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Quick view. Visit Store. Do The Work 14, jan, The Calm Before The Storm 9, jan, View more videos. Missions Adopting of the thinking, behaviors and practices of a missionary in order to engage others with love and the gospel message. Find out more. Shall see their dead bodies — According to Josephus, during the three-and-a-half years of the Roman campaign, many of the Jews who remained in the city of Jerusalem continued to believe that the defeat of their enemies was imminent.

Keeping with the pattern of the surrounding passages of Revelation and , the non-believing Jews were the enemies of Christ and the Church.

The Christian Church had fled from Jerusalem and the absence of their living testimony seemed to the Jews to be another evidence of their victory. They understood the testimony of the crucified Christ as a foolish story about an executed criminal whose carcass arose from the dead.

But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness…. For the preaching of the cross is foolishness to those who perish; but unto us who are saved, it is the power of God 1 Corinthians , Three days and an half — This period can be understood symbolically in one of two ways.

First, as just a period of time, a half of a seven, which symbolizes a time of unholy persecution. There are some problems with this second solution of having days and three-and-a-half days stand for the same period of 42 months. However, the second interpretation is not exclusive of the first.

It is easy to be misled here into a woodenly literal rendering of the image of the bodies of two martyrs lying dead in the streets for three-and-a-half days. A couple of points indicates that the dead bodies of the Two Witnesses are not human bodies, but symbolically the witness of Christ and the Church that had been despised and desecrated by the Jews. The first point has already been stated. The resilient Church survived not only the persecution of Nero, but also the destruction of the capital city of Jerusalem where the New Testament Church was born.

At first, the presumed death of the Church is a target of scorn to the Jews and the Gentile nations, but soon becomes an object of wonder and fear. The second point is that during the three-and-a-half year war, the Church had already fled the city. This was the remaining length of the war that the Romans conducted against the Jews until the destruction of the Temple. The fact that Christians had already fled the city may seem like a contradiction if we understand the text as a strict historical chronology and the Two Witnesses as two literal people.

One one hand, the two witnesses prophesied against the Jews in the city of Jerusalem during the war. In further contradiction, they also lay dead within the city. At that very point in history, the remaining Christians in Jerusalem fled to hiding places in the hills of Judea. Those who had rejected the Gospel were now sealed within the city. Thinking that God had vindicated them by ridding themselves of the troublesome followers of the Way, they deceived themselves into thinking they were safe, only to suffer a horrific day-long demise.

Thus the language portraying prophetic truth lying dead in the streets is an allusion to Isaiah As in Isaiah, John personifies Truth as having fallen in the streets see also: Isaiah ; Ezekiel Revelation — And they that dwell upon the earth shall rejoice over them , and make merry, and shall send gifts one to another; because these two prophets tormented them that dwelt on the earth. The second choice is the Gentile nations that were part of the Roman Empire where the Gospel had already been preached.

Bad interpretations of Revelation assume that GE must always meant the planet earth and not specific judgments on Judea. However, the next part of this verse gives an indication that the reference is toward the unbelieving enemies of the Gospel dwelling in the vicinity of Judea.

They that dwell upon the earth shall rejoice over them … because these two prophets tormented them that dwelt on the earth — The rejoicing over the dead bodies is a cruel and macabre image. The sense here is that the preaching of the Truth of the Word of God was a torment to those who rejected the Gospel because it exposed the curse of sin in unbelievers.

Nero, the Beast of Revelation 13, wished to rid Judea of any messianic pretenders, so he waged a total war on the Jews with the aim of moving his throne to Jerusalem and reigning as the king of the world.

In doing so, he lost control of his own kingdom and died by his own sword. The entrapped Jews then slid into a slow and horrifying demise in the military siege led by Vespasian and Titus. Thus the Beasts of the Land and the Sea doing the bidding of Satan Revelation 13 were caught with the bait of the blood of the Lamb. John elsewhere draws a connection between the destruction of the Temple and the crucifixion of Jesus.

