translation_id: net-engnet

book_id: REV

label: NET study note

text: According to the next verse, these three unclean spirits are spirits of demons.


text: These lines are parenthetical, forming an aside to the narrative. The speaker here is the Lord Jesus Christ himself rather than the narrator. Many interpreters have seen this verse as so abrupt that it could not be an original part of the work, but the author has used such asides before ( 1:7; 14:13 ) and the suddenness here (on the eve of Armageddon) is completely parallel to Jesus’ warning in Mark 13:15-16 and parallels.


text: Every island fled away and no mountains could be found. Major geographical and topographical changes will accompany the Day of the Lord.