Showing posts with label olive. Show all posts
Showing posts with label olive. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 24, 2012

~Revelation 18.3
For all the nations have fallen because of the wine of [Babylon's] passionate immorality. The kings of the world have committed adultery with her.

~Revelation 18.13
[Babylon, the great city] also bought cinnamon, spice, incense, myrrh, frankincense, wine, olive oil, fine flour, wheat, cattle, sheep, horses, chariots, and bodies—that is, human slaves.

In Revelation, Babylon represents world systems which are against God. I think wine is used here to symbolize how intoxicating those systems can be.

Cinnamon, spice, wine, olive oil, fine flour, wheat, cattle and sheep are listed among the luxuries enjoyed by Babylon.

Friday, November 18, 2011

Olive Grove

~John 18.1 After saying these things, Jesus crossed the Kidron Valley with his disciples and entered a grove of olive trees.

~Mark 14.32a They went to the olive grove called Gethsemane....

~Matthew 26.36 Then Jesus went with them to the olive grove called Gethsemane, and he said, “Sit here while I go over there to pray.”

~Luke 22.39 Then, accompanied by the disciples, Jesus left the upstairs room and went as usual to the Mount of Olives.

Jesus liked to hang out in the olive grove. In his time of great distress, this is where he comes.