Questions tagged [revelation]
The book of Revelation is the last book of the canonical New Testament. (This tag is NOT for questions about the revelation of God's will/plan/instruction in general).
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Are the souls of Revelation 6:9-11 awake and, yet, still awaiting the resurrection?
Revelation 6:9-11 (NASB):
9 When the Lamb broke the fifth seal, I saw underneath the altar the souls of those who had been killed because of the word of God, and because of the testimony which they ...
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What is Babylon refering to in the New Testament?
In the New Testament the city of Babylon is mentioned a few times. Notably in the book of Revelation:
6Then I saw another angel flying in midair, and he had the
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Was there precedent for John to link the satan and the serpent?
In Revelation 20:2, John links the satan and the serpent:
He seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the devil, or Satan, and bound him for a thousand years.
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Who is being described in Rev. 13:11-12 and in what context do we understand the verses?"
In Rev. 13:11 it says,
And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two
horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon.
12And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before ...
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In Revelation 20:14, what is meant by "Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire"?
In Revelation 20:14 (ESV) we read:
"Then Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the
second death, the lake of fire."
The concept of "fire" is used multiple times in the New ...
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What is the original Number of the Beast?
Seems trivial question, because 666 had been widely accepted as the original. However if you investigate further different early versions of the Book of Revelation, they gave different Numbers of the ...
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Who/what are the two witnesses in Revelation 11?
In Revelation 11:3-12, God says he will appoint his two witnesses - "two olive trees", "two lampstands" - as prophets for 1260 days. They end up being overpowered and killed by the beast, seemingly in ...
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Who are the "kings of the earth"?
In the book of Revelation, it sometimes seems like the term "kings of the earth” is used to refer to the chosen ones, but in other verses it looks like they are the damned ones.
The chosen ones:
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Was the Revelation written in code to hide it from the Romans?
Several years ago I was intrigued with the Revelation, and began a study. Of particular interest to me was the use of symbolism. Within that study the symbolism became understandable in relation to ...
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In Colossians 1:15, what does “firstborn of every creature” mean?
I was studying passages on the Bible about Jesus and its origin. One verse is, to me, somewhat hard to understand (Colossians 1:15, in King James version):
Who is the image of the invisible God, ...
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Why does Revelation 8:1 use ὅταν instead of ὅτε?
I do not know Greek, so hopefully I am not just embarrassing myself with this question; but here goes.
For the first six seals in Revelation, John introduces them using ὅτε:
1 - Καὶ εἶδον ὅτε ...
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Which beast does the number 666 represent
16 It also forced all people, great and small, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hands or on their foreheads, 17 so that they could not buy or sell unless they had the ...
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Revelation: Before or after AD70?
My question is about how the Book of Revelation is dated. Some say it was written before the destruction of Jerusalem in AD 70, and others say it was written later (maybe around AD 96.)
Obviously the ...
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Who are the morning stars in Job 38:7?
In Job 38:7 (ESV), Jehovah claims that the cornerstone of the earth was laid
when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy
implying that the morning stars were ...
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Whose blood is on the white rider's robe?
The vision in Revelation 19:11 and following describes a rider on a white horse making war against the nations. While introducing the rider, verse 13 mentions, "He is dressed in a robe dipped in blood....
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Who are the 144,000 sealed in Revelation 7?
In Revelation 7:4-8, John hears the number of those sealed: 144,000 from the tribes of Israel (with Dan notably missing, but Manasseh rounding out the twelve). The same(?) 144,000 also appear with the ...
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Who is the woman in Revelation 12?
She is introduced:
A great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet and a crown of twelve stars on her head.—Revelation 12:1 (NIV)
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Who is speaking, the angel or Jesus in Revelation 22:8-16?
Revelation 22:8-16 (ESV):
8 I, John, am the one who heard and saw these things. And when I heard and saw them, I fell down to worship at the feet of the angel who showed them to me, 9 but he said to ...
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What is the "first resurrection"?
Finishing up the year in the Bible, I heard this passage:
Then I saw thrones, and seated on them were those to whom the authority to judge was committed. Also I saw the souls of those who had been ...
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Why is that great city figuratively called Sodom and Egypt? Revelation 11:8
After the beast has killed the two Prophets, we read in Revelation 11:8,
Their bodies will lie in the street of the great city, which is
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What is "the Lord's Day" in Revelation 1:10?
The phrase, the Lord's day, found in Revelation chapter one, occurs only once in the New Testament. What grounds do we have to determine what day John was speaking about (the day his readers would ...
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Is Revelation 19:16 " A slip of the pen" , or worded this way for another reason?
When I was researching a question with reference to the book of Revelation,i came across a couple of scriptures that intrigue me.The first portion of scripture is taken from Revelation 17:14
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In Revelation 19:16 was Jesus wearing pants?
While researching this question, I came across an article I'd rather not link to1 that asserted that Jesus wore pants. The particular bit of evidence they cited was:
Then I saw heaven opened, and ...
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Is the "7th seal" opened before the "6th seal" book of Revelation
I have never been able to come to a satisfactory conclusion with reference to the opening of the sixth seal and the blowing of the seventh trumpet as referenced in the book of Revelation.
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Who are the 12 apostles of the lamb?
And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in them the names
of the twelve apostles of the Lamb. (Revelation 21:14 KJV)
To whom does the "twelve apostles of the Lamb" refer? Is this the ...
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Does Christ return to Heaven after the thousand year reign, and then return to earth after the seventh trumpet?
