Bible Study
Deep dives into scripture, doctrine, and foundational biblical truth
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Being Approved by God
A two part scriptural look at God's process for approving those who seek Him.
2 parts →The Mark of the Beast
A four-part examination of what the mark of the beast is, where it came from, and how the number of its name can be calculated.
4 parts →Why Hell Cannot Exist
Two studies showing that eternal torment contradicts the creation account, the nature of death, and the character of God.
2 parts →Key terms
All terms →666, the Number of the BeastThe number of the wild beast in Revelation 13:18. It is called a man's number, which means it can be calculated and seen. The digits themselves are not evil; the number is a symbol that identifies the eighth king and his mark.
Babylon the GreatNot a church, a government or a single organization, but the lens through which humanity has been taught to interpret reality since Eden: what death is, where authority sits, and where security comes from. Religion is her most visible vehicle, and she preserves Satan's first lie.
Edom (Spiritual Edom)After Christ, Edom is not a nation or a race but a spiritual condition: covenant proximity, a deliberately rejected inheritance, and hostility toward those who received it, while still claiming the covenant name. It is the root condition beneath Babylon the Great and the man of lawlessness.
Free Will and God's ForeknowledgeJehovah has the ability to foresee all things and governs its use, filtering out the free choices of his creatures so that free will remains real. He foresees events on the timeline without predetermining who will make them, which is why prophecy is given in symbols.
Hell (Eternal Torment)The teaching that the wicked are conscious and tormented forever after death. It contradicts the creation account, the seventh day of rest, the Bible's description of death, and God's own sentence in Eden, which was death, not torment. The dead know nothing at all.
Jehovah, God's NameThe personal name of the true God, appearing nearly 7,000 times in the Hebrew Scriptures as YHWH and rendered Jehovah in English. It means 'He causes to become.' God said it is his name forever, Jesus made it known, and most Bibles have removed it.
Mark of the BeastThe physical mark the eighth king will force on every person, without which no one can buy or sell. It is a mark OF the beast, so it carries the identity of Satan's system through all seven of its heads, and accepting it is a sin against the holy spirit.
The Eighth KingThe final world power, which 'springs from the seven' heads of the wild beast. It is the seventh head after its death-stroke is healed, ruling in a new role, and it goes off into destruction at Armageddon.
The God of FortressesThe god the king of the north honors with gold, silver and precious things in Daniel 11:38-39, unknown to his fathers and tied to fortified strongholds. This site's study presents AI data centers as the structurally precise candidate.
The Great CrowdThe crowd 'which no man was able to number' that John sees after hearing the number of the sealed (Revelation 7:4, 9). On this site the great crowd is the completed body of sealed holy ones standing before the throne, not a separate earthly class.
The Great TribulationThe period of distress 'such as has not occurred since the world's beginning' (Matthew 24:21), which begins when Michael stands up (Daniel 12:1). It includes the fall of Babylon the Great, the image and the mark of the beast, and it ends at Armageddon.
The Image of the BeastThe likeness of the eighth king that is given breath, speaks, and causes all who refuse to worship it to be killed. It follows the pattern of Nebuchadnezzar's golden image in Daniel 3, and this site identifies it as the United Nations in a future role.