Mr Osborne explained the idea of the Second Coming being like giving birth, thatthe signs would intensify and become more frequent. He added: “All these are the beginnings of birth pains. “There have always been wars, there have always been pestilences, but it seems as though they are g...
Verse 20. - And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues; the rest of mankind (Revised Version). That is, the two thirds (ver. 18). Some understand "these plagues" to refer to the first six trumpets. It may be so, but it seems more correct to limit it to ...
Verse 21.-And a mighty angel took up a stone like a groat millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying;add one strong angel(cf. the "mighty voice" in ver. 2; alsoRevelation 10:1, and elsewhere). The adjective, of course, refers to the mightiness of the deed wrought (cf.Jeremiah ...
[8] This is significant because it parallels the arrival of the “vile person” who came “in peaceably, and obtain[ed] the kingdom by flatteries” (Daniel 11:21) instead of armed conquest. While the significance of the seven heads (explained later in Chapter 17), and the “ten horns...
[24] The common understanding that the “silence in heaven” is suggestive of the second coming when heaven is emptied of its angelic inhabitants forces the understanding that Verse 2 introduces “a new phase of the vision . . .” (for example, see Revelation of Jesus Christ by Ranko Stefan...
10 Then the man standing among the myrtle trees explained, “They are the ones the Lord has sent to go throughout the earth.” 11 And they reported to the angel of the Lord who was standing among the myrtle trees, “We have gone throughout the earth and found the whole world at rest...
All things were made by Him; and without Him was not anything made that hath been made. (John 1:3) This verse reveals the fact that Jesus not only pre-existed the creation, it announces that it was indisputably through Him that the creation came into being. In one of his letters John...
Christian Standard Bible®, Copyright© 2017 by Holman Bible Publishers. Used by Permission. What does Revelation 17:9 mean? The angel explained that the beast's seven heads are seven mountains. Many expositors attribute the seven mountains to the seven hills of Rome. Originally, Rome includ...
Daniel 9:25: “Until there is an anointed ruler will be seven weeks”; the next verse says: “After the sixty-two weeks the anointed one shall be cut off.” Scholars take these as references to the high priestJoshuafrom the early Persian era and to the high priestOnias III, murdered ...
You will not only witness a progression of each of Revelation’s 404 verses being added one at a time and explained, but you will also see the explanations themselves being added to, as well as clarified where needed, on an ongoing basis. In other words, the foundations first, then the ...