Revelation 9:21

Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts. SORCERIES - witchcrafts by means of drugs [ farmakeion (G5332)]. A work of the unrenewed flesh (Galatians 5:20), the sin of the pagan: to be repeated by apostate Christians in the last days (Revelation 22:15). The pagan who shall reject the proffered Gospel and cling to fleshly lusts, and apostate Christians who shall relapse into the same, shall share the same terrible judgments. The worship of images was established in the East in 842 AD FORNICATION - singular. The other sins (plural) are perpetrated at interva...

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 9:21. _NEITHER REPENTED THEY OF THEIR MURDERS_] Their cruelties towards the genuine followers of God, the Albigenses, and Waldenses, and others, against whom they published crusades, and hunted them down, and butchered them in the most shocking manner. The innumerable murders by the horrible _inquisition_ need not be mentioned. _THEIR SORCERIES_] Those who apply this also to the Romish Church understand by it the various _tricks, sleights of hand_, or _legerdemain_, by which they impose on the common people in causing images of Christ to bleed, and the various pretended _miracles_ wrought at the tombs, c., of pretended saints, holy wells, and such like. _FORNICATION_] Giving that honour to various creatures which is due only to the Creator. _THEIR THEFTS._]

AND THE REST OF THE MEN WHICH WERE NOT KILLED BY THESE PLAGUES ... - One third part is represented as swept off, and it might have been expected that a salutary effect would have been produced on the remainder, in reforming them, and restraining them from error and sin. The writer proceeds to state, however, that these judgments did not have the effect which might reasonably have been anticipated. No reformation followed; there was no abandonment of the prevailing forms of iniquity; there was no change in their idolatry and superstition. In regard to the exact meaning of what is here stated Revelation 9:20, it will be a more convenient arrangement to consider it after we have ascertained the proper application of the passage relating to the sixth trumpet. What is here stated...

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

NEITHER REPENTED THEY OF THEIR MURDERS,.... Of the saints and martyrs of Jesus, with whose blood the western antichrist is made drunk, and which will be found in her, and for which she is answerable. Now, though the western parts of the empire escaped the scourge of the Turks, yet this did not bring them to repent of their murderous practices, but they went on to take away the lives of godly men; witness the persecutions of the Waldenses and Albigenses, the murders of John Huss and Jerom of Prague, the burning of the martyrs here in Queen Mary's days, and the massacres in Paris and in Ireland, and their butcheries elsewhere; and which they have continued unto this day, where the Inquisition obtains: NOR OF THEIR SORCERIES; Jezebel the whore of Rome has been famous for, by which she has deceived all nations; many of the popes of Rome have been necromancers, given to the magic art, and ha...

REVELATION 9:21 farma,kwn The Committee preferred farma,kwn, which occurs nowhere else in the New Testament, partly on the basis of external support (î47 a C 1006 1611 1854 _al_) and partly because copyists would have been more likely to alter it to the more specific farmak$e%iw/n (A P 046 2053 2344 _al_), which occurs in Revelation 18:23 and Galatians 5:20, than vice versa....

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

2 The term here used for year is not _Kairos,_ the prophetic year of twelve months, or 360 days, but _eniautos,_ the regular solar year of 365. days. Hence the period named in the text would be 365. plus 30 plus. plus 1-12 equals 396 4-12 days, or in years, 306 years and four months.. The origin of this singular badge of power among the Turks is said to be that in one of their early battles their banner was captured by. charge of the enemy, whereupon their leader out off the tail of his horse, hoisted in on. spear, and called on all to follow that banner into the conflict. Under this banner they fought and won this battle.. It is taught authoritatively in the works of canonized Romish Saints, works accepted as of canonical authority, that if. priest marry he shall be excommunicated. but that if he keeps. concubine he shall only be fined.--_ Works of St. Liguori, Doc. Mor. p._ 444....