Then the angel said to me, “Because of what do you marvel? I myself will tell you the mystery of the woman and of the dangerous creature carrying her, the one having the seven heads and the ten horns. “The dangerous beast which you observed was and is not, and is about to rise … Continue reading Revelation 17: Seven Heads and Ten Horns
Revelation 17: Futurist and Spiritual Views of the Harlot
Then one of the seven angels pouring out the seven ceremonial bowls came out and was talking with me, saying, “Here, I will reveal to you the judgment of the great idolator/prostitute sitting upon the many waters.” In association with the rulers of the earth have practiced idolatry/indulged in unlawful sexual acts, and the ones … Continue reading Revelation 17: Futurist and Spiritual Views of the Harlot
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Revelation 17: Historicist and Preterist View of the Harlot of Babylon
Then one of the seven angels pouring out the seven ceremonial bowls came out and was talking with me, saying, “Here, I will reveal to you the judgment of the great idolator/prostitute sitting upon the many waters.” In association with the rulers of the earth have practiced idolatry/indulged in unlawful sexual acts, and the ones … Continue reading Revelation 17: Historicist and Preterist View of the Harlot of Babylon
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Revelation 1: The Whole Earth?
In the present tense, it makes John’s statement an ongoing event, one which had been fulfilled at the cross and continued at Pentecost. But was John speaking only of the supernatural work of Christ whenever the gospel was told and of the Holy Spirit’s conviction of those who heard it by God’s divine power? Or was John indicating there would also be a future fulfillment, one more substantial and concrete? A physical return of Christ, coming on the Pillar of Cloud, God’s glorious Shekinah?
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Minor Prophets: Zechariah, Armageddon
Zechariah’s twelfth chapter opens with the heart-stopping violence of warfare, a scene of howling destruction.
