The 24 Elders of Revelation, Part 4: The Heavenly Appearance of the Lamb
Revelation 4 describes the soon-to-come sitting of God upon his heavenly throne of judgment. Appropriate acknowledgements of His glory and honor, and submission to His authority, are thence given by the four Living Creatures and the 24 Elders.
Revelation 5 moves on from these preliminaries to an event that will result in earthly consequences.
Revelation 5:1 And I saw in the right hand of the One sitting on th
The 24 Elders of Revelation: Who (Or What) are They? Part 1
Revelation 4:1 After these things I [John] looked, and behold, a door having been opened in heaven. And I heard the first voice which I [had] heard as of a trumpet speaking with me,* saying, “Come up here, and I will show thee things which must take place after these things.” 2 Immediately I was in spirit: and behold, a throne was set in heaven, and there One sitting on the throne. … 4 Around the throne were 24 thrones, and on the
The Sobering Situation in Israel
In an analysis of Israel’s strategic threat environment and imperatives published at the Claremont Review of Books, author and military analyst Mark Helprin distinguished the threat Hamas poses to Israel from the threat Israel faces from Hezbollah-controlled Lebanon and Iran.
Hamas, Helprin explained, is not and has never been an existential threat to Israel. Hezbollah and Iran are existential threats to Israel. Hezbollah’s arsenal of 150,000 rockets an
Four Dual Witnesses, Part 2:
The Resurrections of the Righteous and the Evil Dead
1) Matthew 24:15 “Therefore when you see the Abomination of Desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, having stood in the holy place…”
1) Daniel 11:45 “And he [the King of the North] shall plant the tents of his pavilion between the seas at the glorious holy mountain…”
2) Matthew 24:21 “…then there will be the Great Tribulation, such as has not been since the beginning of the world until thi
