Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Seals » Illustrative of » Restraint
and the angel hurled him into the abyss, and closed it and sealed it above him [preventing his escape or rescue], so that he would no longer deceive and seduce the nations, until the thousand years were at an end. After these things he must be liberated for a short time.
Verse Concepts
Who commands the sun, and it does not shine;
Who seals up the stars [from view];
“God seals (brings to a standstill, stops) [by severe weather] the hand of every man,
That all men [whom He has made] may know His work [that is, His sovereign power and their subjection to it].
Stars » Darkening of
All the host of heaven will be dissolved,
And the skies will be rolled up like a scroll;
All their hosts [the stars and the planets] will also wither away
As a leaf withers from the vine,
And as a fig withers from the fig tree.
For the stars of heaven and their constellations
Will not flash with their light;
The sun will be dark when it rises,
And the moon will not shed its light.
The earth quakes before them,
The heavens tremble,
The sun and the moon grow dark
And the stars lose their brightness.
The sun and the moon grow dark
And the stars lose their brightness.
before the sun and the light, and the moon and the stars are darkened [by impaired vision], and the clouds [of depression] return after the rain [of tears];
Verse Concepts
Who commands the sun, and it does not shine;
Who seals up the stars [from view];
And the name of the star is Wormwood. A third part of the waters was changed into wormwood, and many people died from using the water, because it had become bitter. Then the fourth angel blew [his] trumpet, and a third of the sun was smitten, and a third of the moon, and a third of the stars, so that [the light of] a third of them was darkened, and a third of the daylight [itself] was withdrawn, and likewise a third [of the light] of the night was kept from shining.
Stars » God » Obscures
Who commands the sun, and it does not shine;
Who seals up the stars [from view];
The sun » God » Exercises sovereign power over
Who commands the sun, and it does not shine;
Who seals up the stars [from view];