But notice: 15 continued) … and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: (as) he [treads] the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God. The zeal manifested at this time by the followers of Jesus has been recorded by the pen of inspiration for the encouragement of believers in every age. King James Bible Online KJV Standard
The In the days of the apostles the Christian believers were filled with earnestness and enthusiasm.
The quotation in Rev. If it be the loss of spiritual things that we regret, then may we say from the bottom of our hearts, "Oh that I were as in months past." But this church had laboured on for many years; it had thrown out all its energies--not in some spasmodic effort, but in a continual strain and unabated zeal for the glory of God.
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Discover the origins of everyday phrases from each book of the Bible in “The Writing on the Wall”, available worldwide as a paperback and e-book. This Dialogue was written about 379, seven years after the death of Lucifer, and very soon after Jerome's return from his hermit life in the desert of Chalcis. When you think you have gained one man's good will, because of the outward show he makes, you afterwards learn that all was a lie. Besides his name of Jude or Judas, he is also called Thaddaeus and Lebbaeus in the Gospels. It is not here as it is in the world, where all life is full of deceit and double-dealing. They record the sentences of the Divine Judge who appears in the midst of these churches (see 1:13-20) inspecting and passing decisions.
They give us a complete outline of the entire course of the Christian profession, of going from bad to worse, until As many as were called by grace, and displayed the first zeal, having cast aside their military girdles, but afterwards returned, like dogs, to their own vomit, (so that some spent money and by means of gifts regained their military stations); let these, after they have passed the space of three years as hearers, be for ten years prostrators. No darkness is so dark as that which
2.27 "He shall rule them with a rod of iron" employs a Greek word (poimaino) which has the significance of 'shepherding' in the sense of 'feeding'; and the phrase would be more correctly translated "He shall shepherd them with the shepherd's club". "I know thy patience." Revelation 2:27 King James Version (KJV) 27 And he shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers: even as I received of my Father. Revelation 19:15 And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God. They only labour for a little season, and then they cease to work and begin to faint.
No one can live in the Introduction. And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and to his throne.
But what does hinder them? So the nations shall be broken in pieces and all become one under the rule of Christ. 1 Of St. Simon and St. Jude, the Saints whom we this day commemorate, little is known[1]. It is a great thing for a man to be near to God; it is a very choice privilege to be admitted into the inner circle of communion, and to become God's familiar friend. Revelation 2:27 KJV: And he shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers: even as I received of my Father. (22) The brightness of greatest glory and honour nearest approaching to the light of Christ, who is the Son of righteousness, and our head; Mt 4:14,16.Hence our Lord's fitness to deal with the churches, which are these golden lamp-stands, for no one knows so much about the lamps as the person whose constant work it is to watch them and trim them.
St. Jude, indeed, still lives in the Church in his Catholic epistle; but of his history we only know that he was brother to St. James the Less, and nearly related to our Lord and that, like St. Peter, he had been a married man. I say again, beloved, I tremble to think how few out of this congregation could win To him that overcometh, I will give a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it.-- REV. Of St. Simon we only I.