One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more hereafter.
'The one woe.'
Hereafter - `after these things.' These locusts from the abyss are probably judgments to fall on the ungodly immediately before Christ's second advent. None of the interpretations which regard them as past are satisfactory. Joel 1:2-7; Joel 2:1-11, is parallel, and refers (Joel 2:11) to THE DAY OF THE LORD GREAT AND VERY TERRIBLE; Revelation 9:10 gives the portents accompanying the Lord's coming, the earth quaking, the heavens trembling, the sun, moon, and stars withdrawing their shining; Revelation 9:18,31-32 , point to the immediately succeeding deliverance of Jerusalem: cf. Joel 3:11-17, the previous last conflict in the valley of Jehoshaphat, and God's dwelling thenceforth in Zion, blessing Judah. DeBurgh confines the locust-judgment to the Israelite land, as the sealed in Revelation 7:1-17 are Israelites: not that there are not others sealed as elect in the earth: but that, the judgment being confined to Palestine, the sealed of Israel alone needed to be expressly excepted from the visitation. He translates throughout 'THE LAND' (i:e., of Israel and Judah), instead of 'the earth.'