Category: Revelation
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The thunder echoes back
Man has been given the charge, “be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it,” or to put it another way, “go disciple the nations, baptizing them and teaching them to obey.” Until we can bring back the report, “we have filled and subdued,” or, “we have discipled and baptized,” there is a great sense […]
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Christus Victor
Joshua’s conquest of Canaan is a foreshadowing of the great commission, the call to the church to go out into the world and bring it into submission to the King. God gave Joshua the authority of Moses and told him – go in, take the land that I have promised to give you, be careful […]
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Trinity at creation
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. The Father and the Holy Spirit are clearly present at creation in Genesis 1. The Son […]
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Book of life
And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Then another book was opened, which is the book of life. And the dead were judged by what was written in the books, according to what they had done. Revelation 20:12 This book is not for reminding God, as if […]
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The will of God
From David Chilton’s Days of Vengeance, regarding Revelation 17:17: The sovereign Lord is thus not at the mercy of the Beast and his minions; rather, all these events have been predestined for God’s glory, through the execution of His decrees. For God has put it into their hearts to execute His purpose by having a […]