But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to an innumerable company of angels, to the general assembly and church of the firstborn who are registered in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect (Hebrews...
In fact, we are not even given the status of angels (Heb. 2:7). And while man’s body and soul can be terminated, a man’s spirit cannot because it is of the same essence as God Himself! God is eternal “in both ways” from everlasting to everlasting (Psalm 90:2); man has a...
but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’” Then the devil took him to the holy city and set him on the pinnacle of the temple and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down, for it is written, “‘He will command his angels concerning you,’ a...
explained only by means of the spiritual sense, that the whole ceremonial and ritual law must be explained mystically, and that all the prophetic utterances about Judea, Jerusalem, Israel, etc., are to be referred to the Kingdom of Heaven and its citizens, to the good and bad angels, ...
In Chapter Three, Van Leeuwen begins to address one of his central questions: “What cognitive attitude or attitudes do religious ‘believers’ have toward their stories and doctrines about deities, demons, angels, dead ancestors, and other supernatural entities” (64)? First, he distinguishes betw...
22). These considerations, we think, render it probable that the δαιμόνια of the N.T. belong to the number of those angels "who kept not their first estate;" and we conclude probably (though attempts have been made to deny the inference) that they must be the same as "...
whom compare Grotius and Drusius on 2Co 12:2) ascribes to the Jews the notion that there are three heavens: Coelum nubiferum, or the firmament; Ccelum astriferum, the starry heavens; Coelum angeliferum, or "the heaven of heavens," where the angels reside, "the third heaven" of Paul....
[9:9, 38:31] also [Amos 5:8], evidence showing Orion's initial prominence as the figurative light of heaven. If Orion's link to Sirius (the Dog-star) is completed, then we find the stars of Orion's belt symbolizing Lucifer's choral units of angels under his domain, girt about ...
Light was introduced in creation and darkness dissipated. The same principle continues to this day. And, not surprisingly, the same prevailed in that historical moment when God’s Son was welcomed to Earth. The angels proclaimed His birth in the midst of the shining light of God’s glory. ...
people arrogantly sought to construct a sky-high "Tower of Babel" to try to reachHeaven. Then, in the 1900s, archaeologists discovered the great ziggurat of ancient Ur, located in present-day southern Iraq, having characteristics similar to the biblical description of the Tower of Babel.[12]...