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Just Are You: Daily Thoughts from Revelation (Revelation 16:1-16)

There was, in recent days, a challenge people were giving to one another to film themselves pouring iced water over themselves for the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge to raise funds for finding a cure for Lou

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Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory: Daily Thoughts from Revelation (Revelation 15)

Every branch of our armed forces has its own song. The lyrics usually are focused on the mayhem our forces are going to create and their unstoppable energy, with some acknowledging the reason we’re

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The Rapture?: Daily Thoughts from Revelation (Revelation 14:14-20)

I believe in a rapture that occurs before the 70th week of Daniel, before the last seven years of earth history before Jesus returns to establish his kingdom on earth. Does the book of Revelation describe

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Blessed Are the Dead: Daily Thoughts from Revelation (Revelation 14:6-13)

You’ve heard it many times. “It was a blessing that she went on, she was suffering so much.” Though death is our great enemy (1 Corinthians 15:26), as Christians we know that what comes

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Singing of the Kingdom: Daily Thoughts from Revelation (Revelation 14:1-5)

“‘I will sing with the spirit, I will sing with the understanding also. (1 Cor 14:15). The components of any spiritual experience are heart and mind—the heart to will and the mind to grasp;

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666: Daily Thoughts from Revelation (Revelation 13:11-18)

666 is the sum of the first 36 natural numbers ( i.e. 1 + 2 + 3 + … + 34 + 35 + 36 = 666), and thus it is a triangular number. The number 36 = 15 + 21; 15, 21, and 36 are also triangular numbers;

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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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