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- Great WhoreBible
The great whore is a symbolic figure in Revelation 17–19. She is depicted riding a scarlet beast, drunk with the blood of the saints, and committing fornication with the kings of the earth, and she is called "Babylon the Great."
- Revelation 20Bible
Revelation 20 depicts Satan bound in the bottomless pit for a thousand years while the saints reign with Christ, followed by Satan's final rebellion and defeat and the Last Judgment before the great white throne.
- Alpha and OmegaBible
Alpha and Omega is a title used in the Book of Revelation by God and by Jesus Christ as a self-designation. Alpha and omega are the first and last letters of the Greek alphabet, and the title signifies the First and the Last, the One who governs the beginning and the end of all things.
- SardisBible
Sardis was an ancient city in western Asia Minor (modern Turkey) and the site of one of the seven churches to which the Book of Revelation addresses letters. Revelation 3:1-6 contains the message sent to this church.
- FuturismDoctrine & Theology
Futurism is an interpretive approach holding that most of the end-time prophecies of Scripture, including those of the Book of Revelation, remain unfulfilled and will be fulfilled just before the second coming of Christ.
- Council of LaodiceaHistory
The Council of Laodicea was a regional church synod held in the late fourth century at Laodicea in Asia Minor. It produced fifty-nine or sixty canons concerning worship, the clergy, the treatment of heretics, and related matters, and it is frequently cited for its canons on Sunday observance and its list of canonical books.
- AbaddonBible
Abaddon is a Hebrew word meaning "destruction" or "place of destruction." In the Old Testament it appears alongside Sheol as a designation for the realm of the dead, and in Revelation 9:11 it is the name of the angel of the bottomless pit.
- Apocalyptic LiteratureBible
Apocalyptic literature is a genre of biblical writing that uses visions and symbols to reveal the end of history and God's final victory. Its leading examples are the Book of Daniel in the Old Testament and the Book of Revelation in the New Testament.
- Fine LinenBible
Fine linen is a cloth finely woven from thin threads spun from flax. In the Bible it appears as the garment of priests, the clothing of honored persons, and the cloth used to wrap the dead for burial. In the Book of Revelation it represents the righteous conduct of the saints.
- BabylonBible
Babylon was an ancient city and empire on the Euphrates River in southern Mesopotamia. In the Bible it is the nation that destroyed Judah and carried its people into captivity, and in the Book of Revelation it is a symbol of the powers opposed to God.
- Euphrates RiverBible
The Euphrates is a great river of Western Asia that flows across Mesopotamia and still bears that name today. In the Bible it appears as one of the four rivers of Eden, as a boundary of the land promised to Abraham, and in scenes of judgment in the Book of Revelation.
- CenserBible
A censer was a portable vessel used in the tabernacle and the Temple to hold live coals from the altar, either for burning incense or for carrying fire. In the Book of Revelation, it appears as a golden censer offered before God together with the prayers of the saints.
- Asia MinorBible
Asia Minor is the geographical name for the Anatolian peninsula, bounded by the Black Sea, the Aegean Sea, and the Mediterranean Sea, which corresponds to the Asian portion of modern Türkiye. It was the setting of Paul's missionary journeys and of the seven churches of the Book of Revelation.
- Seven Seals, Trumpets, and BowlsBible
The seven seals, seven trumpets, and seven bowls are visions in Revelation 6–16 in which God's judgments unfold in three successive series of seven. Interpreters differ on how the three series relate to one another and when they occur.
- Babylon the GreatBible
Babylon the Great is a symbolic city that appears in Revelation 14–18. It represents worldly power that opposes God and the judgment that falls upon that power.
- PergamumBible
Pergamum was a city in western Asia Minor and the site of the third of the seven churches addressed in Revelation 2. The letter to this church describes it as the place "where Satan's seat is."
- PreterismDoctrine & Theology
Preterism is an interpretive approach holding that most of the prophecies of Revelation and of Jesus' end-time discourse were already fulfilled in the first century, particularly around the destruction of Jerusalem in AD 70.
- DenariusBible
The denarius was a silver coin of the Roman Empire in the New Testament era. In the Gospels it appears as the standard of a laborer's daily wage, and in passages such as the feeding of the five thousand and the parable of the laborers in the vineyard it serves as a benchmark for gauging the size of a sum.
- Isaiah 25:8Bible Verses
Isaiah 25:8 is a prophecy within Isaiah 24–27 promising that God will destroy death forever and wipe away the tears from all faces. Taken up by Paul and by the Book of Revelation, the verse is read as a leading Old Testament text for the hope of the resurrection and of the last things.
- Ezekiel 9:4Bible Verses
A verse in Ezekiel's vision in which God commands a man clothed in linen to set a mark upon the foreheads of those who sigh and cry over the abominations committed in Jerusalem. The scene depicts people who are protected in the midst of judgment, and it is often read alongside the "seal on the forehead" in the Book of Revelation.