END TIMES: DARKNESS DESCENDING
A divine reckoning lies just ahead for all of humankind. Some will escape it, the majority won't. Where do you stand?
Previously, we explored chapter 6 in this on-going study of the book of John. We now continue with chapter 7. In this seventh chapter, the Apostle John draws upon the prophetic importance of the number seven.
Continue reading “JESUS ATTENDS THE FEAST OF TABERNACLES: A PROPHECY OF SEVEN-THOUSAND YEARS”
Having just explored the sobering previous chapter titled THE FINAL JUDGMENT in this Revelation series, we now move on to the next chapter – chapter 21. What was first revealed in the opening two chapters of the Bible now becomes the subject of the concluding two chapters of the Bible. In Genesis, we are told that after six days of Creation, God rested on the seventh day. Each of those seven days is believed to represent a thousand years in God’s plan of the ages. Therefore, according to Revelation 21, after concluding the seventh millennium, God goes back to work and begins to create again.
“After this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me; which said, Come up hither, and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter. And immediately I was in the spirit: and, behold, a throne was set in heaven, and one sat on the throne” (Revelation 4:1-2).
Beginning with these verses, the Apostle John opens a new vision after the vision of the Seven Churches of Revelation 2 & 3 discussed in the previous nine articles. He takes us on a journey from this earthly existence into a heavenly sphere.
Through the pen of the aged apostle, we are given a view of the rapture and resurrection at the close of the Church Age. Continue reading “THE REVELATION 4:1 RAPTURE: THE CERTAINTY OF OUR DISAPPEARANCE”
As the first century drew toward a close, the last remaining apostle was exiled to a Roman penal colony in the Aegean Sea. John was imprisoned on the Island of Patmos because of his teachings concerning the “word of God, and the testimony of Jesus Christ …”
“I John, who also am your brother, and companion in tribulation, and in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, was in the isle that is called Patmos, for the word of God, and for the testimony of Jesus Christ” (Revelation 1:9).
The “word of God” to which he referred may not simply have been his faith in the existing divinely inspired collection of writings, but rather his continual public preaching about certain mystical conversations he was having with an unseen angelic presence. Continue reading “REVELATION RIPPED OPEN: THE DIVINE MARK OF AUTHENTICITY”
END TIMES: DARKNESS DESCENDING 