The seven bowls that are poured out are somewhat analogous to the plagues that were released on Egypt to persuade Pharaoh to release the children of Israel in Moses’ time. Here, the bowls, or judgments are poured out on the earth to prepare the people, and satan himself for the coming war of Armageddon. Personally,…
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So many great things happened in this chapter. The main event is that Elijah challenged the prophets of Baal to prove their god was real. What faith Elijah had! This is not the sort of thing that I would encourage anyone to do, but the people of Israel were at a critical juncture. They had…
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As we read Revelation and try to understand the prophecies contained in it, like the fall of Babylon and the mark of the beast, the 666 which is the number of a man, it’s natural to try and understand them and put them into a familiar frame of reference. For example, let’s consider the number…
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Elijah, as we will come to see, is a significant figure in the OT, and his appearance here in 1 Kings 17 is the first mention of him. We are not given any background, no genealogy, nothing other than the fact that he was a Tishbite, who was one of the settlers of Gilead as…
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Ephesians 6:12 says, “For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world’s rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.” In today’s reading of Revelation 12, we see more of that spiritual warfare with what…
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Let’s talk for a minute about King Asa, who ruled over Judah for 41 years. As we read about all the kings of Israel and Judah, we’ll see that roughly half of the time the kingdoms had good kings and half the time they had bad kings. But, the bad kings generally had short reigns…
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Get a picture in your mind of the scene. There are literally hundreds of thousands here in Heaven before the throne. Some are those who have believed in Jesus, 144,000 of them are from the 12 tribes of Israel, there is a multitude of angels, and there is the Lamb, the Son of God sitting…
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Jeroboam had turned his back on God and worshipped other gods, so in order to get his attention, God made his son ill. And Jeroboam sent his wife to talk to the prophet Ahijah. But instead of asking Ahijah to ask God to heal the boy, or to ask what he might do to make…
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The first seal. A person riding a white horse. He wears a crown, and he goes out conquering and to conquer. It’s thought that the white represents purity, and the rider is Jesus, who has already conquered death, and he is in the process of winning souls even now, bringing salvation to all who will…
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Hello, and welcome to a new week. This is the Lifespring Family Audio Bible, and I am still not your host, Steve Webb. You can call me Mac. As you might have guessed, Steve is still not up to recording a new episode, so he asked me to dig into the archives, and bring out…
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