{13:16} And he causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: {13:17} And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. {13:18} Read More…
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7.4 The Beast was, & is not, the 8th.
The Beast of Revelation 17 (&13) (continuation of post 7.2, a mid-2023 interpretation) Not many interpretations address a clue given by the angel, who advises John in V7 that he will ‘tell him the mystery of the woman’ and the mystery of the Beast carrying the woman. Previously I had tried to understand Rev13 beast first before moving Read More…
7.1 The Witnesses
Revelation 11 describes the ministry of the two witnesses. In reading this chapter it seems clear that they operate out of Jerusalem. In addition, the reference to them as the “two olive trees and the two lampstands standing before the Lord of the earth” give their ministry a distinctly Jewish flavour. Will their ministry specifically Read More…
3.7 Prophetic pattern of thirds
We have considered in the two previous sections the ‘time of the Gentiles” and the “time of Israel”, and that both biblical epochs are 2000 years. This is based on Jesus’s reference to the time of the Gentiles and the prophecy of Hosea 6:2. However, is there any further support for a theory of a Read More…
4.1 The ‘Rapture’ & Amillennialism.
1Thess 4:14 “For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. {4:15} For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them Read More…
2.2 The Vision: Who Has Part in this Millennial Kingdom?
{20:1} And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. {20:2} And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years, {20:3} And cast him into the bottomless pit, Read More…