the great day of His wrath The great day is The Day of the Lord, a unique time yet future when God will radically intervene in history to demonstrate...
seventh angel sounded The seventh angel sounds the seventh trumpet (Rev. Rev. 8:2+). This last of the seven trumpets is not to be confused with the ?l...
Having seen that the relationship between Israel and God is set forth in terms of a consummated marriage followed by divorce and eventual restoration...
\\INTRODUCTION TO JUDE\\ That this epistle was written by Jude, one of the twelve apostles of Christ, and not by Jude the fifteenth bishop of Jerusa...
Although a full discussion of the hermeneutics of preterism is beyond the scope of our purpose here, it is helpful to understand some key aspects con...
4.16.5.5.1 - What about the Physical Temple? When the Lamb of God (Isa. Isa. 53:7; John John 1:29; 1Pe. 1Pe. 1:19; Rev. Rev. 5:6+) was offered on the ...
A point of confusion arises when determining when the Day of the Lord begins. Some of the passages concerning this period appear contradictory Paul ...
morning star Christ Himself is said to be the morning star (Rev. Rev. 22:16+).1 What is the purpose of the morning star, but to serve as an indicator...
Blessed is he Luther?s comments underscore the need for a consistently literal interpretation of this book: ?Even if it were a blessed thing to believ...
Having taken the scroll from the Father, the Lamb now begins to open the seals. As each seal is opened, a new judgment comes upon the earth. John is ...
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...
He is coming The OT Scriptures predicted a ?coming one? (Deu. Deu. 18:15-18; Ps. Ps. 2:1; Ps. 22:1; Ps. 118:26; Isa. Isa. 9:6; Isa. 48:16; Isa. 53:1;...
But the rest of the dead did not live again until the thousand years were finished. Live again is ???????? [anez?san] : used ?of the dead become aliv...
He laid hold of the dragon Laid hold is ???????? [ekrat?se] : ?take into one?s possession or custody . . . arrest . . . apprehend someone.?1 The dra...
ASCENSION a-sen'-shun: Most modern Lives of Christ commence at Bethlehem and end with the Ascension, but Christ's life began earlier and continued la...
THESSALONIANS, THE FIRST EPISTLE OF PAUL TO THE thes-a-lo'-ni-anz I. IMPORTANCE OF THE EPISTLE II. CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE FOUNDING OF THE CHURCH 1. L...
And I saw thrones, and they sat on them Previously, it was the twenty-four elders who were seen sitting on thrones (Rev. Rev. 4:4+). Here, the throne...
who were sealed ????????????? [esphragismen?n] , perfect passive participle, ones having been sealed. The angel recounts the total number of individua...
Sermon 57. THE SUCCESS OF THE MINISTRY OF THE GOSPEL, OWING TO A DIVINE INFLUENCE.* I con. m. 7.?So then neither is fie that filauts any things nei...