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141 | When was Revelations written. | Revelation | Tamara Brewington | 203840 | ||
Revelation not Revelations there is only one Revelation not several, that is first. Next, Johnn wrote Revelation about 95 AD, after the destruction of Jerusalem and the temple in 70 AD to the seven churchs listed in chapters 2,3. He was giving them prophetic warning of what would happen directly to their churchs in chapters 2,3, the rest of Revelation was referring to the distant future, contrary to some commentary. The warning contained in the rest of the book apply to the distant future. Some commentaries like to see Revelation as a duoble prophecy like some that occured in the OT, but it's not that. Their reason is that because Rome did fall they see the great harlot of Babylon as being both Rome then and Rome now. The other theory these theologians have that dove tails with this idea that it is mostly about Rome as a world power falling twice is because of the rise to power of the Catholic church through the centuries and they see this as the world wide political and religious machine that the great harlot Babylon represents because in chapter 17 this is talking about the destruction of the religious Babylon world system and chapter 18 is talking about the destruction of the economic Babylon world system which are both run by the Anti-Christ and then both ancient Rome and the Catholic church are seen by them as being the Anti-Christ. They see the Anti-Christ as being Ceasar of ancient Rome and the Pope of modern Catholicism. This overlooks that not enough of the prophey ever came true in the time of Ceasar when Rome fell and that the Anti-Christ must fulfill certain prophecies that have not yet come to pass, like dying for real and raising from the dead by the power of Satan, like the False Prophet arising and doing miracles in order to testify of the Anti-Christ by making an idol that speaks, like the absence seen in Revelation of the church no longer being spoken of as being on the earth after chapter 3, like smome of the seals of judgment falling to earth. But these commenators get around this by saying it has not yet occured to the Pope and the Catholic church that they have risen to this height of power and that the judgment has not yet fallen down to earth. The predictions are more about the destruction of the entire world before and during the rule of the Anti-Christ who is a real person and the False Prophet who is a real person and about the desctruction of the religious and economic system they will create and rule over and it is also about the desctruction of whichever actual city that the Anti-Christ rules from and about the destruction of all the unbelievers in chapter 19 than it is about the destruction of Israel. Israel has yet to rise to power as the Bible predicts it will in Revelation and then the Anti-Christ will desacrate a new temple that will have been built there. A lot of people see Israel as well on its way to having been risen to power already, but they miss the fact that God has not yet called all the Jews back to Israel in the way the Bible described it. People don't like to hear this neither Christians who are in favor of Israel at present nor Jews who revere their holy land. But the fact is Israel is going to be re-set up by the Anti-Christ and given back as a false gesture to the Jews who will flock to the holy land enmass in a way we have not yet seen. And it won't be accomplished by taking Palestine by force from the Palestinians. The destruction of Israel will be accomplished by the Anti-Christ who is the one who will turn on them and pour out his wrath because the Jews will refuse to worship him and he will defile their newly built temple. And this is why the Israel we see now is not the Israel that will come to power, the Anti-Christ is not yet on the scene and the temple has not been rebuilt yet. | ||||||
142 | who torments in the lake of fireer | Revelation | Tamara Brewington | 205612 | ||
Dear n8, I do believe that God is the owner of hell and the lake of fire, two different places though; Jesus speaks of hell in Luke 16 as being a place of torment, then in Revelation we hear of the lake of fire in 19. God made the heavens He made heaven itself, since He created everything He also created hell and the lake of fire for the wicked. Hell is going to get thrown into the lake of fire though and who ever is in their in hell is going to come out and receive immortal bodies capable of buring for ever as they are resurrected to receive the Great White Throne judgment - John 5, Revelation 20. God who created all of the elements in the lake of fire and of hell set these places up as places of infinite and eternal torment and of burning fire. Is it not God who punishes all sin? Is it not God who has a promise to visit wrath on the unjust? I don't think God stands there in hell stoking fires, or that He needs anyone else to either, I think He set it up as a place that is perpetually burning as how He set it up to keep operating and give folks an immortal body to endure puniishment forever. God's Day To You, Tamara |
