Rev 11 Study – View #3 – Measuring the Temple, 2 Witnesses and the 7th Trumpet

Summary

Rev 11:1-2: Measuring the Temple, Leaving the Court Out

Rev 11:3-6: The 2 Witnesses during the Church Age

Rev 11:7-10: Killing of the 2 Witnesses – Great Tribulation

Rev 11:11-14: Resurrection of the 2 Witnesses

Rev 11:15-19: 7th Trumpet – Last Day

Summary

Event Verses Short Title Description
Church Age 11:1-2a The temple and court (42 months) Measure temple of God, the altar, but do measure the outside court.
Church Age 11:3-6 2 Witnesses (1260 days) 2 witnesses – prophecy for 1260 days in sackcloth. These are 2 olive trees, 2 candlesticks. If hurt, fire out of mouth, devours enemies, power to shut heaven, water to blood, smite earth with plagues.
Great Tribulation 11:2b,7-11a 2 Witnesses dead for 3 ½ days Outside court and Holy City is given to Gentiles and they shall tread it down for 42 months.  When 2 witnesses’ testimony finished, beast shall make war and kill them Dead bodies in great city, called Sodom and Egypt, where Lord was crucified (Jerusalem). People on earth rejoice – see bodies 3 ½ days.
Last Day 11:11b-14 2 witnesses ascended to heaven After 3 ½ days, then spirit of life entered and they were raised and told to come up, ascended to heaven in a cloud. Same hour, great earthquake – 7000 men slain, remnant were afraid and gave glory to God.
Last Day 11:15-19 7th trumpet Great voices in heavens – kingdoms of earth now belong to Christ, rejoicing of the 24 elders, God’s wrath has come, reward unto prophets and saints and all that feat His name, destroy them that destroy the earth, temple of God seen, ark of His testament, voice, thundering, earthquake and great hail.

Rev 11:1-2: Measuring the Temple, Leaving the Court Out

And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein.

(Rev 11:1)

But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.

(Rev 11:2)

And there was given me a reed like unto a rod

  • Reed – New Testament
    • G2563 (Gr: kalamos) – reed / stalk – 12 occurrences
    • Mat 11:7, Lk 7:24 – John the Baptist as a reed shaken with the wind
    • Mat 12:20 – Jesus Christ: a bruised reed shall He not break, a smoking flax, He shall not quench until He send forth judgment unto victory
    • Mat 27:29-30, Mk 15:19 – Jesus received crown and a reed inn His right hand and was mocked as the King of the Jews, smote on the head with the reed
    • Mat 27:48, Mk 15:36 – Sponge filled with vinegar and put it on a reed for Him to drink
    • 3 John 13 – John writes with a ‘pen’ and ink
    • Rev 11:1 – used to measure the temple
    • Rev 21:15-16 – golden reed to measure the Holy City (length, breadth, height all 12,000 furlongs)
  • Reed – Old Testament
    • H7070: (Heb: qaneh) – reed / stalk – 62 occurrences
    • Gen 41:5; Gen 41:22; Exo 25:31; Exo 25:32; Exo 25:33; Exo 25:35; Exo 25:36; Exo 30:23; Exo 37:17; Exo 37:18; Exo 37:19; Exo 37:21; Exo 37:22; 1Ki 14:15; 2Ki 18:21; Job 31:22; Job 40:21; Psa 68:30; Son 4:14; Isa 19:6; Isa 35:7; Isa 36:6; Isa 42:3; Isa 43:24; Isa 46:6; Jer 6:20; Eze 27:19; Eze 29:6; Eze 40:3; Eze 40:5; Eze 40:6; Eze 40:7; Eze 40:8; Eze 41:8; Eze 42:16; Eze 42:17; Eze 42:18; Eze 42:19.
  • Rod
    • G4464 (Gr: rhabdos) – stick – 12 occurrences
    • Also, see G4465 (Gr: rhabdouchos) – rod holder – 2 occurrences
    • Mat 10:10, Mk 6:8, Lk 9:3 – do not take scrip, coats, shoes, money, bread or ‘staves’ for the journey
    • 1 Cor 4:21 – should Paul come with a rod or in love
    • Heb 1:8 – a scepter of righteousness is the scepter of thy kingdom
    • Heb 9:4 – Aaron’s rod that budded in ark of the covenant
    • Heb 11:21 – Jacob when dying upon the top of his staff blessed the sons of Joseph
    • Rev 2:27, Rev 12:5, Rev 19:15 – Jesus Christ will rule with a rod of iron
    • Rev 11:1 – reed like a rod to measure the temple of God
    • Acts 16:35, Acts 16:38 – Philippian jailers (rod holders)

… and the angel stood

  • Angels in Revelation
    • Revelation signified by and angel of Jesus Christ – Rev 1:1, Rev 22:6, Rev 22:8, Rev 22:16
    • The angels to the 7 churches – Rev 1:20, Rev 2:1, Rev 2:8, Rev 2:12, Rev 2:18, Rev 3:1, Rev 3:7, Rev 3:14
    • The Fathers angels (many around throne) – Rev 3:5, Rev 5:11, Rev 7:11, Rev 14:10
    • Strong angel pronounces the Lamb is worthy to open the Book – Rev 5:2
    • 4 angels at 4 corners of earth, holding back the four winds – Rev 7:1
    • Angel ascending from the east with the seal of God – Rev 7:2
    • 7 angels with 7 trumpets – Rev 8:2, Rev 8:6-12, Rev 9:1, Rev 9:13-14, Rev 11:15
    • Angel with golden censer at golden altar of prayers – Rev 8:3-5
    • Angel flying through the midst of heaven with a loud voice – Rev 8:13
    • Angel of the bottomless pit (Abaddon / Apollyon) – Rev 9:11
    • Four angels bound in the Euphrates to slay 1/3 of men – Rev 9:14-15
    • Mighty angel with 7 thunders – Rev 10:1, Rev 10:5-10
    • Angel commands John to measure the temple of God – Rev 11:1
    • Michael and his angels fought against the dragon and his angels – Rev 12:7-9
    • 3 angels with everlasting gospel, announcement of Babylon’s fall, and warning of the wrath of God – Rev 14:6-10
    • Angel calls for the time to reap the earth – Rev 14:15
    • Angel with a sharp sickle – Rev 14:17-19
    • Angel with power over fire commands angel to reap the earth – Rev 14:18
    • 7 angels with 7 last plagues (bowls of wrath) and the announcement of Babylon’s doom – Rev 15:1, Rev 15:6-8, Rev 16:1-17, Rev 17:1., Rev 17:7, Rev 21:9 (shows the Bride of Christ)
    • Angel that lights the earth with glory – Rev 18:1
    • Mighty angel with a great millstone – Rev 18:21
    • Angel standing in the sun – announces supper of the great God – Rev 19:17
    • Angel comes down from heaven to bind Satan – Rev 20:1
    • 12 angels at the 12 gates of New Jerusalem – Rev 21:12
    • Measure of a man , that is of an angel – Rev 21:17
  • Points to the bringing of the Gospel – see notes on angels as messengers of the Gospel – Rev 1:16

Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein

  • Rise
    • G1453 (Gr: egeiro) – literally – to waken, resurrection – points to salvation
    • G1453 – Mat 2:13, Mat 2:14, Mat 2:20, Mat 2:21, Mat 3:9, Mat 8:15, Mat 8:25, Mat 8:26, Mat 9:5, Mat 9:6, Mat 9:7, Mat 9:19, Mat 9:25, Mat 10:8, Mat 11:5, Mat 11:11, Mat 12:11, Mat 12:42, Mat 14:2, Mat 16:21, Mat 17:7, Mat 17:23, Mat 24:7, Mat 24:11, Mat 24:24, Mat 25:7, Mat 26:32, Mat 26:46, Mat 27:52, Mat 27:63, Mat 27:64, Mat 28:6, Mat 28:7, Mar 1:31, Mar 2:9, Mar 2:11, Mar 2:12, Mar 3:3, Mar 4:27, Mar 5:41, Mar 6:14, Mar 6:16, Mar 9:27, Mar 10:49, Mar 12:26, Mar 13:8, Mar 13:22, Mar 14:28, Mar 14:42, Mar 16:6, Mar 16:14, Luk 1:69, Luk 3:8, Luk 5:23, Luk 5:24, Luk 6:8, Luk 7:14, Luk 7:16, Luk 7:22, Luk 8:24, Luk 8:54, Luk 9:7, Luk 9:22, Luk 11:8, Luk 11:31, Luk 13:25, Luk 20:37, Luk 21:10, Luk 24:6, Luk 24:34, Joh 2:19, Joh 2:20, Joh 2:22, Joh 5:8, Joh 5:21, Joh 7:52, Joh 11:29, Joh 12:1, Joh 12:9, Joh 12:17, Joh 13:4, Joh 14:31, Joh 21:14, Act 3:6, Act 3:7, Act 3:15, Act 4:10, Act 5:30, Act 9:8, Act 10:26, Act 10:40, Act 12:7, Act 13:22, Act 13:23, Act 13:30, Act 13:37, Act 26:8, Rom 4:24, Rom 4:25, Rom 6:4, Rom 6:9, Rom 7:4, Rom 8:11, Rom 8:34, Rom 10:9, Rom 13:11, 1Co 6:14, 1Co 15:4, 1Co 15:12, 1Co 15:13, 1Co 15:14, 1Co 15:15, 1Co 15:16, 1Co 15:17, 1Co 15:20, 1Co 15:29, 1Co 15:32, 1Co 15:35, 1Co 15:42, 1Co 15:43, 1Co 15:44, 1Co 15:52, 2Co 1:9, 2Co 4:14, 2Co 5:15, Gal 1:1, Eph 1:20, Eph 5:14, Col 2:12, 1Th 1:10, 2Ti 2:8, Heb 11:19, Jas 5:15, 1Pe 1:21, Rev 11:1.
    • Raised/Resurrected ‑ Rev 20:4‑6, Ro 6:4‑11,7:6, Gal 6:15, Eph 4:21‑25, 5:14, Eph 2:1,5,6, 2:10,15, Col 2:11‑13, 3:1, Phil 3:10‑14, 2 Cor 4:10‑11, Ro 8:11, John 14:19, Ez 37:1‑14, 1 Pet 3:21, Lk 2:34, Ro 5:10, James 5:15
    • New creation ‑ 2 Cor 5:17
    • Born Again ‑ John 3:3‑7, 1 Pet 1:23, 1 Pet 1:3
    • Many came out of graves after resurrection ‑ Mat 27:52‑53
    • Flesh body to be raised ‑ 1 Cor 15:35‑50
    • See also ‑ 1 Thess 2:19‑20, 4:13‑18, 1 Cor 15:23,29,35‑56, Acts 4:1, 17:18,32, 23:6‑8, 24:16, 26:8, John 11:23‑25, John 6:39,40,44,54, 5:21, 28‑29, LK 14:4, Mat 24:31, 25:1‑13, Hos 3:14, Dan 12:2‑3,13, Is 26:19, 25:8, Ps 49:15,17:15, 16:9‑10, 115:17‑18, Job 14:12‑15, 19:25‑27, Ro 4:17, 8:23, 1 Cor 6:14, 2 Cor 4:14‑17, 5:1‑5, 2 Tim 1:10, 2:18, 2 Cor 1:9, Heb 6:2, 11:17‑19,35, Phil 3:11‑12,21, 1 Sam 2:6‑8, Job 19:25‑27, Ps 17:15, etc
    • Assertion to Saduccees ‑ Lk 20:27‑38, Mk 12:18‑27, Mat 22:23‑32
    • Last Day ‑ saved raised up for life ‑ John 6:39‑40,44
    • Unsaved raised for Judgment ‑ John 12:48
    • Resurrection of the Dead ‑ Mat 17:1‑13, Mk 9:2‑13, Lk 9:28‑36, Mat 19:28, Mat 22:30‑32, John 5:24‑29, John 6:39‑40, 11:24, 1 Cor 15:21‑57, Acts 24:15, Ro 14:10, 2 Cor 5:1‑10, Phil 3:11, 3:21, 1 John 3:2‑3
    • Believers resurrected with Christ ‑ Ro 6:5
    • Believers are raised with Christ ‑ Ro 8:11, Eph 1:20, 2:6, Col 2:12, 3:11, Eph 5:14, James 5:15
    • Resurrection of Lazarus is a type of salvation ‑ see John 11:24‑25
    • Jesus was resurrected ‑ Acts 1:22, Phil 3:10, Ro 1:4, 6:5
  • Measure – God’s plan of the grace by the faith of Christ to build God’s temple
    • G3354 (Gr: metreo) – to measure – 10 occurrences
    • Also, G3355, G3356, G3357, G3358 – 16 occurrences
    • Mat 7:2 – By what judgment, you judge, you shall be judged – what measure you measure, you shall be measures
    • Mat 23:32 – Pharisees – fill up the measure of your fathers (children of those who killed the prophets)
    • Mk 4:24 – take heed what you hear – what measure you measure, shall be measured unto you – unto you who hear, shall more be given
    • Lk 6:38 – give and it shall be give n unto you – good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, men shall give unto your bosom – with the same measure you measure, it shall be measured unto you
    • John 2:6 – 6 water pots containing 2 or 3 measures each (water into wine)
    • John 3:34 – God gives not the Spirit by measure (to Jesus)
    • Acts 20:12 – young man alive, not a little comforted
    • Ro 12:3 – God has given each the measure of faith (do not think highly of yourself)
    • 2 Cor 10:12-13 – For we dare not make ourselves of the number, or compare ourselves with some that commend themselves: but they measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves among themselves, are not wise. But we will not boast of things without our measure, but according to the measure of the rule which God hath distributed to us, a measure to reach even unto you. (2Co 10:12-13)
    • Eph 4:7 – Every one given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ
    • Eph 4:13 – until we all come in the unity of the faith – unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ
    • Eph 4:16 – the effectual working in the measure of every part of the body of Christ
    • Heb 5:2 – have compassion on the ignorant and of them that are out of the way – Heb 5:2
    • Rev 11:1 – measure the temple of God, but measure not the court
    • Rev 21:15-17 – And he that talked with me had a golden reed to measure the city, and the gates thereof, and the wall thereof. And the city lieth foursquare, and the length is as large as the breadth: and he measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand furlongs. The length and the breadth and the height of it are equal. And he measured the wall thereof, an hundred and forty and four cubits, according to the measure of a man, that is, of the angel. (Rev 21:15-17)
    • Old Testament:
      • Eze 40-48 – the eternal temple – approximately 35 occurrences
      • Tabernacle and Solomon’s temple had precise measurements
      • Related to building of the house of God – Zech 1:16, Zech 2:1-2, 1 Chr 29, 2 Sam 8:2, Hab 3:6, Is 40:12, 65:7, Deut 21:2, Num 35:5
    • Temple – Where God and His people reside
      • Individual Christian – 1 Cor 6:19
      • Church – 2 Thess 2:4, 1 Cor 3:16-17, 2 Cor 6:16, Eph 2:21
      • Christ’s Body – Mat 26:61, Mat 27:40, Mk 14:58, Mk 15:29, John 2:19-21 (all naos – see below)
      • Christ’s body is the church – Col 1:18, Col 1:24, Col 2:17-19, Col 3:15, Eph 1:23, Eph 2:16, Eph 4:12-16, Eph 5:23,Eph 5:30, 1 Cor 12:12-27
      • Spiritual place in heaven – Rev 11:2, Rev 11:19, Rev 14:15-17, Rev 15:5-8, Is 6:1-4
        • Christians are seated in heavenly places – Eph 2:5-6, Eph 1:13, Mat 26:29, Lk 12:37, Lk 22:29-30, John 12:26, John 14:3, John 17:21-26, Rev 3:20-21
      • Temple equals house – Lk 11:51
      • The True Tabernacle – Heb 8:2, 9:11,24 (kingdom of God)
      • Church equals house – John 14:2, 2 John 10, 1 Cor 16:15-19, 2 Tim 2:20, Eph 2:19, Heb 3:6, 1 Pet 2:5, 1 Pet 4:17, Ro 16:5
      • God does not dwell in physical temples – Acts 7:48, Acts 17:24
      • Temple – Gr: naos (G3485) – 46 occurrences
        • Mat 23:16, Mat 23:17, Mat 23:21, Mat 23:35, Mat 26:61, Mat 27:5, Mat 27:40, Mat 27:51, Mar 14:58, Mar 15:29, Mar 15:38, Luk 1:9, Luk 1:21, Luk 1:22, Luk 23:45, Joh 2:19, Joh 2:20, Joh 2:21, Act 7:48, Act 17:24, Act 19:24, 1Co 3:16, 1Co 3:17, 1Co 6:19, 2Co 6:16, Eph 2:21, 2Th 2:4, Rev 3:12, Rev 7:15, Rev 11:1, Rev 11:2, Rev 11:19, Rev 14:15, Rev 14:17, Rev 15:5, Rev 15:6, Rev 15:8, Rev 16:1, Rev 16:17, Rev 21:22.
      • Altar – a place of sacrifice
        • Place of sacrifice – Amos 9:1, Gen 8:20, Ex 17:15, Ex 27:1‑5, Ex 31:8‑9
        • Altar of burnt offering is brass – Ex 27:1-2. Exo 35:16, Exo 38:4, Exo 38:30, Exo 39:39, Num 16:39, 1Ki 8:64, 2Ki 16:14, 2Ki 16:15, 2Ch 1:5, 2Ch 1:6, 2Ch 7:7, Eze 9:2, 2 Chr 4:1
        • Altar of incense is gold – Ex 30:1-3, Exo 40:5, Num 7:84, 1Ki 6:20, 1Ki 6:22, 1Ki 7:48, 1Ch 28:18.
        • Altar of incense ‑ Ex 30:1‑9, Num 4:11, Heb 9:4, Rev 8:3-5, Rev 9:13, Ex 35:8‑28, Ex 37:25‑29, Ex 40:5, Ex 40:27, Lev 10:1
          • Sacrifice of praise – Heb 13:15
          • Day of Atonement – Lev 16:12-13
        • Altar in Revelation
          • Rev 6:9 – souls under altar – those slain for the Word of God
          • Rev 8:3-5 – golden altar in heaven – prayers of the saints
          • Rev 9:13 – voice from the 4 horns of the golden altar
          • Rev 11:1 – measure temple of God and the altar
          • Rev 14:18 – angel from the altar with power of fire
          • Rev 16:7 – another angel saying true and righteous are Your judgments
          • Christians are a sacrifice (worship) – Ro 12:1, Ro 6:13-19. Heb 13:15 (praise of lips), Ps 4:5 (righteousness)
        • Christians are sacrifices – Ro 12:1-2, Phil 2:17, Ps 69:30-31, Hos 14:2, 1 Cor 5:7-8, Hob 10:20-22, Heb 13:15-6, 1 Pet 2:5
        • Christians are a drink offering, poured out – Phil 2:17, 2 Tim 4:6, 2 Cor 12:15, Ro 15:16, Gen 35:14, Ex 29:40-41, 30:9, Lev 23:13,18,37, Num 6:15, Num 15:5-10, Num 28:6
      • Them that worship therein – all God’s people worship God
        • Our fathers worshipped in this mountain; and ye say, that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship. (John 4:20)
        • Jesus saith unto her, Woman, believe me, the hour cometh, when ye shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the Father. (John 4:21)
        • Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews. (John 4:22)
        • But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. (John 4:23)
        • God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. (John 4:24)
        • Now we know that God heareth not sinners: but if any man be a worshipper of God, and doeth his will, him he heareth. (John 9:31)
        • Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters. (Revelation 14:7)
        • Who shall not fear thee, O Lord, and glorify thy name? for thou only art holy: for all nations shall come and worship before thee; for thy judgments are made manifest. (Revelation 15:4)
        • The four and twenty elders fall down before him that sat on the throne, and worship him that liveth for ever and ever, and cast their crowns before the throne … (Rev 4:10)
        • And when they were come into the house, they saw the young child with Mary his mother, and fell down, and worshipped him: and when they had opened their treasures, they presented unto him gifts; gold, and frankincense, and myrrh. (Matthew 2:11)
        • And, behold, there came a leper and worshipped him, saying, Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean. (Matthew 8:2)
        • While he spake these things unto them, behold, there came a certain ruler, and worshipped him, saying, My daughter is even now dead: but come and lay thy hand upon her, and she shall live. (Matthew 9:18)
        • Then they that were in the ship came and worshipped him, saying, Of a truth thou art the Son of God. (Matthew 14:33)
        • Then came to him the mother of Zebedee’s children with her sons, worshipping him, and desiring a certain thing of him. (Matthew 20:20)
        • And as they went to tell his disciples, behold, Jesus met them, saying, All hail. And they came and held him by the feet, and worshipped him. (Matthew 28:9)
        • And when they saw him, they worshipped him: but some doubted. (Matthew 28:17)
        • But when he saw Jesus afar off, he ran and worshipped him (Mark 5:6)
        • And they smote him on the head with a reed, and did spit upon him, and bowing their knees worshipped him. (Mark 15:19)
        • And they worshipped him, and returned to Jerusalem with great joy: (Luke 24:52)
        • And he said, Lord, I believe. And he worshipped him. (John 9:38)

But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not

  • Court outside of the temple
    • New Testament – Gr: aule (G833) – 12 occurrences
      • A sheepfold – John 10:1, John 10:16
      • The ‘palace’ of the high priest, Caiaphas where the plot to kill Jesus occurred – Mat 26:3 (where the high priest, chief priests, scribes and elders were assembled (compare with Mat 26:57-58) – Jesus examined in the high preist’s house – Lk 22:54
      • Peter present in Caiaphas’ ‘palace’ (outside of where Jesus was being examined) – Mat 26:58, Mk 14:54, Mk 14:66, John 18:15 (with John), Lk 22:55 – John 18:15-16 (John had brought Peter through the door into the court)
      • Where the strong man (Satan) keeps his goods – Lk 11:21
      • Pilate’s praetorium – Mk 15:15-16
      • Outside of temple – Rev 11:1-2
    • Old Testament – Heb: chatser (H2691) – 190 occurrences – translated as court and village
      • Court around the tabernacle – Exo 27:9, Exo 27:12, Exo 27:13, Exo 27:16, Exo 27:17, Exo 27:18, Exo 27:19, Exo 35:17, Exo 35:18, Exo 38:9, Exo 38:15, Exo 38:16, Exo 38:17, Exo 38:18, Exo 38:20, Exo 38:31, Exo 39:40, Exo 40:8, Exo 40:33, Lev 6:16, Lev 6:26, Num 3:26, Num 3:37, Num 4:26, Num 4:32.
      • Court of Ezekiel’s temple – Eze 40:14, Eze 40:17, Eze 40:19, Eze 40:20, Eze 40:23, Eze 40:27, Eze 40:28, Eze 40:31, Eze 40:32, Eze 40:34, Eze 40:37, Eze 40:44, Eze 40:47, Eze 41:15, Eze 42:1, Eze 42:3, Eze 42:6-10, Eze 42:14, Eze 43:5, Eze 44:17, Eze 44:19, Eze 44:21, Eze 44:27, Eze 45:19, Eze 46:1, Eze 46:20, Eze 46:21, Eze 46:22.
      • Court of King Ahasuerus’ palace (where one comes to meet the king) – Est 1:5, Est 2:11, Est 4:11, Est 5:1, Est 5:2, Est 6:4, Est 6:5.
      • Courts of Solomon’s temple / house – 1 Ki 6:36, 1 Ki 7:8-12, 1 Ki 8:64, 2 Chr 4:9,1 Chr 23:28, 2 Chr 6:13, 2 Chr 7:7
      • David gave the pattern of the temple / courts to Solomon – 1 Chr 28:10-12
      • Isaiah in the middle court – 2 Ki 20:4
      • A well in the court – 2 Sam 17:18
      • Manasseh built altars in the 2 courts of the house of the Lord – 2 Ki 21:5, 2 Chr 33:5
      • Josiah tore down altars in courts – 2 Ki 23:12
      • Solomon to build God’s house and His courts – 1 Chr 28:6
      • Courts of Nehemiah – Neh 3:25, Neh 8:16, Neh 13:7
      • All the people on the courts of the house of the Lord – 2 Chr 23:4-5
      • Blessed is the man whom thou choosest, and causest to approach unto thee, that he may dwell in thy courts: we shall be satisfied with the goodness of thy house, even of thy holy temple. (Psa 65:4)
      • My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the LORD: my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God. (Psa 84:2)
      • For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness. (Psa 84:10)
      • Those that be planted in the house of the LORD shall flourish in the courts of our God. (Psa 92:13)
      • Give unto the LORD the glory due unto his name: bring an offering, and come into his courts. (Psa 96:8)
      • Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name. (Psa 100:4)
      • In the courts of the LORD’S house, in the midst of thee, O Jerusalem. Praise ye the LORD. (Psa 116:19)
      • Ye that stand in the house of the LORD, in the courts of the house of our God (Psa 135:2)
      • When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts? (Isa 1:12)
      • But they that have gathered it shall eat it, and praise the LORD; and they that have brought it together shall drink it in the courts of my holiness. (Isa 62:9)
      • And he said unto them, Defile the house, and fill the courts with the slain: go ye forth. And they went forth, and slew in the city. (Eze 9:7)
      • Thus saith the LORD of hosts; If thou wilt walk in my ways, and if thou wilt keep my charge, then thou shalt also judge my house, and shalt also keep my courts, and I will give thee places to walk among these that stand by. (Zec 3:7)
      • Jeremiah prophesies in the court of the house of the Lord – Jer 19:14, Jer 26:2
      • Word came to Jeremiah shut up in the court of the prison – Jer 32:2, Jer 32:8, Jer 32:12, Jer 33:1, Jer 37:21, Jer 38:28, Jer 39-14-15
      • Jeremiah put in dungeon within the court of the prison – Jer 38:6, Jer 38:13
      • Baruch read words of Jeremiah in the court of the house of the Lord – Jer 36:10, Jer 36:20
      • Idolatry in the wall in the court – Eze 8:7, Eze 8:16
      • Now the cherubims stood on the right side of the house, when the man went in; and the cloud filled the inner court. (Eze 10:3)
      • Then the glory of the LORD went up from the cherub, and stood over the threshold of the house; and the house was filled with the cloud, and the court was full of the brightness of the LORD’S glory. (Eze 10:4)
      • And the sound of the cherubims’ wings was heard even to the outer court, as the voice of the Almighty God when he speaketh. (Eze 10:5)
      • And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof: and it shall be an habitation of dragons, and a court for owls. (Isa 34:13)
      • But prophesy not again any more at Bethel: for it is the king’s chapel, and it is the king’s court. (Amo 7:13)
      • And Jehoshaphat stood in the congregation of Judah and Jerusalem, in the house of the LORD, before the new court (2Ch 20:5)
      • Zechariah the prophet stoned:
        • And they conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the commandment of the king in the court of the house of the LORD. (2Ch 24:21)
      • And the priests went into the inner part of the house of the LORD, to cleanse it, and brought out all the uncleanness that they found in the temple of the LORD into the court of the house of the LORD. And the Levites took it, to carry it out abroad into the brook Kidron. (2Ch 29:16)
      • Robbers driven out of temple – John 2:12-25, Mat 21:12ff, Mk 11:15-17, Lk 19:45f, Mal 3:1f
        • Make merchandise – speaking of spiritual things – Jer 26:2, 2 Pet 2:3, Zech 14:21, Jer 7:11, Is 56:11, Hos 12:7, Deut 21:14,24:3, james 4:13, Mat 13:45, Rev 18:3-23, Mat 22:5, 21:12-17, John 2:16, Is 23:8, 45:14, Ez 26:12, 28:16, 27:15f
        • Robbers – Mk 11:17, Jer 7:9-11, 1 Ki 18
      • Leave out
        • Leave – Gr: ekballo (G1544) – literally, to throw out (82 occurrences)
        • Outer darkness / out of kingdom – Mat 8:12, Mat 21:39, Mat 22:13, Mat 25:30, Lk 13:28
        • Demons / evil spirits – Mat 8:16, Mat 8:31, Mat 9:33-34, Mat 10:1, Mat 10:8, Mat 12:24, Mat 12:28, Mat 17:19, Mk 1:34, Mk 1:39, Mk 3:15, Mk 6:13, Mk 7:26, Mk 9:18, Mk 9:28, Mk 9:38, Mk 16:9, Mk 16:17, Lk 9:40, Lk 9:49, Lk 11:14-20, Lk 13:32
        • Satan – Mat 12:26, John 12:31
        • Jesus cast out moneychangers – Mk 11:15, Lk 19:45, John 2:15
        • Jesus will not cast out His people – John 6:37
        • Bondwoman cast out – Gal 4:30
      • Not measured – not part of church although nearby (not built up by the grace of God (see above discussion on measured

…  for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.

