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Thou Hast A Name
In Revelation, the apostle John writes to the seven churches in Asia Minor. From the island of Patmos in the Aegean Sea he can see the coast of what is now called the country of Turkey. It is a well worth study (and Revelation 1:3 promises a blessing to those that read this letter) to see…
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DANIEL 2:31-33: Nebuchadnezzar’s Metal Statue Dream and Daniel’s Interpretation thereof:
Consider: In the statue, the breast area included the arms of silver. One arm was the Medes, the other the Persians, but they represented one world power. Then you have further down the legs that branch off into the 2 feet, 10 toes. So as in the arms, you have a leg of the western…
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Hostage Square Foreshadows Feast of Tabernacles
Pastor Holthaus at Hostage Square, (Watch YT video below). This setup of the booths in this remembrance (1/17/24) reminds us of when Jesus went down from Galilee to Jerusalem to the Feast of Tabernacles(Booths). Zechariah 14 brings to mind the atrocities that Israel experienced in the past and will experience now and in the future. …
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Rightly Dividing the Pretrib Rapture View
Scripture alone gives understanding to scripture which is the true meaning of “…rightly dividing the Word of Truth,”(2 Timothy 2:15). This biblical phrase has been misconstrued to mean something else through the years, namely, to uphold certain teachings of men. Do a Greek word study on this phrase. There are many preconceived ideas/concepts/teachings that permeate…
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Oil and wine (update) 11/21/2023
In an earlier post, I commented that the oil and wine referred to in Revelation 6:6 may represent Israel and Christians. I still maintain that that could be a spiritual symbol of the oil and wine referred to. I was reading Revelation 18 and noticed that the destruction of oil and wine occur at that…
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Antisemitism
Anti-Semitism” is an ugly word. Just men and women have always abhorred it. But, like a bad dream, it refuses to go away. Historians, social scientists, philosophers, theologians – all are hard pressed to explain this phenomenon which is as ancient as Abraham, the father of the Jewish people, and as contemporary as the state…
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Hamas
HAMAS–the acronym for Harakat al-Muqawama al-Islamiya (Islamic Resistance Movement) Hamas happens to be the Hebrew word for “violence”, “evil physical hurt”. It is found in a number of Old Testament passages: Genesis 6:11; 6:11; 6:13; 16:5; 16:5; 49:5 Exodus 23:1 Deuteronomy 19:16 Judges 9:24; 9:24 2 Samuel 22:3; 22:49; 22:49; 22:49 1 Chronicles 12:17 Job…
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The Two Women of the Two Babylons:
There are 2 women represented in Revelation 17 and 18. The woman in Rev 17 is Judaism, Islam, and Christendom, which Jerusalem is the head of this tripartite religion and the AC destroys in Rev 17 because He claims to be “God”, whereas the woman in Rev 18 is all the other religions with humanism…
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The “Tribulation Saints”
Here is what I would discuss with a Christian that holds to a Pretribulation view of the rapture keeping in mind that as a proponent of the Prewrath or Intraseal view of the rapture, I really don’t usually use the term “tribulation saints” since if you haven’t gone to sleep in the Lord when Jesus…
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The Wisdom of God vs wisdom of Man
“See to it that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deception, according to the tradition of men, according to the elementary principles of the world, rather than according to Christ.” Colossians 2:8(NASB) There is so much packed into that verse that Paul penned almost 2,000 years ago. It was relevant then and…
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UFOs/UAPs
My studies on this subject go back many decades. I approached this subject as a young boy in a naive way and even was caught up in the delusion for a number of years before I was saved. After I was saved the Holy Spirit taught me that this phenomena was an evil deception in…