He experienced ten visions and explained the Seven Church ages, particularly about the fifth Church age of affliction, desolation, humiliation, and poverty that we now live in. He also had visions of the sixth Church age of Peace that few Catholics have heard about, but Mary, Mother of ...
16 For we have not been telling you fairy tales when we explained to you the power of our Lord Jesus Christ and his coming again. My own eyes have seen his splendor and his glory: 17-18 I was there on the holy mountain when he shone out with honor given him by God his Father; ...
Let us be clear that we are not saying that faithful followers of Jesus do not share in his sufferings and death – for this is taught clearly in the word of God. Philippians 3:10 is a case in point: “that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of ...
(Page 898,899) The four metals (This writer believes there are five) composing the image and are explained as symbolizing four empires (vv. 38-40), not necessarily possessing the earth but divinely authorized to do so (v. 38), and fulfilled in Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece (under ...
Let us notice exactly how Jesus explained this FIFTH world- shaking event in PLAIN language. "Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake" (Matt. 24:9). Notice, Jesus used two pronouns — "THEY," ...
33 However, it may very well be explained that the immediate purpose of the letters could possibly exclude such references as they were not behind the intent of John. The evangelist Timothy had labored at Ephesus as well; yet he is not mentioned. Would this nece4~anity imply the passing ...
since the introduction of higher criticism has so influenced the church, that attempts have been made to harmonise Genesis with the increasingly popular ideas of geologists promoting the notion of slow and gradual change and the concept that the past can be explained in terms of forces we observe...