Chapter 22:6? Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion. king The second Psalm gives the order of the establishment of the kingdom. It is in s...
Congregation [N] [S](Heb. kahal), the Hebrew people collectively as a holy community ( Numbers 15:15 ). Every circumcised Hebrew from twenty years old...
the nations were angry and Your wrath has come This refers to the rage of the nations (Ps. Ps. 2:1) exhibited throughout the Tribulation by an unrelen...
Isaiah 40:3 The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness Not the voice of the Holy Ghost, as Jarchi; but of John the Baptist, as is attested by all ...
As we enter our study of the book of Revelation, it will serve us well to remember that the book is ?the revelation of Jesus Christ? (Rev. Rev. 1:1+)...
If we go back to the original language of the New Testament, we find the rapiemur of 1Th. 1Th. 4:17 in the Vulgate to be a translation of the Greek t...
Sanctification [N] [T] [E]The generic meaning of sanctification is the state of proper functioning. To sanctify someone or something is to set that pe...
From the day that Adam and Eve rebelled and were driven out of the Garden of Eden (Gen. Gen. 3:24) until the eternal state when God and the Lamb will...
Time [N] [T]It is debatable whether the Bible contains enough information to formulate a full-scale doctrine of time; nonetheless, the significance of...
Endurance [N]Continuing Christian commitment in the face of difficulty. Born in a context of hostility, persecution, and the death of their Lord and h...
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...
\\INTRODUCTION TO NUMBERS\\ This book has its name from the account it gives of the numbers of the children of Israel, twice taken particularly; whi...
Which also (o kai). Water just mentioned. After a true likeness (antitupon). Water in baptism now as an anti-type of Noah's deliverance by water. For...
Media [N] [H]Heb. Madai, which is rendered in the Authorized Version (1) Madai, Genesis 10:2 ; (2) Medes, 2?Kings 17:6 ; 18:11 ; (3) Media, Esther...
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...
The letters recognize that each church is composed of both believers and church-going unbelievers. ?Church? (????????? [Ekkl?sias] ) is a compound wor...
Purity [N](Heb. niqqayon [/y'QIn]; Gk. hagneia [aJgneiva]). The Old Testament. In the Old Testament, the basic sense of the Hebrew word for purity is ...
Chapter 1717:1? And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me, an...
Each of us that comes to the book of Revelation would do well to consider the words of Paul to the Corinthian church:And I, brethren, could not speak...
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...