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Biblical Glossary Notes

Key biblical terms and their deeper meanings, with Strong's concordance references and contextual usage notes.

kill
excommunicate; reject or persecute by religious authority

Strong’s G615 - apokteinō

[Jhn 16:2 NKJV] 2 “They will put you out of the synagogues; yes, the time is coming that whoever kills you will think that he offers God service.

[Rev 2:23 NKJV] 23 “I will kill her children with death, and all the churches shall know that I am He who searches the minds and hearts. And I will give to each one of you according to your works.

[Rev 6:8 NKJV] 8 So I looked, and behold, a pale horse. And the name of him who sat on it was Death, and Hades followed with him. And power authority was given to them over a fourth of the earth, to kill with sword, with hunger, with death, and by the beasts of the earth.

[Luk 21:11-21 KJV] 11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven. 12 But before all these, they shall lay their hands on you, and persecute [you], delivering [you] up to the synagogues, and into prisons, being brought before kings and rulers for my name’s sake. 13 And it shall turn to you for a testimony. 14 Settle [it] therefore in your hearts, not to meditate before what ye shall answer: 15 For I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist. 16 And ye shall be betrayed both by parents, and brethren, and kinsfolks, and friends; and [some] of you shall they cause to be put to death. 17 And ye shall be hated of all [men] for my name’s sake. 18 But there shall not an hair of your head perish. 19 In your patience possess ye your souls. 20 And when ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that the desolation thereof is nigh. 21 Then let them which are in Judaea flee to the mountains; and let them which are in the midst of it depart out; and let not them that are in the countries enter thereinto.

[Rev 20:4-5 NKJV] 4 And I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was committed to them. Then [I saw] the souls of those who had been beheaded for their witness to Jesus and for the word of God, who had not worshiped the beast or his image, and had not received [his] mark on their foreheads or on their hands. And they lived and reigned with Christ for a thousand years. 5 But the rest of the dead did not live again until the thousand years were finished. This [is] the first resurrection.

[Rev 14:13 KJV] 13 And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed [are] the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours; and their works do follow them.

pearl
[Mat 13:45-46 NKJV] 45 “Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant seeking beautiful pearls, 46 “who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had and bought it.

[Rev 21:21 NKJV] 21 The twelve gates [were] twelve pearls: each individual gate was of one pearl. And the street of the city [was] pure gold, like transparent glass.

weapons

sword

  1. A symbol of war; strife, debate, hypocritical judgement, argument over the scriptures

    1. [Jas 4:1-4 KJV] 1 From whence [come] wars and fightings among you? [come they] not hence, [even] of your lusts that war in your members? 2 Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not. 3 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume [it] upon your lusts. 4 Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.

    2. [Jas 4:11-12 KJV] 11 Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of [his] brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge. 12 There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another?

measures

cubit

the unit of measure of the temple and the altar; a set standard of measurement

  1. Changing the Unit

    1. God alone can change the unit of measure of the cubit

    2. God can change his stature

    3. God can change the dimensions of the door to heaven which door he is

      1. [Luk 12:25 KJV] 25 And which of you with taking thought can add to his stature one cubit?

      2. [Isa 6:2-4 KJV] 2 Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain two he covered his face, and with twain two he covered his feet, and with twain two he did fly. 3 And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, [is] the LORD of hosts: the whole earth [is] full of his glory. 4 And the posts cubits of the door threshold moved wandered at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke.

    4. When the door is made shorter it cuts the unaware passer in the head

      1. [Amo 9:1 KJV] 1 I saw the Lord standing upon the altar: and he said, Smite the lintel of the door knop that the posts threshold may shake: and cut them in the head, all of them; and I will slay the last of them with the sword: he that fleeth of them shall not flee away, and he that escapeth of them shall not be delivered.

