Revelation 9:13

And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God, A VOICE - `one voice.' FROM - `out of.' THE FOUR HORNS. So B, Cyprian; but A, Vulgate (Amiatinus manuscript), Coptic, Syriac, omit "four." The four horns together uttered their voice, not diverse, but one. God's revelation (e.g., the Gospel), though in its aspects fourfold (expressing worldwide extension: whence the evangelists are four), still has one and the same voice. However, from the parallelism of this sixth trumpet to the fifth seal (Revelation 6:9), the martyrs' cry for avenging their blood from the altar reaching its consummation under the sixth seal and sixth trumpet, I prefer understanding this cry from the four corners of the altars, to me...

13-21 The sixth angel sounded, and here the power of the Turks seems the subject. Their time is limited. They not only slew in war, but brought a poisonous and ruinous religion. The antichristian generation repented not under these dreadful judgments. From this sixth trumpet learn that God can make one enemy of the church a scourge and a plague to another. The idolatry in the remains of the eastern church and elsewhere, and the sins of professed Christians, render this prophecy and its fulfilment more wonderful. And the attentive reader of Scripture and history, may find his faith and hope strengthened by events, which in other respects fill his heart with anguish and his eyes with tears, while he sees that men who escape these plagues, repent not of their evil works, but go on with idolatries, wickedness, and cruelty, till wrath comes upon them to the utmost....

Verse Revelation 9:13. _THE FOUR HORNS OF THE GOLDEN ALTAR_] This is another not very obscure indication that the Jewish temple was yet standing....

AND THE SIXTH ANGEL SOUNDED - See the notes on Revelation 8:2, Revelation 8:7. AND I HEARD A VOICE FROM THE FOUR HORNS OF THE GOLDEN ALTAR WHICH IS BEFORE GOD - In the language used here there is an allusion to the temple, but the scene is evidently laid in heaven. The temple in its arrangements was designed, undoubtedly, to be in important respects a symbol of heaven, and this idea constantly occurs in the Scriptures. Compare the Epistle to the Hebrews passim. The golden altar stood in the holy place, between the table of show-bread and the golden candlestick. See the notes on Hebrews 9:1. This altar, made of shittim or acacia wood, was ornamented

EXPOSITION REVELATION 9:1 AND THE FIFTH ANGEL SOUNDED, AND I SAW A STAR FALL FROM HEAVEN UNTO THE EARTH; _a star from heaven fallen unto the earth _(Revised Version); not _saw a star fall. _(For the distinctive character of the last three judgments, see on Revelation 8:2.) "A star" sometimes signifies one high in position. Thus Numbers 24:17, "There shall come a star out of Jacob;" Daniel 8:10, "And it cast down some of the host and of the stars to the ground." In Revelation 1:20

AND THE SIXTH ANGEL SOUNDED,.... His trumpet: AND I HEARD A VOICE FROM THE FOUR HORNS OF THE GOLDEN ALTAR, WHICH IS BEFORE GOD; the allusion is not to the altar of burnt offering, which was covered with brass, but to the altar of incense covered with gold; and hence here, and elsewhere, it is called "the golden altar", and was a figure of the intercession of Christ; for on this altar incense was offered, which was typical of the prayers of the saints offered by Christ, through his mediation: the matter of this altar was shittim wood, a wood that is incorruptible, and of long duration, denoting the perpetuity of Christ's intercession; and its being covered with gold expresses the glory and excellency of it; its form was foursquare, as is the city of the new Jerusalem, and shows that Christ's intercession avails for all his people in the four parts of the world: and on it were "four horns...

ANGEL (_ See Scofield) - (Hebrews 1:4). _...

REVELATION 9:12-13 ouvai. meta. tau/ta) Kai, Since meta. tau/ta (or meta. tou/to) almost always begins a sentence or clause (elsewhere in Revelation the phrase occurs at the close of a sentence only in Revelation 1:19 and Revelation 4:1), many witnesses (0207, more than 100 minuscules, syrph) join meta. tau/ta to ver. Revelation 9:13. In order to smooth the juncture several wi...

CHAPTER 9 Revelation 9:1 . The remaining three trumpets have a “woe” attached to each. This is announced in the last verse of the preceding chapter, where the word angel should be “eagle.” An eagle, the bird of prey, proclaims the threefold woe. He acts thus as a herald of great judgments (Matthew 24:28, Revelation 19:17). The fifth trumpet is a special judgment upon apostate Israel: because those who suffer are they “which have not the seal of God on their foreheads” (Revelation 9:4). The great tribulation in the second half of the week, comes now into prominence. If we turn to...

THE SIXTH TRUMPET OR THE SECOND WOE. The loosing of the four angels of death, and the slaughter of a third part of the human race. REVELATION 9:13. THE HORNS: the corners. THE GOLDEN ALTAR: _cf. Revelation 8:3_. Revelation 9:14. Loose the four angels: these angels are kept bound in the river Euphrates (_cf. Revelation 16:12_) waiting for the day of vengeance. There is a striking parallel in a Syriac Apocalypse of Ezra, Let these four kings be loosed which are bound near the great river Euphrates which shall destroy a third part of mankind. Many commentators see in this refere