Revelation 13:12-14 KJV,ASV

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Revelation 13:13

And he doeth great wonders; lying wonders, 2 Thessalonians 2:9, such as, by God’s permission, false prophets might do, Deuteronomy 13:1,Deuteronomy 13:2. Prophets were to be judged true or false, not from any signs or wonders which they did, but from the doctrine they taught, and would by those signs establish. So that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men; wonders as great as those which Elijah wrought. read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Revelation 13:14

The Lord showeth his prophet by what means the papacy should cheat the world, viz. by pretences of miracles, which it had a power to work, (the doctrines of the Church of Rome to this are sufficiently known), all which are done in the sight of the beast, that is, to his honour, and to gain him a reputation. As God gave his prophets and apostles a power to work true miracles for the confirmation of their mission from him, and of the doctrines which they brought; so he permitted others to work... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Revelation 13:1-18

THE FIRST BEASTCRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTESIN this and the preceding chapter the three chief adversaries of the real kingdom of God in the world are described. The first is the dragon, or Satan. The second is the power of the world striving to withdraw our thoughts from the unseen and eternal, and to confine them to the seen and temporal. The third is the spirit of carnal religiousness, like that which so bitterly opposed Jesus in the days of His flesh, and sought to substitute its superficial... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Revelation 13:1-18

John said,I stood upon the sand of the sea ( Revelation 13:1 ),Probably the Mediterranean Sea.and I saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads, ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy ( Revelation 13:1 ).The sea represents, of course, the multitudes of people, the Mediterranean Sea, the multitudes of people that live around the Mediterranean Sea. And out of it he sees this hydro-headed beast with seven heads and ten horns. We are told in... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Revelation 13:1-18

The conscious mind, enquiring after the truth and certainty of revelation, is worthy of all the aid that science can afford. In Daniel, as stated above, on chap. Revelation 10:5, we have before us three prophecies of the Assyrian, the Persian, the Grecian, and the Roman empires, finally under the Roman power, divided into ten kingdoms, as represented by the ten toes of Nebuchadnezzar’s image. Those visions of Daniel are here confirmed by the continuous visions of John. The tablet is broad, and... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Revelation 13:1-18

Revelation 13:1-18A beast rise up out of the sea.The domain of antichristI. It has a manifold development. In the commerce of the world, in the government of the world, in the campaigns of the world, in the literature of the world, in the religions of the world, antichrist appears in aspects as hideous, and in a spirit as savage and blasphemous as the monsters depicted in this vision.II. It has one master-spirit.1. He is endowed with tremendous power.2. His grand pursuit is moral mischief. He... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Revelation 13:11-12

Revelation 13:11-12Another beast coming up out of the earth.The second beastThe antichrist, though an individual, is not alone. He not only has the ten sovereignties working into his hand with all “their power and strength,” but he has a more intimate and more potent companion, hardly less remarkable than himself, duplicating his power, and without whom he could not be what he is. This second beast has “two horns like a lamb.” Horns are the symbols of power; but these horns have no diadems, and... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Revelation 13:13-18

Revelation 13:13-18Deceiveth … by the means of those miracles.Miracles: a counterfeit supernaturalismMiracles have ever been the chief evidence of the presence of what is worshipful and Divine. It is by these especially that men’s faith is begotten and controlled. It is by seeing and experiencing what is manifestly above and beyond all natural human power, and what cannot be accounted for on natural principles, that the human mind is forced to a conviction of the presence of some great and... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Revelation 13:12

12 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. Ver. 12. And he exerciseth ] The power of speaking blasphemies, of waging wars, of ruling over kindreds, tongues, and nations, &c., notwithstanding his wounded head, which is after a sort cured by the sedulity and subtilty of the Jesuits, and other the pope’s emissaries. The first beast, saith Forbes, is the kingdom... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Revelation 13:13

13 And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men, Ver. 13. And he doth great wonders ] By his art of magic; for true miracles he can do none, nor his master the dragon to help him. Hence they are called lying wonders, 2 Thessalonians 2:9-10 , sorceries, Revelation 18:23 , and impostures here,Revelation 13:14; Revelation 13:14 . So that he maketh fire ] As another Elias. This the pope doth daily by his excommunications, casting... read more

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Revelation 13:13

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Revelation 13:14

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Revelation 13:1-18

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Revelation 13:1-18

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Revelation 13:1-18

The Biblical Illustrator - Revelation 13:1-18

The Biblical Illustrator - Revelation 13:11-12

The Biblical Illustrator - Revelation 13:13-18

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Revelation 13:12

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Revelation 13:13

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