(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."...
Revelation 17:14ESV They will make war on the Lamb, and the Lamb will conquer them, for he is Lord of lords and King of kings, and those with him are called and chosen and faithful." NIV They will wage war against the Lamb, but the Lamb will triumph over them because he is Lord...
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 ...
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 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 ...
Jesus says, “As the Father has sent me, even so I am sending you” (John 20:21). God’s mission is to the entire world. Our future: God and His grace, is everlasting. “Set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.” (1 ...
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...
General revelation does not get someone to 50. However, to get to 50 someone must accept something less than 50. You want to borrow 50 dollars from me. You need 50. I have only 10, so I offer you 10. You reject the 10. When someone rejects the 10, this is a means of rejecting...
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...
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...