  • Gentiles – Gr: ethnos (G1484) – 164 occurrences – literally a culture, a nation
    • From Gr: etho (G1486) – literally, to be ‘used to’; a habit; manner – 4 occurrences – Mat 27:15, Mk 10:1, Lk 4:16, Acts 17:2
    • Outside of the culture of Jehovah of the Bible (not Jewish or Christian), typical examples
      • Jew vs. Gentile – Joh 7:35 , Act 13:42 , Act 14:2 , Act 14:5 , Act 21:11 , Act 21:21 , Rom 2:9 , Rom 2:10 , Rom 3:9 , Rom 3:29 , Rom 9:24 , 1Co 10:32 , 1Co 12:13 , Gal 2:14 , Gal 2:15
      • 1 Cor 10:32 – give no offence, neither to Jew, Gentile, nor the church of God
      • Blessing of Abraham comes to the Gentiles – Gal 3:14, Gal 3:6, Gal 3:29, Gen 12:2-3, Ro 4:3-17, Ro 10:19-21, Is 65:1-2, Is 49:6, Is 52:15, Is 55:4-5
      • Translated as heathen – Acts 4:25, 2 Cor 11:26, Gal 1:16, Gal 2:9, Gal 3:8
      • Christians a holy ‘nation’ – 1 Pet 2:9
      • ‘Nations’ in Revelation – Rev 2:26, Rev 5:9, Rev 7:9, Rev 10:11, Rev 11:9, Rev 11:18, Rev 12:5, Rev 13:7, Rev 14:6, Rev 14:8, Rev 14:10, Rev 15:4, Rev 16:19, Rev 17:4, Rev 17:5, Rev 17:15, Rev 18:3, Rev 18:23, Rev 19:15, Rev 20:3, Rev 20:8, Rev 21:24, Rev 21:26, Rev 21:27, Rev 22:2
      • The nations that know not God – 1 Thess 4:5
      • Nations – vanity of their mind – Eph 4:17
      • To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory – Col 1:27
      • For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries – 1 Pet 4:3
      • That the Gentiles should be fellowheirs, and of the same body, and partakers of his promise in Christ by the gospel: Whereof I was made a minister, according to the gift of the grace of God given unto me by the effectual working of his power. Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ; – Eph 3:6-8
      • Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands; That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world: But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ. For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us; (Eph 2:11-14)
      • For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus …There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus. And if ye be Christ’s, then are ye Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise. (Gal 3:26-29)
    • Not Jews – Christians are spiritual Jews – see Ro 2:28-29, Phil 3:3, Ro 9:6-9, notes on 7:1-8
  • Tread under foot – Gr: pateo (G3961) – 5 occurrences
    • Disciples given power to tread on serpents and scorpions – Lk 10:19
    • Jerusalem trodden down in the Great Tribulation – Lk 21:24
    • Court of the temple – Rev 11:2
    • Winepress of wrath of God trodden down outside of the city – Rev 14:20
    • Treads the winepress of Judgment day – Rev 19:15
  • Trodden down – Gr: katapateo (G2662) – 5 occurrences
    • Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.  (Mat 5:13)
      • ‘Ye’ is plural – passages corresponds to an apostate church
    • Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.  (Mat 7:6)
    • A sower went out to sow his seed: and as he sowed, some fell by the way side; and it was trodden down, and the fowls of the air devoured it.  (Luk 8:5)
    • In the mean time, when there were gathered together an innumerable multitude of people, insomuch that they trode one upon another, he began to say unto his disciples first of all, Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.  (Luk 12:1)
    • Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?  (Heb 10:29)
  • Feet symbolizes subjection
    • Subjection under feet of Christ – Heb 1:13, Heb 2:8-15, Heb 10:13, Acts 2:34f, Mk 16:19, Mat 11:27, Mat 22:44, Mat 26:64, Mat 28:18, Ps 8:6, Ps 110:1, Eph 1:22, 1 Cor 15:24-27, Rev 13:3, Rev 13:12-14, Rev 19:10, Is 60:14.
    • Symbolism – To be under the feet of someone symbolically means to be within the control of or in subjection to another – 1 Ki 5:3, Ps 91:11-13, Josh 10:24, Lam 3:34, Mal 4:3, Ro 16:20, Deut 33:29, Is 26:5-6, Gen 3:15, Is 60:14, Heb 1:13, Heb 2:8, 1 Cor 15:27-28, Ps 8:6, Ps 110:1, Heb 10:12-13, Acts 2:34-35, Eph 1:22, Mat 22:44
  • Tread down – Old Testament
    • G1869, H947, H7429, H1759, H6072, H5541, H4823, H4001
    • Tread down in prophecy – antichrist
    • Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces. (Dan 7:23)
    • Then I heard one saint speaking, and another saint said unto that certain saint which spake, How long shall be the vision concerning the daily sacrifice, and the transgression of desolation, to give both the sanctuary and the host to be trodden under foot? (Dan 8:13)
    • Tread down – Babylonian Captivity
    • The people of thy holiness have possessed it but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary. (Isa 63:18)
    • The Lord hath trodden under foot all my mighty men in the midst of me: he hath called an assembly against me to crush my young men: the Lord hath trodden the virgin, the daughter of Judah, as in a winepress. (Lam 1:15)
    • And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; and break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down: (Isa 5:5)
    • The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be trodden under feet: (Isa 28:3)
    • Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place. And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it. (Isa 28:17-18)
    • Babylonians enter into Jerusalem (trodden down) – Historical Passages
    • And in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the ninth day of the month, the city was broken up. And all the princes of the king of Babylon came in, and sat in the middle gate, even Nergalsharezer, Samgarnebo, Sarsechim, Rabsaris, Nergalsharezer, Rabmag, with all the residue of the princes of the king of Babylon. (Jer 39:2-3)
    • For, lo, I will call all the families of the kingdoms of the north, saith the LORD; and they shall come, and they shall set every one his throne at the entering of the gates of Jerusalem, and against all the walls thereof round about, and against all the cities of Judah. (Jer 1:15)
    • Thus saith the LORD God of Israel; Behold, I will turn back the weapons of war that are in your hands, wherewith ye fight against the king of Babylon, and against the Chaldeans, which besiege you without the walls, and I will assemble them into the midst of this city. (Jer 21:4)
    • And it shall come to pass, that thy choicest valleys shall be full of chariots, and the horsemen shall set themselves in array at the gate. (Isa 22:7)
    • The adversary hath spread out his hand upon all her pleasant things: for she hath seen that the heathen entered into her sanctuary, whom thou didst command that they should not enter into thy congregation. (Lam 1:10)
    • Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual desolations; even all that the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary. Thine enemies roar in the midst of thy congregations; they set up their ensigns for signs. (Psa 74:3-4)
    • A Psalm of Asaph. O God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps. (Psa 79:1)
    • We are confounded, because we have heard reproach: shame hath covered our faces: for strangers are come into the sanctuaries of the LORD’S house. (Jer 51:51)
    • My face will I turn also from them, and they shall pollute my secret place: for the robbers shall enter into it, and defile it. (Eze 7:22)
    • Great Tribulation Verses
    • For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city. (Zec 14:2)
    • But when the king heard thereof, he was wroth: and he sent forth his armies, and destroyed those murderers, and burned up their city. (Mat 22:7)
    • Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God. (2Th 2:4)
    • But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months. (Rev 11:2)
    • And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled. (Luk 21:24)
    • Then I heard one saint speaking, and another saint said unto that certain saint which spake, How long shall be the vision concerning the daily sacrifice, and the transgression of desolation, to give both the sanctuary and the host to be trodden under foot? (Dan 8:13)
    • And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences, shall stand up. And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power: and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practise, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people. And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes; but he shall be broken without hand. (Dan 8:23-25)
    • And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him. (Dan 11:45)
    • And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven. And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations. And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. (Rev 13:6-8)
  • Treading winepresses
    • In those days saw I in Judah some treading wine presses on the sabbath, and bringing in sheaves, and lading asses; as also wine, grapes, and figs, and all manner of burdens, which they brought into Jerusalem on the sabbath day: and I testified against them in the day wherein they sold victuals. (Neh 13:15)
    • Which make oil within their walls, and tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst. Job 24:11)
  • Wherefore art thou red in thine apparel, and thy garments like him that treadeth in the winefat? (Isa 63:2)
  • I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the people there was none with me: for I will tread them in mine anger, and trample them in my fury; and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain all my raiment. (Isa 63:3)
  • Therefore prophesy thou against them all these words, and say unto them, The LORD shall roar from on high, and utter his voice from his holy habitation; he shall mightily roar upon his habitation; he shall give a shout, as they that tread the grapes, against all the inhabitants of the earth. (Jer 25:30)
    • Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed; and the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and all the hills shall melt. (Amo 9:13)
  • Tread down the wicked / enemies
  • And I will tread down the people in mine anger, and make them drunk in my fury, and I will bring down their strength to the earth. (Isa 63:6)
  • Look on every one that is proud, and bring him low; and tread down the wicked in their place. (Job 40:12)
  • Through thee will we push down our enemies: through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us. (Psa 44:5)
  • Through God we shall do valiantly: for he it is that shall tread down our enemies. Psa 60:12)
  • Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet. (Psa 91:13)
  • Through God we shall do valiantly: for he it is that shall tread down our enemies. (Psa 108:13)
  • I have raised up one from the north, and he shall come: from the rising of the sun shall he call upon my name: and he shall come upon princes as upon morter, and as the potter treadeth clay. (Isa 41:25)
  • For, lo, he that formeth the mountains, and createth the wind, and declareth unto man what is his thought, that maketh the morning darkness, and treadeth upon the high places of the earth, The LORD, The God of hosts, is his name. (Amo 4:13)
  • For, behold, the LORD cometh forth out of his place, and will come down, and tread upon the high places of the earth. (Mic 1:3)
  • And they shall be as mighty men, which tread down their enemies in the mire of the streets in the battle: and they shall fight, because the LORD is with them, and the riders on horses shall be confounded. (Zec 10:5)
  • And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this, saith the LORD of hosts. (Mal 4:3)
  • Thou hast trodden down all them that err from thy statutes: for their deceit is falsehood. (Psa 119:118)
  • Then she that is mine enemy shall see it, and shame shall cover her which said unto me, Where is the LORD thy God? mine eyes shall behold her: now shall she be trodden down as the mire of the streets. (Mic 7:10)
  • And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it. (Isa 28:18)
  • King of Babylon to be trodden down
  • But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch, and as the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a carcase trodden under feet. (Isa 14:19)
  • Babylon, the lofty city to be trodden down
  • For he bringeth down them that dwell on high; the lofty city, he layeth it low; he layeth it low, even to the ground; he bringeth it even to the dust. The foot shall tread it down, even the feet of the poor, and the steps of the needy. (Isa 26:5-6)
  • Tread in God’s courts
  • When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts? (Isa 1:12)
  • Assyria to tread down Israel
  • And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; and break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down (Isa 5:5)
  • I will send him against an hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets. (Isa 10:6)
  • And this man shall be the peace, when the Assyrian shall come into our land: and when he shall tread in our palaces, then shall we raise against him seven shepherds, and eight principal men. (Mic 5:5)
  • And they shall waste the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod in the entrances thereof: thus shall he deliver us from the Assyrian, when he cometh into our land, and when he treadeth within our borders. (Mic 5:6)
  • And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles in the midst of many people as a lion among the beasts of the forest, as a young lion among the flocks of sheep: who, if he go through, both treadeth down, and teareth in pieces, and none can deliver. (Mic 5:8)
  • he crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be trodden under feet (Isa 28:3)
  • Assyrian to be trodden down
  • That I will break the Assyrian in my land, and upon my mountains tread him under foot: then shall his yoke depart from off them, and his burden depart from off their shoulders. (Isa 14:25)
  • Moab to be trodden down
  • And gladness is taken away, and joy out of the plentiful field; and in the vineyards there shall be no singing, neither shall there be shouting: the treaders shall tread out no wine in their presses; I have made their vintage shouting to cease. (Isa 16:10)
  • And joy and gladness is taken from the plentiful field, and from the land of Moab; and I have caused wine to fail from the winepresses: none shall tread with shouting; their shouting shall be no shouting. (Jer 48:33)
  • For in this mountain shall the hand of the LORD rest, and Moab shall be trodden down under him, even as straw is trodden down for the dunghill. (Isa 25:10)
  • Tyre to be trodden down
  • With the hoofs of his horses shall he tread down all thy streets: he shall slay thy people by the sword, and thy strong garrisons shall go down to the ground. (Eze 26:11)
  • Jerusalem to be trodden down
  • For it is a day of trouble, and of treading down, and of perplexity by the Lord GOD of hosts in the valley of vision, breaking down the walls, and of crying to the mountains. (Isa 22:5)
  • Shepherds of Israel / Judah tread down the pastures
  • Seemeth it a small thing unto you to have eaten up the good pasture, but ye must tread down with your feet the residue of your pastures? and to have drunk of the deep waters, but ye must foul the residue with your feet? (Eze 34:18)
  • Forasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them. (Amo 5:11)
  • Many pastors have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden my portion under foot, they have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness. (Jer 12:10)
  • And as for my flock, they eat that which ye have trodden with your feet; and they drink that which ye have fouled with your feet. (Eze 34:19)
  • Jezebel trodden under foot
  • And he said, Throw her down. So they threw her down: and some of her blood was sprinkled on the wall, and on the horses: and he trode her under foot. (2Ki 9:33)
  • Promised Land
  • Save Caleb the son of Jephunneh; he shall see it, and to him will I give the land that he hath trodden upon, and to his children, because he hath wholly followed the LORD. (Deu 1:36)
  • And Moses sware on that day, saying, Surely the land whereon thy feet have trodden shall be thine inheritance, and thy children’s for ever, because thou hast wholly followed the LORD my God. (Jos 14:9)
  • Every place whereon the soles of your feet shall tread shall be yours: from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even unto the uttermost sea shall your coast be. There shall no man be able to stand before you: for the LORD your God shall lay the fear of you and the dread of you upon all the land that ye shall tread upon, as he hath said unto you.  (Deu 11:24-25)
  • Happy art thou, O Israel: who is like unto thee, O people saved by the LORD, the shield of thy help, and who is the sword of thy excellency! and thine enemies shall be found liars unto thee; and thou shalt tread upon their high places. (Deu 33:29)
  • Every place that the sole of your foot shall tread upon, that have I given unto you, as I said unto Moses. (Jos 1:3)
  • Holy City
    • Jerusalem – type of church – Rev 3:12, Rev 21:2 Rev 21:10, Rev 22:19, Is 52:1, Mat 4:5, 27:53, Dan 9:25, Gal 4:26, Ps 122, Heb 12:22, Is 45:13-17, Is 65:18, Is 60:14, Is 44:28, Is 33:12
    • Holy city Bible passages – Neh 11:1, Neh 11:18, Isa 48:2, Isa 52:1, Dan 9:24, Mat 4:5, Mat 27:53, Rev 11:2, Rev 21:2, Rev 22:19.
    • Jerusalem holy passages – Neh 11:1, Isa 4:3, Isa 27:13, Isa 52:1, Isa 64:10, Isa 66:20, Dan 9:16, Joe 3:17, Zec 2:12, Zec 8:3, Rev 21:2, Rev 21:10.
    • True spiritual Israel and spiritual Jew is anyone who is a true child of God (whether male or female, whether Jew or Greek). We are all Abraham’s seed and heir to the promises of God (Gal 3:26-29).
    • Christians are also typified as the ‘house of God’ (John 14:2, 2 John 10, 1 Cor 16:15‑19, 2 Tim 2:20, Eph 2:19, Heb 3:6, 1 Pet 2:5, 1 Pet 4:17, Ro 16:5) and the ‘temple of God’ (Lk 11:51, 2 Thess 2:4, 1 Cor 3:16‑17, 2 Cor 6:16, Eph 2:21). Both the house of God and the temple of God were located in Jerusalem.
    • Jerusalem is where the 1st Church and the Gospel of Jesus Christ Originates From:
  • It is where Simeon (just and devout) awaited the consolation of Israel – Lk 2:25
  • It is where Anna awaited the redemption – Lk 2:38
  • Where Daughters of Jerusalem were – Lk 23:38
  • Jesus commanded disciples to wait there for the Holy Spirit – Lk 24:44, Acts 1:4
  • Repentance preached beginning at Jerusalem – Lk 24:47
  • Christians are to be witnesses in Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria and to the ends of the earth – Acts 1:8
  • Gospel preached in Judea and Jerusalem – Acts 2:14
  • The church began in Jerusalem on the day of Pentecost (3000 baptized – Acts 2:41) – Acts 2
  • 5000 believed – Acts 4:4
  • 120 waiting for day of Pentecost – Acts 1:15
  • Early church active in Jerusalem – Acts 4:6, 5:16
  • Filled with apostles doctrine – Acts 5:29
  • Disciples multiplied greatly – Acts 6:7
  • Peter came from there – Acts 11:2, 11:22
  • Prophets originated from Jerusalem to Antioch – Acts 11:27
  • Saul joins disciples at Jerusalem – Acts 9:26-28, Gal 1:17-18, 2:1
  • Paul and Barnabas returned to Jerusalem after 1st missionary journey – Acts 12:25
  • First church council – Acts 15
  • Ordination of elders and apostles – Acts 16:4
  • Paul fully preached Gospel from Jerusalem to Illyricum – Ro 15:19
  • Jerusalem is where religious activity occurs
  • It was referred to as a Holy City – Mat 4:5, Mat 27:53
  • Jesus presented to the Lord by parents – Lk 2:22
  • Swear not by since it is the city of the great king – Mat 5:34-35
  • Where the unsaved Pharisees, priests and scribes were – Lk 22:2, 23:10, Acts 4:5, 6:2, 23:9
  • Jerusalem is a type of being under the bondage of the law (Hagar, Mt. Sinai) – Gal 4:25-26
  • Where the Old Testament feasts and Sabbaths were held – John 7:1-14, John 2:23, 6:4, 12:1, 13:1, 18:28, 1 Cor 5:7, etc.
  • Where persecution of Jesus Christ and Christians Occur:
  • Where the early church was persecuted – Acts 3-4
  • No prophet to perish outside of Jerusalem – Lk 13:33-34, Mat 23:37-38
  • Jesus to die at Jerusalem – Lk 9:31
  • Jesus condemned / suffered at Jerusalem (priests and scribes) – Mat 20:17-18, Mat 16:21
  • Where all things that were written would be accomplished – Lk 18:31
  • Paul persecuted followers of the Way and brought them to Jerusalem – Acts 9:2
  • Pau did evil to saints – Acts 9:13, 21
  • Great persecution at Jerusalem – spread disciples abroad, except apostles – Acts 8:1, 14
  • Paul returns bound in spirit – Acts 20:21-22, 21:4, 22:5
  • Paul should leave since he will not be received – Acts 22:17-18
  • Paul sent there to be killed – Acts 25:3
  • Paul received judgment in Jerusalem – Acts 25:1, 7, 9, 15, 20, 24 (priests and scribes)
  • Contribution for poor saints at Jerusalem – Ro 15:25-26, 31, 1 Cor 16:3
  • Represents the church trodden down by the Gentiles during Great Tribulation – Lk 21:24, Rev 11:2
  • Spiritual Jerusalem – John 4:20-23
  • Earthly Jerusalem vs. Heavenly Jerusalem – Gal 4:22-26
  • 42 months
  • The 3 and ½ Chart:
    • 7 is perfection of purpose – see notes on 7 (3 ½ is half of 7)
      • ½ represents duality
      • Church age and Great Tribulation
    • The significance on Dan 9:27 (weeks of years – Dan 9:24)
    • The 3 and ½ Chart:
      • 3 ½ years:  Dan 9:27, Ja 5:17, Lk 4:25 w/ Rev 11:6  – church age
        • 3 and ½ years – Elijah’s drought – James 5:17, Lk 4:25 (see Rev 11:6 – church has power to bring Gospel, Ro 10:13-20)
        • 3 ½ years: Dan 9:27 – great tribulation
      • 1260 days: Rev 11:3, Rev 12:6  church age – time of nourishing and prophesying
      • 3 ½ days: Dan 9:27, Rev 11:9-11 – great tribulation
        • Middle of the Feast (of Tabernacles) – see John 7:14
        • 3 ½ days –  time of Christ’s judgment – Wednesday sunset (Judas as Satan plots to betray, Mat 26:1-5,14-16, Mk 14:1-2,10-11, Lk 22:1-6, John 12:36-50) until Sunday at sunrise (resurrection of Christ – Mat 28:1-4)
      • 3 ½ times:  Dan 7:25, Dan 12:7 – great tribulation
      • 3 ½ times: Rev 12:14 – church age
      • 42 months: Rev 13:5 – great tribulation
      • 42 months Rev 11:2 – great tribulation
    • Month
      • Moon – a type of Old Covenant (veiled symbolism of the Gospel) – Gen 37:9-10, Rev 12:1, Job 25:5
        • Moon governed festivals / months – moon has no brightness in itself – it is a picture of types and figures which reflect spiritual truth
        • New moons related to law of God (symbols) – Col 2:16
        • Moon under the feet of the woman – Rev 12:1
        • New Jerusalem has no need of the sun or moon – Rev 21:23
        • Moon has its type of glory – 1 Cor 15:41
        • Lunatic (G4583) – Mat 4:23-24, Mat 17:15
        • Moon appointed for seasons – Ps 104:19
        • Month (H2320 Heb: chodesh – 279 occurrences) – based on revolution of the moon – indicated when festivals occurred
        • Moon (Heb: H3394 / H3393, H3391, Heb: yareach) – 41 occurrences
        • Moon rules by night – Ps 136:7-9, Gen 1:14-18, Jer 31:35
        • Moon reflects light of sun – Christians are light in a dark world (Mat 5:14, Eph 5:8-14, Lk 11:34-36, Lk 16:8, John 12:36, 1 Thess 5:5, Col 1:12-13, Phil 2:15)
        • People to be judged by the Words of Christ / Law of God – John 12:48, Rev 19:11-13, 2 Thess 1:8, Ro 2:12-27, Rom 2:16, Rom 3:19-20, Rom 4:15, Rom 7:7-11, Rom 8:3; Deu 27:26; 2Co 3:7-9; Gal 2:16-19; Gal 3:10, Gal 3:22; Jas 2:10; Rev 20:12-15
        • Joseph’s dream – sun, moon and 11 stars bowed to him – Gen 37:9
        • Worship of sun, moon and stars – Deut 4:19, Deut 17:3, 2 Ki 23:5, Jer 8:2
        • Sun and moon stood still – Josh 10:12-13, Hab 3:11
        • Lesser light (signs and seasons) at God’s work of creation – Ps 8:3, Gen 1:14-16
        • God feared as long as the moon exists – Ps 72:5
        • Abundance of peace as long as the moon shines – Ps 72:7
        • Moon a faithful witness – Ps 89:37
        • Moon praises God – Ps 148:3
        • Will not be smitten by the moon – Ps 121:6
        • Sun by day, moon by night – Gen 1:16, Ps 121:6, Ps 136:9, Jer 31:35

Rev 11:3-6: The 2 Witnesses during the Church Age

And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.

(Rev 11:3)

These are the two olive trees, and the two candlesticks standing before the God of the earth.

(Rev 11:4)

And if any man will hurt them, fire proceedeth out of their mouth, and devoureth their enemies: and if any man will hurt them, he must in this manner be killed.

(Rev 11:5)

These have power to shut heaven, that it rain not in the days of their prophecy: and have power over waters to turn them to blood, and to smite the earth with all plagues, as often as they will.

(Rev 11:6)

And I will give

  • God grants – Ro 8:28, Eph 3:11, Eph 1:11, Ro 11:33, 2 Tim 1:9, 2 Thess 2:13
  • God grants repentance – Acts 5:31, Acts 11:18
  • God grants faith and suffering – Phil 1:29
  • And he ordained twelve, that they should be with him, and that he might send them forth to preach, (Mar 3:14)
  • Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.
  • (Joh 15:16)
  • Beginning from the baptism of John, unto that same day that he was taken up from us, must one be ordained to be a witness with us of his resurrection.
  • (Act 1:22)
  • And he commanded us to preach unto the people, and to testify that it is he which was ordained of God to be the Judge of quick and dead.
  • (Act 10:42)
  • And when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of the Lord: and as many as were ordained to eternal life believed.
  • (Act 13:48)
  • And when they had ordained them elders in every church, and had prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord, on whom they believed.
  • (Act 14:23)
  • And as they went through the cities, they delivered them the decrees for to keep, that were ordained of the apostles and elders which were at Jerusalem. (Act 16:4)
  • Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead. (Act 17:31)
  • Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God. (Rom 13:1)
  • But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory: (1Co 2:7)
  • But as God hath distributed to every man, as the Lord hath called every one, so let him walk. And so ordain I in all churches. (1Co 7:17)
  • Even so hath the Lord ordained that they which preach the gospel should live of the gospel. (1Co 9:14)
  • For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them. (Eph 2:10)
  • Whereunto I am ordained a preacher, and an apostle, (I speak the truth in Christ, and lie not;) a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and verity. (1Ti 2:7)
  • The Lord Jesus Christ be with thy spirit. Grace be with you. Amen. The second epistle unto Timotheus, ordained the first bishop of the church of the Ephesians, was written from Rome, when Paul was brought before Nero the second time.(2Ti 4:22)
  • For this cause left I thee in Crete, that thou shouldest set in order the things that are wanting, and ordain elders in every city, as I had appointed thee: (Tit 1:5)
  • All that are with me salute thee. Greet them that love us in the faith. Grace be with you all. Amen. It was written to Titus, ordained the first bishop of the church of the Cretians, from Nicopolis of Macedonia. (Tit 3:15)
  • For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ (Jud 1:4)

My two witnesses

  • 2
    • Number of the witness of the church – Rev 11:3-4, Mk 6:7, Lk 10:1, Mat 18:18-20, 2=Israel and church, 2 covenants, 2 comings of Christ, etc.
    • Moses and Elijah at Transfiguration – Mat 17:1-4
    • Those who are sent – Mk 6:7, Gen 19:1, Josh 2:1
    • 12 disciples named in pairs – Mat 10:1-4
    • Witnesses – Mat 18:18-20, Lk 10:1, John 8:17, Rev 11:3-4, Deut 17:16, Mat 18:16, John 20:3, Lk 24:13, Mk 16:12, Mat 21:1, Ecc 4:9-12
    • 2 goats – Lev 16
    • 2 myriad myriad – false witnesses – Rev 9:16
    • 2 debtors – Mat 18:21-35 (Mat 18:18-20)
    • 2 = Israel and church, Eph 2:15, 2 covenants (Gal 4:24),  2 comings of Christ, etc. – witnesses
    • Eph 2:15 – two into one
    • 2 witnesses – Rev 11:2-4, John 8:17, Deut 17:6, Mat 18:16, John 20:3, Lk 24:13, Mk 16:12, Mk 6:7, Lk 10:1, John 8:17, John 20:3, 1 Ki 21:10-14
    • 2 or 3 witnesses –Mat 18:16, Deut 17:6, Deut 19:15, John 8:17, Heb 10:28, 1 Tim 5:19, 2 Cor 13:1, Num 35:30, Josh 7:3, 2 Ki 9:32
    • 2 Sons – Lk 15:11, Mat 21:28-32, Esau and Jacob, Isaac and Ishmael
    • 2 spies of Joshua sent to Jericho – Josh 2:1-4
    • 2 faithful witnesses of the promised land – Num 13-14
    • All Christians are witnesses – Rev 1:5, Rev 2:13
    • 2 angels witnesses to the resurrection of Christ – Lk 24:4, Acts 1:10
    • 2 become 1 flesh – Mat 19:15, 1 Cor 6:16
    • 2 Tablets of testimony – Ex 31:18
    • 2 false witnesses against Naboth – 1 Ki 21:10-13
    • 2 false witnesses against Jesus before high priest – Mat 22:60, Mk 14:57-59
    • Beast and False prophet – Rev 13
    • 2 myriads of myriads – Rev 9:16 (points to fall Babylonian church)
  • Witnesses
    • Slain for Word of God and Testimony – Rev 1:9 (John on Isle of Patmos), Rev 6:9-11, Rev 7:9-17, Rev 11:7-10, Rev 18:24
    • True believers will not deny Christ – Mat 10:32-33, 2 Tim 2:11-13, Lk 9:26, Mk 8:38, Lk 12:8, Mat 5:10-12, 10:24-38, 32-39, etc.
    • All believers are witnesses ‑ Gr: marturion – 1 John 5:10, Heb 12:1, 1 Tim 6:12, Ro 8:16, 2 Cor 1:12, 2 Thess 1:10, 2 Tim 1:8, 1 Tim 6:13, Heb 11:4, 1 John 1:2, John 1:7‑15, Is 43:10‑12, Is 44:8, etc.