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143 | Interpretative Schools? | Rev 1:1 | Tamara Brewington | 204468 | ||
The Two Preterist Views 1)The final judgments in Revelation are about Rome and Jerusalem and Jerusalem is Babylon the Great. This Preterist View does not explain why Jesus did not come, or why the two witnesses did not come, or why Abomination of Desolation did not come, or why the world wide destructions of the earth did not come, or why no one received a mark of the beast. The list can keep right on going. 2)The final judgments in Revelation are about the fall of the Roman Empire with Rome as the Great Babylon. The same problems exist with this view as the first one. The Two Historic Views 1)Revelation is a charted history of events, the past Revelation 1:19 – John speaks of the past the announcement of the vision in 1, John speaks of the present the message to the seven churches in 2and 3, John speaks of the future in 4-22. The only thing that remains is to see the events unfold because the Bible is the inerrant word of God. Those that have a problem with this view are concerned with where we now are in time because they are not sure when the future part begins in history. There is a simple answer to this, we now have wars and rumors of wars and that is all we can say for sure. 2)Revelation is history, but the message to the churches is figurative and applies to both John’s day and to continuing history as a message to church types. This view often identifies the Catholic Church as Babylon the Great with the first beast as a pope and the second beast as his false prophet. The problem with this view is that it will be impossible to know for certain what all the symbols mean until they happen. Some have already interpreted the symbols as having occurred. The Futurist View 1)Revelation from 4 on is about the future and is largely seen as dispensationalist as the final two divisions of God’s history with man. Some futurists believe the church will be raptured before the 7 year Great Tribulation, some do not. The judgments happen in sequence during the 7 years or are varying descriptions of the same events. Those who have a problem with any futurist view are concerned with whether or not the book has a practical application right now. They ignore what John says in Revelation 1:3 that whoever reads the book of Revelation will receive a blessing and that they should pay attention to what is written in it, which surely is giving instructions for an application as to continued perseverance in the faith and good conduct. The Two Idealist Views 1)Revelation is purely symbolic of the ongoing struggle between God and Satan and is about everything that has occurred and that will occur between them and the symbols don’t represent real historical events. The problem with this view is that it removes the possibility that Jesus will actually come back and conquer and rule the earth and reduces God’s sovereign involvement in history to the symbolic fight between good and evil. 2)Revelation is purely symbolic literature because Revelation defies a literal interpretation of what the author’s intent was to his audience, but can still as symbolic literature, adhere to the history of redemption. This allows for an application for today of the symbols found in Revelation as a heavenly perspective on earthly events. The problem with this view is that it minimizes the prophetic nature of the message by making it a be a reapplication of the message to uncertain events in the present or future without allowing for a literal interpretation of a past, a present or a future, as John declares it to be, and relegates the prophetic nature of the Revelation to mere symbolism. The Historical View With The Futurist View 1)The first historical view with the futurist view combined present a very good case for a reliable view that incorporates the apocalyptic language and the prophetic nature of Revelation and is a fifth rarely presented view. Revelation is an apocalypse containing material combining symbolic descriptuve language with prophecy. These two elements have to be considered in determing what John's intent in writing it was. We can't just say it is purely symbolic based on Revelation 1:19 because John says it is about the past, present, and future, which makes it historical. We can't say it is purely historical because John is prohecying so it has to also be about the future which had not happened yet, or has not happened yet. We can't say it is purely symbolic because it contains a message to a church in his day and because it is about the past, present, and future. But we can say that it is about history, the future and that it uses symbolic language to describe future acts of judgment and that it is prophetic. That is why I believe the fifth veiw is the correct one to hold. The Preterist view has too many errors to be true. God Bless, Tamara |