After the thousand year reign is over we read in Revelation 20:v7-8
When the thousand years are over,Satan will be released from his
prison and will go out to deceive the nations in the four corners ...
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Where did ancient readers believe the bottomless pit to be located?
The beast that you saw was, and is not, and is about to rise from the
bottomless pit and go to destruction. (Rev 17:8 ESV)
Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, holding in his hand the
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The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
What/who have commentators historically believed the "four riders" of Revelation 6 were?
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Are the 144,000 in Revelation 14:4 male only?
Revelation 14:3 And they sang a new song before the throne and before the four living creatures and the elders.
No one could learn the song except the 144,000 who had been redeemed from the earth. 4 ...
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To what does the time clause connect in Revelation 13:8?
I noticed that there are several ways that English translations render Revelation 13:8. There is a potentially significant difference in how the clauses connect, but most translations are a little bit ...
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What significance does the word order of people, tribes, nations, and languages play in Revelation?
Seven times in Revelation, John describes people in a fourfold manner:
5:9c For you were slain, and by your blood you ransomed people for God from every tribe and language and people and nation
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What historical reasons resulted in Revelation being included in most Christian canons?
As a source, the book of Revelation is something of an outlier for a book of the Bible that got accepted into the canonical New Testament of most branches of Christianity: it is the only explicitly ...
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What is the meaning of "calculate" in Revelation 13:18?
This is perhaps the most famous prophesy in popular culture:
This calls for wisdom: let the one who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man, and his ...
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In Rev 19:16, why is the Name on the Word's thigh and robe?
The fact that the Name is on the Robe makes sense, because that's where the High Priest wore the Breastplate with the 12 Jewels and the Urim and Thummim; and the 12 Jewels are an echo and elaboration ...
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Are there any rules on which things in Revelation must be interpreted literally and which symbolically?
Are there any rules on which things in Revelation must be interpreted literally and which symbolically? The one that comes from the back of my mind is that if a certain thing or a character is already ...
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What does "pantokrator" mean?
Revelation 4:8 refers to God as κύριος, ὁ θεός, ὁ παντοκράτωρ, generally rendered as 'Lord God Almighty.' I'm interested in the last word: ὁ παντοκράτωρ. Would this have connoted omnipotence as the ...
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Rev 3:11 I come quickly vs I come soon
What are the arguments as to whether ἔρχομαι ταχύ (for example in Rev 3:11) should be translated as "I come quickly" or "I come soon", respectively.
I understand that both translations are ...
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Evidence from early manuscripts of Revelation 13:18?
I'm hoping to see facsimiles of the earliest manuscripts of Rev 13:18, where the number 600, 60 and 6 is mentioned.
There's a myriad of translations, but I'm interested in how the number was written ...
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Was John in the Spirit on the "Day of the Lord" or "Sunday" in Revelation 1:10?
I have a translation of the New Testament in my hands, in which Revelation 1:10 is rendered as "I was in the Spirit on Sunday". When I looked up the same verse in some other translations, I saw "I was ...
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Who were the Nicolaitans and why did Jesus hate their deeds?
A popular view of Jesus is that His being all love means that He cannot hate anyone or anything. In light of this, Revelation 2:6 has a very curious statement from Jesus:
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Are angels creatures (Mark 16:15) and can they repent (Rev 2:5 and Rom 8:21)
Alright guys go easy on me...only have a high school education here. What I don't get is why according to Strongs there are only 7 instances in which it refers to messenger and ALL 179 of the other ...
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Is there really a hearing/seeing theme in Revelation?
Many claim there is a hearing/seeing theme in the book of Revelation, where John hears something, then sees something (or the other way around), and that both what he sees and hears have the same ...
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What is a text critical analysis of Revelation 1:11?
I agree that the phrase "Alpha and Omega" refers to the Father in the three verses of the book Revelation, namely Rev 1:8, 21:6 and 22:13, as in your discussion above. But in the King James ...
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What and where are the "springs of living water" in Revelation 7:9-17?
Looking at the following texts:
Revelation 7:9
After this I looked, and there before me was a great multitude that no
one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language,
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Tetragrammaton originally יהיה (yihayah) (3PersMascSing 'exist, be') and subsequently the nominal form (יהוה) (the Being)?
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Is it possible that God's name is a nominal version of the third person masculine singular verb to exist or to be: יהיה.
Can יהיה be validly understood as "he [that] ...
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Which translation for Revelation 5:10 is correct?
Some translations of this scripture use the pronoun "us" but other ones use the pronoun "them". The use actually changes what is going on prior to this scripture in terms of who is ...
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Revelations 18:23 - Who or what are the "Merchants" and the "magic spell" that led the whole Earth astray?
Rev 18:23
"Your merchants were the world’s important people.
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What does it mean to be "carried away in the Spirit"?
3 And he carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness; and I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast, full of blasphemous names, having seven heads and ten horns. [Revelation 17:3 NASB]
10 And he ...
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What is on the sealed scroll in Revelation 5-8?
Revelation chapter 5:
1 Then I saw in the right hand of him who was seated on the throne a scroll written within and on the back, sealed with seven seals. 2 And I saw a mighty angel proclaiming ...
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The Two witnesses and the Two Horns of The Beast
In Revelation 11v7 regarding the Two Witnesses we read:
Now when they have finished their testimony,the beast that comes up from the Abyss will attack them and overpower and kill them.
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