1. Revelation 6:17 (ESV)
  2. Exposition

What does the cry, “Who can stand?” reveal?

Revelation 6:17 (ESV)

17 for the great day of their wrath has come, and who can stand?”

This desperate question from the mouths of the panic stricken has an implicit answer: no one. So their cry gives voice to their own sense of hopelessness.