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NASB | Exodus 9:23 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. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Exodus 9:23 Moses stretched out his staff toward the sky, and the LORD sent thunder and hail, and lightning (fireballs) ran down to the earth and along the ground. And the LORD rained hail on the land of Egypt. |
Bible Question: Rev.8;7 What does this verse mean hail and fire mixed with bood? |
Bible Answer: 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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