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3521 | Amplified Bible; Rev. 4:5 | Rev 4:5 | BradK | 176888 | ||
Hi MsBerry, The Bible Knowledge Commentary says this: "4:5. The impressive scene of heaven was enhanced by flashes of lightning, rumblings, and peals of thunder. Thunder is mentioned eight times in Revelation (4:5; 6:1; 8:5; 11:19; 14:2; 16:18; 19:6). John also saw seven lamps which were blazing. These seven lamps were said to be the seven spirits of God. These should be understood to represent the Holy Spirit rather than seven individual spirits or angels, with the concept of the sevenfold character of the Spirit (Isa. 11:2-3; cf. Rev. 1:4; 5:6). With God the Father seated on the throne and the Holy Spirit represented by the seven lamps, the stage was then set for the revelation (chap. 5) of Christ Himself as the slain Lamb." The Commentary Critical: "seven lamps … seven Spirits—The Holy Spirit in His sevenfold operation, as the light-and-life Giver (compare Rev 5:6, seven eyes … the seven Spirits of God; Rev 1:4; 21:23; Ps 119:105) and fiery purifier of the godly, and consumer of the ungodly (Mt 3:11)." I Hope this helps, BradK |
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3522 | ... | Rev 6:8 | BradK | 208442 | ||
Hello John, I'd have to challenge your assertion when you state, "The first horseman is the antichrist"! Since it doesn't say, what scriptural proof can you offer to support your claim? At this point, I only see your speculation as to the menaing of Rev. 6:8. Might I recommend reading the "About Forum" and "Terms of Use". They may be helpful to you. Speaking the Truth in Love, BradK |
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3523 | ... | Rev 6:8 | BradK | 208443 | ||
John: Again, Proof? BradK |
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3524 | ... | Rev 6:8 | BradK | 208445 | ||
Hello John, Proof? All you're doing is offering pure, un-adulterated speculation! This is a Study Bible Forum, not a Forum for speculation, conjecture, or opinions! Please support your answers! Speaking the Truth in Love, BradK |
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3525 | ... | Rev 6:8 | BradK | 208446 | ||
John: Please offer proof! Book, chapter and verse would be nice! BradK |
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3526 | ... | Rev 6:8 | BradK | 208448 | ||
John, You still haven't answred the question! With all due respect, I really don't have the time or desire to read Gundry's work. What I was asking YOU, is to provide a scriptural framework to support YOUR answer! If you can't or won't, please don't waste anymore time on this subject! Speaking the Truth in Love, BradK |
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3527 | ... | Rev 6:8 | BradK | 208453 | ||
Hi John, Thanks for the scriptural references, but I still fail to see these as a direct answer that satan is the one referred to in Rev. 6:8! How did you arrive at your conclusion? BradK |
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3528 | Why call Christ "Lamb" in Rev 6:16 | Rev 6:16 | BradK | 214054 | ||
Hello MrWhy, In part the answer can found in the fact that Jesus both was and is the "Lamb of God". John the Baptist exclaimed in John 1:29, "Behold, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!" (NASB) In Rev. 6:16, though the world (unbelievers) rejects Him, they still recognize Him! Speaking the Truth in Love, BradK |
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3529 | Dan doesnot show up in Revelation 7? | Rev 7:1 | BradK | 224951 | ||
Hello Joshua561, That's an ineteresting question. Keith Krell from his study on Rev. 7:1-17 says, "It has often been noted that John’s list of the 12 tribes varies somewhat from the usual listing in the Old Testament. Specifically, Dan and Ephraim are omitted and Joseph has been added. Since John does not give us reasons for this arrangement, we cannot know for certain why the above arrangement is given. One interesting note is that a “normative” list of the tribes of Israel is not to be found in the Old Testament. In fact, there are over 20 different orders and lists of Israel’s tribes. Only once is the same list repeated (Num 2:7; 10:14-29). Practically speaking, no one knows the identity of these tribes today, not even the nation of Israel. All of the genealogical records were destroyed by the destruction of Jerusalem in AD 70. God however, knows His people and their whereabouts. The most important element in these verses is the stress on the number twelve, which reflects the interest in the identification of this group with Old Testament Israel." [Bible.org] I hope this helps, BradK |
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3530 | who are the 144,000 | Rev 7:3 | BradK | 72527 | ||
The problem with the number is that it is clearly symbolic, but the question is, Symbolic of what? Three major scholarly options have been given. The first is that this figure is symbolic of a group of Jews whom God will redeem at the end of the age. The second is that this is symbolic of a group of martyrs whom God preserves for martyrdom. The third is that this number is symbolic of the whole of the church, which God will protect through the tribulation at the end of the age. Only an examination of the data will show which of these is most likely to be correct. (Walter C. Kaiser, Hard Sayings of the Bible, Page 761 (Downers Grove, Il: InterVarsity, 1997, c1996). Speaking the Truth In Love, BradK |
