What does Revelation 6:14 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places."
Verse Revelation 6:14. _AND THE HEAVEN DEPARTED AS A SCROLL_] The whole system of pagan and idolatrous worship, with all its spiritual, secular, and superstitious influence, was blasted, shrivelled up...
AND I BEHELD WHEN HE HAD OPENED THE SIXTH SEAL - See the notes at Revelation 5:1; Revelation 6:1. AND, LO, THERE WAS A GREAT EARTHQUAKE - Before endeavoring to ascertain to what the sixth seal was des...
CHAPTER S 6 The Opening of the Seven Seals _ 1. The first seal (Revelation 6:1)_ 2. The second seal (Revelation 6:3) 3. The third seal (Revelation 6:5) 4. The fourth seal (Revelation 6:7) 5. The...
REVELATION 6. THE OPENING OF THE SEALS. When the seals of the book are opened by the Lamb, a number of woes are let loose upon the world. The first four are described under the figure of horses of dif...
THE SIXTH SEAL. I must ask the reader to attentively examine the latter portion of Revelation, chapter VI., before reading what. have to say under the head of the sixth seal. It runs as follows: And....
THE OPENING OF THE SEALS (Revelation 6:1-8) As one by one the seals of the roll are opened, history unfolds itself before John's eyes. As we study this section, we must remember one general fact whi...
DEPARTED. parted asunder. See Acts 15:39. SCROLL. See Revelation 1:11. WHEN, &C.. rolling itself up. MOVED. removed, as Revelation 2:5....
_And the heaven departed_ i.e. parted asunder. The verb _depart_was so used (only in a transitive sense) in the Marriage Service until the last revision of the Prayer-Book, "till death us depart," i.e...
THE SIXTH SEAL...
_SEAL SIX WAS OPENED REVELATION 6:12-17:_ The sixth seal pictured the day of the Lord as a Day of Judgment upon a wicked nation. John used the same idea the prophets had used to picture the judgment o...
ΆΠΕΧΩΡΊΣΘΗ _aor. ind. pass. от_ ΆΠΟΧΩΡΊΖΩ (G673) срываться, исчезать, ΒΙΒΛΊΟΝ (G975) книга, свиток, ΈΛΙΣΣΌΜΕΝΟΝ _praes. pass. part. от_ ΕΛΊΣΣΩ (G1667) сворачиваться. Имеется в виду папирусный свиток...
I BEHELD WHEN HE HAD OPENED THE SIXTH SEAL, &C.— The sixth seal or period produces mighty changes and revolutions, which, according to the prophetic style, are expressed by great commotions in the ear...
_TOMLINSON'S COMMENTS_ CHAPTER VI THE OPENING OF THE SEALS _Text (Revelation 6:1-17)_ INTRODUCTION 1 And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seven seals, and I heard one of the four living creatu...
And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places. DEPARTED, [ apechooristhee (G673)] - 'was separated from' its place: 'm...
__ Throne section-The 144,000 12 Compare Mat_24:29. 12 This cataclysm affects heaven as well as earth. There will be many quakes at the time of the end (Rev_8:5; Rev_8:11-13; Rev_8:19; Rev_16:18)....
THE SIX SEALS The afflicted Church has been reminded in Revelation 4 f. that God is over all, and that the future is committed to the Lamb. Now (Revelation 6 - Revelation 8:1) she is shown that futur...
FROM NOW TO THE END OF TIME REVELATION _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 6 THE 7 *SEALS - REVELATION 6:1-8 THE FIRST 6 *SEALS - REVELATION 6:1-17 V1 Then I saw when the *Lamb opened one of the seven (7) *...
(_12-14_) _AND I BEHELD..._ — Better, And I saw when He opened the sixth seal, and (omit “lo!”) a great shaking took place, and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon all became as bl...
CHAPTER IV. THE SEALED ROLL OPENED. Revelation 6:1. WITH the sixth chapter of the Apocalypse the main action of the book may be said properly to begin. Three sections of the seven into which it is d...
The earthquake (reff.), darkening of sun by atmospheric disturbances, (Verg. _Georg_. i. 463 f., Lucan i. 75 f. 522 f., Compare Ass. Mos. Revelation 10:4 f.: et tremebit terra. Usque ad fines suas con...
“THE WRATH OF THE LAMB” Revelation 6:9 This imagery is very majestic; but we cannot really think that the holy martyrs desire to be revenged, except in love and grace. That their persecutors should...
We now pass to that section of the Book in which, under the heavenly order by earthly administration, events proceed toward the great consummation. The Lamb, holding the book, breaks the seals. The a...
As a further description of the terrible nature of these events, John sees the stars falling from heaven like winter figs being blown off the trees during a high wind. The heavens being rolled up like...
_And every mountain. In the dreadful confusion of the Roman empire, in the time of Constantine, so great was the revolution, that mountains appeared, as it were, moved out of their places; islands shi...
(12) And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood; (13) And the stars of heaven fe...
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 7 Seals Part 3 To stop sinning suddenly.--Elbert Hubbard Quotes from Eddie Marquez, a young man that I watched die of AIDS on Tuesday morning, July 20, 6:00 AM (1993). He was a hemafhiliac and c...
What is to follow on earth now begins, when the seals are opened. It will be remarked here, that John, standing in the ruin of the assembly, gives prophetically all that passes from that failure till...
