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Sixth Bowl: Euphrates Dried Up

12 Then the sixth angel poured out his bowl aon the great river Euphrates, band its water was dried up, cso that the way of the kings from the east might be prepared.  
13 And I saw three unclean aspirits like frogs coming out of the mouth of bthe dragon, out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of cthe false prophet.  
14 For they are spirits of demons, aperforming signs, which go out to the kings1 of the earth and of bthe whole world, to gather them to cthe battle of that great day of God Almighty.  
15 a“Behold, I am coming as a thief. Blessed is he who watches, and keeps his garments, blest he walk naked and they see his shame.”  
16 aAnd they gathered them together to the place called in Hebrew,1 Armageddon.  
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Revelation 16:14

Spirits of devils (pneumata daimoniwn). "Spirits of demons." Explanation of the simile wv batraxoi. See I Timothy 4:1 about "deceiving spirits and teachings of demons."

Working signs (poiounta shmeia). "Doing signs" (present active participle of poiew). The Egyptian magicians wrought "signs" (tricks), as did Simon Magus and later Apollonius of Tyana. Houdini claimed that he could reproduce every trick of the spiritualistic mediums.

Which go forth (a ekporeuetai). Singular verb with neuter plural (collective) subject.

Unto the kings (epi touv basileiv). The three evil spirits (dragon and the two beasts) spur on the kings of the whole world to a real world war. "There have been times when nations have been seized by a passion for war which the historian can but imperfectly explain" (Swete).

To gather them together (sunagagein). Second aorist active infinitive of sunagw, to express purpose (that of the unclean spirits).

Unto the war of the great day of God, the Almighty (eiv ton polemon thv hmerav thv megalhv tou qeou tou pantokratorov). Some take this to be war between nations, like Mark 13:8, but it is more likely war against God (Psalms 2:2) and probably the battle pictured in Revelation 17:14; Revelation 19:19. Cf. II Peter 3:12, "the day of God," his reckoning with the nations. See Joel 2:11; Joel 3:4. Paul uses "that day" for the day of the Lord Jesus (the Parousia) as in I Thessalonians 5:2; II Thessalonians 1:10; II Thessalonians 2:2; I Corinthians 1:8; II Corinthians 1:14; Philippians 1:6; Philippians 2:16; II Timothy 1:12, II Timothy 1:18; II Timothy 4:8.




Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Revelation 16:14:

Revelation 1:8
Revelation 12:1
Revelation 12:9
Revelation 16:16
Revelation 17:2
Revelation 19:6
Revelation 19:19
Revelation 20:8

 

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