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899 900having innermost-beings; and the third part of the ships were destroyed.8.10 And the third messenger / angel gave a blast. And it fell out of the heaven, a great898(...continued)was made, other than simply being a mistake in copying (or perhaps a belief that sea creaturesdo not have “innermost beings”). But the omission of the phrase does not change themeaning of Revelation.899This is a Hebrew way of describing sea-creatures; it means "sea-life," or "sea-ani-mals." In Hebrew an animal is a hY"ßx; vp,n
901star, burning like a lamp; and it fell upon the third part of the rivers and upon the springs of the901For a meteor or star falling out of heaven, compare Isaiah 14:3-20, where the King ofBabylon is described in the following symbolical language:How the oppressing [tyrant] has ceased, ceased the raging!...One who rulesnations with anger, persecution without restraint...The shadowy world of the dead belowis excited over you, to greet your coming, awakening [her] powerless ghosts for you, all[who were] bosses on earth...All of them respond, and they say to you: Also you--youhave become weak like us! Unto us, you have been made similar! Brought down todeath's shadow-land is your pride, the music of your guitars! Spread beneath you for abed are [the] maggots, and for your bedspread, worms! How you have fallen from theheavens, Shining-One, Son of the Dawn [rx;v'_-!B, lleäyhe, heylel ben-shachar, literally“Morning-Star, Son of (the) Dawn” translated into Greek by o` eẁsfo,roj o` prwi.avnate,llwn, “the morning-star, the first one shining”]! You have been cut down [like atree] to the earth, [the] one who causes nations to fall prostrate!And you--you said in your heart, [Into] the heavens, I will go up! Above the starsof God, I will exalt my throne! And I will sit on the assembly-mount, in the far reaches ofthe north! I will go up above the heights of the clouds! I will make myself like God MostHigh!’ Surely to death's shadow-land you will be brought down, to the far reaches of thepit [of the grave]! Those who see you will stare wonderingly at you, they will study youcarefully, [saying:] Is this the man who caused the earth to quake? The one whoshook kingdoms?...With this biblical usage in mind, in which a fallen tyrant / dictator / king / emperor iscompared to a fallen morning-star, we may ask ourselves whether John's vision might nothave reference to the fall of a great Roman emperor, with its devastating consequences upona third part of the world, or even to the fall of the Roman Empire itself.Some historicist interpreters hold that “The great star (verse 10) of this vision is Attila,‘the scourge of God.’ The Romans knew little about the Huns before 440 A.D. Their emergencewas as sudden as a blazing meteor. Attila assembled his 800,000 men upon the banksof the Danube...They decimated the regions of the Rhine, upper Danube, and Po Rivers...Inthe Italian Alps, they shed so much blood as to pollute the waters that have their springsthere...“[However, another historicist interpreter], Matthew Henry...presents two possibilities:‘Some take this to be a political star... Others take it to be an ecclesiastical star...[the heretic]Pelagius, who proved about this time a falling star, and greatly corrupted the churches ofChrist.’” (Gregg, pp. 160, 162)Futurist interpreters Gaebelein and Ironside hold that the great star is symbolic. “Gaebeleinconsistently applies these visions to the religio-political realm, seeing the political Antichristas occupying center stage, while Ironside understands the fulfillment as applying to therealm of Christendom, with the main personage in view as the Pope...” (Gregg, p. 161)420
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