Revelation 11:4 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ These are the two olive trees, and the two candlesticks standing before the God of the earth. ”

• Revelation 11:4 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  These are the two olive-trees - These are represented by the two olive-trees, or these are what are symbolized by the two olive-trees. There can be little doubt that there is an allusion here to...

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• Revelation 11:4 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  These (8) are the two olive trees, and the two candlesticks standing before the God of the earth. (8) That is, the ordinary and perpetual instruments of spiritual grace, peace and light in my Church...

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• Revelation 11:4 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  The Interlude continued. The Second Episode. The first two verses are introductory, and represent the survey or measuring of the holy city by the seer. Then comes the prophecy concerning the two wi...

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• Revelation 11:4 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  are. i.e. represent. two olive trees. Compare Zechariah 4:3 ; Zechariah 4:11 ; Zechariah 4:14 , where by the same Figure of speech ( Metaphor ) two persons are represented. standing. The t...

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• Revelation 11:4 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  These are the two olive trees, and the two candlesticks standing before the God of the earth. These are the two olive trees - Mentioned Zephaniah 4:14 , which there represent Zerubbabel and Joshua t...

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• Revelation 11:4 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  These are the two olive trees, and the two candlesticks standing before the God of the earth. Standing before (in the presence of) the God of the earth. 'Aleph (') A B C, Vulgate, Syriac, Cop...

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• Revelation 11:4 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  The Two Witnesses. The Seventh Trumpet 1-14. Second episode. There is much difference of opinion as to the meaning of this vision. Perhaps the key may be found in the parallelism of the book. Ther...

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• Revelation 11:4 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  (3-14) The Two WITNESSES. — It is the opinion of one able and pre-eminently painstaking commentator that “no solution has ever been given of this portion of the prophecy.” I quote this that none ma...

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• Revelation 11:4 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  CHAPTER VIII. SECOND CONSOLATORY VISION AND THE SEVENTH TRUMPET. Revelation 11:1-19 . FROM the first consolatory vision we proceed to the second: - "And there was given unto me a reed like unt...

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• Revelation 11:4 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  the “Two Witnesses” Revelation 11:1-13 We cannot in this brief note indicate the various interpretations of this chapter, but certain great principles underlie it, which are true of every age....

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• Revelation 11:4 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  John is called on to measure the temple. In such measurements the court of the Gentiles is not to be recognized. It shows God dealing with the world through His chosen people. The account of the two...

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• Revelation 11:4 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (3) And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth. (4) These are the two olive trees, and the two candlesticks...

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• Revelation 11:4 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  These are the two olive trees ,.... Or represented by the two olive trees in Zechariah 4:3 , which there design Joshua and Zerubbabel; and who in laying out themselves, their gifts and wealth, in r...

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• Revelation 11:4 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  These are the two olive trees, and the two candlesticks standing before the God of the earth. Ver. 4. These are the two olive trees ] See Zechariah 4:3 ; Zechariah 4:11 ; Zechariah 4:14 . in th...

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• Revelation 11:4 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  And I will give power unto my two witnesses Here God promises to raise up some true and faithful witnesses to preach and protest against the innovations and inventions which he foresaw would corrup...

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• Revelation 11:4 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  We have seen under the sixth trumpet the desolating invasion of Israel by the King of the North, which takes place because of Israel's idolatrous image of the Beast set up in the temple at the middle...

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• Revelation 11:4 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  The Two Witnesses. A. D.  95.       3 And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall...

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• Revelation 11:4 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Here is a manifest allusion to Zechariah's vision, Malachi 4:2,3,11 -14 , though with some little difference. He saw a candlestick all of gold, with a bowl upon the top of it, and his seven lamps...

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• Revelation 11:4 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  The Measuring of the Sanctuary and the Two Witnesses ( Revelation 11:1-14 ). It is significant that these events take place within the second ‘woe' when wholesale death pervades the Middle East (...

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• Revelation 11:4 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  THE FATE OF JERUSALEM AND ITS TEMPLE CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES THE paragraph, Revelation 11:1-13 , gives the contents of the “little book,” which are in part joyful and in part bitter. The...

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• Revelation 11:4 - Scofield Reference Notes

  God Adonai. ( Zechariah 4:14 ).

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• Revelation 11:4 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Revelation 11:1 . There was given me a reed like unto a rod to measure the temple of God, the new-testament church. The prophet of old had a similar vision, and all the prophets spake of the enlar...

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• Revelation 11:4 - The Biblical Illustrator

  Rise, and measure the temple of God. The living temple of Christ’s Church and the two witnesses of the Word written and the sacraments The temple and altar, and them that worshipped therein, we...

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• Revelation 11:4 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Revelation 11:1 And there was given me a reed like unto a rod. We are not told by whom the reed is given, but in Revelation 21:1-66 . the angel has the reed, and so also in...

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• Revelation 11:4 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Of the Two Witnesses and the Sounding of the Seventh Trumpet. Measuring the temple of God:

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• Revelation 11:4 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Kings 17:1 ; Deuteronomy 10:8 ; Exodus 8:22 ; Isaiah 54:5 ; Jeremiah 11:16 ; Luke 11:33 ; Micah 4:13 ; Matthew 5:14-16 ; Psalms 52:8 ; Revelation 1:20 ; Romans 11:17 ; Zechariah 4:11-14...

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• Revelation 11:4 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

  The Two Witnesses Revelation 10:1-11 and Revelation 11:1-19 INTRODUCTORY WORDS By way of introduction to the study of the eleventh chapter of Revelation we wish to say a word about the t...

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• Revelation 11:4 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  These are the two olive trees — That is, as Zerubbabel and Joshua, the two olive trees spoken of by Zechariah, Zechariah 3:9 , Zechariah 4:10 , were then the two chosen instruments in God's hand,...

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