After he was raised from the dead, his disciples recalled what he had said. Then they believed the scripture and the words that Jesus had spoken John As in Revelation 11, here is a comparison between the death of Christ and the destruction of the Temple.

Ironically, the failure of the Jews to accept the death and resurrection of Jesus is what led to their own deaths and the obliteration of the earthly Temple for all time. In contrast, the believing Jews who were martyrs for their faith were raised to new life and became part of the heavenly Temple made with living stones.

Revelation — And after three days and an half the spirit of life from God entered into them, and they stood upon their feet ; and great fear fell upon them which saw them.

After three days and an half the spirit of life from God entered into them — We have only to survey the historical events from AD 64 to 68, to see that the Church really did suffer the death of its leadership.

After this point, we hear no more about the Apostles, with the exception of John who is said to have continued on to survive past the death of Domitian in AD For all intents and purposes, truth lay dead in the streets. Do not diminish a word Jeremiah Revelation — And they heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them, Come up hither.

And they ascended up to heaven in a cloud ; and their enemies beheld them. Come up hither — The Two Witnesses are resurrected and their enemies see them, but this verse adds that they ascended up to heaven in a cloud.

John presents this as a parallelism to the previous verse to doubly emphasize the terror that now struck the men of Jerusalem. Revelation — And the same hour was there a great earthquake , and the tenth part of the city fell , and in the earthquake were slain of men seven thousand : and the remnant were affrighted, and gave glory to the God of heaven.

There was a great earthquake — As with the figure of the Two Witnesses, we have two choices here. We can either view the proceeding images as literal or symbolic. There is historical evidence to support something like a shaking of the city.

We can look to a literal shaking as the Roman battering rams and catapults breached the Third Wall on the northern boundary of the city. Often the Book of Revelation depicts the physical world as reflecting the monumental state of the spiritual universe. The important point here is the spiritual revolution. The earthquake not only denotes the physical leveling of the city and the Temple, but also the removal of the old order, the burning away of the beggarly elements of false worship that focus on earthly forms and deny that Jesus is God come in the flesh.

Woodenly literalist interpretations from a preterist perspective can make the same error of focusing too much on historical fulfillments of the signs in Revelation rather than the revelation that Jesus Christ is the presently reigning King of all earthly kingdoms.

The tenth part of the city fell — A general rule of numbers in biblical language is that round numbers are hyperbolic, while more specific numbers are literal. In the earthquake were slain of men seven thousand — Most likely, seven thousand is chosen ]in keeping with the thematic numbering system in the rest of the book.

Those who take this number literally, look for evidence in Wars of the Jews 4. The zealots also joined in the shouts raised by the Idumeans; and the storm itself rendered the cry more terrible; nor did the Idumeans spare anybody; for as they are naturally a most barbarous and bloody nation, and had been distressed by the tempest, they made use of their weapons against those that had shut the gates against them… Now there was at present neither any place for flight, nor any hope of preservation; but as they were driven one upon another in heaps, so were they slain… And now the outer temple was all of it overflowed with blood; and that day, as it came on, they saw eight thousand five hundred dead bodies there Wars 4.

Note the similarity in the numbers and Did die in the earthquake, and another die by the swords of the Idumeans? First, the Christians had already fled the city of Jerusalem.

According to second century historical sources later preserved by Eusebius of Caesarea, the Flight to Pella occurred either before or near the beginning of the Roman-Jewish War. Although they took a stand against the sins of the Jews during the war, there is no indication that they preached the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

Third, there is no indication in Josephus or any historical source that Ananus and Jesus were raised from the dead and ascended to heaven in view of all present. Rather, this verse describing the fall of the city is just that.

It is a vivid reiteration of the soon-to-be-fulfilled prophecy of Jesus that the city of Jerusalem would be breached by surrounding armies and a great many inhabitants killed Luke This remarkable book is the consummation and crown of all the apocalyptical prophecies. Its author has made a most discriminating use of figures, names and symbols. His imagery belongs to Jewish modes of thought and is appropriated mainly from the Hebrew Scriptures….

