And the temple of God was opened in heaven, and there was seen in his temple the ark of his testament: and there were lightnings, and voices, and thunderings, and an earthquake, and great hail.
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Gill's Exposition
And the temple of God was opened in heaven,.... The temple at Jerusalem, to which the allusion is, was the place of public worship; this, in times of idolatry, was shut up, and fell to decay; and when…
Barnes' Notes
Analysis of the Chapter 11:19–12 This portion of the book commences, according to the view presented in the closing remarks on the last chapter, a new series of visions, designed more particularly to…
Adam Clarke
The temple of God was opened in heaven - The true worship of God was established and performed in the Christian Church; this is the true temple, that at Jerusalem being destroyed.
And there were…
We have here the sounding of the seventh and last trumpet, which is ushered in by the usual warning and demand of attention: The second woe is past, and, behold, the third woe cometh quickly. Then the…
Cambridge Bible
the temple of God See on Rev 4:6; Rev 6:9.
the ark of his testament Better covenant, as constantly in the O. T.
there were lightnings&c. So Rev 8:5; Rev 16:18: in all three places, they mark the end…
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