Thematic Bible


Thematic Bible







I fell into a trance on the Lord's Day, and I heard behind me a loud voice, like the blast of a trumpet. It said-- 'Write what you see in a book and send it to the seven Churches, to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamus, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicaea.' I turned to see what voice it was that spoke to me; and when I turned, I saw seven golden lamps, read more.
and in the midst of the lamps one 'like a man, in a robe reaching to his feet,' and with a golden girdle across his breast. 'The hair of his head was as white as wool, as white as snow; his eyes were like flaming fire; and his feet were like brass' as when molten in a furnace; 'his voice was like the sound of many streams,' in his right hand he held seven stars, from his mouth came a sharp two-edged sword, and his face was like 'the sun in the fulness of its power.' And, when I saw him, I fell at his feet like one dead. He laid his hand on me and said-- 'Do not be afraid. I am the First and the Last, the Everliving. I died, and I am alive for ever and ever. And I hold the keys of the Grave and of the Place of the Dead.


The others went on from Perga and arrived at Antioch in Pisidia. There they went into the Synagogue on the Sabbath and took their seats. Verse ConceptsLord's Day, TheSabbath, In NtOn The Sabbath




And he will send his angels, with a great trumpet, and they will gather his People round him from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other. Verse ConceptsElection, Description OfHeaven And AngelsAngels, Ministry To ChristGathered By GodFour WindsChrist SendingThe Gospel WorldwideTrumpets At The EndRebirth Of IsraelAccompanying The Second ComingWeed




Moreover at the time when the seventh angel shall speak, when he is ready to blow his blast, then the hidden purposes of God, of which he told the good news to his servants, the Prophets, are at once fulfilled. Verse ConceptsMinistry, Nature OfMysterySeventhGod Spoke By The ProphetsSlaves Of GodRevelation Through ProphetsEnd Of DaysFinishing Strongprophetsevangelizingfulfillment

At the last trumpet-call; for the trumpet will sound, and the dead will rise immortal, and we, also, shall be transformed. Verse ConceptsFutureResurrection, Of The DeadSudden EventsEternal ExistenceNo DecayOur ResurrectionTrumpets At The EndThe ResurrectionEyesThe Rapture

After this, in my vision, I saw an open door in the heavens, and the first voice that I heard was like the blast of a trumpet speaking to me. It said-- 'Come up here and I will show you what must take place.' Verse ConceptsNecessityHeaven, Glimpsed By HumansThe Act Of OpeningOpening HeavenGoing Up To HeavenTrumpets For SignallingPredicting The FutureGod's VoiceSpecial RevelationGoing To HeavenRainbowPurgatoryThe Rapturerevelation

Then the fifth angel blew; and I saw a Star that had fallen upon the earth from the heavens, and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit. He opened the bottomless pit, and from the pit rose a smoke like the smoke of a great furnace. The sun and the air grew dark because of the smoke from the pit. Out of the smoke locusts descended upon the earth, and they received the same power as that possessed by scorpions. read more.
They were told not to harm the grass, or any plant, or any tree, but only those who have not 'the seal of God upon their foreheads.' Yet they were not allowed to kill them, but it was ordered that those men should be tortured for five months. Their torture was like the torture caused by a scorpion when it stings a man. In those days men 'will seek Death and will not find it'; They will long to die, but Death flees from them. In appearance the locusts were like horses equipped for battle. On their heads there were what appeared to be crowns that shone like gold, their faces resembled human faces, and they had hair like the hair of a woman, their teeth were like lions' teeth, and they had what seemed to be iron breastplates, while the noise of their wings was like the noise of chariots drawn by many horses, galloping into battle. They have tails like scorpions, and stings, and in their tails lies their power to harm men for five months. They have as their king the Angel of the bottomless pit, whose name, in Hebrew, is 'Abaddon,' while, in Greek, his name is 'Apollyon' (the Destroyer). The first Woe has passed; and still there are two Woes to follow! Then the sixth angel blew; and I heard a voice proceeding from the corners of the golden altar that stood before God. It spoke to the sixth angel--the angel with the trumpet--and said 'Let loose the four angels that are in chains at the great river Euphrates.'

I fell into a trance on the Lord's Day, and I heard behind me a loud voice, like the blast of a trumpet. It said-- 'Write what you see in a book and send it to the seven Churches, to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamus, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicaea.' I turned to see what voice it was that spoke to me; and when I turned, I saw seven golden lamps, read more.
and in the midst of the lamps one 'like a man, in a robe reaching to his feet,' and with a golden girdle across his breast. 'The hair of his head was as white as wool, as white as snow; his eyes were like flaming fire; and his feet were like brass' as when molten in a furnace; 'his voice was like the sound of many streams,' in his right hand he held seven stars, from his mouth came a sharp two-edged sword, and his face was like 'the sun in the fulness of its power.' And, when I saw him, I fell at his feet like one dead. He laid his hand on me and said-- 'Do not be afraid. I am the First and the Last, the Everliving. I died, and I am alive for ever and ever. And I hold the keys of the Grave and of the Place of the Dead. Therefore write of what you have seen and of what is happening now and of what is about to take place-- the mystic meaning of the seven stars which you saw in my right hand, and the seven golden lamps. The seven stars are the Angels of the seven Churches, and the seven lamps are the seven Churches.