Prophesy

  • Greek (G4394-G4398) – propheteia – pro (before), phemi (speak, proclaim) – to speak of things that will come – total 200 occurrences in New Testament:
  • Mat 1:22, Mat 2:5, Mat 2:15, Mat 2:17, Mat 2:23, Mat 3:3, Mat 4:14, Mat 5:12, Mat 5:17, Mat 7:12, Mat 7:15, Mat 7:22, Mat 8:17, Mat 10:41, Mat 11:9, Mat 11:13, Mat 12:17, Mat 12:39, Mat 13:14, Mat 13:17, Mat 13:35, Mat 13:57, Mat 14:5, Mat 15:7, Mat 16:4, Mat 16:14, Mat 21:4, Mat 21:11, Mat 21:26, Mat 21:46, Mat 22:40, Mat 23:29, Mat 23:30, Mat 23:31, Mat 23:34, Mat 23:37, Mat 24:11, Mat 24:15, Mat 24:24, Mat 26:56, Mat 26:68, Mat 27:9, Mat 27:35, Mar 1:2, Mar 6:4, Mar 6:15, Mar 7:6, Mar 8:28, Mar 11:32, Mar 13:14, Mar 13:22, Mar 14:65, Luk 1:67, Luk 1:70, Luk 1:76, Luk 2:36, Luk 3:4, Luk 4:17, Luk 4:24, Luk 4:27, Luk 6:23, Luk 6:26, Luk 7:16, Luk 7:26, Luk 7:28, Luk 7:39, Luk 9:8, Luk 9:19, Luk 10:24, Luk 11:29, Luk 11:47, Luk 11:49, Luk 11:50, Luk 13:28, Luk 13:33, Luk 13:34, Luk 16:16, Luk 16:29, Luk 16:31, Luk 18:31, Luk 20:6, Luk 22:64, Luk 24:19, Luk 24:25, Luk 24:27, Luk 24:44, Joh 1:21, Joh 1:23, Joh 1:25, Joh 1:45, Joh 4:19, Joh 4:44, Joh 6:14, Joh 6:45, Joh 7:40, Joh 7:52, Joh 8:52, Joh 8:53, Joh 9:17, Joh 11:51, Joh 12:38, Act 2:16, Act 2:17, Act 2:18, Act 2:30, Act 3:18, Act 3:21, Act 3:22, Act 3:23, Act 3:24, Act 3:25, Act 7:37, Act 7:42, Act 7:48, Act 7:52, Act 8:28, Act 8:30, Act 8:34, Act 10:43, Act 11:27, Act 13:1, Act 13:6, Act 13:15, Act 13:20, Act 13:27, Act 13:40, Act 15:15, Act 15:32, Act 19:6, Act 21:9, Act 21:10, Act 24:14, Act 26:22, Act 26:27, Act 28:23, Act 28:25, Rom 1:2, Rom 3:21, Rom 11:3, Rom 12:6, Rom 16:26, 1Co 11:4, 1Co 11:5, 1Co 12:10, 1Co 12:28, 1Co 12:29, 1Co 13:2, 1Co 13:8, 1Co 13:9, 1Co 14:1, 1Co 14:3, 1Co 14:4, 1Co 14:5, 1Co 14:6, 1Co 14:22, 1Co 14:24, 1Co 14:29, 1Co 14:31, 1Co 14:32, 1Co 14:37, 1Co 14:39, Eph 2:20, Eph 3:5, Eph 4:11, 1Th 2:15, 1Th 5:20, 1Ti 1:18, 1Ti 4:14, Tit 1:12, Heb 1:1, Heb 11:32, Jas 5:10, 1Pe 1:10, 2Pe 1:19, 2Pe 1:20, 2Pe 1:21, 2Pe 2:1, 2Pe 2:16, 2Pe 3:2, 1Jn 4:1, Jud 1:14, Rev 1:3, Rev 2:20, Rev 10:7, Rev 10:11, Rev 11:3, Rev 11:6, Rev 11:10, Rev 11:18, Rev 16:6, Rev 16:13, Rev 18:20, Rev 18:24, Rev 19:10, Rev 19:20, Rev 20:10, Rev 22:6, Rev 22:7, Rev 22:9, Rev 22:10, Rev 22:18, Rev 22:19.

1260 days

  • Church age (see 3 ½ chart above on 42 months)
  • Day – light, day of the Gospel
  • Day of salvation ‑ 2 Cor 6:1‑2, Heb 3:7, Heb 4:1-10, Lk 9:57‑62, Mat 8:21‑22, Is 49:8, Lk 4:18, Is 61:2, Is 58:5
  • Christians are of the day (good works in Christ) ‑ 1 Thess 5;5, Lk 16:8, 1 John 1;5‑7, 1 Tim 6:16, John 1:4, Lk 21:37, Ro 13:13

Clothed in sackcloth.

  • Clothed in sackcloth – Gen 37:24, 2 Sam 3:31, 1 Ki 21:27, 2 Ki 19:1f, Neh 9:1, Esther 4:1, Ps 69:11, Joel 1:13, John 3:5,8
    • Sackcloth – mourning – Gen 37:34, 2Sa 3:31, 2Sa 21:10, 1Ki 20:31, 1Ki 20:32, 1Ki 21:27, 2Ki 6:30, 2Ki 19:1, 2Ki 19:2, 1Ch 21:16, Neh 9:1, Est 4:1, Est 4:2, Est 4:3, Est 4:4, Job 16:15, Psa 30:11, Psa 35:13, Psa 69:11, Isa 3:24, Isa 15:3, Isa 20:2, Isa 22:12, Isa 32:11, Isa 37:1, Isa 37:2, Isa 50:3, Isa 58:5, Jer 4:8, Jer 6:26, Jer 48:37, Jer 49:3, Lam 2:10, Eze 7:18, Eze 27:31, Dan 9:3, Joe 1:8, Joe 1:13, Amo 8:10, Jon 3:5, Jon 3:6, Jon 3:8, Mat 11:21, Luk 10:13, Rev 6:12, Rev 11:3, John 3:5-8, Rev 18:8.

Two olive trees

  • Olive trees – Symbol for the unity of all God’s People trusting in the mercy of God (Jew and Gentile alike) – Ro 11:17-24, Ps 52:8, Jer 11:16, Hos 14:6, Zech 4:3-14
  • 2 Olive trees – 2 anointed ones (associated with the golden candlesticks) standing before the Lord of the earth – Zech 4:1-14, Rev 11:4
  • Olives in the Bible – Gen 8:11, Exo 23:11, Exo 27:20, Exo 30:24, Lev 24:2, Deu 6:11, Deu 8:8, Deu 24:20, Deu 28:40, Jos 24:13, Jdg 9:8, Jdg 9:9, Jdg 15:5, 1Sa 8:14, 2Sa 15:30, 1Ki 6:23, 1Ki 6:31, 1Ki 6:32, 1Ki 6:33, 2Ki 5:26, 2Ki 18:32, 1Ch 27:28, Neh 5:11, Neh 8:15, Neh 9:25, Job 15:33, Psa 52:8, Psa 128:3, Isa 17:6, Isa 24:13, Jer 11:16, Hos 14:6, Amo 4:9, Mic 6:15, Hab 3:17, Hag 2:19, Zec 4:3, Zec 4:11, Zec 4:12, Zec 14:4, Mat 21:1, Mat 24:3, Mat 26:30, Mar 11:1, Mar 13:3, Mar 14:26, Luk 19:29, Luk 19:37, Luk 21:37, Luk 22:39, Joh 8:1, Act 1:12, Rom 11:17, Rom 11:24, Jas 3:12, Rev 11:4.
    • Mount of Olives – where Christ taught His people of the end times – Mat 24:3, Mk 13:3, Lk 21:37
    • Mount of Olives – 2Sa 15:30, Neh 8:15, Zec 14:4, Mat 21:1, Mat 24:3, Mat 26:30, Mar 11:1, Mar 13:3, Mar 14:26, Luk 19:29, Luk 19:37, Luk 21:37, Luk 22:39, Joh 8:1, Act 1:12.
    • Olive oil – Exo 27:20, Exo 30:24, Lev 24:2, Deu 8:8, Deu 28:40, 2Ki 18:32, 1Ch 27:28, Neh 5:11, Mic 6:15, Zec 4:12.
    • Used for burning the candlestick – Ex 27:20, Lev 24:2

Two candlesticks

  • Candlestick (lampstand) – Gr: G3087, luchnia – 12 occurrences
    • Christ in the midst of the 7 candlesticks (churches) – Rev 1:12-13, Rev 1:20, Rev 2:1, Rev 2:5
    • Light (Christian) put on a candlestick so it gives light to all those in the house – Mat 5:15, Mk 4:21, Lk 8:16, Lk 11:33
    • Candlestick in the Holy Place of the tabernacle with the showbread – Heb 9:2
    • 2 Candlesticks standing before God – Rev 11:4
  • Old Testament candlestick (lampstand)
    • Candlestick (held 7 lamps) – Exo 25:31, Exo 25:32, Exo 25:33, Exo 25:34, Exo 25:35, Exo 26:35, Exo 30:27, Exo 31:8, Exo 35:14, Exo 37:17, Exo 37:18, Exo 37:19, Exo 37:20, Exo 39:37, Exo 40:4, Exo 40:24, Lev 24:4, Num 3:31, Num 4:9, Num 8:2, Num 8:3, Num 8:4, 1Ki 7:49, 2Ki 4:10, 1Ch 28:15, 2Ch 4:7, 2Ch 4:20, 2Ch 13:11, Jer 52:19, Dan 5:5, Zec 4:2, Zec 4:11.
    • Lamps – Gen 15:17, Exo 25:37, Exo 27:20, Exo 30:7, Exo 30:8, Exo 35:14, Exo 37:23, Exo 39:37, Exo 40:4, Exo 40:25, Lev 24:2, Lev 24:4, Num 4:9, Num 8:2, Num 8:3, Jdg 7:16, Jdg 7:20, 1Sa 3:3, 2Sa 22:29, 1Ki 7:49, 1Ki 15:4, 1Ch 28:15, 2Ch 4:20, 2Ch 4:21, 2Ch 13:11, 2Ch 29:7, Job 12:5, Job 41:19, Psa 119:105, Psa 132:17, Pro 6:23, Pro 13:9, Pro 20:20, Isa 62:1, Eze 1:13, Dan 10:6, Zec 4:2.

Standing before the God of the earth

  • 2 Witnesses of God who have their ministry in the earth

And if any man will hurt them

  • Hurt – Gr: adikeo (G91) – literally, without righteousness
    • 1 Cor 6:7-8 – go to law instead of being hurt by brother
    • 2 Cor 7:12 – sin in church
    • Lk 10:19, Rev 9:19, treading on serpents and scorpions – will not be hurt
    • Rev 6:6 – do not hurt oil or wine
    • In Revelation – Rev 2:11, Rev 6:6, Rev 9:2-4, Rev 9:10, Rev 9:19, Rev 11:5, Rev 22:11
  • Hurt – church is harmed
    • Discord among brethren – Pr 6:16-19
    • Do prophets no harm – Ps 105:14-15
    • Foolishness and strife – 2 Tim 2:23
    • Spoiling of the church – Zech 2:8
    • Envy and strife – James 3:14-16
    • Diotrophes wanted preeminence – 3 John 1:9-10
    • Divisions – 1 Cor 11:18, 1 Cor 1:10, Lk 11:17, Psa 133:1, Jer 32:39, Joh 13:34-35, Joh 17:23, Act 4:32, Rom 12:16, Rom 15:5-6, Rom 16:17, 2Co 13:11, Eph 4:1-7, Eph 4:31-32, Php 1:27, Php 2:1-4, Php 3:16, 1Th 5:13, Jas 3:13-18, 1Pe 3:8-9, 1 Cor 12:25, Mat 9:16, Mk 2:21, John 7:43, John 9:16, John 10:19
    • Carnality – 1 Cor 3:3
  • Separation commanded (Church Discipline / Excommunication) – Mat 18:17-20, 2 Thess 3:14-15, 1 Cor 5:1-8, 2 Thess 3:6, Titus 3:10, 2 Joh 10-11, Ro 16:17-18, 1 Cor 16:22, Gal 1:8, 2 Tim 3:5, 1 Tim 6:3-5, Pr 21:11, Mat 16:16-18
    • From unsaved scoffers ‑ Mat 7:6, Pr 23:9, 9:7‑9, Acts 13:46‑51, 18:6, Mat 10:14‑15
    • From the wicked works of the unbelievers ‑ Eph 5:11, 2 Cor 6:14‑7:1, 1 Cor 10:16‑22, Pr 14:7, 2 Chr 19:2, 1 Cor 15:33
      • Citizenship in heaven ‑ Eph 3:20
      • Set apart people ‑ 1 Pet 2:9‑10
    • Those who hold a form of godliness, yet practice wickedness ‑ 2 Tim 3:1‑6, Eph 5:11, Mat 18:17‑20, 2 Thess 3:6,9,14‑15, 1 Cor 15:3‑13, 15:33, 11:18‑19
    • Those in Christendom who are contrary to truth ‑ Ro 16:17‑19, Mat 24:16, 1 Tim 6:3‑5, Gal 1:8,1 Cor 16:22, Titus 3:9‑11, 2 John 10, 1 Cor 1:10‑17, 3:1‑6, 11:18‑19, Lk 12:51‑53, Mat 10:34‑36, 1 John 2:19, Acts 20:30
  • All Christians are persecuted – John 16:33, Ps 34:19, Ps 84:5-7, John 15:18-20, 16:33, Ro 8:17, 2 Tim 2:12, 2 Tim 3:12, Mat 10:24-28, 32-33, 20:23, 16:24-27, Phil 1:29, 1 Pet 2:20-21, Mk 8:34-38, Lk 9:23-26, Heb 11:35-37, Gal 4:29, 1 John 3:13, 1 Thess 3:3, Mat 14:30, 2 Thess 1:5, 1 Thess 3:2-3

Fire proceedeth out of their mouth, and devoureth their enemies

  • Fire – Judgment – see notes on Rev 1:14-15
    • Mouth – word of God – see notes on Rev 9:17-19
    • Killed – second death in judgment by Word of God (Rev 19:13-15)
    • Church has the keys to the kingdom – Mat 16:19, Mat 18:18, John 20:23
    • Word of God brings salvation and judgment – see 2 Cor 2:15-16, Ro 2:16 (see Rev 1:16 notes)
    • Destroy by the words of the mouth – Hos 6:5
    • Jeremiah’s words like fire – Jer 23:29
    • Word of God sharper than any two-edged sword – Heb 4:12, Rev 1:16, Rev 2:16
    • Fire – that which destroys (judgment) – 2 Th 1:6-8, Jude 7, 2 Pet 3:7, Heb 10:27, Heb 12:29, Mat 25:41, Rev 9:17-18
  • Mouths
    • Where words originate – false teaching / negative – Ro 3:14, Ro 3:19, Jude 16, 1 Pet 2:22, Mat 15:1-20, James 3:3, James 3:10, Col 3:8, Rev 13:5, Micah 6:12, Zeph 3:13, Pr 15:2
    • God’s word – Rev 4:4, Ro 10:8-10, Eph 6:19, 2 Cor 13:1, Is 1:20, Is 48:3, Ps 89:1, Ps 119:13, Ps 119:43, Ps 119:72, Ps 119:88, Ps 119:103, Ps 119:131, Rev 19:
    • Eating scroll like honey – Eze 3:2-3, Rev 10:10
    • Jesus as Judge (2-edged sword) – Rev 19:15, Rev 19:21, Rev 1:16, Rev 2:12, Rev 2:16, Is 11;4, Is 30:33, 2 Thess 2:8
    • False doctrine – where words originate – see notes on Rev 1:16, 1 Pet 5:8, Mat 23:24, Heb 11:29, where devouring occurs
  • Fire proceeds from their mouths – warnings of impending judgment of God
    • There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it. (2Sa 22:9)
    • Out of his mouth go burning lamps, and sparks of fire leap out. (Job 41:19)
    • There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it. (Psa 18:8)
    • Wherefore thus saith the LORD God of hosts, Because ye speak this word, behold, I will make my words in thy mouth fire, and this people wood, and it shall devour them. (Jer 5:14)
    • And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone. (Rev 9:17)
    • By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths. (Rev 9:18)
    • And if any man will hurt them, fire proceedeth out of their mouth, and devoureth their enemies: and if any man will hurt them, he must in this manner be killed. (Rev 11:5)
  • Devour – G2719 (katesthio, literally ‘to eat down’) – 15 occurrences
    • Wicked one – Sower and the Seed parable – fowls ate the seed on the wayside – points to the wicked one (Satan) – Mat 13:4, Mat 13:19, Mk 4:4, Lk 8:5
    • Pharisees devoured widows houses – Mat 23:14, Mk 12:40, Lk 20:47
    • Prodigal son devoured living with harlots – Lk 15:30
    • Jesus – zeal for the Lord’s house has eaten Him up – John 2:17
    • Corinthians accepted being devoured them – 2 Cor 11:20
    • Eat up little book (sweet in mouth, bitter in belly) – Rev 10:9-10
    • Fire out of mouths (2 witnesses) devours enemies – Rev 11:5
    • Dragon prepared to devour woman’s child when delivered – Rev 12:4
    • Consumed by biting and devouring one another – Gal 5:15
      • Consumed (3 occurrences G355 – analisko) – Gal 5:15
      • Fire from heaven (Elijah) – Lk 9:54
      • Lord consumes wicked one by spirit of His mouth – 2 Thess 2:8
    • Fire from heaven devoured those compassed around the camp of the saints – Rev 20:9
  • Fire from heaven – fire fallen from heaven is always judgment
    • And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men (Rev 13:13)
    • Then the fire of the LORD fell, and consumed the burnt sacrifice, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench. (1Ki 18:38 – Elijah and false prophets)
    • And when his disciples James and John saw this, they said, Lord, wilt thou that we command fire to come down from heaven, and consume them, even as Elias did? (Luk 9:54 – Exercises ecclesiastical judgment)
    • Church has the keys to the kingdom – Mat 16:18-19, 18:18, John 20:23
    • Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven; (Gen 19:24)
    • And Moses stretched forth his rod toward heaven: and the LORD sent thunder and hail, and the fire ran along upon the ground; and the LORD rained hail upon the land of Egypt. (Exo 9:23)
    • And Elijah answered and said to the captain of fifty, If I be a man of God, then let fire come down from heaven, and consume thee and thy fifty. And there came down fire from heaven, and consumed him and his fifty. (2Ki 1:10)
    • And Elijah answered and said unto them, If I be a man of God, let fire come down from heaven, and consume thee and thy fifty. And the fire of God came down from heaven, and consumed him and his fifty. (2Ki 1:12)
    • Behold, there came fire down from heaven, and burnt up the two captains of the former fifties with their fifties: therefore let my life now be precious in thy sight. (2Ki 1:14)
    • And David built there an altar unto the LORD, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings, and called upon the LORD; and he answered him from heaven by fire upon the altar of burnt offering. (1Ch 21:26)
    • Now when Solomon had made an end of praying, the fire came down from heaven, and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices; and the glory of the LORD filled the house. (2Ch 7:1)
    • While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The fire of God is fallen from heaven, and hath burned up the sheep, and the servants, and consumed them; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee. (Job 1:16)
    • And when his disciples James and John saw this, they said, Lord, wilt thou that we command fire to come down from heaven, and consume them, even as Elias did? (Luk 9:54)
    • But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all. (Luk 17:29)
    • And I will shew wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke (Act 2:19)
    • And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men (Rev 13:13)
    • And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them. (Rev 20:9)
    • Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and an horrible tempest: this shall be the portion of their cup. (Psa 11:6)
    • And I will plead against him with pestilence and with blood; and I will rain upon him, and upon his bands, and upon the many people that are with him, an overflowing rain, and great hailstones, fire, and brimstone. (Eze 38:22)
    • And I will send a fire on Magog, and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I am the LORD. (Eze 39:6)
    • And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took either of them his censer, and put fire therein, and put incense thereon, and offered strange fire before the LORD, which he commanded them not. And there went out fire from the LORD, and devoured them, and they died before the LORD. (Lev 10:1-2)
    • And there came out a fire from the LORD, and consumed the two hundred and fifty men that offered incense. (Num 16:35)
    • And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up together with Korah, when that company died, what time the fire devoured two hundred and fifty men: and they became a sign. (Num 26:10)
  • Enemies – G2189 / G2190 (echthra, 6 occurrences / echthros, 32 occurrences) – hatred, enmity, enemy
    • Love your enemies – Mat 5:43-44, Lk 6:27, Lk 6:35
    • Foes will be those of own household – Mat 10:36
    • Enemy (devil) sows tares among wheat – Mat 13:25, Mat 13:28, Mat 13:39
    • Jesus at right hand of God until enemies made a footstool – Mat 22:44, Mk 12:36, Lk 20:43, Acts 2:35, 1 Cor 15:25, Heb 1:13, Heb 10:13
    • Saved from enemies and all that hate us – Lk 1:71, Lk 1:74
    • Power to tread on serpents and scorpions and all the power of the enemy (Satan) – Lk 10:19
    • Those who did not want Christ to reign over them – Lk 19:27
    • Enemies will encompass – Lk 19:43
    • Pilate and Herod previously at enmity until passion of Christ – Lk 23:12
    • False teacher, child of the devil, enemy of righteousness – Acts 13:10
    • Before reconciliation, Christians were enemies – Ro 5:10
    • Fleshly mind enmity against God – Ro 8:7
    • List of sins (hatred) – Gal 5:20
    • Jews against Gospel are enemies – Ro 11:28
    • Feed enemies – Ro 12:20
    • Last enemy to be destroyed in death – 1 Cor 15:26
    • Paul questioned Galatians if he has become their enemy because he told them the trhty – Gal 4:16
    • Enmity is the law of commandments – Eph 2:15
    • Reconciliation by His body on the cross, slaying the enmity – Eph 2:16
    • False teachers – enemies of the cross – Phil 3:18
    • We were enemies, but now reconciled – Col 1:21
    • Sinning brother, count not as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother – 2 Thess 3:15
    • Friendship (love) of the world is enmity with God – James 4:4
    • 2 witnesses, fire out of mouth, devour their enemies – Rev 11:5
    • 2 witnesses raised to heaven, enemies saw them – Rev 11:12
  • Church has both saved and unsaved
    • The Epistles to the 7 Churches of Revelation -Rev 2-3
    • The Parable of the Sower and the Seed -Mat 13:3-9, 18-23, Luke 8:4-15, Mk 4:3-9,13-20
    • The Parable of the Hidden Treasure -Mat 13:44
    • The Parable of the Wheat and the Tares -Mat 13:24-30, 36-43
    • The Parable of the Talents -Mat 25:14-30
    • The Parable of the 10 Minas -Luke 19:11-27
    • The Pharisee and the Tax Collector -Luke 18:9-14
    • The Parable of the Great Supper -Luke 14:15-24
    • The Parable of the 10 Virgins -Mat 25:1-13
    • Many are Called, Few are Chosen -Mat 20:16, 22:14
    • The Parable of the Marriage Feast -Mat 22:1-14
    • Judgment of the Nations -Mat 25:31-46
    • The Parable of the 2 Sons -Mat 21:28-32
    • The Parable of the Dragnet -Mat 13:47-51
    • The Parable of the Testing of the Servants -Luke 12:41-48
    • False Brethren -2 Cor 11:26, Gal 2:4
    • The Parable of the Good Samaritan -Luke 10:30-37
    • The 10 Lepers -Luke 17:11-19
    • Ravenous wolves who do not spare the Flock -Acts 20:29-30
    • Factions amongst people so those who are Approved may be Recognized -1 Cor 11:19
    • Vessels of Honor, Vessels of Dishonor -2 Tim 2:20
    • Many Antichrists Have Come -1John 2:18-29, 4:1-4
    • Simon the Sorcerer -Acts 8:5-25
    • Ananias and Sapphira -Acts 5:1-11
    • Certain Ungodly Men who have Crept in Unnoticed -Jude 4
    • He who Climbs in Another Way -John 10:1-2
    • False Apostles, Deceitful Workers -2 Cor 11:12-15
    • The Apostasy -2 Thess 2:3
    • False prophets, christs -Mat 7:15-20, 24:5,24, Luke 6:26, 21:8, Mark 13:6,22
    • Those who Depart From the Faith -1 Tim 4:1-4
    • False Teachers 2 Peter 2, 2 Tim 4:3-4
    • Deceiver, Antichrist -2 John 7-11
    • Mystery Babylon Rev 17-18
    • Divisive Men -Titus 3:9-11, Ro 16:17-18
    • Those who Preach a Different Gospel-Gal 1:6-9
    • Israel a Type of Church -Gal 6:16, 1 Cor 10:18, Ro 2:28-29, 4:16,9:6,8, Gal 3:7,16,28-29, Eph 2:11-22, Heb 8:10, 10:16-17, Jer 31:34, etc.
    • Those with a form of Godliness – 2 Tim 3:1-9
    • Those who suppose Godliness is a means of Gain -1 Tim 6:3-5
    • You Adulterers and Adulteresses -James 4:4
    • The Cleansing of the Temple (Temple a type of professing church) – John 2:13-22, Mat 21:12-17, Mk 11:15-17, Lk 19:45-48

and if any man will hurt them, he must in this manner be killed.

  • Defensive nature of sharing truth – 1 Pet 3:15 (ready to make a defense), Psa 119:46, Jer 26:12-16, Dan 3:16-18, Amo 7:14-17, Mat 10:18-20, Luk 21:14-15, Act 4:8-12, Act 5:29-31, Act 21:39-40, Act 22:1, Act 22:2-5, Col 4:6, 2Ti 2:25, 1Sa 12:7, Isa 1:18, Isa 41:21, Act 24:25

These have power to shut heaven, that it rain not in the days of their prophecy

  • No rain and plague combination – see Zech 14:17-18
  • Points to Elijah, the Prophet – 1 Ki 17:1, 18:1-4, 2 Ki 1:10-12, Lk 4:25-26, James 5:17 (3 and ½ year drought)
  • Elijah in the Old Testament – 1Ki 17:1, 1Ki 17:13, 1Ki 17:15, 1Ki 17:16, 1Ki 17:18, 1Ki 17:22, 1Ki 17:23, 1Ki 17:24, 1Ki 18:1, 1Ki 18:2, 1Ki 18:7, 1Ki 18:8, 1Ki 18:11, 1Ki 18:14, 1Ki 18:15, 1Ki 18:16, 1Ki 18:17, 1Ki 18:21, 1Ki 18:22, 1Ki 18:25, 1Ki 18:27, 1Ki 18:30, 1Ki 18:31, 1Ki 18:36, 1Ki 18:40, 1Ki 18:41, 1Ki 18:42, 1Ki 18:46, 1Ki 19:1, 1Ki 19:2, 1Ki 19:9, 1Ki 19:13, 1Ki 19:19, 1Ki 19:20, 1Ki 19:21, 1Ki 21:17, 1Ki 21:20, 1Ki 21:28, 2Ki 1:3, 2Ki 1:4, 2Ki 1:8, 2Ki 1:10, 2Ki 1:12, 2Ki 1:13, 2Ki 1:15, 2Ki 1:17, 2Ki 2:1, 2Ki 2:2, 2Ki 2:4, 2Ki 2:6, 2Ki 2:8, 2Ki 2:9, 2Ki 2:11, 2Ki 2:13, 2Ki 2:14, 2Ki 2:15, 2Ki 3:11, 2Ki 9:36, 2Ki 10:10, 2Ki 10:17, 2Ch 21:12, Ezr 10:21, Mal 4:5.
    • A Tishbite, inhabitant of Gilead – 1 Ki 17:1
    • Elijah told Ahab there would no rain these years, but according to his word – 1 Ki 17:1
    • Elijah at the River Cherith, fed by a raven – 1 Ki 17:2-7
    • Elijah raises the son of the Zarephath widow – 1 Ki 17:8-24
    • Word of the Lord told Elijah to show himself to Ahab and in the 3rd year that He will send rain on the earth – 1 Ki 18:1-2
    • Obadiah intermediary between Ahab and Elijah – 1 Ki 18:7-19
    • Elijah challenges the 450 prophets of Ahab / Jezebel – 1 Ki 18:20-40
    • The Lord sends rain – 1 Ki 18:41-46
    • Jezebel wants to kill Elijah and Elijah hides in a cave (40 days travel to Mt. Horeb, the mount of God) – 1 Ki 19:1-8
    • God speaks to Elijah in the cave (remnant who have not bowed knee to Ball) – 1 Ki 19:9-18
    • The call of Elisha – 1 Ki 19:19-21
    • The Lord condemns Ahab and Jezebel, Ahab’s life extended due to his repentance – 1 Ki 21:7-29
    • Elijah denounces Ahaziah (fire from heaven on 2/3 of the sent captains and their fifties) – 2 Ki 1:1-18
    • Elijah taken to heaven (horses of fire, chariot of fire, whirlwind took Elijah upward) – 2 Ki 2:1-14
    • Elisha poured water on the hands of Elijah – 2 Ki 3:11
    • Fulfillment of the word of the Lord spoken by Elijah – 2 Ki 9:36, 2 Ki 10:10, 2 Ki 10:17
    • Warning to Jeroram, writing from Elijah – 2 Chr 21:12
    • Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the LORD of hosts. (Mal 3:1, see Luke 1:17)
    • Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD (Mal 4:5)
    • The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God. Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain: And the glory of the LORD shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it. (Isa 40:3-5)
  • Elijah in the New Testament
    • John the Baptist is the ‘Elijah’ that was the come – Mat 11:14
    • Jesus thought to be Elijah – Mat 16:14, Mk 6:15, Mk 8:28, Lk 9:8, Lk 9:19, John 1:21
    • John the Baptist questioned if he was Elijah (he said he was not) – John 1:21, John 1:25
    • Transfiguration, talked to Jesus, Peter wanted to make 3 tabernacles – Mat 17:3-4, Mk 9:4-5, Lk 9:30-33
    • Scribes say Elijah must come first and restore all things, Jesus said that Elijah has comes already, but they knew him not – Mat 17:10-12, Mk 9:11-13
    • Some said Jesus called for Elijah on the cross – Mat 27:47, Mk 15:35
    • Some thought Elijah might come and ‘save’ Jesus on the cross – Mat 27:49, Mk 15:36
    • John the Baptist to go in the spirit and power of Elijah, turn hearts of the fathers to the children and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just , to make ready a people prepared for the Lord – Lk 1:17 (see Mal 3:1)
    • Many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when heaven was shut up for 3 ½ years, with great famine but, Elijah only sent to the widow of Zarepath – Lk 4:25-26
    • Samaritans did not receive Jesus, James and John questioned whether Jesus would command fire to come down from heaven like Elijah did – Lk 9:54
    • Elijah prayed earnestly that it would not rain (3 ½ years) – James 5:17-18
    • Elijah prayed to God, but God said there were still 7000 that have not bowed the knee to Ball – Ro 11:1-5
  • Rain / dew – a type of Gospel – Is 55:10-11, Deut 32:1-2, 2Sa 23:4 , Job 29:22-23 , Psa 72:6 , Isa 55:10-11 , Hos 6:4, Hos 14:5 , 1Co 3:6-8 , Heb 6:7 , Mic 5:7 , Zec 10:1
    • Rain shut up from heaven due to sin / disobedience – 2 Chr 6:26-27, Deut 11:17, Deut 28:4, 2 Chr 7:13
    • Rain from heaven is a blessing – Deut 28:12, Deut 11:11, 1 Ki 8:36, Ps 147:8, Is 55:10-11, Acts 14:17
    • Dew of heaven – Gen 27:28 , Gen 27:39 , Deu 33:13 , Dan 4:15 , Dan 4:23 , Dan 4:25 , Dan 4:33 , Dan 5:21 , Hag 1:10.
  • Gospel comes through men – Ro 10:13-21, 1:15, Is 52:7, Ro 3:3f

Have power over waters to turn them to blood, and to smite the earth with all plagues, as often as they will.