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144 | The 7 Churches of ASIA | Rev 1:4 | Tamara Brewington | 204838 | ||
According to the New Testament, Ephesus became an important center for early Christianity from the 50s AD. Paul used it as a base and spent there more than two years on his third missionary journey (Acts 19:8, 19:10, 20:31). He became embroiled in a dispute with artisans, whose livelihood depended on selling the statuettes of Artemis in the Temple of Artemis (Acts 19:23–41). He wrote between 53 and 57 A.D. the letter 1 Corinthians from Ephesus (possibly from the "Paul tower" close to the harbour, where he was imprisoned for a short time). Later Paul wrote to the Christian community at Ephesus, according to tradition, while he was in prison in Rome (around 62 A.D.) The Apostle John lived in Asia Minor (Anatolia) in the last decades of the first century and from Ephesus had guided the Churches of that province. After Domitian's death the Apostle returned to Ephesus during the reign of Trajan, and at Ephesus he died about 100 AD at a great age. Ephesus was one of the seven cities addressed in Revelation (2:1–7), indicating that the church at Ephesus was still strong. Two decades later, the church at Ephesus there was still important enough to be addressed by a letter written by Bishop Ignatius of Antioch to the Ephesians in the early 2nd century AD, that begins with, "Ignatius, who is also called Theophorus, to the Church which is at Ephesus, in Asia, deservedly most happy, being blessed in the greatness and fullness of God the Father, and predestinated before the beginning of time, that it should be always for an enduring and unchangeable glory" (Letter to the Ephesians). The church at Ephesus had given their support for Ignatius, who was taken to Rome for execution. Smyrna...Christianity was preached to the inhabitants at an early date. As early as the year 93, there existed a Christian community directed by a bishop for whom St. John in the Apocalypse (i, II; ii, 8-11) has only words of praise…There were other Christians in the vicinity of the city and dependent on it to whom St. Polycarp wrote letters (Eusebius, "Hist. Eccl.", V, xxiv). When Polycarp was martyred…the Church of Smyrna sent an encyclical concerning his death to the Church of Philomelium and others (Vailhe’ S. Transcribed by Lucia Tobin. Smyrna. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume XIV. Copyright c 1912 by Robert Appleton Company. Online Edition Copyright c 2003 by Kevin Knight. Nihil Obstat, July 1, 1912. Remy Lafort, S.T.D., Censor. Imprimatur. John Cardinal Farley, Archbishop of New York). Pergamum - I googled the church of Pergamum to death and found very little about the history of this church. Pergamum, also known as Pergamos, had a colorful history as a major city of Asia Minor. It was steeped in pagan idolatry, serpent worship, and Caesar worship. See Satan's Throne at Pergamum for a description of the influence of ancient Babylonian mysteries on the city. Pergamum means "thoroughly married." It represents the period of church history when the church became married to the world. Constantine, the Emperor of the Roman Empire probably meant well when he issued a decree that all his subjects should become Christians, but it actually did much damage to the church. The majority of people became Christian in name only, bringing their pagan practices and lifestyles into a compromised church. This merger of the church and state took place with the Edict of Milan in AD 313. This period lasted until about AD 500. During this time the Bishop of Rome assumed the title, Pontifex Maximus. |
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145 | The 7 Churches of ASIA | Rev 1:4 | Tamara Brewington | 204839 | ||
Thyatira - There have been a couple of differences of opinion about when the Thyatira era began and ended. Thyatira - Herman Hoeh (Hoeh, H. A True History of the True Church, 1959 ed.) and Ivor Fletcher (Fletcher, Ivor C. The Incredible History of God's True Church, 1984 ed.) both wrote that it began about 1000 A.D. However, the Worldwide Church of God (WCG) later changed to the belief that it began a little later, closer to the beginning of the twelfth century, with the Pergamos era transitioning out in the eleventh century. WCG also changed its view that the "last work" of Thyatira was around 1238 AD to around 1600. In Dr. Hoeh's book, he has Thyatira ending in the mid-thirteenth century, and remaining in hiding, until the Church re-emerges as Sardis