by Justin Marple | Jul 15, 2010 | Revelation Commentary, TEACHING
Here we will find the trumpet plagues intensified and talk of a battle at Har Magedon. Things are really starting to heat up in the Revelation, though many of these ideas will yet be further developed and intensified as we continue onto future cycles. The cycle opens...
by Justin Marple | Jun 27, 2010 | Revelation Commentary, TEACHING
Next we find the seven symbolic histories (Revelation 12-14). Here follows the most confusing parts of the entire word-vision book. It is not even easy to know when it begins or ends or how to outline it. The account may begin with the ending of the previous...
by Justin Marple | Jun 24, 2010 | Revelation Commentary, TEACHING
Jericho was a fortified city in the land of Canaan. YHWH told Joshua to march around the city once for six days with priests walking before the ark carrying seven trumpets of rams’ horns. On the seventh day they were to march around seven times and blow the...
by Justin Marple | May 23, 2010 | Revelation Commentary, TEACHING
Revelation 4 begins the second vision “in the Spirit.” This is the vision in heaven. The first two verses are laden with import. The first verse opens and closes (an inclusio) with the eschatological phrase “after this.” The first...
by Justin Marple | May 12, 2010 | Revelation Commentary, TEACHING
Continuing with additional observations since the last post…let the one who has ears, hear. G.K. Beale suggests that we can understand the first letter by looking at Matthew 24:12-14. Actually, back up a verse: “And many false prophets will arise and lead...
by Justin Marple | May 10, 2010 | General Teachings, TEACHING
The Bible mentions several interesting creatures, not least among them Behemoth and Leviathan. The first monsters mentioned in Scripture are actually in Genesis 1. “And God created the great Tanninim [the standard Hebrew lexicon says, “serpent, dragon,...
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