  • Points to Moses – Ex 7:19-21, 8:1-12:29
  • Moses also a prophet – Deut 34:10, acts 3:22-23, Acts 7:37
  • Water – Word of God – Eph 5:25-26, Eph 5:18, Is 55:1, Is 55:10-11, Deut 32:1-2
    • Waters – rivers of life – John 4, John 7:37f, Rev 21:6, Rev 22:17, Ps 36:8-9, Ps 46:4, Jer 17:13, Jer 2:11-13, Job 20:17
    • Water refers to the Gospel ‑ Eph 5:25‑26
    • Washing of regeneration ‑ Titus 3:5, 1 Cor 6:11, Acts 22:16
    • Living waters –Zech 14:8, Eze 47:1-12, Joel 3:18, John 4:10, John 4:14, John 7:38, Rev 22:1-2, Rev 22:17, Song 4:15, Jer 2:13, Jer 17:13, Rev 7:17
    • Initial salvation (spirit) – Is 55:1, John 4:14, Jer 2:11-13, Jer 17:13, Ps 46:4, Job 20:17, Is 58:11
    • Fullness of salvation – Rev 21:6, Rev 22:1
    • Water of the Gospel / salvation – Eph 5:25-26, Eph 5:18, Is 55:10-11, Rev 22:1, Rev 22:17, Ps 46:4, Eze 47:1, Ps 36:8, Ps 65:9, Is 8:6, Is 32:2, Is 44:3, Is 58:11, Mk 1:8
  • Blood
    • Blood – judgment – Heb 9:22 (see notes on Rev 6:3-6, 6:3-4, Rev 6:12-17)
    • Waters turned into blood – Ex 7:14-25
    • Blood – Taking of life – Heb 9:7-25, Gen 9:4-6, Ex 30:10, Rev 14:20, Rev 16:3-6, Acts 20:26, Is 34:3-7, Is 59:3-7, Ps 79:10, Ps 94:21, Ps 105:29
    • Blood is required due to sin – Heb 9:17-22, Lev 4:20, Lev 4:26, Lev 4:35, Lev 5:10, Lev 5:12, Lev 5:18, Lev 6:7, Lev 17:11
    • Blood of Christ ‑ Heb 9:13‑14, Heb 9:18‑24, Heb 12:24, Rev 1:5, Rev 7:14, 1 Pet 1:2
    • Life is in the blood ‑ Lev 17:11,14, Gen 9:4, Heb 9:22 (see Rev 1:5 )
    • Blood from heaven (from Christ) ‑ Heb 9:7‑25, Heb 13:11‑12,20, Eph 1:7,2:13, Col 1:14,20
    • Cleansed by blood ‑ Rev 7:14, 22:14, Heb 9:14
    • Sprinkled with His blood ‑ 1Pet 1:2, Heb 10:22, 12:24, 9:19
    • Blood of Christ sanctifies ‑ Heb 13:12
    • Law requires blood for atonement – … and without shedding of blood is no remission. (Heb 9:22)
    • Redeemed by blood ‑ 1 Pet 1:17‑19, Rev 5:9, Col 1:14, John 6:48‑58, Eph 1:7, Heb 9:22
  • Church has the keys to the kingdom – Mat 16:19, 18:18, John 20:23
  • Plague – G4127, plege – a stroke – 21 occurrences
  • Luke 10:30 – Man wounded by thieves
  • Luke 12:48 – beaten with stripes
  • Acts 16:23, Acts 16:33, 2 Cor 6:5, 2 Cor 11:23– Paul beaten with stripes
  • And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk  (Rev 9:20)
  • These have power to shut heaven, that it rain not in the days of their prophecy: and have power over waters to turn them to blood, and to smite the earth with all plagues, as often as they will.  (Rev 11:6)
  • And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast. (Rev 13:3)
  • And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound   was healed. (Rev 13:12)
  • And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.  (Rev 13:14)
  • And I saw another sign in heaven, great and marvellous, seven angels having the seven last plagues; for in them is filled up the wrath of God. (Rev 15:1)
  • And the seven angels came out of the temple, having the seven plagues, clothed in pure and white linen, and having their()breasts girded with golden girdles.  (Rev 15:6)
  • And the temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God, and from his power; and no man was able to enter into the temple, till the seven plagues of the seven angels were fulfilled. (Rev 15:8)
  • And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, which hath power over these plagues: and they repented not to give him glory. (Rev 16:9)
  • 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. (Rev 16:21)
  • And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.  (Rev 18:4)
  • Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the Lord God who judgeth her.  (Rev 18:8)
  • And there came unto me one of the seven angels which had the seven vials full of the seven last plagues, and talked with me, saying, Come hither, I will shew thee the bride, the Lamb’s wife. (Rev 21:9)
  • For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book: (Rev 22:18)
  • Plague in Old Testament – Gen 12:17, Exo 9:14, Exo 11:1, Exo 12:13, Exo 30:12, Exo 32:35, Lev 13:2, Lev 13:3, Lev 13:4, Lev 13:5, Lev 13:6, Lev 13:9, Lev 13:12, Lev 13:13, Lev 13:17, Lev 13:20, Lev 13:22, Lev 13:25, Lev 13:27, Lev 13:29, Lev 13:30, Lev 13:31, Lev 13:32, Lev 13:44, Lev 13:45, Lev 13:46, Lev 13:47, Lev 13:49, Lev 13:50, Lev 13:51, Lev 13:52, Lev 13:53, Lev 13:54, Lev 13:55, Lev 13:56, Lev 13:57, Lev 13:58, Lev 13:59, Lev 14:3, Lev 14:32, Lev 14:34, Lev 14:35, Lev 14:36, Lev 14:37, Lev 14:39, Lev 14:40, Lev 14:43, Lev 14:44, Lev 14:48, Lev 14:54, Lev 26:21, Num 8:19, Num 11:33, Num 14:37, Num 16:46, Num 16:47, Num 16:48, Num 16:49, Num 16:50, Num 25:8, Num 25:9, Num 25:18, Num 26:1, Num 31:16, Deu 24:8, Deu 28:59, Deu 28:61, Deu 29:22, Jos 22:17, Jos 24:5, 1Sa 4:8, 1Sa 6:4, 2Sa 24:21, 2Sa 24:25, 1Ki 8:37, 1Ki 8:38, 1Ch 21:17, 1Ch 21:22, 2Ch 21:14, Psa 73:5, Psa 73:14, Psa 89:23, Psa 91:10, Psa 106:29, Psa 106:30, Jer 19:8, Jer 49:17, Jer 50:13, Hos 13:14, Zec 14:12, Zec 14:15, Zec 14:18.
    • Plagues on Egypt – Exo 9:14, Exo 11:1, Exo 12:13
      1. Water to blood – 7:14-25
      2. Frogs – 8:1-15
      3. Gnats – 8:16-19
      4. Flies – 8:20-32
      5. Livestock – 9:1-7
      6. Boils 9:8-12
      7. Hail 9:13-35
      8. Locusts – 10:1-20
      9. Darkness – 10:21-29
      10. Death 12:29-32
    • Sin results in plague – Ex 30:12, Ex 32:35, Lev 26:21, Num 11:33, Num 14:37, Num 16:46-50, Num 25:8-9, Num 25:18, Num 26:1, Num 31:16, etc.
    • And I will beat down his foes before his face, and plague them that hate him. (Ps 89:23)
    • They joined themselves also unto Baalpeor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead. Thus they provoked him to anger with their inventions: and the plague brake in upon them. (Psa 106:28-29)
    • If there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence, blasting, mildew, locust, or if there be caterpiller; if their enemy besiege them in the land of their cities; whatsoever plague, whatsoever sickness there be; What prayer and supplication soever be made by any man, or by all thy people Israel, which shall know every man the plague of his own heart, and spread forth his hands toward this house: Then hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place, and forgive, and do, and give to every man according to his ways, whose heart thou knowest; (for thou, even thou only, knowest the hearts of all the children of men;) That they may fear thee all the days that they live in the land which thou gavest unto our fathers. (1Ki 8:37-40)
  • Elijah (Prophet) and Moses (Law) in combination – Transfiguration, talked to Jesus, Peter wanted to make 3 tabernacles – Mat 17:3-4, Mk 9:4-5, Lk 9:30-33
  • Law and Prophets:
    • Yet the LORD testified against Israel, and against Judah, by all the prophets, and by all the seers, saying, Turn ye from your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets. (2Ki 17:13)
    • Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their backs, and slew thy prophets which testified against them to turn them to thee, and they wrought great provocations. (Neh 9:26)
    • The priests said not, Where is the LORD? and they that handle the law knew me not: the pastors also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and walked after things that do not profit. (Jer 2:8)
    • Then said they, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words. (Jer 18:18)
    • Her gates are sunk into the ground; he hath destroyed and broken her bars: her king and her princes are among the Gentiles: the law is no more; her prophets also find no vision from the LORD. (Lam 2:9)
    • Mischief shall come upon mischief, and rumor shall be upon rumor; then shall they seek a vision of the prophet; but the law shall perish from the priest, and counsel from the ancients. (Eze 7:26)
    • Neither have we obeyed the voice of the LORD our God, to walk in his laws, which he set before us by his servants the prophets. (Dan 9:10)
    • Her prophets are light and treacherous persons: her priests have polluted the sanctuary, they have done violence to the law. (Zep 3:4)
    • Yea, they made their hearts as an adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which the LORD of hosts hath sent in his spirit by the former prophets: therefore came a great wrath from the LORD of hosts. (Zec 7:12)
    • Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. (Mat 5:17)
    • Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets. (Mat 7:12)
    • For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John. (Mat 11:13)
    • On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets. (Mat 22:40)
    • The law and the prophets were until John: since that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every man presseth into it. (Luk 16:16)
    • And he said unto them, These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me. (Luk 24:44)
    • Philip findeth Nathanael, and saith unto him, We have found him, of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets, did write, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph. (Joh 1:45)
    • And after the reading of the law and the prophets the rulers of the synagogue sent unto them, saying, Ye men and brethren, if ye have any word of exhortation for the people, say on. (Act 13:15)
    • But this I confess unto thee, that after the way which they call heresy, so worship I the God of my fathers, believing all things which are written in the law and in the prophets (Act 24:14)
    • And when they had appointed him a day, there came many to him into his lodging; to whom he expounded and testified the kingdom of God, persuading them concerning Jesus, both out of the law of Moses, and out of the prophets, from morning till evening. (Act 28:23)
    • But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets (Rom 3:21)
  • Moses and the Law
    • And when the days of her purification according to the law of Moses were accomplished, they brought him to Jerusalem, to present him to the Lord; (Luk 2:22)
    • And he said unto them, These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me. (Luk 24:44)
    • For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. (Joh 1:17)
    • Philip findeth Nathanael, and saith unto him, We have found him, of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets, did write, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph. (Joh 1:45)
    • Did not Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keepeth the law? Why go ye about to kill me? (Joh 7:19)
    • If a man on the sabbath day receive circumcision, that the law of Moses should not be broken; are ye angry at me, because I have made a man every whit whole on the sabbath day? (Joh 7:23)
    • Now Moses in the law commanded us, that such should be stoned: but what sayest thou? (Joh 8:5)
    • And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses. (Act 13:39)
    • But there rose up certain of the sect of the Pharisees which believed, saying, That it was needful to circumcise them, and to command them to keep the law of Moses. (Act 15:5)
    • And when they had appointed him a day, there came many to him into his lodging; to whom he expounded and testified the kingdom of God, persuading them concerning Jesus, both out of the law of Moses, and out of the prophets, from morning till evening. (Act 28:23)
    • For Moses describeth the righteousness which is of the law, That the man which doeth those things shall live by them. (Rom 10:5)
    • For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? (1Co 9:9)
    • For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and of goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book, and all the people, (Heb 9:19)
    • He that despised Moses’ law died without mercy under two or three witnesses: (Heb 10:28)
  • Grace witnessed by the law
    • Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another (Rom 2:15)
    • But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets (Rom 3:21)
    • He that despised Moses’ law died without mercy under two or three witnesses (Heb 10:28)
  • Those who live by the law, will be judged by the law
  • Rom 2:16, Rom 3:19-20, Rom 4:15, Rom 7:7-11, Rom 8:3; Deu 27:26; 2Co 3:7-9; Gal 2:16-19; Gal 3:10, Gal 3:22; Jas 2:10; Rev 20:12-15
    • Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone. (Mat 23:23)
    • Doth our law judge any man, before it hear him, and know what he doeth? (Joh 7:51)
    • Then said Pilate unto them, Take ye him, and judge him according to your law. The Jews therefore said unto him, It is not lawful for us to put any man to death (Joh 18:31)
    • But if it be a question of words and names, and of your law, look ye to it; for I will be no judge of such matters. (Act 18:15)
    • Then said Paul unto him, God shall smite thee, thou whited wall: for sittest thou to judge me after the law, and commandest me to be smitten contrary to the law? (Act 23:3)
    • Who also hath gone about to profane the temple: whom we took, and would have judged according to our law. (Act 24:6)
    • For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law: and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law; (Rom 2:12)
    • And shall not uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfil the law, judge thee, who by the letter and circumcision dost transgress the law? (Rom 2:27)
    • So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty. (Jas 2:12)

Rev 11:7-10: Killing of the 2 Witnesses – Great Tribulation

And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them.

(Rev 11:7)

And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified.

(Rev 11:8)

And they of the people and kindreds and tongues and nations shall see their dead bodies three days and an half, and shall not suffer their dead bodies to be put in graves.

(Rev 11:9)

And they that dwell upon the earth shall rejoice over them, and make merry, and shall send gifts one to another; because these two prophets tormented them that dwelt on the earth.

(Rev 11:10)

Finished their testimony

  • Church age completed
    • Testimony (literally, witness) – 1 Pet 3:15, Acts 2:40, 20:24, 26:22, Gal 5:3, 1 Pet 5:12, Ps 119:46, John 8:17, 1 Cor 1:6, 2 Tim 1:8, Rev 19:10
    • Testimony – to speak in court under oath – see 11:7, 15:5, Lk 5:14, 2 Cor 1:12, 2 Thess 1:10, 2 Tim 1:8, Heb 3:5

… the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit

  • See Rev 9:1, Rev 13:1f, Rev 20:1-3 notes
  • Rev 20:1-8 – during church age, Satan is bound
  • Loosing of Satan – great tribulation period, see 2 Thess 2, Rev 9:1f, 13
  • Loosing from pit corresponds to loosing of Satan for a short while in Rev 20:1-3
    • Abomination of desolation – Mat 24:15
    • Deception in the Great Tribulation – see notes on Rev 8:10-11
  • A spiritual place of being separated and bound under the wrath of God – Jude 6, 2 Pet 2:4,9, Mat 12:22-29, Mk 3:23-27, Lk 11:17-22, Mat 16:8f, Is 48:24, Is 53:9-12, Col 1:13, Col 2:15, Eph 2:11-13
  • Characteristics
  • (Beast with 7 heads, names of blasphemy and 10 horns with crowns) – And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy. (Rev 13:1)
  • (Power, ruler, authority) – And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority. (Rev 13:2)
  • (One head wounded, but wound healed) – And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast. (Rev 13:3)
  • (Beast’s number is 666) – Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six. (Rev 13:18)
  • Actions
  • (Receives worship) – And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him? … And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. (Rev 13:4, 8)
  • (Arrogant mouth speaking great things and blasphemy) – And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months. And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven. (Rev 13:5-6)
  • (War with saints, power over diverse people) – And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations. (Rev 13:7)
  • (Captivity of the saints) – He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints. (Rev 13:10)
  • (Image of beast can speak and receives worship) – And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed. (Rev 13:15)
  • (Mark of the beast – control of people’s buying and selling) – And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads; And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.  (Rev 13:17)

… shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them.

  • Intense time of spiritual warfare – see notes on Rev 6:3-4
  • Spiritual killing of Christians during the Great Tribulation – see notes on Rev 9:15
  • Battle of the kingdoms ‑ spiritual battle, not physical (Mat 10:34‑36, Lk 12:51‑53)
  • Killing by words / tongue ‑ 1 John 3:15, Mat 5:21‑22, Pr 11:9, Ro 3:13‑15, Jer 9:3, 18:18, Ps 140:3, Ro 3:13, James 3:8, Pr 18:21, Ps 52:4, 57:4, 59:7, 64:3, 120:2
  • Weapons are not of the flesh, but spiritual (not a political battle) ‑ Eph 6:11‑12, Phil 3:20, Mat 24:7, Is 42:6‑7, Eph 2:6, 1 Pet 2:5‑11,20ff, Mat 22:15‑22, Lk 2:14, Hos 1:7, 2 Tim 2:4, 2 Cor 10:3f, Eph 2:19, Mk 8:31‑33, 1 Pet 1:1, Rev 1:6, Heb 13:14, Col 1:13, John 18:36‑37, Col 3:1‑4, Lk 12:14, Mat 10:34, 2 Tim 2:16, Mk 12:17, Ps 73:25, Zech 9:9, Lk 22:36, Ro 12:1‑2, Lk 12:13ff, Mat 5:38f, 1 Cor 6:1‑8, Hos 8:9, 7:11, Ro 13
  • War by faith and a good conscience – 1 Tim 1:18-19
  • Fight the good fight of faith – 1 Tim 6:12
  • Fleshly lusts wage war ‑ 1 Pet 2:11, James 4:11, Ro 7:23
  • Dead to sin ‑ Ro 6:2
  • Crucify flesh with passions ‑ Gal 5:24
  • Lose life for Christ ‑ Mat 10:39, Mk 8:35, John 12:24:25, Lk 9:23‑26, 2 Tim 2:11
  • Bear cross ‑ Lk 9:23, Mat 10:38, 16:24, Mk 8:34, Lk 17:33, John 12:25
  • Spirit vs. Flesh ‑ Gal 5:17, Ro 8:5‑11
  • Mortify your members – Col 3:5
  • Christians die daily ‑ Mat 24:9, 2 Cor 1:9,4:10‑12, 6:9,7:3, Ro 8:35‑39 (Ps 44:22, Ps 141:7), James 5:6, 1 John 3:15, 1 Cor 4:9, 15:31, Mat 5:21‑22, Hab 1:2‑4, James 2:9‑11, Ps 94:1‑7, Ps 44:22, Rev 6:9, Mk 8:35
  • Old Testament violence ‑ persecution of the righteous ‑ Hab 1:2,9, Ob 10, Pr 16:29, Joel 3:19, Gen 27:41, Eze 25:12, Amos 1:11, Jer 20:8, Ps 11:5, Mat 24:9
  • Ps 140:1‑4 ‑ violence with words
  • Innocent blood ‑ 2 Ki 24:4, Jer 22:17
  • Christians Have Been Crucified w/ Christ ‑ Gal 2:20, 5:24, 6:14, Ro 6:6
  • Wars and rumors of wars Spiritual war ‑ see 1 Pet 2:11, 2 Tim 2:4, Lk 14:31, 1 Cor 9:7, 1 Tim 1:18, 2 Cor 10:3‑4, Rev 11:7, 12:7,17, 13:4,7, 17:14, 19:11,19, see Rev 6:3‑4 notes

And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified.