beginning in the mid-seventeenth century. WCG's later correspondence course suggests that the work of the Thyatira era ended in the late sixteenth/early seventeenth century; which is the same position that the Living Church of God's (LCG) John Ogwyn took in his booklet. Sardis - I googled this to death too, nothing on the history of this church. Now that I have researched this for you I am going to have to buy a New Book somewheres on the history of the seven churches past the first century, thank you for giving me a new area of study to kill myself with. I appreciate it:):):) Philadelphia - I also googled this church extensively to no avail. Laodicea - I also googled this church to no avail. There has been a ton of allegorical and symbolic interpretation about the 7 churches, which is outside of a literal intrepretation of the Bible; 1)The message to the 7 churches represents 7 types of churches that present themselves through out all of the centuries as church types, and Jesus was giving good and bad examples as a warning to all churches from the 1st century on into the future. 2)The message to the 7 churches represents 7 church ages from the first century through the present, and Jesus was giving a picture of what the 7 church ages would look like and be characterized by. 3)The message to the 7 churches represents 7 types of Christians who are in the church body, and Jesus was giving good and bad examples of being a member in the churches. 4)The message to the 7 churches represents 7 types of churches in the first century, and Jesus was giving good and bad examples to all the churches in every where in the 1st century of how to run a church. There is only one literal intrepretation of the 7 churches in the Bible; 1)Revelation 1:3 Blessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of the prophecy, and heed the things written in it; for the time is near, Jesus was giving His assessment of the character and actions of the 7 specific churches, which He choose according to His own counsel to give the 7 churches instructions in order to encourage them and to prepare them for persecution and to bring them back into the will of God wherever they had strayed. The application comes from Revelation 1:3; heed the message for the time is near - the time for the devil to mess around and the time for persecution is always now - we can give this literal interpretation; we should pay attention to the various admonitions Jesus gives the churches and be on the alert against the schemes of the devil and persecution from the enemies of Christ, and we can be cleanse our chruches of any defilement or wrong doing and go back to our first love of Christ. Agape, Tamara |
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146 | The 7 Churches of ASIA | Rev 1:4 | Tamara Brewington | 204843 | ||
Dear Doc and Lookinforacity. Thank you for the reminder Doc, I was so busy gathering I forgot to site the all the various places this part came from and part of the second part too, but the very last part on the second post was all me. I aplogize to every one on the forum and to the Lockman Foundation. I got the majority of the quotes from wikipedia and the Catholic Enyclopedia. All of the parts at the end of the second post that had to do with interpretations whether allegorical or literal with the application was all me. God bless Tamara |
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147 | The 7 Churches of ASIA | Rev 1:4 | Tamara Brewington | 204844 | ||
Dear Doc and Lookinforacity. Thank you for the reminder Doc, I was so busy gathering I forgot to site the all the various places this part came from and part of the second part too, but the very last part on the second post was all me. I aplogize to every one on the forum and to the Lockman Foundation. I got the majority of the quotes from wikipedia and the Catholic Enyclopedia. All of the parts at the end of the second post that had to do with interpretations whether allegorical or literal with the application was all me. God bless Tamara |
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148 | The 7 Churches of ASIA | Rev 1:4 | Tamara Brewington | 204926 | ||
Dear Lookinforacity, I saw my pastor to night in bewteen classes at school and asked him where to point you towards to get more of a real answer. He told me that we could find out exactly what we want to know by looking through the records of the writtings of early church Fathers; Iraneus, Martyr, Polycarp, also perhaps Clement of Alexandria, Ignatius, Papias, Barnabas, Tatian, Tertullian, Origen, Lactantius, Eususbius, Hipploytus and the list can go on and on. Here go to this site and you will find most of these authors and perhaps you will find the information; http: double slash forward www.ccel.org single slash forward index single slash forward subject.html God Bless Tamara |