    5. God the father shortens the door by striking down his son who is the way to heaven

      1. Because the Son was humbled the entrance that he provides is meek and lowly so that one can only pass through on his knees

      2. [1Pe 5:1-6 KJV] 1 The elders which are among you I exhort, who am also an elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed: 2 Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight [thereof], not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind; 3 Neither as being lords over [God’s] heritage, but being ensamples to the flock. 4 And when the chief Shepherd shall appear, ye shall receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away. 5 Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all [of you] be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble. 6 Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time:

      3. [Jas 4:4-11 KJV] 4 Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God. 5 Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy? 6 But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble. 7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. 8 Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse [your] hands, [ye] sinners; and purify [your] hearts, [ye] double minded. 9 Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and [your] joy to heaviness. 10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up. 11 Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of [his] brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.

      4. [Jas 4:13-17 KJV] 13 Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain: 14 Whereas ye know not what [shall be] on the morrow. For what [is] your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. 15 For that ye [ought] to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that. 16 But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil. 17 Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth [it] not, to him it is sin.

      5. [Phl 2:5-9 KJV] 5 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: 6 Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: 7 But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: 8 And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. 9 Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name:

seasons

Fall

Church Age where seed of the word is sown

Winter

Great Tribulation where wheat struggles against tares in darkness

Spring

Latter rain where the elect are replanted outside of the church leadership’s influence

Summer

End of the world where the Earth is reaped and the harvest is gathered

times

days

  1. First day
    1. evening: before light entered the world when it was formless and empty
    2. morning: and God said Let there be light and there was light
  2. Second day
    1. evening: the flood destroy life on Earth leaving it dark, formless, and empty
    2. morning: Christs’s ministry on Earth and thousand-year reign, the millennium
  3. Third day
    1. evening: Great tribulation of spiritual darkness following the millenium
    2. morning: the last day, God’s second coming in the clouds of glory

evening/nighttime

A period where darkness reigns

midnight

morning/daytime

When God introduces the light of his Word to the world following a period of darkness

  1. [Psa 119:105 KJV] 105 NUN. Thy word [is] a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.
  2. [2Pe 1:19 KJV] 19 We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:
  3. [Psa 119:130 KJV] 130 The entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the simple.

third day

the second coming of Christ at the end of the world

one day

a day is measured as the period of time spanning one evening and one morning

  1. [Gen 1:1-5 KJV] 1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. 2 And the earth was without formless and void empty; and darkness [was] upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. 3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. 4 And God saw the light, that [it was] good: and God divided the light from the darkness. 5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.

  2. [2Pe 3:5-8, 10 KJV] 5 For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water: 6 Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished: 7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men. 8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day [is] with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. … 10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.

    1. the evening and the morning were the first day

    2. evening is a time of darkness

    3. morning is a time of the arrival of light, the change from darkness to light, daybreak

    4. What does midnight represent?

    5. The evening ends at dawn? Sunup

    6. The day ends at dusk? Sundown

    7. Time on Earth spans from sunup to sundown

    8. God made the heavens and the earth in the first night or evening as darkness was upon the face of the deep

    9. The first sunup took place when God said Let there be light and there was light

    10. The morning starts at dawn ending the night

    11. Night begins when the sun sheds no light and cannot be seen

    12. [Jhn 9:4 KJV] 4 I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.

one hour

  1. the last part of the day: the last times

thousand years

one day, in the spiritual sense, a symbolic era of time on Earth

  1. one day

    1. [Psa 90:4 KJV] 4 For a thousand years in thy sight [are but] as yesterday when it is past, and [as] a watch in the night.

    2. [2Pe 3:8 KJV] 8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day [is] with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

  2. thousand year reign

    1. [Rev 20:2-5 KJV] 2 And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years, 3 And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season. 4 And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and [I saw] the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received [his] mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years. 5 But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This [is] the first resurrection.

    2. [Rev 20:6-7 KJV] 6 Blessed and holy [is] he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years. 7 And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison,

watches

a spiritual nighttime in which the children of God should look for his coming in the morning

second watch

Old testament period after the flood

third watch

New testament period during the Great Tribulation following the end of the Church Age which is Christ’s thousand year reign on Earth

prison

[Mat 5:25 KJV] 25 Agree with thine adversary quickly, whiles thou art in the way with him; lest at any time the adversary deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be cast into prison.[G5438]

Thief in the night

Christ as an ideological revolutionary who,

  • in the second watch steals children from the synagogues to build the church

  • in the third watch steals children from the churches to build his harvest of the latter rain