Standing before the God of the earth

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The Revelation
Of Saint John The Apostle
& Evangelist With the Annotations
Of Francis Junius & Chapter 11 :

1 The Temple
is commanded to be measured.

3 The Lord
stirred up two witnesses,

7 whom are murdereth,
9 and no man burieth them,

11 God raiseth them to life,
12 and calleth them up to heaven,

13 the wicked are terrified,

15 by the trumpet of the
seventh Angel, the resurrection,

18 and judgment is described.

1 (1) Then was given me
a reed like unto a rod; and
the Angel stood by, saying,
Rise and (2) (*) mete the Temple
of God, and the altar, and them
that worship therein.

(1) The authority
of the intended revelation
being declared, together with
the necessity of that calling, which
was particularly imposed upon John;
hereafter followeth the history of the
estate of Christ his Church, both
conflicting or warfaring, and
overcoming in Christ.

For the true Church
of Christ is said to fight
against that which is falsely
so called, over the which
Antichrist ruleth, Christ Jesus
overthrowing Antichrist by the
spirit of his mouth; and Christ is
said to overcome most gloriously
until he shall slay Antichrist by the
appearance of his coming, as the
Apostle excellently teacheth,
in 2 Thessalonians 2:8 .

So this history hath two parts:
One of the state of the Church
conflicting with temptations, unto
the sixteenth Chapter.

The other of the state
of the same church obtaining
victory, thence unto Chapter 20.

The first part
hath two members
most conveniently distributed
into their times, whereof the first
containeth a history of the Christian
Church for 1260 years, what time the
Gospel of Christ was as it were taken
up from amongst men into heaven; the
second containeth a history of the same
Church unto the victory perfected.

And these two
members are briefly,
though distinctly propounded
in this Chapter, but are both of
them more at large discoursed
after in due order.

For we understand
the state of the Church
conflicting, out of Chapters 12
and 13, and of the same growing
out of afflictions, out of Chapters 14,
15 and 16 .

Neither did John
at unawares join together
the history of these two times
in this Chapter, because here
is spoken of prophecy, which
all confess to be one just and
innumerable in the Church, and
which Christ commanded to be
continual.

The history of the former time
reacheth unto Revelation 11:2-14,
the latter is set down in the rest of
this Chapter Revelation 11:15-19 .

In the former
are shewed these
things: the calling of
the servants of God in
Revelation 11:4; the conflicts
which the faithful must undergo
in their calling, for Christ and his
Church, thence unto Revelation 11:5-10,
and their resurrection, and receiving up into
heaven unto Revelation 11:11-14 .

In the calling
of the servants of God
are mentioned two things:
the begetting and setting of
the Church in two verses, and
the education of it in two verses.

The begetting of the Church
is here commended unto John
by sign and by speech; the sign
is a measuring rod, and the speech
a commandment to measure the Temple
of God, that is, to reduce the same unto
a new form; because the Gentiles are
already entered into the Temple of
Jerusalem, and shall shortly defile
and overthrow the same utterly.

(2) Either that of Jerusalem
which was a figure of the Church
of Christ, or that heavenly Example,
whereof in Revelation 11:19, but the
first liketh me better, and the things
following do all agree thereunto.

The sense therefore is,
Thou seest all things in God's
house, almost from the passion
of Christ, to be disordered; and
that not only the city of Jerusalem,
but also the court of the Temple is
trampled under foot by the nations,
and of profane men whether Jews or
strangers; and that only the Temple,
that is, the body of the Temple, with
the altar, and a small company of good
men which truly worship God, do now
remain, whom God doeth sanctify
and confirm by his presence.

Measure therefore this,
even this true Church, or
rather the true type of the
true Church, omitting the
rest, and so describe all things
from me, that the true Church of
Christ may be as it were a very little
center, and the Church of Antichrist
as the circle of the center, every way
in length and breadth compassing about
the same, that by way of prophecy thou
mayest so declare openly, that the state
of the Temple of God, and the faithful
which worship him, that is, of the Church,
is much more straight than the Church of
Antichrist.