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149 | REV 11 The Temple stands yet destroyed | Rev 1:11 | Tamara Brewington | 204558 | ||
See Daniel 9 and look closely at verse 24-27, it says that Jerusalem will be rebuilt. Most commentators believe that the temple will be rebuitl at this time and the time is during the the times of distress in Revelation. See Daniel 11:31 where it says that forces from him will arise and desecrate the temple and set up the abomination of desolation. You can't have descration in a temple that does not exist, it has to be rebuit first. It has not rebuit yet and probably won't be rebuilt until the times of distress comes in Revelation times. John doesn't have to mention the temple being destroyed in 70 AD to write about it being rebuilt. As John pointed out to you he was to write down what he saw, not what we want to know. Another thing to factor in is that John would naturally assume that his readers knew that the temple had been destroyed and would not need to mention it. God Bless, Tamara |
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150 | Is God opens doors no man closes in bibl | Rev 3:20 | Tamara Brewington | 205233 | ||
Dear chessshores, This is another Word of Faith teaching that has absolutely no basis in scripture at all. Joyce Meyers and Benny Hinn and other Word of Faith teachers like T.D. Jakes and Paula White use this phrase all the time, but you won't be able to find it in the scripture because it is not there. This is another example of the Word of Faith teachers and preachers taking scripture and twisting it to mean what they say it means taking it out of context away from the author's original intent. Here is an example of how Joyce Meyers and Paula White, for example twist the scriptures to say what they want them to say. They start out with one verse and then misapply it to a next verse making a connection that does not exist. Here is an example; Ephesians 2:12,13 remember that your were at that time separate from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world. But now in Christ Jesus you who formerly were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ. This is the first thing they try to establish; that we were once strangers to the covenants of promise, but now by the blood of Jesus we have access to the covenants. This is where they start off, with the truth, but then they veer off from where they start and take another scripture that is about covenantal promises made to specific situations and specific groups of people and mis-apply them for today by reinterpreting them to fit their twisted theology. Here is what I mean; Numbers 25:12 Therefore say, 'Behold, I give My covenant of peace; and it shall be for him and his descendants after him a covenant of a perpetual priesthood, because he was jealous for his God and made atonement for the sons of Israel.' The second thing these Word of Faith preachers try to establish is that once a person has been granted access to the covenants of promise that they can access all of the OT convenants. covenants that are not about the covenant of Abraham about faith, but all the other covenants given to Moses, to Noah and the smaller covenants given to individuals, as the covenants given to Israel and persons in Israel. This is a specific covenant promised to a specific person, Phinehas the son of Eleazar, made by God, and it does not apply to all peoples at all times that they shall receive this specfic peace offered to one priest who made atonement for the sins of Israel. more to come, Tamara |
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151 | Great star? | Rev 8:10 | Tamara Brewington | 204049 | ||
This is a different star, this star in Revelation 8:10 is probably going to be a meteor and not Satan the fallen angel. The purpose of this star is not to go take a key and open up the bottomless pit to let demons out as in Revelation 9:1. The purpose of this star is to destroy a third of rivers and springs and the men who drink of these waters will die. God Bless, Tamara | ||||||
152 | Five months? | Rev 9:10 | Tamara Brewington | 204047 | ||
When the Bible makes plain sense seek no other sense or it becomes nonsense. The locusts, commentators say are demons with stingers and they have the power to hurt and torment for 5 literal months, but not to kill, that is how long the effect of one sting will last. Five months means literaly five months, take numbers literaly in Revelations, just like other numerical prophecies came true in the Bible, so it will when Revelation comes true. God Bless, Tamara | ||||||
153 | Angel of the Abyss? | Rev 9:11 | Tamara Brewington | 204048 | ||
