Revelation 16:16

Revelation 16:16

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.

Seventh Bowl: The Earth Utterly Shaken

17 Then the seventh angel poured out his bowl into the air, and a loud voice came out of the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying, ^a“It is done!”

18 And ^athere were noises and thunderings and lightnings; ^band there was a great earthquake, such a mighty and great earthquake ^cas had not occurred since men were on the earth.

19 Now ^athe great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell. And ^bgreat Babylon ^cwas remembered before God, ^dto give her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of His wrath.

20 Then ^aevery island fled away, and the mountains were not found.

21 And great hail from heaven fell upon men, each hailstone about the weight of a talent. Men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail, since that plague was exceedingly great.

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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he—rather, "they (the three unclean spirits) gathered them together." If English Version be retained, "He" will refer to God who gives them over to the delusion of the three unclean spirits; or else the sixth angel (Revelation 16:12).

Armageddon—Hebrew, "Har," a mountain, and "Megiddo" in Manasseh in Galilee, the scene of the overthrow of the Canaanite kings by God's miraculous interposition under Deborah and Barak; the same as the great plain of Esdraelon. Josiah, too, as the ally of Babylon, was defeated and slain at Megiddo; and the mourning of the Jews at the time just before God shall interpose for them against all the nations confederate against Jerusalem, is compared to the mourning for Josiah at Megiddo. Megiddo comes from a root, gadad, "cut off," and means slaughter. Compare Joel 3:2, Joel 3:12, Joel 3:14, where "the valley of Jehoshaphat" (meaning in Hebrew, "judgment of God") is mentioned as the scene of God's final vengeance on the God-opposing foe. Probably some great plain, antitypical to the valleys of Megiddo and Jehoshaphat, will be the scene.

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