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• Revelation 17Bible

  Revelation 17 is the chapter in which one of the angels with the seven bowls shows John the "great whore" riding a scarlet beast and explains the meaning of the woman, the beast, the seven heads, and the ten horns.

• Revelation 19Bible

  Revelation 19 depicts heaven praising God with hallelujahs for the judgment of Babylon, the great whore, and announcing the marriage supper of the Lamb. The rider on the white horse then defeats the armies of the beast and the false prophet.

• Great White Throne JudgmentBible

  The Great White Throne Judgment is the final judgment scene that John saw in a vision, recorded in Revelation 20:11-15. Before a great white throne, the dead are judged according to their works, and whoever is not found written in the book of life is cast into the lake of fire.

• High PriestBible

  The high priest held the foremost position among the priests of Old Testament Israel, an office whose holder entered the Most Holy Place on the Day of Atonement to make atonement for the people. The New Testament Epistle to the Hebrews presents Jesus Christ as the eternal High Priest.

• James (Son of Zebedee)People

  James, the son of Zebedee, was one of the twelve disciples of Jesus and the brother of the apostle John. According to the Book of Acts, he was killed with the sword by King Herod, and he is the only one of the Twelve whose martyrdom is recorded in Scripture.

• Ahijah (Priest)People

  Ahijah was a priest who wore the ephod and accompanied King Saul during his reign. A great-grandson of Eli, he is named in 1 Samuel 14.

• Acts 8Bible

  Acts 8 describes the great persecution that followed the martyrdom of Stephen and the scattered believers who preached the gospel wherever they went. It recounts Philip's preaching in Samaria and on the desert road to Gaza, including the accounts of Simon the sorcerer and the Ethiopian eunuch.

• AntipatrisBible

  Antipatris is a town mentioned in Acts 23 where Roman troops stopped while escorting Paul overnight from Jerusalem to Caesarea. Herod the Great named it in honor of his father, Antipater.

• 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.

• SanhedrinBible

  The Sanhedrin was the supreme council in Jerusalem during the New Testament period. Presided over by the high priest, it dealt with the religious and judicial affairs of the Jewish people.

• Joshua 22Bible

  Joshua 22 recounts how the tribes of Reuben and Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh, whose inheritance lay east of the Jordan, return home after the wars of conquest. A great altar they build by the Jordan brings Israel to the brink of civil war, but the conflict ends when the misunderstanding is resolved through dialogue.

• Shunammite WomanPeople

  The Shunammite woman is an unnamed woman from Shunem who appears in 2 Kings 4 and 8. She showed hospitality to the prophet Elisha, bore a son in fulfillment of his prophecy, and saw that son restored to life through Elisha after he died.

• HellenismHistory

  Hellenism refers both to the spread of Greek language and culture throughout the eastern Mediterranean and western Asia following the eastern campaigns of Alexander the Great in the 4th century BC, where they blended with local cultures, and to the era in which this took place.

• ArmageddonBible

  Armageddon is a place name that appears only once in Scripture, in Revelation 16:16. It is described as the place where the kings opposed to God gather in the last days for "the battle of that great day of God Almighty."

• EastertideFeasts & Seasons

  Eastertide is the season of the church year that celebrates the resurrection of Jesus Christ during the roughly fifty days from Easter to Pentecost. It is also called the Easter season.

• OsnapparPeople

  Osnappar is a figure mentioned only once, in Ezra 4:10, where he is described as the "great and noble" one who resettled various peoples in Samaria and in the land west of the Euphrates River. He is commonly identified with the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal.

• Jeremiah 45Bible

  Jeremiah 45 is a brief oracle addressed to Baruch, who was writing down Jeremiah's words in the fourth year of Jehoiakim. Responding to Baruch's lament, God tells him not to seek great things for himself and promises to preserve his life wherever he goes.

• Church of the Holy SepulchreHistory

  The Church of the Holy Sepulchre is a church in the Old City of Jerusalem, built on the site traditionally identified as Golgotha, where Jesus was crucified, and as the tomb in which he was buried. First built under Constantine the Great in the fourth century, it is now administered jointly by several denominations.

• Mark 12:28-34Bible Verses

  In this passage a scribe asks which commandment is the greatest, and Jesus answers by joining the command to love God from Deuteronomy with the command to love one's neighbor from Leviticus. The passage is widely cited as a summary of the whole Law, and denominations differ in how they emphasize the relationship between law and love.