(*) Which declareth
that Christ Jesus will build
his Church and not have it destroyed;
for he measureth out his spiritual Temple.

2 (3) But (*) the (a) Court
which is without the Temple
(b) cast out, and mete it not, for
it is given unto the (4) Gentiles; and
the holy () city shall they tread under
foot, (5) (()) two and forty months.

(3) As if he should say,
it belongeth nothing unto
them to judge those which are
without, 1 Corinthians 5:12, which
be innumerable; look unto those of
the household only, or unto the house
of the living God.

(*) The Jewish Temple
was divided into three parts;
the body of the Temple which
is called the court, whereinto every
man entered, the holy places where
the Levites were, and the holiest of
all, whereinto the high Priest once a
year entered; in respect therefore of
these two later, the first is said to be
cast out, because as a thing profane
it is neglected when the Temple is
measured, and yet the adversaries
of Christ boast that they are in the
Temple, and that none are of the
Temple, but they.

(a) He speaketh of the outward court,
which was called the people's court,
because all men might come into that.

(b) That is counted to be cast out,
which in measuring is refused as profane.

(4) To profane persons, wicked and
unbelievers, adversaries unto the Church.

() That is, the Church of God.

(5) Or a thousand, two hundred
and threescore days, as is said in
Revelation 11:3; that is, a thousand
two hundred and threescore years,
a day for a year, as often in Ezekiel
and Daniel, which I noted before,
Revelation 2:10 .

The beginning of these thousand
two hundred and threescore years,
we account from the passion of Christ,
whereby (the partition wall being broken
down) we were made of two into one,
Ephesians 2:14 .

I say, one flock under one Shepherd,
John 10:16, and the end of these years
precisely falleth into the Popedome of
Boniface the eighth, who a little before
the end of 1294, entered the Popedome
of Rome, in the feast of Saint Lucie (as
Bergomensis saith) having put in prison
his predecessor Coelestinus, whom by
fraud, under color of oracle, he deceived;
for which cause, that well said of him,
Intravit ut vulpes, regnavit ut leo,
mortuus est ut canis.

That is, He entered like a fox,
reigned like a lion, and died like a dog.

For if from 1294,
thou shalt take the age
of Christ which he lived on
the earth, you shall find there
remaineth one thousand two hundred
and sixty years, which are mentioned
in this place and many others.

(()) Meaning, a certain time;
for God hath limited the time
of Antichrist's tyranny.

3 But (6) I will give power
unto my (*) two witnesses,
and they shall (7) prophesy a
() thousand two hundred and
threescore days, clothed in
(()) sackcloth.

(6) I would rather translate it,
illud than illam, the Temple than
the city; for God saith, I will give
that Temple, and commit it unto
my two witnesses, that is, unto the
Ministers of the word, who are few
indeed, weak and contemptible; but
yet two, that is, of such a number as
one of them may help another, and
one confirm the testimony of another
unto all men, that from the mouth of
two or three witnesses every word
may be made good amongst men;
2 Corinthians 13:1 .

(*) By two witnesses
he meaneth all the preachers
that should build up God's Church,
alluding to Zerubbabel and Jehoshua
which were chiefly appointed for this
thing, and also to this saying, In the
mouth of two witnesses standeth
every word.

(7) They will exercise their office
enjoined by me by the space of those
1260 years, in the midst of afflictions
though never so lamentable, which is
figuratively shewed by the mourning
garment.

() Signifying a certain time;
for when God giveth strength
to his ministers, their persecutions
seem, as it were for a day or two.

(()) In poor and simple apparel.

4 These (8) are two (*) olive trees,
and two candlesticks, standing before
the God of the () earth.

(8) That is, the ordinary
and perpetual instruments
of spiritual grace, peace and
light in my Church, which God
by his only power preserved in
this Temple. See Zechariah 4:3 .

(*) Whereby are signified
the excellent graces of them
which bear witness to the Gospel.

() Who hath dominion
over the whole earth.

5 (9) And if any man will hurt them,
fire proceedeth out of their mouths,
and devoureth their enemies; for if
any man would hurt them, (*) thus
must he be killed.

