Revelation 14:8

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Revelation 14:1-20

A New Song (for Holy Innocents' Day) Revelation 14:3 Why, when heaven is yet ringing with the bright message of peace, does the wailing of Ramah, of Bethlehem, shriek in upon it with discordant jar? Perhaps the words of today's Epistle may suggest our attitude while feeling after the teaching of the Holy Spirit on this festival. The Apostle in his vision is contemplating a great company standing with the Lamb on Mount Zion, worshipping before the throne, and from that throne proceeds a voice... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Revelation 14:1-20

CHAPTER XITHE LAMB ON THE MOUNT ZION AND THE HARVEST AND VINTAGE OF THE WORLD.Revelation 14:1-20.THE twelfth and thirteenth chapters of this book were designed to set before us a picture of the three great enemies of the Church of Christ. We have been told of the dragon, the principle and root of all the evil, whether inward or outward, from which that Church suffers. He is the first enemy. We have been further told of the first beast, of that power or prince of the world to whom the dragon has... read more

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Revelation 14:1-20

CHAPTER 14 Grace ancient 1. The Lamb and the 144,000 (Revelation 14:1-5 ) 2. The everlasting gospel (Revelation 14:6-7 ) 3. Fall of Babylon anticipated (Revelation 14:8 ) 4. Wrath for the worshippers of the beast (Revelation 14:9-11 ) 5. The blessed dead (Revelation 14:12-13 ) 6. The harvest and the vintage (Revelation 14:14-20 ) Revelation 14:1-5 . A series of visions follow the dark scenes in chapter 13. The conditions under the domineering power of the two beasts are going to be... read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Revelation 14:8

14:8 And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the {a} wrath of her fornication.(a) Of her fornication, by which God was provoked to wrath. read more

L.M. Grant

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible - Revelation 14:1-20

The Lamb and 144,000 on Mount Zion In the first five verses of this chapter we find another striking preview of the blessing of the godly remnant in Israel. This preview is given at the time when the nation is involved in the most brazen idolatry in its history. The Lamb standing on Mount Zion (v. 1) indicates His eventual complete triumph over idolatry. The 144,000 with Him remind us of Revelation 7:2-8 where all twelve tribes are represented and seen as sealed in their foreheads. In this... read more

James Gray

James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - Revelation 14:1-20

THE SEVEN PERSONAGES INTRODUCTION: THE WOMAN AND THE DRAGON (Revelation 12:0 ) The seven personages of this division as identified by Erdman, include the woman, the child, the dragon, the archangel, the remnant (of Israel), the ten-horned beast, and the two-horned beast or false prophet, the first four being found in this chapter. The woman represents Israel it is believed, and the man-child to whom she gave birth, the Messiah. The dragon is Satan, whose ten horns represent the 10 kingdoms... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Revelation 14:8

And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication. Here is the second Embassy, and reaching to a period still further remote, looking indeed into those times, when the heresy of the West, under the Pope, should begin to give way. I do not presume to ascertain the period; but I find some have, and fixed it to about the opening of the fifteenth century. The fall of mystical... read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Revelation 14:8

Another Angel,...saying:...She is fallen, she is fallen, that great Babylon. By Babylon, as observed before, may very probably be signified all the wicked world in general, whom God will punish and destroy after the short time of this mortal life: or may be signified every great city, and perhaps Rome returned to idolatry in the time of antichrist, a little before the end of the world: or may be signified the idolatry of heathen Rome, in the fourth age [century], when the Christian religion,... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible - Revelation 14:6-13

6-13 The progress of the Reformation appears to be here set forth. The four proclamations are plain in their meaning; that all Christians may be encouraged, in the time of trial, to be faithful to their Lord. The gospel is the great means whereby men are brought to fear God, and to give glory to him. The preaching of the everlasting gospel shakes the foundations of antichrist in the world, and hastens its downfal. If any persist in being subject to the beast, and in promoting his cause, they... read more

Frank Binford Hole

F. B. Hole's Old and New Testament Commentary - Revelation 14:1-99

Revelation 14 CHAPTER 14 GIVES US a series of visions, all of which set before us in various ways God’s thoughts and actions from heaven during the period when the two beasts are dominating the earth, persecuting and even slaying the saints. In the first of these visions we see how God will preserve for Himself faithful souls who will be true to the Lamb and free from the corruptions that the beast is enforcing on all under his power. The number given is symbolic. Twelve is the number of... read more

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