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Category: Revelation

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  • To Understand What An Unsearchable God Has Spoken

    To Understand What An Unsearchable God Has Spoken

    How can any person possibly understand what God has said? God’s language is creative. When He speaks, things like trees, planets, solar systems, galaxies, and superclusters appear. Here we are, people who hear in English and Spanish and Deutsch and Swahili and Farsi, unable to understand God’s language. If I asked you what language God…

  • God Is Not Destroying His World

    God Is Not Destroying His World

    In Revelation 1-3, we received almost everything we need to interpret the remaining chapters well. John has already provided the meanings for many of his symbols and has set the direction for the rest of the letter, including his own basic eschatology—God is renewing the world, not destroying it, and Christians will inherit the earth…

  • God Hates Comfortable Religion

    God Hates Comfortable Religion

    Comfort, here to mean complacency, is one thing people really enjoy but God hates. Yet, many local churches strive to gain or keep congregants by making people comfortable. We do this by teaching easy things, neglecting accountability, offering entertaining programs, playing politics based on human preferences, offering ways for people to be righteous, and appealing…

  • Dear Healthy Local Church

    Dear Healthy Local Church

    In the previous passage, we read Jesus’s letter through John to dead local churches. In this passage, we read Jesus’s letter through John to healthy local churches. Simply because a church is healthy or a believer is mature in the faith does not mean God has nothing more to say to that local church or…

  • The church is Dead

    The church is Dead

    I have said it before, and I still believe it to be true. The local church we choose to attend matters. In this section of John’s Revelation, John has been addressing seven particular local churches. His addresses apply to Christ’s complete church. In the previous four addresses, Jesus spoke through John concerning sound doctrine and…

  • No other burdens?

    No other burdens?

    John continues Jesus’s addresses to the seven local churches in Asia, modern day Turkey. In each of the addresses so far, John has had sound doctrine in view. This fourth address is no different. It is easy for us to feel like we have disappointed God. Sometimes, others treat us like we are a disappointment…

  • List of Symbols in Revelation

    List of Symbols in Revelation

    Revelation is a book of Symbols. These symbols should be interpreted through a biblical lens rather than through our own presuppositions. Use this list as a help while you read John’s apocalyptic book. Download the devotional commentary on the book of Revelation. Repeated Symbols in John’s Revelation: Symbol Interpretation 2 Valid testimony (Deuteronomy 19:15) 3…

  • Love Without Sound Doctrine

    Love Without Sound Doctrine

    There are many local churches that defend sound doctrine without love. There are also many local churches and other groups that promote love without sound doctrine. Their priority is acceptance and unity; Their teaching is shallow and agreeable. That sounds kind of nice. I wonder how Jesus feels about that sort of focus—acceptance and unity…

  • What is The Synagogue of Satan in Revelation?

    What is The Synagogue of Satan in Revelation?

    Ask your questions on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Tumblr, or using the contact form on this blog. John addresses the second particular church in this discourse—the church in Smyrna. The church in Smyrna was experiencing persecution. This address follows the format of the first, excluding any indictment. Ephesus had left her first love; Smyrna has nothing…

  • Sound Doctrine Without Love

    Sound Doctrine Without Love

    There are two sorts of church groups in our day. One expends love to stand for sound doctrine. The other expends sound doctrine stand for love. In John’s Revelation, he addresses both types of churches. First, he addresses the church that defends sound doctrine at the expense of love. Is it important to stand for…