Chapter 1:vss 14-20

1:14. His head and [his] hairs [were] white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes [were] as a flame of fire;

His head and his hair were white as white wool, white as snow;

Daniel 7:9.

His eyes a flame of fire:

Daniel 10:6.

Fire: Revelation 2:18; 3:18; 4:5; 8:5, 7, 8; 9:17, 18; 10:1; 11:5; 13:13; 14:10, 18; 15:2; 16:8; 17:16; 18:8; 19:12; 20; 20:9, 10, 14, 15; 21:8.

 

1:15. And his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters.

His feet were like burnished bronze, refined as in a furnace:

Ezek. 1:7, 27; 8:2; 40:3;

Daniel 10:6.

And his voice was like the sound of many waters:

Exod. 19:19;

2 Sam. 22:14;

Job 37:4-5;

Psalm 18:13; 19:1-4; 46:6; 68:33; 103:20; 104:7;

Jer. 10:13; 51:16

Ezek. 1:24; 10:5; 43:2;

Daniel 10:6;

Joel 2:11; 3:16;

Heb. 12:26;

Revelation 16:17.

 

1:16. And he had in his right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth went a sharp twoedged sword: and his countenance [was] as the sun shineth in his strength.

                In his right hand he held seven stars:

                From his mouth issued a sharp two-edged sword:   (WS ‘Sword’).

Gen. 3:24;

Deut. 18:18-19; 32:41-42; 33:29;

Judges 7:18, 20;

Psalm 149:6;

Isaiah 11:4; 27:1; 30:27, 33; 34:5-6; 49:2; 62:3; 66:16.

Ezek. 21:3-16;

Joel 3:10;

John 17:8;

Acts 3:22-23;

Eph. 6:17;

2 Thess. 2:8;

Heb. 4:12-13;

Revelation 2:12, 16; 6:8; 19:15, 21.

And his face was like the sun shining in full strength.

Ezek. 1:27-28;

Matt. 17:2.

 

1:17. And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying unto me, Fear not; I am the first and the last:

                When I saw him, I fell at his feet as though dead:

Ezek. 1:28; 3:23; 9:8; 11:13; 43:3; 44:4;

Daniel 2:46; 8:17-18; 10:9, 15-16;

Matt. 17:6;

Luke 5:12; 17:16.

But he laid his right hand upon me, saying, ‘Fear not:

Daniel 10:10-12, 18;

Matt. 14:27; 17:7; 28:10;

I am the first and the last:

Isaiah 41:4; 43:10, (i.e. ‘the first and the last God’); 44:6; 48:12; 57:15

Revelation 1:11 (KJV); 2:8; 22:13.

 

1:18. I [am] he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.

And the living one;

John 1:4; 5:26; 11:25; 14:6;

Rom. 8:2.

I died and behold I am alive forevermore:

Job 19:26;

Isaiah 26:19;

Daniel 12:2-3;

Matt. 27:50; 28:5-6;

Mark 15:37-39; 16:6;

Luke 23:46; 24:1-7;

Acts 2:23-24; 25:19;

Rom. 6:9;

1 Cor. 15:12-28;

Phil. 2:8-9; 3:10-11;

1 John 5:11-12;

Revelation 1:5, 18; 2:8; 4:9.

And I have the keys of Death and Hades:

Psalm 16:10 = Acts 2:27-31; Psalm 63:9;

John 3:15-16; 5:24; 6:50; 8:51;

Rom. 6:9;

1 Cor. 15:21-26, 54-56;         

Eph. 4:9;

2 Tim. 1:10;

Heb. 2:9, 14-15;

Revelation 20:1, 14.

 

1:19. Write the things which thou hast seen, and the things which are, and the things which shall be hereafter;

Now write what you see and what is:  And what is to take place hereafter:

Revelation 1:1; 4:1.                                                                

 

1:20. The mystery of the seven stars which thou sawest in my right hand, and the seven golden candlesticks. The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches: and the seven candlesticks which thou sawest are the seven churches.

As for the mystery:

Matt. 13:11;

Mark 4:11;

Luke 8:10;

Rom. 11:25; 16:25;

1 Cor. 2:7; 4:1; 15:51;

Eph. 1:9; 3:3-4, 9; 6:19;

Colossians 1:26-27; 2:3; 4:3;

1 Tim. 3:9, 16;

Revelation 10:7; 17:5, 7.

Of the seven stars which you saw in my right hand and the seven golden lampstands:

Gen. 15:5; 22:17; 26:4;

Psalm 103:20; 104:4;

Eph. 4:4;

Heb. 1:7, 14; 11:12.

The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches:

(WS and Commentary at 1:1 “Angels”.)

Heb. 1:6-7, 14; 2:5, 7, 16;

(See 1:1 for “Signifying Angel”)

“Angels of the Seven Churches”:

Revelation 1:20; 2:1, 8, 12, 18; 3:1, 5, 7, 14;

Ministering Angels and Angels around the throne:3:5; 5:11; 7:1, 2, 11; 8:3, 4, 5, 7, 10, 13; 9:1, 11, 14, 15; 12:7, 9, (devil’s angels); 14:8, 10, 19; 15:1, 6, 7, 8; 16:1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 10, 12, 17; 18:1, 21; 19:17; 21:12.

Angels, as messengers of the law:

Deut. 33:2;

Psalms 68:17; 103:20;

Hag. 1:13;

Mal. 2:7;

Acts 7:38, 53;

1 Cor. 15:41;

2 Cor. 5:1;

Gal. 3:19; 4:14;

Heb. 2:2.

And the seven lampstands are the seven churches.

Revelation 4:5; 5:6;

(Seven Lampstands = 7 Churches, Rev.1:20;

7 Lamps = 7 Lamps of Fire = 7 Spirits, Rev. 4:5;

 7 Spirits = 7 Eyes of the Lamb, 5:6;

7 Stars = 7 Angels, 1:20;

Angels = Spirits, Psalm 104:4 and Heb. 1:7, 14. 

Therefore these are all synonymous and interchangeable to some degree: Lampstands, Churches, Spirits, Eyes of the Lamb, Stars.)

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