Revelation 5:5 – Then one of the elders said to me, “Do not weep! See, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has triumphed. He is able to open the scroll and its seven seals. Notice that it was one of the elders who comforted him. Previously it was angels whom he heard. Now one…
Continue ReadingRevelation 4:6b- 8 – In the center, around the throne, were four living creatures, and they were covered with eyes, in front and in back. 7 The first living creature was like a lion, the second was like an ox, the third had a face like a man, the fourth was like a flying eagle. 8 Each of the four living creatures had…
Continue ReadingRevelation 4:6b – In the center, around the throne, were four living creatures, and they were covered with eyes, in front and in back. 7 The first living creature was like a lion, the second was like an ox, the third had a face like a man, the fourth was like a flying eagle. 8 Each of the four living creatures had…
Continue ReadingJohn 16:33 – “I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.” Romans 8:37 – No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. Isaiah 28:5 – In that day the Lord Almighty will be a glorious crown, a…
Continue ReadingJohn 10:18 – No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have authority to lay it down and authority to take it up again. This command I received from my Father.” Philippians 2:4-8 – 4 Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others. 5 Have…
Continue ReadingRevelation 4:6b – In the center, around the throne, were four living creatures, and they were covered with eyes, in front and in back. 7 The first living creature was like a lion, the second was like an ox, the third had a face like a man, the fourth was like a flying eagle. 8 Each of the four living creatures had six…
Continue ReadingIsaiah 1:16-20 – Wash and make yourselves clean. Take your evil deeds out of my sight; stop doing wrong. 17 Learn to do right; seek justice. Defend the oppressed. Take up the cause of the fatherless; plead the case of the widow. 18 “Come now, let us settle the matter,” says the Lord. “Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be…
Continue ReadingRevelation 4:2 – At once I was in the Spirit, and there before me was a throne in heaven with someone sitting on it. “At once I was in the Spirit…” The KJV uses “immediately” rather than “at once.” Immediately may be something that catches the meaning a little more for us, though we certainly need not overly contest…
Continue ReadingRevelation 4:1-5 – After this I looked, and there before me was a door standing open in heaven. And the voice I had first heard speaking to me like a trumpet said, “Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after this.” “After this I looked, and there before me was a door standing open in heaven. And…
Continue ReadingIsaiah 55:10-11 – As the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return to it without watering the earth and making it bud and flourish, so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater, 11 so is my word that goes out from my mouth: It will not return to me empty, but…
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