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An Intertextuality Pair — one connection between two passages, shown as linked verse cards: the Later text and the Earlier text it quotes, alludes to or echoes. The Significance essay explains why the link matters and where it points in Christ.

Reference Type— how explicit the link is: Quotation, Allusion, or Echo
Connection Method(s)— how it carries meaning: e.g. Typology, Promise-Fulfillment, Analogy, Longitudinal Theme
Found via— where the connection was identified, e.g. the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge or an Anchor-Text Network

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Intertextuality Pair

Revelation 11:13 → Ezekiel 38:19

Echo

Later text

Revelation 11:13BSB

And in that hour there was a great earthquake, and a tenth of the city collapsed. Seven thousand were killed in the quake, and the rest were terrified and gave glory to the God of heaven.

Earlier text

Ezekiel 38:19BSB

In My zeal and fiery rage I proclaim that on that day there will be a great earthquake in the land of Israel.

Walk the Square · a single-voice walk of this pair around the Clowney square13:26

Significance

The "great earthquake" (seismos megas) that follows the witnesses' resurrection echoes Ezekiel 38:19-20, where a "great earthquake" accompanies God's judgment against Gog — the eschatological enemy of God's people. In Ezekiel, the earthquake is part of God's theophanic intervention that vindicates Israel and demonstrates His glory before the nations. Revelation 11:13 combines this earthquake motif with a surprising outcome: "the rest were terrified and gave glory to the God of heaven." This response — giving glory to God — may indicate genuine repentance rather than mere terror, making this one of the few positive responses to judgment in Revelation. The Gog tradition, which Revelation develops more fully in chapters 19-20, here serves as background for the pattern of overwhelming divine intervention that compels acknowledgment of God's sovereignty. The earthquake as a theophanic marker connects to Sinai (Exod 19:18), reinforcing the covenant-lawsuit character of the trumpets.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Echo
Connection Method(s): Longitudinal Theme + Analogy