Revelation Chapter 16 Verse 21: And there fell upon men a great hail out of heaven, every stone about the weight of a talent: and men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail; for the plague thereof was exceeding great. Rendered from the Greek, this passage should read: “There fell upon the men [that is, the worshipers of the beast and its image—Verse 2] a great hail out of heaven.” Water frequently represents truth. The truth (Verse 21)…
Revelation Chapter 16 Samson and the Temple of Dagon The story of Samson, in regard to the destruction of the Temple of Dagon (a typical representation of mystical Babylon), illustrates how the religious systems uphold the social and civil order. When Samson pulled down the pillars, the religious structure fell, killing the Philistine leadership or lords and many others (Judg. 16:21–30). The destruction of the house of worship precipitated the downfall of the Philistine nation, which had harassed the Jewish…
Revelation Chapter 16 Verse 19: And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell: and great Babylon came in remembrance before God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath. The literal kingdom of Babylon was composed of three parts: (1) the city or capital, (2) the nation, and (3) the empire. All three were called Babylon but from different standpoints. The composite whole was the…
Revelation Chapter 16 (As taken from “The Book of Revelation“) Verse 17: And the seventh angel poured out his vial into the air; and there came a great voice out of the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying, it is done. Verse 18: And there were voices, and thunders, and lightnings; and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake, and so great. The seventh-plague angel message, yet…
Revelation Chapter 16 VERSES 17-21 “And the seventh (angel) poured out his bowl upon the air; and there came forth a great voice out of the temple, from the throne, saying, it is done: and there were lightning’s, and voices, and thunders; and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since there were men upon the earth, so great an earthquake, so mighty…” VERSE 19 — AND THE GREAT CITY: — Babylon the Great with all of its…
Revelation Chapter 16 VERSES 17-21 “And the seventh (angel) poured out his bowl upon the air; and there came forth a great voice out of the temple, from the throne, saying, it is done: and there were lightning’s, and voices, and thunders; and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since there were men upon the earth, so great an earthquake, so mighty. And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations…
Revelation Chapter 16 The Prophet Micaiah This coming concerted action is a reminder of the Micaiah account in 2 Chronicles 18. Micaiah was put in prison just like John the Baptist, another type. The direct tie-in between the experience of Micaiah and Revelation 16:13–16 is strikingly powerful but too complex to explain here in depth. The details will be more readily observed as they approach fulfillment in the not-too-distant future. Simply stated, the Micaiah account records that the kings of…
Revelation Chapter 16 “Behold, I Come as a Thief” The thief like presence of Verse 15 should not be confused with the secret presence or Parousia of the Lord, which began in October 1874. Verse 15 is an admonition interjected between the sixth and the seventh plagues. Double attention is called to this insertion in that it is also interposed—and very obviously so—between Verses 14 and 16, interrupting the flow of thought within the sixth plague message itself. The placement…
Revelation Chapter 16 Three Unclean Spirits Like Frogs The Apostle John, typifying the Lord’s tarrying saints at the end of the age, whose eyes are anointed with the eye salve of understanding, saw an unclean spirit come forth out of the mouth of each of the three symbolic beings mentioned in Verse 13 (the beast, the dragon, and the false prophet). All three unclean spirits resembled “frogs,” and presumably they were alike in other respects too. For John to describe…
Revelation Chapter 16 We should like to take another look at the Sixth Plague this time as it is explained By Brother Shallieu in “The Keys of Revelation” Verse 12: And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared. As was stated in our opening on the plagues some brethren are of the belief that the Studies…