Last week we spoke extensively about the difference between the Rapture and the Revelation (i.e., second coming, Second Advent) of Christ. We showed from Scripture that Christ’s second coming will take place after the Tribulation. In the Rapture, Christ will come FOR His saints. In His Second Coming He will come WITH His saints to […]
The Tribulation will be a terrible time on earth. (Revelation 7:9) “After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands;” Multitudes will be killed […]
Mark 13, Matthew 24 and Luke 21 are parallel passages that record Jesus’ answer to His disciples about the coming Tribulation. Taking the Bible literally, we believe the Futurist View which sees much of this section as yet future. However, futurists do not all agree on the interpretation of verses 5-13 which we will be […]
The Scribes in Jesus’ day were the Bible scholars. Though they knew the Bible, they did not always apply what they knew. If we are not careful, we can fall into that error as well. (Read text). Transition Jesus is primarily addressing the scribes in this passage in which, for our benefit, He identifies three […]
When I was a young boy my father had a plague of mice and rats in his grain shed on the farm. He hired my brother and me to trap the little varmints. He bought us traps and taught us how to set them. We earned 5¢ for each mouse and 50¢ for each rat […]
We have an interesting audio story about a wolf trapper who carelessly got caught in his own trap. That mistake nearly took his life. A similar thing happened to the enemies of Jesus when they tried to trap Him with His words. Transition This morning I want to show you several principles that we can […]
I enjoy painting pictures and I am always looking for landscape scenes that I can paint. Sometimes I come across pictures of old churches that are abandoned or falling down. I have no desire to paint one of them. Such a photo is a monument of what once may have been a vibrant, Gospel-preaching congregation […]
Read Mark 11:12-14 then Mark 11:20-26. On the day following His Triumphal Entry, Jesus returned to Jerusalem. On the way He saw a fig tree with leaves. Being hungry, He went to get a fig. Fig trees produce a few figs when the leaves appear but the main crop is several weeks later. The first […]
Read text. On the day following Jesus’ triumphal entry into Jerusalem, Jesus and His disciples returned to the city. They likely entered the eastern gate, called the “Golden Gate”. This gate led directly to the temple. As Jesus cleansed the Temple, did He love those He cast out? Yes! His act of discipline was an […]
John 12:1 tells us that Jesus had spent the night at Bethany. The next morning Jesus did something that His followers had wanted Him to do for a long time. He publically proclaimed Himself to be the coming Messiah. He rode a young donkey about three kilometres from Bethany to Jerusalem while thousands cried, “Hosanna!” […]