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4121 | what about the K J V | Rev 3:10 | kalos | 25114 | ||
Hank: I think I am *entitled* to my own specialized study Bible. I want one specifically tailored to meet the needs of middle-aged male veterans who were born west of and now live east of the Mississippi River and north of the Mason-Dixon line, drive Honda cars, drink only Coca-Cola in bottles and have 37.49 percent fewer cavities. Seriously, I think we've had about enough custom-made study Bibles. On the fly leaf of the MacArthur Study Bible is written the following: "In this day of specialized Bibles, The MacArthur Study Bible is a breath of fresh air. Because it doesn't just fit your lifestyle. It transforms your life." Amen and amen. My point here is not that the MacArthur is the only or the best Study Bible. My point is, I'd like to see the publishers forget the idea of study Bibles to fit every lifestyle. Let their goal be to produce study Bibles that do a thorough job of explaining the historical, geographical, cultural and language context and unfolding the meaning of the text. Examples of study Bibles that meet this goal include, but are not limited to, the MacArthur, the Ryrie, the Zondervan NIV and NASB Study Bibles and the Harper Study Bible. kalos P.S. The New American Standard Bible IS the most literally accurate English translation of the Bible - period. Which version is the most readable is up for grabs. I wouldn't even attempt to say which one has the greatest readability. |
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4122 | what about the K J V | Rev 3:10 | kalos | 25161 | ||
LisaMarie: My comments regarding life-style specific study Bibles was meant for publishers more than for consumers/readers. I'm on record here at the forum as saying the best Bible for you is the one that YOU use -- the one that you trust and understand. And if a particular edition of the Bible stimulates a person to read and study, then that edition serves a good purpose. Far be it from me ever to suggest that people SHOULD read this version/edition and SHOULD NOT read that version/edition. The fact that you have more than one favorite is highly commendable. I have my favorites (plural). I'd hate to have to decide on only one. There are at least six translations/study editions that I wouldn't want to be without. And I am all for a translation that is high in readability and easy on the brain. That's why I enjoy reading the narrative portions of the OT in either the GOD'S WORD version or the Contemporary English Version. I have no first-hand knowledge of the NASB Inductive Study Bible. I've heard of it and all the comments have been nothing but positive. But, since I am not personally familiar with it, I will exclude myself from recommending or not recommening it. If I were to tell you that you've got enough Bibles, everyone I know would laugh at me and remind me that people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw bricks. I have 7 or 8 study Bibles and 17 translations in my home. (Am I bragging or complaining? Neither. No brag, just fact. :-) I need all the help I can get.) God bless you, Lisa. Grace to you, John |
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4123 | At whose door is Christ knocking? | Rev 3:20 | kalos | 5450 | ||
Prayon: Yes, it does sound like some of the churches today. It sounds like today's church as a whole. We've got buildings, vehicles, psychologist/counselors in the church, audio/visual aids, 100,000 dollar stereo systems in the building (not that there's anything wrong with that). But we lack the same thing that the church at Ephesus lacked (Rev 2:4-5). Good to hear from you prayon. --JVH0212 |
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4124 | At whose door is Christ knocking? | Rev 3:20 | kalos | 5706 | ||
Hank: Thank you for your kind words. I could say the same about any and all of your postings. --JVH0212 |
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4125 | "I stand at the door and knock." | Rev 3:20 | kalos | 142157 | ||
'Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and will dine with him, and he with Me. (NASB Revelation 3:20 ) To properly interpet this passage, we need to know whom, within the context of the passage, is Christ addressing ? Rev 3:14 "And to the angel of the church of the Laodicenans write." So, clearly, Christ is addressing *the church* of the Laodiceans. Rev 3:20 *I stand at the door and knock.* "Usually taken as a picture of Christ's knocking on the door of the individual unbeliever's heart. In context, however, the self-deluded members of the congregation are being addressed" (p. 1853, NASB Study Bible, Zondervan, 1999). 3:20 *I stand at the door and knock.* "Rather than allowing for the common interpretation of Christ's knocking on a person's heart, the context demands that Christ was seeking to enter this church that bore His name but lacked a single true believer. This poignant letter was His knocking. If one member would recognize his spiritual bankruptcy and respond in saving faith, He (Christ) would enter the church" (p. 1997, MacArthur Study Bible, Word, 1997). "How incredible that Christ should be kept outside *His own church!* How gracious that He should still seek entrance!" (p. 1900, Ryrie Study Bible, Moody, 1976, 1978). -- Kalos |
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4126 | sound of a trumpet...'come up here' | Rev 4:1 | kalos | 13726 | ||
