The Mark of the Beast is an iconic image from John’s Apocalypse, a number, or a name, etched into the hand and/or the forehead of every person living in the time of the dragon and its beasts. #Revelation13 #MarkoftheBeast
Hebrews Bonus: What About Esau?
One of the benefits of studying a book in the Bible as a whole piece is the ability to see its themes and aim. #BookofHebrews #Hebrews12 #Esau
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Isaiah 50: The Third Servant Song
This is the third Servant Song, and the Servant is Messiah Jesus. Only the Servant would believe that God will keep God’s promises in the covenants God made with God’s people. Only Jesus believed these covenants fully. #Isaiah50 #SufferingServant
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Revelation 13: Mark of the Beast
I spent some time just sitting with this, because it is such a famous couple of lines. The Mark of the Beast! Does it not conjure up story after story of those who have tried to imagine what this would be like? #Revelation13 #MarkoftheBeast
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Book Review: “Tell Her Story”
Would it not be great to read a scholarly book with such accessibility, written in such a conversational tone, that it is almost like being in comfy chairs, talking with the author? #TellHerStory #NijayKGupta #GoodBook
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Isaiah 49: Engraved on God’s Hands
What does it mean that God's love for us us is more intense and enduring than even that of a nursing mother's love for her baby? Or, what does it mean for us to be engraved on the hands of God? #Isaiah49 #EngravedonGodsHands
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Revelation 13: The Second Beast, Four Views
The second beast conscripted people to create an image of the first beast, then imbued this image with a spirit that could speak. The second beast insisted – using threat of execution – that all people worship the image of this first beast. #Revelation13
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“Unoffendable” Love and Offense
The final piece in a five-part review of this book. God's love, the smog of shame, and the cost of forgiveness are a good way to complete my thoughts on this book. #Unoffendable #BrantHansen
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Isaiah 49: Eternal Jubilee
The background for this part of Isaiah 49 is the Sabbath years, and the Jubilee that God wrote into the law for ancient Israel. #Isaiah49 #YearofJubilee #TimeofGods Favor
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Revelation 13: The Second Beast
If the first beast is strange and frightening, the second is downright shiver-worthy. It comes as a promoter of the first beast, which is now weirdly passive, but it has far more power than the first. What does it all mean? #Revelation13 #TheSecondBeast
