Truth for Tomorrow

Advent: to come. A coming; appropriately the coming of our Savior, and in the calendar, it includes four sabbaths before Christmas, beginning of St. Andrew's Day, or on the sabbath next before or after it. It is intended as a season of devotion, with reference to the coming of Christ in the flesh, and his second coming to judge the world.

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Angel: Literally, a messenger; one employed to communicate news or information from one person to another at a distance. But appropriately, A spirit, or a spiritual intelligent being employed by God to communicate his will to man. Hence angels are ministers of God, and ministering spirits.

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Apocalypse: to disclose

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Apostle: to send away, to sent.  A person deputed to execute some important business; but appropriately, a disciple of Christ commissioned to preach the gospel. 

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Armageddon: the place where the final battle will be fought between the forces of good and evil (probably so called in reference to the battlefield of Megiddo. Revelation 16:16). {Retrieved from dictionary.com June 29, 2021}. Not found in Webster, 1828.

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Baptism: the application of water to a person, as a sacrament or religious ceremony by which he is initiated into the visible church of Christ. This is usually performed by sprinkling or immersion. 

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Christian: A believer in the religion of Christ.  A professor of his belief in the religion of Christ.

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Demon: A spirit, or immaterial being, holding a middle place between men and the celestial deities of the Pagans.

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Devil: In Christian theology, an evil spirit or being; a fallen angel, expelled from heaven for rebellion against God; the chief of the apostate angels; the implacable enemy and tempter of the human race. 

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Disciple: to learn. A follower; an adherent to the doctrines of another. Hence the constant attendants of Christ were called his disciples; and hence all Christians are called his disciples, as they profess to learn and receive his doctrines and precepts.

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Faith: to draw towards any thing, to conciliate; to believe, to obey.

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Forsake: To quit or leave entirely; to desert; to abandon; to depart from.

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Gentile: pertaining to pagans or heathens (refers to anyone who is not Jewish)

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Gospel: The history of the birth, life, actions, death, resurrection, ascension and doctrines of Jesus Christ; or a revelation of the grace of God to fallen man through a mediator, including the character, actions, and doctrines of Christ, with the whole scheme of salvation, as revealed by Christ and his apostles.

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Grace: favor; good will; kindness; disposition to oblige another; to favor; to honor; to supply with heavenly grace.  Appropriately, the free unmerited love and favor of God, the spring and source of all the benefits men receive from him.

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Heathen: see gentile; {In Biblical terms this refers to anyone who is not Jewish}.

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Heaven: The region or expanse which surrounds the earth, and which appears above and around us, like an immense arch or vault, in which are seen the sun, moon and stars.  Among christians, the part of space in which the omnipresent Jehovah is supposed to afford more sensible manifestations of his glory. Hence this is called the habitation of God, and is represented as the residence of angels and blessed spirits.

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Hell:  The place or state of punishment for the wicked after death. The place of the dead, or of souls after death; the lower regions, or the grave; called in Hebrew, sheol, and by the Greeks, hades.

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Holy: properly, whole, entire or perfect in a moral sense. Hallowed; consecrated or set apart to all sacred use, or to the service or worship of God.

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Idolatry: The worship of idols, images, or any thing made by hands, or which is not God.

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Jew: a Hebrew or Israelite.

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Judgment: The act of judging; the act or process of the mind in comparing its ideas, to find their agreement or disagreement, and to ascertain truth; or the process of examining facts and arguments, to ascertain propriety and justice; or the process of examining the relations between one proposition and another.

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Messiah: Christ, the anointed; the Savior of the world.

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Prophecy: a foretelling; prediction; a declaration of something to come. As God only knows future events with certainty, no being but God or some person informed by him, can utter a real prophecy.  The prophecies recorded in Scripture, when fulfilled, afford most convincing evidence of the divine original of the Scriptures, as those who uttered the prophecies could not have foreknown the events predicted without supernatural instruction.

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Prophet: One that foretells future events; a predicter; a foreteller.  In Scripture, a person illuminated, inspired or instructed by God to announce future events; as Moses, Elijah, David, Isaiah, etc.

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Rapture: transport; extreme joy or pleasure.

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Redemption: Repurchase of captured goods or prisoners; the act of procuring the deliverance of persons or things from the possession and power of captors by the payment of an equivalent; ransom; release; as the redemption of prisoners taken in war; the redemption of a ship and cargo.

Deliverance from bondage, distress, or from liability to any evil or forfeiture, either by money, labor or other means.

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Repent: one that expresses sorrow for sin.

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Resurrection: A rising again; chiefly, the revival of the dead of the human race, or their return from the grave, particularly at the general judgment. By the resurrection of Christ we have assurance of the future resurrection of men.

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Revelation: The act of disclosing or discovering to others what was before unknown to them; appropriately, the disclosure or communication of truth to men by God himself, or by his authorized agents, the prophets and apostles.

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Righteous: Just; accordant to the divine law. Applied to persons, it denotes one who is holy in heart, and observant of the divine commands in practice; as a righteous man. Applied to things, it denotes consonant to the divine will or to justice; as a righteous act.

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Scripture: appropriately, and by way of distinction, the books of the Old and New Testament of the Bible.

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Sermon: A discourse delivered in public by a licensed clergymen for the purpose of religious instruction, and usually grounded on some text or passage of Scripture. 

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Sickle: A reaping hook; a hooked instrument with teeth; used for cutting grain. Thou shalt not move a sickle to thy neighbor's standing corn.

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Sin: the voluntary departure of a moral agent from a known rule of rectitude or duty prescribed by God.

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Synagogue: a congregation or assembly of Jews, met for the purpose of worship or the performance of religious rites.

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The Waters/On Many Waters: Biblical expression meaning peoples, multitudes, nations and tongues; Revelation 17:15).  This refers to everyone and every nation on the Earth.

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Tribulation: Severe affliction; distresses of life; vexations. In Scripture, it often denotes the troubles and distresses which proceed from persecution.

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Trinity: tres and unus, unitas, one, unity.  In theology, the union of three persons in one Godhead, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

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Wrath: Violent anger; vehement exasperation; indignation; as the wrath of Achilles.

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