See Rev_4:5 6:12 11:13,19. Either declarative of the majesty and power of God, {as Exo_19:16, when God came forth to give his law} the violation of which God here was coming out to punish; or of the great stirs and confusions in that part of the world where the beast’s greatest interest lay. Or, the
voices, thunders, and lightnings, may be understood as declarative of the former, and the great earthquake of the latter.