With good reason the eagle sounded the warning in 8:13, “And I looked, and I heard an eagle flying in mid-heaven, saying with a loud voice, ‘Woe, woe, woe to the inhabitants of the earth, because of the remaining blasts of the trumpet of the three angels who are about to sound!” The eagle sounds […]
2 Corinthians 4:16–5:8 “And he died…And he died…And he died…” (Genesis 5). The repeated refrain reverberates in our ears echoing the dreadful damnation, “For dust you are, and to dust you shall return” (Genesis 3:19). Death is the way of all the earth. Not one of us is free from the talons of this beast. […]
A war is being waged. This war is the oldest war in the history of the world. It began with the fall of Adam and Eve into sin. In the curse upon the serpent, the Lord Himself drew the line which would separate forever the opposing forces. He said to the serpent, “I will put […]
Ascension Day is a day of great interest and importance for the Christian. It was on this day that our Lord and Savior, having accomplished the work of redemption, ascended into the very glory of heaven itself. There He took His rightful place at the right hand of the Majesty on High. Psalm 24 points […]
It used to be said that Christians were “too heavenly minded to be any earthly good.” That critique no longer holds; in fact, it has been reversed. Far from being “too heavenly minded to be any earthly good,” Christians today, it seems, are “too earthly minded to be any heavenly good.” Though the Scriptures exhort […]
Upon his appointment as Professor of Biblical Theology at Princeton Theological Seminary on May 8, 1894, Geerhardus Vos addressed the President and Board of Directors with these words: “In his sinful condition, while retaining some knowledge of God, man for all pure and adequate information in divine things is absolutely dependent on that new self-disclosure […]
The book of Revelation is an “unveiling,” an unveiling of Jesus Christ, who is both Revealer and revealed. Jesus Christ is both the One who reveals in the book of Revelation as well as the One who is revealed in the book of Revelation. The book of Revelation, then, is supernatural revelation spoken from heaven […]
The numerics of Revelation are significant. The number seven is the number of completeness. There are seven lampstands (1:12, 13, 20; 2:1), seven stars (1:16, 20; 2:1; 3:1), seven lamps of fire (4:5), seven seals (5:1, 5), the Lamb with seven horns and seven eyes (5:6), seven angels holding seven trumpets (8:2, 6), seven thunders […]
The book of Revelation is the final book of the Bible, the last book of the Canon, though it has not always been accepted as such. Jerome included it in the Vulgate only after some waffling on the issue of its canonicity. Zwingli, the great reformer, did not accept it as a book of the […]
We have before us the wonderful climax of chapter 1: the vision of the glorious and exalted Christ. In the Spirit on the Lord’s Day, John hears the voice of the Savior, like a mighty trumpet blast (vv. 10–11), he then turns to see the voice in verse 12: “And having turned I saw seven […]