Offenbarung 14:7

7 und sprach mit großer Stimme: Fürchtet Gott und gebet ihm die Ehre; denn die Zeit seines Gerichts ist gekommen! Und betet an den, der gemacht hat Himmel und Erde und Meer und Wasserbrunnen.

Offenbarung 14:7 Meaning and Commentary

Revelation 14:7

Saying with a loud voice
These ministers shall lift up their voice like a trumpet, and cry aloud, and deliver out the Gospel fully and faithfully, with great authority and power, and with much vehemence, zeal, and fervency: fear God;
or "the Lord", as some copies, the Vulgate Latin and Arabic versions, read: not the antichristian beast and his followers, as men formerly had done; but God the Lord, and him not with a servile fear, or a fear of punishment, of wrath, hell, and damnation; nor with a distrust of his grace, love, power, and providence, much less with an hypocritical fear; but with a godly fear, which has the goodness of God for its object, and springs from a sense of the love of God, and is a reverential affection for him, and is attended with faith and spiritual joy, and includes all worship of him, both internal and external; hence the Syriac version renders it, "serve God": and this shows that the duties of religion are to be inculcated by Gospel ministers; and that they will be urged by them when the everlasting Gospel is preached in its greatest purity: and give glory to him;
and not to graven images, which he will not allow; and glory is to be given to him, on account of the perfections of his nature, and, the works of his hands; and is given when men ascribe greatness to him, praise his works of creation, and acquiesce in those of Providence, acknowledging the power, goodness, and wisdom of God in all; and when they give thanks for all his mercies, temporal and spiritual, and especially for Jesus Christ; and when they exercise faith on him as their God in Christ, and ascribe their salvation to him and to the Lamb, and not to the works of their hands; and when they attend his worship, and the duties of religion, and so glorify him with their bodies and spirits, which are his: for the hour of his judgement is come;
not of the great and last judgment, but of the government of the Lord Christ, committed to him by God the Father; in which sense the word is used in ( John 5:22 ) for now will the time be come, when the kingdoms of this world will be his; and he will take to himself his great power, and reign, in a spiritual manner, in the world; and now also will be his time of judging the dead, or of avenging his people, whose blood has been shed for him, and of his judging the great whore, or of inflicting his judgments upon antichrist and his followers; all which will be under the sounding of the seventh trumpet, to which this vision is contemporary; see ( Revelation 11:15 Revelation 11:17 Revelation 11:18 ) ( 17:1 ) ( 19:2 ) and worship him that made heaven and earth, and the sea, and the
fountains of waters;
God, the Creator of all things; and not the beasts, nor idols, the works of men's hands.

Offenbarung 14:7 In-Context

5 und in ihrem Munde ist kein Falsch gefunden; denn sie sind unsträflich vor dem Stuhl Gottes.

6 Und ich sah einen Engel fliegen mitten durch den Himmel, der hatte ein ewiges Evangelium zu verkündigen denen, die auf Erden wohnen, und allen Heiden und Geschlechtern und Sprachen und Völkern,

7 und sprach mit großer Stimme: Fürchtet Gott und gebet ihm die Ehre; denn die Zeit seines Gerichts ist gekommen! Und betet an den, der gemacht hat Himmel und Erde und Meer und Wasserbrunnen.

8 Und ein anderer Engel folgte nach, der sprach: Sie ist gefallen, sie ist gefallen, Babylon, die große Stadt; denn sie hat mit dem Wein der Hurerei getränkt alle Heiden.

9 Und der dritte Engel folgte diesem nach und sprach mit großer Stimme: So jemand das Tier anbetet und sein Bild und nimmt sein Malzeichen an seine Stirn oder an seine Hand,