Bible Dictionary: Earthquakes: Symbolical

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Revelation 6:12-14
And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, see, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood;
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Revelation 11:13
And the same hour was there a great earthquake, and the tenth part of the city fell, and in the earthquake were slain of men seven thousand: and the remnant were affrighted, and gave glory to the God of heaven.
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Revelation 16:18,20
And there were voices, and thunders, and lightning; and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since men were on the earth, so mighty an earthquake, and so great.
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New Testament History and Prophecy.
... Certain symbolical conceptions are common to them; earthquakes denote revolutions;
stars falling from heaven typify the downfall of kings and dynasties; a ...
/.../gladden/who wrote the bible/chapter x new testament history.htm

From the Sixth Chapter.
... nation, and kingdom against kingdom; and there shall be great earthquakes in divers ...
called God's altar, as saith the law, commanding in the symbolical form of ...
/.../commentary on the apocolypse of the blessed john/from the sixth chapter.htm

Spiritual Condition of the Congregations. --The Seven Churches in ...
... play, but an application of the Old Testament system of symbolical numbers, in ... the
province of Lydia, a rich wine region, but subject to earthquakes, was the ...
/.../history of the christian church volume i/section 50 spiritual condition of.htm

Exposition of Chap. Iii. (ii. 28-32. )
... angry Deity announced the breaking in of judgments through the symbolical language
of ... or darkened, eclipses of the sun or moon, earthquakes, thunderstorms, etc ...
/.../hengstenberg/christology of the old testament/exposition of chap iii ii.htm

The Apocalypse.
... the whole Roman empire and embraced wars and rebellions, frequent and unusual
conflagrations, earthquakes and famines ... c) The number is symbolical of Antichrist ...
/.../schaff/history of the christian church volume i/section 101 the apocalypse.htm

Introduction.
... Then shall occur earthquakes, unrest and uproar among nations, and various prodigies
in heaven ... The Book of Enoch adumbrates the Messiah in symbolical language. ...
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A Clearing-Up Storm in the Realm
... will be preceded by wars, rumors of wars, famines, earthquakes, and persecution ... It
is symbolical, a picture number, the number of full corporate completeness as ...
/.../vi a clearing-up storm in the.htm

Introductory Notice Respecting Tauler's Life and Times
... The land was desolated successively by tempests, earthquakes, and famine, and at
last, in 1348, the Black Death came to fill up the measure of the people's woe ...
/.../introductory notice respecting taulers life.htm

The Second vision "On Earth"
... another states that a storm from the ocean has muddled the water, and talks wisely,
too, of marine earthquakes and the ... Some are half symbolical and half literal ...
/.../bullinger/commentary on revelation/the second vision on earth.htm

Subtopics

Earthquakes

Earthquakes are Visible Tokens of God's Anger

Earthquakes are Visible Tokens of God's Power

Earthquakes are Visible Tokens of God's Presence

Earthquakes in Canaan, in the Days of Uzziah, King of Judah

Earthquakes in Strongholds of Philistines

Earthquakes in the Wilderness

Earthquakes in Uzziah's Reign

Earthquakes: As Judgments

Earthquakes: At Christ's Second Coming, Predicted

Earthquakes: At Mount Sinai