Events of the Tribulation: The Last Three and a Half Years (Part 1) Israel The woman fled into the wilderness, where she had a place prepared by God, to be nourished there for 1,260 days. … When the dragon saw that he had been thrown down to the earth, he persecuted the woman who had given birth to the…
Events of the Tribulation: The First Three and a Half Years (Part 3) The Great Multitude of Saints There are three major contributors for why so many are being saved during the Tribulation period. First, consider the climate of the Tribulation. The church is gone, and the Antichrist has deceived the world to prop himself…
Events of the Tribulation: The First Three and a Half Years (Part 2) The Antichrist During the first three and a half years of the Tribulation, the Antichrist will be involved in two primary activities: First, he will take part in starting that period known as the Tribulation. Since the United States will no longer…
And just as it is appointed for people to die once—and after this, judgment— so also Christ, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation to those who are waiting for him (Heb. 9:27-28). In the first part of verses…
For at that time there will be great distress, the kind that hasn’t taken place from the beginning of the world until now and never will again (Matthew 24:21). The Lord is angry with all the nations, furious with all their armies. He will set them apart for destruction, giving them over to slaughter (Isaiah 34:2). I…
All Have Sinned For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God (Rom. 3:23). God and man measure righteousness by a vastly different standard. Man measures his righteousness by comparing his goodness to that of others instead of asking himself a most critical question, “what righteousness does God require?” Jesus told the disciples, For…
For I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, first to the Jew, and also to the Greek (Rom. 1:16). Unashamed Paul concludes his introduction by setting out the main theme of the epistle—the gospel. Although the message is one of glad tidings, it reminds us…
Fishers of People Then He said to them, “Follow Me, and I will make you fishers of men” (Matthew 4:19 NKJV). The great hymn “Where He Leads Me I Will Follow” says: I can hear my Savior calling, I can hear my Savior calling, I can hear my Savior calling, “Take Thy cross and follow follow…
Nobody who has lived long can deny that the world today is a far more dangerous place than at any other time in history. Weapons of mass destruction, such as nuclear bombs, and biological weapons in the hands of the wrong people or nation would be catastrophic (of the apocalyptic sort). Terrorist threats to…
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new (2 Cor. 5:17 NKJV). This is the biography of every Christian. In this verse, Paul sets forth five important truths: First, the redeemed individual is in Christ, in other words, he or she is joined to Him in…