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 […]
No biblical treatment of the subject of the millennium can avoid directly addressing the teaching of Revelation 20:1–11, especially verses 1–6.This is the one passage in the Bible which explicitly speaks of the “millennium,” using an expression which literally means a “thousand years” no less than six times.1 George Eldon Ladd, an able proponent of […]
In my previous article summarizing the pre-millennialist case for its understanding of Revelation 20, I observed that a key issue in the interpretation of this passage is that of the relation between the visions of Revelation 19:11–21 and Revelation 20:1–11. If the vision which concludes Revelation 19 is a vision of the second coming of […]
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 […]
“So the evening and the morning were the first day” (Genesis 1:5). “So the evening and the morning were the second day” (Genesis 1:8). “So the evening and the morning were the third day” (Genesis 1:13). “So the evening and the morning were the fourth day” (Genesis 1:19). “So the evening and the morning were […]