That transition from the old to the new was an event of unspeakable moment and is depicted as a world-convulsing revolution. The imagery and style of the Old Testament apocalyptists are most appropriately brought into use; sun, moon and stars and the heaven itself, are pictured as collapsing and the crisis of the ages is signaled by voices and thunders and lightnings and earthquake.

Thus is a symbolic number, an image of death so great that the rest of the city becomes gripped with overwhelming fear. Revelation — The second woe is past ; and, behold, the third woe cometh quickly.

The transition between the second and third woes comes quickly. The fulfillment of the prophecy of the Two Witnesses against the city of Jerusalem would come to pass quickly at the end of the three-and-a-half year period.

The events leading up to the third woe are then recapitulated in the succeeding chapters of Revelation This next section Revelation is a heavenly interlude that completes the transition between the two major sections of the book. Revelation chapters 18 and 19 will later recapitulate in much more detail what is expressed in these few verses.

Revelation — And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever. The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever — The central message of the Book of Revelation comes at the very center of the book. It is not the finale, but the central theme. This is the prophecy to the nations that is referred to in Revelation and Despite the rage of the nations, Christ is King of kings.

Revelation — And the four and twenty elders , which sat before God on their seats, fell upon their faces, and worshipped God,. Revelation — Saying, We give thee thanks, O Lord God Almighty, which art, and wast, and art to come ; because thou hast taken to thee thy great power, and hast reigned. O Lord God Almighty, which art, and wast, and art to come — The mystery of God, which is the revelation of Jesus Christ as Lord over all Creation, is spoken of as a past, present and future reality.

Revelation — And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come , and the time of the dead, that they should be judged , and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great ; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth.

This is last description of the state of affairs on the earth before the second half of Revelation. Our interpretation here depends a lot on how we identify several words. The different figures are all jumbled up in one long compound sentence and our job is to untangle them. And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come — Again here, we have two choices.

Why do the nations rage, And the people plot a vain thing? As previously noted, the book of Revelation contains the most allusions to the Old Testament that any other New Testament book. However, no Old Testament verse is ever directly quoted. It is important to understand that most Old Testament quotations and allusions throughout the New Testament are meant to be allusions to entire passages, not quotes of isolated verses.

When we see such an allusion to the Hebrew Scriptures. We need read the entire passage. Then we should determine the central idea and come back to the New Testament to apply the same general meaning. In the entire passage of Psalm , God is angry with the nations because they have rejected and made war with Christ. And the time of the dead, that they should be judged — This is not the Final Judgment of the righteous and wicked among the living and the dead at the General Resurrection as many futurists have supposed.

In fact, a clearer rendering of this sentence is to combine this with the parallel idea that comes immediately afterward. The dead — These are the Two Witnesses whose bodies were slain in that great city where their Lord was crucified ,8. That thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great — Here is the second half of the parallelism. Now God is about to turn His wrath toward the Sea Beast who we will encounter in Revelation 13 and John is likely alluding here to Isaiah and by extension Matthew My Well-beloved has a vineyard On a very fruitful hill.

He dug it up and cleared out its stones, And planted it with the choicest vine. He built a tower in its midst, And also made a winepress in it; So He expected it to bring forth good grapes, But it brought forth wild grapes.

What more could have been done to My vineyard That I have not done in it? Why then, when I expected it to bring forth good grapes, Did it bring forth wild grapes? And now, please let Me tell you what I will do to My vineyard: I will take away its hedge, and it shall be burned; And break down its wall, and it shall be trampled down.

I will lay it waste; It shall not be pruned or dug, But there shall come up briers and thorns. I will also command the clouds That they rain no rain on it. For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel, And the men of Judah are His pleasant plant. Truth Matters - Escaping the Labyrinth of Error is a detailed study presenting Biblical answers to doctrinal questions such as the following: Was Jesus the Messiah?

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