But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets.
But. 'There shall be no longer time (Revelation 10:6, delay), but in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he is about to sound his trumpet [melle salpizein], then (also х kai (G2532)] often introduces the consequent member of a sentence) the mystery of God is finished' [aorist, etelesthee (G5055)]: the prophet regarding the future as certain as if past. So A C 'Aleph ('), Coptic; B, the future х telesthee (G5055)], 'should be finished' (cf. Revelation 11:15-18). Sweet consolation to the waiting saints!
The mystery of God - the theme of the "little book;" so of the remainder of the Apocalypse: a grand contrast to the 'mystery of iniquity-Babylon' (Revelation 17:5). The mystery of redemption, once hidden in God's secret counsels, dimly shadowed forth in types and prophecies, but now more and more clearly revealed according as the Gospel kingdom develops itself, up to its fullest consummation. Finally, His servants shall praise Him fully for the glorious consummation, in taking to Himself and His saints the kingdom so long usurped by Satan and the ungodly. This verse is an anticipation of Revelation 11:15-18.
Declared [ eueengelisen (G2097 ): the glad tidings] to. "The mystery of God" is the Gospel. The office of the prophets is to receive the glad tidings from God, in order to declare them to others. The final consummation of "the Gospel" is their great theme (cf. Galatians 3:8).