Bible Q&A: What Do The Beasts in Revelation 13 Represent?

What do the beasts in Revelation 13 represent? When studying Revelation, we must remember that the book is “signified” (Rev. 1:1, KJV), meaning that it is a book of symbols which should be taken figuratively, not literally.  We must search the Scriptures to find their correct meanings (2 Tim. 4:2; Eph. 4:15; cf. John 17:17).… Read More Bible Q&A: What Do The Beasts in Revelation 13 Represent?

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Bible Q&A: Please Explain “the Man of Sin.”

What was Paul talking about in 2 Thessalonians chapter 2 when he talked about not being deceived and the coming of the Lord not occurring until certain things had taken place, including the “man of sin” placing himself in the “temple of God”? In Paul’s first letter to Thessalonica, he talked about Christ’s return (1… Read More Bible Q&A: Please Explain “the Man of Sin.”

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The Circumcision Made Without Hands

We are not under the covenant God made with Israel in the Old Testament.  That was taken out of the way when Jesus died on the cross (Colossians 2:14).  We are under a new covenant (Hebrews 8:6-13), Christ’s covenant.  But just as physical circumcision was required as a sign of the old covenant, God still requires “circumcision” of a sort as a sign in the new covenant.  This is not a literal, fleshly, physical circumcision.  No, Paul says it is a spiritual circumcision, “made without hands.”  He then clarifies that this spiritual circumcision takes place when one is baptized – literally “immersed” in the Greek – in water (cf. Acts 8:35-39).… Read More The Circumcision Made Without Hands

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