Most commentators see the falling star in Revelation 9:1 as being Satan. The angel of the abyss in 9:11 is Satan because he is the king over the demons who were locked in the pit. Satan has a spiritual kingdom of demons of which he is king and is called the angel of the abyss. He is given the key to where some of the demons are locked and he lets them out to torment for five months. We call him Satan, in Greek he was called Apollyon, in Hebrew he was calle Abaddon. Isn't it interesting how God will use Satan to do the 5th trumpet judgment? God Bless, Tamara | ||||||
154 | Similar verses? | Rev 10:1 | Tamara Brewington | 204438 | ||
Dear Thomas 8, Not all of them are not connected, some of them are. Revelation 10:1 I saw a mighty angel coming down out of the sky, clothed with a cloud. A rainbow as the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud was on his head. His face was like the sun and his feet like pillars of fire. This is talking about a mighty angel. Ezekiel 1:28a KJVR - This is a picture of Jesus as God on the throne in heaven not an angel. Rev 1:16 Jesus face like the sun - Jesus is God not an angel. Dan 10:6 His body also was like the beryl, and his face as the appearance of lightning, and his eyes as lamps of fire, and his arms and his feet like in color to polished brass, and the voice of his words like the voice of a multitude. This is seen by most commentators as being Christ and not the angel Michael. Revelation2:18 And unto the angel of the church in Thyatira write; These things saith the Son of God, who hath his eyes like unto a flame of fire, and his feet are like fine brass. This is describing Jesus. There are several times where Revelation will say and they another angel, this always means a next separate angel. There are several times where Revelaiton will say a mighty angel who are given descriptions similar to those given to Jesus in some way or other, but it means an angel and not Jesus. There are several times in the OT where Jesus is described as having a raingbow around Him and this has no connection to where angels have something similar described of them in Revelation. These kinds of descriptions of both Jesus and angels is talking about some sort of glory they possess as angels also have states of glory that they are in which can be seen with the naked eye according the account of John in Revelation and Daniel and Ezekiel in the OT. |
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155 | why would satan present himself to the L | Rev 12:10 | Tamara Brewington | 205499 | ||
Dear interestedinthebible08, See Revelation 12:10 Then I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, "Now the salation, and power, and the kingdom of our God and the authority of His Christ have come, for the accuser of our brethren has been thrown down, he who accuses them before out God day and night. Do you see that? That is talking about Satan the devil, coming to the thrown of grace both day and night to accuse the brethren to God to condemn them. I Peter 5:8 Be sober of spirit, be on the alert. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion seeking to devour. See that the devil goes prowling all around the earth seeking who to devour. Now let's look at Job together... Job 1:6 Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan also came among them. The Lord said to Satan, "From where do you come?" Then Satan asnwered the Lord and said, "From roaming around on the earth and walking around in it. The Lord said to Satan, "Have you considered My servant Job?" For there is no one like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, fearing God and turning away from evil." The discourse goes on, but this is enough. Satan had been going about the earth, walking around, prowling around, seeking whom he could devour. He comes to the throne as he would if he had someone to accuse, as he does day and night, but that day, he had no one to accuse... God knows all about Satan and his ways, how he goes about seeking for someone to devour and how he shows up every day to accuse whomever he decived into falling. God sees that Satan is not accusing anyone that day, so God says, "Have you considered my servant Job? There is no one like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, fearing God and turning away from evil." Do you see what was happening here? Satan had no one to accuse, but God wanted to challenge Satan to a duel of wills over Job. Don't you think God knew that Satan would start off immediately and try to accuse Job of having it easy as the reason why Job stayed good? That is why Satan says all those things about how God is protecting Job. But God was counting on that he would do that, God had a plan in mind. The plan was to allow Satan to hurt Job and test his faith by tempting him to curse God. God won the duel of wills. The sons of men is an expression often found in the OT that meant angels. Satan went to the throne along with God's good angels for an audience. Hope this helps, Tamara |