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3531 | will people be saved during tribulation? | Rev 7:14 | BradK | 229380 | ||
Hello BobW, To answer your question, yes there will be people saved during the tribulation. Actually, as I understand this book of prophecy, a great number will be saved- even more in the 7 years than during the church age! Rev 7:14 tells us, "I said to him, "My lord, you know." And he said to me, "These are the ones who come out of the great tribulation, and they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb." (NASB) If we take careful note, in Rev. 9, the purpose of the plagues is to bring man to the end of himself so that he will turn to God. For instance, back in Rev. 8:7 God is using His creation to bring man to an end of himself by reducing oxygen, moisture ans water. In 8:12 God is reducing the amount of sunlight. These are all (designed if you will) to bring man to repentance. Revelation is about a Person, the Lord Jesus Christ. In Rev. 19:10 we see that, "...the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy." (NASB) Speaking the Truth in Love, BradK |
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3532 | What will we "do" in Heaven? | Rev 10:6 | BradK | 148415 | ||
Hi Sandy, I went to gotquestions.org, and they had this to say: "Answer: In Luke 23:43, Jesus declared, "Truly I say to you, Today you shall be with Me in Paradise" (Luke 23:43). The word Jesus used for paradise is paradeisos which means "a park, that is, (specifically) an Eden (place of future happiness, paradise)". Paradeisos is the a Greek word taken from the Hebrew word pardes which means "a park: - forest, orchard" (Strong's). Jesus said "Today you shall be with Me "en paradeisos" not "en nephele" which is Greek for in clouds. The point being that Jesus picked and used the word for a park. Not just any park but "the paradise of God" or park of God (Revelations 2:7) which for us will be a place of future happiness. Does this sound like a boring place? When you think of a park do you think of boredom? Jesus said, "You shall worship the Lord your God, and Him only you shall serve" (Matthew 4:10). It's interesting to note that Jesus did not say praise and serve. Even the briefest examination of the word praise in the Bible quickly shows it's a verbal thing and that for the most part singing. Worship however is from the heart. Worship manifests itself in praise. Serving God is worship and Scripture is clear we will serve God in Heaven. "His servants will serve Him" (Revelations 22:3). We are unable to fully serve God in this life due to sin but in Heaven "every curse will no longer be" (Revelations 22:3). We will not be under the curse of sin any longer so everything we do will be worship in Heaven. We will never be motivated by anything other than our love for God. Everything we do will be out of our love for God, untainted by our sin nature. So what will we do? My favorite thing is learn. "For who has known the mind of the Lord, or who became His counselor?" (Romans 11:34) "in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge" (Colossians 2:3). God is the "the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity" (Isaiah 57:15). God is bigger than forever and it will take eternity "to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth and length and depth and height, and to know the love of Christ" (Ephesians 3:18-19). We will never stop learning. God's Word says we won't have to be in His paradise alone. "I shall fully know even as I also am fully known" (1st Corinthians 13:12). We will not only know our friends and family we will "fully know" them. In other words, there is no need for secrets in Heaven. There is nothing to be ashamed of. There is nothing to hide. We will have eternity to interact with "a great multitude, which no man could number, out of all nations and kindreds and people and tongues" (Revelations 7:9). No wonder Heaven will be a place of infinite learning. Just getting to know everyone will take eternity! Any further speculations about what we shall do in God's eternal park, a.k.a. Heaven, will be far surpassed when "the King shall say to those on His right hand, Come, blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world" (Matthew 25:34)." I hope this helps, BradK |
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3533 | who are the 2 witnesses in Revelation 11 | Rev 11:3 | BradK | 220776 | ||
