PROPHETICAL DICTIONARY OF THE BIBLE. Understanding Biblical Eschatology and Prophecy

PROPHETICAL DICTIONARY OF THE BIBLE

April 2026

THE ANTICHRIST AND HIS POWER – THE MAN OF SIN OR THE WICKED.

THE FALL OF BABYLON – ROME, JERUSALEM, SOCIETY…?

March 2026

THE NEW JERUSALEM HAS NO TEMPLE! – Prophetical and Apocalyptic Eschatological concept. The New Jerusalem is different of the “eternal capital” of Israel. The name Jerusalem, Yerushalayim, and other forms like Salem or Urusalima, are made of Ieru (teaching or foundation) and Shalom or Salem, which is peace; the foundation of peace, and in Koine Greek, Hierosolyma, sacred. On Temple Mount is the location where Abraham was tested by God when He requested him to sacrificed his son Isaac. In front and north is the Golgotha, the Calvary, where God did sacrifice His only begotten for us, to pay for our sins, as the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world. But the Lord Jesus Christ tells us of another Jerusalem which descends from Heaven, from God, to which He calls “the bride, the Lamb’s wife” Rev. 21:9, and in which there is no Temple, because the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its Temple. “…but I saw no Temple in it, because the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its Temple…”, Revelation 21:22. It only reveals us that there is one only throne, which is the one of the Father and of the Son, Revelation 22:1. The establishment of the Kingdom of God shows us the precious relationship and direct and intima of each Christian with God, in which He has washed our garments so that we may have the right to the Tree of Life, and to enter through the gates of the new city, vs. 14. But the concept of the New Jerusalem is the wife of Christ, which at the same time is our soul, and the Church, all those born again. Its 12 doors with the names of the 12 children of Israel, and the 12 foundations with the names of the 12 apostles of Yahshua. To go deeper into the New Jerusalem, you may read this Prophetical Study: https://www.yahshua.net/Inhabitants-of-Jerusalem.htm

PROPHETIC HORSES – THE 7 HORSEMEN OF APOCALYPSE – Prophetical and Apocalyptic Eschatological concept. The etymologies of horse, in Hebrew, but specially in the Greek of the New Testament, are: parash in Hebrew is used for rider, or battle horse in the prophetical of the New Testament, but oio pronounced sus or susim in plural. hípoos is the Koine Greek word in Revelation. I know that the normal thing is to write about the 4 horsemen of the Apocalypse, but I will leave that to the conventional literature. It is more relevant that the believer realizes that in Revelation 7 horses are mentioned; to be exact 7 groups of horses, and their riders or horsemen, being the more relevant our Lord Jesus Christ or Yahshua:

1.- Rev. 6:2 the 4 horsemen and the 4 horses: white horse, its horseman had a bow and a crown and went out conquering and to conquer. First seal.

2.- Rev. 6:3,4 fiery red horse, its horseman was granted power to take peace from the earth. Second seal.

3.- Rev. 6:5 black horse, its horseman has a pair of scales in his hand. Third seal.

4.- Rev. 6:8 pale horse, its horseman is called Death, Hades follows him, kills 4 parts of the earth with sward, hunger, death and beasts. Forth seal.  

5.- Rev. 9:17 horses and their horsemen with breastplates of fiery red, a group of 200 million.

6.- Rev. 19:11 …a white horse, and He who sat on him was called Faithfull and True, and in righteousness He judges and makes war. This is the Lord Jesus. And the armies in heaven followed Him on white horses (this I could also see in a dream years ago, in which I was riding on one of those white horses following Jesus Christ; I pray the Lord will grant me that, in His grace and infinite mercy for this, His servant, that it may come true.).

7.- Rev. 19:14 white horses of Christ’s army, dressed of white linen.

