Revelation
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Isaiah 54:10 assures the believers ““For the mountains may be removed and the hills may shake, But My lovingkindness will not be removed from you, And My covenant of peace will not be shaken,” Says the Lord who has compassion on you. This is a surety from God Himself that He is in control of…
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God says, “I love you. I’m in control. Fear not little flock, I will bring it to pass in the appropriate way”. That’s a message we all need to hear, whether we’re in the midst of persecution or not. God’s on His throne in heaven. His people affect Him. God will judge the unbelieving world.…
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God is sovereign and He is sovereign through what He has chosen to do through Jesus Christ, and He is going to bring all history to a culmination and a conclusion. Nothing and no one can can thwart the plan and purpose of God in history!
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(cf. Rev. 8:6-13) As there is a distinction between the first 4 seals, and the last 3, here, the first 4 trumpets are largely concerned with the forces of nature and the 3 with people. “The first (angel) sounded, and there came hail and fire,” – the next few verses are going to be a…
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“Around the throne were 24 thrones;…” (cf. Rev. 4:1-11) Why 24? It’s obvious number 12 is a number of organization. Here it seems to be double. Some say it’s the 12 tribes and 12 apostles. That may be reading too much into it. Some say it’s the Aaronic priesthood developed by David in 1 Chronicles…
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(cf. Rev. 8:1-5) And He broke the seventh seal, Him being Jesus. Jesus breaks the first seven seals, but angels are the instrumentalities for the seven trumpets and the seven bowls. And there was silence in heaven for about 30 minutes. This ‘silence’ has been greatly disputed. Some of the rabbis say that there was…
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Then I saw when the Lamb broke one of the seven seals, and I heard one of the four living creatures saying as with a voice of thunder, “Come.”… (cf. Rev. 6:1-8) I must confess after having read all these different commentaries about the book of Revelation, i am a bit confused. Much of the interpretations come from presuppositions…
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Chapter 7 of the book of Revelation is some kind of an interlude which John sometimes employs elsewhere. there’s going to be an interlude before the series of 7 trumpets. Some say this interlude is to answer the question of what are the Christians doing during all this apocalyptic eschatological judgement on unbelievers. What are…
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(Revelation 18:4-24) Then, “I heard another voice from heaven, saying, “Come out of her, my people,” – this is a direct allusion to Jeremiah 51:6, 9, 45 that dealt with the Jews returning from their exile in Babylon, and it’s just an allusion to that. It seems to be God or Christ is speaking here,…
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“And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds,” Hebrews 10:24 This is a corporate verse, and we need to hear it in our day, the corporateness of Christianity. Christianity is a body of believers. The local church is an individual body, but the whole group of believers…