October 23, 2022 – John’s Writings – Rejecting or Receiving Mercy

Rejecting or Receiving Mercy

Ezekiel 9:1-11 - New International Version (NIV)

¹ Then I heard him call out in a loud voice, “Bring near those who are appointed to execute judgment on the city, each with a weapon in his hand.” ² And I saw six men coming from the direction of the upper gate, which faces north, each with a deadly weapon in his hand. With them was a man clothed in linen who had a writing kit at his side. They came in and stood beside the bronze altar.

³ Now the glory of the God of Israel went up from above the cherubim, where it had been, and moved to the threshold of the temple. Then the Lord called to the man clothed in linen who had the writing kit at his side ⁴ and said to him, “Go throughout the city of Jerusalem and put a mark on the foreheads of those who grieve and lament over all the detestable things that are done in it.”

⁵ As I listened, he said to the others, “Follow him through the city and kill, without showing pity or compassion. ⁶ Slaughter the old men, the young men and women, the mothers and children, but do not touch anyone who has the mark. Begin at my sanctuary.” So they began with the old men who were in front of the temple.

⁷ Then he said to them, “Defile the temple and fill the courts with the slain. Go!” So they went out and began killing throughout the city. ⁸ While they were killing and I was left alone, I fell facedown, crying out, “Alas, Sovereign Lord! Are you going to destroy the entire remnant of Israel in this outpouring of your wrath on Jerusalem?”

⁹ He answered me, “The sin of the people of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great; the land is full of bloodshed and the city is full of injustice. They say, ‘The Lord has forsaken the land; the Lord does not see.’ ¹⁰ So I will not look on them with pity or spare them, but I will bring down on their own heads what they have done.”

¹¹ Then the man in linen with the writing kit at his side brought back word, saying, “I have done as you commanded.”

What are those who are to be brought near appointed to do (verse 1)?

Who was with the six men (verse 2)?

Where was the “glory of God” and where did it move to (verse 3)?

Who was the “man clothed in linen” to go and put a mark on (verse 4)?

How were the six men to kill (verse 5)?

Who were the six men not to touch (verse 6)?

Where were they to begin (verse 6)?

In your opinion, why would the Lord tell the six men to “defile the temple and fill the courts with the slain” (verse 7)?

What did Ezekiel ask the Lord (verse 8)?

What does the Lord say is “exceedingly great” (verse 9)?

In your opinion, what do the people mean when they say “the Lord does not see” (verse 9)?

What will the Lord “bring down on their own heads” (verse 10)?

Who said “I have done as you commanded” (verse 11)?

In your opinion, what is the basic message of this passage?

In your opinion, how does God show mercy in this passage?

John 6:35-40 - New International Version (NIV)

³⁵ Then Jesus declared, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty. ³⁶ But as I told you, you have seen me and still you do not believe. ³⁷ All those the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never drive away. ³⁸ For I have come down from heaven not to do my will but to do the will of him who sent me. ³⁹ And this is the will of him who sent me, that I shall lose none of all those he has given me, but raise them up at the last day. ⁴⁰ For my Father’s will is that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in him shall have eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day.”

What did Jesus declare that He is (verse 35)?

Who will never be hungry (verse 35)?

Who will never be thirsty (verse 35)?

In your opinion, why would those who have seen Jesus still “not believe” (verse 36)?

Who will come to Jesus (verse 37)?

Who will Jesus “never drive away” (verse 37)?

What has Jesus “come down from heaven” to do (verse 38)?

When will Jesus raise up those that he has been given (verse 39)?

What is the Father’s will (verse 40)?

In your opinion, what is the basic message of this passage?

In your opinion, how does God show mercy in this passage?

In your opinion, who in Ezekiel 9:1-11 are like the people in John 6:35-40 that Jesus tells “you have seen me and still you do not believe”?  How do you think their outcomes are similar?   

1 John 1:5-2:2 – New International Version (NIV)

⁵ This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light; in him there is no darkness at all. ⁶ If we claim to have fellowship with him and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not live out the truth. ⁷ But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin.

⁸ If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. ⁹ If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. ¹⁰ If we claim we have not sinned, we make him out to be a liar and his word is not in us.

