The number seven is the most frequently encountered number in the book of Revelation:Even the most careless reader of the Apocalypse must be struck b...
And behold, I come quickly (kai idou ercomai tacu). Christ is the speaker, either through this angel or more probably directly from Christ without in...
Behold, I come as a thief (idou ercomai w klepth). The voice of Christ breaks in with the same metaphor as in 2?Timothy 3:3 , which see. There comes...
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+)...
The Beast is probably the most confusing entity in a consideration of the symbols representing kingdoms and individuals of the visions given to both ...
I am coming ??????? [Erchomai] , present tense, I am presently coming. His arrival is so imminent we are to think of Him as being already on His way....
I heard a voice from heaven saying to me This is probably the same voice which told John to ?seal up the things which the seven thunders uttered? (Rev...
Rev. 1 Rev. 1:1 44 - 3.1.17, 2.7.45, 2.2.133, 2.7.5.3.62, 3.1.192, 2.2.2.5, 2.2.11, 2.3.3, 2.7, 2.8, 2.9.2, 2.12.1, 2.12.2.2, 2.12.2.4, 2.12.5, 2.1...
with whom the kings of the earth committed fornication The kings of the earth committed fornication with the Harlot both because of the allure of her ...
After these things ?The connecting link, after these things, is chronological and also shows a cause and effect relationship between the first and sec...
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...
John This simple statement identifying the writer as ?John? is evidence for the traditional view of John the Apostle as author. For what other John w...
The woman which John sees riding the Beast of seven heads and ten horns is called a harlot, indicating certain practices and priorities which stand o...
took the scroll ??????? [eil?phen] , perfect tense. An aorist use of the perfect tense encountered in narratives.1 The emphasis is on the past action...
have made us The TR text reads as shown. The MT and NU texts read ?have made them.? See discussion concerning textual variants in the preceding verse....
I am coming quickly I am coming is ??????? [erchomai] , present tense: I am presently coming. The emphasis on the impending arrival of Jesus and the ...
He is coming The OT Scriptures predicted a ?coming one? (Deu. Deu. 18:15-18; Ps. Ps. 2:1; Ps. 22:1; Ps. 118:26; Isa. Isa. 9:6; Isa. 48:16; Isa. 53:1;...
Blessed is he Luther?s comments underscore the need for a consistently literal interpretation of this book: ?Even if it were a blessed thing to believ...
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...
they sang ???????? [adousin] , present tense: they are singing. A historical present which describes an event which has already transpired using the p...