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At the close of Revelation 13, which discusses the beast (the Antichrist) and his false prophet, we read, “This calls for wisdom: let the one who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man, and his number is 666” (Revelation 13:18). Somehow, the number 666 is aContinue reading “What is the meaning of 666?”

The First BeastAnd I saw a beast rising out of the sea, with ten horns and seven heads, with ten diadems on its horns and blasphemous names on its heads. And the beast that I saw was like a leopard; its feet were like a bear’s, and its mouth was like a lion’s mouth. AndContinue reading “his number is 666”

The Thousand YearsThen I saw an angel coming down from heaven, holding in his hand the key to the bottomless pit and a great chain. And he seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years, and threw him into the pit, and shut itContinue reading “The Final Judgment”

Revelation 22 The River of LifeThen the angel showed me the river of the water of life, bright as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb through the middle of the street of the city; also, on either side of the river, the tree of life with its twelve kinds ofContinue reading “Eden Restored “

Galatians 5:19 Barnes’ Notes on the BibleNow the works of the flesh – What the flesh, or what corrupt and unrenewed human nature produces.Are manifest – Plain, well-known. The world is full of illustrations of what corrupt human nature produces, and as to the existence and nature of those works, no one can be ignorant.Continue reading “The works of the flesh …”