Revelation 9:19 Meaning and Explanation
“For their power is in their mouth, and in their tails: for their tails were like unto serpents, and had heads, and with them they do hurt.”
King James Version (KJV)
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Read Full Chapter →The horses' power lies in their mouths and in their serpent-like, biting tails.
What Does Revelation 9:19 Mean?
John explains where the horses' power lies: in their mouths and in their tails. The tails are like serpents, each with a head of its own that wounds. The creature strikes from both ends, a danger that cannot be evaded by facing it down, for what is behind is as deadly as what is before.
The serpent imagery is not accidental; it recalls the ancient adversary whose lies and venom have wounded humanity from the beginning. Evil deceives from the front and strikes from behind. Yet the reader holds to the promise given long ago, that the seed of the woman would crush the serpent's head. Every serpentine power in this vision lives under that sentence already pronounced, and Christ has already set His heel upon it.
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What does Revelation 9:19 mean?
The horses' power lies in their mouths and in their serpent-like, biting tails.