Bible Verse ~John 3.16 KJV~ 2

DravenStormborn on March 21, 2023

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In Biblical Scripture Things are Not Always Crystal Clear...

And in These Times Things are Not Always Black and White.

I Can Say There are Quite Colorful Days Ahead for Us All...

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Revelation 9:10 - And they had tails like unto scorpions, and were stings in their tails: and their power was to hurt men five months. ... View MoreRevelation 9:10 - And they had tails like unto scorpions, and were stings in their tails: and their power was to hurt men five months. This metaphorical language is exact to the most minute detail. B. W. Johnson summarized it as follows: The Arabians, unlike the Goths, Vandals and Huns, were an army of horsemen, and moved over a country almost with the swiftness of the locust. Let the reader note the following facts from the Arabs: 1. They came forth from the home of the locust (and the horse). 2. They all fought on horseback. 3. They wore upon their heads something like crowns of gold. The historians often speak of them as the “turbaned Arabs.” Ezekiel 23:42, speaking of the Sabeans, which were an Arab tribe, says, “The Sabeans of the wilderness who put upon their heads beautiful crowns.” The yellow turbans of the Arab horsemen, at a little distance, would strikingly resemble “crowns of gold”. 4. The locusts had “the faces of men.” The Jews and Arabs wore long patriarchal beards. The Romans and northern races shaved the face. John noted that these locusts have the distinguishing mark of manhood in the east, the unshorn beard. 5. To the faces of men is added “the hair of women”. The female distinction is long hair, and evidently John beholds, as the riders rush by, long hair flowing from their shoulders and streaming in the air. Did the Arabs in the seventh century wear long hair? Pliny, who was the contemporary of John speaks “of the turbaned Arabs with their uncut hair”. Ammianus Marcellinus in the fourth, and Jerome in the fifth century, each speak of the long-haired Arabs. The Arabs also wore iron coats of mail – “and they had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron”. And There Were Sting In Their Tails: Johnson unfortunately omitted this point. This “scorpion” metaphor was fulfilled in the fact that the Saracens were well skilled in fighting rearward over their horses’ tails. This is the dread of the scorpion, with its tail – pain and torment are inflicted.

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