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The Seventh-day Adventist Church identifies itself as the end-time "remnant church" described in Revelation 12:17. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints also interprets the woman to be the Church, and the man-child to be the political kingdom that will grow out of the Church prior to or during the Second Coming of Christ; this ...
In the letters to the early Christian churches of Smyrna and Philadelphia in Revelation 2:9 and 3:9, Jesus makes reference to a synagogue of Satan (Greek: συναγωγή τοῦ Σατανᾶ, synagoge tou satana), in each case referring to a group persecuting the church "who say they are Jews and are not".
The Devil depicted in The Temptation of Christ, by Ary Scheffer, 1854. The devil figures much more prominently in the New Testament and in Christian theology than in the Old Testament and Judaism. Religion scholar William Caldwell writes that "In the Old Testament we have seen that the figure of Satan is vague. ...
The Saints who died are resurrected (Resurrection of the Saints [5]) and begin their thousand-year reign with Christ (Revelation 20:1–6). After the thousand years, Satan is released from the Abyss to deceive the nations and gather Gog and Magog and the people of the world to encircle the camp of the saints and the city of Jerusalem .
The canonization of a mystic or an imprimatur given to a book of revelations do not mean a private revelation is authentic, because the church does not pronounce on alleged revelations when it pronounces on the holiness of an individual [39] and because the Imprimatur only guarantees that a book is free from all doctrinal and moral errors. [81]
Shrines and feast days, when authorized by the church, [4] [5] are typical signs of approval since they are part of devotion to private revelation. [6] This list is organized according to the episcopal level of approval, type of revelation, and chronology and includes a brief line about the revelation, its recipient, which church official ...
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Christians have traditionally interpreted the unnamed serpent in the Garden of Eden as Satan due to Revelation 12:7, which calls Satan "that ancient serpent". [ 111 ] [ 9 ] This verse, however, is probably intended to identify Satan with the Leviathan , [ 111 ] a monstrous sea-serpent whose destruction by Yahweh is prophesied in Isaiah 27:1 ...