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Inhabiters of the Earth

Concise Bible Dictionary:

A designation of those mentioned in the Revelation, who, notwithstanding the successive judgments that fall upon them, cling to the earth as settlers there, and against whom “woe, woe, woe” is pronounced (Rev. 8:13¹³And I beheld, and heard an angel flying through the midst of heaven, saying with a loud voice, Woe, woe, woe, to the inhabiters of the earth by reason of the other voices of the trumpet of the three angels, which are yet to sound! (Revelation 8:13); Rev. 17:2²With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication. (Revelation 17:2)). During Christ’s rejection from the earth God’s call has been to heaven, hence to have the character of dwelling on earth is a denial of the heavenly calling. In Revelation 12:1¹And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars: (Revelation 12:1)2 The Editors omit the words “inhabiters of.”