Appendix B – Revelation Study

Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning; And ye yourselves  like unto men that wait for their lord, when he will return from the wedding; that when he comes and knocks, they may open unto him immediately.  Blessed are those servants, whom the lord when he cometh shall find watching: verily I Read More…

7.6 The Great Apostasy

For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward. 2 Cor 1:12 Now the Spirit speaks expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart Read More…

5.5 Preparing for Tribulation

  Verses of encouragement: Our encouragement in tribulation will come from two sources: God’s Word Other believers exhorting us to hold on to the end. Our preparation will this consist of knowing and memorizing scripture, and use it to speak to our own hearts and to others. Secondly, to surround ourselves with other believers who Read More…

7.7 The Victor …………………

Jesus’s second coming. There is a sense of expectancy throughout the prophetic books of the Old Testament  describing the coming of the Lord Messiah to reign on this earth. Every Jewish child was taught about the messiah to come. He was to be the glorious and mighty ruler over the whole earth, ruling with a Read More…

7.8 The number*

  16) And he (i.e., the false prophet) compelled everyone, small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to allow [his clergy] to place a mark on their right hand or on their forehead, (17) so that no one would be able to buy or sell except those with the mark, [consisting of] either Read More…

7.4 The Beast was, & is not, the 8th.

The Beast of Revelation 17 (&13) (continuation of post 7.2, a mid-2023 interpretation) Not many interpretations address a clue given by the angel, who advises John in V7 that he will ‘tell him the mystery of the woman’ and the mystery of the Beast carrying the woman. Previously I had tried to understand Rev13 beast first before moving Read More…

7.1 The Witnesses

Revelation 11 describes the ministry of the two witnesses. In reading this chapter it seems clear that they operate out of Jerusalem. In addition, the reference to them as the “two olive trees and the two lampstands standing before the Lord of the earth” give their ministry a distinctly Jewish flavour. Will their ministry specifically Read More…

7.3 The Woman and the Great Escape

  A woman, clothed with the sun, and the moon beneath her feet. (1) And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars:2 And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered.3 And Read More…