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Revelation 7:9-17
[Bible Verses]Revelation 7:9-17 is a vision of a countless multitude from every nation, clothed in white robes, praising God for salvation before his throne. Interpreters differ over the multitude's relationship to the 144,000 and over the meaning of "great tribulation." The passage is frequently read as a word of comfort at funeral services.
Numbers 29
[Bible]Numbers 29 is a legal text that prescribes the kinds and numbers of offerings for the feasts of the seventh month: the day of blowing the trumpets (the first day), the Day of Atonement (the tenth day), the Feast of Tabernacles (seven days beginning on the fifteenth), and the solemn assembly on the eighth day.
Deuteronomy 15
[Bible]Deuteronomy 15 is a chapter of law containing the ordinance for releasing debts owed by fellow Israelites every seventh year, the command to open one's hand to a poor brother, the law for freeing in the seventh year a Hebrew servant who has served six years, and the law for consecrating the firstborn males of cattle and sheep.
Revelation 7:4
[Bible Verses]Revelation 7:4 states that the number of those sealed from all the tribes of Israel was "an hundred and forty and four thousand." Interpreters disagree over whether the number is a literal count or a symbol, and over whom it designates. Several heretical groups have also associated this number with their own organizations.
Genesis 2:2-3
[Bible Verses]Genesis 2:2-3 states that God, having completed the six days of creation, rested on the seventh day, blessed it, and sanctified it. Regarded as the foundation of the Sabbath institution, the passage is frequently cited in debates over the Sabbath and the Lord's Day.
Exodus 16
[Bible]Exodus 16 recounts how God gave quail in the evening and manna in the morning to the Israelites after they complained in the Wilderness of Sin that they had nothing to eat. By having the people gather a double portion on the sixth day and rest on the seventh, God teaches them the Sabbath.
Leviticus 25
[Bible]Leviticus 25 contains the regulations for the sabbatical year and the Year of Jubilee given at Mount Sinai. It commands that the land rest in the seventh year and that, in the fiftieth year, sold land be returned and fellow Israelites who had sold themselves be set free.
Leviticus 23
[Bible]Leviticus 23 sets out Israel's appointed feasts in order: the Sabbath, Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the day of the firstfruits sheaf, the feast held fifty days later, and the seventh-month observances of the blowing of trumpets, the Day of Atonement, and the Feast of Tabernacles.
Nehemiah 8:10
[Bible Verses]Nehemiah 8:10 is an exhortation to the people who had returned from exile and were weeping as they heard the Law read. They are told not to grieve on the holy day but to eat together and share with others. The verse is widely quoted for the phrase "the joy of the LORD is your strength."
Ezra 7
[Bible]Ezra 7 recounts how Ezra, a priest and scholar of the Law, went up from Babylon to Jerusalem in the seventh year of King Artaxerxes. The chapter includes the king's decree and Ezra's praise to God.
Harbona
[People]Harbona was a chamberlain who served the Persian king Ahasuerus. He told the king about the gallows Haman had set up to hang Mordecai, and Haman himself was then hanged on it (Esther 7:9).
Nehemiah 8
[Bible]Nehemiah 8 records how, on the first day of the seventh month, Ezra read the book of the law in the square before the Water Gate in Jerusalem while the Levites explained its meaning, and how the people then kept the Feast of Tabernacles.
Ezra (Scribe)
[People]Ezra was a priest and scribe of Judah in the Persian period who returned from Babylon to Jerusalem and taught the law of Moses. He appears in Ezra 7–10, Nehemiah 8, and elsewhere.
Hebrew Servant
[Bible]In Old Testament law, a Hebrew servant was an Israelite who had been sold into the service of a fellow Israelite because of debt or poverty. The law required that, after six years of service, such a servant go free in the seventh year without payment.
Ellen G. White
[People]Ellen G. White (1827–1915) was an American religious leader and author and a co-founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Adventists recognize her as having received the gift of prophecy.
Gad
[People]Gad was the son born to Jacob by Zilpah, Leah's maidservant, and the ancestor of the tribe of Gad, one of the twelve tribes of Israel. He and Asher were full brothers, born of the same mother.
Psalm 126
[Bible]Psalm 126 is a six-verse psalm and one of the Songs of Ascents. It looks back on the restoration of Zion as a joy like a dream, prays for restoration once more, and closes with the promise that those who sow in tears will reap in joy.
2 Corinthians 7
[Bible]2 Corinthians 7 is the chapter in which Paul urges a holy life and recounts how he was comforted when he met Titus in Macedonia and heard of the Corinthian believers' repentance. It contrasts godly sorrow with the sorrow of the world.
Hebrews 7
[Bible]Hebrews 7 describes Melchizedek, king of Salem and priest, and teaches that the priesthood of Jesus after the order of Melchizedek is superior to the Levitical priesthood and is eternal.
World Mission Society Church of God
[Heresies & Cults]The World Mission Society Church of God is a religious group that split from an organization founded by Ahn Sahng-hong in Busan in 1964. Its members believe Ahn Sahng-hong to be Christ at His Second Coming and Zahng Gil-jah to be "God the Mother." Major Korean Protestant denominations and ecumenical bodies have designated the group as heretical.