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I started highlighting the word "overcomes" in Revelation when I first started the book. This is my attempt to find the significance of the word. I've copied my notes below. Any stray letters come from the kitten sitting on the keyboard. Revelation: He who overcomes will receive... NASB In Reformed Theology, the theology of R.C. Sproul, Calvin, and Luther, Scripture should be interpreted in three ways: by Scripture itself, remembering that all Scripture, OT and NT, point towards Christ, from a Redemptive Historical viewpoint: no longer, already, not yet Words in italics are strictly my thoughts about the following scriptures. 2:7 (Jesus speaking) "To him who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes , (false teaching/practices) I will grant to eat of the tree of life which is in the Paradise of God ." (everlasting life in Paradise...

I have set up a blog where you can go read a few of the things I've written over the past three years. You might not want to take the chance, though. They are not pretty, sentimental, God is wonderful posts. Most of them aren't anyway. Mostly I've written out the pain, excised it like you do a boil when you have to slice into it and squeeze out pus until it bleeds enough to leave a clean space behind where the healthy skin can grow. What I write doesn't end up pretty, because I have a fatalistic, apocalyptic point of view about life. What I write doesn't have happy endings with "deus ex machina" showing up to straighten everything out . Life is hard over and over again. I use real words, but not obscene ones, just the real ones that hardness throughs up.