Category: Revelations
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The rapture
The rapture does not have support in the book of Revelations according to Tellbe in the book about Revelations. He says that the only support of the rapture is the verse: After this I looked, and there before me was a door standing open in heaven. And the voice I had first heard speaking to […]
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The 144 000 saved
Then I heard the number of those who were sealed: 144,000 from all the tribes of Israel. Revelations 7:4 It is not literally 144 000 people saved but the number represents a lot of believers. The number 144 000 comes from 12x12x10x10x10. Where the number 12 represents the 12 tribes of Israel and the 12 […]
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The mark of the beast
With the mark of the beast only the ones who have the mark are able to buy and sell things and the mark is 666 which is the humans number Revelations13:17-18. In the first century to the third people who went to court needed to make an offering to the emperor and get a mark […]
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The lamb’s bride and the harlot Babylon
Roman society is described as the harlot Babylon that lures people in with riches, sex and luxuries. “‘Fallen! Fallen is Babylon the Great!’ She has become a dwelling for demons and a haunt for every impure spirit, a haunt for every unclean bird, a haunt for every unclean and detestable animal. For all the nations […]
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Beasts in the book of Revelations
After the dragon the second beast was a mix of a leopard, bear and a lion. Which is a reference to Daniel 7 that describes Babylon as a lion, Persia is the lion and the bear is Greece. One of the beasts heads seemed to have got a fatal wound Revelations 13:3 this references Nero […]
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The Dragon and the pregnant woman
Evil presents in a trinity like the God trinity with the dragon and two beasts written in the book of Revelations 12-13. In the 12th chapter of the book of Revelations the red dragon wants to eat a pregnant woman’s child. Where the woman represents Israel, the child is Jesus and the dragon is Satan. […]
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Symbolism in the book of Revelations
I was recently reading a book about the book of Revelations and I thought I would share some of what I had learned. It has been used as to describe the future, or the life of the first Christians or a principle. The Protestants used to think the beast in the book of Revelation was […]