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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name. Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus. Truly, Rome has tried “the patience of the saints.” What...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Here is the patience of the saints,.... That which has required their patience, and about which it has been exercised, what they have been patiently waiting for, namely, the destruction of antichrist; and now it will be come, and patience will have its perfect work; see Revelation 13:10 here are they that keep the commandments of God; and not the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus. And I heard a voice from heaven, saying unto me, Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the. Spirit, that they may rest from their labours; and their works do follow them. Accursed were they who...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And I heard a voice from heaven,.... Like that which was heard at Christ's baptism and transfiguration, certifying the truth of what follows, so that that may be depended upon as an undoubted verity: saying unto me, write; which is a further confirmation of the following sayings being true and faithful; see Revelation 1:9 blessed are the dead...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours; and their works do follow them. It matters not where they die, or under what ignominy they die, —whether branded with the name of heretic, or cast out as the offscouring of...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And I looked, and behold a white cloud,.... In this verse is a description of the person principally concerned in the harvest of the earth, hereafter mentioned; by whom is designed not some great potentate or prince, an encourager of the Reformation among his subjects; nor an angel in an human shape; nor Martin Luther, as others; but the Lord...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And I looked, and behold a while cloud, One of these days, every eye will look and see what is here described. A little time may elapse, but it will soon be past. How quickly years fly away! Think where you will be in the day when you, too, will say, “I looked, and behold a white cloud.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And upon the cloud one sat like unto the Son of man, having on his head a golden crown, and in his hand a sharp sickle. And another angel came out of the temple, crying with a loud voice to him that sat on the cloud, Thrust in thy sickle, and reap: for the time is come for thee to reap; for the harvest of the earth is ripe. And he that sat on the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And I looked, and behold a white cloud, and upon the cloud one sat like unto the Son of man, having on his head a golden crown, and in his hand a sharp sickle. And another angel came out of the temple, crying with a loud voice to him that sat on the cloud, Thrust in thy sickle, and reap: for the time is come for thee to reap; for the harvest of...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And another angel came out of the temple,.... Not the Holy Spirit, who, being God omniscient, knows the day and hour of judgment, which is a secret to men and angels, as Napier thinks; since though he dwells in the church as his temple, yet is never called an angel; nor does this angel represent the souls under the altar, who come out from thence,...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And he that sat on the cloud thrust in his sickle on the earth,.... He put forth, and made use of that power which he had in his hand, in answer to the entreaty of the angel, the time being fully come which was fixed for this great event: and the earth was reaped; and the harvest of it was got in; reaping and harvest sometimes are used in an ill...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And he that sat on the cloud thrust in his sickle on the earth; and the earth was reaped. May you and I form a part of the great harvest! May we be found amongst those golden sheaves which are to be the reaping from Christ’s great sowing when he gave himself for his people, and was cast into the earth as a grain of wheat to die, that he might not...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And another angel came out of the temple which is in heaven,.... It is a strange conceit of Mr. Brightman's, that this angel is Thomas Lord Cromwell, in the days of King Henry the Eighth, a sincere favourer of pure religion; and that the following angel is Thomas Cranmer, archbishop of Canterbury, a martyr, that had power over fire; and that the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And another angel came out of the temple which is in heaven, he also having a sharp sickle. Not this time the King, but an angel; not the Son of man that sat on the cloud, but an angel, the servant of God, deputed to execute vengeance.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And another angel came out of the temple which is in heaven, he also having a sharp sickle. The reaper this time is an angel.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And another angel came out from the altar,.... Where are the souls of the martyrs of Jesus, Revelation 6:9 and whom this angel is thought by some to represent, in his address to him that had the sharp sickle, crying for vengeance on the wicked of the earth, who had shed their blood: the allusion seems to be to the altar of burnt offerings, where...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And another angel came out from the altar, which had power over fire; and cried with, a lend cry to him that had the sharp sickle, saying, Thrust in thy sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth; for her grapes are fully ripe. And the angel thrust in, his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, This is the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And another angel came out from the altar, which had power over fire; And cried with a loud cry to him that had the sharp sickle, saying, Thrust in thy sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth; for her grapes are fully ripe. This is the ingathering of the ungodly, they are not the Lord’s harvest, they are the vintage of his...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth,.... Before "upon the earth", when the harvest was gathered in, the wheat being on the earth, but not belonging to it; but here "into the earth", the vine being the vine of the earth, rooted in it, and natural to it: and gathered the vine of the earth; the Arabic version reads, "of the whole...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of God. Can you see the clusters flung into the winepress? Will you be there? God grant that neither you nor I may, in that terrible day, be among the clusters of the wicked!