What Jesus told John the Baptist and what does that…
This thought has been on my mind for a few days. I do believe the Lord gave this to me for a preacher somewhere…
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Does John the Baptist’s ministry precede that of ‘God’?
Gabriel, who stands in the presence of God, says of John the Baptist, whose birth he predicts and pronounces, that ‘he shall go before him’ that is to say, in context, before ‘the Lord their God’ – ‘their’ being ‘the children of Israel’ :
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What does Heb 1:10 mean in light of the "throne" in Revelation? [closed]
Premise: YHWH (God) made all things
Isaiah 44:24 (NASB)
Thus says YHWH, your Redeemer, and the one who formed you from the womb, “I, YHWH, am the maker of all things, Stretching out the heavens by Myself and spreading out the earth all al…
What does it mean that heaven is taken by violence? Matthew 11:12
Matthew 11:12
But from the days of John the baptist until now, the kingdom of the heavens is taken by violence, and [the] violent seize on it. (Darby)
Matthew 11:12 And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suf…
Were Egyptians, as a large group, slaves in Abram’s time & does this have anything to do with the iniquity of the Amorites?
NASB95 for reference
Genesis 16:1
Hagar is the Egyptian handmaid/slave of Abram & Sarai.
Genesis 15:16
God tells Abram his descendants will be enslaved for 400 years because of the iniquity of the Amorites.
Are the Hebrews enslaved by …
Why does Revelation 19:18 mention commanders on horses when this future prophecy is likely to not have actual horses?
The text:
“Then I saw an angel standing in the sun, and he cried out with a loud
voice, saying to all the birds which fly in midheaven, “Come, assemble
for the great supper of God,
so that you may eat the flesh of kings and the flesh of c…
Does Matthew 26:64 describe immediate or future events?
"You have said so," Jesus replied. "But I say to all of you: From now on, you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the Mighty One and coming on the clouds of heaven." Matthew 26:64 NIV.
I´ve had a lot of…
Does "Least in the Kingdom" mean the same in Mt. 5:19 as it does in Mt. 11:11 and Luke 7:28?
Jesus is quoted as speaking of those who are "least in the Kingdom" in two situations: the Sermon on the Mount (or the Plain as in Luke) and in reference to John the Baptist, after John asks if Jesus is "he who is to come.&q…
In Revelation 2:13 why does Jesus say that Satan’s throne is in Pergamum?
Does Satan live and have his office in Pergamum?
Revelation 2:13 I know where you live—where Satan has his throne.
Yet you remain true to my name. You did not renounce your faith in me,
not even in the days of Antipas, my faithful …
Why does John the Baptist deny being "Elijah"?
So Malachi rather cryptically ends with
“See, I will send the prophet Elijah to you before that great and dreadful day of the Lord
comes. He will turn the hearts of the parents to their children, and the hearts of the
children to their pa…
How does Paul say Christ was first seen by 12
1 Corinthians 15:5 NASB
5 and that He appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve.
In all the narratives of four evangelists there seem to be no record of Christ meeting Cephas then the twelve after his resurrection,but that he met them t…
How exactly does using the Louw-Nida lexicon, that is based on semantic domains, help avoid the word-concept fallacy?
I see more and more journal articles on New Testament interpretation preferring to use the Louw-Nida Greek Lexicon that is based on "semantic domains". An example from the introductory essay of a 2016 book Paul and Gnosis edited…