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Results from: Answers On or After: Thu 12/31/70 Author: DocTrinsograce Ordered by Verse |
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4861 | a pair of balance | Rev 6:5 | DocTrinsograce | 180646 | ||
Hi, Big... The concensus is that it was or will be -- depending on your eschatological preferences -- a famine of some sort. In Him, Doc |
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4862 | what was the scales for | Rev 6:5 | DocTrinsograce | 180647 | ||
According to Jammieson, Fausset, and Brown, "...the symbol of scarcity of provisions, the bread being doled out by weight." | ||||||
4863 | third seal | Rev 6:5 | DocTrinsograce | 180649 | ||
Duplicate question. | ||||||
4864 | Will we converse in Paradise? | Rev 6:10 | DocTrinsograce | 133922 | ||
One can only surmise, but here is a passage that suggets that they will, at least, be in communication with the Lord. | ||||||
4865 | What was significant about the seal of t | Rev 7:2 | DocTrinsograce | 235435 | ||
Hi, Mason... You might want to find a good commentary. http://www.biblestudytools.com/commentaries/gills-exposition-of-the-bible/revelation-7-2.html In Him, Doc |
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4866 | first fruits and the elect | Rev 7:4 | DocTrinsograce | 236590 | ||
Many sincere Bible-believing Christians would understand the 144,000 like this: The church is raptured prior to the great tribulation. During the time when the church is gone, a remnant of 144,000 ethnic Jews is converted (12,000 from each tribe). These Jewish converts, in turn, evangelize the Gentiles who make up the great multitude in white robes in v. 9. That’s one understanding of Revelation 7. A lot of godly people hold that understanding. Let me explain why I understand the 144,000 differently. The 144,000 are not an ethnic Jewish remnant, and certainly not an Anointed Class of saints who became Jehovah’s Witnesses before 1935. The 144,000 represent the entire community of the redeemed. Let me give you several reasons for making this claim. First, in chapter 13 we read that Satan seals all of his followers, so it makes sense that God would seal all of his people, not just the Jewish ones. Second, the image of sealing comes from Ezekiel 9 where the seal on the forehead marks out two groups of people: idolaters and non-idolaters. It would seem that the sealing of the 144,000 makes a similar distinction based on who worships God not who among the Jewish remnant worships God. Third, the 144,000 are called the servants of our God (Rev. 7:3). There is no reason to make the 144,000 any more restricted than that. If you are a servant of the living God, you are one of the 144,000 mentioned here. In Revelation, the phrase “servants of God” always refers to all of God’s redeemed people, not just an ethnic Jewish remnant (see 1:1; 2:20; 19:2; 19:5; 22:3). Fourth, the 144,000 mentioned later in chapter 14 are those who have been “redeemed from the earth” and those who were “purchased from among men.” This is generic everybody kind of language. The 144,000 is a symbolic number of redeemed drawn from all peoples, not simply the Jews. Besides, if the number is not symbolic then what do we do with Revelation 14:4 which describes the 144,000 as those “who have not defiled themselves with women”? Are we to think that the 144,000 refers to a chosen group of celibate Jewish men? It makes more sense to realize that 144,000 is a symbolic number that is described as celibate men to highlight the group’s moral purity and set-apartness for spiritual battle. Fifth, the last reason for thinking that the 144,000 is the entire community of the redeemed is because of the highly stylized list of tribes in verses 5-8. The number itself is stylized. It’s not to be taken literally. It’s 12 x 12 x 1000—12 being the number of completion for God’s people (representing the 12 tribes of Israel and the 12 apostles of the Lamb) and 1000 being a generic number suggesting a great multitude. So 144,000 is a way of saying all of God’s people under the old and new covenant. And then look at the list of the tribes. There are over a dozen different arrangements of the twelve tribes in the Bible. This one is unique among all of those. Judah is listed first because Jesus was from there as a lion of the tribe of Judah. All twelve of Jacob’s sons are listed—including Levi who usually wasn’t because he didn’t inherit any land-except for one. Manasseh, Joseph’s son (Jacob’s grandson), is listed in place of Dan. So why not Dan? Dan was left out in order to point to the purity of the redeemed church. From early in Israel’s history, Dan was the center of idolatry for the kingdom (Judges 18:30-31). During the days of the divided kingdom, Dan was one of two centers for idolatry (1 Kings 12:28-30). And there is recorded in some non-Biblical Jewish writings that the Jews thought the anti-Christ would come out of Dan based on Genesis 49:17. The bottom line is that the number and the list and the order of the tribes are all stylized to depict the totality of God’s pure and perfectly redeemed servants from all time over all the earth. That’s what Revelation means by the 144,000. --Rev. Kevin DeYoung (2013) |