  • Dead bodies – (Gr: ptoma, G4430 – literally, a ruin / carcass) – 5 occurrences
    • 3 occurrences in Rev 11:8-9
    • For wherever the carcass is, there will the eagles be gathered together. (Mat 24:28)
    • And when his disciples heard of it, they came and took up his corpse, and laid it in a tomb. (Mar 6:29)
  • Dead bodies – witness of the church has ended (awaiting resurrection)
    • That which defiles (unclean 7 days) – Lev 21:11, Num 6:6, Num 9:6-10, Num 19:11-16, Hag 2:13
    • Elisha restored a dead body back to life – 2 Ki 8:5
    • Judah (Jehoshaphat) saw multitude of dead bodies fallen to the earth with riches (spoils) – 2 Chr 20:24-25
    • The dead bodies of thy servants have they given to be meat unto the fowls of the heaven, the flesh of thy saints unto the beasts of the earth. Ps 79:2
    • He shall judge among the heathen, he shall fill the places with the dead bodies; he shall wound the heads over many countries. (Psa 110:6)
    • Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead. (Isa 26:19)
    • And they fetched forth Urijah out of Egypt, and brought him unto Jehoiakim the king; who slew him with the sword, and cast his dead body into the graves of the common people. (Jer 26:23)
    • And the whole valley of the dead bodies, and of the ashes, and all the fields unto the brook of Kidron, unto the corner of the horse gate toward the east, shall be holy unto the LORD; it shall not be plucked up, nor thrown down any more forever. (Jer 31:40)
    • They come to fight with the Chaldeans, but it is to fill them with the dead bodies of men, whom I have slain in mine anger and in my fury, and for all whose wickedness I have hid my face from this city. (Jer 33:5)
    • I will even give them into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of them that seek their life: and their dead bodies shall be for meat unto the fowls of the heaven, and to the beasts of the earth. (Jer 34:20)
    • Therefore thus saith the LORD of Jehoiakim king of Judah; He shall have none to sit upon the throne of David: and his dead body shall be cast out in the day to the heat, and in the night to the frost. (Jer 36:30)
    • Now the pit wherein Ishmael had cast all the dead bodies of the men, whom he had slain because of Gedaliah, was it which Asa the king had made for fear of Baasha king of Israel: and Ishmael the son of Nethaniah filled it with them that were slain. (Jer 41:9)
    • And the songs of the temple shall be howlings in that day, saith the Lord GOD: there shall be many dead bodies in every place; they shall cast them forth with silence. (Amo 8:3)
    • Then said Haggai, If one that is unclean by a dead body touch any of these, shall it be unclean? And the priests answered and said, It shall be unclean. (Hag 2:13)
    • And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sara’s womb: (Rom 4:19)
    • Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God. (Rom 7:4)
    • And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. (Rom 8:10)
    • But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you. (Rom 8:11)
    • But some man will say, How are the dead raised up? and with what body do they come?
    • (1Co 15:35) And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence. (Col 1:18)
    • For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also. (Jas 2:26)
    • Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed. (1Pe 2:24)
    • And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified. (Rev 11:8)
    • And they of the people and kindreds and tongues and nations shall see their dead bodies three days and an half, and shall not suffer their dead bodies to be put in graves. (Rev 11:9)
  • Street – the place of witnessing (outside of the temple)
  • Street – G4113, plateia – literally, wide area – 9 occurrences
    • Hypocrites love to pray in the corners of the streets – Mat 6:5
    • Will not hear Jesus’ voice in the streets – Mat 12:19 (quoted in Is 42:1-4 (street = H2351, chuts)
    • If a disciple is not received in a city, then go out into the street and shake of the dust of your feet as a testimony … Lk 10:10
    • Master of house taught in our (unsaved) streets – Lk 13:26
    • Go into streets and lanes of the city and bring in poor, maimed, halt and blind … Lk 14:21
    • Brought sick into the streets so shadow of Peter may overshadow them – Acts 5:15
    • 2 witnesses dead bodies in the street of Jerusalem – Rev 11:8
    • Street of New Jerusalem pure gold, transparent glass – Rev 21:21
    • Midst of street and on either side of the river was the tree of life – Rev 22:2
  • Street (H2351, chuts – quoted in Mat 12:19) – 164 occurrences (literally, to sever, i.e., outside, without)
  • Street (H7339, rechob) – 43 occurrences, literally – a broad place (often used with H2351)
    • Sodom – where angels intended to abide at night – Gen 19:2
    • Where spoil of a conquered city is brought to – Deut 13:16
    • Levite and the old man: No man took him into house, so he stayed in streets / saw wayfaring man in streets – Jud 19:15-20
    • Where the Philistines hung Saul and Jonathan – 2 Sam 21:2
    • Hezekiah gathers priests and the Levites together  into the east  street  (2Ch 29:4)
    • And he set captains  of war  over  the people,  and gathered them together  to  him in  the street  of the gate  of the city  (2Ch 32:6)
    • Then all the men  of Judah  and Benjamin  gathered themselves together  unto Jerusalem  within three    It  was the ninth  month,  on the twentieth  day of the month;  and all  the people  sat  in the street  of the house  of God,  trembling  because  of this matter,  and for the great rain.   (Ezr 10:9)
    • And all the people  gathered themselves together  as one  man  into  the street  that  was before  the water  gate;  and they spake  unto Ezra  the scribe  to bring the book  of the law  of Moses,  which  the LORD  had commanded  to Israel. (Neh 8:1)
    • And he read therein before  the street  that  was before  the water  gate  from  the morning  until  midday,    before  the men  and the women,  and those that could understand;  and the ears  of all  the people  were attentive unto  the book  of the law.  (Neh 8:3)
    • So the people went forth,  and brought  them, and made  themselves booths,  every one  upon  the roof of his house,  and in their courts,  and in the courts  of the house  of God,  and in the street  of the water  gate,  and in the street  of the gate  of Ephraim.  (Neh 8:16)
    • So Hatach went forth  to  Mordecai  unto  the street  of the city,  which  was before  the king’s    (Est 4:6)
    • Mordecai honored in the streets of the city – Est 6:9-11
    • A place of honor of Job: When I went out to the gate  through  the city,  when I prepared  my seat  in the street!  (Job 29:7)
    • David’s complaint: Wickedness  is in the midst  thereof: deceit  and guile  depart  not  from  her streets. (Psa 55:11)
    • That our oxen may be strong to labour;  that there be no  breaking in,  nor  going out;  that there be no  complaining  in our streets.  (Psa 144:14)
    • The slothful man saith,  There is a lion  in the way;  a lion  is in  the streets.  (Pro 26:13)
    • I will rise now,  and go about  the city  in the streets,  and in the broad ways  I will seek  him whom my soul  loveth:    I sought  him, but I found  him not. (Son 3:2)
    • And judgment is turned away  backward,  and justice  standeth  afar off:    for  truth  is fallen  in the street,  and equity  cannot enter. (Isa 59:14)
    • There shall be lamentation generally  upon  all  the housetops  of Moab,  and in the streets  thereof: for  I have broken Moab  like a vessel  wherein is no  pleasure,  saith  the LORD. (Jer 48:38)
    • Therefore her young men  shall fall  in her streets,  and all  the men  of war  shall be cut off  in that  day,  saith  the LORD  of hosts. (Jer 49:26)
    • Therefore shall her young men  fall  in the streets,  and all  her men  of war  shall be cut off  in that  day,  saith  the LORD.  (Jer 50:30)
    • Mine eyes do fail  with tears,  my bowels  are troubled,  my liver  is poured  upon the earth,  for  the destruction  of the daughter  of my people;  because the children  and the sucklings  swoon  in the streets  of the city.  (Lam 2:11)
    • They say to their mothers,  Where  is corn  and wine?  when they swooned  as the wounded  in the streets  of the city,  when their soul  was poured out  into  their mothers’    (Lam 2:12)
    • They hunt our steps,  that we cannot go    in our streets:  our end  is near,  our days  are fulfilled;  for  our end  is come.  (Lam 4:18)
    • That thou hast also built unto thee an eminent place,  and hast made  thee an high place  in every   (Eze 16:24)
    • In that thou buildest thine eminent place  in the head  of every  way,  and makest  thine high place  in every  street;  and hast not  been  as an harlot,  in that thou scornest  hire;  (Eze 16:31)
    • Know therefore and understand,  that from  the going forth  of the commandment  to restore  and to build  Jerusalem  unto  the Messiah  the Prince  shall be seven  weeks,  and threescore  and two  weeks:  the street  shall be built  again,  and the wall,  even in troublous   (Dan 9:25)
    • Thus saith  the LORD  of hosts;  There shall yet  old men  and old women  dwell  in the streets  of Jerusalem,  and every man  with his staff  in his hand  for very  (Zec 8:4)
    • And the streets of the city  shall be full  of boys  and girls  playing  in the streets   (Zec 8:5)
  • H2351 with H7339
    • Wisdom crieth  without;  she uttereth  her voice  in the streets  (Pro 1:20)
    • Let thy fountains be dispersed  abroad,  and rivers  of waters  in the streets.  (Pro 5:16)
    • Now is she without,  now  in the streets,  and lieth in wait  at  every  corner (Pro 7:12)
    • The slothful man saith,  There is a lion  without,  I shall be slain  in  the streets. (Pro 22:13)
    • In their streets they shall gird  themselves with sackcloth:  on  the tops of their houses,  and in their streets,  every one  shall howl,  weeping    (Isa 15:3)
    • Run ye to and fro through the streets  of Jerusalem,  and see  now,  and know,  and seek  in the broad places  thereof, if  ye can find  a man,  if  there be  any that executeth  judgment,  that seeketh  the truth;  and I will pardon   (Jer 5:1)
    • For death  is come up  into our windows,  and is entered  into our palaces,  to cut off  the children  from without,    and the young men  from the streets. (Jer 9:21)
    • Therefore the LORD,  the God  of hosts,  the Lord,  saith  thus;  Wailing  shall be in all  streets;  and they shall say  in all  the highways,  Alas!  alas!  and they shall call  the husbandman  to  mourning,  and such as are skillful of lamentation  to    (Amo 5:16)
    • The chariots shall rage  in the streets,  they shall jostle one against another  in the broad ways:  they shall seem  like torches,  they shall run  like the lightnings. (Nah 2:4)
  • Great city
    • Great city in Revelation – 10 occurrences
      • Jerusalem – Rev 11:8
      • Babylon – Rev 14:8, Rev 16:19, Rev 17:8, Rev 18:10, Rev 18:16, Rev 18:18, Rev 18:19, Rev 18:21
      • New Jerusalem – Rev 21:10
    • Jerusalem – above is free and holy (Rev 21:2, Rev 21:10, Heb 12:22, Gal 4:25-26)
    • See notes on ‘holy city’ (Jerusalem) in Rev 11:2 above
  • Spiritually called
    • Points to symbolic nature of Revelation
      • Parable – Hos 12:10, Num 23:7, Num 23:18, Num 24:3, Num 24:15-23, Job 27:1, Job 29:1, Mat 13:3-34, Mk 4:34
      • Proverb – Pr 1:6, Ps 49:4, 2 Pet 2:22 w/ Pr 26:11 & John 10:6
      • Sayings – Ps 78:2, Pr 1:2, Num 12:8, Pr 4:10,20
      • Riddle – Pr 1:6, Ps 49:4, Jud 14:12-19, Eze 17:2
      • Vision – Acts 2:17, 10-11, Rev 9:17, Hos 12:10, Dan 2,4,7,8, Dan 10:14, Ps 89:19, Pr 29:18, Is 1:1, 29:7, Ob 1, Eze 7:13,26, Eze 12:22-27, Joel 2:28, Nah 1:1, Hab 2:2-3
      • Dreams – Acts 2:17, Mat 2:12-22, Dan 2,4,7, Num 12:6, Gen 20:3-6, Gen 31:10-11, Gen 37, Gen 40, Gen 41, Is 29:7, Joel 2:28, Judges 7:13-15
      • Shadow – Heb 10:1, 8:5, Col 2:17
      • Mystery – Mat 13:11, Mk 4:11, 1 Cor 2:7, 1 Cor 4:1, 1 Cor 13:2, 1 Cor 14:2, 1 Cor 15:51, Eph 1:9, Eph 3:3-9, Eph 5:32, Eph 6:19, Col 1:26-27, Col 2:2, 1 Tim 3:9, Rev 1:20, Rev 10:7, Rev 17:5-7
      • Figure – Heb 9:9, Hen 9:24, 1 Pet 3:21, Ro 5:14, Heb 11:19, Pr 1:6, John 16:25-29, John 10:6
      • Signs and Wonders – Lk 11:29-30, Rev 12:1, Rev 15:1, Heb 2:4, 1 Cor 14:22, Acts 2:19-22, Ro 4:11, Ro 15:19, etc.
      • Allegory – Gal 4:24
      • Example – Jude 7, 1 Cor 10:6, Heb 4:11, Heb 8:5, James 5:10
      • Secret – Ps 25:14, Pr 3:32
    • Sodom
      • Place of immoral wickedness – Gen 19
      • No survivors – (apostate) – Is 1:9-10, Ro 9:29, Gen 19:24
      • A border of the Canaanites – Gen 10:19
      • In the plain of Jordan, well-watered – Geb 13:10
      • Lot pitched his tent toward Sodom – Gen 13:12
      • Men of Sodom wicked sinners – Gen 13:13
      • King od Sodom defeated and spoiled by coalition of kings led by Chedorlaomer, Lot taken captive – Gen 14:1-16
      • King of Sodom went out to meet Abram and Lot after victory – Gen 14:17
      • King of Sodom wanted people and Abram could keep the goods, but Abram would not accept them – Gen 14:21-23
      • Angels and Abram – great sin at Sodom, Lord to destroy city unless 50 righteous people can be found – Gen 18:16-26
      • Two angels come to Sodom at evening, men of Sodom compass Lot’s house, want two angels given to them, Lot offers daughters, angels smite men with blindness – Gen 19:1-22
      • Sodom and Gomorrah destroyed, smoke of a furnace, Lot’s wife becomes a pillar of salt for looking back – Gen 19:23-29
      • Israel / Judah liked to Sodom / warnings:
        • Warning to Israel not to be destroyed as God destroyed Sodom in His wrath – Deut 29:23
        • Warning to Israel: For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter: – Deu 32:32
        • Except the LORD of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, and we should have been like unto Gomorrah. (Isa 1:9)
        • Hear the word of the LORD, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah. (Isa 1:10)
        • The shew of their countenance doth witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves. (Isa 3:9)
        • I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem an horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands of evildoers, that none doth return from his wickedness: they are all of them unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah. (Jer 23:14)
        • For the punishment of the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the punishment of the sin of Sodom, that was overthrown as in a moment, and no hands stayed on her. (Lam 4:6)
        • And thine elder sister is Samaria, she and her daughters that dwell at thy left hand: and thy younger sister, that dwelleth at thy right hand, is Sodom and her daughters. (Eze 16:46)
        • As I live, saith the Lord GOD, Sodom thy sister hath not done, she nor her daughters, as thou hast done, thou and thy daughters. (Eze 16:48)
        • Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy. (Eze 16:49)
        • When I shall bring again their captivity, the captivity of Sodom and her daughters, and the captivity of Samaria and her daughters, then will I bring again the captivity of thy captives in the midst of them: (Eze 16:53)
        • When thy sisters, Sodom and her daughters, shall return to their former estate, and Samaria and her daughters shall return to their former estate, then thou and thy daughters shall return to your former estate. (Eze 16:55)
        • For thy sister Sodom was not mentioned by thy mouth in the day of thy pride, (Eze 16:56)
        • I have overthrown some of you, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and ye were as a firebrand plucked out of the burning: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD. (Amo 4:11)
        • Verily I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrha in the day of judgment, than for that city. (Mat 10:15)
        • And thou, Capernaum, which art exalted unto heaven, shalt be brought down to hell: for if the mighty works, which have been done in thee, had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day. (Mat 11:23)
        • But I say unto you, That it shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom in the day of judgment, than for thee. (Mat 11:24)
        • And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear you, when ye depart thence, shake off the dust under your feet for a testimony against them. Verily I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrha in the day of judgment, than for that city. (Mar 6:11)
        • But I say unto you, that it shall be more tolerable in that day for Sodom, than for that city. (Luk 10:12)
        • But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all. (Luk 17:29)
      • Warnings to Babylon / Moab / Ammon:
        • And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees’ excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. (Isa 13:19)
        • As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbour cities thereof, saith the LORD, no man shall abide there, neither shall a son of man dwell in it. (Jer 49:18)
        • As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbour cities thereof, saith the LORD; so shall no man abide there, neither shall any son of man dwell therein. (Jer 50:40)
        • Therefore as I live, saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, even the breeding of nettles, and saltpits, and a perpetual desolation: the residue of my people shall spoil them, and the remnant of my people shall possess them. (Zep 2:9)
      • Warnings to Christians:
        • And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly; (2Pe 2:6)
        • Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire. (Jud 1:7)
        • And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified. (Rev 11:8)
      • Egypt – land of bondage, slavery to sin
        • Slave to sin ‑ Ro 6:16‑20, Gal 4:3‑11, Gal 4:21‑31, John 8:30‑35, Ps 68:6, Ps 106:10
          • Slave of Satan ‑ 2 Tim 2:24‑26
        • Egypt – house of bondage – Exo 13:3, Exo 13:14, Exo 20:2, Deu 5:6, Deu 6:12, Deu 7:8, Deu 8:14, Deu 13:5, Deu 13:10, Jos 24:17, Jdg 6:8, Jer 34:13.
          • Related to bondage – Exo 2:23, Exo 6:5, Exo 6:6, Lev 25:42, Lev 26:13, Deu 15:15, Deu 16:12, Deu 24:18, Deu 24:22, Deu 26:6, Deu 28:68.
          • Jer 34:13-14 – related to the 7th year sabbath to release one’s brother from servitude
          • Deut 28:68 – Curse – Israel to be returned to Egypt by ships into bondage
          • Judah commits fornication with Egypt – Eze 16:26
          • Idols / abominations of Egypt – Eze 20:7
        • Salvation – brought forth from Egypt
          • Israel chosen by God / brought forth – Eze 20:5-10
          • Israel delivered from Egypt – Exo 5:23, Exo 12:27
        • Judgment on Egypt Passages – Isa 19:1-15, Jer 46, Eze 29-32
        • God warns people to not go down / trust in Egypt – Isa 30:1-7
          • Isa 30:2, Isa 30:3, Isa 31:1, Isa 36:6, Isa 36:9, Jer 46:25
        • After fall of Jerusalem, remnant of Judah goes to Egypt – Jer 40-44
        • Salvation as a highway from Egypt – Isa 11:15-16
        • Signs in Egypt – Ps 78:43-51
      • Where our Lord was crucified
        • O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not! (Mat 23:37)
        • Nevertheless I must walk to day, and tomorrow, and the day following: for it cannot be that a prophet perish out of Jerusalem. (Luk 13:33)
        • O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which killest the prophets, and stonest them that are sent unto thee; how often would I have gathered thy children together, as a hen doth gather her brood under her wings, and ye would not! (Luk 13:34)
        • Then he took unto him the twelve, and said unto them, Behold, we go up to Jerusalem, and all things that are written by the prophets concerning the Son of man shall be accomplished. (Luk 18:31)
        • And in these days came prophets from Jerusalem unto Antioch. (Act 11:27)
        • For they that dwell at Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they knew him not, nor yet the voices of the prophets which are read every sabbath day, they have fulfilled them in condemning him. (Act 13:27)
        • Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate. (Heb 13:12, see Lev 24:23, Num 15:36)
        • And in her was found the blood of prophets, and of saints, and of all that were slain upon the earth. (Rev 18:24)

And they of the people and kindreds and tongues and nations shall see their dead bodies three days and an half, and shall not suffer their dead bodies to be put in graves.

  • People, kindreds, tongues, nations – refers to all people of world – see notes on Rev 5:9, Rev 7:9, Rev 10:11, Rev 11:9, Rev 14:6, Rev 17:15
  • Peoples (Gr: laos) – This represents a group that is connected by one cause or purpose. An important example is that all true Christians from whatever background, creed, language, culture, race, etc. become one people as Christians (Rev 21:3, Heb 8:10, 2 Cor 6:18, Hos 1:10, 2:23, 1 Pet 2:10, Ro 9:25, Mat 1:231, Ro 8:29, etc.). A people could also be a group of individuals that rally behind a political figure, a society that is governed by a ruler, a social cause or any other reason by which they are unified.
    • Tribe (kindred) – This Greek word (phule) points to those of kin (blood relationship, race), for example ‘tribe of Israel’ – Luk 2:36, Act 13:21, Rom 11:1, Phi 3:5, Heb 7:13-14 (2), Rev 7:5-8 (13), Mat 19:28, Luk 22:30 (2), Jam 1:1, Rev 7:4, Rev 21:12, Rev 1:7, Rev 11:9 (2), Rev 13:7, Rev 5:9, Rev 14:6
    • Tongues – This Greek word (glossa) refers to one’s spoken language (Acts 1:19, 2:3-4, 11, 26, Rev 5:9, etc).
  • Nations – The Greek word for nations is ‘ethnos’, which means a group of people who have a common ethnic (or cultural) background. This word is used extensively to refer to ‘gentiles’, which were those who were outside of the commonwealth of Israel (Eph 2:11-12).  This word should not be used in the context of people who live in a particular country unless the people of the country are all of the same ethnicity.
  • See their dead bodies – God’s people are still in the world, albeit considered as dead
  • 3 and ½ days – Great Tribulation / war on the saints – see notes above on Rev 11:2-3
  • Not suffer their dead bodies to be put in graves – see Ps 79, 1 Ki 13:22f, a type of tribulation – church dead, but still visible
    • A Psalm of Asaph. O God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps. The dead bodies of thy servants have they given to be meat unto the fowls of the heaven, the flesh of thy saints unto the beasts of the earth. Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; and there was none to bury them. We are become a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and derision to them that are round about us. How long, LORD? wilt thou be angry for ever? shall thy jealousy burn like fire? Pour out thy wrath upon the heathen that have not known thee, and upon the kingdoms that have not called upon thy name. For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his dwelling place. O remember not against us former iniquities: let thy tender mercies speedily prevent us: for we are brought very low. Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of thy name: and deliver us, and purge away our sins, for thy name’s sake. Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is their God? let him be known among the heathen in our sight by the revenging of the blood of thy servants which is shed. Let the sighing of the prisoner come before thee; according to the greatness of thy power preserve thou those that are appointed to die; And render unto our neighbors sevenfold into their bosom their reproach, wherewith they have reproached thee, O Lord. So we thy people and sheep of thy pasture will give thee thanks for ever: we will shew forth thy praise to all generations. (Psa 79:1-13)

And they that dwell upon the earth shall rejoice over them, and make merry, and shall send gifts one to another; because these two prophets tormented them that dwelt on the earth.

  • Rejoice
    • G5463 (Gr: chairo) – to be glad, happy or joyful
    • Love: Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth, (1Co 13:6) –
  • 1Sa 23:19-21, 2Sa 4:10-12, Psa 10:3, Psa 119:136, Pro 14:9, Jer 9:1, Jer 13:17, Jer 20:10, Hos 4:8, Hos 7:3, Mic 7:8, Luk 19:41-42, Luk 22:5, Rom 1:32, Php 3:18
  • Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them. (Rom 1:32)
  • Hatred of God’s people
    • And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another. (Mat 24:10)
    • Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from their company, and shall reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man’s sake. (Luk 6:22)
    • If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you. (Joh 15:18)
    • Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you. (1Jn 3:13)
  • See also – Job 20:5, Jdg 16:23-24, Psa 13:4, Psa 35:19, Psa 35:24-26, Psa 89:42, Pro 24:17, Jer 50:11, Oba 1:12, Mic 7:8, Joh 16:20
  • To deliver thee from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaketh froward things; Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness; Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the frowardness of the wicked; (Pro 2:12-14)
  • Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that rejoice at mine hurt: let them be clothed with shame and dishonour that magnify themselves against me. (Psa 35:26)
  • They take up all of them with the angle, they catch them in their net, and gather them in their drag: therefore they rejoice and are glad. (Hab 1:15)
  • Because ye were glad, because ye rejoiced, O ye destroyers of mine heritage, because ye are grown fat as the heifer at grass, and bellow as bulls; (Jer 50:11)
  • All that pass by clap their hands at thee; they hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, Is this the city that men call The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth? All thine enemies have opened their mouth against thee: they hiss and gnash the teeth: they say, We have swallowed her up: certainly this is the day that we looked for; we have found, we have seen it. (Lam 2:15-16)
  • For thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast clapped thine hands, and stamped with the feet, and rejoiced in heart with all thy despite against the land of Israel; (Eze 25:6)
  • Son of man, because that Tyrus hath said against Jerusalem, Aha, she is broken that was the gates of the people: she is turned unto me: I shall be replenished, now she is laid waste: (Eze 26:2)
  • As thou didst rejoice at the inheritance of the house of Israel, because it was desolate, so will I do unto thee: thou shalt be desolate, O mount Seir, and all Idumea, even all of it: and they shall know that I am the LORD. (Eze 35:15)
  • Make merry
    • G2165 (Gr: euphraino) – literally, good frame of mind
      • Rich fool – eat, drink and be merry – Lk 12:19
      • Made a calf and idol and rejoice in the works of their hands (Israel in the wilderness) – Acts 7:41
      • Return of the prodigal son – Lk 15:23-24, Lk 15:29, Lk 15:32
    • Christians hated / persecuted – see notes on Rev 11:5 above
  • Send gifts to one another
    • Send gifts – Est 9:19-22 (believe that they are doing the right thing and celebrating – see John 16:2, Is 66:5), Neh 8:10-12
  • Gift of God
    • Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water. (Joh 4:10)
    • Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. (Act 2:38)
    • But Peter said unto him, Thy money perish with thee, because thou hast thought that the gift of God may be purchased with money. (Act 8:20)
    • And they of the circumcision which believed were astonished, as many as came with Peter, because that on the Gentiles also was poured out the gift of the Holy Ghost. (Act 10:45)
    • Forasmuch then as God gave them the like gift as he did unto us, who believed on the Lord Jesus Christ; what was I, that I could withstand God? (Act 11:17)
    • For I long to see you, that I may impart unto you some spiritual gift, to the end ye may be established (Rom 1:11)
    • But not as the offence, so also is the free gift. For if through the offence of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many. (Rom 5:15)
    • And not as it was by one that sinned, so is the gift: for the judgment was by one to condemnation, but the free gift is of many offences unto justification. (Rom 5:16)
    • For if by one man’s offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ. (Rom 5:17)
    • Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life. (Rom 5:18)
    • For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. (Rom 6:23)
    • So that ye come behind in no gift; waiting for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ: (1Co 1:7)
    • For I would that all men were even as I myself. But every man hath his proper gift of God, one after this manner, and another after that. (1Co 7:7)
    • And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. (1Co 13:2)
    • For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God (Eph 2:8)
    • Whereof I was made a minister, according to the gift of the grace of God given unto me by the effectual working of his power. (Eph 3:7)
    • But unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ. (Eph 4:7)
    • Neglect not the gift that is in thee, which was given thee by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the presbytery. (1Ti 4:14)
    • Wherefore I put thee in remembrance that thou stir up the gift of God, which is in thee by the putting on of my hands. (2Ti 1:6)
    • For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, (Heb 6:4)
    • Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning. (Jas 1:17)
    • As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God. (1Pe 4:10)
  • 2 prophets tormented them that dwelt on earth – see notes on Rev 11:3-5 above
    • Prophets – see notes on Rev 11:3 above
    • Tormented – preached hell – Mk 11:18, 5:7, Heb 4:12, 2 Cor 2:15-16, Mat 5:13-14
  • Torment
  • Hell is a place of spiritual torment (Luke 16:23, Lk 16:28) in being separated from God’s kingdom by a great gulf
  • Greek word for torment (basanos, G931 (3 occurrences) and its cognates G928 (12 occurrences), G929 (6 occurrences), G930(1 occurrence))
    • G931 – Mat 4:24 (sickness), Lk 16:23, Lk 16:28 (Lazarus torment in his separation of being in hades)
    • In LK 16:23 and Lk 16:28, torment in the context of the Parable of Lazarus and the Rich Man, involves the conditions that exist in hades:
  • Silence (No Fellowship) – Ps 31:17-18, Ps 94:17, Ps 28:1, Ps 115:17-18
  • No Purpose / No Knowledge – Ecc 9:5-10, Ps 146:4, Ps 6:5
  • No Communications with the Living – Ps 6:5, Job 7:9-10, Ps 88:4-8
  • Darkness (no Gospel Truth) – 1 Sam 2:9, Job 17:11-13, Ps 88:6
  • Cannot Praise or Hear from God – Ps 143:7, Ps 115:17-18, Ps 6:3-5, Ps 88:10-12
  • As Prisoners, with no Hope – Is 24:21-22, Job 17:15-16, Ps 88:3-8
    • G928 – 12 occurrences
    • Torment of the locusts – Rev 9:5
    • Lake of Fire – torment of separation – Rev 20:10
    • Demons – Gadarene demoniac – Mat 8:29 (also tied to abyss – see above on bottomless pit), Legion of demons – Lk 8:28, Mk 5:7
    • Disciples ‘toiling’ in ship – Mk 6:48
    • Ship ‘tossed’ in waves – Mat 14:24
    • Righteous Lot ‘vexed’ in his soul due to watching sinful behavior – 2 Pet 2:8
    • Woman experienced pains in the advent of Christ – Rev 12:2
    • Torment of sickness of palsy – Mat 8:6 (see Is 1:4-6)
    • Sickness represents spiritual sickness of sin – Mat 8:17, Eze 34:4, Eze 34:16, Ps 77:10, Is 35:5-6, Ps 102:4, Pr 13:12, Ps 38:2-3, Is 1:4-6, Jer 8:22, Jer 30:12, Is 53:3-5, 1 Tim 1:10, 2 Tim 1:13, 4:3, Titus 1:9, Titus 1:13, Titus 2:1-2, 1 Cor 11:26-30, Jer 31:8, Jer 3:22, Ps 41:4, Ps 103:1-4, 1 Pet 2:24, John 9:39, John 12:40, Acts 28:27, Mal 4:20, James 5:15-16)
    • Sin brings evil consequences – Gen 3:16-19
    • G929 – Rev 9:5
    • Those who worship beast will be tormented – Rev 14:11
    • Judgment on Babylon due to her sin – Rev 18:7, Rev 18:10, Rev 18:15
  • G930 – 1 occurrence
    • Mat 18:34 – Parable of the 2 debtors – wicked one given to tormentors to pay what he owed

Rev 11:11-14: Resurrection of the 2 Witnesses

And after three days and an half the Spirit of life from God entered into them, and they stood upon their feet; and great fear fell upon them which saw them.

(Rev 11:11)

And they heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them, Come up hither. And they ascended up to heaven in a cloud; and their enemies beheld them.

(Rev 11:12)                                      

And the same hour was there a great earthquake, and the tenth part of the city fell, and in the earthquake were slain of men seven thousand: and the remnant were affrighted, and gave glory to the God of heaven.

(Rev 11:13)

The second woe is past; and, behold, the third woe cometh quickly.

(Rev 11:14)

And after three days and an half the Spirit of life from God entered into them, and they stood upon their feet

  • 3 and ½ days – see notes on 11:2-4,9
    • Points to the Great Tribulation (last half of Daniel’s 70 weeks prophecy)
  • Spirit of life entered them – resurrection of spiritual body – see 1 Cor 15, Ro 8:2, Ro 8:7, Gen 2:7
  • Breath of life – Eze 37:1-14 (spirit of life into dead bones)
  • Second Coming of Christ ‑ Mk 16:27-28, Mk 8:38, Mk 13:26, Mk 14:62-64, Lk 9:26, Lk 12:35‑49, Lk 21:27, Lk 21:34‑38, Lk 22:69, Mat 24:29-31, Mat 24:42‑51, Mat 26:64, Lk 17:20‑37, John 14:1‑3, John 14:28‑30, 1 Cor 1:27‑29, John 21:22‑23, Acts 1:11, Phil 3:20 4:5, 1 Thess 1:10, 1 Thess 2:19‑20, 1 Thess 3:13, 1 Thess 4:13‑18, 1 Thess 5:23, 1 Tim 6:14‑15, 2 Tim 4:1, 2 Tim 4:8, Titus 2:13, Heb 10:37, James 5:7, 1 Pet 1:7, 1 Pet 5:4, 1 John 2:28, 1 John 3:2‑3, Jude 14, Jude 24, Acts 1:11, 2 Thess 1:7, Rev 11:11-12, Rev 11:18, John 5:28-29, Acts 24:15, Dan 7:13
  • Christ comes with the clouds and great glory with angels ‑ Mat 16:27-28, Mat 24:30, Mk 13:26, Lk 21:27, Mat 26:64, Jude 24, Dan 7:13
  • Stood on feet – stand at judgment day – Lk 21:36, Eph 6:12-16, Lk 21:36, Rev 7:9, Rev 8:2, Rev 11:4 (see notes on Rev 6:17)
  • 2nd resurrection – Dan 12:1-3, Mat 13:38-43, Mat 13:47-50, Mat 25:31-34,41,46, Rev 11:15-18, 1 Cor 15:51-52, 1 Thess 4:13-18, John 5:28-29, John 6:40, John 12:48, Acts 24:15, Job 19:25-27, Is 26:19, Eze 37:1-14, Hos 13:14, Mat 22:29-32, John 11:23-26, 1 Cor 15:20-22, 1 Cor 15:51-54, 1 Thess 4:14, Rev 20:12, Dan 12:13, Ro 6:4-5

… and great fear fell upon them which saw them.

