Apocalypse 8:1-9:4 BDS

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Revelation 8:1-13

FOUR TRUMPET VOICESCRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTESRevelation 8:1. Seventh seal.—“The main visions give us more external aspects; the interposed visions show the inner and more spiritual aspects. The main visions give us the trumpet voices of God’s manifold providences, summoning the world to surrender to Him; the subsidiary visions point to the witness and work of the true children of God in this world, and the more secret growth of the Church of Christ.”Revelation 8:2. Seven angels.—There was a... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Revelation 8:1-13

Chapter 8And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour ( Revelation 8:1 ).Silence can sometimes be an awesome thing, especially in a tremendous crowd of people. You see what silence for fifteen seconds does. It seems like it expanded, quiet. It is sort of an awesome thing. And there in heaven with vast multitudes singing and worshipping and seeing all of the activity that is there, and suddenly there is silence when this seventh seal is... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Revelation 8:1-13

Revelation 8:1 . When he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour. The holy prophets in receiving revelations sought to be silent, calm, and abstracted from earthly ideas. So in the temple, while Zachariah was burning incense within, the people prayed in silence without. Luke 1:10. Revelation 8:2 . Seven trumpets. The first design of those trumpets was to avenge the blood of the martyrs on the cruel idolaters of the Roman world; and the... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Revelation 8:1-13

Revelation 8:1-13The seventh seal … silence in heaven.The silence of heavenI. The silence of meditation. There is a blessing, which we know not yet, in thought. In this busy human life it is hard to think. “The world is too much with us.” It drowns the “still small voice” of God. But in heaven thought will no more be disturbed. There will be no unsolved perplexities, no distracting fancies. The plan of Creation and Redemption will be unfolded. The discords of earth will be resolved in the... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Revelation 8:1

1 And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour. Ver. 1. The seventh seal ] The business or parts whereof are the seven trumpets, that sound a dreadful alarm against the Roman empire, ready now to be ruined for the innocent blood, and upon the instant suit of the martyrs, Revelation 6:10 . There was silence in heaven ] That is, in the Church on earth, often called the kingdom of heaven. This half an hour’s silence was either for horror... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Revelation 8:1

And: Revelation 5:1, Revelation 5:9, Revelation 6:1, Revelation 6:3, Revelation 6:5, Revelation 6:7, Revelation 6:9, Revelation 6:12 silence: Job 4:16, Psalms 37:7, Psalms 62:1, *marg. Habakkuk 2:20, Zechariah 2:13 Reciprocal: 2 Timothy 3:1 - perilous read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Revelation 8:1

And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour.And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven — Such a silence is mentioned but in this one place. It was uncommon, and highly observable: for praise is sounding in heaven day and night. In particular, immediately before this silence, all the angels, and before them the innumerable multitude, had been crying with a loud voice; and now all is still at once: there is an... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Revelation 8:1

Seventh seal issues no revelation, but inaugurates the seven trumpets, Revelation 8:1-6. 1. And The cycle of the six seals being finished, the office of the seventh seal is simply to inaugurate the next seven-series that of the trumpets. Just so it is the office of the seventh trumpet to issue the seven-series of the vials, with all the events of which they are a central part. Again, as the purpose of the opening of the seals is revelation, so the sounding of the trumpets is ... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Revelation 8:1-13

IV. THE SEVEN TRUMPETS, Revelation 7:1 to Revelation 20:10. Of the trumpets, the first four are mundane, or earthly; each of the four blasts draws down a judgment upon some creational point, as earth, sea, fountains and rivers; firmamental luminaries. It is the sins of men that draw down these bolts of wrath, rendering every point of creation hostile to our peace. “Cursed is the ground for thy sake,” (Genesis 3:17,) is the key-note. This sad status of humanity has existed through all past... read more

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Revelation 8:1-13

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Revelation 8:1-13

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Revelation 8:1-13

The Biblical Illustrator - Revelation 8:1-13

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Revelation 8:1

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Revelation 8:1

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Revelation 8:1

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Revelation 8:1

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Revelation 8:1-13

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