2 Timothy 2:15
“Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.”
January 2023
Philippians 4:8 “Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue,
and if there be any praise,
think on these things.”
February 2023
1 John 5:20 “And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.”
March 2023
Romans 12:17 “Recompense to no man evil for evil. Provide things honest in the sight of all men.”
EXPOSITION OF REVELATION
Chapter 14—“Victorious Voices”
Revelation 14:8 “And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.”
BABYLON AS REVEALED IN SCRIPTURE
Study Outline
Origin 🡪 Table of Nations
Founder 🡪 Nimrod
Location 🡪 Shinar
Tower 🡪 Idolatry
The Materials (Inferior)
The Motives (Rebellious)
Satan’s “Counterfeit/Anti-Jehovah” Movement
Isaiah 14:12-14 = Heaven/Angels
Genesis 3:1-5 = Earth/Humans
Jehovah’s Gracious Plan
Satan Diabolical Scheme
Deliverance of sinful man and destruction of sinful angels through the “seed” of “the woman”
Thwart Jehovah’s gracious plan by attacking Jehovah’s promised “seed” of “the woman”
Pre-Flood
Cain
Abel
Seth 🡪 Noah
Pre-Flood
Lying Temptation/Allegiance (4:3-5)
Elimination = Murder (4:8)
Corruption = Perversion (6:1-12)
“…apparently a prison of custody between the time of [this] judgment and their ultimate consignment to the eternal lake of fire.”
Gangel, K. O. (1985). 2 Peter. In J. F. Walvoord & R. B. Zuck (Eds.), The Bible Knowledge Commentary: An Exposition of the Scriptures (Vol. 2, p. 870). Victor Books.
“The references made to Old Testament incidents…identified the recipients as people who would understand these references with no need for explanation. Egypt, Sodom and Gomorrah, Moses, Cain, Balaam, Korah, Enoch, Adam, and the fallen angels all point to a people familiar with Old Testament history…”
Bible Knowledge Commentary, WORDSearch 8.
“While the specific incident to which this verse refers is not without question…, what is apparent is that the place where the angels dwelt was somehow tied to their place of authority in the order God had established.”
Gilbrant, T. (1991). οἰκητήριον. In The New Testament Greek-English Dictionary. WORDsearch.
“This is an intensified form of the verb porneuō, ‘to commit fornication,’ and points to excessive indulgence in and giving oneself completely to immorality. It is used only once in the New Testament at Jude 7.”
Gilbrant, T. (1991). ἐκπορνεύω. In The New Testament Greek-English Dictionary. WORDsearch.
“…an idiom, literally ‘to go after strange flesh’ [means] to engage in unnatural sexual intercourse.”
Louw, J. P., & Nida, E. A. (1996). In Greek-English lexicon of the New Testament: Based on Semantic Domains (electronic ed. of the 2nd edition., Vol. 1, p. 771). United Bible Societies.
“going after strange flesh—departing from the course of nature, and going after that which is unnatural.”
Jamieson, R., Fausset, A. R., & Brown, D. (1997). Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (Vol. 2, p. 544). Logos Research Systems, Inc.