The wrath of the Lamb. I looked when He (the Lamb) broke open the sixth seal, and there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth [made] of hair, and the whole moon became like blood; [Joe_2:10, Joe_2:31]
and the stars of the sky fell to the earth, like a fig tree shedding its late [summer] figs when shaken by a strong wind. [Isa_34:4]
The sky was split [separated from the land] and rolled up like a scroll, and every mountain and island were dislodged and moved out of their places. Rev 6:12-14
OUTLINE OF THE BOOK OF REVELATION
II. THE PERIOD OF STRUGGLE AND SUFFERING, Revelation 4-7
3. The Opening of the Seven Seals, Rev_6:1-17
14. What striking command was given to the martyrs of the faith?
Revelation 6:9-17
THE NEXT TWO SEALS ARE BROKEN
When He (the Lamb) broke open the fifth seal, I saw underneath the altar the souls of those who had been slaughtered because of the word of God, and because of the testimony which they had maintained [out of loyalty to Christ].
Rev 6:10 They cried in a loud voice, saying, “O Lord, holy and true, how long now before You will sit in judgment and avenge our blood on those [unregenerate ones] who dwell on the earth?” [Gen_4:10; Psa_79:10; Psa_94:3; Zec_1:12]
Then they were each given a white robe; and they were told to rest and wait quietly for a little while longer, until the number of their fellow servants and their brothers and sisters who were to be killed even as they had been, would be completed.
I looked when He (the Lamb) broke open the sixth seal, and there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth [made] of hair, and the whole moon became like blood; [Joe_2:10, Joe_2:31]
Rev 6:13 and the stars of the sky fell to the earth, like a fig tree shedding its late [summer] figs when shaken by a strong wind. [Isa_34:4]
The sky was split [separated from the land] and rolled up like a scroll, and every mountain and island were dislodged and moved out of their places.
Then the kings of the earth and the great men and the military commanders and the wealthy and the strong and everyone, [whether] slave or free, hid themselves in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains;
Rev 6:16 and they called to the mountains and the rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of Him who sits on the throne, and from the [righteous] wrath and indignation of the Lamb; [Isa_2:19-21; Hos_10:8]
for the great day of their wrath and vengeance and retribution has come, and who is able to [face God and] stand [before the wrath of the Lamb]?” [Joe_2:11; Mal_3:2; Jud_1:14; Rev_19:11-16]
Comments by
F.B.Meyer
On
Revelation 6:9-17
“THE WRATH OF THE LAMB”
This imagery is very majestic; but we cannot really think that the holy martyrs desire to be revenged, except in love and grace. That their persecutors should be forgiven in Pentecosts of revival must be the highest conception of vengeance that they permit themselves to have. The striking command that they should rest, each enclothed in a white robe of acceptance and purity, until the full roll of martyrs is complete, suggests that every age must yield its tale of those who love not their lives unto the death, because they love the Master so much more. We, too, have our daily martyrdoms, for it may be harder to live for Jesus always against continued opposition and scorn than to die once for Him.
Rev_9:1-21; Rev_10:1-11 answer to Mat_24:6-7. Rev_12:1-17; Rev_17:1-18 to Mat_24:29-30. Probably the words here refer, not to the final judgment, but to those revolutionary changes which always accompany the closing of one era and the opening of another; Heb_12:26-27.
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