Jesus’s second coming. There is a sense of expectancy throughout the prophetic books of the Old Testament describing the coming of the Lord Messiah to reign on this earth. Every Jewish child was taught about the messiah to come. He was to be the glorious and mighty ruler over the whole earth, ruling with a Read More…
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7.5 The mark, the number, the sealed.
{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…
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…
7.3 The Woman and the Great Escape
A woman, clothed with the sun, and the moon beneath her feet. (1) And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars:2 And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered.3 And Read More…