  • Great fear – time of judgment – see notes on Rev 6:12-17
  • Fear of Judgment – Lk 21:26, All men have a knowledge of sin (General revelation – Ps 19, Ro 1:19-20, Ps 105:7, Acts 14:17,17:24-28)
    • Mankind seeks death to avoid wrath of God – Rev 9:6, Rev 6:16, Pr 8:36, Pr 21:6, 2Sa 1:9, Job 3:20-22, Job 7:15-16, Isa 2:19, Jer 8:3, Hos 10:8, Joh 4:8-9, Luk 23:30, Rev 9:6, Jonah 4:3, 1 Ki 19:4, Jer 20:14-18
    • Unsaved have a conscience – 1 Tim 1:9, 4:2, Titus 1:15, Ro 1:19-20
    • The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge – Pr 1:7, Job 28:28, Ps 111:10, Pr 9:10, 15:33, Ecc 12:13, Ecc 3:14, Ecc 5:7, Ecc 7:18, Ecc 8:12, Col 3:22, Phil 2:12, 2 Cor 5:11
    • Fear the Lord – Lev 25:17, Exo 9:30, Deu 6:2, Deu 6:13, Deu 6:24, Deu 10:12, Deu 10:20, Deu 14:23, Deu 17:19, Deu 31:12, Deu 31:13, Jos 4:24, Jos 24:14, 1Sa 12:14, 1Sa 12:24, 1Ki 18:12, 2Ki 4:1, 2Ki 17:28, Psa 15:4, Psa 22:23, Psa 33:8, Psa 34:9, Psa 115:11, Psa 115:13, Psa 118:4, Psa 135:20, Pro 3:7, Jer 5:24, Jer 26:19, Hos 3:5, Jon 1:9.
    • Let all the earth fear the Lord – Ps 33:8
  • Hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains
  • Parallel passages: Is 2:10-21, Is 24:21, Hos 10:8, Mal 3:2, Lk 23:30, Rev 19:18
  • Adam and Eve – fear of God’s wrath – Gen 3:8-10
    • People are not hid from God – Heb 4:13, Jer 23:24, Ex 3:6, Job 22:14, Job 31:33, Job 34:22, Psa 139:1-12, Pro 15:3, Amo 9:2-3, Jon 1:3, Jon 1:9-10, Rom 2:15
  • Fear of God’s wrath (man’s vain attempt to work to hide himself from danger) – Lk 23:30, Is 2:10, Is 2:19, Is 28:17, Ps 90:11, Job 31:23, Job 37:22-24, Jer 10:10, Rev 6:15‑16, Jer 49:10, Hos 10:8 (mountains), Rev 6:16, Is 2:10‑21 (caves, clefts, holes), Mal 3:2, Josh 10:16-28 (5 kings in a cave), Micah 7:17 (like worms)
  • Fear of God’s face – no man can see God and live – Ex 33:20, Rev 6:15-16, Hab 1:13, John 1:18, John 6:46, Col 1:15, 1 Tim 6:16, 1 John 4:12
  • Those who have no fear of God – Pr 1:29, Ro 3:18, Mal 3:5, Ecc 8:13, Ex 9:30, Ps 55:19, Is 57:11, Jer 44:10, Lk 23:40, Gen 20:11, Ps 36:1, Deut 25:18, 2 Ki 17:25, Jer 5:24, Jer 2:19, Job 15:4, Jer 3:8, Lk 18:2-4, Hos 10:3, Job 6:14, Job 22:4

And they heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them, Come up hither

  • Great voice passages:
    • These words the LORD spake unto all your assembly in the mount out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a great voice: and he added no more. And he wrote them in two tables of stone, and delivered them unto me. (Deu 5:22)
    • Because the LORD hath spoiled Babylon, and destroyed out of her the great voice; when her waves do roar like great waters, a noise of their voice is uttered: (Jer 51:55)
    • I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet (Rev 1:10)
    • And they heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them, Come up hither. And they ascended up to heaven in a cloud; and their enemies beheld them. (Rev 11:12)
    • And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever. (Rev 11:15)
    • And I heard a great voice out of the temple saying to the seven angels, Go your ways, and pour out the vials of the wrath of God upon the earth. (Rev 16:1)
    • 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. (Rev 16:17)
    • And after these things I heard a great voice of much people in heaven, saying, Alleluia; Salvation, and glory, and honour, and power, unto the Lord our God: (Rev 19:1)
    • And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God. (Rev 21:3)
  • Voice as the trumpet (see Rev 1:10) points to the end of time when God gathers His elect at the sound of the last trumpet (1 Thess 4:16, 1 Cor 15:52, Mat 24:31, Josh 6:5
  • Come up hither – Rapture – see 1 Thess 4:13-18, 1 Cor 15:51-54, Rev 11:15-19
  • Elijah ascended – 2 Ki 2:11
  • Christ ascended – Acts 1:9
  • Come up to heaven – Rev 4:1, Ps 15:1, Ps 24:3, Is 40:31

And they ascended up to heaven in a cloud; and their enemies beheld them.

  • Ascended
    • And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it. (Gen 28:12)
    • And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the LORD descended upon it in fire: and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly. (Exo 19:18)
    • Who shall ascend into the hill of the LORD? or who shall stand in his holy place? (Psa 24:3)
    • Thou hast ascended on high, thou hast led captivity captive: thou hast received gifts for men; yea, for the rebellious also, that the LORD God might dwell among them. (Psa 68:18)
    • If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there. (Psa 139:8)
    • Who hath ascended up into heaven, or descended? who hath gathered the wind in his fists? who hath bound the waters in a garment? who hath established all the ends of the earth? what is his name, and what is his son’s name, if thou canst tell? (Pro 30:4)
    • For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: (Isa 14:13)
    • I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High. (Isa 14:14)
    • And when he had thus spoken, he went before, ascending up to Jerusalem. (Luk 19:28)
    • And he saith unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Hereafter ye shall see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of man. (Joh 1:51)
    • And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven. (Joh 3:13)
    • What and if ye shall see the Son of man ascend up where he was before? (Joh 6:62)
    • Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God. (Joh 20:17)
    • For David is not ascended into the heavens: but he saith himself, The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, (Act 2:34)
    • But the righteousness which is of faith speaketh on this wise, Say not in thine heart, Who shall ascend into heaven? (that is, to bring Christ down from above:) (Rom 10:6)
    • Wherefore he saith, When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men. (Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth?)
    • He that descended is the same also that ascended up far above all heavens, that he might fill all things. (Eph 4:8-10)
    • And I saw another angel ascending from the east, having the seal of the living God: and he cried with a loud voice to the four angels, to whom it was given to hurt the earth and the sea, (Rev 7:2)
    • And the smoke of the incense, which came with the prayers of the saints, ascended up before God out of the angel’s hand. (Rev 8:4)
    • And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them. (Rev 11:7)
    • And they heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them, Come up hither. And they ascended up to heaven in a cloud; and their enemies beheld them. (Rev 11:12)
  • Cloud – glory – see notes on Rev 1:7
  • Received up into a cloud – 1 Thess 4:17, Is 60:8
  • Coming of Christ with clouds – Rev 1:7, Mat 24:30, Acts 1:9-11, Luke 21:27, Mk 14:62-64, Mk 13:26, Mat 26:64, Mat 16:27-28.
  • Clouds represent glory – 2 Chr 5:13-14, 2 Chr 7:1-2, 1 Ki 8:11, Ex 40:34-35, Ex 34:5, Ex 19:9, Mat 17:5, Is 19:11, Mat 24:30, Mat 26:64, Dan 7:13, see especially Acts 1:9-11
  • Enemies beheld them (unsaved people, kingdom of Satan) – see notes on Rev 11:5
    • Similar to Rich man seeing Lazarus in Abraham’s bosom – Lk 16:23
    • Exo 14:25, 2Ki 2:1, 2Ki 2:5, 2Ki 2:7, Psa 86:17, Psa 112:10, Ps 6:10, Ps 31:17, Ps 35:26, Ps 40:14-15, Ps 70:2-3, Ps 71:13, Ps 138:18, Jer 20:11

And the same hour was there a great earthquake

  • Same hour – hour of judgment – see notes on Rev 3:7-13, Rev 8:1, Rev 14:7, (John 5:25-30)
  • Hour – time for judgment
  • Old Testament (H8160 – only 5 occurrences) – Dan 3:6, Dan 3:15, Dan 4:19, Dan 4:33, Dan 5:5 – Points to a time of judgment
  • New Testament (Gr: hora, 108 occurrences)
    • Judgment of Christ on the cross ‑ Mk 14:35‑41, Lk 22:14, John 2:4, John 7:30, John 8:20, John 5:25, John 13:1, John 16:21, John 16:32
    • Hour of Jesus’ betrayal – Mk 14:37, Mat 26:55
    • Judgment on the world (coming of Christ) ‑ Mat 24:36, Mat 24:42, Mat 24:44, Mat 24: 50, Mat 25:13, Lk 12:39-40, Luke 12:46, Rev 9:15, Rev 11:13, Rev 14:7, Rev 14:15, Rev 17:12, Rev 18:10, Rev 18:17-19, John 5:25‑30, Rev 3:3, Rev 3:10
    • Healing at that hour – Mat 8:13, Mat 9:22, Mat 15:28, Mat 17:18, John 4:53, Lk 7:21, Acts 16:18
    • When delivered, what we say will be given to us – Mat 10:19, Mat 15:28, Mk 13:11, Mat 24:42
    • Miraculous bread – Mat 14:15
    • ‘Two hours’ – Great is Diana of the Ephesians – Acts 19:34
    • ‘One hour’ – 4:19, Mat. 20:12, Mat 26:40, Mark 14:37, Luke 22:59, Rev. 17:12, 18:10, Rev 18:17, Rev 18:19
  • Great earthquake
    • Great earthquakes in Bible – Rev 6:12, Rev 11:13, Rev 16:18
    • Earthquake – Gr: seismos (G4578 – 14 occurrences, G4579 (seio) – 5 occurrences) – Earthquakes point to God’s judgment
    • Freeing of Paul from Philippian jail – Acts 16:26
    • Earthquake caused a tempest on the sea (which Jesus calmed) – Mat 8:24
    • Great Tribulation – Mat 24:7, Mk 13:8, Lk 21:11
    • The Last Day (Judgment day) – Rev 16:18 (the Greatest earthquake), Rev 11:13, Rev 11:19, Rev 6:12
    • The announcement of the 7 trumpets (church age, Great Tribulation and the Last Day_ – Rev 8:5
    • Rolling of tombstone away of Jesus’ grace – Mat 28:2
    • People shook when angel appeared to them at tomb – Mat 28:4
    • God will shake the earth and heaven – Heb 12:26
    • Jerusalem was moved when Jesus came – Mat 21:10
    • Earth quaked when Jesus Christ was put to death – Mat 27:51
    • Stars fell from heaven as a fig tree shaken – Rev 6:13
    • G4531 (Gr: saleuo – 15 occurrences – to shake)
    • God’s voice shook the earth – Heb 12:26
    • Things shaken removed, but those things remain which cannot be shaken – Heb 12:27 (Ex 19:18)
    • House could not be shaken – Lk 6:48
    • Will not be moved, because of God – Acts 2:25
    • Do not be shaken in mind – 2 Thess 2:2
    • Philippian prison shaken – Acts 16:26
    • Powers of heaven to be shaken – Lk 21:25, Mat 24:29, Acts 13:25
    • After prayer, place shaken – Acts 4:31
  • Old Testament – Earth shaken – 1 Sam 14:15, 1 Ki 19:11-12, Amos 1:1
    • Mt Sinai – Ex 19:18
  • Judgment Day – Is 29:6, Joel 2:10, Nah 1:5, Zech 14:5, Eze 38:19-20, Joel 3:16, Hag 2:6-7, Hag 2:21-22
  • Whole creation groans – Ro 8:18-22
  • Whole creation fell due to Adam’s Sin – Hos 4:3, Gen 7:21-22, 19:24-25, Ex 12:29, Deut 20:16, 1 Sam 15, Jonah 4:11, Gen 3:17, Jer 12:4
  • Christians cannot be shaken / moved – Heb 12:26-28, Lk 6:48, 1 Cor 15:58, Rth 1:18; Psa 55:22, Psa 78:8, Psa 78:37, Psa 112:6; Col 1:23, Col 2:5; 1Th 3:3; Heb 3:14; 2Pe 3:17-18
    • G1476 – Gr: hedraios (lit: sedentary – steadfast, settled, grounded) – 1 Cor 15:58, 1 Cor 7:37, Col 1:23
    • G949 / G950 / G951 – Gr: bebaios (lit: stable – firm, confirmed, established) – Rom 4:16, 2Co 1:7, Heb 2:2, Heb 3:6, Heb 3:14, Heb 6:19, Heb 9:17, 2Pe 1:10, 2Pe 1:19, Mar 16:20, Rom 15:8, 1Co 1:6, 1Co 1:8, 2Co 1:21, Col 2:7, Heb 2:3, Heb 13:9, Php 1:7, Heb 6:16
    • G4731 / G4732 / G4733 – Gr: stereo (lit: stiff – establish, solid, confirm sure) – 2Ti 2:19, Heb 5:12, Heb 5:14, 1Pe 5:9, Act 3:7, Act 3:16, Act 16:5, Col 2:5

… and the tenth part of the city fell

  • Summary: where the remnant resided (church no longer needed due to New Jerusalem – Rev 21-22)
  • Tenth – a symbol for the remnant which is to be offered to God
    • Key verses – Amos 5:3, Is 6:13, Judges 20:10, Neh 11:1, Lk 17:17
  • Lk 17:11-19 – 10 lepers cleansed but only 1 returned to Christ
    • Lev 27:30 – that which is holy to the Lord
    • Num 18:21-28, Deut 12:17, 14:22-29, 26:12-15, Mat 23:23, Lk 11:42, Heb 7:2-9, Amos 4:4-5, Gen 14:20, 28:22, Neh 10:37-39, 12:44, 13:5,12, 2 Chr 31:6-12, Mal 3:8-10
  • Remnant – see Rev 11:13 list of ‘remnant’ verses
  • Whole bodies are sacrifices – Ro 12:1, see notes on Rev6:9
  • City – Jerusalem – see notes on 11:2-4
  • Fell – judgment – 1 Tim 3:6, Gal 5:4, Mat 7:25-27, 15:14, Heb 10:31, 1 Cor 10:12, Lk 8:13, Mk 14:27, etc

… and in the earthquake were slain of men seven thousand

  • Slain 7000 of mankind
  • Perfection of purpose of Judgment Day
    • H7651 (sheba / shibah, 395 occurrences, the number 7)
      • Seven times a day do I praise thee because of thy righteous judgments. (Psa 119:164)
      • These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him (Pro 6:16)
      • Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars (Pro 9:1)
      • The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason. (Pro 26:16)
      • When he speaketh fair, believe him not: for there are seven abominations in his heart. (Pro 26:25)
      • And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach. (Isa 4:1)
    • G2033 (hepta, 87 occurrences)
      • Mat 12:45 – 7 other spirits more wicked
      • Mat 18:22 – forgiveness
      • Mat 22:25-28, Luke 20:29-33 – 7 brothers with 1 wife
      • Rev 1:11-20 – 7 stars, 7 golden candlesticks, 2 churches
      • Acts 13:19 – 7 nations in the land of Canaan – land give to Israel
      • Acts 6:3 – 7 original deacons
      • Churches (Rev 1:4), Spirits (Rev 1:4), Candlesticks (Rev 1:12, 20), stars (Rev 1:16, 200, lamps 9Rev 4:50, seals (Rev 5:1,5), angels (Rev 8:2, Rev 15:1, Rev 17:1, Rev 21:9), trumpets (Rev 8:2), thunders (Rev 10:3‑4), plagues (Rev 15:6-8, Rev 21:9), bowls (Rev 15:7, Rev 21:9), mountains (Rev 17:9), kings (Rev 17:10)
      • Rev 17:3-11 – 7 heads of the scarlet beasts
      • Rev 12:3 – 7 heads of Satan (dragon)
      • Rev 13:1 – 7 heads of Beast
    • Seven oneself (sware / take oath) – H7650 / H7621
      • H7650 (shaba, 186 occurrences) – to sware
      • H7621 (shebuah, 30 occurrences) – to take oath
      • The Lord swears – Promised Land – Deut 8:1, Gen 24:7, Ex 13:5, Ex 13:11, Ex 33:11, Deut 1:8
      • The Lord swears – the Covenant – Deut 7:12, Deut 8:18
      • Lord swears – salvation – Heb 6:16-18; Gen 22:15-18 (see verses 16); Psa 105:9-10; Isa 45:23; Jer 22:5; Jer 49:13; Mic 7:20; Luk 1:73, Gen 50:24, Exo 13:5, Exo 13:11, Exo 33:1, Num 14:16, Num 14:23, Num 32:10-11 (2), Deu 1:8, Deu 1:34-35 (2), Deu 2:14, Deu 4:21, Deu 4:31, Deu 6:10, Deu 6:18, Deu 6:23, Deu 7:12-13 (2), Deu 8:1, Deu 8:18, Deu 9:5, Deu 10:11, Deu 11:9, Deu 11:21, Deu 26:3, Deu 28:11, Deu 31:20-21 (3), Deu 31:23, Deu 34:4, Josh 5:6, Ps 89:3, Amo 6:8, Isa 14:24, Isa 45:23,
    • 1000 – complete fulness
    • In 2 Peter 3:9, we see that a 1000 years is as 1 day and 1 day as a 1000 years. Other than Revelation 20, this is the only other occurrence of 1000 years in the New Testament.
    • 1000 Points to the Fullness of God’s Salvation Program during the Church Age – Rev 20:3-7
    • For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night. Ps 90:4
    • For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills. (Psalms 50:10)
    • He hath remembered his covenant forever, the word which he commanded to a thousand generations. (Psalms 105:8)
    • The law of thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver. (Psalms 119:72)

… and the remnant were affrighted, and gave glory to the God of heaven.

  • Remnant – points to 1/10 (God’s people, the elect)
  • Now in the second year of their coming unto the house of God at Jerusalem, in the second month, began Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and the remnant of their brethren the priests and the Levites, and all they that were come out of the captivity unto Jerusalem; and appointed the Levites, from twenty years old and upward, to set forward the work of the house of the LORD. (Ezr 3:8)
  • And now for a little space grace hath been shewed from the LORD our God, to leave us a remnant to escape, and to give us a nail in his holy place, that our God may lighten our eyes, and give us a little reviving in our bondage. (Ezr 9:8)
  • Should we again break thy commandments, and join in affinity with the people of these abominations? wouldest not thou be angry with us till thou hadst consumed us, so that there should be no remnant nor escaping? (Ezr 9:14)
  • And they said unto me, The remnant that are left of the captivity there in the province are in great affliction and reproach: the wall of Jerusalem also is broken down, and the gates thereof are burned with fire. (Neh 1:3)
  • Except the LORD of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, and we should have been like unto Gomorrah. (Isa 1:9)
  • And it shall come to pass in that day, that the remnant of Israel, and such as are escaped of the house of Jacob, shall no more again stay upon him that smote them; but shall stay upon the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, in truth. (Isa 10:20)
  • The remnant shall return, even the remnant of Jacob, unto the mighty God. (Isa 10:21)
  • For though thy people Israel be as the sand of the sea, yet a remnant of them shall return: the consumption decreed shall overflow with righteousness. (Isa 10:22)
  • And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea. (Isa 11:11)
  • And there shall be an highway for the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria; like as it was to Israel in the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt. (Isa 11:16)
  • It may be the LORD thy God will hear the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master hath sent to reproach the living God, and will reprove the words which the LORD thy God hath heard: wherefore lift up thy prayer for the remnant that is left. (Isa 37:4)
  • And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward: (Isa 37:31)
  • For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and they that escape out of mount Zion: the zeal of the LORD of hosts shall do this. (Isa 37:32)
  • Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, which are borne by me from the belly, which are carried from the womb: (Isa 46:3)
  • Thus saith the LORD of hosts, They shall throughly glean the remnant of Israel as a vine: turn back thine hand as a grapegatherer into the baskets. (Jer 6:9)
  • The LORD said, Verily it shall be well with thy remnant; verily I will cause the enemy to entreat thee well in the time of evil and in the time of affliction. (Jer 15:11)
  • And I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all countries whither I have driven them, and will bring them again to their folds; and they shall be fruitful and increase. (Jer 23:3)
  • For thus saith the LORD; Sing with gladness for Jacob, and shout among the chief of the nations: publish ye, praise ye, and say, O LORD, save thy people, the remnant of Israel. (Jer 31:7)
  • Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive into Babylon the remnant of the people that remained in the city, and those that fell away, that fell to him, with the rest of the people that remained. (Jer 39:9)
  • Likewise when all the Jews that were in Moab, and among the Ammonites, and in Edom, and that were in all the countries, heard that the king of Babylon had left a remnant of Judah, and that he had set over them Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan; (Jer 40:11)
  • Yet a small number that escape the sword shall return out of the land of Egypt into the land of Judah, and all the remnant of Judah, that are gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall know whose words shall stand, mine, or theirs. (Jer 44:28)
  • Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in the midst of thee, and the sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments in thee, and the whole remnant of thee will I scatter into all the winds. (Eze 5:10)
  • Yet will I leave a remnant, that ye may have some that shall escape the sword among the nations, when ye shall be scattered through the countries. (Eze 6:8)
  • And it came to pass, when I prophesied, that Pelatiah the son of Benaiah died. Then fell I down upon my face, and cried with a loud voice, and said, Ah Lord GOD! wilt thou make a full end of the remnant of Israel? (Eze 11:13)
  • Yet, behold, therein shall be left a remnant that shall be brought forth, both sons and daughters: behold, they shall come forth unto you, and ye shall see their way and their doings: and ye shall be comforted concerning the evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem, even concerning all that I have brought upon it. (Eze 14:22)
  • And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the LORD shall be delivered: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the LORD hath said, and in the remnant whom the LORD shall call. (Joe 2:32)
  • Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be that the LORD God of hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph. (Amo 5:15)
  • That they may possess the remnant of Edom, and of all the heathen, which are called by my name, saith the LORD that doeth this. (Amo 9:12)
  • I will surely assemble, O Jacob, all of thee; I will surely gather the remnant of Israel; I will put them together as the sheep of Bozrah, as the flock in the midst of their fold: they shall make great noise by reason of the multitude of men. (Mic 2:12)
  • And I will make her that halted a remnant, and her that was cast far off a strong nation: and the LORD shall reign over them in mount Zion from henceforth, even for ever. (Mic 4:7)
  • Therefore will he give them up, until the time that she which travaileth hath brought forth: then the remnant of his brethren shall return unto the children of Israel. (Mic 5:3)
  • And the remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst of many people as a dew from the LORD, as the showers upon the grass, that tarrieth not for man, nor waiteth for the sons of men. (Mic 5:7)
  • And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles in the midst of many people as a lion among the beasts of the forest, as a young lion among the flocks of sheep: who, if he go through, both treadeth down, and teareth in pieces, and none can deliver. (Mic 5:8)
  • Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth in mercy. (Mic 7:18)
  • Because thou hast spoiled many nations, all the remnant of the people shall spoil thee; because of men’s blood, and for the violence of the land, of the city, and of all that dwell therein. (Hab 2:8)
  • And the coast shall be for the remnant of the house of Judah; they shall feed thereupon: in the houses of Ashkelon shall they lie down in the evening: for the LORD their God shall visit them, and turn away their captivity. (Zep 2:7)
  • Therefore as I live, saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, even the breeding of nettles, and saltpits, and a perpetual desolation: the residue of my people shall spoil them, and the remnant of my people shall possess them. (Zep 2:9)
  • The remnant of Israel shall not do iniquity, nor speak lies; neither shall a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth: for they shall feed and lie down, and none shall make them afraid. (Zep 3:13)
  • Then Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, with all the remnant of the people, obeyed the voice of the LORD their God, and the words of Haggai the prophet, as the LORD their God had sent him, and the people did fear before the LORD. (Hag 1:12)
  • And the LORD stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people; and they came and did work in the house of the LORD of hosts, their God, (Hag 1:14)
  • Thus saith the LORD of hosts; If it be marvellous in the eyes of the remnant of this people in these days, should it also be marvellous in mine eyes? saith the LORD of hosts. (Zec 8:6)
  • For the seed shall be prosperous; the vine shall give her fruit, and the ground shall give her increase, and the heavens shall give their dew; and I will cause the remnant of this people to possess all these things. (Zec 8:12)
  • Esaias also crieth concerning Israel, Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved: (Rom 9:27)
  • Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace. (Rom 11:5)
  • And the same hour was there a great earthquake, and the tenth part of the city fell, and in the earthquake were slain of men seven thousand: and the remnant were affrighted, and gave glory to the God of heaven. (Rev 11:13)
  • And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ. (Rev 12:17)
  • God’s people fear God – Rev 19:5, Pr 8:13, Pr 16:6, Pr 23:17, Rev 11:18, Rev 14:7
  • Fear of God in Proverbs – Pro 1:7, Pro 1:26, Pro 1:27, Pro 1:29, Pro 1:33, Pro 2:5, Pro 3:7, Pro 3:25, Pro 8:13, Pro 9:10, Pro 10:24, Pro 10:27, Pro 14:26, Pro 14:27, Pro 15:16, Pro 15:33, Pro 16:6, Pro 19:23, Pro 20:2, Pro 22:4, Pro 23:17, Pro 24:21, Pro 29:25.
  • Fear – see notes above on Rev 11:11
  • Gave glory – see Rev 14:7 – time for judgment – see Rev 15:4, Rev 16:9, Rev 19:7
  • Glory (due to who He is) – Ro 11:36, Lk 2:14, Ro 1:23, 2 Cor 1:20, Is 6:3, Ex 33:18-22, etc.
  • All will fear glorify God – Rev 15:4, Rev 11:15, Psa 22:27, Psa 86:9, Psa 117:1-2, Isa 45:23, Isa 66:18-20, Isa 66:22, Jer 16:19, Zec 2:11, Zec 8:20-23, Zec 14:16, Mal 1:1

The second woe is past; and, behold, the third woe cometh quickly.

  • See notes on 8:13, 9:12
  • Gr: ouai – G3759 – woe, alas – exclamation of grief
  • Warning to Chorazin / Bethsaida – Mat 11:21, Lk 10:13
  • Woe unto the world because of offences – Mar 18:7, Lk 17:12
  • To Scribes, Pharisees, Lawyers – Mat 23:13-16, Mat 23:23, Mat 23:25, Mat 23:27, Mat 23:29, Lk 11:42-44, Lk 11:46-47, Lk 11:52
  • To those with child during Great Tribulation – Mat 24:19, Mk 13:17, Lk 21:23
  • To whom the son of Man is betrayed (Judas) – Mat 26:24, Mk 14:21, Lk 22:22
  • To the rich / full – Lk 6:24-25
  • To those who men speak well of – Lk 6:26
  • Woe unto a Christian if they do not share the Gospel – 1 Cor 9:16
  • Woe to the false teachers in the church – Jude 11
  • The last 3 trumpets of Rev 8-9 (Great Tribulation and Judgment Day) – Rev 8:13, Rev 9:12, Rev 11:14
  • Woe to people of earth after Satan cast to the earth – Rev 12:12
  • Alas, Alas – judgment on Babylon – Rev 18:10, Rev 18:16, Rev 18:19

Rev 11:15-19: 7th Trumpet – Last Day

And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever.

(Rev 11:15)

And the four and twenty elders, which sat before God on their seats, fell upon their faces, and worshipped God,

(Rev 11:16)

Saying, We give thee thanks, O Lord God Almighty, which art, and wast, and art to come; because thou hast taken to thee thy great power, and hast reigned.

(Rev 11:17)

And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth.

(Rev 11:18)

And the temple of God was opened in heaven, and there was seen in his temple the ark of his testament: and there were lightnings, and voices, and thunderings, and an earthquake, and great hail.

(Rev 11:19)

  • 7 Views of the Last Day in Revelation:
    • 6th Seal – Great Earthquake, heavenly signs – Rev 6:12-17
    • Mighty angel / 7 thunders – Rev 10:1-11
    • Raising of 2 witnesses / kingdoms belong to Christ – Rev 11:11-19
    • Judgment / Harvest – Rev 14:6-20
    • 7 Bowls of Judgment – Rev 15-16
    • Judgment on Babylon / Marriage Supper of Christ – Rev 17-19
    • Great White Throne Judgment – Rev 20:9-15

And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying,

  • Seventh – perfection of purpose
    • See notes above on Rev 11:13 and on Rev 1:4-5
  • Great voices (shout)
    • See notes on Rev 16:17, Rev 19:1
    • Rev 12:10, Rev 19:6, Is 27:13, Is 44:23, Lk 15:6, Lk 15:10
    • For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. (1Th 4:16-17)
  • Last trump
    • In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. (1Co 15:52)
    • Exo 19:16, Exo 20:18, Num 10:4, Isa 18:3, Isa 27:13, Eze 33:3, Eze 33:6, Zec 9:14, Rev 8:2, Rev 8:13, Rev 9:13-14
    • Trumpet Summary:
      • Alarm for war – 1 Cor 14:8, Neh 4:19‑20, Num 10, Jud 3:27, Jud 7:8‑22, Josh 6, Jer 4:5, Jer 4:19‑21, Jer 6:1, Jer 6:17, Jer 51:27, Zeph 1:16, Heb 12:19, Rev 8:2, Rev 11:15, Jud 7:19, Eze 33:3-6
      • Last Trump – Judgment Day / Gathering of the Elect ‑ 1 Cor 15:52 (last trumpet), 1 Thess 4:16, Mat 24:31, Is 27:13, Zech 9:14, Joel 2:1, Joel 2:15
        • OT symbols of Judgment Day ‑ Ex 19:16 (shophar), Ex 19:13 (Yobel), Is 27:13 (shophar), Ps 47:5 (shophar)
        • Jericho – Josh 6:1-20 – 1st 6 days circled city once, 7 preists blowing trumpets with the ark following them. On 7th day, circle city 7 times, blow trumpets on the 7th circle – city walls fell flat with a great shout. (Total of 13 circles, 7 blasts on the trumpets, 7 preists with 7 trumpets).
      • Feast of Trumpets – Lev 23:23-25, Num 29:1-6 (signified 2nd half of the year)
      • Shout on Day of Atonement (beginning of Jubilee) – Lev 25:9
      • Blow trumpet at full moon and new moon ‑ Ps 81:3 (i.e. festival that points to Christ)
      • Loud voice to declare transgression ‑ Is 58:1

The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever.