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4867 | Who is in heaven with Jesus right now? | Rev 7:9 | DocTrinsograce | 237109 | ||
I think this is what you are looking for: After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude which no one could count, from every nation and all tribes and peoples and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, and palm branches were in their hands; and they cry out with a loud voice, saying, "Salvation to our God who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb." And all the angels were standing around the throne and around the elders and the four living creatures; and they fell on their faces before the throne and worshiped God, saying, "Amen, blessing and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving and honor and power and might, be to our God forever and ever. Amen." (Revelation 7:9-12 NASB) |
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4868 | Is salvation from or to God? | Rev 7:10 | DocTrinsograce | 231457 | ||
We are saved from God (Ephesians 2:3) to God (Ephesians 1:4). | ||||||
4869 | relate 1/3 destruction/1/3 fallen angels | Rev 8:7 | DocTrinsograce | 194001 | ||
Hi, Mariel... You've responded to a post that is over six years old. It is unlikely you will receive a response from the author of the post, as he has not participated in about that same length of time. You asked about "...the possibility of the one third destruction described when the trumpets sounded in Rev. having a relation to the one third of the angels being cast out of heaven..." (sic) Yes, they are related in that they are both equivalent fractional measures. One must be cautious of an unbiblical numerology. www.gotquestions.org/Biblical-numerology.html In Him, Doc |
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4870 | Has Revelations already happened? | Rev 8:11 | DocTrinsograce | 161943 | ||
Dear Butterflies etc... If Revelation 8:11 is to be taken as a literal event, then the Chernobyl accident certainly would not fit the ticket. Some prophecies do span a great deal of time while, on the surface, sound more sequential. Consequently, it would not be without precedent if the prophecies in Revelation also covered a substantial period of time. However, people, depending on their eschatological presuppositions, approach the last book of the New Testament in different ways. The answers you receive will, therefore, vary quite a bit. In Him, Doc |
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4871 | Did Jesus ever go to Hades to retreive t | Rev 9:1 | DocTrinsograce | 159690 | ||
Hi, Susie... The only mention of a "key to hell" is Revelation 9:1 and 20:1. In both instances it is an angel who has this key. Consequently, we'd have to answer your question with "No." In Him, Doc |
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4872 | What are the seven peals of thunder? | Rev 10:3 | DocTrinsograce | 153318 | ||
Hi, Soul... "The crashing or booming sound produced by rapidly expanding air along the path of the electrical discharge of lightning." Apparently there were seven of them. Seriously, though you might try a commentary: http://eword.gospelcom.net/comments/revelation/gill/revelation10.htm In Him, Doc |
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4873 | What will we "do" in Heaven? | Rev 10:6 | DocTrinsograce | 148423 | ||
Hi, Sandy! I believe that there will be much doings in heaven but we can't begin to imagine them, and perhaps we lack the ability to understand them. Perhaps that is why the Bible says so little about existence there. When I taught in the prison ministry I was often asked this question. I used to suggest to the fellows to imagine taking a cave man to modern Los Angeles. He would marvel at everything you showed him, even at things in which we might not even think he would be interested. Until the revelation of the modern world, that cave man would have told you that his cave, club, bear skin, sticks and rocks were pretty neat stuff. Perhaps this is why so little of heaven and the future is actually revealed to us: we simply can't understand. Meanwhile, we think our technology, science, and culture are pretty neat stuff. We just really don't have a clue, do we? "But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love Him." (1 Corinthians 2:9) In Him, Doc |
