Revelation 11:1-2

I. PRELUDE TO THE SEVENTH TRUMPET.

4. Outlined ground-plan of the events of the Seventh Trumpet; that is, of the whole of Revelation 12:1 to Revelation 22:5, Revelation 11:1-13.

a. The mystic Jerusalem=the pure Church, ascertained by measurement, Revelation 11:1-2 .

This chapter has been considered the very “cross of interpreters,” so various have been the interpretations. But a careful noting of its various points will, perhaps, clearly show that it is a miniature picture of the great antichristic STRUGGLE of which all of chapters 12-20 are the full portraiture. It is the preparatory programme the portico to the building, and a small model of its structure.

To discover this we note, first, in Revelation 11:7, an anticipation of the full portraiture of the struggle in the beast, who can be no other than the beast of Revelation 13:1-10. Then, in Revelation 11:2, we have the holy city, or Christic capital, in contrast with the great city, or Babylon, the antichristic capital. We have then a clew of the great coming antithesis. A full tracing thence of the particulars, as we will give them in our notes, will make, perhaps, perfectly clear the fact that all the leading points given at length in the full prophecy of 12-20 will be found to have their correspondent points in this miniature. See tabulation at end of Revelation 11:13.