  • Kingdoms of this world
    • Belonged to Satan’s kingdom – 2 Cor 4:4, Eph 2:2, Mat 4:8-9, Dan 4:30, Dan 2, Dan 7, Dan 8, Dan 11-12, 1 John 2:15-16, Mat 16:26, Est 1:4, Est 5:11, Ps 49:16-17
  • Reign forever – Dan 2:44, 7:14,27, Lk 1:33
    • Satan’s reign ends – see notes on 8:10-11
  • The First Kingdom Babel (Babylon)
    • And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth. He was a mighty hunter before the LORD … And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel … (Gen 10:8-10)
    • And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name … And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech. So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city. Therefore is the name of it called Babel … (Gen 11:4-9)
  • God sovereign control over the kingdoms of the world
    • Babylon – Jer 27:6, Jer 25:9, Jer 43:10, Eze 29:18-20
    • Cyrus – King of Persia – Is 44:28, Is 45:1
    • Pharaoh –
  • Babylon – Satan’s Kingdom
    • Satan (Lucifer) symbolized by King of Babylon – Is 14:4-23
    • Great Statue of Dan 2
      • Head of Gold – Babylon
      • Also includes Media-Persia, Greece, Roman
      • And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever. (Dan 2:44)
    • 7th Bowl of God’s Wrath on Babylon
      • 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. 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. 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. (Rev 16:17-19)
    • Jesus’ Kingdom not of this world
      • Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants fight, that I should not be delivered to the Jews: but now is my kingdom not from hence. Pilate therefore said unto him, Art thou a king then? Jesus answered, Thou sayest that I am a king. To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice. (Joh 18:36-37)
    • Joh 6:15, Joh 8:15, Psa 45:3-7, Isa 9:6-7, Dan 2:44, Dan 7:14, Zec 9:9, Luk 12:14, Luk 17:20-21, Rom 14:17, Col 1:12-14
    • Kingdom of Heaven
    • And saying, Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. (Mat 3:2)
    • From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. (Mat 4:17)
    • Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. (Mat 5:3)
    • Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness’ sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. (Mat 5:10)
    • Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven. (Mat 5:19)
    • For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven. (Mat 5:20)
    • Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. (Mat 7:21)
    • And I say unto you, That many shall come from the east and west, and shall sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven. (Mat 8:11)
    • And as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of heaven is at hand. (Mat 10:7)
    • Verily I say unto you, Among them that are born of women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist: notwithstanding he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he. (Mat 11:11)
    • And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force. (Mat 11:12)
    • He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given. (Mat 13:11)
    • Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field: (Mat 13:24)
    • Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field: (Mat 13:31)
    • Another parable spake he unto them; The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened. (Mat 13:33)
    • Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto treasure hid in a field; the which when a man hath found, he hideth, and for joy thereof goeth and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field. (Mat 13:44)
    • Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchant man, seeking goodly pearls: (Mat 13:45)
    • Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a net, that was cast into the sea, and gathered of every kind: (Mat 13:47)
    • Then said he unto them, Therefore every scribe which is instructed unto the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which bringeth forth out of his treasure things new and old. (Mat 13:52)
    • And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. (Mat 16:19)
    • At the same time came the disciples unto Jesus, saying, Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven? (Mat 18:1)
    • And said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven. (Mat 18:3)
    • Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven. (Mat 18:4)
    • Therefore is the kingdom of heaven likened unto a certain king, which would take account of his servants. (Mat 18:23)
    • For there are some eunuchs, which were so born from their mother’s womb: and there are some eunuchs, which were made eunuchs of men: and there be eunuchs, which have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven’s sake. He that is able to receive it, let him receive it. (Mat 19:12)
    • But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven. (Mat 19:14)
    • Then said Jesus unto his disciples, Verily I say unto you, That a rich man shall hardly enter into the kingdom of heaven. (Mat 19:23)
    • For the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which went out early in the morning to hire labourers into his vineyard. (Mat 20:1)
    • The kingdom of heaven is like unto a certain king, which made a marriage for his son, (Mat 22:2)
    • But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in. (Mat 23:13)
    • Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom. (Mat 25:1)
    • For the kingdom of heaven is as a man travelling into a far country, who called his own servants, and delivered unto them his goods. (Mat 25:14)
      • Jesus’ Kingdom not of this world
    • Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants fight, that I should not be delivered to the Jews: but now is my kingdom not from hence. Pilate therefore said unto him, Art thou a king then? Jesus answered, You say that I am a king. To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. Every one that is of the truth hears my voice. (Joh 18:36-37)
    • Christians seated with Christ in Heavenly Places
      • Spirit – saved, seated in heavenly places with Christ Eph 2:6
      • Soul – Awaiting salvation in the new heavens / new earth, New Jerusalem – Ro 5:8-10, Rev 21:2
      • Body – to become glorified – 1 Cor 15
    • Kingdom of Heaven now
    • And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus (Eph 2:6)
    • When Christians die:
      • For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. But if I live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my labor: yet what I shall choose I wot not. For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better: Nevertheless to abide in the flesh is more needful for you. (Php 1:21-24)
      • Jesus Christ, King of kings, Lord of lords
    • … until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ: Which in his times he shall shew, who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords (1Ti 6:14-15)
    • And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God. And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean. And out of his mouth goes a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treads the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God. And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS. (Rev 19:13-16)
      • The Kingdoms of the world on Judgment Day
        • Rev 12:10, Rev 15:4, Rev 17:14, Rev 20:4, Psa 22:27-28, Psa 72:11, Psa 86:9, Psa 89:15-17, Isa 2:2-3, Isa 49:6-7, Isa 49:22-23, Isa 55:5, Isa 60:3-14, Jer 16:19, Dan 2:44-45, Dan 7:14, Dan 7:18, Dan 7:22, Dan 7:27, Hos 2:23, Amo 9:11-12, Mic 4:1-2, Zep 3:9-10, Zec 2:11, Zec 8:20-23, Zec 14:9, Mal 1:11
      • The heathen raged, the kingdoms were moved: he uttered his voice, the earth melted. (Psa 46:6)
      • Sing unto God, ye kingdoms of the earth; O sing praises unto the Lord; Selah: (Psa 68:32)
      • Pour out thy wrath upon the heathen that have not known thee, and upon the kingdoms that have not called upon thy name. (Psa 79:6)
      • When the people are gathered together, and the kingdoms, to serve the LORD. (Psa 102:22)
      • As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols, and whose graven images did excel them of Jerusalem and of Samaria; (Isa 10:10)
      • The noise of a multitude in the mountains, like as of a great people; a tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of nations gathered together: the LORD of hosts mustereth the host of the battle. (Isa 13:4)
      • And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees’ excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. (Isa 13:19)
      • They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms; (Isa 14:16)
      • LORD of hosts, God of Israel, that dwellest between the cherubims, thou art the God, even thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth: thou hast made heaven and earth. (Isa 37:16)
      • Now therefore, O LORD our God, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou art the LORD, even thou only. (Isa 37:20)
      • Sit thou silent, and get thee into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called, The lady of kingdoms. (Isa 47:5)
      • See, I have this day set thee over the nations and over the kingdoms, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to throw down, to build, and to plant. (Jer 1:10)
      • For, lo, I will call all the families of the kingdoms of the north, saith the LORD; and they shall come, and they shall set every one his throne at the entering of the gates of Jerusalem, and against all the walls thereof round about, and against all the cities of Judah. (Jer 1:15)
      • Who would not fear thee, O King of nations? for to thee doth it appertain: forasmuch as among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their kingdoms, there is none like unto thee. (Jer 10:7)
      • And I will cause them to be removed into all kingdoms of the earth, because of Manasseh the son of Hezekiah king of Judah, for that which he did in Jerusalem. (Jer 15:4)
      • And I will deliver them to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth for their hurt, to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places whither I shall drive them. (Jer 24:9)
      • And all the kings of the north, far and near, one with another, and all the kingdoms of the world, which are upon the face of the earth: and the king of Sheshach shall drink after them. (Jer 25:26)
      • The prophets that have been before me and before thee of old prophesied both against many countries, and against great kingdoms, of war, and of evil, and of pestilence. (Jer 28:8)
      • And I will persecute them with the sword, with the famine, and with the pestilence, and will deliver them to be removed to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a curse, and an astonishment, and an hissing, and a reproach, among all the nations whither I have driven them: (Jer 29:18)
      • The word which came unto Jeremiah from the LORD, when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and all his army, and all the kingdoms of the earth of his dominion, and all the people, fought against Jerusalem, and against all the cities thereof, saying, (Jer 34:1)
      • Therefore thus saith the LORD; Ye have not hearkened unto me, in proclaiming liberty, every one to his brother, and every man to his neighbour: behold, I proclaim a liberty for you, saith the LORD, to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine; and I will make you to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth. (Jer 34:17)
      • It shall be the basest of the kingdoms; neither shall it exalt itself any more above the nations: for I will diminish them, that they shall no more rule over the nations. (Eze 29:15)
      • And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever. (Dan 2:44)
      • Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces. (Dan 7:23)
      • Now that being broken, whereas four stood up for it, four kingdoms shall stand up out of the nation, but not in his power. (Dan 8:22)
      • Pass ye unto Calneh, and see; and from thence go ye to Hamath the great: then go down to Gath of the Philistines: be they better than these kingdoms? or their border greater than your border? (Amo 6:2)
      • Behold, I am against thee, saith the LORD of hosts; and I will discover thy skirts upon thy face, and I will shew the nations thy nakedness, and the kingdoms thy shame. (Nah 3:5)
      • Therefore wait ye upon me, saith the LORD, until the day that I rise up to the prey: for my determination is to gather the nations, that I may assemble the kingdoms, to pour upon them mine indignation, even all my fierce anger: for all the earth shall be devoured with the fire of my jealousy. (Zep 3:8)
      • And I will overthrow the throne of kingdoms, and I will destroy the strength of the kingdoms of the heathen; and I will overthrow the chariots, and those that ride in them; and the horses and their riders shall come down, every one by the sword of his brother. (Hag 2:22)
      • Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them; (Mat 4:8)
      • And the devil, taking him up into an high mountain, shewed unto him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time. (Luk 4:5)
      • And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever. (Rev 11:15)

And the four and twenty elders, which sat before God on their seats, fell upon their faces, and worshipped God,

  • Worship of the elders – see notes on Rev 4:10-11
  • The four and twenty elders fall down before him that sat on the throne, and worship him that liveth for ever and ever, and cast their crowns before the throne, saying, Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created. (Rev 4:10-11)

Saying, We give thee thanks, O Lord God Almighty, which art, and wast, and art to come; because thou hast taken to thee thy great power, and hast reigned.

  • We give thanks – Importance of thanskgiving to God – Rev 4:9, 7:12, 1 Tim 2:1, 4:3-4, 1 Cor 15:27, 2 Cor 2:14, 2 Cor 8:16, 2 Cor 9:15, Col 2:7, Col 4:2, Phil 4:6, etc.
  • Thanks (due to what He has done for us) – Col 2:7, Eph 5:4, Phil 4:6, Ps 26:7, Ps 50:14, Ps 69:30, etc.
  • Lord God almighty – 2 Cor 6:18, see also notes on Rev 1:8, Rev 4:8
    • El Shaddai ‑ Gen 17:1, Gen 28:3, Gen 35:11, Gen 43:14, Gen 48:3, Gen 49:25, Ex 6:3, Num 24:4, Num 24:16, Ruth 1:20‑21, Ps 68:14, Ps 91:1, Is 13:6, Eze 1:24, Eze 10:5, Joel 1:15, 2 Cor 6:18, Rev 1:8, Rev 4:8, Rec 11:17, Rev 15:3, Rev 16:7,14, Rev 19:15, Rev 21:22 + 32 occurrences in Job e.g. Job 5:17, Job 6:4
  • God the almighty which points to His omnipotence (Ps 62:11, Ps 18:13-15, Ps 89:6, Dan 4:35, Mk 14:62, Eph 3:20-21, Hab 3:4). The Lord and in control of all things (Rev 4:8, Rev 11:17, Rev 16:14, Rev 19:15, Rev 21:22; Gen 17:1, Gen 28:3, Gen 35:11, Gen 43:14, Gen 48:3; Gen 49:25; Exo 6:3; Num 24:4; Isa 9:6; 2Co 6:18).
  • Everlasting ‑ God does not change ‑ Heb 13:8, 6:17, Mal 3:6, James 1:7, Ex 3:14, Ro 11:29, Ps 78:65, Num 23:19, Ps 102:25‑27, Heb 1:11‑12
  • God is eternal ‑ Rev 1:8, Ps 90:2
  • The Eternal Nature of God ‑ Rev 1:4‑5,8, Ro 1:20, 1 Tim 1:17, Eph 3:21, Heb 1:8, Is 57:15, Is 63:16, Lam 5:19, Ps 90:2
  • Power of God – Ps 62:11, 18:13-15, 89:6, Dan 4:35, Mk 14:62, Hab 3:4, Eph 3:20-21
  • Reigned – see Rev 19:6 notes
  • Majesty God is King ‑ Lord of Lords, King of Kings ‑ see 1 Tim 6:15, Rev 19:16, Ps 136:3, Deut 10:17, Pr 8:15‑16, Dan 2:47
  • God is sovereign ‑ Eph 1:11, Is 14:24, Mat 28:18, Ps 135:6, 115:3, 1 Tim 5:2, 2 Pert 2:5, Dan 4:35, Job 42:2, Jonah 1:14, Is 45:9, Gen 2:16, Is 53:10‑12, Heb 10:14, Ro 9:18, Col 2:10, etc

And the nations were angry

  • Nations were angry – not repentant / want freedom from God’s law – Ps 2:1, Ps 46:6, Acts 4:25-26, Rev 11:2, Rev 11:9-10, Rev 17:12-15, Rev 19:19-20, Psa 2:1-3, Isa 34:1-10, Isa 63:1-6, Eze 38:9-23, Joe 3:9-14, Mic 7:15-17, Zec 14:2-3, John 16:2

… and thy wrath is come

  • Thy wrath came – day of wrath – Rev 8:16-17, Rev 16:19, Rev 19:15, 1 Thess 2:16, Eph 2:3, Eph 5:6, Col 3:6, Ro 1:8, Ro 2:5, Ro 9:22, Mat 3:7, Lk 3:7, 1 Thess 5:1-9
  • Day of wrath – Deu 9:7, Deu 29:28, 1Sa 28:18, Est 1:18, Job 20:28, Job 21:30, Psa 110:5, Pro 11:4, Isa 13:9, Isa 13:13, Eze 7:12, Eze 7:19, Eze 38:19, Zep 1:15, Zep 1:18, Rom 2:5, Rev 6:17.

… and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great

  • Judgment Day – Rev 20:12, Dan 7:10
  • Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth. (Jeremiah 23:5)
  • In those days, and at that time, will I cause the Branch of righteousness to grow up unto David; and he shall execute judgment and righteousness in the land. (Jeremiah 33:15)
  • Yet will I bring again the captivity of Moab in the latter days, saith the LORD. Thus far is the judgment of Moab. (Jeremiah 48:47)
  • Therefore, behold, the days come, that I will do judgment upon the graven images of Babylon: and her whole land shall be confounded, and all her slain shall fall in the midst of her. (Jeremiah 51:47)
  • Wherefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will do judgment upon her graven images: and through all her land the wounded shall groan. (Jeremiah 51:52)
  • Until the Ancient of days came, and judgment was given to the saints of the most High; and the time came that the saints possessed the kingdom. (Daniel 7:22)
  • Seek ye the LORD, all ye meek of the earth, which have wrought his judgment; seek righteousness, seek meekness: it may be ye shall be hid in the day of the LORD’S anger. (Zephaniah 2:3)
  • Verily I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrha in the day of judgment, than for that city. (Matthew 10:15)
  • But I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the day of judgment, than for you. (Matthew 11:22)
  • But I say unto you, That it shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom in the day of judgment, than for thee. (Matthew 11:24)
  • But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment. (Matthew 12:36)
  • When he was set down on the judgment seat, his wife sent unto him, saying, Have thou nothing to do with that just man: for I have suffered many things this day in a dream because of him. (Matthew 27:19)
  • And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear you, when ye depart thence, shake off the dust under your feet for a testimony against them. Verily I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrha in the day of judgment, than for that city. (Mark 6:11)
  • He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day. (John 12:48)
  • Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead. (Acts 17:31)
  • But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God; (Romans 2:5)
  • In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel. (Romans 2:16)
  • Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing. (2 Timothy 4:8)
  • The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished: (2 Peter 2:9)
  • But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men. (2 Peter 3:7)
  • Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world. (1 John 4:17)
  • And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day. (Jude 1:6)
  • Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the Lord God who judgeth her. (Revelation 18:8)
  • Reward – eternal life – Mat 19:27-30, Mk 10:28-31, Lk 18:28-30, Ro 8:16-17,32-33, Col 3:24, etc.
  • Everlasting life
  • And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt. (Dan 12:2)
  • And every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name’s sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting life. (Mat 19:29)
  • And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal. (Mat 25:46)
  • Who shall not receive manifold more in this present time, and in the world to come life everlasting. (Luk 18:30)
  • For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. (Joh 3:16)
  • He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him. (Joh 3:36)
  • But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life. (Joh 4:14)
  • Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life. (Joh 5:24)
  • Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him hath God the Father sealed. (Joh 6:27)
  • And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day. (Joh 6:40)
  • Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life. (Joh 6:47)
  • And I know that his commandment is life everlasting: whatsoever I speak therefore, even as the Father said unto me, so I speak. (Joh 12:50)
  • Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold, and said, It was necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken to you: but seeing ye put it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles. (Act 13:46)
  • But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life. (Rom 6:22)
  • For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting. (Gal 6:8)
  • Howbeit for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might shew forth all longsuffering, for a pattern to them which should hereafter believe on him to life everlasting. (1Ti 1:16)
  • Eternal Life – Mat 19:16, Mat 25:46, Mar 10:17, Mar 10:30, Luk 10:25, Luk 18:18, Joh 3:15, Joh 4:36, Joh 5:39, Joh 6:54, Joh 6:68, Joh 10:28, Joh 12:25, Joh 17:2, Joh 17:3, Act 13:48, Rom 2:7, Rom 5:21, Rom 6:23, 1Ti 6:12, 1Ti 6:19, Tit 1:2, Tit 3:7, 1Jn 1:2, 1Jn 2:25, 1Jn 3:15, 1Jn 5:11, 1Jn 5:13, 1Jn 5:20, Jud 1:21.
  • Everlasting / Eternal glory:
  • Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power; (2Th 1:9)
  • To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life: (Rom 2:7)
  • For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory; (2Co 4:17)
  • Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be honour and glory for ever and ever. Amen. (1Ti 1:17)
  • Therefore I endure all things for the elect’s sakes, that they may also obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory. (2Ti 2:10)
  • But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you. (1Pe 5:10)
  • Servants – see notes on Rev 1:1, Rev 10:7, Rev 16:6
    • All believers are bondservants of Christ ‑ (2 Tim 2:24, 1 Pet 2:16, Eph 6:5‑6, Ro 6:15‑23, James 1:1, 2 Pet 1:1, Rev 22:6)
  • Prophets – see notes on Rev 11:3
  • Saints – set apart, sanctified ones – all believers are saints – 1 Pet 1:2,15, 2:24, Gal 6:15, 2 Thess 2:13, Jude 1, Heb 3:1, Col 2:11-13, 2 Cor 3:1-11, Ps 4:3, 5:4, Col 3:12, 1 Cor 1:2,12,30,6:11,5:7, Acts 20:32, 2 Cor 5:17, Jer 1:5, Rev 1:5, Rev 11:18 etc.
  • Fear thy name – to honor and respect all that God is
  • Small and great – God is not a respecter of persons – Ps 115:13, Rev 13:16, Rev 19:5, Acts 10:34, Deut 10:17, 2 Chr 19:7, Ro 2:11, Gal 2:6, Eph 6:9, Col 3:25, 1 Pet 1:17
  • General Resurrection – Mat 13:37-43, 47-50, 24:29-31, 25:31-46, John 5:25-30, Dan 12:1-3, Is 26:19, Acts 17:31, Mat 16:27, Rev 11:18, Mat 13:30, Rev 20:11-15, Ro 14:10, 2 Cor 5:10, Lk 11:31-32, Rev 12:14, Acts 24:15, 1 Cor 5:5, John 12:48, 1 Thess 1:10, Mat 10:15, 11:22, 12:36, Ro 2:5-6, 2 Thess 1:6-8, Ps 1:5, 2 Tim 1:12, 4:1, 1 John 4:17

… and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth.

  • Destroy (G1311, diaphtheiro (6 occurrences), also G1322, diaphthora (6 occurrences) – to rot thoroughly, corruption
    • Sell that ye have, and  give  alms;  provide  yourselves  bags  which wax not old,    a treasure  in  the  heavens  that faileth not,  where  no  thief  approacheth,  neither  moth   (Luk 12:33)
    • For which cause we faint  not;  but  though  our  outward  man  perish,  yet  the  inward  man is renewed  day by day.   (2Co 4:16)
    • Perverse disputings of men  of corrupt  minds,  and  destitute  of the  truth,  supposing  that gain  is  godliness:  from  such  withdraw thyself. (1Ti 6:5)
    • And the  third part  of the  creatures  which  were in  the  sea,  and  had  life,  died;  and  the  third part  of the  ships  were destroyed. (Rev 8:9)
    • And the  nations  were angry,  and  thy  wrath  is come,  and  the  time  of the  dead,  that they should be judged,  and  that thou shouldest give  reward  unto thy  servants  the  prophets,  and  to the  saints,  and  them that fear  thy  name,  small  and  great;  and  shouldest destroy  them which destroy  the   (Rev 11:18)
    • Because thou wilt not  leave  my  soul  in  hell,  neither  wilt thou suffer  thine  Holy One  to see   (Act 2:27)
    • He seeing this before spake  of  the  resurrection  of Christ,  that  his  soul  was not  left  in  hell,  neither  his  flesh  did see   (Act 2:31)
    • And as concerning that  he raised him up    from  the dead,  now no more  to return  to  corruption,  he said  on this wise,  I will give  you  the  sure  mercies  of David. (Act 13:34)
    • Wherefore he saith  also  in  another  psalm, Thou shalt not  suffer  thine  Holy One  to see   (Act 13:35)
    • For David,  after he had served  his own  generation  by the  will  of God,  fell on sleep,  and  was laid  unto  his  fathers,  and  saw  corruption: (Act 13:36)
    • But he, whom  God  raised again,  saw  no   (Act 13:37)
  • See also frogs in Rev 16:13
  • Destroy – Hell Eternal – ‘Gehenna’
    • A place of destruction of the soul
    • And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. (Mat 10:28)
    • Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell? (Mat 23:33)
    • And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire. (Mat 18:9)
    • Soul destroyed – no connection to the new heavens / new earth (Rev 21:1)
  • ‘Hell Now’ cast into Lake of Fire
    • And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them…And death and hell [hades] were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire. (Rev 20:11-15)
    • And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone. (Rev 19:20)
  • Second Death and the Soul – Souls destroyed in second death:
    • And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. (Mat 10:28)
    • But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries. (Hebrews 10:27)
    • But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone: which is the second death. (Rev 21:8)
    • No chance to have a connection with God’s new heavens / new earth – Is 65:17-19, Is 66:22, Rev 21, Rev 22, 2 Pet 3:13
  • Everlasting Destruction (Soul)
    • Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you; And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels, In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ: Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power; When he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe (because our testimony among you was believed) in that day. (2 Thess 1:6-10)
    • For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape. (1 Thess 5:3)
  • Everlasting Fire and the Spirit – Spirits of unsaved to dwell forever in lost connection with God:
    • Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels… And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal. (Matthew 25:41, 46)
    • The sinners in Zion are afraid; fearfulness hath surprised the hypocrites. Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings? (Isaiah 33:14)
    • And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever. (Rev 20:10)
    • For our God is a consuming fire. (Heb 12:29)
  • Blackness of Outer Darkness Forever (Spirits)
    • Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever. (Jud 1:13)
    • Refers to spirits of false teachers in the church
    • And I say unto you, That many shall come from the east and west, and shall sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven. But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. (Mat 8:11-12)
    • And he says unto him, Friend, how came thou in hither not having a wedding garment? And he was speechless. Then said the king to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and take him away, and cast him into outer darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. For many are called, but few are chosen. (Mat 22:12-14)
  • Destroy earth – Earth is cursed – Jer 12:4, Ro 8:18-25, Hos 4:3, Gen 7:21-22, Gen 19:24-25, Eze 12:29, Deut 20:16, 1 Sam 15, Jonah 4:11, Gen 3:17-19, Gen 5:29, Psa 127:2, Ecc 1:2-3, Ecc 1:13-14, Ecc 2:11, Ecc 2:17, Isa 24:5-6, Rom 8:20-22, Job 5:6-7, Job 14:1, Job 21:17, Psa 90:7-9, Ecc 2:22-23, Ecc 5:17, Joh 16:33, Jos 23:13, Job 5:5, Job 31:40, Pro 22:5, Pro 24:31, Isa 5:6, Isa 7:23, Isa 32:13, Jer 4:3, Jer 12:13, Mat 13:7, Heb 6:8
    • Whole creation groans – Ro 8:18-22
    • Whole creation fell due to Adam’s Sin – Hos 4:3, Gen 7:21-22, 19:24-25, Ex 12:29, Deut 20:16, 1 Sam 15, Jonah 4:11, Gen 3:17, Jer 12:4
    • Earth is cursed – Gen 3:17-19, Jer 12:4, Ro 8:18‑25, Hos 4:3, Gen 7:21‑22, Gen 19:24‑25, Eze 12:29, Deut 20:16, 1 Sam 15, Jonah 4:11
    • Adam and Eve driven out of the Garden of Eden – Gen 3:23-24
  • Four ‘lands’ symbolic of where the seed of the Word of God lands
    • The Parable passages: Mat 13:24-30, Mat 13:36-43, Mk 4:3-9, Mk 4:13-20, Lk 8:4-8, Lk 8:11-15
    • Soil (land) = hearts – Lk 8:12, Lk 8:15, Mat 13:18, Mk 4:14
    • Ground (literally, lands (G1093)) – Mk 4:5, Mk 4:8, Mk 4:20, Lk 8:8, Lk 8:15, Mat 13:5, Mat 13:8, Mat 13:23
    • The 4th soil (land) is the hearts of God’s Elect – Mat 13:8, Mat 13;23, Mk 4:8, Mk 4:20, Lk 8:8, Lk 8:15
  • Earth
    • G1093, Gr: ge, 252 occurrences – refers to the land which is where people reside – literally, ground, land, earth
    • H776 (corresponds to G1093) – Hen: erets – 2505 occurrences
  • Land – type of promised land / salvation – Ro 4:13, Gen 12:7, Gen 13:14-15, Gen 17:8, Jer 27:5, Mat 28:18, Mat 3:17, Heb 11:13-16
  • Land symbolically points to ‘promised land’ – Ro 4:13, Eze 34:13, Eze 36:24, Eze 37:21, Is 43:5‑6, Heb 11:9, Heb 11:13‑16, Gen 12:1-7, Gen 13:14-15, Gen 17:8, Jer 27:5, Num 14:8, Mat 28:18, Mat 3:17, Ps 37:29, Heb 3:6-Heb 4:10, etc
  • Destroying the land in prophecy
    • Destruction of the land of Babylon – Is 13:5, Is 13:9
    • King of Babylon destroys the land – Is 14:20
    • Assyria planned to destroy land of Judah – Is 36:10
    • Assyria destroyed lands – Is 37:11
    • Destruction in the land of Israel – Is 60:18
    • Destroyer makes land desolate – Jer 4:7
    • Destruction – land spoiled – Jer 4:20
    • Land perpetual desolation – Jer 25:9
    • King of Babylon comes to destroy the land – Jer 36:29
    • Destroy land – judgment on Judah – Eze 22:30
    • King of Babylon to destroy land of Egypt – Eze 30:11
    • Ex 8:24 – Land of Egypt was corrupted by flies
    • Land of Judah burned / desolated – Joel 1:2-15, Joel 2:1-5
  • Satan’s Kingdom
    • Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it. (Joh 8:44)
    • He that commits sin is of the devil; for the devil sins from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil. Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remains in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God. In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loves not his brother. (1Jn 3:8-10)
  • Destroy the destroying mountain Babylon
    • Behold, I am against thee, O destroying mountain, saith the LORD, which destroyest all the earth: and I will stretch out mine hand upon thee, and roll thee down from the rocks, and will make thee a burnt mountain. And they shall not take of thee a stone for a corner, nor a stone for foundations; but thou shalt be desolate for ever, saith the LORD. (Jer 51:25-26)
  • Land became a desolation using Babylon
    • So that the LORD could no longer bear, because of the evil of your doings, and because of the abominations which ye have committed; therefore is your land a desolation, and an astonishment, and a curse, without an inhabitant, as at this day. (Jer 44:22)
    • Then shall they know that I am the LORD, when I have laid the land most desolate because of all their abominations which they have committed. (Eze 33:29)
  • Jeremiah:
  • Because of foolishness and no knowledge, land to be desolate and people will flee from the horsemen – Jer 4:22-29
  • Jerusalem and the land to become desolate – Jer 6:8
  • The Lord will make Jerusalem and the cities of Judah desolate – Jer 9:11
  • Since the pastors are dull-hearted, the flocks shall be scattered by the desolation that comes from the north – Jer 10:21-22
  • Enemies of Jacob to make his habitation desolate – Jer 10:25
  • The pastors have destroyed God’s vineyard, the land has become desolate, sword of the Lord has devoured the land – Jer 12:10-12
  • People forsook the Lord, land to be desolate, Judah to be scattered before their enemies – Jer 18:15-17
  • Judah to fall by the sword and have plagues resulting in desolation of Jerusalem – Jer 19:7-8
  • Land to be desolate (given into the hands of the Chaldeans) with no man or beast due to the evil of Judah – Jer 32:43
  • Babylon’s army to make cities of Jerusalem desolate – Jer 34:21-22
  • Due to worshiping other gods, cities of Judah and streets of Jerusalem are desolate – Jer 44:5-6
  • Lamentations of Jeremiah for the desolation of the people, the land and mountain of Zion – Lam 1:4-8, 1:13, 1:16-17, 2:10-15, 3:11, 4:5,4:12, 5:18
  • Ezekiel:
  • Famine to cause desolation (astonishment) – Eze 4:16-17
  • Altars to be desolate due to idolatry – Eze 6:4
  • Idolatry and child sacrifice is a cause of desolation and scattering – Eze 20:23-26
  • Due to whoredoms of idolatry, Jerusalem to become desolate (Eze 23:33, Eze 23:4, 14-20, etc.)
  • Desolation of the land and mountains by sword and beasts due to idolatry, fornication and abominations – Eze 33:25-29
  • The following are additional passages that discuss the desolation of Israel and Judah:
  • Israel’s vines and fig trees to be made desolate – Hos 2:12
  • Locusts have made land desolate – Joel 1:17, 2:3
  • High places of Isaac to be desolate – Amos 7:9
  • Israel to be brought out of captivity, desolate cities to be rebuilt – Amos 9:14
  • The idols of Israel have caused Samaria and Jerusalem to be desolate – Micah 1:5-9
  • Israel to be desolate and sick due to their sins / abominations – Micah 6:10-16
  • The land shall be desolate due to the fruit of their doings – Micah 7:13
  • Due to idolatry and worshiping other gods, the houses of Judah will become desolate – Zeph 1:4-6, 13
  • The Lord scattered the people so their pleasant land was desolate – Zech 7:14
  • Holy ground – Acts 7:33, Exo 3:5
  • Holy land – Zech 2:12
  • Holy mountain
  • A Psalm or Song for the sons of Korah. His foundation is in the holy mountains. (Psa 87:1)
  • They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea. (Isa 11:9)
  • And it shall come to pass in that day, that the great trumpet shall be blown, and they shall come which were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and the outcasts in the land of Egypt, and shall worship the LORD in the holy mount at Jerusalem. (Isa 27:13)
  • Even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer: their burnt offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted upon mine altar; for mine house shall be called an house of prayer for all people. (Isa 56:7)
  • When thou criest, let thy companies deliver thee; but the wind shall carry them all away; vanity shall take them: but he that putteth his trust in me shall possess the land, and shall inherit my holy mountain (Isa 57:13)
  • But ye are they that forsake the LORD, that forget my holy mountain, that prepare a table for that troop, and that furnish the drink offering unto that number. (Isa 65:11)
  • The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the bullock: and dust shall be the serpent’s meat. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith the LORD. (Isa 65:25)
  • And they shall bring all your brethren for an offering unto the LORD out of all nations upon horses, and in chariots, and in litters, and upon mules, and upon swift beasts, to my holy mountain Jerusalem, saith the LORD, as the children of Israel bring an offering in a clean vessel into the house of the LORD. (Isa 66:20)
  • For in mine holy mountain, in the mountain of the height of Israel, saith the Lord GOD, there shall all the house of Israel, all of them in the land, serve me: there will I accept them, and there will I require your offerings, and the firstfruits of your oblations, with all your holy things. (Eze 20:40)
  • Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire. (Eze 28:14)
  • This is the law of the house; Upon the top of the mountain the whole limit thereof round about shall be most holy. Behold, this is the law of the house. (Eze 43:12)
  • Lord, according to all thy righteousness, I beseech thee, let thine anger and thy fury be turned away from thy city Jerusalem, thy holy mountain: because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and thy people are become a reproach to all that are about us. (Dan 9:16)
  • And whiles I was speaking, and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before the LORD my God for the holy mountain of my God; (Dan 9:20)
  • And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him. (Dan 11:45)
  • Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain: let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of the LORD cometh, for it is nigh at hand; (Joe 2:1)
  • So shall ye know that I am the LORD your God dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain: then shall Jerusalem be holy, and there shall no strangers pass through her any more. (Joe 3:17)
  • For as ye have drunk upon my holy mountain, so shall all the heathen drink continually, yea, they shall drink, and they shall swallow down, and they shall be as though they had not been. (Oba 1:16)
  • In that day shalt thou not be ashamed for all thy doings, wherein thou hast transgressed against me: for then I will take away out of the midst of thee them that rejoice in thy pride, and thou shalt no more be haughty because of my holy mountain. (Zep 3:11)
  • Thus saith the LORD; I am returned unto Zion, and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and Jerusalem shall be called a city of truth; and the mountain of the LORD of hosts the holy mountain. (Zec 8:3)
  • And this voice which came from heaven we heard, when we were with him in the holy mount. (2Pe 1:18)
  • And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and shewed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God, (Rev 21:10)
  • Ultimate inheritance is new heavens, new earth (i.e. all the land) ‑ Ro 4:13, Rev 21:1‑2, 2 Pet 3:13, Is 66:17,22, Ro 8:21, Gen 13:14‑15, 17:8, Jer 27:5, etc.
  • Prophesy to the land of Israel – Eze 36:6