(9) The power and efficacy
of the holy ministry, and which
is truly Evangelical, is declared both
in earth and in heaven, protecting the
administers thereof, and destroying the
enemies in this verse, virtue indeed divine
most mightily shewing itself forth in heaven,
earth and the sea, in Revelation 11:6, as it
described in 2 Corinthians 10:4, according
to the promise of Christ, in Mark 16:17 .

And this is the second place
(as I said before) of the combats
which the servants of God must needs
undergo in the executing of their calling,
and of the things that follow the same
combats or conflicts.

In the combats and conflicts
are these things: to overcome, in
these two verses: to be overcome
and killed, in Revelation 11:7

After the slaughter
follow these things, that
the carcasses of the godly are
laid abroad, in Revelation 11:8,
being unburied, are made a matter
of scorn, together of cursing and bitter
execrations, Revelation 11:9, and that
therefore gratulations are publicly and
privately made, in Revelation 11:10
.
(*) By God's word whereby
his ministers discomfort the enemies.

6 These have power
to shut (*) heaven, that
it rain not in the days of their
prophesying, and have power over
waters to turn them into () blood, and
to smite the earth with all manner plagues,
as often as they will.

(*) They denounce God's judgment
against the wicked, that they cannot
enter into heaven.

() Which is to declare
and procure God's vengeance.

7 (10) And when
they have (c) finished
their testimony, (11) the
(*) beast that cometh out
of the bottomless pit, shall
make war against them, and
shall (12) () overcome them,
and kill them.

(10) That is, when they have
spent those 1260 years mentioned
in Revelation 11:2-3, in publishing
their testimony according to their office.

(c) When they
have done their message.

(11) Of which after, Chapter 13 .

That beast is the Roman Empire,
made long ago of civil, Ecclesiastical;
the chief head whereof was then Boniface
the eighth, as I said before, who lifted up
himself in so great arrogancy, (says the
author of Falsciculus temporum) that he
called himself, Lord of the whole world,
as well in temporal causes, as in spiritual;

There is an extant of that matter,
written by the same Boniface most
arrogantly, shall I say, or most wickedly,
Ca. unam sanctam, extra de majoritate and
obedientia, and in the sixth of the Decrials
(which is from the same author) many things
are found of the same argument.

(*) That is, the Pope which hath his
power out of hell and cometh thence.

(12) He shall persecute
most cruelly the holy men,
and put them to death, and
shall wound and pierce through
with cursings, both their names
and writings.

And that this was done
to very many godly men,
by Boniface and others, the
histories do declare, especially since
the time that the odious and condemned
name amongst the multitude, first of the
brethren Waldonenses or Lugdunenses,
then also of the Fraticels, was pretended,
that good men might with more
approbation be massacred.

() He sheweth how the Pope
gaineth the victory, not by God's
word, but by cruel war.

8 And their corpses shall lie
in the (13) streets of the great
(*) city, which (d) spiritually is called
Sodom and Egypt, (14) where our
Lord also was crucified.

(13) That is, openly at Rome;
where at that time was a most great
concourse of people, the year of Jubilee
being then first ordained by Boniface unto
the same end, in the year of Christ 1300,
example whereof is read in chapter 1,
Extra, de poenitentys and remissionibus.

So by one act he committed
double injury against Christ, both
abolishing his truth by the restoring
the type of the Jubilee, and triumphing
over his members by most wicked
superstitions.

O religious heart!

Now that we should understand
the things of Rome, John himself is
the author, both after in the seventeenth
Chapter almost throughout, and also in the
circumscription now next following, when he
saith, it is that great City (as Chapter 17 and
18, he calleth it) and is spiritually termed Sodom
and Egypt; that spiritually (for that must here again
be repeated from before) Christ was there crucified.

For the two first appellations
signify spiritual wickednesses;
the latter signifieth the shew
and pretence of good, that is,
of Christian and sound religion.

