An MBA graduate's thoughts from a place of prayer, study and waiting on God…
It’s quite surprising how the siblings, Laban and Rebekah, were so innately deceptive. In fact, Rebekah’s deceptive spirit was so deeply engrained in her heart that when Jacob worried that his father could find out about their trick, she said “Let your curse be upon me, my son...” 😮 I therefore wondered where she could have picked up this terrible heart of deception from. 🤔
1 Thessalonians 5:21-21 The book is a revelation of Jesus Christ (Rev 1:1) and His wonderful plan of salvation since the beginning of time. God wants all (Christians and otherwise) to read, understand and keep what the book says, for the time is at hand and He has promised to bless all who do this … Continue reading Top 5 things I learnt from studying Revelation this quarter 🤓🙏🏾😇
Revelation 18:4 Before the full moral collapse of Babylon, a voice from heaven urges God’s people still in Babylon to “ ‘Come out of her, my people’ ” ( Rev. 18:4). Basically, there are many worshipers of God who are still in Babylon for various reasons. God uses His end-time church (NB: God always has … Continue reading Come out of her “My people” 🗣🗣🗣
Revelation 17:12-14, 16-17 Read Revelation 17:12–15 along with Revelation 16:14–16. What do you learn from these texts about the “ten kings”? Different interpretations have been offered regarding the identities of the ten kings. However, Revelation does not tell us who they are. All we can derive from the text is that they are a short-lived … Continue reading The Judgment of Babylon 🙅🏾♂️☠️
Revelation 17:3-4; Revelation 17:8; Revelation 17:11 Revelation 17:3 describes the scarlet beast in terms similar to the sea beast of Revelation 13, which made war with and overcame God’s people ( Rev. 13:5–7). It was this earlier period of persecution that caused the pure woman to flee into the wilderness during the prophetic period of … Continue reading Identifying the Scarlet Beast of Rev 17 👿
Revelation 17:3-6 In Revelation 17:3, one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls filled with the seven last plagues offers to show John the judgment of the harlot who sat on many waters. When John sees her, she is riding the scarlet beast. As John is carried in vision into the wilderness, he … Continue reading The Harlot Riding on the Scarlet Beast
Revelation 14:8; 17:1-2; 18:2-3; Jeremiah 51:61-64 Revelation 17:1. Jeremiah 51:13 shows that the “many waters” upon which ancient Babylon sits are the river Euphrates. Revelation 17:15 tells us what the many waters prophetic Babylon sits on symbolizes - peoples, multitudes, nations and tongues (i.e. languages). A woman in the Bible is a symbol for God’s … Continue reading Harlot Babylon and who she deceives 👄👿☠️🍷
Revelation 16:12; Revelation 17:1-2, 15-18 In the Old Testament, the Euphrates was a critical means of support for Israel’s enemies, Assyria and Babylon. The river flowed through Babylon and was important to the city because it nourished crops and provided water for people. Babylon could not survive without the Euphrates Revelation 17:1 describes end-time Babylon … Continue reading Understanding the 6th plague: Drying up of the Euphrates River 🤓
Isaiah 21:9; Revelation 14:8; 18:2 The second angel’s message announces the fall, or apostasy, of Babylon and identifies it as a false religious system. In Revelation 17:5, “Babylon is said to be ‘the mother of harlots.’ By her daughters must be symbolized churches that cling to her doctrines and traditions, and follow her example of … Continue reading The Second Angel’s Message 🗣🗣 and Babylon’s intoxicating wine. 🍷
Revelation 14:7 Revelation shows that the central issues in the last crisis of earth’s history will be worship and obedience to God, as revealed in keeping His commandments ( Rev. 14:12). The people of the world will fall into two groups: those who fear and worship God, and those who fear and worship the beast.Review … Continue reading The First Angel’s Message: Part 2 🗣
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