Revelation 9:19-10:11 NIV

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Revelation 9:1-21

At the sounding of the fifth trumpet the procedure of judgment takes a new form, passing from the material to the spiritual. The loosing of Satan is suggestive of the manifestation of satanic agency under the permission of God. Demons come forth, a terrible army, and scatter among the sons of men. It is noticeable that their power and time are limited by the government of God. The most terrible aspect of this visitation is that stricken men seek for death and are not able to find it. The... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Revelation 9:16-19

‘And the numbers of the armies of the horsemen was two hundred million, I heard the number of them. And this is how I saw the horse in the vision, and those who sat on them, they have breastplates as of fire and of hyacinth and of brimstone, and the heads of the horses are as the heads of lions, and out of their mouths proceeds fire and smoke and brimstone. By these three plagues were the third part of men killed, by the fire and the smoke and the brimstone which proceeds from their mouths, for... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Revelation 9:13-21

Revelation 9:13-Ecclesiastes : . The Sixth Trumpet or the Second Woe.— The loosing of the four angels of death, and the slaughter of a third part of the human race. Revelation 9:13 . the horns: the corners.— the golden altar: cf. Revelation 8:3. Revelation 9:14 . Loose the four angels: these angels are kept bound in the river Euphrates ( cf. Revelation 16:12) waiting for the day of vengeance. There is a striking parallel in a Syriac Apocalypse of Ezra, “ Let these four kings be loosed... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Revelation 9:19

By their tails some understand their infantry or foot soldiery; others, their serpentine craft and subtlety: as the locusts, Revelation 9:10, are compared to scorpions, whose sting was in their tails, and who were said to hurt with their tails; so the same thing is said of these armies, intimating that the Turks should be mischievous by the same arts and means as their predecessors the Saracens. These are said to have had heads in their tails, which was not said of the locusts; the reason of... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Revelation 9:13-21

CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTESRevelation 9:13. Sixth angel sounded.—This woe is an invasion of foreign nations coming out of the East, and causing everywhere ruin and disaster.Revelation 9:14. Loose the four angels.—These are the angels of invasion. No actual reference to the Euphrates must be sought for, but what the Euphrates symbolises. Rivers do not actually hind angels. The Eaphrates was the great military barrier between the great northern and southern kingdoms. It may symbolise the... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Revelation 9:1-21

Chapter 9And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the eaRuth ( Revelation 9:1 ):And it is interesting how that a great mountain of fire burning, a star falling, a star falling, these are like fallen stars. That is why I relate them to perhaps asteroids or meteorites. I could be completely wrong. In other words, there are a lot of people who would like to sort of speculate, and in observed and knowable phenomena, these are not unreasonable. We know of phenomena that... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Revelation 9:1-21

Revelation 9:1-2 . The fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star, the vile impostor Mahomed, fall from heaven unto the earth. And to him was given the key of the bottomless pit: it should read, the keys of the abyss. This is the tartarus, as in the Greek of 2 Peter 2:4. The Waldenses understood this of papal darkness, and the overflowing of cruel persecution; but more sober wisdom confines it to the Saracen and the Turkish armies and conquests. And there arose a smoke out of the pit, as of... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Revelation 9:13-21

Revelation 9:13-21Loose the four angels which are bound.The sixth trumpetI. The state of society at the time.II. The nature of this visitation.1. It is evoked by a cry out of the four horns of the altar. It comes from the immediate presence of God, and therefore with the sanction of God. The call itself is the common voice of all four of the horns of the altar, indicating the energy and the universality of the demand for vengeance, and of that vengeance itself. The implication is that God’s... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Revelation 9:19

19 For their power is in their mouth, and in their tails: for their tails were like unto serpents, and had heads, and with them they do hurt. Ver. 19. In their mouth, and in their tails ] Like the serpent Amphisbaena, a that hath a head (to do hurt) at both ends. (Plin.) Perhaps the Turks’ perfidy is here pointed at; they keep leagues no longer than standeth with their own profit. (Turk. Hist.) a A fabled serpent of the ancients, with a head at each end, and able to move in either... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Revelation 9:19

in their tails: Revelation 9:10, Isaiah 9:15, Ephesians 4:14 Reciprocal: Jeremiah 8:17 - I will Revelation 12:4 - his tail read more