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- The first time the Zoa are mentioned in the Bible they are named, though they are not described. In Gen. 3:24 they are called "the Cherubim, "and this word has never been translated in any Version. We have, therefore, a good precedent for leat-ing their other names, Zoon and Zoa, also untranslated. -

- All the evil is traced up to Jezebe. (i Kings 21:25). The teaching is the same as that of Balaam, and of the Nicolaitanes - only it is more organized, and in the name of religion, and under the direct auspices of the State. Balaam was outside Israel; Jezebel is within. -

- “… and I know the blasphemy coming from those who say that they themselves are Jews, and they are not, but are Satan's synagogue” Rev. 2:9. When have people ever professed to be Jews in order to join a Christian church? Such an anomaly was never heard of. These words alone are sufficient to prove the true Jewish character of these assemblies. -

- The fact is that about half the symbols (14) are definitely explained (though these explanations are often again taken by expositors as being symbolical!) Being Divinely explained, they serves as a key to those which are unexplained. -

- While the majority of the Church's teachers are loudly proclaiming that "the day of the Lord" will not come till the world's conversion comes, the Spirit and truth of God are declaring that that day shall not come until the apostasy comes
(2 Thess. 2:3). -

- Both are rendered "end" in the New Testament, but the use of these two words must be carefully distinguished. ‘Sunteleia’ denotes a finishing or ending together, or in conjunction with other things. Consummation is perhaps the best English rendering. It implies that several things meet together, and reach their end during the same period; whereas ‘telos’ is the point of time at the end of that period.-

- How simple it all is when we look at this Epistle as relating to backsliding Israel, and read it in the light of the Prophets and the Gospels. How much more satisfactory to find these illustrations in the Old Testament Scriptures, instead of being occupied with the conflicting and fanciful references to certain phases of ecclesiastical history, which have no Scriptural foundation whatever, ... -

- As a first step toward removing this great evil, let us note at once that the word (ecclesia), rendered "church," is by no means limited to the restricted sense which is thus forced upon it.
Ecclesia means simply an Assembly: any assembly of people who are called out (for
that is the etymological meaning of the word) from other people. -

- When God has placed the key to the book at the very threshold, in the first chapter, man deliberately ignores it, and makes another, which he presents to those who would fain enter; but, when it is tried, it is found that none of the wards fit the lock, and the door either has to be forced, or all hope of entrance abandoned! -

- …; but the Divine title given in the text, is "The Revelation of Jesus Christ." -