In studying the book of Revelation, one is immediately struck by the prevailing bias of many commentators against understanding numbers in their norm...
Matthew, Theology of In writing his work, the author of the first Gospel sought to make the life, teachings, and work of Jesus relevant to his own Chr...
The scene which John is shown next is an extension of what has preceded. In the previous chapter, Revelation 11 , John was shown two witnesses who pro...
arrayed in purple and scarlet Her purple and scarlet clothing is called ?fine linen? (Rev. Rev. 18:12+). Fine is ???????? [byssinon] , which is used o...
The number three appears in the book of Revelation in association with the doxological triad (Rev. Rev. 4:8+; cf. Isa. Isa. 6:3), the amount of grain...
Touch Bringing into bodily contact of one thing with another. The Hebrew naga [[;gn] and Greek hapto [a&ptomai] (-omai) are the main biblical terms fo...
stars of heaven fell to the earth Stars is ??????? [asteres] from which we get the word asteroid. The word is also used of the supernatural manifesta...
Idol, Idolatry The most prevalent form of idolatry in biblical times was the worship of images or idolsthat represented or were thought to embody vari...
Poor and Poverty, Theology of Poverty in Scripture can be both social and spiritual. The words poor and poverty cover a wide range of meaning, overlap...
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Orphan [N]Person who has been deprived of parents. The meaning is clearly demonstrated in Lamentations 5:3: We have become orphans and fatherless, our...
Color, Symbolic Meaning of Although the Bible contains relatively few references to individual colors, their symbolic associations are theologically s...
Anthropomorphism (Gk. anthropos [a[nqrwpo] [human] + morphe [morfhv] [form]). Assignment of human attributes to nonhuman things. Biblical anthropomorp...
Two other titles which are related to the coming Day of the Lord are the Time of Jacob?s Trouble and the Great Tribulation.1 Notice that all three in...
Building [N] [E]From Sacred Space to Holy House The localized presence of God and God's glory among his people is central to the unfolding story of th...
Presence of God The Scriptures often speak of God's presence in human history. The most common Hebrew term for presence is panim [yIn'P], which is als...
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...
sea of glass, like crystal Those who achieve victory over the beast (by not loving their lives to the death, Rev. Rev. 12:11+) are seen standing on t...
INTRODUCCI?N A DEUTERONOMIOIMPORTANCIA Es uno de los cuatro libros del AT que m?s frecuentemente se citan en el NT (ejemplo, G?nesis, Deuteronomio, Sa...
Oil [N] [T] [E] [S]The most common word for oil in the Old Testament is the Hebrew word shemen [,m,v]. It occurs 192 times, and in the large majority ...