Revelation 6:14

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: 'made to depart.' Not as Alford, 'parted asunder;' on the contrary, it was rolled together as an open scroll is rolled up and laid aside. There is no 'asunder one from another,' as in Acts 15:39. MOUNTAIN ... MOVED OUT OF THEIR PLACES - (Psalms 121:1, margin; Jeremiah 3:23; Jerem...

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 prophecies of Scripture; for these events are emblems, and declare the end of the world and the day of judgment. Dread and terror would seize on all sorts of men. Neither grandeur, riches, valour, nor strength, can support men at that time. They would be glad to be no more seen; yea, to have no longer any being. Though Christ be a Lamb, he can be angry, and the wrath of the Lamb is exceedingly dreadful; for if the Redeemer himself, who appeases the wrath of God, be our enemy, where shall we find a friend to plead for us? As men have their day of opportunity, and their seasons of grace, so God has his day of righteous wrath. It seems that the overthrow of the paganism of the Roman empire is he...

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 rendered null and void, as a parchment scroll when exposed to the action of a strong fire. _AND EVERY MOUNTAIN_] All the props, supports, and dependencies of the empire, whether _regal allies, tributary kings, dependent_ _colonies_, or _mercenary troops, were all moved out of their places_, so as to stand no longer in the same relation to that empire, and its worship, support, and maintenance, as they formerly did. _AND ISLAND_] The heathen temples, with their _precincts_ and _enclosures, cut off_ from the common people, and into which none could come but the _privileged_, may be here represe

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 designed to refer, it is proper, as in the previous cases, to furnish a particular explanation of the meaning of the symbols. All the symbols represented in the opening of this seal denote consternation, commotion, changes; but still they are all significant, and we are to suppose that something would occur corresponding with each one of them. It cannot be supposed that the things here described were represented on the part of the roll or volume that was now unfolded in any other way than that they were pictures, or that the whole was 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 chapters have formed an introduction (cf. Tabular analysis). The vision of the _seals, _which, although related first, exhibits events concurrent with those symbolized by the _trumpets _and _vials, _is contained chiefly in Revelation 6:1. Revelation 7:1 is occupied with an account of an episodal character, similar to that which occurs in...

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 writing within could not be seen, not a syllable nor letter of it. In like manner the Roman empire, as Pagan, which was like a large sheet, or rather like the expanse or firmament of the heaven, stretched out over all the earth, was now, as to the Paganism of it, rolled up together, so that there were no more Heathen gods, nor Heathen priests; no more idolatry, and idolatrous worship of that kind were to be seen, and not so much as the names of Heathen gods to be heard of in the empire. AND EVERY MOUNTAIN AND ISLAND WERE MOVED OUT OF THEIR PLACES; by "every mountain" may be meant the places of idolatrous worship, which were usually upon mountains; see Jeremiah 3:6; which were now sh

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 heaven fell unto the earth, even as fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind. And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places. And the kings of the earth, and the great men and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains and said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb:_ Think of the contrast between this awful cry and the sentence we read just now: «Then did they spit

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 fifth seal (Revelation 6:9) 6. The sixth seal (Revelation 6:12) 7. Parenthesis: The remnant of Israel (Revelati

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 different colour, the first white, the second blood-red, the third black, the fourth pale or livid. The best interpretation regards these woes as (1) triumphant militarism, (2) slaughter, (3) famine, (4) death. The other two woes are described without this metaphor martyrdom and earthquake. The seventh seal is not opened till ch. 8. REVELATION 6:1. ONE OF THE SEVEN SEALS: belonging to the book of destiny (_cf. Revelation 5:1_). LIVING CREATURES: REVELATION 4:6 *. COME: to whom was the order

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. beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and lo, there was. great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood; And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as. fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of. mighty wind. And the heaven departed as. scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places. And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every freeman, bid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains; and said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us and hide us from the face of him th...