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Sermon: Finding Meaning in Service
I pay attention to commercials. Especially local commercials, commercials for local businesses, people we might see in our community. No surprise, they’re usually bad, and that is what makes them so
Continue reading...Sermon: Jesus and the Holy Spirit
Do you want to be like Jesus? I don’t know how many of you are old enough or illuminated enough to remember the old tv series, Lost in Space. It was the saga of the Robinson family lost in the vast reaches
Continue reading...Studies in Revelation: Persecution
Persecution of believers is a prominent theme in Revelation. There is persecution of the church during the time John is writing, and there will be persecution of the church during the Great Tribulation,
Continue reading...Studies in Revelation: The False Prophet
In the Satanic trinity there is Satan, the Antichrist, and the False Prophet. 11 Then I saw a second beast, coming out of the earth. It had two horns like a lamb, but it spoke like a dragon. 12 It
Continue reading...Studies in Revelation: The Antichrist, the Beast, the Man of Sin, the Ruler of the People to Come
Can we identify anyone now as the antichrist? In a word, no. We might identify an individual as an antichrist, but not the antichrist. There have been many low-level antichrists, as the apostle John tells
Continue reading...Studies in Revelation: The Eternal Kingdom (Revelation 21,22)
21:1 Then I saw “a new heaven and a new earth,” for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea. 2 I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down
Continue reading...Studies in Revelation: The Great White Throne Judgment of the Unbelieving Dead (Revelation 20)
With the close of the millennial kingdom of Jesus and the rebellion led by Satan, God institutes the final judgment of the unbelieving human race. A preliminary judgment has been made when each person
Continue reading...Studies in Revelation: The Millennium (Revelation 20)
With the return of the conquering Christ to earth the present evil age (Galatians 1:4) comes to an end. The age to come has come. It is the age of the Messiah, the age of the kingdom. 20:1 And I saw an
Continue reading...Studies in Revelation: The Second Coming
As the judgments from God near their end there are pronouncements about the king and the kingdom arriving: The seventh angel sounded his trumpet, and there were loud voices in heaven, which said: “The
Continue reading...Studies in Revelation: The Fifth Interlude, Babylon (Revelation 17,18)
There is one superpower standing in the antichrist’s way of world domination, the city John calls Babylon. 17:1 One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and said to me, “Come, I will
Continue reading...Studies in Revelation: The Fourth Interlude, the Antichrist (Revelation 13)
13:1 The dragon stood on the shore of the sea. And I saw a beast coming out of the sea. It had ten horns and seven heads, with ten crowns on its horns, and on each head a blasphemous name. 2 The
Continue reading...Studies in Revelation: The Third Interlude, Battle in Heaven (Revelation 12)
To say that chapter 12 does not forward the timeline of judgment on earth and the return of Christ to earth is generally true, but it does give us some tangential elements to the timeline. 12:1 A great
Continue reading...Studies in Revelation: The Second Interlude, the Two Witnesses (Revelation 11)
John is told to measure the temple in Jerusalem (“the holy city,” “figuratively called Sodom and Egypt—where also their Lord was crucified,” verses 2,8). He is not to measure the outer court,
Continue reading...Studies in Revelation: The First Interlude, the 144,000 (Revelation 7)
It is generally recognized that there are chapters in the Revelation that do not forward the timeline of events but are, rather, descriptions of important events interjected without respect to when they
Continue reading...Studies in Revelation: The Nature of the Judgment (Part Two)
The judgments of God contribute to this last three and a half years of Daniel’s 70 sevens what Jesus calls the “great distress” or “great tribulation.” The Seal Judgments There are seven seals
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