THE MYSTERY OF THE SEVEN STARS – Revelation 1
The angels then are all those members of the church who are actively engaged in carrying out God’s commands … in any or all congregations throughout the world.
Art as expression – NOT as market campaigns, will still capture our Imaginations
The angels then are all those members of the church who are actively engaged in carrying out God’s commands … in any or all congregations throughout the world.
This is the cry of every man who is not saved. In the large view, it is the agonizing cry of all the world, especially of the benighted populations of the pre-Christian ages.
There are no geographical connotations whatever in these words, for the third heaven where God dwells is not a thing of space and physical location at all. It is a state of being beyond, above and higher even than the second heaven.
It is an amazing folly indulged by some Christian scholars who fancy they can find out all about this war from pagan mythology, such mythology itself, in all probability, having been concocted from perverted and corrupted “versions” of a truth evidently known by the early patriarchs.
Christians are sometimes called “bondslaves” to Christ; but here their status is compared to that of children adopted by a loving father.
The sun’s light failed for a period of three hours, the most remarkable “portent” ever seen in the heavens by any generation.
The argument in these verses is simple, but profound. If Satan was really casting out Satan, a ridiculous absurdity on the face of it, then Satan’s kingdom was being destroyed.