Therefore, the number of horses in Revelation is at least 200 million and six, because we do not know the amount of the armies of heaven, for it is not revealed to us, so it is a great multitude of horses. We may see the prophetic horse as a symbol of the power of an army, of those people who make war against God, or of the people of God when we fight at His side and He at ours, as it reads in the parallel Text of Zechariah 6, with Revelation 6, where 4 chariots with horses of the same colours as those in Revelation. The horses are almost always ridden by angels. Proverb 21:31 tells us that the horse is prepared for the day of the battle, but it is of Yahweh to grant the victory. God uses the horses to give victories, with His angels, on physical and spiritual wars, with His people, to execute His judges, and to come to establish His kingdom. I believe that all the believers in Jesus Christ will have our prophetic horse in the Kingdom of God. To go deeper about the events of Revelation, you may read this Prophetical Study: https://www.yahshua.net/The-Coming-of-Jesus-Christ-John.htm

February 2026

THE RAPTURE OF THE CHURCH – Prophetical and Eschatological Concept. The rapture of the Church is a fundamental prophecy of Christian Eschatology. Those Christians alive in the Day of the Lord, fruit of having received the Gospel that we preach, so that they chose the Way of the Faith in the Gospel of the Kingdom of God. Two principal Bible Texts about the rapture of the living disciples of Christ in His coming share the event that we Christians are waiting with joy because it will take us to the eternal paradise in such way, if we are alive in the Day of the Lord: Matthew 24:37-40, 1 Thessalonians 4:17. And those who are of Christ but are not alive in that Day, they share the hope of this event, because they will be raised and raptured together with those who are waiting for Him, and this way all in the air shall receive the Lord Jesus Chrit, who will come with power and glory, and every eye shall see Him, Revelation 1:7. But, the different denominations of the different branches of the Churches, interpret the event of the rapture of the Church, placing it before, during, or after another event called “The Great Tribulation” pre-tribulational, mid-tribulational, or post-tribulational. And also, the great doctrinal blocks of eschatology are the preterism (all the eschatological prophecy of the Bible was already fulfilled, except the coming of the Lord), historicism, and futurism (the prophecy about Bible eschatology is to be fulfilled in the end time). To go deeper, you may read this Prophetical Study: https://www.yahshua.net/Rapture.htm 

THE ABOMINATION OF DESOLATION – Prophetical and Eschatological Concept. The Lord Jesus, in His prophecy to the apostles He warned them that when they saw the “Abomination of Desolation” spoken of by Daniel the prophet standing where it ought not” Mark 13:14, to flee to the mountains. Daniel the prophet received from God such revelation for the time of the end:  ⁸ Although I heard, I did not understand. Then I said, “My lord, what shall be the end of these things?”⁹ And he said, “Go your way, Daniel, for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end. ¹⁰ Many shall be purified, made white, and refined, but the wicked shall do wickedly; and none of the wicked shall understand, but the wise shall understand. ¹¹ “And from the time that the daily sacrifice is taken away, and the abomination of desolation is set up, there shall be one thousand two hundred and ninety days. ¹² Blessed is he who waits, and comes to the one thousand three hundred and thirty-five days. ¹³ “But you, go your way till the end; for you shall rest, and will arise to your inheritance at the end of the days.” Daniel 12 takes us to the “Prophecy of the 70 Weeks” which includes 1290 – 1335 = 45 days, or a month and a half. It reminds us, and it is related to the 1260 days, or time, times and half a time, or 3.5 years, from Revelation 11, half a time of the week of 7 years which usually applies to the Great Tribulation, Daniel 9:27. Today, this prophecy and the concept of the “Abomination of Desolation” continues to lift discrepancies between those who interpret it as an event occurred on the year 70 A.D. when general Titus and his armies, place the pagan standards on the Temple before they destroyed it, which was an abomination. And those who consider it pending to be fulfilled on the last week of the “70 Weeks” at the end of time, when the third Temple is built, being that everything is ready for it, and that Israel has returned to its land since 1948, and when the “prince that is to come” makes a covenant of 7 years with Israel which will be cancel in the middle, sitting on the Temple requesting worship to his image, which in this interpretation would be the “Abomination of Desolation”. To go deeper into you may read these Prophetic Studies: https://www.yahshua.net/70weeksDaniel.htm – https://www.yahshua.net/doctrine.htm