After these things I looked, and behold, a door standing open in heaven, and the first voice which I had heard, like the sound of a trumpet speaking with me, said, "Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after these things." Revelation 4:1 NASB "Beginning with 4:1 the viewpoint of John is from heaven. As the word 'church' does not appear again in the Revelation until 22:16, the catching up of John from earth to heaven has been taken to be a symbolic representation of the translation of the Church as occurring before the events of the tribulation described in chs. 6-19" (New Scofield Reference Bible, Oxford, 1967). Tim: This is in answer to your question: "Is there any particular verse or passage in Revelation which can be identified with the Rapture?" I wanted to answer you without removing your question from the homepage. That is why I posted it here instead of as part of the thread of your question. --JVH0212 |
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4127 | What is this "open door?" | Rev 4:1 | kalos | 156591 | ||
Interpretation and Application ____________________ "spiritualizing...too often ignores or denies all that may be learnt from the interpretation of a passage, and robs those to whom it belongs of a precious treasure" ____________________ Interpretation and Application 'It is of the utmost importance that we should clearly and constantly discriminate between these two. 'The Interpretation of a passage is one thing, but the Application of that passage is quite a different thing. 'The Interpretation of a passage belongs to the occasion when, and the persons to whom, or of whom, the words were originally intended. When that has been settled, then it is open to us to make an application of those words to ourselves or others, so far as we can do so without coming into conflict with any other passages. (...) 'It may even be, when the application is made in full accord with Scripture teaching given elsewhere, that it is not only true, but may have a far deeper and more real meaning than the interpretation itself; and may convey truths and lessons far beyond it. 'This is very different from the common practice called spiritualizing. This too often ignores or denies all that may be learnt from the interpretation of a passage, and robs those to whom it belongs of a precious treasure-, while it appropriates to itself or other parties the property which has thus been stolen. 'Such a practice cannot be too strongly deprecated; not only because of the injury done to the Word itself, and the mistakes involved, but because it is so wholly unnecessary. 'All the sweetness, all the blessing, all the truth can be obtained by a wise application, without in the slightest degree impairing the true interpretation. This may be left and preserved in all its integrity, and yet something really spiritual may be appropriated by application; all, in fact, that can be desired, without doing any violence to the Divine Word, as is done when its interpretation is not only ignored, but often when the application is actually substituted for the interpretation.' ____________________ www.bible.org * * * * * * * * * * * * * For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. 2 Tim 4:3a NIV |
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4128 | Explain 7 spirits of God, Jesus 7 church | Rev 5:6 | kalos | 17907 | ||
"...the church is His wife"? Israel is the "wife of the Lord" (see OT). The church is the "bride of Christ". "He is in the churches, but, not the churches." I honestly don't know what that means. Could you explain? Thank you. |
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4129 | Explain 7 spirits of God, Jesus 7 church | Rev 5:6 | kalos | 17911 | ||
Correction to my previous post. The church is "the bride, the Lamb's wife." Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls filled with the seven last plagues came to me and talked with me, saying, "Come, I will show you the bride, the Lamb's wife." Rev. 21:9 Hosea 2:2 Plead with your mother, plead: for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband: let her therefore put away her whoredoms out of her sight, and her adulteries from between her breasts; She is not my wife That Israel is the wife of Jehovah Hosea 2:16-23, now disowned but yet to be restored, is the clear teaching of the passages. This relationship is not to be confounded with that of the Church of Christ. (See Scofield "John 3:29 ") . In the mystery of the Divine tri-unity both are true. The N.T. speaks of the Church as a virgin espoused to one husband 2 Corinthians 11:1,2 which could never be said of an adulterous wife, restored in grace. Israel is, then, to be the restored and forgiven wife of Jehovah, the Church the virgin [bride] of the Lamb ; John 3:29 ; Revelation 19:6-8 . Israel Jehovah's earthly wife Hosea 2:23, the Church the Lamb's heavenly bride, Revelation 19:7 . Scofield, C.I. "Scofield Reference Notes on Hosea 2". "Scofield Reference Notes (1917 Edition)". (http://bible.crosswalk.com/Commentaries/ScofieldReferenceNotes/) |
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4130 | What does the 7 seals symbolizes? | Rev 6:1 | kalos | 121299 | ||
If you will read again the judgments contained in the seventh seal, you will find that they are not all "natural disasters intensified". The locusts described in the 5th trumpet judgment; 200 million troops mounted on horses from whose mouths came fire, smoke, and sulfur; unclean spirits like frogs coming from the mouths of the dragon, the beast and the false prophet; and spirits of demons performing signs can hardly be described as "natural disasters intensified". |
