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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What do you think God the Father looks like? Do you have a mental image of Him? What picture did you have in your mind’s eye of God the Father? Did it look at all what John described? Listen again: At once I was in the Spirit, and there before me was a throne in…
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Solomon wandered from God because he loved many foreign women. 700 wives of royal birth, 300 concubines, which went against Deuteronomy 17:17 which told them not to marry outsiders. The fact that he married Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, and Sidonians made it even worse. Also God had told them not to marry more than one wife….
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The Lord told John to write to the seven churches which were spoken of in the first chapter as the seven golden lampstands. What does a lampstand do? It brings light into darkness, and the church is meant to bring light into a dark world. As we read here in Revelation, each of the seven…
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