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Section Elias to Esau (the other sections → rkw011.htm)

Elias, Elijah

• On Elijah, John the Baptist, and the coming Elias who is mentioned in the New Testament. → rta022.htm
• Moses – Jesus the Second Moses – parallels between Moses and Jesus – the seat of Moses – Jesus, Moses and Elijah. → roa081.htm

Embitterment – Paul to the Jewish saints, “do not harden your hearts, as in the embitterment, in the day of testing in the desert” (Hebrews 3:7). → rxa103.htm – (raa123.htm)

End time

• There are many prophecies that have not been fulfilled yet, but one must keep in mind that in the Bible, such expressions as “the end”, “end time”, “last days”, “short time”, “soon” and so on, very often refer to things which are from our point of view events of the ancient past. The article rga022.htm (points 3 and 4) has some notes on this.
• The two witnesses of the book of Revelation. → rta012.htm – rta022.htm
• The “end time Elijah”. → rta022.htm
• Who are the 144000 and the great multitude of Revelation 7? → rta032.htm
• What does the Bible say about parousia or rapture? → rga052.htm
• What is the timing of the great persecution (“tribulation”)? → rta042.htm
• Prophetic trumpets of different kinds. → rta052.htm
• The great judgment. → rta062.htm
  • Will some humans be tormented “in fire and brimstone”, “for ever and ever”? On Revelation 14:10–11 and its translation and meaning. → rta072.htm
• The rising up of the dead. → rba082.htm
• Regarding certain Anglo-Israelist dogmas:
  • The fate of the tribes of Israel in the “end time”. → rya012.htm

Eng-RV (A bible-translation.) → rsa092.htm

England – Some writers have claimed that the Anglo-Saxon people in England are Israelites, “the tribe of Ephraim”. Is that true? → rya092.htm – rya012.htm

Entering a rest – On what the apostle Paul meant and referred to when he wrote about “entering a rest”, Hebrews 3 and 4. → rxa103.htm

Ephesians, Ephesus

• Ephesus (Greek Ephesos) was a town in what today is the western part of Asiatic Turkey, close to the Mediterranean coast. There are different interpretations of the origin and meaning of the name Ephesos, but its meaning is not known with certainty.
• In the Greek text of the New Testament, the words ephesos, ephesios and ephesinos occur in around 20 passages, from Acts 18:19 to Revelation 2:1.
• Acts 20 records how the apostle Paul reminded the elders from Ephesus that it is “more blessed to give than to receive”, and that they were to support the infirm. Paul told those elders to be on the giving side, just as he himself had been. → rma023.htm
• Notes on the apostle Paul’s letter to the saints in Ephesus, and some background information on the situation in that town in those days. → raa142.htm
• Some talk about “church eras” and call one of them “the Ephesus era”. It appears that the “church eras” dogma was invented by the Baptist preacher William Miller (1782–1849); at least, he was among the first to promulgate it in a more public way. But, is that dogma correct and true? → raa032.htm
• Ephesians – passages in Paul’s letter to the saints in Ephesus, mentioned at this site:
  • Ephesians 1
    • 1 → (rga093.htm) – (raa142.htm)
    • 5 → rba032.htm
    • 11 → rba032.htm
    • 11–14 → rba012.htm – rba062.htm
    • 13 → rca072.htm
    • 13–14 → rca023.htm – rta032.htm – (rba022.htm)
    • 16–23 → raa142.htm
  • Ephesians 2
    • 7–9 → rca102.htm
    • 19–22 → raa052.htm
  • Ephesians 3
    • 3–5 → rda062.htm
    • 6–7 → rea063.htm, appendix
    • 9–10 → rda062.htm
  • Ephesians 4
    • 4 → rba022.htm
    • 4–7 → raa082.htm
    • 4–8 → raa142.htm
    • 11 → (raa082.htm)
    • 11–16 → raa142.htm
    • 14–15 → rsa052.htm – raa103.htm
    • 15 → roa052.htm
    • 24 → roa113.htm
    • 24–25 → roa052.htm
    • 30 → rta032.htm – (rca102.htm)
  • Ephesians 5
    • 23–27 → raa142.htm
    • 31–32 → raa142.htm
  • Ephesians 6
    • 5–9 → roa162.htm
    • 12 → (rda062.htm)
    • 21 → rea063.htm, appendix
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index.