Hello Ron R, Welcome to the Forum. Rev 11;3 reads, "And I will grant authority to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for twelve hundred and sixty days, clothed in sackcloth." (NASB) The use of "my two witnesses" may seem to support that John knew who they were. However, scripture does not specifically name them. This leads to some theological speculation. Many have thought that it might be Moses and Elijah. IMO, it may be Enoch and Elijah as these 2 are the only one who were "translated", not seeing death! The Commentary Critical notes, "But those of Moses when witnessing for God against Pharaoh (the type of Antichrist, the last and greatest foe of Israel), turning the waters into blood, and smiting with plagues; and of Elijah (the witness for God in an almost universal apostasy of Israel, a remnant of seven thousand, however, being left, as the 144,000 sealed, Revelation 7:1-8 ) causing fire by his word to devour the enemy, and shutting heaven, so that it rained not for three years and six months, the very time (1260 days) during which the two witnesses prophesy. Moreover, the words "witness" and "prophesy" are usually applied to individuals, not to abstractions (compare Psalms 52:8 ). DE BURGH thinks Elijah and Moses will again appear, as Malachi 4:5 Malachi 4:6 seems to imply (compare Matthew 17:11 , Acts 3:21 ). Moses and Elijah appeared with Christ at the Transfiguration, which foreshadowed His coming millennial kingdom. As to Moses, compare Deuteronomy 34:5 Deuteronomy 34:6 , Jude 1:9 . Elias' genius and mode of procedure bears the same relation to the "second" coming of Christ, that John the Baptist's did to the first coming [BENGEL]. Many of the early Church thought the two witnesses to be Enoch and Elijah. This would avoid the difficulty of the dying a second time, for these have never yet died; but, perhaps, shall be the witnesses slain." I hope this helps, BradK |
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3534 | the world see's 3 raised from the dead | Rev 11:11 | BradK | 226629 | ||
Heelo Legs, I believe you may be referring to the 2 witnesses in Rev. 11? Clearly it's not the anti christ who raises them here, but God. Rev 11:8 And their dead bodies will lie in the street of the great city which mystically is called Sodom and Egypt, where also their Lord was crucified. Rev 11:9 Those from the peoples and tribes and tongues and nations will look at their dead bodies for three and a half days, and will not permit their dead bodies to be laid in a tomb. Rev 11:10 And those who dwell on the earth will rejoice over them and celebrate; and they will send gifts to one another, because these two prophets tormented those who dwell on the earth. Rev 11:11 But after the three and a half days, the breath of life from God came into them, and they stood on their feet; and great fear fell upon those who were watching them. I hope this helps, BradK |
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3535 | Scriptural Support? | Rev 12:9 | BradK | 159762 | ||
Hi David, Your response sounds like Watchtower theology to me! How are you so sure that you're correct when you say, "This name can only be applied to Jesus."? Can you provide some Biblical support for this view? Speaking the Truth in Love, BradK |
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3536 | Scriptural Support? | Rev 12:9 | BradK | 159763 | ||
Hi Bows, According to "The Kingdom of the Cults" in chapter 4 on the Jehovah's Witnesses and the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society, the opposite is stated. Dr. Walter Martin writes, "Charles Taze Russell was the founder of what is now Jehovah's Witnesses and the energetic administator that brought about its far-flung organization. The name Jehovah's Witnesses, incidentally, was taken at Columbus Ohio, in 1931, to differentiate between the Watchtower and the true followers of Russell..." Speaking the Truth in Love, BradK |
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3537 | Scriptural Support? | Rev 12:9 | BradK | 159764 | ||
Forum: I should have checked the site first! However, it is called North Seattle Bible Students- actually just north of me. I've never heard of them, but in reading their rather weak defense against Russell, it appears they are more or less a splinter-group or an offshoot of the JW's. I wouldn't put much credibilty in their version of facts:-( Thanks for the reference though. Speaking the Truth in Love, BradK |
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3538 | Scriptural Support? | Rev 12:9 | BradK | 159790 | ||
Hi Bows, Well, it doesn't help me:-( We can just drop it, but I'm still a bit unsettled about your alledged discrepancy with Doc. There seem to be some inaccuracies in your portrayal of the facts. Was the late Dr. Walter Martin in his definitive work, "The Kingdom of the Cults" merely promoting an agenda? Not to argue, but I'm puzzled as to why you took the time and effort to dispute the matter if it's not worth discussing? It's not absolutley crucial to argue, yet it goes to the entire basis of the Watchtower and their theology- deceit! Speaking the Truth in Love, BradK |
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3539 | Scriptural Support? | Rev 12:9 | BradK | 159795 | ||
Hi David, Please, there is no need to be condescending! I'm not having trouble with any of the Bible verses:-) Since you are new to the Forum, it is not incumbant upon me to defend your contentions, but rather it is upon you to prove them with scriptural support and evidence! Seaking the Truth in Love, BradK |
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3540 | Scriptural Support? | Rev 12:9 | BradK | 159796 | ||
Hi Bows, I already did and I'm not surprised! BradK |
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