According to the New American Bible, the image in Revelation 12: 1-6 of a pregnant woman in the sky, threatened by a dragon, " corresponds to a widespread myth throughout the ancient world that a goddess pregnant with a savior was pursued by a horrible monster ; by miraculous intervention, she bore a son who then killed the monster ".

According to Numbers 31: 16 and St. John ( Revelation 2: 14 ), Balaam returned to King Balak and informed the king on how to get the Israelites to curse themselves by enticing them with prostitutes and unclean food sacrificed to idols.

According to Revelation 2, vv.

According to Revelation X ; The " Bob " Apocryphon, " Bob " was born in Dallas, Texas, to Xinucha-Chi-Xan M. Dobbs ( a pharmacist ) and Jane McBride Dobbs.

According to the literal interpretation of prophecies in the Revelation of John, this kingdom of God on Earth will last a thousand years or more ( a millennium ).

According to Revelation, a woman named Jezebel ( who called herself a prophetess ) taught and seduced the Christians of Thyateira to commit sexual immorality and to eat things sacrificed to idols.

According to the gnostic teachings of Samael Aun Weor, the third eye is referenced symbolically and functionally several times in the Book of Revelation 3: 7-13, a work which, as a whole, he believes describes Kundalini and its progression upwards through three and a half turns and seven chakras.

According to Eusebius, Theophilus quoted the Book of Revelation in his work against Hermogenes ; a very precarious allusion has been seen in ii.

According to Catholic doctrine, Mary was assumed into heaven and is with Jesus Christ, her divine Son and is represented in Book of Revelation 12 as the woman clothed with the sun who gives birth to Christ.

According to the Book of Revelation ( 7: 4-8 ), the tribe of Dan is the only original tribe of Israel which is not included in the list of tribes which are sealed.

According to this view, Adventists are " chosen " by God to proclaim the three angels ' messages of Revelation 14 to the world.

According to her, in the four Canonical Gospels, Acts and Revelation, historical facts have been encoded into the text, that is, they were written ( and may be revealed ) by applying the method, forgotten for twenty centuries.

According to classical rabbinical literature, the specific agate was of a sky-blue colour, and though Jacinth now refers to a red-tinted clear gem-the Jacinth-this wasn't the case at the time the Book of Revelation was written, and at that time Jacinth appears to have referred to a bluish gem ; Pliny describes Jacinth as a dull and blueish amethyst, while Solinus describes it as a clear blue tinted gem-the modern Sapphire.

According to Gregg Jakobson, Manson mentioned " Revolution 9 " more often than any of the other album tracks, and he interpreted it as a parallel of Chapter 9 of the Book of Revelation.

According to his calculations, he claimed, the Books Daniel and Revelation predicted the " Dark Ages " would last until around 1935.

According to this letter, the Philadelphian Christians were suffering persecution at the hands of the local Jews, whom Revelation calls " the synagogue of Satan " ().

According to a bronze placard affixed to the monument, the woman represented by the statue is the Woman of the Apocalypse, as described in the Book of Revelation ( Revelation 12: 1 – 18 ).

According to his website, Mr. Baxter became intensely interested in Bible prophecy at the age of 20, when a visiting evangelist taught that the four beasts of the book of Revelation, chapter four, were Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.

According to First Esdras, a non-canonical Greek translation of the Book of Ezra, he was also a high priest.

According to the Eclogae Propheticae, every thousand years every member of each order moves up a degree, and thus men can become angels.

According to one variant of the Valentinian system, the Demiurge is besides the maker, out of the appropriate substance, of an order of spiritual beings, the devil, the prince of this world, and his angels.

According to Rashi, the ladder signified the exiles that the Jewish people would suffer before the coming of the Jewish Messiah: the angels that represented the exiles of Babylonia, Persia, and Greece each climbed up a certain number of steps, paralleling the years of the exile, before they " fell down "; but the angel representing the last exile, that of Rome or Edom, kept climbing higher and higher into the clouds.

According to the Rabbinical literature, on account of his modest request for wisdom only, Solomon was rewarded with riches and an unprecedentedly glorious realm, which extended over the upper world inhabited by the angels and over the whole of the terrestrial globe with all its inhabitants, including all the beasts, fowl, and reptiles, as well as the demons and spirits.

According to this account, a group of Israelites learned magic, for demonstration and to test them, from two angels called Harut and Marut, and it adds that this knowledge of magic would be passed on to others by the devil.

According to Dee's journals, Angelical was supposed to have been the language God used to create the world, and which was later used by Adam to speak with God and the angels, and to name all things in existence.

According to one Midrash, it was God, or the angels, who gathered the animals to the ark, together with their food.

According to a Christian tradition dating to about 800, angels carried her body to Mount Sinai, where, in the 6th century, the Eastern Emperor Justinian had established what is now known as Saint Catherine's Monastery, Mount Sinai, ( in fact dedicated to the Transfiguration of Christ ).

According to the historian Socrates of Constantinople, it was introduced into Christian worship by Ignatius of Antioch ( died 107 ) who, in a vision, had seen angels singing in alternating choirs.

According to Rabbi Simeon ben Lakish of Tiberias ( 230 – 270 AD ), specific names for the angels were brought back by the Jews from Babylon.

According to the Book of Enoch, which brings Azazel into connection with the Biblical story of the fall of the angels, located on Mount Hermon, a gathering-place of demons from of old ( Enoch xiii.

According to 1 Enoch ( a book of the Apocrypha ), Azazel ( here spelled ‘ ăzā ’ zyēl ) was one of the chief Grigori, a group of fallen angels who married women.

According to Zoharistic cabala, Samael was also mated with Eisheth Zenunim, Na ' amah, and Agrat Bat Mahlat — all angels of sacred prostitution.

According to the Qur ' an, Satan deviated from the oneness of God in the story of creation of man by permitting his own hierarchical value system to supersede God's will: God asked the angels to bow to Adam, who he had created from clay.

According to many Muslims, each person has two guardian angels, one on each side.

According to Muslim legend and Catholic tradition, Bani Na ' im is the place where the patriarch Abraham, after the departure of the angels, saw the smoke of Sodom and Gomorrah rising as the smoke of a furnace.

According to medieval Christian theologians, the angels are organized into several orders, or " Angelic Choirs ".

According to tradition, angels took her remains to Mount Sinai.

According to these texts, the fallen angels who begat the nephilim were cast into Tartarus ( Greek Enoch 20: 2 ), a place of ' total darkness '.

According to Matthew Bunson, the corresponding order of angels in Judaism is called the " abalim " or " arelim "/" erelim ", but this opinion is far from unrivaled.

According to Islam, the earliest mention of the name of God is found in the Koran sura 2, The Cow: " When your Lord said to the angels: ' I am placing on the earth one that shall rule as My deputy ,' they replied: ' Will You put there one that will do evil and shed blood, when we have for so long sung Your praises and sanctified Your Name?

According to the Book of Enoch, Sariel ( same angel as archangel Saraqael ( communicants of God ) & Azrael ( whom God helps ) according to Al-Qur ' an, angel of death, malaku I-mawati ) was one of the leaders of angels who lusted after the daughters of men.

According to its wisdom — which makes it seek the upper world, the pure lasting form — or its folly — which makes it follow the impure matter of the perishable world below — the soul of man partakes of the nature of either the one or the other but, his destination being to live forever like the angels, man has been appointed by God to be the ruler of all beings on earth ; and in the same measure in which he fulfills or deviates from his destination, does he rise or fall in dignity above or below his fellow creatures.