The Blood of the Saints

For they have shed the blood of your holy people and your prophets, and you have given them blood to drink as they deserve. Revelation 16:6 Our study today focuses on the verse above. Let’s look at the context before going further. Revelation 16 deals with the

This calls for patient endurance on the part of the people of God who keep his commands and remain faithful to Jesus. Revelation 14:12 The verse above appears almost identically in yesterday’s chapter about the beast (13:10b). The context of Revelation 14 includes three angels that will

As I watched, this horn was waging war against the holy people and defeating them. Daniel 7:21 It was given power to wage war against God’s holy people and to conquer them. Revelation 13:7a These two passages in Daniel and Revelation seem to be describing the same

Now when they have finished their testimony, the beast that comes up from the Abyss will attack them, and overpower and kill them. Revelation 11:7 One of my favorite movies, Kingdom of Heaven, is about Jerusalem being lost to the Muslims during the Crusades. In it is

These are they who have come out of the great tribulation; they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. Revelation 7:14 Let’s look further at this mass of humanity at the feet of God, first mentioned in the sixth chapter

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?” Revelation 6:10 The book of Revelation can be confusing because it’s so cryptic. Much symbolism is involved in the messages being

The world was not worthy of them. They wandered in deserts and mountains, living in caves and in holes in the ground. Hebrews 11:38 Hebrews 11 is a great chapter to read about people – named and unnamed – who exercised their faith at key moments. This

So Peter was kept in prison, but the church was earnestly praying to God for him. Acts 12:5 Perhaps the prison story that has the most detail in the New Testament is that of Peter in Acts 12:1-19. King Herod realized that arresting and executing church leaders

It was about this time that King Herod arrested some who belonged to the church, intending to persecute them. He had James, the brother of John, put to death with the sword. Acts 12:1-2 James and John were brothers and the sons of Zebedee, or Boanerges (Mark

If their purpose or activity is of human origin, it will fail. But if it is from God, you will not be able to stop these men; you will only find yourselves fighting against God. Acts 5:38b-39 The latter half of Acts 5 shares how the disciples