4.IBM Credit Corp IBM Credit, the financial arm of IBM Corporation, revolutionized its application processing bystreamlining the procedurethat once took up to two weeks into a mere 90-minute task. The revelation that applications were merely idling on desks for most of the processing time prompted...
we wish to prevent a change to the worse; when desiring to change, we wish to bring about something better. All political action is then guided by some thought of better and worse. But thought of better or worse implies thought of the good. The awareness of the good which guides...
‘religion', you mean does it have priests and churches and a band of followers who are prepared to kill non-believers, then the answer is no. if, on the other hand, you refer to the original, literal meaning of the word, namely to ‘bind again', to reunite the mistaken person that...
(Revelation 21:4, NIV) 2. Night and Morning Throughout Scripture, night is portrayed as darkness and a time for ungodly acts. In 1 Thessalonians, Paul, the author told ancient believers they were “children of the light and children of the day” and that they did not “belong to the ...
make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God,which isnew Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: andI will write upon himmy new name.(Revelation 3:12.)...
What does Revelation 9:6 mean? Prior verses described Satan releasing a horde of locust-like demons, limited to torment—not kill—unbelievers only. Their ability was comparted to that of a scorpion (Revelation 9:1–5). This verse reveals that the locust-like creatures' "scorpion" stings ...
Revelation 16: Seven Bowls of the Wrath of God We have been reading about God’s judgment during the Tribulation period. If you would like to start at the beginning of the commentary on Revelation, you can use the calendar or the search bar and begin with the December 11 post. ...
We must offer up our lives willingly, overcoming sin and death by the blood of the Lamb, the word of our own testimony, and not loving our own lives (Revelation 12:11). When we willingly choose to give up our lives for Jesus and the Gospel, the power of death over us is eternally...
In which case, the tribulation described in Revelation is irrelevant, since it describes events said to take place after the death of John, the last of the apostles to die. Second, "this generation" might mean those who were "generated" from or came from a common ancestor (Matthew 23:...
Similarly, there are those in 1 Corinthians 11 whom Paul says have died because they took the Lord’s Supper in an unworthy manner. Blatant sin against God is a serious offense. It does not mean that we lose our salvation, but we might lose our physical life. To preserve our life, rep...