A child dies at birth. A family’s house burns down. A tsunami wipes out an entire village. A work accident cripples a Christian husband/father. A loved one gets cancer and dies a slow, painful death. During hard times, you lose your job. Why does God allow bad things to happen? Very likely, we have all […]
19/07/2023 Wednesday The Revelation Study of John’s Revelation Chapter 17 Chapter 17 – Introduction Introductory Comments This chapter is not in chronological order. Many Bible teachers think that Revelation 17 describes the fall of religious Babylon and Revelation 18 describes the fall of economic Babylon. Ryrie Study Notes; Walvoord, Revelation 243 […]
We are social people. We live with people. We work with people. We interact with people. As a result, there are times that we conflict with people. Our sinful nature has a strong tendency to get upset with those who do not do live our way. This leads to social sins. Transition I want us […]
During our study of the Biblical worldview of God, we established that man is moral (i.e., man has an innate sense of right and wrong). Such morality must come from a moral Being who is the absolute authority. That Being must be God. While God created Adam and Eve innocent, He also gave them a […]
12/07/2023 Wednesday The Revelation Study of John’s Revelation Chapter 16 Chapter 16 – The Bowl Judgments “As we closed chapter 15, we saw the temple in Heaven filled with smoke . . . smoke from the glory of God. The temple was so filled that nothing inside could be seen and no one could enter […]
When I was in Bible College, one of the things that I feared was getting to class and having forgotten to do my assignment or having not remembered there was going to be a quiz. Being unprepared is a terrible feeling. Can you imagine how terrible it will be if you are unprepared to enter […]
As Christians, we need to have a biblical worldview of God, of the Bible’s truthfulness, of the Bible’s sufficiency, and of life. These are foundational to today’s topic, a biblical worldview of origins. The evolutionary theory that all things began billions of years ago, and slowly evolved into all the complexity that we find in […]
5/07/2023 Wednesday The Revelation Study of John’s Revelation Chapter 15 Tribulation Overview Chapter 15 – Bowl Preparation John saw another sign in heaven that was “great and marvellous.” (v.1) “Another sign in heaven” probably refers to chapter 12:1,3 where the word sign is translated “wonder.” This particular sign or wonder is called […]
God allowed several of the Bible characters to get a glimpse of heaven or of God. Jacob, Genesis 28:12-13; Moses and elders, Exodus 24:9-10; Moses, Exodus 33:23; Micaiah, 2 Chronicles 18:18; Ezekiel, Ezekiel 1:26; Ezekiel 10:1; Daniel, Daniel 7:9; Stephen, Acts 7:55; Paul, 2 Corinthians 12:2; John, Revelation 1:12-16; Revelation 4:2. One that stands out […]
What is life? __ Oxford Dictionary, Life is “the condition that distinguishes animals and plants from inorganic matter, including the capacity for growth, reproduction, functional activity, and continual change preceding death.” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, states NASA’s operational definition of life as “a self-sustaining chemical system capable of Darwinian evolution”. The National Library of Medicine […]