2 ¹My dear children, I write this to you so that you will not sin. But if anybody does sin, we have an advocate with the Father—Jesus Christ, the Righteous One. ² He is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world.

What is the message John is declaring (verse 5)?

When do we lie (verse 6)?

When do we “have fellowship with one another” (verse 7)?

What “purifies us from all sin” (verse 7)?

How can we deceive ourselves (verse 8)?

When will God “forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness” (verse 9)?

Who do we make “out to be a liar” if we claim that we have not sinned (verse 10)?

Why does John “write this” (verse 1)?

Who is the advocate for the Christian who sins (verse 1)?

Who is Jesus the atoning sacrifice for (verse 2)?

In your opinion, what is the basic message of this passage?

In your opinion, how does God show mercy in this passage?

In your opinion, how are the people that “grieve and lament over all the detestable things that are done in” in Ezekiel 9:1-11 similar to those who confess their sins in 1 John 1:5-2:2?   

In your opinion, how are those who 1 John 1:5-2:2 says claim to have fellowship with God and “yet walk in the darkness” similar to those who said “the Lord has forsaken the land” in Ezekiel 9:1-11?

In your opinion, what does 1 John 1:5-2:2 help us understand about what Jesus had to do to not lose any who have been given to Him, but to “raise them up at the last day” as he promised in John 6:35-40?

Revelation 7:1-8 – New International Version (NIV)

¹ After this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding back the four winds of the earth to prevent any wind from blowing on the land or on the sea or on any tree. ² Then I saw another angel coming up from the east, having the seal of the living God. He called out in a loud voice to the four angels who had been given power to harm the land and the sea: ³ “Do not harm the land or the sea or the trees until we put a seal on the foreheads of the servants of our God.” ⁴ Then I heard the number of those who were sealed: 144,000 from all the tribes of Israel.

⁵ From the tribe of Judah 12,000 were sealed,

from the tribe of Reuben 12,000,

from the tribe of Gad 12,000,

⁶ from the tribe of Asher 12,000,

from the tribe of Naphtali 12,000,

from the tribe of Manasseh 12,000,

⁷ from the tribe of Simeon 12,000,

from the tribe of Levi 12,000,

from the tribe of Issachar 12,000,

⁸ from the tribe of Zebulun 12,000,

from the tribe of Joseph 12,000,

from the tribe of Benjamin 12,000.

Why are the angels at the four corners of the holding back the four winds of the earth (verse 1)?

What did the angel “coming from the east” have (verse 2)?

Who did the angel from the east call out to (verse 2)?

What did the angel from the east say had to happen before the land or sea or trees were harmed (verse 3)?

How many were sealed (verse 4)?

In your opinion, what is the significance of this number (verse 4)?

How many were sealed from each tribe (verses 5 through 8)?

This is not something to discuss in class but I find the difference between the tribes listed in verses 5 through 8 and the sons of Jacob that are listed in Genesis 49 intriguing.

In your opinion, what is the basic message of this passage?

In your opinion, how does God show mercy in this passage?

In your opinion, how are the servants who are being sealed in Revelation 7:1-8 similar to those in Ezekiel 9:1-11 who grieved and lamented all the detestable things done in Jerusalem? 

In your opinion, what does John 6:35-40 help us understand about the “servants of our God” who were having the seal put on their foreheads in Revelation 7:1-8?

In your opinion, what does 1 John 1:5-2:2 help us understand about the 144,000 that were having the seal put on their foreheads in Revelation 7:1-8? 

In your opinion, what do these passages from Ezekiel, John, 1 John and Revelation teach us show about rejecting God’s mercy?

In your opinion, what do these passages teach us about receiving God’s mercy?

 

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October 16, 2022 – John’s Writings – Choosing Our Food

Choosing Our Food

Ezekiel 21:8-17 - New International Version (NIV)

⁸ The word of the Lord came to me: ⁹ “Son of man, prophesy and say, ‘This is what the Lord says:

“‘A sword, a sword,
    sharpened and polished—
¹⁰ sharpened for the slaughter,
    polished to flash like lightning!

“‘Shall we rejoice in the scepter of my royal son? The sword despises every such stick.

