Here’s how the study works: Read the chapter mentioned in the heading several times during the week and share any words, thoughts, verses that stood out to you. Having a week for a chapter creates the opportunity to reread it several times and make additional comments as you feel inclined as well as make comments on other people’s insights.
I heard somewhere someone saying they felt sorry for John having to describe things he had never seen. For example v.7 he describes giant locusts but John has never seen anything mechanical, not a car, plane or a military tank so the locusts could be some kind of arsenal involved in some sort of warfare.
I heard somewhere someone saying they felt sorry for John having to describe things he had never seen. For example v.7 he describes giant locusts but John has never seen anything mechanical, not a car, plane or a military tank so the locusts could be some kind of arsenal involved in some sort of warfare.
Trumphets in the OT would often proclaimed God’s reign or would be a call to repentance. The trumphets here seem to signal both.
Deborah mention in the last chapter the plagues of Egypt. (Plagues of hail, water, blood and darkness all happened in Exodus.)As God used the plagues to release God’s people from Egypt to the Promised Land, God is using these plagues to release people from the current evils to his eternal kingdom.
Trumphets in the OT would often proclaimed God’s reign or would be a call to repentance. The trumphets here seem to signal both.
Deborah mention in the last chapter the plagues of Egypt. (Plagues of hail, water, blood and darkness all happened in Exodus.)As God used the plagues to release God’s people from Egypt to the Promised Land, God is using these plagues to release people from the current evils to his eternal kingdom.
v.15 And the four angels who had been kept ready for this very hour and day and month and year were released to kill a third of mankind.
This is very precise. The very hour, day, month, year. God has had a plan in mind for a very long time and now it is coming to a climax.
v.15 And the four angels who had been kept ready for this very hour and day and month and year were released to kill a third of mankind.
This is very precise. The very hour, day, month, year. God has had a plan in mind for a very long time and now it is coming to a climax.
v.20-21 The rest of mankind who were not killed by these plagues still did not repent of the work of their hands; they did not stop worshiping demons, and idols of gold, silver, bronze, stone and wood—idols that cannot see or hear or walk. Nor did they repent of their murders, their magic arts, their sexual immorality or their thefts.
Even through the judgements God's mercy is evident in giving people the opportunity to repent.
v.20-21 The rest of mankind who were not killed by these plagues still did not repent of the work of their hands; they did not stop worshiping demons, and idols of gold, silver, bronze, stone and wood—idols that cannot see or hear or walk. Nor did they repent of their murders, their magic arts, their sexual immorality or their thefts.
Even through the judgements God's mercy is evident in giving people the opportunity to repent.