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Timeline for the Book of Revelation

The Vision Begins (circa A.D. 90) Christ’s Revelation to John – Revelation 1 The apostle John receives the divine revelation while in exile on Patmos, witnessing the glorified Christ who commands

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A Scenario of the End Times

Suddenly, millions and millions of people, people who identify as Christians, people from all over the world, disappear from the earth. It is even noticed that some who have just died also disappear. The

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Haggai 2:6-9, Shaken Nations and Glorious Temple

The Israelites were concerned about their limited resources and ability to build a temple as glorious as Solomon’s. Yahweh reassured them that He was with them in the building of the Temple and pleased

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Garden of the Gods: Eden, the Garden of Failure and Redemption

3:1 The serpent was the shrewdest of all the wild animals Yahweh Elohim had made. One day he asked the woman, “Did Elohim really say you must not eat the fruit from any of the trees in the garden?” 2 “Of

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The Mountains of God: Mount Zion

Though it started out as the stronghold of the Jebusites on the eastern slope of Jerusalem which King David conquered (2 Samuel 5:7), Mount Zion became the city of David, Jerusalem, which expanded to include

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Studies in Revelation: The Second Coming

As the judgments from God near their end there are pronouncements about the king and the kingdom arriving: The seventh angel sounded his trumpet, and there were loud voices in heaven, which said: “The

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Studies in Revelation: The Fifth Interlude, Babylon (Revelation 17,18)

There is one superpower standing in the antichrist’s way of world domination, the city John calls Babylon. 17:1 One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and said to me, “Come, I will

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Studies in Revelation: The Second Interlude, the Two Witnesses (Revelation 11)

John is told to measure the temple in Jerusalem (“the holy city,” “figuratively called Sodom and Egypt—where also their Lord was crucified,” verses 2,8). He is not to measure the outer court,

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Studies in Revelation: The Temple

Every mention of the temple in Revelation, except one, is of the temple in heaven, the abode of God. We’re told in Exodus 25, 8 “Then have them make a sanctuary for me, and I will dwell among them. 9 Make

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Studies in Revelation: Revelation’s Timeline (Part Two)

Daniel’s timeline “to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy and to anoint the Most Holy” (Daniel 9:24), particularly the last three and a half years of the 70th seven,

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Studies in Revelation: Revelation’s Timeline (Part One)

Assuming as we are that the events of Revelation 6-19 are all future, dealing with the time of God’s outpouring of wrath on the earth, there is a very specific timeline for these events. And it is a

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Studies in Revelation: The Nature of This Prophecy

1:1 The revelation from Jesus Christ, which God gave to him to show his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known, sending it through his angel, to his servant John, 2 who bore witness

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6: The Holy Spirit in the Old Testament (Part Two)

When Americans speak about the American Dream we are including the ideas of “representative democracy, rights, liberty, and equality, in which freedom is interpreted as the opportunity for individual

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Daniel 12:1-13, The Time of the Great Tribulation

Beginning in chapter 10 Daniel has been given a vision or revelation about the near and far future of his people who have returned from Babylon/Persia to their homeland Israel. He has been told by the

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Daniel 11:2-45, The Near and Far Antichrist

This very long and complex vision is a remarkably detailed prophecy of what will happen to the holy land in the future, something Daniel could not have known otherwise than by divine revelation. 11:2 “Now

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