3 The Song of the Lamb Revelation 15 Seven angels with seven plagues 1 John sees in heaven another great and marvellous sign: seven angels with seven last plagues – last because with them God’s wrath is completed. 2 Saw what looked like a sea of glass mixed with fire and, standing beside… Read More The Song of The Lamb #7 Revelation 15
And I saw in the right hand of Him who sat on the throne a scroll written inside and on the back, having been sealed with seven seals. And I saw a strong messenger proclaiming with a loud voice, “Who is worthy to open the scroll and to loosen its seals?” And no one… Read More An unblemished and spotless lamb foreknown
Previously we have seen that the nations are at peace and the saints surround Jesus. John was shown “in the right hand of him who sat on the throne a scroll written inside and on the back, sealed with seven seals” Everything is moving towards the end of God His purpose. As the seven seals… Read More The Song of The Lamb #5 Revelation 5
I. Prolog (1:1-8) A. Preface (1:1-3) B. Greeting to churches in Asia (1:4-6) C. Prophetic sayings (1:7-8) II. Call vision (1:9-20) III. Letters to the seven churches in Asia (2:1-3:22) IV. Seven seals (4:1-8:5) A. Vision of God’s throne (4:1-11) B. Vision of the enthroned Lamb with the scroll (5:1-14) C. Seals #1-4: Four horsemen… Read More Contents of the Book of Revelation
God’s judgements And I saw another sign in the heaven, great and marvellous: seven messengers having the seven last plagues,1 for the wrath of Elohim was ended in them. Footnote: 1See 21:9. And I saw like a sea of glass mixed with fire, and those overcoming the beast and his image and his mark and… Read More Kingdom Visions of God’s judgements and Marriage of the Lamb
Rainbowed angel And I saw another strong messenger coming down from the heaven, robed in a cloud, and a rainbow on his head, and his face was like the sun, and his feet like columns of fire, and having in his hand a little book opened. And he placed his right foot on the sea… Read More Kingdom Visions of Rainbowed angel, Lamb in Mount Zion
Son of Man And I turned to see the voice which spoke with me. And having turned, I saw seven golden lampstands, and in the midst of the seven lampstands One like the Son of Addressed in a robe down to the feet and girded about the chest with a golden band. And His head… Read More Kingdom Visions of a Man, Throne and Great crowd
In the previous chapter we saw that the symbols in the book of Revelation are often “clashing”. Though they start in the same way, they develop in different directions until they are directly in opposition to each other. Another feature of the book of Revelation is the seven fold structure of the book. This also… Read More The Song of The Lamb #2 Sevens
The Song of The Lamb Revelation 5, 14 & 15 Bible Songs Revelation is a very difficult book to read and interpret. It is going to be necessary to fill some brief context of these songs – and in a book that, as you know, due to its very figurative language, is not straight forward,… Read More The Song of The Lamb #1 Visions, symbols and suggested meanings
Jesus has given us life-breath. He had only a little three years to go around in the area where he could come, around his habitat. Distances in his time took many hours to travel. Today we can be somewhere far away in a couple of minutes or just a few hours. What took days for… Read More Breathing to teach
Songs in the night Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve. — Matthew 4:10 DURING the forty days in the wilderness our Lord (Jesus) had come to see that the dominion of earth could be attained only through great suffering.… Read More Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God
In reply to the nice article by T.V. Antony Raj: “The Archangel Gabriel” on “Impressions ~ of what comes to my mind.” I wanted to react and place this reaction also on our ecclesia site, because we encounter many Christians who do not understand Muslims and many Muslims who think that all Christians adhere a Three-Godhead and… Read More Prophets making excuses
The last few days we encouraged our members to spend time in the Bible this weekend, first focusing on the death of our Saviour, then celebrating how death has been defeated. We looked at how this master teacher who could do miracles was humble to take up the work of slaves. He also never wanted… Read More Servant of his Father
When we look around us we can see many beautiful things. Nature provides us with a lot of marvellous free things. We have the earth, the sand, the water, the trees, the birds, all for nothing. We can live here on this earth, but the only ones who demand a lot of us are the… Read More A Great Gift commemorated
Deuteronomy 18:16 according to all that thou desiredst of Jehovah thy God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not hear again the voice of Jehovah my God, neither let me see this great fire any more, that I die not. Deuteronomy 18:17 And Jehovah said unto me, They have well… Read More Written to recognise the Promissed One
In the previous article Jesus begotten Son of God #20 Before and After we mentioned John 17:5 where Jesus spoke of the glory which he “had” before the foundation of the world. In the replies to that article we also pointed out to Gods Plan in which the Almighty Creator foresaw many things and gave the… Read More Christ having glory
How The Seed Of The Woman Was Bruised On The Heel How Christ Fulfilled The Promise. In fulfilment of the promises of God, Jesus, as “the seed of the woman,” was born of the virgin Mary by the overshadowing power of the Holy Spirit. His mother was told: “The Holy Spirit shall come upon thee,… Read More The Seed Of The Woman Bruised
Isaiah prophet and messenger of God Isaiah, (Hebrew Yesha’yahu, “God is salvation”) (8th century BC, Jerusalem, ancient Israel), the largest and probably the most universally cherished of the Old Testaments prophetical books. The biblical Book of Isaiah is named after him but only some of the first 39 chapters are attributed to him. Isaiah was… Read More Isaiah prophet and messenger of God
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