Revelation 22:14Those who have committed themselves to do his commandments "MAY HAVE RIGHT to the tree of life", but only when they have "overcome" are they given "TO EAT of the tree of life.". (Tree of life = Eternal life, see Genesis 3:22 KJV)True believer, may God bless you ...
What does Revelation 17:14 mean? The angel speaking to John continues to explain John's earlier vision, and the symbols it contained (Revelation 17:1–6). The ten kings and the beast, the head of the Revived Roman Empire, will unite to fight against Jesus, the Lamb. But they wage ...
(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."...
Even the last chapter of the Bible, speaking of the New Jerusalem and eternity, says: “Blessed are those who do His commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter through the gates into the city” (Revelation 22:14). God’s commandments are part of th...
and the future. This section points back to the fall of Satan and to the birth and ascension of Jesus. The passage concludes with an event in the middle of the tribulation period. Revelation 13 will describe the situation prompting the woman of Revelation 12:1–6 to flee into the ...
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 ...
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...
The last verse of the Bible summarizes the message from Genesis to Revelation: “The grace of the Lord Jesus be with all” (Revelation 22:21). Through Jesus, “we have all received grace upon grace” (John 1:16)—the gratuitous and undomesticated grace of God. Here are 15 Bible Verses...
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.” ...