Revelation 11:13, 14 (Exposition) Verse 13, 14 The awesome aftermath of these fearful occurrences was described in verse 13: In the same hour there was a great earthquake. The same hour evidently meant in the midst of these events--the period of the triumph of the cause and the testimony of the two witnesses--in the hour of the interlude between sixth and seventh trumpets. The earthquake signified the revolutionary storms, uprisings and upheavals in human affairs, in governments, and among both Jewish and Roman authorities, as it became evident to all, even the most desperate that the Jewish state and Jerusalem, their city, were doomed. The statement that “a tenth part of the city fell” may seem obscure in meaning and application, but it has both religious and historical significance. In the previous chapters the like figurative phrases were used in the pronouncements of woes, saying that a third part of the earth was smitten. The division of parts was descriptive of the devastations accompanying the siege and destruction of Jerusalem and the blight of the whole land of Palestine that resulted. The woes symbolized this devastation as a series of occurrences, executed in succession. Each calamity was therefore symbolized as a fractional but a component part, in the order of the woes that were being pronounced. -from Wallace Commentary on Revelation
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