Hebrew Insights from Revelation Quotes

“The idea of the terrible Beast follows the apocalyptical tradition of animals being representations of people. The number 666 is a Gematria, a numeric code meant to help people to calculate and identify whom John is really writing about. The “mark of the beast” (whatever form or shape it was to take) was to be placed on the head and on the hand, according to Revelation. To a Jewish audience, such placement sounds very familiar and would make perfect symbolic sense.”
― Eli Lizorkin-Eyzenberg, Hebrew Insights from Revelation

“the time of John’s writing, most Jews were in “exile” גָּלוּת (galut) across the word, but God promised that in the last days he would gather his people from the four corners of the world (Is. 11:12). This would end the exile and the same time end Israel’s exposure to the wrath of the nations.”
― Eli Lizorkin-Eyzenberg, Hebrew Insights from Revelation

“For the word of God is living and active and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing as far as the division of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart” (Heb.4:12).”
― Eli Lizorkin-Eyzenberg, Hebrew Insights from Revelation