January 2026

THE SECOND COMING OF JESUS CHRIST – YAHSHUA – The Lord Jesus taught the apostles that He would return in His Second coming at the end of time, something we can read in the Gospels, Matthew 24:29, Mark 13:24, Luke 21:25. On the other hand, we have the letters of Paul, of Peter, and of John, with Revelation, which provide the structure revealed by God about the eschatology about the Second Coming of Christ. It is a prophesized event in the Bible, but not only that, but it is the centre of the hope of every Christian, whether because it may live this event, as well as by the conviction that it will be fulfilled, and Jesus Christ – Yahshua will come to reign for ever, bringing the Kingdom of God where He will take us after the resurrection, or of the rapture for those who live then. The Second Coming of Christ is the final event of the work of Jesus, because, in His first coming, He did it as the Lamb of God, as a humble servant and as a man who would carry, in our place, the punishment of our sins to the Cross of Calvary. The Second Coming is, as well as the consummation of His triumph over sin and over death, in each of the souls saved for eternity, the manifestation of the Messiah as the King of kings, and Lord of lords, the one many still await, but Whom they have not received as the Lamb of God, as our Saviour and Son of God. To go deeper about the Second Coming of Christ, you may read these Bible Studies: https://www.yahshua.net/The-Coming-of-the-Son-of-Man.htm – https://www.yahshua.net/The-Coming-of-Jesus-Christ-John.htm  

END OF THE TIME OF THE GENTILES – Prophetical and Eschatological Concept. This concept comes from the Biblical sentence from the Words of the Lord Jesus Christ in the Gospel of Luke: “…And they will fall by the edge of the sward and be led away captive into all nations. And Jerusalem will be trampled by Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled. Then there will be signs in the sun, in the moon and in the stars, and on the earth distress of nations, with perplexity, the sea and the waves roaring; men’s hearts failing them from fear and the expectation of those things which are coming on the earth; for the powers of the heavens will be shaken. Then they will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. Now, when these things begin to happen, look up and lift up your heads, because your redemption draws near.” Luke 21:25-28. To go deeper about when the times of the gentiles will be over you can read the Prophetical Bible Study: https://www.yahshua.net/endtimegentiles.htm

December – Christmas 2025

PROPHECY OF THE BIRTH OF THE MESSIAH AS THE SON OF GOD – The prophetical birth of the Son of God, the Messiah Yeshua, Yahshua, or Jesus Christ has a great amount of references in the entire Bible along history. He would be a descendant of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob. He would be of the tribe of Juda, of the house of David, like his natural parents, his mother would be virgin. Prophets were talking about Him constantly. A very relevant Text was received by Isaiah: “…For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of Yahweh of hosts will perform this. Isaiah 9:6 Year 700 B.C.E. He would be born in Bethlehem of Judah. Would die as He suffered on the Cross, Isaiah 53, Psalm 22. He would live since eternity, Micah 5:2. The distressing times when He was born were prophesized by prophet Danil. And Psalm 16:10 proclaimed that death could not hold Him, and Hosea 6:2 that He would raise on the third day. To go deeper on the birth of the prophesized birth of the Messiah, you can read these Bible Prophetical Studies: https://www.yahshua.net/prophChrist.htm – https://www.yahshua.net/JesusNazareth.htm – https://www.yahshua.net/why-god-became-man/ – https://www.yahshua.net/the-divinity-of-jesus-christ-yahshua/

November 2025

PROPHECY OF THE BIRTH OF THE MESSIAH AS THE SON OF GOD – The prophetical birth of the Son of God, the Messiah Yeshua, Yahshua, or Jesus Christ has a great amount of references in the entire Bible along history. He would be a descendant of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob. He would be of the tribe of Juda, of the house of David, like his natural parents, his mother would be virgin. Prophets were talking about Him constantly. A very relevant Text was received by Isaiah: “…For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of Yahweh of hosts will perform this. Isaiah 9:6 Year 700 B.C.E. He would be born in Bethlehem of Judah. Would die as He suffered on the Cross, Isaiah 53, Psalm 22. He would live since eternity, Micah 5:2. The troublous times when He was born were prophesized by prophet Danil. And Psalm 16:10 proclaimed that death could not hold Him, and Hosea 6:2 that He would raise on the third day. To go deeper on the birth of the prophesized birth of the Messiah, you can read these Bible Prophetical Studies: https://www.yahshua.net/prophChrist.htm – https://www.yahshua.net/JesusNazareth.htm – https://www.yahshua.net/why-god-became-man/

