It is important to read the Bible contextually. Chapter 16  shows how important it is to the read the Bible carefully and in context. It is evident that John’s vision takes the account of the historical fall of Babylon, he relates it backward to the defeat of Pharaoh at the Red Sea, and uses it […]

1 I saw in heaven another great and marvelous sign: seven angels with the seven last plagues—last, because with them God’s wrath is completed. 2 And I saw what looked like a sea of glass mixed with fire and, standing beside the sea, those who had been victorious over the beast and his image and […]

“Not guilty by reason of insanity.” This was the unbelievable sentence recited by Judge Barrington Parker following each of the thirteen charges leveled against John Warnock Hinckley, Jr., for the attempted assassination of President Ronald Reagan. The trial is said to have cost $2.5 million. As would be expected, reactions to the verdict varied from […]

“What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him?” James 2:14 The Christian life is just summed up in grace, but the devil doesn’t want you to know that. The devil doesn’t want you to believe that. What the devil wants to do […]

Acts 4:12  Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved. Hebrews 4:12  For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of […]

Build Me a Son, O Lord Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid; one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory. Build me a son whose wishbone […]

This section is divided into two parts: the heralds (three angels) and the harvest (two metaphors about harvest), and both sections talk about judgment in horrendous terms. The Bible dares to mention the wrath of God more than 600 times, but it never does so out of some vicious glee that smirks at the mention […]

Systematic theology was required study for my seminary studies. basically, systematic theology is the reflection on and the ordered articulation of faith. the reality of faith itself in our commitment to god revealed in christ.  Sound systematic theology functions within the life of DISCIPLESHIP (stanley j. grenz). today, We live in a society where liberal […]

In 1949 a college student, Elliot,  penned these words,  He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose’. seven years later on the Curaray River deep in Ecuadors  rain forest, the awaited the arrival of a group of men know as the Aucas who they were trying to […]

Revelation 14: 1And I saw, and behold, the Lamb standing on the mount Zion, and with him a hundred and forty and four thousand, having his name, and the name of his Father, written on their foreheads. 2And I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of […]