Eschatology – Page 10 – A Thimble-full of Theology for Daily Living

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

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,

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

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

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.

A Taste of Heaven: Daily Thoughts from Revelation (Revelation 4:1-11)

Did Walt Disney think of Disney World and Disney Land as little tastes of heaven? Pastor Greg Laurie thinks so. As Laurie notes, the Bible tells us that God has put eternity in our hearts (Ecclesiastes

The True Megachurch: Daily Thoughts from Revelation (Revelation 3:7-13)

This is the era of the megachurch, the large congregation. The largest megachurch in the world is Yoido Full Gospel Church in Seoul, South Korea with about 480,000 members as of 2015. And there are many

Faithful Unto Death: Daily Thoughts from Revelation (Revelation 2:8-11)

Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a member of the confessing church in Nazi Germany, and a resister against Hitler and the Nazis. His writings about and resistance to Nazism landed him in jail and the concentration

Visions of Jesus: Daily Thoughts from Revelation (Revelation 1:12-16)

Can you imagine being suddenly confronted with a vision of the risen Jesus? Does he still do that? Will he really appear to someone today? He certainly can and he has appeared to Paul and others have claimed

Soon and Near: Daily Thoughts from Revelation (Revelation 1:1-3)

I have a relative who, when he was young, became terrified at sermons about the end times and was traumatized by them. No doubt sermons on the end times have on many occasions been used to scare people

Dealing With God and Death: Daily Thoughts from 2 Samuel (2 Samuel 12:15-23)

Several of our presidents have lost children to death. George Washington lost his young step-daughter, Martha’s daughter (she had already lost two of her four children before marrying George) and

Don’t Delay: Daily Thoughts from Mark (Mark 13:32-37)

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/ By Randall Johnson

Though Jesus has revealed a lot about the future, there are some things he has not revealed, specifically the hour of his return. And that seems to be the thing we most want to know. Why? I’m

Learn From the Fig Tree: Daily Thoughts from Mark (Mark 13:28-31)

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/ By Randall Johnson

There is so much that God does not tell us about the future. When He did tell Hezekiah, for example, of his impending death, it became a source of great distress for him (Isaiah 38). But Jesus chooses

The Second Coming: Daily Thoughts from Mark (Mark 13:24-27)

The great persecution of the Great Tribulation and the outpouring of judgment by God on those who do not believe, is leading to something, something wonderful. Jesus is coming back! Jesus, the king,

The Great Tribulation: Daily Thoughts from Mark (Mark 13:14-23)

Jesus is in Jerusalem to be killed in our place, but before his arrest he has been teaching his disciples and has predicted a time of unprecedented persecution of believers and indicated that this is the

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