The world needs saving. Creation has been handed over to death and decay, and so have we. We are harassed by the world, the flesh, and the devil, and left to our own devices we side with all three of them. Therefore, we need rescuing also from the...

Following a chapter in which John showed us the threat of the state and its accessories, he then shows us a vision of the holy opposition. However powerful the dragon and his tools are, the Lord has set Christ on Zion, his holy hill, and Christ is...

The next chapter of Revelation pictures the dragon summoning forth a beast from the sea, who in turn summons a beast from the land. Each guides the worship of the masses to its source, the land beast to the sea beast, the sea beast to the dragon. What...

Revelation now turns to the story of Christ and his Church, told through the image of a woman pursued by a many headed dragon. From the beginning, the Enemy has been seeking to see God‘s purposes miscarried, but nothing can stop the Lord’s redemptive...

We come now to the end of the seven trumpets. As before, God is revealed with thunder and lightning, the signs of Mount Sinai, and now the sign of the ark of the covenant appears in heaven. The passage describes the inbreaking of God's Kingdom...

John sees an angel who shares a likeness to Christ offering a scroll to be eaten. The scroll enables John to prophecy about “peoples and nations and languages and kings.” What follows is a vision of the Church as two witnesses, witnesses who on the...

In this passage, the things of Creation are plagued by fire. God‘s judgment takes the form of reversing Creation, not by a flood, but by smoke and stars falling from heaven and sulfur. Land animals and crawling things that should be under the dominion...

Prompted by a number of recent questions, the elders are taking this Sunday to consider the sacraments. Why did Christ give us these signs? Why is it important that a Church practices them? Does it matter how we practice them? Our hope is that...

With the seventh seal broken, our expectation is that the kingdom of God will now be unleashed. What we see instead is the preparation of seven trumpets that will intensify the judgment. In the middle of it all, the prayers of the saints are joined...

Paul writes his letter to the Philippians from a Roman prison. He realizes that this may be the end for him and that a painful death may be near. Looking not to contemporary slogans but to the biblical experience of Job, he engages in a very personal...