Revelation 11:17

Saying, We give thee thanks, O Lord God Almighty, which art, and wast, and art to come; because thou hast taken to thee thy great power, and hast reigned. THANKS - for the answer to our prayers (Revelation 6:10), in destroying them which destroyed the earth (Revelation 11:18), preparing the way for the kingdom of thyself and thy saints. AND ART TO COME. Omitted in 'Aleph (') A B C, Vulgate, Syriac, Cyprian, Andreas. The consummation having come, they do not address him as when it was still future. Compare Revelation 11:18, "is come." From the seventh trumpet He is to His people...

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 11:17. _O LORD GOD ALMIGHTY, WHICH ART_] This gives a proper view of God in his eternity; all _times_ are here comprehended, the _present_, the _past_, and the _future_. This is the infinitude of God. _HAST TAKEN TO THEE_] Thou hast _exercised_ that power which thou ever hast; and thou hast broken the power of thy enemies, and exalted thy Church....

SAYING, WE GIVE THEE THANKS - We, as the representatives of the church, and as identified in our feelings with it (see the notes on Revelation 4:4), acknowledge thy goodness in tires delivering the church from all its troubles, and having conducted it through the times of fiery persecution, thus establishing it upon the earth. The language here used is an expression of their deep interest in the church, and of the fact that they felt themselves identified with it. They, as representatives of the church, would of course rejoice in its prosperity and final triumph. O LORD GOD ALMIGHTY - Referring to God all-powerful, because it was by his omnipotent arm alone that this great work had been I accomplished. Nothing else could have I defended the church in its many trials; nothing else could have established it upon the ea

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...

SAYING, WE GIVE THEE THANKS, O LORD GOD ALMIGHTY,.... The person addressed is the Lord Jesus Christ, whose the kingdoms are become, and who now reigns in great power and authority; he is Lord of all, and truly and properly God, and the Almighty, as his works of creation, preservation, redemption, raising himself from the dead, c. declare and each of these titles exceedingly well suit him, when his visible kingdom on earth will be so greatly enlarged: WHICH ART, AND WAST, AND ART TO COME: the everlasting, "I am", the unchangeable Jehovah: the phrase is expressive of the eternity and immutability, Revelation 1:8; and it may be observed, whereas in this description of him it is said, "and art to come", this therefore does not belong to his personal, but to his spiritual reign; he will not be as yet come in person, to raise the dead, and judge the world, when these voices s

REVELATION 11:17 o[ti {B} The reading o[ti, in the view of a majority of the Committee, is to be preferred because of superior external evidence (ac A P 046 1 1611 1854 2053 itgig, h vg syrph, h copsa _al_) and because it best explains the origin of the readings. The addition of o` evrco,menoj o[ti (051 1006 sixteen minuscules vgmss and the Textus Receptus) is a typical Byzantine accretion, in imitation of the tripartite expression in Revelation 1:4, Re...

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 *....

"And the four and twenty elders, which sat before God on their seats, fell upon their faces, and worshipped God, saying, We give thee thanks,. Lord God Almighty, which art, and wast, and art to come; because thou hast taken to thee thy great power, and hast reigned. And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroyeth the earth."--11:16-18. The eighteenth verse will sufficiently explain why this also should be called. woe trumpet. It is the trumpet of judgment. The same events are given in detail in the closing Chapter s of Revelation. The eighteenth verse of the eleventh chapter brings us to the end of the first series of visions. The seventh trumpet of the sev...