Search results

Revelation 11: The Two Witnesses - Part 9 Before proceeding to the next witness for Christ, a few prefatory remarks are in order. “The Spanish Inquisition was unique in that it was established by secular rulers, King Ferdinand II and Queen Isabella, with the approval of Pope Sixtus IV”...

Revelation 11: The Two Witnesses - Part 8 William Tyndale Strangled and Burned, 1536, for the High Crime of Witnessing the Truth of Christ While Exposing the Lies of Antichrist. [The following extract is taken from Doctrinal Treatises and Introductions to Different Portions of the Holy...

Revelation 11: The Two Witnesses - Part 7 Before presenting historic examples of Holy Ghost testimony by those who were brought before the Roman Catholic authorities to answer for their religious crimes against the Church, a review of New Testament examples is in order. As stated previously...

Revelation 11: The Two Witnesses – Part 6 And I will give (power) unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth (v. 2). The noun ‘power’ in this verse is not in the original Greek and has been added by the translators...

The controversy over the dating of the Apocalypse is relatively new in Church history. 19th century Preterists in the Protestant churches had to fight an uphill battle, as the preponderance of Protestants were Historicists, many with a thorough expert knowledge of the writings of the Church...

Shoostie wrote, "He apparently holds the doctrine, of which I disagree, that Revelation tells of a future apostate church which it calls the great whore. I was simply asking how he ruled out the more likely interpretation that the whore is the Jerusalem below, especially as he's contrasting it...

Revelation 11: The Two Witnesses – Part 5 But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months. And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a...

Revelation 11 – The Two Witnesses: Part 4 And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth. These are the two olive trees, and the two candlesticks standing before the God of the earth (vs. 3-4). The identity...

Revelation 11 – The Two Witnesses: Part 3 And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein. But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto...

Revelation 11 - The Two Witnesses: Part 2 But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months (v. 2). Once the Christian reader grasps the fact that the angel is...

Revelation 11: The Two Witnesses, Part 1 And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein. In the previous chapter John was commanded to eat a little book, resulting in his prophesying...

The 144,000 and New Jerusalem And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband (Rev. 21:2). In this verse the Lord uses literary devices called personification and simile. The observant Bible student will immediately...

The Significance of 144,000 Having proven the identity of the 144,000 as those Elect, both Jew and Gentile, using Scripture alone in my previous post, I now turn to the significance of this number. The Lord is using a figure of speech called synecdoche. In other words, He is using the number...

144,000 Jews of circumcised flesh or 144,00 Jews whose hearts were circumcised by the Spirit? But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God (Romans 2:29). For they are not all Israel...

A False Seal which Purports to be of God, but is the Mark of the Beast. Saying: Hurt not the earth, nor the sea, nor the trees, till we sign the servants of our God in their foreheads (Rev. 7:3, Modern-day Douay-Rheims Bible). The 1582 Rheims New Testament in English was unique because its...

The Seal of the Living God (Rev. 7:3) All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way (Isaiah 53:6a). My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out...

Revelation 7: Interpretation of Earth, Sea and Trees Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual (1 Cor. 2:13). Once again, the discerning reader will dispel any thoughts of a literal...

REVELATION 7:1-3 Explained in Light of History Now I tell you before it come, that, when it is come to pass, ye may believe that I am he (John 13:19). ….and He [the Holy Spirit] will show you things to come (John 16:13). And after these things I saw four angels standing on the four corners of...

Roman Catholic Patron Saints Who Specialize in Healing Headaches No need to take an aspirin to remedy that annoying headache. For Roman Catholics it is simply a matter of invoking one of several patron saints whose specialty it is to vanquish head pain. These patron saints are intermediate...

Roman Catholic Saint Worship Foretold 1But the Spirit explicitly says that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to deceitful spirits and doctrines of demons, 2by means of the hypocrisy of liars seared in their own conscience as with a branding iron, 3men who...