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 […]

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 […]