Context Summary Revelation 12:1–6 opens a long stretch of Revelation which ''pauses'' the narrative of the end times. These events are highly symbolic and refer to varying times throughout both history and the future. This section points back to the fall of Satan and to the birth and as...
What does Revelation 17:9 mean? The angel explained that the beast's seven heads are seven mountains. Many expositors attribute the seven mountains to the seven hills of Rome. Originally, Rome included seven hills on the Tiber River. These hills were named Palatine, Aventine, Caelian, ...
(Rom. 6:23.) This scripture means what it says. The attempts of many theologians to "explain away" death and to "interpret" it as mere "separation from God" cannot be reconciled with Scripture. Death clearly does NOT mean "eternal life" in the horrifying torments of an eternal "hell."...
WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BELIEVE?Many are teaching "BELIEVE AND YOU ARE SAVED", as if we had only to accept the fact that Jesus was the Son of God and died for our sins, in order to be "saved" forever. Because of this terrible deception, the definition of the word "believe" has beco...
What does this mean exactly, and how are humans invited into this with Jesus? In the next part of the episode (13:40-17:29), the guys talk about the New Jerusalem that?s introduced in Revelation 22:1-5. This is a key passage in understanding how humans will serve and reign with ...
What does this mean exactly, and how are humans invited into this with Jesus? In the next part of the episode (13:40-17:29), the guys talk about the New Jerusalem that?s introduced in Revelation 22:1-5. This is a key passage in understanding how humans will serve and reign with...
This does not mean their eternal life, but their physical, temporal life here on this earth. The exact same idea is in Ezekiel 18. Look especially at Ezekiel 18:19-32. So many people have used this passage to teach that a person can lose their salvation. Look at verse 24, for ...
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 a radical reenginee...
A while ago, I read Jen Wilkin’s bookNone Like Himabout the attributes of God. One is His incomprehensibility. In it, she says, “God is incomprehensible. This does not mean that he is unknowable, but that he is unable to be fully known.” ...
Most assert it happens when a believer dies and goes to heaven, as nothing impure can enter heaven (Revelation 21:27). However, some Christians believe one can attain this holiness in life. One could easily swap out the words “positional sanctification” with the singular word “justification...