¹¹ “‘The sword is appointed to be polished,
    to be grasped with the hand;
it is sharpened and polished,
    made ready for the hand of the slayer.
¹² Cry out and wail, son of man,
    for it is against my people;
    it is against all the princes of Israel.
They are thrown to the sword
    along with my people.
Therefore beat your breast.

¹³ “‘Testing will surely come. And what if even the scepter, which the sword despises, does not continue? declares the Sovereign Lord.’

¹⁴ “So then, son of man, prophesy
    and strike your hands together.
Let the sword strike twice,
    even three times.
It is a sword for slaughter—
    a sword for great slaughter,
    closing in on them from every side.
¹⁵ So that hearts may melt with fear
    and the fallen be many,
I have stationed the sword for slaughter
    at all their gates.
Look! It is forged to strike like lightning,
    it is grasped for slaughter.
¹⁶ Slash to the right, you sword,
    then to the left,
    wherever your blade is turned.
¹⁷ I too will strike my hands together,
    and my wrath will subside.
I the Lord have spoken.”

What is the purpose of the sharpened sword Ezekiel is prophesying for the Lord about (verses 8 - 10)?

In your opinion, what does it mean that the sword despises the “scepter of my royal son” (verse 10)?

Whose hand is the sharpened and polished sword made ready for (verse 11)?

Why was Ezekiel to “cry out and wail” (verse 12)?

What will “surely come” (verse 13)?

Where is the sword “closing” in from (verse 14)?

How will hearts react (verse 15)?

Why is the sword grasped (verse 15)?

When will the Lord’s wrath subside (verse 17)?

In your opinion, what is the basic message of this passage?

In your opinion, how does this passage show that God is in control?

John 6:22-27 - New International Version (NIV)

²² The next day the crowd that had stayed on the opposite shore of the lake realized that only one boat had been there, and that Jesus had not entered it with his disciples, but that they had gone away alone. ²³ Then some boats from Tiberias landed near the place where the people had eaten the bread after the Lord had given thanks. ²⁴ Once the crowd realized that neither Jesus nor his disciples were there, they got into the boats and went to Capernaum in search of Jesus.

²⁵ When they found him on the other side of the lake, they asked him, “Rabbi, when did you get here?”

²⁶ Jesus answered, “Very truly I tell you, you are looking for me, not because you saw the signs I performed but because you ate the loaves and had your fill. ²⁷ Do not work for food that spoils, but for food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. For on him God the Father has placed his seal of approval.”

Who realized that “only one boat had been there” (verse 22)?

How had the disciples “gone away” (verse 22)?

Where did the “boats from Tiberias” land (verse 23)?

When did the crowd get into the boats (verse 24)?

Why did they go to Capernaum (verse 24)?

In your opinion, why did they ask Jesus “Rabbi, when did you get here” (verse 25)?

Why did Jesus say they were not looking for Him (verse 26)?

Why did Jesus say they were looking for Him (verse 26)?

Where will the food that “endures to eternal life” come from (verse 27)?

What has God the Father placed on the Son of Man (verse 27)?

In your opinion, what is the basic message of this passage?

In your opinion, how does this passage show that God is in control?

In your opinion, how are the people that Ezekiel is speaking to in Ezekiel 21:8-17 and the people that Jesus is speaking to in John 6:22-27 similar?   

3 John 5-12 – New International Version (NIV)

⁵ Dear friend, you are faithful in what you are doing for the brothers and sisters, even though they are strangers to you. ⁶ They have told the church about your love. Please send them on their way in a manner that honors God. ⁷ It was for the sake of the Name that they went out, receiving no help from the pagans. ⁸ We ought therefore to show hospitality to such people so that we may work together for the truth.

⁹ I wrote to the church, but Diotrephes, who loves to be first, will not welcome us. ¹⁰ So when I come, I will call attention to what he is doing, spreading malicious nonsense about us. Not satisfied with that, he even refuses to welcome other believers. He also stops those who want to do so and puts them out of the church.

¹¹ Dear friend, do not imitate what is evil but what is good. Anyone who does what is good is from God. Anyone who does what is evil has not seen God. ¹² Demetrius is well spoken of by everyone—and even by the truth itself. We also speak well of him, and you know that our testimony is true.

Who are the “brothers and sisters” that John’s dear friend is “doing for” (verse 5)?

What have those “brothers and sisters” told the church (verse 6)?

