{"id":15168,"date":"2024-11-08T09:49:41","date_gmt":"2024-11-08T14:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/?p=15168"},"modified":"2024-11-11T09:54:57","modified_gmt":"2024-11-11T14:54:57","slug":"question-regarding-revelation-182","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/15168\/question-regarding-revelation-182\/","title":{"rendered":"Question regarding Revelation 18:2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Pastor John,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Why does Revelation 18:2 mention an unclean and loathsome bird?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I thought it may mean every unclean spirit,\u00a0but it states a prison for every unclean spirit in the\u00a0same\u00a0verse.<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cAfter these things, I saw another angel coming down out of heaven, having great authority, and the earth was made bright with his glory.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cAnd he cried out with a powerful voice, saying, \u2018She has fallen! Babylon the Great has fallen, and has become a dwelling place of demons, and a prison for every unclean spirit, and a prison for every unclean and loathsome bird.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Beth<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">===========<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Hi Beth.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>There are many examples of verses that repeat a point in different words.\u00a0 As we have been translating the\u00a0Bible, we have come across such verses very often, and have talked about it.\u00a0 It really is a frequent\u00a0experience for us.\u00a0 It seems, at first, redundant and unnecessary, but God knows us humans; that if He doesn&#8217;t make\u00a0something absolutely clear (by repetition), we will not get it,\u00a0or we will find a way around it.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>So, the only explanation I can give for the repetition in Revelation 18:2\u00a0and other\u00a0places\u00a0is that we humans needed\u00a0God to talk to us that way\u00a0in order to keep us from misinterpreting His\u00a0words.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Thank you for the question, and God help us all to understand Him!<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Pastor John<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Tell us what you think:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/WitnessofSpirit\/status\/1855987363681345874\">https:\/\/x.com\/WitnessofSpirit\/status\/1855987363681345874<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pastor John, Why does Revelation 18:2 mention an unclean and loathsome bird? I thought it may mean every unclean spirit,\u00a0but it states a prison for every unclean spirit in the\u00a0same\u00a0verse. \u201cAfter these things, I saw another angel coming down out of heaven, having great authority, and the earth was made bright with his glory.\u201d \u201cAnd [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15168"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15168"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15170,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15168\/revisions\/15170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}