He who leads into captivity shall go into captivity; he who kills with the sword must be killed with the sword In a passage whose context is the time...
Cloud, Cloud of the Lord The Old Testament. The Literal Cloud. Natural phenomena involving clouds are depicted occasionally in the Old Testament, but ...
Backsliding [T]Condition that results from spiritual apathy or disregard for the things of God, whether on the part of an individual or a group bound ...
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...
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...
Chapter 11:4? And, being assembled together with them, commanded them that they should not depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Fath...
Providence of God The word providence comes from the Latin providentia (Gk. pronoia [provnoia]) and means essentially foresight or making provision be...
the temple of God was opened in heaven This is the heavenly temple (Isa. Isa. 6:1-4; Rev. Rev. 7:15+; Rev. 14:15+, Rev. 14:17+; Rev. 15:5-6+, Rev. 15:...
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...
Water [N] [T]The word water is used in a variety of metaphorical ways in Scripture. It is used to symbolize the troublesome times in life that can and...
Knowledge of God The key biblical terms for knowledge assume a personal familiarity, even an intimateinvolvement, with the known object. Similarly, kn...
JEREMIAH (2) jer-e-mi'-a: 1. Name and Person 2. Life of Jeremiah 3. The Personal Character of Jeremiah 4. The Prophecies of Jeremiah 5. The Book ...
remember . . . how you have received The church at Sardis is given a command similar to that of the Ephesian church: to remember what they had earlie...
Purpose (Heb. yaas [[y]; Gk. boule [boulhv]). The Old Testament. The verbal root of the Hebrew word for purpose means to give counsel, deliberate, pur...
Sir Sir is ????? [kyrie] which is frequently translated Lord. Elsewhere, the word is translated master (Mtt. Mat. 6:24); Sir (Mtt. Mat. 13:27; John Jo...
Magic [N] [E]The Old Testament. Magicthe attempt to exploit supernatural powers by formulaic recitations to achieve goals that were otherwise unrealiz...
Luke 19:44 And shall lay thee even with the ground Beat down all the houses in it, the stately edifices, and even the temple itself; (See Gill on Matt...
CHAPTER 10 Isaiah 10:1-4 . Fourth strophe. 1. them that decree--namely, unrighteous judges. write grievousness, &c.--not the scribes, but the...
in the days of the sounding of the seventh angel This refers to the time period during which the seventh angel sounds and the final seven bowl judgmen...
Chapter?25Ever since David?s time Jerusalem had been a celebrated place, beautiful for situation and the joy of the whole earth: while the book of psa...