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2 Peter 3
[Bible]The final chapter of 2 Peter answers those who scoff at the Lord's return, explaining that the apparent delay of the Second Coming reflects God's longsuffering. Looking ahead to the new heavens and new earth, it urges readers to grow in grace and knowledge and closes the letter with a doxology.
Prophet
[Bible]A prophet is a person called by God to receive His word and deliver it to the people on His behalf. Many prophets were active in the Old Testament, from Moses to Malachi, and the New Testament regards Jesus Christ as the fulfillment of the prophetic office.
Jeremiah 6
[Bible]Jeremiah 6 is a prophecy warning that an enemy from the north will besiege Jerusalem. It rebukes a people who refuse to repent, along with the prophets and priests who offer false comfort by saying "Peace."
Jeremiah 27
[Bible]Jeremiah 27 is the chapter in which Jeremiah wears a yoke on his neck and tells Judah and five neighboring nations to serve the king of Babylon. He also warns that prophecies of the temple vessels' imminent return from Babylon are false.
Lake of Fire
[Bible]The lake of fire is the place of final judgment described in the Book of Revelation. The beast, the false prophet, the devil, death and Hades, and all whose names are not found written in the book of life are cast into it, and the text calls it "the second death."
Revelation 19
[Bible]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.
Revelation 20:1–3
[Bible Verses]John's vision in which an angel seizes the dragon, that is, Satan, and shuts him in the bottomless pit for a thousand years. Because it is the first passage in the Bible to mention the "thousand years," it is the central text in debates over the interpretation of the millennium.
Armageddon
[Bible]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."
Revelation 20:4–6
[Bible Verses]Revelation 20:4–6 is the passage describing how the martyrs and those who had not worshiped the beast "lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years." It is the only text in Scripture that directly mentions the millennium, and it stands at the center of the eschatological debate among premillennialism, amillennialism, and postmillennialism.
Revelation 20
[Bible]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.
Hananiah (False Prophet)
[People]Hananiah, son of Azur of Gibeon, is a prophet who appears in Jeremiah 28. During the reign of Zedekiah he prophesied that the yoke of Babylon would be broken within two years, and he broke the yoke Jeremiah was wearing. He died that same year, as Jeremiah had declared.
Azur
[People]Azur is a Gibeonite mentioned in the Old Testament Book of Jeremiah as the father of Hananiah, a false prophet active during the reign of King Zedekiah of Judah.
Bar-Jesus
[People]Bar-Jesus, also called Elymas, is a Jewish sorcerer and false prophet who appears in Acts 13. At Paphos on the island of Cyprus, he tried to keep the proconsul Sergius Paulus from believing, was rebuked by Paul, and was struck blind for a time.
Elymas
[People]Elymas, also called Bar-Jesus, was a Jewish sorcerer who, according to Acts 13, opposed the preaching of Paul and Barnabas at Paphos on Cyprus and was struck temporarily blind.
2 Corinthians 11
[Bible]2 Corinthians 11 is the chapter in which Paul defends his apostleship against the false apostles who had entered the Corinthian church, boasting of himself "as a fool." He lists the hardships he has endured and declares that he will glory in his infirmities.
1 Timothy 2:11–12
[Bible Verses]1 Timothy 2:11–12 is the passage that reads, "Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection. … But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man." It is a central text in the debate over the ordination of women and the role of women in the church, and denominations have reached differing conclusions about it.
2 Peter 2:20–22
[Bible Verses]A passage that warns, with reference to false teachers and those they have led astray, that anyone who becomes entangled again in the pollutions of the world after coming to know Christ ends up worse off than at the beginning. It is frequently cited in debates over whether a true believer can fall away from salvation.
Jannes and Jambres
[People]Jannes and Jambres are two figures named in 2 Timothy 3:8 as men who opposed Moses. Jewish tradition identified them as the Egyptian magicians at Pharaoh's court in the Book of Exodus.
Ezekiel 35
[Bible]Ezekiel 35 is a prophecy of judgment against Mount Seir, a name for Edom. Because Edom harbored a long-standing hostility toward Israel in its time of calamity, coveted its land, and rejoiced over its desolation, the chapter declares that the land of Edom will likewise be made desolate.
1 Timothy 4
[Bible]First Timothy 4 warns that in the latter times false teaching will arise that forbids marriage and commands abstinence from foods. It urges Timothy to exercise himself unto godliness, to be an example to believers despite his youth, and not to neglect the gift he has received.