How are they to be sent on (verse 6)?

Why did they go out (verse 7)?

Who did they not receive help from (verse 7)?

Why should hospitality be shown “to such people” (verse 8)?

What did Diotrephes love (verse 9)?

What does Diotrephes do to those who want to welcome other believers (verse 10)?

What does John want his dear friend to imitate (verse 11)?

How is Demetrius “spoken of” (verse 12)?

In your opinion, what is the basic message of this passage?

In your opinion, how does this passage show that God is in control?

In your opinion, how is it possible to follow the instruction of 3 John 5-12 to imitate “what is good” while in the midst of a crisis like the destruction of Judah and Jerusalem that Ezekiel is prophesying about in Ezekiel 21:8-17?

In your opinion, how do Diotrephes and Demetrius in 3 John 5-12 illustrate the difference between “working for the food that spoils” and “working for the food that endures to eternal life” that Jesus talked about in John 6:22-27?

Revelation 6:9-17 – New International Version (NIV)

⁹ When he opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain because of the word of God and the testimony they had maintained. ¹⁰ They called out in a loud voice, “How long, Sovereign Lord, holy and true, until you judge the inhabitants of the earth and avenge our blood?” ¹¹ Then each of them was given a white robe, and they were told to wait a little longer, until the full number of their fellow servants, their brothers and sisters, were killed just as they had been.

¹² I watched as he opened the sixth seal. There was a great earthquake. The sun turned black like sackcloth made of goat hair, the whole moon turned blood red, ¹³ and the stars in the sky fell to earth, as figs drop from a fig tree when shaken by a strong wind. ¹⁴ The heavens receded like a scroll being rolled up, and every mountain and island was removed from its place.

¹⁵ Then the kings of the earth, the princes, the generals, the rich, the mighty, and everyone else, both slave and free, hid in caves and among the rocks of the mountains. ¹⁶ They called to the mountains and the rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of him who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb! ¹⁷ For the great day of their wrath has come, and who can withstand it?”

Where are the “souls of those who had been slain because of the word of God and the testimony they had maintained” (verse 9)?

What did they cry out (verse 10)?

In your opinion, why were they given a white robe (verse 11)?

How long were they to wait (verse 11)?

When did the great earthquake happen (verse 12)?

How did the “stars in the sky” fall to earth (verse 13)?

What happened to “every mountain and island” (verse 14)?

Who “hid in caves and among the rocks of the mountains” (verse 15)?

Why did they want the mountains and the rocks to “fall on us” (verse 16)?

What has come (verse 17)?

In your opinion, are these people who cry out right when they say “who can withstand it” (verse 17)?

In your opinion, what is the basic message of this passage?

In your opinion, how does this passage show that God is in control?

In your opinion, how are the disaster that Ezekiel was prophesying would happen to Judah and Jerusalem in Ezekiel 21:8-17 and the things that happen after the opening of the sixth seal in Revelation 6:9-17 similar? 

In your opinion, how are the signs that Jesus said He had performed in John 6:22-27 and the signs that are coming from the opening of the seals in Revelation 6:9-17 different?  How are they similar?

In your opinion, what would it mean to imitate “what is good” as a brother or sister of Christ as John commands in 3 John 5-12 in the midst of the world after the opening of the sixth seal in Revelation 6:9-17? 

In your opinion, what do these passages from Ezekiel, John, 3 John and Revelation show us show us about the complexity of the One we call Lord, Son of Man, the Name, and the Lamb?

In your opinion, how does knowing that our complex Savior is in midst of every circumstance help us work for the “food that endures to eternal life”?

 

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October 9, 2022 – John’s Writings – The Loving Lamb

 

The Loving Lamb

Ezekiel 21:1-7 - New International Version (NIV)

¹ The word of the Lord came to me: ² “Son of man, set your face against Jerusalem and preach against the sanctuary. Prophesy against the land of Israel ³ and say to her: ‘This is what the Lord says: I am against you. I will draw my sword from its sheath and cut off from you both the righteous and the wicked. ⁴ Because I am going to cut off the righteous and the wicked, my sword will be unsheathed against everyone from south to north. ⁵ Then all people will know that I the Lord have drawn my sword from its sheath; it will not return again.’