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4131 | Who's the rider in Rev.'s 6:2? | Rev 6:1 | kalos | 121307 | ||
You write: "the seven seals are not God's wrath". Aren't they? "The persecution associated with the great tribulation of Antichrist is viewed as the wrath of Satan, whereas the events that follow, BEGINNING WITH THE SEVENTH SEAL, are considered the wrath of God" (www.solagroup.org/). |
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4132 | Are both groups the same? | Rev 6:11 | kalos | 188623 | ||
The question then becomes: when does the resurrection [of the righteous dead] take place in relation to Rev. 6:11? Is the resurrection before, during or after the event described in Rev. 6:11? Grace to you, Kalos |
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4133 | When does the wrath of God begin? | Rev 6:17 | kalos | 159387 | ||
'When does the wrath of God begin?' 'By Rev. Roger Best 'This is a vital question since we as believers are promised deliverance from God's wrath. In 1 Thessalonians 1:10 we are told "to wait for His Son from heaven, whom He raised from the dead, that is Jesus, who delivers us from the wrath to come." And again in 1 Thessalonians 5:9, "For God has not destined us for wrath, but for obtaining salvation (deliverance) through our Lord Jesus Christ." In the Olivet Discourse (Matthew 24) and in Luke 17 Jesus tells us that His coming will be like it was in the days of Noah and Lot. The same day that Noah and his family entered the ark (Gen 7:11-13) the rains came, and as Lot retreated from Sodom and Gomorrah judgment came. That same pattern of timing will occur when Christ returns for us; we will be taken and then judgment - the wrath of God - will come upon the earth. 'The period of the wrath of God is spoken of in Scripture as "The Day of the Lord." In Amos 5:20 the day of the Lord is spoken of as a day of darkness and gloom. In Zephaniah 1:14-15 it says, "Near is the great day of the Lord, near and coming very quickly; listen, the day of the Lord! In it the warrior cries out bitterly. A day of wrath is that day, a day of trouble and distress, a day of destruction and desolation, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and thick darkness." The day of the Lord is the day of God's wrath. 'In 1 Thessalonians 5 the Apostle Paul writes that to the believer the day of the Lord will not come like a thief in the night; in fact, the admonition is to be alert and serious. Then in 2 Thessalonians 2 Paul says that the day of the Lord will not come until "the apostasy comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction, who opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, displaying himself as being God" (2 Thessalonians 2:3b - 4). Now with that in mind, we go to Matthew 24 and see in verses 22, 29, 30, and 31 that Christ cuts the persecution of Antichrist short with His coming for the saints. The disciples had asked, "What is the sign of your coming and the end of the age?" (v. 3), and Jesus explains what will take place. The sign of His coming is the heavens lighting up like lightning, and the sign of the end of the age is the cosmic disturbance that results in the sun, moon, and stars going dark. We see this occurrence at the sixth seal in Revelation 6 and see that it fits exactly with what Joel 2:31 says: "The sun will be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and awesome day of the Lord comes." 'At the opening of the sixth seal we see Jesus Christ coming in the clouds for the saints, followed immediately by the wrath of God. The first five seals which are on the outside of the scroll are broken and non-supernatural events (false christs, war, famine, death and martyrdom) take place with a greater intensity than ever before. Revelation 12:12 speaks of this persecution by Antichrist as Satan's wrath, but when the seventh seal is broken the scroll is opened and Revelation 8:1 tells us that "there was silence in heaven for about a half hour." Why? Because all of heaven knows that it is time for God's wrath. As the seven trumpets are blown and the seven bowls are poured out, the events that take place are supernatural as God's judgment falls upon planet earth.' ____________________ http://solagroup.org/ articles/faqs/faq_0003.html |
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4134 | When does the wrath of God begin? | Rev 6:17 | kalos | 159388 | ||
