revelation-22:20-21-bsb

The careful student of the Scriptures cannot avoid the conviction that from the time our Lord was taken up from the midst of His friends, they waited and watched for His appearing again. When they went down into the grave, they left their believing and longing expectation as a precious legacy to tho... Read More

Revelation 22:20 Probably no generation since our Lord ascended has had such urgent reasons as our own for praying for our Lord to come back. "God works according to the prayers of His people" (Evan Roberts), and the date of the second coming of Christ is a loose end which prayer can affect, since G... Read More

There is nothing of which any of us has less to spare and yet of which most of us are so prodigal and so wasteful as time. Happy, yes, thrice happy, is the man who not only believes but feels the truth set forth in the short, solemn, and startling statement, "The time is short" (1 Cor. 7:29). The wo... Read More

“Behold, He cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see Him, and they also which pierced Him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of Him. Even so, Amen.” Revelation 1:7 “He cometh.” Here is the great fact plainly stated. Christ has not gone to heaven to stay there. He has gone for His C... Read More

Christians are people with an eternal hope. Christ is the substance of their hope. Christ living in every one of them is the hope of glory. Because Christ lives in a believer his hope is kept alive to the very end. The Risen Christ Was the Message of the Early Church. The Returning Christ Was Their ... Read More

The last direct message from Heaven is contained in Revelation 22:20: "Surely I come quickly." Who is the speaker from yonder glorious heights? Our much-loved Lord and Saviour. Heaven has kept silent for nearly 2000 years. Next time the voice of the Saviour is heard it will be in the air, calling fr... Read More

"Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the Bridegroom... "And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the Bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet Him" (Matt. 25:1,6). Attention is called to His coming NOT as Saviour, but as Brideg... Read More

Amen (281) (amen) is a transliteration of the Hebrew noun amen and then into Latin and into English and many other languages, so that it is practically a universal word. Amen has been called the best-known word in human speech. To say “Amen” confirms a statement by someone else. Amen is a response t... Read More

Antichrist (500)(antichristos from anti = instead of or against + Christos = anointed) conveys one of two main meanings depending on how one interprets the prefix "anti." Anti can mean in lieu of, in place of, over against, opposite, instead of, and in comparisons it denotes contrast, substitution. ... Read More

Dogs (2965) (kuon) (See dictionary articles) in the ancient word dogs here were mangy, flea-bitten, vicious, starved scavengers, that tended to run in packs, dig through garbage and occasionally even attack humans. The poet Homer uses it of men and women, implying recklessness in the former, and sha... Read More