This message is similar to that in Isaiah 52:9. After the good and peaceful tidings have been published, saying unto Zion, Thy God reigneth , it is declared, "The Lord has comforted His people, He hath redeemed Jerusalem." - Jerusalem was in a state from which she had to be redeemed, and that before the resurrection; for the next verse says, "All the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God." THE TRANSITION The opinion generally obtains that the seventh trumpet ushers in the Age to come. That thing upon its sounding are "great voices saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord and of his "Christ." These voices must be heard in the world in which those kingdoms are.
It is also evident that the kingdoms sustain a different relation to God at the time these voices are heard, from what they did before the 7th trumpet sounded. The declaration, "He shall reign forever and ever;" and the humble expression of thanks from the four and twenty elders, (a symbol of the whole church.) "Because thou hast taken to thee thy great power and hast resigned," shows that at that time he began to reign in a special sense. Such voices have been heard since the 7th moon '44, and produced the effects here described, deep humiliation and profound gratitude.
This change of the relation of the kingdoms of this world to Christ, is the same as making his enemies his footstool, (Heb. 10:13) which event was expected by him while he sit at the right hand of the Father fulfilling the daily ministration. vs. 11,12. Rev. 10 gives in part the character and circumstances of the transition from the Gos. to the following Dis. The angel that declares, "There should be time no longer, is not the Lord at his appearing, for after uttering that oath he told 44 John, "Thou must prophesy again." Whatever the nature of this prophesying may be, it certainly follows the oath of vs. 6, 7.
I think we have misunderstood the 7th verse.