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Sixth Seal: Cosmic Disturbances

12 I looked when He opened the sixth seal, aand behold, there was a great earthquake; and bthe sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the2 moon became like blood.  
13 aAnd the stars of heaven fell to the earth, as a fig tree drops its late figs when it is shaken by a mighty wind.  
14 aThen the sky1 receded as a scroll when it is rolled up, and bevery mountain and island was moved out of its place.  
15 And the akings of the earth, the great men,1 the rich men, the commanders, the mighty men, every slave and every free man, bhid themselves in the caves and in the rocks of the mountains,  
16 aand said to the mountains and rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of Him who bsits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb!  
17 For the great day of His wrath has come, aand who is able to stand?” 
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Revelation 6:14

Was removed (apexwrisqh). First aorist passive indicative of apoxwrizw, to separate, to part (Acts 15:39). "The heaven was parted."

As a scroll when it is rolled up (wv biblion elissomenon). Present passive participle of elissw, old verb, to roll up, in N.T. only here (from Isaiah 34:4) and Hebrews 1:12 (from Psalms 102:27). Vivid picture of the expanse of the sky rolled up and away as a papyrus roll (Luke 4:17).

Were moved (ekinhqhsan). First aorist passive indicative of kinew, to move.

Out of their places (ek twn topwn autwn). See also Revelation 16:20 for these violent displacements in the earth's crust. Cf. Nahum 1:5; Jeremiah 4:24. Jesus spoke of faith removing mountains (of difficulty) as in Mark 11:23 (cf. I Corinthians 13:2).




Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Revelation 6:14:

Hebrews 1:12
Revelation 16:20

 

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