⁶ “Therefore groan, son of man! Groan before them with broken heart and bitter grief. ⁷ And when they ask you, ‘Why are you groaning?’ you shall say, ‘Because of the news that is coming. Every heart will melt with fear and every hand go limp; every spirit will become faint and every leg will be wet with urine.’ It is coming! It will surely take place, declares the Sovereign Lord.”

Whose word came to Ezekiel (verse 1)?

What was Ezekiel to “preach against” (verse 2)?

Who was Ezekiel to “prophesy against” (verse 2)?

What is the Lord going to cut off from Israel (verse 3)?

Who will the Lord’s sword be unsheathed against (verse 4)?

Who will know that the Lord has drawn His sword from its sheath (verse 5)?

How was Ezekiel supposed to “groan before them” (verse 6)?

Why was Ezekiel groaning (verse 7)?

Who declares “it will surely take place” (verse 7)?

In your opinion, what is the basic message of this passage?

In your opinion, what can we learn about the love of the Lamb of God from this passage?

John 6:1-15 - New International Version (NIV)

¹ Some time after this, Jesus crossed to the far shore of the Sea of Galilee (that is, the Sea of Tiberias), ² and a great crowd of people followed him because they saw the signs he had performed by healing the sick. ³ Then Jesus went up on a mountainside and sat down with his disciples. ⁴ The Jewish Passover Festival was near.

⁵ When Jesus looked up and saw a great crowd coming toward him, he said to Philip, “Where shall we buy bread for these people to eat?” ⁶ He asked this only to test him, for he already had in mind what he was going to do.

⁷ Philip answered him, “It would take more than half a year’s wages to buy enough bread for each one to have a bite!”

⁸ Another of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, spoke up, ⁹ “Here is a boy with five small barley loaves and two small fish, but how far will they go among so many?”

¹⁰ Jesus said, “Have the people sit down.” There was plenty of grass in that place, and they sat down (about five thousand men were there). ¹¹ Jesus then took the loaves, gave thanks, and distributed to those who were seated as much as they wanted. He did the same with the fish.

¹² When they had all had enough to eat, he said to his disciples, “Gather the pieces that are left over. Let nothing be wasted.” ¹³ So they gathered them and filled twelve baskets with the pieces of the five barley loaves left over by those who had eaten.

¹⁴ After the people saw the sign Jesus performed, they began to say, “Surely this is the Prophet who is to come into the world.” ¹⁵ Jesus, knowing that they intended to come and make him king by force, withdrew again to a mountain by himself.

Where did Jesus cross to (verse 1)?

Why did “a great crowd of people” follow him (verse 2)?

Who did Jesus sit down with (verse 3)?

In your opinion, why do you think that John mentions that the Jewish Passover Festival was near (verse 4)?

How did Jesus test Philip (verses 5 and 6)?

In your opinion, how would you compare the answers of Philip and Andrew (verses 7 through 9)?

How many men sat down (verse 10)?

What did Jesus do after he “took the loaves, gave thanks” (verse 11)?

Why did Jesus want the left over pieces gathered up (verse 12)?

How much was left over (verse 13)?

In your opinion, were the people right when they began to say “Surely this is the Prophet who is to come into the world” (verse 14)?  In your opinion, could they be right in what they said and wrong in what they believed and wanted?  How?

Why did Jesus withdraw “to a mountain by himself” (verse 15)?

In your opinion, what is the basic message of this passage?

In your opinion, what can we learn about the love of the Lamb of God from this passage?

In your opinion, how can the Lord who was going to “cut off the righteous and the wicked” in Ezekiel 21:1-7 be the same person who fed five thousand in John 6:1-15? 

2 John 4-10 – New International Version (NIV)

⁴ It has given me great joy to find some of your children walking in the truth, just as the Father commanded us. ⁵ And now, dear lady, I am not writing you a new command but one we have had from the beginning. I ask that we love one another. ⁶ And this is love: that we walk in obedience to his commands. As you have heard from the beginning, his command is that you walk in love.

⁷ I say this because many deceivers, who do not acknowledge Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh, have gone out into the world. Any such person is the deceiver and the antichrist. ⁸ Watch out that you do not lose what we have worked for, but that you may be rewarded fully. ⁹ Anyone who runs ahead and does not continue in the teaching of Christ does not have God; whoever continues in the teaching has both the Father and the Son. ¹⁰ If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not take them into your house or welcome them.