 PROPHECY OF THE PASSION OF CHRIST – Prophetical and Eschatological concept. Whas the passion of Christ, the Messiah, the Savour of the world, prophesised? The Text of the Old Testament which spoke to Israel about it are evident, both to the Jews as to the Gentiles. Psalm 22 describes the passion of Christ, which was a vision received by king David in his facet of prophet. Also prophet Isais in his chapter 53 which such detail that nobody with a minimum of faith and spiritual sensitivity can doubt it tells the crucifixion of Yahshua, Jesus of Nazareth, the Son of God. You may go deeper in this Prophetical Study about Psalm 22 and the Passion of Christ: https://www.yahshua.net/Psalm22-Passion-of-Christ-Yahshua.htm 

October 2025

THE PROPHETIC CODE OF THE BIBLE – Prophetical and Apocalyptic Eschatological concept. Does the Bible have a prophetical code that contains the history of humanity from beginning to end? Much has been written, and many have searched in the Bible for a source to know the future, especially the date, day and hour of the end of the world, which is not possible, because God has hidden this to us. Jesus already warned us that the day and the hour we will never know, but we would know the times and their characteristics, Matthew 24:36. The Bible contains all the prophecies that the people of God must know, which is useful for us to know that it is the prophetical Word of God, on the one side, and that we may know the road map of humanity, but the aim is not to use to know the future, but to know how to live a full life by the hand of our God and with our neighbour. The Prophetical Code of the Bible is spiritual, it can be seen with the eyes of faith, there is no need for any computer program. But some mathematicians have created programs that contain the Hebrew Pentateuch in which they have found great part of what has happened, dates, and historical events in the Biblical Text. This provides another facet of the Bible which could demonstrate another level of the excellence of the intelligent design of the infinite mind of God. But God has given us a Word easy for everyone, which teaches us that all who believe in the Son of God and follows Him has eternal life. You may go deeper in these Prophetical Studies about the Prophetical Code of the Bible: https://www.yahshua.net/PropheticCode.htm – https://www.yahshua.net/greece-biblical-and-theological-history/

GOG AND MAGOG – Prophetical and Apocalyptic Eschatological concept. The battle of Gog and Magog that we read in Ezekiel 38 & 39 is a prophecy that could have several fulfilments, as it happens with many prophecies in The Bible. At historical level some interpretations see its fulfilment in the XI century in the First Crusade, against 10 Muslim kingdoms in the year 1071, just 1000 years after the year 70 A.D. with the destruction of Jerusalem by Titus, at the end of the First Commandment “Old Testament” the war of the Jews against Rome. Those 1000 years are for some preterists the millennium of Revelation 20, already fulfilled. The Text is comparable to the battle of Armageddon in Revelation 16:16 Gog therefore, represents all that will be deceived by the devil to use them and deliver them to the last battle where they will dye, as enemies of God. The part of the prophecy of the attack of God and Magog of Revelation 20:8 is not yet fulfilled, which refers symbolically to the nations enemies of God, the antichrist nations, at the end of history: “8and will go out to deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the earth. Gog and Magog, to gather the together to battle whose number is as the sad of the sea.” These nations will fight against Jerusalem, against God, against Jesus Christ, and there when the Messiah Yahshua, Jesus Christ will defeat them all, freeing the “camp of the saints” and the “beloved city”, all those who believe in Him as Saviour. You may go deeper in a Prophetical Study about the Battle of Armageddon: https://www.yahshua.net/Armageddon.htm

September 2025

ARMAGEDDON – Prophetical and Apocalyptic Eschatological concept. Armageddon originates from the Hebrew form: har-Megiddo “Mount of Megiddo”. It is also identified as “mountain of slaughter” (Illustrated Bible Dictionary, CLIE.74). In the same way, Megiddo is known as Valley of Jezreel – where already more than 200 battles have been fought, among which kings of Israel died, Judges 6:33 – it is identified with the valley between the two hills of Megiddo, and both names are related with the great valley of Esdraelon. But this concept has been used in films which have nothing to do with the concept in The Bible. Finally, and where the greatest controversy surges, is with its identification with a battle that will occur at the end of human history between the nations against Jerusalem, against Jesus Christ – Yahshua or Yeshua, who will destroy His enemies with the brightness of His coming (Revelation 16:16). Read a Prophetical Study about ARMAGEDDON: https://www.yahshua.net/Armageddon.htm

