The whole book of Revelation, the last book in the New Testament, is “the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave Him to show His servants—things which must shortly take place. And He sent and signified it by His angel to His servant John” (Revelation 1:1). A great many of Re...
28 When all things are subjected to him, then the Son himself will also be subjected to him who put all things in subjection under him, that God may be all in all. Paul loved teaching out of His understanding of God’s Word in the Old Testament and his new understanding of the revel...
Revelation 19 King James Version 19 And after these things I heard a great voice of much people in heaven, saying, Alleluia; Salvation, and glory, and honour, and power, unto the Lord our God: 2 For true and righteous are his judgments: for he hath judged the great whore, which did...
“One day as he saw the crowds gathering, Jesus went up on the mountainside and sat down. His disciples gathered around him,” (Matthew 5:1 NLT) Where did we leave off? “News about him spread as far as Syria, and people soon began bringing to him all who were sick. And whatever ...
These were the literal truths of Bach’s belief. He believed, and expressed in tones, the literal truth of the transformative power of death — that the pain of the Crucifixus leads directly to the joy and release of the Resurrexit. Bach was a man surrounded by death. With the death of...
The book of Revelation speaks of several beasts. Perhaps the most famous is the beast found in Revelation 13:11–18. And this beast comes with a mark—the number 666.What, or who, is this beast? What does this mark mean? And in light of the wildly different interpretations of this ...
Revelation 17:1-2Then one of the seven angels with the seven bowls came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the punishment of the great prostitute, who sits on many waters. / The kings of the earth were immoral with her, and those who dwell on the earth were intoxicated with ...
The fall of Babylon is also a precursor to the ultimate judgment against all worldly powers that oppose God, as seen in Revelation 18. What a horror Babylon has become among the nations!Babylon's transformation from a feared empire to a "horror" highlights the dramatic reversal of its ...
The book of Revelation is an imagistic feast; a fantasy writer's treasure trove, full of beauty and horror. Some people would say that this beast in John’s vision has already come and gone — Hitler caused hundreds of thousands of Jews and countless oth
because of the many evil beasts in it, ungodly men, false teachers, and Satan the roaring lion; and because of the plentiful table God furnishes here for his people, feeding them in the wilderness with Gospel doctrines and spiritual ordinances, (Revelation 12:14) ; and because of the many...