Sodom signifieth most licentious
impiety and injustice; Egypt most
cruel persecution of the people; and
Jerusalem signifieth the most confident
glorying of that city, as it were in true
religion, being yet full of falsehood
and ungodliness.

Now who is ignorant
that these things do rather,
and more agree unto Rome,
than any other city?

The commendations of the City
of Rome for many years past are
publicly notorious, which are not
for me to gather.

This only I will say,
that he long since did
very well see what Rome
is, who taking his leave thereof,
used these verses; Roma vale, vidi,
Satis est vidisse; revertar, Quumleno,
meretrix, scurra, cinadus ero.

Now farewell Rome,
I have thee seen, it was enough
to see; I will return when as I mean,
bawd, harlot knave to be.

(*) Meaning
the whole jurisdiction
of the Pope, which is compared
to Sodom for their abominable sin,
and to Egypt because the true liberty
to serve God is taken away from the
faithful; and Christ was condemned by
Pilate, who represented the Roman
power which should be enemy to
the godly.

(d) After a more secret kind
of meaning and understanding.

(14) Namely in his members, as
also he said unto Saul in Acts 9:5 .

9 And they of the people
and kindred's, and tongues,
and Gentiles shall see their corpses
(15) three days and a half, and shall
not suffer their carcasses
to be put in graves.

(15) That is, for three years
and a half; for so many years
Boniface lived after his Jubilee,
as Bergomensis witnesseth.

10 And they that dwell upon the earth,
(16) shall rejoice over them and be glad,
and shall send gifts one to another, for
these two Prophets (17) (*) vexed
them that dwelt on the earth.

(16) So much the more
shall they by this occasion
exercise the hilarity of
their Jubilee.

(17) The Gospel of Christ,
in the affliction of the world,
and the ministry thereof, the
savor of death unto death,
to those that perish,
2 Corinthians 2:16 .

(*) The infidels are tormented
by hearing the truth preached.

11 (18) But after (19) three days
and a half, (20) the spirit of life coming
from God, shall enter into them, and they
(21) shall (*) stand up upon their feet; and
great fear shall come upon them which
saw them.

(18) The third place,
as I noted before, is of
the rising again of the Prophets
from the dead, and their carrying
up into heaven.

For their resurrection
is shewed in this verse;
their calling and lifting up into
heaven, in the verse following.

(19) That is, what time God
shall destroy that wicked Boniface.

(20) That is, the Prophets of God
shall in a sort rise again, not the same
in person (as they say) but in spirit, that
is, in the power and efficacy of their
ministry, which John expressed
before, in Revelation 11:5-6 .

And so the prophecy that is spoken
of Elijah, is interpreted by the Angel
to be understood of John the Baptist,
Luke 1:17 .

For the same Boniface himself,
who sought to kill and destroy them,
was by the fire of God's mouth (which
the holy ministry sheweth and exhibiteth)
devoured and died miserably in prison,
by the endeavor of Satra Columensis
and Nagaretus a French knight, whom
Philip the fair King of France sent into
Italy but with a small power.

(21) That is, the most grievous heat
of afflictions and persecution shall stay
for a while, for the great amazement that
shall arise upon that sudden and unlooked
for judgment of God.

(*) Which shall be
at the last resurrection.

12 And they shall hear
a great voice from heaven,
saying unto them, (22) (*) Come
up hither. And they shall ascend up
to heaven in a cloud, (23) and their
enemies shall see them.

(22) They were called by God
into heaven, and taken out of this
malignant world, into the heavenly
Church, which also lieth hidden here
in the earth, to exercise their calling
secretly; as of whom this wretched
world was unworthy; Hebrews 11:38 .

For the Church of the wicked
is by comparison called the earth,
or the world; and the Church of the
godly, heaven.

So in ancient times
amongst the godly Israelites;
so amongst the Jews in the days
of Manasseh and other Kings, when
the earth refused the heirs of heaven,
we read that they lay hidden as heaven
in the earth.

(*) For it seemed that Antichrist
had chased them out of the earth.

(23) Yet could they not hinder
the secret ones of the Lord (as the
Psalmist called them, Psalm 83:3) but
they that went on forward in his work.

