Armageddon... a Lamb stood on it and with him 144,000! (Rev. 14:1)

Text: "And they shall no more offer their sacrifices unto devils, after whom they have gone a whoring. This shall be a statute for ever unto them throughout their generations." Leviticus 17:7 Quote: [...] 7. they shall no more offer their sacrifices unto devils — lit. , "goats." The prohibition evidently alludes to the worship of the hirei-footed kind such as Pan, Faunus and Saturn, whose recognized symbol was a goat. This was a form of idolatry enthusiastically practiced by the Egyptians, particularly in the nome or province of Mendes. Pan was supposed especially to preside over mountainous and desert regions, and it was while they were in the wilderness the Israelites seem to have been powerfully influenced by a feeling to propitiate this idol. Moreover, the ceremonies observed in this idolatrous worship were extremely licentious and obscene, and the gross impurity of the rites gives great point and significance to the expres

Text: "Daniel spake and said, I saw in my vision by night, and, behold, the four winds of the heaven strove upon the great sea. And four great beasts came up from the sea, diverse one from another. The first was like a lion, and had eagle’s wings: I beheld till the wings thereof were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth, and made stand upon the feet as a man, and a man’s heart was given to it. And behold another beast, a second, like to a bear, and it raised up itself on one side, and it had three ribs in the mouth of it between the teeth of it: and they said thus unto it, Arise, devour much flesh. After this I beheld, and lo another, like a leopard, which had upon the back of it four wings of a fowl; the beast had also four heads; and dominion was given to it. After this I saw in the night visions, and behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped

Text: "Thou, O king, sawest, and behold a great image. This great image, whose brightness was excellent, stood before thee; and the form thereof was terrible. This image’s head was of fine gold, his breast and his arms of silver, his belly and his thighs of brass, His legs of iron, his feet part of iron and part of clay." Daniel 2:31-33 Quote: [...]  31. The world-power in its totality appears as a colossal human form: [...] a great image — lit. , “ one image that was great.” Though the kingdoms were different, it was essentially one and the same world-power under different phases, just as the image was one , though the parts were of different metals. [...] Jamieson, Robert; Fausset, Andrew Robert; Brown, David, A commentary: critical, practical and explanatory, on the Old and New Testaments, with a Bible dictionary, compiled from Dr. Wm. Smith's standard work, a copious index, chronological tables, maps and illustrati

Text: "Thou, O king, sawest, and behold a great image. This great image, whose brightness was excellent, stood before thee; and the form thereof was terrible. This image’s head was of fine gold, his breast and his arms of silver, his belly and his thighs of brass, His legs of iron, his feet part of iron and part of clay." Daniel 2:31-33 Quote: [...]  31. The world-power in its totality appears as a colossal human form: Babylon the head of gold, Medo-Persia the breast and two arms of silver, Graeco-Macedonia the belly and two thighs of brass, and Rome, with its Germano-Slavonic offshoots, the legs of iron and feet of iron and clay; the fourth still existing. [...] a great image — lit. , “ one image that was great.” [...] Jamieson, Robert; Fausset, Andrew Robert; Brown, David, A commentary: critical, practical and explanatory, on the Old and New Testaments, with a Bible dictionary, compiled from Dr. Wm. Smith's standard

Text: "And the first beast was like a lion, and the second beast like a calf, and the third beast had a face as a man, and the fourth beast was like a flying eagle." Revelation 4:7 Quote: [...] 8. [...] Almighty — [...] The four living creatures answer by contrast to the four world-powers represented by four beasts . The fathers identified them with the four gospels, Matthew the lion, Mark the ox, Luke the man, John the eagle: these symbols, thus viewed, express not the personal character of the evangelists, but the manifold aspect of Christ in relation to the world ( four being the number significant of world-wide extension, e. g. , the four quarters of the world) presented by them severally: the lion expressing royalty , as Matthew gives prominence to this feature of Christ; the ox, laborious endurance , Christ's prominent characteristic in Mark; man, brotherly sympathy with the whole race of man, Christ's prom

Text: "At the beginning of thy supplications the commandment came forth, and I am come to shew thee; for thou art greatly beloved : therefore understand the matter, and consider the vision." Daniel 9:23 Quote: [...] thou art greatly beloved — lit., a man of desires (cf. Ezekiel, 23. 6, 12;); the object of God's delight. As the Apocalyptic prophet of the New Testament was "the disciple whom Jesus loved." So the Apocalyptic prophet of the Old Testament was "greatly beloved" of God. [...] Jamieson, Robert; Fausset, Andrew Robert; Brown, David, A commentary: critical, practical and explanatory, on the Old and New Testaments, with a Bible dictionary, compiled from Dr. Wm. Smith's standard work, a copious index, chronological tables, maps and illustrations , Chicago; New York: Fleming H. Revell, 1880, Old Testament - vol. 2 - Proverbs-Malachi, p. 638 . Online source:   archive.org/details/commentarycritic18