The city of Smyrna, located in Asia Minor (modern-day Izmir, Turkey), was one of the seven churches addressed in the Book of Revelation. It was a significant center of early Christianity and had a notable Jewish population during the first century A.D. The presence and influence of the ...
In the spring of 1918, Czar Nicholas II, his wife, and children, were taken to Ekaterinburg in the Urals where the Jew Jacob Yurovsky, head of the local Cheka, was given the assignment to imprison and assassinate the Imperial Family.
1.Also calledHoly Land.Biblical name,Canaan.an ancient land in SW Asia, on the E coast of the Mediterranean. 2.a former British mandate (1923–48) comprising part of this country, divided between Israel, Jordan, and Egypt in 1948: the Jordanian and Egyptian parts were occupied by Israel ...
To the one who is victorious,b I will give the right to eat from the tree of life,c which is in the paradised of God. To the Church in Smyrna 8 “To the angel of the church in Smyrnae write: These are the words of him who is the First and the Last,f who died and came...
The LORD, seeing their unified rebellion, confused their language and scattered them across the earth, halting the construction and giving the city the name Babel, because there the LORD confused the language of the whole world (Genesis 11:9).Shinar is also mentioned in the context of the ...
The importance of the idea ofbloodin the Bible is shown by how often the word is used. It is used 424 times in 357 separate verses (in the New King James Version). Blood was the sign of mercy for Israel at the first Passover (Exodus 12:13) ...
7 He that hath an ear let him hear what the Spirit saith to the churches: To him that overcometh I will give to eat of the tree of life which is in the paradise of my God. 8 And to the angel of the church of Smyrna write: These things saith the First and the Last, who was...
from the Aegean sea, with the hills around Smyrna and Lesbos in distant view, on a great humped hill that dominates the Caicus plain. This eminence formed Pergamum’s first acropolis. The foundation of the city was contemporary with the beginnings of urban life in Asia, but little is ...
11 For there is born to you this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord. (Luke 2:11) 14 And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son as Savior of the world. (1 John 4:14) 12 This is My commandment, that you love one another as I ...
Polycarp is also the only possible successor to have a writing perhaps directed to him in the Bible. Some scholars believe that when John wrote to the "angel of the church Smyrna" that this actually was addressed to the leader of the church (the Greek term translated as "angel" can mean...