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Introduction
Chapter 7 ended with a glorious vision of the new kingdom and the innumerable multitude of which it will be comprised.
It is a vision meant to inspire hope and engender courage.
We need such a vision to buoy our spirits in a world that where injustice and brokenness press in on us from every angle.
God knows this and so it make total sense that such a rapturous interlude would precede the dark pronouncements that must now occupy our attention.
The birth of the new kingdom like all births will not come without paig
Analysis
Rev 8:1-
This is a deafening silence.
Imagine the contrast between this and the scene of worship at the end of chapter 7.
We are being prepared for something solemn and momentous.
Rev 8:3-
Prayer the church's banquet, angel's age,
God's breath in man returning to his birth,
God's breath in man returning to his birth,
The soul in paraphrase, heart in pilgrimage,
The Christian plummet sounding heav'n and earth
The soul in paraphrase, heart in pilgrimage,
The Christian plummet sounding heav'n and earth
The Christian plummet sounding heav'n and earth
Prayer reenters history with incalculable effects.
Our earth is shaken daily by it.
God's breath in man returning to his birth,
The soul in paraphrase, heart in pilgrimage,
Eugene Peterson
George Herbert - Prayer
Rev
The Christian plummet sounding heav'n and earth
Engine against th' Almighty, sinner's tow'r,
Reversed thunder, Christ-side-piercing spear,
The six-days world transposing in an hour,
A kind of tune, which all things hear and fear;
Reversed thunder, Christ-side-piercing spear,
The six-days world transposing in an hour,
George Herbert
A kind of tune, which all things hear and fear;
This refers back to the prayers of the martyrs in
Prayer is bi-directional.
This scene is a stark reminder that our prayers for justice do not fall on deaf ears.
This scene evokes images of the temple sacrifices and the mixing of the prayers with incense is an image found in other OT verses, for example,
We often think of prayer as a last resort after we have run out of “practical” options.
This shows that prayer is possibly the most practical thing we can do in any situation but especially regarding God’s redemptive activity.
Imagine our prayers being filled with fire and hurled back to earth as a sort of “reversed thunder”.
Our prayers re-enter and alter history.
We should recall that John was “in the Spirit” when he received this vision and this no doubt meant he was praying.
Praying brings about an encounter with God as opposed to just knowledge about God - it is relational.
Prayer brings about vision.
Note the contrast between John’s human situtation and this heavenly vision.
By all indications Rome is in charge.
They have banished John to a lonely island and in so doing excercised their complete control over his person.
They think they are in charge but this vision demonstrates otherwise.
Plagues
Rev 8:6-13
Rev 8:10-
Rev 8:12
There are seven plagues delineated in chapter 8 and 9 and these echo the plagues of Exodus which are listed in
A third of the earth and it’s people are affected by the first series of plagues leaving the final destruction for the last three.
The results of this extended discussion of the Egyptian plague tradition in the OT and early Judaism suggest that there was a strong tendency to reduce the ten-plague tradition of Exodus (itself the result of an expansion of an earlier seven-plague tradition) to a seven-plague schema.
David E. Aune, , vol.
52B, Word Biblical Commentary (Dallas: Word, Incorporated, 1998), 506.
The results of this extended discussion of the Egyptian plague tradition in the OT and early Judaism suggest that there was a strong tendency to reduce the ten-plague tradition of Exodus (itself the result of an expansion of an earlier seven-plague tradition) to a seven-plague schema.
David E. Aune, , vol.
52B, Word Biblical Commentary (Dallas: Word, Incorporated, 1998), 506.
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