Tag: revelation
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November 20, 2008 01:50 PM EST --
The beauty of this earth can usually be described in words: lovely, gorgeous, exotic, superb, magnificent, splendid, wonderful, brilliant, outstanding, stunning are just a few. How much more . . .
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April 15, 2009 12:48 PM EDT --
“Write,” said the voice.
“What shall I write?”
“Write love and hope and truth and certainty. Write the morning watch and the afternoon march, and the evening to heal the . . .
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April 16, 2009 05:03 PM EDT --
John looked across the island and remembered the beautiful city, Laodicea: The aqueduct, that marvel of modern technology; the hospital where they salved the eyes but couldn’t cure foolishness; the . . .
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April 17, 2009 05:42 PM EDT --
John put his pens away and sighed. The desolate landscape faded to a heavenly staircase. He climbed, awestruck, with no words to describe the things he heard and saw. But the voice said, “Write,” . . .
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April 13, 2009 12:03 AM EDT --
There’s fifty days from Easter to Pentecost, fifty years from Biblical Jubilee to Jubilee, and fifty steps in Revelation, once you get past the first seven letters. Today’s paper had an article . . .
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April 13, 2009 06:10 PM EDT --
In synagogue, church and temple, people were gathering for worship. They read their leaders’ letters, broke bread, sang songs and offered prayer. But not John —he stood alone, looking down at scattered . . .
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April 14, 2009 04:52 PM EDT --
“Write,” said the voice.
“Who to?” said the man.
“To the church.”
“What church?”
“Write letters to them all.”
So John sat on stones and penned his scrolls to seven . . .
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November 06, 2007 09:24 AM EST --
Also spelled Har-Magedon, which means the Hill of Megiddo, or valley of Megiddo. It’s an area or a place or an important City State that is at the cross roads of two major trade routes (one going . . .
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April 18, 2009 08:14 PM EDT --
“You wanted to worship at the Temple?” said the voice. John nodded. “Well, now you can.”
So he stood outside the Holy of Holies, gazing down at the crowds gathered below. Altar fires . . .
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April 19, 2009 08:12 PM EDT --
“ What are we doing?” John asked as the worship began. The angel held out a bulletin, so John could see the words and know his place.
1. Welcome , it said. Then
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April 20, 2009 07:11 PM EDT --
The scroll was sealed seven times, tied with ribbons and closed.
“Can they open it?” John pointed to the twenty-four who stood around the throne. But they were only human. The seals told . . .
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April 21, 2009 05:31 PM EDT --
“Write what you see,” the angel said as the seals were removed from the scroll. And so John watched and wept and wrote, while the tale of mankind ran its course.
A white horse led the . . .
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April 22, 2009 05:31 PM EDT --
“Is this the end?” asked John. The fourth seal was undone, and a quarter of mankind lay dead.
“No,” said the angel. “It’s the middle. It’s what has been and is and what will be.” . . .
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April 29, 2009 05:22 PM EDT --
“Now I know it all,” said John, but the angel said no. “Well, I’ve written it all.” But the angel still said no. “Then what else is there?” And seven peals of thunder roared on the mountain.
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August 13, 2008 09:27 PM EDT --
Patterson’s eyes focused on the shadows in the corner. They moved unnaturally, jutting side to side, as if pulled by awkward strings. He was used to seeing them, but it still unnerved him.
The shadows . . .
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January 25, 2008 02:41 PM EST --
Any guy can love a dog. A dog is like that young and immature girlfriend.The one who drools all over you and looks up with her puppy dog eyes, doing everything in her power to please you.
It takes . . .
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December 09, 2008 08:28 AM EST --
I took a train and looked out of the window
and the trees and the landscape
and the sky all echoed Someone Else.
My reflection looked so small
in the window
and when night fell, I disappeared
completely. . . .
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May 02, 2009 05:07 PM EDT --
John watched two leaders preaching to the clamoring crowds below till they died in the dust.
"They've lost," cried John.
"They've won," the . . .
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April 23, 2009 05:23 PM EDT --
The wind was roaring round John’s ears as he stood in darkest night at the gateway to heaven. Far below, four angels blocked hell’s portal, holding tight to the corners of the sky. “Is this . . .
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April 24, 2009 02:35 PM EDT --
The dark of night was giving way to dawn, the sky’s black fabric torn as morning showed through. And the world drew its breath.
Behind John thousands of people clamored and sang. He’d . . .
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