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4874 | What is 'the mystery of God? ' | Rev 10:7 | DocTrinsograce | 208594 | ||
In a word, it is the gospel. | ||||||
4875 | Which prophet ate a book? | Rev 10:9 | DocTrinsograce | 137159 | ||
You must be thinking of the apostle John. See the above reference. Or possibly Ezekiel (see Ezekiel 3:1). | ||||||
4876 | egypt and sin | Rev 11:18 | DocTrinsograce | 179268 | ||
Dear ble, It is possible you are thinking of this verse. However, it would be a mistake to take any one thing in Scripture and assert that it is always symbolic of something or other. That is an approach to hermeneutics that has resulted in great error for people both in the past and in the present. It seeks to allegorize everything, searching for a hidden/spiritual message behind every Scripture. Instead, a proper hermeneutic, follows the adage "when the plain sense makes good sense seek no other sense." Remember, after all, with regards to the current topic, there is actually a place and people, both now and in history, called Egypt! In Him, Doc |
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4877 | 1260 years or days for The Womans place | Rev 12:6 | DocTrinsograce | 233560 | ||
Hi, Curt... I believe that your brother is in error -- at least relative to the translation of the word days in Revelation 12:6. http://bible.cc/revelation/12-6.htm In Him, Doc |
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4878 | The scriptures and U.S. Mid East Policy | Rev 12:12 | DocTrinsograce | 137836 | ||
Dear Pastor, I don't think it is wrong, unless it takes the focus off of Christ. Fortunately, all of these things are in His hands. As Christ puts it in Revelation 2:10 (LITV), "Do not at all fear what you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw you into prison, so that you may be tried; and you will have affliction ten days. Be faithful until death, and I will give you the crown of life." The trying of our faith is to be expected (1 Peter 1:7). Nevertheless we are to rejoice, knowing that it is for just a short time. In Him, Doc |
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4879 | deadly wound healed? | Rev 13:3 | DocTrinsograce | 240378 | ||
Hi, MzVicki... John Trapp (1601-1669) thought it occurred in 1378 AD; John Gill (1690-1771) thought it occurred in 476 AD; Robert Jamieson (1802-1880) thought it occurred sometime subsequent to 1870 AD; then there are all our contemporary prophecy mongers (1970-) who think it is yet to occur. Affixing apocalyptic prophetic particulars to specific historic events, while appealing to man's speculative curiosity, seems fraught with difficulties. If there is no agreement from one end of the eschatological spectrum to the other, I am doubtful that anyone in our forum will be able to provide a better answer. Furthermore, since our forum is rooted in the authority of Scripture, we would not want to provide a basis from which the less prudent of our members might be tempted to render an answer more definitive answer than that provided by the Word (cf Deuteronomy 4:2 and Luke 17:1-4). In Him, Doc |
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4880 | Who is the persecuted woman in Rev 12:13 | Rev 13:12 | DocTrinsograce | 226670 | ||
Hi, John1968... Welcome to the forum! Here is the comments of another Bible scholar with a slightly differing perspective: "The Church becomes the harlot: the world's political power, the Antichristian beast; the world's wisdom and civilization, the false prophet. Christ's three offices are thus perverted: the first beast is the false kingship; the harlot, the false priesthood; the second beast, the false prophet. The beast is the bodily, the false prophet the intellectual, the harlot the spiritual power of Antichristianity. The Old-Testament Church stood under the power of the beast, the heathen world power: the Middle-Ages Church under that of the harlot: in modern times the false prophet predominates. But in the last days all these God-opposed powers which have succeeded each other shall co-operate, and raise each other to the most terrible and intense power of their nature: the false prophet causes men to worship the beast, and the beast carries the harlot. These three forms of apostasy are reducible to two: the apostate Church and the apostate world, pseudo-Christianity and Antichristianity, the harlot and the beast; for the false prophet is also a beast; and the two beasts, as different manifestations of the same beast-like principle, stand in contradistinction to the harlot, and are finally judged together, whereas separate judgment falls on the harlot." --Dr. C. A. Auberlen (1824-1864) In Him, Doc |
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