What has given John “great joy” (verse 4)?

What is John “not writing” to the dear Lady (verse 5)?

What does John ask (verse 5)?

How does John define love (verse 6)?

How does John define deceivers (verse 7)?

Where have the “many deceivers” gone (verse 7)?

What additional title does John give deceivers (verse 7)?

What does John want the readers to “not lose” (verse 8)?

Who “does not have God” (verse 9)?

Who “has both the Father and the Son” (verse 9)?

How are Christians supposed to respond to those who “do not acknowledge Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh” (verse 10)?

In your opinion, is there conflict between the instruction to “love one another” in verse 5 and the instruction to not take the one who does not “continue in the teaching of Christ” “into your house or welcome them” in verse 10?

In your opinion, what is the basic message of this passage?

In your opinion, what can we learn about the love of the Lamb of God from this passage?

In your opinion, how could the righteous who were going to be cut off in Ezekiel 21:1-7 be obedient to obey God’s command in 2 John 4-10 to “walk in love”?

In your opinion, how does the right statement about Jesus voiced by people with wrong motives that led Jesus to withdraw to the mountain in John 6:1-15 help us begin to understand how deceivers and antichrists can run ahead and “not continue in the teaching of Christ” in 2 John 4-10?

Revelation 6:1-8 – New International Version (NIV)

¹ I watched as the Lamb opened the first of the seven seals. Then I heard one of the four living creatures say in a voice like thunder, “Come!” ² I looked, and there before me was a white horse! Its rider held a bow, and he was given a crown, and he rode out as a conqueror bent on conquest.

³ When the Lamb opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature say, “Come!” ⁴ Then another horse came out, a fiery red one. Its rider was given power to take peace from the earth and to make people kill each other. To him was given a large sword.

⁵ When the Lamb opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, “Come!” I looked, and there before me was a black horse! Its rider was holding a pair of scales in his hand. ⁶ Then I heard what sounded like a voice among the four living creatures, saying, “Two pounds of wheat for a day’s wages, and six pounds of barley for a day’s wages, and do not damage the oil and the wine!”

⁷ When the Lamb opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature say, “Come!” ⁸ I looked, and there before me was a pale horse! Its rider was named Death, and Hades was following close behind him. They were given power over a fourth of the earth to kill by sword, famine and plague, and by the wild beasts of the earth.

What did the Lamb open (verse 1)?

Who said “in a voice like thunder, “Come”!” (verse 1)?

How did the rider of the white horse, who held a bow and was given a crown, ride out (verse 2)?

Who said “Come!” when the Lamb opened the second seal (verse 3)?

What was the second rider given (verse 4)?

Who said “Come!” when the Lamb opened the third seal (verse 5)?

What was the rider of the black horse holding (verse 5)?

In your opinion, what does “Two pounds of wheat for a day’s wages, and six pounds of barley for a day’s wages, and do not damage the oil and the wine” mean (verse 6)?

Who said “Come!” when the Lamb opened the fourth seal (verse 7)?

What was the rider of the pale horse named (verse 8)?

Who followed the pale horse and its rider (verse 8)?

In your opinion, what is the basic message of this passage?

In your opinion, what can we learn about the love of the Lamb of God from this passage?

In your opinion, what does the prophesy against all Israel in Ezekiel 21:1-7 help us understand about the prophesies against the whole world in Revelation 6:1-8? 

In your opinion, what can we learn from the fact that the Lamb (who had been slain) who is opening the seals in Revelation 6:1-8 is the same person as the One who fed the five thousand just before the Jewish Passover Festival?

In your opinion, does the warning in 2 John 4-10 not to take the deceiver and antichrist “into your house or welcome them” a beginning of preparing Christians for the sending of the horsemen into the world in Revelation 6:1-8? 

In your opinion, how do these passages from Ezekiel, John, 2 John and Revelation show us that the Lamb of God is different from the world?

In your opinion, how does understanding that difference help us to understand how we, as Christians, are to react to God?  How does understanding the difference between the Lamb of God and the world help us understand how we, as Christians, are to react to the world?

 

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