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...
And the last thing to notice from the intro is that it’s not a book that is meant to be read and atomized — primarily — into verse by verse ‘pull apart the grammar’ stuff like we modern people like to do — and one of the reasons we do this — that we have to — is that...
(Revelation 6:17) in Chapter 7, John now takes us backward [1] in sequence to the last day scenario, prior to the saints’ reward in heaven, and just before the “four winds of the earth” have been released by the four angels. [2] These four angels had been protecting the earth,...
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 ...
[Revelation 12:3-9, 12-17], who stands upon the seashore awaiting the emergence of the beast, whom it is his purpose to invest with his power and authority.” [3] With that understanding, a close connection becomes apparent between Revelation 12:17 and the first verse of this chapter ...
“You cannotdrink the cup of the Lordand the cup of demons; you cannotpartake of the Lord’s tableand of the table of demons”(1 Corinthians 10:21). In Chapter 10 of the first epistle to the Corinthian church, the Apostle Paul illuminates and puts in context his reference to our commu...
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...
We're ready, now, to come directly to the first chapter and first verse of this mysterious, exciting Book. We're ready, now, to see what it does say — and you have SURPRISES coming! The REVEALING of CHRISTThe very opening verse says: "The revelation of Jesus Christ … to show ...
" (Chapter LXIV.—Constantine’s Edict against the Heretics. This document is from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library at Calvin College). But this did not stop the Smyrnaeans. But it did ensure that true Christianity would remain outside of the mainstream of those that professed Christ. ...
Verse(Click for Chapter) New International Version Then each of them was given a white robe, and they were told to wait a little longer, until the full number of their fellow servants, their brothers and sisters, were killed just as they had been. ...