And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.Revelation 13:1 Read thethirteenth chapter of the Book of Revelationand answer this. What is the...
Verse (Click for Chapter) New International VersionThen a mighty angel picked up a boulder the size of a large millstone and threw it into the sea, and said: “With such violence the great city of Babylon will be thrown down, never to be found again.New Living TranslationThen a mighty ...
Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version“To the angel of the church in Ephesus write: These are the words of him who holds the seven stars in his right hand and walks among the seven golden lampstands.New Living Translation“Write this letter to the angel of the church in Ephe...
Chapter 17 Rev 17:1 NKJV –“1 Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and talked with me, saying to me, “Come, I will show you the judgment of the great harlot (Rev 17:5 and on her forehead a name [was] written MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF ...
While the significance of the seven heads (explained later in Chapter 17), and the “ten horns” (also explained later in Chapter 18) is somewhat ambiguous at this point, the “name of blasphemy” on its seven “heads” is readily understandable as the hypocritical, slanderous attempt by th...
The subject of Chapter 9 is that of the fifth and sixth trumpets, or first and second woes. Since Chapter 8 ends with a warning of the coming three woes “by reason of the other voices of the trumpet of the three angels, which are yet to sound,” this chapter is clearly sequential ...
(2.) That which I said above, on ch.Revelation 13:1, Proposition 10, Observ. 29, may be compared. (3.) The whole of that 10th Proposition may be reviewed to explain many parts of this 17th chapter.—[187]βλεπόντων[188]) The Genitive by itself put absolutely, asLuke ...
. The following verses of this chapter toRevelation 20:11inform us that the happy days of the church, prophesied of in the foregoing vision, will at length have their period, though they are to continue for a long time, and are not to expire till after one thousand years: yet then ther...
Both the KJV and the ASV begin Matthew 1:1 with "The book." The Greek text has &blo.l> which is correctly rendered as book. In fact this is the very term from which Bible is de rived. But the NIV changes the term to "A record." Why the change? Bible students have not ...
In Chapter 1 of the Book of Esther we are told of how the King of Persia, King Ahasuerus (also known as Xerxes), divorced his wife Vashti following her insubordination. The king’s advisers suggested that he get a new wife and queen to fill her place, and Esther was chosen as Queen....