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What is the New Jerusalem?
In the Biblical allegory of Revelation 21:2 John says he saw the New Jerusalem "coming down out" of heaven. So the "city" comes from heaven and is heavenly in nature but is not the ...
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Does Revelation 20:14 implicitly indicate that the Sea also will be cast into the lake of fire?
The dead bodies/those that died there (presumably without God being preached to them) are brought up from the literal sea, as mentioned above, and just expands on what Jesus said about the ...
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What did Jesus mean by "buy from me gold refined by fire" and "salve to anoint your eyes" in Revelation 3:18?
I don't know--but I know we can seek the Lord ourselves on this matter. According to His faithfulness, if we seek, we will find (Matthew 7:7). If we pray in secret, He will see us and reward us (...
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What is the New Jerusalem?
Is there a relationship between New Jerusalem and renewed/transformed paradise? Is New Jerusalem being same as renewed paradise? What is the difference between New Heaven and New Jerusalem? Thus, new ...
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I (Jesus) also will keep you (Philadelphia Church) from the hour of testing.... Rev, 3:10. Keep from *what* exactly?
Careful hermeneutics requires considering and analyzing a section of the biblical text in context from several perspectives.
Here, John the Revelator has clearly recorded short critiques addressed to ...
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I (Jesus) also will keep you (Philadelphia Church) from the hour of testing.... Rev, 3:10. Keep from *what* exactly?
I firmly believe that the first premise to use is to keep in prayer and when studying scriptures daily ALWAYS ASK the Holy Spirit to guide and teach us the word He inspired.
I feel like majority tend ...
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Judas from tribe of Dan
None is compelling, since Dan is mentioned on the gate of New Jerusalem, even though Dan is not mentioned in the sealed people (Rev.).
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I (Jesus) also will keep you (Philadelphia Church) from the hour of testing.... Rev, 3:10. Keep from *what* exactly?
The seven churches represent seven kinds of Christian. It tells what Christian might encounter and what they might become.
Ephesus - represent those who become Christian with great passion but later ...
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I (Jesus) also will keep you (Philadelphia Church) from the hour of testing.... Rev, 3:10. Keep from *what* exactly?
There have been several ways to read and understand the message to the seven churches. Here is a sample with a focus on The OP's question about "the hour of trial" sentence.
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In Rev. Ch.5:1-5 John is weeping much and only Jesus is worthy to open the book. If John wrote Revelation why could he not look at it?
The best answer for a scriptural question comes from the Bible itself. The Bereans searched the scriptures daily in Acts 17:11
These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received ...
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What makes the prophetic book of Rev.5:1-5 so unique that ONLY Jesus could open it?
The seven seals identify God as the author of the scroll, not John. So nobody in the created world (heaven or earth or under the earth) can open it. The event of the Cross, which makes the Lamb worthy,...
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Is Jesus's return on the clouds the same event as Him riding the white horse?
they are the same events. Jesus's return in the clouds is His second coming, which is for judgement. HE also will come out on a white horse but that is for His triumphal entry into the earth realm to ...
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Why are the seven thunders of Rev.10:4 sealed and what was their message?
Revelation 10:4
And when the seven thunders spoke, I was about to write,
but I heard a voice from heaven, saying, “Seal up what the seven
thunders said, and do not write it down!”
John was ordered ...
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Why are the seven thunders of Rev.10:4 sealed and what was their message?
Since only one person has responded to this question and voiced an opinion (it cannot and should not be dealt with) I will tell you what my analyzing of the total prophetic scriptures suggest. The one ...
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In Rev. Ch.5:1-5 John is weeping much and only Jesus is worthy to open the book. If John wrote Revelation why could he not look at it?
"If John wrote Revelations why could he not look at it?"
Because the sealed scroll is not the Book of Revelation. In the Book, John writes of several powerful visions and messages from Jesus....
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In Rev. Ch.5:1-5 John is weeping much and only Jesus is worthy to open the book. If John wrote Revelation why could he not look at it?
The question asked is three-fold, (1) "Why is John weeping?" (2) Is it because he wrote the book of the Revelation but could not open, or look at it (read it)?" (3) Is it because only ...
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In Rev. Ch.5:1-5 John is weeping much and only Jesus is worthy to open the book. If John wrote Revelation why could he not look at it?
"Seven" is a number indicating "belonging to God".
The seven seals identify God as the author of the scroll, not John. So nobody in the created world (heaven or earth or under the ...
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In Rev. Ch.5:1-5 John is weeping much and only Jesus is worthy to open the book. If John wrote Revelation why could he not look at it?
The reason John wept is explicitly stated in Rev 5:4 -
And I began to weep bitterly, because no one was found worthy to
open the scroll or look inside it.
That is, John wept because no one was ...
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To what does the time clause connect in Revelation 13:8?
I don't know of a single instance in Scripture where the Greek word 'apo' is translated as 'before'. It is always translated as 'from'. Not even the ESV translates the Greek word 'apo' as 'before' in ...
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What does “come out” mean in revelation 7:14?
The pertinent phrase in the Greek is ἐρχόμενοι ἐκ = "coming out". The NASB version quoted by the OP is a perfectly accurate translation of the text.
The answer to the OP's question is found ...
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Could the "7 Thunders" be in reference to the "7 Bowls" of God's wrath, which are heralded by way of the "7th Trumpet"? Rev, 10:3,4
"Thunder" [βροντή bronte] occurs 10 times in the book of Revelation 4:5, 6:1, 8:5, 10:3, 4, 11:19, 14:2, 16:18, 19:6. Thunder either represents the voice of God or accompanies His voice. In ...
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How were scrolls sealed in the time of Revelation?
Perhaps, the seals represent the governance of satans rule on earth, conquer through religion, war, commerce, sickness, plague and death. The Depiction is the final warning in heavens throneroom, a ...
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In Matthew 28:18 is Jesus making a statement about His deity which is developed further by Paul and in Revelation?
1 Corinthians 11:3
But I want you to know that the head of every man is Christ, the head of woman is man and the head of Christ is God.
This verse is plain as to who is over the other. The Trinity ...
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Revelation 3:20 where Jesus knocks at the door of the church in Laodicea
Revelation 3:20-21 NASB
Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and will dine with him, and he with Me. He who overcomes, I will ...
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In Revelation 10:7 what is the "mystery of God" that was finished by the 7th trumpet?
Revelation 10:7 KJV
But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets.
It is ...
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Does the Times of the Gentiles also include the rise of Islam?
When many people read "the times of the gentiles," they usually "auto-correct" it in their minds to, "the time of the gentiles," which misses the point. What the times of ...
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