And the temple of God was opened in heaven … and there was seen in his temple the ark of his testament

  • Temple – see Rev 11:1 notes above
    • Where God and His people reside in the Spirit
    • Temple – Gr: naos (G3485) – 46 occurrences
  • Mat 23:16, Mat 23:17, Mat 23:21, Mat 23:35, Mat 26:61, Mat 27:5, Mat 27:40, Mat 27:51, Mar 14:58, Mar 15:29, Mar 15:38, Luk 1:9, Luk 1:21, Luk 1:22, Luk 23:45, Joh 2:19, Joh 2:20, Joh 2:21, Act 7:48, Act 17:24, Act 19:24, 1Co 3:16, 1Co 3:17, 1Co 6:19, 2Co 6:16, Eph 2:21, 2Th 2:4, Rev 3:12, Rev 7:15, Rev 11:1, Rev 11:2, Rev 11:19, Rev 14:15, Rev 14:17, Rev 15:5, Rev 15:6, Rev 15:8, Rev 16:1, Rev 16:17, Rev 21:22.
  • Opened in heaven – church no longer hidden in Christ – see notes on Rev 10:4
    • If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory. (Col 3:1-4)
    • For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God. (Rom 8:18-19)
    • What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction: And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory (Rom 9:22-23)
    • Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. (1Jn 3:2)
    • And they shall be mine, saith the LORD of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels; and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him. Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not. (Mal 3:17-18)
    • The separating of the sheeps and the goats – Mat 25:31-46
    • The separating of the wheat and the tares – Mat 13:23-30, 36-43
    • And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them. And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.  (Rev 20:11-12)
    • Ark Symbolizes the presence of God in the glory of His covenant of grace and mercy through the witness and offering of the Word of God (Jesus Christ)
  • The ark was in the temple (Rev 11:19)
    • The true holy place (tabernacle) in heaven – Heb 8:2, Heb 9:1-14, Rev 15:5 (temple of the tabernacle of the witness in heaven)
    • Ark of the covenant in holy of holies – Heb 9:4, Rev 11:19, Ex 40:1-3 (placed in tabernacle),
    • Placement of the ark – Ex 39:35, Ex 40:3-5, Ex 40:20-21
    • Placed in the temple of Solomon – 1 Ki 6:19, 1 Ki 8:1-11
  • Ark – Gr: kibotos (G2787) – 6 occurrences
  • Ark of the covenant in holy of holies – Heb 9:4, Rev 11:19
  • Ark of Noah – Mat 24:38, Lk 17:27, Heb 11:7, 1 Pet 3:20
  • Heb 9:4 – ark contains 3 things: golden pot with the manna, Aaron’s rod that budded, tables of the covenant
    • Golden pot with manna – Ex 16:32-36 (omer is a tenth of an ephah)
      • Manna points to bread of life (Jesus as the Word of God) – Exo 16:15, Exo 16:31, Exo 16:33, Exo 16:35, Num 11:6, Num 11:7, Num 11:9, Deu 8:3, Deu 8:16, Jos 5:12, Neh 9:20, Psa 78:24, John 6:31, John 6:49, John 6:58, Ps 105:50, Deut 8:3 (with Mat 4:4). Jesus is the Bread of Life – John 6:35
    • Aaron’s rod that budded – Num 17:1-13
      • Almonds (Heb: H8247, shaqed (4 occurrences) – see also H8245 (12 occurrences) – almond / H8246 (6 occurrences) – to watch) – to be alert, watch for (almond earliest to bloom)
        • The one I have chosen (Aaron as high priest) – Num 17:5
        • Hasten (H8285) My word to perform it – rod of an almond (H287) tree – Jer 1:11-12
        • Best fruits given to Joseph as a present from his brothers and father – Gen 43:11
        • End of life / death – time of the despising of the almond tree – Ecc 12:5
        • Golden candlestick and lampstand has bowls as almonds – Ex 25:33-34, Ex 37:19-20
      • Summary – God’s watchfulness (faithfulness) to perform His word
    • Tables of the covenant – 10 commandments (Ex 34:28, Deut 4:13, Deut 10:4) – God’s moral law – Ex 34:28, Deut 4:13, Deut 9:9, Deut 9:15, 1 Ki 8:9, 2 Chr 5:10, Heb 9:4
    • Two Tables – Exo 31:18, Exo 32:15, Exo 34:1, Exo 34:4, Exo 34:29, Deu 4:13, Deu 5:22, Deu 9:10, Deu 9:11, Deu 9:15, Deu 9:17, Deu 10:1, Deu 10:3, 1Ki 8:9, 2Ch 5:10, Eze 40:39, Eze 40:40.
      • 2 tables of testimony (witness) – Ex 31:18, Ex 32:15, Ex 34:29
    • Ark – Heb: H8392 (tebah) – 28 occurrences – literally, a box
      • Only occurs as Noah’s ark (Gen 6-9) and the box baby Moses was in (Exo 2:3-5)
    • Ark – Heb: H727 (aron) – 202 occurrences, literally a chest (2 Ki 12:9-10, 2 Chr 24:8-11) , coffin (Gen 50:26), box
    • Ark of the ‘covenant’ – 44 occurrences – covenant (to cut) – a will, testament, compact
    • Ark of the ‘testimony’- 16 occurrences – witness – Exo 25:16, Exo 25:21, Exo 25:22, Exo 26:33, Exo 26:34, Exo 30:6, Exo 30:26, Exo 31:7, Exo 39:35, Exo 40:3, Exo 40:5, Exo 40:20, Exo 40:21, Num 4:5, Num 7:89, Jos 4:16.
      • Jesus is the Faithful Witness – Rev 1:5
      • Jesus testified before Pontius Pilate and made the good confession (1 Tim 6:13, John 18:37).
      • In Rev 3:14, Jesus is called the faithful and true witness.
      • Jesus Christ would be given as a witness to the people, a leader and commander – Is 55:4
      • Christ is the faithful one ‑ Rev 1:5, Rev 3:14, Rev 1:9, Rev 19:11 (name is Faithful), Heb 10:23, 1 Cor 1:9, 10:13, 1 Thess 5:24, 1 John 1:9, Is 49:7
      • God’s words are faithful and true – Rev 21:5, Rev 22:6
    • Ark of God – 1Sa 3:3, 1Sa 4:11, 1Sa 4:13, 1Sa 4:17, 1Sa 4:18, 1Sa 4:19, 1Sa 4:21, 1Sa 4:22, 1Sa 5:1, 1Sa 5:2, 1Sa 5:10, 1Sa 14:18, 2Sa 6:2, 2Sa 6:3, 2Sa 6:4, 2Sa 6:6, 2Sa 6:7, 2Sa 6:12, 2Sa 7:2, 2Sa 15:24, 2Sa 15:25, 2Sa 15:29, 1Ch 13:5, 1Ch 13:6, 1Ch 13:7, 1Ch 13:12, 1Ch 13:14, 1Ch 15:1, 1Ch 15:2, 1Ch 15:15, 1Ch 15:24, 1Ch 16:1, 2Ch 1:4
    • Ark of the God of Israel – 1Sa 5:7, 1Sa 5:8, 1Sa 5:10, 1Sa 5:11, 1Sa 6:3
    • Ark of the Lord (Jehovah) – Jos 3:13, Jos 4:5, Jos 4:11, Jos 6:6, Jos 6:7, Jos 6:11, Jos 6:12, Jos 6:13, Jos 7:6, 1Sa 4:6, 1Sa 5:3, 1Sa 5:4, 1Sa 6:1, 1Sa 6:2, 1Sa 6:8, 1Sa 6:11, 1Sa 6:15, 1Sa 6:18, 1Sa 6:19, 1Sa 6:21, 1Sa 7:1, 2Sa 6:9, 2Sa 6:10, 2Sa 6:11, 2Sa 6:13, 2Sa 6:15, 2Sa 6:16, 2Sa 6:17, 1Ki 2:26, 1Ki 8:4, 1Ch 15:3, 1Ch 15:12, 1Ch 15:14, 1Ch 16:4, 2Ch 8:11
    • The design of the ark – Ex 25:10-22
    • Construction of the ark – Ex 37:1-9, Ex 31:7, Ex 35:12
    • Ark within the veil (holy of holies) – Ex 26:33-34, Ex 30:6
    • Anoint the ark – Ex 30:26
    • Placement of the ark – Ex 39:35, Ex 40:3-5, Ex 40:20-21
    • Testimony placed into the ark – Ex 40:20
    • Once per year (Day of Atonement) enter into holy of holies to see the ark, God will appear on a cloud on the mercy seat – Lev 16:2
    • Levites in charge of moving ark – Num 3:31, Num 4:5
    • Mercy seat on the ark – Exo 25:21, Exo 25:22, Exo 26:34, Exo 30:6, Exo 31:7, Exo 35:12, Exo 39:35, Exo 40:20, Lev 16:2, Num 7:89.
    • Lord spoke to Moses from mercy seat – Num 7:89
    • That Moses commanded the Levites, which bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD, saying, Take this book of the law, and put it in the side of the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, that it may be there for a witness against thee. (Deu 31:25-26)
    • Transport of the ark – Deu 10:1, Deu 10:2, Deu 10:3, Deu 10:5, Deu 10:8, Deu 31:9, Deu 31:25, Deu 31:26, Jos 3:3, Jos 3:6, Jos 3:8, Jos 3:11, Jos 3:13, Jos 3:14, Jos 3:15, Jos 3:17, Jos 4:5, Jos 4:7, Jos 4:9, Jos 4:10, Jos 4:11, Jos 4:16, Jos 4:18, Jos 6:4, Jos 6:6, Jos 6:7, Jos 6:8, Jos 6:9, Jos 6:11, Jos 6:12, Jos 6:13, Jos 7:6, Jos 8:33, Jdg 20:27, 1Sa 3:3, 1Sa 4:3, 1Sa 4:4, 1Sa 4:5, 1Sa 4:6, 1Sa 4:11, 1Sa 4:13, 1Sa 4:17, 1Sa 4:18, 1Sa 4:19, 1Sa 4:21, 1Sa 4:22, 1Sa 5:1, 1Sa 5:2, 1Sa 5:3, 1Sa 5:4, 1Sa 5:7, 1Sa 5:8, 1Sa 5:10, 1Sa 5:11, 1Sa 6:1, 1Sa 6:2, 1Sa 6:3, 1Sa 6:8, 1Sa 6:11, 1Sa 6:13, 1Sa 6:15, 1Sa 6:18, 1Sa 6:19, 1Sa 6:21, 1Sa 7:1, 1Sa 7:2, 1Sa 14:18, 2Sa 6:2, 2Sa 6:3, 2Sa 6:4, 2Sa 6:6, 2Sa 6:7, 2Sa 6:9, 2Sa 6:10, 2Sa 6:11, 2Sa 6:12, 2Sa 6:13, 2Sa 6:15, 2Sa 6:16, 2Sa 6:17, 2Sa 7:2, 2Sa 11:11, 2Sa 15:24, 2Sa 15:25, 2Sa 15:29, 1Ki 2:26, 1Ki 3:15, 1Ki 6:19, 1Ki 8:1, 1Ki 8:3, 1Ki 8:4, 1Ki 8:5, 1Ki 8:6, 1Ki 8:7, 1Ki 8:9, 1Ki 8:21, 1Ch 6:31, 1Ch 13:3, 1Ch 13:5, 1Ch 13:6, 1Ch 13:7, 1Ch 13:9, 1Ch 13:10, 1Ch 13:12, 1Ch 13:13, 1Ch 13:14, 1Ch 15:1, 1Ch 15:2, 1Ch 15:3, 1Ch 15:12, 1Ch 15:14, 1Ch 15:15, 1Ch 15:23, 1Ch 15:24, 1Ch 15:25, 1Ch 15:26, 1Ch 15:27, 1Ch 15:28, 1Ch 15:29, 1Ch 16:1, 1Ch 16:4, 1Ch 16:6, 1Ch 16:37, 1Ch 17:1, 1Ch 22:19, 1Ch 28:2, 1Ch 28:18, 2Ch 1:4, 2Ch 5:2, 2Ch 5:4, 2Ch 5:5, 2Ch 5:6, 2Ch 5:7, 2Ch 5:8, 2Ch 5:9, 2Ch 5:10, 2Ch 6:11, 2Ch 6:41, 2Ch 8:11.
    • Glory departs from Israel when Philistines captured the ark (Phineas’ wife named son Ichabod) – 1 Sam 4:19-22
    • Glory fills the temple due to ark arriving – 1 Ki 8:10-11, Rev 21:11, Rev 21:23, 1 Sam 4:19-22, Ex 40:34-35, Lev 16:2, Lev 16:23 (cloud upon the mercy seat)
    • Cherubims of glory shadow the mercy seat – Heb 9:5
    • Where God dwells – 1 Ki 8:11-13 (Glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle due to the ark being brought in – 1 Ki 8:11)
    • God dwells between the cherubim – Ex 25:22, 1 Sam 4:4, 2 Sam 6:2, 2 Ki 19:15, 1 Chr 13:6, Ps 80:1, Is 37:16
    • God does not dwell in temples made by hands – But Solomon recognized that God does not live in temples made with hands – 1 Ki 8:27, 2Ch 6:18, Isa 66:1, Joh 1:14, Act 7:48-49, Act 17:24, 2Co 6:16, 1Jn 3:1, Deu 10:14, 2Ch 2:6, Psa 113:4, Psa 139:7-16, Jer 23:24, 2Co 12:2
    • David’s desire to build temple for God to dwell in – 2 Sam 7:1-7
    • God’s presence (face of God) – Ex 33:14-16, Ex 13:21, Josh 1:5, Is 63:98, Mat 28:20
    • Arise, O LORD, into thy rest; thou, and the ark of thy strength. (Psa 132:8)
    • Ark in the days of Josiah:
      • Moreover I will deliver all the strength of this city, and all the labors thereof, and all the precious things thereof, and all the treasures of the kings of Judah will I give into the hand of their enemies, which shall spoil them, and take them, and carry them to Babylon. (Jer 20:5)
      • In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah came this word unto Jeremiah from the LORD, saying … For thus saith the LORD of hosts concerning the pillars, and concerning the sea, and concerning the bases, and concerning the residue of the vessels that remain in this city, Which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took not, when he carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah from Jerusalem to Babylon, and all the nobles of Judah and Jerusalem; Yea, thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, concerning the vessels that remain in the house of the LORD, and in the house of the king of Judah and of Jerusalem; They shall be carried to Babylon, and there shall they be until the day that I visit them, saith the LORD; then will I bring them up, and restore them to this place. (Jer 27:1,19-22)
      • And said unto the Levites that taught all Israel, which were holy unto the LORD, Put the holy ark in the house which Solomon the son of David king of Israel did build; it shall not be a burden upon your shoulders: serve now the LORD your God, and his people Israel (2Ch 35:3)
      • Turn, O backsliding children, saith the LORD; for I am married unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion: And I will give you pastors according to mine heart, which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding. And it shall come to pass, when ye be multiplied and increased in the land, in those days, saith the LORD, they shall say no more, The ark of the covenant of the LORD: neither shall it come to mind: neither shall they remember it; neither shall they visit it; neither shall that be done any more. At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of the LORD; and all the nations shall be gathered unto it, to the name of the LORD, to Jerusalem: neither shall they walk any more after the imagination of their evil heart. (Jer 3:14-17)
    • Ark not specifically mentioned in Nebuchadnezzar’s removal of treasures from Jerusalem, nor in Ezra’s account of the return of the treasures – 2Ki 20:17, Jer 27:19-22, Jer 52:17-20, Lam 1:10, Ezr 1:7-11, Ezr 5:14, Jer 27:16-21, Jer 27:18-22, Jer 28:3-4, Jer 28:6, Dan 1:2, Dan 5:2-3, 2Ki 24:13, 2Ki 25:13-15, 2Ch 36:6-7, 2Ch 36:10, 2Ch 36:18, Jer 52:19, Is 39:6, Jer 20:5
      • Cut in pieces all the vessels of gold that King Solomon had made – 2 Ki 24:13, 2Ki 25:13-15, Ezr 1:7-11, Jer 27:16-21, Jer 28:3-4, Jer 28:6, Dan 5:2-3
    • Ark similarities to the throne of God:
      • Both have cherubim
        • 2 cherubims covering the ark of the testimony (witness) – Exo 25:18-22, Exo 37:7–9, Num 7:89, 1Sa 4:4, 1Ki 6:23, 1Ki 6:3 , 1Ki 8:7, 2Ch 3:10, Eze 41:18, Heb 9:5
        • And the cherubims spread out their wings on high, and covered with their wings over the mercy seat, with their faces one to another; even to the mercy seatward were the faces of the cherubims. (Exo 37:9)
        • 2 Cherubims in the oracle of the temple, their wings spread over the ark of the covenant – 1 Ki 6:23-28, 1 Ki 8:6-7
        • And before the throne there was a sea of glass like unto crystal: and in the midst of the throne, and round about the throne, were four beasts full of eyes before and behind. (Rev 4:6)
      • God sits on the mercy seat
        • God dwells between the cherubim – Num 7:89, 1 Sam 4:4, 2 Sam 6, 2 Ki 19:15
        • And there I will meet with thee, and I will commune with thee from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubims which are upon the ark of the testimony, of all things which I will give thee in commandment unto the children of Israel. (Exo 25:22)
        • And the LORD said unto Moses, Speak unto Aaron thy brother, that he come not at all times into the holy place within the vail before the mercy seat, which is upon the ark; that he die not: for I will appear in the cloud upon the mercy seat. (Lev 16:2)
      • Testament – Gr: diatheke (G1242) – 33 occurrences, literally, disposition, will, testament, covenant
        • God’s covenant / promise – Gal 3:15-20, Heb 6:13, God’s promise – Heb 7:21-8:13, Heb 10:16, Heb 10:29, Heb 12:24, Heb 13:20, Gen 17:1-21, Gen 21:27, Gen 21:32, Gen 6:18, Gen 9:9-16, Gen 15:18
        • Death of the testator – Heb 9:16-17
        • God’s covenant with Abraham – Gal 3:15-20, Heb 6:13-18, Lk 1:72, Acts 3:25
        • Christ a mediator of a better (New covenant) – Heb 8:6-13, Gal 3:15-20, Heb 12:24, Heb 10:16, Heb 9:15
        • The bood of the covenant – Heb 10:29

… and there were lightnings, and voices, and thunderings, and an earthquake, and great hail.

  • Lightning and Thunder
    • Rev 4:5, Rev 8:5, Rev 11:19, Rev 16:17-18, Ex 19:16, Ex 20:18, Ps 18:13-14, Ps 68:35,  Joel 3:16, Heb 12:18-29
    • Out of throne lightning and thunder – Rev 4:6
      • Thunder – power – Job 26:14, judgment – Is 29:6, 1 Sam 7:10, Ex 9:23-34, Ex 19:16
      • God’s voice as thunder – Rev 19:6, Rev 14:2, John 12:29, Ps 104:7, Ps 77:18, Ps 29:3, Ps 18:13, Job 40:9, Job 37:4-5, 2 Sam 22:14
      • James and John – sons of thunder – Mk 3:17
      • Thunder as judgment – Ex 20:18, Rev 16:18, Rev 11:19, Rev 10:3-4, Rev 8:5, Rev 6:1, Rev 4:5, Is 29:6, Ps 81:7, Ps 78:48, Job 38:25, Job 26:14, 1 Sam 7:10
      • Judgment / hail on Egypt – Ex 9:23, Ex 9:28-29, Ex 9:33
      • Thunder and lightning on Mt Sinai – Ex 19:16, Ex 20:18
      • Thunder associated with rain – 1 Sam 12:17-18 (judgment for wanting a king)
      • Lightning – Quickness of Christ coming in judgment – Lk 17:24, Mat 24:27 (every eye will see Him – see Rev 1:7 notes)
      • Lightning results in scattering (judgment) – 2 Sam 22:15, Ps 18:14, Ps 144:6
      • God utters His voice – Lightning with rain – Jer 10:13, Jer 51:16, Ps 135:7
      • Voice of thunder, the lightning lightened the world – Ps 77:18
      • Living creatures ran as lightning – Eze 1:14
      • Vision of a Man – appearance of lightning – Dan 10:6, Mat 28:3 (angel)
      • Satan as lightning fell from heaven – Lk 10:18
      • God’s judgment – army as lightning – Nah 2:4
      • Lord’s arrow goes forth as lightning – Zech 9:14
      • Lightning enlightens the world – Ps 97:4
      • Way for lightning of the thunder – Job 28:26 , Job 38:25
      • Lightning to the ends of the earth – Job 37:3
    • Voices
      • Word of God – Rev 1:10, Rev 1:12, Rev 1:15, Rev 3:20, Rev 4:1,5, Rev 5:2,11-12, etc.
      • Rev 8:7, Rev 16:21; Exo 9:18-29; Jos 10:11; Job 38:22-23; Psa 18:12, Psa 105:32; Isa 28:2, Isa 30:30, Isa 32:19; Eze 13:11, Eze 38:22
    • Earthquake – see notes on Rev 11:13, Rev 6:12
    • Great Hail:
      • NT – Gr: chalazo – 4 occurrences
    • Rev 8:7 – mixed with fire
    • Judgment Day – Rev 11:19, Rev 16:21 (2)
      • OT – Heb: barad (H1259) – also, H1258 – total 34 occurrences
      • That which comes from heaven to destroy man’s works ‑ Eze 13:11, Hag 2:17, Is 28:2, Is 28:17, Is 32:19, Is 30:30
      • Sweeps away lies ‑ Is 28:17
      • From heaven – judgment on the Amorites – Josh 10:11
      • 7th plague on Egypt – Exo 9:18, Exo 9:19, Exo 9:22, Exo 9:23, Exo 9:24, Exo 9:25, Exo 9:26, Exo 9:28, Exo 9:29, Exo 9:33, Exo 9:34, Exo 10:5, Exo 10:12, Exo 10:15
      • Plagues of Egypt – Ex 9:13-35 (Ps 78:47-48, Ps 105:32)
      • Not complete judgment – Ex 10:5,12,15
      • No hail in Goshen – Ex 9:26
      • Day of battle and distress – Job 38:22-23
      • Judgment on Ephraim and Judah – Isa 28:2, Isa 28:17
      • Prophets – Isa 32:19, Hag 2:17, Jos 10:11, Isa 30:30, Eze 13:11, Eze 13:13, Eze 38:22
      • Ps 18:12-13 – Word of God (2-edged sword) – judgment on David’s enemies
      • Hail signifies day of battle and distress – Job 38:22-23
      • Fire and hail praise the Lord – Ps 148:8