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Why Does John Measure the Temple in Revelation 11:1-2?
Published: 24/04/2018The first two verses of Revelation 12 seem unrelated to the rest of the chapter, but they serve as a transition between chapter 10 and 11. The end of chapter 10 has John eating a scroll that represent ... Read moreSource: readingacts.com -
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Book Review: John A. L. Lee, Douglas, Basics of Greek Accents
Published: 22/04/2018Lee, John A. L. Douglas. Basics of Greek Accents. Grand Rapids, Mich. Zondervan, 2018. 110 pp. pb; $14.99. Link to Zondervan Rarely does an introductory grammar devote much attention to Greek accents. ... Read moreSource: readingacts.com -
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Who is the Mighty Angel in Revelation 10?
Published: 22/04/2018John does not identify this angel, although some speculate it is Gabriel primarily because the name Gabriel means “mighty one.” It is not necessary to make the connection to Gabriel, although there ar ... Read moreSource: readingacts.com
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The First Four Trumpets in Revelation 8:7-12
Published: 21/04/2018The first trumpet judgment is similar to Exodus 9:13-25, hail and fire fell upon the Egyptians. Joel 2:31 indicates that in the time of the end the moon and sun will be turned to blood. The Jews had a ... Read moreSource: readingacts.com -
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Revelation 8 – The Trumpets and the Plagues of Exodus
Published: 20/04/2018There are a remarkable number of parallels between this series of judgments and the ten plagues in Exodus. For example, trumpets are associated with the theophany at Sinai (Exod 19:13-19; 20:18). Th ... Read moreSource: readingacts.com -
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Why are Dan and Ephraim Missing in Revelation 7?
Published: 19/04/2018The tribes of Dan and Ephraim had some significant problems in the history of Israel. While Dan himself does not commit any great sin in Genesis (as do the sons of Leah). The blessing of Jacob in Gene ... Read moreSource: readingacts.com
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Ophel Excavations Uncover Jewish Revolt Coins in Rebel Hideout
Published: 18/04/2018Dozens of bronze Jewish revolt coins from the First Jewish Revolt against Rome were discovered in the renewed Ophel excavations in Jerusalem. The post Ophel Excavations Uncover Jewish Revolt Coins in ... Read moreSource: www.biblicalarchaeology.org -
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How Ancient Taxes Were Collected Under King Manasseh
Published: 17/04/2018Discovered during the Temple Mount Sifting Project, this seventh-century B.C.E. clay bulla inscribed in paleo-Hebrew script with the phrase “Gibeon, for the king” provides evidence for how ancient tax ... Read moreSource: www.biblicalarchaeology.org -
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Christ's Death Efficacious and Vicarious
Published: 17/04/2018In the Old Testament, the sacrifices and offerings and the poured-out blood of animals were efficacious in ceremonial symbolism. But the death of Jesus Christ was efficacious actually and eternally. ( ... Read moreSource: www.cmalliance.org
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Revelation 6:1 – A Rider on a White Horse
Published: 16/04/2018The opening of the first seal is a chance to test the method described in the previous series of posts. I suggested that reading Revelation is like reading a political cartoon from another culture and ... Read moreSource: readingacts.com -
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Did the Ancient Israelites Think Children Were People?
Published: 16/04/2018The Book of Exodus presumably reflects the views of its Israelite authors on their deity, morality, and the like. Why then would the Israelites have imagined Yahweh slaughtering Egyptian children for ... Read moreSource: www.biblicalarchaeology.org -
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Seals, Trumpets, and Bowls in Revelation
Published: 16/04/2018Within the structure of Revelation, John uses imagery to describe events on earth and in heaven during the coming period of persecution before the return of the Messiah. The first image is of the open ... Read moreSource: readingacts.com
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Revelation 4 and Apocalyptic Throne Imagery
Published: 14/04/2018Revelation 4-5 are often read only for their value in describing worship (worthy is the Lamb….) or their angelology (who are the elders? What are the four living creatures?) While these elemen ... Read moreSource: readingacts.com -
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Revelation 4 – The Stones in the Throne Room
Published: 14/04/2018The throne in Revelation 4 is a good opportunity to think about our interpretive method for apocalyptic literature. In another post I pointed out that throne room scenes are common in Second Temple ap ... Read moreSource: readingacts.com -
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Who are the “Four Living Creatures” in Revelation 4?
Published: 13/04/2018Like the 24 elders, the four “living creatures” worship God at his throne (Rev 4:6b-8a). The NIV places these creatures “in the center, around the throne.” This reflects the difficulty of the syntax o ... Read moreSource: readingacts.com
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Book Review: Robert Hudson, The Monk’s Record Player: Thomas Merton, Bob Dylan, and the Perilous Summer of 1966
Published: 12/04/2018Hudson, Robert. The Monk’s Record Player: Thomas Merton, Bob Dylan, and the Perilous Summer of 1966. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 2018. 249 pp. Hb; $23.99. Link to Eerdmans In his foreword t ... Read moreSource: readingacts.com -
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Living in the Light of the Book of Revelation
Published: 12/04/2018In a 1993 interview for The Door, Tony Campolo said: “Any theology that does not live with a sense of the immediate return of Christ is a theology that take the edge off the urgency of faith. But any ... Read moreSource: readingacts.com -
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Biblical Minimalism and Maximalism in Scholarship
Published: 10/04/2018Bill Dever discusses BAR ’s facilitation of the Biblical minimalism-maximalism debate, which centers on whether the establishment of ancient Israel took place in the tenth or the ninth century B.C.E. ... Read moreSource: www.biblicalarchaeology.org
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What Does Revelation Say About the End Times?
Published: 10/04/2018The theological term for the end times is eschatology, the study of last things. This includes not only the return of Christ and the kingdom, but also “personal eschatology,” what happens to individua ... Read moreSource: readingacts.com -
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The Searching Ministry of the Triune God
Published: 10/04/2018Jesus was trying to make plain the searching, seeking, loving ministries of the Trinity—the Godhead. That lost boy was the lost world. That lost sheep was the lost world. That lost piece of silve ... Read moreSource: www.cmalliance.org -
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What Does Revelation Say about Jesus Christ?
Published: 9/04/2018The person of Jesus frames the book of Revelation. In a previous post I argued that the major theme of Revelation is worship, so it is no surprise that the object of this worship is often Jesus as the ... Read moreSource: readingacts.com
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