70 WEEKS OF DANIEL – Prophetical and Apocalyptic Eschatological concept. The 70^th Week of Daniel 9, is one of the prophetical subjects which are also part of the apocalyptic and eschatological literature. On the one hand we can create a sequence of exact dates from the year in which the 70 weeks begin and arrive to the year in which the Messiah Jesus Christ enters Jerusalem on Palm Sunday, being that His expiatory death puts an end to the sacrifice and the offering, in week 69 and ½. The other half of the week, or 1260 days, or 3.5 years, or time, times, and half time, is what remains the stumbling block for Bible scholars. You may go deeper in a Prophetical Study about the 70 WEEKS OF DANIEL: https://www.yahshua.net/70weeksDaniel.htm

APOCALYPSE – Prophetical and Apocalyptic Eschatological concept. The Greek concept “apokálypsis” means “to take off the veil, reveal, to show something hidden, therefore many Bibles call it the book of Revelation” and that is how the book itself begins: “The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave Him, to show his servants things which must shortly take place; and He sent and signified by His angel to His servant John”. Revelation 1:1. The book of Revelation, which is many times defined as prophetical, but the truth is that it is a book belonging to a specific gender called by the erudite: Apocalyptical, which was initiated by other books, like the Psalm 83, parts of Isaia, of Ezekiel 37-39, Daniel, Joel, of Amos, Matthew 24, Marc 13, Luke 21. The Apocalyptic gender is also of a high symbolic meaning, therefore many who read it in a literal way don’t find its meaning, or don’t relate it with the rest of Bible Scripture of the same kind. The theological study of the entire book is needed in relation to the Bible itself to achieve its understanding. Therefore, Apocalypse does not mean end of the world, but the concept has become linked to it. You may go deeper in a Prophetical Study about Revelation in the following link: https://www.yahshua.net/The-Coming-of-Jesus-Christ-John.htm

THE RESURRECTION – Prophetical and Eschatological Concept. The Resurrection has two implications, the first to Jesus Christ – Yahshua, Whose resurrection was prophesized and of which He himself was telling His disciples (Hosea 6:2 – Psalm 16:10 – Luke 9:22). On the other hand, the resurrection of the dead, of all, good and evil, for the Day of Judgment, nobody will escape the judgment (1 Thessalonians 4:13-18). The prophecy of the Valley of the Dry Bones of Ezekiel 37 is of great theological and prophetical impact. You may go deeper in this Bible Study of Solid Food: https://www.yahshua.net/resurrection.htm

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Special mention is deserved by the book of Revelation, which is many times defined as prophetical, but the truth is that it is a book belonging to a specific gender called by the erudite: Apocalyptical, which was initiated by other books, like the Psalm 83, parts of Isaia, of Ezekiel 37-39, Daniel, Joel, of Amos, Matthew 24, Marc 13, Luke 21.

It self, the Greek concept “apokálypsis” means “to take off the veil, reveal, to show something hidden, therefore many Bibles call it the book of Revelation” and that is how the book itself begins: “The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave Him, to show his servants things which must shortly take place; and He sent and signified by His angel to His servant John”. Revelation 1:1. 

Externally to The Bible, some consider as prophetical some apocryphal books, but the one that stands out most is the book of Enoch, which many consider as inspired, and that should be part of the Biblical Canon, for its trails (it would be the 40^th book of the Old Testament instead of having 39), but a careful study shows much fantasy which is not inspired and not found in the rest of the books of the Canon. Although the Jews do not count the books like the Gentiles, being that what is considered the 39 books of the Old Testament of the West, for the Jews are 24 sacred books, being that the difference is in the way the books are grouped, greater prophets, minor prophets, etc. But the books are the same.

To know the basic concepts is essential to be able to study the Bible prophecies in depth.