Revelation 12:13-17 describes Satan's attacks on two groups of Christians, the Jewish believers who fled Jerusalem before it was destroyed and the gentile believers.
The themes are taken from the exodus: Eagle's Wings and Flooding Torrents of Water.
the abomination of desolation has its initial fulfillment in the time of Antiochus Epiphanies, but it also has a fulfillment in the time of the Romans when they destroyed the city of Jerusalem and destroyed the temple so that not one stone of the temple was left standing on another. The only thing that was left were the foundation stones that were there to reinforce it.
So in 70 AD, the Roman armies, and remember that the symbol of the Romans that they carried was a buzzard, an eagle; the words are indistinguishable in Greek (ἀετός, Matthew 24:28; Luke 17:37 "Wherever there is a carcass, there the vultures
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After serving Grace Presbyterian Church in Alexandria, Louisiana, Bob was honorably retired on Sunday, September 27, 2015, and given the title "Pastor Emeritus." This was forty years to the day after he became their pastor.
He now works for the Presbytery of the Gulf South as...
