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• AngelologyDoctrine & Theology

  Angelology is the branch of systematic theology that deals with the existence, nature, and work of angels, as well as with fallen angels (Satan and demons). In Protestant theology it is usually treated within the doctrines of creation and providence.

• ApokatastasisDoctrine & Theology

  Apokatastasis (the restoration of all things) is the view that at the end of time God will restore all creation to its original good state, so that all beings are ultimately reconciled to God. It is closely associated with Origen.

• Revelation 18Bible

  Revelation 18 opens with an angel's proclamation that the great city Babylon has fallen. Through the laments of the kings of the earth, the merchants, and the seafarers, and through the symbolic act of casting a millstone into the sea, the chapter depicts Babylon's complete destruction.

• Revelation 9Bible

  Revelation 9 records the fifth and sixth trumpet judgments. Locusts from the bottomless pit torment people, and four angels released from the Euphrates, together with an army of horsemen, kill a third of humanity, yet the survivors do not repent.

• 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.

• Revelation 18:20–21Bible Verses

  This passage calls on heaven and the saints to rejoice over the fall of Babylon the great and records a mighty angel casting a stone like a great millstone into the sea, declaring that the city shall be found no more at all. Discussion centers mainly on what Babylon signifies and how to understand the call to rejoice over its destruction.

• Lamentations 1Bible

  Lamentations 1 is a lament that portrays fallen Jerusalem as a widow left alone and mourns her devastation. Its 22 verses follow the order of the Hebrew alphabet, and the chapter confesses that the suffering came because of the people's sin.

• GleaningBible

  Gleaning was an Old Testament legal institution requiring that fallen ears of grain and leftover fruit be left at harvest for the poor and the stranger to gather. It is best known from the Book of Ruth, where Ruth gleans in the field of Boaz.

• InfralapsarianismDoctrine & Theology

  Infralapsarianism is the view within Reformed teaching on predestination that God chose to save some from among humanity considered as already fallen.

• Manna and QuailBible

  Manna and quail were the food that, according to Exodus 16 and Numbers 11, God provided for the people of Israel in the wilderness after the Exodus. Manna is recorded as having fallen continually throughout Israel's forty years in the wilderness.

• Covenant of GraceDoctrine & Theology

  The covenant of grace is a theological term for the covenant in which God promised to grant salvation freely, through Jesus Christ, to humanity fallen into sin. It is a central concept of Reformed covenant theology.

• Redemptive HistoryDoctrine & Theology

  Redemptive history refers both to the theological perspective that reads the whole of Scripture as a single history in which God saves humanity and the world fallen into sin, and to the history that this perspective describes.

• Free WillDoctrine & Theology

  Free will is the capacity to think and choose for oneself without coercion. In Christian theology, denominations differ in particular over whether fallen human beings can turn to God by their own power.

• The Floating Axe HeadBible

  The floating axe head is a miracle recorded in 2 Kings 6:1-7, in which Elisha caused a borrowed iron axe head that had fallen into the Jordan River to float to the surface after he threw a stick into the water.

• The Bondage of the WillDoctrine & Theology

  The Bondage of the Will is a 1525 book by Martin Luther refuting Erasmus's On Free Will, and the name also refers to the position it argues. It holds that the will of fallen humanity is bound by sin and cannot choose salvation of itself, and that salvation depends entirely on the grace of God.

• Amos 9Bible

  Amos 9 is the final chapter of the Book of Amos. After a vision of the Lord standing beside the altar that proclaims inescapable judgment, the book closes with a promise of restoration: God will raise up the fallen tabernacle of David and bring back His captive people.

• Acts 20Bible

  Acts 20 is the chapter in which Paul, having completed his third missionary journey and setting out for Jerusalem, restores to life the young man Eutychus, who had fallen to his death at Troas, and at Miletus delivers a farewell address to the elders of the church at Ephesus.

• Galatians 6:1Bible Verses

  Paul's exhortation that believers who walk by the Spirit should gently restore a brother who has fallen into a fault, while watching themselves lest they also be tempted. The verse is frequently cited in discussions of the spirit in which church discipline and mutual admonition among believers should be carried out.

• Day StarBible

  The day star is the star that rises brightly in the dawn sky, that is, the morning star. In Isaiah 14:12 it appears as a name for the king of Babylon, who is brought to ruin.