Revelation 6:9-11:14 NIV

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Revelation 6:9-11

‘And when he opened the fifth seal I saw underneath the altar the souls of those who had been slain for the word of God and for the testimony which they held. And they cried with a loud voice, saying, “How long, Oh Master (despotes), the holy and true, do you not judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on earth?” And to each one was given a white robe, and they were told that they should rest yet for a little time until their fellow-servants also, and their brothers, who would be killed... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Revelation 6:1-17

Revelation 6. The Opening of the Seals.— When the seals of the book are opened by the Lamb, a number of woes are let loose upon the world. The first four are described under the figure of horses of different colour, the first white, the second blood-red, the third black, the fourth pale or livid. The best interpretation regards these woes as ( 1 ) triumphant militarism, ( 2 ) slaughter, ( 3 ) famine, ( 4 ) death. The other two woes are described without this metaphor— martyrdom and... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Revelation 6:9

And when he had opened the fifth seal: this and the next seal’s opening, is not prefaced with any living creature calling to John to come and see. We must consider: 1. The number of the beasts was but four, who all had had their courses. 2. Some have thought that it is, because here is no mention of any new persecution, but a consequent of the former. 3. But this vision was so plain, it needed no expositor. I saw under the altar; still he speaks in the dialect of the Old Testament, where in the... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Revelation 6:1-17

CALAMITIES ON THE OPENING OF SIX SEALSCRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTESTHE first catastrophe, or overthrow of the Jewish persecuting power, is the subject of chaps. 6–11. Some take the subject in a more general way, as being the relation of Christianity to great universal evils.Revelation 6:1 One.—ἑνός, the first of the living ones. Come and see.—Properly only the word “Come.” This cry is not to the seer, but to the riders, who immediately begin to appear. Some take the invitation as “addressed to... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Revelation 6:9

Revelation 6:9 The Waiting of the Invisible Church. We may gather with all certainty from this wonderful revelation of the inner mysteries of the heavenly court (1) that God has a fixed time for the end of the world; (2) that God has fixed that time according to the measures of the work which He has to finish. Even as Christ had a work to finish on earth, so that we read again and again that His "hour was not yet come," in like manner now in heaven He has a definite foreseen scheme for the... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Revelation 6:1-17

Chapter 6Now in chapter six, He begins to open the scroll.And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four living creatures saying, Come and see. And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer ( Revelation 6:1-2 ).And so the first thing that takes place upon the earth once the church has been taken out, the moment this first seal is... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Revelation 6:1-17

Revelation 6:1 . One of the living creatures, that is, the lion, with a voice roaring like thunder, said, Come and see. The saints must keep their eyes on what the Lord is doing in the earth. Revelation 6:2 . He went forth conquering, and to conquer. Christ having put down the jews, gave power to the apostles to subdue the nations to the faith; and the word of the Lord had free course, and was glorified. Revelation 6:4 . There went out another horse that was red, whose rider was... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Revelation 6:1-17

Revelation 6:1-17The Lamb opened one of the seals.The development of good and evil in human historyI. The development of good in human history.1. The good is embodied in a personal life. “He that sat,” etc. “Grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.” He was the Right--incarnate, living, acting; and this, not only during His corporeal life here, but in all His disciples through all times.2. The good embodied in a personal life is aggressive in its action. “He went forth,” etc. Wherever the sunbeams... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Revelation 6:9-11

Revelation 6:9-11I saw under the altar the souls.Activity of the souls of the departedI. St. John, we here read, was allowed to behold the souls of the martyrs, and they were living beneath the altar of the Lord. What, then, is the altar? In answer we say, that it is the place of a glorious and a happy security. It was to the altar that the murderer ran and clasped its horns, when the avenger of blood was in hot pursuit; it was to the altar, with all its beautiful accessories, the laver, the... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Revelation 6:9

9 And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held: Ver. 9. Under the altar ] i.e. Under Christ, Hebrews 13:10 , under his custody and safeguard; or, under the altar, that is, lying at the bottom of the altar, as beasts newly slain for sacrifice. See Philippians 2:17 ; 2 Timothy 4:6 . The ten persecutions and (after them) the invasions of the Goths, Vandals, Huns, and Herula, heaped on... read more

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Revelation 6:9-11

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Revelation 6:1-17

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Revelation 6:9

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Revelation 6:1-17

Sermon Bible Commentary - Revelation 6:9

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Revelation 6:1-17

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Revelation 6:1-17

The Biblical Illustrator - Revelation 6:1-17

The Biblical Illustrator - Revelation 6:9-11

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Revelation 6:9

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