There is an endless amount of material written about and urged as essential to understanding the book of Revelation. Most authors recognize the OT co...
spirits of demons These are among the angels which fell from heaven and joined forces with Satan (Rev. Rev. 12:4+). Although they are ?unclean? and i...
in the midst The Levites, who performed the priestly duty of the OT, camped around the glory of the Lord which resided in the Tabernacle (Num. Num. 1:...
All who dwell on the earth The ones who not only physically dwell on the earth, but whose affections and complete allegiance are entirely upon the ea...
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;...
will kill her children with death A futuristic use of the present tense: ?I am killing?. An indication of imminency of the judgment. Gen. 2:17).?1 J...
At the heart of the idea of a Temple is the abiding presence of God. Although God is omnipresent, He has chosen to manifest His presence in certain l...
To understand the Campaign of Armageddon, we need to grasp the full sweep of the pattern of rebellion against God which characterizes the history of ...
Surprisingly little of substance is known concerning the Nicolaitans only mentioned in Scripture in the book of Revelation. The Lord commends the Eph...
Then I saw a great white throne and Him who sat upon it The scene before John is very similar to that which Daniel saw in his night vision:I watched t...
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...
you say ?????? [legeis] , you are presently saying. I am rich The attitude of the city of Laodicea had infected the church. ?It is evident that the C...
Having been commissioned by Christ to write ?the things which you have seen, and the things which are, and the things which will take place after this...
But the rest of mankind, who were not killed by these plagues The two-thirds left from the population prior to the sounding of the sixth trumpet (Rev...
A major theme throughout Scripture is the impending arrival of God?s Kingdom on earth. Although the Kingdom will be a time of great blessing, peace, ...
and from Jesus Christ Within this simple greeting can be found a neglected doctrine of paramount importance: the Trinity. The greeting is from each me...
HYMENAEUS hi-men-e'-us (Humenaios, so named from Hymen, the god of marriage, 1?Timothy 1:20; 2?Timothy 2:17): A heretical teacher in Ephesus, an oppo...
That (kai). Use of kai = oti (that) like the Hebrew wav, though found in Greek also. He (auto). Luke sometimes has auto in the nominative as unemphat...
my two witnesses The TR text indicates that it is an angel which is speaking with John (Rev. Rev. 11:1+). Yet here, the speaker speaks of the two witn...
Jesus dictates letters to the remaining three of the Seven Churches of Asia. This chapter completes the record of ?the things which are? (Rev. Rev. 1...