244 It can be used of good rulers as well as bad. The idea here is that some of the "rulers" in the spiritual realm are demonic in their allegiance. We believe (though the Scripture is pretty sparce here) that Satan was once an archangel who rebelled against God and was thrown, ...
A translation of “neck” would suit better. Some change the preposition to ב (bet), getting a translation “by the neck of my tunic.” Job 30:20 sn The implication from the sentence is that this is a cry to God for help. The sudden change from third person (v. 19) to second...
Notice the word “spirit” in each passage. The “spirit”of theantichristis not written verbatim anywhere else in Scripture. The wordantichristis used only four times in the Bible. All four incidences are in the brief but urgent letters of John (1 John 2:18, 1 John 2:22, 1 John 4:...
” This woodcut was one of fifteen that Durer produced for a book illustrating the Bible’s “Revelation to John,” and the image powerfully represents scripture’s Four Horsemen: conquest, war and violence, famine, and death. Earlier artists tended to represent each horseman separately, but ...
The Holy Spirit indwells all believers in Christ to empower them and help them to begin to walk in obedience to God's holy Law in sanctified holy living. But the sanctified life of even the most godly of God's people will still need to be covered by the active righteousness (His sinle...
I had a foretaste of the glory of union at the time of my husband’s death. When I was told that his plane was missing, I knew the power and peace and presence of God immediately. There was no having to turn in prayer to him and ask for help. He was there. And during those da...
The following post is from an email that I received from Save California. It tells us SO much that we need to know about the incompetence of Gavin Newscum, as well as other horrible, crazy liberal leftist lunatics who are in government here in California. Speaks volumes of information that...
Let us then approach the throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need.Matthew 7:7-11Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you. / For everyone who asks ...
James justified the persecutions of witches on grounds largely furnished by "the apocalyptic interpretation of scripture which was becoming increasingly influential among the Presbyterians and which James himself, up to a point, supported" (Norbrook, 1987: 105). So this concern with occultism is ...
The future slides into the present the present slides into the past our lives are the history of the future.