Revelation 11:10-13

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Revelation 11:11

And after three days and a half the breath of life from God entered into them, and they stood upon their feet; and great fear fell upon them that beheld them.After three days and a half ... This period equals the half of the perfect seven so frequently mentioned in this prophecy. It means that the triumph of evil is never complete, never a true and final victory. Hitler may burn the Bibles, but the fire did not go out until it had consumed into ashes all of the great cities of his blasphemous... read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Revelation 11:12

And they heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them, Come up hither. And they went up into heaven in the cloud; and their enemies beheld them.This view is a glimpse of the final judgment. Only then will God's saints ascend to heaven (2 Timothy 4:8f). Coming here, as it does, just before the sounding of the seventh trumpet, it occupies a place in the sixth trumpet, just as did the judgment connected with the sixth seal in Revelation 6:14-17.Is not the resurrection of the witnesses of God... read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Revelation 11:13

And in that hour there was a great earthquake, and the tenth part of the city fell; and there were killed in the earthquake seven thousand persons: and the rest were affrighted, and gave glory to the God of heaven.And in that hour there was a great earthquake ... "Here we have the same picture as in Revelation 6:12f."[72] The whole verse deals with the disastrous events associated with the onset of the final judgment.And the tenth part of the city fell ... Many have marveled that only a tenth... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Revelation 11:7-12

Revelation 11:7-12. When they shall have finished, &c.— Or, When they shall be about to finish their testimony, the wild beast that ascendeth out of the abyss, &c. After the description of the witnesses, their power and offices, follows a prediction of those things that shall befal them at the latter end of their ministry: and their passion, death, resurrection, and ascension, are copied from our Saviour's, who is emphatically styled, The faithful and true Witness, ch. Rev 3:14 but with... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Revelation 11:10

10. they that dwell upon . . . earth—those who belong to the earth, as its citizens, not to heaven (Revelation 3:10; Revelation 8:13; Revelation 12:12; Revelation 13:8). shall—so Vulgate, Syriac, and Coptic. But A, B, and C read the present tense; compare Note, see on Revelation 13:8- :, on "shall not suffer." rejoice over them—The Antichristianity of the last days shall probably be under the name of philosophical enlightenment and civilization, but really man's deification of himself.... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Revelation 11:11

11. Translate as Greek, "After the three days and an half." the Spirit of life—the same which breathed life into Israel's dry bones, Ezekiel 37:10; Ezekiel 37:11 (see on Ezekiel 37:11- :), "Breath came into them." The passage here, as there, is closely connected with Israel's restoration as a nation to political and religious life. Compare also concerning the same, Hosea 6:2, where Ephraim says, "After two days will He revive us; in the third day He will raise us up, and we shall live in His... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Revelation 11:12

12. they—so A, C, and Vulgate. But B, Coptic, Syriac, and ANDREAS read, "I heard." a cloud—Greek, "the cloud"; which may be merely the generic expression for what we are familiar with, as we say "the clouds." But I prefer taking the article as definitely alluding to THE cloud which received Jesus at His ascension, :- (where there is no article, as there is no allusion to a previous cloud, such as there is here). As they resembled Him in their three and a half years' witnessing, their three and... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Revelation 11:13

13. "In that same hour"; literally, "the hour." great earthquake—answering to the "great earthquake" under the sixth seal, just at the approach of the Lord (Revelation 6:12). Christ was delivered unto His enemies on the fifth day of the week, and on the sixth was crucified, and on the sabbath rested; so it is under the sixth seal and sixth trumpet that the last suffering of the Church, begun under the fifth seal and trumpet, is to be consummated, before she enters on her seventh day of eternal... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Revelation 11:1-14

F. Supplementary revelation of the two witnesses in the Great Tribulation 11:1-14John recorded the revelation dealing with the two witnesses to inform his readers of the ministries of these important individuals during the Great Tribulation. This section continues the parenthetical revelation begun in Revelation 10:1. It is one of the more difficult chapters to interpret, and students of the book have proposed many different explanations. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Revelation 11:7-10

3. The death of the two witnesses 11:7-10 read more

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