\\INTRODUCTION TO 1 PETER 3\\ In this chapter the apostle instructs wives how to behave towards their husbands, and husbands how to behave towards t...
Scripture knows of two births, two deaths, and two resurrections. Everyone is physically born once. Those who do not undergo the second birth, the sp...
Overview - Esther 4 1?The great mourning of Mordecai and the Jews. 4?Esther, understanding it, sends to Mordecai, who shews the cause, and advises he...
The letters recognize that each church is composed of both believers and church-going unbelievers. ?Church? (????????? [Ekkl?sias] ) is a compound wor...
Opening the Fifth and Sixth Seals 1 fifth seal With the opening of the fifth seal, we break from the judgments associated with the four horsemen. ?T...
the angel See the discussion concerning the identity of the angel at Revelation 1:20. church in Philadelphia See commentary on Seven Churches of Asia....
a sea of glass This sea of glass is under the throne of God and is analogous to the river of life. Ezekiel saw it above the heads of the cherubim, un...
I counsel you to buy from Me The language is meant to speak to the merchants of the city, some of whom would have been members of the church:He who mi...
overcomes See Who is the Overcomer? sit with Me They will sit with Him and share His rule in the same way He sits at the right hand of the Father and ...
I am He who lives John calls Him ? ??? [ho z?n] , ?the living one? (present, active participle). ?Life? is an essential attribute of God Who is consi...
mystery As is frequently the case within Scripture, the answers to our questions are ?in the back of the book? (in this case, the back of the chapter)...
CHAPTER 1 - Of the Holy Scriptures1. The Holy Scripture is the only sufficient, certain, and infallible rule of all saving knowledge, faith, and obedi...
you are about to suffer The Smyrnaeans were about to enter a time of testing. God often warns his servants prior to a time of trial (Eze. Eze. 2:3-7;...
After seventy years of captivity in Babylon which God had prophesied (2Chr. 2Chr. 36:21; Jer. Jer. 25:11; Jer. 29:10; Dan. Dan. 9:2), and as God had ...
Up to this point, we have spent considerable time discussing background information in order to better prepare the reader for the verse-by-verse expo...
great hail This recalls the plague of hail which struck Egypt prior to the Exodus:And the LORD rained hail on the land of Egypt. So there was hail, a...
do not weep ?? ????? [m? klaie] , a present tense imperative indicating that John continued to weep.1 the Lion of the tribe of Judah God had revealed...
who were sealed ????????????? [esphragismen?n] , perfect passive participle, ones having been sealed. The angel recounts the total number of individua...
INTRODUCTION ITS GENUINENESS is attested by 2?Peter 3:1 Also by POLYCARP (in EUSEBIUS [Ecclesiastical History, 4.14]), who, in writing to the Phi...
HOLY SPIRIT, 2 III. The Holy Spirit in the New Testament. In the New Testament there is unusual symmetry and completeness of teaching as to the work ...