The Saviour has a sword! Our world is covered in war. Violence is the ongoing daily pursuit of millions. The Church is also engaged in a fierce conflict, a spiritual war. The Pergamum saints were fighting a vicious battle on the front lines and were engaging the devil, the flesh, and the world from all […]
The poor, rich church As Christ walked in the midst of the seven churches in Revelation 2-3, His fiery eyes beheld the assembly at Smyrna. Among the seven churches described in these two chapters, this gathering of God’s people was clearly outstanding. Along with the church at Philadelphia, Smyrna is noteworthy in that it had […]
“I have this against thee…” “Theophany” is a Greek word that means an appearance of God. There are a number of theophanies in the Old Testament as God appeared to His people at various times in history. In particular, these appearances could be described as Christophanies: pre-incarnate appearances of the Lord Jesus. Often in these […]
When you’re dead wrong, to whom can you go? What’s in a name? Sometimes nothing. The church at Sardis had a name, a reputation. In the midst of a corrupt, hostile, and dying world, the church at Sardis was known as a church that was alive! People looked at the church and saw it as […]
My maternal great-grandparents came to Canada in 1888 from the northeast coast of Scotland where for generations they had been fishermen on the North Sea. They settled in Montreal at first, at that time a city of 175,000. Montreal’s death rate was highest in the country—33 per thousand in 1884. In 1885, over 3,000 died […]
In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible , and we shall be changed. 1 Corinthians 15:52 And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible […]
Will all the saints be raptured? We answer this question with a decided YES. In doing so, we are quite aware that some earnest believers would reply, NO, and that this contrary assertion is made with Scripture quotations alleged to support it, and urged with a large degree of argumentative skill. Controversy, however, is not […]
“But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased” (Dan. 12:4). Commenting on this, Christian scientist Sir Isaac Newton said, “Personally, I cannot but believe these words concerning the end of the times. One […]
What an amazing and exciting book! At times it is tedious, slow going, with detailed instructions for the building of the temple and the restoration of Israel to the land. And to our western, scientific minds much is mysterious, veiled in symbolism. One school of thought believes that Israel has no future as God’s people, […]