Then the woman fled The connective, ?Then,? indicates a sequence between the catching up of the child and the fleeing of the woman. But are these two ...
And they gathered them That is, the spirits of demons (Rev. Rev. 16:13+) gathered the kings of the earth (Rev. Rev. 16:14+). to the place called in He...
made us kings and priests In both NU and MT, the Greek has appointed us a kingdom (singular), priests to God. A similar difference occurs in Revelatio...
The Book of RevelationChapter 5Verses:5:1And I saw - This is a continuation of the same narrative.In the right hand - The emblem of his all - ruling p...
Having explored the parallels between events in the book of Revelation and passages which speak of a future time of trouble for both the world and th...
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...
their dead bodies will lie in the street Lack of burial is particularly repugnant to the Jews. 1K. 14:11; 1K. 16:4; 2K. 2K. 9:37; Ps. Ps. 79:3; Jer. J...
The letter to the church at Thyatira mentions a self-proclaimed ?prophetess? named Jezebel. Some have taken her mention as a symbol, one of several o...
synagogue of Satan, who say they are Jews and are not See commentary on Revelation 2:9. but lie ????????? [pseudontai] , present tense, middle voice: ...
TAKE tak: Most of the very numerous examples of this word are still in good use and only a few call for special attention. To take in the sense of ca...
Zechariah, Theology of Introduction. Authorship. The book of Zechariah falls naturally into two parts: chapters 1-8 and 9-14. In the first part we fin...
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...
Now the great city was divided into three parts Great city probably refers to Jerusalem,1 as it is contrasted with the cities of the nations (?Gentil...
Remember Remembering is the first in a three-step process. All three steps (remember, repent, and do the first works) are in the imperative tense: re...
Some have held that the Antichrist will be Jewish in origin. Among the reasons cited for this view are:His acceptance by Israel is thought to imply a...
that great city Although this phrase is also used of Jerusalem (Rev. Rev. 11:8+) and of the heavenly Jerusalem (Rev. Rev. 21:10+), here it is to be id...
every island fled away and the mountains were not found Unlike the earthquake attending the opening of the sixth seal in which ?every mountain and is...
The scene before us can also be interpreted in a different way which splits the participants between both a heavenly and an earthly location. Such an ...
they sang ???????? [adousin] , present tense: they are singing. A historical present which describes an event which has already transpired using the p...
Let us be glad and rejoice and give Him glory for . . . Their gladness and rejoicing is because the marriage has come. As in the First Coming of Chri...