And it shall be in that day, that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the former sea, and half of them toward the hinder sea: in summer and in winter shall it be.(v.8)
'In summer and in winter shall it be.' Three months mark the period between summer and winter. Living waters dividing from each other are not one single event. Five months which must be fair estimation for which we have the authority of the Book of the Revelation. Ch.9
"And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit./And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit."(Re.9:1-2). It releases hurtful things that cannot kill but prolong agony. "And their power was to hurt men five months./And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon." Their power lasts five months, which ties up with the expression, 'in summer and in winter shall it be'. Inclusive of the setting of summer and ending of winter it shall be five months.
The living waters refer to those elect who shall see the Son of man coming in his glory, which has a concrete imagery. Jesus alluded to the sign of summer in this passage, "Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet teder, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh:"(Matt.24:29-32) The remnant shall be left in charge of Abaddon for five months.
vv.6-7
Compare the above with the passage, "Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:"(Matt.24:29)
"In Summer and Winter"
And it shall be in that day, that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the former sea, and half of them toward the hinder sea: in summer and in winter shall it be.(v.8)
'In summer and in winter shall it be.' Three months mark the period between summer and winter. Living waters dividing from each other are not one single event. Five months which must be fair estimation for which we have the authority of the Book of the Revelation. Ch.9
"And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit./And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit."(Re.9:1-2). It releases hurtful things that cannot kill but prolong agony. "And their power was to hurt men five months./And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon." Their power lasts five months, which ties up with the expression, 'in summer and in winter shall it be'. Inclusive of the setting of summer and ending of winter it shall be five months.
The living waters refer to those elect who shall see the Son of man coming in his glory, which has a concrete imagery. Jesus alluded to the sign of summer in this passage, "Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet teder, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh:"(Matt.24:29-32) The remnant shall be left in charge of Abaddon for five months.
vv.6-7
Compare the above with the passage, "Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:"(Matt.24:29)
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