Each term that identifies the Great Crowd inRevelation7:9-17 is elsewhere applied by the Watchtower to the Anointed ones in heaven. This places the Great Crowd in heaven. Following are descriptions of the Great Crowd, followed by a scripture using the same term to describe the Anointed heaven...
This has taken years of research as it is not always obvious that English words are derived from pagan deities. Much diligent research has been done into assuring that there are no pagan words used to describe our wonderful Father and His Son. All paganism and names of false gods that have...
/ It was revealed to them that they were not serving themselves, but you, when they foretold the things now announced by those who preached the gospel to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven. Even angels long to look into these things.Luke 24:44Jesus said to them, “These are the...
Elisha was the disciple of the great prophet Elijah during the ninth century bc (853-798). He was plowing when Elijah “threw his cloak around him” (1 Kings 19:19)—a sign that God was calling him to continue Elijah’s ministry. Before Elijah was taken up to heaven in a whirlwind (...
Both the Book of the Three Scriptures and the Commedia, are threefold and, at the same time, unitary eschatological poems that describe the condition of the separated soul in the afterlife. Both begin with the description of hell and end with heaven but the central part of the Commedia, ...
He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him. And He ...
1Israel as God’sChosenPeople according toDeuteronomy 7In SecondTempleJudaism, in the aftermath of war,destruction, exile,and mi-raculous survival, theauthorsoftendescribe the status of Israel⁵in terms of elec-tion. The issue is undoubtedlymultifaceted.⁶Within the constraints of thispaper,Iwill...
4and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade. This inheritance is kept in heaven for you, 5who through faith are shielded by God’s power until the coming of the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time. ...
The followingreality checkis not for the fainthearted or fantasy inclined. Nonetheless, it, too, is just a feeble attempt to describe the stark realities of the fast-approaching future. An Urgent Message for the New Age Prophets Especially those who foretell a Golden Age that is coming ‘tomor...
(heaven)-kun 坤 (earth)”. In the “Appended Remarks part I” of theBook of Changes, it is said that “the way of qian constitutes the male, while the way of kun constitutes the female”, and the fixed relationship between qian and kun illustrates the ethical norms and behavioural ...