breaking of the seventh seal (Revelation 8:1). OUR LORD: God the Father. HIS CHRIST: God's Anointed One. Revelation 11:16. elders: Revelation 4:4 *....

"The second woe is past; and, behold, the third woe cometh quickly. And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign forever and ever."--11:14, 15. Here is the final triumph. It is the brightness of Zion's glad morning, the long-deferred day of victory, the ushering in of the conquering reign of Christ. The agency by which this conquest is effected is the exaltation of the witnesses, or the diffusion of the Word of God. This exaltation causes the earthquake, the fall of. part of the Great City, the destruction of. part of its inhabitants, and the repentance of the remnant. These events are followed by the seventh trumpet and the proclamation of the universal reign of Christ. Then the heavenly inhabitants join in pæans of victory and songs of praise and thank...

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 fascination over the minds of men and many have been the speculations and theories about him. It will, therefore, be convenient to collect the material about Antichrist at this stage and to try to piece it into a connected whole. We may lay it down as a general principle that Antichrist stands for the power in the universe which is against God. Just as the Christ is the Holy One and the Anointed King of God, so Antichrist is the Unholy One and the King of all evil. Just as the Christ is the incarnation of God and goodness, so Antichrist is the incarnation of the Devil and of evil. The idea of a force opposed to God was not new. Antichrist had his predecessors long befo