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21 Nor did they repent of their murders, their magic arts, their sexual immorality or their thefts. The purpose of all these disasters outlined in this whole chapter of the book of Revelation is to bring people to repentance. People are running headlong into disaster and God wants to save them from themselves. They areContinue reading “6Dec2008 Rev 9:21”

16 The number of the mounted troops was two hundred million. I heard their number. That’s a lot of troops! That number of troops could overwhelm any defensive force, short of nuclear weapon deployment. They could come so fast that the bullets could not be loaded in the weapons fast enough to stop the attack.Continue reading “5Dec2008 Rev 9:16”

11 They had as king over them the angel of the Abyss, whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek, Apollyon. Did you ever go on a vacation to a place called “Disaster”? Would you ever? Fly on a plane called “Crash”? Date someone called “Rapist”? Move into a neighborhood titled “Arson Hill”? BuyContinue reading “4Dec2008 Rev 9:11”

6 During those days men will seek death, but will not find it; they will long to die, but death will elude them. When God’s judgment finally arrives, people who are not in proper relationship with Him will be in trouble. Their fate is so painful that they will long for death. The previous verseContinue reading “3Dec2008 Rev 9:6”

14 I answered, “Sir, you know.” And he said, “These are they who have come out of the great tribulation; they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. This verse is a good example of the need to understand the rules of interpretation of literature. People who areContinue reading “2Dec2008 Rev 7:14”

3 “Do not harm the land or the sea or the trees until we put a seal on the foreheads of the servants of our God.” Here in the book of Revelation we have been looking at a time in heaven when a scroll is being unrolled. There have been a series of wax sealsContinue reading “1Dec2008 Rev 7:3”

11 Then each of them was given a white robe, and they were told to wait a little longer, until the number of their fellow servants and brothers who were to be killed as they had been was completed. Our culture teaches that death is the worst thing that can happen, that if we don’tContinue reading “30Nov2008 Rev 6:11”

11 “You are worthy, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for you created all things, and by your will they were created and have their being.” What a statement of hope! No artificially inflated superstar status here. God is the genuine article. He doesn’t need a PR team, focus groups,Continue reading “29Nov2008 Rev 4:11”

“Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty, who was, and is, and is to come.” One of the problems in understanding the truth of Scripture when it comes to holiness, is that we don’t have a good parallel concept in our contemporary vocabulary. Holy used to have a meaning that was derived from theContinue reading “28Nov2008 Rev 4:8”

21 To him who overcomes, I will give the right to sit with me on my throne, just as I overcame and sat down with my Father on his throne. Sitting on someone’s throne just doesn’t have the same meaning for me as it does for those whose cultures have a supreme ruler like aContinue reading “27Nov2008 Rev 3:21”