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1 | what does Rev. 8;7 mean? | Ex 9:23 | Littleelybear | 141940 | ||
Rev.8;7 What does this verse mean hail and fire mixed with bood? | ||||||
2 | what does Rev. 8;7 mean? | Ex 9:23 | Ray | 141941 | ||
Hi Littleelybear, Ex 9:23, "And Moses stretched out his staff toward the sky, and the Lord sent thunder and hail, and fire ran down to the earth. And the *Lord rained hail on the land of Egypt." Rev 8:4, "And the smoke of the incense, with the prayers of the saints, went up before *God out of the angel's hand...7...and there came hail and fire, mixed with blood, and they were thrown to the earth;" The imagery of John comes from the descriptions in Exodus of the plagues in Egypt. William Barclay in the Daily Study Bible Series, "the Revelation of John" writes: "We have further to note where John found his imagery. For the most part the pictures find their origin in the descriptions in Exodus of the plagues which fell on Egypt when Pharoah refused to allow the people to go. In John's picture hail and fire and blood fall upon the dry land. In Exodus 9:24 we read how there came upon Egypt fire mixed with hail or unparalleled destructiveness. John to increase the terror adds blood, remembering Joel's picture of the day when the sun would be turned into darkness and the moon into blood (Joel 2:10). In John's picture a thir part of the sea becomes blood and the fishes in it die. In Exodus, whenMoses lifted up his rod and smote the watrs, the waters of the Nile turned to blood and the fishes in the river died (Exodus 7:20,21)."... In John's picture there came a darkening of a third part of the lights of heaven. In Exodus one of the plagues was a darkness that could be felt over the whole land (Exodus 10:21-23). As we have so often seen, John is so steeped in the Old Testament that its visions come to him as the natural backgound of all that he has to say." William Barclay (and MacArthur also in his notes) have some comments about other natural actual events that could have been in his mind also. Let me know if you want more of their thoughts. From the heart, Ray |
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3 | what does Rev. 8;7 mean? | Ex 9:23 | Ray | 141953 | ||
More--for whoever is interested. MacArthur's notes for Revelation 8:7: "8:7 hail and fire followed, mingled with blood. This may describe volcanic eruptions that could certainly result from the earthquakes in v.5. The steam and water thrown into the sky by such eruptions could easily condense into hail and fall to earth along with the fiery lava (cf. Ex. 9:13-25). Dust and gases may so contaminate falling liquid water that it appears blood red." William Barclay, continuing from the quote of my first post concerning Rev 8:7-12: Barclay writes: "In this case it is by no means possible that John is taking at least a part of his picture from actual events which he had seen or of which he had heard. A rain which looks like a rain of blood has more than once been reported from the Mediterranean countries. There is, for instance, a record of such a rain in Italy and all over south-east Europe in 1901. The reason for it is that fine red sand from the Sahara Desert is caught up into the upper air; and then when the rain comes it seems to be raining blood, as the rain and the fine red particles of sand fall together upon the earth. It may well be that John had seen something like this or had heard of it. Further, he speaks of a flaming mass falling into the sea. This sounds very like a volcanic eruption. There was an eruption of Mount Versuvius in August of A.D. 79 which decimated Naples and its bay. That would be within a very few years of the writing of the Revelation. The Aegean Sea has volcanic islands and volcanoes beneath the sea. Strabo, the Greek geographer, reports an eruption in the Aegean Sea, in which Patmos lay, in the year 196 B.C., which actually resulted in the formation of a new island called Palaia Kaumene. Such events also may have been in John's mind. In this picture of terror John has the vision of God using the elemental forces of nature to warn man of the final destruction to come." I hope these quotes are of interest and help. From the heart, Ray |
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