Apocalypse Revealed # 270
270. Having seven horns. This symbolizes the Lord's omnipotence.
The Word often mentions horns, and a horn everywhere symbolizes power. Consequently, when a horn is mentioned in connection with the Lord, it symbolizes omnipotence. Seven horns are specified, because seven symbolizes all (no. 10), thus all power or omnipotence.
That a horn symbolizes power, and when mentioned in connection with the Lord, omnipotence, can be seen from the following passages:
You who rejoice over nothing, who say, "Have we not taken horns for ourselves by our own strength?" (Amos 6:13)
I said... to the wicked, "Do not lift up the horn. Do not lift up your horn on high...." All the horns of the wicked I will cut off; the horns of the righteous shall be exalted. (Psalms 75:4-5, 10)
Jehovah... has exalted the horn of your adversaries. (Lamentations 2:17)
The horn of Moab is cut off, and his arm is broken... (Jeremiah 48:25)
...you have pushed with side and shoulder, and struck all the weak sheep with your horns... (Ezekiel 34:21)
(Jehovah) has exalted the horn of His people... (Psalms 148:14)
(Jehovah God of hosts,) the glory of their strength..., He has exalted our horn. (Psalms 89:17)
The brightness (of Jehovah God) will be like the light; He will have horns 1 coming from His hand, and the hiding of His power there. (Habakkuk 3:4)
...My arm shall strengthen (David)..., and in My name his horn shall be exalted. (Psalms 89:21, 24)
...Jehovah, my strength..., my rock...(my) horn... (Psalms 18:1-2, cf. 2 Samuel 22:3)
Arise..., O daughter of Zion; for I will make your horn iron..., that you may break in pieces many peoples. (Micah 4:13)
(The Lord) has destroyed in His wrath the strongholds of the daughter of Judah..., (and) He has cut off... every horn of Israel. (Lamentations 2:2-3)
Powers are also symbolized by the horns of the dragon in Revelation 12:3; by the horns of the beast rising up out of the sea in Revelation 13:1; by the horns of the scarlet beast upon which the woman sat in Revelation 17:3, 7, 12; by the horns of the ram and the goat in Daniel 8:3-12, 20-22. The last symbolized the power of Divine truth in the church. And conversely, that that power would perish, by the horns of the altars in Bethel, in Amos:
...I will visit punishment on the transgressions of Israel, I will visit destruction on the altars of Bethel, so that the horns of the altar are cut off and fall to the ground. (Amos 3:14)
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1. Probably descriptive of rays of light.
Psalms 74
1
God, why have you rejected us forever? why does your anger smolder against the sheep of your pasture?
2
Remember your congregation, which you purchased of old, which you have redeemed to be the tribe of your inheritance; Mount Zion, in which you have lived.
3
Lift up your feet to the perpetual ruins, all the evil that the enemy has done in the sanctuary.
4
Your adversaries have roared in the midst of your assembly. They have set up their standards as signs.
5
They behaved like men wielding axes, cutting through a thicket of trees.
6
Now they break all its carved work down with hatchet and hammers.
7
They have burned your sanctuary to the ground. They have profaned the dwelling place of your Name.
8
They said in their heart, "We will crush them completely." They have burned up all the places in the land where God was worshiped.
9
We see no miraculous signs. There is no longer any prophet, neither is there among us anyone who knows how long.
10
How long, God, shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy blaspheme your name forever?
11
Why do you draw back your hand, even your right hand? Take it out of your pocket and consume them!
12
Yet God is my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth.
13
You divided the sea by your strength. You broke the heads of the sea monsters in the waters.
14
You broke the heads of Leviathan in pieces. You gave him as food to people and desert creatures.
15
You opened up spring and stream. You dried up mighty rivers.
16
The day is yours, the night is also yours. You have prepared the light and the sun.
17
You have set all the boundaries of the earth. You have made summer and winter.
18
Remember this, that the enemy has mocked you, Yahweh. Foolish people have blasphemed your name.
19
Don't deliver the soul of your dove to wild beasts. Don't forget the life of your poor forever.
20
Honor your covenant, for haunts of violence fill the dark places of the earth.
21
Don't let the oppressed return ashamed. Let the poor and needy praise your name.
22
Arise, God! Plead your own cause. Remember how the foolish man mocks you all day.
23
Don't forget the voice of your adversaries. The tumult of those who rise up against you ascends continually. For the Chief Musician. To the tune of "Do Not Destroy." A Psalm by Asaph. A song.
