7. Fear God--the forerunner to embracing the love of God
manifested in the Gospel. Repentance accompanies faith.
give glory to him--and not to the beast (compare
Re 13:4;
Jer 13:16).
the hour of his judgment--"The hour" implies the definite
time. "Judgment," not the general judgment, but that up on Babylon,
the beast, and his worshippers
(Re 14:8-12).
worship him that made heaven--not Antichrist (compare
Ac 14:15).
sea . . . fountains--distinguished also in
Re 8:8, 10.
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