4.12.1 - Revival Myth4.12.2 - The Number of the Beast4.12.3 - Failure in Fulfillment4.12.4 - Nero as a Type of the Beast Among those who seek to releg...
in His right hand seven stars These stars are the seven angels of the churches as explained in Revelation 1:20 . The picture of the stars being withi...
in their mouth Scripture implicates the mouth as the organ which speaks forth the heart: ?Brood of vipers! How can you, being evil, speak good things...
one of his heads The head which is wounded is the seventh head:Here is the mind which has wisdom: The seven heads are seven mountains on which the wo...
they had a king over them These locusts are to be contrasted with natural locusts which have no king: ?The locusts have no king, yet they all advance...
the ten horns which you saw on the beast The TR stands alone in having the ten horns on the beast. Both MT and NU texts say ?the ten horns which you s...
He was granted power to give breath to the image of the beast The power given to the False Prophet here is perhaps the apex of what God has ever allo...
Some have thought the Antichrist to be a Christian invention, but it predates Christianity. This is to be expected since the Old Testament reveals co...
another angel The most recent individual angel we encountered was the seventh angel who sounded his trumpet in Revelation Rev. 11:15+. Another angel ...
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...
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...
TRADITION tra-dish'-un: The Greek word is paradosis, a giving over, either by word of mouth or in writing; then that which is given over, i.e. tradit...
It might seem that in the tearing of the veil of the Temple and the coming of the Spirit to establish the Temple of the believer that all purposes fo...
When the New Testament opens, we find John the Baptist preaching, Mat. 3:2) [emphasis added]. Later, when John was imprisoned, Jesus too preached, ?t...
the smoke of their torment ascends forever and ever This phrase speaks of eternal judgment, like that which will ultimately befall the land of Edom a...
CHAPTER 1 - Of the Holy Scriptures1. The Holy Scripture is the only sufficient, certain, and infallible rule of all saving knowledge, faith, and obedi...
all the authority of the first beast As the Holy Spirit in relation to Christ, so the False Prophet has the full authority given by the dragon to the...
Scripture does not give great detail concerning the sequence of events during the Campaign of Armageddon. Most of the passages concerning this time a...
All book names within Bible addresses appear in one of two forms: (1) the full formal name (e.g., Revelation), or (2) a standardized abbreviation. Th...
When they finish their testimony As we have seen throughout the book of Revelation, the ability of the evil forces which manifest during the time of t...