Revelation 19:7 Let us rejoice and be exceeding glad, and let us give the glory unto him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready. 8 And it was given unto her that she should array herself in fine linen, bright and pure: for the fine linen is […]

Revelation 19;1-6 The text gives five reasons for heaven’s joy and praise. Heaven rejoices because full salvation has come, because justice is meted out, because rebellion is ended, because God is in control, and because the marriage of the Lamb is completed. There is Praise because full salvation has come. After these things I heard […]

“Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.” Mt 28:19 Jesus began His ministry by being baptized by John in the river Jordan. Jesus concluded His ministry by commanding baptism. Let’s talk about baptism, not Baptists baptism. If we […]

When do we want,  justice, when taken advantage of, or when our child is guilty? “Man’s capacity for justice makes Democracy possible; but Man’s inclination to injustice makes Democracy necessary.” Reinhold Niebuhr, The Children of Light and The Children of Darkness: God’s provision of salvation is expressly directed towards his enemies (Rom. 5:8). We are […]

Revelation 18 The summons in Rev 18:4 suggests a literal flight from the doomed city (as Christian Jews fled to Pella at the fall of Jerusalem), but when projected on the larger screen of the consummation it becomes a call to the last generation of believers for “spiritual withdrawal from ostentation or empty, idle amusement […]

Judgment and Influence Throughout history the petty kingdoms and empires built by proud, arrogant, God-rejecting rebels have come and gone. The spirit of humanism first expressed at Babel has permeated human history ever since. Unshakably optimistic despite centuries of war, slaughter, injustice, and cruelty, people still seek a utopia, to be brought about by humanity’s […]

7-18 The Beauty of the Beast  “The woman was dressed in purple and scarlet, and was glittering with gold, precious stones, and pearls. She held a golden cup in her hand, filled with abominable things and the filth of her adulteries. This title was written on her forehead, Mystery, Babylon the Great, the Mother of […]

Revelation 17 17 Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and spoke with me: “Come, I will show you the judgment of the notorious prostitute who is seated on many waters. 2 The kings of the earth committed sexual immorality with her, and those who live on the earth became drunk on […]

The final series of eschatological woes is not a chronological continuation of the preceding ones. It refers to the same period but presents it from a different perspective. It is a vision of cosmic catastrophe in which the preceding visions are paralleled but intensified. All the world is struck by the blow against the sun […]

16 And I heard a great voice out of the temple, saying to the seven angels, Go ye, and pour out the seven bowls of the wrath of God into the earth.  2 And the first went, and poured out his bowl into the earth; and it became a noisome and grievous sore upon the […]