Ephraim

• Ephraim was a son of Joseph (born by the Egyptian woman Asenath, her second son, see Genesis 41:50–51).
• Ephraim was “adopted” by his grandfather Jacob, see Genesis 48:5.
• Ephraim’s descendants came to form the tribe of Ephraim, a part of the tribe of Joseph which was one of Israel’s tribes.
• Between circa 2700 and 2500 years ago, the Israelites were driven out from the Promised Land and taken into captivity and dispersion. The northern tribes, including Ephraim, never returned to that land. Through this, they became the ten lost tribes of Israel.
• Some writers have claimed that the Anglo-Saxon people in USA and Britain are tribes of Israel, “Manasseh” and “Ephraim”. Is that true? → rya092.htm
• Look also under the heading “Tribes of Israel”.

Ephratah, Ephrath, Ephrathite – Look under the heading “Bethlehem”.

Epicurean (Acts 17:18)

• The Epicureans (Greek epikoureios, epikoureiôn, Acts 17:18) were a Greek, materialistic sect of philosophers, followers of the teachings of Epikouros (c. 341–270 BCE).
• The word epikouria/epikourias in the Greek text of Acts 26:22 is not connected to those philosophers but simply means “aid”, “help”.

Episkopos

• The English word “bishop” is derived from the noun episkopos which occurs in the Greek text of the NT, but “bishop” is a Catholic concept. The saints did not have “bishops”. The resurrected Jesus was their only priest. → raa082.htm
  • In the Greek text of the New Testament, all of the words episkopos, presbuteros and diakonos are at times used of elders. Among the saints, there was no “hierarchy” or “ranks”. → rea012.htm
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index.

Epistle

• Epistle = letter. The English word “epistle” comes from the old Greek noun epistolê which simply means “letter”. (Literally, epistolê refers to something that is sent by a messenger, such as a message, an order, or a commission. It comes from the verb epistellô, “to send to”, “to send as a message or letter”.)
• Bible-translators have not always been consistent but have rendered epistolê sometimes as “letter” and sometimes as “epistle”.
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index.

Equal, equality

• Jesus told his disciples that they were brothers – that is, equal (Matthew 23:8–10, et cetera). → rea012.htm – rea022.htm – rea032.htm – rea042.htm – rsa062.htm
•  The apostle Paul to the saints in Corinth: “For I do not mean that others should be eased and you burdened; but by an equality, that now at this time your abundance may supply their lack, that their abundance also may supply your lack—that there may be equality” (2 Corinthians 8:14–15). → rma072.htm

Equinox – Were the equinoxes a factor in connection with the timing of the ancient Israelites’ annual high days, as some say? → rxa082.htm

Eras (“church eras”)

• Some talk about “seven eras of the church”. It appears that the “church eras” dogma was invented by the Baptist preacher William Miller (1782–1849); at least, he was among the first to promulgate it in a more public way. But, is that dogma correct and true? → raa032.htm
• Regarding Matthew 16:18 and the “true church” dogma which some have combined with the “eras” dogma. → raa012.htm (appendix)

Erasmus

• “Erasmus” or “Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus” (circa 1466–1536) was a Dutch Catholic monk and priest. Apparently, his real name was Gerrit Gerritszoon. He produced a Latin-Greek NT text for the Basel book printer Johann Froben. For more on Gerritszoon and the text produced by him, look under the heading “Textus receptus”.

Esau, the son of Isaac and Rebecca, twin brother of Jacob

• Esau who was Isaac’s first-born son, sold his birthright (better inheritance) to his twin-brother Jacob. → rya042.htm – (raa123.htm)
• Esau was also called Edom; see Genesis 25:30 with its context.
• Joshua 24:4 and Deuteronomy 2:4–5 record that the Lord gave Esau land by Mount Seir, a large area which came to be called “the land of Edom” (that is, “Esau’s land”).
• Why is Esau mentioned in Hebrews 12:15? Jewish tradition has it that Esau was an immoral person, and also that he lay with a woman (virgin) who was betrothed to someone else, in that way defiling her. → raa123.htm

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