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  • The Book of Revelations is what is known as Apocalyptic literature

    Sermon on Revelation, Chinese New Year, Friends of Jerry Falwell Adam Tierney-Eliot 2006

  • The Book of Revelations is what is known as Apocalyptic literature

    Archive 2006-02-01 Adam Tierney-Eliot 2006

  • The place where these vials of wrath were poured out was "upon the earth"; that is, the Apocalyptic earth, or that portion of the earth made the special subject of Apocalyptic vision; namely, the territory of the ten kingdoms.

    The Revelation Explained 1913

  • Enthusiastic and Apocalyptic, that is, of the sure consciousness of an immediate possession of the Divine Spirit, and the hope of the future conquering the present; individual piety conscious of itself and sovereign, living in the future world, recognising no external authority and no external barriers.

    History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7) Adolph Harnack 1890

  • For that future, discredited as the thought of the second corporeal coming of the Lord Jesus in visible fashion and to a locality has been by the fancies and the vagaries of so-called Apocalyptic expositors, let us not forget that it is the hope of Christ's

    Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Luke Alexander Maclaren 1868

  • Gaston de Foix slaughtered six thousand souls in the streets of Brescia, her citizens recalled the Apocalyptic warnings of the Dominican monk.

    Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) The Age of the Despots John Addington Symonds 1866

  • The retrospective's final month will include a segment called "London, International City" and another called "Apocalyptic London."

    NYT > Home Page By JON FROSCH 2011

  • Revelation to John, is just one more in a series of the genre of literature known as Apocalyptic writing.

    ExChristian.Net webmdave 2010

  • The War of the Sons of Light With the Sons of Darkness - While not specifically called Apocalyptic, it fits the category of "doom and gloom", which is what most Apocalyptic stories are about or more accurately, "Dooms Day Literature".

    ExChristian.Net webmdave 2010

  • The War of the Sons of Light With the Sons of Darkness - While not specifically called Apocalyptic, it fits the category of "doom and gloom", which is what most Apocalyptic stories are about or more accurately, "Dooms Day Literature".

    ExChristian.Net webmdave 2010

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