When does the Day of the Lord begin? 'When does the eschatological Day of the Lord begin? 'While we don't know the exact day and hour of the rapture of the church or the onset of God's wrath, Scripture gives us at least six precursors that must happen before the Day of the Lord can begin. The Day of the Lord will begin: '1. AFTER the apostasy and revealing of the man of lawlessness '2. AFTER the persecution of Antichrist (Great Tribulation) '3. AFTER the opening of the 6th Seal '4. AFTER the rapture of the church '5. AFTER the "last trump", the "trump of God" is blown '6. AFTER the coming of Elijah' (To read more go to: http://solagroup.org/articles/ endtimes/ep_0013.html) "Wail, for the day of the LORD is near! It will come as destruction from the Almighty... Behold, the day of the LORD is coming, cruel, with fury and burning anger, to make the land a desolation; and He will exterminate its sinners from it... I will punish the world for its evil, and the wicked for their iniquity... Therefore I shall make the heavens tremble, and the earth will be shaken from its place at the fury of the LORD of hosts in the day of His burning anger." (Isaiah 13:6-13) 'The Day of the Lord 'The Day of the Lord is a very significant event in God's program for the End Times. The phrase "the Day of the Lord" appears about twenty-one times in the Old Testament and six times in the New Testament. In all but a few cases it refers to a time yet future. Adding together all the synonymous phrases such as "that day," "the Day of Christ," and "the Day of God," there are over 100 references that refer to a future time when God will intervene in history. Indeed, it is the most prophesied event in all of Scripture. With so much written about the Day of the Lord in the Bible, it is crucial that we understand what the Day of the Lord is all about, and when this Day will occur. In this article, we will ask several key questions about the Day of the Lord. As we will discover in our study, understanding the Day of the Lord is the key that will unlock the timing of the rapture of the Church.' ____________________ To read more go to: http://solagroup.org/articles/ endtimes/ep_0013.html |
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4135 | SECOND CHANCE | Rev 7:1 | kalos | 1387 | ||
I know that not everyone agrees that people living at the time of the rapture, who already heard the gospel and rejected it, will never have a second chance to be saved. I respect your viewpoint and thank you for your reply. | ||||||
4136 | SECOND CHANCE | Rev 7:1 | kalos | 1398 | ||
Dear Prayon: Thanks for a very informative answer. To supplement (not to dispute nor question) your excellent answer, I respectfully submit the following: . . . There is more than one interpretation of the doctrine of the rapture, as is the case with many Bible doctrines, especially when it comes to the doctrine of future things (prophecy). . . . The main differences of opinion concern the time of the rapture. The primary theories are: 1) Pretribulation rapture; 2) Midtribulation rapture; 3) Posttribulation rapture; 4) Partial rapture, which is sort of a Marine Corps rapture where only the perfect, only the brave, only the few are worthy to be raptured before the wrath of God is poured out; 5) Postmillenial rapture; and 6) Amillenialist rapture. Take your pick. (. . . There is also the new theory of No Rapture.) . . . For detailed explanations of the above views of the rapture, see the Ryrie Study Bible, Moody Press, in Ryrie's article A SYNOPSIS OF BIBLE DOCTRINE, The Doctrine of Future Things. |
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4137 | SECOND CHANCE | Rev 7:1 | kalos | 1438 | ||
Dear Prayon: You're quite welcome. Thanks for your questions and participation in StudyBibleForum. I look forward to reading any further questions or comments you may have. JVH0212 | ||||||
4138 | SECOND CHANCE | Rev 7:1 | kalos | 2374 | ||
My previous answer included supporting Scripture. Do you have any Scripture references to back up what you believe, as stated in your previous reply? . . . I'm not saying this is the case. I merely ask a hypothetical question. If a clear verse of Scripture in language that is clear and unambiguous contradicted what you've already decided to believe, would you still prefer your belief or preconceived notion, even if you could not support it with a clear verse of Scripture. Something may be "nice to believe" without being true. I'm not putting words in your mouth. I'm not saying this is what you would do. I merely ask the question: which has more weight with you -- what you would rather believe or what the Bible says on a given subject? |
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4139 | Are the 144,000 evangelists? | Rev 7:3 | kalos | 177346 | ||
You are correct. The Scripture never teaches that the 144,000 are evangelists. | ||||||
4140 | Only 3 verses that mention the 144,000 | Rev 7:4 | kalos | 120042 | ||
Who are the 144,000? 'In prophetic circles, there are numerous attempts at identifying the 144,000 Jews mentioned in Revelation 7 and 14. A common identification is that they are Jewish evangelists that traverse the world during the 70th week of Daniel and are instrumental in bringing untold numbers of people into the kingdom of God. That understanding is, however, never taught in the Scripture! 'When a study is made of the 144,000, we learn that there are only three verses in the entire Bible that mention these people (Rev. 7:4; 14:1,3) . From a study of these three verses we learn the following: '1. They are 12,000 Jews from 12 tribes of Israel that are sealed for protection... '2. In Revelation 14 they are with "the Lamb...standing on Mount Zion" and bearing the name of His Father "written on their foreheads". In 14:3 they sing a new song "before the throne". '3. In 14:3-4 we also learn that these are "purchased from the earth" as "first fruits to God and to the Lamb" (from among the Jews), are spiritually pure ("not ... defiled with women"), follow the Lamb "wherever He goes", are absolutely honest and "are blameless".' (Who are the 144,000? by Rev. Charles Cooper) To read more go to: (http://www.solagroup.org/articles/faqs/faq_0023.html) |
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