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156 | What is the job of the false prophet? | Rev 13:11 | Tamara Brewington | 204745 | ||
Dear Jilly, See Revelation 13:1-18 first, the first beast is the Anti-Christ, the second beast is the False Prophet. But first must come the beginning of the Great Tribulation and the seventh seal of the judgments of the six of the seven trumpets; hail an fire burning up a third of the earth, a third of the sea turning into blood, a third of the sun moon and stars being struck making the earth dark for a third of the day and a third of the night, a literal eagle preachig woe woe over the earth, Satan falling from heaven and opening up a bottomless pit and loosing demons to torture but not kill for five months, four fallen angels released to bring three plagues to kill a third of mankind, and then the two witnesses who get killed and the raised from the dead after three days. All this happens in chapters 8 through 11 in Revelation. The job of the False Prophet is to deceive mankind with the power of the Anti-Christ and Satan to perform real miracles in order to make men worship the Anti-Christ. See Revelation 13:11-17, see Revelation 19:20,21, See II Thessalonians 2:3-4 where it talks about the Anti-Christ. The False Prophet makes people worship him and together the False Prophet, the Anti-Christ, and Satan form the unholy trinity in a mockery of the triune God, that is the other purpose of the False Prophet. God Bless, Tamara |
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157 | What is the job of the false prophet? | Rev 13:11 | Tamara Brewington | 204746 | ||
Jilly welcome to the Forum! Tamara |
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158 | Define wine, please? | Rev 17:2 | Tamara Brewington | 204175 | ||
Dear Thomas, 1)The word wine as in intoxicated is used consistently as #3631 in the NT as the only word listed. 2)Contrary to modern belief the wine at the Lord's supper was not watered down, see how in I Corinthians 11 they were getting drunk at the Lord' supper? 3)When Jesus changed the water to wine it wasn't watered down and we can assume He was drinking it along with the guests. 4)At the Last supper Jesus and the disciples were drinking real wine, not watered down wine. 5)At that time in history the water was largely no good and while it is true that sometimes wine was watered down to ensure that the water was cleansed and drinkable real wine was common at the supper table unwatered down for everyone. 6)There may be a term in Koine Greek for watered down wine, but you won't find it anywhere in the NT. God Bless, Tamara |
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159 | Why are they future. | Rev 17:10 | Tamara Brewington | 204207 | ||
Is this in response to something? Or is this an original question? The verse is there for us to see what you are looking at to base your question on, but what do you mean by, "they are out of the future, when none of the others are', is not clear. Did you mean that now in the present the five kings have fallen, as if somehow any part of Revelation has happened yet? Or did you mean that it is not possible for the five kings to have fallen in the future when Revelation will come to pass as the text says before the one that is there functioning and the one that will come because of something else you see in another passage of Revelation? If it is the first case, then the answer would be none of Revelation has happened yet except chapters 2,3, only wars and rumors... If it is the second case then could you please be mnore specific about where else in Revelation you are seeing that, none of the the others are out of the future? This is why we are supposed to not use brevity, so others can see the total context of the question in order to try to answer it. But of course this may have been a note to someone, in which case remember to choose note so that it doesn't appear as a post. God, Bless, Tamara |
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160 | Horn means king? Hour is 60 minutes? | Rev 17:12 | Tamara Brewington | 204079 | ||
I missed this one when I was answering you the other day... This one is ineed referring to a period of time longer than an hour, there are probably a few more like this in Revelation that I inadvertantly missed. I think when it comes to weeks and years in Revelation you can take that at face value. But where Revelation says in one chapter that something take a specific amount of time and then in another gives a hour we should take that to mean for a while, but look back to the other references in Revelation for specific weeks and years. This is because Revelation has a tendency to repeat itself, first it will describe something before it supposedly hapens and then it has a tendecy to take you to a place where it is supposedly actual taking place. God bless, Tamara | ||||||
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