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Endurance and Faith: Daily Thoughts from Revelation (Revelation 13:1-10)

A young Christian couple in northeast India was beaten the first of April, 2019, by an Adivasi couple. The Adivasis are the indigenous people of India, many of whom are Hindus with a streak of animism.

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Satan’s Wrath: Daily Thoughts from Revelation (Revelation 12:13-17)

Considered a spy for the British, even though he was an American, missionary Adoniram Judson spent 20 months during 1824-27 in a rat-infested prison, fed poorly, sometimes suspended by his feet, his head

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No More Access: Daily Thoughts from Revelation (Revelation 12:7-12)

Have you ever heard someone say that God cannot abide the presence of evil? That is patently false, as we can see from the book of Job, in which God talks to Satan in heaven about Job, and, as we shall

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Our Great Enemy: Daily Thoughts from Revelation (Revelation 12:1-6)

Who has been the enemy of mankind from the very beginning? Who has been the unseen antagonist behind every attempt to destroy God’s people? Who has sought to co-opt God’s kingdom and make it

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At Last: Daily Thoughts from Revelation (Revelation 11:15-19)

Christians of every generation have wondered if the kingdom of God was not about to come in their day. It feels normal and healthy for that to be our expectation. It means we haven’t forgotten. We

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Whoa, Woe: Daily Thoughts from Revelation (Revelation 11:1-14)

We are still looking at the seven trumpets that announce and send judgment on earth from God. Six of the seven have already sounded, the last three also being described as “woes” and the second

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God’s Mystery Revealed: Daily Thoughts from Revelation (Revelation 10)

The last seven years of the Daniel 9 prophecy are begun with a covenant that the “prince who is to come” (Dan. 9:26, the man of lawlessness in 2 Thessalonians 2:3) makes with Israel, a covenant

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Hardness of Heart: Daily Thoughts from Revelation (Revelation 9:13-21)

We are in that portion of the book of Revelation (the “things to come” portion, see Rev. 1:19) describing the judgment God sends on the earth. It is all taking place within a three and a half

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Arise, O Sleeper: Daily Thoughts from Revelation (Revelation 9:1-12)

His sons had told me how hard he was toward Christianity. Their attempts to get him to even hear their testimonies of finding Christ seemed to be met with anger and solid resistance. But now he was dying

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The Merciful Judging God: Daily Thoughts from Revelation (Revelation 8:6-13)

Many people find the final judgment of God hard to square with His love and mercy. I suspect, if they thought about it, they would find the absence of such judgment hard to square with his love and mercy,

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Stunned Silence: Daily Thoughts from Revelation (Revelation 8:1-5)

I remember watching in horror in 2001 as video captured two airliners crashing into the twin towers in New York and as they burned and ultimately crashed down upon themselves. To this day I don’t

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A Taste of Heaven: Daily Thoughts from Revelation (Revelation 7:9-17)

How many sermons have you heard on heaven? I haven’t heard very many. I’ve read a tremendous book about heaven by Randy Alcorn, called, appropriately, Heaven. Revelation 7 gives us a little

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Don’t Forget Israel: Daily Thoughts from Revelation (Revelation 7:1-8)

When we think of the book of Revelation we probably think about the judgments (chs. 6-18), the coming of Christ (ch. 19), and the new heaven and earth (chs. 21,22). We may not think that much about Israel.

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Rest a Little Longer: Daily Thoughts from Revelation (Revelation 6)

Few modern martyrs have changed the world by their deaths more than Jim Elliot, the missionary to Ecuador who was killed by the Auca or Huaorani natives in 1956. He had written in his Bible journal, “He

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Worthy: Daily Thoughts from Revelation (Revelation 5:6-14)

Worthy. Look that up on the internet and one of the first sites you see is a site that wants to help you sell your high end ring. They say, “The authenticity of items is of…importance to us. Every

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