living creatures See commentary on Revelation 4:6. twenty-four elders See commentary on Revelation 4:4. fell down The living creatures and elders repe...
in the Spirit All prophetic revelation has its origin in the Holy Spirit (1Pe. 1Pe. 1:20-21) and never from man (Gal. Gal. 1:12-16; Gal. 2:2). Mysteri...
he cast him into the bottomless pit Having unlocked the abyss, the angel casts Satan into it. The picture is of all authority being with the angel an...
11:1? And when they draw nigh unto Jerusalem, unto Bethphage1 and Bethany, at the mount of Olives, he sendeth two of his disciples,JESUS' TRIUMPHAL EN...
Chapter 88:8? For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel a...
BAG Bags of various kinds are mentioned in the English Bible, but often in a way to obscure rather than tr the original. (1) Bag is used for a Hebrew...
The Book of 1?TimothyChapter 6Verses:6:1Let servants under the yoke - Of heathen masters. Account them worthy of all honour - All the honour due from ...
a loud voice from heaven The NU text has from the throne. A loud voice from heaven told John not to write what the seven thunders uttered (Rev. Rev. ...
FLESH @basar, she'er): 1. Etymology: Used in all senses of the word, the latter, however, most frequently in the sense of kin, family, relationship ...
Vision [E]A mode of revelation Numbers 12:6 ; 1?Samuel 3:1 ; 2?Chronicles 26:5 ; Psalms 89:19 ; Proverbs 29:18 ; Jeremiah 14:14 ; 23:16 ; Dan...
RULER rool'-er: 1. In the Old Testament: (1) moshel, ruler, prince, master (tyrant), applied to Joseph in Egypt (Genesis 45:8; compare Psalms 105:21...
CHAPTER 10 Daniel 10:1-21 . DANIEL COMFORTED BY AN ANGELIC VISION. The tenth through twelfth chapters more fully describe the vision in the ...
11:1? Now a certain man was sick, Lazarus of Bethany1, of the village of Mary and her sister Martha.PEREA TO BETHANY. RAISING OF LAZARUS. John 11:1-...
Suffering [N]The experience of physical pain and/or mental distress. The words and phrases in the Bible expressing this concept are too numerous to li...
Chapter 11:4? And, being assembled together with them, commanded them that they should not depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Fath...
END qets, 'ephec, kalah; telos, sunteleo: The end of anything is its termination, hence, also, final object or purpose. It is the translation of sev...
CHAPTER 18 SECOND SERIES. Job 18:1-21 . REPLY OF BILDAD. 2. ye--the other two friends of Job, whom Bildad charges with having spoken mere...
Hell [N] [T] [E] [S]Place of God's final retributive punishment. Scripture progressively develops this destiny of the wicked: the Old Testament outli...
Afflictions and adversities MISCELLANY OF MINOR SUB-TOPICSGod regulates the measure of afflictions Psalms 80:5 ; Isaiah 9:1 ; Jeremiah 46:28 Dete...
To aid the reader in his appreciation of the various ways in which anti-supernatural bias enters in, we offer the following examples from well-known ...