13 (24) And the same hour shall
there be a great earthquake, and the
tenth part of the city (*) shall fall; and
in the earthquake shall be slain in number
seven thousand, and the remnant shall be
afraid, (25) () and (e) gave glory to the
God of heaven.

(24) Bergomensis saith,
in the year of our Lord, 1301,
This year a blazing star foretelling
great calamity to come, appeared
in heaven, in which year upon the feast
of St. Andrew, so great an earthquake
arose, as never before, which also
containing, by times, for many days,
overthrew many stately houses.

This saith he of the year
next following the Jubilee;
which John so many ages
before, expressed word
for word.

(*) Of the power of Antichrist.

(25) They were indeed broken
with present astonishment of mind,
but did not earnestly repent as they
ought to have done.

() When they shall understand
by God's word the glory of his,
and the punishment of his enemies,
they shall fall from the Pope, and
glorify God.

(e) Glorified God
by confessing his name.

14 (26) The second woe is past,
and behold, the third woe
will come anon.

(26) He passeth unto the second history,
which is the second part of this Chapter.

John calleth these the second
and third woe, having respect
unto Revelation 9:12 .

15 (27) And the seventh Angel
blew the trumpet, and there were
great voices in heaven, saying, (28) The
(*) kingdoms of this world are our Lord's,
and his Christ, and he shall reign for
evermore.

(27) Of whose sounding the trumpet
Christ expressly foretold in Revelation
10:7, and this is the second part of this
Chapter, containing a general history of
the Christian Church, from the time of
Boniface unto the consummation of the
victory declared by voice from heaven.

In this history
there are three branches:
a preparation by the sound
of the Angel's trumpet, a narration
by the voices of heavenly Angels and
Elders, and a confirmation by sign.

(28) The narration hath two parts:
an acclamation of the heavenly creatures,
in this verse, and both an adoration by all
the Elders in Revelation 11:16, and also a
most ample thanksgiving in
Revelation 11:17-18

The sense of the acclamation is,
Now the Lord has entered on his
kingdom and hath restored his Church
in which most mightily recovered from
the profanation of the Gentiles, he may
glorify himself.

Namely, that which the Lord
ordained when first he ordained
his Church, that the faith of the Saints
doth now behold as accomplished.

(*) Albeit Satan by the Pope,
Turks and other instruments troubleth the
world never so much, yet Christ shall reign.

16 (29) Then the four
and twenty Elders, which sat
before God on their seats, fell upon
their faces and worshipped (*) God,

(29) As before in Revelation 7:11 .

This giving of thanks is altogether of the
same content with the words going before.

(*) Jesus Christ.

17 Saying, (*) We give thee thanks,
Lord God almighty, Which art, and
Which wast, and Which art to come,
for thou hast received thy great might,
and hast obtained thy kingdom.

(*) This declareth the office
of the godly, which is to give God
thanks for the deliverance of his, and
to praise his justice for punishing of his
enemies.

18 (30) And the Gentiles
were angry, and thy wrath
is come, and the time of the
dead, that they should be judged,
and that thou shouldest give reward
unto thy servants the Prophets, and to
the Saints, and to them that fear thy Name,
to small and great, and shouldest destroy
them, which destroy the earth.

(30) A speech
of the Hebrew language,
as much to say, as Gentiles
being angry thine inflamed wrath
came upon them, and shewed itself
from heaven, occasioned by their
anger and fury.

19 Then the Temple
of God was (31) opened
in heaven; and there was seen
in his Temple the Ark of his covenant,
and there were (*) lightnings, and voices,
and thunderings, and an earthquake, and
much hail.

(31) This is the confirmation
of the next prophecy before going
by signs exhibited in heaven, and that
of two sorts, whereof some are visible,
as the passing away of the heaven, the
opening of the Temple, the Ark of the
covenant appearing in the Temple, and
testifying the glorious presence of God,
and the lightnings; others apprehended
by ear and such dull senses which bear
witness in heaven and earth to the truth
of the judgments of God.

(*) Which signify
the destruction of the enemies.

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