AND THE HEAVEN DEPARTED AS A SCROLL WHEN IT IS ROLLED TOGETHER,.... The manner of writing formerly was on rolls of parchment; hence the word volume is used for a book, which, when rolled up, the writi...
And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places. Ver. 14. _And every mountain_] _See Trapp on "_ Rev 6:12 _"_ _Cinis quida...
_And I beheld_ Further in my vision; _when he_ The Lamb; _had opened the sixth seal; and lo! there was a great earthquake_ Greek, σεισμος μεγας εγενετο, _there was a great concussion:_ for the express...
EARTHQUAKE-THE SUN BECAME BLACK-MOON BECAME AS BLOOD-STARS OF HEAVEN FELL-THE HEAVEN DEPARTED-EVERY MOUNTAIN AND ISLAND WERE MOVED; here as often elsewhere, symbols of great commotions, dissolutions o...
The opening of the sixth seal:...
THE FIRST SEAL: THE WHITE HORSE (vv. 1-2) In the Lamb's opening of the seals our sight is transferred again to earth, but John does not return there. His vision is from heaven. The first seal (v. 1)...
_ 12 I looked when He opened the sixth seal, and behold, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became like blood. 13 And the stars of heaven fell to...
12-17 When the sixth seal was opened, there was a great earthquake. The foundations of churches and states would be terribly shaken. Such bold figurative descriptions of great changes abound in the p...
Two expressions more signifying the same thing. The first is used by the prophet, to signify the change God would make in the state of the Edomites, ISAIAH 34:4, as will appear by comparing what that...
Tertullian Against Hermogenes the belief that everything was made from nothing will be impressed upon us by that ultimate dispensation of God which will bring back all things to nothing. For "the ver...
Revelation 6:14 Then G2532 sky G3772 receded G673 (G5681) as G5613 scroll G975 up G1507 (G5746) and G2532 every G3956 mountain G3735 and G2532 island G3520 moved G2795 (G5681) of G1537 its G846 place...
CHAPTER 6 THE OPENING OF THE FIRST SIX SEALS. The next stage of John's vision describes the opening of the seals by the Lamb, and it will soon be clear that the result is the outworking of world hist...
With the beginning of this chapter we enter upon the fourth or leading section of the Apocalypse, extending to chap. Revelation 18:24. The section contains what had been described in chap. Revelation...
WAS REMOVED (απεχωρισθη). First aorist passive indicative of αποχωριζω, to separate, to part (Acts 15:39). "The heaven was parted."AS A SCROLL WHEN IT IS ROLLED UP (ως βιβλιον ελισσομενον). Prese...
Revelation 6:12. _And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake, and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood, and the stars of h...
CONTENTS: The opening of the seals. CHARACTERS: Christ, John. CONCLUSION: Woe to those who dwell upon the earth in the days of the great Tribulation, when the wrath of God is poured forth for the fi...
Revelation 6:1. _One of the living creatures,_ that is, the lion, with a voice roaring like thunder, said, _Come and see._ The saints must keep their eyes on what the Lord is doing in the earth. Reve...
AND I SAW THE LAMB BREAK OPEN THE SIXTH SEAL. The sixth seal introduces the Judgment, and shows us something of the terror of the wicked at that time. The events of Revelation 6:12-14 are to be lumped...
REVELATION—NOTE ON REVELATION 6:12 The SIXTH SEAL previews the destruction of the first heaven and earth (Revelation 20:11; Revelation 21:1). EARTHQUAKE. See Exodus 19:18; Ezekiel 38:19; Haggai 2:6;...
The sixth seal was opened and there was an earthquake; the sun became black; the moon became like blood; the stars fell; the heavens departed as a scroll; and the mountains and islands were moved out...
CALAMITIES ON THE OPENING OF SIX SEALS _CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ THE first catastrophe, or overthrow of the Jewish persecuting power, is the subject of chaps. 6–11. Some take the subject in a...
EXPOSITION REVELATION 6:1 AND I SAW. A new departure in the series of visions is marked (see on Revelation 4:1). We have here the commencement of the Revelation proper, to which the first five chapt...
_12 AND I BEHELD WHEN HE HAD OPENED THE SIXTH SEAL, AND, LO, THERE WAS A GREAT EARTHQUAKE; AND THE SUN BECAME BLACK AS SACKCLOTH OF HAIR, AND THE MOON BECAME AS BLOOD;_ _ 13 AND THE STARS OF HEAVEN F...
Now in chapter six, He begins to open the scroll. And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four living creatures saying, Come and see. And...
2 Peter 3:10; Habakkuk 3:10; Habakkuk 3:6; Hebrews 1:11; Isaiah 2:14; Isaiah 34:4; Jeremiah 3:23; Jeremiah 4:23; Jeremiah 51:25; Psa
Departed [α π ε χ ω ρ ι σ θ η]. The verb means to separate, sever. Rev., was removed. Scroll [β ι β λ ι ο ν]. See on Luke 4:17. Compare Isaiah 34:4. Mountain and island. Compare Matthew 24:35; Nahum...
THE OPENING OF THE SEALS Revelation 6:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS This study will discover unto us those events which will particularly mark the beginning of sorrows. There are four horse riders to be br...
And the heavens departed as a book that is rolled together — When the scripture compares some very great with a little thing, the majesty and omnipotence of God, before whom great things are little, i...