Revelation 6:14 NIV

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Revelation 6:12-17

Revelation 6:12-17. And I beheld Further in my vision; when he The Lamb; had opened the sixth seal; and lo! there was a great earthquake Greek, σεισμος μεγας εγενετο , there was a great concussion: for the expression comprehends the shaking of heaven as well as of the earth; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair It lost its usual lustre, and looked black and dark, as in a total eclipse; and the moon became as blood Instead of appearing with its usual brightness in the... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Revelation 6:1-17

6:1-8:5 THE SEVEN SEALSMuch of the next part of the book records three series of judgment visions that John saw - the seven seals (6:1-8:5), the seven trumpets (8:6-11:19) and the seven bowls of wrath (15:1-16:21). John also saw another series of visions, the seven thunders, but God did not allow him to record them (10:3-4). This is a reminder that God has not given us all the information about what he is doing, and will yet do, as he brings his purposes in the world to fulfilment.In the... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Revelation 6:14

departed = parted asunder. See Acts 15:39 . scroll. See Revelation 1:11 . when, &c. = rolling itself up. moved = removed, as Revelation 2:5 . read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Revelation 6:12-17

Revelation 6:12-17. I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, &c.— The sixth seal or period produces mighty changes and revolutions, which, according to the prophetic style, are expressed by great commotions in the earth, and in the heavens. The very same images, the very same expressions are used by the other prophets concerning the mutations and alterations of religions and governments; and why may they not therefore, with equal propriety and fitness, be applied to one of the greatest... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Revelation 6:14

14. departed—Greek, "was separated from" its place; "was made to depart." Not as ALFORD, "parted asunder"; for, on the contrary, it was rolled together as a scroll which had been open is rolled up and laid aside. There is no "asunder one from another" here in the Greek, as in :-, which ALFORD copies. mountain . . . moved out of . . . places— (Psalms 121:1, Margin; Jeremiah 3:23; Jeremiah 4:24; Nahum 1:5). This total disruption shall be the precursor of the new earth, just as the pre-Adamic... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Revelation 6:12-17

6. The sixth seal 6:12-17The scene now shifts back to earth."The entire passage in every clause utilizes well known prophetic anticipations of the day of the Lord, and by his use of these images John identifies the day for his readers. One may check this by consulting the chief scriptures John employs, notably Joel 2:10; Joel 2:30 f., Isaiah 13:9 ff; Isaiah 2:10 ff; Isaiah 34:4, Ezekiel 32:7 f., Hosea 10:8. These passages depict the concomitants of the day of the Lord and supply John with all... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Revelation 6:14

Evidently the sky will appear to split and roll back in two opposite directions (cf. Isaiah 34:4). [Note: Thomas, Revelation 1-7, p. 454.] The universe will seem to be coming apart. Apparently the opening of the sky will give earth-dwellers a glimpse into the throne-room of heaven (Revelation 6:16). Probably the earthquake (Revelation 6:12) will cause mountains and islands to rise and fall (cf. Nahum 1:6). read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Revelation 6:1-17

The Six SealsThe afflicted Church has been reminded in Revelation 4 f. that God is over all, and that the future is committed to the Lamb. Now (Revelation 6 - Revelation 8:1) she is shown that future, unrolling to its appointed end, i.e. the judgment of the enemies of God and the triumph of those who ’overcome.’ The Lamb opens the seven seals. Apparently we are to understand that, as each seal is opened, a portion of that which is written in the book is revealed pictorially. Revelation 7... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Revelation 6:12-14

(12-14) And I beheld . . .—Better, And I saw when He opened the sixth seal, and (omit “lo!”) a great shaking took place, and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon all became as blood, and the stars of the heaven fell to the earth, as a fig-tree casts its winter figs when shaken by a great wind, and the heaven departed like a scroll being rolled up, and every mountain and island were moved out of their places. It is well to keep in mind the parallel imagery of the Old... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Revelation 6:12-17

(12-17) The sixth seal.—The seals follow the lines laid down by our Lord in Matthew 24:0. There He tells His disciples that wars (Revelation 6:6), famines and pestilences (Revelation 6:7), and persecutions (Revelation 6:9) are to be expected; these are necessary features in the history of the world. But these features are described by our Master as preliminary to His Coming and the end of the world (Matthew 24:3), and that when these had wrought their work then the Coming of the Son of Man... read more

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Revelation 6:12-17

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Revelation 6:1-17

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Revelation 6:14

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Revelation 6:12-17

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Revelation 6:14

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Revelation 6:12-17

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Revelation 6:14

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Revelation 6:1-17

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Revelation 6:12-14

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Revelation 6:12-17

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