Revelation

Throughout The Bible, passages describe the character of The Antichrist using both direct prophetic allusions and types (typology). Within all these passages, certain themes are discovered again and again. The composite picture paints a fairly simple-minded yet predetermined individual, driven by an insatiable desire for self-elevation and praise. Like Lucifer before him, this obsession will cause The Antichrist to proclaim himself as God’s co-equal, if not higher. Lucifer’s proclamation is…

Julian of Norwich, in her Revelations of Divine Love, synthesizes the asceticism which had permeated the Roman Catholic Church from its earliest history with the philosophical advancements made by Saint Thomas Aquinas only one hundred and fifty years before her. She does this seamlessly and almost certainly unintentionally, demonstrating that the philosophical developments of Saint Thomas Aquinas were familiar concepts to her such that they shaped her mystic religious view. Despite the…

Blows My Mind If we shall be found guilty of anything on the Day of Judgement, it will not be because we believed too much but that we believed too little about all the things God intended for us to experience in this lifetime and eternity. St. Paul, quoting his predecessor the Prophet Isaiah, wrote “No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love Him” (1 Corinthians 2:8) June was a tall redheaded senior of Irish decent and full of life. She…

authority to judge” (Jn 5:22; 5:27). Packer writes 4 characteristics of the judge; however, there are no biblical scriptures that support these (Packer 141-142). Nevertheless, it is easy to find support for these characteristics in the book of Revelations because that is the time when Jesus will take action as the judge. First, the judge needs to have authority. This is already mentioned in John 5. Second, the judge is fair and righteous. Jesus is just, true, and righteous as the beasts sing in…

masterpiece Revelations. His inspiration to create this performance was from his ‘blood memories’ of his childhood. Alvin Ailey grew up in a small town in Texas where racism was a big issue. As Ailey was African American, he grew up in a time of racial segregation, violence and lynching’s against African Americans. Early experiences in the Southern Baptist church instilled in him a fierce sense of black pride that would later figure prominently in Ailey's signature works.…

The Book of Daniel INTRODUCTION After reading different discussions and articles on the book of Daniel, this paper will compound the various information discovered concerning many different opinions and information regarding the book of Daniel. The various authors will be Jerry Sumney, Kathryn Lopez and NOAB bible, as well as information from the web. This will be a compilation of each author, thereby looking at the authorship, time era, and the audience. As well as events occurring and the…

the Old Testament, as a source of divine revelation. From the studying of these sacred texts and human experience, theologians and the like have begun to deduce the epistemological value of such revelation. Specifically, divine revelation has been understood in two major ways: general revelation and special revelation. General revelation is that which reveals information of God via nature, human consciousness, or human history. However, special revelation is that which is given by God in…

opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature say, 'Come!' 4Then another horse came out, a fiery red one. Its rider was given power to take peace from the earth and to make people kill each other. To him was given a large sword." (Revelation 6.9-15) Few concepts are better known to humanity than war. With the destruction and suffering that ensues, it is thought by many to be the end of mankind; yet this knowledge does little to prevent history from repeating itself. Even now,…

Daniel utilizes a new introductory formula in this verse to focus the attention of the reader to the climax of the visions of the beasts. From this group of ten horns, comes up “another horn, a little one” which displaced three other horns. This little horn had “eyes like the eyes of a man, and a mouth speaking great things.” Nothing specifically is said about the nature of what is being said, however, within the Bible’s wisdom literature, through the eyes or speech of a person, their…

meets the eye in these magical pictures. As we begin our journey through the book of Revelation, we will…